Chapter 25: Angel Meets Doyle

Two months had passed and there was no sign at all that Voldemort or his followers were planning on attacking anything yet. If they were it was going to be big. Hogwarts was all abuzz about Dumbledore's announcement of their being a ball the week before Christmas break, that weekend would be a Hogsmeade weekend.
Angel and the other's decided to drop by to check in on Connor and the others. Everyone was in the Great Hall eating breakfast when they arrived. Angel opened the great oak doors to the Great Hall. He started to walk up to the teacher's table when he looked up and stood frozen in the middle of the hall. 'I must be seeing things.' He thought shaking his head trying to clear it. When he looked up again he couldn't believe his eyes, there was his old collegue and best friend Doyle, and not ghost Doyle either human Doyle or at least as human he was before.
" Angel! Still brooding I see, How are ya?" Doyle said getting up to greet him.
" I don't brood! That's besides the point you died and now you're all here and without being transparent. What's going on?" Angel was shocked and didn't really know what was going on.
" Sure you don't, you keep thinking that. Oh that I would of told you sooner but I wanted to suprise you, Spike asked Fred to make me coporial. So Fred made the machine and here I am, I didn't want to tell you just in case it didn't work out. So I heard you had a son Connor." Doyle gave Angel a hug.
"Yeah, I was just about to go see him. Have you met him yet?" Angel looked up at Fred.
" No I haven't really had the time to. Oh and I heard about Cordelia I'm sorry man." Doyle looked upset when he mentioned Cordelia's name.
" It's ok. Well come on I'll introduce you to him." Angel walked over to the Slytherin table and found Connor sitting my Draco and Blaise. " Aren't you the guys who were jerks last time I was here?"
" Yeah, sorry about that, bad habit. I'm Draco Malfoy, you've already met Blaise and those four over there are Crabbe, Goyle, Marcus Flint, and Tracy Davis." Draco said shaking hands with Angel.
" So your friends with Connor then. I'm not happy about it but if Connor thinks your alright then I'll just have to deal with it." Angel said shaking hands with Draco.
" Well see we've changed. At least I have they just kind of followed my lead. "
"So what made you change?" Angel asked non-believing.
"A girl.Well I'll let you three be alone." Draco got up and placed himself at the Gryffindor table next to Ginny. The other guys got up and went out through the doors.
" So dad what's going on? I mean I know your here for your regular Zoe check up but other than that what's new?" Connor hugged his dad, as much as they fought it felt good to have a father figure.
" Nothing really. We had this huge apocolypse thing but that was solved in a couple of days." Angel started laughing. " You wouldn't believe me if I told you. I ended up going to Italy and Spike came with me since he took a vacation early. It was one heck of a job. I'll tell you everything later though. I want you to meet an old old friend of mine Connor, this is Alan Francis Doyle or Doyle for short. He helped me when I was first getting Angel Investigations off the ground."
" When you were first getting it off the ground? Yeah right! I believe I remember having to force you to go out. It's nice to meet you Connor you have a great father. You know once you get past all the brooding." Doyle said shaking hands with Connor.
" Yeah, I've seen you around. I didn't know you were friends with my dad though. I would of talked to you more if I knew. Well I've got to get to class it was nice meeting you Doyle and seeing you again dad, I guess I'll see you before you leave if I'm not in class." Connor said getting up and walking out of the Great Hall.
" Ah, Mr. Angel I see you've come to join us. If you would like you can stay for tomorrow's Quidditch match." Dumbledore walked up to Angel and Doyle.
" Thanks, I think that might be interesting. How's Connor doing with his classes?"
" Good, good. Connor is doing exceptionally well for being thrown into his 6th year. Well I must be off." Dumbledore walked over to the end of the Slytherin table where a fight had just broken out.
The next day Angel and Doyle joined Connor and his friends at the Quidditch match. Dumbledore had given Angel the same potion he had given Spike so both of them could go outside. Connor, Ron, and Harry filled Angel in on the rules and what not of Quidditch. Today it was Hufflepuff versus Ravenclaw, from the look of things it wasn't going to be a long match, or an interesting one at that. " If you want to see an interesting game you should come when Slytherin and Gryffindor are playing one another." Connor was telling his father.
"Why's that?" Angel couldn't take his eyes off the game even if it wasn't interesting. He had never seen anything like it in his life, which was saying something seeming he's been alive for more than 200 years.
" Both teams are great at playing, and there's always something going on. Harry is the seeker for Gryffindor as is Malfoy for Slytherin." Connor stood up to cheer with the rest of the students.
" Cedric Diggory the Hufflepuff seeker has spotted the Snitch as did Cho Chang of Ravenclaw. Hufflepuffs win! Wow that was the shortest game I've ever seen. 150 to 0, I think this game makes Hogwarst history, it was won in 20 minutes. I think both teams need to train their Chasers though." Lee comented.
" Lee! What did I tell you about-"
" Sorry Professor I'm just telling the truth!"
After the match Angel, Doyle, Connor, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Draco and Ginny walked around the lake Angel didn't get out often and now that he could he didn't hold back. " So Mr. Angel how does it feel to walk outside in the sun?" Ginny asked noticing how pastey white Angel was.
" It's great! I've always loved going out when I could." Angel started to notice that black wasn't a good sunny day color even if it was chilly out.
" When you could? Does that mean you've been out in the sun before?" Hermione looked over Ron at Angel.
" Yeah, see I was human for a day before I asked the Oracles to turn back time as if that day never happened. I'm the only one that remembers it, Doyle freaked out when I asked him why he never mentioned them. When Spike uncovered the Gem of Amora, Buffy took it from Spike and sent it to me. It let me walk in the sun but I decided to destroy it since those out in the day already have protection. It's amazing every time I've been able to walk in the day Doyle's always been there." Angel couldn't help but smile.
"You're very generous giving that all up to help people. I don't think I would be brave enough to do it." Ginny said looking at Ron.
"Thanks, well I must be going. I left Harmony in charge of Wolfram & Hart, I'm afraid to see the damage that's happened in the past two days. I would much rather be a puppet again than go to the office, but I can't stay here the rest of my life." Doyle lead Angel back to the castle.
" You must have the coolest father ever! You are so lucky." Hermione said taking hold of Ron's hand and kissing him.
" Thanks, I do have the coolest. I also have the oldest it's been hard catching him up on recent teenage things. Seriously I think he told me he was bit when he was 23 or something and that was in the late 1700's early 1800's so he was a teenager sometime earlier than that."
" Yeah well atleast your dad isn't an evil wanker like mine is. If you want to trade father's I'm up for it." Draco turned to Connor.
" Yeah but whose getting the crappy end of that deal?" Connor said before decided to go back to the Slytherin dormitory and get some homework done