A/N: I'm not sure if the info on Nikki and Robin Wood is true here but pretend it is for the sake of the story

Wild Horses Couldn't Drag Me Away – Ch. 2

Wild Horses,
Couldn't drag me away,
Wild, wild horses,
Couldn't drag me away

It was two days after Buffy called Giles that he returned her call with whatever information he had gotten. She was sitting on the couch with Angel after dinner one night watching a hockey game; or at least Angel was watching a hockey game. Buffy was curled up and leaning against him and flicking through a magazine while Angel occasionally yelled at the TV. Buffy barely heard the phone ring over the noise of the game and looked to Angel to answer it since it was right next to him on the side table next to the couch. When it was apparent that he was not going to answer the phone, Buffy sighed and Angel barely registered her reaching across him to grab the phone.

"Hello?" Buffy said loudly over the noise of the TV.

"Buffy, it's Giles, I have some information for you and Angel," came Giles' voice through the phone.

"Oh, hey Giles! Hang on a sec," Buffy said before covering the mouthpiece with her hand and gesturing for Angel to mute the TV, "It's Giles," she mouthed at him. Angel snapped his attention to his wife and quickly muted the TV as Buffy put Giles on speaker phone.

"Okay, you're on speaker. So what'd you find?" Buffy asked eagerly.

"Well I looked through all the Council's records and background information on previous slayers as well as dozens and dozens of Watcher's Diaries," Giles told the couple.

Buffy and Angel glanced at each other and Buffy pressed him on by saying, "Okay…"

"The only slayer ever recorded to have a child was Nikki Wood. Robin's mother."

"Yeah, I knew that Giles, could you find any others?"

"No," Giles said. Angel stole another glance at his wife to see her reaction. Buffy just kept staring at the phone, unable to look Angel in the eyes. "Buffy, there's something you need to know about slayers. When a girl is called to be a slayer her body is transformed so that its sole purpose is to fight. Slayers aren't meant to have children; they may physically be unable to have children…" Giles finished quietly.

Angel sighed and leaned back into the couch as Buffy pressed Giles for more information. "But Nikki Wood-"

"Had Robin before she was called," Giles finished for her. Buffy sat in stunned silence for a few moments, gathering her thoughts. Of course something like this would happen to her and Angel. As soon as Angel turns human and they can be somewhat of a normal married couple the Powers just had to throw this in. If it wasn't Angel being unable to give them a normal life it had to be Buffy.

"Well, what do we do now?" Buffy asked quietly.

Giles sighed before answering. "I would advise you to see a doctor, maybe get some fertility testing done."

"Fertility testing?" Angel asked sitting up.

"Yes, fertility problems are very common with normal couples."

"Giles, we're not normal," Buffy said quietly, looking down at her hands in her lap.

"Yes, I-I'm aware…but Buffy, no slayer has even ever tried to have children before. It was simply unheard of. You are probably the first slayer in history to try and get pregnant, explaining why I couldn't find any information of slayers conceiving and giving birth; it's just never happened before," Giles explained. "But really, you two should see a doctor; they may be able to help in ways I can't."

After thanking Giles and saying goodbye, Buffy clicked the speaker button on the phone, hanging up. She looked over at Angel who was looking back at her intently. "Now what?" she asked him.

Angel leaned forward and wrapped an arm around his wife and pulled her in close to his chest. He kissed her forehead and ran his fingers through her blonde hair as they lay cuddled on the couch. "We make an appointment to do some testing…and see where it goes from there," he told her.

After a few moments of silence, Buffy gave out a dark chuckle. Angel didn't say anything, just let her speak. "In some twisted way it's almost funny how things are exactly the way they were when I was eighteen, and still so different." Angel just wrapped his arms around her tighter. "Back then, you were the one who couldn't give me 'normal'. And now it's me who can't give it to you."

"Hey," Angel said, gently turning her face towards him so he could look her in the eyes. "That was then, this is now. We were young and stupid back then." At Buffy's look Angel said, "Okay, so maybe I was just stupid. But things are so different now." He paused and looked at his wife's beautiful face warmly. "We'll make it work," he told her. "We always do."

A week later Angel was around the penthouse while Buffy was out doing some errands. They had gone to see a doctor earlier in the week and had some testing done to see if they could get pregnant. The doctor said that he would call within a few days to let the couple know their results, and both Buffy and Angel had been pretty tense the past few days while they were waiting. When the phone rang, Angel quickly picked it up, as he and Buffy had been doing since they went to the doctor.

"Hello?" Angel answered.

"Mr. O'Connor? It's Dr. Brown; I saw you and your wife last week?" came a man's voice over the phone.

"Dr. Brown, hi," Angel said, anxious for some good news.

"I just got your test results back from the lab this morning and I thought I would call right away."

"Okay…" It was hard to tell from the doctor's voice if it was good results or bad results.

"What we found is that your wife is unable to support the sperm that get through to her uterus." Angel's stomach dropped at the doctor's words. "But this doesn't mean that you can't try; I've seen many couples with this problem conceive."

"Um, okay…thank you," Angel said numbly before saying goodbye and hanging up. He was just standing in the living room, trying to process what the doctor had told him when Buffy walked in.

"Hey!" she said cheerfully as she struggles to close the door while still holding a few shopping bags. "You wouldn't believe the traffic on the-" her good spirits melted away when she saw the expression on Angel's face. "Oh God, what happened?" she asked, afraid to know the answer.

"I uh…Dr. Brown just called," he told her slowly.

Buffy was starting to get nervous. "And…" she prompted.

"He said that um…" Angel fumbled to say the right words.

"Angel, you're scaring me, what'd he say?" Buffy said, getting seriously worried now.

"He said that you're, uh, uterus is unable to…house…me…"

Buffy just stared at him, waiting for him to crack a smile and say that he was joking and everything was fine with them. When he didn't, she dropped her bags to the floor and sat down in the nearest chair. "Did he say anything else?" she said after a few moments.

Angel sat in the chair across from her and took her hand in his. "That we could keep trying. He said he's seen couples like us get pregnant before. It's not impossible."

"Okay," Buffy said, taking a deep breath to calm herself. "Okay, so we just keep on trying," she said, looking up at her husband.

Angel nodded, looking her in the eyes, trying any way he could to reassure her that everything would work itself out. He hoped he was right.

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