Chapter 5

Coincidence

A/N: Thanks for the reviews everyone! They totally mean a lot. Now I know at the end of the last chapter I promised Lilah babysitting duty, but I've decided to put that off for one more chapter, sorry. I hope this'll do though( I am fairly sure at least one of you will like it) .....

Lindsey was in hell. He always knew that one day he'd somehow be punished for all the things he did at Wolfram and Hart, but he didn't expect this. This was just to cruel. He didn't even know how he got himself into the situation. One minute he was enjoying his Saturday, relaxing, while Rachel was quietly playing with her toys and then WAM! The next thing he knew he was stuck watching Disney movies that were getting on his last nerve while having a tea party with Rachel, Frosty and of course Sparkles(who had recovered nicely after her near death experience.)

"More tea?" Rachel asked offering the plastic teapot to him.

"Ah...sure." Lindsey replied trying to sound as enthusiastic as he could. The corner of his eyes kept trailing over to the TV and the animated people that were singing an annoying song, he couldn't prove it but he swore the little singing teacups on the TV screen were mocking him. 'I am starting to think like her.'

'How'd I get myself into this? More importantly, how can I get out?'

Luckily for Lindsey he was granted an escape at the sight of Rachel yawning. "I think its someone's nap time."

"Ok, but what am I gonna do when you're napping?" Rachel asked sweetly and rather hopefully.

Lindsey had only been doing the parent-thing for five and a half days, but already he had the rather stern 'you-know-what-I-mean' glare down.

"Fine." Rachel sighed giving in. "Even though its only nap time, could I still get a story?" she asked sweetly, causing the parental glare in his face to leave and turn into a half smile.

"I think I can allow that." Lindsey said picking her up and bringing her to her bed, then he went to a shelf and got a book a Fairy Tales that he's been reading to her at night, one different story each night. Lindsey opened the book and turned to the next story and absentmindedly started to read the title, "The Ugly Du-" thankfully he caught what he was saying and stopped before he caused what very well could've been mass hysteria.

'Nice going. Damn, I never knew how many things involved ducks until I had to make everything a duck-free environment. Kinda ironic in a way.'

"How about I make up a story instead?" he suggested. Rachel nodded happily. "Ok, once upon a time.....there was a prince. He was a very hansom prince. He lived a slightly dangerous life, but he was mostly happy with it. But the prince had an enemy see, it was an evil beast, a vampire with pointy hair and a big forehead. Worst of all the vampire was evil, very evil, he was heartless, and only cared about himself and didn't care at all about hurting other people."

"So you mean the vampire beast was just like that Lilah lady?"

"Yes, exactly." he answered grinning.

'This girl really is a true genius, impeccable character judgement.'

"But eventually, the beast claimed he was good, but he really wasn't its all an act. That's when he became enemies with the prince. He even cut off the princes very important hand." Rachel gasped at that part. "But don't worry, the um....empire gave the prince a brand new hand. But not before the beast went very evil for awhile and the beast and the prince fought over a lovely princess. The beast won the princess, but after he stopped being evil and stopped spending every waking moment being mean to the prince." Lindsey was about to try and make up some grand fairy-tale style ending but he noticed Rachel was asleep, so he didn't need too. Which was good because Lindsey had things to do. A few weeks ago he had gotten a call from his youngest sibling, she called wanting to get together. This excited Lindsey because he hadn't seen her since they were kids. She was put into foster care and eventually was adopted by two very nice people and moved to Texas. They kept in touch sometimes and even saw each other when she moved to LA about five years ago, but he hadn't heard a word from her since then. She would be coming for dinner in about three hours.

The three hours went by rather quickly considering Rachel's nap didn't last long which left Lindsey the tasks of cleaning the apartment, cooking something and entertaining Rachel all at the same time. Lindsey wanted a nap himself. Lindsey heard a knock on his door, his sister had arrived. He went to open the door and saw a shy girl with long grown hair on the other side.

"Winifred." He greeted politely.

"Hello." she responded nervously. They gave each other a small hug before she entered the apartment. "Hi there." she then said waving to Rachel.

Rachel smiled and said back. She liked this Winifred person.

"So shall we eat?" Lindsey asked after he officially introduced Winifred and Rachel. "I hope you don't mind pasta and chicken, Winifred." he added as he helped little Rachel into her booster seat.

"That sounds fine. You can call me Fred now though, everyone else does." She told him although she didn't expect him too. In Fred's earliest memories of being with her biological family, some of her them would occasionally call her Fred, but not Lindsey. No, he refused to call his sister 'Fred' when he was stuck with the name Lindsey. He knew it was a boys name too, but he still found it kinda girly. But that was an unspoken fact because Lindsey would never admitto being so petty.

"So what have you been doing?" Lindsey asked.

Fred hesitated for a moment. "Well, I was...away for awhile traveling. Now I am helping out...some friends with their business. What about you?"

"I am a lawyer." he simply stated. ' A lawyer who has defended evil things that you don't even know exist.'

"Oh, good for you." Fred wasn't fond of lawyers, according to her boss there are some that try to hurt him.

The rest of the evening was pleasant. Fred walked back into the place she now called home.

"Hey, how did your night go?" Her boss, Angel asked sitting in the lobby of the Hyperion hotel, along with Cordelia Chase, Wesley Wyndham-Pryce and Charles Gunn.

"Its was nice. I might invite my brother here one day, if that would be ok. He's nice, I think you'd all get along well."

Mean while at Lindsey's:

There was still about a half hour to go before Rachel had to get ready for bed, which meant only one thing for Lindsey.

"We need to finish the tea party." Rachel said.

Sighing, Lindsey walked back over to the tea party set up and went to sit down.

"NO!" Rachel yelled, causing him to jump back up. "Sparkles is sitting there. You almost sat on her!"

It was going to be a long half hour.

TBC

A/N: Ok, next chapter will be Lilah babysitting. In the meantime feel free to review to pass the time.