Future Children

Title: Future children 2/?
Author: Spikewil
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Site: http://home.wanadoo.nl/spikewil
Summary: Five children appear in Angel’s office. They claim to be from the future. Which child belongs to which couple?.
Disclaimer: All the characters belong to Joss Whedon, not me. *sniff*
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
Pairing: S/X, rest is surprise pairing m/m, f/f

A/N: This story is AU. Angel has accepted the offer of Wolfram and Hart, but he’s the boss instead of the Seniors. I really don’t like Buffy, so this story isn’t nice to her. I think it’s called Buffy bashing? Spike still has his chip, but does have a soul. Tara is still alive. Giles never went back to England. Angel is Spike’s Sire. Angel has made the family legal, so although they aren’t relatives, they have raised their children like a conventional/normal family (with parents, aunts, uncles etc.)

Warnings: mentions of Mpreg, possible character death.

I want to thank Spiked_by_James and Elli_uk for their patience, ideas, suggestions and betaing this story. *Bowing and thanking repeatedly*

*****2036*******

Micky was finally asleep. It had taken her and Damian a while to find their apartment. They hadn’t planned to drink so much, but after their magic and fighting finals there was a party they had attended. They were finally warlocks.

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At the age of 18, she and Damian decided to move out of the family home to find a place of their own. One of her aunts thought she was useless and mentioned it frequently to the family. But her parents and the rest of the family just knew her as a shy girl, always in the background. Little did they know.

Micky knew she was a daywalker. She was as tall as her Daddy but had inherited hetherther’s dark hair and brown eyes . Plus she also had vampire strength; her Daddy and Grandfather had passed this on. Nobody else but Damian knew, not even her own parents. They had never seen her demon.

Micky first noticed she had a vampire demon when she was 7 years old but her Aunt had seen it too. She had threatened the young girl that if she ever saw her demon face again, she would cut it off. Micky got scared and she trained herself to control her demon side. Her cousin Damian had witnessed their Aunt threatening her. They became best friends after that.

Both Micky and Damian wanted to learn how to fight and do magic, so they hoped to attend D&W, a demon school hidden from the humans. Entering the school was only possible to those who knew the correct spell to break the protective wards that surrounded it.

It had taken Damian, who had inherited his mom’s magicalenalents, two years to find the spell. Micky and Damian had saved all of their pocket money, allowances and the money they had earned from part-time jobs during those years to pay for the school. They had to do a test, which they both passed, and for seven years they did every course available.

That was 9 years ago. And now they had both passed the exams. Their family wasn’t aware of their secret talents yet. But the time would come when all secrets would have to be revealed.
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There was a knock on the door, Micky groaned and got out of bed sleepily. She sniffed the air and told Damian, who had also stepped out of his room, that Liz, Ann and David were at the door. Damian looked irritated, but opened it.

“Hey, guys,” Damian said, yawning and scratching his brown hair. He stepped aside to let his cousins into the apartment and closed the door behind them.

“You just woke up? It’s the middle of the day!” Ann said, looking around to see Micky in her pyjamas standing in the doorway of the kitchen.

“Good afternoon to you too,” Micky said curtly. “What are you doing here anyway?”

“Uncle Angel needs us today. We’re supposed to meet him within three hours,” Liz calmly told Micky.

“Will Aunt Buffy be there?” Damian asked.

“Yes, every family member has to be there,” David answered.

“It must be very important then, if he wants me to show up. I’m certainly not his favourite,” Micky said irritated.

“Micky, you are his favourite, you know that. Just because you moved out doesn’t mean we don’t like you,” Ann tried to explain, in a gentle voice.

“Fine, whatever. Let me get dressed and we can go,” Micky said, marching towards her bedroom. She sat on her bed, crying quietly.

“Why don’t you three sit in the living room and I will be right back,” Damian said, following Micky into her room.

“Micky, what’s wrong?” Damian approached his cousin and best friend and sat next to her.

“I am scared. What will they think of me? I don’t want to them to know yet,” Micky said to Damian.

“You mean, you’re still scared of Aunt Buffy?” Damian looked knowingly at his cousin.

“Yes,” she cried, using her sleeve to wipe away the tears.

“We’re going to be fine. You have stand up for yourself, especially to Aunt Buffy,” Damian comforted her. “You’ve done it for 9 years, since we’ve been living on our own. You can do this now with our family.”

“I know, it’s just…” Micky said hesitatingly.

“Does this have anything to do with you being gone for more than 10 months in our fifth year?” Damian preson. on. He had always wondered about her mysterious absence but he had never found the perfect timing for it.

“Yeah. But I can’t talk about it, Damian. I can’t tell anyone yet,” Micky croaked, her crying had tempered off.

Damian hugged her tightly. Before letting go, they heard a familiar voice.

“Micky, I have missed you,” Liz stood in the doorway with tears in her eyes. Until they were 7 years old, they had been friends. That had changed after Buffy’s threats to Micky.

“I missed you too,” Micky walked towards her cousin and hugged her. Looking over the girl’s shoulder, she could see Ann and David peeking inside the room and smiling at her.

“Alright, enough tears! I will get dressed and so will you, Damian. We need to tell you guys something,” Micky bossily ordered.

“Tell us what?” Liz asked curiously.

“Something good?” David asked. “Ouch! Why did you hit me?” he asked Ann.

“Let them get dressed!” Ann replied, dragging her cousins back to the living room.

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When Micky and Damian finished getting dressed, they sat in the living room with the others and began their stories.

“I was seven years old when I found out I had a vampire demon inside me,” Micky started.

“Your dad!” David exclaimed.

Micky smiled and nodded. “Yes, from my Daddy. He doesn’t know but Aunt Buffy saw the first time I changed into my gameface. And she said she would cut it off if she ever saw it again.” Micky felt a great relief while she told her story. “Father and Dad don’t know this. I never told anyone.”

“Only I knew,” Damian explained further. “I witnessed Aunt Buffy threatening her.”

“This is why you stopped being my friend, isn’t it?” Liz asked, her blue eyes flashing with anger at her Aunt.

“Yes, I’m sorry, Liz! I just wanted to protect you,” Micky whispered, tears falling on her cheeks.

Liz leaned forward and hugged her. “It’s okay!”

“Is she the reason you two got a place on your own?” Ann asked, her lips tightening at the memory of her Aunt.

Both of them nodded. “We took a lot of jobs for two years and paid for our own education on D&W,” Damian explained, laughing at the shocked faces of their cousins at the mentioning of the school’s name.

“You went to Demons & Warlocks?” David asked in shock. He had heard of the school but nobody could find it.

“Yes, we did,” Damian replied proudly.

“How did you find it?” Ann asked.

“Well, we found it by accident during one of our jobs,” Micky answered. “But to cut things short, we’ve just passed all the exams. We’re warlocks now and the reason we were still sleeping is because we had just arrived home from celebrating,” Micky ended their story.

Micky nodded. “Well, let’s go see my Grandfather!”

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*****Wolfram and Hart, some hours later******

The family was waiting in Angel’s office for the children to show up.

“Angel, when will they come?” Spike said, having no patience at all. He hadn’t seen his daughter for a week. She had been extremely busy and he didn’t know what with.

“They just don’t want to come, they are too weak,” Buffy said, with an evil glint in her eyes.

Everybody was having a hard time with Buffy being such a bitch. They all knew she hated Micky. Xander believed that Buffy was the reason Micky and Damian had moved out. He also knew Micky and Damian were keeping something secret. But he trusted them. The time for the revelation of their secrets would come.

“Can’t you tell us already why we had to be here?” Buffy asked irritatingly.

“No, I won’t tell........” Angel was interrupted when the door opened and five young people walked in.

“You’re late!” Buffy scolded Micky.

“So? You’ve got a problem with that?” Micky boldly retorted. Inside she was shaking with fear. Damian stood behind her and laid his hand on the small of her back. She calmed just slightly.

Her Daddy and her Grandfather sniffed the aid lod looked questioningly at Micky.

Buffy humphed and stomped towards the couch.

Now that the whole family was present and settled, Angel moved towards the centre of the lobby and began explaining the reason for this unusual family reunion.

“The TPTB have given me a letter and told me one of our children was chosen to go to the past and kill two people who will endanger the future. Only the Chosen One will be able to read the letter. If anyone else tries to read the letter, the letter will stay blank,” Angel stated.

“Well that means me, because I am the Chosen One,” Buffy loudly said.

“The Chosen One has a birthmark in the shape of an ‘S’ on his or her body,” Angel explained Buffy’s question.

Spike and Xander looked at each other, grinning and realizing their daughter has been destined to the the Chosen One.

Micky swallowed heavily and closed her eyes. //I can do this! I have to do this!// she thought to herself. She straightened herself, lifted her shirt a bit, walked towards Angel to show the birthmark above her bellybutton and accepted the letter.

All the parents were shocked including Buffy.

“She’s the Chosen One? How can that be? She’s nothing but trash!” Buffy shouted.

“SHUT UP, BUFFY!” Angel, Gunn and Willow ordered at the same time.

“The TPTB have also chosen the following people to go into the past and help the Chosen One to terminate those people. They will also know what’s written in the letter,” Angel ignored Buffy.

“David, Liz, Ann and Damian. You four have to help Micky, the Chosen one,” Angel told the five. “Do you all accept this mission?”

“Yes, I do,” Five voices rang clearly through the office.

Willow and Cordy looked surprised, their child had been chosen to help Micky? The rest of the couples looked equally proud at their children.

Buffy stood shocked in the corner of the room. The family had told her to shut up. kne knew she wasn’t accepted in Angel’s family anymore, but she wouldn’t leave. The girl would pay for this humiliation!

Micky opened the letter and showed it to her cousins. They didn’t see anything but a blank piece of paper. Micky read everything and looked questioningly back at them.
*Guys? Can’t you read this? Because I can,* Micky used her magic to communicate with the other four. They never answered out loud, just shook their heads slightly.

Wesley had already drawn the magic circle in the middle of Angel’s office and motioned the young people to step inside it.

Before they stepped in, every child was given hugs and kisses by their parents, aunts and uncles, except from Buffy.

Damian, David, Anne and Liz looat tat their parents. They had just agreed to go back in time and help Micky kill the two people who would put the future in jeopardy. Damian’s mother started chanting and soon the rest of the family joined in. A bright light encircled the five young people and then they were gone.

****

“Are we going to remember what happened in the past?” Giles asked, while holding his youngest son Charles Jr.

Everybody looked at Angel. “Huh....I don’t know,” Angel said.