Buffy slowly walked into the crypt. She knew that if she didn't play this one carefully she could lose Spike. On the other hand, if she ignored it completely the problem would just sit there in the middle of their relationship ready to ruin what they were trying to build. "Angel's just nervous about the baby. You know as well as I do how single minded he can be when he's focused on something. A family trait I'm starting to recognize in the order of Aurelius. He'll calm down in a few days and hopefully take his whole group back to LA cause honestly there is only so much of Cordelia living in my house I'll be able to take. It's a bathroom thing."
Spike looked up at her from where he had been focusing on his hands in his lap. "What does this mean to you?"
"I'm not sure yet, but I know that despite everything we've put each other through over the years, you've been there with me, mostly helping, through some of my darkest times. I can tell you things I could never hope to express to anyone else without them putting me in an insane asylum, including Giles and my friends. You're more than my friend, you're my equal."
"Actually I meant about Angel being back with Darla."
"Oh, I'll just shut up now."
"No, it meant a lot to me that you stood up for me back there. It's just I know how much Angel means to you."
"Angel was a big part of my life, and it was his decision to leave not mine, but he never respected me. He was so big with the mission of doing good and his redemption that he always felt I needed to be protected. I can't count the number of times he tried to do things mind my back for my own good. I protect people not the other way around. I'll always care about him, but my big high school crush kind of over. As for Darla…" Buffy was stopped mid-ramble by Spike kissing her intensely. "Are we good?" Buffy asked a few minutes later as she came up for air.
"I'll tell you in five hours," Spike smirked as the already heavy kissing turned rapidly to striping of clothes.
&&&
"What is taking so long?" Cordy asked filing her nails not paying attention to the action movie Gunn had found on the television, while Dawn came in from the kitchen with snacks.
"I was only gone a few minutes," Dawn replied defensively, "Xander hid the good potato chips before he left and I had to search for them."
"Not you, Cordy rolled her eyes. "Them upstairs, Darla, honesty I only took a day to go full term when I was pregnant."
"And we had to kill the father to get you out of your possessed state." Wes came down the stairs. "We're trying to avoid that with Angel."
"Would it speed things up, cause I do have a stake in my purse." Cordy quipped.
"No one is staking me or Darla." Angel came down the stairs after Wesley.
"How is she?" Dawn asked.
"She's between contractions, but Fred says it won't be long." Angel told her.
"Yes. Well I'll retrieve the water and return upstairs." Wes assured him heading to the kitchen.
Cordy groaned, "Ug, is this night never going to end?"
Gunn smiled, "See this is where he goes in with the bomb to blows the whole building up."
Dawn looked around the room, "I know the feeling."
