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New Beginnings: Look Who's Coming To Dinner
By Marie

Well it had been three weeks since Wesley came back to Angel Investigations. He was working very closely with Fred and she had not given him any slack. In fact, most of the time she was downright hostile. Cordy had told him that Fred had been very different since he had gone on his trip. She was totally committed to work. Wes would not have minded but this morning she had rejected one of his ideas when he and everyone else knew he was right. They went with Fred’s suggestion, cause “She’s the boss”. The results were that Gunn and Anne both were hurt by the power demon. Luckily they would both be OK. If only they would have gone with Wesley’s plan. Everything would have been fine.

Well Wesley had other problems tonight, his dad was coming to take him out to dinner. Wesley’s dad was not a nice man. He gave Wes a hard time whenever he could. To make matters worse, he was a total womanizer. He treated Wesley’ mom like crap. He never made Wesley feel like he was proud of him or cared about him in any way.

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That afternoon Fred was walking up to her apartment when she heard Wes and his dad on the flight of stairs above her. She heard his dad saying “Wesley, it figures you would live in a dump. I told you to go back to the council but you will never listen. You are just like your mother. No wonder women never want to be around you. Speaking of women are there any babes around here? Your mom is being a real pain in the ass lately.”

****
“Dad”, Wesley said, “What you do is your business but I am not going to help you hurt mom. Keep me out of it.”

“Yea, Yea, Mr. Nice Guy…It’s no wonder you will be alone the rest of your life.” His dad said.

***
Fred could not believe what she heard. How could Wesley’s dad treat him that way. She had to come up with a plan. She started running up the stairs. “Wesley, Wesley” she shouted. Wes and his dad turned around. “Oh, I am sorry”, Fred said. “I did not realize that you had company”.

“Hello Fred, This is my dad, Richard Wyndham-Pryce. Dad this is Fred, she is running Angel Investigations now.”

“Nice to meet you Mr. Wyndham-Pryce”, said Fred.

“Well Fred, nice to meet you. You live right across the hall, huh?”, Richard said while smirking.

“Yep, sure do”, replied Fred.

“Well why don’t you join us for dinner Fred, we are going to Antonio’s”, Richard said.

“Dad”, Wesley chimed in, “I don’t think that is such a good idea.”

“Nonsense son, I would like to get to know her.”

“Sure Mr. Wyndham-Pryce, I would love to go”, replied Fred. “I just need to run inside and freshen up. I will meet you out in here about 15 minutes.”

“No problem” Richard replied. After Fred went inside Wesley said,

“Dad, I hope you are not planning on hitting on Fred.” His dad replied,

“Wesley, I hope you are not planning on spoiling my fun in L.A.”

****
As soon as Fred entered her apartment she called Cordelia. “Cordy, I just met Wesley’s dad and he is a total dick. Can you do me a favor and meet me at Antonio’s in about an hour and half?”

“Sure Fred, what’s going on?”

Fred told Cordy the plan and hung up to go meet the guys. Right before she left her living room, she grabbed a green crystal from her bag.

At the restaurant Fred listened to Richard criticize Wes for about ten minutes until she said. “I forgot my cell phone, I need to go get it in case someone calls.” Richard replied,

“Wes, why don’t you go get the phone for Fred.”

“But dad”

“Wesley, please be a gentleman and go get it,” Richard said quite rudely.

“Whatever dad, I will be right back”.

After Wes left, Fred grabbed the crystal as she looked at the two very attractive women at the table beside her. “Amora” she whispered under her breath.

“So Fred”, Richard said, “Wes tells me you are the boss, that must be very exciting”. Before she could answer, one of the women came over.

“I could not help but notice your boyfriend had a really cool watch” she said.

“Oh, he is not my boyfriend” Fred replied.

“Oh really, so he is available I assume?” asked the woman.

“Yea sure whatever”, Fred replied.

“Wait a minute”, the second lady said, “I called first dibs on him”.

“Look, I will give him both of your names and numbers, and he can pick who he wants, just please go away”, snapped Fred. She was watching Richard out of the corner of her eye, and he was about to fall out of his chair.

“See this is why it is hard to hang around Wes, women are fawning over him all of the time. “ Fred muttered.

“What are you serious, they fawn over Wesley? That is impossible, he has never said anything about it,” replied Richard.

“That’s because he does not notice, he is to busy helping people, which is a good thing. If not he would have slept with half of LA by now.” Fred said.

“Well Fred, have you tried to entice my son?”

“Oh no! Mr. Wyndam-Price, I would never live up to his standards, after Virginia and everything.”

“Who’s Virginia?”

“Just the most beautiful woman in LA, and richest too. She and Wes were a hot item a few years ago. I don’t want to compete with that and all the other chicks lusting after him. Can we please talk about something else?”

“OK, here is your phone”, Wes said as he came back to the table.

“Son, glad you are back, I was thinking after dinner, you and I could go to a movie and spend some time together.”

“OK, dad”.

“Oh! I see Cordelia”, Fred said, “ Do you care if I invite her to join us?”

“Not at all”, Richard said.

****
The rest of dinner went very well. Richard was as nice to Wesley as he has ever been in his whole life. After dinner the music started playing. “Mr. Wyndham-Price”, Cordy said on cue, “would you like to dance?”

“Of course”Richard said, “I always want to dance with a beautiful woman.”

“Oh” Cordy replied.”Now I see where Wes gets his sexiness.”

As they were dancing Richard asked Cordy “So you think Wes is sexy too?”

“Of course, doesn’t everybody,” said Cordy.

****
As this dance was going on Fred, still sitting at the table, looked at Wes. “Wes, I am sorry I didn’t listen to your idea this morning. I got Gunn and Anne hurt because I did not listen to you. It will never happen again. I want us to work as a team. Can we call a truce?”

“Of course Fred, I want to help people however we can, I am also sorry for some of the things I have said lately to you and I was pretty rude to you and Gunn last year. Can we shake hands on it?”, Wes asked.

“I have a better idea, let’s dance on it”, laughed Fred.

****
As Fred and Wesley danced to the song, he was thinking the night he had dreaded all day, turned out not to be so bad. He and Fred were friends again and his dad was starting to be nice to him for some strange reason.

****
After Fred and Cordy left the guys to have their night on the town, Cordy said “Fred I can’t you believe you put a spell on all of those women.”

“What do you mean?” asked Fred.

“Women were undressing Wesley with their eyes all night, at the restaurant, as you guys were dancing, as we were walking to the car. I counted at least 15 to 20 of them. I know what you did, you told me about the spell remember? They were practically falling all over him, not that he would notice” Cordy stated.

“Well, I put a small spell on the two women sitting at the table next to us, just to piss his dad off, cause he is such a jerk. All of the other women were really attracted to Wes, I had nothing to do with it, I promise.” Fred said.

“Well, you know what this means don’t you” chucked Cordy.

“Yup” smiled Fred, “our Wesley is a stud.”