Cordelia had sat her at the kitchen table and placed a cup of hot chocolate in front of her. Mini-marshmallows swam freely among the brown sweetness and the teenager seemed entranced by her drink. She was avoiding looking at them, avoiding seeing the disappointment. Connor, the youngest boy, was introduced as Angel's son. After the initial shock wore off, and of course her sobbing, she had shook his hand and told him it was nice to meet him. It was still a little to weird to think that Angel had offspring. She could just imagine Buffy freaking out about that. Spike smoothed her mass of hair down lightly and took her hot chocolate from her, scooping the marshmallows into his own. She took two spoonfuls of his drink, surfing around the marshmallows, and deposited them into her own. The Fang Gang watched them in shock, as though amazed by how well the two knew each other.
"So, you're Buffy's sister?" Gunn questioned, and Dawn looked up and met his eyes. She nodded slightly. "Wait, is this the little girl in that picture?" Angel replied with a nod and Dawn looked at him sharply.
"You have a picture of me?"
"It's cute," He shrugged, taking a sip of his coffee. She sighed, and awaited the questions she knew would follow after Angel revealed her secret to the whole hotel. It wasn't like she was shocked when she found out that he could hear the heart beats. After all, that's how Spike found out.
"So you're having a baby," Fred clarified, and Spike cracked a smile. The small Texan was the first to bring the subject up and the tension instantly thinned in the room.
"Dawn, how did this happen?" Cordy asked, sitting next to her and taking her hand in her own.
"Well, pet, when two people really love each other…" Spike was cut off as Angel slapped him upside the head.
"It wasn't planned," Dawn whispered, and the seer squeezed her hand lightly. "None of it was," The way her tone dropped sent chills down the room's spines and Connor stared at her, confused.
"How isn't this kind of thing planned?" Angel sighed, and turned to his son.
"Sometimes, accidents happen,"
"My baby isn't an accident. She's here for a reason,"
"So you were trying to get pregnant?" Gunn stared at her, shock fluttering across his face. Dawn felt tears begin to gather in her eyes, she turned to Spike, pleading.
"What the 'Bit means is that even if the reason she's pregnant was unplanned, her baby is here because the Powers wanted her to be here," Angel nodded and Spike continued. "Dawn didn't plan on getting pregnant, but since we found out she's decided that she wants to keep the baby. No talk about abortion would get through to her, believe me the Whelp tried. The problem is that the second the demons of Sunnydale find out that the Slayer's sister is pregnant all hell will break loose. And I don't want to put Dawn through the torture of having to be around her classmates as they see her develop. I'm legally Dawn's guardian, and the hellmouth still has Faith so we split. Figured we'd come here. If we're not welcome, we'll leave. Lots of other places we can go, but the 'Bit wanted to come here first,"
"Of course she's welcome here," Cordelia answered, emphasis on the she and making it all to clear that Spike wasn't as welcome.
"Spike doesn't leave," Dawn whispered, declaring her devotion to the vampire. Though her voice was low her tone was clear. There was no doubt in anyone's mind that she would not stick by her statement.
"All right. Fred, why don't you take Dawn up to the spare bedroom and get her settled," Angel said, turning towards the small-framed woman.
"Angel, we have like twelve spare bedrooms." Cordy laughed.
"I was trying to sound all professional like. Fine, put her in room 7 and Spike in room 8," Fred nodded and Dawn quickly stood up. She walked over to Angel and quickly brushed her lips across his cheek. She did the same to Spike before leaving the room and following Fred. "Did you kill the father?"
"Tried as hard as I could. Didn't get three punches in before my nose started bleeding from this bloody chip,"
"Who was it?" Gunn asked quietly, turning towards the vampire.
"His name was Christopher,"
"I can't believe Dawn had sex," Cordelia stated, resting her head in her hands.
"She didn't, love. She was raped,"
Author's Note: If it seems overdone, I'm sorry. I'm actually liking where this is going. More about Dawn's rape and her baby. And actually this isn't, for once, going to be Spawn. Spike and Dawn are just best friends. Pairings wont happen for a while because she's all traumatized and stuff. Please review.