A/N: Sorry for the long update wait, a fic still in progress got the best of me and has been taking up a lot of my time. But thank you so much to everyone who reviewed. Okay here's the latest:
Ryan and Sarai found themselves in what looked like a night club under renovation. Over in one corner they saw three women floating in the air. In another part of the club, they saw a familiar green face. "So, this is the infamous Caritas," Sarai muttered.
"What?" Ryan questioned.
"Lorne's old club." She then explained. He just nodded in response as Sarai walked over to Lorne. "What's today's date?" Sarai approached Lorne and asked.
"Who are you?" Lorne snapped suspiciously. "ANGEL!" he then yelled. But Angel was to busy talking with the rest of the gang to hear him, that was the first time Sarai noticed they were there too. That's when her and Ryan walked over to hear what they were saying.
"This doesn't make any sense. I mean, this whole thing has been a miracle, right? You don't just get half a miracle, do you? I mean, the powers - they brought her this far, they protected the baby all this time..." Angel began to say, which answered Sarai's question of 'where they ended up'.
"We don't know that. We don't know that it's the powers that's been protecting it. Angel, I'm sorry, but what if what Darla's carrying is the thing in the prophecies? That scourge of mankind that's supposed to plunge the world into ultimate darkness? What if - what if what's happening to Darla now, what if that's the powers? Finally stepping up to the plate and doing something for once!" Gunn exclaimed, pissing off the teenage girl. Sarai decided to finally to make her presence known by going up to her future best friend who just said the mean stuff about her and kicked him in the shin. "AOW!" he screamed, "Lorne why do I always have to be the test subject to see if your security thing is working?" Gunn then asked.
"I didn't have her do that, I don't even know who she is, or how she got here," Lorne answered.
"Well, my guess is a portal just opened in here but you all were to busy to see it." Sarai replied. "Oh, and don't worry, I'm not evil and I don't plunge the world into ultimate darkness, or try for world domination or any of that," she added.
Before anyone could ask her anything else, Ryan spoke up causing everyone to notice he was there too. "That's not true," he stated.
Sarai scoffed. "Oh, okay so there might have been one small incident where I might've tried to take over the world, but I mean I was coming off PMS, a sugar high AND six straight hours of 'Pinky and The Brain', that wasn't my fault! Besides, I'd be good at ruling the world!"
"Who are you two? And why did you kick me?" Gunn questioned.
"Because after all I've done for you, hook you up with girls, lend you my Xbox after you broke yours in a fight with a Dramzlar Demon, and a bunch of other stuff, I come here and hear you say all those mean things..." Sarai finished her statement with another kick to Gunn's shin.
Suddenly a very pregnant and tired looking Darla walked out of Lorne's bedroom. "What's going on here?" she asked.
Sarai's face lit up at the sight of her mother, because even though she now came for visits sometimes, she still didn't get to see her as much as she'd like too. "Hiya mom!" she said as she went over and hugged Darla, who eyed her warily, but also felt close to her, as did Angel.
"What the hell?" Darla asked.
Ryan, realizing that once again he was going to have to explain everything, stepped up to where Sarai was. "Okay, let's do this once again. Mr. Angel, sir, she's the kid that your about to have."
"I thought Wesley said I was carrying a boy." Darla said.
"Wesley's an idiot." Sarai simply stated.
"HEY!" Wesley exclaimed.
"Well, do I look like a boy?" she challenged.
"No."
"Exactly. And yeah, I'm sure these two are my parents, because well, its hard to be switched at birth when he's all in possessive vamp-dad mode."
"Still, you can't just expect us to believe you, we need proof." Angel said.
"Proof? Oky Doky Daddy, read me Lorne," Sarai said before singing part's of the song, 'Ironic' by Alanis Morissette. It was a song she found fitting for her.
"She's your kid alright, Angel, even if she does have actual taste in music." Lorne confirmed.
"I told you! And thanks, I have Spike to thank for the second part."
"Spike? SPIKE? You allow our child to hang out with Spike?" Darla scolded to Angel.
"What? Me?... no...I... wouldn't ...I don't... mean.." Angel stuttered, confused and a bit afraid of Darla. "Why am I the one to blame?"
"Because, I'm not." Darla answered. "Why are you hanging around Spike, Young Lady?" she then asked her daughter.
"Um...well...he wears a lot of hair gel!" Sarai answered, rather lamely, pointing to Angel.
"That's the best you can come up with?" Ryan questioned, a little surprised.
"Hey, this is the third time today we've been sucked in the past, and both times there was another me around. So, ex-cu-oose me if I'm a little off my game."
"This has happened two other times?" Angel questioned.
"Yup. Once not long after, this time and then the first time was last year. Well, not last year as in the year before this one, the year before the year I'm currently in. Even though I'm currently, currently in this year here, but the other year, the actual year in which I am 15. But by this time I mean this time, we're in now...even though its not really now anymore, its then." Sarai explained, confusing the hell out of Angel in the special way only she can, and she also did a very good job of confusing everyone else, including Ryan who knew exactly what she meant, again, in that special Sarai way.
"Okay, let me speak for everyone when I say, HUH?" Lorne replied.
Sarai sighed. "The first time we got sent back I was 14, and since I'm currently 15, it was last year. And the second time, I was only a few days old, which must take place a few days from now."
"Why couldn't you just say that the first time?" Gunn asked.
"I DID!" She insisted.
"Do you see what exposing our child to Spike has done to her? What is wrong with you," Darla snapped at Angel.
"Lorne, are you really sure this is the child Angel has with Darla? Maybe he's knocked up some other girl behind our backs who about to give birth," Cordelia bitterly commented.
"Excuse me? What's up your ass?" Sarai questioned, annoyed by Cordelia's comment.
"Why don't you ask your father. Although, he might just lie to you too."
"Cordelia, are you and my father dating?" Sarai asked
"No."
"Where you dating at the time he and my mom...ya know, did the thing that involved making me, and if I said the actual words out loud, I'd have to kill myself."
"No."
"And since I've heard stories, would I be correct in saying that at said time where acts of yuckieness took place, you and him weren't even speaking?"
"Yes, would." Cordelia agreed unsure of where Sarai was headed.
"Then why the fuck..."
"LANGUAGE!" both Darla and Angel yelled at their daughter at the same time. As usual, she went on speaking with out responding.
"...are you sounding all women scorned by a boyfriend who cheated on you and got the girl pregnant to top it all off? If you weren't speaking, he wasn't betraying you at the time. And if you're being this way because he lied to you about whether or not he and mom did the-thing-that-shall-not-be-named, again from hearing stories, you were still pretty pissed off at him and even stated that you two 'weren't friends' when he told you he didn't sleep with her. And also, ever think he didn't tell you because he knew you'd be all bitchy and 'how could you?' about it for no reason other then the fact that you hate my mommy!" Sarai went to kick Cordelia, the smae way she did to Gunn, but she was blocked by a blue barrier. "Poopie!"
"It finally worked!" Lorne exclaimed. "Thanks, ladies," he then said turning to the Fury sisters.
"Yeah I was going to ask, who are they?" Sarai asked.
"Those are the Fury sisters. They helped with my sanctuary spell."
"You mean the one that always has some weird way around it that ends up screwing you over?"
"Ah...yeah."
"Nifty. Hiya, Fury sisters." She greeted. Ryan eyed the three floating women up and down, and Sarai noticed. "Getting a good look at their boobs, I guess?" she said to him, slightly jealous.
"What? Me? No. I-I just...they're floating." Ryan defended, trying to cover up he'd just been caught.
"Yeah right. You're probably having some sick fantasy about all three of them right now. I watch Coupling, I know men like girl on girl action, its one of the four parts of the male heterosexual psyche, or something like that," Sarai replied.
"What in the hell do you let our darling child be exposed too?" Darla exclaimed to Angel.
"Darling? Sarai?" Ryan laughed.
"Hey! I can be a darling. I can be damn darling. What just because I play a few slightly evil practical jokes as a form of entertaining myself through my friends and families embarrassment, I can't count as darling? And if I'm not, then why are you dating me?" Sarai stated.
"He's your boyfriend!" Angel said bitterly"Oh, come on Angelus, she's a teenager, and she shows up with a teenage boy, of course they're dating, what did you think?" Darla responded.
"I don't know. They were friends? How was I to assume they were dating. I mean you guys didn't, did you?" he then asked his friends. They nodded in agreement with Darla. "I'm always out of the loop," he sighed.
"Yeah, you truly are." Sarai confirmed. "So, what's it like to float? I bet its fun," Sarai then said to the Furies, "you NEVER let me float," she added to Angel.
"You don't even know how to float," Ryan pointed out.
"Exactly, but I could learn! I mean the person who's always telling me how great knowledge is, and how I should learn things instead of 'rotting my brain with 500 TV channels', plus the secret movie channels, Spike and I illegally tapped into in the TV in my room and the ones in his place, is the who is always preventing me from learning to float. Well, ya know what, looking at the Furies floating and realizing just how much fun it is, when Willow comes for a visit in a few weeks, she's gonna teach me whether you like it or not!"
"Ah...okay," an unsure Angel said.
Sarai turned back to the Furies. "So are you guys just 'the Furies' or do you have first names? Mine's Sarai by the way, I'm Darla and Angel's kid. Do your parents float like you?"
"Mmmm...Angel," all three sisters dreamily replied.
"Wh-hhu-excuse me?" Sarai stuttered, not liking the way their answer came out.
"Mmmm...Angel," they repeated even more 'enthusiastically'.
Sarai threw up. And then once again her and Ryan disappeared.
A/N: Okay, this is the part where I say how much reviews will help in my writing the next chapter. Up next will be Sarai and Ryan encountering, and bothering, the grouchy side of Angel in season 2 as well as some more Darla interaction. And a certain one handed lawyer will pop up. And some of Gun and Angel's dialog was from 'Lullaby'.
