A Little Easier, Maybe Not

Author: Pumpkin Belly

We're Home

"Hello, we're home." Dawn called into the darkened hotel, moving to find the light switch, which was not an easy task to do in the dark.

"Is anybody here?" she asked again finally finding the light and flicking it on. 

"SURPRISE!!" 6 voices shouted at Dawn at once. 

"AHH," Dawn shouted when they all jumped out, "Way to give the pregnant lady a heart attack."

"Oh that wouldn't happen." Fred said coming to Dawn's side and giving her a hug.

"Connor," Dawn said when he walked in carrying the bags, "They're throwing us a party." She pointed to the sign above his head. 

"To the Happy couple." Connor read aloud,  "You guys didn't have to do this."

"But we wanted to." Lorne shouted above the music that had started playing. 

"So did Buffy give you a hard time?" Angel asked coming over to Connor and grabbing one of the bags. 

"She was pretty ok with it once Dawn explained everything to her.  Xander and Spike came close to ripping my head off, though." Connor answered his father, taking the other bag and moving upstairs. 

Across the room

"But everyone's ok with it now?" Fred asked Dawn nervously.

"Yeah they're all cool now.  Buffy is so excited about the wedding, she wants us to come down again next weekend so we can go over more stuff." Dawn laughed. 

"Well at least no one is killing each other." Fred said.

"Yup that is defiantly of the good." Dawn said

"Oh hey." Dawn jumped, startled as Connor came up behind her and wrapped his arms around her.

"Hey Fred." Connor said, nodding to her.

"Hey Con." Fred answered.

"Oh I forgot to tell you, Spike walked in on us." Dawn laughed, "It was awful."

"What do you mean walked in on you guys, you mean walked in?" Fred eyes widened.

"Oh yeah.  In the middle of everything.  And then he kept bringing it up all weekend.  Buffy thought the whole thing was hilarious." Dawn laughed followed by Fred.

"Baby, I can't believe you're telling people about that." Connor whispered in her ear, his face turning red. 

"Oh it's not that bad. I only told Fred and maybe Lorne." Dawn confessed. 

"If he says something to me," Connor started.

"Don't worry he won't say anything." Dawn assured him.

"So Con, Spike saw you doing the nasty." Gunn said coming up behind him and slapping him on the shoulder.

"To you." Dawn whispered.

"Who else did Lorne tell?" Connor asked through gritted teeth. 

"Pretty much everyone here." Gunn laughed and walked away.

"Dawn," Connor said turning back to her.

"It's fine, they're all family." She said before walking to get more cake. 

Later

"Thanks for the party guys, it was great." Dawn said, "But I'm gonna go up to bed.  It's been a long day."  She said goodnight to everybody and started up the stairs.

"Umm, Dawn, I was thinking." Angel said, stopping her on the stairs.

"Yeah?" Dawn asked.

"Since you and Connor are getting married and are having the baby, would you guys like to share a room?" Angel asked, knowing that if vampires could blush his face would be bright red.

"Really?" Dawn asked.

"Yeah."

"Oh thank you thank you thank you." Dawn said hugging Angel.  "You are the best."

"So that's a yes?" Angel asked.

"That is a definite yes." Dawn said pulling away from Angel.

"Good cause I already gave you guys a room and moved your stuff." Angel confessed.

"Does Connor know?" Dawn asked.

"Yeah I told him while we were putting the bags away." Angel said, "and when you guys get married and have the baby and can put the baby in the room right next to you, since the rooms are connected."

"You mean we can stay here when we have the baby?" Dawn asked shocked.

"Of course you can.  Connor works and you still have school. With all the people in the hotel there will always be someone to look after the baby." Angel started to ramble.

"Thank you." Dawn said as she once again hugged Angel, "This means so much to me."

When she pulled away she had tears in her eyes. 

"Are you ok?" Angel asked, worried.

"Yeah, I'm just happy.  Stupid pregnancy hormones." Dawn laughed through her tears, "Well, I'm going to go up to bed.  Thank you." Dawn said again. 

"Ok, I'll show you the new room." Angel said starting up the stairs in front of Dawn. 

"That'd be great." Dawn answered following Angel to her and Connor's new home. 

A/N: I hope you guys liked this chapter, as always review with any suggestions.  Also I'd like to know if you want a squeal to this story or just want it to end and leave it at that.  Please tell me.