TITLE: Le Premier Innocent 3/?
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AUTHOR: Little Lab Rabbit
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SUMMARY: After the end of Amends Buffy and Angel find a child in the snow who appears to be able to bring Angel his redemption.
SPOILERS: Season 3, Episode Amends.
CONTENT/WARNINGS: -
RATING: PG 13
DISCLAIMER: Joss Whedon, ET. Al, are the owners. I simply write non-profit work.
NOTE: Response to GidgetGirl's Snow Child Challenge. She also owns the idea behind Angel unable to hold the Child. And she owns another idea that when it shows up I'll tell you if I tell you now will ruin a major plot. Now also mixed with her Hidden Child Challenge. The girl's a genius, GidgetGirl I mean!

Reviews! I got some! Yeah!

Elysa is pronounced: Elle-Lee-Sa.

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"You said you found her in the snow?" Giles asked, taking his glasses off, cleaning them with a cloth from his pocket. Buffy and Angel had shown up with a child wrapped in a blanket at his front door. Early in the morning, it was not something he enjoyed.

Buffy who was combing the girl's hair with her fingers; Elysa's hair, without out realizing she was doing it, nodded, "Yeah. It's freaky; Angel can't touch her without going all flame-y"

Elysa had who had been staring up at wonder at the Watcher suddenly slipped into the apartment. Angel instinctively moved to pick her up, jumping back when his arms touched the blanket.

"It is very interesting that he can't touch her. Any chance she's wearing a cross or any other religious items?" He said turning his head to watch the child walk towards a closed door.

The slayer shook her head, watching Elysa struggle to open the door, letting out a sigh of frustration. She strolled across Giles's apartment opening the door for her just as Angel reached for the door handle as well.

Giles looked at the three of them with a smile playing at his lips, "Seems like you three have become rather attached."

"Who's that?" Elysa asked peering into the room. Buffy gave a tug on the blanket leading her away from the door; Angel closed the door behind them.

The snow child scrunched in her face preparing to ask again, but Angel cut her off by asking one of his own.

"I was thinking that maybe we could go to the police. Maybe her parents are looking for her."

Giles glanced back at the door before responding, "We'll get her some clothes and take her."

"Her" was busy staring at herself in a mirror but quickly whirled around, "No! I'm going to stay here!" Before firmly attaching herself on Buffy's leg, blond hairs framing her face and her eyes filling up with tears.

Hoisting Elysa into her arms, once again readjusting the blanket, "Don't cry. Don't you want to go home to your mom and dad?"

"I'm supposed to save the angel." She said glancing over at Angel himself, though none of them noticed, "They said so."

Giles moved closer giving Elysa a reassuring smile, "Who's they?"

"They."

"Are..." Buffy prompted.

Elysa was getting a little exasperated, "They!"

Wondering who they were but not wanting Elysa to cry some more, it broke his non beating heart to see her pretty face stained with tears.

"Daddy?" A girl said from the doorway the vampire, slayer and the child had just been standing by; seeing the fellow child she ran into Giles arms staring concerned at the girl wrapped in a blanket.

"Hi Lumi." Angel said softly, and the girl buried her face into Giles's leg, mimicking the gesture Elysa had made.

On the other hand Buffy moved towards her and Lumi gave her a weak smile, her eyes hidden behind long dark lashes.

"Go back to sleep Lumi, it's not time to get up yet." Giles said leading her back to her room, but Elysa stopped him.

"Who's that?"

"I'm-I'm Lumi." The other child said in a hushed voice, Giles stared at her. Lumi never spoke to new people; in fact Lumi rarely spoke to people to begin with. Even stranger, she smiled sweetly at Elysa.

Elysa returned the smile, "I'm Elysa, I like that name."

"How about I get you some clothes." Buffy said leading the girls back to Lumi's room, "Then you can go back to sleep."

Once Buffy was in the other room Angel turned to Giles, "What if they can't find her parents or worse, they're dead."

"I guess then she'll be put in foster care. She's young, she could be adopted."

"Maybe I could watch her." Angel suggested.

Giles frowned, "She has parents. She couldn't have just come out of thin air."

"I feel connected to her." He admitted, suddenly fascinated with his nails, "Like what I feel with Buffy."

"Go to the police," Giles said firmly, but Buffy who had just joined them shook her head.

"No. I don't know why but I think I'm supposed to take care of her," she said, crossing her arms across her chest in a stubborn gesture not uncommon for the slayer. Surprisingly Giles didn't protest any more just shook his head sadly as if knowing it would turn out badly. He did pose one question though, "How are you going to explain this to Joyce?"

She chewed on her bottom lip for a moment, "I don't know." She said finally. It just hurt her so much to see Elysa cry when she mentioned leaving her.

Angel, ever the white knight, jumped to his girlfriend's rescue, "She can stay with me."

Both Giles and Buffy seemed shocked at this proposal, "You can't even hold her." The older man said, as if that was reason enough.

"I'll figure it out."

The blond wrapped her arms around him, "Thanks."

Angel was already deep in thought, the image of Jenny Calendar still haunting him.

"You took me away from her." Jenny said circling the vampire slowly. Angel walked away from her trying to shake the apparition.

He had returned to his mansion trying to get away from the image of Jenny stroking Giles, taunting him, but she was still there.

Jenny didn't leave though, "I was her world. I was all she had and you took me away from her. She'll never forget finding my body, limp on the couch."

"What do you want?" He snapped whirling around to face the ghost.

Jenny smiled self depreciatively "I wanted to see her grow up. I wanted to be there on her wedding day. When my first grandchild was born I was going to right there with her." She was beside him now hands on his shoulders, "Do you know how I wanted to die? Surrounded by fat grandchildren. That's not going to happen now."

"Angel?" Buffy touched his face, drawing one finger down his jaw bone.

"I saw Jenny." He admitted, "She told me to kill myself. That's why I was on the hill."

"You saw my mommy?" Lumi said, her voice cracking, her pajama bottom's pooling at her feet, her eyes wide and scared.

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A/N: So... that was chapter two. Review please!

Also thanks again Gidget for your ideas.