Title: I Won't Leave Again
Chapter: Explanations
Author: Niki
Rating: PG13 If you watch Buffy, you can read this. It's got some sexual innuendo and a little swearing(Bloody Hell mostly)
Spoilers: Takes place ten years after the end of season six, so anything up to season six is fair game.
Summary: Ten years after season six, Dawn is a single mother, Buffy is dead, and Willow and Xander are married and have a baby. Dawn is being hunted by Angelus, and Spike comes back to Sunnydale with a little surprise.
Disclaimer: I own Nothing! Jos owns everything. Although I wish I owned Spike (insert evil laugh here)
Ships: Xander/Willow, talks about Angel/Dawn, Will eventually be Spike/Dawn.
A/N-to make things less confusing, Willow's nickname will be Wills, and William will be Will. . Thanks for all the reviews! You guys rock! The chapters are short riight now, but they will be longer, I promise.
"Oh my god, Dawnie! Get inside, quick! Spike's behind you!" Willow screamed, while Xander went for a stake from the weapons trunk.
"Guys, calm down. I know Spike is behind me," she said, walking into the house, gesturing Spike and and the little girl to follow her. Maggie, Joy, and Will were peering from behind the door to the kitchen as their aunt and uncle were flipping out. "I invited him to come over, so STOP IT!" she screamed as Xander, not listening to a word she was saying, pointed a loaded crossbow at Spike's heart. he immediately stopped, not used to hearing his precious little Dawnie ordering him around.
"NOW XANDER, WILLOW, SPIKE, SIT!" Slightly softer she said, "Spike what is your daughter's name?" Xander and Willow's eyes' went wide.
"Anna," he replied, "Anna Jessica Ellison."
Raising her voice so the hiding children could hear, she said, "Maggie, Will, Joy, could you please come in here?" They trouped silently in and came to stand before her. "Why don't you take Anna and go play upstairs?" The four children immediately ran up the stairs, leaving Dawn to deal with the adults.
"Wills, I assume Elizabeth is sleeping?" Willow nodded, still surprised at the way Dawn was acting.
"Okay then, We are all going to act civilly, that means no dusting, Xander!"
"First off, Spike, you said you were looking for the Slayer for help. Well, I know you meant Buffy, but being the Slayer now, I assume that I will do instead?"
"You're the Slayer Nibblet?"
"Yup, Now what's your problem?" she asked.
"It has to do with Anna."
"Of course it has to do with Anna! Let me guess. You kidnapped a little girl, and you needed Buffy to help you hide from the police!" Xander interjected accusingly.
"Xander!" Dawn reprimanded, "Go on Spike."
"Anna is not a normal child." Xander snorted, but Spike ignored him and continued. "Her mother was a Slayer, her father a vampire.."
"That's not possible! Next you're going to tell us that you're her father, right?" Xander interrupted.
"Xander!" Let him finish." Dawn said. "Besides, you know it is possible. Joy and Will are proof of that."
"Dawnie," Xander sighed, "You know we all know that you just didn't want him to know that you cheated on him. Vampires can't have kids."
"Xander!" Willow was really pissed off, this wasn't the first time Dawn and Xander had had this argument. "If Dawn says they're his, then they are. Why else would he be coming after them?"
"What are you talking about!" Spike roared. "Who's him? Dawn! Those kids are yours? Who is him"
"Spike, we need your help too. but first, finish your story." Dawn answered
"Well, the council wants her. They say it's to train her to be slayer, and to control her powers, they say its for her own good, but I heard Jessie's watcher talking to that Travers bloke. They planned on killing the baby as soon as it was born. They said a half vampire child, especially one with Slayer blood is too dangerous. Her father was an old friend of mine, so right before she was born, I went to help protect her. The council showed up about 5 minutes after she was born, before they even had a chance to name her, and they had the initiative with them. Th--They ki--killed John and Jessie, she was the Slayer called when Faith died. Right before they staked John, He told me to take the baby and run, to raise her as my own. She and I have been hiding for the last 6 years, but the initative found out where we were when I registered her for first grade. I guess they were watching the records for her name. I thought that B-Buffy might be able to help me find a good hide-out, or even just put us up for a couple days."
"Of course you can stay here, Spike. Stay as long as you need to."
"Dawnie, is that really wise? There are children in this house."
"Oh, shut up Xander, he's been taking care of a little girl for five years. I don't think he's going to hurt anyone." then she had an idea, "Spike, do you still have to chip? Xander had decided you went to get the chip out so you could come back and kill us all.Tell me he was wrong " she demanded.
"Sorry Dawnie, No can do. Don't worry Nibblet, I wouldn't have killed you, maybe the whelp, but not you. I did leave to get the chip out-" Xander gasped. "and it worked, but the demon who did it decided to add a twist." he smiled wistfully. Let's just say that broody boy isn't the only vamp with a soul."
"Oh my god!! You got a soul?" Dawn shrieked, while Willow and Xander's mouths both hit the floor.
"Yup" he said, "and no happiness clause either. I can shag my brains out and never get rid of it." Willow groaned.
"About you not being the only vamp with a soul," Dawn said, "you information is a little out of date."
"Oh, don't tell me Peaches got another happy."
"Well, not exactly."
"Spill"
"Well, about two years after Buffy died, Angel and I started dating."
"As the watcher would say, Good lord"
"We figured out that we could..well... you know, because worrying about losing his soul would keep him from having a moment of complete happiness. There was only one problem. Since he's dead, we didn't think to use ummm.... protection." She giggled after saying this.
"Dawnie, as I said to Wills once, if you're doing it you should be able to say it." Xander said, smirking
"Okay, Angel and I had SEX! Happy?"
"Very, now back to the story."
"Well, three months after we had SEX for the first time, I wasn't feeling good. I kept throwing up in the mornings, and Angel was looking weird at me. When I asked him what was wrong, he said that he heard two heartbeats. Once I convinced him that I had been a virgin before him, and hadn't slept with anyone besides him, we went to the doctor, who confirmed our fears, and then called Giles, who told us that it was possible for slayers and vampires to have babies, if they slept together on the full moon. We looked back and realized that the moon had been full the night we had SEX. A month later, Angel started flipping out, and said that I had to go to the doctor right away, that he was sure that what he heard shouldn't be happening, and that something must be wrong. When I finally calmed him down enough to understand why he was flipping out, I laughed at him. I then explained that there was nothing wrong, that it was perfectly normal for him to be hearing three heartbeats, and that it meant that we were having twins." she laughed at this, reminiscing. "What we didn't think of, was that, when the twins were born, he would be so ecstatic that he was a father that he would experience a moment of true happiness."
"He lost it then?" Spike said softly, prompting her to continue.
"Yeah, but masked it until we were driving home, where he attacked me and tried to steal the twins, but I kicked his ass, threw him out of the car, and drove away. Periodically he shows up, tries to steal Joy and Will, I kick his ass, and he leaves. But he hasn't come since before the twins started school, and I'm afraid that he will somehow be able to get them when I'm not there to protect them."
"Of course I will help you protect them. But, wait a second. You said twins. What about the third one, Maggie? She looks about 10 or 11. That doesn't make sense, I would have been there during the pregnancy, and the birth. Plus you were only 14, please don't tell me that I wasn't good enough at my big brother duties!" he growled
"She's nine Spike. and she's Buffy's."
"Bloody Hell! Who's the father?"
"Maggie! Will! Joy! Anna! Could you come downstairs please?" Dawn shouted up the stairs.
"Nobody knows who the father is except me. Buffy didn't tell Wills or Xander, because she thought that they would hate her. She made me promise not to tell anyone until I had told Maggie, and not to tell Maggie until she was old enough to understand why her daddy wasn't around." Dawn told him The children came running into the living room.
"Why don't you three sit on the floor? Maggie come over to me. Spike, you come here too."
"Hey!" yelled Will, "Spike's the name of the prince in the story from last night! Are you a prince?"
"Not exactly" he looked at Dawn "Prince?"
"Bedtime stories, about you and Buffy."
He smiled.
"Auntie Dawn? What is Mister Spike doing here? And why is he always in my dreams?"
"What?" all four adults cried in unison.
"He and Mommy are in my dreams, but not Mommy in that picture," she pointed to the picture of her and Buffy taken a month before the former slayer's death, "She's much younger. But he looks the same. They're always fighting vampires, or demons, or each other. Sometimes they kiss!" the three other children went
"Ewwwwwww!"
"What else do they do Sweetie?" Dawn asked, regaining her voice.
"Well, one time, Mommy jumped off a big tower, and she died, and you were there, Auntie Dawn, and he was hugging you, and making you feel better. And sometimes Mommy isn't there at all, like when he's in a wheel chair, and his face is all grr, and he's with a dark haired crazy lady. "
"Drusilla," Spike breathed.
"And sometimes it's just Mommy, and she's with Uncle Xander and Auntie Willow, and Grandpa Giles, and Auntie Cordelia, and this other big boy I don't know, he kepted going all wolfy."
"Oz" breathed Willow.
"And then one time it was Uncle Angel and he was all grr, and he bit Mister Spike, and Mister Spike went all grr too. Another time it was just Uncle Angel, and he bit this girl, and then the girl's Mommy made him sorry. Or its just Spike, and he's got his grr face on, and he's chasing people"
"Okay, can anyone explain why this little girl is dreaming about all of our histories?" Spike asked.
"Giles probably can, but for right now, why doesn't Dawn tell us who Maggie's dad is." piped up Willow.
"Let's have Maggie do it." Dawn replied. "Buffy gave Maggie her father's last name. Maggie sweetie, could you tell us your full name?"
"Margaret Anne Ellison." Maggie said
"But that's me and Daddy's last name too!" squealed Anna.
"She's mine?" Spike asked, before fainting.
Chapter: Explanations
Author: Niki
Rating: PG13 If you watch Buffy, you can read this. It's got some sexual innuendo and a little swearing(Bloody Hell mostly)
Spoilers: Takes place ten years after the end of season six, so anything up to season six is fair game.
Summary: Ten years after season six, Dawn is a single mother, Buffy is dead, and Willow and Xander are married and have a baby. Dawn is being hunted by Angelus, and Spike comes back to Sunnydale with a little surprise.
Disclaimer: I own Nothing! Jos owns everything. Although I wish I owned Spike (insert evil laugh here)
Ships: Xander/Willow, talks about Angel/Dawn, Will eventually be Spike/Dawn.
A/N-to make things less confusing, Willow's nickname will be Wills, and William will be Will. . Thanks for all the reviews! You guys rock! The chapters are short riight now, but they will be longer, I promise.
"Oh my god, Dawnie! Get inside, quick! Spike's behind you!" Willow screamed, while Xander went for a stake from the weapons trunk.
"Guys, calm down. I know Spike is behind me," she said, walking into the house, gesturing Spike and and the little girl to follow her. Maggie, Joy, and Will were peering from behind the door to the kitchen as their aunt and uncle were flipping out. "I invited him to come over, so STOP IT!" she screamed as Xander, not listening to a word she was saying, pointed a loaded crossbow at Spike's heart. he immediately stopped, not used to hearing his precious little Dawnie ordering him around.
"NOW XANDER, WILLOW, SPIKE, SIT!" Slightly softer she said, "Spike what is your daughter's name?" Xander and Willow's eyes' went wide.
"Anna," he replied, "Anna Jessica Ellison."
Raising her voice so the hiding children could hear, she said, "Maggie, Will, Joy, could you please come in here?" They trouped silently in and came to stand before her. "Why don't you take Anna and go play upstairs?" The four children immediately ran up the stairs, leaving Dawn to deal with the adults.
"Wills, I assume Elizabeth is sleeping?" Willow nodded, still surprised at the way Dawn was acting.
"Okay then, We are all going to act civilly, that means no dusting, Xander!"
"First off, Spike, you said you were looking for the Slayer for help. Well, I know you meant Buffy, but being the Slayer now, I assume that I will do instead?"
"You're the Slayer Nibblet?"
"Yup, Now what's your problem?" she asked.
"It has to do with Anna."
"Of course it has to do with Anna! Let me guess. You kidnapped a little girl, and you needed Buffy to help you hide from the police!" Xander interjected accusingly.
"Xander!" Dawn reprimanded, "Go on Spike."
"Anna is not a normal child." Xander snorted, but Spike ignored him and continued. "Her mother was a Slayer, her father a vampire.."
"That's not possible! Next you're going to tell us that you're her father, right?" Xander interrupted.
"Xander!" Let him finish." Dawn said. "Besides, you know it is possible. Joy and Will are proof of that."
"Dawnie," Xander sighed, "You know we all know that you just didn't want him to know that you cheated on him. Vampires can't have kids."
"Xander!" Willow was really pissed off, this wasn't the first time Dawn and Xander had had this argument. "If Dawn says they're his, then they are. Why else would he be coming after them?"
"What are you talking about!" Spike roared. "Who's him? Dawn! Those kids are yours? Who is him"
"Spike, we need your help too. but first, finish your story." Dawn answered
"Well, the council wants her. They say it's to train her to be slayer, and to control her powers, they say its for her own good, but I heard Jessie's watcher talking to that Travers bloke. They planned on killing the baby as soon as it was born. They said a half vampire child, especially one with Slayer blood is too dangerous. Her father was an old friend of mine, so right before she was born, I went to help protect her. The council showed up about 5 minutes after she was born, before they even had a chance to name her, and they had the initiative with them. Th--They ki--killed John and Jessie, she was the Slayer called when Faith died. Right before they staked John, He told me to take the baby and run, to raise her as my own. She and I have been hiding for the last 6 years, but the initative found out where we were when I registered her for first grade. I guess they were watching the records for her name. I thought that B-Buffy might be able to help me find a good hide-out, or even just put us up for a couple days."
"Of course you can stay here, Spike. Stay as long as you need to."
"Dawnie, is that really wise? There are children in this house."
"Oh, shut up Xander, he's been taking care of a little girl for five years. I don't think he's going to hurt anyone." then she had an idea, "Spike, do you still have to chip? Xander had decided you went to get the chip out so you could come back and kill us all.Tell me he was wrong " she demanded.
"Sorry Dawnie, No can do. Don't worry Nibblet, I wouldn't have killed you, maybe the whelp, but not you. I did leave to get the chip out-" Xander gasped. "and it worked, but the demon who did it decided to add a twist." he smiled wistfully. Let's just say that broody boy isn't the only vamp with a soul."
"Oh my god!! You got a soul?" Dawn shrieked, while Willow and Xander's mouths both hit the floor.
"Yup" he said, "and no happiness clause either. I can shag my brains out and never get rid of it." Willow groaned.
"About you not being the only vamp with a soul," Dawn said, "you information is a little out of date."
"Oh, don't tell me Peaches got another happy."
"Well, not exactly."
"Spill"
"Well, about two years after Buffy died, Angel and I started dating."
"As the watcher would say, Good lord"
"We figured out that we could..well... you know, because worrying about losing his soul would keep him from having a moment of complete happiness. There was only one problem. Since he's dead, we didn't think to use ummm.... protection." She giggled after saying this.
"Dawnie, as I said to Wills once, if you're doing it you should be able to say it." Xander said, smirking
"Okay, Angel and I had SEX! Happy?"
"Very, now back to the story."
"Well, three months after we had SEX for the first time, I wasn't feeling good. I kept throwing up in the mornings, and Angel was looking weird at me. When I asked him what was wrong, he said that he heard two heartbeats. Once I convinced him that I had been a virgin before him, and hadn't slept with anyone besides him, we went to the doctor, who confirmed our fears, and then called Giles, who told us that it was possible for slayers and vampires to have babies, if they slept together on the full moon. We looked back and realized that the moon had been full the night we had SEX. A month later, Angel started flipping out, and said that I had to go to the doctor right away, that he was sure that what he heard shouldn't be happening, and that something must be wrong. When I finally calmed him down enough to understand why he was flipping out, I laughed at him. I then explained that there was nothing wrong, that it was perfectly normal for him to be hearing three heartbeats, and that it meant that we were having twins." she laughed at this, reminiscing. "What we didn't think of, was that, when the twins were born, he would be so ecstatic that he was a father that he would experience a moment of true happiness."
"He lost it then?" Spike said softly, prompting her to continue.
"Yeah, but masked it until we were driving home, where he attacked me and tried to steal the twins, but I kicked his ass, threw him out of the car, and drove away. Periodically he shows up, tries to steal Joy and Will, I kick his ass, and he leaves. But he hasn't come since before the twins started school, and I'm afraid that he will somehow be able to get them when I'm not there to protect them."
"Of course I will help you protect them. But, wait a second. You said twins. What about the third one, Maggie? She looks about 10 or 11. That doesn't make sense, I would have been there during the pregnancy, and the birth. Plus you were only 14, please don't tell me that I wasn't good enough at my big brother duties!" he growled
"She's nine Spike. and she's Buffy's."
"Bloody Hell! Who's the father?"
"Maggie! Will! Joy! Anna! Could you come downstairs please?" Dawn shouted up the stairs.
"Nobody knows who the father is except me. Buffy didn't tell Wills or Xander, because she thought that they would hate her. She made me promise not to tell anyone until I had told Maggie, and not to tell Maggie until she was old enough to understand why her daddy wasn't around." Dawn told him The children came running into the living room.
"Why don't you three sit on the floor? Maggie come over to me. Spike, you come here too."
"Hey!" yelled Will, "Spike's the name of the prince in the story from last night! Are you a prince?"
"Not exactly" he looked at Dawn "Prince?"
"Bedtime stories, about you and Buffy."
He smiled.
"Auntie Dawn? What is Mister Spike doing here? And why is he always in my dreams?"
"What?" all four adults cried in unison.
"He and Mommy are in my dreams, but not Mommy in that picture," she pointed to the picture of her and Buffy taken a month before the former slayer's death, "She's much younger. But he looks the same. They're always fighting vampires, or demons, or each other. Sometimes they kiss!" the three other children went
"Ewwwwwww!"
"What else do they do Sweetie?" Dawn asked, regaining her voice.
"Well, one time, Mommy jumped off a big tower, and she died, and you were there, Auntie Dawn, and he was hugging you, and making you feel better. And sometimes Mommy isn't there at all, like when he's in a wheel chair, and his face is all grr, and he's with a dark haired crazy lady. "
"Drusilla," Spike breathed.
"And sometimes it's just Mommy, and she's with Uncle Xander and Auntie Willow, and Grandpa Giles, and Auntie Cordelia, and this other big boy I don't know, he kepted going all wolfy."
"Oz" breathed Willow.
"And then one time it was Uncle Angel and he was all grr, and he bit Mister Spike, and Mister Spike went all grr too. Another time it was just Uncle Angel, and he bit this girl, and then the girl's Mommy made him sorry. Or its just Spike, and he's got his grr face on, and he's chasing people"
"Okay, can anyone explain why this little girl is dreaming about all of our histories?" Spike asked.
"Giles probably can, but for right now, why doesn't Dawn tell us who Maggie's dad is." piped up Willow.
"Let's have Maggie do it." Dawn replied. "Buffy gave Maggie her father's last name. Maggie sweetie, could you tell us your full name?"
"Margaret Anne Ellison." Maggie said
"But that's me and Daddy's last name too!" squealed Anna.
"She's mine?" Spike asked, before fainting.