"So she just went?"
Giles looked up at Xander, who was shoving potato chips in his mouth at an alarming rate.
"Yes." Giles said
"And you let her?"
Giles sighed, removing his glasses in preperation to clean them.
"Knowing Buffy, you should know by now that I never just 'let' her do anything." He said, removing a hankerchief from his pocket and wiping his glasses carefully "She wouldn't be talked out of it. She arrived there last night."
"Should we go?" Willow asked
"I don't think so. She should be fine... it is Angel after all."
Xander set down his bag and looked up at Giles.
"Hmm... right..." He said "Only the same Angel that once went evil and tried to suck the world into hell with all of us ended. No... it's just Angel... no harm there."
Silence.
"I'll call the train station." Giles said, walking to the phone.
"So... you just found this coffin?" Buffy asked
Angel nodded.
"Basically..." He replied "And here I am."
Buffy looked around the hotel.
"You get kind of used to it." Wesley replied
"Used to what?" Buffy asked
"Oh... you didn't notice?" Angel asked
"Notice what?"
"The unusual amount of vampire sitting around here." Cordillia replied
Buffy thought for a moment. Now that you mention it...
"Why is that?" Buffy asked
Angel sighed.
"Because I am their father." He replied simply "They all... in a sense... love me. They want to be around me. Near me..."
"Why?"
"I'm not really sure..." He said, shrugging "They just kind of nest around here."
"And you let them?"
"Don't really have a choice in the matter."
"You could tell them to leave."
"And what, if they don't, put them in time out." Angel asked, standing and moving behind the counter for a cup of coffee "It doesn't work that way."
"You said they were your children."
"They are." Angel answered, pouring "But they don't always listen to me. They still... ususally... have a mind of their own."
Buffy was silent for a moment.
"So basic--."
Angel then held up his hand for them to be silent. He stopped, sniffed the air and tensed.
"What?" Buffy asked
Angel shook his head.
"I have to go." He muttered
"Really wanted to get out of there huh?"
Angel turned to face Aura.
"What are you doing here?"
"Following my king. My father."
Angel crossed his arms and looked down from the skyscraper he was standing on. Long way down...
"I thought we got this out of the way--." Angel began
"They're comming to kill you." Aura said bluntly
Angel cocked his head at her.
"As you've seen, not every vampire or demon loves you, especially not the elders... the Ancients..." She moved to the edge of the building and put her hands on the brick there "They're going to hunt you down. Covens are comming like soilders galloping. Demons are searching through the darkness, all for you."
"Why?"
"They all seek to destroy the very thing you are. The King of the Damned. The one who controls them, and their fates. You hold in your hands imeasureable power."
"And they don't want me to have it..."
Aura shrugged.
"Honestly, I haven't looked that deep into it. But my bet is, they're going to go after everything you love and care about first." She stepped up on the ledge "I'd find her if you don't want her to be hurt."
Angel bit his lip. Catilina...
"And your other childe... can't neglect him."
Angel raised her eyebrow at her. Aura stretched her arms out, as if preparing to fly.
"Can you fly, Angel?" She asked "With white wings?"
"Never tried."
Aura laughed softly, as a strong upward gust rustled her hair.
"You should try. Try to reach heaven... kiss the sky..." She turned her head back
"Wait.."
But before he could finish, she jumped off the building. Angel thought for a moment.
"Come to me my Catilina." He said, worry seeping into his voice "Come to me. Hurry."
worry seeped in, along with fear and hatred. Hatred for this cursed power that was brought upon him. For the danger it was going to cause. About twenty minuets had passed, before Angel realized that he saw no sign of Catilina. He couldn't even sense her essence. Angel shifted worried, and too, jumped off the building, in search of his childe.