Unprecedented - Chapter 2
By Lyns
After another few days of putting off the inevitable, Buffy finally resolved to tell her friends about her pregnancy. It was a Sunday morning and the California sun was streaming through the windows of the sitting room when she walked slowly in and sat down on the coffee table.
"Buffy! You're blocking the TV!"
She looked over her shoulder to find out what was Dawn was so worried about missing. Saved By The Bell - The New Class. Nowhere near as good as the original, and it could certainly wait until after her news.
Buffy reached for the remote and turned off the TV, eliciting more huffing and puffing from her sister.
She could see a look of confusion etched onto Willow's face. She should have known. Willow could always sense when something big was about to be said. 'No way she'll be expecting this, though,' Buffy thought quietly to herself as she took a deep breath in a vain attempt to settle her nerves. It didn't work.
'Here goes nothing.'
"I have some news."
Dawn perked up and paid a bit more attention.
"Is there another apocalypse? You have apocalypse face," she said anxiously.
"No, Dawn, there isn't another apocalypse. At least not one that I'm aware of, anyway. It's nothing like that. It's about me." Buffy paused; trying to figure out the best way to phrase the enormous bombshell she was about to break. She figured the best thing was to simply tell them in a calm, relaxed manner that she was pregnant and then take it step by step from there.
"I'm having Spike's baby," she blurted out suddenly.
Or at least that was the plan
"Crap," Buffy whispered under her breath - how'd that happen?
And why was there laughter coming from the two people in front of her?
"What? What are you laughing at?" she asked them, rather bewildered by their reactions.
Willow was the first to speak.
"You seriously expect us to believe that? Buffy - vampires can't get you pregnant - it's not physically possible. And even if it was, it's been months since Spike left, surely you would have known by now!" she said, as if stating the obvious.
The look on Buffy's face said it all.
Dawn stared at her, open-mouthed, for what seemed like forever, before saying, "You did know, didn't you? You've known for months and not told me."
"Well.... uh.... technically.... yeah. But ya' know, big wiggins going on in my head Dawnie - I couldn't deal with having other people's stuff floating around up here, too," she pointed at her head as if to illustrate her point, then added, "I'm not even sure I can deal with it now, but I couldn't really put it off much longer."
It was at this point when Dawn and Willow glanced down at Buffy's stomach and noticed for the first time why Buffy wasn't trying to hide it anymore. She was showing. And not just a little, now that she was wearing more revealing clothes than she had been of late, it suddenly seemed so much more obvious. Whether it was just because they now knew and were actively looking for something or whether it was because Buffy really did look like a pregnant woman (pregnant lady glow and all the trimmings) could not be established, all that was for certain was that it was true. Not some crazy joke thought up by Buffy to try and bring some entertainment to their Sunday morning routine and not a strange nightmare world where clowns are murderous and school involves nude public speaking. Just Sunnydale, California, Hellmouth, where Slayers fall for vampires and end up bearing their illegitimate children. It may sound like some far-fetched fantasy, but for them it was the real world. A real world that just got that little bit more interesting than they had ever thought possible.
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"OK, so let me get this straight," Willow started after an hour of discussion, "You're pregnant. Courtesy of Spike. A vampire. We don't know how it happened or even if this...baby...will be normal, and you're saying you plan on keeping it. And you're actually happy about this situation?"
"Well, sort of. It's growing on me, you know? Like, at first, I wanted to curl up in a heap and pretend that everything was normal. And then I decided to.... get rid of it.... but I just couldn't. It's a part of me and I just couldn't do it. And now, well...I guess I'm getting used to the whole idea. And it's normal, I can promise you. My baby is not some evil vampire hybrid. It's human. I can feel it, I can sense its life force and all I sense is good."
She hadn't realized that as she'd been talking she'd started to cry, but now found that salty wetness was dripping onto her lips and mingling with her smile. They weren't tears of sadness, Buffy wasn't even sure what they were for, all she knew was that the emotions were getting to be too much of as jumble and had begun to overflow without her consent.
Dawn got up for her position on the sofa, sat next to her sister, and hugged her so hard even Buffy was having trouble freeing herself.
"Uh ... Dawn, sweetie...might have Slayer strength here, but you seem to have developed over protective aunt muscles right now," Buffy said.
Suddenly Dawn let go and leapt up - finally giving more than an indication of how she felt about this matter.
"Ohmigod!! Aunt! I'm gonna be an Auntie!!! Aunt Dawn, Auntie Dawnie!! This is so cool, Buffy! Are you going to name the baby after me?! Please, please, please?"
"So I take it you approve, then?" Buffy answered with a smile, glad that Dawn was being so understanding. Not that there had ever been any doubt that she would be, she loved Spike after all.
Dawn just smiled and hugged Buffy's stomach briefly as means of an affirmation.
Buffy turned her attention to her best friend, who had a permanently unreadable expression on her face since she first realized that Buffy really was pregnant.
"Willow? How bout you? You've not said anything in a while..." Buffy asked uncertainly.
She finally let some emotion show on her face as she smiled gently at her best friend.
"Of course I'm happy for you, as long as this is definitely what you want. I'll be there for you, whatever you need." She stood up, as did Buffy, and they hugged for what seemed like forever. Buffy had been closed off, unreachable, for months and now that she was able to finally share her secret she felt like there was so much missed time with her friends and sister that had to be made up. 'And there's no time like the present' she thought to herself with a smile, relishing in the feel of her first real Willow-hug in far too long.
After another few days of putting off the inevitable, Buffy finally resolved to tell her friends about her pregnancy. It was a Sunday morning and the California sun was streaming through the windows of the sitting room when she walked slowly in and sat down on the coffee table.
"Buffy! You're blocking the TV!"
She looked over her shoulder to find out what was Dawn was so worried about missing. Saved By The Bell - The New Class. Nowhere near as good as the original, and it could certainly wait until after her news.
Buffy reached for the remote and turned off the TV, eliciting more huffing and puffing from her sister.
She could see a look of confusion etched onto Willow's face. She should have known. Willow could always sense when something big was about to be said. 'No way she'll be expecting this, though,' Buffy thought quietly to herself as she took a deep breath in a vain attempt to settle her nerves. It didn't work.
'Here goes nothing.'
"I have some news."
Dawn perked up and paid a bit more attention.
"Is there another apocalypse? You have apocalypse face," she said anxiously.
"No, Dawn, there isn't another apocalypse. At least not one that I'm aware of, anyway. It's nothing like that. It's about me." Buffy paused; trying to figure out the best way to phrase the enormous bombshell she was about to break. She figured the best thing was to simply tell them in a calm, relaxed manner that she was pregnant and then take it step by step from there.
"I'm having Spike's baby," she blurted out suddenly.
Or at least that was the plan
"Crap," Buffy whispered under her breath - how'd that happen?
And why was there laughter coming from the two people in front of her?
"What? What are you laughing at?" she asked them, rather bewildered by their reactions.
Willow was the first to speak.
"You seriously expect us to believe that? Buffy - vampires can't get you pregnant - it's not physically possible. And even if it was, it's been months since Spike left, surely you would have known by now!" she said, as if stating the obvious.
The look on Buffy's face said it all.
Dawn stared at her, open-mouthed, for what seemed like forever, before saying, "You did know, didn't you? You've known for months and not told me."
"Well.... uh.... technically.... yeah. But ya' know, big wiggins going on in my head Dawnie - I couldn't deal with having other people's stuff floating around up here, too," she pointed at her head as if to illustrate her point, then added, "I'm not even sure I can deal with it now, but I couldn't really put it off much longer."
It was at this point when Dawn and Willow glanced down at Buffy's stomach and noticed for the first time why Buffy wasn't trying to hide it anymore. She was showing. And not just a little, now that she was wearing more revealing clothes than she had been of late, it suddenly seemed so much more obvious. Whether it was just because they now knew and were actively looking for something or whether it was because Buffy really did look like a pregnant woman (pregnant lady glow and all the trimmings) could not be established, all that was for certain was that it was true. Not some crazy joke thought up by Buffy to try and bring some entertainment to their Sunday morning routine and not a strange nightmare world where clowns are murderous and school involves nude public speaking. Just Sunnydale, California, Hellmouth, where Slayers fall for vampires and end up bearing their illegitimate children. It may sound like some far-fetched fantasy, but for them it was the real world. A real world that just got that little bit more interesting than they had ever thought possible.
#*#*#*#*
"OK, so let me get this straight," Willow started after an hour of discussion, "You're pregnant. Courtesy of Spike. A vampire. We don't know how it happened or even if this...baby...will be normal, and you're saying you plan on keeping it. And you're actually happy about this situation?"
"Well, sort of. It's growing on me, you know? Like, at first, I wanted to curl up in a heap and pretend that everything was normal. And then I decided to.... get rid of it.... but I just couldn't. It's a part of me and I just couldn't do it. And now, well...I guess I'm getting used to the whole idea. And it's normal, I can promise you. My baby is not some evil vampire hybrid. It's human. I can feel it, I can sense its life force and all I sense is good."
She hadn't realized that as she'd been talking she'd started to cry, but now found that salty wetness was dripping onto her lips and mingling with her smile. They weren't tears of sadness, Buffy wasn't even sure what they were for, all she knew was that the emotions were getting to be too much of as jumble and had begun to overflow without her consent.
Dawn got up for her position on the sofa, sat next to her sister, and hugged her so hard even Buffy was having trouble freeing herself.
"Uh ... Dawn, sweetie...might have Slayer strength here, but you seem to have developed over protective aunt muscles right now," Buffy said.
Suddenly Dawn let go and leapt up - finally giving more than an indication of how she felt about this matter.
"Ohmigod!! Aunt! I'm gonna be an Auntie!!! Aunt Dawn, Auntie Dawnie!! This is so cool, Buffy! Are you going to name the baby after me?! Please, please, please?"
"So I take it you approve, then?" Buffy answered with a smile, glad that Dawn was being so understanding. Not that there had ever been any doubt that she would be, she loved Spike after all.
Dawn just smiled and hugged Buffy's stomach briefly as means of an affirmation.
Buffy turned her attention to her best friend, who had a permanently unreadable expression on her face since she first realized that Buffy really was pregnant.
"Willow? How bout you? You've not said anything in a while..." Buffy asked uncertainly.
She finally let some emotion show on her face as she smiled gently at her best friend.
"Of course I'm happy for you, as long as this is definitely what you want. I'll be there for you, whatever you need." She stood up, as did Buffy, and they hugged for what seemed like forever. Buffy had been closed off, unreachable, for months and now that she was able to finally share her secret she felt like there was so much missed time with her friends and sister that had to be made up. 'And there's no time like the present' she thought to herself with a smile, relishing in the feel of her first real Willow-hug in far too long.
