Chapter 5
Sarai Pops The Question
A/N: thanks for all the reviews so far, keep em coming.
The Wolfram and Hart Christmas party was half over and so far no guests had to be killed. It was a new office record. Since the night was going so well Sarai decided to take advantage of it before she lost something bad could happen.
"Hi daddy" Sarai said walking up to him, with Harmony and Dawn not far away, awaiting their moment to jump in.
"Hey princess, having fun?"
"Yeah fun. Speaking of fun there's this school dance on Friday..."
"Are you trying to ask my permission if you could go?" Angel asked.
"Well yeah kinda."
"Sure go ahead, you and Dawn probably will have fun."
"See, that's the thing, I don't plan on going with Dawn."
"She doesn't want to go? So you'll be going alone? That doesn't sound like fun."
"No dad that's not it. See Dawn's going, or at least I think she is, its just that someone asked me to go with them...his...."
"NO" Angel cut in.
"You didn't even let me finish. His names Ryan."
"That really doesn't make a difference. You cannot go and unlike everything else, you can't get me to change my mind about this Sarai. You're too young."
"Then when will I be old enough?"
"The day I die.."
"Daddy, you're a vampire, you have immortality, you'll never die."
"That's the best part."
"Come on, please?"
"No."
"No be such a fogey" Harmony said joining the conversation, with Dawn next to her.
"Stay out of this. This is between me and Sarai and infact there isn't even anything to be between because this conversation is over. The answer is still no"
"What if I volunteer to be a chaperone?" Harmony offered.
"And who will be watching you?"
"Come on Angel, let her go, I'll be there the whole time" Dawn said.
"You'll be where? What's going on?" Gunn asked entering the circle of women around Angel, with Lorne, Wes, Fred and Spike with him.
"So you asked him?" Fred said.
"What, you got everyone to gang up on me?" Angel accused.
"Gang up? I don't know what's going on" Gunn repeated.
"I got asked to a school dance by a boy but dad won't let me go" Sarai said.
"Good" Gunn replied.
"GUNN!"
"Sorry Sarai, I gotta go with Angel on this one"
"Traitor" Sarai muttered.
"Angel I know this boy Ryan, he's nice." Dawn said.
"There is no such thing as a nice sixteen year old boy." Angel answered. Dawn and Sarai exchanged a look. "What?" Angel went on to ask.
"Actually....he just turned 17. One of those end-of the year-birthday rules that puts him in 11th grade." Sarai admitted.
"WHAT! Oh now there's definitely no way you're going."
"Come on Angel, its not like they're going to be alone, its school dance" Fred said.
Sarai, Harmony, Fred, Dawn and even Lorne were all begging him to say yes. After 10 minutes Angel knew he was backed into a corner. He took an unnecessary deep breath "I want to talk with Sarai upstairs now.....alone."
"Fine" she said back.
In the penthouse:
"Sit down" Angel instructed. Sarai did just that. "I want you to realize why I don't want you to go. Will you hear me out?"
"Will you hear me?" Sarai asked.
"Me first. You're not ready to date. It's not just because of the age thing. Sarai, you basically just started going outside, going school, making friends. Dating is a very complicated thing that grown adults who've had the most normal life you can imagine can't figure out and have problems with. I just don't think you're ready to handle all the emotions, complications and pain that go along with it and I don't want you to have to. I don't want to see you get hurt. Now you can go."
"Thank you. I appreciate you're concerns, I really do but I don't think you're in a position to tell me what I am ready for and what I am not. You're not me, I am. I know what I can or can't handle. It's not like I want to get married or anything, I just want to go to one stupid dance for a few hours with someone who seems really nice. One day, whether it's soon or not I will start to date and who knows, maybe I will get hurt maybe I won't but it's just something that happens sometimes. If and when that happens yes, I'll be sad or whatever but you don't have to worry about me not being able to handle it because of how I am. I am not the same person I was last year, or a few months ago."
"I know Sarai, believe me know one has noticed that more then I have but I am still worried about you. Then, again I will always be and always have new reasons. You're growing up and as much as I may want to lock you in your room and keep there, I can't."
"That's because you can't take me in a fight" Sarai pointed out, Angel laughed a little.
"You keep telling yourself that. What time does this dance start?"
"Seven thirty."
"In that case I want what's his name here at seven and I want you back by nine thirty or I'll send every squad patrol I have on a search and destroy...and don't even begin to think I am kidding."
Sarai face lit up "I CAN GO! THANK YOU!" she yelled throwing her arms around him.
"Don't thank me, thank you're little fan club, I am afraid they'll stake me in my sleep if I said no."
"Hey, how'd you figure out the back up plan?" Sarai asked, joking. " I am going to go back to the party and tell everyone you said yes."
"Ok, I'll be down in a sec, I just have something to do."
Angel headed into his bedroom and Sarai was about to get into the elevator when she heard Angel scream her name.
"What is it?" she said going into his room.
"You forgot to walk Skittles to day didn't you?" Angel asked pointing to a large urine stain on his bed.
"Are you sure it was Skittles? Maybe you had an accident and forgot about it due to old age. After all you're approaching the big 2-5-0 soon if I am not mistaken." Angel just stared at her.
"This isn't the first time Skittles had an accident. She peed in the kitchen yesterday but I cleaned it up and let it slide."
"Again, you're assuming its Skittles, maybe it was Gunn. It would be the first time he started going on over.........ok, ok its wasn't you or Gunn, it was me. I have bladder control issues. Skittles is completely innocent."
Angel smirked, after all this time he finally had a response that she couldn't argue with, "Are you sure its you?" he asked first, knowing very well it wasn't.
"Yup...no one but me. Bladder control issues remember."
"Well if that is the case then I guess you should wait here and I'll go to the store to pick up some diapers for you to wear since you are unable to control when you go to the bathroom. Oh ,wait a minute" he added walking over to the linen closet, where took out a bag of diapers that were shoved all the way in the back ~heh, this'll teach her to say I am getting old, she can't out smart me~ "We still have some left over when that demon made you a baby again. They're a little small but should be good until I get back from the store."
~Does he really think I can't out smart him?~ Sarai asked herself. She walked over to the bed and laid down, carefully avoiding the pee. "Go ahead then, take off my pants and underwear and put the diaper over my bare butt, but you have to do it quick, cause it was that time over the month this week. Although it seems like its over you don't want to take the change of getting nasty old blood on your bed that came out of my..."
"OK you win! Just please don't finish that sentence." Angel begged.
"I thought so....I'll see you later."
Angel watched Sarai leave and then after the elevator door shout he remembered something ~She made me go get her pads 2 weeks ago.....DAMN! She can out smart me. The former master vampire is now being controlled by a little girl...how pathetic. Oh well.....~
A/N: So how was this chapter? In the next one, the big date will take place.
Sarai Pops The Question
A/N: thanks for all the reviews so far, keep em coming.
The Wolfram and Hart Christmas party was half over and so far no guests had to be killed. It was a new office record. Since the night was going so well Sarai decided to take advantage of it before she lost something bad could happen.
"Hi daddy" Sarai said walking up to him, with Harmony and Dawn not far away, awaiting their moment to jump in.
"Hey princess, having fun?"
"Yeah fun. Speaking of fun there's this school dance on Friday..."
"Are you trying to ask my permission if you could go?" Angel asked.
"Well yeah kinda."
"Sure go ahead, you and Dawn probably will have fun."
"See, that's the thing, I don't plan on going with Dawn."
"She doesn't want to go? So you'll be going alone? That doesn't sound like fun."
"No dad that's not it. See Dawn's going, or at least I think she is, its just that someone asked me to go with them...his...."
"NO" Angel cut in.
"You didn't even let me finish. His names Ryan."
"That really doesn't make a difference. You cannot go and unlike everything else, you can't get me to change my mind about this Sarai. You're too young."
"Then when will I be old enough?"
"The day I die.."
"Daddy, you're a vampire, you have immortality, you'll never die."
"That's the best part."
"Come on, please?"
"No."
"No be such a fogey" Harmony said joining the conversation, with Dawn next to her.
"Stay out of this. This is between me and Sarai and infact there isn't even anything to be between because this conversation is over. The answer is still no"
"What if I volunteer to be a chaperone?" Harmony offered.
"And who will be watching you?"
"Come on Angel, let her go, I'll be there the whole time" Dawn said.
"You'll be where? What's going on?" Gunn asked entering the circle of women around Angel, with Lorne, Wes, Fred and Spike with him.
"So you asked him?" Fred said.
"What, you got everyone to gang up on me?" Angel accused.
"Gang up? I don't know what's going on" Gunn repeated.
"I got asked to a school dance by a boy but dad won't let me go" Sarai said.
"Good" Gunn replied.
"GUNN!"
"Sorry Sarai, I gotta go with Angel on this one"
"Traitor" Sarai muttered.
"Angel I know this boy Ryan, he's nice." Dawn said.
"There is no such thing as a nice sixteen year old boy." Angel answered. Dawn and Sarai exchanged a look. "What?" Angel went on to ask.
"Actually....he just turned 17. One of those end-of the year-birthday rules that puts him in 11th grade." Sarai admitted.
"WHAT! Oh now there's definitely no way you're going."
"Come on Angel, its not like they're going to be alone, its school dance" Fred said.
Sarai, Harmony, Fred, Dawn and even Lorne were all begging him to say yes. After 10 minutes Angel knew he was backed into a corner. He took an unnecessary deep breath "I want to talk with Sarai upstairs now.....alone."
"Fine" she said back.
In the penthouse:
"Sit down" Angel instructed. Sarai did just that. "I want you to realize why I don't want you to go. Will you hear me out?"
"Will you hear me?" Sarai asked.
"Me first. You're not ready to date. It's not just because of the age thing. Sarai, you basically just started going outside, going school, making friends. Dating is a very complicated thing that grown adults who've had the most normal life you can imagine can't figure out and have problems with. I just don't think you're ready to handle all the emotions, complications and pain that go along with it and I don't want you to have to. I don't want to see you get hurt. Now you can go."
"Thank you. I appreciate you're concerns, I really do but I don't think you're in a position to tell me what I am ready for and what I am not. You're not me, I am. I know what I can or can't handle. It's not like I want to get married or anything, I just want to go to one stupid dance for a few hours with someone who seems really nice. One day, whether it's soon or not I will start to date and who knows, maybe I will get hurt maybe I won't but it's just something that happens sometimes. If and when that happens yes, I'll be sad or whatever but you don't have to worry about me not being able to handle it because of how I am. I am not the same person I was last year, or a few months ago."
"I know Sarai, believe me know one has noticed that more then I have but I am still worried about you. Then, again I will always be and always have new reasons. You're growing up and as much as I may want to lock you in your room and keep there, I can't."
"That's because you can't take me in a fight" Sarai pointed out, Angel laughed a little.
"You keep telling yourself that. What time does this dance start?"
"Seven thirty."
"In that case I want what's his name here at seven and I want you back by nine thirty or I'll send every squad patrol I have on a search and destroy...and don't even begin to think I am kidding."
Sarai face lit up "I CAN GO! THANK YOU!" she yelled throwing her arms around him.
"Don't thank me, thank you're little fan club, I am afraid they'll stake me in my sleep if I said no."
"Hey, how'd you figure out the back up plan?" Sarai asked, joking. " I am going to go back to the party and tell everyone you said yes."
"Ok, I'll be down in a sec, I just have something to do."
Angel headed into his bedroom and Sarai was about to get into the elevator when she heard Angel scream her name.
"What is it?" she said going into his room.
"You forgot to walk Skittles to day didn't you?" Angel asked pointing to a large urine stain on his bed.
"Are you sure it was Skittles? Maybe you had an accident and forgot about it due to old age. After all you're approaching the big 2-5-0 soon if I am not mistaken." Angel just stared at her.
"This isn't the first time Skittles had an accident. She peed in the kitchen yesterday but I cleaned it up and let it slide."
"Again, you're assuming its Skittles, maybe it was Gunn. It would be the first time he started going on over.........ok, ok its wasn't you or Gunn, it was me. I have bladder control issues. Skittles is completely innocent."
Angel smirked, after all this time he finally had a response that she couldn't argue with, "Are you sure its you?" he asked first, knowing very well it wasn't.
"Yup...no one but me. Bladder control issues remember."
"Well if that is the case then I guess you should wait here and I'll go to the store to pick up some diapers for you to wear since you are unable to control when you go to the bathroom. Oh ,wait a minute" he added walking over to the linen closet, where took out a bag of diapers that were shoved all the way in the back ~heh, this'll teach her to say I am getting old, she can't out smart me~ "We still have some left over when that demon made you a baby again. They're a little small but should be good until I get back from the store."
~Does he really think I can't out smart him?~ Sarai asked herself. She walked over to the bed and laid down, carefully avoiding the pee. "Go ahead then, take off my pants and underwear and put the diaper over my bare butt, but you have to do it quick, cause it was that time over the month this week. Although it seems like its over you don't want to take the change of getting nasty old blood on your bed that came out of my..."
"OK you win! Just please don't finish that sentence." Angel begged.
"I thought so....I'll see you later."
Angel watched Sarai leave and then after the elevator door shout he remembered something ~She made me go get her pads 2 weeks ago.....DAMN! She can out smart me. The former master vampire is now being controlled by a little girl...how pathetic. Oh well.....~
A/N: So how was this chapter? In the next one, the big date will take place.