Chapter three

Wesley stared down at his daughter with a very worried face. He had never seen her this pale before, she hadn't been sick in ages and it was odd for a slayer to ever get sick. He put a cold cloth to her face and held her hand, while waiting for his friends to arrive. The gang would know what to do. Sitting there with his sleeping daughter he thought about what a horrible father he must be. He was her father! He should know what to do in this type of situation, but like he did when he was younger he ran off to his friends for help.

" How is she?" Cordy asked walking into her room.

" She still hasn't been up" he whispered. " Is this normal? I mean for a slayer?"

" No" Angel answered. " Slayers don't get sick unless there was something actualy done to them."

" Where's Fred and Gunn?"

" They stayed behind" Cordy said. " They are trying to figure out more about the vampire."

" Yes, perhaps the vampire had something to do with it. I'm just looking for a cure, Hannah said she destroyed the vampire last night."

" With the vampire gone, it could make this more difficult." Angel put a finger to his lips " When she wakes up, if she can do it, bring her to Wolfram and Hart."

" Well, wait!" Wesley stood up to face his friends. " How do we know its mystical? It could just be a. . ."

" Bring her, Wes" Angel said.

Later that night, Wesley was still trying to bring his daughter back to the world, but she laid there silent. Coughing every now and then, but not once opening her eyes or speaking a word to him.

" Come on, Hannah" Wesley said to her. " I don't know whats happened to you, but we can't help you unless you wake up"

Nothing. . .

" What if I called your mother? Would that give you some insperation to move?" Wesley asked. " I know I haven't been the greatest father in the world, but I want to change that. I'm sorry I haven't always been there." What was he doing? He relised that he was treating her as if she was on her deathbed! " I love you more then anything, I know I haven't showed that much. I will change if you wake up!"

Once agian there wasn't the slightest movement. . .

Wesley started getting scared and angery at the same time. " Hannah! This isn't a game! If you want to get better then we need you awake! We need you here!"

" Wes! Hannah!" Lila yelled inviting herself into Wesley tiny appartment. " Where are you?"

" Bloody hell" Wesley said to himself. The last thing he needed was his X-lover around, but it was her daughter too. " Wolfram and Hart must have informed her"

" Oh, my god" Lila said coming into the room and stopping at the door. "What the hell happened?"

" Lila, we don't know yet" Wesley got up to let Lila sit on the bed, by thier daughter. " Angel is. . ."

" Oh the great, Angel, is going to do something" she said snottily. "Excuse me, she is my daughter as well and it is my decision too." She took her daughters hand. " How long has she been out?"

" All day"

" All day! All day and your just now deciding that something is wrong with our daughter! Shit, Wesley."

" I'll get the car started. We're taking her to Wolfram and Hart for help." he said leaving the room rather quickly.

Lila stared down at her daughter for a long while. Lila was never the nice type, funny, caring, or loving at all, but once she had Hannah, she had changed. Having a daughted seemed to have melted her cold heart and made her feel agian.

" Hannah" she whisped. " We're going to get you help, okay?" she pulled the hair back from her daughters eys and tried to keep calm, just in case her daughter could hear her. " I'm not going to leave you" With that said Hannah did give her mothers hand a small squeeze. " There we go" she smiled, kissed her daughters forehead and quickly tried to hide any tears forming. Lila hated pitty. Even more when it was comeing from Wesley.

WolfRam and Hart+

Hannah could feel herself being carried into Wolfram and Hart. She could feel her body being laid on the cold doctors table. She could hear them all talking, she was alive! She heard her mother and father in her bed room and she could hear them now, but she was unable to move, she was unable to speak. All she wanted to do was scream for help, tell them that she hadn't killed the vampire and that she loved her parents, something she hadn't told either of them in years.

The doctor did what all doctors do when they first get a patient. He checked her heartbeat and all the boring stuff, then he did what only a Wolfram and Hart doctor would do. Hannah could feel nothing but the cold surround her. The doctor was chanting loudly. He was going to bring her back! Her body begun to shake and her eyes started to feel less heavy, she wanted to move, but at the same time she was afraid of what the going on. The energy around her was growing stronger and stronger, her entire body shaking and tears forming in her eyes. She felt like she was going to be sick! What was he doing to her? In the distance she heard Wesley ask the same thing.

The doctor chanted louder and faster, he was screaming at her to wake up. She felt her soul being moved or was she just going crazy? " Stop it!" she screamed. The doctor stopped chanting and everyone stopped what they were doing to stare at her. Hannah sat up on the table, shaking and breathing heavily. She could see, move, and finaly speak agian. The doctor had brought her out of her trance!

" Hannah!" Lila yelled and wrapped her arms around her daughter.

Hannah was still shaking and still not sure what the hell was going on! She hugged her mother back and started crying. She could still feel the power around her, tearing at her soul. " I want to. . . to go home" she muttered.

Wesley was next to give her a hug and once he wrapped his arms around her she didn't want him to let go. She rested her head on his chest and cried. She was remembering everything her parents had said to her, while she was in her trance. It hurt her to know that her parents felt like they were horrible parents, she knew that she wasn't the best daughter in the world. I'm sure they would have to talk about it, eventualy. The gang left the room. so they could have a moments peace.

" Are you alright?" Wesley asked.

" The vampire! I didn't kill her! I lied and she's out there. She bit me and I got sick and it might happen to me agian! You have. . ." Hannah was trying to get everything out before the vampires spell took over her again, but Wesley put a finger to his daughters lips.

" You didn't kill her?" Lila asked.

" I wussied out. I couldn't. . .you have to. . ." she stared feeling sick agian. " What's wrong with me?"

" The vampire has done something to you." Wesley said. " I've never heard of anything like this happening before." Wesley turned to Lila. " Get the others and tell them to meet me in my office. I have an idea" The two parents were about to go thier seperate ways when Hannah once agian spoke up, scared to be alone.

" Don't leave me"