Title: Family: Forward to LA
Author: victoriamartynne
Rating: R
Disclaimer: I own nothing!
Spoilers: None, I think!
Summary: Imagine if Connor had never been taken by Wesley, Xander and Anya had never split up and Angel had told Cordelia how he felt. Sequel to Family: Back to Sunnydale. The Scoobies visit the Fang Gang.
Cordelia spent the next couple of days dreading the Scoobies arrival. Back in high school she used to be the one that people looked at and admired. People looked at her in awe, even Buffy. And although she was pregnant with Angel's child and she was happy she felt at a disadvantage. She knew that Buffy was confused after being dead and needed to find herself in the world again, but she suspected that she wanted Angel back in her life. She knew that Angel loved her but she couldn't help worrying whether he would grow to love Buffy again if they spent sometime together. The last thing Cordelia wanted to do was hurt Buffy, but the truth was bound to hurt her.
Buffy called two days after she'd spoken to Angel and told Fred that they would be arriving in a couple of hours, it was already sunset.
Cordelia set about folding linen and making sure that each room had enough towels and sheets. She tired herself out but at least she managed to pass a little time until they arrived.
Angel came upstairs and found her moving a bedside table in one of the bedrooms.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" He glowered and pulled her hands off it.
"You could hurt the baby. Or yourself."
"Angel, I'm pregnant, not helpless." She put her hands on her hips.
"Yes, exactly, you're pregnant. Which means that you don't lift heavy things, you don't come out on cases and you don't do anything that can hurt the baby." He shouted at her and put the table back where it was.
She was about to argue but stopped when she saw the look on his face.
"Now, you are going to go downstairs and sit on the sofa with your son and a cup of coffee for the rest of the day and do absolutely nothing." He ordered.
Her response was to burst out laughing but she did make her way out of the room. "If you think I'm going to sit and do nothing for the rest of the day then you don't know me at all."
"It was worth a try." He shrugged his shoulders and stopped her from walking off by grabbing her wrist. He pulled her towards him. "You know I love you?"
"Yeah I do." She replied and let him press her against the wall and kiss her.
They were interrupted by Lorne calling up the stairs. "They're here kittens!"
They parted and Cordelia groaned. "Time to go face the firing squad."
"It won't be that bad." He told her and wrapped an arm around her shoulder.
"No, it'll just make me want to jump off the nearest building, pregnant or not."
"Why did you say that? You shouldn't joke about things like that!" He was suddenly angry at her again.
"Oh come on, you know it's the hormones. And you go and invite them here when I feel like crap and quite frankly look like crap!" She complained as she made her way down the stairs. "One word off them and they're going to get it"
Angel smirked but said no more.
They came into the lobby just as the Scoobies came through the front door. As soon as they saw Cordelia they stopped what they were doing and stared.
"Hey, look." Xander said. "Someone knocked up Cordelia!"
"Xander!" Anya scolded. "Cordelia must have played some part in it."
Cordelia just looked towards the floor. She felt Angel's arm tighten around her shoulders.
"Cordelia, what happened?" Willow asked.
"Yeah, did one of your many conquests actually leave you a present?" Buffy muttered but Cordelia caught it and her head snapped up.
"What?" She asked.
"I was just wondering if you finally got something to show for sleeping around." Buffy said and folded her arms.
"Hey, where do you get off talking about Cordy like that?" Gunn said.
"Cordelia is pregnant with my baby." Angel told them.
Buffy burst out laughing but then realised he was serious. "Oh my God. What the hell did you do to him?"
Cordelia glared at her. "What exactly are you so shocked about?"
"You getting yourself pregnant to Angel." She said. "Wait a minute, you must have done something, vampires can't have children."
"Unless you didn't notice when we were in Sunnydale, Angel has a baby boy, Connor." Fred said.
"You have to admit, Fred, it does seem a little peculiar." Giles said and wiped his glasses. "Maybe we could get settled in and then things could be explained."
"That sounds like a good idea." Wesley said and decided to show their guests to their rooms himself. "If you would like to follow me."
The Scoobies followed him up the stairs still looking very shocked, and in Buffy's case hurt.
Cordelia sighed.
"Yeah, I know. This is my entire fault." Angel said before she could say anything. "But we shouldn't care what they think or say, because we are happy and our family is happy and that's all that matter."
"But they were so hurtful. And I know I deserve it because I was so mean to them in high school. But now I realise how I made them feel and it hurts. I can take it if I have to but I won't let anyone bitch about my baby. Our baby." She corrected.
"You go girl." Gunn patted her shoulder as he made his way into the office.
"Here." Fred said and gave her Connor. "He was missing his mommy."
Cordelia took him and went to sit in Wes's office with him while Fred showed Angel some research she'd been doing. Gunn sat opposite her playing his computer game.
When the Scoobies came back downstairs with Wesley, Cordelia stayed with Connor while Angel went out into the lobby to explain.
"When we came to Sunnydale, Cordelia and I had been seeing each other for the past few months. Cordelia told me on the first night there that she was pregnant with my child." Angel began but was interrupted.
"Have you had a DNA test?" Buffy asked.
"No! Why the hell would I want to do that?" He asked her.
"Because you can't have children which means that she must have slept with a human in order for her to get pregnant." Buffy told him.
"I don't know how Cordelia got pregnant, just as I don't know how Darla did."
Back in the office, Cordelia flinched at the sound of his ex's name, Connor's biological mother.
"So Cordelia and you have been sleeping together for the past few months?" Xander asked. "Why are you not evil?"
"She didn't give him a moment of perfect happiness." Buffy smirked.
"I'm getting kinda bored here." Spike interrupted. "If you don't mind, I'm going to go get myself some LA action, want to come Niblet?" He asked Dawn. She nodded and they left.
"We found a way around the curse." Angel told them impatiently. "Cordelia has demon in her now which means that she was able to bind my soul and keep it in my body."
"You didn't come to me?" Buffy asked quietly. "I thought that when you found out that your soul was permanent you would come to me?"
"Things change Buffy." Angel said gently, but not unkindly.
"Obviously." She muttered. "You ditched me for Queen C. If you wanted a slut you could just have hired one, you know." She bitched.
"That's mean!" Fred said. "You don't know Cordelia."
"Angel!" Cordelia called out from the office. "Help!"
He ran in and found her floating three feet off the floor. "It's okay baby, I'm here. What do you see?"
She still had Connor in her arms and he began to cry as he realised how high off the floor he was. "There's a girl, she's running through the park. She's really scared. She has two demons on her tail, I think they're slime demons but I'm not sure."
She floated back to the floor and comforted Connor who was still crying. "I'm sorry honey, I'm so sorry I scared you."
She turned towards the door and saw all the Scoobies and the AI gang looking at her.
"Okay, you've got about ten minutes, go!"
She pushed past them and went up the stairs to lie down.
Angel, Buffy and Gunn went to fight the demons, whiles Willow, Giles, Fred and Anya stayed in the lobby wondering if any of them should go and see Cordelia. Fred kept insisting that she wouldn't want to be fussed over and that Angel would go up when he came back.
They came back covered in slime. Apparently the demons had been supercharged or something and had taken all of them to kill them. They all headed up the stairs together to get out of their ruined clothes. Buffy was thinking how well the fight had gone. She and Angel had slipped right back into their old fighting routine. Side by side. Although she had to admit he now took a more active part in the fight and not just watched her back. Angel was just thinking that he had to see how Cordelia was.
Author: victoriamartynne
Rating: R
Disclaimer: I own nothing!
Spoilers: None, I think!
Summary: Imagine if Connor had never been taken by Wesley, Xander and Anya had never split up and Angel had told Cordelia how he felt. Sequel to Family: Back to Sunnydale. The Scoobies visit the Fang Gang.
Cordelia spent the next couple of days dreading the Scoobies arrival. Back in high school she used to be the one that people looked at and admired. People looked at her in awe, even Buffy. And although she was pregnant with Angel's child and she was happy she felt at a disadvantage. She knew that Buffy was confused after being dead and needed to find herself in the world again, but she suspected that she wanted Angel back in her life. She knew that Angel loved her but she couldn't help worrying whether he would grow to love Buffy again if they spent sometime together. The last thing Cordelia wanted to do was hurt Buffy, but the truth was bound to hurt her.
Buffy called two days after she'd spoken to Angel and told Fred that they would be arriving in a couple of hours, it was already sunset.
Cordelia set about folding linen and making sure that each room had enough towels and sheets. She tired herself out but at least she managed to pass a little time until they arrived.
Angel came upstairs and found her moving a bedside table in one of the bedrooms.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" He glowered and pulled her hands off it.
"You could hurt the baby. Or yourself."
"Angel, I'm pregnant, not helpless." She put her hands on her hips.
"Yes, exactly, you're pregnant. Which means that you don't lift heavy things, you don't come out on cases and you don't do anything that can hurt the baby." He shouted at her and put the table back where it was.
She was about to argue but stopped when she saw the look on his face.
"Now, you are going to go downstairs and sit on the sofa with your son and a cup of coffee for the rest of the day and do absolutely nothing." He ordered.
Her response was to burst out laughing but she did make her way out of the room. "If you think I'm going to sit and do nothing for the rest of the day then you don't know me at all."
"It was worth a try." He shrugged his shoulders and stopped her from walking off by grabbing her wrist. He pulled her towards him. "You know I love you?"
"Yeah I do." She replied and let him press her against the wall and kiss her.
They were interrupted by Lorne calling up the stairs. "They're here kittens!"
They parted and Cordelia groaned. "Time to go face the firing squad."
"It won't be that bad." He told her and wrapped an arm around her shoulder.
"No, it'll just make me want to jump off the nearest building, pregnant or not."
"Why did you say that? You shouldn't joke about things like that!" He was suddenly angry at her again.
"Oh come on, you know it's the hormones. And you go and invite them here when I feel like crap and quite frankly look like crap!" She complained as she made her way down the stairs. "One word off them and they're going to get it"
Angel smirked but said no more.
They came into the lobby just as the Scoobies came through the front door. As soon as they saw Cordelia they stopped what they were doing and stared.
"Hey, look." Xander said. "Someone knocked up Cordelia!"
"Xander!" Anya scolded. "Cordelia must have played some part in it."
Cordelia just looked towards the floor. She felt Angel's arm tighten around her shoulders.
"Cordelia, what happened?" Willow asked.
"Yeah, did one of your many conquests actually leave you a present?" Buffy muttered but Cordelia caught it and her head snapped up.
"What?" She asked.
"I was just wondering if you finally got something to show for sleeping around." Buffy said and folded her arms.
"Hey, where do you get off talking about Cordy like that?" Gunn said.
"Cordelia is pregnant with my baby." Angel told them.
Buffy burst out laughing but then realised he was serious. "Oh my God. What the hell did you do to him?"
Cordelia glared at her. "What exactly are you so shocked about?"
"You getting yourself pregnant to Angel." She said. "Wait a minute, you must have done something, vampires can't have children."
"Unless you didn't notice when we were in Sunnydale, Angel has a baby boy, Connor." Fred said.
"You have to admit, Fred, it does seem a little peculiar." Giles said and wiped his glasses. "Maybe we could get settled in and then things could be explained."
"That sounds like a good idea." Wesley said and decided to show their guests to their rooms himself. "If you would like to follow me."
The Scoobies followed him up the stairs still looking very shocked, and in Buffy's case hurt.
Cordelia sighed.
"Yeah, I know. This is my entire fault." Angel said before she could say anything. "But we shouldn't care what they think or say, because we are happy and our family is happy and that's all that matter."
"But they were so hurtful. And I know I deserve it because I was so mean to them in high school. But now I realise how I made them feel and it hurts. I can take it if I have to but I won't let anyone bitch about my baby. Our baby." She corrected.
"You go girl." Gunn patted her shoulder as he made his way into the office.
"Here." Fred said and gave her Connor. "He was missing his mommy."
Cordelia took him and went to sit in Wes's office with him while Fred showed Angel some research she'd been doing. Gunn sat opposite her playing his computer game.
When the Scoobies came back downstairs with Wesley, Cordelia stayed with Connor while Angel went out into the lobby to explain.
"When we came to Sunnydale, Cordelia and I had been seeing each other for the past few months. Cordelia told me on the first night there that she was pregnant with my child." Angel began but was interrupted.
"Have you had a DNA test?" Buffy asked.
"No! Why the hell would I want to do that?" He asked her.
"Because you can't have children which means that she must have slept with a human in order for her to get pregnant." Buffy told him.
"I don't know how Cordelia got pregnant, just as I don't know how Darla did."
Back in the office, Cordelia flinched at the sound of his ex's name, Connor's biological mother.
"So Cordelia and you have been sleeping together for the past few months?" Xander asked. "Why are you not evil?"
"She didn't give him a moment of perfect happiness." Buffy smirked.
"I'm getting kinda bored here." Spike interrupted. "If you don't mind, I'm going to go get myself some LA action, want to come Niblet?" He asked Dawn. She nodded and they left.
"We found a way around the curse." Angel told them impatiently. "Cordelia has demon in her now which means that she was able to bind my soul and keep it in my body."
"You didn't come to me?" Buffy asked quietly. "I thought that when you found out that your soul was permanent you would come to me?"
"Things change Buffy." Angel said gently, but not unkindly.
"Obviously." She muttered. "You ditched me for Queen C. If you wanted a slut you could just have hired one, you know." She bitched.
"That's mean!" Fred said. "You don't know Cordelia."
"Angel!" Cordelia called out from the office. "Help!"
He ran in and found her floating three feet off the floor. "It's okay baby, I'm here. What do you see?"
She still had Connor in her arms and he began to cry as he realised how high off the floor he was. "There's a girl, she's running through the park. She's really scared. She has two demons on her tail, I think they're slime demons but I'm not sure."
She floated back to the floor and comforted Connor who was still crying. "I'm sorry honey, I'm so sorry I scared you."
She turned towards the door and saw all the Scoobies and the AI gang looking at her.
"Okay, you've got about ten minutes, go!"
She pushed past them and went up the stairs to lie down.
Angel, Buffy and Gunn went to fight the demons, whiles Willow, Giles, Fred and Anya stayed in the lobby wondering if any of them should go and see Cordelia. Fred kept insisting that she wouldn't want to be fussed over and that Angel would go up when he came back.
They came back covered in slime. Apparently the demons had been supercharged or something and had taken all of them to kill them. They all headed up the stairs together to get out of their ruined clothes. Buffy was thinking how well the fight had gone. She and Angel had slipped right back into their old fighting routine. Side by side. Although she had to admit he now took a more active part in the fight and not just watched her back. Angel was just thinking that he had to see how Cordelia was.
