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Cordy shook her head. She couldn't have heard her mother correctly.
"What did you say?" Cordy asked
"I'm so sorry Cordelia. Your father died." Her mother said
"What…why…how?"
"One, of his kind." Audrey said as she motioned towards Angel.
"A vampire?" Cordy whispered and Audrey nodded her head.
"Why didn't you tell me sooner?"
"I'm sorry baby girl. I was so shocked by your pregnancy, it just slipped my mind."
"Slipped your mind?" Cordy screamed. "How could something like my father's death slip your mind?"
"Oh sweetie." Audrey said as she tried to pull her daughter to her, but Cordy pushed her away.
"Don't touch me." She shouted as she ran to her room.
Audrey started to go after her, but Angel stopped her.
"Let me go." He said as he ran after her.
He found Cordy curled up on the bed. Angel crawled in beside her and put his arms around her.
"I can't believe that he is gone." She whispered
"I'm so sorry Cor."
"I was such a horrible daughter. I demanded so much from him, and when I didn't get it I was so mean. And when we lost everything I was so angry at him."
"You're not that same teenage girl that you were."
"I'm not angry anymore. I haven't been for a long time. I never told him."
"I'm sure he knew. You talked to him every few weeks."
"But, I never told him. I don't even remember the last time I told him I loved him."
Cordy began to sob. Angel didn't have any words that would make her feel better, so he just held her while she cried herself to sleep.
"Is she ok?" Fred asked Angel when he returned to the lobby.
"No, she's not. She's feeling guilty as hell. She's hurt. She never got to say goodbye."
"Maybe I should sit with her." Audrey said
"I don't think that's a good idea."
"She's my daughter."
"She's sleeping right now. I'll go to her. When she wakes and if she wants to see you I'll come and find you."
"Tell her we're thinking of her." Fred said and Angel nodded as he headed back up to Cordy.
"I love you." Cordy said when Angel opened the door.
"Hey, what are you doing up?"
"I couldn't sleep. I need you to know that I know that I love you."
"I know that Cor. I love you too."
"So if something ever happens to you, I don't want to be left wondering if you knew how I feel about you."
"Nothing is going to happen."
"You don't know that. I didn't know that my father would die. We don't know if we will ever get tomorrow. We just don't know." She said as she began to cry again.
Again, Angel took her into his arms and held her all night while she slept and cried.
The next day Cordy awoke with a new attitude. She and her mother spent hours in her room talking, crying, and sorting things out, with Angel standing vigil outside of their room, in case she needed him.
"Angel." Cordy yelled from the room.
"You ok?" He asked
"I'm starving."
"What do you want?"
"Pizza from the new place in the Hills."
"Ok, I'll go order it."
"Could you go pick it up? I don't think that I can wait that long."
"Daylight Cor."
"Take Connor with you. He can run in and get it." She said batting her eyes.
"You got it. I'll be back shortly."
Twenty minutes later Angel opened the door to his room holding Cordy's pizza. What he saw caused him to break out into a cold sweat. Audrey was a vampire and she was biting his Cordy. He dropped the pizza and before he could reach Cordy, Audrey turned into a pile of dust.
"I told you I would do anything to protect our baby." Cordy whispered as she dropped her stake and ran to the bathroom to puke.
"Cor, what happened?" Angel asked softly when she came out of the bathroom.
"What does it look like?" She snapped
"Talk to me."
"It's simple really. Mom was a vampire, I killed her."
"Cordelia."
Cordy sighed. She knew that Angel wouldn't let it go. Tears filled her eyes as she recounted to Angel what happened.
"After you left to get my pizza, our conversation turned to Dad's death…"
"Mom, tell me what happened to dad."
"We were on our way home from dinner, waiting at a red light, when two vampires ripped the doors off of our car, and your dad became dinner."
"Why didn't they feed on you?"
"Who says they didn't dear." Her mother said as she turned into a vampire.
"Oh my God." Cordy scrambled off of the couch and ran over to her beside table where she kept her, stake, cross and holy water. All of the necessary items needed when you live with a vampire that could turn evil at any time.
Cordy spun around and held her cross out in front of her mother. Audrey knocked to out of Cordy's hand.
"Owww." She yelled as she threw the holy water on Audrey.
"Arggh. You bitch." She growled as she leapt at Cordy, shoving her against the wall.
"Mom, please." Cordy begged
"My sire told me that the sweetest blood was that of a pregnant woman. There is so much innocence flowing through the blood of the mother that mommy's blood is sweet. I can't wait to taste it for myself."
"Don't do this mom, please."
"Mom, stop, please." Audrey mocked as she grabbed her daughter's hair, pulled her head to the side and sunk her teeth into Cordy's neck.
"Ahhhh." Cordy screamed. She clutched the stake that she still had in her hand. She did not want to do it but she knew that she had no choice. She closed her eyes and drove the stake into her mother's cold, dead heart.
"Cor, I'm so sorry. I should have been here. I should have smelled her." Angel said
"I killed my mother."
"No you didn't. You killed a vampire. You did it to protect our child."
"I killed my mother." She repeated as she started to collapse to the floor. Angel rushed over to catch her
"Baby, you didn't kill her. A vampire did." Angel said as he held her tightly and rubbed her back.
"I have no family anymore."
"That is not true. You have me. You have our child. You have your friends downstairs. We all are your family. We all love you." Angel said softly
Cordy sighed and began to relax against Angel. He gently stood and picked her up and laid her in bed. He covered her up, kissed her head and went to go turn out the lights. She grabbed his hand.
"Don't leave me. I don't want to be alone." Cordy whispered
"You'll never be alone. I'm not going anywhere."
They sat in silence while Angel held Cordy as the silent tears ran down her face. Angel had just dozed off when he heard Cordy gasp.
"What…what's wrong?" He asked her
Cordy was clutching her belly with a look of pain on her face.
"Something…wrong…ahhhh…baby." Cordy gasped