Ch.2 A Daughter
"I really need to get another job," Whistler whispered under his breath as he stared up at the countless windows that decorated the outside of the Hyperion Hotel.
Whistler took a deep breath and pushed open the door to the hotel. As he looked around he noticed the tasteful décor of the lobby. He walked farther into the room to get a better look.
"Not too shabby Angel," he quietly said. Definitely an upgrade since the last time he saw Angel.
"Can I help you?" a voice behind him asked.
Whistler turned around and noticed a tall african american man standing next to a desk littered with antique looking books and piles of papers. By the tone of voice he used Whistler could tell he didn't trust him very much.
"Yea, is Angel 'round?" he asked in that sarcastic yet pleasant way that only Whistler knew how to use.
"Uh yea, just hold on a sec." The man replied with a cautious look on his face.
The man walks over to a wooden door and knocks quietly before opening the door.
When Angel heard the knock on his door he quickly put the book he was looking at down on his desk.
"Come in," he replied.
Gunn poked his head around the edge of the door.
"Sorry to disturb ya man, but there is this whack dude out in the lobby asking for ya."
Angel was instantly alert. "What's his name?" He asked standing up.
"I didn't ask, but he's got this crazy outfit on, weird hat and a shirt that should of stayed in the 80's." he stated with a smirk.
Angel instantly lost what little color he had, he knew exactly who was outside waiting for him.
When Angel walked out of the office Gunn took the seat Angel had just vacated. He looked around the office for a moment and put his feet up on the desk, then he noticed the book Angel had been reading. When Gunn picked it up something fell out. Gunn leaned down to pick it up, he realized it was a picture. The girl in the picture was beautiful, blonde and smiling.
Whistler took another deep breath as the souled vampire came out of the office.
He came to stand a few feet in front of Whistler.
"Whistler." He stated.
"Hey Angel, long time no see."
"Why are you here?" Angel asked, right to the point.
"Um, why don't we sit down." He said going over to sit on the round couch in the lobby.
Angel followed him instantly becoming suspicious.
"Have you spoken to the slayer recently?" Whistler asked.
"Faith?"
"No, the other one." He snipped. How was he supposed to get these warriors to live together when he didn't even think of HER first?
"No."
"Okay, I'm just going to come out and say it… A few months ago the Powers had me go to another dimension and get a girl. That girl has been living with Buffy for the past four months." He started.
"Okay…"Angel said confused.
Whistler sighed frustrated, "Angel the girl is your daughter."
Angel laughing, that was definitely not the response he was expecting.
"You…ha… you think I have a daughter." Angel finally breathed out.
"I don't think so, I know so."
Seeing his face he realized that he wasn't kidding.
"WHAT! I HAVE A Daughter? How…?"
Whistler sighed again.
"Sit down kid this is gonna take a while."
" In another dimension, when you and Buffy… well you know… on her seventeenth birthday, Buffy became pregnant." Whistler started with his New York accent.
Angels eyes get wide and he sucks in an unneeded breath, but otherwise stays quiet.
"In that other dimension you didn't lose you soul, but somehow you and your demon became integrated into one person."
"So to put in shorter terms you and Buffy have been livin' happily ever after for fourteen years …" "In this other dimension." He quickly added seeing Angel's smirk.
'Time to pop his bubble,' Whistler thought.
"But…" Angel's happy smirk quickly starts to fade. "Another apocalypse comes, you know the drill, and Buffy and Angel's daughter was left alone."
"Everybody died." Angel quietly yet bluntly stated.
"Everybody died." Whistler repeated in his same tone.
'God ,' Angel thought. 'Willow, Giles, Buffy…'
Buffy.
"That's when the Powers sent me to retrieve her and bring her here, to you guys. So that she could be raise by her parents."
"First of all Buffy," He stopped. Just saying her name could fill his heart with love and joy...and sadness. "Buffy and I aren't together anymore."
No, because you won't let us be with her. (Angelus in Angel's mind)
Angel ignored his demon and continued.
"And second, we aren't her parents, like you said they died."
"You just don't see it kid," Whistler exclaimed shaking his head. "You are the same. In every dimension you are the same, the only difference is the choices you make and the situations you are in change that. Your soul, personality, emotions, everything that makes you YOU is the same."
Angel thought about that for a second.
"I guess that is possible." He answered. It all started to sink in.
'I have a daughter, a teenage daughter from another dimension, but she is still my daughter, still of my blood. I have a daughter, a daughter with Buffy! I HAVE A DAUGHTER WITH BUFFY! But… Buffy and I aren't together. Not anymore. How are we supposed to raise a child when I haven't even seen or spoken with HER in months?'
"Whistler how are Buffy and I supposed to raise a child when we don't even live in the same city?"
"Well that's why I'm here. Looks like you'll have to make up a few rooms kid." He replied with a big smirk.
Angel's eyes bugged out of his head "They are coming here!"
"Actually, Faith, Willow, Buffy and the girl are going to LIVE here." He made sure to over emphasize the 'live'. What did Angel think? That they were just gonna stop for a chat then leave?
Angel was quiet.
"When?" He softly asked.
"Tomorrow." He stated firmly.
" TOMMOROW! How am I supposed to make up three rooms by tomorrow?!"
Whistler gave him a weird look. "Four rooms."
"What?"
"You said three rooms, you need to make up four."
Angel had the decency to look sheepish. "I ment four."
"Yeah, uh huh."
"Well I better get going, you need to start getting ready."
He gets up and starts to go to the door.
"What's her name?" Angel softly asks.
Without turning around Whistler smiles and replies, "Erin, Erin Katherine Summers."
Angel looks thoughtful. 'Erin Katherine Summers,'
Interesting. Her name means Ireland and Pure. ( Angelus)
I know… I know.
End Ch.2
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