Title: The Gift
Author: alienangel19852003
Rating: M, for mature themes such as, violence, character death, cursing, and sacrificial torture.
Disclaimer: I do not own any characters from Buffy, Charmed, Roswell, Smallville or any of the other shows I intend to crossover. I only own Khiva, yeah she's Khivar's daughter.
Summary: Buffy found out she was pregnant right before Riley left and she didn't make it to the helicopter in time to tell him. She tells Spike. Spike calls Angel for help.
Chapter 1
Buffy Summers set perched on the couch staring into space, her green eyes had lost a bit of the sparkle they'd once held. Even she noticed this. She hated feeling helpless and dead inside, she was losing everything. She was twenty and pregnant, another man she'd loved had left, her mother had died, and to top it off Dawn was misbehaving and if she didn't stop social services might just take her away.
Buffy hadn't told anyone about the baby, she'd been so devastated when Riley had left she just couldn't talk about it. Glory was getting closer and closer. She didn't know how long it would before Glory got Dawn, before she lost. Buffy had never lost before, she didn't know how. She didn't know how to give up either; she'd just keep fighting until…
The thought made her stomach lurch, she quickly made a mad dash for the kitchen, and she doubted she'd make it to the upstairs bathroom in time. She spent minutes heaving into the trash can. She sensed Spike but she was a little to busy puking up the bite of dinner that she'd just tried to eat to make a snide comment. She allowed him to hold her hair back.
When she finally finished she shot Spike a death glare.
"Is there a bug going around the cemetery or something?" Spike asked.
"I'm pregnant." She blurted.
Spike's blue eyes widened, "What?"
"I–I shouldn't have told you that."
"Did soldier up leave when he found out? I knew he was trouble, I ought to go over to whatever jungle he's in and give him one proper." Spike said.
"He didn't know I didn't get there in time to tell him." Buffy said trying and failing to keep her tears from falling.
Spike studied the girl in front of him; he knew Buffy had been acting weird over the past few months. He'd always assumed that it was because soldier boy had left her not because she was pregnant...
He really wanted to go over and beat the crap out of soldier boy chip or no chip he was going to teach that little prick a lesson. Riley was never good enough for Buffy, not in Spike's eyes, Spike wasn't even good enough for Buffy though he loved her with everything he was demon and all. Soul boy wasn't even close…
"I don't know what I'm gonna do." Buffy sobbed.
Spike pulled the Slayer into his arms.
"I'll take care of it." Spike whispered into her hair.
He held her for a long time, it felt like an eternity and a mere second at the same time.
Then the front door slammed and Anya and Xander's argument could be heard all over the house.
Buffy quickly pulled away and wiped her tears away.
"Don't worry Slayer I'm gonna fix this,"
"You aren't gonna take on Glory all by yourself, did you forget what she did to you the other day? If you get yourself killed it'll be my fault and I can't…Don't be stupid Spike." She said pushing open the door and going to find the others.
Spike smiled, "Not what I planned love." He turned on his heel and stalked out into the night.
Buffy was not in the mood to referee another argument between Xander and Anya about Black Kryptonite of all things
She just headed up stairs after a few minutes of Anya's squawking and Xander's under the breath one liners.
"You're not gonna have some dinner?" Dawn, Buffy's younger sister asked from where she sat on the floor pointing to the pizza box.
"No thanks. I already ate."
"Aww… does the Buffster still have the stomach flu?" Xander asked.
"She's had it for like a month. I didn't think Slayers got sick, I almost thought she was pregnant… but she's not insane getting pregnant is absolutely the worst thing she could do right now with Glory on our heels." Anya said.
Buffy stopped mid step turned and gawked at Anya.
"You're not pregnant aren't you?" Dawn asked.
Buffy started to answerer but her stomach lurched again and she covered her mouth with her hand and raced upstairs.
She barely made it to the sink in time.
She could hear the others running up stairs, Dawn held her hair back.
When Buffy finished vomiting for the third time in a single day, she looked at her sister and her friends with bleary red eyes.
"Guys I'm fine, just had bad fish that one time."
"Okay that's not gonna work Buff, you've used that one already." Xander said.
"Come on… I'm not pregnant that couldn't happen… it would be the absolute worst thing to happen right now. Just a little flu. I'll be fine…" Buffy lied.
"Since when do Slayers get the flu?" Anya asked.
"Since never… Buffy hasn't been sick since we moved from LA… I on the other hand I get stuck with the crappy immune system…" Dawn said.
"Seriously–" Buffy started.
"She's pregnant. I haven't heard flimsy excuses like this since Angel came back from the dead and she didn't tell us." Xander said.
"Xander!" Buffy said.
"Who's gonna tell Giles I'm so not gonna." Dawn said.
"Not me." Anya and Xander said at the same time.
"Guys I am not pregnant." Buffy repeated louder this time.
"When we go get Tara tomorrow you're getting a pregnancy test." Dawn said.
"What, I don't need a pregnancy test." Buffy said.
"Cause you already know your pregnant." Anya said.
"Yes, I mean no cause I'm not pregnant." Buffy said.
"I wanna know for sure if I have a little niece coming or not." Dawn said.
"She's having a boy. I called it." Xander said.
"Girl." Anya and Dawn argued.
"Alright I am pregnant." Buffy admitted not being able to take it anymore, "And I think it's a girl." Buffy said stomping out of the room.
