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 6

Hyperion Hotel, LA

The phone rang in the hotel, the sound echoed around the lobby. Angel stood staring at it, his hand shook as her reached over and picked it up.

"Hello Angel Investigations, We help the helpless." He whispered hoping that is would be the sweet of voice of the woman he loved.

"Hello Angel." Said a feminine voice.

It sent a shiver down his spine, as she whispered in her ear. He had missed her, his eyes misted with tears.

"Cordy." He choked out.

Middle of Nowhere, USA

Cordy's heart broke she could hear the loneliness in his voice, she had avoided talking to him and after each vision when she phoned she had managed to miss him. This was the first time she had heard his voice in 8 months in reality, but every night he would whisper words of love in her ear as she slept. A lot of the time that kept her going, it was the only time that she was truly happy but recently it hadn't been enough, she was missing him during that time as well.

The dream she had been recently having over and over again it is misty and she is lost and then he appears in front of her, the smile on his face that she loves so much, she reaches out to him, his smile fades and then he begins to vanish and she never reaches him in time and she is left alone and that is when she starts to cry and wakes up her heart aching.

All the brunette wanted to do was to put down the phone and get to LA as quick as she could and run straight into his arms, this is one of the reasons she was glad that she had not spoken to him before this and now she was just waiting to hear the betrayal in his voice.

"So umm I understand Lindsey called you?" Cordy said suddenly before she changed her mind and hung up on him.

Hyperion Hotel, LA

Angel's growled softly, he didn't like that man touching her; he didn't like any man touching her, anyone but him.

"Yes he did." Angel answered softly he paused for a moment. "So it's true then, the two of you are together."

The vampire was surprised to hear a breathy laugh come down the phone line.

"God no, we're friends. We got drunk one night, it still seems unusual that we fell into bed together but he has been good, it took a while to trust him but over the last 8 months. I care about him." Cordy said the laughter dying from her voice.

"Why didn't you come home? I know I hurt you but I thought we could work through this, but you just vanished." Angel said angrily.

"I know Angel and I was going to but when I found out I was pregnant I just couldn't face you, I felt like I had betrayed you." The brunette stopped suddenly when she realised what she had said.

A grin blossomed on Angel's face; a bud of hope began to flower in his heart. Maybe she felt more for him than she let on.

"Come home Cordy I know about it now, please." Angel begged her.

"Angel if I come back Lindsey will be coming with me, he wants to make sure me and the baby are fine and he wants to see his child grow. I know you're not going to want to have us at the hotel so we'll find somewhere else." She muttered thinking ahead.

"WHAT?" Angel yelled.

"Calm down Angel, what's the problem?" She asked impatiently.

"You'll move in with Lindsey?" The vampire asked.

"Not like that Angel, as roommates, duh!" Cordy sighed.

"Well uh you can both stay here at the hotel." Angel told her while kicking himself he wanted her here and he wanted the lawyer as far as way as possible.

"Well thank you Angel, we'll uhh phone you when we know what is happening."

Middle of Nowhere, USA

Cordy stood there and stared at the phone in her hand, she was sure she misheard what he had said. And she was still standing there when Lindsey walked in.

A worried frown on his brow. "Cordy?" He asked as he rushed to her side.

"I just phoned Angel." She told him still staring off into space.

"And?" Lindsey prodded.

"He said we could stay at the hotel." The brunette turned and stared into the shocked blue eyes of her friend.

"You're kidding." He muttered.

"Nope, uhhh do you still want to come with me." Cordy asked nervously she was still afraid to see the guys by herself especially Angel.

Lindsey grinned at her, it always made him look younger and more innocent but she knew he was neither, but she accepted him now and she had always told him that if he hurt any of her friends or Angel ever again in any way she would go after him herself, he just laughed at her and told her that sounded like fun, but the grin disappeared and he promised that he wouldn't hurt them, not if it hurt her.

"Miss the reunion, never. I'll be by your side ok." He looked at her and she nodded in agreement.

Hyperion Hotel, LA

Fred, Gunn and Wes stared at Angel disbelief on their faces and Gunn was the one to say what everyone was thinking.

"Angel man, are you nuts?" He asked the other two nodding in agreement.

"Look Cordy wants to come back and Lindsey is the father and he is coming back with her, if the two of them don't stay here in separate rooms she will find somewhere else. I don't know about you guys but I want her back here." Angel told them emotionally.

Gunn, Fred and Wes looked at each other, a silent agreement was made.

"Ok Angel Lindsey can say here." Wes said shaking his head still not believing that this was happened.

Cordy had tears in her eyes as she drove away from a place she had called home for the last 8 months, her heart pounded in her chest and they weren't even near LA yet.

"It'll be alright Cordy." Lindsey told her as he glanced to the side seeing how nervous she was. "Angel loves you."

"Of course he does, he's my best friend." She told him in reply.

Lindsey looked at her incredulously. "No Cordy he is IN LOVE with you, as he wants to take you to bed, make made passionate love, jealous of other men, that kind of love. He only said yes to me being there because he would do anything to have you back in his life."

"It doesn't matter Lindsey, it's never going to happen there is so much against us and the main one being his curse and he may not love me that is what you think and you could be wrong."

"I'm not wrong you love him don't you?" Blue eyes stared ahead concentrating on the road.

"With all that I am." She whispered and stared out the window watching the countryside pass them by.

Angel paced the lobby, he get glancing at the clock and then at the door. Tension filled the air they were all nervous and excited at the same time. They were getting their heart back. Of course things weren't going to be the same but it didn't matter as long as they were a family they could deal with anything.

"Angel?" A very familiar voice said and everyone turned. Angel walked forward and stared at the vision in front of him, pregnancy definitely agreed with her she was glowing.

"Cordy." He replied and as hazel eyes gazed into brown ones the whole world seemed to vanish just leaving the two of them.

TBC