A/N -=- Sorry guys for the long wait. Hadn't felt like writing fan fic lately, I was more poetry on fictionpress. But now I'm back! Giles had to die because I didn't see him in the future story. I am so sorry for all those who liked his character and I would gladly replace him with Cordelia but it wouldn't work in my story. She will die but just not yet. She is only in this story so I can make fun of her and mock her at my expense. Angel looks like a whiny little baby right now because I love him to death, I mean he's our chamion but i honestly never got over how many times he left buffy and made her whine and cry. He's just paying for it a little bit but don't worry he'll be back to his old handsome and broody and in love with Buffy self. Robin will come up soon. Faith won't be with him because I personally hated him but he will come up. THE REVIEWS HAVE BEEN AMAZING! I enjoy them so much and I am glad you all enjoy the story. Does anyone have any preferences of how Conner could come into the story? I just want to thank all the reviewers, you are the ones that keep me updating so soon. Please keep it up! I may not be able to update quite as much for school is starting in a week (Tear) Now enough of my mumble jumble and here's the story.
Chapter 14 -=- How Would You Mourn Your father?
-Hyperion-
Angel had finally come out of the trraining room. He was about to start un wrapping the tabe on his hands he used for punching the bag when he saw Faith and Dawn holding each other walking through the door. Their tear stained eyes gave their sadness away and Angel couldn't help but wonder where Buffy was. Faith and Dawn stood on one side of the door like they were waiting for someone else. The eight slayers that took giles and Willow to the hospital walked in also with tear stained cheeks and sat down on couches and chairs. The room was so quiet and filled with anticpation you could hear a pin drop. Angel could hear all their heartbeats, they were racing. Something bad defenitely happened. Willow and Xander who were still kind of crying were next to walk through the door. Xander was pushing Willow's wheelchair with one hand on her shoulder. Still Angel stood like a statue waiting for Buffy, hoping it wasn't her that they were all mourning for one again.
His thoughts proved wrong when a Blanket covered Spike ran through the door carrying a crying Buffy. Her cries slowed as Spike put her down. She wiped her tears and addressed the room, this was the explanation everyone would dread hearing.
Through sobs Buffy started, "Up until now we've all had someone that treated us like a family because we had none. He was more of a dad to me, Willow and Xander then anyone here. Everytime something happened, everytime we had to save the world...he was always there and now we have to learn to cope without him." Buffy inhaled as she was caught on another sob, "Giles died this morning. Something with his head."
She started crying as she heard almost all the girls burst out in tears. The ones who didn't know cried harder and the ones that did started up again. Gunn held Rona and Wesley held another girl that seemed to fall crying also. Kennedy was about to go to Willow when Xander shook her off. Buffy pushed Spike away and looked at Xander and Willow. Buffy walked over to Willow and picked her up from the chair carrying her up the stairs. Xander just follwed with one hand on her back. Angel held back the tears and craving to walk up and hold his lover in his arms. She was in so much pain. He didn't need to feel everything she did to still recognize the connection, he could feel her pain from miles away.
Buffy, Willow and Xander were at the top of the stairs when Someone walked through the doors. He was a tall broad shouldered man wearing a suit. Buffy put Willow down making sure Xander had her when she heard Faith faintly call her. She was down the stairs as fast as possible and in front of this intruder in seocnds. She stopped her tears but could not hide the tear tracks and runny nose. The man stood with a straight face not fazed with the glare she was giving him. Spike, Faith and Angel were behind her when they noticed who this man was. Slowly slayers stopped their crying and fromed a group behind Buffy that aslo included Gunn and Wesley.
"Get Out Now Hamilton. You may be strong, but there is no way in hell you could take us all now and right now I am so not in the mood for quirky comments and threats."
He smiled, "That is how you treat someone who has come to offer his condolences. I guess a slayer is really just stone and no feelings."
Buffy glared, "Did you do this to him?"
"Of course not. All i did was crush his skull a little bit but he's the one who hit his head on the bed post and on the corner of the mirror."
Buffy had enough and i guess Faith did too. They were about to lunge at him despite Spike and Angel holding them back when Willow held out her hand and whispered a few latin words. A light flew from her hand causing the slayers and everyone else to duck. It hit hamilton before he even knew what was happening. He flew into the door and it took him several minutes to actually stand up.
He fixed his suit, "Listen up slayer. That pissed me off just a little more then I liked. I came here to warn you of something coming. Thought you should have a heads up. Now it will be just a bit worse. I still send my condolences and dearly hope with all the sarcasm in me none of it happens to any of you."
With that he bowed and left. Angel still had to restrain Buffy for she was trying to go for Hamilton once again. When she finally did calm down she turned into Angel and just let him hold her.
After a few awkward moments Buffy let go of him and addressed the whole room. "No one goes outside. I will do everything possible to make sure none of you end up like Giles but right now I need to be alone....with Xander and Willow."
Buffy gave one last look to Angel who just stared at her like she was about to break. She then turned to Spike and he hugged her before she walked back up the stairs. Willow, Xander and Buffy walked into Buffy's room and shut the door. Downstairs Spike and Angel stared at each other. They too walked off in a direction together. Cordelia came out from her room and made it down the stairs in time to see everyone crying and holding each other. She couldn't see Spike and Angel anywhere so she just started looking for she wanted an explanation on this emotional chaos the hyperion had been taken over with.
Spike and Angel went into the training room and they each sat on chairs or whatever wad closest. Agel started this conversation first. "What happened?"
Spike sighed, "Buffy was talking to him like all daughter Buffy and then he woke up but it was like he only woke up to see her again and tell her stuff. Then he was gone."
"And Buffy?"
"Well after i got the doctor I came in to see her holding his hand and crying on the floor. I hate doctors man, they just shoved her out of the way."
"Hamilton's gonna pay."
Spike smiled a real small smile, "You do it yourself and you might let him live again. Plus you really want Buffy hurting over her dad and her soul mate?"
"You said it yourself Spike, she can't even be in the same building as me."
"Oh she loves you peaches. Do you know how much my brain hurts with how much she talks about you."
He gave a small smile, "I don't even know why me and her get emotional around each other. We just end up apart in the end right?"
Spike smiled, "That's your fault mate. You make the decision to leave."
"Because we can't be together."
"No because you can't be with her. You're scared to death of how much she loves you and even more of how much you love her." Angel tried to interrupt but Spike kept going "See now you don't need to control yourself with the whole curse crap and she spends most of her happy moments in the dark anyway. You've delt with her dying before and you can do it again. It's going to happen sooner or later for sure that time and wheather you're with her or not you're going to grieve. It's not going to be happy but wouldn't you want to be as happy with her a spossible or are you scared of not being able to deal with the happy memories when she's gone?"
Angel was silent for a few minutes before he looked up at Spike and spoke again, "When did you get all 'I think I'm smart?'
"Right about the time you became, 'I know what's best for us and you don't."
Cordelia had shown up at the door right about the time Angel started talking about getting emotional with buffy. She didn't make herself known because she wanted to know how he felt. She still continued to listen as Angel examined Spike, "Why are you provoking our realationship? I thought you were head over heels for her too?"
Spike smiled, "I found it better to be the best friend who she cries to and misses sleeping with sexually then being the boyfriend."
Angel growled, "She doesn't miss sleeping with you."
"Yes she does. She told me in the hospital before you know."
He growled again and continued, "Plus how would everything work? I can't just take off with Buffy to Italy, I hate it there. She can't re root dawn and herself back to L.A."
"Actually you can go to Italy since your business just blew up. I think you're making excuses."
"I love her Spike I really do. Buffy's always been the one. I think she's worth it this time."
Spike smiled, "Oh look at the happy moment. Now what are you going to do about Cordelia?"
Cordelia walked through the door with a few tears, "Yea Angel what are you going to do about me? She's been gone for what 4 or 5 years and now all of a sudden the realationship we built doesn't even matter anymore. You know you were always the different guy but i guess you're all the same."
"Cordelia...."
Before he could do anything else she was out the room and out the door of the hotel. Angel cursed to himself as Spike smiled, "Uh oh."
-Upstairs-
Xander was leaning against the headboard of Buffy's bed while Willow and Buffy were using his knees as head rests. They had mostly stopped the crying, just a few sobs here and there. When the girls sat up they all looked around at each other. These three were the ones mostly affected by Giles' death. Knowing them since they were 16. Kind of ironic that three teenagers who didn't even have a full family found one within each other. He took care of them like a father would have yet he didn't want to show the emotional side often. It was wierd how little they knew about him and how much he knew about them. Xander, Willow and Buffy all felt guilty for his death, they were always trying his life; Making it harder for himself. Giles was defenitely the most missed in that room.
Willow was still looking from Buffy and Xander and started the talk, "Do you guys remember Giles and the computer thing? How stuck in the past he was and even Miss Calendar couldn't get him out of it."
Smiles were spread around the room at the memory of Giles and the idiot box. "Yeah you dating a demon that you sucked into the computer in the first place didn't help much with him getting used to it." Buffy directed at Willow
Willow smiled a little, "But Malcolm did love me."
The room burts out laughing. When it slowed Xander looked back and forth between the girls. "You two were always his favorite. Willow had the books and smartness. Buffy was his slayer. I'm amazed he even put up with me."
Buffy rubbed Xander's knee, "Giles loved you so much. Like father and son, it wouldn't be right if you two didn't fight."
Xander gave a small smile and Willow nodded her head, "She's right. Xander you were just like the son he never had."
Another small tear cam from Xander's eyes. He rubbed their shoulders in comfort as it was Buffy's turn to speak, "You know us three, we never really had a real dad. No father figure and you know deep down I think we all knew Giles as ours." A few sobs escaped the room and Buffy paused. When she regained her structure she continued, "I know he thought of us as kids, but I think somewhere he thought of us as his kids. He may have been the smartest and the brains but he meant so much more to everyone here. All the girls, Faith, Dawn and Us.....we're going to be so lost without him."
They burst out crying again to the state where they wondered when they were going to cry themselves to death. The room was left in the same state is was entered; With three grown up kids mouring their only father through nothing but tears and memories.
Downstairs Angel was mindlessly pacing the main room. Everyone but Faith, Dawn, Wesley, Gunn, Spike and Angel had made it to their rooms. Mourn in peace or with each other.
Spike shook his head, "You pacing like this ain't gonna help none."
Angel shook his head and continued to pace, "Well seriously Spike, Giles just died, The most powerful people in this hotel are too busy grieving and Cordelia just happens to be out their alone without explanation."
Angel was unaware Buffy, Willow and xander were at the top of the stairs, with Willow leaning on Xander. Xander yelled to get his attention, "God have a heart, or at least act like you have one."
Angel ignored what was said but achknowledged something was said. He instantly turned to buffy who had watery eyes. Buffy stared at him, "Sorry Angel for putting my heart before everything else."
Before Angel could say anything Spike whispered to himself, "What else could possibly happen to make this worse?"
At that moment a man about Willow's height walked in. He looked perfectly calm and even as he looked around at the crying Willow, Xander and buffy his facial feature hadn't changed. His eyes locked with Willow's and she just stared back. One whisper came out of her mouth as everyone's faces who knew him turned to shock, "Oz!"
Spike just smiled, "I guess I brought that upon myself."
Chapter 14 -=- How Would You Mourn Your father?
-Hyperion-
Angel had finally come out of the trraining room. He was about to start un wrapping the tabe on his hands he used for punching the bag when he saw Faith and Dawn holding each other walking through the door. Their tear stained eyes gave their sadness away and Angel couldn't help but wonder where Buffy was. Faith and Dawn stood on one side of the door like they were waiting for someone else. The eight slayers that took giles and Willow to the hospital walked in also with tear stained cheeks and sat down on couches and chairs. The room was so quiet and filled with anticpation you could hear a pin drop. Angel could hear all their heartbeats, they were racing. Something bad defenitely happened. Willow and Xander who were still kind of crying were next to walk through the door. Xander was pushing Willow's wheelchair with one hand on her shoulder. Still Angel stood like a statue waiting for Buffy, hoping it wasn't her that they were all mourning for one again.
His thoughts proved wrong when a Blanket covered Spike ran through the door carrying a crying Buffy. Her cries slowed as Spike put her down. She wiped her tears and addressed the room, this was the explanation everyone would dread hearing.
Through sobs Buffy started, "Up until now we've all had someone that treated us like a family because we had none. He was more of a dad to me, Willow and Xander then anyone here. Everytime something happened, everytime we had to save the world...he was always there and now we have to learn to cope without him." Buffy inhaled as she was caught on another sob, "Giles died this morning. Something with his head."
She started crying as she heard almost all the girls burst out in tears. The ones who didn't know cried harder and the ones that did started up again. Gunn held Rona and Wesley held another girl that seemed to fall crying also. Kennedy was about to go to Willow when Xander shook her off. Buffy pushed Spike away and looked at Xander and Willow. Buffy walked over to Willow and picked her up from the chair carrying her up the stairs. Xander just follwed with one hand on her back. Angel held back the tears and craving to walk up and hold his lover in his arms. She was in so much pain. He didn't need to feel everything she did to still recognize the connection, he could feel her pain from miles away.
Buffy, Willow and Xander were at the top of the stairs when Someone walked through the doors. He was a tall broad shouldered man wearing a suit. Buffy put Willow down making sure Xander had her when she heard Faith faintly call her. She was down the stairs as fast as possible and in front of this intruder in seocnds. She stopped her tears but could not hide the tear tracks and runny nose. The man stood with a straight face not fazed with the glare she was giving him. Spike, Faith and Angel were behind her when they noticed who this man was. Slowly slayers stopped their crying and fromed a group behind Buffy that aslo included Gunn and Wesley.
"Get Out Now Hamilton. You may be strong, but there is no way in hell you could take us all now and right now I am so not in the mood for quirky comments and threats."
He smiled, "That is how you treat someone who has come to offer his condolences. I guess a slayer is really just stone and no feelings."
Buffy glared, "Did you do this to him?"
"Of course not. All i did was crush his skull a little bit but he's the one who hit his head on the bed post and on the corner of the mirror."
Buffy had enough and i guess Faith did too. They were about to lunge at him despite Spike and Angel holding them back when Willow held out her hand and whispered a few latin words. A light flew from her hand causing the slayers and everyone else to duck. It hit hamilton before he even knew what was happening. He flew into the door and it took him several minutes to actually stand up.
He fixed his suit, "Listen up slayer. That pissed me off just a little more then I liked. I came here to warn you of something coming. Thought you should have a heads up. Now it will be just a bit worse. I still send my condolences and dearly hope with all the sarcasm in me none of it happens to any of you."
With that he bowed and left. Angel still had to restrain Buffy for she was trying to go for Hamilton once again. When she finally did calm down she turned into Angel and just let him hold her.
After a few awkward moments Buffy let go of him and addressed the whole room. "No one goes outside. I will do everything possible to make sure none of you end up like Giles but right now I need to be alone....with Xander and Willow."
Buffy gave one last look to Angel who just stared at her like she was about to break. She then turned to Spike and he hugged her before she walked back up the stairs. Willow, Xander and Buffy walked into Buffy's room and shut the door. Downstairs Spike and Angel stared at each other. They too walked off in a direction together. Cordelia came out from her room and made it down the stairs in time to see everyone crying and holding each other. She couldn't see Spike and Angel anywhere so she just started looking for she wanted an explanation on this emotional chaos the hyperion had been taken over with.
Spike and Angel went into the training room and they each sat on chairs or whatever wad closest. Agel started this conversation first. "What happened?"
Spike sighed, "Buffy was talking to him like all daughter Buffy and then he woke up but it was like he only woke up to see her again and tell her stuff. Then he was gone."
"And Buffy?"
"Well after i got the doctor I came in to see her holding his hand and crying on the floor. I hate doctors man, they just shoved her out of the way."
"Hamilton's gonna pay."
Spike smiled a real small smile, "You do it yourself and you might let him live again. Plus you really want Buffy hurting over her dad and her soul mate?"
"You said it yourself Spike, she can't even be in the same building as me."
"Oh she loves you peaches. Do you know how much my brain hurts with how much she talks about you."
He gave a small smile, "I don't even know why me and her get emotional around each other. We just end up apart in the end right?"
Spike smiled, "That's your fault mate. You make the decision to leave."
"Because we can't be together."
"No because you can't be with her. You're scared to death of how much she loves you and even more of how much you love her." Angel tried to interrupt but Spike kept going "See now you don't need to control yourself with the whole curse crap and she spends most of her happy moments in the dark anyway. You've delt with her dying before and you can do it again. It's going to happen sooner or later for sure that time and wheather you're with her or not you're going to grieve. It's not going to be happy but wouldn't you want to be as happy with her a spossible or are you scared of not being able to deal with the happy memories when she's gone?"
Angel was silent for a few minutes before he looked up at Spike and spoke again, "When did you get all 'I think I'm smart?'
"Right about the time you became, 'I know what's best for us and you don't."
Cordelia had shown up at the door right about the time Angel started talking about getting emotional with buffy. She didn't make herself known because she wanted to know how he felt. She still continued to listen as Angel examined Spike, "Why are you provoking our realationship? I thought you were head over heels for her too?"
Spike smiled, "I found it better to be the best friend who she cries to and misses sleeping with sexually then being the boyfriend."
Angel growled, "She doesn't miss sleeping with you."
"Yes she does. She told me in the hospital before you know."
He growled again and continued, "Plus how would everything work? I can't just take off with Buffy to Italy, I hate it there. She can't re root dawn and herself back to L.A."
"Actually you can go to Italy since your business just blew up. I think you're making excuses."
"I love her Spike I really do. Buffy's always been the one. I think she's worth it this time."
Spike smiled, "Oh look at the happy moment. Now what are you going to do about Cordelia?"
Cordelia walked through the door with a few tears, "Yea Angel what are you going to do about me? She's been gone for what 4 or 5 years and now all of a sudden the realationship we built doesn't even matter anymore. You know you were always the different guy but i guess you're all the same."
"Cordelia...."
Before he could do anything else she was out the room and out the door of the hotel. Angel cursed to himself as Spike smiled, "Uh oh."
-Upstairs-
Xander was leaning against the headboard of Buffy's bed while Willow and Buffy were using his knees as head rests. They had mostly stopped the crying, just a few sobs here and there. When the girls sat up they all looked around at each other. These three were the ones mostly affected by Giles' death. Knowing them since they were 16. Kind of ironic that three teenagers who didn't even have a full family found one within each other. He took care of them like a father would have yet he didn't want to show the emotional side often. It was wierd how little they knew about him and how much he knew about them. Xander, Willow and Buffy all felt guilty for his death, they were always trying his life; Making it harder for himself. Giles was defenitely the most missed in that room.
Willow was still looking from Buffy and Xander and started the talk, "Do you guys remember Giles and the computer thing? How stuck in the past he was and even Miss Calendar couldn't get him out of it."
Smiles were spread around the room at the memory of Giles and the idiot box. "Yeah you dating a demon that you sucked into the computer in the first place didn't help much with him getting used to it." Buffy directed at Willow
Willow smiled a little, "But Malcolm did love me."
The room burts out laughing. When it slowed Xander looked back and forth between the girls. "You two were always his favorite. Willow had the books and smartness. Buffy was his slayer. I'm amazed he even put up with me."
Buffy rubbed Xander's knee, "Giles loved you so much. Like father and son, it wouldn't be right if you two didn't fight."
Xander gave a small smile and Willow nodded her head, "She's right. Xander you were just like the son he never had."
Another small tear cam from Xander's eyes. He rubbed their shoulders in comfort as it was Buffy's turn to speak, "You know us three, we never really had a real dad. No father figure and you know deep down I think we all knew Giles as ours." A few sobs escaped the room and Buffy paused. When she regained her structure she continued, "I know he thought of us as kids, but I think somewhere he thought of us as his kids. He may have been the smartest and the brains but he meant so much more to everyone here. All the girls, Faith, Dawn and Us.....we're going to be so lost without him."
They burst out crying again to the state where they wondered when they were going to cry themselves to death. The room was left in the same state is was entered; With three grown up kids mouring their only father through nothing but tears and memories.
Downstairs Angel was mindlessly pacing the main room. Everyone but Faith, Dawn, Wesley, Gunn, Spike and Angel had made it to their rooms. Mourn in peace or with each other.
Spike shook his head, "You pacing like this ain't gonna help none."
Angel shook his head and continued to pace, "Well seriously Spike, Giles just died, The most powerful people in this hotel are too busy grieving and Cordelia just happens to be out their alone without explanation."
Angel was unaware Buffy, Willow and xander were at the top of the stairs, with Willow leaning on Xander. Xander yelled to get his attention, "God have a heart, or at least act like you have one."
Angel ignored what was said but achknowledged something was said. He instantly turned to buffy who had watery eyes. Buffy stared at him, "Sorry Angel for putting my heart before everything else."
Before Angel could say anything Spike whispered to himself, "What else could possibly happen to make this worse?"
At that moment a man about Willow's height walked in. He looked perfectly calm and even as he looked around at the crying Willow, Xander and buffy his facial feature hadn't changed. His eyes locked with Willow's and she just stared back. One whisper came out of her mouth as everyone's faces who knew him turned to shock, "Oz!"
Spike just smiled, "I guess I brought that upon myself."