Chapter 7

Buffy and the gang pulled up to the mansion. Getting out of the vehicle Buffy followed Angel into the mansion making sure she got everything out of the car they had picked up for the baby. When they got everyone into the mansion Dawn, Willow, Tara and Cordy were all fawning over the baby but Angel would not let anyone hold him or touch him.

"Ok who the hell was that and why did he just blow up my house?" Buffy stated in a very stern voice

Angel looked up at her apologetically "His name was Holtz about two hundred years ago me and Darla heard about a man who killed vampires well we decided to find where he lived so we could kill him. Well when we got there he was out on a hunt we ended up killing his wife and baby and we turned his daughter he had tried to kill us ever since."

Buffy looked extremely confused "Ok if this guy was around two hundred years ago how is he still alive is he demon, vamp what?"

"From what I was able to gather from him blowing up your house was that he was brought back by a demon to get his vengeance on us." Angel said trying to calm down a now crying baby

Cordy came up to stand beside Angel "Look this is all fine and dandy now but we are gonna have way more issues soon."

Xander looked at her "What are you talking about Cordy?"

"Well think about it a baby born of two vampires how common is that every demon cult and bad guy in the world is gonna be after this kid!" Cordy said looking at Buffy

"She's right um green guy…" Buffy said looking at Lorne

"The name is Lorne dollface."

"Ok Lorne is there any protection spells that you would know of?"

"I will contact the ladies see what they can do" Lorne said taking off to make some calls

"Willow I want you to be on that as well we are not letting anyone get near this child!"

"Me and Tara are on it." Willow said following Lorne.

Angel sat on the couch holding his child he could not stop staring at this little thing that he had a part in creating

"He is beautiful" Buffy said sitting next to Angel

Angel looked at Buffy and how she was smiling at the little one

"Do you want to hold him?"

Nodding her head Angel handed the baby to Buffy. Dawn walked back into the sitting area with Xander and saw Buffy and Angel sitting together with the baby.

"They look like the perfect family don't they?" Dawn said smiling

Xander looked at them wondering how he could be against their relationship for so long when he could see Buffy truly happy and smiling for the first time in years.

"We have a huge problem" Spike said walking in a disrupting the picture Xander and Dawn were watching.

Willow and Tara came running in with Lorne behind them.

"We won't have much time with those sorcerers out there and all of their power coming from the moon we have maybe two to three hours before they get through our defences!"

Angel jumped up and noticed everyone come running back into the mansion and looking out the windows he saw why. There were a lot of vehicles outside a couple vans with blacked out windows a few bikers and some vamps just standing out there. Lorne walked up to Angel and as nonchalantly as possible put a note in his pocket.

"It's really sad that the only place I can get any peace and quiet to sleep was in the broom closet" Lorne said walking away

A couple hours later Buffy and the gang were getting ready to defend the mansion for when the defences finally failed. Angel came down the stairs with a duffle bag and the baby in his arms.

Buffy and the gang stopped what they were doing and Cordy spoke up.

"Angel what the hell are you doing?"

"Those things are after my son so I'm getting my son out of here." Angel said grabbing a couple bottles out of the fridge."

"Angel don't do this again stay fight we will get through this!"

Gunn walked up to him "I knew we should not have come with you now your just gonna leave us all here to die while you and that thing that should not even be here just go and live happy little lives."

Angel zipped up the duffle and walked towards the door "Sorry guys but this guy is my number one and I'm not gonna stay and watch those things get their grimy hands on my kid!"

And with that he was out the door and heading to his car.

Somewhere in Sunnydale

Lilah Morgan walked into the abandoned house that Wolfram and Heart had recently purchased and walked up to Gavin and their boss Linwood.

"He is on the run sir we have our teams following him as we speak."

"He abandoned his team, well that's something I never suspected" Linwood said watching the cameras they had set up at Angel's mansion.

Lilah's phone rang and she looked up at Linwood "Um Sir we have an issue."

"Don't tell me that Lilah the senior partners are not going to like hearing that!"

"It turns out it was all an act everyone who was chasing Angel and the child are dead." Lilah said looking kind of scared

Linwood looked at her and Gavin "How did they die?"

Lilah looked at gavin and Linwood and said in a voice almost to impressed "He blew them up in an old mine shaft sir."

Sunnydale Hospital

Buffy walked out with the doctor holding the baby. The doctor looked at the group in the waiting room

"He is fine we gave him all his shots you're a very lucky mom" The doctor said

Buffy smiled and almost corrected her but instead she just looked at the baby and said "Thanks I like to think so!"

"Ok so all we need is his first name for his birth certificate." The doctor said with a pen in her hand ready to write it down

"His name is Conner!" Angel said as he walked into the waiting room to stand beside Buffy

"Ok Conner Angel thank you so much Mr. Angel." She said as she walked away

Buffy passed Conner to Angel "He is fine, they put me down as his mother I hope that's ok!"

Angel looked at her "Of course that's ok I would not have it any other way, did you guys get the stroller?"

Gunn came up with Fred right behind "We got the the best the least amount of money could buy" he said with a smile on his face. Angel set Conner into the stroller and with his girlfriend beside him and all of his friends behind him they head for the mansion.

Wolfram and Heart offices in L.A

Linwood and Gavin were going over the tapes they had gotten from Angel's place "See there the green guy could hear your cameras so see go in on that shot he puts a note in Angel's pocket and tells him about them in the broom closet which is the only place we didn't have cameras!"

At that moment Angel burst into the office and grabbed Linwood

"My son has a little scratch on his check." picking up a letter opener Angel cuts Linwood's cheek "Now you do to consider yourself his godfather anything happens to him happens to you, oh and you better start a good college fund I have my heart set on Notre Dame!" and with that Angel walked out. Lilah ran up dabbing Linwood's cheek with a napkin "Get off me" Linwood yells glaring at the door.