Chapter Sixteen: Son
Faith and Buffy drove down to the hospital after a short argument over Faith saying it would be faster to take her sports car and Buffy saying it would safer to take her mini van which Spike had brought for them after they found out they were having a baby, Faith won as Buffy gave up as her contractions were getting closer.
"FAAAITH slow down you're gonna kills us!!."
"Well do you want to get to the hospital or not." Faith said a she zoomed towards the hospital
"I would love to get their ALIVE IF YOU DON'T MIND." She said holding her stomach
"Chill ok we'll be alright." She said making a sharp turn and barely missing a car
"Oh god I'm gonna die, again, Faith if I die, I'm sooo gonna come back as a ghost and haunt your ass." She said holding her hand over her eyes while clutching to the dashboard
"You're not gonna die B, just breath or what ever"
She said as she as she kept going while Buffy breathed
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Once they were at the hospital Buffys contractions were getting more frequent and she was screaming a lot more and a lot louder. As she was wheeled down the aisle in a wheelchair she held Faiths hand as the midwife pushed
"SPIKKKKE AHHHHH SPIKE, FAITH WHERE THE FUCK IS HE."
"B let go of my hand and I can go and call him." She said as she winced in pain as Buffy squeezed her hand then let it go
"Wow B I think you broke my hand." Faith said holding her right hand
"Wow F you best quit whining and call my husband." Buffy spat back
"Already gone," Faith said running out the door pulling out her cell as Buffy was pushed into a room
Faith held the phone to her ear as it rung "Hello" Spike answered once again "Spike" Faith said down the phone "Hey Faith, Buffy getting on you're nerves already, don't worry I'm nearly home so just sit tight and..."
"Turn round." Faith shouted down the phone "What" "Head to the hospital" "Why, what's wrong?" "Its Buffy she's about to burst man, the baby is coming"
"Oh god I'm on my way." Spike said hanging up
Faith hung up and ran back inside only to hear Buffy screaming, even though she was two floors down Buffys voice echoed down the stairs
"SPIKKKKKKE, SPIKKKKKKKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Buffy screamed
"Mrs.Crawford please calm down and breathe." The midwife pleaded with her
"I WANT SPIKE, SPIKKKKKKE!!!!" She screamed At that point Faith ran in to her Buffys scream for Spike
"Who is Spike?" The midwife asked
"Her husband" Faith told her as she walked towards Buffy
"Her husband is called Spike?" The midwife said almost chuckling
"YES, now cant you give her something for the pain" She screamed as she sat next to Buffy on the bed and put an arm around her shoulder as Buffy buried her head in her shoulder to try and smother some of her screams
"Here, get her to take deep breaths on this." The nurse said handing Faith the gas and air
"Come on B, deep breaths" She said putting it in her mouth, Buffy started to take deep breaths out of the tube in her mouth All of sudden Buffy grabbed Faiths jacket and pulled her towards her face
"Where is he?" She sobbed
"He's coming B." Faith said trying to make her let go only to find Buffy grabbed her harder
"If he misses this Faith I'll kill him," She said letting go of Faith grabbing the gas and air again and taking a deep breath
"Don't sweat it he'll be here." Faith said thinking 'He best be'
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Spike sped as fast as he could down the street towards the hospital, he ignored the beeps that he got from other cars and kept going, but he couldn't ignore the sound of a police siren behind his
"Oh bullocks." He said as he slowed down and pulled over A tall woman with brown hair exited the car and walked towards Spike
"Sir do you realise you were going over the speed limit" She said to him as she got out her note book to write a ticket
"Yeah sorry, I'll just take the ticket and be on my way." He said to her
"Not so fast, you got somewhere to be" She said to him
"Look..." Spike looked at her badge that had her name on it, "...Alex, I have got to go, now, my wife she's in labour I have to be there, she will kill me if I'm not." Spike said looking up at her
"Oh right your wife's in labour that what they all say... "She said as Spikes phone rang again and he reach for it knowing it was Faith "...what people will do to get out of a ticket."
Spike answered the phone and heard Buffy, screaming in the background he gave the phone to Alex "Listen" He said Alex put the phone to her ear
"Spike, Spike are you there, hurry up man Buffy, is screaming for you, she needs you." Faith voice said down the phone, in the background Alex could hear Buffy screaming
"SPIKKKE... DON'T YOU TELL ME TO CALM DOWN I WANT MY HUSBAND NOW, SPIKKKKE!!!" She screamed Alex pulled the phone away and handed it back to Spike who put it to his ear and hung up
Spike looked up at Alex "Now do you believe me?" He asked her
Alex nodded ripping up the ticket "Follow me," She simply said before running to her car, pulling up in front of Spikes car and turning on her siren
Spike did as she said and sped faster than he was in the first place towards the hospital, once he got there Spike jumped out the car and ran towards the police car
"Thank you so much, Alex, I won't forget that name." Spike said to her
"Its fine, good luck." She said as he ran off
It had been an hour since Faith had first called Spike and he Spike burst in to the hospital and ran up the front desk
"Err Crawford, I'm looking for Buffy Crawford." He said as he started to nervously tap the desk as she typed on her computer all of a sudden Spike looked up as heard a scream from up the stairs; he instantly ran up the stairs and followed the scream
"SPIKKKKKE!!!!!!!!" Buffy screamed as Faith rubbed her back
Spike burst into the room and nearly knocked over the midwife standing by it
"Oh thank god." Faith said as she got up "She's all yours man" Faith said as she left the room to go and get a doctor to survey her hand
"Spike" Buffy said stretching her hand out to him
"I'm here baby." Spike said walking to her only to find that Buffy wrapped her hand around his throat squeezing it
"WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN!!" She growled
"Buffy, the throat I can't breathe" He gasped out
Buffy let go and pushed him back, after Spike got his breath back he ran over to Buffy sitting next to her putting a arm around her and kissed her forehead
"Sorry baby, I was as quick as I could, I nearly got a bloody ticket, but luckily the police woman was ..."
"WOMAN!!! I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU..." Buffy screamed as she panted
"I know I know with the decapitating of the balls but it wasn't like that, she got me through the traffic lights so I got here to you quicker."
"Ok Buffy the baby is coming now." The midwife said as she prepared Buffy
Buffy turned to Spike and lifted her hand to his cheek "Spike, I love you." She said looking into his eyes as tears filled her own
"I love you too Buffy." He said smiling
All of a sudden a big contraction ripped through Buffys body
"AHHHHH SCRATCH THAT I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU, YOU BASTARD YOU DID THIS TO ME!!!!!"
"Come on Buffy push." The midwife said
"Yeah Buffy push." Spike said supporting her
"I AM FUCKING PUSHING." She screamed
Buffy pushed with all her strength
"Spike I swear to god, after this is over you are *never* aloud to touch me again."
"Ok baby" Spike said chuckling slightly
"I MEAN IT SPIKE!" She shouted
"Ok ok no touching." He said raising his hands in defence, only to find Buffy grab one to pull them back down to their original position.
Buffy started to push again and after a few pushes a sharp cry hit the room as the baby got brought in to the world
"It's a boy." The midwife said as she took the baby away to get cleaned up
"You did great Buffy." Spike said as she leaned back in his arms, he kissed her all over her face
The nurses wrapped him in a blue blanket
The midwife held the little bundle of blue in her arms and handed him to Buffy. "Oh my god, he is so beautiful." Buffy said with tears coming down her face as she held her son in her arms
"Yeah, the most beautiful boy in the world." Spike said as tears came down his face
Buffy held a hand to his cheek to wipe the tears away, Spike smiled and started to chuckle
"What's so funny?" Buffy said looking up at him
"Its just, I never thought I would be this happy, ever, I'm the luckiest man in the universe." He said as she reached up and kissed him softly on the lips, before going to watch her son
"Erm Spike about the no touching thing..." She said smiling
"Oh yeah of course no touching I remember, there will be no touching, *ever* again," He said smiling and holding his hands up in the air
"Shut up bleach boy you know I didn't mean it, in a few mouths, you can touch me all you want." She said seductively, as he leant down and kissed her "Months" Spike said
"And if this is the out come I would do it all again"
"You want more already." He said stroking his sons face.
"No, not yet, lets deal with this one first" She said as she brushed a kiss across her sons head.
"Hey is it safe to come in?" Faith said as she peeked in through the door with Angel, Dawn, Willow and Xander came in
"Ohh my god she is gorgeous" Dawn squeaked.
"Yeah Buf she's amazing, "Xander said
"How's mommy doing?" Angel asked
"Besides the exhaustion mommy's doing fine except for the fact that my friends are calling my *son* a she." Buffy said smiling
"SON!" Xander, Willow and Faith all said in unison
"Yep, a beautiful bouncing baby boy." Buffy said looking up at Spike
"Oh crap" Xander said when he got glares from Buffy and Spike he looked around to see that everyone was looking at him "I mean wow is he beautiful"
"Err now I heard of some kind of bet," Spike said looking down at Buffy
"Yeah, I guess you get the money," Xander said looking down at his shoes
"Come on then monkey boy pay up." Spike said holding out his hand Xander dug in his pocket pulling out a pile of bills and handing them to Spike,
Spike grinned and lent down to his son
"College fund mate." He said before brushing a kiss on his head and leaning up kissing Buffy briefly.
"You knew didn't you, that he was going to be a boy, dammit." Xander said shaking his head
Buffy and Spike just chuckled at him, Buffy eyes then diverted to Faiths hand as she saw it bandaged up
"Oh my god, did I do that" Buffy said to Faith
"Yeah, least we know you have lost any of your strength." Faith smiled
"I am so sorry," Buffy said to her with sorrow in her eyes
"Its no big,"
"Hey Spike what happened to your neck." Angel asked as he noticed the perfect red hand mark on Spikes neck
Spike and the others just looked at Buffy, as the realised it must have been her
"Oh right with the whole strangling thing, I'm sorry honey." Buffy said raising a hand to Spikes face
"That's ok." Spike said covering it with his own and looking into her eyes
"Ok I think mommy needs some sleep." The midwife said coming in and signalling for them to go
"Yeah Buffy get some rest, I'll visit you later" Willow said
"Bye Buffy." Angel said
"Laters B."
"Congratulations Buf"
"I'll see you later Buffy." Dawn said she kissed Buffy on the cheek then walked round to the other side and kissed Spike on the cheek then her nephew.
Spike reached and took his son out of Buffys arms and started to walk around with him
Buffy sat up and watched him with a smile on her face.
"Hey my little man, I'm your daddy, and ain't you just the most beautiful baby ever, yes you are, hey you've got my eyes, and your beautiful mummy's little nose." Spike cooed before looking back up at Buffy on the bed
"Hey Buffy, he's got my ..." Spike cut himself off at the site of Buffy, unconscious and pale with a pool of blood around her staining the white sheets she was lying on
Spike smile dropped at this site
"Buffy, Buffy" He said as he walked towards her
"BUFFY, WAKE UP" Spike cried
"HELP SOMEBODY HELP HER." Spike yelled
The midwife, nurse and doctor came running in with Faith, Angel and Dawn behind them
"Buffy. Spike what is going on?" Dawn cried as she watch the doctors running around her
"I don't know she just..." Spike said still holding his son in one hand and running his hand through his hair with the other as he began to shake with fear, Spike never took his eyes off his wife as the doctor ran around trying to help her, the nurse came round to Spike laying a hand on his back
"Come on Mr.Crawford we need to give them some space." She said trying to lead him out only to find Spike stood his ground
"No, no I'm not leaving her." He said "Come on Buffy, I need you babe, don't die on me, we both need you, please Buffy don't go"
He said before he felt a stronger hand on his back and realised it was Angel
"Come on Spike give them some space." Angel said trying to be strong for her
"But..." Spike said trying to protest
"Come on Spike let them do there job, you have to be strong for your son" Angel said
Spike looked down at the cooing bundle in his arms and slowly walked out them room.
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Dun dun dun, what gonna happen, well I know and you will know tomorrow, please review,
Faith and Buffy drove down to the hospital after a short argument over Faith saying it would be faster to take her sports car and Buffy saying it would safer to take her mini van which Spike had brought for them after they found out they were having a baby, Faith won as Buffy gave up as her contractions were getting closer.
"FAAAITH slow down you're gonna kills us!!."
"Well do you want to get to the hospital or not." Faith said a she zoomed towards the hospital
"I would love to get their ALIVE IF YOU DON'T MIND." She said holding her stomach
"Chill ok we'll be alright." She said making a sharp turn and barely missing a car
"Oh god I'm gonna die, again, Faith if I die, I'm sooo gonna come back as a ghost and haunt your ass." She said holding her hand over her eyes while clutching to the dashboard
"You're not gonna die B, just breath or what ever"
She said as she as she kept going while Buffy breathed
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Once they were at the hospital Buffys contractions were getting more frequent and she was screaming a lot more and a lot louder. As she was wheeled down the aisle in a wheelchair she held Faiths hand as the midwife pushed
"SPIKKKKE AHHHHH SPIKE, FAITH WHERE THE FUCK IS HE."
"B let go of my hand and I can go and call him." She said as she winced in pain as Buffy squeezed her hand then let it go
"Wow B I think you broke my hand." Faith said holding her right hand
"Wow F you best quit whining and call my husband." Buffy spat back
"Already gone," Faith said running out the door pulling out her cell as Buffy was pushed into a room
Faith held the phone to her ear as it rung "Hello" Spike answered once again "Spike" Faith said down the phone "Hey Faith, Buffy getting on you're nerves already, don't worry I'm nearly home so just sit tight and..."
"Turn round." Faith shouted down the phone "What" "Head to the hospital" "Why, what's wrong?" "Its Buffy she's about to burst man, the baby is coming"
"Oh god I'm on my way." Spike said hanging up
Faith hung up and ran back inside only to hear Buffy screaming, even though she was two floors down Buffys voice echoed down the stairs
"SPIKKKKKKE, SPIKKKKKKKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Buffy screamed
"Mrs.Crawford please calm down and breathe." The midwife pleaded with her
"I WANT SPIKE, SPIKKKKKKE!!!!" She screamed At that point Faith ran in to her Buffys scream for Spike
"Who is Spike?" The midwife asked
"Her husband" Faith told her as she walked towards Buffy
"Her husband is called Spike?" The midwife said almost chuckling
"YES, now cant you give her something for the pain" She screamed as she sat next to Buffy on the bed and put an arm around her shoulder as Buffy buried her head in her shoulder to try and smother some of her screams
"Here, get her to take deep breaths on this." The nurse said handing Faith the gas and air
"Come on B, deep breaths" She said putting it in her mouth, Buffy started to take deep breaths out of the tube in her mouth All of sudden Buffy grabbed Faiths jacket and pulled her towards her face
"Where is he?" She sobbed
"He's coming B." Faith said trying to make her let go only to find Buffy grabbed her harder
"If he misses this Faith I'll kill him," She said letting go of Faith grabbing the gas and air again and taking a deep breath
"Don't sweat it he'll be here." Faith said thinking 'He best be'
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Spike sped as fast as he could down the street towards the hospital, he ignored the beeps that he got from other cars and kept going, but he couldn't ignore the sound of a police siren behind his
"Oh bullocks." He said as he slowed down and pulled over A tall woman with brown hair exited the car and walked towards Spike
"Sir do you realise you were going over the speed limit" She said to him as she got out her note book to write a ticket
"Yeah sorry, I'll just take the ticket and be on my way." He said to her
"Not so fast, you got somewhere to be" She said to him
"Look..." Spike looked at her badge that had her name on it, "...Alex, I have got to go, now, my wife she's in labour I have to be there, she will kill me if I'm not." Spike said looking up at her
"Oh right your wife's in labour that what they all say... "She said as Spikes phone rang again and he reach for it knowing it was Faith "...what people will do to get out of a ticket."
Spike answered the phone and heard Buffy, screaming in the background he gave the phone to Alex "Listen" He said Alex put the phone to her ear
"Spike, Spike are you there, hurry up man Buffy, is screaming for you, she needs you." Faith voice said down the phone, in the background Alex could hear Buffy screaming
"SPIKKKE... DON'T YOU TELL ME TO CALM DOWN I WANT MY HUSBAND NOW, SPIKKKKE!!!" She screamed Alex pulled the phone away and handed it back to Spike who put it to his ear and hung up
Spike looked up at Alex "Now do you believe me?" He asked her
Alex nodded ripping up the ticket "Follow me," She simply said before running to her car, pulling up in front of Spikes car and turning on her siren
Spike did as she said and sped faster than he was in the first place towards the hospital, once he got there Spike jumped out the car and ran towards the police car
"Thank you so much, Alex, I won't forget that name." Spike said to her
"Its fine, good luck." She said as he ran off
It had been an hour since Faith had first called Spike and he Spike burst in to the hospital and ran up the front desk
"Err Crawford, I'm looking for Buffy Crawford." He said as he started to nervously tap the desk as she typed on her computer all of a sudden Spike looked up as heard a scream from up the stairs; he instantly ran up the stairs and followed the scream
"SPIKKKKKE!!!!!!!!" Buffy screamed as Faith rubbed her back
Spike burst into the room and nearly knocked over the midwife standing by it
"Oh thank god." Faith said as she got up "She's all yours man" Faith said as she left the room to go and get a doctor to survey her hand
"Spike" Buffy said stretching her hand out to him
"I'm here baby." Spike said walking to her only to find that Buffy wrapped her hand around his throat squeezing it
"WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN!!" She growled
"Buffy, the throat I can't breathe" He gasped out
Buffy let go and pushed him back, after Spike got his breath back he ran over to Buffy sitting next to her putting a arm around her and kissed her forehead
"Sorry baby, I was as quick as I could, I nearly got a bloody ticket, but luckily the police woman was ..."
"WOMAN!!! I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU..." Buffy screamed as she panted
"I know I know with the decapitating of the balls but it wasn't like that, she got me through the traffic lights so I got here to you quicker."
"Ok Buffy the baby is coming now." The midwife said as she prepared Buffy
Buffy turned to Spike and lifted her hand to his cheek "Spike, I love you." She said looking into his eyes as tears filled her own
"I love you too Buffy." He said smiling
All of a sudden a big contraction ripped through Buffys body
"AHHHHH SCRATCH THAT I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU, YOU BASTARD YOU DID THIS TO ME!!!!!"
"Come on Buffy push." The midwife said
"Yeah Buffy push." Spike said supporting her
"I AM FUCKING PUSHING." She screamed
Buffy pushed with all her strength
"Spike I swear to god, after this is over you are *never* aloud to touch me again."
"Ok baby" Spike said chuckling slightly
"I MEAN IT SPIKE!" She shouted
"Ok ok no touching." He said raising his hands in defence, only to find Buffy grab one to pull them back down to their original position.
Buffy started to push again and after a few pushes a sharp cry hit the room as the baby got brought in to the world
"It's a boy." The midwife said as she took the baby away to get cleaned up
"You did great Buffy." Spike said as she leaned back in his arms, he kissed her all over her face
The nurses wrapped him in a blue blanket
The midwife held the little bundle of blue in her arms and handed him to Buffy. "Oh my god, he is so beautiful." Buffy said with tears coming down her face as she held her son in her arms
"Yeah, the most beautiful boy in the world." Spike said as tears came down his face
Buffy held a hand to his cheek to wipe the tears away, Spike smiled and started to chuckle
"What's so funny?" Buffy said looking up at him
"Its just, I never thought I would be this happy, ever, I'm the luckiest man in the universe." He said as she reached up and kissed him softly on the lips, before going to watch her son
"Erm Spike about the no touching thing..." She said smiling
"Oh yeah of course no touching I remember, there will be no touching, *ever* again," He said smiling and holding his hands up in the air
"Shut up bleach boy you know I didn't mean it, in a few mouths, you can touch me all you want." She said seductively, as he leant down and kissed her "Months" Spike said
"And if this is the out come I would do it all again"
"You want more already." He said stroking his sons face.
"No, not yet, lets deal with this one first" She said as she brushed a kiss across her sons head.
"Hey is it safe to come in?" Faith said as she peeked in through the door with Angel, Dawn, Willow and Xander came in
"Ohh my god she is gorgeous" Dawn squeaked.
"Yeah Buf she's amazing, "Xander said
"How's mommy doing?" Angel asked
"Besides the exhaustion mommy's doing fine except for the fact that my friends are calling my *son* a she." Buffy said smiling
"SON!" Xander, Willow and Faith all said in unison
"Yep, a beautiful bouncing baby boy." Buffy said looking up at Spike
"Oh crap" Xander said when he got glares from Buffy and Spike he looked around to see that everyone was looking at him "I mean wow is he beautiful"
"Err now I heard of some kind of bet," Spike said looking down at Buffy
"Yeah, I guess you get the money," Xander said looking down at his shoes
"Come on then monkey boy pay up." Spike said holding out his hand Xander dug in his pocket pulling out a pile of bills and handing them to Spike,
Spike grinned and lent down to his son
"College fund mate." He said before brushing a kiss on his head and leaning up kissing Buffy briefly.
"You knew didn't you, that he was going to be a boy, dammit." Xander said shaking his head
Buffy and Spike just chuckled at him, Buffy eyes then diverted to Faiths hand as she saw it bandaged up
"Oh my god, did I do that" Buffy said to Faith
"Yeah, least we know you have lost any of your strength." Faith smiled
"I am so sorry," Buffy said to her with sorrow in her eyes
"Its no big,"
"Hey Spike what happened to your neck." Angel asked as he noticed the perfect red hand mark on Spikes neck
Spike and the others just looked at Buffy, as the realised it must have been her
"Oh right with the whole strangling thing, I'm sorry honey." Buffy said raising a hand to Spikes face
"That's ok." Spike said covering it with his own and looking into her eyes
"Ok I think mommy needs some sleep." The midwife said coming in and signalling for them to go
"Yeah Buffy get some rest, I'll visit you later" Willow said
"Bye Buffy." Angel said
"Laters B."
"Congratulations Buf"
"I'll see you later Buffy." Dawn said she kissed Buffy on the cheek then walked round to the other side and kissed Spike on the cheek then her nephew.
Spike reached and took his son out of Buffys arms and started to walk around with him
Buffy sat up and watched him with a smile on her face.
"Hey my little man, I'm your daddy, and ain't you just the most beautiful baby ever, yes you are, hey you've got my eyes, and your beautiful mummy's little nose." Spike cooed before looking back up at Buffy on the bed
"Hey Buffy, he's got my ..." Spike cut himself off at the site of Buffy, unconscious and pale with a pool of blood around her staining the white sheets she was lying on
Spike smile dropped at this site
"Buffy, Buffy" He said as he walked towards her
"BUFFY, WAKE UP" Spike cried
"HELP SOMEBODY HELP HER." Spike yelled
The midwife, nurse and doctor came running in with Faith, Angel and Dawn behind them
"Buffy. Spike what is going on?" Dawn cried as she watch the doctors running around her
"I don't know she just..." Spike said still holding his son in one hand and running his hand through his hair with the other as he began to shake with fear, Spike never took his eyes off his wife as the doctor ran around trying to help her, the nurse came round to Spike laying a hand on his back
"Come on Mr.Crawford we need to give them some space." She said trying to lead him out only to find Spike stood his ground
"No, no I'm not leaving her." He said "Come on Buffy, I need you babe, don't die on me, we both need you, please Buffy don't go"
He said before he felt a stronger hand on his back and realised it was Angel
"Come on Spike give them some space." Angel said trying to be strong for her
"But..." Spike said trying to protest
"Come on Spike let them do there job, you have to be strong for your son" Angel said
Spike looked down at the cooing bundle in his arms and slowly walked out them room.
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Dun dun dun, what gonna happen, well I know and you will know tomorrow, please review,