Author : Wild-Melody

Disclaimer : I don't own it though I wish I did.

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Chapter 2

"Are you sure?" Willow asked, looking oddly at Buffy.

Buffy just bobbed her head in the affirmative. "Honestly Willow, who else have I slept with other than him?" Buffy asked, looking over at her friend.

Willow was silent for a few moments. "Uh, no one that you've told me about, at least. You have told me everything haven't you?" She asked, this pained look briefly crossing the Wiccan's face.

"Of coarse I've told you everything. I always tell you everything, don't I?" Buffy answered back.

Willow just nodded her head, looking over at Xander and Giles. Oz sat next to her, just staring awkwardly at Buffy. Buffy returned his stare, than looked over at Giles and Xander. "Do I have something on my face?" She asked, reaching her left hand up to her face and pretending to wipe something away.

Oz just shook his head, "No, it's just hard to believe that you're pregnant." He paused, tightening his arm around Willow's shoulder. "I mean, pregnant with Angel's baby…is that even humanly possible?"

All eyes turned to Giles, as if waiting for him to pull the answer out of his mysterious hat of answers. "Um, humanly possible…?" He repeated, looking at Buffy as if the answer were written on her face. "It must be humanly possible because it has happened, I just don't know how." He looked over at Willow and Oz, "I'll need your help, Willow, with this."

Willow perked up and looked anxiously over at the Slayer's Watcher. "What do you need me to do?" She asked, her voice rising in excitement.

"Search through the databases while I check through the old Watcher Diaries. There may be something in there to help us figure out what is happening this time." He paused, removing his glasses and wiping them off and then putting them back on his face. "I'll need all the help I can get." He looked over to Buffy. "Even Cordelia's."

Buffy's eyes opened wide in surprise. "Definitely NOT!" She shouted, near hysteria. "We are not going to tell that self-serving-" She began.

"Buffy." Xander said.

"Egotistical-" Buffy continued.

"Buffy!" Xander nearly shouted.

"Impossible bitc-" Buffy was almost finished.

"BUFFY!" Xander yelled.

"What?" She asked, innocently looking over at Xander as his color returned to its normal shade of pasty white slightly tanned.

"Be nice." Was all he said.

"I was," Buffy replied. "I didn't say that she was a giant, over-inflated Barbie doll that is more worried about her hair being out of place than where her boyfriend for this week is at, did I?" She asked, her voice sickeningly sweet. "Or that she's got the worst people manners I've ever seen, or-"

"Alright Buffy, I think we get the point." Xander replied dryly. "I really think we got the point, about two puns ago."

Buffy just smiled. "We are SO not telling her a thing about this baby-" Buffy started.

"Don't matter anyway," Xander said, smiling. "She left a few days ago to go to L.A."

This time Buffy was speechless. "She w-what?" She asked, looking first at Xander than over to Willow. "She left to go to L.A.?" Xander nodded his head to the question. "No one thought to clue me in on this one? No one thought it was important to tell me that she followed Angel to L.A.?"

"Um, Buff…I didn't hear anyone say that she followed him to L.A. She just went to L.A. to try her hand at acting. She has it in that pretty little head of her's that she has talent or something like that and that she's going to be a famous actress. At least, that was how I understood her, but with Cordelia, that don't mean a thing." Xander laughed. A few chuckled with him.

"Um, Giles," Willow spoke up. "When do you want to start researching?" She paused, looking curiously over at Buffy. "Exactly what am I looking for?"

"Anything having to do with the Slayer and pregnancy. I don't care how odd it may seem or how out of the ordinary…" He took his glasses off again and proceeded to clean them off again. Placing them back on his face, he turned his gaze to the Slayer in question. "Look up any information you can get on Vampires also. See if there are any records of them conceiving a child. I don't care if the lead doesn't seem plausible, just follow it. This pregnancy isn't plausible, but it's here and growing inside of Buffy. I want to know what to expect."

"What about the council?" Buffy asked.

"I'll deal with the council when the time comes, until then, don't worry about them." Giles replied. Buffy's brows raised in surprise. This was not the traditional side of the Watcher that she saw, this was a new side. And she LIKED it!

"Well then, what about Edna Thornington? You two seemed to of known each other." Buffy questioned.

Giles turned his gaze away. Looked no one in the eyes, just stared down at the floor. "Giles?" Buffy asked. Still no answer, his eyes remained glued to the floor. "Giles?" Buffy repeated. The older man seemed lost in thought, out somewhere beyond the graveyard. "GILES!" Buffy yelled, practically in his ear.

The British man jumped, his head snapping up to look the Slayer straight in the eyes. "W-What?"

"Edna Thornington?" Buffy said.

"Edna Thornington?" The Watcher repeated, dumbly, like his mind was still lost in thought.

"Yeah, what about her? Will we have to worry about her going back to the council?" Buffy asked, looking strangely at the Watcher.

"Um, I'm not sure." Giles conceded. "I'll go and have a word with her later."

"Who is she?" Willow asked.

Buffy looked over at her friend. "She was the nurse who took care of me when Spike dropped me off in front of the Emergency Room doors…" Her voice trailed off, still disbelieving that the dangerous vampire had left her go just like that. Strange things were definitely at work in Sunnydale. "Anyway, it so happens that Miss Thornington is also a Watcher." She returned her gaze to Giles, as another question popped into her mind. "Um, Giles, just why is there another Watcher here in Sunnydale? A Slayer can only have one Watcher right?"

"Um, yes." Giles answered distractedly.

"Then why is she here?"

"I'm not sure. I'll find that out when I go to speak to her." Giles answered. "If we're done here with the third degree interrogation, I suggest we get going and start trying to figure out exactly what is going on around here, especially with you, Buffy."

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"What about this?" Willow asked, calling a file up on the computer.

Giles read the entry over and shook his head. "No, the vampiress was already pregnant when she was turned. If you read further down in the entry, it says when she gave birth to the child, it was very much dead. It turned into ashes a few moments after birth." Giles took his glasses off and wiped a hand across his brow and returned the spectacles to his nose.

"Keep looking Willow. We're bound to find something sooner or later."

"Hopefully more sooner than later." Willow said quietly, her eyes defocusing for probably the twelfth dozen time in the last hour or so. The word Angelus materialized in front of her eyes once they focused back in. "Giles, there's and entry here about Angelus."

Giles hurried back, looking at the computer screen over her shoulder. "What's it say?" He asked, his voice hushed.

"Not much. Just about his turning and his relationship with Darla…" She read on, her eyes glancing over most of the article. "Nothing really of importance."

Giles left out a breath he hadn't realized he'd been holding. "DAMN!" He said, pounding his hand down on the computer table. "We haven't been able to find a damn thing to explain this pregnancy, one that by all rights just shouldn't have happened!"

"We'll find something Giles. Just calm down and get back to looking in those Watcher Chronicles. I think we'll find something in there before we find something in the databases." Willow said, unsure of what else to say, she returned to the computer in front of her.

Giles turned back and returned to the large open book on a table not far from the computer terminal. He flipped though it, just glancing over most of the entries. Nothing jumped out at him so he turned the page, glancing over that page as well. This continued for the next hour or so, until the words started to blend into the next. The page began to blur and the old Watcher was about to call it quits when suddenly to words Pregnancy and Slayer jumped off the page and demanded to be looked at.

"Willow!" The Watcher exclaimed excitedly. "I think I may have found it!" He begun to browse over the entry quickly, verifying what his mind was already telling him was the answer he had been seeking. The entry read as follows:

Delphia fell in love with a Warchaste Demon, not a very homely creature, but the Slayer said it was more than his looks that had attracted her. His personality, which I must admit, after getting to know the ugly thing, is actually quite charming. His name is S'yvron. His father is the leader of his particular Warchaste clan. He returned the Slayer's feelings, which was a little strange in my opinion. A Slayer loving a Demon? Who had ever heard of such a thing? It was just unheard of, why it was ludicrous! Delphia would not listen to me though. She fell in love with S'yvron and even mated with the ugly little creature.

What happened next would go down in Watcher and Slayer history as an improbability that was extremely hard to explain, and even harder to believe. The Slayer and the Demon were incompatible, nothing should have resulted from the mating, but it did. Delphia became pregnant, I spoke to the Watcher's Council, unsure of what was happening here….Even the council was dumbfounded, I never thought I'd see that day. They were not even sure of what was happening to the Slayer. It wasn't possible for the Slayer to become pregnant by a Demon, an ordinary human maybe, but not the Slayer. No, never the Slayer, she was suppose to be pure good. The embodiment of all that was good, she just wasn't suppose to become pregnant by a Demon. Or so they thought. Delphia had proven them wrong, yet again.

Delphia's pregnancy was anything but normal, but one didn't expect anything that the Slayer does to be normal. The pregnancy lasted for a very long fourteen months, after which Delphia gave birth to a baby girl. A fully human baby girl, there was no sign of her father's Demon blood. Upon further investigation, it was discovered, though Delphia and S'yvron had mated, Delphia was the child's only parent. S'yvron in no way had anything to do with the child. It was solely the act of love that had created the child….Let me try to explain this a little better, I just have to figure out how to word it so future Watcher's will understand if it ever happens again….

Although Delphia and S'yvron had sex, like a couple of regular people, they were anything but regular. Delphia was a super enhanced human being, S'yvron was a murderous Demon that the Slayer should have killed long ago. They mated, but did not create a child. The child was created later, solely by the Slayer's body, in response to the action of sex. Although S'yvron is not biologically the child's father, she wouldn't have been created if the two hadn't had sex, so in a sense the Demon is really the baby's father…I hope that makes sense, it still doesn't to me and I'm he one who has to understand it here and know. It will take some getting use too, believe me…

Giles looked up at Willow as he finished reading part of the entry. "It seems we may have our answer." He said.

Willow nodded her head. "At least this means it won't be part Vampire." Her voice was small as she voiced the fear that everyone had been dealing with but was afraid to say in fear of upsetting Buffy.

"Yes," Giles said softly. He looked back down to the document. "There's more, let's see what it says."

Delphia named the child Aurora., she was the light in Delphia's life. Aurora, it became apparent, was a pure Slayer, her powers far surpassed those of her mother. She was at the least, if not more, ten times more powerful than her mother. Her powers far surpassed those of the traditional Slayers before her, I doubt we will ever see anyone as strong as the Slayer's child on this world again. Already I know she is in great danger…Demon's come from everywhere in an attempt to get a piece of the rare Slayer. Mostly vampires, all after her blood. Delphia and S'yvron have managed so far to protect the child, but I fear the day will come when even they won't be enough. I dread that day….

The day I feared more than death itself has come and gone. A vampire, one who called himself the Master, took young Aurora's life. Four months old, she already looked to be about eight or nine. Her young life over before the blink of an eye. Delphia grieved over the loss of her daughter, she went after the Master and was herself killed. S'yvron joined his beloved in death, he sacrificed his life trying to save Delphia…I fear we will never see a child the likes of Aurora again…but if she does show up somewhere again, take care of her for all the forces of evil will be after this one child….