Last Time: Buffy finds out she is carrying two babies, and so does Willow. Will and Cordelia confront Buffy about her pregnancy, but Buffy lies and tells them she lost the baby. Buffy chooses to tell Angelus about the babies.
Children Of Darkness.
Second Chapter: Realizations
Angelus could smell her.
Fiery and sweet; vanilla and fear; strawberry and sadness; champagne and pregnant hormones.
'Whoa!' Angelus thought. 'Hold on a minute! Pregnancy hormones?'
What the hell was going on with his mate?
Oops, wrong word. She was not his mate, would never be his mate. Archenemy sounded better. After all, the Scourge of Europe would never touch a chick Soul-Boy would have fallen in love with. No way. Not. A. Chance.
The following night, Angelus could smell his dead blood mixed with her powerful one in the brats' developing veins. So, they were his! After all, he had made sure no average boy had crossed the line and gotten into the slayer's pants.
Buffy walked gracefully between graves and headstones; her athletic body showed no sign of her current state. Was he a human man, he would never say she was pregnant.
Tonight she killed just a few vampires – fledglings, stupid, inexperienced ones that became dust before they even knew what killed them. No big fights, no apocalyptical tasks for Buffy.
That's good. Being alone, sensible and pregnant on a cemetery late at night, she was an easy target to any demon, vampire or living man – she would put up the hell of a fight, that was for sure, but it didn't mean that she would win. Fledglings, even them, would have a great meal.
She sneaked stealthily back up to her bedroom and he followed her, staying at the tree in front of her window to keep an eye on her.
And so it went for a week. Angelus left the mansion the hour he knew Buffy would go patrol, kept an eye on her – following her not too close, so she couldn't sense him , knowing he wasn't supposed to be there. There were lots of things he was supposed to be handling or taking care. But yet he looked after her every night from the second she stepped out of home to the second she sneaked back in.
Not because of her, surely, but because of the babies who were his heirs. Angelus II and Angelus III, the little ones with angelic faces. Perfect names for the sons of the legendary and feared Scourge of Europe.
No, he was not in love with her. He would never love a chick who was able to stake him or pummel him into a bloody pulp with a hand behind her back. And, just for the record, he could not love, being a soulless, evil, blood-lustful demon. All he wanted was to wreak havoc, to maim, kill, torture, rape or drain. Probably all of them.
But well, if he weren't in love, then why he wanted to kill everything that hurt that golden, soft, satiny skin? Why he wanted to jump at her, take her home and just fuck her senseless? Why he wanted to protect her and the brats inside her… Hold her and never let go?
He couldn't love her…
… Could he?
TO BE CONTINUED
Next Time in 'Children Of Darkness': Part 3 of 14 – The Meeting. Angelus receives a message from Buffy. They meet and discuss the babies, her friends and themselves. A chapter full with Buffy and Angelus' cuteness and goodness.
