TITLE: Le Premier Innocent 4/?
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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!

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Elysa is pronounced: Elle-Lee-Sa.

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Sparky24: On the lack of foreshadowing on Lumi, I added her in when I combined it with another challenge. This is also an AR fic so like Elysa Lumi is my own creation.

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Angel froze at the sound of Lumi's voice. He hadn't meant to let Lumi hear him mention Jenny, but he had thought she was asleep.

It killed him (again), to see Lumi; she looked so much like Jenny. Her dark hair fell in thin wisps to her tiny shoulders and her eyes were like staring in her mother's. It was like facing Jenny everyday, a constant reminder of what he had done to that woman. A woman who had been trying to help him.

Until that night, that night that will haunt him.

"Mommy?" Lumi said, sitting on the edge of the desk, peering at the Orb of Thesulah, staring, enchanted with it.

Jenny glanced up from the computer, a frown on her face as she waited for the program to finish, but once she saw the tiny beam of her daughter's face she smiled as well, "Yes?"

"How come this is all shiny and glow-y?" Running her fingers over the orb, Lumi asked. It wasn't glowing currently, it looked like a normal paperweight and that's exactly what Snyder had been told it was, but the gypsy wasn't surprised Lumi saw a glow.

Her four-year old often saw things that Jenny didn't. She knew when her mom was sad by the black light and often would comment about the bright light around her mom's head when she came home from work or from seeing Giles.

"Looks like a rainbow."

"It's special, it's going to fix mommy's friend." Jenny said absentmindedly, drumming her fingers on the desk. Thirty minutes later the computer beeped and Jenny withdrew a disk from the drive, Lumi already asleep. One minute bubbly, the other asleep and dreaming. Putting a jacket over the little girl Jenny began to get up to fetch a paper out of the printer.

"Angel!" The vampire rose from his spot in the desk, swiftly picking up the orb sending it shattering against the black board.

Instinctively the gypsy went to Luminita, but Angel blocked her path, "Don't think so. I think we should talk. Let her sleep. I don't think you want her to see what I'm about to do." He smirked but Jenny didn't notice, all she saw was Lumi stirring.

"Go back to sleep little light." She called, "Don't touch her. Do what you want to me, but don't touch her."

Angelus seemed to ponder her offer as if agreeing. He went for her neck and Jenny backed up against the wall before running out of the room.

It was a simple cat and mouse game. She ran and he chased, eventually he lost interest and grabbed her, placing a finger on her lips before twisting, relishing in the fear in her eyes. Her body fell like a doll and he stood there enjoying his handiwork.

"Mommy!" Lumi stood behind him dashing to her mom, "Her, her light's gone." She told no one in particular.

The vampire formally known as Angel stood there, watching the girl sob.

"Where's mommy? He said he saw her!" The girl, almost a year older now, cried her eyes darting between Angel and Giles. Her surrogate dad reached to clean his glasses again, unable to think of what to say.

Luckily and unintentionally Elysa saved the day, awakened by the shouts of the first and only friend she had, appear almost instantly next to Buffy, "Make her better. That's what slayer's do."

That made everyone freeze, even Lumi, who was still looking for her mom. Buffy bent down to be on Elysa's level, "How do you know what those are?"

"They told me."

Again with the "They."

Angel tried to take a stab at it, "Sweetie can you tell me who they are?"

As if Angel was the three year old and she the adult, Elysa began to speak slowly, "They are up there. They tell me what to do... they are all glowy and sparkly. Like rainbows, they made rainbows," adding informatively.

"Rainbows!" Lumi squeaked, her eyes spilling over. "No! No! No!" Elysa hugged Lumi, but she pushed away, running back into her room. Giles was a step behind her.

Elysa looked like she was about to cry too, "I'm sorry. Make her better." She demanded hands on her hips, looking almost identical to Buffy in that pose.

"I can't." Angel said quietly.

"Maybe we should go. Get her settled," Buffy suggested, hearing Giles talking softly to Lumi. It was a little strange to be intruding on such a personal moment.

Lumi had been a shock to them all, including Giles. They had found her in Giles's apartment with Jenny's body, crying in a corner. All ready to go to foster care but Giles stepped up, offering to let her stay with him.

That's why she herself was shocked when he said to take Elysa to the police. He had taken on a child he had known nothing about.

"Where we going?" Elysa asked, "Lumi?" She wanted to know if her friend was coming. Buffy envied the girl; at four, making friends was the simplest thing besides causing trouble. She was not worried or troubled by her lack of parental figures.

"Lumi's going to stay here. You're coming back with me to my house."

"Mommy coming too?" She said in what seemed like baby talk.

Angel and Buffy stared at the little blond, "We don't know where your mommy is sweetie."

"She's right here!" Elysa said to Angel, pointing her chubby finger at Buffy.

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A/N: Who saw that coming? Be honest. Now review and I'll write more unfortunately I've got to take a month off for NaNoWriMo. See ya'll in December!