Author's Note: This chapter and the next run side-by-side with the previous chapter. It's each character doing something different at the same time, and it was hard to write, so I just decided to break it up into different chapters. I hope it's not too confusing for anyone. This is Cordy and Kathy, next will be Angel.

Chapter Four: Settling Kathy

Cordelia led Kathy upstairs as she listened to Angel directing Gunn and Fred to help Wesley. She looked back down and watched Angel leave, the double doors swinging shut behind him.

'Where's Liam going?' Kathy asked. Cordelia looked down at the young girl who was holding her hand.

'Um…' she hesitated. 'He's gone to take care of some business.'

'He's not going to stay and protect me?' she asked.

'Oh honey, that's exactly what he's doing. He's protecting you.' Cordelia assured her. She wanted Kathy to feel safe.

'Are you sure?'

'Positive.' Cordelia smiled warmly and led Kathy to Angel's room. 'This is Angel's room.' She said, gesturing to the closed door beside her that said 312 in gold coloured numbers. Cordelia then turned around the face the other side of the hallway and directed Kathy into another room directly opposite of Angel's. 'This is yours.'

'Why do you call Liam Angel?' Kathy asked, curious. Cordelia gently ushered her into the room.

'It's the name that he earned himself.' Cordelia answered, unsure of how to break this to her.

'Is he an angel?' Kathy pressed. Cordelia softened.

'Oh honey, his name doesn't mean that he's an angel.' She smiled, almost chuckling at the simplicity of the answer, which she strangely couldn't find the words to explain.

'Well tell me what it means then.' Kathy demanded, remaining sweet and innocent as she had all along.

'Do you know what Angel is?' Cordelia became serious, secretly hoping that somehow Kathy would understand everything there was to understand about Angel.

'Yes. He's a vampire. I've seen lost of his kind, everywhere I go. I've killed many, just like he killed me.' Cordelia broke.

'Oh sweetie, I'm so sorry. Do you not want to talk about it?' Cordelia whispered as she sat Kathy down on the bed, then lowered herself down.

'No, it's alright. I forgave Liam long ago, he is my brother after all.' Kathy grinned, showing the love she had for Angel.

'Alright.'

'So, his name? Angel? How did he get it?' Kathy asked again.

'Well, when Angel was first made into a vampire, his sire Darla gave him a name.' Cordelia explained.

'Angel?' Kathy asked.

'No. Angelus. It translated in Latin to "the one with the angelic face", so that became who Angelus was.' Cordelia paused, trying to remember everything she knew about Angel's past so as not to tell his sister wrong facts.

'So how did he become Angel then?' Kathy replied, asking the same question again that she desperately wanted answers for. She didn't know why, but suddenly she wanted to know everything about her brother; including his ungodly past.

'Well, when Angelus got his soul, he suffered for all the bad things he'd done. Killing you and the rest of his family as well as all the other people he killed across Europe in the 1700's. I think it was the 1700's…' Cordelia thought for a moment before getting back to informing Kathy about her brother. 'He slightly changed his name; taking it from Angelus to Angel and changing his image as the, excuse this if you didn't already know, Scourge of Europe. Kathy, he's a much different man that when you last saw him. He's changed, for the better.'

Kathy smiled warmly. 'I understand.' She replied. 'Angel is Liam, as a vampire. He's a good guy, but he used to be a bad guy. He's changed and he's doing good now, after suffering for everything bad he did.' Kathy summed up what Cordelia had just finished.

'Exactly.' Cordelia answered. Suddenly Cordelia heard a crash downstairs. It sounded as if it came from the lobby, so Cordelia ran out of the room, telling Kathy to stay behind. 'Do not leave this room until I come back.'

Cordelia reached the top of the stairs, and looked down to the lobby below. Wesley, Gunn and Fred appeared out of Wesley's office and Cordelia could just see the body of a man lying on the floor below, his lower half sticking out from underneath the edge of the balcony.

Cordelia's mouth gaped open when she saw a dark figure standing on the landing just inside the door, and she made one single quick guess as to who it was. Nero.

Author's Note: Another chapter up. Hope you like the ideas I'm getting here, cos they seem to be making some good writing stuff… um… yeah anyway. I like reviews. (hint, hint) BTW, sorry if these chapters seem to be a little bit short, but I can't write everything down.

Next chapter, Angel. What does he do while Wes, Gunn and Fred hit the books and Cordelia shows Kathy to her room? Keep reading to find out.