A/N: This is, plain and simple, AU. Instead of Angel turning into a vampire in Ireland in the 1700's, I wondered what it would be like if set in the modern day world. This is a story I posted in one of my Yahoo groups, and just thought you guys might like it as well.
CHAPTER 2
"Liam O'Connor; dark, spiked brown hair, six foot two in height, muscular built. He went missing on his eighteen birthday, completely gone without a trace."
"Charlie?" Charles Gunn glanced up at his father from where he sat at his kitchen table. "You still reading that?"
"Dad, this stuff is messed up." Charles went around the table and flashed the paper in front of his dad's face. "Dude just disappeared."
"Charlie, this is LA." Mr. Gunn moved the paper out of his face. "Kids go disappearing and run away every day. It's nothing new."
"I know," Charles agreed. Before he could say anything his younger sister, Alonna came down the stairs.
"Hey," Alonna greeted lightly, her curly hair bouncing in a ponytail behind her.
"You see the paper?" Charles asked his sister, handing it to her.
Alonna read the first couple of lines. "Liam O'Connor?" she read out loud. "I know his sister. She goes to my school."
"For real?" Charles asked.
"Yeah. She hasn't been to school in days, though," Alonna said.
Mr. Gunn took the paper from his daughter and folded it. "You two shouldn't be worried about this mess. Now get out," he said, which meant for them to get to school.
As Alonna gathered her book bag and jacket, Charles turned to their father. "Which movie we going to tonight?" he asked him.
"Forget the movie," said Mr. Gunn. "A friend of mine got the uncut DVD of Tupac Resurrection."
"Are you serious?" Charles asked his serious. His father nodded. Charles smiled from ear to ear. "Well, all right then."
"Sounds cool," Alonna said from where she stood by the sink.
"Alonna, did you pull your grade up in social studies yet?" Mr. Gunn asked her.
"Well, not… yet?" Alonna replied squeamishly.
"You studying tonight."
"That's not fair. Charlie has homework, too," Alonna argued.
"Don't worry about your brother." Alonna sighed, knowing it was useless to dispute when her dad started acting like, well, a dad.
Wesley Wyndham-Pryce stood at his locker, absent-mindedly going through it. It had been another one of those mornings. He would wake up, be in something that fell into the category of a good mood, and his father would slap it out of him, just not literally, yet.
"Wes!"
The fore mentioned seventeen-year-old nearly jumped out of his skin, scattering his books on the floor and even dropped his glasses.
"Wesley?" Buffy Summers said, coming from around Wesley's locker door and facing him. "You OK?"
"Fine," Wesley replied, kneeling down to gather his things. "Buffy, do you mind? I didn't get much sleep last night."
"Sorry," the pretty blonde said, joining him on the floor. "The dad thing again?"
Wesley nodded as he adjusted his glasses. "I am tired and I need to finish my U.S studies homework."
"Hmm, that reminds me," Buffy said then stood up, handing Wesley his math text. "How much homework didn't I do last night?"
"Knowing you? All of it." Wesley and Buffy glanced up at Charles, who had just walked up.
"Hey," Buffy smiled at him.
"Hello, Charles," Wesley greeted, being his usual former self.
"Hello, Wesley," Charles returned his British accent. "You two catch the paper today?"
"Reading up on a new crop circle?" Buffy said. "Not really my thing."
Charles pointed to her and said, "And the prize for illiteracy goes to…" Buffy slapped his arm playfully.
"What was in the paper?" Wesley asked.
"Liam O'Connor's gone missing," Charles replied. He handed Wesley a copy of the paper.
"And we should care about this why?" Buffy asked.
"We don't," Charles told her. "I just think something's up. All these people disappearing lately."
"This is true," Wesley said, reading the article in the paper on Liam. "Mostly kids around our age at that."
Buffy glanced over Wesley's shoulder at the newspaper. "Ooh, tasty," the sixteen-year-old beamed at Liam's picture. "Buffy likes."
"Buffy schizoid," Charles countered with a smirk.
Buffy gave him a look, yet was clearly amused. "It's sad when the very rare cuties in the world go disappearing," she said.
"Alonna goes to this guy's sister's school," Charles told them.
"This is all quite odd," Wesley said. "People vanishing. It's odd, even for LA."
"Guys, I can tell you this much," Buffy said as she walked down the hall. "Nothing is too odd for LA." With that, she turned the corner and was gone.
A/N: Thanks for the reviews, guys. Now I think I will continue this. Please review!