Over the last few weeks of Buffy's pregnancy, Angel felt better than he had ever in his life. He was with the woman of his dreams, his son, Everything seemed perfect. Even if they were bickering over their daughter's name.
"What about Rebecca?" Buffy suggested.
"Well, that's not really Irish. Tara is Irish."
"That might get weird around everyone. You know, Tara was Willow's girlfriend and everything. You never knew her, but she was something special. Especially to Willow. I just don't want to hurt Willow by reminding her."
"Of Course."
"How about Sarah?" This was very much the way of things when they got time alone, which wasn't often these days. "Sarah's a nice name."
"I don't know, with a family with Buffy, Dawn, and Angel, Sarah just sounds too normal."
"You're right, Sarah's not right. You know I was watching the history channel, and it talked about Eleanor Roosevelt. What about that. Eleanor, Ellie for short."
"I like that. It's Irish. Quirky, Ellie it is. Hi Ellie, I'm your daddy."
"And I'm your mommy, I'll be the one teaching you great word puns." Just at that moment the door of their room that they were living in now was being knocked upon.
Angel groaned. "I'll get it."
Angel opened the door to find Gunn. "Angel, we need you, we tracked down this demon that our client, you know."
Buffy got up, "You need me?"
"Buffy, I don't think that you should be slaying right now. I mean, it isn't like you have a force field to protect the baby."
"You're right. I'll just go downstairs, maybe Dawn needs some help with researching." Buffy said this in a sigh. She just felt so useless these days. She couldn't slay, and she wasn't really good at anything else.
Downstairs Dawn was sitting on a big round table that they had taken from the magic shop before the town went poof. "Hey Dawnie, how was school?"
"Oh, you know, senior year ending, finals, Although, as I remember you telling it, because you made mom and I vacate town, your graduation was much more eventful that mine will ever be."
"That's a good thing. Although looking back, seeing the Mayor Snake eat the Principle was slightly rewarding."
"He was a rat of a man wasn't he. He came to the middle school once to talk to us about High School. He didn't like kids at all. I bet he was a total looser in High School, and he wanted to make up for it for being the eternal High School bully."
"So, have you decided what College you want to go to? I'll probably just go to UCLA. My only other option thanks to the destruction of my High School records is Oxford because of our Watcher connections. I'd much rather be here with you guys. Plus Oxford would be way too hard for me anyway. So, How is my little niece doing?"
"Very Slayer like."
"Kicking up a storm?"
"Yup. I kind of wonder, if she will have any extra strength, you know if she will be a slayer. Now that all the potentials become slayers. I mean, the only slayer that we know of to have any kids was Robin's mom, and he was a boy, no possibility for slayer-dom there. I'm just worried that she might be trapped in the life of a slayer, like I was."
"You don't have to worry about her. It's different now than it was for you. There are so many slayers, and the numbers keep rising. All of the slayers do their part, but none of them, not even you have to be all slayer, all the time."
"Thanks Dawn, I just worry. That's all I can do right now IS worry. I can't fight with Angel. He's human, so I worry."
"He's got Gunn and Wess backing him up. They'll be fine."
"You're right. Now, what's this you're working on…?"
Angel, Wess, and Gunn were walking through the sewer tracking the demon. "So, what demon are we after?" Angel asked.
Wess sighed, "It's a slime spitting demon that a client said took her dog. And we got a tip from a snitch of Gunn's that it was living in this sewer."
"Well, we've been walking this sewer for a half an hour, and we haven't found anything, are you sure that that snitch is right? I say we go back now, I don't want to be too far from Buffy right now."
"Okay, it looks like he was never here anyway, lets get back." Gunn answered. He didn't like leaving Fred for too long either.
Angel, Gunn, and Wess arrived back at the hotel in not the best of spirits. No demon, nada. Not even any residue, and then what Angel saw snapped him to reality so fast. Holtz holding Connor.
"Please, put my son down," Angel heard Buffy plead. If his son's life wasn't in mortal peril, he would have smiled at the words, 'my son,' from Buffy's lips.
"Your Son. I was under the impression that this thing is the child of two vampires."
"Mommy…" Connor pleaded.
"Please. Put him down. He hasn't done anything to you." Angel stepped in at that point. "It's me you want, isn't it. I was the one who ruined your life."
"Yes, you ruined my life, and now you have the perfect nuclear family, and I'm still alone. Do you really think that after all the lives that you destroyed, that you deserve a mortal life?"
Buffy answered. "That was Angelis, this is Angel. Protector of the innocent, loving husband, father, and a great friend."
"You be sure to put that on his tombstone when I'm done with him."
"You don't know who your talking to do you?"
"Yes, you're the whore that gave yourself over to an undead thing."
"I'm Buffy, the Slayer. One girl destined to fight the vampires, demons and the forces of darkness. You can look it up under Slayer, the. You will put down my son and if you ever go near my husband, my kids, or anyone else that is in my family, I'll kill you, human or not."
"The Slayer, huh. I heard about you. In my day, the slayer was simply a myth among vampires."
"Yeah, well now the more appropriate term would be a Slayer. There are thousands of us thanks to a spell done by a friend of mine. So if anything happens to the child that you are still holding in your arms, you will have no where to hide."
Holtz seemed to finally realize what he was dealing with. He had loosened his grip on Connor just slightly but it was enough for Angel to scoop his toddler son into his arms.
Buffy stepped forward. "I am going to let you live, because I don't kill humans, but know this, the demon who did those horrible things to your family is gone, all that is left is a human being with the memories of everything that that demon did. He will be tortured by it for the rest of his life. But that will be nothing in comparison to the torture that I will inflict upon you if you ever return."
At that Holtz bolted out the front door, and Buffy sighed. And then she felt something, "Oh," she said surprisingly, "Um, Angel, I think it's time. My water broke."
A/N: Sorry that it took so long, I was on vacation last week. And don't worry; I won't have too much stuff about the giving birth stuff, from Buffy's perspective. The limit of my experience with child birth is what I have seen on TV and movies, being as I am a 19 year old college student. But I can do the fluffy Buffy/Angel moments with the best of them. Don't worry, updates soon.