Chapter 11 Dancing in the Dark

So sorry for the long wait like really sorry. Anyways I was debating how strong I should make Isabella I mean she's half vampire and her father is Angelus imagine you were the daughter of Angelus/Angel that's a lot of power not to mention your mother was the slayer. In this chapter you'll see Isabella make her first kill at ten, got to start somewhere. Hope you all will like and enjoy. Again sorry for the long wait.

Isabella stood in front of her father as he stood there holding some knives.

"So you feel ready?" He asked and she nodded while smiling. Angel thought she was a piece of work alright. She was already ten years old now, where did time go. She was looking more like Buffy everyday all she was missing was the blonde hair. "Ok but you tell me to stop ok." She nodded again. Also in the room was Spike, Giles and Xander. Giles had a pad of paper to take notes to track Isabella's progress.

"You know about fifteen years ago this would have been very strange to me." Xander commented and Giles and Spike looked over at him, Xander shrugged and they went back to watch Isabella. Angel was nervous, what father throws knives at your ten year old daughter? He took the tip of one knife and held it. Isabella stood there waiting but she could tell her dad was freezing up.

"Oh come on already." The little girl said.

"Come on Peaches!" Spike yelled and finally Angel threw the first out of ten knives and she either dodged or blocked them. Giles was impressed, she had the skill of a slayer who would have been training for at least three years and she was only ten, if she was ever called as a slayer there was no telling how powerful she would be.

"See nothing happened." Isabella said and Angel smiled. She was still so young and normal girls her age wanted to dance, be with friends but not Isabella she wanted to learn how to fight and be with her father. Her whole day centered around training and her father. She loved her dad. Giles had explained a while ago there was a blood bond between them and blood especially family blood was the strongest. Their connection was something that only they could understand, they trusted in one another fully without a second thought that's why Isabella allowed Angel to throw knives at her.

The day was winding down and Isabella sat on her bed as Angel sat behind her combing her hair. She had thick brown hair yet soft too, it was a mixed between his and Buffy's. Also if the sun hit her hair just right you could see just a hint a very faint but a hint of blonde. Isabella's face would twist in slight pain as Angel combed out a knot or two. Isabella was looking at a demon book, she was defiantly started young demonology, training the whole nine yards. Angel finished combing her hair and placed the comb on the night stand and then looked over seeing the book.

"What are you reading?" He asked as she flipped through a page. This type of reading was beyond her level but it didn't bother her. He closed it and looked at it. "The Monster Book of Monsters." He said and she looked up at him and smiled. He bent down and kissed her forehead. "What happen to reading princess stories?" He asked and she shrugged and he smiled. "Come in bed with you." Isabella pulled apart the covers as Angel set the book aside, he would take it with him, she probably took it out of Wes and Giles' collection so he'd return it before it was missed. She got under the covers as he smiled down at her and she smiled right back.

"No story tonight?" She asked and Angel shook his head no and Isabella looked a little disappointed. "Why?"

"Babe it's late," He stated and she looked to the clock it read nine, she's usually in bed by eight but Angel being the push over of a father he was he allowed her to stay awake an hour later on a school night. Isabella sighed and he placed his hand on her cheek. "And you're very tired." She then pointed to his chest and he looked down and she flicked his nose, he grabbed her hand and kissed it. "Sleep you've got school."

"Ok," She said and he leaned forward and kissed her forehead. She then kissed his forehead and his cheeks, he loved it, he loved Buffy's daughter, his daughter, their daughter. He reached over and turned off the light. Her half vampire vision kicked in and she could see her father perfectly and he could see her.

"I love you my Inion." He said.

"Love you to daddy." She replied and he gave her one quick kiss on her forehead again and got up grabbing the book and headed out the room. Isabella pulled the covers over her a little more and closed her eyes. Angel walked down the hall and downstairs. Now it was time to work that was the nice thing about LA it never sleeps. But then he saw Cordelia standing there not looking to happy.

"What?" He asked.

"It's nine." She stated and Angel nodded. "On a school night."

"Yeah,"

"You can't be doing this all the time." Cordelia said and Angel went to put the book away.

"She's half vampire right?" Angel asked.

"I guess and that means what?" Cordelia asked.

"She likes the dark and can stay up without too much trouble." Angel answered and Cordelia sighed, everyone else who was in the room smirked as they grabbed books and notes before the meeting.

"Well that is true you both like to sleep in bat caves." Cordelia added, Angel looked confused bat caves? He walked over to the desk to grab some papers and the current file. "You guys like darkness."

"Oh Angel have you noticed Isabella likes her steaks rare to medium rare?" Wes pointed out as he took the file from Angel and opened it. Angel just realized that is true. Isabella was half vampire she probably craved blood not like he or Spike craved it but it was still there. "While it's not a big deal," Wes began.

"Yeah she's got some immunsystem." Gunn added in while sitting down.

"Yes but she is a child and to a degree she should eat like one so fully cooked meat, we need to keep her under wraps at least until she's old enough to come up with good stories right now it's still easy for her to tell everyone she's half…vampire." Wes explained sitting down as everyone took a seat and Angel grabbed a cup of blood and sat at his seat.

"Ok, ok I'll explained it to her so moving on." Angel placed the cup of blood aside and opened the file as everyone had paper out and books opened ready for another day on the job, more demon hunting vampire killing. It was an average night, a day or a night in the life of AI.

Isabella ran to her father's room to wake him up. It was a Sunday morning which meant it was sleeping in day but once Isabella was awake she was awake and there was no going back. She opened the door and closed it behind her, her father's room was still dark with the blackout curtains. She made her way to his bed and saw his back was facing her. She was more or less waking him up because she was hungry, she could eat for a tiny person. She climbed up the bed and then gently shook her father. Angel gave a groan as his daughter shook him slightly. He barely opened his eyes and saw the clock that read eleven in the morning.

"Izzy its Sunday go back to sleep." Angel grumbled and pulled the covers over his head.

"Wake up dad." She said but Angel moaned again and Isabella did a heavy sigh. Enough was enough, the little girl was hungry she needed food plus she wasn't quite tall enough to reach the stove, counter top and the food above the third shelf in the refrigerator. She slid off the bed and walked to the end of the bed and took hold of the comforter, she thought to herself she didn't want to do this but oh well. She pulled on the comforter hard taking it off her father. Angel winced in the cold reaching for the blanket but it was gone.

"Izzy," He grumbled and sat up as Isabella giggled. "Fine I'm awake." He rubbed his sleepy eyes and slowly got up making his way slowly to the bathroom grabbing his towel off the rack in front of the door. He turned back and saw Isabella crawling back on the bed getting settled and turning on the TV. "You're lucky you're cute and Buffy's daughter." He said softly looking back at his daughter and then shut the door.

After showering Angel headed downstairs to make breakfast and he and Isabella would eat upstairs, Sundays were lazy days. The hotel was quiet as everyone was still either asleep or in their rooms being quiet. Angel could tell some of them had been in the kitchen cooking he could smell the lingering food. He searched the fridge pulling out what he needed but was startled as Cordelia was right behind him.

"Oh sorry," She said and then hunted through the fridge as Angel set his stuff on the counter top. "Didn't mean to scare you." Angel didn't say anything as he went to grab a knife and chop up some veggies. "Tomorrow I'll go shopping try to finish off everything." Angel nodded as he chopped the veggies. "You let her stay up didn't you?"

"What it was a Saturday night?" Angel protested.

"Yes but how late?" The ex-cheer leader asked and Angel mumbled something. "What?"

"One but we were watching Interview with the Vampire it's along movie." Angel explained and then turned to Cordelia as she gave him a disapproving look. Willow came in smiling hearing the conversion. Angel was good father something no one ever expected, he had never been a father, his father wasn't father of the year and Angel never hung around kids. Then as soon as he found out about Buffy being pregnant he changed it was all about family and he'd die to make sure his family was safe. He would go against his no killing humans and innocent things policy to make sure his family was safe. "Oh I do have a confession to make." He started and Willow could sense it was a joke as she began to make coffee for her and Tara. "I have very beautiful girl upstairs waiting for me so don't get me side track." Cordelia rolled her eyes as she began to make her brunch. Yes Willow thought Angel was a good a father, he was protective, loving and caring ready to help Isabella without a second thought. He'd do everything possible to be with her, to be her best friend and the one person she could count on when everyone else failed.

"What's with you and bite size watching vampire movies?" Spike asked coming into the kitchen looking for blood.

"Research." Angel answered and again Willow smiled.

"Yes Isabella should see how the world views vampires." Giles added walking in and took one of Angel's peppers that he sliced and ate it. Angel gave an unnecessary sigh as the Watcher ate his food he was trying to cook. Willow leaned up against the counter watching the interaction especially Angel. She remembered once when Buffy was in her early stages of pregnancy the horrible throwing up every morning eating nothing but crackers stage. Angel was so worried about not measuring up to a father standard.

'Willow heard a conversion going on about the baby and knew she shouldn't listen in because it was private but she wanted to make sure her niece or nephew was ok.

"Angel it's ok," Buffy reassured her vampire.

"My father wasn't the best man and I don't have anything to look to maybe Giles but," Angel said and Buffy placed a hand over his.

"We're both new at this, new parents are supposed to be afraid." Buffy explained and Angel looked towards her.

"I'm not sure if I'm father material." He confessed and Buffy sighed. Yes Angel was excited to have his own child especially Buffy being it's mother. But a vampire as a father, fathers from what he's seen abandon their young like Buffy's dad or a drunks like Xander's or never home like Willow's. He didn't want to do that what was the point of bringing life into this world if you don't take care of it.

"Angel look at me," Buffy requested and Angel did so. "There is no manual to being a father it's what's here." She laid her hand on his chest. "Yes you'll screw up, yes he or she will hate you because you didn't let them go out to see the movie, but you'll love this baby and when they grow up. I know you don't have much to go off of so make it up be something new. I can tell you this anyone can be a father but it takes a real man to be a dad." Willow smiled and then heard kissing.'

Willow came back to reality and smiled, Angel was a dad and darn good one too she thought. She heard the coffee pot go off and Angel had already begun to make the omelet.

Isabella waited for her food and could smell it as Angel near the door and opened it. She smiled knowing it was going to be a good breakfast. Angel set the tray on the bed and climbed in on the other side as Isabella grabbed a fork but Angel stopped her and she sighed and took a moment of silence it wasn't a prayer parse it was more of a thank you to whatever higher power out there for this. She opened her eyes and then preceded to eat the brunch. Angel took his cup of blood off the tray and sat back sipping it.

"What are we watching?" Angel asked looking for the remote, Isabella shrugged and Angel began to flip through the channels looking for something. It was another calm and relaxing Sunday for the vampire and his daughter.

Angel sipped his cup of blood reading through some files and signed off cases that were to be closed then he heard something, Cordelia. He got and ran seeing her being held up by Gunn as he slowly set her down on the couch. The kids came in to see what happened.

"What did you see?" Fred asked handing her a glass of water and she sipped it.

"God these visions uh I saw a club, a woman she was with a man." Cordelia said. "The club wasn't normal though I think it's a demon bar." Angel nodded and Lorne went to work he knew most of the demon bars in LA. Cordelia went to sip some water when Isabella got up on the couch and sat next to her.

"Are you ok Cordy?" She asked and Cordelia nodded.

"Ok pumpkin can you remember anything that stuck at this place?" Lorne asked and Cordelia nodded.

"Yeah uh there was a waterfall it looked like red water but I think it was something else." She explained.

"Dark Side, that's the bar but it's not a hot spot vampires, demons and human mix and the humans that go, go under consensus." Lorne explained.

"Maybe this woman isn't." Angel stated and then Spike came out of the training room with two weapons and threw one to Angel.

"Well let's do some recon then." The blonde vampire said and Angel stood up and started to head out. But what Angel didn't know was Isabella was following him at least not right away. He turned around as she reached for her coat and he smiled.

"Izzy," He said and knelt down and she sighed.

"I want to go with you dad." She said and he smiled as he tucked some hair behind her ear.

"I know you but right now you're,"

"Too little I know." She sounded disappointed, Angel knew she wanted to start going out on missions and help people. She was still very young yes she had been training for three years but that didn't hide the fact that she was a ten year old girl. That was one part the other part was he never wanted her to go out and fight, he was so fearful of losing her. If she died then he'd have nothing left. She stood there and nodded and he leaned in kissing her forehead and left.

Angel, Spike and Gunn got out of Angel's Plymouth and headed to the bar. They looked older than twenty one and walked in. It was your typical LA club, loud music, dancing and the alcohol flows all night. And like always the women were interested in Angel and Spike as they made their way through the dancing crowds. The three of them looked around and Angel and Spike could pick up the humans from the non humans. They were looking for a small blonde girl the only feature that stuck out from Cordelia's mind was she had a pink strip in her hair.

Back at the hotel Isabella paced which the rest of the people learned about a year ago that wasn't good it meant Angel was walking into danger. Cordelia came over to her.

"Sweetie?" She asked and the look she gave meant something wasn't right.

"What else can you remember from your vision?" She asked, she no longer sounded like ten year old girl but then something hit her and she ran to the library.

"Ok muffin's onto something." Lorne said as they headed after her. Isabella looked through the shelf and found the book, 'The Monster Book of Monsters' and she set on the desk and stood on the chair and started to flip through it.

"Izzy what's going on?" Willow asked and then Isabella stopped on a page and pointed. Wes and Giles leaned forward.

"It's the Mos, Moshia mark?" Wes asked and then Giles took the book and looked through the pages. Everyone stood around waiting as he read.

"The Moshia mark is often depicted as a red or pink mark worn by person who worships the demon. The person goes and pursues demons or vampires for its feeding particular weak ones." Giles said and flipped the page. "The who holds the mark is gifted with strength to subdue it's victim and then renders them helpless. The person brings back the vampire or demon to the master and it feeds." Giles finished.

"You think Angel and Spike might be walking into a trap?" Fred asked.

"But the PTB wouldn't send Angel into a trap." Cordelia stated.

"Or maybe they sent them there to kill the thing but they think it's an innocent girl." Tara added.

"Well we've got to warn them the girl maybe human but she's powerful." Wes stated and they all filed out the room to the training room. Isabella followed and reached for a sword. Fred saw what she was going and took the sword away.

"No you're staying here Izzy with Levy and Evan." Fred stated and the rest of the group headed out. Isabella wasn't going to stay behind not this time. She acted like she was headed to her room and shut the door behind her. She opened her closet and moved some shelving away and opened a box. Inside the box was a sword she taken from the weapons room and hid it. She knew it was wrong but right now she didn't regret it. She ran to her window and opened it and hopped out and looked around. The gang had pulled out of the driveway and she ran down the roof top and jumped down and landed perfectly. She then took off into the night.

At the club Spike came over to Angel and Gunn.

"Found our girl she's dancing with a demon." Spike informed them.

"Well let's rescue a damsel in distress and then go to bed." Gunn said as if it was the easiest thing to do. They all headed to the woman but Angel stopped and so did Spike. "Guys?"

"Whoa something isn't right." Angel said and looked around the place. The place started to get darker and the music seemed to get faster.

"Uh maybe we should have brought the machine gun." Spike commented and they looked to the direction of the girl. She was standing there and the people around her backed away. "She doesn't look that innocent anymore." The girl stood there and then brought the half man half demon she was dancing with closer. She hissed and snapped his neck. "Oh yeah definitely not innocent." Then more girls came out of the crowd with pink or red stripes down their hair and they all hissed.

"Great." Gunn said and then the girls charged at them. Angel took the axe that was hidden in his jacket and braced himself as they charged. Gunn took out his small hand held crossbow and began to fire and Spike took out his sword that was hidden in his jacket too. Angel sliced through one girl but one grabbed him but he threw her off. The crowd was going crazy and scrambled away. As they left the AI team pulled up and got out of the car and fought their way inside. Angel and Spike fought back to back against the women as they charged at them. The two vampires looked at one another and they made a run for it to the bar and jumped behind it joining Gunn.

"Women." Spike commented. The lights flickered a little and they looked up.

"Uh what's going on?" Gunn asked as he reloaded his weapon.

"They fight better in the dark!" A similar British accent yelled. The three men poked their heads over the counter top and saw the AI tem making their way to the bar while fighting off the women.

"What the hell is going on?" Gunn asked as they made their way behind the bar.

"The girls worship a demon called Moshia; he feeds off of weaker vampires and demons." Giles explained quickly.

"But what about the girl in your vision?" Spike asked towards Cordelia.

"We didn't understand the vision at first," Willow answered. "If it wasn't for Isabella we would have never known." Angel raised an eyebrow.

"Izzy?" He asked and Willow nodded smiling. "I'll have to raise her allowance then."

"We'll talk about that later these girls are gifted with demon strength they work best in the dark." Wes stated.

"This puts us all out of the ring except the fang brothers." Gunn stated.

"Willow?" Xander asked. "Know any spells that can light the club up we're about to dance in the dark."

"Oh but that's when it's fun." Spike added smiling but Xander wasn't amused. "You people never have any fun."

"We can try it won't last though." Tara stated.

"Just enough to help a little Spike and I will try to get rid of them." Angel said and then lights went out and they still heard screaming from vampires and demons that the girls were attacking. Angel and Spike could see perfectly and they nodded sneaking around the bar. They could see the girls mauling the demons and vampires as the advanced. Meanwhile Isabella ran through the streets of LA to find the night club and then see saw a group of people running towards her and she headed them and ran passed knowing she was headed in the right direction.

The girls were strong even for a two hundred year old vampire but they had to be killed. Willow and Tara chanted a spell and a little ball of light flew to the air lighten up the whole room and the AI team went to attack. A few more girls were killed and the little light went away. But something else happened the club shook and they heard a roar.

"It's the Moshia demon!" Giles yelled. Spike and Angel saw the demon; he was big about five men put together.

"Oh boy," Spike said, it would take Angel and Spike to at least fight him and hopefully get him down. He roared again and the two vampires charged after him. The demon swiped his arm out and Spike flew across the way. The demon then looked at Angel.

"Angelus!" It screamed and then laughed. It swiped his arm and Angel dodged it but he didn't see its tail and swept Angel out from under him. Angel landed flat on his back and then rolled away as the demon slammed his huge fist to the ground. Angel crawled away and saw his axe but the demon jumped over Angel and kicked the axe away laughing. Angel did a backwards summersault and jumped to his feet and reached for a chair and tossed it to at the demon. It broke into pieces and the demon stood there unwavered. Angel shrugged hoping it would work and took off running as the demon followed knocking away the tables. Angel slid to the ground and turned a table over and kicked it and slammed into the demon. The demon roared but then something shot at him an arrow. The demon turned around and Angel looked to the direction. Maybe Gunn caught a lucky shot but it wasn't Gunn. Isabella held Gunn's crossbow and fired a few more shots then the demon charged at the little girl.

"Isabella run!" Angel yelled and he got charging after the demon as Isabella ran on top of the table tops. Angel realized what she was doing and he got up to get his axe. Isabella with her incredible speed gave the demon a run for his money. She jumped off the table top, dropped rolled and grabbed her sword. The demon went to knock her down but she swung her sword and it cut the demon. It roared and went to use its tail to swipe at her and she ducked. The tail came back around and she swung the sword slicing its tail off. Isabella backed away as the demon screamed in pain and then Angel walked in front of Isabella holding his and twirled it and then imbedded the blade into the demon's skull. The demon crashed to the floor but then Angel felt himself falling forward. Isabella pushed him away as the last girl came charging at Angel. Isabella held out her sword and swung it and the girl's head rolled.

The little girl took in deep breaths as she looked down at the dead body. Angel who was on the ground looked to her as she stood there shocked. He got up and stood in front of her. The look of shock was in her eyes the same look Buffy had when she killed her first vampire although Angel thought their daughter had a one up on her mom, she helped take out a demon and killed one of its members. That was his side in Isabella coming out, go big or go home. He had to push that thought aside though. It was still dark but they both could see one another perfectly though.

"It's ok," He said as he knelt down and took the sword out of her hands. She made her first kill purely on instinct and sheer fear that she was going to lose her father. Angel placed the sword down and he placed both hands on her shoulders. "Hey leanbh," He said and she looked up at him and then jumped into his arms and he embraced her. Just as they held each other the lights came back on well the backup lights. Everyone looked around the trashed club and then saw Angel and Isabella near the stage.

"What did we miss?" Spike asked as he sat up rubbing the back of his head.

Cordelia and Angel were in the kitchen along with Giles, Willow and Xander. Giles sat down at the table with his tea and Willow and Xander had coffee. Cordelia leaned up against the counter and Angel leaned up against the wall. He had a small bruise forming on his right temple but it be gone by tomorrow night.

"What was she thinking?" Cordelia asked breaking the silences. "Did you talk her into something?" Angel shook his head no. "Look I know you're going all master Jedi on her but she's just ten she has no business attacking demons."

"I kind of agree." Xander said and sipped his drink. "Maybe when she's fifteen or sixteen then she go and fight."

"She saved my life." Angel stated.

"Well raise her allowance like you said and then call it quits for another five or six years." Xander said but Willow nudged him. Willow and Giles wanted to agree with Angel and the only Isabella would learn to fight was to go out and fight. Yes this was a big step and she should have started out small but she still held her own.

"Angel in a few years she should but right now she should be enjoying a normal life." Cordelia stated.

"Normal?" Angel asked and laughed a little. "Her father is a vampire, her mother was a slayer, her aunts are two witches and a seer, she lives with an empath demon, a girl who was saved from a demon dimension, a thousand year old ex demon, a vampire hunter, another vampire, two men who study demons and train slayers, am I missing anything?" Angel asked and Xander slowly raised his hand but Angel ignored him. "My point is she doesn't have a normal life and I can never give her one but I'll do my best to give her everything I never had and to give her everything she deserves." Angel paused and he could tell Cordelia wanted to say something.

"He's right Cordy." Willow said. "I mean ever since sophomore year in high school we've lived a pretty not so normal life but now it seems a normal life isn't normal." And Giles smiled.

"I just don't want her to get hurt." Cordelia stated. Isabella had come downstairs to see why her dad hadn't come to say good night anymore and then realized it was a grown up conversion so she listened in.

"I don't either I can't imagine her in any kind of pain but I won't deny her the calling. And what if one day I'm not there?" Angel said, the idea of not being there to protect her scared him but it was a possibility. Cordelia crossed her arms still protesting. "She's the reason why I was born Cordy, out of everything I've ever done in my god forsaken life she's the only good thing I've ever created, the only thing I've ever been proud of to call my work." Willow smiled. "She'll start to learn and I'll be right beside her every step of the way." Angel then left; it was the end of the discussion Angel would allow Isabella to take what she's learning in the training room out to the streets of LA. As Angel left the kitchen he looked down and Isabella was standing there. He bent down and picked her up and they were silent as he took her to her room.

Isabella got under her covers as Angel helped her.

"I'm sorry." She said and he smiled brushing some hair out of her face.

"For saving my life?" He asked and she shook her head.

"For going out when I wasn't supposed to," Angel placed his hand on her cheek already seeing tears forming. That's one thing Isabella hated doing, disappointing and disobeying her father. But she didn't do any of those two things not tonight. She saved his life proved she could hold her own.

"I wished I could have started you out with a newly risen vampire but sometimes wishes don't behold us when we want." He said and she shot up hugging him and he held her. He kissed her head and she laid back down. "I'll take you out tomorrow but have to listen ok." She nodded and he smiled.

Angel and Isabella were out at a cemetery together. Angel stood next to a grave as the dirt turned and begun to move. Hand popped out and then another. Then hands then tugged at the ground and relieved a vampire.

"It's all about power, who has it and who doesn't." Angel stated and then tossed a stake to Isabella and she caught it. "So who has the power Izzy?" Angel asked and she looked at the stake.

"Well I've got the stake," She stated.

"The stake doesn't have the power." Angel said and Isabella scoffed.

"But he's new," She argued. "He might not know his strength. He, he might not know all the fancy martial art skills they seem to…pick up." She protested and the vampire looked up at her as he tried to pull himself up and out of the ground.

"Who's got the power?" Angel asked and Isabella rolled her eyes. Then vampire was hissing and still trying to pull himself out.

"He does." Isabella replied. Angel then walked over to her.

"Never forget that. No matter how prepared you are or how well armed you are he has the power." Angel said knelt down before her and she nodded. "He's a vampire a demon unnaturally strong has skills, power that no human can possibly ever," But Angel was cut off.

"Excuse me." The vampire said and looked at the ground. Angel and Isabella looked to him. "I think I'm stuck." The vampire said and Angel raised an eyebrow in a little amusement and Isabella couldn't help but have a slight grin show on her face.

"You're…stuck?" Angel asked and stood up.

"My foot's caught on a root or something, I don't know how I got down there but if you two could just help me," The vampire asked, Angel gave a sigh this wasn't what he had in mind. He walked over to the vampire and knelt down looking at him. Angel reached for the back of his jacket and pulled him straight out of the ground like he weighed nothing and then set him on the ground.

"Oh thank you." The vampire said and brushed some dirt off of him. "That helped but," The vampire turned around facing Angel who stood just slightly taller. "That'll be the last thing you'll ever do," The vampire took a step and Angel nodded and grabbed the vampire by his throat.

"Ok listen I'm Angelus a very power vampire with a soul, been around for over two hundred years you see the little girl behind you?" Angel asked and the vampire slightly turned around. "That's my little girl her mother was a slayer. Tonight is her first night out hunting so if she can't kill you I will now wave." The vampire did as he was told. Angel threw him off and the vampire charged at Isabella, she dodged him. "Just like our drills come one Izzy." The vampire swiped at her and Isabella dove to the ground and kicked his knee, the vampire grunted and then Isabella punched him in the stomach. She then saw a rock and chucked it at his head causing him to fall to the ground. She then ran on top of him and then staked him and he turned to dust. "Not bad," Angel said with a smile and she smiled back. "You're way ahead of your mom."

"What do you mean?" She asked brushing some of the dust off of her.

"Well I saw your mom fight her first vampire and she missed the heart also your first kill was a freaky human worshiping a demon." Angel answered and she smiled. "Come on munchkin that's enough for one night." He said and the two walked through the cemetery at night hand it hand a vampire and his daughter.

Aww so sweet? Again sorry for the long time between updates. Finishing up my other story and just finished out this semester. But I'll update this story here and there it'll reach around twenty chapters and the last few chapters will tie into the beginning of The Gift. Comments and reviews are most welcomed, thanks for reading.

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