Title: Mislead 5/13
Author: Savage
Email: NatashaQuinn@aol.com
Pairing: Angel/Cordy Wes/Faith Gunn/Fred Buffy/Giles
Rating: M over all
Spoilers: For Season Three, I don't know the name of the Eps but yes, there are
Spoilers for Season Three Angel
(Los Angeles - Angel Investigations - Lobby)
Faith dialled Wesley's phone number and waited several minutes before she heard his voice.
"Yes?"
"Wes, there you are!"
"Faith? Faith is everything-"
But before Wesley could finish, Angel grabbed the phone out of her hand and walked towards the doors to the courtyard.
"Wesley?"
Wes heard the edge in Angel's voice and swallowed hard. He looked at Giles and Buffy who watched his actions as Angel continued yelling to him about, where was his son? Wesley grabbed a piece of paper off the counted and pen, then wrote down something. He handed it to Giles as Buffy sat up on the counter and leaned into her Watcher, to read it as well.
Call Fred at 555-8990 Tell her its almost time Get herself, and the others out of there, and head here. I'll keep him on the line till they have enough time to get safely away
Giles looked at Wesley and frowned. He thought Faith and himself were the only ones who knew about the prophecy.
"Wesley! I said, where is my son? Where are you?"
"Listen to me Angel, you need to calm down, all right? Connor is fine-"
"Holtz was here! He was looking for him! He-"
"I know."
"You know?"
"Yes, I know."
"Wes!" Angel's voice started to become a little raspy with fire as he walked out into the courtyard and raised his tone. At the same time Fred's cell phone rang. After answering it she realized it was Giles and when he relayed the message to her, she told Gunn and Faith.
Faith turned to Cordy who was watching Angel. "Cordelia?"
"Yeah?"
"I, um there's something you should know."
"What?"
"Well, we don't have time to explain now, I just need you to follow us."
"Follow who? What are you talking about?"
"Cordy, Wes has Connor in Sunnydale. We need to-"
"Sunnydale? What's he doing there?"
"We have to explain on the way!"
"Okay, fine, I'll get Angel-"
"No! No, you cant!"
"What? Why not? His-"
"Angel is dangerous Cordelia-"
"No he isn't! He's -"
"Going to kill Connor if we don't keep away from him tonight!"
Cordelia looked at them in shock then back at Angel, then back to them.
"He looks fine to me! What are you guys smoking?"
"Look, Cordy! There isn't time to explain this! Wesley found a prophecy! And at midnight," Faith turned to look at the clock on the wall," which is in 10 minutes, Angel will change! I -I don't know what into or who or anything else! All I know is, I trust Wesley and he only wants to keep Connor safe but to do that we have to get to Sunnydale and help B and Giles protect him."
Cordelia looked at Faith then Fred, Gunn and Lorne. "You all know about this?"
Fred stepped forward and shyly said, "Wesley called me early this morning. He told me and Gunn and Lorne about the prophecy, 'the father will kill the son'. He couldn't find out everything he needed and he was running out of time. He made us all pretend like everything was normal and fine. So, we did. And before midnight struck tonight, we were supposed to get you and us to Sunnydale."
"Why didn't he tell me?"
"Because you're too close Cordy. Look, we don't have time for all this, we have 6 minutes till midnight. Wesley knows to keep Angel on the phone til we call him from the car a good ways away. We have to leave."
"Okay, fine, but, I'm going a lot on trust here."
"We know, when we get to Sunnydale, hopeful Giles and Wes found something else about what we need to do."
"Fine," Cordy sighed. She was so confused. Where did all this come from? Angel looked so normal. Well, he was upset, but his son was missing! She glanced one more time back at him as the five of them went out back and took Angel's car and headed to Sunnydale.
(Angel Investigations -Courtyard)
"Wesley, I want an explanation right now!"
"Angel, calm down-"
"Don't, tell me what to do!"
"Angel, please -"
"If you've hurt him Wes-"
"How can you say that to me? I would never."
"I thought I knew you! I thought you were my friend Wes! But you've stolen my son!"
"I didn't steal him Angel. I knew Holtz was coming-"
"How did you know that?"
Wesley was quite for a moment as he got the thumbs up from Giles. Who was on the phone with Fred.
"I found.there's...a prophecy-"
"And?"
"And.I couldn't find much out about it, which lead me to Holtz, I thought he-"
"How could you go to him? You know he wants me dead!"
"Angel, I did what I had to!"
"You had to betray me?"
"Angel, listen to me! I didn't have the information I needed. And what I did find was confirmed by Holtz!"
"And you listened to him? He was lying Wesley!"
"No, he wasn't! The earthquake and blood proved him right."
"The what?"
"Angel, I searched through everything I could! I went for days without sleep to prove this wrong! But there was nothing else for me to do! I had to take Connor!"
Angel was so angry and engulfed in his fury with Wesley, he hadn't noticed the sky darkening. It began to pour rain down on him as he looked up to see a bolt of lighting strike him. The energy slammed through his body. The phone dropped to the ground and Angel to his knees.
After a few moments, Angel regained his senses and he lifted his head, eyes glowing a bright red. Standing, he mumbled..."The time has come," and started to walk off as the acid rain beat down on him. But it didn't phase him one bit as the clock was striking midnight across the city.