Written while listening to Shiver and Trouble by Coldplay for insperation! I think a little trip to Sunnydale is in order here. Oh yeah and the spell checkers off-line just now so umm...excuse the spelling mistakes.
Disclaimer: I own nothing, I only like to play with them and they all belong to Joss and David's imagination, oh yeah and the people they belong to!
Summary: OK Angel took Cordelia out for a Valentines Date after he saw he feeling a bit down in the dumps but he realised that he felt more for her than a friend and things got a little hot and heavy, not too hot and heavy though!!!! Cordelia decided that she couldn't run the risk of Angelus running around after they spent a fully clothed night together so she went to the Oracles and guess who was there, Doyle! He told her that they (PTB) had been watching them and hoping. Angel had proved his love when he refused to let anything happen when they were in bed together. She went through the Three Trials and succeeded. Now Boom everybody is happy families and fluffy bunnies!
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The journey to Sunnydale in the rented people carrier had been stained and silent to say the least except for the continual breathing of the babies and their mum, and the light guitar strumming of a country station on the radio. They had been travelling for 2 and a half hours and were just pulling up to Giles house. Buffy had sat in the back of the car with the babies, musing over them when they whimpered or making cooing noises at any excuse except to think about her mother. Cordelia was sleeping in the front seat, exhausted after a hard days shopping and a violent vision. Angel slouched in his seat as he thought about the last few days. They had found an apartment and were going to see it as soon as they got back, well Cordelia was because the guy who was selling it was only availble during the day. Giles house slowly came into Angels view as he slowed down the car and woke Cordelia.
"Cordelia, honey, wake up. We're here. You wanna grab the babies and get the bags?"
Buffy climbed out of the car and wandered mournfully up the stairs to Giles apartment. She looked back, watching Angel and Cordelia dragging the baby carriers out of the back seats of the people carrier. It was going to take her a while to adjust to the fact that Angel was never going to come back to her, that he had a new life. She had guessed when she showed up in LA a few months ago and told him that she had Riley and didn't need him. She had known it the moment she saw his figure retreating after the Graduation Day fight. She had known it in her heart for a long time but she would never give up hope. Buffy knocked on the large, patterned wooden door that still had the dents and nicks in it from resent and passed demon intrustions. The door was opened to reveal a tired looking Xander. His face brighten up straight away.
"Buffy your back. Thank god, we didn't know where you had gone. Willow and Giles said you phoned but they never said where you were. Are you OK?" He slid his arm around her sholder and pulled her into a hug.
"Hey Xand, i'm fine, well sort of. Is Giles home?" Buffy smuthered her head into Xanders chest.
"Giles Buffys back from where ever she went." Xander shouted through the house. Buffy walked straight passed him and into the apartment. "And Cordelia's here...with a baby." Cordelia walked passed him and stood in the entrance hall waiting for Angel. "Oh we're a family again, Deadboys here...with another baby. I don't get this."
"Nice to see you to Xander. This is Catherine and that is Alain." Angel introduced. "Can you get Giles please, someone needs to ask me in."
Giles appered in the door way to find Cordelia standing inside and Xander in a very confused state. "Oh Angel, i suppose you better come in."
Angel winced at the distrust and hate that burned in the Watchers eyes. He didn't blame Giles, he had, after all, killed his girlfriend, put Buffy through hell as well as every member of the then Scooby Gang and broken his surrogate daughters heart. He didn't blame him at all.
"Hello Giles, i'm sorry for being late. Cordelia had a vision so we had to let Wesley and Gunn know, then we had to stop and change the twins."
"Wesley? Visions? Twins? Angel what are you talking about?" Giles led Cordelia and Angel through to his living room.
"I get visions of people in trouble from the PTB, the Powers That Be, thanks to a cute, bad dressing friend of mine before he died. They kinda hurt and are icky much. The twins are mine and Angels."
Giles face widen in shock and horror. "You and Angel have 2 children together? Correct me if i am wrong but Angel is cursed against pure happiness unless only Bu...Cordelia i'm sorry."
"What? You think only the Slayer can give him one moment of happiness? I don't think. His soul is bound, no more Angelus, only Angel. I did it, well Doyle kinda helped me. The twins don't belong to us and i never gave birth to them plus you know Vampires can't have any children. They were a gift from the PTB. Their real mother died and we were told to take care of them till their 21 and take their place on the throne. It's a bit complicated and Wesley is still reading into it."
"Why do you keep mentioning Wesley? What has he got to do with this?" Giles ran an exhausted hand through his greying hair.
"Angel can explain the rest, i'm gonna say hi to Willow and Oz." Cordelia walked into the living room.
"Wesley works for me. He used to be a Rouge Demon Hunter after the council fired him but after Cordelia got kidnapped and then when we rescued her he gave it up. Now me and Cordelia are going to get going to the hotel. Cordelia is going to the funeral and i'll be at the wake, i hope you don't mind but Buffy did ask me to be there."
"It's Buffys choice, it isn't my mother funeral. I have one warning for you though Angel, you hurt Buffy and Jenny, i'll never forgive you for that but you hurt Cordelia as well and i'll hunt you down. The Gang are and always be like my children even Cordelia."
"I understand."
Angel walked slowly away from the tired man into the living and clocked eyes on Willow playing with Alain in her arms. Cordelia was fussing at Willow for not holding his head properly will a blonde haired girl he didn't reconquise watched. Xander sat on the other couch with his arm around a girl he vagily recalled as the ex-vengance demon. The ex-demon was sitting glaring at Cordelia with a protective hand over Xanders lap.
"Hi," Angel sheepishly said. He still wasn't comfortable around the group he nearly killed or put in hospital. "Cordelia are you about ready to go yet?"
Cordelia looked up at him with her 'take me away from here' eyes. "Yeah sure, here take this." She handed Angel the diper bag and plucked Alain back from Willows arms. The red head stared at her with a disapproving scowl. Her features quickly soften and she instead reached over and hugged Cordelia tightly. Xander was the next to stand up. Cordelia hugged him gently, smiling smugly at Anyas exasperated and jealous face.
"Just remember he's my boyfriend now and we have better sex than you ever did." Anya retorted, still not getting the reasons for tact that Xander had been teaching her.
Xander stood uncomfortably in front of Cordelia. Cordelia went to defend herself but Angels deep voice stopped her.
"Anya, let me introduce you to my girlfriend, Cordelia and our two children, Alain and Catherine. Now we're going back to the hotel. Anya, i don't think you have anything to worry about as far as Xander and Cordelia are concerned. Faith and Xander...you may have a slight problem there, she gets out in 6 months on parole."
Angel guided Cordelia and Alain out of the house with his hand placed on the small of her back. He took great delight in listening to Xander try and explain about Faith while Anya just slung insults at him.
The Next Day:
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Cordelia stood awkwardly under the Oak tree watching Willow and Xander comfort the sobbing Slayer and her sister. Cordelia desperately wanted to be part of that group, to drown in her grief to whisper reassurences between them, seeking comfort in each others arms. She knew what the grief was like, she had lost Doyle and had only coped because she had her best friend, Angel, beside her. But Cordelia had no right to intrude in the trios group hug because she wasn't apart of that group anymore. She had forefitted that right when she walked out to LA, and now any chance of seeking their forgiveness had been lost now she and Angel were a couple. Buffy turned around and looked up to the tree at Cordelia standing there. She glared as her face twisted into a look of hate and discust.
Cordelia had driven back to the hotel as Willow Xander and Dawn left to head back to the Summers house. She watched Buffy from the car as she knelt down by her mothers coffin and kissed her two fingers, placing them lightly on the walnut coffin and whispering goodbye to the wind in a hope her mother would hear her.
Cordelia found Angel fully awake in the sunlight-free room, a bed-side lamp on providing the light. She saw Angel sitting on the couch in their suite with Catherine and Alain lying in his arms. He was busy reading them an extract from his lastest detective novel about a Russian spy.
"You do realise that at only three months old, they can't understand why a dead man found on a New York rubbish heap is linked with some sex-bomb KGB agent in Moscow."
"They can and it's an old battle axe agent in St. Petersburg. Are you ready to go to the wake? They are sleeping and all ready to go and if you give me a minute to put a shirt on i'll be ready to go as well."
"Angel, i'm...i'm not going. I don't think i could face anymore moarning. I know it sounds harst but it...brings back memories of Doyle." She lied. She didn't want to face Buffys warth now that the funeral was over.
"Cordelia, we said we would do this together, i promise i won't leave you alone."
"Angel just go please." Cordelia yelled but quickly softened. "Please honey, i'll be fine. It's Buffy who's your ex-love not mine. Plus i don't think that wake is any place for babies, do you?"
"No. For once your right. God remind me never to say that again."
Cordelia weakly smiled as Angel planted a delicate kiss on her cheek and headed out the door with a wave.
'The sunroof firmly closed? Check. The windows up? Check. 20 minutes to sunset? Check.' Angel completed his mental checklist after running from the hotel to the People carrier under a blanket. He headed over to the Summers Household unsure of what to expect but dressed in his usual black etire. By the time he got there everyone had found their way from the cemetery to the house without much trouble or unexpected meetings. Buffy and Giles stood at the door welcoming people and listen to their hollow apologies for her mothers lost.
Buffy stood mindlessly next to Giles, regestering he was there and shaking peoples hands but not hearing a single word they said. Her mind raced with so many thoughts it was like the day when she could read peoples minds. Her head hurt and she just wanted to be left alone. Their sorrys meant little to her, they didn't know what her mother was like, they knew the work collogue or the person who helped out at some school funtions but they didn't know her mother. Then there was the train of thought where Angel exsisted. He was here in Sunnydale, she thought. She wasn't sure of much involving Angel anymore. Buffy remembered going to LA and she remembered Cordelia having a fit then they both ran out saying something about babies and who was the ghost? The little incident where she found Cordelia and Angel rolling about on the lino kitchen floor, laughing, playing in her mind. She had never made him laugh like that, for all she had saved the world, she couldn't make the man she loved laugh. Buffy watched as he walked up the path towards her house, without Cordelia or any babies in tow. She could still feel him, sense him and it drove her crazy.
"Hello Buffy, sorry i'm late but the sun...Cordelia won't be coming, she said sorry but it reminds her too much of when Doyle died."
"I'm glad YOU came, it means a lot to me. I saw Cordelia at the funeral earlier. Come in."
Angel walked into the house to find Xander staring at him in a hateful glare and Willow not quite sure where to look. Tara handed Angel a glass of wine unaware of who and what he was.
Buffy busied herself,a little happier now that Angel was there, with some guests that were her mothers work friends. More sorrys. The words she could handle, the pity in their eyes she couldn't so Buffy excused herself and headed upstairs. She flung herself down on her bed and pulled her favourtie teddy bear close to her, taking in it's comforting familairty.
Angel sat on the couch, listening to everyones conversations about Joyce Summers. Buffy as no where to be seen. He came here for one reason and he had to find Buffy in order to give his reason and leave.
"Dawn, have you seen your sister, Buffy?"
Dawn looked at the Vampire confusingly. "Yeah she's lying on her bed upstairs. I think she's crying."
Angel found Buffy still crying, playing with the little silver ring on a chain around her neck. She sensed him long before his chizel chined face appeared around the door. She stood up to greet him.
"Hey." Angel said softly, wiping a stray hair from her wet cheek. "Your not doing so well huh?"
"No." Buffy nodded. "Angel i've been thinking. You said you wanted me to have a normal life right." The Vampire nodded. "Well my normal life took off in an army helicopter, i don't want a normal life. You said once all i had to say to get you to stay was that i didn't love you and i didn't have the strength to. I do now. I don't want you to walk out that door and go back to LA, i want you to stay here with me. I don't love you anymore." Buffy slipped her arms around the Vampire neck. "Didn't you hear me. I don't love you anymore."
Angel stood there.
Cordelia handed the carriers over to Willow. She had decided to come after all because they needed to go back to LA. Sunnydale wasn't for her anymore and after the killer look Buffy had given her that morning she wasn't going to risk staying while an emotionilly instable Slayer thought over her ex-lover. Cordelia took the stairs two at a time and heard muffled voices as she stood on the landing, across from Buffys room.
"I don't want you to walk out that door and go back to LA, i want you to stay here with me..."
Cordelia adjusted herself in the hallway to see Buffy slip her arms around Angels neck, playing with the silky hairs at the back of his neck. Cordelia couldn't listen anymore and stormed into the bedroom.
Angel whipped around to see Cordelia standing in the doorway, her hands planted firmly on her hips and an angry scowl across her face.
"C...Cora this isn't what it looks like. I promise you." Angel stuttered out as Cordelia walked futher into the room.
"I know Angel, I heard the whole thing outside. Buffy take your hands from around my boyfriends neck and wipe the smirk off your face 'cos it's never gonna work. Me and Angel took a while to get where we are today and i'm not going to let someone like you, who thinks the whole world should bow down and worship her, take it away from me or our children. I'm sorry your mum died and i know that you have a lot to cope with but that does not give you a reason to go and take my man."
Buffy took a step back from Angel and looked at him for some sort of back-up. "What you are just going to let her talk to me. I knew you hadn't changed Cordelia Chase. The kids aren't even yours. I think Wesley made some sort of mistake when he was translating. Nobody in their right minds would let you be a mother."
Cordelia dove forward passed Angel and arrived at Buffy. She reconsidered for a moment then lift her hand against Buffys face with a crack. Angel leaped forward and stood back between the girls knowing full well that Buffy would retaliate.
"Buffy that was below the belt. Don't take this out on Cordelia, she didn't ask for any of this. I thought we got this sorted in LA. I am with Cordelia now, i love her very much and we now have the chance to bring up 2 beautiful children. I wouldn't have come back now or anytime in the last 9 months. I have been the happiest i've been in over a 150 years. Buffy think about it, we caused each other nothing but pain, hurt and misery when we were together and when we were apart i did nothing but brood and wish you were there. I gave up my humaity in order to save you and all you did was slap me in the face over Faith. God Buffy get a grip of yourself, move on and take care of your sister because she has just lost a mother. Willow and Xander have just lost their mother figure and Giles has lost his Slayers mother and a trusted friend. God open your eyes and stop being so selfish."
"I'm sorry, i'm so sorry. Angel just leave. You to Cordelia." Buffy slumped to floor and lost herself in her tears.
Cordelia was led slowly away by Angel. They picked the children from a scornful Xander downstair who looked at them questionably.
"Xander i know what you think of this and i don't really care, but take care of Buffy, she's gonna need it." Cordelia said as Angel gathered up the babies things.
They walked out of the Summers household, never looking back only looking forward to the future, together.
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That's Part Three. Part Four called Baby Steps will be up as soon as it is written (ha ha). I hope you like it so far. Let me know if you do and don't plus any ideas you have for a fic called 'Baby Steps'
Nuttyginger
Disclaimer: I own nothing, I only like to play with them and they all belong to Joss and David's imagination, oh yeah and the people they belong to!
Summary: OK Angel took Cordelia out for a Valentines Date after he saw he feeling a bit down in the dumps but he realised that he felt more for her than a friend and things got a little hot and heavy, not too hot and heavy though!!!! Cordelia decided that she couldn't run the risk of Angelus running around after they spent a fully clothed night together so she went to the Oracles and guess who was there, Doyle! He told her that they (PTB) had been watching them and hoping. Angel had proved his love when he refused to let anything happen when they were in bed together. She went through the Three Trials and succeeded. Now Boom everybody is happy families and fluffy bunnies!
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The journey to Sunnydale in the rented people carrier had been stained and silent to say the least except for the continual breathing of the babies and their mum, and the light guitar strumming of a country station on the radio. They had been travelling for 2 and a half hours and were just pulling up to Giles house. Buffy had sat in the back of the car with the babies, musing over them when they whimpered or making cooing noises at any excuse except to think about her mother. Cordelia was sleeping in the front seat, exhausted after a hard days shopping and a violent vision. Angel slouched in his seat as he thought about the last few days. They had found an apartment and were going to see it as soon as they got back, well Cordelia was because the guy who was selling it was only availble during the day. Giles house slowly came into Angels view as he slowed down the car and woke Cordelia.
"Cordelia, honey, wake up. We're here. You wanna grab the babies and get the bags?"
Buffy climbed out of the car and wandered mournfully up the stairs to Giles apartment. She looked back, watching Angel and Cordelia dragging the baby carriers out of the back seats of the people carrier. It was going to take her a while to adjust to the fact that Angel was never going to come back to her, that he had a new life. She had guessed when she showed up in LA a few months ago and told him that she had Riley and didn't need him. She had known it the moment she saw his figure retreating after the Graduation Day fight. She had known it in her heart for a long time but she would never give up hope. Buffy knocked on the large, patterned wooden door that still had the dents and nicks in it from resent and passed demon intrustions. The door was opened to reveal a tired looking Xander. His face brighten up straight away.
"Buffy your back. Thank god, we didn't know where you had gone. Willow and Giles said you phoned but they never said where you were. Are you OK?" He slid his arm around her sholder and pulled her into a hug.
"Hey Xand, i'm fine, well sort of. Is Giles home?" Buffy smuthered her head into Xanders chest.
"Giles Buffys back from where ever she went." Xander shouted through the house. Buffy walked straight passed him and into the apartment. "And Cordelia's here...with a baby." Cordelia walked passed him and stood in the entrance hall waiting for Angel. "Oh we're a family again, Deadboys here...with another baby. I don't get this."
"Nice to see you to Xander. This is Catherine and that is Alain." Angel introduced. "Can you get Giles please, someone needs to ask me in."
Giles appered in the door way to find Cordelia standing inside and Xander in a very confused state. "Oh Angel, i suppose you better come in."
Angel winced at the distrust and hate that burned in the Watchers eyes. He didn't blame Giles, he had, after all, killed his girlfriend, put Buffy through hell as well as every member of the then Scooby Gang and broken his surrogate daughters heart. He didn't blame him at all.
"Hello Giles, i'm sorry for being late. Cordelia had a vision so we had to let Wesley and Gunn know, then we had to stop and change the twins."
"Wesley? Visions? Twins? Angel what are you talking about?" Giles led Cordelia and Angel through to his living room.
"I get visions of people in trouble from the PTB, the Powers That Be, thanks to a cute, bad dressing friend of mine before he died. They kinda hurt and are icky much. The twins are mine and Angels."
Giles face widen in shock and horror. "You and Angel have 2 children together? Correct me if i am wrong but Angel is cursed against pure happiness unless only Bu...Cordelia i'm sorry."
"What? You think only the Slayer can give him one moment of happiness? I don't think. His soul is bound, no more Angelus, only Angel. I did it, well Doyle kinda helped me. The twins don't belong to us and i never gave birth to them plus you know Vampires can't have any children. They were a gift from the PTB. Their real mother died and we were told to take care of them till their 21 and take their place on the throne. It's a bit complicated and Wesley is still reading into it."
"Why do you keep mentioning Wesley? What has he got to do with this?" Giles ran an exhausted hand through his greying hair.
"Angel can explain the rest, i'm gonna say hi to Willow and Oz." Cordelia walked into the living room.
"Wesley works for me. He used to be a Rouge Demon Hunter after the council fired him but after Cordelia got kidnapped and then when we rescued her he gave it up. Now me and Cordelia are going to get going to the hotel. Cordelia is going to the funeral and i'll be at the wake, i hope you don't mind but Buffy did ask me to be there."
"It's Buffys choice, it isn't my mother funeral. I have one warning for you though Angel, you hurt Buffy and Jenny, i'll never forgive you for that but you hurt Cordelia as well and i'll hunt you down. The Gang are and always be like my children even Cordelia."
"I understand."
Angel walked slowly away from the tired man into the living and clocked eyes on Willow playing with Alain in her arms. Cordelia was fussing at Willow for not holding his head properly will a blonde haired girl he didn't reconquise watched. Xander sat on the other couch with his arm around a girl he vagily recalled as the ex-vengance demon. The ex-demon was sitting glaring at Cordelia with a protective hand over Xanders lap.
"Hi," Angel sheepishly said. He still wasn't comfortable around the group he nearly killed or put in hospital. "Cordelia are you about ready to go yet?"
Cordelia looked up at him with her 'take me away from here' eyes. "Yeah sure, here take this." She handed Angel the diper bag and plucked Alain back from Willows arms. The red head stared at her with a disapproving scowl. Her features quickly soften and she instead reached over and hugged Cordelia tightly. Xander was the next to stand up. Cordelia hugged him gently, smiling smugly at Anyas exasperated and jealous face.
"Just remember he's my boyfriend now and we have better sex than you ever did." Anya retorted, still not getting the reasons for tact that Xander had been teaching her.
Xander stood uncomfortably in front of Cordelia. Cordelia went to defend herself but Angels deep voice stopped her.
"Anya, let me introduce you to my girlfriend, Cordelia and our two children, Alain and Catherine. Now we're going back to the hotel. Anya, i don't think you have anything to worry about as far as Xander and Cordelia are concerned. Faith and Xander...you may have a slight problem there, she gets out in 6 months on parole."
Angel guided Cordelia and Alain out of the house with his hand placed on the small of her back. He took great delight in listening to Xander try and explain about Faith while Anya just slung insults at him.
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Cordelia stood awkwardly under the Oak tree watching Willow and Xander comfort the sobbing Slayer and her sister. Cordelia desperately wanted to be part of that group, to drown in her grief to whisper reassurences between them, seeking comfort in each others arms. She knew what the grief was like, she had lost Doyle and had only coped because she had her best friend, Angel, beside her. But Cordelia had no right to intrude in the trios group hug because she wasn't apart of that group anymore. She had forefitted that right when she walked out to LA, and now any chance of seeking their forgiveness had been lost now she and Angel were a couple. Buffy turned around and looked up to the tree at Cordelia standing there. She glared as her face twisted into a look of hate and discust.
Cordelia had driven back to the hotel as Willow Xander and Dawn left to head back to the Summers house. She watched Buffy from the car as she knelt down by her mothers coffin and kissed her two fingers, placing them lightly on the walnut coffin and whispering goodbye to the wind in a hope her mother would hear her.
Cordelia found Angel fully awake in the sunlight-free room, a bed-side lamp on providing the light. She saw Angel sitting on the couch in their suite with Catherine and Alain lying in his arms. He was busy reading them an extract from his lastest detective novel about a Russian spy.
"You do realise that at only three months old, they can't understand why a dead man found on a New York rubbish heap is linked with some sex-bomb KGB agent in Moscow."
"They can and it's an old battle axe agent in St. Petersburg. Are you ready to go to the wake? They are sleeping and all ready to go and if you give me a minute to put a shirt on i'll be ready to go as well."
"Angel, i'm...i'm not going. I don't think i could face anymore moarning. I know it sounds harst but it...brings back memories of Doyle." She lied. She didn't want to face Buffys warth now that the funeral was over.
"Cordelia, we said we would do this together, i promise i won't leave you alone."
"Angel just go please." Cordelia yelled but quickly softened. "Please honey, i'll be fine. It's Buffy who's your ex-love not mine. Plus i don't think that wake is any place for babies, do you?"
"No. For once your right. God remind me never to say that again."
Cordelia weakly smiled as Angel planted a delicate kiss on her cheek and headed out the door with a wave.
'The sunroof firmly closed? Check. The windows up? Check. 20 minutes to sunset? Check.' Angel completed his mental checklist after running from the hotel to the People carrier under a blanket. He headed over to the Summers Household unsure of what to expect but dressed in his usual black etire. By the time he got there everyone had found their way from the cemetery to the house without much trouble or unexpected meetings. Buffy and Giles stood at the door welcoming people and listen to their hollow apologies for her mothers lost.
Buffy stood mindlessly next to Giles, regestering he was there and shaking peoples hands but not hearing a single word they said. Her mind raced with so many thoughts it was like the day when she could read peoples minds. Her head hurt and she just wanted to be left alone. Their sorrys meant little to her, they didn't know what her mother was like, they knew the work collogue or the person who helped out at some school funtions but they didn't know her mother. Then there was the train of thought where Angel exsisted. He was here in Sunnydale, she thought. She wasn't sure of much involving Angel anymore. Buffy remembered going to LA and she remembered Cordelia having a fit then they both ran out saying something about babies and who was the ghost? The little incident where she found Cordelia and Angel rolling about on the lino kitchen floor, laughing, playing in her mind. She had never made him laugh like that, for all she had saved the world, she couldn't make the man she loved laugh. Buffy watched as he walked up the path towards her house, without Cordelia or any babies in tow. She could still feel him, sense him and it drove her crazy.
"Hello Buffy, sorry i'm late but the sun...Cordelia won't be coming, she said sorry but it reminds her too much of when Doyle died."
"I'm glad YOU came, it means a lot to me. I saw Cordelia at the funeral earlier. Come in."
Angel walked into the house to find Xander staring at him in a hateful glare and Willow not quite sure where to look. Tara handed Angel a glass of wine unaware of who and what he was.
Buffy busied herself,a little happier now that Angel was there, with some guests that were her mothers work friends. More sorrys. The words she could handle, the pity in their eyes she couldn't so Buffy excused herself and headed upstairs. She flung herself down on her bed and pulled her favourtie teddy bear close to her, taking in it's comforting familairty.
Angel sat on the couch, listening to everyones conversations about Joyce Summers. Buffy as no where to be seen. He came here for one reason and he had to find Buffy in order to give his reason and leave.
"Dawn, have you seen your sister, Buffy?"
Dawn looked at the Vampire confusingly. "Yeah she's lying on her bed upstairs. I think she's crying."
Angel found Buffy still crying, playing with the little silver ring on a chain around her neck. She sensed him long before his chizel chined face appeared around the door. She stood up to greet him.
"Hey." Angel said softly, wiping a stray hair from her wet cheek. "Your not doing so well huh?"
"No." Buffy nodded. "Angel i've been thinking. You said you wanted me to have a normal life right." The Vampire nodded. "Well my normal life took off in an army helicopter, i don't want a normal life. You said once all i had to say to get you to stay was that i didn't love you and i didn't have the strength to. I do now. I don't want you to walk out that door and go back to LA, i want you to stay here with me. I don't love you anymore." Buffy slipped her arms around the Vampire neck. "Didn't you hear me. I don't love you anymore."
Angel stood there.
Cordelia handed the carriers over to Willow. She had decided to come after all because they needed to go back to LA. Sunnydale wasn't for her anymore and after the killer look Buffy had given her that morning she wasn't going to risk staying while an emotionilly instable Slayer thought over her ex-lover. Cordelia took the stairs two at a time and heard muffled voices as she stood on the landing, across from Buffys room.
"I don't want you to walk out that door and go back to LA, i want you to stay here with me..."
Cordelia adjusted herself in the hallway to see Buffy slip her arms around Angels neck, playing with the silky hairs at the back of his neck. Cordelia couldn't listen anymore and stormed into the bedroom.
Angel whipped around to see Cordelia standing in the doorway, her hands planted firmly on her hips and an angry scowl across her face.
"C...Cora this isn't what it looks like. I promise you." Angel stuttered out as Cordelia walked futher into the room.
"I know Angel, I heard the whole thing outside. Buffy take your hands from around my boyfriends neck and wipe the smirk off your face 'cos it's never gonna work. Me and Angel took a while to get where we are today and i'm not going to let someone like you, who thinks the whole world should bow down and worship her, take it away from me or our children. I'm sorry your mum died and i know that you have a lot to cope with but that does not give you a reason to go and take my man."
Buffy took a step back from Angel and looked at him for some sort of back-up. "What you are just going to let her talk to me. I knew you hadn't changed Cordelia Chase. The kids aren't even yours. I think Wesley made some sort of mistake when he was translating. Nobody in their right minds would let you be a mother."
Cordelia dove forward passed Angel and arrived at Buffy. She reconsidered for a moment then lift her hand against Buffys face with a crack. Angel leaped forward and stood back between the girls knowing full well that Buffy would retaliate.
"Buffy that was below the belt. Don't take this out on Cordelia, she didn't ask for any of this. I thought we got this sorted in LA. I am with Cordelia now, i love her very much and we now have the chance to bring up 2 beautiful children. I wouldn't have come back now or anytime in the last 9 months. I have been the happiest i've been in over a 150 years. Buffy think about it, we caused each other nothing but pain, hurt and misery when we were together and when we were apart i did nothing but brood and wish you were there. I gave up my humaity in order to save you and all you did was slap me in the face over Faith. God Buffy get a grip of yourself, move on and take care of your sister because she has just lost a mother. Willow and Xander have just lost their mother figure and Giles has lost his Slayers mother and a trusted friend. God open your eyes and stop being so selfish."
"I'm sorry, i'm so sorry. Angel just leave. You to Cordelia." Buffy slumped to floor and lost herself in her tears.
Cordelia was led slowly away by Angel. They picked the children from a scornful Xander downstair who looked at them questionably.
"Xander i know what you think of this and i don't really care, but take care of Buffy, she's gonna need it." Cordelia said as Angel gathered up the babies things.
They walked out of the Summers household, never looking back only looking forward to the future, together.
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That's Part Three. Part Four called Baby Steps will be up as soon as it is written (ha ha). I hope you like it so far. Let me know if you do and don't plus any ideas you have for a fic called 'Baby Steps'
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