Author: Lissa-Bean
Parts: 3/10
Rating: PG-13
Feedback: Yes, please! MyLuv4JeffHardy@aol.com
Distribution: Go ahead, I don't mind, just credit me and tell me where its going.
Disclaimer: Joss & Co. owns all these people.... I just kinda play along
Note: Word Italicized how's what people are thinking. Example: **Thoughts**
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Buffy wandered around the cemetery, she didn't have a reason. She felt like she could relax there, after all that's where she spent most of her slayering time. She knew nothing exciting would happen like things usually did. It was pure daylight. She still felt like she was home.
AT WILLOW AND TARA'S DORM:
Willow sat on the bed flipping through a spell book. "This one looks interesting, The spell of birth. We could make my little rat here, pregnant," Willow said reading on. "Doesn't seem too complicated..."
"I-I guess we could try it," Tara said sitting on the floor next to Willow. She got the ingredients needed. "Let's see, an orb of birth, check, Bowl made of metal, check, and Eye of newt, powdered frog, and a pinch of our own which blood. Check, check and check," Willow said arranging them in between Tara and herself.
"It says to concentrate on making and destroying life," Tara read. "Be sure not to forget the destroying because if you don't you will end up with immortal children."
"Well, I don't know what we would do with an immortal rat... OK well lets do this," Willow closed her eyes to concentrate. She slipped both of her hands into Tara's.
They kept their eyes closed so they didn't see the spell working. The ingredients levitated from the metal pan and exploded in an array of rainbow light, but didn't make a sound. Willow and Tara didn't see it, but when they opened their eyes they say the ingredients gone and thought it worked.
"Well, it says here that in the next 3 days or so the rat should get bigger and the rate at which the baby grows will speed up," Tara petted the rat gently. "She should have little rat babies in a week, at the most. If she didn't have them by then the spell didn't work."
INSIDE BUFFY'S HOUSE:
"Hey Dawny, I'm home...." Buffy quietly closed the door. She looked on the couch to see Giles asleep with a book on his stomach. She shook him gently. "Giles, thanks so much for watching Dawn, you can go home now if you want."
"Oh yes, Dawn should be up in her room" Giles got up and left. He promised Anya that he would go to the shop to check on her after Buffy came home.
Buffy headed up the stairs to check on Dawn. "Hey Dawn, I am going to order a pizza, you want?"
Dawn lay in her bed half-asleep. "Yea yeah ... extra cheese..." Dawn mumbled.
Buffy felt the urge to throw up at the sight of food. She thought it was because of all the stress she was having. **I'll just take a short nap until nightfall, then I'll slay..**
Buffy had most of the pizza and Dawn ate about 2 pieces. Buffy was feeling sicker by the minute. She decided that in the morning she would go see a doctor.
She went in her room and slept. When she got up she went to throw up again. **Maybe I'll go tonight...**
She called Giles and asked if he could take over the patrolling because she had the flu. She grabbed her coat and headed out the door to go see the doctor.
"Ms. Summers, I need you to fill out these forms and the doctor will be with you in a moment." The receptionist handed Buffy a clipboard and the forms. Buffy did, as she was told.
"Ms. Summers, the doctor will see you now." The doctor did the usual routine, check reflexes, eyes, ears, a take urine sample. He left in the back and got the results.
"Congratulations Ms. Summers, You pregnant."
"How? I didn't.... I don't... " Buffy stammered. She was totally stunned. She didn't have sex with anyone since Riley and that was almost 4 months ago. She would have noticed it sooner.
"It looks like you have been for... 3 months," The doctor handed Buffy pamphlets about parenting and abortion. He knew this was unexpected. Buffy left stunned.
She went straight to the cemetery where she found Willow, Xander, Anya, Giles, and Spike patrolling. "Your not going to believe this, hell I don't believe it! I am pregnant."
The Scoobies exchanged looks. Willow was happy, Xander and Anya looked scared, Giles looked like he was going to be a grandpa (after all he was the closest thing Buffy had to a parent) and Spike looked hurt. They all thought it was Riley's baby.
"I don't know who the father is. The doctor said I was pregnant for 3 months, but the last person I had sex with was Riley, 4 months ago." Buffy replied. Willow remembered the spell she and Tara had done earlier. **Could it be the spell? Who exactly would be the father then?**
Willow ran home and looked in the book. She read from it aloud. "If done on a person, The man she is thinking about at that exact time or the first man she thinks of, after spell is done will be the father," Willow kept reading from then on silently. She heard Tara arouse from the bed half asleep.
"What's wrong honey?" She asked
"That spell we did on the rat, it went wrong and Buffy is pregnant." Willow said standing up and facing Tara. "Is there a spell we can do to find out who she was thinking about?"
Tara walked over to the bookshelf and grabbed a book of shadows. "This one will work, all we need to do is together in unison, chant these words of ancient Greek, and hold hands," Tara said showing Willow the page. "OK, Let's do this right this time"