Chapter 11
Sick Day
A/N: Sorry for the long wait for the update...I got sidetracked with other things. Thanks for the reviews so far. Also a few days have past since the cutting incident in this chapter.
Sarai rolled over one morning and shut off her ringing alarm clock. She got out of bed feeling itchy and headed over to her dresser to get some clothes when she noticed what her looked like in the mirror above the dresser. Her face, neck, arms, legs were covered in red dots she then pulled up her shirt and saw they were all over her chest and back too and that's what itched like hell.
"Daddy look how many zits I've gotten over night, how could this happen?" Sarai asked coming out of her room, fully dressed and into the kitchen where Angel was. Angel went over to her and felt her face, she was warmer then most people.
"Do they itch precious?" he asked.
"Uh huh."
Angel took her backpack out of her hand and put it on the floor "Go back to bed sweetie." he ordered. "You have the Chickenpox"
Sarai's eyes widened "I am turning into a chicken!" she exclaimed.
Angel tried to suppress his laughter but he couldn't. Sarai said the most amusing things sometimes in regards to things in this dimension. "No princess you're not turning into a chicken, I promise. It's an illness common in children. You can only get it once in your life and you've got it....also stop scratching"
"I can't it itches to much"
"I know but you could make it worse if you do. Look go back to bed and I'll take you breakfast in there. Then I am taking you to the doctor just to be on the safe side. Ok?"
"Ok"
........
"Princess for the millionth time stop scratching" Angel said as he and Sarai walked in the door of the penthouse, coming back from the doctor who in fact confirmed it was chickenpox.
"I can't help it!" she argued.
"I know, come on go in your room and I'll put this calamine lotion on you, it'll help." A little while later Angel was finished putting the lotion on her. "You look like you took a bath in strawberry ice-cream." he teased the now pink-spotted child laying on her bed.
"Daddy haven't we established already that jokes and sarcasm are only funny and appropriate when aimed at you?" she teased back. "Speaking of strawberry ice-cream though I could go for some."
"It's not even noon yet, it's too early for ice-cream." Sarai pouted at Angel's answer causing him to change it "how many scoops?" he then asked.
"Two please."
"Coming right up" A few minutes later Angel returned with the ice-cream and a bell. "Here" he said handing her both items "the bell is so you can ring it whenever you need me, instead of shouting and straining that sweet voice of yours."
"Ok. Thanks."
Angel wasn't 3 steps out Sarai bedroom door when he heard the bell ring "What do you need?" he asked re-entering the room.
"Oh nothing that was just a test run." Sarai said grinning.
Thirty minutes later:
ring, ring, ring
Angel went back into the room. "You can take the ice-cream bowl away now" Sarai said. Angel did as he was instructed. But it didn't stop there:
25 minutes later:
ring, ring, ring
"Daddy I am hot could you put the AC on?"
"Sure...don't scratch though"
!5 minutes later:
ring, ring, ring
"I am cold now, you can turn it off now.
"Just don't scratch"
45 minutes later:
ring, ring, ring
"I am want lunch"
"Ok. Stop scratching"
20 minutes later:
ring, ring, ring,
"I am done, you can take the plate.
"Fine....don't scratch"
Six hours and 2,000,000 bell rings later Angel was considering impaling himself on the corner of the wood coffee table. His thoughts were interrupted by:
Ring, ring, ring
Angel knew Sarai was only doing it to bother him most of the time and at first he found it amusing, but now it was getting old and he was getting annoyed.
"What now?" he asked entering her room, a bit irritated.
"I need snuggles" Sarai answered.
Now this was a request Angel was more then happy to do. He smiled and picked up the sick girl and then laid down on the bed, holding her tightly. "Feeling any better?"
"No. Still itchy." she complained.
"You'll be better before you know it."
One episode of "Seinfeld", two "Friends" and one "Simpsons" went by with Angel still holding Sarai who found each show hilarious, Angel found some parts funny, but others he just didn't get. Eventually though there was knock on the penthouse door. Angel slid Sarai off his lap and started to get up. "I'll be right back princess." When Angel opened the door Doyle, Gunn(who was holding 'get well soon' balloons), Wesley and Fred walked in. "Hey" Angel greeted.
"How's the patient?" Fed asked.
"Testing mine" Angel replied.
"That's my job" they all heard Sarai yell from her room. Gunn went in to see her.
"Angel, I am afraid we have a situation." Wesley said.
"What is it?"
"I had another o-so-pleasant vision from the powers" Doyle answered.
"Of what?"
"A demon raising down town. Big nasty thing. Figured we'd better get the guy for this"
"Oh, alright...wait. I don't want to leave Sarai alone."
"Well by the way Doyle described what he saw we'll all be needed to fight it" Fred said.
"Where's Lorne?" Angel asked.
"Meeting with a client."
"Harmony?"
"On a date with someone"
"Angel I know you'll probably won't like this idea but there is one other person..." Wesley started to suggest, but Angel cut him off.
"I am not leaving Spike alone with my child. Why don't you ask him to fight the demon and I'll stay here."
"Because we already did and he said he wasn't in the mood to fight...which I found disturbing considering this is Spike we're talking about" Fred said.
"Alright fine, but someone else has to ask him to stay here."
"No need" Spike said walking in the door.
"You had this planned all along" Angel accused. Everyone nodded in agreement. "I'll be right back." Angel entered Sarai's room and saw Gunn had tied the balloons to Sarai's headboard and that he'd been suckered into giving her a foot rub, a job in which Angel was suckered into doing a daily basis. Sarai was very convincing when she wanted to be. "How many slaves do you have?" Angel asked her.
"Including you? 4. You, Gunn, Fred and Lorne, Wesley isn't good enough to be one."
Angel and Gunn both rolled their eyes. "Look we have to go kill something, Spike is going to stay with you. If he bothers you at all, you can stake him or better yet wait for me to get back so I can."
"Daddy, Spike's not bad, we'll be fine."
"Alright then, I'll be back in a little while and just cause I am gone doesn't mean you scratch."
Angel and the others left. Sarai was online but she got bored after an hour or so and decided to try the bell trick on Spike, but after the 6th request Spike got fed up. "Give me this bloody thing" Spike demanded and hurled the bell out of Sarai's bedroom window.
"HEY!" She yelled.
"I had to do it."
"Whatever"
Spike and Sarai were silent for about a minute. Spike and Sarai never really spent a lot of time talking so they didn't know what to talk about. Sarai decided to break the silence. "Say did you know you're my uncle/nephew?" she asked.
"Don't even get me bleeding started on the topic"
Sarai was about to say something else but Fred and Wesley walked in. "How's everything going?" Fred asked.
"Fine" Sarai said.
"Angel, Doyle and Gunn are disposing of the demons body, they should be here shortly."
"Looks like that thing got you good Wes" Sarai comment to Wesley, who was rubbing his head.
"What...a no. It was the strangest thing, as we were entering the building just now something hit me on the head and made a strange ringing noise when it did" he replied. Spike and Sarai started laughing hysterically after hear that.
"Nice shot" sarai managed to say to Spike through the laughs. Wesley and Fred looked at each other confused.
Later that night:
"So was Spike ok?" Angel asked Sarai.
"For the tenth time yes."
"What'd you do when I was out?"
"I went online. Talked to Ryan."
Angel started to pretend like he was throwing up at the mention of Ryan's name.
"Stop it. I don't see why you hate him so much. You don't even really know him." Sarai said.
Angel thought about that for a minute and realized Sarai was right. He didn't know him. That's when he had an idea "When you're better why do you invite him to dinner one night."
"Really?"
"Yeah" Angel replied. What have I just gotten myself into? He then asked himself.
A/N: So that was chapter 11. How was it? In the next chapter we'll see what goes on during the dinner. Also I am condering making the next chapter the last one of this fic and starting another one with an idea I have that'll be slightly dark at some points. It'll involve Buffy and the scoobies finding out about Sarai. But I am going to take a vote: who wants the next chapter to be the last and then have the other fic and who wants to have a few more of these different Angel/Sarai stories before the other fic? Let me know in the REVIEWS.
Sick Day
A/N: Sorry for the long wait for the update...I got sidetracked with other things. Thanks for the reviews so far. Also a few days have past since the cutting incident in this chapter.
Sarai rolled over one morning and shut off her ringing alarm clock. She got out of bed feeling itchy and headed over to her dresser to get some clothes when she noticed what her looked like in the mirror above the dresser. Her face, neck, arms, legs were covered in red dots she then pulled up her shirt and saw they were all over her chest and back too and that's what itched like hell.
"Daddy look how many zits I've gotten over night, how could this happen?" Sarai asked coming out of her room, fully dressed and into the kitchen where Angel was. Angel went over to her and felt her face, she was warmer then most people.
"Do they itch precious?" he asked.
"Uh huh."
Angel took her backpack out of her hand and put it on the floor "Go back to bed sweetie." he ordered. "You have the Chickenpox"
Sarai's eyes widened "I am turning into a chicken!" she exclaimed.
Angel tried to suppress his laughter but he couldn't. Sarai said the most amusing things sometimes in regards to things in this dimension. "No princess you're not turning into a chicken, I promise. It's an illness common in children. You can only get it once in your life and you've got it....also stop scratching"
"I can't it itches to much"
"I know but you could make it worse if you do. Look go back to bed and I'll take you breakfast in there. Then I am taking you to the doctor just to be on the safe side. Ok?"
"Ok"
........
"Princess for the millionth time stop scratching" Angel said as he and Sarai walked in the door of the penthouse, coming back from the doctor who in fact confirmed it was chickenpox.
"I can't help it!" she argued.
"I know, come on go in your room and I'll put this calamine lotion on you, it'll help." A little while later Angel was finished putting the lotion on her. "You look like you took a bath in strawberry ice-cream." he teased the now pink-spotted child laying on her bed.
"Daddy haven't we established already that jokes and sarcasm are only funny and appropriate when aimed at you?" she teased back. "Speaking of strawberry ice-cream though I could go for some."
"It's not even noon yet, it's too early for ice-cream." Sarai pouted at Angel's answer causing him to change it "how many scoops?" he then asked.
"Two please."
"Coming right up" A few minutes later Angel returned with the ice-cream and a bell. "Here" he said handing her both items "the bell is so you can ring it whenever you need me, instead of shouting and straining that sweet voice of yours."
"Ok. Thanks."
Angel wasn't 3 steps out Sarai bedroom door when he heard the bell ring "What do you need?" he asked re-entering the room.
"Oh nothing that was just a test run." Sarai said grinning.
Thirty minutes later:
ring, ring, ring
Angel went back into the room. "You can take the ice-cream bowl away now" Sarai said. Angel did as he was instructed. But it didn't stop there:
25 minutes later:
ring, ring, ring
"Daddy I am hot could you put the AC on?"
"Sure...don't scratch though"
!5 minutes later:
ring, ring, ring
"I am cold now, you can turn it off now.
"Just don't scratch"
45 minutes later:
ring, ring, ring
"I am want lunch"
"Ok. Stop scratching"
20 minutes later:
ring, ring, ring,
"I am done, you can take the plate.
"Fine....don't scratch"
Six hours and 2,000,000 bell rings later Angel was considering impaling himself on the corner of the wood coffee table. His thoughts were interrupted by:
Ring, ring, ring
Angel knew Sarai was only doing it to bother him most of the time and at first he found it amusing, but now it was getting old and he was getting annoyed.
"What now?" he asked entering her room, a bit irritated.
"I need snuggles" Sarai answered.
Now this was a request Angel was more then happy to do. He smiled and picked up the sick girl and then laid down on the bed, holding her tightly. "Feeling any better?"
"No. Still itchy." she complained.
"You'll be better before you know it."
One episode of "Seinfeld", two "Friends" and one "Simpsons" went by with Angel still holding Sarai who found each show hilarious, Angel found some parts funny, but others he just didn't get. Eventually though there was knock on the penthouse door. Angel slid Sarai off his lap and started to get up. "I'll be right back princess." When Angel opened the door Doyle, Gunn(who was holding 'get well soon' balloons), Wesley and Fred walked in. "Hey" Angel greeted.
"How's the patient?" Fed asked.
"Testing mine" Angel replied.
"That's my job" they all heard Sarai yell from her room. Gunn went in to see her.
"Angel, I am afraid we have a situation." Wesley said.
"What is it?"
"I had another o-so-pleasant vision from the powers" Doyle answered.
"Of what?"
"A demon raising down town. Big nasty thing. Figured we'd better get the guy for this"
"Oh, alright...wait. I don't want to leave Sarai alone."
"Well by the way Doyle described what he saw we'll all be needed to fight it" Fred said.
"Where's Lorne?" Angel asked.
"Meeting with a client."
"Harmony?"
"On a date with someone"
"Angel I know you'll probably won't like this idea but there is one other person..." Wesley started to suggest, but Angel cut him off.
"I am not leaving Spike alone with my child. Why don't you ask him to fight the demon and I'll stay here."
"Because we already did and he said he wasn't in the mood to fight...which I found disturbing considering this is Spike we're talking about" Fred said.
"Alright fine, but someone else has to ask him to stay here."
"No need" Spike said walking in the door.
"You had this planned all along" Angel accused. Everyone nodded in agreement. "I'll be right back." Angel entered Sarai's room and saw Gunn had tied the balloons to Sarai's headboard and that he'd been suckered into giving her a foot rub, a job in which Angel was suckered into doing a daily basis. Sarai was very convincing when she wanted to be. "How many slaves do you have?" Angel asked her.
"Including you? 4. You, Gunn, Fred and Lorne, Wesley isn't good enough to be one."
Angel and Gunn both rolled their eyes. "Look we have to go kill something, Spike is going to stay with you. If he bothers you at all, you can stake him or better yet wait for me to get back so I can."
"Daddy, Spike's not bad, we'll be fine."
"Alright then, I'll be back in a little while and just cause I am gone doesn't mean you scratch."
Angel and the others left. Sarai was online but she got bored after an hour or so and decided to try the bell trick on Spike, but after the 6th request Spike got fed up. "Give me this bloody thing" Spike demanded and hurled the bell out of Sarai's bedroom window.
"HEY!" She yelled.
"I had to do it."
"Whatever"
Spike and Sarai were silent for about a minute. Spike and Sarai never really spent a lot of time talking so they didn't know what to talk about. Sarai decided to break the silence. "Say did you know you're my uncle/nephew?" she asked.
"Don't even get me bleeding started on the topic"
Sarai was about to say something else but Fred and Wesley walked in. "How's everything going?" Fred asked.
"Fine" Sarai said.
"Angel, Doyle and Gunn are disposing of the demons body, they should be here shortly."
"Looks like that thing got you good Wes" Sarai comment to Wesley, who was rubbing his head.
"What...a no. It was the strangest thing, as we were entering the building just now something hit me on the head and made a strange ringing noise when it did" he replied. Spike and Sarai started laughing hysterically after hear that.
"Nice shot" sarai managed to say to Spike through the laughs. Wesley and Fred looked at each other confused.
Later that night:
"So was Spike ok?" Angel asked Sarai.
"For the tenth time yes."
"What'd you do when I was out?"
"I went online. Talked to Ryan."
Angel started to pretend like he was throwing up at the mention of Ryan's name.
"Stop it. I don't see why you hate him so much. You don't even really know him." Sarai said.
Angel thought about that for a minute and realized Sarai was right. He didn't know him. That's when he had an idea "When you're better why do you invite him to dinner one night."
"Really?"
"Yeah" Angel replied. What have I just gotten myself into? He then asked himself.
A/N: So that was chapter 11. How was it? In the next chapter we'll see what goes on during the dinner. Also I am condering making the next chapter the last one of this fic and starting another one with an idea I have that'll be slightly dark at some points. It'll involve Buffy and the scoobies finding out about Sarai. But I am going to take a vote: who wants the next chapter to be the last and then have the other fic and who wants to have a few more of these different Angel/Sarai stories before the other fic? Let me know in the REVIEWS.