Title: Some things Never Change

Rating: PG13

Disclaimer: I do not own Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was copy writed by its producer and creator Joss Wheadon and also Mutant Enemy. It also owned by the WB, Fox, and other TV channels that air the show.

Summary: A slayer that won't do what she's told, a prophesy, a witch, a wiccan, an ex-demon, and a few humans that just want to help. And I'm not talking about Buffy and her friends. Takes place on Angel season 5 Post Time Bomb. It's mostly Buffy characters though.

Chapter Three

Not that Far Away

About thirty minutes later Lorne caught up with Angel, and when they found Spike it wasn't a pretty picture, empty bottles all over the floor, a broken chair, and Spike passed out on the floor for the second time that day. Only this time it was because of alcohol.

Angel decided he'd deal with Spike and Lorne offered to clean up. The green demon felt bad for Spike, because not only did he just find out he was a father, but soon thought Lorne, he'll figure out that he missed out on fourteen years of it.

Lorne stood in the doorway and watched as Angel gruffly shook Spike. "Spike you lazy ass wake up!" yelled Angel the fury evident on his face. Spike opened his eyes but shut them just as quickly, "Go away Angel." he mumbled. "We need to talk." "'bout what exactly?" asked Spike. "Your daughter."

That got Spike's attention, he shot right up. "How do you know about her?" "You left this behind," said Angel pulling the letter out of his pocket and dropping it in Spike's lap. "Listen to me this no way to treat a situation like this." "Oh yeah?" said Spike turning to face Angel, "How would you know?" "Because I have a son." at Spikes confused expression he answered," His name is Connor you met him a few weeks ago."

"Ah, Angel, I hate to break it to you but he had parents that weren't you. I met them." "I know it was part of a deal I made with Wolfram and Hart when I started working here. They gave him a new life, new parents, new memories and erased him from all of our memories except mine." "Oh those are the memories everyone's got back." "Yeah among other things." said Angel. "So oh wise one what do you think I should do?" Angel's answer came in two words, "Find her."

"If only it were that easy mate, I have no idea what she looks like or where she is, not to mention the scoobies couldn't even catch her." "Fine," said Angel, "Lets start out with the basics. Do you remember what her name is?" "Jocelyn Rhodes." "Okay, how old is she?" "Sixteen." "Where does she live?" "No idea, I think its out here in California though, since Red's coming out here." "Makes sense. Do you know where she goes to school?" "No." "Do you know what she looks like? "Don't know that one either."

"Sorry for interrupting, but I know the answer to both your questions," said Lorne.

That got the attention of his two vampire comrades," What?"

"This was inside the envelop." Lorne pulled the picture out of his pocket and handed it to Spike. "No need to stress, she's cute, looks a lot like you." Lorne said and pointed to the middle of the picture.

There were ten girls in the picture, four sitting on a bench, one girl standing on either side, three sitting on the ground in front of the bench, and on girl laying across the three that were on the bench. Lorne was pointing at the one laying down. He was right she was pretty cute. She had long blonde hair tied up in a pony tail, freckles, and ...his blue eyes. Her outfit reminded Spike of something Dawn would wear, she had jeans and sneakers on, but it was her shirt it said, 'Roxy' in big red letters, according to Dawn it had been a very popular company for girls.

"And you're not going to believe this but I found out where she lives," said Lorne once Spike had finished admiring the picture and handed it over to Angel. "How'd you figure that out?" asked Angel. "Well you see the sign behind them," Lorne said pointing to a large wooden sign in the background. It was painted white with the words 'West Lake High School' written in blue. "Well," Lorne continued, "I had Harmony look it up and there are three West Lakes in California, but only one High school and its school colors are white and blue, it's about a fifteen minute drive."

"Lets go." Said Angel and Spike in unison. "No can do amigos," answered Lorne, "We can't risk it, you'll just have to wait a couple days." "What do mean a couple days?" Spike asked. "Until Willow gets here." "Ah mate just in case you forgot the letter said they'd get here in about a week.," Spike said showing them the letter in his hand. "Check the date Spike, April 26, that was last week so if everything goes as planned they'll be here tomorrow."