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Spoilers: Up to Buffy 5, Angel 2
Summary: Angel's thoughts.

Angel was a nervous wreck. It was an hour until his wedding to Buffy. He paced up and down the small room until Doyle complained that he was getting dizzy watching him. He looked down at the cross Buffy had Liam give to him. The same one he gave Buffy the first night they met. It reminded him of a time when he couldn't hold the antique cross that his mother had given to him when he reached 18. How it would burn him. He was then reminded of the time right after he killed Darla the first time. They had met up at the Bronze and kissed. Buffy had been wearing his cross and he could feel it burn his chest as they kissed.

There was a knock on the door as Liam entered the room.

"Dada! Tis prom Mama!" Angel scooped up his son as the boy opened his hand to reveal the silver Claddagh he had given to Buffy on her 17th birthday.

"Thank you, little man." The toddler, already so much like his father, had on a tuxedo exactly like Angel's except smaller. The groomsmen, Doyle, Spike, Oz, Doug, and Mark were all as cool as cucumbers. Liam laughed and squirmed in Angel's arms. The baby played with the ring around his neck.

Angel still couldn't believe what was happening. Always, in the furthest part of his mind, he thought his life was a dream. It was too perfect. Him and Buffy having a son and getting married. It was always something he dreamed of after he would see Buffy during the 5 years they were apart. Never in a million years would he have thought that those dreams would someday become reality. He thought back to the day he became human again.

FLASHBACK

Angel had fought his last demon and had actually come so very close to dying on several occasions. But the thing that always brought him back was Buffy. The last demon he had to face was his own: Angelus. Through a spell, Angel and Angelus had been split into two separate entities. One human and one a vampire. Angel had to stake his own face; his own body and acknowledge that he and Angelus were 2 completely different beings. After the battle, he had gone to see Buffy. Things hadn't gone too well, Cordy hadn't informed Angel that Buffy's latest boyfriend had recently been killed and that Carlos was the closest of all the boyfriends she had had during college. Carlos had just been the latest in a string of guys that had been killed because they didn't know about vampires and demons. Buffy hadn't been able to protect any of them.

He had found her after the funeral sobbing on a bench in Weatherly Park, looking totally miserable. So, he had gone over, wrapped his arms around her and let her express her grief. He didn't even ask what had happened until Buffy was calm and collected again.

"Mr. O'Connor? Are you ready?"

The priest's voice jarred him from his reverie and brought him up to the present from the memories of two years ago.

"Yes, I am." And suddenly, Angel felt no fear. He, Buffy, and Liam were three parts to the same whole. And he hoped that he and Buffy could make more parts to that whole. Angel longed for a daughter.

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