This is the last chapter! I start my new classes in about a week but in that time I was to update at least one more of my stories, I just don't know which one yet! My goal this summer was to binge watch my shows that I missed while I was going to school, binge read as many Buffy/Angel fics I could and work on my own stories. Which, I have a new story and I have written 23 chapters already but I haven't posted any of it yet. I feel pretty good about accomplishing everything, I just wish my summer wasn't over! Anyway, on with the story!

Chapter 11: Dreams Come True

Angel stood over the kitchen table, looking at the contents on the surface. Connor, Dawn, Kendra and Billy had been living in Anne's house, the house she was giving to Buffy, since Christmas and they would be going back to school in just a few short days. Looking down at the list in his hand, Angel placed a box of markers on each pile. He was sorting out their school supplies, when they brought everything over from the orphanage it was just thrown together, so here he was sorting everything out. Buffy, being the organized person she was, made lists of everything the kids would need for school so Angel could sort everything out and if they needed anything new, they would know what to buy them. He heard the children's laughter from outside, he looked out the window to see Anne sitting in her wheelchair with the children gathered around her as she told them a story. He smiled at the sound of their laughter, although the kids had been happy with Faith, they seemed to be even happier since they moved in with Buffy, Anne and himself. He still had his apartment but he had hardly been there. The adoption process wasn't complete yet but between Jonathan and Mayor Wilkins they had worked it out that the children could move in immediately. Mayor Wilkins wanted the children in the care of, well, anyone else as soon as possible. With the children out of the orphanage they could close the place down and Faith could go back to having her own life.

Glancing up at the clock on the kitchen wall, he started to wonder where Buffy was. She had gone to the doctor's hours ago, she should be back. He was starting to worry, after Christmas Buffy still had moments when she didn't feel good and as she promised, she had gone to the doctors. From what she had told him, the doctor couldn't find anything wrong with her. The doctor had asked her to come in within a few days to run some tests, which was where she had gone earlier that morning. When he heard the door open and close, Angel tossed the paper on the table and quickly made his way towards the kitchen doorway. He smiled when he saw his fiancé. "Hey, Love. How did it go?"

Buffy sighed. "It went fine."

"Did they get the test results back?" He asked, placing a kiss to her cheek.

Buffy nodded. "How are the kids?"

"They are fine, they are in the backyard with your grandma." He told her, but he really wanted to know what the doctor had said. "What about the test results, Buffy?"

The blonde bit her lip, she didn't know how she was going to tell him. She had thought about it the whole drive from the doctors. "I really need to start on the food for the New Year's party, I don't even have a menu thought up yet. I think I'm going to take a nap first, are you okay with the kids?"

"Of course." He reassured her. "Buffy, what about…" He trailed off as he watched Buffy climb the stairs, running her fingers through her hair.

0o0o0

"Hey, baby." Buffy smiled brightly as Angel and the kids walked into the kitchen. She was in a much better mood after her nap.

Angel smiled as he kissed her. "Hey." Angel had taken the kids to the park while Buffy took a nap. They had a lot of fun, but that fun ended when the kids started saying they were hungry. Angel had taken them out for ice cream, now his fiancé was making dinner and he just hoped the kids still ate their meal. He didn't want to be in trouble!

"What are you making?" Kendra asked, looking into the pan on the stove.

Buffy smiled at the girl. "Chicken and dumplings."

Billy smiled at the woman who would soon be his mother. She was always cooking or baking something good, at the orphanage they often had hot dogs and boxed macaroni and cheese or peanut butter and jelly. "That sounds so good!"

"I'm happy you are excited about it because I'm making enough for an army!" Buffy laughed, giving him a hug and a kiss on the head before going back to her notebook to write something down quickly.

Dawn looked at the notebook on the counter, reading all the items on the paper. "What's this?"

"That is a list of food that I'm making for our New Year's Eve party." Buffy told her with a smile.

"Can I help you make it all?" Dawn asked.

"Of course, you can, Dawnie!" The blonde handed the small girl a pen. "You all can add anything you want to the list too."

The kids grabbed Buffy's notebook and excitedly made their way over to the table to add to the list.

Angel looked in the pan that Buffy was now stirring and wrapped his arm around her waist. "Is your grandma resting?"

Buffy nodded. "When I woke up she was finishing her book and said she was going to take a nap. She wants to come down for dinner though, so you will have to help her downstairs."

"I can do that." He smiled against her hair.

"Angel…" Buffy paused. "After dinner… or you know, whenever we have time, it doesn't have to be right after dinner… we need to talk."

Tilting his head so that he could look her in the face, he suddenly got serious. "Is this a good talk or a bad talk?"

"It's a talk." She said, not giving any hints away.

"Is it about what the doctor said?" He asked seriously, unwrapping he arms from around her waist.

Buffy nodded.

Taking a deep breath, Angel made his way around the island counter to the stool on the other side. He felt the need to be sitting down when he heard whatever it was that she had to say. "What is it?"

"Let's talk about it later." She said, mixing a dough in a bowl on the island counter. "I want to do it in private."

Angel had a bad feeling about this, she was acting so serious, which scared him.

0o0o0

Tonight, it seemed as if their usual bedtime ritual was taking far longer than normal. But in reality, it was the same. Everyone got into their pajama's, brushed their teeth, and they all settled down in the family room where Buffy and Angel read the four children a story, then the kids went into their rooms and Buffy and Angel tucked them in. The couple hadn't had a chance to talk after dinner, so they were going to talk once the kids were in bed.

Now, they were heading to their bedroom where they would have the much dreaded talk. Angel closed the bedroom door behind himself. "So…?"

"You just want to jump right into it, huh?" Buffy asked with a teasing smile.

Angel nodded. "I would love if this anxiety went away."

Buffy gave him a puzzled look, but let out a quiet giggle. "Why are you having anxiety?"

"You are acting so… odd." Angel raised his eyebrows at her. "You could have at least told me if it was good or bad."

Buffy shook her head with a hint of a smile playing on her lips as she walked into the closet. Angel took a step closer to the closet, wondering what she was doing, she came back out with a white box that looked similar to the boxes she had given the kids their adoption papers in. She silently handed him the box. "I would rather show you."

Angel looked at her confused for a moment, before removing the top of the box. Once he saw the contents, he looked up at her, still confused. He was fully aware of what he was holding in his hands, he was a doctor after all, but it wasn't quite registering in his brain.

Buffy shrugged with a smile. "How do you feel about making the walk-in closet into a nursery?"

Angel slowly walked over to the bed, never taking his eyes off of the lab reports in his hand, sitting down he almost missed the bed and feel on the floor but he caught himself. After several long moments of silence, he finally looked back up at his fiancé. "You're… you're pregnant?"

Buffy nodded. "I know we have technically only been back together a few weeks but…"

"You're pregnant." Angel repeated. "It's so soon."

"I know." Buffy agreed. "And I know this is a lot to take in. I mean, we just got back together, we got engaged and we are adopting four kids, so this is just adding more…"

"No." Angel interrupted her. "I mean, it's so soon… how can you already tell you're pregnant?"

"Oh." Buffy realized what he meant. "Well, I was already showing signs so the doctor wanted to draw my blood to see if she was right. She said sometimes you can tell at three weeks along. Which, we think I am… three weeks, that is."

"You have only been here…" Angel suddenly grinned and nodded. "That first night."

Buffy nodded. "We didn't use protection the first time that night…"

"I know." Angel gently took her hand, pulling her down onto the bed beside her. "We are going to have five kids!"

"Five kids." Buffy nodded, then turned to look at Angel. "There is something else though…"

"Don't tell me its twins!" Angel exclaimed, he knew it wasn't possible to tell if it was twins at this point in the pregnancy but his mind was so blown that he couldn't remember any of his training and schooling.

"No." Buffy chuckled, at least she hoped it wasn't twins! "I just have to be super careful because I have a higher chance of a miscarriage."

"Why would you have a higher chance…?"

Buffy sighed, squeezing his hands lightly. "I have a 25% chance of a miscarriage because… I have already had one before."

"What do you mean?" Angel questions, searching her eyes for an answer. He didn't want to believe that she was pregnant by someone else at some point. In his perfect world, she had never had sex with anyone but him. "When?"

"It was a long time ago." Buffy bit her lip nervously. "I didn't want to tell you, not that I could get ahold of you anyway… but, I knew you had your own life and I didn't want to get in the way of that. We were both so young. It was your dream to be a teacher, I wanted that for you."

"Wait…" Angel shook his head. "Wait, wait, wait. You were pregnant by ME?" He pointed to himself in disbelief. "You should have told me."

"I know, I'm sorry." Buffy whispered. "I just want…"

"I know." He cut her off. "You wanted me to have my dream. A big part of that dream was having a family with you, Buffy."

Buffy smiled sadly. "We have that now."

"We do." Angel nodded with a small smile. "And we are going to make sure that this baby makes it into the world."

Buffy nodded and smiled as Angel placed his hand on her stomach where their unborn baby was growing inside of her. "I don't know if it was a boy or a girl." She whispered, he voice cracked. "I was too soon to know, but I named him Liam Angelus Jr."

"Oh, Love." He whispered, pulling her into his lap. He couldn't believe she had named their little angel after him. Buffy took a deep breath, trying to hold back her tears. She had lost her baby several years ago but it still felt as if it was just happening. She should be happy, she was pregnant with the love of her life's baby now. She still couldn't help but wonder what their first child would have been like. Would he be smart like Angel, or would she have blonde hair like her? "How did it happen?" He asked, smoothing her hair back. He didn't want to upset her more but he wanted to know, he needed to know.

Buffy took a deep breath. "It was my own fault." She whispered. "I was stupid… I was running late for class, my professor already didn't like me, so when I was leaving my dorm I ran down the stairs as fast as I could. I tripped and fell. I blamed myself for a long time, but a friend of mine told me that everything happens for a reason."

"You can't blame yourself." Angel whispered.

Buffy nodded. "To help me cope, my friend talked me into writing everything down… I eventually turned it into my first children's book."

"I'll Always Love you." Angel whispered. Buffy nodded, her first book always brought back a lot of memories and emotions, still to this day she can't read I'll Always Love You without crying. "The book that launched your career. Let's not be sad about the child we lost, and be happy that we will have a beautiful baby soon."

Buffy nodded. That's exactly what she needed to do. She will always love her first baby but she needed to focus on this baby.

"Should we announced to the kids that they will be big brothers and big sisters?" Angel smiled.

Buffy smiled and nodded. "Tomorrow."

0o0o0

Angel walked into the kitchen, placing a kiss on Buffy's lips as she placed some bacon wrapped sausages on a platter, it was Connor's request to have them. "Connor said he is ready to help set up now."

"Meaning he wants these." She smiled, passing Angel the plate.

Angel nodded. "Yeah, that's exactly what it means."

Buffy shook her head and laughed. "Okay, these are done." She motioned towards the plates on the counter. "Send in the troops."

Angel went into the living room and came back with Kendra, Dawn, Billy and Connor following him. They each grabbed a platter and took them to the living room. "So, this is why people have kids…" Angel laughed.

Buffy nodded and laughed. "I hear they also do chores!"

"So we don't have to!" Angel teased.

Buffy laughed again before wrapping her arm around her fiancés waist, then walked into the living room where all of their friends and family were waiting.

"Uh, Buff…" Xander said looking at the new flat screen TV mounted on the wall. "Are we watching the ball drop on TV or do we have to make our own fun?"

Buffy looked to Xander confused, then turned to Angel. "Babe, didn't you hook it up?"

Angel nodded, but it soon turned into a negative. "I mounted it, but then Kendra fell down and needed me." He walked over to the TV, reaching behind it. "It should just need to be plugged in. There it goes."

Buffy smiled. "There Xan, now you don't have to experience withdrawal from the television."

"It's about time." Xander smiled, grabbing a bowl of chips and sitting on the couch. "The ball is about to drop soon!"

Willow raised her eyebrow from where she was sitting beside Oz. "Xander, we still have like 6 hours until the ball drops."

"Well, he never could tell what time it was." Rupert laughed. "As I recall, he was always late for class in high school."

Oz laughed, it was true. Xander didn't seem to make it to any class on time unless he was with Willow or Buffy.

"I resent that!"

"In his defense, I think every single teacher started class early." Angel laughed.

"I resent that!" Xander shouted again without thinking, then thought for a moment. "Or… possibly thank you."

Buffy rolled her eyes playfully, then looked to Angel. Angel nodded at her and left the room, returning shortly after with a tray of drinks for everyone. He passed champagne glasses filled with sparkling wine to the adults and plastic champagne glasses filled with grape juice to the kids and Buffy. "Okay, we have an announcement to make, guys." Buffy smiled.

"We already know you are engaged." Commented Anya, Xander's long-time girlfriend. "You don't need to announce it again."

Oz rolled his eyes, both he and Willow were convinced that Anya was just jealous. She had been dating Xander for years and he has yet to pop the question. It took a long time for the group to come around to Anya, in the beginning they often tried to avoid her until Xander caught on and talk to them about it.

"No…." Buffy said, wrapping her arm around Angel's waist as he wrapped his arm around her shoulder. "This is something different."

"Buffy and I are excited to announce…" And paused and smiled at Buffy.

Buffy smiled back, then look towards her friends and family. "… that we are expecting a baby."

Anne smiled brightly, everyone else jumped up to congratulate them. Buffy made her way over to her grandma, who was still in her wheelchair and couldn't make it over to her granddaughter. Buffy leaned down and hugged the older woman. "Congratulations, sweetheart."

"Thank you, Grandma." Buffy smiled brightly. "I'm so excited!"

Connor, Dawn, Billy and Kendra looked at each other and started to whisper, after a moment they got up from their place on the floor and left the room.

Buffy noticed the kids leaving the room, she quickly made her way over to Angel, placing her hand on his arm. Once he looked towards her, she nodded her head towards the entrance of the living room. Angel glanced down at the floor where the children were sitting, then followed Buffy out of the living room and up the stairs.

0o0o0

The four kids sat in the girl's bedroom talking. "What are we going to do?" Billy asked.

Buffy gently opened the bedroom door, Angel followed behind her. "Hey, guys. What's up?" Buffy asked softly.

The children suddenly go quiet. Connor was the first one to speak up. "What do we do now?"

Angel and Buffy looked at each other. "We party." Angel offered.

Buffy gave her fiancé a small smile. "We go back downstairs and celebrate the New Year. Who thinks they can beat this old guy…" She playfully pointed to Angel before sitting on the bed beside Kendra. "… to midnight."

"What about after the New Year?" Billy asked quietly.

"We sleep in until noon because we stayed up so late." Angel laughed, sitting down on the desk chair near Connor and Billy's new bunk beds.

"No." Dawn shook her head. "After the holidays."

Buffy gave the four children a confused look. They knew they had to go back to school, they had been talking about it all week. She knew they weren't excited about going back.

Kendra sighed and whispered. "Do you still want us? Now that you are going to have a baby?"

Buffy looked to Angel with a sad and confused expression. "Of course we do, silly."

"Why would you think we don't want you?" Angel asked.

All the kids looked down, Kendra shrugged her shoulders. "If you have your own baby then you don't need us."

"We don't need you." Buffy spoke softly, smoothing her hair back. Buffy has spent a half hour helping Kendra with her hair, the young girl had told her that she was so sick of always wearing her hair up because it was so big and curly. Buffy searched several stores to find a hair product that would work on her hair. Kendra was finally happy with how her hair looked. "We want you."

"You ARE our kids." Angel gave them a pointed look. "Having a baby doesn't change that."

Buffy put her arm around Dawn. "I fell in love with you guys the second I saw you, next week we make the adoption official. Nothing is going to stop that."

Angel nodded. "Soon you will all have the last name Angelus, and we couldn't be any more excited."

"Really?" Billy asked.

Buffy nodded. "And we will butt heads and fight and you guys will complain that we are controlling and tell us how much you hate us, because that's what kids do to their parents."

"We would never do that." Dawn said quietly with a small smile.

"Oh, of course you will!" Angel smiled. "Life isn't always happy and families don't always get along."

"But, we are a family." Buffy smiled, placing a kiss on Dawn's head. "…and we will always love you."

Connor smiled and nodded. "Cool."

"Now, come on." Angel nodded towards the door. "We better get back downstairs before Xander and Olivia eat all the food."

0o0o0

Six Years Later…

"Kids!" Buffy called from her place at the kitchen island, she finished putting the last item in the brown bag and placed it on the edge of the counter with the other five bags. "Daddy!" She smiled at the sound of feet running towards the kitchen.

Angel walked quickly out of his bedroom, joining the end of the line of his children hurrying down stairs, as he buttoned his shirt cuff. As soon as he buttoned his sleeve, he quickly reached down to grab his daughter that was trailing behind the rest of her siblings. Making their way into the kitchen, each child grabbed a bag sitting on the counter. Angel grabbed one, handing it to his daughter before grabbing a second one and giving a quick kiss to his wife.

"Okay, don't forget you have to take Connor to football practice tonight, and drop Billy off at his track meet." Buffy said as the kids rushed around the kitchen grabbing the pancakes and bagels that were on the table. "Oh, and Connor and Billy…" The boys looked back at her. "There is money in your bags to buy lunch too." Both boys smiled, they could eat a lot and always complained they never had enough food. She would pack healthy food in their lunches and give them money to buy whatever unhealthy food they were selling at school. She turned back to her husband. "I am dropping Dawn off at cheerleading and Kendra off at her swim practice." Angel handed his daughter a plain pancake as he held her on his hip. She didn't like any kind of syrup on her pancakes or a big fan of sweets at all, he didn't know where she got that from. Her mother was a master baker and her father was the master eater of sweets. "I am going to take Annie to kindergarten today." Buffy held her hands out to take their daughter, Angel placed a kiss on the small child's blonde hair before handing her over to Buffy. "I have a meeting with my editor this afternoon and then I am meeting with Amy about the illustrations for the book…" Buffy said more to herself. "Willow, Oz, Olivia and Danny are coming over tonight." The blonde turned her head to look at her daughter who was excited to hear that Danny was coming over. Shortly after Buffy had found out she was pregnant with Annie, Willow had found out she was also pregnant. Annie and Danny loved to play together, they were attached at the hip when they were together. Willow was convinced that the two five year olds would end up getting married.

Once Buffy had Anne, Angel grabbed a plain pancake for himself. "I have an appointment this morning but I will be there for your appointment and then we can grab lunch."

Buffy nodded to let her husband know that was fine. "Oh, and Connor wants to go over to Justine's house after school, don't let him talk you into thinking I said yes." She point out. "I want them here where someone can keep an eye on them, her parents aren't going to be home."

Angel nodded. "Got it." Connor had been spending a lot of time with his girlfriend lately and he was at the age that Buffy and Angel were when they first had sex, so they wanted to keep an eye on them. Connor had never given them a reason not to trust him but they didn't want to start not trusting him by the arrival of a baby. They didn't need a grandchild and a child that was the same age. "Are you picking my parents up from the airport or am I?"

"Neither." Buffy let out a deep breath. "My mom is going to pick them up and she made up their guest room for them so we don't have to try to shuffle all the kids around."

"Thank you, Joyce!" Angel exclaimed.

Buffy laughed at her husband. "Oh, and my dad said if you happen to get held up with a patient then just let him know and he can pick the boys up."

"Have I told you how much I love your parents?" Angel smiled.

"You may have mentioned it." Buffy teased.

"Mom!" Connor shouted from the living room. "Have you seen my history paper?"

Buffy took another deep breath and called out. "It should be in your backpack already!"

"It's not!" Connor yelled.

Angel shook his head, it was funny how Connor and Billy couldn't seem to keep track of anything while Dawn and Kendra where the complete opposite. "Check your desk!"

Buffy and Angel both looked up towards the ceiling when they heard Connor run up the stairs. Angel smiled at his wife, she look beautiful today even though she had woken up early to make sure everyone's lunch was packed, breakfast was made and the kid's book bags were where they could find them. "I didn't get a chance to tell you how beautiful you look this morning."

Buffy laughed, running her fingers through her hair. "I haven't even showered yet."

"You look beautiful no matter what." He kissed her.

"It's not there!" Connor yelled running down the stairs.

Buffy pulled away from her husband's kiss. "Billy, check your bag for your brothers paper."

Billy looked up at his mom from where he was eating and nodded before leaving the table to check his bag. The two boys had similar tastes in almost everything, which resulted in them getting the same book bag.

"Got it!" Connor shouted.

Buffy pulled her husband closer to her, kissing him again. "You are all going to be late."

Angel looked at the clock on the wall, then to his wife, he took a double take at the clock and suddenly looked panicked. "Let's go!" He shouted to his kids. "Duty calls, Love."

Buffy smiled as he turned to walk away. "Oh, Angel… any news on the expansion?"

Angel nodded. "Xander said it will be done in time."

Buffy let out a relieved sigh, they were transforming the attic into a bedroom for Connor and Billy. The boys were excited because their parents had agreed to let them have a mini fridge in the attic and they were installing a bathroom.

Angel turned back around, making his way back to his wife holding their five year old daughter in her arms. He kissed Buffy then placed a kiss to his daughter's temple. "Love you, Annie." Before kissing Buffy again. "I love you." Then bent down, kissing his wife's stomach. "Love you, little guy. I will see you later."

"Love you too, Daddy." Mother and daughter said at the same time.

The door slammed and the once hectic house was now silent, Buffy looked to her daughter and smiled.

"This house is a mad house in this morning." Buffy turned to see her grandmother walking into the kitchen. She sat down at the table, turning to Buffy.

The blonde simply nodded. "It's only going to get more hectic."

The older woman nodded, she knew it would get crazier in the house as the kids got older. Anne smiled as the little girl that was named after her wiggled to get down from her mother's arms and made her way over to the older woman. "How are you feeling, Buffy?"

Buffy took a deep breath, placing her hand on her protruding belly. "I feel good."

"You know, I was talking to your mother and she offered to allow me to live with her." Anne told her granddaughter as her current youngest great granddaughter climbed into the chair next to her. "You are going to need the extra space for the new baby."

"Grandma, no." Buffy said, making her way over to the table to sit on the other side of the older woman. "We love having you here."

"And I love being here, Sweetie." Anne smiled. "But you need the space."

"Angel converted the walk-in closet to a nursery for Annie, we are going to use it for the baby too." Buffy told her. "And the boys are looking forward to moving into the attic."

"I foresee more children in your future, Buffy." Anne smiled. "You will need the space. You and Angel are still young, you will probably still be having kids when Connor, Billy, Dawn and Kendra move out."

Buffy cringed at the thought of her oldest kids moving out, they were already sixteen years old, they would be graduating from high school soon and going on to college. The past six years with them wasn't nearly enough time, she didn't want to think about them being gone. "We can just convert the basement into a bedroom then.. or the garage, or.. or, building one of those small houses in the backyard because they are never moving out."

Anne laughed, she knew her granddaughter didn't like to talk about her adopted children leaving home. "Sweetheart, I'm moving into your old room at your parent's house, whether you like it or not."

"If that's what you really want." Buffy pouted, watching her youngest daughter play with the half eaten pancakes her older sister left on the table.

"It is." Anne nodded. "Besides, Angel is already talking about another baby after this one is born."

Buffy laughed. "I know! I swear, he wants a soccer team of kids!"

"And you are going to give it to him." Anne smiled knowingly.

Buffy rubbed her stomach, thinking about her amazing husband, their wonderful children and their future children. "Anything he wants."

THE END