Chapter 23:
Cordy left Gunn and Fred to search the ground floor and followed Angel up the stairs.
I feel like such a moron.. I hope buffy doesn't kill me…
She quickened her pace and caught up with her hyperventilating boyfriend at Dawn's bedroom door.
He was rattling the door knob.
He glanced up at cordy, "It's locked!"
Cordy rolled her eyes, "Oh really? You mean 18 year old girls lock their rooms?! My God!"
Angel didn't respond to her sarcasm, "I'll have to break it down…"
*****
Spike sat in his chair, hardly even aware of his cigarette. He was too distracted by Buffy.
She'd rolled over and gone back to sleep, but in doing so, had exposed one of her breasts.
He puffed quickly on his smoke, eager to finish it and get back to bed, not noticing the noises coming from
downstairs.
*****
Cordy gasped as Angel leant against the door frame, preparing to knock it down.
"Angel! Stop that right now!"
The vampire paused, "Look, you go check on Buffy and spike" she pointed up the hall, "and I'll check on
dawn.."
Angel pulled back and frowned at her, "but.. why? I'm right here?"
"Be-Cause.. it isn't appropriate for a MAN to break down a teenage girls room! She probably locked it for
some privacy! I will check on her!.. now go!"
Angel shrugged and silently jogged up to Buffy's room.
Women… I still don't get them after all this time..
He stopped in front of Buffy's room and tried the door, it was locked.
He smiled, Cordy couldn't get mad at him if she wasn't here..
He leant against the door until the lock gave way, and silently pushed the door open.
He gave a very un-angelish little scream and took a step back into the hall.
He tried to pull his eyes away from the sight that greeted them in Buffy's room, but was transfixed with
terror.
Buffy lay with her back to him, but very obviously naked. He surprised himself with a slight pang of
saddness, remembering what he and buffy had lost.
All such thoughts were driven from his mind when his eyes slid to the armchair next to the heavily
curtained window.
Spike sat in it, completely naked, smoking a cigarette.
At Angel's sudden entrance his face had frozen in simple shock.
Angel finally spoke, "What the hell's going on here!?"
Spike shrugged, "well peaches, I'm having my morning smoke. Now the real question is, WHAT THE
BLOODY HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE!?!? "
Buffy groaned and sat up, pulling her covers up as she did so. She glanced over at Angel and a look of
utter confusion slid over her face, "Angel!? What are you doing here? Is something wrong?!"
Angel "Well obviously the reason no-one answered the phone for 5 hours is now clear."
Buffy looked even more confused, "huh?"
"I called you're house! No-one answered in 5 hours! I was slightly concerned about the well being of my
son!"
Spike shrugged, "so? Juniors quite capable of looking after himself, I doubt he needs you baby-ing him."
Angel frowned, "Why are you defending Connor? I thought you hated him?"
The vampire shrugged, "I just got to know him a bit better.. takes after Darla.. not you."
Buffy smirked, "Actually, he decided connor was 'okay' when he and spike beat up on some footballers for
insulting Dawn."
Spike looked over at Buffy, "Hey! You were in on that too!"
Angel sighed, "you've spent the week beating up football players?"
Buffy crossed her arms, "No! I merely slapped one of their girlfriends!"
Angel raised an eyebrow, "Their girlfriends were involved?"
Buffy started to answer, but angel raised a hand, silencing her, "No, don't worry.. I don't want to know.."
he paused, "buffy, I think you should stop watching Jerry Springer, it's obviously beginning to affect you."
Buffy pouted, "Hey! It has not!"
Spike chuckled and finished his cigarette.
Angel looked over at him, "Um, Spike… Could you at least put some pants on?"
Buffy seemed suddenly aware of Spike's nakedness and started blushing.
The vampire shrugged, "My room. You don't knock, I don't get dressed." He smiled and lit another
cigarette.
Angel shook his head slightly, "I'll remember that logic the next time you visit Spike.."
Spike smirked, "sure peaches, just make sure your seer does too." He winked.
Buffy chuckled, knowing that Spike actually disliked Cordy for being a 'snobby little know it all' and
didn't really want to see her naked.
Angel's mouth dropped open, "Don't you speak about Cordelia like that!"
Spike sneered, "what you gonna do about it?"
Buffy raised her hands. "Stop it you two!" She looked over at Angel, "Now, if you'll just leave us alone for
a minute we'll get dressed."
Spike snorted.
"Or at least, I will.. I'm not so sure about Spike..but hey!"
Angel nodded and retreated from the room, pulling the door as shut as it would get on its semi-broken
hinges.
He looked back down the hall, Dawn's room was slightly open.
I'll go check on Cordy and dawn.. maybe they've found Connor.
He headed quietly down the hall.
******
Dawn groaned and buried her head Connor's shoulder, trying in vain to block out the incessant knocking
that was piercing her consciousness She could feel Connor stirring beneath her.
If I ignore it.. it will go away… yes.. that's right..
But she felt Connor sit up underneath her, so she tightened her hold on him, getting pulled up so she was
still resting against him, despite the fact that he was know sitting up.
"Dawn? Are you awake?"
She sighed deeply, raised her head from were it had been resting on his shoulder and looked up at him, "I
am now.."
He smiled down at her then yawned and scratched his hair, which was a complete mess, ignoring the
strands which kept falling over his face.
Dawn smiled back and reached up to give him a kiss. He sighed and wrapped his arms around her.
"Hey! Dawn! Open the door already!!"
Connor broke of their kiss and frowned at the door. "Damn.. I was hoping I imagined Cordy's voice."
Dawn glanced fearfully at the locked door, "Should we answer it?"
As if on cue cordy yelled out again, "And yes, I know Connor is in here, but if you let me in now, I will
refrain from telling everyone else in this house!"
Connor sighed, "Fine!"
He disentangled himself from dawn, quickly located his pants, and opened the door.
Cordy took in the state of Dawn's bedroom, not to mention Dawn, and shook her head slightly.
She quickly darted into the room and pulled the door too.
She sighed, "teenagers!"
She glanced over at Connor, "do you know if it I hadn't guessed what was going on
in this room and convinced your father that I should check on Dawn and not him, Angel would have
busted the door down a couple of minutes ago?!"
Dawn started to blush, "um.. thanks Cordy.. but.. how did you know?"
She smiled, "I too was once a pretty18 yr old girl Dawn.." Dawn raised an eyebrow sceptically, "Okay, I'm also
a SEER.. that helped too.."
Connor sat back down on the bed next to dawn and wrapped an arm around her.
Cordy sighed, "hello? There is no time for the cuddles! Like, Get dressed already! Unless you'd like too
explain yourself to a much less sympathetic audience.. Angel.. Buffy.. Fred.. Gunn.. and oh, "she glanced at
Connor, "Mister 'I-Will-Castrate-You-Connor', Spike."
Connor shuddered and started looking for his shirt. Dawn disappeared under the covers and reappeared
with a bra and top on. "Um, Cordy, pass us my pants would you?"
The seer sighed and handed them over. Dawn pulled them under the covers and wriggled around a bit, then
emerged fully dressed.
Connor scratched his head and glanced shyly at his 'mother', "Um, so.. should we head downstairs?"
Cordy shook her head, "No, I need to talk to you two about something."
Angel appeared in the doorway, "talk about what?"
Connor and Dawn stiffened.
Connor gave a nervous laugh, knowing that Cordy was referring to those bizarre dreams, and possibly the
fact that Dawn was pregnant, she was a seer after all. "Dad! What are you doing here?"
Please let her not say anything..
Angel walked over and gave Connor a brief, hug, crushing the air out of his son's lungs.
Connor felt himself blush, he still wasn't used to such displays of his father's love.
Dawn decided now would be a good time to change the subject before Angel guessed what his son was
doing in her room, "Um, why don't you guys go and grab some breakfast? I just wanna have a quick
shower and change." She looked down at her rumpled clothes, "I ended up sleeping these."
Cordy smiled, "sure Dawnie. Come on guys."
She guided Angel and Connor from the room.
Dawn sighed and sat down on the bed, and tried to make her heart stop racing. First of all, she'd had sex the
night before. In the very bed she was sitting on. Then she and Connor had almost been caught. She was a
big nervous wreak.
Why am I so nervous!? Nothing bad happened, I should be really happy.. not all anxious and freaking
out..
She walked over to her wardrobe, the shattered wood of the sides reminding her of her violent mood swing
the night before.
What's wrong with me!??! First I try to kill Connor.. then I sleep with him!?
She gathered up a clean pair of jeans and a tight top then headed for the bathroom.
It was when she had gotten out and was drying off that she realised something, she should have gotten her
period almost two weeks ago.
She tried to calm herself as she slid into her clothes and brushed her hair,
That doesn't meant anything you idiot Dawn! You were a virgin until last night remember?
She thought back over her and Connor's love making and realised another thing,
it didn't hurt. I wasn't a virgin!.. But that's impossible! I mean, I would know surely!? The only other
thing that I've ever done that was like sex was that dream.. and it was just a dream!!
Then she realised something else, she'd had that dream two weeks ago exactly. A few days before her
period was due. When, according to her old biology teacher, a woman was at her most fertile. And now
having really had sex with Connor, she was suddenly aware of just how Life-Like it had been..
Oh god! Please let this not be some weird magically thing! I don't want to be pregnant!
She headed back to her room, taking deep steadying breaths,
No way, just because miracles like that do sometimes happen.. like how Connor was conceived.. Doesn't
mean it's going to happen to me! I'll just ask Connor if he had that dream, and then I'll know for sure I'm
just being an idiot!
She nodded to herself, After all, I'm only 18, my period isn't completely regular yet…
But as mush as she tried to convince herself other wise, she knew something was going on..
She opened her door and threw her dirty clothes in a pile on the floor.
It was then she noticed someone else was in the room. She whirled around and was shocked into silence.
Standing in front of her door was a tall monk dressed in brown.
She turned to her window. Another one stood there.
Her eyes went wide and she opened her mouth to scream but felt it blocked by the hand of the taller monk.
He gently blocked her mouth and quietly spoke into her ear, "Great Lady, we do not wish you harm, but if
you scream… we will kill your lover the moment he enters this room."
The other monk walked over to join them, "Do you understand? We have the power to kill anyone in this house."
Dawn nodded against her captors arm and he released her.
She took a step away from them, "Who are you kidding?! There's no way you two could defeat The Slayer,
William the Bloody, Angel and The Destroyer!"
The monks both smiled quietly, "And how would you know that? You know nothing of the powers we possess."
Dawn looked hard at both of them, Are they bluffing?
"Well, if you don't want to hurt me, why are you here!? And what have you and your little cult been
plotting?"
The monks smiled warmly at her the shorted one replied, "Why O-holiest lady, we have come to deliver
you and your son into your destiny!"
Dawn's mind whirled, "what?!"
She was only dimly aware of the other monk chanting something out of an old book, she was too distracted
by the realization that the odd feeling in the pit of her stomach wasn't just a figment of her imagination.
She was pregnant.
Suddenly everything feel into place, her child was the Giver… he'd given her the huge power she'd
had lately… And they'd come to take him.
"Oh god.."
Suddenly she snapped back to reality when she saw her floor had sunk into a huge gaping hole.
She recognised what it was instantly, a portal between worlds.
She stepped back and bumped into the other monk, the taller one.
She held her hand almost fondly, his hand was cold… like Spike.. Dawn peered into the hood of his robe.
She recognised the look of his features, he was a vampire.
"You're a vampire!"
A look of self loathing flitted over his featured, "Yes. But I have joined the holy cause of the master. Now
lady, come."
With that he stepped into the portal, pulling Dawn with him.
She tried to resist, but in her shock and horror, she slipped and fell forward after him,
Her mouth forming the only word that had any real meaning to her.
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AN: oOooOOOOooo..
dawn finally figured out about the thing with the thing.. (I just like saying that..) the plot thickens!
(sort of…)
this chapter took a bit longer than the others.. sorry … I had this stupid critique thingy at art collage..
*mutters evilly about snobby lecturers*
so I spent all last week painting stuff (OH YEY.)
so yes.. any suggestions for plot ey people? I think I'll wrap this up soon.. must think of a cool ending thou!
=^x^= *insert that weird trilling noise a cat makes*
so yes.. please review! I like hearing what ppl think I should do with this story.. even if u don't like it much!
