A/N: Sorry for the long update wait. I didn't intended on it, it just happened, but all the reviews were a great read while I wrote this, so thanks! Oh yeah, for the first part of this fic, I'm switching the format and its gonna be in Rachel's POV.
Daddy is talking with Aunt Fred and that Angel man over on the other side of the room. They seem really serious. Serious is boring. Daddy's serious sometimes, especially when he's working. I can always make him un-serious though. It's fun too. But I'm not going to do that now, because I get the feeling he doesn't want me too. So I'll just sit here on this red chair with Frosty. I like Frosty, he's one of my best friends, Sparkles is my other best friend. I hear people out side now. It sounds like they're coming in here, yeah they are because the door just opened. I hope they're nice people like Aunt Fred and not mean people like that Lilah lady. The people are walking in now. One is a girl who's pretty, the other is a man with glasses and the other man has a shinny head.
"What's he doing here?" The shinny headed man asked pointing to daddy. He said it a little rudely. Daddy says its not nice to be rude, unless its to Lilah. Then its okay.
"He needs our help." The Angel-man just answered, that really is a silly name for a boy. Aunt Fred just suggested they all go in the 'office' and talk. Daddy's office is prettier, and bigger. Now all the grown ups are talking in the office. I hate it when big people talk and leave me out of it. Its no fun. Like when mommy would have lots of her friends over and I'd have no one to play with but Frosty and Sparkles. Daddy doesn't have friends over and leaves me with no one to play with. I like that very much, he's very nice to live with. Sometimes he does have Eve come over though, but she plays with me so that's good. But sometimes when Daddy thinks I'm sleeping or not looking they do the icky-kissy thing. I don't know why they do it. I asked daddy why once and he said I never had to worry about the answer cause I'll never do it. I told him I was glad I'll never do, cause kissing is yucky, and he told me I should always think like that.
Yay, all the grown ups are back. And they're looking at me. I don't know why. I don't think I did anything bad. I hope I didn't. Cause then daddy might leave me. He said he wouldn't, but you never know....mommy did.
The pretty lady with short brown hair is smiling at me and walking to where I'm sitting. "Hi, I'm Cordelia, you can call me Cordy if you'd like though," she said to me.
"Um....hi. I'm Rachel." I say a bit nervously. I'm always nervous around new people.
"Cordelia's my friend," Aunt Fred tells me, "and these are my other friends Wesley and Gunn."
They both said 'hi', and I waved.
"So he's really you're brother?" Gunn asked Aunt Fred, pointing to daddy and saying it like it's a bad thing. I don't like that too much.
"Stop." Aunt Fred just said. See how nice she is? If I had a cookie, I'd give her half of it. I think I'll try to talk to the new grown ups, and I think I'll start with Cordelia.
"Do you work with my Aunt too like Mr. Angel?" I started off with.
She's smiling at me some more. I think I like her. "Yes I do. I've been working with her for a couple of months."
"Nifty." I said back. I'm bored so I'm swinging my feet back and forth. Its fun to do. "So, what do we all do now?" I ask out of boredom.
Cordelia looks like she's thinking. "Hhmm....we could go outside. Sometimes ducks come, we could feed them," she suggests.
Nnnnnnnoooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"NO." Daddy just told her as I ran to him. I'm now standing behind him, he'll protect me.
"That's not the best idea." Aunt Fred told her, and she's right. See, Aunt Fred is very smart.
"No duckies." I said. "Please, please no duckies." duckies are very, very scary. They quack. And quacking is scary too, why am I the only one who seems to think so?
"Rachel doesn't like ducks," daddy just said to Aunt Fred's friends, and he's looking at that Angel guy funny.
"Why are you looking at me? I didn't suggest it." Angel just said.
I'm getting sleepy, but I don't want to take my nap. Naps aren't fun. So now I have to hide being tired. Uh oh, I just yawned, and everyone saw me. "Would you like Rachel to nap in my room?" Aunt Fred just asked daddy. This isn't good.
"Yeah, that would be great," he answered. Aaawww. This isn't good at all.
A/N: okay I'm gonna be going back to the old format of being told in the third person with Lindsey's thoughts in italics, for the rest of this chapter
After Lindsey tucked Rachel into Fred's bed, he turned around to see none other then Fred standing behind him. "We need to talked," she said grabbing his hand and taking him into the next room. "Sit."
Lindsey and his younger sister told him and sat on the bed in the room they were in. "So, what do you want to talk about?"
Fred took a deep breath and sat next to her brother. "Well, I think its obvious that we lied or....twisted things when we've been talking, and of course we did because I thought you'd think I was insane if I told you the truth about my life, and you probably thought I'd think you were insane, which I would if I didn't know it could be true, but I do and...."
"Fred," he interrupted, cutting off his sisters nervous babble fest, "the point?"
"Oh right. I'm sorry I babble sometimes."
"I can tell. Its not a problem though, go on."
"Okay, I just though maybe we should clear the air...about everything."
'Yes, please, let me tell you about all the evil things I helped do.'
"Why don't you start first," he then suggested.
"Um.....okay. Well, I haven't been traveling like I said. I was actually in the same hell dimension for 5 years." Lindsey's head shot up and looked at Fred in shock, "yeah. It was called Pylea. But I was able to come back because Angel saved me."
"Yeah, he has a tendency to do that for women." Lindsey grumbled. "You're not dating him, right?" he then asked nervously.
"Angel's sweet, Lindsey. But no, I'm not dating him."
"Well, good. And....I-I'm sorry. About the whole Pylea thing, I'm sorry."
"Thanks. So what about you? Why did you decide to be evil?"
'Well isn't that the $64,000 question.'
"I don't know."
"You don't know?
"I was in collage, Holland Manners, who used to run Wolfram and Hart approached me with a job offer after I graduated. So I took it."
"Oh, so you took the job at a law firm, not knowing it was evil and then by the time you did find out, it was to late?" Fred guessed hopefully.
"No. Before I took the job, I researched the place, I knew."
"And you still took the offer?"
"I was a kid. I wanted a chance to have the money, the power...all the things I never had before....and....."
"And what? Lindsey, you can tell me the other reason why you did it."
"That's the thing Winifred I can't tell you the reason, because the reason was, there was none. After you went to live with the Burkles, they were good to you, right?"
"Yeah....they're the best."
"Exactly. Probably the type of people you want to be proud of you too, right?" he asked, Fred nodded. "See, when I took the job, no one cared, and I didn't have to care. There was no one I had to worry that I would disappoint, so I figured I should go for it. I had nothing...or no one to loose."
"Until Rachel." Fred stated.
"Yeah. Until Rachel...I can't...," just then Lindsey's cell phone went off, cutting off the rest of his sentence. "Hello," he answered.
"We've found out some information," Lilah said one the other line.
"We? What the hell Lilah, I knew you'd screw me," he snapped.
"No Lindsey, I'm with her," Eve said.
'Nice one, Lindsey.'
"Oh. What'd you find out?"
"Actually, its what they found out." Eve answered. "Some of the seers just discovered something that changed what the Senior Partners had originally planned for Rachel."
"Which is....?"
Lilah got back control of the phone, "at first they just wanted to remove the brat- I meant the kid from you and they'd figure out the next step then. But now its seems that the girl has some power in her. A lot of power, as her future has it, she's gonna grow up to be one hell of a witch....and I'm not even gonna point out the irony. But speaking of, you still haven't paid for my new chair."
"But don't worry Lindsey, the reading showed she was going to use her powers for good." Eve reassured him.
'Rachel? A witch? No way. She's so....Rachel. She can't have powers. But at least she'll be on the good side....unless...."
"So what? What the hell do they want to do?" Lindsey asked.
"The senior partners want to drain her powers and use them for themselves. And in doing this...Lindsey, it will kill Rachel." His girlfriend explained.
"Yeah and they sent some of their 'search team' to track....." Lilah's input was cut off by Lindsey dropping his cell phone after he and Fred heard a noise downstairs. When the two siblings reached the lobby they saw Gunn, Wesley, Angel and Cordy fighting off some of Wolfram and Harts search team that consisted of several types of demon species. They joined in the fight. Once they were done, Lindsey ran back upstairs to check on Rachel, that's when he discovered that the downstairs attack was just a distraction. Fred's window had been broken into, and Rachel was gone. Lindsey was pissed.
'There's no way in hell they're getting away with this! I'll get her back.'
TBC
A/N: Okay, one more chapter to go. What will Lindsey/Fred and co. do to get Rachel back? What will happen when Rachel/Frosty and Sparkles take on Wolfram and Hart? What will happen when a surprisesomeone suddenly returns? Wait, review and find out!
