Chapter 6
Historical Note: By now, the story takes place in the end of the fifth season of Buffy, and the fourth season of Angel.
Author's Note: Ok, in advance, It may be a little longer posting new parts. It's true, a few chapters on this one have been pre-written as well, but I still have to go through and edit, and sometimes make a few changes. Plus, Mid-terms are coming up, so I may be kinda busy, but I'll try my best!! Please come back every few days and see if I've posted more tho! I just got another opinion, thanks soo much! But that only brings me up to 2 opinions about the Cordy/Connor thing. One says yes cause it'd be interesting, one says no cause it was gross to see the first time around. I need people's advice here. I'm begging you, I mean, on my knees! Lol. PLEASE e-mail me and met me know!
Author's Note II: Oh my gosh, I'm not sure if all of you noticed, but some of you caught me on the big mistake I made. See, I'm writing another Buffy/Angel story called 'the End Of Days' and I accidentally posted ch.5 of this story into the other one! LOL. Thanks guys for catching me! Mid-terms boy… LOL.
Author's Note/Historical Note: This part takes place three months after where the second one left off. Angel is still missing, leaving Buffy to deal with the Hyperion Hotel, and to raise Connor. Cordelia has also gone missing, and the crew is searching for her as well. Also, Joyce gets terminally ill, forcing Buffy to go back to Sunnydale and take care of things for awhile not knowing she'd end up doing it permanently.
In Sunnydale...
Buffy and Angel instantly headed for her house as soon as they got to Sunnydale. As they pulled up in front of Buffy's house, Buffy noticed her mother's jeep was gone, but there were lights on in the house.
"This looks funky," she said as they got out of the car and headed up towards the house.
"Mom?" Buffy called out as she opened the door. All of a sudden, Xander walked into view.
"Xander? Where's my mom?" she asked.
"She's staying overnight at the hospital," he explained. Buffy looked at him worriedly.
"Why?" she asked.
"Observations. I wouldn't worry about it," he told her.
"Well, has she been feeling alright? What's wrong?" she asked quickly as she walked into the living room.
"Buffy, I'm not completely sure. All I know is that Giles drove her to the hospital, and I got a call asking to watch Dawn since your mother was staying at the hospital for observations," he explained.
"Why didn't anyone call me sooner?" she asked.
"Well, we knew you two were busy with the whole Connor thing and we didn't want to worry you," he explained. Buffy sighed as she put her hand up to her forehead.
"I'm going up to the hospital to see if I can find out anything," Buffy told Angel.
"I'll go with you," he told her. Buffy looked back at Xander.
"I'll be back," she promised her friend before leaving.
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Buffy and Angel walked into the hospital, and walked directly to the front desk.
"Can you tell me what room Joyce Summers is in?" Buffy asked. The nurse looked up at her.
"Are you a relative?" she asked.
"I'm her daughter," she told her. The nurse then pushed a few keys on the keyboard and looked back at Buffy from the computer.
"She's on the second floor; room 25," the nurse told her.
"Thank you," she said quickly before hurrying away from the desk towards the elevator.
"For someone who hates hospitals as much as you do, you're sure doing ok," Angel noted as Buffy pushed the elevator button.
"Yeah, well I'm good at hiding it," she told him as they stepped into the empty elevator.
"I can tell," he said. The two stood in silence until the elevator stopped and opened.
"Here we go," Angel said as they walked back out. It wasn't hard to find the room Joyce was in.
Buffy quickly walked into her room. "Mom?" Buffy asked as she walked over to her mother's bed.
"Angel, Buffy, hi," Joyce said warmly as they walked over to her bed.
"Mom, why didn't tell me you were sick before?" Buffy asked.
"Oh honey, I'm sorry if I worried you. I, I guess I didn't think it was anything serious," Joyce explained.
"Is it...serious?" she asked. Angel put his hand on her back.
"Well, the doctor found a gray spot in my CAT scan," Joyce began. "They're not sure what it is or how serious it could be. They just want me to stay overnight for observations," she explained. Buffy looked at her mother and tried not to burst into tears.
"When will they know, if, if it's serious," Buffy asked.
"They should know by tomorrow," she assured her. Buffy nodded.
"Honey, you should go back to the house, you and Angel, go get some rest," she told them.
"I should stay and-" Buffy began.
"No. Honey, they won't know anything until tomorrow and it's probably nothing. Now there's no need to stay here and worry, now go," Joyce told them in cheerful voice. Buffy looked at Angel then back at her mother.
"Mom I..." she began.
"Go," she said. "Or else I'm going to make them keep you here and run all sorts of tests on you," she threatened. Buffy smiled at the sound of her mother's humor.
"Alright, fine. But I'm coming back tomorrow," she promised.
"Ok," Joyce said. Buffy then walked over to her mother and hugged her before leaving.