Story:- Family found Author:- Charlie Rating:- G Spoilers:- If you haven't seen season three then it does have spoilers in it, otherwise read a head. Pairing:- Lots, not really based a certain couples. Summary:- It turns out that Angel has more family than anyone first realised. Review:- Yes please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But this is my first fic so please go easy on me.

The only characters that belong to me are Sam, Salem, Matt, Laura, Brian and some demons.

All the other characters belong to Joss (The Master of all things Buffy and Angel) Whedon. Except in my dreams where everything I've ever wanted is mine. ( Like the contract for the ownership of all these characters.)

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All writing like this is the characters thoughts.



Chapter 3





Sam walked down the stairs, it was six in the evening; Coredila looked up from the file from her desk, showing Sam a big and friendly smile. Sam saw this a stopped dead.

"What?"

"Oh nothing, it's just you're finally up."

Sam then looked at her watch and was surprised to see just how late it was.

"I couldn't sleep."

"Well anyway now we can have our big meeting."

Angel had just walked in from Wesley's office and heard Cordelia mention a big meeting.

"What big meeting?"

Cordelia turned to Angel with a slightly guilty look on her face. Just before she could answer Angel's question Salem came up from the basement and gave Sam a quick kiss.

"Good evening"

"Hiya"

Cordelia seemed a little confused, but she continued to answer angel's question.

"Well we have had a talk about this whole, I've got a daughter thing, and we decided that even though you might not want to talk about it, there are a few things that need clearing up."

Angel looked at her; he didn't really know what to say.

"What things, and who are we?"

"We being Gunn, Wesley, Fred, Lorne and myself and those things being, don't you think you should've mentioned the fact that you'd had a child before when this whole Conner thing turned up?.And also those two were just supposed to be friends."

She was pointing to Sam and Salem.

Everyone else had gathered around them, Angel realised that they were right.

"Ok.we'll answer some questions. but only some."

Sam and Salem didn't look impressed by Angel's answer but really they knew he was right. They had to do it, because who where they to just turn up and expect all these people to just all of a sudden trust them? They all sat down on the sofas. Fred noticed that Sam and Salem looked very uncomfortable about this question session, so to be friendly and to lighten the mood, she turned to them and said.

"You can ask me questions about myself if you want, after all it's only fair. did you know that I spent the last five years of my life in a cave?"

Sam looked at her a smiled.

"No I didn't know that.sounds kinda interesting."

Salem looked at her and said.

"You're very intriguing. in a kinda weird way."

Sam looked at him and then punched him the arm.

"Hey. I wasn't hitting on her. just making polite conversation."

Sam looked at him; she didn't believe him one bit.

"Yeah of course, that's what you said to me in1851. but not in the same words."

Everyone else had just watched them, and then Angel laughed to everyone's surprise. Cordelia looked at him.

"Ok what's so funny?"

"They were always like this."

"Really, ok now I'm interested." then turning to Sam she said ". so what where the words he used?"

Sam had to think for a bit but then it came to her.

"We were walking through a park; this is when we were human, arm in arm. Salem started to say stuff like, I think your dress is very beautiful. but compared to you it looks like rags. This was the first time we had been out together, and I was very cautious; you just didn't say those things on a first date, so basically I kept ignoring all these things. I tried to get him to stop him by saying things like, that is very flattering but it isn't very proper and I will only ever be interested in a true gentlemen."

Sam looked at everyone they were totally engrossed in the story.

". Salem kept on replying. I am not trying to be rude, I'm just speaking the truth. and well he was the biggest liar ever and well I don't need to explain the rest."

Gunn was the first to speak, once she had finished, he turned to Salem.

"You were a womaniser and you still are."

"No I'm not. I was until I met Sam. but everything I said to her I meant."

Cordelia smiled at Sam and then said.

"You fell for a guy that was completely like Angel when he was human and now he's a vampire with a soul, just like Angel."

Then turning to Salem she said, ".from now on I'm going to call you Minnie Angel."

Angel and Salem looked completely offended; Angel was the one that protested.

"Hay I wasn't always a womaniser."

Then thinking for minute he realised that most of the time he was.

". I slept on my own a few times."

Salem then attempted to defend himself, but like Angel he could think of anything very convincing to say, so instead he just looked at Cordelia and said.

"Minnie Angel sounds a bit girly. and anyway you are just jealous because I'm too old for you."

Cordelia was so mad that she looked like she was about to burst, but before she could say anything Wesley stepped into the conversation.

"Well it's very fascinating to hear about the events leading up to the first time you ever.well. slept together. but I had other questions that I thought you might be able to answer."

Then he turned to Salem. "I was wondering. has your name ever been Gabriel?"

Salem looked at Wesley and then just looked towards the floor. Angel and Sam also began to feel, and look very uncomfortable. Wesley didn't need Salem to answer directly to him; he could already tell what the answer was.

"I take it that was a yes then."

Everyone seemed at little confused. It was Lorne that jumped in and asked the obvious question; he hadn't said anything so far and he felt a bit left out.

"So who was Gabriel?"

Salem looked up from the floor and into Lorne's eyes; this sent a chill down his spine but he didn't say anything just thought about it to himself, shore am glade I'm not him.

"Gabriel is the name the demon inside me uses."

"Oh. ok. handy to know."

Cordelia looked at Sam who seemed to be very uncomfortable.

"Come on then spill the beans, what is your evil name."

Sam looked at her, and then with a sigh she said. "Liarna. kinda not evil sounding I know. I always thought it gave people a very false sense of security about me."

Then realising what she'd said, she added.

". In case you were wondering."

"Don't feel bad, ok ignore that, you probably always feel bad. But Angel only changed his a little bit, come on Angelus and Angel. don't need to be genius to work that one out, and then he wonders why people know that he was Angelus." then turning to Angel ". It's all in the name."

"I like my name."

"No. You mean women like your name and you still get off on the fact that women find you sexually attractive. unlike me."

"I don't get off on that. and if you could you know you would."

"Oh you wish. Gunn I've told you to stop teaching him all these cheesy come backs."

Wesley had to get the conversation back on track again.

"Children! Please."

talking mainly to Sam and Angel ". I was wondering, Sam, when were you born and how did you become a vampire?"

"I was born in 1833 and I was sired in 1852 by.err. Angelus."

Everyone turned their attention to Angel. Cordelia then put the information together in her head.

"So that's what you meant when you were talking about him punishing you, by making you live for so long."

Sam looked at Angel; he seemed very sad and ashamed, then she turned to Cordelia.

"Yeah. but I didn't mean it."

Fred had also bee thinking about this and she was puzzled by just one thing.

"If it was Angelus that Sired you."

turning her attention to Angel

".why did you.or err Angelus wait until she was eighteen."

turning back around to Sam

". that's how old you were right?"

"No, I was seventeen."

Angel knew that they would want to talk about this. They have to know some of the things that I did, but why this? But he wasn't very comfortable about the idea of openly talking about it. Then he noticed that Sam was looking at him, she never really judged him for what he did.

"So do want to tell them or should I?" Angel looked at her, he just wanted to say that no one should talk about but he couldn't.

"Let me say why I waited until you were seventeen."

"Fine by me."

This interested Sam because she wasn't exactly sure herself because she had never thought to ask before.

"When Sam was born Darla and I. Angelus, we were disgusted that she had a soul. Darla wanted to just kill her but Angelus decided to let her live, with the knowledge of how evil her parents were and knowing that one-day they would come and get her. They did this by giving to the nuns in the village; Galloway in Ireland, where I grew up. They would raise her in God's teachings but they would always treat her as a lower being because of her parents. Angelus and Darla knew this would create a lot of hate and anger inside her. That's why they waited until she was seventeen because she would have a lot of hate but also because a child vampire wouldn't be very good. In the way that it would age but it's body wouldn't. So when we knew she was almost eighteen we went to claim her and I sired her."

Everyone was just staring at Angel; except for Sam and Salem, they knew the story, they had been there.

"Oh my god."

Angel looked at Cordelia, half expecting her to hate him, but she said something completely different, she was looking at Sam.

". the nuns hated you because of your parents? How very Christian."

She had a very strong sarcastic tone to her voice.

"They didn't hate me, they just kept on telling me about how I should constantly show and pay my respects to god, 'in the hope that he can prevent my evil father from claiming me and make me suffer the same unholy fait as he did.' Those were the exact words they used."

Cordelia had a look of total disgust on her face.

"Shows how much they knew."

"Well actually they could have been right, I don't know. I always crept out after dark and I went to all the parties with all the cute guys. I didn't care about what they were saying to me, I just assumed that if it was my fait then so be it, I didn't really understand the importance of a soul."

Salem didn't like the way that this conversation was going, it was very unpleasant already and it just got even more depressing so he tried to lighten the mood.

"And I was always the cutest guy at all the parties and she was always the sexiest girl. and it only took me three years to work up the courage to talk to her."

Gunn looked at him and almost burst out laughing in his face but he managed to contain himself, just.

"Three years! You gotta be kidding me."

"Hey, I was just checking her out, she was sexy but for all I knew she could've been totally insane."

" Hey what do you mean was? I still am cute, sexy, gorgeous and all those things."

Sam had been offended when Salem said she was sexy, and then Salem realised he'd made a big mistake.

"Of course you are, my mistake. Sorry darling."

"Ok you're forgiven, you can stop now."

Everyone else just laughed, they were the perfect couple.

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