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Chapter 6

When Buffy finally descended the stairs and entered the overcrowded kitchen, Spike was sitting with Courtney next to him in a very cute pink high chair. He was feeding her breakfast cereal and she had it all over her face. To Buffy's surprise he was also eating breakfast cereal but not with blood. With milk. What was he up to? When Buffy entered the room, Spikes attention diverted from Courtney to Buffy.

"You look lovely love" he exclaimed as he looked up in awe at the woman he loved. For a few moments they stared into each others eyes unable to turn away. Courtney turned around right at that moment.

"Oh my gosh Spike what did you do to her." She walked over to the sink and grabbed a wash cloth before heading back towards her daughter and beginning to clean her face.

"Look at the state of you missy, should Mummy tell Daddy off for doing this to you? Owww and look at your pj's, Spike couldn't you put a bib on her?"

"It's okay Mummy I'm a big girl now, look." Courtney put her arms out to her father and he passed the child sized bowl of cereal over to her. She picked up the spoon in her tinny tiny hands and tried to eat her breakfast all by herself. Buffy and Spike looked on and smiled at their beautiful miniature daughter.

After breakfast Buffy took Courtney upstairs and put her in a small sunshine yellow dress and tied her hair up into two small bunches before helping her downstairs. Dawn had offered to take her to the park for a few hours so that Buffy could be alone with Spike and break the news to him about the new baby. Buffy took Courtney downstairs and she ran to Spike, holding her arms up saying

"up Daddy, up." Spike picked her up and she hooked onto his hip like the latest fashion accessory. Spike exited the room and roamed into the kitchen gently putting his daughter down her opened the fridge door and pulled out a cherry flavoured lollypop, and popped it into Courtney's mouth earning him a large grin from his daughter and a roll of the eyes from Buffy. After saying goodbye to her daughter and sister and drilling her about one million times about safety and sun cream and all of the things parents worry about when someone looks after their child for a while, Buffy headed back to the family room where she found Spike sitting spread over the couch.

"Get your feet off that couch now!" He looked up at her with lustful eyes before saying,

"so love, what we going to do while the bit's away?" Buffy didn't look too impressed.

"We are going to talk and you are going to get your feet off that couch. Sorry. I guess I get a bit mumsy at times now. But we do need to talk." Spike sighed and looked up slightly disappointed that he didn't get to do nasty little things in the dark with her.

"Guess you want to know about what happened in LA. And to the full this time not just the stuff with Angel."

"No Spike! To be honest I couldn't care less about LA. It's in the past now, we have to begin to look to the future. There is something really important I need to talk to you about." Spike was starting to get worried. He motioned for her to sit down and she took a seat next to her on the couch. Spike took her hand into his and looked up into her eyes.

"What's wrong love?"

"Well nothing's wrong. I mean something is happening but, it isn't wrong." He looked at her cocking his head onto its side and narrowing his eyes.

"Not quite getting you here love." Buffy rolled her eyes and sighed.

"I wasn't finished yet. Okay there is only one easy way to say this so I'm just going to come out with it. I'm pregnant." Spike's eyes widened and he dropped her hand.

"Oh don't worry it's yours. From last night. Giles read a prophecy and well it turns out this was meant to happen. I thought I should wait a while before I told you I mean you have just found out so many life changing facts in less than a day and now I'm cramming more into that cute little head of yours but then I saw what you were like with Court and I knew I should tell you right away. It's what you deserve." Buffy picked Spike's hand up and took it in hers like he had done just minutes before.

"It will be alright. We can cope. And hey, you'll make a great parent. They are totally at their best when they are babies." Spike smiled and looked into her eyes. He was scared this was not going to work but he couldn't run out on her now. This was what he had created and he was going to stick there with her through it. He leaned in and cupped her cheek with his free hand caressing it as it began to turn pink at his soft, gentle touch. He leaned in closer and gently kissed her cherry lips, slowly sucking on the bottom one as she let out a long held breath. They were going to be just fine.