A.N. Thank you so much for all the feedback, it makes feel good reading it. My mom is doing great, she was up and going to work on Monday. School is actually a great thing because I seem to write more and get more story ideas while I'm there.

A.N. 2: Liz/Gunn romance ahead, kind of. There will be a little bit of them getting together but this chapter will have the most with them as a couple. After that I'll just skim over a lot of their relationship (it will only be a month long romance.) Don't worry this is a Liz/Spike coupling fic. Spike will make an appearance in part 9 and as it looks right now in part 10 in the past parts.

Also in the Angel Time-line a lot of things have been messed with. No Jasmine, no Connor, and no Beast (as of yet he will be making an appearance later in Chapter 8.)

And lastly I got the names information from 'What Shall We Name the Baby?' Edited by Winthrop Ames.

Chapter 6

January 19, 2001

It's been over a week since Liz stumbled onto the conversation that transpired in Wesley's office. For the first couple days she was extremely nervous around Angel and Wesley, Buffy had gone home a day after she heard bits and pieces of the conversation. But when nothing happened by the fourth day and Angel and Wesley treated her like normal she relaxed.

However something was definitely going on with the hotel residences. A phone call came in three days ago from a woman who said 'I want my zombie of a husband to be killed, for good this time. He refuses to leave me be, and he's upsetting the dogs'. Oh yea, there's another thing, this phone call didn't transpire on a answering machine, no Cordelia had picked up the phone and that was when she heard it.

Besides the handy green cells and fun explosive powers she also received the nifty alien hearing which is over five times better than a normal human. Liz was still getting used to the hearing of a pin drop from the floor above her, it was scary there were some things that she didn't want to hear or need to hear.

"Hey Liz." A deep husky voice jars Liz out of her thoughts. She turns toward the stairs, sitting there on the middle step is Gunn. He wore a bashful grin that warmed her heart; Gunn has been a constant support system while she's been at the hotel. Not being able to think about the hotel as 'home' yet, there's something missing almost, what she doesn't know.

Gunn has taken her out to lunch, when she's been left to own devices, everyone else off doing something of importance. "Hey Gunn, what are you doing here? I thought you went with Angel on a case?" She stretches her arms up and back tightening then relaxing her tired muscles.

He smirks and shrugs his shoulders, "We finished early, came back here, I was going to take you out to lunch, nothin' fancy just a small diner down the street." He raises his eyebrows in invitation.

"Ok, I'd like that, let me just take a shower so I'm not sweaty and smelly." She giggles taking a swig of water from the sports bottle she brought down with her. Gunn stands and nods.

Liz begins her ascent up the stairs, he moves aside to let her by but she stops right in front of him, "Thanks Gunn, I really appreciate everything you've been doing for me, I don't have a whole lot of friends anymore and it's nice having friends again." She whispers.

"I'd like to be more than a just a friend Liz." He tells her, slowly he leans in and kisses her softly and her lips are smooth and supple against his. Gunn's palm cups her cheek deepening the kiss for a moment, reluctantly Liz breaks the kiss smiling shyly.

"That was nice. I think I want to be more than friends too. But please, I need to go slow for a while." Liz pleads hoping he'll understand, even though he doesn't know about her pregnancy. She can't just jump in feet first with a relationship, she has her unborn child to think about.

He grins his cute boyish smile he nods. "Hey that's cool, I mean you just moved here, you have a child to think of…" Gunn trails off at her quick raising of her eyes and is pained at the slight narrowing of her deep chocolate eyes, conveying her anger and shock. "Oops, I wasn't supposed to say anything." Wondering if he blew his chance with Liz before they even began.

"What? How do you know that I'm pregnant? Did Fred tell you?" Liz demands to know. She wasn't ready for people to know about her baby. She wanted to know a little more about her pregnancy before she let anybody but Fred in on the information.

"Umm, no Fred didn't tell anyone, I swear, it's just you're starting to show and I figured since you work out everyday it couldn't be that you were gaining weight so I went with the other logical option." Phew, did that sound believable enough? It's not like he could say his vampire boss could smell the baby, Liz would freak out if that were to happen.

He's lying, she knows she hasn't begun to show yet, she measures her stomach every night and every morning, Liz supposes she takes after her mother in that respect, she didn't start to show till she was almost into her fifth month. After that her mother grew like a balloon, gaining 60lbs while pregnant. Awkwardly she casts scared glances around the room anywhere but at Gunn. "Listen Gunn, I can't go to lunch with you today, I'm sorry."

Without giving him an explanation she rushes upstairs leaving a heartbroken Gunn behind standing on the stairs uncertain of what just occurred. For almost a week she avoided Gunn not knowing what to say or what to do. Liz knew she overreacted to him knowing she's pregnant but she didn't want to share her baby. As selfish or as weird as that seems it was true, she didn't want to share and she definitely didn't want anyone to know unless she told them.

Finally she gathered up her courage and confronted Gunn, explaining why she reacted the way she did, luckily for her he understood what she was saying and forgave her. After telling Gunn she decided it was time to tell the others, from their less then shocked reaction it was obvious they knew or suspected something about the pregnancy. But how was a mystery to her.

Fred wouldn't have told them and Liz wasn't showing as of yet. It is extremely odd to her and left her wondering about her new friends. Later that same night as she was lying in bed her baby connected with her. She was going to have a baby boy.

Liz was so moved by the emotion and connection she felt when she touched his silver handprint she cried with joy. He's beautiful, Liz can only imagine how handsome he'd be once he's out of the womb. Her little boy, she needed to start thinking of names for the little guy. And she wasn't going to give him any weird names like Poindexter or a name that could be mistaken for a girls like Angel, hey she cares about the big guy but let's face it, Angel is a girls name.

Grabbing a piece of paper she begins to write down all the names she likes and thinks would be good names for her son. For almost an hour she writes till she has a list of almost 30 names, glancing at the list of names she crosses off some that don't feel right she's left with 5 names. William, Brant, Jeffrey, Lucas, and Quinn. Not being able to decide between the five she decides to look up the meanings to all of them.

After reading through each of the means that she liked what 'Lucas' meant the most. The meaning rang true to her life; Lucas's meaning was 'Light' and she looked at her son as the light of her life. It was perfect for him, now she knew what to call her child when she talked to him. Liz could hardly wait for him to get here.

TBC