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 63

Angel watched as Alan and Susan finished signing the last of the papers they needed to sign in order for Wolfram and Hart to run any tests on Connor. Alan then handed the papers to Angel and looked around the room at everyone who was there, which included Susan, Connor, and all of Angel Investigations except Spike and Jess.

"So, now what?" Alan asked Angel.

"We take Connor down to Fred's lab, start running the tests." Angel said, looking at Fred who gave him a nod.

"Ok." Susan looked at Connor, as she placed a hand on her son's shoulder. "How's that sound?"

Connor rolled his eyes, hiding his grin. "Mom, I'll be fine."

"He's in good hands." Gunn assured them.

"In fact, these test could take a few hours, if you want to leave and come back Susan and Alan." Fred told them.

"Well, we don't want to leave Connor…" Susan started.

"Mom, like I said, I'll be okay. I'm a big boy now, remember? Almost nineteen." Connor smiled at her.

"I forget sometimes, sweetie." Susan said as she gave Connor a kiss on the forehead. "You sure you don't mind us leaving for a little?"

Connor shook his head. "Nope. It's fine."

"Alright then, son." Alan gave Connor a pat on the back. "See you later."

"Bye." Connor called after his parents as he watched them leave, he then turned back to Angel. "So, where is this lab?"

Just then Jess and Spike walked back into the room. Angel shot a glance at Jess and then Cordelia, who was rocking Erin close to her chest.

"Uh, Fred will take you down there." Angel said. "I'll be down in a minute, I just want to have a word with my daughter."

Jess looked down at the floor as her father spoke of her. She didn't want to have to try and explain her actions earlier, because the truth was, she couldn't. She could never tell Angel or anyone else why she had tried to get rid of Connor's case.

"We'll go with you." Wesley offered himself and Gunn as he, Fred, and Gunn led Connor out of Angel's office.

"Spike, why don't you go too?" Angel asked. "I need some alone time with Jess."

"He's fine." Jess said quickly, not sure if she would hold up without Spike around her. He was her only support right now, and she needed him.

Angel went to say something, but stopped when he felt Cordelia's warm hand grab onto his shoulder. He looked up at his wife to see her eye's pleading with his.

"Spike can stay." Cordelia said to Jessica. "It's fine."

Angel nodded. "What isn't fine is how you stormed out of here earlier. You practically scared our client away."

"I know." Jess looked down at her hands.

"Why did you do that?" Cordelia asked softly, sensing something was really bothering her oldest daughter.

"I…I…" Jess felt herself losing it. She closed her eyes to control the oncoming tears. She wasn't going to break down, not now, not in front of her parents.

"Jess?" Angel asked.

"She…just had a long morning." Spike spit out quickly, trying to cover for Jess.

"She was with me all morning." Cordelia raised an eyebrow at Spike as Erin grabbed for a piece of her hair.

"Right, well, she was up earlier before that this morning." Spike was babbling, he didn't know what to say. "She uh…she…"

"Went for a jog." Jess threw out, giving Spike a small grin to let him know she was okay. "I went for a jog." She lied. "Just had to clear my head, I guess it just made the day longer."

"A jog?" Cordelia wasn't buying it.

Spike nodded. "That's right. She jogs."

"And should be jogging down to the lab now, right?" Jess asked. She didn't want to be around him, but if Connor was going to be spending the day at Wolfram and Hart she was going to keep an eye on him.

"Right…" Angel said slowly as he watched Spike and Jess practically run out the door, he then turned to Cordelia. "Spike did something to her."

"What?" Cordelia asked, fighting Erin's small fist to let go of her hair.

"Jess didn't want to even look at him earlier today, now she is buddy-buddy with him, and an emotional train wreck." Angel told his wife.

"She's not a train wreck!" Cordelia defended her oldest daughter. "She didn't even cry."

"She almost did, plus, she ran out on our client. That's not like Jess." Angel pointed out.

Cordelia nodded, she had finally gotten her hair out of Erin's grip. "True. But it could just be her having a bad day. Everyone is entitled to one of those."

Angel gave Cordelia a look.

"Fine, you're right." Cordelia finally agreed with Angel. "Jess is acting off, but right now we have to focus on that Connor kid, so let's worry about our own daughter after we figure out what he is."

Angel nodded, wrapping his arm around Cordelia's waist as he led her, with Erin in her arms, down the hallway to Fred's lab.

Connor was sitting up on the lab table as Fred moved around him and Gunn and Wesley were holding books and papers in their hand, when Spike and Jess entered.

"How's it going in here?" Jess asked as cheerfully as she could, her eyes never meeting Connor's.

"We're just getting ready to run some tests on Connor." Fred told her.

"Tests?" Jess raised an eyebrow.

Fred nodded. "Blood tests, to see what he is."

"Once Fred gets the results back Gunn and I will be able to figure out what Connor is exactly." Wesley told her.

"Yeah, your friends over here seem to think I'm some kind of demon…" Connor said, trying to hold back a laugh.

"Not really as weird as it sounds." Spike told him.

Connor laughed, shaking his head. "Whatever you guys say."

"I'm a demon." Jess told him, and realized she had no idea why she had said that to him. What if hearing that brought his memory back? She looked up at her brother who didn't remember her, waiting for his response.

"Really?" Connor raised an eyebrow. "But you're like a good guy, right?"

Jess nodded slowly, surprised by Connor's reaction. Back when she and Connor had grown up in Quortoth, Connor despised Jessica for her demon half, and hated himself for his own. Now Connor seemed interested to hear Jess was a demon.

"Not all demons are bad, Connor." Angel said as he entered with his hand wrapped around Cordelia's waist as she juggled a squirming Erin in her arms. "Actually, there are a few demons in this room, and we are all on the good side."

Connor looked around the room at everyone's faces. "Who else?"

"Well, me and Spike are vampires." Angel told him. "Good ones, though." He added quickly.

Jess waited for Connor's reaction to Angel's words. Actually, she was waiting for him to spring off the table and try and stake both Spike and his real father. That's what he would have done a year ago anyway.

Connor smiled instead. "No way."

Angel nodded. "And Cordy is part demon."

Connor looked Cordelia over. "She doesn't look like a demon."

"Part demon, and not all demons are ugly." Cordelia told him slyly.

"And this one is part demon too." Angel said, placing a hand on Erin's head as she rested it against Cordelia's chest.

"And you're probably part demon as well." Wesley told him.

"Really?" Connor asked.

"It would explain a lot about you." Gunn told him.

Connor thought about it for a moment. "Cool."

Jessica's jaw practically hit the floor. Her brother thought it was cool to be a demon. Before his memory re-write Connor refused to believe he had an ounce of demon in himself. Jess couldn't believe the change Wolfram and Hart had caused in her brother. He was so different now. So happy. So content. He was smiling. Connor never used to smile.

Eve and Lindsey entered into Wolfram and Hart, sliding down one of the empty hallways, unnoticed.

"So, what's the plan?" Eve asked.

"I'll go find the contract Jess signed, see if I can destroy it or reverse it or something." Lindsey told her. "You go keep Angel and company busy. Let me know what they are doing, and if they start to become suspicious of anything. I'll call you once I figure out how to reverse the contract. I don't want you in there when Angel finds out what Wolfram and Hart did to his son. He'll be pissed."

Eve nodded, kissing Lindsey quickly. "The contract is down in storage, under memory's. It should be labeled Connor."

"Thanks." Lindsey said, making his way down one hall as Eve made her way down to the lab.

Fred moved around the table Connor was sitting on, placing a small gauze to his arm to clean up the little drop of blood that had come after she had taken his blood to run some tests. Everyone else in the room seemed bored, except Jessica and Spike who both were rather jumpy, moving at every sound in the room.

"Well, that should do it." Fred told Connor. "I'll run some tests, and in about an hour or so we should know what you are."

"An hour?" Jess asked. "It takes that long?" She wanted Connor out of the building as fast as he could be. She was afraid he might start to remember things if he hung around too long, or that someone else in the room would start remembering Connor.

"It will take as long as it takes." Eve's voice filled the room, as everyone turned to see her.

"Eve." Angel moved quickly forward. "Get out."

"Not a chance." Eve held her ground; she then looked over at Connor. "I heard we had a new client."

"Connor." Connor stuck out his hand and Eve shook it.

"Connor. What a nice name." Eve said to him, but her eyes were glued on Jessica. She saw the weakness and sadness in Jessica's eyes as she watched the brother who would never remember her shake Eve's hand. "I'm Eve."

"And she's leaving." Angel added quickly. He was not dealing with Eve right now. He had more important things to focus on like this Connor kid from Cordelia's vision.

"Angel, you're not my boss." Eve told him. "I come and go as I please."

"Well I can arrange-" Angel started, but was cut off by Jessica.

"Eve, can I talk to you for a minute?" Jess asked through a clenched jaw. She knew she needed to get Eve out of the room before she had the chance to say anything about Connor.

"Sure." Eve said sweetly.

"Spike, come with me." Jess said, following Eve out of the room.

Spike nodded, and followed her, closing the door behind him.

"I'm telling you." Angel turned to Cordelia who was bouncing Erin up and down in her arms. "Spike did something to Jess."

"I agree." Gunn said. "Two hours ago she didn't want to be within a mile radius of him, now she wants him with her when she talks to Eve about whatever she is talking to Eve about."

"First of all, Spike didn't do anything to Jess." Cordelia said. "Secondly…why is Jess talking to Eve?"

"It is rather odd." Wesley said.

"Why is it odd?" Connor butted in the conversation.

"Just is." Gunn told him.

"But it's nothing you need to worry about, Connor." Angel patted the boy on the back. "My daughter is just acting weird today."

Connor nodded, understanding. "I get that."

"Most guys do." Gunn told him. "Especially if you have a little sister."

Connor shook his head. "I'm an only child. I do feel like, sometimes, I could have had a sister though."

"What do you mean?" Wesley was intrigued by the young mans word choice.

Connor shrugged. "I don't know." He then turned to Angel. "So, what do we do for an hour?"

As if on cue, Erin started crying.

"Well, there never is a dull moment around here." Cordelia said sarcastically as she began swaying with Erin in her arms, trying to calm the child down.

"She can sure cry loud." Connor said about Erin.

"She's got a set of lungs on her." Angel told him, as he swarmed Cordelia, trying to help her calm their daughter.

"She's cute though." Connor said as Erin calmed down.

"Thanks." Cordelia liked Connor, he was very genuine.

"You must be a good mom." Connor told her. "Both of your daughters seem to be very amazing girls, a little jumpy, but I guess you would have to be in a place like this. Even if you are only a baby." He nodded at Erin.

"Well, thank you Connor." Cordelia gave him her famous smile. "Your mom must have been good too, because she seemed to have raised a wonderful young man."

Connor nodded with a smile that Angel could have sworn he had seen before.

Jessica and Spike shuffled out into the hallway with Eve. Without saying a word, the vampire and half vampire led Eve down to Jessica's office, once inside, Spike locked the door behind them.

"Wow, someone is in a bad mood." Eve smiled, taking a seat on the couch in Jessica's office.

"Wow, you do catch on rather quickly." Spike shot at Eve, as he stood next to Jessica.

"What the hell do you think you're doing, Eve?" Jess asked simply.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Eve said innocently.

"Yeah, I bet you don't." Jess snapped. "Let me put it in simple terms for you. Connor."

"Connor…" Eve was playing dumb.

"I'm going to bite you in two seconds, and I'm not like Angel and Jess. I won't feel bloody bad about it." Spike told her.

"Okay, okay." Eve had taken Spike's threat seriously. "I don't know why Connor is here."

"But the contract?" Jess raised an eyebrow. "It means no one will remember him, and he won't remember us, right? No matter how long he stays around here today?"

"Well, that's what it says…" Eve said with a grin.

"And what the hell does that mean?" Jess asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Lilah set the contract up with you, right?" Eve asked.

Jess nodded.

"Well, I took over Lilah's job, which means, I have full access to that contract. I can do whatever I want with it, destroy it, keep it, show it to your father…" Eve said cynically.

"You wouldn't." Jess told her quickly. "You'd lose your job. The Senior Partner's would ruin you."

"Not if I'm not the one to destroy it." Eve told her with a huge grin on her face. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to check on your brother." And with that Eve left the office.

Spike turned to Jess quickly. "What is she bloody talking about? Who else could destroy it? No one even knows about Connor except you, me and Eve."

At that moment it clicked for Jessica and her eyes grew wide. "Lindsey."

"What about him?" Spike asked.

Jess moved to the door.

"We need to find him?" Spike asked confused.

"Connor." Jess told him.

"What?" Spike was lost.

"Eve." Jess said.

"Stop talking in one word sentences and excepting me to understand them!" Spike barked. "You sound like your father when you do that."

Jess rolled her eyes at Spike's comment about Angel. "Okay, short version. Lindsey is in the building. Eve must have told him about Connor, and he is going to destroy the contract. We can't leave everyone alone with Connor incase Lindsey does do that because I don't know what frame of mind Connor will come back in, or what frame of mind everyone else will come back in. If we stay close to Eve we can find Lindsey because he will try and contact her before he destroys the contract."

"Well, that's all you had to say." Spike told her as he followed Jess out of her office.

Eve entered back into Fred's lab with a big smile on her face to find Fred and Wesley working on Connor's blood work while Gunn went over some papers and Angel and Connor sat on the lab table, clearly comfortable with each other while Cordelia sat in a chair in front of the table Connor and Angel were on with Erin wiggling in her arms.

"Well, everyone looks happy in here." Eve said.

Angel shot Eve a cold glance, noticing she was alone. "Where's Jess and Spike?"

"Or just Jess." Gunn said, not taking his eyes off his paperwork. "We don't really care about Spike."

"Gunn..." Cordelia said in the stern mother voice she had mastered over the past few years.

Eve shrugged. "I guess they'll be around." She then turned to Connor. "So how are you doing down here?"

Connor nodded. "Good. Just waiting for my tests to come back."

"Speaking of those…" Eve turned to Fred and Wesley. "How are you going to identify what kind of demon he is?"

"We have blood samples from many species." Wesley said, without looking at Eve.

"We should be able to figure it out." Fred added.

"Right, but what if he is different. Like Jessica?" Eve asked.

"What are you getting at, Eve?" Angel asked quickly.

"Maybe you could compare his blood to Jessica's." Eve prompted, knowing that Connor and Jess would share the same DNA from Angel and it would show up in the blood tests.

Before Angel could even answer, Jessica and Spike entered the lab. Both looked rather disheveled but smiled as best they could.

"Did I hear someone say my name?" Jess asked.

"Yeah." Angel told his daughter. "Eve. She wants to compare Connor's blood to yours."

Jess narrowed her eyes at Eve. "Why?" Jess knew the link in her own blood and Connor's would be evident the minute Fred ran any test.

"Just, thought it might be helpful." Eve said.

"Probably would be." Gunn looked up at Jess. "You are half demon, and our boy over here might be too."

"I'm half vampire." Jess said. "We know Connor isn't that."

Connor nodded. "She's probably right."

"Still, it actually might be a good idea." Fred thought about it. "It couldn't hurt."

"It's not worth the time." Jess pushed, looking at Spike.

"Yeah, waste of time." Spike agreed, also knowing Eve had only suggested comparing Jessica and Connor's blood to expose the truth, even before the contract was destroyed.

"Did we ask you?" Gunn shot at Spike quickly.

"Okay, everyone relax." Cordelia took control, handing Erin to Angel for a moment. "Jess, what's the big deal if Fred runs some tests on you, sweetie?" Cordelia asked her daughter. "It will shut everyone in here up."

Jess shook her head. "No. I…I don't want to."

Jessica was beginning to panic, and Cordelia immediately sensed it. "Jess?"

"I'm fine!" Jess snapped. "But I'm not letting Fred check my blood." She then turned and glared at Eve. "Understood?"

"More then you know." Eve grinned as her phone went off.

Jess knew who was on the other end before Eve could even say "hello", so using her vampire strength she inherited from her father, she lunged at Eve, knocking the phone out of the young woman's hand. "Spike! Grab the phone!"

Spike nodded, picking up Eve's phone. "LINDSEY!" He screamed into it. "WE KNOW! WE KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND-" Spike was knocked sideways by Jessica who had gotten off of Eve and had decided to shut Spike up before he exposed anything to anyone in the room.

"Shut up!" Jess hissed in Spike's ear, before picking up Eve's phone, and hearing Lindsey's shallow voice on the other end. "I'm coming for you." She said with no emotion into the phone before chucking it back at Eve.

"Jess…" Cordelia said carefully.

Jess wiped around to face her mother, and Cordelia was certain she had never seen Jessica's eyes so black in her life.

"I need to go take care of something." Jess told them, but the emotion was gone from her voice.

Angel knew what happened when people lost emotion. It meant they were ready to do something that they would feel guilty about in the morning. "Jessica Lynn…"

Before Angel could finish his sentence, Jessica was half way up to the door, and Angel felt like his legs had been cemented to the floor. Whatever his daughter was about to do, he couldn't stop her; he didn't have the heart to.

Connor, however, could move, and did. Quickly and stealthily, he jumped at Jessica, knocking her to the ground.

Jessica was taken back for a moment. It had been so long since she had seen Connor that she forgot the strength her brother possessed. Luckily, she knew his weaknesses too, and quickly swept him off his feet.

"You don't want to do this." Connor told her. "Whatever it is, trust me, you don't want to do this." Connor circled her, as Eve scrambled out of the room.

Jessica felt like she was hearing a recorded version of herself. She had said those exact words to Connor the day they had escaped Quortoth and Connor had attempted to kill Angel. She had told him he didn't want to do it, and now he was telling her the same thing. Only, he had no memory of the first time it was said.

"You don't understand." Jess told him, knowing that if Connor didn't get out of her way now, Lindsey would destroy the contract and she would lose everything. Not only Connor, but her family as well. "There are reasons that I…"

A blinding light, a loud thump, everyone fell to the floor from the impact, and Jess realized it was too late. Lindsey had destroyed the contract. She looked around the room nervously to find her mother, and father clinging to Erin, Gunn getting up off the floor slowly, and Wesley and Fred shaking their heads, confused at why they were on the floor. Everyone seemed disheveled for a moment, so Jess turned her attention to Connor.

"Connor?" Jess asked carefully, afraid to see her brother's first reaction now that the contract had been broken.

"Wow, what the hell was that?" Connor smiled. "Was that some demon power or something?" Connor looked around to see he was getting intense stares from everyone in the room. "Okay, maybe not."

"You don't remember?" Jess raised an eyebrow.

"Remember what?" Connor still seemed to mild to be the person Jessica remembered growing up with. "That crazy light in here? That was insane. Kind of cool though."

Connor's memory hadn't been restored. Jessica was certain of it, and she needed to get him out of the room fast, before everyone else figured out what was going on.

"Spike, why don't you call Connor a cab, get him home to his parents." Jess asked, hoping Spike would understand.

Spike did understand. "Sure. Come on, Connor."

"What about the blood tests?" Connor was confused.

"We'll get back to you." Jess said, pushing her brother out the door with Spike. She then turned back to the group in the room, watching as the realization of everything sank in.

Suddenly, Angel looked up sharply at his oldest daughter. His eyes were full of anger. "What the hell did you do?"