A Different World

I'm so sooorrry! I posted the wrong story under this heading Please forgive me!

Summary: No demons, no vampires. Angel is human, and works at Wolfram and Hart. Faith is dating Lindsey. Angel and Darla had Connor, Darla died during childbirth. Two months later Angel meets Faith who happens to be dating Lindsay, a lawyer from an opposing law firm.

Rating: PG-13

Pairing(s): Angel/Faith, Spike/Buffy (later on), Faith/Lindsey

Prologue-Who are you and for that matter who am I?

(The song in this chapter is Give Unto Me by Evanescence. And if you don't know who Evanescence is you won't know who Amy Lee is either.)

Angel walked down the corridors of Wolfram and Hart, towards the daycare center like he did everyday for the past three months. After Connor was born he tried to continue to have a social life but he couldn't. Though at first, he despised Connor for ruining his social life, he grew to love him and form guilt for feeling hate towards him. He would never tell anyone that though, never tell anyone he hated his son at first. His friends were taking him out to try to get him to find a girlfriend, or at least someone to be with every night. He had called a babysitter. And had been pushed into going after being hounded by his friends for about three weeks. They had his best interests at heart he knew that for sure.

After getting Connor he went back to his apartment were he met the baby sitter. He hated to leave but his friends would theoretically kill him if he bailed. He went to a local bar, he couldn't remember the name. But he knew it was Latin for 'Mercy.' When he entered he saw his friends at the bar, he already decided not to drink cause when he started drinking he couldn't stop.

A girl was singing a song on stage. He couldn't remember the name of the song but he heard it before. He walked over to the bar and took a seat near Spike.

"What's up?" Spike asked.

"Nothin'" Angel said as he ordered a Sprite.

A new song began to play, it was Give Unto Me. Angel could remember it, he downloaded it from the internet a few months back. And as the music began to play he turned his head to look at the girl who was singing it. She was beautiful, shoulder length brown hair, slim, and dressed in black. If he had any nerve left in his body (it all vanished when he began to love his son) he would have went over there and started talking to the girl as soon as the song finished.

"I've been watching you from a distance," the girl sang. Surprisingly her voice sounded exactly like Amy Lee's. "Somehow the distance sees through your disguise," her voice was haunting. "All I want from you is your hurting. I want to heal you, I want to save you from the dark."

"Wow she has a really good voice," Angel said in his head.

"Give unto me your troubles, I'll endure your suffering. Place onto me your burden, I'll drink your deadly poison." Angel continued to stare in disbelief at the siren he was hearing. "Why should I care if they hurt you? Somehow it matters more to me than if I were hurting myself. Save You! Save you. I'll save you!"

"Fear not the flame of my loves candle, let it be the light in your world of darkness, give unto me all that frightens you, I'll have your nightmares for you, if you sleep soundly," Angel mouthed the words.

"Give unto me all your troubles, I'll endure you're suffering. Place onto me your burden, I'll drink your deadly poison, Fear not the flame of my loves candle, let it be the light in your world of darkness," she sang then stepped of the stage. She went and sat down near a blonde girl and a red head.

"Hey, Faith that guy over there is checking you out!" Buffy said with a huge hint of humor in her voice.

"Shut up!" Faith said as she took her seat. She had just finished singing Give Unto Me by Evanescence. She loved the lyrics, and the song sounded great too. Her voice was almost like Amy Lee's.

"Maybe you should go over there and talk to him," Willow said.

"Red, shut up!" Faith said as she eyed him. She knew it was true though, he had been watching her. And she rather liked it. Lindsay had never paid her that much attention, not even when she was naked in front of him.

Faith decided to walk over to him.

Spike saw the girl coming over.

"Yo, Wes," Spike said motioning to the approaching girl "matbe we should sing some Karaoke," Spike said trying to make-up an excuse for them to get the hell out of there as fast as possible.

"Um, sure," Wesley said hesitantly.

They walked away.

Faith took a seat right next to Angel.

"Hi," she said.

"Oh, um. Hi," he said not paying much attention to her, his mind was else where, like how the babysitter was taking care of Connor.

"So, you like watching but you don't like talking?" Faith said.

"Oh, um sorry, my minds some where else, I'm Angel," he said hiding his nervousness.

"I'm Faith," she said drawing him into conversation.

"You have a very pretty" Angel hesitated "voice" he finally said.

"That the only thing you find pretty about me?" Faith said with sexiness in her voice.

Angel smiled at the comment; he even chuckled a little bit. "Okay, okay good joke," he said.

"It's how I get through life," she said.

"Okay now that's just sad," Angel said jokingly.

"Ah, he has some humor in him," Faith said admiring that trait. "So tell me about yourself."

"Um, I grew up in Galway, Ireland. Moved here when I was 21, got a job at a Law Firm," Angel said.

"Great Lindsay repeat, always pick the winners" Faith said sarcastically inside her mind.

"Um, I'm 26 and that's about it," Angel said.

"Hmm, impressive" Faith said leaning in.

"Take a look at who just hit it off with the singing lady," Spike said.

"Huh, ain't she gonna be disappointed, when she finds out he has a son," Wesley said.

"Maybe, maybe not," Spike said.

Faith looked at her watch, it was already 11:00 o'clock. She looked over at her friends.

"Um, I got to go," Faith said, "here's my cellphone number," she said grabbing a napkin and writing her number down for him.

"Um, yeah sure," he said doing the same instead giving her both his home number and cell phone number.

"Right bye," she said getting up and walking away.

"Faith," he said inside his head, "Fear not the flame of my loves candle, let it be the light in your world of darkness," he repeated the line again and again inside of his head.

I'll update a new chapter every two or three days, if my computer permits. Reviews will be much appreciated.

I'm sooooooooo sorry, thanks be to Imzadi, I know I screwed up. But I fixed it. Could you people ever forgive me? I am so sorry I keep f up on this. (Stared it out because it's PG-13) And if you were looking for what was here before, It's Faith's Bitch. Under Romance and the Angelus/Faith pairing.