Chapter 6: Knowledge

When Angel woke up he was in his bed, at W&H. His mind was all blurry, was he sleeping since days? He got up and found Eve sat on a chair reading magazines.

- "Oh, awake already" she said standing up "Do you remember?" Angel looked at her interrogatively then his face became a little graver.

- "Oh my God Connor!" Eve calmly approached him.

- "He's at the hospital, been a hour"

- "I slept during an hour?!"

- "Well you healed during an hour"

- "I gotta go now!!" Angel said quickly dressing. Eve rushed by him put a hand on his chest and said:

- "No need to rush, his parents have been called, they wont let strangers access the room anyway" Angel looked her like she had fallen from the sky.

He put his shirt on and got off the room. He used his private elevator and ran in his office. When he got in, he saw, Fred, Gunn and Wes waiting worried. They all got up when heard the doors of the elevator opened.

- "Angel!!" they all exclaimed.

- "What happened?" Wes asked "Have you been the victim of one of the children?" he continued pointing the obvious.

- "Angel, "Gunn followed "we put the kid under W&H surveillance, why, for the love of God, didn't you tell that you had spotted him!? We could have avoided him being hurt!"

Angel watched them blankly before running for the door.

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They all stood there astonished. Wes and Gunn exchanged interrogatives looks. Fred looked the door worried.

- "Oo-kay" whispered Gunn.

- "I think Angel is preoccupied by something" pointed Wes, still with the obvious.

- "Preoccupied enough to forget to put his shoes on"

Fred slowly turned toward her friends:

- "I think it's more than that. I have this bad feeling"

They were looking at each other searching answers in the pupils of one another. When a familiar noise interrupted the little moment. Spike really enthusiast entered the office a smile across the face.

- "Hey guys! Guess what I can do!" They all faced him blankly.

- "Okay…Ill tell ya" he said a little annoyed. He walked toward the desk and slowly took a paper in his hand making it fly over the desk – "See! See!!" He said almost singing joyfully. He was throwing desperate looks to them for a little sign of congratulations. Resigned he crossed his arms on his chest and asked:

- "What's the problem?" Gunn took a breath.

- "Well Angel was following a guy since 8 days who he thought was the one followed by the killerkids, and earlier the kid has been taken in an explosion with our big guy. Now the kid is in hospital and Angel, well he's definitely not here explaining to us what is going on" Spike had an absent look and took a moment before speaking.

- "Well…I heard things…" he said preciously. Fred approached him and implored him with a look – "Okay!" he said waving his hands "it looks like Angel knows the dude since big time! Probably even before all the crazy kiddies' thing. Connor's the name, seems really important to Angie" Fred was shaken, completely outta things.

- "Why don't we know about that?" she said whiny.

- "Well, we don't know all the people Angel knows or met over his 250 years. I have people on it, we're gonna know everything on our Boom-Boom boy till no time" Gunn said full of assurance.

- "Ah! Finally!" Spike sighed enjoying the moment "I feel just like Christmas"

The sound of the elevator resounded and Eve made her way toward the door with a superior –don't bother me- look. When she passed near Gunn he grabbed her elbow.

- "What's going on?" Eve sighed and moved her arm out of Gunn's grip.

- "Well" she said sufficient "it's not to me to tell you. If you want to know ask Angel"

- "Oh cut the crap pf integrity, just talk" Spike said like a movie cowboy.

- "I am hold by a pact, I can't reveal anything, if not I could die"

- "And so?" Wes said bitchy. Eve smiled sarcastically and opened the door dryly before getting out. Suddenly Gunn's phone rang. He took it and answered.

- "Yeah? Fax it in Angel's office" he hanged up "They got it" The noise of the fax machine echoed in the room. Gunn went to it and took it then read it. All the others were looking at him intensively waiting for answers. Gunn put the paper down and with a perplex look said:

- "Ok, so we got nothing! The kid is normal for what we know. There's not possible links with Angel neither with the children. Im lost"

At this moment Lorne got into the office.

- "I just saw Angel running like crazy!!"

TBC