Chapter 7
The Things You'll Do For A Girl
A/N: Thanks so much for the reviews. And sorry for the update wait.
Lindsey was having a rare moment of relaxation. He had gotten Rachel to bed rather easily and early and he didn't have any work to do so that left him with free time. So he pored himself a small drink as he watched football with his feet up on his coffee table. Of course in Lindsey's world those moments didn't last very long. Before he knew it there was a knock on his door. So he got up to answer it and was pleased with who was behind the door.
"Hello babe." he greeted the redheaded women.
"Hey, Lindsey." Eve replied giving her boyfriend a kiss. Since Eve was a liaison to the Senior Partners they had to be very careful about their relationship and keep it a secret. But it was worth it. "We need to talk." she went on to say.
No good has ever come from those four words.
"Can we put it off? I kinda had something else in mind." Lindsey said.
"Lindsey." she sighed, and walking over to his sofa.
"What?" he asked as he began to kiss her. For a minute Eve forgot the reason for her visit, until she saw they weren't alone.
"We have an audience." she pointed out. Lindsey turned around to see Rachel was standing behind him making a face.
Of course. Its like she knows.
"That's yucky." Rachel told the adults.
Yes, yes good. Keep thinking that way.
Rachel was able to tell that Lindsey liked Eve, so Rachel did too. "Hiya Eve." Rachel said waving.
"Hi honey. What's a little girl like you doing being up so late?" Eve asked.
"Couldn't sleep." she replied as she sat herself in between the two adults. "Can I stay here with you two?"
"Um...sure." Lindsey told her.
"Ah, Lindsey, can I speak with you in the kitchen?"
Eve and Lindsey went into the kitchen. "Look if this is about Rachel, she'll probably fall be asleep..."
"This isn't about Rachel." Eve cut in. "Well actually, it is. But not for this."
"What are you talking about?"
"There's something you need to know. The Senior Partners aren't pleased with your new found fatherhood. They feel she's...distracting you. So they....."
"So they what?"
"They have plans....to take her from you."
As soon as Eve finished her sentence, Lindsey zoned out for a few moments while he tried to process what she said. He had heard rumors of what the Senior Partners did to family members that they take from employees. Sometimes they get kill them....but most times, especially with kids they use them to their advantage and train them, take them magics and other things that can later benefit the firm.
"I-I need to go out. Can you stay here with Rachel?" Lindsey asked.
"Yeah of course."
A little while later Lindsey was storming the halls of Wolfram and Hart, heading right to Nathan Reeds office to see if he can find out anymore about when they want to do with Rachel and how they want to do it.
"What are you doing here?" Lilah asked entering the office.
"What the hell is this?!" Lindsey demanded handing Lilah the file he found which contained information about Nathan planning to 'remove' Rachel from Lindsey.
Lilah looked at the file. "I don't know a thing about this."
Yeah sure..
"Bullshit." He challenged.
"I swear I didn't. Is this real?" Lilah and Lindsey were used to playing each other, after all they do it just about everyday. But there was something in the tone of her voice that told Lindsey that maybe she really didn't know anything about what was going on. "If I were you, I'd be forming some grand plan right now."
"Yeah." Lindsey muttered. The papers he found didn't give him anything specific. Just some basic stuff.
"If I find out anything...I'll let you know." Lilah said.
"Why?" he questioned suspiciously.
"Why, because something tells me you're not gonna be around the office anymore which will leave me a lot of free time that I normally use to insult you and point out your many faults. " She answered in her usual cool yet snarky manner. Lindsey just nodded and walked way.
The next morning:
"How come I gots to sleep later today?" Rachel asked Lindsey as he tied her shoes.
Because sweety a few years ago your dad decided that a nice salary and clothes were worth slowly selling his soul for, and now because of that I had to spend the last 10 hours thinking of how to get your life out of danger.
"Um...because I don't have to work today."
"Then where are we going?"
"I well.....ok kid here's the deal. We're going somewhere that will help take care you better." He tried to explain as nicely and simply as he could. Little did he know, he chose the wrong words.
"That's what mommy said before she left me." Rachel said before she broke down in tears. "Y- you're leaving me too now!"
Oh crap!! Great. Nice work. Could I have messed this up anymore? Oh, that's right I could, I could've been Bridget. The master of screwing things up. Look at what's she's done is doing to my Rachel.
"No, no, no. Rachel listen to me." Lindsey gently demanded. "I'm NOT leaving you. I promise. I'm not. I'll never do to you. I swear on...I swear on cookies." he said, knowing in Rachel's world a cookie swear meant that you meant business.
"Yay." Rachel responded happily.
A little while later Lindsey and Rachel entered the last place Lindsey wanted to go, but the one place he had to go if he wanted Rachel to be ok. "Stay here for a moment." Lindsey instructed as he left the big area on the room they were standing in and entered a smaller office.
"I have a job for you." Lindsey said taking an envelope out of his pocket and throwing it on the desk. "There's five thousand in there, if you want more, that's fine."
"Get the hell out Lindsey." His mortal enemy -or immortal enemy really- Angel replied looking at him like he was crazy. "I'm not in the mood for games."
"This isn't a game, or trick or joke. I want to hire you." he said as he sat in one of the chairs.
"Ok fine, I'll play along. What do you want to hire me for?"
"Wolfram and Hart is out to kidnap a child..."
"We've already done the Child In Danger storyline. The least you could do is come in here with something different." Angel interrupted.
"This different."
"How?"
"Because this time the child is mine."
Angel raised an eyebrow and chuckled. "What do you take me for, Lindsey?"
Oh, you REALLY don't want me to answer that.
"Do you think I'm Some kind of moron?"
Well now that you mention it....
"I'm serious Angel." Lindsey insisted.
"You don't have a child. I'd know, I just spent the last few months stalking you and occasionally trying to kill you, I think I'd know something like this."
"Well, no considering I only recently...."
"Lindsey!" A delighted Fred said entering the office and hugging Lindsey.
Both men were confused.
"You know him?" Angel asked.
"Of course. This is my brother, the one I had dinner with recently."
"You mean this is the friend you're staying with? Him? A vampire?" Lindsey said in a typical big brother voice.
"You know he's a vampire?"
"Well he should considering he works for the law firm that constantly tries to kill me." Angel informed her.
"You do?"
"Not anymore I don't."
"Yeah right."
"It's true I'm out for good. They're trying to take Rachel from me." Lindsey told Fred.
"That's terrible!" she exclaimed. "Angel, we have to help him."
That's when Angel realized that Lindsey wasn't lying. At that very moment Angel mentally cursed himself for having a soul, because if he didn't then he wouldn't be under thumb of Winifred Burkle. "Alright, we'll help." he sighed.
"Hiya, Auntie Fred," Rachel said walking into the office and hugging her favorite aunt.
Fred lifted her up. "Hey Rachel. This is my boss, Angel."
Rachel studied the new person that stood in front of her. "But Angel's a girls name." Rachel observed innocently. "And why does his hair stick up like that?"
Fred and Lindsey laughed while Angel looked annoyed.
Huh, it seems like I wasted time with that DNA test. Turns out all I needed to do was get her opinions on him and Lilah and I'd have all the proof I needed that she's mine.
Rachel then asked Fred Why Angel's hair looked like it might be sticky.
This will be a very interesting experience....
TBC
A/N: Up next Rachel meets the rest of the team. And we'll get a little more insight into why Lindsey first took the job with Wolfram and Hart among other things. And maybe we'll even get into Rachel's mind a little. Until then, you're all more then welcome to review.