In the morning Angel was sitting at the
kitchen table with a cup of tea, reading a parenting magazine. The article
he was reading, was about how to say no to your child when they want something
they can't have. Angel could just picture himself being the one who always
says yes to cookies before dinner and Buffy the one saying no to the kid staying
up late. Angel thought to himself, *I'm sure I could just say no. It's not
that hard.* Then Angel pictured his four or five year old daughter asking
for a cookie before dinner, while Buffy is in the same room cooking. He would of
course say no... then the daughter would stomp her foot and repeat, "Gimme
a cookie! Pleeease." In her sweetest voice. Then she'd give Angel
that adorable pout Buffy uses and he'd end up giving in. Angel smiled at
that thought. A daughter. Soon he will be a father. Soon he'll be
able to spoil his daughter a little, play with her and teach her about life. He
and Buffy would be walking in the park in the morning and then Buffy will push
their daughter on the swings. Then they'd have a picnic with junk food,
but also fruits of course. Gotta keep the child strong and healthy.
Buffy was in the bedroom, searching through
her purse wildly. She dumped the contents out and looked through the pile of
keys, makeup, her wallet, receipts and the checkbook. She couldn't find the
sonogram picture anywhere. She quickly dumped the contents back into her
purse and started looking through the drawers. Still no luck. She sighed
and walked into the kitchen.
Angel was interrupted from his thoughts by
Buffy who walked in and took the magazine out of his hands, shaking it upside
down. *Nope not in there either.* She thought. She went to the fridge
where it should have been put in the first place, but it wasn't there. Angel
heard her squeal. When she sat down on Angel's lap defeated, he gently asked,
"What's wrong, honey?"
She put her arm around him. "Angel, I
can't find the sonogram picture! I was hoping to show it to my mom, Willow and
Cordelia. Plus I like it. It's the only way I can look at the baby
till she's born."
Angel kissed her forehead. "I could
call to make an appointment to do another ultrasound."
Buffy smiled at him. She asked
sweetly, "Could you?"
"No. You'll have to wait for six
months to see the baby." He said, smirking.
"You teaser."
He lifted her off of him and got up,
"I'll go make the call. You. Go rest in bed for now."
"Yes, daddy."
Angel walked into the bedroom to find Buffy
asleep with her hand resting on her abdomen. LeeLou was curled up to the right
of Buffy with her head on Buffy's stomach. Angel went over to the bed, took off
his shoes and laid on his stomach next to her. He pet LeeLou and then he
put his arm around her waist and kissed her lips. A huge grin appeared on
her face. Buffy turned on her side and wrapped her arm around Angel. There was
pleasent silence and the air was filled with love. Angel quietly said,
"I called Dr. Morano. She said we can come in today at 12 o'clock."
"Great. Ya think she'd give us two
copies?"
"Can't see why not."
"Good." She yawned. "Wake me
up when it's time."
"I shall." He kissed her cheek
and closed his eyes along with her.
At some point in Buffy's deep sleep the
blackness she sees from her eyelids being shut slowly fades to a light gray of
cloudiness to a bright place with many colors and then it becomes completely
clear. There is perfectly cut grass in a perfect shade of green. There was
a sunflower in front of her. Then she realized that she was smelling it.
Slowly she started walking to a cabin. She opened the door and peaked in.
She thought maybe that it belonged to someone else, but it smelt like home.
There was water running. She walked in, the smell of cookies lead her into
the kitchen.
Angel and their daughter were washing a
bowl together, water splashing all over the place. The daughter was
standing on a short stepping ladder. They were laughing. It was
sweet. Buffy couldn't help, but smile at the picture of her daughter and her
fiancé making a mess, having fun while doing it. Wait... if the girl is
what three years old? *Then duh!* she thought, *Angel and I are married.*
Angel turned and gave her a loving look with his eyes and smile. He whispered to
their daughter, "Teri-Anne, go say hi to mommy."
Teri-Anne had hazel eyes and brown hair.
She was wearing overalls and a pink T-shirt. She happily said, "Kay!"
She got off the steps and ran over to Buffy
giving her waist a tight hug.
Buffy's gasped and back moved a forward a
bit at the sudden pressure. She laughed and wrapped her arms around her
daughter. "Hey..." She said quietly, "You've been a good
girl?"
Teri-Anne giggled, "Yup! Vewy gwood
girl."
Buffy gave Teri-Anne's forehead a kiss and
put her down. "Honey, can you please leave your father and I alone for a
sec?"
"Are you two gowna play?"
Buffy blushed and Angel laughed.
"Uh, not. Can't have any of that in the kitchen."
"Kay... I'll be back."
Their daughter ran off to her room.
Buffy walked over to Angel and quietly
said, "She--She's seen us in the middle of... making love?"
Angel quickly replied, "Well not
really seen. More like just heard us go..." He pulled her roughly to his
body, yet gentle at the same time. "Bump. In the night." She
laughed and kissed him on the lips. When they're lips parted Angel
continued, "The other one has seen us though, but luckily we had the sheets
over us. So when she walked in all she saw was me on top of you. She
thought I was tickling you." He smiled at the memory of their other
daughter saying, "Mommy?" just as Buffy was about to climax. They were
giggling hysterically after that.
Buffy's face scrunched up, "Other
one?"
Angel rubbed her back, "Yeah, you know
the other rambunctious three year old? Her name is Morgan?"
"Oh..." She looked at her bare
feet.
He put his hands on her arms and tilted her
away from his chest. "Buffy, are you ok? Did you hit your head or
something?"
She smiled, "Uh... yeah. I uh was out
in the field and there was this big bee... I tried to get away from it and ya
know stumbled, so the back of my head hit the tree." She let out a fake
chuckle. "Clumsy me."
"So... Where is Morgan?"
"In the living room watching Scooby
Doo."
"Great... I'll just go and..."
"Buffy... Buffy wake up..."
Buffy was interrupted by a soothing voice.
She smiled and looked at Angel who was lightly shaking her. "I'm up, I'm
up."
"It's time to go."
Buffy leaped off the bed.
"Great!" She ran into the living room and put her shoes on. She
shouted happily, "Let's go!"
Angel was slightly taken aback by her
sudden excitement. He didn't want to keep the joyous blond waiting for fear of
setting off her sometimes unplesent hormones. He quickly put on his shoes,
grabbed his keys and walked out through the already opened door.
On the way, driving to the hospital to meet
with the doctor Angel asked, "What were yout dreamin' about?"
"Huh?"
"After I woke up I was watching you
sleep and you had this huge smile on your face. You must have been dreaming.
Looked pleasant."
She replied dreamily, "It.. was a very
happy dream. We had apparently two girls. One was Teri-Anne... she
had brown hair and hazel eyes. The other.. her name was Morgan. If
we happen to have another girl in the future can we not name her Morgan? I
mean it's a nice name I just don't see us having a daughter named Morgan.
Strange that the otehr twin in my dream would have that name."
"Ok... Not Morgan. Twins?"
She smiled, "Yeah. Twins. Hey, do you
think maybe the dream is like prophetic or something?"
"I don't know... Maybe it means
something."
"That would be nice don't you think?
Two bundles of joy?"
Angel smiled and two baby girls in her
arms, "Yes, very nice."
"Speaking of nice... Our nice wedding
is in one week! I can't wait. Soon we'll be married
and then when the baby is born... we'll be a nice little family." Buffy
grinned at their future family picture.
"I can't wait either... But there is
that one night that I could live without and with something else."
"What's that?" Buffy asked.
Angel looked at her briefly and smiled,
"That one night where we spend the night apart. The whole
superstition that it's bad luck for the bride and groom to see each other before
the wedding. I'd rather spend that night with you, then
apart."
"Oh, me too, but it's tradition...
Gotta do it. Do you really want to risk bad luck? I kinda believe in
some superstitions and sorta the idea that some things are
prophetic."
Angel pouted, "Do we have to?"
"You big baby." She laughed and
smiled, "Suck it up and be a man. We'll have a whole two weeks on the
honeymoon!"
"You're right. I'm sure you'll
reward me grandly."
Buffy slapped him playfully. Then she
purred, "Yes.. I will."
Angel grinned.
In the hospital room Buffy and Angel were
waiting for Dr. Morano to have the Ultrasound set up. The doctor put the cool
substance on her stomach. Looking at the screen the doctor mumbled to
herself, "Huh. That's funny."
Buffy's eyes widened as she peered closer
at the screen. "What is it?"
"There are two seperate
heartbeats."
Angel stared closer at the screen.
"What?"
Dr. Morano smiled at them. "You are
going have twins. Congratulations."
Buffy quickly sat up, grinning,
"Twins?!"
"It looks like two girls." The
doctor replied still staring at the screen.
"That's wonderful, Buffy." Angel
kissed her cheek.
"Yes... Dr. Morano, can you please
print two sonograms for us?"
"No problem." She pressed a
button and two small images were printed out.
She handed them to Buffy who held it and
stared at it for what seemed like five minutes. Angel whispered, "Get
dressed."
As Buffy was getting dressed Angel
continued, "We'll go home.. put on something nice. Do you have a
fancy dress in the closet?"
Buffy was putting on the last of her clothing.
"Uh-huh, I probably do."
Angel smiled, "Good. Tonight we'll
call up our friends, family and we'll go to a nice restaurant to
celebrate."
After she got her sneakers on, she went up
to him and hugged him. "Sounds perfect."
At a fancy Italian restaurant a big room
was blocked off. In the room was a long brown, oval table which had a
white runner with leaves and impatients running along the middle. The
plates were ivory with a stip of gold along the edge of the rims. The wine
glasses were a perfect shape. The top of the glasses also had a strip of gold.
On one end of the table was Buffy and Angel
sitting next to each other facing the others. Joyce sat next to Buffy,
follwed by Willow, then Cordelia, Xander and Anya. Xander would always sit
between Cordelia and Anya because they have a tendency to have fights over elbow
space. On the other side of the table next to Angel was his parents,
sister Kate, his good friend Jimmy and Lorne. Willow, Cordelia and Xander
were talking about their childhood memories with Buffy. Angel stared
lovingly at Buffy's every movement. The twinkle in her eyes, her beautiful
smile and that wonderful laugh. Joyce was speaking with his parents,
getting further acquainted with each other. They shared happy moments of
Buffy and Angel's childhood, especially the embarrassing ones. Joyce had
just told Angel's mom that Buffy used to call milk moo. She jumped into
the conversation, "Mom, that's embarrassing."
Joyce replied, "Honey, it's not
embarrassing. It's cute."
Buffy added, "It's completely logical
for a three you old to call a container of milk moo when there is a cow on
it."
Angel put his hand on her knee. "Very
logical. . besides it's compared to some of the things I've done that is defenately
not embarrassing... trust me."
His mother smiled and said, "That is
very true Buffy. From what I've heard of your little silly moments.. none
of them compare to Angel. My sister lives in Colorado and when he was
twelve, he was going there to visit her. The day of the flight he asks me
if there is an ocean in Colorado."
They all laughed including Buffy who was
laughing hysterically. "You... asked if Colorado had an ocean?!"
Angel grinned, "I wasn't thinking.
I was twelve... I rarely asked intelligent questions at that age."
Anya was chatting with Jimmy. She was
quite amazed in his ability to talk nonstop like her. Well her she didn't
really have the opportunity to speak nonstop because almost every word that came
out of her mouth was a comparison to sex and no one was ever really interested.
An exception to Xander and Angel, she always thought most men only thought about
sex, money and what type of underwear a woman was wearing or if they weren't
whering any at all. This Jimmy though was certainly not shallow. He
was charming. Too bad she's dating Xander.. She thought, *he is defenately
a datable guy.*
Lorne was humming L.O.V.E. quietly as he
buttered his Italian bread.
When it looked like everyone's conversation
was just about finished he stood up with a glass of wine in his hand and tapped
it. "Excuse me..." Everyone gave him their attention and
Buffy held his hand. "First I would like to thank you all for coming on
such short notice. We decided to celebrate because we found out something
wonderful today that we feel you must know. What you know is that Buffy's
pregnant with a girl. Funny thing... Buffy lost the sonogram picture and
wanted another one, so I made an appointment with the doctor and then Buffy had
a dream about having two girls which is quite a coincidence becau--"
He was interrupted by Jimmy who jokingly
shouted, "Sometime this year!"
Angel smiled and continued, "Ok. Ok.
Buffy is having twins! Two girls."
Willow nearly jumped out of her seat.
"That's great!"
Joyce smiled at Angel's mom, "We're
going to be grandmothers of twins!"
Angel's mom kissed his cheaks.
"Congrats... You're going to make a wonderful dad."
Buffy grinned and tightened her grip on his
hand. "Yes, he will."
Buffy and Angel were laying in bed.
Angel in boxers, Buffy in his boxers and a white tank top. She was resting
her head on his upper arm and Angel had his arm wrapped around her. She
whispered, "That went well."
He simply mumbled, "Mmm."
"It's true you know." Angel
looked at her. "You are going to be wonderful father." She kissed his
cheek.
Angel kissed her back on the lips.
"And you are going to be the greatest mother a child could have."
"You're too sweet." Buffy said as
she rubbed his chest with her hand.
They lay content in silence for almost
thirty minutes. Occasionally their tongues were held captive in heated kisses.
Their arms roaming each other's bodies and feet playing with each other.
Angel loving the touch of Buffy's milky silk skin and she loving Angel's the
feel of his hard chest. Before long Angel's hand was under Buffy's tank
top, caressing her soft and slightly fuller breast. She giggled and let her hand
travel under his pants to squeeze his butt hard. He slightly jolted in
surprise. Then the bed shook lighly suddenly, causing Buffy to look up towards
the edge of the bed. There was LeeLou sitting on the edge of the bed,
staring at them clueless of the events that would come. Angel continued however,
ignoring the dog and gave Buffy moist kisses on the neck. She moaned and
tried to get out of his embrace. He would have none of it though as he wrapped
his arm around her waist and pulled her tighter against his hard self.
Buffy let a out a tiny gasp. She gave in for about a minute, kissing him
passionately. Then he returned her passionate kiss with his own and then
he slowly started to lift her tank top off of her. As he did he kissed her
stomach. Buffy giggled slightly and then quickly broke off the kiss and
held her arms down, pulling the tank top back down to cover her breasts.
Angel sighed, "What's wrong?"
Buffy laid her head face down on his chest
and mumbled, "LeeLou. . . She's watching us."
Angel grinned, "So let her watch.
She could learn a thing or two."
Buffy laughed and said, "Ew! Angel
that's..."
He interrupted her with his fingers
suddenly inside her boxers and inside her moving around sending bolts of
electricity through her body. "Oooh... God... Angel not..."
"Not what?" He said as he pushed
his two fingers with an added one, deeper inside her moist heat.
"Uh... Um..." Angel
increased his ministrations weakening her train of thought. "Dog.. LeeLou."
He pushed in harder and faster. Her breath increased. "Oh! God... Angel.
Not in front of her. Please... mmmm. Let's just do this.."
He curled his finger a little and moved
faster playing with her clit eliciting a loud moan from her. LeeLou let out a
little whimper and laid down, digging her face in her arms. Imbetween her
moaning Buffy weakly said, "Make love... some other... Oh!" She
bucked. "Time. . . God Angel. Not now, stop."
Angel huskily whispered, "When you
come."
She chuckled slightly as he pulled her on
of him and continued pulling his fingers in and out while kissing her. Before
long she was coming all over him and covering his lips in a passionate kiss. He
whispred, "Now was that so bad?"
Buffy smiled, "Well it certainly felt
good, but... LeeLou." She blushed.
She looked at the puppy and chuckled,
"She's as embarrassed as I am."
"Sure you don't wanna continue?"
She smiled, "I am positive. I've had
enough embarrassing moments for one night."
Angel smiled, wrapping his arms around her,
moving up and down her back. "So... sleep?"
"Yes, I'd say sleep is in order. Who
knows maybe at some point in the middle of the night LeeLou will be in another
room and we can do what your are craving so badly for."
She rolled off him, his arm still wrapped
around her and kissed him on the lips. "Goodnight, sweety."
He kissed her back on the forehead.
"Night, love."
