Chapter 2: Daddy Comes Calling

Logan looked around him and scowled at the smells he was getting from a supposedly sleepy town. It stank of evil and death. His son was here and he intended to find him and get the hell out of Dodge. The Professor had helped find where his boy had been taken. Tony Harris, his late wife's brother, was supposed to live in this town. He had been the one raising his boy.

Many of Logan's memories had returned slowly, recently. He didn't like wha! t he remember about Harris. The man had been a drunk and a bully. In fact Logan had nearly killed the bastard after he hit Helen in front of him. No one touched his wife. The man had hated mutants with a vengeance. How would his son have fared in the man's care?

Then there were the strange things that the Professor had found out about the town. It seemed to have a high death rate, too many cemeteries and a gang problem.

Remy had hacked into the local administration offices to find a listing of the Harris' and information on his son. What the Cajun had found had enraged Logan. The Harris' had changed Alex's last name to Harris and the boy no longer carried his name. Then there was the number of times he had been in the hospital. More recently it had seemed to be every other week.

His name had been linked to several other people, all of whom had been listed as either suspects in crimes or heralded as the reason that the crimes had been stopped.

Slim had contacted a friend in Shield after Remy had found a red flag by the military on both his son and the group he hung out with.

What they had found had shocked the hell out of all of them and Logan had had to threaten several people before they promised to stay away from the town.

Unfortunately the same tactics that kept them away kept him from gaining information. The bastards refused to tell Scott or himself what it was that caused such a frenzy.

He had a couple of addresses and decided to check out his son's first. Maybe he could get some answers and see if the boy woul! d have anything to do with him.
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Willow arched her back and yawned again. She looked around Xander's apartment and decided they needed to order some food to feed everyone. Buffy was on the phone talking to Rona and telling the girl to do the same. No one was sure what they were going to do now that the First was defeated. They had all decided that they didn't want to stay in Sunnydale any longer. The hellmouth was dead. There was no way it could be reopened and the demons and vamps had already fled town.

No one wanted to stick around a town where the most dangerous and First Evil had been defeated. The Scoobies and their group were now considered the boogie men of demons all over.

Giles had already decided that they wou! ld take the potentials and get out of town. The only one that he hadn't talked to was Xander and that was because he was still asleep. That was worrying everyone.

Spike and Angel had risen several hours earlier and Angel had already told them that he would take them all in if they wanted. It was obvious to anyone with eyes that Angel and Spike had renewed their bond.

Buffy had already settled that she and Angel would never be together again. They had too much history between them and too much pain to get past.

After all that Spike had done to help them over the years, and more recently, she hoped that things worked out well between them.

They had decided to take Angel up on his offer and hoped that his crew would accept them until they could decide on what they wanted to! do with their futures.

Angel lifted his head and frowned at the door a second before the knocking began. Spike was the first one to the door and was growling.

When he opened it and got a look at the man on the other side of the door he was confused. "Who are you and what do you want?" Spike asked rudely.

The Scoobies all rolled their eyes over his antics and looked at the door, wondering who it was.

"Name's Logan and I'm looking for my son. That bastard Harris told me my kid was livin here," Logan growled out in response.

"Move, Spike!" Willow suddenly exclaimed from behind the over protective vamp and shoved her way around him until she was looking at the man in question.

"Oh my goddess! You are Xander's dad!" Willow exclaimed.&nbs! p;

The others looked at one another in confusion, then in worry when Willow suddenly reached up and slapped him. "How dare you come here after leaving Xander to be raised by those monsters?" she all but screamed.

Logan looked at the tiny slip of a girl who had the nerve to strike him. Not many people were brave enough to do so. The fact that she was doing it in defense of his son and was not even a bit intimidated by him was a little disconcerting. "I've had amnesia for the last 17 years. Until a few months ago I didn't even know my real name, let alone the fact that I had a child or a wife," Logan told her bluntly. Knowing that he wouldn't get a chance to know his son if he didn't tell the truth.

The fact that both the girl and the blond were so protecive said something to him. The girl's reaction also con! firmed his fear that his son had been abused by Harris.

"Come in. I'm sorry I slapped you, but Xander's my best friend. They hurt him really bad, you have no idea how hard it was for Xander. They made him call them mom and dad and they tried to destroy everything good in his life," Willow told him as she dragged him into the house.

As he followed in bemused silence he looked around him and got a sense of those in the room. As he did, he realized that the blond and the large dark haired man were not human. He was certain that they were vampires, but wasn't sure because if he wasn't mistaken they were among two Slayers.

His Helen had been a Slayer. It was what got her killed. The demon had killed her and had dumped her on their doorstep. Two days later he was taken by the soldiers and his son was left a! lone at the mercy of the Harris'.


end part 2