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'Thinking'

Flashback

Evil Counterparts

For those of you who don't know this story is a slight AU story since events are the same yet different also Faith will be in this story and she will be just like the old Faith except good.

Chapter 4 Love and Peace

Buffy Summers stood in the middle of a circle that was made up of the Scoobies, the Potential slayers, along Spike as they had a discussion over the choices Buffy had been making since the first had started its attack last month.

"Look I know the choices I've made haven't always been the most popular but I do what's best for all of us that includes making the tough decisions." Buffy said.

"Look the slayer hasn't steered you wrong before so why would she start now." Spike said trying to defend his slayer.

"Maybe its time for someone else to take the lead," Willow's lover Kennedy said.

"Who you your just a potential you don't have the ability to lead." Buffy responded back.

"I heard that you aren't the only slayer." Rona said causing everyone that wasn't a potential to stare at her.

"Who told you that?" Buffy hissed.

"Is it true?" Rona answered.

Buffy turned her gaze toward the floor so one could see her eyes.

'I'm I such a bad leader that they would want Faith over me.' Buffy thought to herself.

Giles wiped his glasses then decided to answer since none of the original group looked like they were going too, "Yes there is another slayer but she's in prison for murder."

"Well we need her so I say we break her out of jail then we could return her after she helps us save the world." Kennedy said as the rest of the potentials agreed with her while the Scooby gang was still somewhat conflicted.

Buffy on the other hand wasn't conflicted at all to her if she never saw Faith's face again it would be too soon, plus she knew Faith wouldn't stay and help no she would run right to L.A. to her Angel.

"If you break Faith out where is the first place you think she'll go?" Buffy asked.

"I'm sure she'd stay here and help us if she knew what was happening." Molly answered.

"No Faith will run straight to Los Angeles."

"What's in L.A.?" Andrew asked.

"Angel,"

Giles and Xander stared at Buffy in shock especially if she was implying that Faith was involved with Angel.

Spike on the other hand became extremely jealous that his grandsire held such power over his slayer but even angrier at the fact that the beings created to kill him were instead falling in love with him if what Buffy implied about Faith was true.

For her part Buffy knew that Faith would try her best to be with Angel now that she herself had technically moved on leaving Angel available but what no one knew including Spike was if Angel's soul ever became bound she would go to him in a second.

"So let me get this straight you don't want us to break a slayer out of prison that could help because you're afraid that she'll get together with you ex." Rona said.

"I agree with Buffy Faith is dangerous she tortured me and my mom." Dawn said as Buffy smiled at her while silently thanking her sister for the backup.

"So let's put all this Faith nonsense away and get to sleep because we have a hard day of training tomorrow." Buffy said as everyone went to their respective beds or spot on the floor.

Buffy stepped outside and stared up at the stars for a couple of minutes until she felt a pair of arms wrap themselves around her.

"Spike stop." Buffy said as the arms squeezed her tighter.

"You know I like the way you handled them back there." Spike said as he moved to kiss Buffy only to have her fight out of his embrace.

"Spike stop we had a fling back when I was messed up but that's over with now." Buffy said as she headed back into the house leaving a frowning Spike in her wake.

Early the next mourning Molly, Kennedy, and Rona snuck out of the house before everyone else woke up then made their way to their destination.

"Guys Buffy's not going to like this." Molly said as they ran down the street.

"Look do you want to die because it seems to me that if you're not apart of Buffy's main group then she doesn't care if you die now maybe this Faith is a dangerous murder and if she is then we don't break her out simple as that." Rona said with Kennedy waving them on.

The girls ran for fifteen more minutes before the jail finally came into view causing them to stop so they could get their plan together.

Once this was taken care of they entered the jail then asked to speak to Faith, normally you would need to give a first name along with a last but since everyone knew Faith they just let them through.

Rona quickly jumped in the seat forcing Molly and Kennedy to stand over her shoulder as they waited for Faith.

Five minutes later they saw a curvaceous raven haired woman walking toward them as she took her seat but not before eyeing the three of them as she picked up the phone.

"Who the hell are you?" Faith asked as she continued to look the three of them over.

"We're potential slayers who are fighting the first evil and we've come here because we need your help." Kennedy said causing Faith to smirk.

"Sorry little girl but I'm kind of unavailable right now but if this fight your talking about is still happening in twenty-two years then I'll be happy to help."

"But Buffy will have gotten us killed by then." Rona said.

"Then quit."

"We don't want to quit we want to make a difference." Molly said.

"Then why are you here?"

"We want you to come and lead us not Buffy." Kennedy said causing Faith to look up at her.

"You're with B."

"Yeah she wants you to help." Kennedy said causing Faith to stand up.

"Now I know your lying I'm the last person B would ask help from." Faith said as she turned to walk away.

"Angel needs help." Molly yelled out causing Faith to stop in her tracks then turn back toward them with a worried look on her face.

Rona thanked Molly for her quick thinking but was slightly afraid of what would happen to them if she found out they had just said that name to get her to stay.

"What's wrong with him is he hurt is the kid alright?" Faith asked slightly panicking causing the girls to look at her like she was crazy.

"He needs the help of a slayer but Buffy said she was to busy to help him." Kennedy said as she lied through her teeth.

Faith began to squeeze the phone at the thought of Buffy denying Angel help causing the phone to crush under the force she was applying.

"Step away from the glass." Faith said as the three girls backed up as Faith jumped threw the glass, beat up four guards then made her escape with the three girls.

Los Angeles 4:59 am

Angel chased a demon down the street that had tried to kill Connor while they both slept.

The demon ran glanced back at Angel before running into a large building that Angel assumed to be a church but in L.A. you never know.

Angel walked into the church and saw druids kneeling around an urn of some kind praying.

Angel walked toward them to get their attention only to have the demon grab him from behind and throw him over the praying druids who didn't even flinch at the commotion that was going on around them.

Angel jumped back up with his game face on then leapt at the demon tackling to the floor before picking it up and throwing it across the room.

Angel quickly punched the demon in the stomach before round house kicking the demon into the druids smashing the urn.

Grabbing the demon out of the tangle of bodies Angel stood it up then broke its neck painfully as he turned to make his way out of the church he heard a voice which stop him.

"Our god he's here." One of the druids said causing Angel to turn back to them.

Angel saw them still on their knees but saw they were praying to an orange and yellow cloud that was floating above them.

'What the hell is that?' Angel asked only to have the cloud head toward him with such speed he knew he had no hope to dodge so he simply threw his hands up in front of himself and braced for impact.

Looking around Angel noticed the druids approaching him slowing making him think he'd out stayed his welcome so he made his way toward the exit.

Angel turned to the door and opened it only to see the sun was up so he began to close the door only to have the druids push him outside.

Angel quickly tired to get back into the church until he saw that he wasn't bursting into flames.

"What the hell is happening?" Angel asked

"Our god has chosen you as his vessel no longer can you die from being in the sun or a stake to the heart you master are now a god and we are ready to serve you." The lead druid said as he along with the rest bowed to Angel.

Angel stared at them oddly part from the explanation that they gave him and part because they knew he was a vampire although he supposed the panicking when thrown out in the sun gave that away.

Angel backed away from the druids then headed back to the hotel to make sure Connor was alright and hopefully put this weird night behind him.

Angel slowly walked down the street silently basking in the sunlight that would normally be harmful to him taking out his phone Angel noticed that it was already 6:30 so he picked up the pace for the next two blocks then walked into the hotel thankful that no one was in then head upstairs.

Angel took off his clothes then put on a pair of long silk red pajamas bottoms then checked on the sleeping Connor before heading to bed himself.

Five hours later the current employees of Angel Investigations were down in the lobby taking calls from different potential clients.

"Geez usually Angel and Connor are awake by now." Cordelia wondered allowed as Fred walked past her.

"Well maybe their just tired especially Angel I mean the poor guy has to spend every waking moment protecting his son from the evil monsters of this world that want to kill him just for being born." Fred said only to have Cordelia and Paige look at her like she was crazy while Gunn smirked since he was use to her rants.

"But seriously Cordy, Angel is a vampire which means he'll most likely sleep the day away." Gunn said as he swung his battle axe.

Ignoring everyone else Cordelia went behind the counter and grabbed a baby monitor then turned it on.

"Where did you get that?" Paige asked as she and Fred stopped their filing.

"Angel had me hide one in every room of the hotel." Cordelia answered.

Just as the group huddled around the monitor the phone rang prompting Cordelia to turn off the monitor just in case Angel came down he wouldn't know they were listening in on him.

Cordelia answered the phone only to find out about a rich family who was willing to pay a lot of money to have a room of their house that was haunted taking care of which of excited Cordelia once she'd taken down the information she promised that they'd have someone out their soon.

Once the call was finished Cordelia squealed with excitement then told the rest of the gang who also became excited except Paige who didn't realize that they didn't get to many paying missions.

"I'll go get Angel all of you gear up." Gunn said running up the stairs dodging a passing Lorne as he went.

"Whoa what's his hurry?" Lorne asked as he reached the bottom of the stairs.

"We got a paying job." Cordelia said as she grabbed a battle axe causing Lorne to groan since the last time everybody went out he almost lost Connor when a gang of demons attacked.

Meanwhile, Gunn knocked on Angel's door five times calling his name each to but never received an answer.

Finally fed up with waiting Gunn grabbed the doorknob to only to have the door swing open to reveal Angel wearing white pants, a silk white button up shirt and a white leather duster that reached the back of his knees.

Stunned with what was in front of his eyes Gunn had to do a double take as he stared at his vampire boss who was holding Connor.

"Angel man what happened to you and what the hell are you wearing," Gunn asked.

Angel smiled then placed his hand on Gunn's shoulder before the three vanished in falling pink hearts.

When the three reappeared in the hotel lobby Gunn stumbled away from Angel while the rest of the group stared at the vampire champion in shock at what he was wearing and more importantly how he arrived.

"Angel what happened to you?" Fred asked as Angel handed Connor to Cordelia.

"Nothings wrong Fred in fact I've never felt better." Angel said as he sat down on the couch.

"Angel something had to have happened." Paige said as Angel eyed her and Cordelia.

"Nothing although the love I'm feeling between Fred and Gunn makes me feel so alive."

"How can you feel our love?" Gunn asked from his seat on top of the counter.

"I just can its like the love gives me power." Angel said as he headed toward the patio.

The rest of the team followed as he walked out of the double doors and straight into the sunlight fearing the worst they they'd to grab him by the jacket until Fred's voice stopped them.

"Anyone noticed that he's not on fire?"

Everyone stared at Angel who was staring up at the sky with his arms open.

"Are you alive?" Cordelia asked.

"I don't think so." Angel responded.

"Well look Angel we need to cleanse this house with the owners welling to pay." Gunn said causing Angel to turn to him.

"But what if the sprit is evil?"

"Then we kick its ass back to hell."

"But that would hurt the ghost and we shouldn't hurt creatures in fact I bet if we talk to this ghost then we could find so common ground."

The group stared at Angel oddly before heading back into the hotel to talk what was happening over.

"Okay something's wrong with him." Lorne said.

Cordelia looked the situation over and decided to take charge, "Alright Gunn you and Fred go to the client's house and take care of the problem. Paige you take Angel and Connor with you to find out what happened to him while Lorne and I call Wesley to see if he will help us out."

Fred grabbed Gunn by the hand before dragging him to his truck while Cordelia gave Connor to Paige who orbed herself, Angel, and Connor to the manor while Lorne called Wesley.

Sunnydale

Buffy and the rest of the Scooby's except Xander were training the potentials out in the backyard since Kennedy, Rona, and Molly had disappeared thus the reason Xander was gone to look for them.

Thirty minutes later Xander came back explaining that he'd looked all over town and couldn't find the three.

Buffy turned to say something but stopped to show a potential how to perform a kick the right way.

"I wonder where Kennedy and the other are I hope they're not hurt." Willow said as Andrew came running through the door.

"The girls are back and they have another girl with them." Andrew said.

"Could be a new slayer who was wondering around lost," Buffy said as the Scooby's along with the potentials entered the house only to see Buffy frozen in place as she stared ahead.

"Hi Buff what's wrong?" Xander asked as he followed Buffy gaze to see Faith standing with the three potentials.

"Faith what're you doing here?" Buffy yelled as she looked at Rona and Kennedy only to see the smug look on their faces while Molly wasn't looking at her at all.

"Don't worry B I'm not staying long just need to catch a ride to L.A." Faith said causing Buffy to clinch her fists in anger.

"What I mean is why aren't you in jail where you belong."

Faith frowned when Buffy took a step toward her, "Don't worry B I know all about Angel being in trouble and you refusing to help him out me on the other hand won't hesitate to help the big guy out."

"What are you talking about if Angel was in trouble and I'd none about it I'd go to him as soon as I could?" Buffy said.

"Whatever these girls said the big guy was in trouble so I'm here to help him out."

While Buffy and Faith argued Principal Wood eyed the raven haired slayer discreetly as one thought, 'Damn she's fine.'

Meanwhile Buffy looked at the three potentials that did their best to avoid eye contact with her.

"Faith they lied to you so that you would lead them against the First." Buffy said as Faith turned to the three.

"I thought I told you no." Faith said.

"But we need you you're the slayer." Rona said completely ignoring the fact that Buffy was in the room.

Faith waved her off then head toward the phone only to be stopped by Buffy.

"You wanna step aside B?" Faith asked.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm about to use your phone then if everything checks out with Angel I'm going back to prison."

Faith responded as she forced her way past Buffy who looked like she wanted to stop her but decided to let her get by so she could get out of her house.

As Faith picked up the phone Buffy hated that she was calling Angel but relied on the thought that once Faith saw everything was alright in L.A. she'd be gone.

"Faith," A voice called out to her from the doorway to the house turning to the door they saw Angel standing there staring back at them.

"What's dead-boy doing here?" Xander said as he looked at Buffy who frowned at him for calling Angel that.

"That's not Angel it's the First."

"She's right I've come to talk to the slayer." First/Angel said.

"What do you want?" Buffy asked.

"Probably should've been more specific." First/Angel said as he turned to Faith.

Faith slightly shaken from seeing the vampire she'd dreamt about while in prison standing in the sunlight.

"Remember what you said to me when I visited you in prison?" First/Angel asked Faith.

"I don't know me and Angel talked about a lot of things." Faith responded as everyone else simply watched how she handled the First.

"I seem to remember you saying to me and I quote 'Buffy with Spike huh so that would make you technically available' were those not your exact words."

Faith saw the smirk on the First's face and frowned at what it was trying to do.

"Yeah I said that to Angel but that along with the rest of what we talked about was between us."

"Including Connor,"

The moment the First brought up Connor's name Faith was shocked since she believed that Angel had kept his son's birth away from Sunnydale.

"I mean hey Angel really must be ready to put Buffy behind him since you're the slayer he told about his child."

From behind her Faith could hear a gasp which she assumed came from Willow.

"Now wait just a minute you know as well as I do that vampires can't have children." Giles said to the First who smiled evilly reminded those who remembered him of Angelus.

"You know that and I know that but someone didn't tell Darla and Angel that." The First/Angel said.

Buffy looked over to Faith who was already staring back at her basically confirming what the First had said was true but what hurt her the most was that Angel didn't come to her with this knowledge but rather Faith.

"Wait this Angel guy we've been talking about is a vampire?" Kennedy asked looking toward Willow.

Snapping out of her daze Willow realized that things could get very bad if the potentials found out exactly who Angel was.

"You got that right sweetheart but Angel is just a name the soul took on I think you would know him better if I referred to him by his real name does Angelus ring a bell." The First/Angel said with an evil smirk at the end when it revealed who Angel was.

Hearing this caused a good deal of the potentials to gasp as they'd known who Angelus was since the ones that had watchers told them he was by far the most dangerous vampire in history.

Faith realizing what was going on quickly turned to the Potentials to defend Angel, "He's different now he's been cursed with a soul for over a hundred years and has saved the world several times so don't let this thing fool you."

The first gave Faith a smile that was almost worthy of Angelus himself which caused Buffy to shiver when she thought of the vampire that could have wore her lovers face if he found perfect happiness.

"Well Faith I think you should give Angel a call because I think you'll find that he really does need your help." The First/Angel said causing both slayers to widen their eyes in fear as the First left.

Buffy snapped out of her trance then headed to the phone to call Angel to see if he really was alright only to find Faith already on the phone.

Faith waited as the phone rang four times before the answering machine picked up, she started to leave a message when a voice answered.

"Wesley is that you?" Faith asked as Buffy pushed the button for the speaker phone.

"Faith what are you doing out of prison?" Wesley asked in a different voice than everyone who knew him was use to.

"That doesn't matter is Angel alright?"

Faith listened for a response but heard nothing after a minute of waiting until Wesley spoke up.

"No Faith Angel is in trouble." Wesley said catching both Buffy and Faith's attention, "Apparently Angel was hunting down a demon and it ran into modern day temple, they fought Angel killed it but was possessed by the god of that temple."

Wesley finished as Buffy gritted her teeth in anger, upset at the fact that she was once again finding out info on Angel second hand while Faith's only goal now that she knew Angel was indeed in trouble was getting to L.A..

Faith decided it would be best to beat he sister slayer to the punch before Buffy stopped her, "Wes you guys need a slayer and since I am available maybe I should help."

Buffy looked toward Faith and frowned she knew she was just trying to see Angel, so she decided to volunteer herself only to have Wesley start before her.

"I suppose having a slayer here to help wouldn't be too bad especially if Angel is going to be out of commission for a while." Wesley said.

"So could you come and get me I don't think B here will give me a ride." Faith said while Buffy couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"Wait if all this was going on why didn't you or Cordelia contact me?" Buffy asked.

"Well Angel told his team that you were busy fighting the First Evil and that was more important than helping him." Wesley explained.

"Pryce is it true that Angel has a son?" Giles asked as everyone else in the room especially Buffy leaned in close to the phone.

"Yes Angel had sex with Darla about a year ago and somehow she became pregnant with a health human baby boy who Angel named Connor."

"But how could Dead-boy have a kid he's a vampire and vampires aren't suppose to have kids." Xander said confused as everyone else in the room was except for Faith.

"I have a theory on how and why it happened but I'll have to talk to Angel about it first, Faith I'll be arriving in Sunnydale to pick you by sunset."

Everyone in the house listened to the dial tone for a moment after Wesley got off of the phone except for Faith who turned to Molly, Kennedy, and Rona.

"I guess I should say thanks to the three of you." Faith explained as she moved to the door.

"But we didn't want you to break out to help a vampire we wanted you to help us." Rona said.

Faith sighed then decided to let everyone in the room including Buffy know just how important Angel was to her, "Look Angel never gave up on me even when I almost killed him B has moved on but for me Angel is the most important person in my life."

Buffy gritted her teeth as she listened to Faith's speech it was as though Faith knew to rub it in that Angel had dumped her and that he and Faith apparently had some type of relationship.

'I won't let you have Angel Faith.' Buffy thought as she locked eyes with her rival.

Halliwell Manor

Paige decided it would be best to leave Angel and Connor downstairs while she looked through the book for whatever type of god it was that possessed Angel since being around Angel suddenly made her want to jump him.

While searching through the book Paige heard a knock at the door running to the attic window she saw Daryl and Sheridan at the door.

Paige cursed quickly then headed downstairs to get the door but when she got downstairs she found Angel standing in the doorway talking to the two guests.

"Angel I see you've met Det. Sheridan and Lt. Morris." Paige said as Daryl glanced at her while Sheridan surprisingly eyed Angel.

"I just wanted to know why your sisters came to be questioned but you didn't." Sheridan asked as Paige gave a defiant stare.

"It doesn't matter my sisters answered your questions so stop harassing us."

"You know Ms. Matthews you think I made your lives miserable before think of what I could do if I actually put some effort into it."

Seeing Sheridan was stepping over the line Daryl stepped in and broke the two apart while Angel put Connor in one of Chris' cots.

"Look you two don't need to fight that never solves anything." Angel said as he moved behind Paige and rubbed her shoulders sensually.

"He's right Sheridan they've answered our questions already lets just go." Daryl said as he gave Sheridan a nudge toward the door.

When the two left Angel guided Paige to the couch while never stopping his shoulder rub.

"Paige you should really have listened to what the detective had to tell you before you started a fight." Angel scolded slightly while the object of his scolding was to busy fighting the feelings she was getting to notice.

As Angel continued to talk to her Paige did her best to fight off whatever it was that was happening to her before realizing that she could barely control herself around Angel since he'd become infected by the god.

Fighting off her emotions Paige stood then back away from Angel who did his best to move closer.

"Paige is something the matter you're blushing." Angel said as Paige made sure she kept the distance between them.

"The god that infected you was the god of lust wasn't he?" Paige asked causing Angel to stop advancing on her.

"No he's actually the god of peace and love that's why I need to be near you the love you have for me is strong Paige and I'm so sorry I didn't see it before but I see it now."

Expecting Paige to admit the love she had for him he found himself shocked when she orbed away though his surprise turned into a smile when he sensed she only orbed to the attic.

Angel started to follow her but found he was unable to move when he looked back he saw Connor still laying on the couch, smirking Angel realized that even though this god inside him wanted love he wasn't able to overpower the urge he had to protect his son.

Angel grabbed Connor before vanishing in falling hearts and reappearing in what he assumed to be Wyatt's room then put Connor in Wyatt's crib.

'I don't think Wyatt will mind if you use his crib.' Angel thought as vanished again.

The moment Paige entered the attic she began searching through the book of shadows hoping something would be in there that could help her.

Paige flipped through the pages while silently cursing Piper for not letting her color coordinate the book.

Seeing that she couldn't find what she was looking for she slammed her hands on the book frustrated, but that feeling changed when she felt strong hands rubbing her hips while pulling her into their strong chest.

"Paige you don't have to fight it." Angel said as the god let out pheromones which distracted Paige allowing Angel to turn her toward him so that she was facing him, "Now where were we before you ran off."

With that said Angel leaned down before capturing Paige's lips with his own causing her to moan into his mouth while he pulled her toward him.

As the kiss turned more passionate Paige allowed her hands to travel over Angel's body through his clothes.

Eventually, the two had to separate do to the lack of air for Paige whose eyes where now completely glossed over with a smile Angel took Paige into his arms as the two vanished.

When the two reappeared Paige noticed they were in her room, "Angel please you aren't yourself we shouldn't do this." This was Paige's finally plea to hopefully stop Angel from doing something he may regret once the god was gone.

The answer she got was Angel rubbing his hands over her breasts slowly while gliding her down to her bed.

"Angel"

Sunnydale

Staring at the particular spot Sahjhan finished his chanting as he continued to look at the spot before taking two steps back.

Once he'd stopped a bolt of lightning hit the spot Sahjhan had been staring at, a moment later a hand shot up through the ground causing Sahjhan's eyes to widen slightly as a large monster that was connected to the hand followed.

Sahjhan smirked as a demon made completely of stone with horns on the side of its head and cloven feet stood in front of him.

"Finally I was wondering how long it would take you to get through the dimensional barrier." Sahjhan said as the large creature eyed him before taking a swing at him.

"Good thing I'm not corporeal in this dimension that might have hurt but on to business you remember Angelus don't you." This question sent the monster in to a rage, "Good because he's still around and I happen to know where he is."

Hearing this caused the large demon to chuckle slightly as Sahjhan held his arm in the direction he wanted him to go.