The sun was long gone, but out of habit, Angel was still up. He had finally discovered the Book of Shadows, and was flipping through it, when something caught his eye. Time-travel. His mind went back to that horrible day when he had lost his son to Holtz. Even when they had returned, he had never truly gotten his son back.

Reading the page carefully, he knew that he couldn't do anything of this magnitude alone. It required a potion to go to the past, but the tricky part was coming back. You had to have the charmed ones chanting it. He would need them to do this. He would save his son. From Holtz, from himself. The whole thing had been a runaway train because none of them knew it all. But now they did. Wesley, Angel, Fred. They all regretted that day. This was his change to change it.

Angel took Buffy on the picnic that he had promised her, and it was perfect. The sun was shining, he wasn't bursting into flames. He had even, because of Fred's suggestion, brought chocolate covered strawberries. They were having the best time feeding them to each other.

But the whole time, Buffy knew that what he had said about Connor was still on his mind. "Okay, what's up?"

"Nothing."

"I know you. You have that look that you get when your mind is on saving the world stuff."

"Okay, it's just, you know that book that the sisters have?"

"The Book of Shadows?"

"Yeah, well, see I found this time travel potion, and…"

"And you want to go back and stop Holtz from taking Connor. How can I help?"

"You mean that you're in?"

"Of course. You were saved to do good. Why can't your doing good include rescuing your son from crazy 17th century time travelers?"

"Okay, according to this, the potion is almost done, all that requires is that we let it simmer for 15 minutes, then add the beetle toe." Fred said matter of factly. He had turned to the science wiz knowing that her curiosity would get the better of her. "Are you sure that you want to drink this stuff. I mean at least when you were a vampire you wouldn't have been able to taste it as much."

"I'm sure."

"I'm not." Angel heard Wesley say. He turned around to find him with Piper and Phoebe. "I should be the one to go. It was my fault, and I can stop it from ever happening."

Piper put her two cents in, "Hold on boys and girls. Who says that anyone is doing any time traveling? This stuff is tricky and dangerous. You could change things that you never intended to, you could make things worse."

"How could things get any worse than my son being raised by another man in a hell dimension. I don't care about the consequences. I'll take them all. I'm going to save my son." Every one nodded. "Wess. If you want to come with me, goodness knows that I could use someone to have my back. The only thing to decide is when."

"Well I think that the best time would be right before I took Connor. We don't want to change that much. I'll take Connor to my place just like I did before. You meet Holtz and his gang. The only difference this time is that I'll stay in the house, doors and windows locked. I'll wait for you to call and say that Holtz is taken care of, then I'll bring Connor back, then we say the spell to go back."

Fred asked, confused, "How do we know that once past Wess goes back to his body that he won't try to kidnap Connor again?"

"Well," Angel explained, "Once we have taken the potion, our past selves will take over our bodies. You and Buffy can just explain how Wolfrem and Hart set the whole thing up."

"Oh, and don't let them see Spike." Wess added, "To those versions of ourselves, he'll still be evil."

"Got it." Fred said. "Okay just one more minute then we add the beetles toe. Should we back up or something?"

"You shouldn't have to," Piper explained. "If it does explode, it would make it a vanquishing potion and you wouldn't want to drink that."

Fred nodded, "Okay here goes, 3, 2, 1," Fred added the measured beetles toe, they all held their breath as nothing happened. "Oh good. Everyone ready? According to the book, we have to wait for it to cool, then you drink it visualizing the time in your life that you want to go back to. It looks like this potion was invented for re-living your glory days. Okay remember, to get back here all you have to do is say is 'Redi meum iam.'"

"'Return me now,' got it." Angel said, in return to the stares that he was getting, "What? In the 17th Century every child learned Latin. Especially if you were as Catholic as we were."

Wesley put his hand on Angel's shoulder. "Angel, don't worry. We'll save him. I have a plan."

"And what does this plan entail?"

"Killing Holtz when he comes to the hotel."

"Good plan."

Fred stepped forward handing the two of them potions, "Okay remember, you can return at any time by saying, 'Redi Meum Iam,' but once you return you can only go back to where you left off. It's a time continuum soul transference thing."

Angel took the potion from Fred, "Got it, one shot deal. Well I only need one try. Let's go save Connor…"

To Be Continued…

A/N: What do you think? Don't be shy, give me your worst! Please Review! It may be a week or so before I update, becauseI am going camping on the BEACH! Yeah. Just be patient, I'll probably have a few chapters on a few of my stories by the time I get back.