Disclaimer: All characters and things from ANGEL and BUFFY belong to Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy. If they aren't on the show they belong to me.

Summary: A different turn of events after Season 1 Episode 12 "Expecting" A/C pairing

CHAPTER 39

Cordelia awoke to a feeling of nausea. She hurried into the bathroom and made it in there just in time. Angel heard her get sick and got up quickly, knocking softly on the door.

"Cordy? Are you okay?" Angel asked.

"Fine." Cordelia managed.

"You don't sound it." Angel pressed.

Slowly the door opened and Cordelia stuck her head out. "I'm fine. Really. I think I'm just run down since the whole Faith thing. I haven't gotten much sleep since it."

Angel nodded. "None of us really have. But Cordy, you can't get yourself sick over that. It was two weeks ago."

Cordelia sighed. "I know. It's just…I don't know. I have a feeling something bad is coming."

"Bad?" Angel asked.

Cordelia shrugged. "It's just a feeling."

"Well." Angel pulled her close to him. "I suggest you get over it. Nothing bad is going to happen. Things are just getting to the way they should be. Now, can you do me a favor?"

"What?"

"I don't want a sick wife so go to the doctors? See what's wrong?"

Cordelia nodded. "I will. I'll go today."

"Good." Angel kissed her on the forehead. "I don't want to have to worry about you not feeling well."

Jessica and Fred sat in the office as they watched Faith and Connor sitting on the couch, so obviously flirting.

"I don't like her." Jessica said.

"Me either." Fait agreed.

"Something's not right with her." Jessica said.

"She's a slut." Fred added, shocking both herself and Jessica at the words she had used.

Lorne walked up between the two girls. "What's going on here ladies? I'm getting some serious vibes."

"Faith." Jessica sighed, spinning around in Wesley's chair.

"We don't like her." Fred told Lorne.

"And that's not because either of you are jealous, is it?" Lorne asked.

"Jealous?" Jessica raised an eyebrow. "Why would I be jealous? She's just a slayer."

"Because your brother likes her, and they spend a lot of time together." Lorne told her.

"So?" Jess asked.

"So, I know you and Connor were close back in Quortoth, you still are. You take care of each other. You're afraid he's abandoning you." Lorne told her.

"No way." Jessica said. "It's not like that. I just don't like her."

"I'm sure." Lorne turned to Fred. "And I know you don't like her because of what happened with her and Gunn, but Fred, honey, you should talk to Gunn. He's sorry for what happened."

"I don't want to talk to him." Fred told the demon. "And I still don't like Faith."

"Fine." Lorne sighed. "I tried." He looked around the office. "Where are Wesley and Gunn anyway?"

"Basement." Jessica told him.

Angel entered the lobby followed by Cordelia just as Jess, Lorne, and Fred exited the office. Angel smiled when he saw Connor and Faith on the couch together. Faith seemed to bring out the best in Connor, and he liked the new change in his son.

"How is everyone this morning?" Angel asked.

"Good." Faith grinned. "How you doing, old man?"

Angel nodded, wrapping an arm around Cordelia. "Good."

"Great, we are all good." Jessica rolled her eyes, but then she noticed that Cordelia had on a pair of sweatpants and hardly any makeup. She could tell something was wrong with her mother already. "Mom, you okay?"

Cordelia sighed. "Not feeling too great. I'm actually heading to the doctors now."

Jess nodded. "Okay. Feel better."

Cordelia smiled at her daughter and exited.

"So what are we doing today?" Angel asked.

Just then Gunn and Wesley entered from the basement.

"Nothing yet." Wesley told him. "We haven't gotten any calls yet."

"It's still early." Angel told them.

But three hours later they still hadn't gotten any calls. The whole group sat around the lobby, bored out of their minds.

"Maybe it's a good day to be in L.A. today?" Connor suggested. "No vampires, no demons…"

Just then Cordelia entered.

"What did the doctor say?" Angel asked.

Cordelia shrugged. "He said he couldn't find anything wrong. He did some blood work; he's going to call me later on. I feel better now though."

Angel nodded. "That's good."

"What's going on around here?" Cordelia asked.

"Nothing." Jess said. "We are all just sitting here…bored."

"Really bored." Connor added.

Cordelia smiled at her children, but suddenly the smile faded from her face and her eyes went white as she began convulsing.

Angel and Jessica were the first ones to reach Cordelia. They held her up and carried her to the couch until the vision was over. Slowly, Cordelia opened her eyes.

"Cordy?" Angel was frantic. "What did you see? Are you okay?"

Cordelia buried her head into Angel's chest, and began to cry softly. "It's coming."

"What's coming?" Jessica asked.

Cordelia looked at her daughter. "Something. Something horrible. It's coming."

"Cordelia, you aren't making any sense…" Fred said as calmly as she could.

Cordelia nodded. "I know. I don't know what it is. But it's coming." She looked up at Angel. "And it's bad. Whatever it is, it won't stop. It won't ever stop until it kills every living, breathing, good soul on this earth."

Angel nodded, understanding what that meant. It meant…

"So basically, this is an apocalypse." Jessica finished her father's thought out loud.

Cordelia nodded. "Except I don't know how to stop it…" Tears filled the seers eyes.

"Cordy, you aren't supposed to know how to stop it." Wesley said.

Angel nodded in agreement, trying to calm his wife down. "We'll figure this out. We'll stop it."

"Angel, I don't think you can." Cordelia said.

"We will." Connor told his mother. "We can, and we will."

Angel nodded. "Yeah we will. And I have a feeling I know where we should start looking."

Lilah sat at her desk at Wolfram and Hart. Word had gotten to her about Connor and Jessica being back, and Holtz being killed. She didn't like hearing any of that, and she decided she would deal with Angel's children, but not right now. Right now she had a bigger problem on her hands. Someone else was trying to get in on Wolfram and Hart's apocalypse. Someone was trying to ruin what Wolfram and Hart had worked to hard to achieve and take it for themselves. Like hell Lilah going to let that happened.

Suddenly Lilah's office door swung open and Angel and a girl Lilah did not know entered.

"Jeez, doesn't security do their job anymore?" Lilah asked, unimpressed with Angel's entrance, then her eyes feel on Angel's partner. "Who's your friend, Angel?"

"Name's Jessica." The girl told Lilah. "You probably remember me, seeing as how you tried to kill me when I was a baby."

"Ah, the daughter of Angelus." Lilah smirked.

"Angel, actually, but you seem dumb, so I'll let that one slide." Jessica grinned.

"Spunky. Like your mother." Lilah leaned back into her chair. "Can I help either of you?"

"There's an apocalypse coming." Angel leaned over the desk.

"You don't say…" Lilah was suddenly intrigued.

"I have a feeling you have something to do with it." Angel told her.

Lila shook her head. "Would have, don't though."

"Would have?" Jessica questioned.

Lila nodded. "Someone's raining on our parade."

"And the Senior Partners haven't stopped them yet?" Angel asked.

Lilah shook her head. "They can't. Whatever this thing is, it's powerful. We can't figure out how to stop it so I'm going to say that you be able to either. You'll try, and you'll die." Lilah smiled. "Now have a nice day."

Angel and Jessica entered back into the hotel to find Connor, Gunn, and Faith over a bunch of weapons they had tossed about the room and Wesley, Fred, Lorne, and Cordelia in the office, over books. Everyone looked up when the vampire and his child entered.

"What did Lilah say?" Gunn asked.

"She said Wolfram and Hart was controlling the apocalypse, but something else took it over." Angel said.

"What?" Connor asked.

Jessica shrugged. "Something powerful. Probably not too good either."

Wesley nodded. "When?"

Angel shrugged. "Soon, I guess."

Cordelia nodded. "Very soon." She handed a piece of paper to Angel. "Somewhere on one of these blocks, whatever's coming is rising."

Angel nodded. "So we go find it and kill it."

"Love that plan." Gunn smiled, picking up a crossbow.

"Good." Angel said. "Me and Jessica will start on the north end, Gunn and Wesley, you guys come in from the east, and Faith and Connor, you guys start at the south end. We meet in the middle."

"What about us?" Cordelia asked, meaning herself, Fred, and Lorne.

"Lorne, go work your clients." Angel said.

"Will do." Lorne said as he exited.

"Fred and Cordelia, you guys stay here." Angel said.

"No." Cordelia grabbed his arm. "I should help you."

"Mom, stay here. It's safer. Help Fred with the books." Jessica said, and then added. "Please?"

Cordelia sighed, kissing Jessica on the head. "Okay." She then kissed Angel. "Be careful."

Angel nodded. "We will." He turned to the rest of the group. "Let's move."

Everyone nodded, and followed the orders Angel had dealt out.

Angel and Jessica were the first ones to the middle of the blocks they were sweeping. They had seen nothing on their travels, and were assuming the others were being held up, but they did have to take into account that they were both demons, and father and daughter could move swiftly in the dark.

Angel sighed, digging his hands into his pockets. He had a feeling whatever was coming was going to be bad. He hadn't seen Cordelia that shaken up from a vision in years.

Jessica immediately picked up on her father's unease. "You think this is going to be bad?"

"I don't know." Angel told her.

"But it scared Mom, so you think it's going to be as bad as she says."

Angel nodded. "I do."

"But we'll stop it." Jess gave a sly grin.

"We will." Angel smiled back at her, then he looked around the alley they were in. It was familiar to him; he had been there before. Suddenly it hit him. "No way."

"What?" Jessica questioned.

"This place, this alley…" Angel started. "I've been here…its where…"

"Connor was born here." Wesley said, as he and Gunn arrived.

Angel nodded. "Yeah. Yeah he was."

"So where is he now?" Gunn asked.

Angel shrugged. "Him and Faith aren't here yet."

"Think they got held up?" Gunn asked.

"I don't know…" Angel's voice faded as the ground beneath them started rumbling.

Suddenly the sewer cap flew out of the ground and a huge demon emerged. He stood over four feet taller then Angel and his entire body was made of rock.

"I wonder if this was that bad thing Mom had a vision about." Jess said as she eyed up the Beast. "What do you guys think?"

"I think it's a safe bet." Gunn said.

"Good." Jessica lunged at the Beast, driving the sword she had brought into his chest, but the sword shattered in her hands as it connected with the Beast. "Well, that's not good." Jess was then flung into the nearest wall.

The Beast then turned and took Gunn, Wesley, and Angel out, without even breaking his stride.

Angel rushed to Jessica's side. Blood was dripping from the corner of her mouth. "Jess! Jess, are you okay?"

Jessica nodded as she slowly opened her eyes. "Fine." She stood. "What the hell was that?"

"I do believe that was the start of an apocalypse." Wesley said.

"Well then let's move. We've got to stop that thing." Jess said.

"What about Connor and Faith? Shouldn't we wait for them?" Gunn asked.

Suddenly a huge light illuminated the sky a few blocks over, and out of nowhere the sky began to rain fire.

Jessica watched as the balls of fire fell all around them. "I don't think we have time to wait."

"I agree." Angel said. "Connor will pick up on our trail when he gets here. Let's move!" He quickly led the group off in the direction the Beast had taken.

Connor and Faith were two blocks over from where they were supposed to meet the others when the fire began falling.

Connor looked around, desperately. "We've got to get under something."

Faith looked around also, and then pointed to a coffee shop that was now closed. "In there."

The duo made their way to the shop, and Faith busted open the window. Then she climbed in and Connor followed. Both watched for a moment as the rain of fire came down on L.A.

"This is it." Connor said. "This is the end."

Faith pulled Connor closer to her. "Then let's make it count." She kissed him passionately, and began unbuttoning his shirt.

Connor quickly grabbed a hold of Faith's shirt and helped her slide it off. If this was the end, he wanted something to remember it by. He wanted Faith, and that's exactly what he was getting as she unbuttoned his pants.

Fred and Cordelia had been sitting over the desk with books all over when the news of the fire falling from the sky broke out on the radio. Both girls rushed to the window, watching the fire fall all around them.

"Oh God…" Cordelia put a hand over her mouth. Her family was out there, they could be dead and she didn't even know it.

"It's starting." Fred said, grabbing her cell phone. "I should call Gunn, make sure they are safe." Sure, she was mad at Gunn, but she still loved him, and the rest of the group that had gone out to save the day.

"Yeah, do that." Cordelia said as she heard Fred leave her side, but she couldn't take her eyes off the fire pouring from the sky.

Jess, Angel, Wesley, and Gunn made it to the rooftop they had seen the light come from before the rain of fire just in time to find the Beast killing anything that moved.

"There you are, rock boy." Jessica smiled at the Beast, and charged forward.

Angel was close behind his daughter, both taking any open punch or kick they could get at the monster. Gunn joined a few seconds later, axe in hand, but was tossed aside like a puppet by the Beast. That's when Wesley jumped in.

Wesley pulled two guns out of his pockets. "Duck!" He yelled to Angel and Jessica as he shot the rounds out of the gun.

Angel moved at Wesley's command. Jess tried to, but she was no match for the Beast, who used her as a shield against the bullets. She took three of them right through her stomach before the Beast threw her in a heap and jumped off the roof.

Angel scrambled to his daughter's side. "We need to get her back to the hotel." He looked down at the puddle of blood that had already formed around her. "She's losing too much blood! Come on! We've got to go."

Wesley agreed as he helped a bruised Gunn stand.

Cordelia was still standing at the window, watching the balls of fire fall to the streets of L.A. when her cell pone began ringing. She quickly picked it up. "Hello?"

"Cordelia? Hi, this is Dr. Windeal. This is probably not a good time, but I'm skipping town, seeing as L.A. has turned into hell, and I just wanted you to know we got your blood tests back." The man on the other side of the line said. He was the doctor Cordelia had seen earlier that day.

Cordelia was in shock that he had actually called. Didn't think guy have a family to worry about or something? "And…" She found herself saying.

"And…" Dr. Windeal took a deep breath. "Cordelia, you're pregnant."

Cordelia felt the phone slip from her hands as the words the doctor had said came crashing down on her. Tears formed in her eyes and she began to cry, uncontrollably, as she watched the world fall down around her. Without realizing it, her hands slipped and rested on her stomach.