Spike's apartment was full. Everyone had taken a seat and was staring solemnly at Angel waiting for his first question. Well except Spike who was now leaning against the wall enjoying the awkwardness that had claimed the room. Angel finally spoke.

"So Buffy had a daughter..."

"I think we've covered that fact deadboy."

Angel gave Xander an irritated expression. "I wasn't finished. I was about to add, why didn't anybody tell me."

Giles answered "Buffy didn't want to. You two had you're own separate lives at that point. She was worried that if you found out you'd come straight back to Sunnydale to help her out. She didn't want you to have to leave your new life in Los Angeles."

Angel accepted that answer and went on to his next question. "Who's Sam's father?"

Giles started answering like before, "Uh, well...as a matter of fact..."

But Willow cut in. "We don't know."

Spike smirked, "Slutty wouldn't tell you?"

"No it wasn't that. She didn't know either."

Before Spike could make the comment Xander knew was coming, he quickly defended Buffy. "I know what you're thinking but it's not like that. Buffy told us she didn't know because there were no possible father candidates. It wasn't too long after Thanks Giving when she found out she was pregnant. And that's all we know."

Angel who had quietly listened to their reasons had been thinking. His brain was trying to point out the obvious explanation. But he couldn't be sure. "Near Thanks Giving?"

"You should remember that Thanks Giving. You were lurking around keeping an eye on Buffy."

"Oh Yeah", Spike said. "The time we got attacked by angry Native American spirits. Hanging around you guys is always a barrel of fun."

Angel ignored Spike's comment and continued. "Then Buffy came and visited me in Los Angeles."

"Yep. A couple of weeks after that is when she found out." added Willow.

A look of understanding appeared on Angel's face. He finally believed the nagging voice in his head. It seemed impossible but it must the explanation. The forgotten day. The day that never happened. The day that only he remembered. Now how did he explain it to everyone else who was now looking at him with strange expressions.

"Buffy came back from Los Angeles pregnant. I think I know who the father is."

Willow looked confused. "But if Buffy didn't know, how could you?"

"It's a long story"

"You better get started then" said Spike who was even more curious now to find out how Angel suddenly knew who Sam's father was.

Angel took a deep unneeded breath. "When Buffy visited me in my Angel investigations office we were attacked by a Mohra demon."

"Oh yeah. I remember Buffy telling me about that demon which interrupted her visit." Willow added in, "She said you killed it rather smoothly."

Angel looked at Willow and then the rest of the room, his expression clearly displaying his desire not to be interrupted while he continued with his description of events.
"That's not what happened the first time."

This comment was meet with confused expressions but no one voiced their questions.

"The Mohra demon got away and Buffy and I decided to track it down and kill it for being rude. We followed it through the sewers, but when the trail ran cold we decided to split up. Buffy went up into the daylight to search outside and I continued along the sewer. I found the demon and we fought. I won. Well I thought I had. Some of the demon's blood had mixed with mine and then suddenly I..."

Angel paused. The room was quiet with anticipation. "...I had a heart beat. And I needed to breath. It was so shocking, overwhelming."

Spike butted in. "Wait are you saying you turned human. But that bloody impossible. And you're still a vampire now." He finished with a smug look on his face, secure in his logic.

Angel just continued ignoring Spike's comments once again. "I walked back to my place outside through the sunshine. It was beautiful day. When I told Doyle and Cordelia, they straight away started researching. Well Doyle did anyway. Cordelia went to go find Buffy. Buffy and I talked for awhile, and then... well..."

"I think we can guess what happened next." Xander said not really wanting to hear Angel say it. "So that explains the sudden pregnancy, but not the loss of Buffy's memory or how you're a vampire now. Your story needs some work."

"That wasn't the end of the story. As I mentioned before the Mohra demon wasn't really dead. Doyle got a vision and I went after it to kill it properly. But being human I..."

"Got your arse kicked." Spike smirked.

Angel hated to agree with Spike. "Probably would have died if Buffy hadn't arrived. We killed the demon but I knew things couldn't stay like this. The demon had mentioned a battle that was coming. I went to speak to the oracles. They told me that Buffy would die. I asked them to take my life back because I couldn't protect anyone as a man. They told me there was one way. They created a temporal fold, turned back time twenty four hours as though the day never happened. I was the only one who would remember it." Having finished Angel unclenched his hands.

"Oh that's so sad." Willow said, her eyes glistening slightly.

"No it's stupid." Xander corrected. "Why didn't you just tell Buffy. Then she would have known that you were the father in the first place."

"I, I didn't know that the day would somehow still have some sort of effect. I thought it would have been like none of it happened at all."

"Well I think it just bloody like you." Spike added. "Gave you something new to spend hours brooding in dark corners over."

"Well then" Giles said as he finally spoke. "I think we better go and find Angel's daughter."