Title: Immortal Miracles

Author: Kristin Hulett Warning: Probably none, unless some of you haven't seen Buffy season 4 and Angel season 1, since the story is set shortly after those two seasons.

Summary: Buffy and the Scooby Gang find out about the prophecy about Angel turning human (the Shanshu prophecy). Then they get some strange dreams and prophecies of their own.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters on Buffy and Angel. I am only a lowly fan who liked the Angel/Buffy relationship and has my own ideas about the prophecy Wesley found. The only characters that are possibly mine are the members of the Council of Miracles (and Megan, in the epilogue). Meaning, don't sue me because what would you expect to get out of a 23-year-old without a job, driver's license, or anything that could possibly mean my family's rich. All you would get would be a lot of junk and a possibly psycho golden retriever.

Author's note: Any dialogue that is between and is either thoughts, dreams or something that happened before the action in the story.

Part Six

The next morning, Giles is at a phone booth, at a gas station in LA. He calls Xander's number, thinking it is safer than calling Willow.

"Hello? Who's calling me collect?"

"Hello, Xander? It's Giles."

"Oh. Figures. You would call collect."

"I don't have any change. I was calling to say I arrived in LA safely. Tell Willow, please, but have discretion. Remember, Buffy is not supposed to know I'm here."

"Hey, G-man! I'm not completely idiotic. Of course I would remember that Buffy's not supposed to know. You only told us yesterday."

"I'm going to try and discover an address to look for them. I'll get back to you when I get some information."

"OK. Giles, LA, safe, looking for info."

"What are you doing?"

"I'm going over what you told me to tell Will."

"Oh. I'll call later to tell you where I'm staying. Goodbye."

"Bye!"

Giles hangs up. "I'll never understand that boy." Then he decides to look in the phone book for any addresses.

An hour later, he ends up on Cordy's doorstep. Giles knocks briefly, and then waits for an answer. It takes a while, so he is surprised when the door opens. "Oh. Hello! I was beginning to think no one was home."

Cordelia is just as surprised when she opens the door and finds Giles standing there. "Giles! What are you doing here?"

The other people in the apartment are puzzled when they hear Cordy yell Giles's name. They rush toward the front door from the kitchen, but they quickly skid to a stop when they realize Cordelia has already invited Giles in and closed the door. They narrowly avoid a massive collision with the other two, and then Wesley and Angel just stand there staring at Giles.

"Hey! Answer my question!"

Giles turns and looks at Cordelia. "What?"

"I asked what you were doing here."

"Oh. Right. I came here to get some answers myself."

Angel speaks up. "Answers?"

Giles explains. "Have any of you had any strange dreams lately?"

All three answer simultaneously. "No. Why?" Angel seems like he is hiding something, but nobody notices. He sits down in a chair and Cordy and Giles follow his example..

"Willow, Xander and I all had the same dream approximately three nights ago." Giles pauses for a minute. "Cordelia, may I have something to drink? I've been driving all night and I haven't had a chance to stop for anything."

Cordelia gets up. "Sure. Is water OK?"

"Perfect."

A few minutes pass while Cordy is in the kitchen. She comes back into the living room with a glass, hands it to Giles, and sits down again. Then, she asks, "What was the dream about?"

Giles takes a sip of water, sets down the glass, and hesitatingly answers the question. "A Greek-god-like creature came to us and told us Buffy was going to be made immortal as per a prophecy. We think we found the indicated prophecy but I needed more information."

Angel flinches at the mention of Buffy. Cordelia notices, and quickly says, "Excuse us." Then she goes over to Angel and indicates she wants to talk to him in another room.

"Certainly." Giles takes another sip of water and then sits there, fidgeting uncomfortably, as does Wesley. They try to make small talk.

"So, when did you arrive in LA?"

"I don't know. I've been here for a while. I was a rogue demon hunter for a while after the Ascension, and then I met up with Angel and Cordelia maybe a little less than a year ago."

"Oh. That's nice."

They are saved from this really dull conversation by Cordelia's return to the room.

Wesley asks, "Is Angel alright?"

"Yeah. He'll be fine. The stress is just getting to him finally."

Giles is sitting observing this interaction. "I'm sorry if I caused this in some way."

Cordy turns to him. "Don't worry 'bout it. You came for information, and maybe we can help you find it."

Giles says, "I came to ask about the prophecy Wesley spoke of when he called us."

Both Wesley and Cordelia glance quickly at the door to the adjacent room. When nothing happens, they look back at Giles. Cordelia slowly speaks.

"Umm . . . what prophecy?"

"The one that says Angel will become human. Some of the things we have discovered in Sunnydale have implied that it will happen sooner than you think."

Suddenly the door to the room Angel was in is flung open. "What do you mean, it might happen sooner than we think? What did you find?" Angel crosses the room in three steps to stop right in front of Giles's seat.

"Let me go to my car. I brought some of my books along with me and I could get them and bring them up here."

Angel relents and lets Giles stand up and go to the door. Then he tells Cordy to help him get the books, like he doesn't trust Giles to get them himself.

Ten minutes later, Giles and his books are back in the apartment. Giles selects a book, opens it to a certain page, and passes the open book to Angel. "Here. Look at this prophecy." He points out the prophecy Willow found two days ago.

Angel looks at the page. He reads the prophecy and suddenly gets a weird look on his face. He murmurs, "So that's what the Oracle meant."

Cordy hears Angel. "What did you say?"

Angel looks up. "Oh. Nothing."

Cordelia relents but she acts like she doesn't believe him.

Angel looks at Giles. "Can we borrow these and do some research?"

"Of course. But I'm going to help. Besides, I haven't found anywhere to stay, so here researching is fine with me."

Angel acquiesces. "OK. You can help. We probably could use all the help we could get."

The four spend most of the night researching, until Cordelia falls asleep, around four in the morning. Wesley is the next to fall asleep.

Then, Angel loudly says, "I think I found something!"

Both Cordelia and Wesley jerk awake. "Huh?"

"Oh, wait. Never mind."

The two groan and put their heads back down on the table.