Title:
Prophecy Boy 4?
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 I am just
poor.
Distribution: FSB, ST and AO if anywhere else please
just us me know!
Feedback: Yes please!
Part 4
Sunnydale 1998
Giles, Jenny, Willow, Xander and Buffy all sat around the table in the library not knowing what to do. They were all confused they had done the spell to find the destroyer and a baby appears, a baby that only seems to like Cordelia and Angel. Giles took of his glasses and cleaned them he could feel a headache coming on. There was something that they were missing and he couldn't quite put his finger on it.
A bright light appeared on the table where the baby had appeared, chairs scattered across the floor as everyone moved away and to grab some weapons as quickly as possible and they stood their armed hoping to be ready for whatever came through. Just as quickly as the light appeared it vanished and standing on the table were 2 people that they knew and the rest they didn't.
"Angel?" Buffy whispered confusion covering her face, she turned to the library door and stared at it for a moment Cordelia and Angel left with the baby, but what were they doing standing on the table. "Cordelia you've cut your hair?"
Angel, Cordy and Wes looked at each other and groaned.
"Oh god I'm in hell." Cordy muttered Wes and Angel both reached out and took hold of her hands.
"Well uhhh." Giles stammered for a bit. "Maybe you should get off the table and we can find out what has happened."
Cordy's hands were released Angel and Wes jumped of the table smoothly and easily, Gunn followed and he reached up to help Fred down. Angel held up his arms and helped Cordy off the table. Buffy frowned as Angel's hands remained on her waist holding her tight against his body.
"What the hell is going on?" Buffy screamed her eyes still staring at where Angel's hands were.
Cordy tried to move away from him she could see that Buffy was very angry and very confused and once they tried to explain it was going to go from bad to worse.
"Well if you stop shouting we will explain to you?" Wes answered in a calm voice.
"Who the hell are you?" Buffy demanded.
Wes shook his head, he had figured out that they had gone back in time but it must have been a point in time before he arrived here.
Cordelia and Angel decided to go back to the library and see if anyone had figured anything out. So Cordelia suggested they walk and take the baby with them. Angel had agreed with her figuring out that he could deal with anything that tried to hurt them or a least give them a chance to escape.
"Hey guys look what we have here" A vampire said to his friends Angel and Cordelia were suddenly surrounded by vampires.
Angel was so lost in thought that he didn't sensed the vampires, damn, Angel thought he didn't want to fight now, not with Cordelia and the baby with him.
"Run Cordelia, when I tell you just run to the library" Angel said hurriedly, not wanting anything to happen to Cordelia and the little baby.
Cordelia was scared by not for herself but for the baby who was awake and looking at her as if she was someone he could recognize. Clutching Angel's shirt, Cordelia's voice cracked as she finally found the breath to speak. "Oh, God, please. Angel, we have to go."
"Cordelia," he spoke softly, but loud enough for the teenager to hear him. "Take the baby and go."
"Not so fast," the tallest of the vampires spoke up as Cordelia made an effort to do just that. "We're here for the kid. According to our sources, that baby he's from the future, so he's worth a fortune. Give him up now and we won't have to kill you"
Angel and Cordelia glanced at each other quickly how did they know that the baby was from the future?
"But I thought we're going to eat her." One of the vampires complained.
The shortest of the trio gave his partners in crime a dark look, "You want to eat the baby's mother, she has to be worth a fortune too."
Cordelia's heart pounded a little faster as she realised they thought the baby was hers. He might as well be, she already loved the little guy. Damned if she was gonna let anything happen to him.
"Idiots we're here for the baby!" the leader said, "And now shut up!"
"You're not going to get the baby" Angel stated a growl rumbled deep within his chest as he spoke.
"Says who, you?" the leader said laughing.
"You don't know who he is, do you?" Cordelia asked them, a smirk appearing on her face it still amazed her that they did not know who Angel was and they still underestimated him.
"It doesn't matter, give me the baby," the leader told Cordelia as he stalked towards her.
Angel seeing that charged him, while Angel and the leader were fighting the others vampires got to Cordelia knocking her out and taking the baby from her.
Angel staked the leader in time to see the others running with the baby, he's first impulse was running toward them but he saw Cordelia in the ground not moving and he rushed to her side.
"Cordelia" Angel said gently as he lifted her head slowly and making sure that she was not seriously hurt.
"Uhg…" Cordelia started to coming around, "Oh My God, they took the baby" she said starting to cry the tears rolled down her checks and she buried her head into Angel's chest as he held her against him and he made himself a promise, he would find out who took the child and he would make them pay slowly and would wait for them to beg him to stake them and then Angel would with great pleasure do so.
Xander stood there and gapped at the group in front of them. "You're from the future." He said for the hundredth time.
Cordy rubbed her eyes tired of hearing the same thing over and over again from Xander. "Yes Xander we are and now we are moving on."
Wesley had managed to get as far as explaining that they were from the future and who everyone was when the Scoobies had started to bombard them with questions and then Jenny Calender and Giles had joined in.
Buffy was frozen to the spot and Willow had hold of her arm, she could see the way Angel watched Cordelia the way he held her that they were together but what happened to her why weren't they together, her and Angel were soul mates destined to be together. They had the romantic love that every girl had read about, had dreamed about. What had happened?
The ex-watcher once again opened his mouth once again to try and explain this time why they were actually here when suddenly the doors of the library flew open and Cordelia and Angel ran in.
"They took the baby." The 16 year old Cordelia said crying.
Angel put a hand on her shoulder, he never noticed the new guests his eyes were on the young girl next to him. "I still don't understand why the spell you did brought him here Giles."
"YOU WHAT?" Cordy shouted angrily they had taken her and Angel's child.
With that the high school Cordelia looked up from the door and stared at herself but it wasn't her not in the identical sense, her hair was shorter and had blonde highlights in it, and next to, well her, was Angel he had his hands around her waist and he too was staring at Giles the pain and anger was clear in his face. He looked different from the Angel that was standing next to her at the door the other one had a dark red shirt on, the Angel she knew only wore black.
"You took our son? What the hell for?" Angel said his voice deceptively quiet, he was just managing to keep hold of his temper, what he wanted to do was grab Giles by the throat and slam him against the wall and beat the information out of him.
"Our son?" Buffy asked angrily, "Who's son" she was scared of the answer.
"My son, mine and Cordelia son" Angel said with his arms still around Cordelia.
"But it's impossible" Buffy said sounding like a 5 year old girl.
"No is not, Buffy things have changed" Angel said gently.
"As I can see" she said with venom in her void, looking at Cordelia angrily.
"Don't" Angel said cautiously.
"What?"
"Cordelia is not in fault here so don't look at her like that." Angel glared at the slayer.
Buffy stepped back nervous this was definitely not the Angel she knew, the blonde glanced over to the door and saw the pale face of Cordelia, the Cordelia she knew staring at them. It was her son, it was her and Angel's son. She turned her head to look up at the vampire who had a look of shock on his face.
He looked over at himself. "It can't be, I'm a vampire I can't have children." He stuttered.
Wesley looked over at the mirror images of his friends. "It was a prophecy and a long story." He muttered knowing that this was going to get out of hand soon.
Xander had not moved he was frozen to the spot and he was definitely hearing things. "Deadboy and the bitch of Sunnydale High have a child, together."
At this point future Angel turned to the kid and before anyone knew what was happening he had Xander pinned up against some book stacks.
"Let's get something straight shall we her name is Cordelia not bitch, now say it with me and then apologise to her." Angel said angrily he knew that he was taking his fear for his missing son out on this teenager but it was also something he had wanted to do for a long time.
"Cordelia I am sorry, I didn't mean to upset you." He mumbled fear evident in his eyes. He had managed to get away with so much with the Angel that he knew but this man in front of him was different, he was not a loner, he had a family and friends. He stood up and said what he thought. There was no hiding in the background for him.
"And now my name Xander what is my name?" Angel asked.
"Angel." Xander stuttered.
Buffy was about to walk over and intervene. Cordy just stood there and watched the man she loved protect her name. But instead the dark haired girl named Fred went to him and touched his bicep.
"I think he's sorry now Angel. You better let him go. We have to concentrate on finding Connor." She looked down tears welling in her eyes. "I want my family back and I want to go home Angel." Fred said crying.
Angel dropped Xander and gently put an arm around his friend and they walked back over to Cordy. "We will Fred, we'll find him and then we will go home."
She looked up at him and smiled.
Angel watched himself with his friends, his family he had never had that before not even when he was human but it seemed in the future that he would have and the vampire deep down inside could not wait for that to happen.
Buffy walked over and stood in between him and Cordelia wanting the two of them to be far apart as possible, did their romance start here in Sunnydale was it already happening, she glanced at the two of the accusingly but neither of them noticed, their eyes were on the future them and how close they were and the family they had as Wesley and Gunn joined the trio all leaning on each other, helping and protecting each other in this time of need.
TBC...
