Chapter 12

Sorry it's taken so long. I've been busy. But finally, here's more!

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Wesley looked at Connor uncertain. The future didn't look to bright so far, and from earlier conversations it seemed that Connor knew Wesley.

"Yeah, what's old Wes like in the future?" Xander asked, obviously the only one remotely enjoying himself.

"Different."

"Different how exactly?" Giles asked.

"He doesn't always wear his glasses, no suits, a rougher look. He's also very brave."

"Brave?" Everyone sounded shocked as they repeated Connor. Everyone except Wesley, who looked slightly offended and Cordelia who was looking at Wesley with a smile.

"Could you, um, perhaps, give us an example?" Giles asked, wondering how the new kid on the block, turned into a fighter.

"Well, I've only been around him recently, but he fights demons, more recently this beast that is trying to end the world."

"Again? Man, even in the future we don't get a break."

"Again?" Connor asked looked at the group.

"Yeah, we've faced oh, 3, 4, maybe 6 apocalypses, and we have another one on the way." Willow answered.

"Oh."

"So Wesley, in your time is a large part of this, uh, Angel Investigations?" Giles asked.

"He used to be."

"Before taking you?" Wesley wondered.

"Yeah. But now he is just starting to be trusted by everyone again."

"Do you know anything about the time before you were taken?" Wesley inquired.

"You worked with Angel and Cordelia for three years and with Gunn for two and Fred for one. You were actually the boss for awhile."

"I was the boss?" Wesley smiled.

"Of Angel?" Buffy wanted to know.

Connor nodded.

"Uh, Dead Boy gets bossed around by Wes." Xander laughed.

"Well, not anymore." Connor replied.

"The kidnapping thing?" Willow asked.

"When I was a baby, Wesley discovered a prophecy about me. It translated to 'The father will kill the son.' And he was worried that I Angel would kill me, so he saved me."

"Saved you?" Buffy asked, looking between Angel and Wesley.

"The portal thing, you mention earlier."

"He didn't take me through it. Holtz did."

"Holtz?" All eyes turned to Angel.

"The vampire hunter?" Giles asked.

"The one that chased Angel and Darla through the late 1700s?" Wesley added.

Connor nodded, still focused on Angel. "He was brought through time. God gave me to him."

"I thought Wesley did?" Xander asked, confused.

"You gave me son to Holtz?" Angel turned on Wesley.

"I was trying to save him."

"I would hurt him."

"How do you know? It's a prophecy from the future."

Angel glared at him. "I know."

"He didn't."

The group turned back to Connor, Angel and Wesley taking a second longer to glare at one another.

"I asked him. When I met him. He didn't give me to Holtz. He wanted to protect me and he was just going to take me away. Until he knew I was save or figured something else out. But Holtz found him. And took me from him."

"So, Wesley kidnapped you, and then Holtz kidnapped you again from Wesley." Buffy translated. "So, going back to an earlier statement. How did God give you to Holtz?"

"He would not have gotten me if God did not want me to have him. It's what he told me."

"And you believe him? The guy who stole you from someone trying to protect you and was after vengeance on your father?"

Connor looked at Buffy. He had never really thought about it that way. Holtz had raised him, he had been his father. But she was right. Why did he continue to believe him?

"He raised me. He taught me, but I am learning."

Buffy nodded.

"You say Wesley is gaining back our trust?" Cordelia asked. She was shocked by the what the future held for Wesley, he had stolen Angel's kid. That was huge, she wondered how the future her felt about it.

"Yes. He has helped out many times."

"What about the prophecy?" Giles asked. "Because you are still alive. So Angel didn't kill you."

"I won't do that." Angel stated firmly.

"I was told the prophecy was false. I was written by a demon, who thought I would grow up to kill it."

"False prophecies. Where does the madness end?" Xander said.

"Yes, well. It seems you know Wesley rather will, better than the rest of us so far. Very interesting, if not most unlikely."

"I'm next." Oz said, having spent most of his time simply observing and listening.

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Okay, next chapter will probably have Oz and Giles because I can't imagine that Connor would know that much about Oz. But he'll at least have seen him in Cordy's yearbook.

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