Title: Prophecy Boy 3?
Author: THE PTB (Nieves and Lea)
Rating: PG
Email: (that's Lea's email) & (that's mine!)
Category: Romance/Crossover/AU
Genre: Crossover
Summary: All of Angel and Buffy season 2. A travel to the past to see the truth of a future. We have slightly changed the story so it is an AU.
Disclaimer: The characters in the Angelverse were created by Joss Whedon & David Greenwalt. No infringement is intended, no profit is made we are just poor.
Distribution: FSB, ST and AO if anywhere else please just us me know!
Feedback: Yes please!

Part 3

Sunnydale 1998

"Nice place" Angel said looking around the tastefully decorated foyer he only ever seen the house on the outside, never really taken much notice in it. He only found out who lived there when he started to date Buffy and met one Cordelia Chase.

"It's what my parents thought of as a home" Cordelia said bitterly she didn't even try to hide it.

"And you don't" Angel stated, finding easy talk with her which he found unusual as he had never really talked to her before he was amazed by that he had heard all the stories from Buffy and also heard Xander and Willow talk. It seemed that they never really knew her; no one seemed to know who Cordelia Chase really was.

"It's not that, it's… for this being a home they should be here more than four days per month" Cordelia replied, not believing she just told him that, he made a great listener she stopped herself talking, no one at school even her so called friends like Harmony and Aura did not know how lonely she was at home, how she was left alone all the time and which is why she kept people at a distance.

At that moment Connor started to cry and when no one reacted immediately the cries became louder, his little chubby face became redder and redder but none of them knew what it meant, was the little boy hungry, tired or did he need a change of diaper?

They realised they didn't have anything that would suit the baby plus they needed his food and diapers and some toys.

"We need to go shopping for you, don't we?" Cordelia asked the little boy while rocking him to sleep she still couldn't believe that she had a baby in her arms and that she was enjoying it and just to add to the weirdness the person who seemed to like it as much as she did was a vampire with a soul how surreal was that?

"If you want I can go with you" Angel offered himself to go shopping with them both, finding he liked her company he couldn't believe he had actually said that but now he had he found he was looking forward to it. Angel did not want this night to end.

"Great! That way I hold the baby and you drive" Cordelia said excitedly not believing he didn't leave as soon as they reached her house and it was also help too carry all the items that they were going to have to buy for the child, she held out her car keys to him, Angel took them and they headed back outside.

And with that they left her house to go to the mall in the red corvette Cordelia knew that the larger stuff she could get delivered like the cot and maybe some of the other things that they were going to buy.

Angel and Cordelia walked through the store, with Angel holding Connor in his arms and rested him against his chest. Cordy walked through the different baby aisles looking for everything that they needed she showed Angel outfit after outfit, keeping the ones they liked. As much as Angel hated to admit it, he was actually enjoying himself and that was something that he never thought would happen him. If you'd have told him that a week before he would be shopping with Cordelia Chase, he would have fallen over laughing at the idea of it.

"Ooooh! Angel! Look at this! Isn't this adorable! It would look so good on him Angel!" He smiled her happiness seemed to be contagious and who ever thought that this cheerleader only enjoyed doing things for herself never took the time to get to know the real her.

"Okay. Another outfit to take. We have to save some money for his crib, a car seat, diapers, formula, baby powder-" He said trying also to work out what they needed and it wasn't just clothes.

"I know. It's called a master card Angel." She said with a grin and he nodded and walked next to her, he was seeing another part of Cordelia and he was liking it, Angel had never met anyone quite like her, but they could say the same about him as well, she was so easy to be around there were no games… nothing, she said what she thought so you didn't have to try and guess what she wanted that was one of the problems with Buffy she seemed to think that he could read her mind and when he got it wrong she seemed to get upset with him, it was tiring but there was nothing like that with Cordelia.

"Can I help you?" A girl asked them her eyes lingered on Angel for a bit longer than was necessary and she smiled at him.

"Yeah." Cordelia put the clothes on the counter. "We need all of this, that crib over there and that car seat. Angel, give me the baby." He handed the little boy to Cordy and walked over to get the large box holding the crib and the car seat.

"He's a pretty one, don't see many looking like him now a days." Cordelia turned to the checker.

"You really don't, do you?" Cordelia said trying not to say too much even though she was tempted to tell the girl that he was a vampire just to see her reaction, but for once she held her tongue.

"And strong too." She said as he picked up the items with incredible ease and then sighed as she continued to watch him.

"Yeah. He's one in a million. Oh and taken." Cordelia added just for spite, the girl didn't need to know it was not her, but one Buffy Summers, the chosen one.

LA Present

"Cordelia, your lipstick is smudged" He said with a knowing smile, "Yours too" Wesley said patting Angel lightly on the shoulder. "Guys if you too are finished we're going to try a spell." Wesley walked out with a little lift in his step.

"Uhmm … right we'll be there in a second" Cordelia said trying to control her breath.

Cordy and Angel turned to each other, their eyes staring into the others. He reached over and brushed her cheek gently with his knuckle, her skin was so soft he could look and touch her forever. He smiled at her but there was something he needed to tell her and something he needed to know.

"Cordy this is not a one time thing for me. If it is for you don't continue this…please." Angel tried to sound brave but he didn't think he could ever let her go even if she asked him to.

A smile covered her face and lit up the whole room. "It's not a one time thing for me Angel, I don't think it could ever be that for us."

Angel felt himself smile in response. "I love you." He whispered. "I've never loved anyone as much as I love you. I know we still have obstacles to pass like my curse and" She placed a finger on his lips.

"I love you too and we will deal with whatever is thrown at us, together." It felt as if a huge weight had been lifted of their shoulders, they finally told each other what they felt.

Cordelia took a tissue and cleaned his mouth with it.

"Cordelia we'll talk more when we've rescued our son." He told her they had things to do now.

"Our son?" She asked with tears in her eyes. "Do you think of him like that?"

"Yes Cordy, you are his mother and I couldn't think of a better one."

Cordelia reached over and took his hand in hers. "Well then let's go and get our son."

With that the two of them walked out and joined the others in the lobby. The AI smiled as they watched them, Wesley had come back and told them what he had seen in the bathroom and the two of them holding hands just confirmed it. The two of them deserved to be happy more so than anyone, they both had been through so much, all they had to do was to find Connor and their family would be complete. The next thing was the curse they had to find a way around that.

Angel looked up and saw the smile on their teammates faces; he guessed by it that they had everyone's approval. "So Wesley are we ready to go?"

Wesley nodded.

"I need you all to form a circle while I chant the spell, I don't need anything more for it" Wesley said the others.

"A time for everything
And to everything its place
Return what has been moved
Through time and space"

All of them went quiet, trying to see if something was happening, after a couple of minutes Wesley said the spell wasn't the right one and that he had to go to get some ingredients for another spell. Gunn and Fred and Lorne went to the kitchen to eat something while Angel and Cordelia went to sit in his room but in the end they ended staring at the crib, the two of them could so clearly see him laying there.

"God I can't loose him, he's my baby… our baby" Angel said brokenly.

"Angel you have to think positive, you can't think like that, we'll have our baby in no time with us" Cordelia said trying to calm him.

"I know, but…he's the best thing…no offence Cor but he's…"

"None taken, and I understand you, he's your baby, a little person who loves you no matter who you are, he loves you because you're he's daddy, and the best daddy he could ask for. He's the best thing that has happened to me as well." Cordelia told him hugging him.

"God Cordelia, I love you, I don't know what I'd you without you" Angel said holding her more tightly to him. "You are the other best thing in my life, you and Connor are the things that make me wake up and wanting nothing more than my redemption for you two, without you and Connor I wouldn't be who I am right now"

Cordelia looked at him and the only thing that passed through her mind was 'I love him' and instead of telling him she kissed him.

"YO! ANGEL, CORDELIA WESLEY IS BACK" Gunn called for them.

"Ok, people I'm here and I think this spell will work" Wesley said trying to calm Angel and Cordelia.

"How sure are you Wes?" Cordelia asked she wanted her baby back.

"Uhmm… let's say…99, ok?"

"Relax Wesley just do your best." Angel said.

"In this place and in this hour
We call upon the ancient power
Open the door through time and space
Create a path to another place"

With that said, a bright light appeared in front of them, wind seem to swirl around them, Fred paled.

"I hate portals." She mumbled and before anyone could reassure her they were all sucked into a portal. Which closed immediately after the last person vanished.

TBC...