Title: Prophecy Boy 7?
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!

Chapter 7

Cordy and Angel arrived back at the mansion. They had found nothing it was too much for the seer. She wanted her son back and she wanted to be home. Angel pulled the woman he loved into his arms and held her tightly against his chest. The other Cordelia and Angel stood with Willow and just watched them, the sadness evident in the room.

Buffy stormed into the mansion her face red with anger, she had controlled her emotions until they found the kid but now they had it was a free for all her anger consumed her. How dare Wesley and Gunn talk to her like that? This was her town she was the slayer and deserved to be treated as such.

Angel and Cordy's heads whipped around and stared at her. Buffy's hands were empty.

"Connor?" Cordy whispered fear clutching at her heart and her hands tightening around Angel.

Buffy watched her carefully, the blondes eyes narrowing she opened her mouth to tell her to get away from Angel, it didn't matter which vampire it was, it was her Angel past, present and future. The doors opened again and in walked Wesley and Fred followed by Gunn who was cooing at the little boy in his arms.

Cordy and Angel looked at each other and grinned, her face lit up the whole room. Xander just walked in and he froze in his tracks as he looked at the beauty that was Cordelia Chase. The future had been good to her and he felt his heart break deep down knowing that he had nothing to do with the woman she was going to be and that he would never see that change. He moved his eyes to the Cordelia he did know, she had moved closer to Buffy's boyfriend and they were both hidden in the darkness of a corner. Xander may be the idiot, but he could see things and what he saw was that the two of them did not want to interfere in the family reunion but they couldn't drag themselves away either.

Before anyone could stop her, Cordelia jumped to her feet, she stopped short right in front of Gunn, and the two friends stared at each other for a moment, the street fighter smiled and said to Cordelia:

"We didn't find any bruises or scratches; plus, he is alert and responsive. But I think we should keep an eye on him for the next 24 hours or so, just in case, but we don't think there'll be any problems."

Then he gently handed the boy over to Cordelia without another word. He watched in silence as Cordelia took a step back, holding Connor as tight as possible and covering the baby's face with kisses and tears.
Angel had stood up and was standing right behind Cordelia; he tried to speak, but choked, and just passed one arm around her shoulders and the other around their baby, holding them both in the same loving embrace. They stood there for a moment, until Connor started to feel uncomfortable: being hugged and kissed was a common part of his life, and one he quite enjoyed, but now mommy and daddy were starting to squeeze him a little too hard, and he whined and squirmed in their arms, trying to free himself.

"Sorry, buddy," said Angel, smiling through his tears and releasing his grip on him, "I guess you need some space to breath, huh?" he added, wiping the tears off his face and affectionately kissing his son.

Buffy couldn't believe what she was seeing her eyes filled with tears and she ran off and past Angel ran after her. The vampire managed to catch her once they reached the cemetery. He stood in front of the slayer not sure what he should do he could see she was upset but it wasn't his fault he had no idea what the future had planned for him and now he found out it was with Cordelia Chase.

"Buffy?" Angel said.

"I thought we were forever Angel, I thought we were soulmates." She looked up at him teary eyed, she waited for an answer for him to say that they were, that this was a trick, that he would never leave her but he didn't. "Oh so you and Cordelia how long has it been going on?"

Angel's eyebrows creased in confusion. "How long has what been going on?"

"Well I assumed that your 'love affair' started while you were here and the two of you are so chummy now." She said bitterly.

Angel rolled his eyes and groaned. "There is nothing going on between me and Cordelia." He said through gritted teeth and then watched as both her eyebrows vanished into her fringe. "Ok there is nothing NOW going on between me and Cordelia." The vampire paused and took a deep breath. "You seem to blame me for what is going to happen in the future, it has nothing to do with me."

"Yeah right?" Buffy mumbled sarcastically.

Angel was getting tired of this. "What if it was you?" And as soon as he spoke those words he knew that it was the wrong thing to say.

"Oh so now it's my fault, I am the one who chases you off and you end up with the bitch of Sunnydale High, with a child from your sire that was stacked but brought back to life." Buffy shook her head. "My life is sounding more and more like a soap opera. Angel I just want to be normal and do normal things." She sniffed exhaustion was getting the best of her.

"Buffy you are never going to have normal you had better get used to it. But if you want to get close to it then you better find someone else to date. I'm a vampire, a vampire with a soul remember I am less normal than you." He said with a small sad smile he saw her hurting and his heart ached, but he saw the future and he saw what it brought him, he had a family, a son and a woman who loved him and whom he loved, it eased his soul and made him look forward to the coming days but it didn't help his girlfriend any.

"I'm sorry Angel, I can't deal with this." And with that she ran off and disappeared into the night.

"Angel?" Said a feminine voice he turned and it was the future Cordelia. "Angel uhhh my Angel has gone after her he thinks maybe he can help her, make things a little easier. Wes says that none of you will probably remember this but since he has never time travelled before he is not exactly sure so we thought that if we split up and talked to each of you it may make things a little easier."

He smiled at her. "Thanks I have so many questions?"

"Well ask away I'm here to answer them or as many as I can all the others you going to have to well ask yourself." Cordy said laughing.

"You and me what, why and uhh how?" Angel asked stuttering.

Cordy laughed at him. "Sit down this might take a while"

"Buffy?" Angel called out. "We need to talk I need to explain things."

"What the hell could you explain? Why did you leave me Angel wasn't I good enough for you?" Her eyes were red and puffy from all the crying.

"Buffy you were more than I could ever imagine when I was more then I ever thought I deserved but it was hard we couldn't get past the slayer and vampire thing, that was the one thing you couldn't except whole heartedly and in the end we just hurt each other so I decided to leave and went to LA." Angel told her softly the last thing he wanted was to hurt this young girl in front of him and even he seemed young when he watched himself which was funny when you think how old he actually was.

"With Cordelia." Buffy said sadly.

"No we never left together I never really got to know her here and to start of with it was just to help her out, then we became friends, then best friends and then without realising it I just fell in love with her it was so simple." Angel eyes lit up as he thought about the woman he loved with every fibre of his being, the memories flooding back.

"I don't understand how?" The blonde said wiping her eyes.

"Do you really want to hear this." He watched as she nodded. "Take a seat."

Buffy sat down and watched him as he started to tell her about his life.

Hyperion Hotel Present

Faith paced the hall patience was not one of her virtues, it wasn't fair why the hell couldn't she have gone with them, she had almost begged Angel to let her go but Nooooooo she had to stay here and keep an eye on the place. She could see their point of view but it didn't mean she had to like it. They did need someone to make sure that there weren't going to be any surprises when they arrived home, that an army of vampires or demons weren't going to snack on them as soon as the portal opened and they walked through, there were still a lot of people out going for the kid so they did what they had to.

The slayer heard the door open she turned.

"Oh just great." She mumbled why couldn't she just keep her mouth shut. Faith groaned.

TBC