Chapter 5

Thanks again to everyone who has been reviewing I really appreciate it. I also wanted to comment on something a lot of people seemed concerned about. Everyone has their favorite characters and their least favorite characters and everyone seems to want to make sure I'm nice to certain ones. So on that topic: a) I don't bash, or a try not to, but angst will happen. b) this is an Angel fic so the story will most be about Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, and Connor. c) Everyone will be like their third season characters for the most part. Because the story is about the Angel cast they may change a little according to what they find out about their future selves. and finally d) I will give the Buffy cast their moments and include them into the story. They too will show some of the maturity found in later years but for the most part its season 4 stuff.

Sorry for the long note, but I wanted to put people's minds at ease on that topic. Thanks!

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Connor stared at Angel's home. A mansion here and a hotel at home, it was amazing. And the mansion housed only one person.

"Umm, this is the living room, uh, kitchen's through there, I think there's some snacks if you're hungry, Buffy usually leaves some. This is my room and other than that you can take your pick." Angel told Connor as they moved through the mansion.

"Thanks." Connor answered as he moved a few doors down and went in. The room was a medium sized bedroom, fully furnished simple yet elegant, Angel's style. Connor stuck his head back out. "This will be fine."

"Okay. Well, I'm gonna try to get some sleep. You might want as well. In a couple of hours we can go through the sewers to the high school, talk to Giles, figure everything out."

"Okay." Connor replied and shut the door.

"Okay." Angel said to himself after the door shut. He continued to look at the door for a moment before going into his own room.

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Connor lay on the bed, thinking of recent effects. One minute he had been in L.A. and the next he was in Sunnydale. Not only Sunnydale, but if the facts held up he was also in the past. A past where he didn't even exist.

Angel, his father, didn't know him. Connor wondered what he would be like. Would he be the vampire Holtz always made him out to be? Or the man Connor had started to believe and trust, although slightly? Connor questioned if he was correct in not telling Angel who he really was.

He also wondered about Buffy, the B-word. He hadn't been told a lot about Buffy or how anyone even knew her. He had just figured she had gone to school with Cordelia. But obviously Angel knew her, and very well, like, kissing kinda well.

Questions continued to fill his head as he fell asleep.

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Angel twisted and turned in bed as he thought about the boy, Connor, only a few doors now. Something about the boy was off. There was something he was holding back. But what really bothered Angel was that he felt like he knew Connor from somewhere. He looked vaguely like someone Angel knew but he couldn't figure out whom, and he also held a sense of familiarity. Like the feeling one gets around an old friend or family member.

Angel also thought about the future Connor told of. L.A. Not a bad choice. Not too far way in case he was needed on the Hellmouth, but far enough that lives would be separated. Particularly his and Buffy's. Life without Buffy was hard to imagine. He had thought about living before, a few times actually. After getting back from hell, after Spike's friends talk, after pretending to be evil with Faith, but he wasn't able to do it. But somewhere in the future, he was.

And not only that, but Cordelia was working with him. Cordelia! That made him wonder if Connor was not completely off his rocker. Angel pictured the Cordelia he knew. Tall, brunette, beautiful, yes, but also insensitive, self-involved, and constantly trying to distance herself from the demon fighting. Besides why would Cordelia be in L.A.? If it were 2002 in Connor's time, she would still be in college. Cordelia may be all the things he had mentioned but she was also very smart and had money so that wasn't an issue.

Angel thought about the changes in store for the future if what Connor said was true until his head began to hurt. Finally he fell into a light sleep.

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