Fighting Back

Angel and Spike turned to each other and smiled brightly. "We found them," Angel said with relief in his voice.

Spike took a second to sniff the air. "It's them alright. I smell the slayers and red all over the place."

Angel nodded his head in agreement. "Me too." Excitement took them over and they carelessly ran into the room, Dr. Matthews still in Angel's tight grip so she wouldn't get away.

As the two vampires began to get closer to the babies Spike was suddenly taken down by something that seemed to come completely out of nowhere. Neither one of them even saw it coming. If they hadn't been so excited to find the babies they might have sensed a presence but it was too late now.

Angel had no choice, he had to let the doctor go and prepare to fight. He shoved the doctor down to the ground harshly, "I'll deal with you later." He ran to Spike and pulled what appeared to be a hellhound off of him only to be attacked by another from behind.

When the hellhound was off of him, Spike jumped up immediately and readied himself for battle. "Kinda figured it wasn't going to be that easy," Spike said. He pulled one of the hellhounds off of Angel's back and threw it into the wall just as another ran to attack him. There were about five or six of them and they were relentless.

"We figured you might find us vampires," a man's voice said from a shadow at the corner of the room. "These hellhounds are trained specially to attack vampires," the man continued. "Whether you have your demon faces on or not…they can sense you."

Angel and Spike continued to fight them off. They tried kicking them in the face, throwing them across the room and slamming them into walls, but they just kept coming. The babies were now balling on the other end of the room from all the noise and the vampires had to be careful not to send any of the hellhounds their way.

The man who spoke to them walked into the light. He was human but he had a very evil smile placed on his face as if he was sure he was going to win. He sent the vampires a conniving smile and then slowly walked over to the babies. Dr. Matthews was also just waking up from when Angel had knocked her unconscious. As soon as she realized what was going on she ran to join the man by the babies. They looked at each other and smiled and then the man took two of the babies in his arms and the doctor took the other one in hers.

"No!" Angel yelled when he realized that they were going to take the babies and run. His anger was building and it was making him fight harder. A hellhound jumped on his left shoulder and bit down. He screamed in pain but quickly shrugged it off, grabbed the hound and snapped its neck like a twig.

Spike was in the same situation. He had extreme worry and failure on his face as he watched the man and the doctor run out of the room through a different corridor then the one they entered from. He took Angel's lead, grabbed a hound and wrapped his arms around it. Within a matter of seconds it was on the floor with a snapped neck.

"Their getting away," Spike yelled.

A hellhound ran towards Angel at full speed but Angel gave it a roundhouse kick will full power to its head. As soon as his foot hit its face he could hear its neck crack in two.

"Go!" Spike yelled.

"What?" Angel asked with confusion.

"I said go you bloody imp," Spike repeated. "From the looks of it their human and I've still got that bloody chip in my head so I can't fight them. There's only three of these beasties left I'll hold them off so they won't follow you now go! Get the little ones back!"

Angel didn't hesitate. He throw the last one he was fighting off of his back and ran faster then he'd ever ran before in the direction the babies were taken.

XXXXXX

"She's so beautiful," Giles said to Dr. Carter as they walked to the clean up room.

Dr. Carter smiled. "Yes she is." When they got to the room Giles's opened the door for the doctor and then attempted to fallow her in. "I'm sorry Mr. Giles but only doctors and nurses are allowed to enter this room. I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to wait outside."

As much as Giles hated to do it, he knew he had to stay outside. If he tried to protest it would raise too much suspicion and there was still no word from Angel and Spike. He looked around and noticed that the room was almost completely made of glass. He could see the entire room from outside in the hall. He noticed that the door the doctor was going in was the only door to the room. Giles forced a smile and started to back off from the door. "Right then, sorry," the watcher responded. "I'll just wait right out here until you're through."

The doctor smiled back at him and then walked into the room. "Nurse, bring me the Brown's daughter," Dr. Carter ordered the nurse on duty as soon as she walked into the room. "I want to check her respiration while I clean up this one."

"Yes doctor," the nurse said as she proceeded to get the child. She gathered the baby girl in her hands and then brought her to the doctor.

With her back facing Giles, Dr. Carter cleaned up Tara's daughter and then with a small spell she switched her bracelet with the Brown's baby's bracelet. "Her breathing has worsened," the doctor said to the nurse. "I need you to find Dr. Miller and take this child to her," she said as she handed Tara's baby to the nurse.

The nurse took the baby. "What shall I tell her?"

"Tell her that Dr. Carter said she needs help with this child," Dr. Carter responded, "She'll know what to do." The nurse nodded her head and walked out of the room.

The doctor wrapped up the other child and brought her out of the room and towards Giles. She smiled at the older man. "Would you like to bring her back to her mother Mr. Giles?"

Giles smiled as she handed the baby to him. He looked around to make sure no one was around and then placed the child gently on the floor.

Dr. Carter watched him do this which much confusion. "What are you doing Mr. Giles?"

When the child was safely placed down he quickly ran to Dr. Carter and shoved her up against the wall with his hand tightly around her neck. "Do you really think I'm that stupid?" The doctor tried to gasp for air but Giles' hand pressed firmly against her throat wasn't allowing that to happen. "Now I'm going to ask you this once and only once. Where is she?"

The doctor tried to talk, "Can't…breathe." Giles loosened his grip just enough for the doctor to be able to speak. "I gave her to the nurse that left before me."

"Where is she taking her?"

When the doctor didn't answer Giles grabbed one of her fingers and pulled it back as far as he could. He quickly covered her mouth as she screamed in pain. He then placed his lips right next to her ear. "I'll ask you one more time…Where did the nurse take her?"

XXXXXX

'Willow! It's Angel. Can you hear me?'

'Angel I'm here did you find them?' Willow responded telekinetically.

'We found them,' Angel responded.

'Oh thank God are they alright? Is my daughter alright?'

'We found all three of them but we had some unexpected company. A man sent a half a dozen hellhounds trained to rip vampires apart after us,' Angel explained. 'He and Dr. Matthews grabbed the babies and took off. Spike is fighting off the hounds and I'm trying to catch up to them now but they have a pretty good head start.'

'Oh God,' Willow thought to herself almost forgetting that Angel could hear it.

'Don't worry Willow. I promise I'll get them back. I need you to do something for me though. If you're strong enough I need you to send an SOS out to the others. I don't know if Dr. Matthews has any ways of contacting the other doctors but if she does then that means they know and they'll be trying to get whatever children they can and then get out of here. You think you can do that for me?' Angel asked.

'I'll take care of it, just get our children back,' Willow pleaded.

'I will. I promise. I don't care if I have to kill everyone in this hospital to do it. I will get them back!' Angel responded with determination in his ton.

Just as Willow was done talking to Angel, Fred and Wesley walked in. "We didn't have any luck," Wesley said with a disappointed look on his face. "How is everything going here?"

Willow sighed. Fred and Wesley had missed a lot, she was tired enough as it was and now she had to explain everything to them and also warn the others. She just wanted all of this to be over. She just wanted to be home in her bed with Tara, both of their daughters in their arms.

XXXXXX

"Oh no!"

"What is it Dawn?" Connor asked as Dawn doubled over in pain.

"I think I'm going into labor," Dawn responded in a nervous ton.

"Oh no," Connor repeated.

'Connor don't freak out but this is Willow.'

"What the hell?" Connor said out loud.

"What?" Dawn asked with a confused expression on her worried face.

"Nothing we need to get you in a room," Connor responded. "Can we get some help please? She's going into labor!" he yelled to whomever would listen.

'Connor can you hear me?' Willow repeated.

'What's going on?' Connor asked

'I have the power to talk to people with my mind. I'll explain later. Angel and Spike found the babies but they had company and they lost them. They're working on getting them back but Dr. Matthews knows that we know which means the other doctors will know soon too.'

'Oh shit, Dawn just went into labor,' Connor responded. 'They're putting her into a wheel chair now and taking her to a room.'

'Listen Connor, they know we know already so we don't need to play games anymore. Let them take her to a room for now but don't let anyone touch her until we figure something out.'

'Alright…I won't let anything happen to her,' Connor responded with determination. He meant every word. At that moment the only thing in the world that mattered to him was protecting Dawn and her child.

XXXXXX

'Buffy? It's Willow can you hear me?'

Buffy looked around for a second with confusion. Then she realized what was going on. 'I hear you Will. What's going on?'

'It's a long story…short version…Angel and Spike found out where the babies had been taken. They got to them but they had company and they were taken away again. Angel is after them now but he told me to warn everyone that the doctors know that we know. Tara had her baby before the doctors found out so we played along. Giles went with her but she switched Tara's baby with another. Giles figured it out right away and got the doctor to tell her where she is and he's trying to find her now. Anya is in labor, I warned her and Xander but we haven't decided what to do yet. Fred and Wesley are here in the room with me. I warned Connor and Dawn just as Dawn was going into labor. They're taking her into a room now,' Willow explained. 'Wow…that wasn't exactly as short as I'd hoped it would be.'

That was a lot of information for the slayer to take in all at once but there was one piece of information that really stuck out in her mind. 'Dawn went into labor?!' Buffy asked. As worried as she was about her own child she was also extremely worried about her little sister.

'Yeah, only about five minutes ago.'

'I need to get to her!'

'But Buffy aren't you still weak from the drug?'

'I don't care Willow! I already lost my child and I'm not going to lose my sister or my niece. I have to protect them,' the slayer responded with determination.

'Angel's going to get them back, Buffy,' Willow said reassuringly. She truly believed it too. She had faith in Angel and she knew that if anyone could get them back it would be him.

'I know,' Buffy responded. She too believed that Angel and Spike could come through. Somehow they would come through.

Buffy forced herself out of her bed and walked to the door. Just as she was about to open it a nurse walked in. "Ms. Summers what are you doing out of bed? You should be resting."

"Save it nimrod I know what your up to so get the hell out of my way!" Buffy said angrily. The time for playing games was over.

"I'm sorry miss I can't let you leave this room," the nurse responded.

Buffy just smiled slightly. "Alright then…you leave me no choice." She started to turn around to go back to the bed and then turned and gave the nurse a right hook across her jaw sending her flying to the floor unconscious. "Hmm…guess I'm not as weak as I thought I was huh?"

XXXXXX

"I'm going to need you to hand those babies over now," Angel ordered as he finally caught up to Kevin and Dr. Matthews.

"How the hell?" Kevin asked.

"You really underestimate the abilities of two vampires with souls. You see because we have souls…we care more. And because we care more…we try harder," Angel explained. "Now hand over the kids!"

Dr. Matthews looked worried but Kevin just smiled evilly. "As long as these babies are in our arms…you won't touch us. You could hurt them in the process." Angel growled helplessly as he knew the man was right. "See…looks like I know you a little better then you thought."

Angel looked around anxiously as he tried to figure out some way, any way that he could safely get the babies away from them. He was running out of time, the babies captors were about to flee and he had no idea what he was going to do.

As they started to turn around and continue down the corridor Angel did the only thing he could think to do. He ran as fast as he could and leaped over their heads landing in a somersault. He quickly got back up and stood in from of the two humans. "I may not be able to touch you but there's no way your going to be able to get passed me…at least…not with those children in your hands."

Kevin tried not to look beaten but he didn't expect this too happen at all. He thought that he had Angel beat. "A trick like that won't work twice vampire. You're only one vampire and there are two directions we can go," he said with a conniving smile.

Just then Spike came up behind them without their knowledge. He was badly bleeding and beaten but he was still standing strong. "And what if there's two vampires mate? Did you have a plan for that?"

Kevin and Dr. Matthews turned around at the same time. This time Kevin looked worried. This time he wasn't really sure what he was going to do next. They were trapped and he had no idea how they were going to get out of this.