Disclaimer: I am not Joss, if I were Angel and Buffy would be together and
the sucky season would never had happened.
Author's Note: I have moved, so it might take me longer to update things. Sorry.
Chapter 7
Lorne tracked Angel down as quickly as possible, which considering the size of the house did not take that long at all.
"Hey, Lorne." Angel said, as Lorne walked into the dining room. "What's going on?" Lorne shifted from foot to foot unsure of how to Angel that the love of his life wasn't completely human anymore.
"Well," he stuttered out, "I was going by the bathroom and I could hear Buffy singing in the shower."
"And? What did you read?" he asked, anxiety leaking into his voice.
"She's not human." He blurted out and immediately realized that it was the wrong thing to say, because Angel vamped out and started growling.
"What do you mean she's not human?"
"She's human," Lorne corrected and Angel calmed down, while Lorne sighed in relief, "But she is something more than human, she was changed."
"Changed how?"
"I don't know."
"What don't you know?" Buffy asked, walking into the room, startling both guys.
"How to cook as well as Angel-cakes here." Lorne said.
"I know, for a guy that is on a liquid diet, he can cook pretty damn well." She replied, although she got the feeling that they were keeping something from her.
"How was your shower?" Angel asked, trying to distract Buffy from anything she might have accidentally over heard.
"Lonely." She replied crossing the room and sitting in the chair next to Angel's, which made Lorne smile, because she was making progress, she wasn't sitting in his lap.
"Hey, I offered."
"I know, but I wanted to be out of the shower by the next apocalypse rolled around." She replied, loving being able to talk to Angel once again.
"We would have been." Angel replied defensively and continued on at Buffy's and Lorne's looks of disbelief, "They apocalypse would have interfered so we would have come out to stop it and of course we would have gotten dirty so we would have had to go right back in." he told them and they both started laughing.
"Why is that not surprising?" Cordy asked, walking into the room, which immediately sent Buffy into Angel's lap, hiding from her.
"I thought I kicked you out."
"We both know you didn't mean it and besides you need me." She replied in typical Cordelia fashion.
"How do you figure?"
"I'm the only one that knows what you are."
"Capricorn on the cusp of Aquarius." She replied and Angel smiled, hiding it by gently kissing Buffy on the top of the head.
"You came back wrong." Cordy taunted, "You didn't think that you could actually fit in now did you?" at Buffy's look she continued, "You did! That is so pathetic."
"I think you should leave now." Ripper said, from behind Cordy, making her whirl around and she glared at him.
"Don't think that I'm scared of you watcher man."
"I'm sorry the watcher is taking a small nap right now, but if you would like to talk to my more adolescent, overprotective side, he's ready and willing." Ripper replied, making Cordy shudder in fear.
"It doesn't matter, she came back wrong and when you figure that out," she told Angel, "I will be waiting, but you will have to do a lot of crawling to get me back." Angel shuddered at the thought of crawling anywhere near Cordy, let alone back to her.
"I didn't come back wrong." Buffy said catching the look Lorne and Angel shared. "What?"
"It's nothing, baby."
"Don't you try to distract me." She replied, jumping to her feet and glaring at him, hands on hips, "What?"
"Well," Lorne said, suddenly more afraid of the pint-sized blonde than the overgrown care bear with fangs, "I was walking by when you were singing and I read your aura."
"And?" she asked impatiently, she couldn't have come back wrong; it was just the shock from being back from hell.
"And you aren't human." Lorne replied.
"Oh! Is that all?" she asked and promptly passed out; Angel caught her before she could hit the ground. He carried her up to her room, putting her in her bed, so she would be comfortable when she awoke. He wasn't sure what he was going to tell her, he wasn't sure that he could tell her anything that would calm her down, because he really didn't know, but he knew someone that did. He would take her to the Oracles, as soon as she awoke, which she should have by now.
"Angel." She murmured, "I had the weirdest dream. Lorne told me that I wasn't human."
"Baby," Angel said, holding her close, "It wasn't a dream." Buffy jumped out of the bed.
"I don't believe that! I am human. Well, okay I'm a vampire slayer, but I am human." She said, and then she suddenly got an idea. "Where's Spike?" Angel looked at her in confusion and then Buffy remembered that his chip was out, so he could hit her anyways. "Never mind." She sat down and Angel, once again, felt a pang of guilt, she just looked so lost and small and innocent. "What if I'm not human anymore?"
"I will love you anyways." He promised.
"Why bother?" she asked, looking at him, the pain of him leaving her evident in her eyes, "You're just going to leave anyways." He gathered her in his arms and forced her to look at him.
"You know I'm not leaving you ever again." He told her, "And we can go to the Oracles and see what they can tell us."
"When?"
"Tonight, we can leave when the sun goes down and return right after so you can see Dawn in the morning." He told her and Buffy nodded, more than willing to go to the Oracles as long as they could tell her what she was.
So plans where made so that Dawn wasn't alone and when the night fell Angel and Buffy where on their way to LA. They spent most of the time in a comfortable silence, with Buffy asleep; she slept curled up on her side, her head resting in Angel's lap, while he drove with one hand on the steering wheel and the other playing with her hair. He woke her when they reached the city limits and they stopped at the Hyperion, so he could get a gift.
"The all powerful Oracles live in a Post Office." Buffy stated as Angel did the ritual to get into the chamber.
"Pretty much." He replied and suddenly they were inside the chamber and Buffy was face to face with the people from her dreams.
"Greetings lower beings," the male said.
"What have you brought us?" the female asked, Buffy smiled, a typical female, even if she was all powerful.
"Ming vase." Angel replied, holding the vase up, which floated to the male.
"What is your question." He asked, slightly annoyed.
"What am I?" Buffy asked.
"Human," the female replied, "For the most part, but you weren't supposed to jump, your sister was."
"You expected me to let my little sister jump?" Buffy asked, anger rising in her voice, Angel put a restraining hand on her arm.
"Why?" Angel asked.
"Dawn would have gone on to heaven, because the magical energy of the Key would have closed off the Hell deminsion to the portal." The male Oracle replied, "But since you jumped you wound up going."
"It was a fluke and you weren't supposed to. We knew your friends would try and get you out, we actually pushed them to, but we needed to make sure that you would live through out the ordeal. So we changed you."
"Changed me how?"
"You will live forever." The female Oracle told her, "Now don't go jumping off anything, because that will kill you, but you will never age, like your vampire."
"Why?"
"Because you were still needed here." The female Oracle said, looking at her brother before continuing on, "you were supposed to give birth to his child," she said indicating Angel, "before you died, but you jumped. So we froze the pregnancy until you were returned to this dimension and made you immortal so you could survive the many years in hell." Buffy was in shock, she was pregnant and this wasn't a faulty pregnancy test, this was the Oracles!
"Oh." Buffy promptly fainted and Angel caught her, before the Oracles tossed them out without another word.
"Uh, thanks?" Angel said weakly to the front of the Post Office building, wondering how in the world they were going to explain to their friends how Buffy got pregnant, let alone Cordy.
Author's Note: I have moved, so it might take me longer to update things. Sorry.
Chapter 7
Lorne tracked Angel down as quickly as possible, which considering the size of the house did not take that long at all.
"Hey, Lorne." Angel said, as Lorne walked into the dining room. "What's going on?" Lorne shifted from foot to foot unsure of how to Angel that the love of his life wasn't completely human anymore.
"Well," he stuttered out, "I was going by the bathroom and I could hear Buffy singing in the shower."
"And? What did you read?" he asked, anxiety leaking into his voice.
"She's not human." He blurted out and immediately realized that it was the wrong thing to say, because Angel vamped out and started growling.
"What do you mean she's not human?"
"She's human," Lorne corrected and Angel calmed down, while Lorne sighed in relief, "But she is something more than human, she was changed."
"Changed how?"
"I don't know."
"What don't you know?" Buffy asked, walking into the room, startling both guys.
"How to cook as well as Angel-cakes here." Lorne said.
"I know, for a guy that is on a liquid diet, he can cook pretty damn well." She replied, although she got the feeling that they were keeping something from her.
"How was your shower?" Angel asked, trying to distract Buffy from anything she might have accidentally over heard.
"Lonely." She replied crossing the room and sitting in the chair next to Angel's, which made Lorne smile, because she was making progress, she wasn't sitting in his lap.
"Hey, I offered."
"I know, but I wanted to be out of the shower by the next apocalypse rolled around." She replied, loving being able to talk to Angel once again.
"We would have been." Angel replied defensively and continued on at Buffy's and Lorne's looks of disbelief, "They apocalypse would have interfered so we would have come out to stop it and of course we would have gotten dirty so we would have had to go right back in." he told them and they both started laughing.
"Why is that not surprising?" Cordy asked, walking into the room, which immediately sent Buffy into Angel's lap, hiding from her.
"I thought I kicked you out."
"We both know you didn't mean it and besides you need me." She replied in typical Cordelia fashion.
"How do you figure?"
"I'm the only one that knows what you are."
"Capricorn on the cusp of Aquarius." She replied and Angel smiled, hiding it by gently kissing Buffy on the top of the head.
"You came back wrong." Cordy taunted, "You didn't think that you could actually fit in now did you?" at Buffy's look she continued, "You did! That is so pathetic."
"I think you should leave now." Ripper said, from behind Cordy, making her whirl around and she glared at him.
"Don't think that I'm scared of you watcher man."
"I'm sorry the watcher is taking a small nap right now, but if you would like to talk to my more adolescent, overprotective side, he's ready and willing." Ripper replied, making Cordy shudder in fear.
"It doesn't matter, she came back wrong and when you figure that out," she told Angel, "I will be waiting, but you will have to do a lot of crawling to get me back." Angel shuddered at the thought of crawling anywhere near Cordy, let alone back to her.
"I didn't come back wrong." Buffy said catching the look Lorne and Angel shared. "What?"
"It's nothing, baby."
"Don't you try to distract me." She replied, jumping to her feet and glaring at him, hands on hips, "What?"
"Well," Lorne said, suddenly more afraid of the pint-sized blonde than the overgrown care bear with fangs, "I was walking by when you were singing and I read your aura."
"And?" she asked impatiently, she couldn't have come back wrong; it was just the shock from being back from hell.
"And you aren't human." Lorne replied.
"Oh! Is that all?" she asked and promptly passed out; Angel caught her before she could hit the ground. He carried her up to her room, putting her in her bed, so she would be comfortable when she awoke. He wasn't sure what he was going to tell her, he wasn't sure that he could tell her anything that would calm her down, because he really didn't know, but he knew someone that did. He would take her to the Oracles, as soon as she awoke, which she should have by now.
"Angel." She murmured, "I had the weirdest dream. Lorne told me that I wasn't human."
"Baby," Angel said, holding her close, "It wasn't a dream." Buffy jumped out of the bed.
"I don't believe that! I am human. Well, okay I'm a vampire slayer, but I am human." She said, and then she suddenly got an idea. "Where's Spike?" Angel looked at her in confusion and then Buffy remembered that his chip was out, so he could hit her anyways. "Never mind." She sat down and Angel, once again, felt a pang of guilt, she just looked so lost and small and innocent. "What if I'm not human anymore?"
"I will love you anyways." He promised.
"Why bother?" she asked, looking at him, the pain of him leaving her evident in her eyes, "You're just going to leave anyways." He gathered her in his arms and forced her to look at him.
"You know I'm not leaving you ever again." He told her, "And we can go to the Oracles and see what they can tell us."
"When?"
"Tonight, we can leave when the sun goes down and return right after so you can see Dawn in the morning." He told her and Buffy nodded, more than willing to go to the Oracles as long as they could tell her what she was.
So plans where made so that Dawn wasn't alone and when the night fell Angel and Buffy where on their way to LA. They spent most of the time in a comfortable silence, with Buffy asleep; she slept curled up on her side, her head resting in Angel's lap, while he drove with one hand on the steering wheel and the other playing with her hair. He woke her when they reached the city limits and they stopped at the Hyperion, so he could get a gift.
"The all powerful Oracles live in a Post Office." Buffy stated as Angel did the ritual to get into the chamber.
"Pretty much." He replied and suddenly they were inside the chamber and Buffy was face to face with the people from her dreams.
"Greetings lower beings," the male said.
"What have you brought us?" the female asked, Buffy smiled, a typical female, even if she was all powerful.
"Ming vase." Angel replied, holding the vase up, which floated to the male.
"What is your question." He asked, slightly annoyed.
"What am I?" Buffy asked.
"Human," the female replied, "For the most part, but you weren't supposed to jump, your sister was."
"You expected me to let my little sister jump?" Buffy asked, anger rising in her voice, Angel put a restraining hand on her arm.
"Why?" Angel asked.
"Dawn would have gone on to heaven, because the magical energy of the Key would have closed off the Hell deminsion to the portal." The male Oracle replied, "But since you jumped you wound up going."
"It was a fluke and you weren't supposed to. We knew your friends would try and get you out, we actually pushed them to, but we needed to make sure that you would live through out the ordeal. So we changed you."
"Changed me how?"
"You will live forever." The female Oracle told her, "Now don't go jumping off anything, because that will kill you, but you will never age, like your vampire."
"Why?"
"Because you were still needed here." The female Oracle said, looking at her brother before continuing on, "you were supposed to give birth to his child," she said indicating Angel, "before you died, but you jumped. So we froze the pregnancy until you were returned to this dimension and made you immortal so you could survive the many years in hell." Buffy was in shock, she was pregnant and this wasn't a faulty pregnancy test, this was the Oracles!
"Oh." Buffy promptly fainted and Angel caught her, before the Oracles tossed them out without another word.
"Uh, thanks?" Angel said weakly to the front of the Post Office building, wondering how in the world they were going to explain to their friends how Buffy got pregnant, let alone Cordy.