CHAPTER 10

Historical Note: This Trilogy takes place in the fifth season of Buffy, and the third season of Angel.

Author's Note: By now in the show, Dawn has joined the Summers' family, but the arrival of Glory will be postponed due to my stories perspective; which is about Buffy, Angel, and Connor.

Also, you'll notice that some of the plots from both of the shows later episodes are happening sooner since I've altered a lot of both shows story lines.

Lorne ran towards Connor to try to stop him, but he was no match. Connor shoved Lorne to the ground before pinning Cordy to the desk with his knife still held at her throat. Cordelia remained calm, even as she had a knife to her throat. She then began to glow with the new demon powers she had just realized received recently. The light covered Connor as well as the knife, which disappeared as soon as the light touched it. Angel and Buffy both ran out of their room and watch at the top of the staircase as Cordy calmed their son. Connor's anger disappeared as Cordy slowly sat up, and began to comfort him.

"Let it go, honey. You don't need any of that," she told him. Connor looked up at her before finally breaking down and began to cry on her shoulder. Angel and Buffy both watched from above as Connor began to heal from all of the years spent in Quor-toth.

After a few minutes of crying in Cordelia's shoulder, Connor backed away giving himself some distance between him and Cordelia, trying to compose himself once more.

"Cordy, are you ok?" Angel asked as he walked over to Cordy. He could tell as he put his hand on her arm that she had been weakened by whatever it was she had just done. Buffy walked over towards Connor, who appeared slightly shocked and confused.

"Wow, those are some powers," Lorne said impressed as he walked over to her. Cordelia smiled weakly.

"Thanks, but it kinda drained me," she told him as she walked over to the couch. "Wow, I had no idea that would take so much energy out of me," Cordy confessed as she sat down.

"I knew I could sense something when he came here tonight, and it wasn't bad karma," Lorne told them.

"What do you mean?" Angel asked.

"Well, He was toxic. He was sick from the dimension he grew up in," Lorne explained. Buffy looked over at Cordy.

"What'd you do to him anyways?" she asked curiously. Cordelia looked over at Buffy, who was still standing beside Connor.

"I gave him a soul colonic. But don't worry, he's now all cleansed from the hell dimension," Cordy explained. Buffy nodded as she focused her attention back to her son.

"Thanks Cordy," Angel said. He was thankful that his son was now cleansed from the hell dimension he grew up. It would now be easier to win his son back. Angel walked over to Connor and sat down beside him.

"Hey pal; how you doing?" he asked as Buffy sat on the other side of him.

"I tried to kill your friend," Connor said.

"She's used to it," Angel told him. Buffy stifled a laugh at his comment. It was true though, Cordelia was used to trying to be killed.

"I should go," Connor said as he stood up. Angel stood up quickly and quickly got in front of him.

"Look, you should stay here.," Angel said. "I know it doesn't seem like it, but this is your home," he told him.

"I don't have a home," Connor said. Buffy walked over to him.

"No you do. You just don't remember; you were too young. This is your home," Buffy assured him. "Would you please stay with us?" he asked him. Connor thought back to Holtz's words earlier. 'You must return to Angel; It's your destiny to be with your true father. I don't have answers to the questions you have; he does..' Connor became confused, and didn't know what to do. Before he could give any sort of answer, Gunn and Fred came walking in through the front door.

"Sorry to interrupt, but can I talk to you for a second; alone?" Gunn asked motioning to Angel's office. Angel looked at Gunn confused, but he headed to his office along with Gunn, leaving a confused and curious Buffy in the lobby along with everyone else.

* * *

Angel looked up at Gunn in disbelief. The news Gunn had has just told him was unbelievable. He never would have believed it if the news had came from someone else.

"And your sure?" he asked. Gunn nodded.

"Fred saw it too. Wanna ask her?" he asked as he motioned to Angel's door.

"No. That's alright," Angle said. He then fell silent and began to think. Now that Holtz was back in this dimension he could get revenge for taking his son away from him…

"Could you and Fred take Connor out for a while?" Angel asked.

"Why? What are planning on doing?" he asked quickly recognizing the look on Angel's face.

"I'm going to pay a little visit to Holtz," he explained. Gunn looked at Angel and nodded.

"Yeah, sure," he told him. Cordelia decided to speak up. She had followed the men in and had been standing beside the door as Gunn explained what he saw to Angel.

"Angel, don't do this," Cordelia said as Angel grabbed his coat. Gunn was already out the door and in the lobby.

"I'm not going to kill him," he assured her. "As much as he deserves it," he added.

"Holtz? Oh you should so kill him. He robbed Connor of his childhood. I was talking about your son.." Angel looked her, not following what she was getting at.

"He's only been in this dimension for a few days. Lying to him? Not the best way to build up the trust," Cordy explained.

"I'm not lying to him," Angel said.

"No, your just distracting him so that you can go and confront the man your son calls his father," Cordelia said.

"Look, Cordy, I know what your saying, but it was my son that was stolen from me; not yours," he said before walking out of the lobby . He looked over at Connor.

"Fred and Gunn are going to take you to the beach while Buffy and I go out for a while," he told him. Connor nodded.

"Where are we going?" Buffy asked following Angel out the door.

"I'll tell you on the way," he said under his breath as they walked out the door.

* * *

"This is an ocean?" Connor asked as he Fred, and Gunn stood on the beach looking at it. Angel had asked Gunn to take him to a place that wasn't so ugly, and this was the first place he thought of. He and Fred had gone there once on a date.

"Yup," Gunn assured him. Connor just looked ahead at the large body of water, not seeing what was so great about it.

"My father told me about this. I didn't know it was so flat though," Connor noted.

"What your seeing is just the surface, below the surface is like a whole other universe," Fred explained.

"I never saw one before growing up in Quor-toth," he began. "Here, its…weird and strange," Connor said. Fred smiled knowing where he was coming from.

"I know what you mean. I was kidnapped and spent five years in another dimension. When I came back here I felt like everything had gone and changed on me," she explained. Connor began to walk towards the ocean.

"Connor, uh, yo!" Gunn said.

"Charles. Let him go," Fred said as she watched Connor study the surroundings. "This feels weird being here while Angel and Buffy are out…" she trailed off.

"Yeah, well whether Angel kills or not, he's out for blood," Gunn explained. "Well actually, he said he'd deal with it his own way, which if I was him and my only kid was taken by my enemy you'd bet your ass I'd be out for blood," Gunn added. Connor slowly turned around towards them. Fred and Gunn looked at him worriedly.

"NO, no way; not possible. There's no way he could have heard us," Gunn said as he and Fred looked at Connor worriedly.

"I think he did," Fred said. Connor's hearing as well as his other senses had been heightened because of Buffy and Angel's superhuman powers, so he was able to hear Fred and Gunn's conversation; despite the fat that they were talking low, and they were up on the beach while he was by the chore line. . Connor realized that they were distracting him so that Angel could track Holtz down. Without a second thought Connor quickly took off running from the beach to warn Holtz.

"Connor, wait!" Gunn shouted as he ran after him; trying to catch up to Connor, but it was no use. He was just as fast as Angel and Buffy were.