Part 7

It took a while before everybody had calmed down. Giles, who still had not gotten an answer to his question, seemed a little irritated. Xander knew that he deserved an answer, but deep down inside himself he felt a little joy that his friends finally noticed him again. Him being centre of attention in the group did not happen often and he liked whatever attention that he could get, good or bad.

Willow had seated herself beside her girlfriend Cora. Anya was standing beside Riley at the entrance of the kitchen; Xander could see that she was pondering about something.

"So how do you know about demons Mr. Harris?" Giles asked again this time so that everybody could hear him.

Lucifer smiled at the man and Xander could see that his father was tempted to say the truth. He would not do so though, because he knew how important it was for Xander to tell the truth himself. "You may say that I have always had an interest when it came to demons Mr. Giles." He said then added. "And please do not call me Mr. Harris, my name is Lucian."

Giles did not seem pleased with the answer but he did not say anything about it.

"Well, now that that has been settled lets start researching again," Xander said trying to relieve some of the tension in the room. "What is the new big bad that is going to come wrecking havoc in our sweet little town? It's been to quite lately so there has to be something coming, right?"

"Yes, it seems that something is coming." Giles said straitening his glasses before finding a book and started to look for something. "I read a chapter a few weeks ago that a great evil was going to come to this town for some reason. The book is written in a very old language and so I was not able to translate everything. What I managed to get out of it though was that the great evil was here to collect something that he might have forgotten or put here."

Xander could see that Algernon and Thaddeus tried to restrain themselves from laughing. He knew that the text was speaking of him and his father, since his father had put him at earth many hundred years ago and he was soon be able to get back home soon.

Giles had put down his book ones again and walked over to another bookshelf trying to find more books at the subject. As the rest of the group was looking at the older man searching through books they did not notice a figure crawling over to where the watcher had left the book he had been looking through in the first place.

They all noticed the creatures' presence when they suddenly heard a childlike voice speaking. "Daddy," Lucifer looked down at his son Gideon who was holding the book up to him. "It's about you letting Lexi come home with us." Gideon smiled proudly as he had understood almost all the big words in the book.

The next thing that was heard was the sound of books falling to the ground and the group turned around to see a very shocked watcher standing there with a lot of books at his feet. Then Thaddeus and Algernon no longer managed to keep their need to laugh in check and started to do so. They looked almost crazy where they were sitting cackling like hyenas. Spike followed suite knowing all about what was going on, besides the face one the watcher was priceless. He could not have done a better job shocking him himself.

Gideon did not seem to notice though; he kept talking to his father. "You are going to let Lexi home right daddy? Then everything could be normal again and I could play with him like I used to." The devil turned his head and looked at Xander. "You want to play with me, don't you Lexi?"

Riley seemed to be the first of the Scooby Gang that was able to speak after they had heard Gideon talk. "Xander, what is he talking about?" He asked.

Before Xander even could answer the ex-marine another voice spoke.

"Your father is Lucifer?" Anya said and surprisingly enough she actually sounded mad about it for some reason. "Your father is Lucifer and you did not even tell me. All those years ago when we were dating you never told me this. That your father was one of the greatest people in the whole universe."

Xander glanced at the people in the room. Spike and his brothers did not move, as they were not afraid of the man that was sitting a few feet away from them. Cora tried to keep her distance; while Willow seemed a little unsure if she should be afraid or angry as Anya was. She had been a friend of Xander almost all her life and now she no longer really knew who Xander really was. Lucifer was supposed to be evil, and if Xander was his son then he could probably be evil as well. Riley tried to seem brave though Xander could smell the fear purring out of him, as could the other devils in the room. Dawn looked sad, and a little frightened.

Giles had still not moved after he had dropped his books, it seemed like he was in total shock and that worried Xander some. He never thought that him being the Devil's son should come out the way it did.

He did not blame Gideon though, the poor devil did not know any better and it was nice that he had been missed.

Xander heard his father trying to reassure Gideon that everything was all right. Anya's outburst must have scared the devil a little. Gideon was very easily to scare and that was a reason why he stayed at their father's side so much. He was glad that his two older brothers were to busy laughing that they did not notice that Gideon had been scared by the ex-demons outburst. Anya would be in big trouble if Algernon and Thaddeus had noticed.

"It's not something he would brag about you know," Spike answered Anya. "Besides if he had told you, would you have believed him?"

"You knew!?" Dawn was the one that spoke this time.

TBC