TITLE: A Change In Destiny: Part VIII: Forever
AUTHOR: Wicked Angel
RATING: PG-13
DISCLAIMER: Not mine!
AUTHORS NOTES: Right I know this chapter is quite 'cheesy' but humour me I wanted to end it on a lighter note – sorry! This chapter made me happy!
SUMMARY: That's all folks – I have finally completed my story this just about wraps things up… set about three months after the battle and Buffy's having her baby!
Oh my God!" Spike burst through the double white doors and ran straight into Joyce and Giles who were pacing up and down "Am I too late?" Spike gasped for air, he was out of breath from running
"Well about time Spike! And no thankfully you're not to late – well not yet" Joyce pointed her son-in law in the direction of the room Buffy was staying in
"She's in room 13" Giles raised an eyebrow "Xander, Anya, Willow, Tara and Dawn are with her just now – she said we were getting to over emotional and told us to leave"
"Right thanks" Spike smile at them and swiftly kissed Joyce on the cheek and ran towards room 13.
"Where is Spike?" Buffy looked around at her friends "Did you page him?"
Xander nodded "Buffy you've already asked me that 5 times and the answer is always yes – I've paged him three times already!"
"Don't get cocky Alexander Harris, I may be having a baby but I could still kick your ass!" Buffy growled at Xander "and just wait until it's you and Anya's turn and we'll see if you're so smart then!"
"I know… I don't doubt that for a second… I'm sorry" Xander stepped away from the bed
Dawn peeked out the small window on the door "Well looky here, if it isn't my favourite brother"
Willow smiled "Buffy he's here" and she hugged the Slayer "It's time"
Spike burst in the door and ran up to Buffy and kissed her
"Are you okay pet?"
"Okay!… Your asking me if I'm okay…? I'm about to squeeze something the size of a melon out of… out of… well out of something that, trust me, isn't the size of a melon and I'm getting shooting pains all across my stomach and back worse than any pain I've ever experienced as the Slayer and they won't even give me any drugs and… IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!" Buffy's face was getting redder as another contraction overcame her body and she grabbed Spikes shirt and pulled him close to her "ARGHHHHHHHH!!!"
"Umm…" Spike looked down at his screaming wife and then round at their friends "… sorry baby"
"Well I think it may be time for us to leave" Tara took Willows hand
"Yeah" the redhead nodded and went over and kissed Buffy's forehead "We'll be right outside Buffy"
Buffy nodded "See ya soon Buffster" Xander kissed her and dragged Anya out the door with him
"Don't we get to stay and watch?" Anya stared back in the door
"No" Tara, Willow, Dawn and Xander all screamed in unison
"Sorry!"
They all sat outside the room and waited as the doctor and nurses went in.
Buffy was still lying on the bed squeezing Spikes hand
"Umm… Buffy… honey… Buffy pet… your kind of shattering bone here!"
The doctor walked in and Spike grabbed him "Look mate you better get a move on and give either me or her a painkiller before I pass out!"
The doctor nodded and the nurses all smiled, then the room was silenced by an earth-shattering scream
"Arggggghhhhhhh!!!!! – Doyle, Spike – You pair of bastards!" the nurses all looked confused but then again they were in Sunnydale "Doyle you little spiritual leprechaun – wait till I get my hands on you!"
Spike just shrugged his shoulders "Umm… she's just a bit confused
"Angel will you please hurry up - we'll miss it!" Cordelia urged her husband "Come on!"
"Look Cordy I'm going as fast as I can without killing the three of us" Angel didn't divert his eyes from the road "and maybe if you hadn't brought your entire wardrobe and spent £700 dollars in Baby Gap the car would be lighter and we'd go a bit faster"
Cordelia just turned to the driver "Touchy…"
"Look we're almost there!" Angel pointed to the old familiar sign, which had suffered from years of graffiti abuse
'Welcome to the weird town of SunnyHell – The wackiness never ends, please enjoy your stay! Cos you'll be staying for a
VERY long time!'
"Mmm…" Cordelia leaned back against her seat resting her head on Angels shoulder "Home sweet home"
Suddenly Cordelia's body convulsed in pain as she gripped her head in her hands, Angel reacting quickly, swerved the car to the side of the road and pulled Cordelia near him in an effort to comfort her. He reached into the glove compartment and pulled out Advil and a bottle of water
"Now that's why I never let you drive!" Angel grinned at her "A vision I take it?"
"Very funny!" Cordelia slapped him in the chest as she lifted her head "and yes it was a vision"
"So you gonna tell me?" Angel was curious
"Well lets just say there isn't gonna be a problem with both, me and you and Xander and Willow being Godparents" Cordelia smiled
"I don't understand" Angel looked confused
"Just drive honey – you'll find out soon enough" Cordelia smiled and directed Angel to the hospital
They pulled into the car park 15 minutes later and Angel got out and helped his wife out the car
"God being pregnant sure is a pain in the ass!" Cordelia stepped out the car unassisted
Angel shrugged, he didn't understand
"I'm only 3 months pregnant" Cordelia stood hands on hips " I mean I'm not even showing yet and you've already got me wrapped up in cotton wool"
Angel looked understandably hurt
"Sorry… I just…"
Cordelia immediately felt guilty for snapping at him "I'm sorry" she leaned up and kissed him "Let's just go see Buffy"
Cordelia then led him straight into the hospital gift shop
"Cordy you have bought enough gifts for all the newborns in California!" Angel huffed "Come on we need to go see Buffy"
"Yes I know, but you know how Buffy said we should get the baby its first teddy bear?" Cordelia looked up at Angel who nodded in understanding
"Yeah but you got it that little brown bear thingy from the toy store" Angel pulled the old fashioned teddy out one of the many bags he was carrying
"Mmm…" reached up to the top shelf, Angel was going to assist her but decided it would be a bad move. She took down two bears, both silvery/grey in colour and really soft to the touch, the only difference being that one held a red rose and had red patches on it paws and one had a blue rose and blue patches "Well we're gonna have to buy two!"
"What because you don't know what sex the baby is?" Angel understood now
"Umm… well no" Cordelia shook her head and grinned "I need two, because it's not very fair to buy one baby a teddy and not get a teddy for the other!"
"You mean she's having…" Angel shook his head in disbelief "She's having twins?"
"Yup" Cordelia smiled and paid for the gifts and ran towards room 13, she had seen it in the vision.
Joyce, Giles, Dawn, Xander, Anya, Willow and Tara sat in the waiting room patiently, they could here Buffy screaming, in fact Wesley and Gunn could probably hear Buffy screaming all the way in L.A. Joyce paced up and down
"Oh god I hope they're alright"
Suddenly Cordelia and Angel burst through the door
"We've not missed it Have we?" Cordelia looked at everyone but they were interupted by screaming
"Arghhhhhhhh!!!!!! Spike I hate you!" Buffy hollered
"Take that as a no then?" Angel looked at Dawn who nodded
They all looked up the corridor and heard another load scream but this one was definitely not female
"Buffy… Buffy honey… that's my hand… owwwwww!!!!"
Cordelia and Angel looked at one another,
"Oh God!" Cordelia sat down and Angel sat right next to her
"Umm… you guys okay?" Willow looked at them "You've gone rather pale"
"Yes I must say, you both look rather ill" Giles looked at them
Cordelia turned to Joyce "Joyce being currently, the only person here to have went through childbirth, tell me it isn't as painful as it sounds" Cordelia looked hopefully at Joyce who shook her head
"I'm afraid to say that it is and not just for the mother – just listen to poor Spike" Joyce smiled down at Cordelia and a frowning Angel
"Great… just great" Cordelia muttered
"Are you guys… are you gonna…" Willow looked at the couple in front of her
"Yup… Willow. Queen C is pregnant" Cordelia rubbed her stomach
Everyone gasped and then smiled and then congratulated them.
Dawn noticed the two bears Cordelia had been clutching and the bags of discarded gifts she had shoved under their chairs
"Aww… Cordelia they're adorable!" Dawn smiled and then suddenly Spike burst out the room and there was silence, no Buffy screaming, no Spike whining – just the soft cry of a newborn baby in the background.
Spike stepped out the doorway, his, now mousy, blonde hair was ruffled, his shirt was wrinkled and the top two buttons were burst, he was pale and his hands were red and yet he'd never looked as happy
"I'm a daddy!" Spike walked over to Joyce and Giles "Well Grandma, Gramps, he patted their arms, you have a beautiful grandson – I have a son!"
Everyone smiled, everyone cried and then suddenly Buffy started to scream again, and everyone panicked. Thinking something must be wrong Spike ran back in leaving the concerned scoobies to wait outside once more. He emerged five minutes later
"I'm a daddy" Spike smiled and everyone looked confused except Angel and Cordelia "I have a son"
"Yes Spike, well done – this we already new – but what just happened?" Xander was growing anxious
"I have a daughter!" Spike looked around the room
"Wait I thought you just said it was a boy?" Joyce was confused
"I think he's delirious," Giles announced
"No I have twins!" Spike announced proudly
Everyone gasped and followed him through to the room were Buffy was lying with her new babies. Her face was red but she was glowing – she had never looked so content
"Oh Buffy!" Joyce ran forward and kissed her daughter and her new grandchildren as did Giles
"Oh I'm so proud of you Buffy" Giles smiled at her "You are the first to do it you know?"
Buffy grinned "What? I'm the very first Vampire Slayer to fall in love with a vampire, help him win his soul back, marry him and have his children? Never?!"
"I'd like to bloody well hope so!" Spike shook Giles hand
"Must you both ruin the mood every time? I just meant you were the first Slayer ever to bear children" Giles looked down at her and she nodded smiling
Dawn, Xander, Anya, Willow and Tara greeted their new niece and nephew into the world and were then ushered out by Joyce insisting Buffy and the babies had to rest but allowed Angel and Cordelia to remain behind for five minutes
"So I hear you're expecting" Buffy smiled as she watched Cordelia nursing her little girl
"Umm… yeah, news does travel fast" Cordelia smiled at her
"Well it looks like mothering suits you – you're a natural!" Buffy smiled as Cordelia passed the little girl back to her mother
"Yeah well the maternal instinct thingy kinda kicks in" Cordelia smiled and then turned and watched as Angel and Spike leaned over the little boy's cot making faces and funny noises at him
"So?" Cordelia turned to Buffy who was admiring the gifts she had bought the babies "Have you got names yet?"
Spike moved back over and sat with Buffy once the babies were replaced in their cots and Angel sat with Cordelia
"Well we're pretty unsure actually," Buffy, confessed
"Yeah it's real hard this name pickin' malarky!" Spike looked over at the two babies
"I think Sebastian for kiddo over there" Spike nodded towards the blue cot "Yeah – Sebastian Summers!"
"Hey I quite like that!" Buffy walked over and picked her little boy out the cot and rocked him slightly "Yeah little Sebastian – my little 'bastian"
"Awww… that's really cute!" Cordelia rested her head on her husband shoulder
"Mmm… I can't wait for our turn" Angel smiled
"Right but what about shortie over here?" Spike looked at his beautiful blue-eyed princess, as he liked to call her
"Mmmm… I dunno" Buffy shook her head "I quite like Amber"
"Nahh… it doesn't suit her" Spike observed her as she moved about "What about Skye?"
"You want to call our kid Sky?" Buffy looked a little less than enthusiastic
"No S-K-Y-E" Spike looked at her "It's an island off the west coast of Scotland – it's beautiful – it just suits her"
"Mmm… I remember Skye and it was beautiful, so undisturbed… that's lovely Spike" Angel nodded in approval
"Okay well looks like I'm outvoted" Buffy smiled and kissed Spike "Although I want to give them both middle names!"
"Right, sure" Spike nodded
"Doyle" Buffy looked at her babies and her husband "because if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have these two beautiful babies or my husband"
"That's a really nice thought Buffy" Cordelia smiled at her friend "Well we better go and let you two rest"
Cordelia kissed her little Goddaughter and Godson goodbye, as did Angel leaving the new parents to spend some time alone with their new babies!
And that was that, 3 weeks later Sebastian Doyle Summers and Skye Doyle Summers were christened at Sunnydale Cathedral. Then just 6 months later Cordelia gave birth to a little girl she called Cassidy, and also gave her Doyle's name, in a mark of respect and remembrance to her lost love and guardian angel. Spike and Buffy kept up their Slaying duties and Cordelia and Angel kept up their work in L.A, Spike and Buffy also became an active part in Angel Investigations and they even extended their families further with the addition of another girl, Rosie and a boy, Liam for Spike and Buffy and a little boy William for Angel and Cordelia about a year or two later. At last it seemed as if they had all found the lasting contentment and happiness they all deserved.
THE END.
