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[lilahindeath]

Watching Angel's little boy walking around like a lost caveman put a jig in my step. He was the key to getting Angel to fall. It's always easy to get what you want from parents. Just twist the knife in the right way and they will do your biding without even a blink

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[superhero_son]

I was hunting, hoping to find somthing else to kill, because it eased the pain of bein alone.

I mean this time, I didn't even have Holtz here with me to tell me about what a bad thing my biological father was. There was just this dirty place with demons that were dying way too easily.

I could feel that former rage coming back and the power felt good, but I missed the Reilly's and college and being away from violence.

I was hunting a demon and had tracked it around a corner when I heard something behind me, and spun, thinking that it had doubled back on me.

What I saw, was somebody familiar. It was that Lilah chick from Wolfram and Hart and I knew that she wasn't exactly the most wholesome of people and was filled with evil.

I thought about shoving the dagger through her heart, but had already seen her killed before, by Cordy, no less, and I decided against it, although I did give her the evil eye.

"They actually have cheeseburgers here?" I asked, irritated and interested.

[lilahindeath]

Oh that little glint of evil in his eyes is simply decadent. Like a glass of fine aged wine. You simply have to cultivate it and make it into something special.

I didn't even bother trying to hide my smirk. The kid wasn't tops on the social skill platform but he was raw and rawness inspires honesty at times.

"If you can call those rat burgers cheese, sure. Not sure if you'd like the toy surprises in the little boys box but I will even spring for it."

Studying him I shook my head. He should have been our ultimate goal, not Daddy. This one has so much more potential.

[superhero_son]

"I see," I said, noddin my head up and down.

I was thinking and in my perfect humanity, with the Reilly's, I had seen a lot of this in movies and read about his a lot in books and comic books.

Wherever I did gowith her, and whatever I ate, would probably be poisoned or drugged or something, and then I would be under her control.

But, looking at it from another angle, I shrugged my shoulders and lookd at the plus side. She may have been an evil bitch, but at least I knew her, and she wasn't as evil as a lot of the demons here were.

"Sure, I'll go for the burger thing, just as long as you know that you have no control over me and won't get me to do anything for you."

I smiled. I loved away my former anger and my former good college boy collided. It gave me a perfect balance of anger and fight and sensibility.

Even dead and away from everyone that I cared about, I considered that to be a good thing.

[lilahindeath]

Motioning at him, I turned and started off for the closest place to digest the foulest of tastes. Sorry, was never into the food of trailer park divas. And how can someone be a diva if they are simply white trash? I mean, think about it. Trashy tramps just don't generally score high in my book.

And that was completely off of the subject. Need to keep my mind on the subject at hand.

A very strong and unpredicatable child who could snap my neck at anytime.

Not that it would kill me. But it would hurt like hell and as much as I enjoy other's pain, my own is not high on my list of things to do.

"So how much of your real past do you remember? Daddy tell you all the gory details on how he slit your throat?"

[superhero_son]

I stopped and with my arm, stopped her right there.

"Just for your information, Lilah, how stupid do I look? Do you really thinkthat I can fall for such a random lie that concerns something as big as my throat. Angel may be a lot of thins, he may do alot of things, but one thing that he would never do would be to slit my throat, unless he was Angelus and even then, he still might not."

I actually smiled for her.

It was amusing to think that she thought that she could so easily maneuver me into hating him, especially since he wasn't here.

Thinking about Angel battling and winning made me smile even more.

"Turning m against my father is worthelss and useless, Lilah. Besides, he isn't even here for whatver game you are trying to play."

[lilahindeath]

"It's on tape."

I moved on not stopping as I smiled to myself. He would be easy to play, just needed little baby steps to do it with.

"Did you remember his vacation at sea yet? Connor, I don't have to turn you against your father. You were already turned."

A few more steps and I turned around giving him a somber look.

"And who says he isn't here? Maybe he just doesn't want you around. Again."

[superhero_son]

If this was some kind of alternate reality, then it wasn't really working, because yeah, I had banished my father at sea, but he had never as much as lifted a finger to me for that and all of my memories were back....or were they

[lilahindeath]

Giving him a shrug I turned back around chuckling. Threatening to kill the dead really isn't a huge detriment. What would happen? I make it into heaven? Not hardly. More likely just into the next step in this little Dante's Inferno. Who knows it may be a better view.

"First let's get you some food. You are a growing boy. Sadly, you'll always be a growing boy."

If he had the chance to make it to manhood I bet he would have been a helluva looker, but he's forever trapped in that gangly almost man stage. Pity.

Of course when Cher finally kicks the bucket I am sure she'll be trying to hook up with him. She was always going for the baby look. Her or that Michael Jackson fellow. Wasn't sure which way little Connor swung myself.

"And why would I lie to you? Takes to much time to create a lie and keep with it. Just one question, if Daddy didn't off you why would he had to do that mind wipe with every one of them?"

[superhero_son]

It wasn't something that we had talked about on those two or three ocassions when we had spoke after he brought me back.

But again, I was thinking that Lilah had lost her marbles. Maybe when she died, the whole head-getting-cut-off-thing had done some damage to her cranium.

It wasn't even possible. There was the fact thatWesley and the freaky blue woman had been there when my memories had returned, but if he had killed me, why did I end up back at the lawfirm that day?

I wouldn't have been this collge boy who thought that his last name was Connor Reilly who had the freakish strength to get hit by a van and not die.

I just would have been dead.

"I think that I can pass on the rat burger until after I see all of your proof on thi videotape."

[lilahindeath]

"So be it."

I started for my office not waiting for him to follow. I knew he would. He was a tracker after all, better than a bloodhound. Hell I bet he even sniffed the air like one.

"So how did you enjoy dying? Mine was a little painful, but it only lasted a minute and I got all of this."

[superhero_son]

I had been getting the feeling that she was carrying with her this air of superiority, and now it was all starting to make sense.

It was all starting to fall together. It didn't really enrage me, because again, while this place had tried to pester and coerce my real father, Angel into doing all sorts of things for them, and even with this certain lie that he had slit my throat in the past, it still was better then Quartoth, which Holtz had told me, she was responsible for sending me to.

And it reminded me of Angel and Gunn and Wes, just thinking about Wolfram and Hart.

I knew enough to kno what she was implying, regardless of how stupid that she thought that I was.

"Didn't enjoy the dying so much, especially since the very place that I died, seemed to be the very place that I have come to, only on a different plane."

She looked at me with shock.

College does make you smart.

[lilahindeath]

"Come again?"

I was lost. And that was a rarity for me. I generally was the one getting someone else lost because they couldn't keep up.

"Don't tell me you think I had anything to do with that final battle. Because as much as I would like to be on top here I am not."

Okay, maybe a little to do with it but seriously, not that much. So not a Senior Partner. Yet.

[superhero_son]

I studied her. Just for that moment, having that stalemate with someone who I knew was generally somebody who always liked to have the mental edge.

I didn't illusion myself that I was more intelligent then she was, but I did believe that I had her off guard, which was a stretch, and instead of telling her what I really meant, I decided to play the cards how they were dealt.

"You didn't have anything to do with the final battle, you say? What do you mean by final battle? It was the final battle for me, but I wouldn't call it a battle. A beam fell on my head and broke my neck and probably caused a lot of brain damage, which oddly, I don't feel now. How was it a final battle? What are you telling me, Lilah?"

I left the part out about this obviously being a Wolfram and Hart hell dimension, if she just walked around the place that was like a hell, with no protection, as if she was walking in the suburbs with headphones on, alone, like my mother used to do...and hopefully still did.

[lilahindeath]

"So many questions from such a young man

[superhero_son]

What a big surprise. She gets all quiet and then we enter a building where a guard who would have lasted about five seconds if I wanted him to, was waiting.

And now, as we entered her office and she turned on the television, I knew that she was totally playing with me.

I didn't like how I was letting Quartoth Connor take over for Connor Reilly, but when ou were being messed with mentally, you couldn't help but get a little angry.

Even if part of you wanted to laugh at her lame efforts to get under your skin.

"I don't drink, so no, no drink for me. And what is this about Faith, now? What happened to Faith?"

[lilahindeath]

"Pity. Sometimes this place really needs a shot to deal with."

I downed the first of what I knew would be many drinks for the night. Not like this reality would allow for me to get smashed enough to forget it. Hell isn't like that.

"Little Faith didn't make it to the big battle. Poor thing was in the line of fire of a drunk."

I watched his face to see what would appear. From prior knowledge I knew he was into older women. Was she enough older to even register?

The screen started playing a fight scene of some of the current slayers.

"So what did you want to see first?"