Title: Coming Back...
Rating: PG 13 (for swearing)
Disclaimer: I only own the little baby. Joss Wedon's owns the BTVS characters.
Feedback: Yes please!
Author's Note: This is a story based on a challenge of Elisabeth's from Chocolate Covered Strawberries. Except I changed the couples in the story because I cannot write Angel well and I adore writing Xander with a kid fics.
The Other Woman Challenge.
Buffy, after her union with Angel, became pregnant. After hiding it from everyone, she gives the baby to Angel when he leaves Sunnydale. Years later, when she finally thinks it's time to go back for her child. Only, when she does go back to LA, she witnesses something, her child calling someone else "Mom".
Requirements: -Buffy's feelings about seeing this.
Options: -The other woman can be anyone: Faith, Cordy, Fred, Nina, other.
-The child can be almost any age
-The child can be male or female.
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Sunnydale
"Are you sure about this Cordelia?" Xander asked once again as Cordy put her last box into her car. Maybe he could convince her to stay.
"Yes Xander! I'm sure I'm going to be an actress and I don't need a baby! I can't!" Cordy said a little louder than she has hoped as the neighbors across the street looked up at her shouting. Oh well she didn't care she wouldn't see them again if she was lucky.
"Its okay sweetie don't cry." He murmured to the pink little bundle in his arms that had begun to whimper softly. "Don't you want to see your daughter once before you leave? You don't even know her name."
"No Xander please..." Cordy whispered slamming her door behind her. It had been hard enough to not even see her little girl after labor. Not being able to hold it. Not being able to tell the nurse its name. She had no right to name her child not if she wasn't going to see it again.
Cordelia watched as the nurse rocked the bundle humming under her breath a little lullaby.
"Do you want to hold her?" The nurse asked smiling at the new mom. Unaware of the fact the girl wouldn't be seeing the baby again she thought it was nerves.
"No, I can't." Cordelia mumbled looking away. The baby waved a tiny fist in the air, gurgling softly. "I can't." She make out little wisps of dark hair and leaning up a little she could make out the dark little eyes when they opened briefly.
The nurse shrugged continuing to rock the baby as she carried the baby to the nursery. Burying her head under the stiff hospital regulation pillow, Cordy began to sob hard sobs; tears flowed and began to stain to bedspread.
Hiding it had been hard, lying to everyone but Xander. She had been lucky everyone was too wrapped up in their own lives.
Her parents had been too wrapped up in their own problems with the IRS to notice Cordelia's constant stomach flu and weight gain.
Her Cordettes wouldn't notice if a meteor fell on them as long as it didn't have a new pair of shoes involved with it. Molding their minds so that they thought baggy was the new tight hadn't been difficult.
The Scoobies didn't care what happened to her. Too busy with saving the world and all that to notice if the bitch who had made their lives a living hell was sick every morning. Willow had asked only once if Cordy was feeling okay and Cordy knew she was relishing in the fact Cordy had traded her designer clothes for an old UCS sweatshirt.
She wanted to tell someone. Let it all go to someone. Xander couldn't know how much she wanted this little girl. She couldn't take care of child; she couldn't take care of herself. Besides LA was no place for a single mom and her child, there were too many already. She was keeping the population down. She had repeated it, it was her mantra. She was doing the right thing. She was doing the right thing. It was all she could do from breaking down and crying, taking the baby from Xander's arms and cradling it like a mother should.
She shook these thoughts out of her head. Don't Cordy she reminded herself. Her daughter was with its father, it would be fine.
"I love you, my little girl." She said aloud and with that and a last look back at Xander she sped away to Los Angeles.
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