Chapter 6
"So you
were married, huh B?" Faith asked after an awkward silence.
"Yeah for
five years. He didn't know about my
slaying and that sort of prevented me from really being open with him. In the end I realized that I didn't really
love him with all my heart because I would never stop loving Angel. I felt that it wasn't fair to him and I felt
like I was betraying Angel so I filed for divorce. Now he even refuses to see the kids, it's not really fair to them
but it may be less confusing for them than having two dads."
"Just a
minute you mean you're stinking around?"
"Yep you're
stuck with me."
"good
finally I have somebody my own strength to train with."
"Good to
know I'm wanted," Buffy said sarcastically
"You are wanted,
baby," Angel put his arm around her and giving her a kiss.
"Would you
two save it for the bedroom," Cordy said.
"I'll agree
with that one," Lizzie added.
"Sorry
honey," Angel apologized, "Why don't you tell us how your first day of sixth
grade went."
"Dad, do
you really think I want to talk about school, right now?" Lizzie retorted.
"Would
rather watch us kiss?" Buffy said.
"So anyways
I think I'm really going to like computers," Lizzie began, "and I'm not saying
that because my teacher is sitting at the table. My English teacher seems pretty nice too. I don't know about my math teacher though,
he seems sort of mean. I mean he gave us
three pages of homework on the first day. We chose out instruments in music today, I chose the tenor sax. I wanted to chose the baritone sax but my
fingers couldn't stretch far enough apart. I meet the rest of my teachers tomorrow."
"I guess
that answered out question. I guess
when ever we want her to tell us anything all we have to do is start making out,"
said Buffy moving to sit on Angel's lap.
"Come on
guys the PDAs are getting to be a little much," Willow said. Tara, Gunn, Theresa and Cordy nodded their
heads in agreement.
"I hope
they're not always like this," Lizzie whispered to Heather as Buffy slid off
Angel's lap and back to her own chair.
"I hope so
too for your sake," Heather answered.
"OK, change
of subject. What's up with the rest of
the Scooby gang?" Cordy piped up.
"Well Giles
has taken on the new slayer Carrie. She's a pretty slow learner, hey who am I kidding she is a extremely
slow learner, but I think she's finally ready to take on the whole
responsibility. Anya and Xander got
married, did it like bunnies and now have three kids. Xander is a foreman or something in the construction company and
Anya is half owner of the magic shop. She takes care of it most of the time since Giles is spending most of
his time with Carrie, the afore mentioned slow learner slayer. Dawn graduated a few years ago with a degree
in journalism and is now working on a book or something while she works at the
paper to keep her alive. Spike is,
well, Spike. And obviously you know
what's up with Wil and Tara. So your
turn, what's been going on here?" Buffy explained.
"Well
basically during the day we're a regular PI business and during the night we
also take on demon cases. Some of them
walk through the door and others we find through damn my visions," Cordy said.
"Yes, we've
developed a good reputation in both fields and we've developed quite a network
of contacts through our cases. If a
client is not able to pay the bill then we arrange for them to be a contact if
they can be of use to us."
"That's
where I was tonight, meeting with a contact. By the way Angel, Simons says
that the chaos demon is holed up in that old abandoned church on 5th
and 132nd," Faith informed her employer.
"What is it
with demons and that church?" Gunn asked, "I swear that's the 5th
one this month"
"Excuse me,
but when do you guys sleep?" Buffy asked.
"We take
turns taking the night shifts unless it's a really nasty demon." Angel
explained, "Speaking of night shift, who ever has first shift for patrol
tonight better get moving, it's almost ten, the malls are closing soon."
"Going," Gunn
said grabbing his jacket.
"See ya
later Buffy," Cordy said as she got up and followed Gunn out of the room.
"Cordy patrols?!"
Buffy exclaimed after the pair had left.
"Yes in the
past years she has become quite a proficient fighter." Wesley answered.
"Speaking
of it almost being ten, you better to get to bed young lady." Angel said to his
daughter
"Aw Dad,
come on Mom's here."
"Your
mother with still be here tomorrow. And
I'm still waking you up for training in the morning so I suggest you get some
sleep. Go. I'll be up in a bit to say good night"
"Training?"
Buffy asked partly confused and partly scared as to what it meant.
Lizzie
simply pulled up her sleeve to reveal the birthmark, the destined her to become
a slayer, before leaving the room.
"You too,
Heather" Wesley said looking to his daughter.
"Night
Daddy." She said as she kissed him on the cheek and followed her best friend
out of the room.
When the
kids were gone Buffy turned to Angel, "Our daughter's going to be a slayer?!"
