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Chapter Three

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"What are you going to ask Angel?" Spike asked.

"If he can see a future for us…if he still loves me," Buffy answered truthfully.

"I'll be right back," Spike said and walked from the office, right into Angel.

"Hey," Angel whispered and captured Spike's lips in a gentle kiss. Spike grinned into the kiss. A gasp broke Angel away from his childe.

"Angel?" Buffy gasped out, shock and hurt in her green eyes.

"Buffy?" Angel whispered before looking down at his blue eyed childe.

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"Angel, what is going on here?" Buffy asked while looking at the two vampires.

"Buffy, what are you doing here?" Angel asked, he would only answer when he knew why she was here, this was his home, his family and he didn't need anyone to ruin it, not even Buffy someone who he loved. And he did love her, he always would.

"I came to talk to you, and I find that you have a son, and a grandson, and now I find out that you are with SPIKE!" Buffy shrieked.

"Who I am with is none of your business, my son and grandson are also MY business, you will do to remember that," Angel growled as he gave Spike a small shove towards the kitchen, his mate took the hint and walked over to the kitchen and disappeared inside.

"None of my business! I think that if you had told me when all this happened then I would have tried to accept it, be happy for you, even if you are with Spike!" Buffy said honestly, Angel could see the pain within her green eyes but knew that she was being truthful.

"Buffy, I understand where you are coming from, but you have moved on and to be honest we haven't exactly being friends since I've being in LA," Angel said clearly.

"I get that, I do, but what if something happened to you and Connor needed help, or Spike did? For the sake of the world we need to have some level of trust between us," Buffy said looking at the vampire.

"Why are you here?" Angel asked while sighing, he could sense Chris and Connor hiding at the top of the stairs and Spike was listening at the kitchen door.

"I came here to talk to you, however I also think that now you also have to do some explaining," Buffy said folding her arms across her chest.

"I'll explain what I can to you," Angel said nodding, it was fair to explain something to her.

"Okay," Buffy said smiling slightly. Angel led her over to the sofa and they sat down.

"I'll explain Connor first," Angel started, "Wolfram and Hart, which is an evil law firm, brought back Darla, my sire, to try and turn me evil. Darla was brought back human though, a dying human and I tried to save her but they brought Drusilla in who turned her into a vampire. I went off the deep end for a while and eventually ended up sleeping with her, this was before the whole Key business with Dawn, months later Darla comes here, she was pregnant."

Buffy nods taking it all in, Darla being back was a shock…however strangely enough she wasn't shocked that he slept with her. Darla and Angel had spent over 100 years together; it was bound to be that even with a soul Angel would have some feelings towards her.

"We found out that the baby she was carrying had a soul, and was a boy, however closer to the time when she was going to give birth an old enemy of mine and Darla's showed up, one Daniel Holtz. Holtz was an 18th century English vampire hunter who chased myselfand Darla through much of Europe and North Africa. He had connections to an elite order of Inquisitors within the Roman Catholic Church and an army at his command. We retaliated by attacking Holtz's family, raping his wife and killing her and their infant son. As a finishing touch, we turned his remaining daughter into a vampire.

Holtz relentlessly chased us across two continents, even capturing me twice but both times I got away. After a while Holtz seemed to give up but after a time, a demon named Sahjhan came to him and offered him a chance for revenge. Holtz was placed in a state of mystical suspended animation, and reawakened when darl was pregnant with Connor. However instead of coming after me he decides to go after the baby Darla carries.

Darla gave birth to Connor by sacrificing herself, before she did she told me that Connor was the only good thing we had done together, she was right," Angel continued.

"She gave up her life for Connor's?" Buffy asked. She realized then that vampires were capapble of feeling emotions like humans do, they could love someone without a soul.

"Yes, she had grown to care about Connor when he was inside of her," Angel explained.

"What happened then?" Buffy prompted.

"Shortly after Connor's birth, Holtz arranged for Wesley to kidnap Connor. He was able to convince Wesley by using a prophecy that we thought may have being connected to Connor. The line was 'And the father shall kill the son'. Out of devotion to Holtz, Justine, who was helping him, abducted Connor and slit Wesley's throat. Holtz and Justine planned to keep Connor for themselves and raise him as their own. Howver Lilah Morgan's men and myself ambushed Holtz's truck, forcing them to pull over and they were surrounded by Lilah's armed gunmen, after some confrontation between us all Sahjhan threatened to swallow all of them into portal leading to Quor'Toth, "the darkest of the dark worlds", but at the last minute Holtz shoved Justine to the ground, and leapt into the hellish portal with Connor," Angel said sadly, that night still haunted him.

" Connor grew up in Quor'Toth, where time moves faster than on Earth. Eventually Connor found a way to return to Earth after years in his world but mere days here, he returned," Angel finished.

"Wow, so much happened…if you don't mind me asking, how did your grandson come into the world?" Buffy asked, thinking back the baby was adorbale.

"Connor and his husband Chris were able to have a baby, because an Angel of Destiny stepped in and made ti so Connor could get pregnant," Angel said, he wouldn't tell Buffy who Chris was though. That really was not any of her business.

"Congratulations," Buffy said while smiling radiently at him. She was taking it all better than he had thought.

"Thanks, now Spike," Angel said while preparing himself.

"It was after Connor had gone to San Fransicso. Spike showed up, he had the chip in* and since he was family he came here, you guys didn't need him on the Hellmouth anymore, so he came here. We renewed the Mate bond and have being together ever since," Angel said giving her the cliff notes version.

"Are you happy with him?" Buffy asked.

"Yes," Angel said without a doubt.

"I'm happy for you both then," Buffy said, though she would need time to get used to it she wouldn't jepordize their chance at happiness.

"What did you need to talk about?" Angel asked his former lover.

"I needed a question answering, though you just answered it for me," Buffy said smiling sadly.

"What question was that?" Angel questionned.

"If we had a future together," She whispered.

"Buffy, I do love you, I always will but we can't be together," Angel whispered to her.

"I understand that now," Buffy said smiling at him.

"Why did you need to know that?" Angel asked her, he knew that she would have needed something to bring these questions into her thoughts.

"I met someone…" She whispered.

TBC…

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*Season 6, he still has the chip in and Buffy would have being brought back by then…so he left in Season 6 of Buffy and arrived in LA after Connor had run to San Fransicso.