Angel thought he would never be as panicked as he was the moment Buffy said that she was going into labor. He was wrong. That whole time holding Buffy's hand while she brought their beautiful daughter into this world and it was one battle that he couldn't help her fight.
But in the end, she had done great, with the Slayer strength the whole thing had been much easier than it could have been, or so the doctor had said. The next morning Angel and Connor went to visit Buffy and Ellie. He hadn't even noticed that anything was wrong. He showed his son the new addition to the family.
Connor had asked to hold her, but Buffy and Angel had to explain to Connor that he was too little, that he could hold her when he was older. They were released from the hospital that night, and the next few days were really hectic. Oh, no demons were attacking like when Connor had first been born, what they had attacking was every friend and family member of not just Buffy and Angel, but Fred's parents came to visit as well.
Connor went to bed that night, Angel suspected that he was really tired from the long day, so he turned his attention to his new daughter and his extremely tired wife, who quickly washed up and went to bed while he took care of Ellie. That night he fell asleep in the rocking chair with his sleeping daughter in his arms.
The next morning he woke to find a camera in his face. Buffy had woken to find the cutest photo op, and she took it. Angel handed their daughter to his wife and then went to check up on Connor: to find an empty bed. At first he didn't panic. The sheets had tell-tale signs of being slept in, so he went down to the lobby, to find the gang at work. "Have you seen Connor?"
Gunn answered, "No, I figured he was still in bed, it's only 7 in the morning."
Angel searched the entire hotel to find no trace of his son. And he started to panic. For all he knew Holtz had taken him in the night as punishment for what he did as a vampire to Holtz's family. Just as he was about to run out the front door (he could do that during the day now that he was human), when he ran into two women one holding a little boy who he remembered from the alternate future that he had come from. Wyatt. Piper. Paige. And "Connor, oh, my god! Where were you, I was worried sick. You know better than to leave the hotel ever without an adult. Thank you Piper, where did you find him."
"Um, well, for one it's a long story and you'll probably want to sit down, and two, how do you know my name?"
"That's also a long story, why don't you tell yours first." Piper nodded in agreement, and they went into Angel's apartment where Buffy was sitting nursing Ellie.
"Connor, thank god, you gave mommy and daddy a fright young man. Never ever do that again, you hear me!"
"Yes mommy." Connor said with a bowed head.
Angel held Connor securely in his lap and started, "So, the long story of how Connor ended up with you?"
"Right, um, I am the oldest of three sisters. Phoebe, she's home, is the middle sister, and Paige here is the youngest. We are sister witches known as the Charmed Ones. As crazy as this is to believe, we have magical powers. I freeze, Phoebe gets premonitions, and Paige here has Telekinesis. Wyatt here had a unique power, because of his father, a guardian angel for witches called a whitelighter. They have the power to travel instantaneously from any spot in the world to another. Paige here is also half whitelighter. They travel through a power called orbing. That was how my son orbed to your son and took your son to San Francisco to our home."
With a few moments to process all that had been said Buffy stated, "We believe you."
"You do? Why?" Paige asked. It was awfully strange for someone to just accept all of that without wanting proof.
"You see, I'm the slayer. Or at least I was the slayer, now I'm one of many who have been chosen to fight the forces of darkness. Angel here is an Ex-Vampire. Over a hundred years ago he had been cursed with a soul by gypsies, and ever since, he had been trying to redeem himself for all of the horrible things that he had done. A few years ago, he had been granted his humanity as he had helped me stop the apocalypse."
"And all the people working downstairs in the lobby?"
"Gunn, Fred, and Wess. Wess is a former watcher, Gunn is a renegade Vampire hunter and Fred is a genius with physics, so she can do pretty well with the magics when we need it. There is also Cordelia who gets visions when the powers that be want to give us a message. She was on vacation, she's on her was home now. She and Grew needed some alone time." Buffy explained to them all.
Paige sighed, "Well, now, it's your turn, how did you know Piper's name?"
"Because I knew her in an alternate time line. We had all almost died in a great battle against evil and We had been sent to you to continue to fight evil. I found a spell in your book of shadows which sent me back to another point in my own lifetime. Wess and I went back and changed the future so that I was able to stop a man by the name of Holtz from kidnapping Connor. If he had succeeded, Connor would have ended up growing up in the worst hell dimension, only to come back a messed up kid who tried to kill himself and a bunch of other people. I had to save him, give him back his child hood. It seems that in the process, It also solved a lot of other problems."
"You promised to punish Angel by killing his son, and now 3 years later, not only is Angel unpunished, but he's human, living the blissful life with his wife and now two children! I don't know about you, but that doesn't sound like punishment to me!"
Holtz answered the angry demon that lacked corporeal form, "Oh, don't worry, I will. I was just biding my time, making him relax a little bit."
"If you wait any longer the slayer will have reached her full strength."
"I know"
"And he's befriending the Charmed Ones, who, May I remind you, are the most powerful forces of good in the western hemisphere, equal only to Willow Rosenburg!"
"I know"
"So what are you waiting for!"
"For the right moment."
"What do I care about 'the right moment' I want Connor dead. That was why I sent you two hundred years forward."
"Will you quit your yapping already, I'm the reason your not still stuck in your bottle, and if your not careful, you'll end back in their for a while."
"Fine, but when is 'the right moment.'?"
"When he has a moment of perfect happiness."
A/N: What do you think? Please review. I brought the charmed ones back by popular demand, and I want to know what you think. It helps motivate me to write faster.
