Author : Wild-Melody
Disclaimer : I don't own them though I wish I did.
Warning : Nothing really.
Chapter 1
Buffy glared at the Vampire standing in front of her, she could sense one approaching from behind her, trying to set up an ambush. *We'll see about that!* She thought, spinning quickly while at the same time throwing the stake she had in her hand at the Vampire she was just starting to spin away from. He dodged quickly, but not quick enough. The stake embedded in his heart and just moments later he exploded into dust.
Buffy turned to face the coward who was approaching from behind. Coward had friends, three very mean looking Demons, something or others. Coward may have been handsome, except for the ridges across his forehead now and the quite nasty dental problem he seemed to have. "You know," Buffy quipped, "I could put you in touch with a real good Dentist, might help you with those terrible canines you have there."
Coward snarled, looking pointedly at one of his friends. The smallest of the three Unknown Demons lunged for Buffy. His small beady eyes watching the Slayer's every move, *Like a wolf watching it's prey.* Buffy shook that thought off, stealthily watching the Demon as he sped her way. She suddenly moved to the right, spinning quickly to face him as he came to a stop. A quick palm out slam to the face followed by a vicious undercut to the stomach and the ugly Demon was face first in the pavement.
At the same time the world begun to suddenly teeter totter for Buffy, like a crazy Ferris Wheel gone bezerk. She shook her head, trying to clear it but that only brought on a bout of nasea. She backpedaled, watching as the two demons still standing started to slowly circle her. Suddenly something flew past her in a blurr. Moments later the battle was over and one lone vampire stood there staring at the sick Slayer.
He advanced toward her, never taking his evil eyes from her pale face. "Not even a thank you?" He asked in his British accent.
Buffy glared at him, holding the stake up in her hand, in front of her for the both of them to see. Spike shook his head and smiled evilly at the Slayer. "I'm not here to hurt you this night. I just couldn't see some other bloke taking you down when that's going to be my pleasure. But I refuse to battle an ill Slayer. I'll find you again when you don't look so…." His voice trailed off as the Slayer suddenly collapsed there at his feet.
He looked cautiously around, wondering if it was a trick of the Slayer's and her friends. There was no movement in the dark alley and he could sense no warm blooded mortals skulking around in the shadows. He looked down at the unconscious Slayer laying at his feet. *What an opportunity,* Spike thought to himself. *Not everyday that a Slayer collapses at your feet.* His eyes evilly took in the scene, his mind racing with all the possibilities. *I could torture her mercilessly.* He laughed to himself. Then a trully great idea presented itself. He still wanted to get revenge on Angel, and he had the perfect tool to do just that, right at his feet….
Then just as quickly his oversized ego took hold too. *But I want her to see the end coming and I want to make Angel suffer. He'd suffer alright if I killed this bitch, but I wouldn't have any sport in it. I want them both to squirm…* So with that decision, Spike picked up the limp body on the pavement and carried her to the nearest hospital.
He left her laying outside, just beyond the emergency room's sliding glass doors, *Someone is sure to find her, if not then the bloody blokes' are blind.* Spike thought as he walked away from the Slayers prone form.
A few blocks down the street he stopped at a payphone, checked to local directory and dialed a number. A man sounding somewhat sleepy answered the phone almost immediately. "Buffy?"
"'Nother guess." Spike said menacingly into the receiver.
"Spike?" Giles said, confusion seeping from his sleepy voice.
"Righto!" Spike said, rolling his eyes heavenward. "Chock one up for the stupid Watcher."
Giles grumbled something inaudible, "What do you want?"
"I just thought I'd call and let you know that your Slayer is at the Local Sunnydale Hospital." Spike said and hung up the phone, not even waiting for a reply. *I can't believe I didn't kill her when I had the chance.* Spike growled to himself.
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Buffy groaned as the world tilted back into view. *What happened?* She wondered, glancing around at the white washed wall. *It smells like disinfectant here….* Her thoughts scurried off for a few moments and the blackness threatened to envelope her once more. She shook her head and quickly wished she hadn't. *I feel like I've been hit by a dozen MAC Trucks,* She thought as a young nurse entered the room.
She smiled down at her and glanced at the clipboard she held in her hands. "Nice to have you back amongst the land of the living," The nurse joked. Her dark brown eyes sparkled, and she quickly pushed a stray strand of her long black hair behind her ear. She looked back towards the door, as if waiting for someone else to enter. When no one did she shrugged and turned her attention back towards Buffy.
Buffy just eyed her, not saying a word. There was something strange about her, Buffy just couldn't pinpoint what. "I'm a friend of Gile's." The nurse said, as if she could read Buffy's thoughts.
Buffy raised her eyebrows, this was getting just a little to strange for the Slayer. "And?" Buffy asked.
"He should be on his way." The nurse said. "I called him just as soon as I found out who you were. It seems someone named Spike had already warned him about your visit to the emergency room though." The nurse continued on, brightly.
Buffy's eyes narrowed. *Spike.* She thought to herself. Brief flash backs of the fight begun to pop up before her hazy vision. The three unknown demons. The world starting to spin. Spike coming to her rescue. The world suddenly going black. *What in the hell happened?* She asked herself.
"How old are you Buffy?" The nurse asked, interrupting the young girl's thoughts.
"Huh?" Buffy asked, looking questioningly up at the young nurse. "My age…um, seventeen..eighteen. Something like that. Why?"
"Do you know that your pregnant?"
Buffy's eyes widened in surprise and her mouth dropped open in shock. "I'm what?"
"Your pregnant."
"That can't be." Buffy said.
"The test came back positive." The nurse said.
"No," Buffy argued. "It's just not possible."
"What's not possible?" Giles asked from the doorway.
Buffy turned strickened eyes towards her friend and mentor. She couldn't answer. She couldn't believe it, it just wasn't possible.
"Buffy is pregnant." The nurse said, turning to look at Giles.
Giles turned his dark eyes to Buffy, watching as tears suddenly started to spill down the young Slayer's cheek. "Buffy?" He asked.
"It's not possible." She said smally. Her voice was quivering, her eyes closed against the truth. "Angel can't have children."
"Angel?" The nurse asked, looking suddenly shocked. "Angel, as in Angelus?"
Giles just nodded his head. Buffy's answer was just to cry harder. *This can't be happening!* She yelled at herself. *It just can't be!*
"How could you let this happen?" The nurse asked, looking accusingly at Giles.
"Who in the hell are you?" Buffy finally asked, looking up the woman. Her hands were wrapped around her middle, as if trying to stave off the truthfulness of the situation.
"My name is Edna Thornington. I'm a Watcher also, like Giles." The woman said, looking down at Buffy. "You had sex with Angel?"
"I think that's kind of personal and non of your business." Buffy shot back at Miss Thornington.
"I just need to get my facts straight." Edna said, looking strangely down at Buffy. "Angel is a vampire, so there fore this child cannot be his. Who else have you had sex with?"
Buffy's mouth dropped open in surprise. "I really think that is non of your damn business!" Buffy shouted. She whipped the white bed sheets off of her legs and hopped down from the bed. "I'm leaving this crazy…." She glared at the nurse. "I'm leaving." She turned to look at Giles, "Are you coming?"
"What?" Giles asked, looking at Buffy. "Oh, um of coarse. I guess I should fill out the release forms and such shouldn't I?" Giles asked, turning to look back at Edna Thornington.
The nurse just nodded her head.
Buffy turned around one last time to glare at the nurse. "And this doesn't go any further than this room or I'll hunt you down and kill you myself, Watcher or not!"
Edna just smiled, amused by the Slayer's murderous mood. *A pregnant Slayer was something of interest indeed. To bad there hadn't been more of them over the centuries. A Slayer alone is enough to put fear into the hearts of evil things, imagine what a pregnant one could do?* Edna laughed as the Slayer turned and left.
Buffy turned to look at Giles. "I mean it Giles. No one finds out, not my mother and especially not Angel!" Buffy turned again, walking up to the receptionist's desk. "I'm ready to leave." She point blank told the woman sitting behind the desk.
"And your name is?" The woman asked, looking up coldly at Buffy.
"Buffy Anne Summers."
"Ah yes." The woman said. She shuffled through some papers and turned her cold green eyes up to Buffy. "Are you sure your ready to go?"
"Um yeah." Buffy shot back. "I said I was didn't I?"
The woman regarded Buffy coldly. "Yes you did."
"I assume you're her legal guardian?" The woman asked looking up at Giles.
Giles cleared his throat. "Um, actually…"
"Either you are or your aren't." The woman said.
"Um, yes I am." Giles conceded.
"Good, then I just need you to sign here." The woman said, indicating a line on a sheet of paper. "And also right here." She pointed to another line on another sheet of paper.
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Buffy looked at Giles as he got into the car. "I mean it Giles. Not a word about this to anyone. I don't need my mom wigging out about anything else and I really don't need Angel here trying to figure out what's going on. I can handle this on my own."
Giles looked straight ahead, but said. "Alright, it's your disicion. It's your child. What ever you want to do, we'll do it your way."
Buffy smiled. "Good."
"What about the others? Are you going to tell them?"
"The others?" Buffy repeated. "I hadn't thought of that yet." She paused, her mind racing. "Yes," She finally said. "But no one outside of our little gang is to know. And I mean no one!"
Giles just grimly nodded his head. If it was one thing he had learned about the Slayer, it was you don't argue with her when she's made her mind up!
