Prologue

"Willow why aren't you coming to bed?" Angel said walking up behind her.

Willow looked over the balcony at the view of LA. She knew she was dreaming but why of Angel? She turned around in his arms loving the way his body felt against hers. He looked her in the eyes before leaning to capture her lips. Willow tensed for a moment but then surrendered to the pleasure of his touch. Angel pulled back and looked her in the eyes.

"Is there something wrong?"

"No just a feeling a little weird."

"Is this about Buffy again? When are you going to accept we are destined." Angel suddenly lifted Willow in his arms and carried her to the bed. He laid her down gently and started to undress her. "You may not accept the truth right now…" Angel ripped her nightgown off. "But soon you will have to."

Angel kissed her again, this time with a possessiveness Willow had never seen since Angelus. He started to move his hands over her body leaving red marks with his nails. Willow moaned from the movements and arched her body into his. Angel pulled his pants down and entered her in one quick stroke. He set a quick pace bringing Willow to orgasm quickly, he followed soon after biting her as he came.

Angel licked at the wound and whispered in her ear, "Soon it will all be clear."

Willow jumped up from her dream and looked around her room. She saw Tara still sleeping next to her and laid back down gently. She could still feel his kiss on her lips.

[But it was just a dream?] Willow thought getting up and walking to the bathroom. Willow turned on the water and splashed her face. She looked into the mirror and noticed a red mark on her neck. It wasn’t a bite but looked somewhat like one. She knew Tara hadn't done it, Tara never liked hickeys. Something was going on and Willow didn't think it was good.
 

Part One

Angel woke from his sleep wondering why he was dreaming of Willow. He was human in his dream and she kept telling him 'soon it will all be clear'. <What will be clear?> Angel licked his lips and could still taste her on his lips. <I need to call her, see how she's doing.> Angel looked at the clock and saw it was two in the morning. He decided to take a shower and research the latest case he was working on.

The next morning in Sunnydale, Willow couldn’t stop thinking about the dream she had. She wore a turtleneck to hide the mark on her neck hoping no one would notice how jumpy she was. Tara had suspected something, as Willow wouldn’t let her get close that morning. Willow had never acted that way towards her and she started to think that maybe Willow was having second thoughts. If she only knew.

Giles had called Willow to his house before he left on his trip to see Olivia. He wanted to make sure everything would be fine if some sort of situation occurred. Willow arrived last, without Tara and looking even more agitated.

"Willow is something the matter?" Giles asked taking in her appearance.

"No, nothing is wrong. Just tired I didn't get any sleep last night." Willow answered.

"Well you have my number and spare keys to my house. Please do not give them to Xander. That should be everything, I'll see you later."

Giles picked up his last suitcase and took it out to the cab. Willow hugged him goodbye and headed back in the house. She was really tired from not going back to sleep after her dream. Willow laid down on the couch and closed her eyes. Sleep came quickly for her.

She was in his room again. This time she noticed the broken glass in the balcony door.

"How did that happen?" She asked turning to him.

Angel stood up and touched her cheek, his hand was warm. "An old friend came by, I got rid of her."

"How do you feel about me?"

"I love you."

"I mean really feel about me. This is just a dream; of course you love me. But I want to know your real emotions, if you have any."

"Willow this is nonsense, you know how I feel. Look within yourself you'll see. Soon it will all be clear."

"What does that mean?"

Angel touched her stomach and kissed her gently. "Soon it will all be clear."

Willow woke from her dream feeling sick. She quickly ran to the bathroom and got rid of her breakfast from this morning.
 

Back in LA

Angel went to sleep wondering why he was dreaming about Willow so much. The last time she had bit him and drew blood. When he awoke he noticed a red bruise on his neck. He had a hard time convincing Cordelia it was a bruise from fighting.

Angel looked around his room and knew instantly he was dreaming.

"Why are you acting so weird?" Willow asked walking into the room.

"Why are you here?" He countered.

"Don’t be silly, it is destiny. Soon it will all be clear."

Willow walked up to him and kissed his chest. "Soon you will know the truth about us." She kissed him on the lips. "Submit and your desire shall be filled."

Angel grabbed her hands and held them back. "Tell me the truth, what is going on?"

"Soon it will all be clear." Willow pulled her arms free and backed away. Her eyes started to tear up and she grabbed her stomach. "I need your
help." Willow fell to the ground in pain and Angel ran to her.

"Willow!" He screamed sitting up in bed.
 

Part Two

Buffy started to beat on Giles' door. It was past eight and nobody had seen or heard form her since that morning. Buffy gave up and entered the house by an open window in back. She ran up the stairs and almost screamed as she saw her best friend passed out on the floor of the bathroom.
Willow ran out of the bedroom to the lobby of the hotel. "Why is this happening?" she screamed. Angel was no where in sight and she was scared.
Willow closed her eyes, when she opened them she was in a white chamber with two people surrounding her.

"You asked a question?" The female inquired, she was dressed in white and her skin was blue-sliver.

"Who are you? Why am I here?"

"That is not the question you asked." The male responded. His blue-gold skin distracted Willow for a while.

"Leave her be." The female started, "We are the Oracles, links to the powers above. You are here because you are chosen."

"Chosen for what?"

The male walked over to Willow and placed his hand over her stomach. "Soon it will all be clear. Go to the warrior, he needs your service. He needs his youth."

Willow awoke in a hospital bed. She looked around the room and saw Tara, Buffy, Xander and Anya sitting around talking heatedly about something.

"Who do you think it is?" Anya asked turning to Tara who was crying.

"I don’t know, why are you asking me?" Tara replied.

Buffy placed her arm around her. "It's going to be okay Tara we'll ask Willow when she wakes up."

"I am up." Everyone jumped and turned to look at Willow. "What is going on?"

Buffy stood up and sat on the side of the bed. "Do you remember what happened."

Willow shook her head.

"You were supposed to meet me at the coffee shop for lunch. You didn't come and no one knew where you were so we all went looking for you. Xander called Giles' house but no one answered so after he left I went over there and broke in. I found you in the bathroom passed out. You kept saying 'it will all be clear' and you wouldn’t wake up so I called an ambulance. After the doctor examined you he said you were in a coma."

"I was in a coma? How long have I been out?"

"Two weeks. Giles came back two days ago, he's out getting coffee. There's more Willow…"

Willow looked confused and scared. "What else?"

"Well the doctors ran all these tests on you and it seems…" Buffy looked at Tara. "Willow you're pregnant."

Tara jumped up and walked over to the bed. "How could you do this to me? I kind of noticed you were distant before but I didn't know…" Tara trailed off, she turned and ran out the room running into Giles as she left.

"That is not possible." Willow shouted. "I haven't been with anyone else. You believe me right?" Willow looked into the disbelieving faces of her friends and started to cry. "I swear I wasn’t with anyone else. How can this be?"

Giles walked into the room and looked at the scene. Willow was crying, Xander and Buffy were looking at their feet, while Anya was looking confused.

"What is going on?" Giles asked.

"I told her what was going on." Buffy said, "She needed to know, Tara broke down and left."

"Are you alright Willow?" Giles walked over to her and took her hand.

"This isn't possible Giles, I haven't been with anyone but Tara."

"I believe you, but you have to agree that something is going on. Do you remember anything that seems out of the ordinary, before you passed out?"

Immediately Willow thought of Angel, she was about to say his name when she looked at Buffy. "I started having these dreams, the last one had Oracles in it."

"Oracles? What did they tell you?"

"They told me I was chosen, that 'soon it will all be clear'. It was something about the warrior needing me in his service, and something about his youth."

Giles thought for a while, trying to remember any references to a warrior. He frowned when he came up with a few hundred. "I can't think of anything right now but I will check my books and call in a few favors. We will get to the bottom of this."

After everyone had gone home for the night, the doctors told her she could go home in two days. She didn't want to call any of them right then, she could only think of Angel. She was pregnant and she started to think she was pregnant by Angel. Willow picked up the phone and dialed his number.

"Angel Investigations we help the helpless" A voice she didn't recognize answered the phone.

"Can I speak with Angel?" She asked her voice shaking.

"He's out right now, if you have a problem you can speak with me. My name is Gunn I'm one of his coworkers."

"No it's okay." Willow hung up the phone and laid down to rest.
 

LA…

Gunn hung up the phone and turned around to Cordelia.

"So do we have another client?" She asked.

"No, some woman called for Angel. She sounded kind of sad."

"Did she say who she was?"

"No."

"Did you look at the caller ID?"

"Oh yeah I forgot about that." Gunn lifted up the caller I'd and read the panel. "Sunnydale General, that sounds familiar."

"I'm from Sunnydale you nitwit. Now did she have a light bubbly voice, a medium pitched light voice or sound like a complete idiot."

"The second one I think. Why?"

"Probably was Willow, she never leaves a message when she calls. Buffy never calls and I'm not even talking about Anya."

"Well aren't you worried? I mean they're in the same line of work as us right? And she's calling from the hospital right?"

"When I was in Sunnydale, we were in the hospital at least twice a month. If she was in trouble she would have left a message for him to call her."

The phone started to ring again, this time Cordelia answered. "Angel Investigations, we help the helpless."

"Cordelia?"

"Giles is that you?" She said disbelieving.

"Yes, I was wondering if Angel was in."

"No he's out fighting some icky demon."

"When he comes in could you tell him to call me. It's very important, it concerns Willow."

"She just called here a few minutes ago."

"Did she? Hmm…"

"What was the hmm about? You can tell me."

"Willow is pregnant, and has no idea how it happened."

"You know one time I was impregnated by this demon. Was she in contact with any weird guys lately?"

"Actually we have gone through where she has been the past few months and no one remembers her being alone for more than a few hours. She says she's been having dreams about some man coming to her. In one she was even confronted by Oracles from the powers above."

"Wait, Oracles? One male, one female both blue with gold or silver?"

"Yes how do you know of them?"

"Angel told me about them, he's in contact with them a lot." Cordelia turned to Gunn and gave him a worried look.

"I feel there is something Willow isn't telling me. I have to go now, I'm still at Buffy's house and you know how she gets about Angel."

"I feel you, I'll tell Angel when he gets in about whats going on."

"Thank you Cordelia and I wish you well. I never told you how much I miss your presence in our meetings."

"Thanks and I do miss you all. I plan on coming down there one weekend."

"Well you always have friends here. Bye now Cordelia, I hope to see you soon."

"Bye." Cordelia hung up the phone and took a deep breath reflecting on her life.

"You okay?" Gunn asked.

"I just miss them sometimes. What is taking them so long? Something bad is happening and they need Angel for some reason."

As if on cue Angel and Wesley came in from their long night of slaying demons.

Gunn leaned back in his chair, "What took you guys so long? Especially you Angel who seems to be the man of the hour."

Angel sat down behind the desk. "What are you talking about?" He said in a annoyed manner.

"Calm down man, you have had two calls from Sunnyhell. First from this girl Willow, second from Giles. Seems Willow is in the hospital, has been talking to the Oracles and she's pregnant. Now I don’t know what you people do in Sunnydale but I don’t think its one of my first choices as a vacation spot."

Angel walked past everyone to his office closing the door behind him.

"Okay was that weird or am I just seeing things." Gunn said.

"I do agree he does seem agitated." Wesley responded.

Cordelia strolled over to Gunn and touched his shoulder. "He's been acting kind of weird the past few weeks, I hope he doesn’t fire us again. Come on Gunn walk me home."

After they all left Angel walked out of his office and called Willows number. After three rings he got an answer.

"Hello?" The voice said.

"Can I speak to Willow?"

"You can find the slut at the hospital." With that she hung up the phone.

Angel then dialed the number to the hospital.

"Hello Sunnydale General how may I help you?" A nurse said answering the phone.

"Can I speak with Willow Rosenberg please?"

"Do you have the room number?"

"No."

"Hold please."

After a few minutes of listening to classical music Angel was relieved to hear Willows voice over the phone.

"Hello?"

"Willow, its me Angel."

"I know, I can tell your voice."

"I heard what was going on and I needed to speak with you. I need to know about your dreams. What happens in them and who are you dreaming of?"

"Angel this may sound strange but I dream of you. All of the time now and its hard because they seem so real. Once you bit me and the next morning I had a red mark on my neck. And you kept saying 'soon it…"

"…will all be clear." He finished for her.

"How do you know about that?"

"I've been having similar dreams, except you told me that. Everytime you would come and seduce me. The last dream I had you placed my hand on your stomach, it was like I could feel you were pregnant."

"Do you think I should come to LA?"

"I don’t know there are so many things going on here. Darla is back from hell, she is trying to kill everything important to me. I don’t want you in danger Willow. I… I-"

"Don’t say it, I already know. I am your destiny and you are mine. Angel in some way I have always loved you, its just now everything has become clear." Willow started to laugh.

"I feel the same way, but what about the baby? How does it fit into everything, is the baby mine?"

"I'm sure it is, no one else has touched me but you. It was in my dream but I've learned that nothings impossible."

"When are you getting out the hospital?"

"Two days."

"Come to LA, I need to see you."

"I will, not even wild demons could keep me away. I'm am at the warriors service."
 

Part Three

Two days later Willow was on her way to LA. Angel refused to return any of Giles' calls and everyone in Sunnydale was getting worried. After Willow was released from the hospital she learned all of her things were moved from Tara's room into her own and vice versa. Tara wouldn’t even speak to her and Buffy started hanging out with Tara more and more.

Willow looked out the window of the bus and looked at the desert highway. A few more hours she would be in the arms of Angel. Her Angel, she corrected herself. They were destined, the Oracles said so. She had a bad feeling about their baby, that they weren't going to be able to keep her or something. Willow moved her head against the window and fell asleep.

She looked around and saw Sunnydale High. Willow looked at everyone walking into the building, after a while she noticed herself and Xander walking through the doors. Willow quickly followed her double through the doors and ducked behind a corner as she saw Buffy walking slowly behind them.

"So Wills whatcha up to today?" Xander asked putting his arm around her.

"Nothing really, I was just thinking about Angel."

"Why are you thinking about deadboy?"

"Well yesterday I ran into him and he kissed me."

"So I take it you like him."

"Yeah, but what about Buffy?"

"Forget about her, I don’t like him all that much but you two are destined. I'm happy for you."

Just as Xander was about to hug Willow, Buffy came up from behind them and grabbed Willow by her arm. "How could you!" Buffy screamed as she pulled a stake out and plunged it through Willows chest.

Willow awoke in another hospital room, this time surrounded by Angel and Cordielia. Once she started to sit up Angel rushed to her side helping her up.

"So you finally woke up." Cordielia said from the other side of the room.

"How long was it this time?" Willow asked getting herself comfortable.

Angel spoke up. "Three days, I went to pick you up and when you arrived you wouldn’t wake up. I went to move you and noticed the blood on your shirt."

"Blood… on my shirt. But it was a dream, wasn’t it?"

"What did you dream about?" Angel asked.

"I was back in high school and I was talking to Xander about you." Willow paused and looked at Cordielia.

"Its okay she won't say anything." Angel reassured her.

"I told him that you kissed me and he wished us well. Then Buffy came up behind me, grabbed my arm and stabbed me with a stake."

"What am I missing here?" Cordy asked jumping up.

"Cordy, Willow and I are having these strange dreams about each other. It seems the oracles are pushing us together for some reason. The baby she is carrying is mine, I don’t know how they did it but I am going to be a father."

"Well this is totally weird, but I seem to be used to weird things going on when we are concerned. So you're going to be a father?"

"It seems so."

~~~*~~~~

Across town Lilah Morgan was going through some of her case files when she received a call.

"Lilah Morgan." She said answering the phone.

"This is Garret Taylor. Do you remember me Ms Morgan?"

"Yes, you worked for Lindsey right?"

"Yeah, look he had me watching that vampire Angel. The reason why I'm calling is that a few days ago he went to the bus station to pick up some chick named Willow Rosenberg coming in from Sunnydale. When the bus arrived at the station this girl was rushed to the hospital because she had some sort of stab wound on her chest. Angel gets there and goes a berserk on the doctors because they wouldn’t release any information to him because he's not family. They change their minds once he tells them he the father of her baby.."

"Baby? Is there more?" Lilah asked suddenly interested.

"Yeah, I was standing by her hospital room when he told his secretary that he is indeed the father of her baby."

"Garret I need for you to do something else for me. It’s a really small favor."

"Sure anything, just as long as I get paid."

Lilah started to explain what she needed. After a few moments she hung up the phone and started to laugh.

"This is going to be so perfect." She said walking to the office meeting.
 

Part Four

The next day Willow was released from the hospital. Angel ushered her to the hotel making sure she didn't feel uncomfortable. Willow got along well with Gunn and she had no problem with Wesley or Cordelia. After she was settled Willow called Giles and told him everything. He decided to keep it a secret from Buffy because he knew she would never understand what was going on.

"So are you sure you're not coming back to us?" Giles asked sadly.

"Yeah, I know right now you probably don’t understand but I have to be here. Angel needs me right now and I need him."

"I understand all to well Willow, I really do. I'm going to let you go now, someones at the door."

"Tell Buffy I said hi."

"I will." Giles hung up the phone and ran to open the door revealing Buffy, along with Tara. "I'm surprised to see you here so early." Giles said with interest.

"We were wondering if you heard anything from Willow yet?" Buffy asked.

"Actually I just got off the phone with her. She is in San Francisco with one of her Aunts."

"Really? I didn't know she had family there."

"Well she does and she said to tell everyone hi."

"Did she ask about me?" Tara said solemnly.

"She wanted to know how you were doing. I told her you were doing okay considering what has happened. Believe me Tara, I know Willow and she would never do something like that to you."

"I want to believe you, but the day before I saw a hickey on her neck. I don’t do things like that, and she kept trying to hide it from me."

"Tara, I don’t know exactly what the oracles want from Willow, but I know what kind of a person she is. Willow never wanted to hurt you, she didn't tell you about the dreams because she didn't know what to make of them herself."

"What about what happened with Xander?"

"That was a long time ago, it was a stupid mistake both of them. She is older and wiser now, don’t let some mistake she made in her past affect your view of her now"

"I wish it was that simple. Come on Buffy lets go, bye Giles, I'll see you later."

Buffy followed Tara out the door saying bye to Giles as she left.

"What am I going to do?"

~~~*~~~

Back in LA

Angel walked Willow to her room occasionally stealing a glance at her wondering what he should do.

"So here we are." Angel said opening the door to her room.

"Where do you sleep?" She asked unsure of herself.

"Down the hall, I won't be to far from you… I couldn’t get in contact with the oracles. I don’t think that you or the child is safe here. I want to protect you but I don’t know from what."

Willow reached her hand up to his cheek. "Don’t worry so much Angel. I have faith in you and I know you will do everything possible to protect our child."

"I hope I can." Angel placed his hand over hers and leaned down and kissed her gently. "I think I should go now… before anything happens."

"I don’t feel safe alone… please stay with me. I… if anything happens let it happen. I need to be with you right now… Just hold me until I go to sleep."

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