Title: Right Before Your Eyes

Author: Wereleopard
Rating: PG

Pairing: C/A
Email: Angst
Summary: Up to pregnant Darla it is AU, Angel's thoughts and questions about himself, his friends, his redemption and the love he has for Cordy.

Disclaimer: The characters in the Angel verse were created by Joss Whedon & David Greenwalt. No infringement is intended, no profit is made I am just poor and the song doesn't belong to me either.
Distribution: FSB!

Feedback: Yes please!

A/N Ok this is AU duh! LOL. So instead of Spike making Buffy feel something it was Angel, but Spike IS still in love with her and we know whom Angel wants.

Chapter 5

Middle of Nowhere, USA

Cordelia's hazel eyes slowly opened, the seer couldn't believed that she had fallen asleep she seemed to be doing that a lot lately. Cordy tried to sit up and as soon as she moved a groan echoed from her mouth, her back was killing her, then suddenly some male arms wrapped around her given her the support and help to move and a hand gently rubbed on the bottom of her back in a very soothing way.

She smiled and looked into the face of Lindsey he had been so sweet and kind it was weird to think of him like this but he had helped he so much, there friendship had not suffered from the 'incident' and in a way it made them closer as friends.

"Didn't mean to fall asleep on you, again" Cordy said grinning.

"That's ok you need the rest and I did some thinking and I did, something." He muttered.

Hazel eyes narrowed suspiciously at him knowing that she was not going to like the answer. "What exactly did you do?"

"Look Cordy you've become the closest friend I have ever had and when you were asleep you were crying and you called Angel's name." Cordy froze and she had this bad feeling that she knew where this was going. "I called the hotel, told them you were pregnant with my child." He rushed the last sentence out he winced waiting for her to hit him, through something, scream.

"YOU DID WHAT?" She screamed at him.

"I didn't like seeing you hurting, they don't know where we are. Why don't you go home?" He told her softly as he brushed her hair away from her face.

"I can't I mean you and I had one night together and now I'm pregnant and remember that don't exactly like you." Cordy said quietly her anger melting away she knew that he wanted to help her, to make her happy but now that Angel knew how was she going to be able to phone him when she had the next vision.

"I know that but, look Cordy you need your friends, your family, you need Angel as much as it pains me to say it." Lindsey stared into her eyes trying to find out what she was thinking. "If you want I'll come back with you." He said suddenly and realising he meant it; he wanted to be around to see his child grow and he wanted to remain friends with Cordy. Angel and the rest of the AI gang were not his favourite people or vampires but he had changed so maybe they could get along for Cordy's sake, he knew that they would never be friends.

"You would do that for me?" Cordy looked surprised and Lindsey nodded. "I'll think about it, ok." Her heart was pounding as she looked at the phone, for once in her life she was afraid of the phone, afraid that is she picked it up she would dial Angel's number and if it rang she was terrified that her vampire would be on the other end. Even just his voice caused a reaction in her body. "Hormones." She muttered to herself.

Cordy never saw Lindsey smiling at her, his eyes full of care. He still couldn't get over the fact that they were friends.

Hyperion Hotel, LA

Everything had stopped for him, Cordelia; HIS Cordy was pregnant by Lindsey McDonald. The lawyer could have lied but there would be no reason for him to. Everyone else at AI had taken it the same way he had, with shock, suspicion and disbelief. Fred had rushed of to get something to clean up the mess she had made, Gunn grabbed his axe and started to clean it a little to fiercely and Wes stuck his head into a book. No one truly believed it but there was that doubt deep within them all that it was true and the way things were going it was a good bet that Cordelia Chase was pregnant by Lindsey McDonald.

Angel didn't care that she was pregnant by another man, they hadn't been dating his seer never even knew that he loved her. The vampire had messed telling her 8 months ago. He really didn't care, the vampire had his own child with another woman, and as long as she came home they would all raise the children together, the problem he had was, well, it was Lindsey, LINDSEY? But what to do about the lawyer if he was anything like Angel, which from all there other meetings he wasn't, the evil handed one would want to be around to see the child grow, would he manage to deal with that. To be around the man who had hurt them and caused them problems on numerous occasions, also the man who was able to hold and touch Cordy in a way he never could, who had touched her.

What he needed to do was talk to his seer, they needed to come up with something he couldn't carry on not seeing her, talking to her, just being with her. Lindsey never told him where she was so Angel was guessing Cordy didn't know about the phone call.

"Please call. Just talk to me that is all I want." He whispered to himself ever since she had been gone he had become half a man, half a vampire and he needed her to feel whole and his son needed a mother and he couldn't think of a better person to do that with than Cordelia Chase. Angel placed himself next to the phone and stared at it willing it to ring.

Middle of Nowhere, USA

It had been a week and all of her time was spent staring at the phone and then there was Lindsey who wouldn't leave the subject alone every time they saw each other. She missed everyone, she missed the hotel and most of all she missed Angel.

The tall handsome brooding vampire, she closed her eyes and leant back she could see him so clearly holding his son close to his chest. She knew that he was a great father, over-protective but good she had no doubt about that.

Cordy opened her eyes and turned back to the dreaded phone, she had no choice, she had to talk to him, and her heart ached just to hear his voice.

She reached over picked it up and dialled a number, it was a number she had memorised a number and waited for someone to pick it up in LA.

Wolfram and Hart, LA

"Here is the update." Said a male voice.

"Thank you." Lilah replied as she opened the folder and read through the contents.

TBC