Author : Wild-Melody

Disclaimer : As if…do I really need to say this? I don't own them, if I did Angel and Buffy would still be together!

Summary : Um…I forgot? Angel gets the surprise of his life once he discovers who Angel Starr really is. We'll leave it at that.

Special thanks go to : Linz, I'm glad you liked the story and that you can't wait to see where it goes, actually neither can I. LOL. Nam, well, finally I did write more, to bad it took me so long to do so. Stef, I'm glad you liked it, and I'm now writing more, hopefully I'll have the next chapter up within a better time frame. LOL. Cayla, I left myself high and dry too so don't feel so bad, I lost track of this story someplace and had to reread it just to figure out where I was. KLyn, hope you like this chapter. Wolf, love the name! Actually, yeah, I was waiting for the Apocalypse, and unfortunately I missed it somehow, or it missed me, something like that. December Wind, I love that fact that you read more than one of my stories! Lauren, you asked, it's finally been updated, hope you like. Pipes4Life, there's other stories about them having a daughter? Really? Point me in the right direction, I want to read them too! Lisa, the waiting is over, here's the next chapter, can't say that enough! Baseballmomok, here's the rest, or at least part of it. I love leaving people hanging! It's my specialty. Jodi, as requested, here's more.

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Chapter 7:

Angel Starr ran through the deserted streets of Los Angeles, not knowing where she was going but knowing she had to get as far away as possible from the old hotel and the man who lived within. Her heart racing, she ran until she was exhausted and had no idea where she was. Slowly turning in circles, she surveyed her surroundings, tears starting to well up in her hazel-emerald eyes. Far beyond the state of exhaustion, she collapsed in the middle of the road, a car barreling down the street just narrowly missing her and crashing into the nearby light pole. Darkness engulfed the young Slayer and she surrendered to sweet oblivion.

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Cordelia burst into the Hyperion Hotel, hoping beyond hope that she wasn't to late. Angel and Wesley were already there, the looks on their faces telling her that something big had just went down. Angel Starr was nowhere to be seen, but then again neither was Fred. "What happened?" She asked, looking first to Angel then to Wesley.

Angel was just starting to walk towards the phone, he turned to look at her, "Wesley will explain it, I need to make a phone call."

Cordelia turned her eyes expectantly towards Wesley, "Just as soon as he's done on the phone. I don't think he needs your yelling echoing through the phone or his ears." Wesley said.

Angel picked up the phone and began dialing in a set of numbers, long distance Cordy noticed. He put the receiver up to his ear and waited. It must've rang a few times before who ever he was calling picked up, but soon after, he hung the phone up a look of pure shock and fright crossing over his face.

"What?" Cordy asked, first looking over at Wesley than looking at Angel. "Would someone please tell me what's going on?" She nearly shouted.

"It's Angel Starr," Wesley said slowly, looking from Cordy to Angel and back again.

"What about her?" Cordy asked, already fearing the answer. What has the little demon done, I wasn't to late, was I? She wondered as she looked at Angel. He looked even paler than normal, if that was at all possible.

"We have to find her," was all Angel would say.

"I would say," Cordy said.

"Yes, we must, then maybe we can get to the bottom on this," Wesley said.

"Bottom of what?" Cordy fairly yelled. "What is she, a demon or something? And what about that phone call? Whom did you talk to?"

"I just called Sunnydale," Angel began, his voice shaking with-fear? Or was it surprise or hope?

"And?" Both Cordy and Wesley said at the same time.

"Buffy answered the phone!"

Both of his friends looked at him as if he had just grown a second head. That just wasn't possible, Buffy was dead…wasn't she?

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The phone rang, Buffy looked first from Willow to Dawn then to Tara. "I wonder who's calling, everyone I know lives here." She said as Xander and Anya walked through the door. "Guess it's not them." She said, walking over to pick the phone up. "Hello?" She said. No answer. "Hello?" She repeated again. Still no answer. "Ok jackass, either say something or hang the damn phone up ok?" Click and the dial tone. Buffy looked at the receiver, actually she glared at it.

"Well, it was their quarter and dime, not mine." Buffy said, shrugging her shoulders and turning to face her 'family' again. "Now, about these bills?" She said.

"Um, yeah, the bills." Willow said, holding up an envelope that had a message printed on the front of it. The phone began to ring again, Buffy glared evilly at it.

"I'm not answering it again. I don't take to kindly to some smart ass, young punks hanging up on me." Buffy said, glaring balefully at the noisy device.

"But you told them to either say something or hang up," Anya said, confused, looking from Buffy to Xander. "They listened and hung up, why are you so mad?"

"Um, Xander, explain it to her would you?" Buffy asked as Willow moved over to intercept the loudly shrilling phone before the Slayer could get her hands on it.

"Hello, Summers residence. Willow speaking, just hold a sec and we'll get to you as soon as the Slayer calms down enough not to stake the phone…" Willow glanced quickly at Buffy to see the look on the young woman's face. *Ouch,* Willow thought, Buffy was giving her a 'I'll kill you later' glare. "How may I direct you call? Slayer 101, Wicca 415 or to the top with Ex-Vengeance Demon 402?"

The speaker said something and Willow's face brightened up dramatically. "Hello Wesley," She said, glancing from Tara to Buffy to Dawn then to Anya and Xander. "What can I do for you this fine day?"

Willow listened again, the smile leaving her face. "Yes, that was Buffy." Pause. "Yes, she was dead." Another pause. "Yes, she's back, we brought her back with a spell." Pause again, Willow holding the phone away from her ear staring curiously at the receiver than putting it back to her ear. "Yes Wesley, we got the same lecture from Giles, but he was a lot happier about her being back." Another brief pause. "Well, I'm sorry you feel that way. So how's Angel Starr?" Buffy's eyes lit up at the mention of her daughter. "What?! How, she wasn't suppose…." Willow paused, glancing down at the floor. "Yes, well…it just happened." Another brief pause. "Yes, she is Buffy's daughter." Wesley yelling on the other end. "It was Buffy's decision, not our own." Willow glared at the far wall. "Here, I'll let you talk to her, she's already in a bad mood, I'll let you make it even worse."

Buffy glanced from the phone that Willow was holding out to her than up to Willow and back down at the phone. Cautiously she walked towards Willow and took the phone from her, "Hello Wesley," she said sweetly, ready for the lecture of the century. She rolled her eyes and looked up toward the ceiling. "Yeah Wesley, I know…" she paused and looked around the room at the expectant faces. "Well I'm sorry you feel that way." Another pause and she held the receiver away from her ear and glared daggers at it. "Hey, I'm the one that carried her-" she bristled only to be interrupted. "Now just wait one damn minute there! He chose to leave, not me. He broke it off-" another pause as the resurrected Slayer fumed. "Hey, I never asked to be a mother, it just kind of happened." Another brief pause and Buffy was seriously contemplating putting the phone through the wall. "WESLEY!!" Buffy yelled, her eyes were cold crystals as she stared emotionless at the phone. "What the hell happened and where is Angel Starr?"

Buffy paused as her eyes took in all the worried faces looking at her. "What do you mean she-" Buffy was cut off by something Wesley was saying.

"You had better find out where in the hell my daughter is!" Buffy shouted into the phone. "If anything has happened to her, I personally see you staked through the heart, are we clear?" She paused as Wesley replied. "I don't care if it wasn't your fault or not, I'm holding both you and Angel responsible for her!"

She glared down at the phone, her free hand clenching and unclenching, ready to wrap around anything and wring the life from it. "Expect us in the next couple of hours or so, and she had better be found by then, understand me?"

She turned angry eyes toward her friends, but no one had the guts to meet her gaze, they all just turned away or stared at the floor. "We're going to L.A., be ready within the hour. If you're not then you're getting left here."

"Is Angel Starr ok?" Willow asked, fearing the worse. Had one of the demons finally caught up with her?

"I don't know, Wesley said she ran off after she and Angel got into a fight, about what, I don't know. I just want to find her before something else does."

Buffy glanced at the phone, something suddenly leaping into her mind. She picked it up and dialed the number for the Hyperion Hotel…er, office, whatever it was called now. She waited a few seconds for someone to pick up. "Cordy, put Angel on the phone, NOW!"

"Angel?"

"Yeah," his voice came back.

"It's about Angel Starr," Buffy took a deep breath, about to reveal the young girl's entire history, including what they also knew of the first pure Slayer, Aurora.

"What about her?" He asked quietly.

"She's in trouble, you have to find her before we get there."

"Who is she Buffy?"

"In a sense, she's our daughter," Buffy answered.

There was a moment of silence, "That's impossible."

"I know, but you have to believe me on this one."

"You're going to have to do a little better than that," he said.

"Giles found an entry in the Watcher's Chronicles dating a few centuries back about a Slayer that fell in love with a Demon, they had a daughter, that by all rights should have been impossible. She was a pure Slayer, built for the sole purpose of fighting evil and destroying it. She was sought after by all that was evil, just because of her blood."

"Like vampires seek the blood of the Slayer?" Angel questioned.

"Yes. Aurora's blood was more potent than her mother's was, it's the same way with Angel Starr. Demons and vampires have been after her since her birth. I didn't want you to know about her 'cause I knew you'd come back and I didn't want to burden you with her. It would have been to hard on the both of us…I'm sorry."

"She never would have been a burden to me Buffy," Angel said softly, "If only you would have told me. How was it possible…how did she come to be? I can't have kids."

Buffy sighed, "Giles had this whole thing figured out…somehow, our act of love created her, but not in the natural means. My body created her, thanks to you. She's all me, with a few traits of you thrown in, kind of like the best of both worlds, so to say, but she's pure Slayer."

"I found that out," Angel said.

"What?"

"We got into a slight argument and she sent me flying," Angel chuckled. "It kind of surprised me, I wasn't expecting something like that from her, you maybe, but not her."

"She's full of surprises," was all Buffy said.

"I'm finding this out. Where will she go?"

"As far from you as possible," Buffy answered.

"I didn't mean to hurt her," Angel said, suddenly feeling bad for the way he had treated her.

"It's not that, Wesley said that dead bodies have been showing up around your place, It's after her, that's how it always started. Young girls that looked a lot like her, messages in the dirt, always the same thing. It was coming to get her."

"What is it?"

"We don't know, none of us have ever seen It. Only she has, and it's always terrified her to the point that she won't talk about it." Buffy sighed. "Angel, you have to find her before It does. "

Well, here's Chapter 7...I know not a nice place to end it, huh? For all of you who have patiently waited while I took my good old time getting to this beast, thank you. This actually was intended to be the last chapter but for some reason this story is just taking on a life of its own. Let's see how long it takes me to get the next chapter out. Hopefully not another…what, about year or near there too. Review, as always and I'll try not to take more than a few months for the next chappy.