Chapter 5
Making Plans
It was late and Buffy was tired. She was ready to head home and make sure Dawn was asleep in her room. There hadn't been much activity and Buffy was overdue for a little time off. As she headed towards the gates of Sunnydale Cemetery something rustled behind her. Vampire. Buffy tensed and reached for her stake. She turned around and there was Angel.
"Hey." He said as she quickly withdrew the stake and put it back in her pocket.
"Angel! You almost fit into a dust buster."
"Nice to see you too."
"Oh, I'm sorry! Hi. I thought you weren't coming for another week."
"Again nice to see you."
"Nice to see you too."
"I decided to come early. I had some business in town that I needed to get to and I thought tonight would be as good as any."
"Oh, what kind of business?"
"Nothing major."
"As in nothing that concerns Buffy major?"
"Buffy."
"I was just joking. Geez, give the pregnant girl a break here. I've got hormones comin' out the whazoo!"
"How are you?"
"We're fine. I'm about three months now. Too late for an abortion." She saw the hurt look on Angel's face when she had said that and quickly amended. "I didn't mean that Angel. You know I would never. This," she laid her hand protectively over her stomach, "this is ours. We made it together. I would kill everyone on the face of the earth and then count the grains of sand stained with their blood before I would kill OUR baby."
"I know. I feel a little guilty though."
"Why? About what?"
"You have enough to worry about, you don't really need a baby when you have a teenager to watch out for."
"Angel, I don't care about that. I know that you're going to be here to help me along. And so are my friends."
"Have you told them yet? About us I mean."
"No, not yet. The only ones that know are Cordy and the rest of them. I kind of wanted to wait until we could both tell them all together." Angel looked down at his shoes. "Whoa, wait! We are back together, right? I mean you and I were planning on that not even two weeks ago. Was I just hallucinating?"
"No! You weren't, and yes we were. I just. well, this is. um." When he couldn't find the words, he just dropped to one knee and reached into his pocket, pulling out an engagement ring. Buffy's eyes widened as she stared at the huge rock sitting on the dainty golden band.
"Angel." she breathed.
"Buffy, I love you, and that's our child growing inside you. I want to be with you forever, so, will you marry me?"
"Angel, I." she stopped, a huge lump growing in her throat and not allowing her vocal cords to function properly. Tears brimmed in her eyes as she stared at the sparkling brown orbs looking so hopefully up at her, waiting for her to answer. She couldn't speak, or really nod for that matter, so she sprang into his arms and they fell to the ground a kissing, hugging, and crying tangle of limbs.
Once they regained their composure, Angel helped Buffy up. She hugged him as she cried.
"What's wrong?" Angel asked.
"It's just." Buffy choked on a sob. "It's so beautiful!"
"It'll look even better on your finger."
"I know."
"Are you sure you're ok?"
"It's just all these hormones. Dr. Lemmon said that the third month was the one where all my hormones just go completely out of whack. He said that if I felt like crying for absolutely no reason, that it would be best if I just let myself cry."
"How often do you cry like that?"
"Um, four, five times a day? I was a mess at the doctor's office. I could hear the baby's heartbeat through the stethoscope that the doctor let me have because I wouldn't let go of it. He also said that the baby was about three point four inches long and weighs about an ounce."
"Is that normal?"
"Yeah."
"Wait!"
"What?" Buffy swirled around ready for an attack.
"Did you say heartbeat?"
"Yeah. Why?"
"Is it.human?"
"Of course! What did you think it would be?"
"I don't know. I was prepared for everything else that I didn't even stop and think tat it might be human."
Buffy started to cry again. "You thought our baby was going to be a monster?"
"No! No. I didn't know what. I thought it might end up being a vampire or half vampire or something."
"You thought it was going to be a monster!" Buffy started to storm away, but ran right into Faith.
"Yo B! Watch out." Faith noticed the petite blond crying. "Hey, what's wrong?"
"A.Angel thought our baby was going to be a monster." Buffy sobbed.
"I did no." Angel tried.
"Man Angel face! How could you? She's very sensitive! How the hell could you tell her that?"
"I didn't say monster."
"Then what did you say?"
"He.he said that he thought it was going to be half vampire." Buffy said.
"Well." Angel said.
"B, I gotta say: I see his point."
"See whose point?" Spike asked, walking up.
"Spike! Angel and Faith think that my baby is going to be half vampire!" Buffy said, leaving Faith and grabbing onto Spike.
"You two should be ashamed of yourselves!" Spike said to Faith and Angel. "Can't you see that this is a very delicate thing with her? Bloody hell Angel! It's your baby. It's your girl! You should know that that was going to make her cry!"
"I didn't mean it!" Angel said.
"Bloody right you didn't mean it! Of all you people, am I the only bloke who gives a rat's ass about the Slayer here?"
"No!" Faith and Angel said together.
"Spike, look at what Angel gave me." Buffy said, admiring her engagement ring. She was fine now. Her tears were gone and she seemed to be ignoring their conversation. Spike stared in shock at how quickly Buffy's mood had changed. "Buffy? Are you all right?"
"I'm fine! Why? Don't you like it? It's all big and shiny."
"It's lovely pet." Spike took a closer look at it. "Oh hell! That's a bleedin' engagement ring!"
"Yup." Buffy moved her hand so a glint fell off the ring in the moonlight.
"You proposed?" Spike asked Angel.
"Yes." Angel started to take cautious steps towards Buffy. "Just now."
"Whoa Angel! Congrats to ya both!" Faith said.
"Thank you!" Buffy said. She flounced over to Angel and wrapped her arms around his waist.
Angel just looked at Buffy. Those books they had been reading never mentioned the severe mood swings. They had said that there would be a few moods swings. Angel had thought it would be an every-now-and-then thing, but he was never prepared for the severity of them.
"What?" Buffy asked.
"Nothing." Angel said.
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah."
"Ok." Buffy looked at Faith and Spike. "I'll talk to you guys later. Angel and I are going home."
"See ya B!" Faith said, leading Spike away.
Angel turned to Buffy. "Home?"
"Yeah! You're staying the night."
"I am?"
"You don't want to?"
"No! No. I do."
"Ok then. Come on." Buffy took Angel's hand and led him away from the graveyard. They walked all the way home, talking to each other and planning how they wanted to get married. By the time they got to Buffy's house, they had decided that they didn't want a big wedding.
Buffy unlocked the door and crept in with Angel. She shut the door gently and put her keys on the table. All the lights were off, so Buffy assumed that everyone was in bed. Things were finally starting to get back to normal. Giles had left about a week ago and everyone had gotten a little weird, especially around Buffy. They didn't really know how to act around her. She was pregnant, Giles had left, Angel lived in LA most of the time, and she was usually a loony case due to her raging hormones.
Buffy led Angel into the living room and sat down on the couch.
"How are you doing?" Angel asked in a whisper.
"You don't have to whisper. Everyone around here, except me, is a heavy sleeper. And I'm better. Sorry about that little episode earlier. I can't control them. It's the hormones." Buffy said.
"It's ok. It was a little weird, but it's ok. I completely understand."
"You do?"
"I've been reading."
"Oh. I see. Anything specifically interesting I should know about?"
"Hmm, let me thing." Angel looked up at the ceiling as if the answers were written up there. "There was this one thing."
"What?"
Angel looked back at her. "Well, one of the books said that it was ok to.fool around.while you were pregnant."
"Really? Fool around as in.?"
"Oh, I don't know.I think it said have sex, but I'm not positive. Maybe we should wait."
Buffy had scooted closer to Angel through the whole conversation and she was now almost in his lap. "I don't think we should. I mean, even if it isn't ok, I'm sure that we could take it. After all, it is the kid of a slayer and a vampire."
"I don't know." Angel said playfully.
"You may not know, but I sure do." Buffy closed the distance from her lips to his and locked Angel in a passionate kiss. Just as things started to really heat up between the two of them, Dawn came downstairs and found them.
"Oh. My. God. That is so gross! Can't you two find somewhere else for that stuff?" Dawn said.
Buffy and Angel almost flew apart they were so startled.
"Dawnie, aren't you supposed to be in bed?" Buffy asked.
"Yeah, I was. I got thirsty."
"Well, we do have a sink with running water upstairs in the bathroom."
"I know. I didn't have glass."
"There's one in the bathroom."
"That's Willow's." Dawn paused at Buffy's look. "I know! I get the hint. Geez! I'll just go get a glass of water then you two can go at it again when I'm gone." Dawn left and headed for the kitchen.
Buffy looked at Angel apologetically. "Maybe we should move upstairs."
Angel resumed kissing her.
"Or not." Buffy mumbled into his lips.
With one last smoldering kiss, Angel swept Buffy up into his arms and took her gracefully upstairs. When their clothes were finally on the floor, Angel laid her gently on the bed. Walking around to the other side, Angel climbed in with her. Buffy rolled over and pressed kisses all over his chest. Just as things started to really happen, there was a knock on the door.
"Buffy?" Willow called.
Buffy groaned. "What?"
Willow opened the door. "I just wanted." She trailed off as Buffy and Angel scrambled to cover up. "Oh, I.I.Oh."
"What did you need?" Buffy asked.
"I have my answer and more."
"What?"
"I was just seeing if you were.I.I heard a noise in here and wanted to.uh.see if you were ok. And you're, uh, obviously.o.ok. Hi Angel."
"Hi." He answered.
Buffy picked up a sheet and wrapped it around herself. She stood and went to Willow, leading her out into the hall and shutting the door. "Will, check this out. I want you to be the first to know."
"Know what?" Willow, seemed to be calming down a bit.
"This!" Buffy showed Willow the engagement ring.
"Wow! Buffy.I.it's.wow."
"I know!"
"You two are.?"
"Mmm hmm."
"And you're." Willow pointed to Buffy's small bulge.
"You got it."
"Ahh!" Willow threw her arms around Buffy's neck and squeezed.
Buffy hugged back. "I know!"
"Congratulations!"
"Thank you. Now keep it down. Dawn's trying to sleep."
"Same for you."
"Huh?" Willow pointed at her bedroom door and Buffy got her point. "Oooh! I get ya."
"Night Buffy."
"Night." Buffy walked back into her room and looked at Angel. "Where were we?"
Making Plans
It was late and Buffy was tired. She was ready to head home and make sure Dawn was asleep in her room. There hadn't been much activity and Buffy was overdue for a little time off. As she headed towards the gates of Sunnydale Cemetery something rustled behind her. Vampire. Buffy tensed and reached for her stake. She turned around and there was Angel.
"Hey." He said as she quickly withdrew the stake and put it back in her pocket.
"Angel! You almost fit into a dust buster."
"Nice to see you too."
"Oh, I'm sorry! Hi. I thought you weren't coming for another week."
"Again nice to see you."
"Nice to see you too."
"I decided to come early. I had some business in town that I needed to get to and I thought tonight would be as good as any."
"Oh, what kind of business?"
"Nothing major."
"As in nothing that concerns Buffy major?"
"Buffy."
"I was just joking. Geez, give the pregnant girl a break here. I've got hormones comin' out the whazoo!"
"How are you?"
"We're fine. I'm about three months now. Too late for an abortion." She saw the hurt look on Angel's face when she had said that and quickly amended. "I didn't mean that Angel. You know I would never. This," she laid her hand protectively over her stomach, "this is ours. We made it together. I would kill everyone on the face of the earth and then count the grains of sand stained with their blood before I would kill OUR baby."
"I know. I feel a little guilty though."
"Why? About what?"
"You have enough to worry about, you don't really need a baby when you have a teenager to watch out for."
"Angel, I don't care about that. I know that you're going to be here to help me along. And so are my friends."
"Have you told them yet? About us I mean."
"No, not yet. The only ones that know are Cordy and the rest of them. I kind of wanted to wait until we could both tell them all together." Angel looked down at his shoes. "Whoa, wait! We are back together, right? I mean you and I were planning on that not even two weeks ago. Was I just hallucinating?"
"No! You weren't, and yes we were. I just. well, this is. um." When he couldn't find the words, he just dropped to one knee and reached into his pocket, pulling out an engagement ring. Buffy's eyes widened as she stared at the huge rock sitting on the dainty golden band.
"Angel." she breathed.
"Buffy, I love you, and that's our child growing inside you. I want to be with you forever, so, will you marry me?"
"Angel, I." she stopped, a huge lump growing in her throat and not allowing her vocal cords to function properly. Tears brimmed in her eyes as she stared at the sparkling brown orbs looking so hopefully up at her, waiting for her to answer. She couldn't speak, or really nod for that matter, so she sprang into his arms and they fell to the ground a kissing, hugging, and crying tangle of limbs.
Once they regained their composure, Angel helped Buffy up. She hugged him as she cried.
"What's wrong?" Angel asked.
"It's just." Buffy choked on a sob. "It's so beautiful!"
"It'll look even better on your finger."
"I know."
"Are you sure you're ok?"
"It's just all these hormones. Dr. Lemmon said that the third month was the one where all my hormones just go completely out of whack. He said that if I felt like crying for absolutely no reason, that it would be best if I just let myself cry."
"How often do you cry like that?"
"Um, four, five times a day? I was a mess at the doctor's office. I could hear the baby's heartbeat through the stethoscope that the doctor let me have because I wouldn't let go of it. He also said that the baby was about three point four inches long and weighs about an ounce."
"Is that normal?"
"Yeah."
"Wait!"
"What?" Buffy swirled around ready for an attack.
"Did you say heartbeat?"
"Yeah. Why?"
"Is it.human?"
"Of course! What did you think it would be?"
"I don't know. I was prepared for everything else that I didn't even stop and think tat it might be human."
Buffy started to cry again. "You thought our baby was going to be a monster?"
"No! No. I didn't know what. I thought it might end up being a vampire or half vampire or something."
"You thought it was going to be a monster!" Buffy started to storm away, but ran right into Faith.
"Yo B! Watch out." Faith noticed the petite blond crying. "Hey, what's wrong?"
"A.Angel thought our baby was going to be a monster." Buffy sobbed.
"I did no." Angel tried.
"Man Angel face! How could you? She's very sensitive! How the hell could you tell her that?"
"I didn't say monster."
"Then what did you say?"
"He.he said that he thought it was going to be half vampire." Buffy said.
"Well." Angel said.
"B, I gotta say: I see his point."
"See whose point?" Spike asked, walking up.
"Spike! Angel and Faith think that my baby is going to be half vampire!" Buffy said, leaving Faith and grabbing onto Spike.
"You two should be ashamed of yourselves!" Spike said to Faith and Angel. "Can't you see that this is a very delicate thing with her? Bloody hell Angel! It's your baby. It's your girl! You should know that that was going to make her cry!"
"I didn't mean it!" Angel said.
"Bloody right you didn't mean it! Of all you people, am I the only bloke who gives a rat's ass about the Slayer here?"
"No!" Faith and Angel said together.
"Spike, look at what Angel gave me." Buffy said, admiring her engagement ring. She was fine now. Her tears were gone and she seemed to be ignoring their conversation. Spike stared in shock at how quickly Buffy's mood had changed. "Buffy? Are you all right?"
"I'm fine! Why? Don't you like it? It's all big and shiny."
"It's lovely pet." Spike took a closer look at it. "Oh hell! That's a bleedin' engagement ring!"
"Yup." Buffy moved her hand so a glint fell off the ring in the moonlight.
"You proposed?" Spike asked Angel.
"Yes." Angel started to take cautious steps towards Buffy. "Just now."
"Whoa Angel! Congrats to ya both!" Faith said.
"Thank you!" Buffy said. She flounced over to Angel and wrapped her arms around his waist.
Angel just looked at Buffy. Those books they had been reading never mentioned the severe mood swings. They had said that there would be a few moods swings. Angel had thought it would be an every-now-and-then thing, but he was never prepared for the severity of them.
"What?" Buffy asked.
"Nothing." Angel said.
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah."
"Ok." Buffy looked at Faith and Spike. "I'll talk to you guys later. Angel and I are going home."
"See ya B!" Faith said, leading Spike away.
Angel turned to Buffy. "Home?"
"Yeah! You're staying the night."
"I am?"
"You don't want to?"
"No! No. I do."
"Ok then. Come on." Buffy took Angel's hand and led him away from the graveyard. They walked all the way home, talking to each other and planning how they wanted to get married. By the time they got to Buffy's house, they had decided that they didn't want a big wedding.
Buffy unlocked the door and crept in with Angel. She shut the door gently and put her keys on the table. All the lights were off, so Buffy assumed that everyone was in bed. Things were finally starting to get back to normal. Giles had left about a week ago and everyone had gotten a little weird, especially around Buffy. They didn't really know how to act around her. She was pregnant, Giles had left, Angel lived in LA most of the time, and she was usually a loony case due to her raging hormones.
Buffy led Angel into the living room and sat down on the couch.
"How are you doing?" Angel asked in a whisper.
"You don't have to whisper. Everyone around here, except me, is a heavy sleeper. And I'm better. Sorry about that little episode earlier. I can't control them. It's the hormones." Buffy said.
"It's ok. It was a little weird, but it's ok. I completely understand."
"You do?"
"I've been reading."
"Oh. I see. Anything specifically interesting I should know about?"
"Hmm, let me thing." Angel looked up at the ceiling as if the answers were written up there. "There was this one thing."
"What?"
Angel looked back at her. "Well, one of the books said that it was ok to.fool around.while you were pregnant."
"Really? Fool around as in.?"
"Oh, I don't know.I think it said have sex, but I'm not positive. Maybe we should wait."
Buffy had scooted closer to Angel through the whole conversation and she was now almost in his lap. "I don't think we should. I mean, even if it isn't ok, I'm sure that we could take it. After all, it is the kid of a slayer and a vampire."
"I don't know." Angel said playfully.
"You may not know, but I sure do." Buffy closed the distance from her lips to his and locked Angel in a passionate kiss. Just as things started to really heat up between the two of them, Dawn came downstairs and found them.
"Oh. My. God. That is so gross! Can't you two find somewhere else for that stuff?" Dawn said.
Buffy and Angel almost flew apart they were so startled.
"Dawnie, aren't you supposed to be in bed?" Buffy asked.
"Yeah, I was. I got thirsty."
"Well, we do have a sink with running water upstairs in the bathroom."
"I know. I didn't have glass."
"There's one in the bathroom."
"That's Willow's." Dawn paused at Buffy's look. "I know! I get the hint. Geez! I'll just go get a glass of water then you two can go at it again when I'm gone." Dawn left and headed for the kitchen.
Buffy looked at Angel apologetically. "Maybe we should move upstairs."
Angel resumed kissing her.
"Or not." Buffy mumbled into his lips.
With one last smoldering kiss, Angel swept Buffy up into his arms and took her gracefully upstairs. When their clothes were finally on the floor, Angel laid her gently on the bed. Walking around to the other side, Angel climbed in with her. Buffy rolled over and pressed kisses all over his chest. Just as things started to really happen, there was a knock on the door.
"Buffy?" Willow called.
Buffy groaned. "What?"
Willow opened the door. "I just wanted." She trailed off as Buffy and Angel scrambled to cover up. "Oh, I.I.Oh."
"What did you need?" Buffy asked.
"I have my answer and more."
"What?"
"I was just seeing if you were.I.I heard a noise in here and wanted to.uh.see if you were ok. And you're, uh, obviously.o.ok. Hi Angel."
"Hi." He answered.
Buffy picked up a sheet and wrapped it around herself. She stood and went to Willow, leading her out into the hall and shutting the door. "Will, check this out. I want you to be the first to know."
"Know what?" Willow, seemed to be calming down a bit.
"This!" Buffy showed Willow the engagement ring.
"Wow! Buffy.I.it's.wow."
"I know!"
"You two are.?"
"Mmm hmm."
"And you're." Willow pointed to Buffy's small bulge.
"You got it."
"Ahh!" Willow threw her arms around Buffy's neck and squeezed.
Buffy hugged back. "I know!"
"Congratulations!"
"Thank you. Now keep it down. Dawn's trying to sleep."
"Same for you."
"Huh?" Willow pointed at her bedroom door and Buffy got her point. "Oooh! I get ya."
"Night Buffy."
"Night." Buffy walked back into her room and looked at Angel. "Where were we?"