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CONNER

Angel felt his rage flare up again as he saw through the Summer's window Spike embrace Buffy. He could see her tears and it twisted his gut, even though part of him still wanted to punish her.

He should have listened to Cordilia. He was still to raw from losing Connor. When the dreams had first started it was just glimpses, images.

But they had steadily grown into a scene, which left him in no doubt of what Buffy's relationship with Spike had become.

It was a burning desire in him to find out if what he'd seen in his dream was true, he'd been deaf to Cordilia's protests, grim in his determination. He'd lost his son, damned if he would lose Buffy too.

He had no excuse for his behaviour when he found them. Nor could he find it in himself to be sorry.

It had taken this for him to realise that he could lose her. With Solider boy he knew there was no chance of losing her, so he had allowed it. But Spike, Spike could be different.

Snapping open the annoying Cell Phone Cordilia had made him take he dialled the Hyberian's number. He was just about to hang up after the seventh ring when a breathless Fred answered.

"Angel Investigations, we help the helpless"

"Fred, I need to speak to Cordy, it's urgent" Angel knew his tone was curt but couldn't seem to put a lid on his anger.

"Oh, Angel, are you ok? Giles rang, he said-"

"Fred" Angel interrupted what he knew would be a ramble.

"Where is Cordilia?" There was a significant pause.

"She's on her way to Sunnydale with Lorne and Gunn. I was just about to leave myself. I had to stay behind and finish a case."

Angel hung up, not trusting himself to speak. That was all he needed. The voices of reason.

He knew he couldn't talk to Buffy yet, he didn't know what he'd do. He went back to the mansion and found it pretty much the same except for all the extra dust.

He could see the sun starting to come up and closed the curtains tighter before starting to go through the Tai Chi moves, trying to silence the anger burning in him before his crew from LA showed up.

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"Come on pumkin can't you put some more lead on the peadle?"

"I'm going as fast as possible Lorne, I'm well aware of the time frame we're in" Cordelia replied to Lornes panicked voice.

They'd been driving a while and everyone was testy, knowing exactly what Angel was capable of doing. Ever since the phone call from Giles, their denial had been smashed.

They had convinced themselves that Buffy would never be with Spike and they were worrying for nothing. They couldn't hide behind that rational anymore, more's the pity.

"Well the sun's coming up now so there's not much damage he can do for a while" Gunn replied in from his sleeping position in the back seat.

"That's right!" Cordy exclaimed a little to brightly.

"But, it could already be to late! If Angel found Buffy and Spike together, who knows how he'd react!".

Everyone was quiet the rest of the way to Sunnydale, reflecting on the painful last few weeks and what the future had in store for them.

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Dawn continued to eat her cereal, deliberately ignoring Buffy's attempts to talk to her. There was a knock at the door and she jumped up.

"That'll be Xander to take me to school. At least I can rely on him" Buffy rolled her eyes following Dawn to the door.

Last night after everyone had left, Buffy had just lied in bed going over the night in her head. Every time she thought about Angel and what he'd seen she felt slightly queasy.

It wasn't as if he had any claim on her. He dumped her. He left her. But that didn't ease the ache in her heart when she though of how she'd hurt him, not to mention the whole array of emotions that came with finding out he had a son, to Darla.

Part of her longed to talk to Spike about it all, she knew his point of view would be frank and honest. But she knew he couldn't look at this situation objectively.

Everything between her and Spike was out in the open now and that scared her more than she could say. Now that everyone knew there would be expectations.

When it had only been them, there had been no rules, no strings, no regrets. All that was about to change, she feared. For the worse.

Dawn opened the door and Buffy grimaced as she realised it wasn't Xander, it was Cordelia, flanked by a good looking black man and a green demon with red horns.

"Hey Dawny! Xanders out the front waiting for you, he pulled up at the same time as us. I told him not to come in, cause well – I didn't really want to talk to him. So off you go!" Dawn gave her a scathing look and bumped her hard on the way out the door. That's my girl,Buffy though smiling to herself.

"Well, that was rude" Cordy exclaimed barging in.

"Buffy this is Gunn and Lorne. Fred will be here tonight some time". Buffy led everyone into the Kitchen after exchanging hello's with the two men who were clearly eyeing her up, wondering if all the stories they'd heard about her were true.

"I thought you'd be, I dunno, bigger or something" Buffy handed Gunn a coffee.

"Yeah, I get that a lot."

"Cordelia?" Willow had walked into the Kitchen and the two girls embraced awkwardly.

"So how was your trip?" Willow asked, trying to break the awkward silence and glancing sideways at Buffy.

"Where's Angel" Cordelia interrupted staring accusingly at Buffy.

"You haven't hurt him have you?"

"Angel attacked Spike and I actually" Buffy started bravely trying to ignore the scathing look from Cordelia and the perceptive looks from the Gunn and Lorne.

"I'd say he'd be at the mansion, he still owns it after all" Cordelia picked up her bag.

"Well we'll go see him, make sure you haven't totally put him totallyover the edge" Suddenly with out warning Cordelia flew back against the bench, screaming and holding her head.

"Connor, Oh my God, CONNER!" Finally she stopped screaming long enough to snap open her eyes. She looked directly at Buffy.

"Dawn is the Key" Then Cordelia fainted dead away into Lornes arms. Gunn and Lorne both looked at Buffy, "What's a Key?"

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