Chapter Five: Fast Times At A&Co.
Buffy pulled up to the A&Co. building with an uneasy feeling in the pit of her stomach. She slid her I.D. card in the machine, entered her passcode and enetered the heavy steel doors.
"Good Afternoon Buffy." said Laura the front desk receptionist.
"Hey Laura, is Angel in today?" Buffy asked nervously.
"Um, I belive so. He's been kind of a grouch today though." said
Laura sarcasticly.
"Hmm thanks. Bye Laura." said Buffy.
Buffy walked through the metal detectors and passed through security towards the limited admittance section of the building.
"Ms. Summers, your pass card has been revoked, you are no
longer allowed to go past general admittance." Said the head
security gaurd.
"What the hell?! Who authorized it?" said Buffy angrily.
"I'm afraid I can't tell you that, but I will send a request for your
entrance to get your stuff." said The Guard.
"Thanks." said Buffy.
The guard buzzed in on her radio calling the head-quarters... and approved Buffy for admittance.
"Okay Ms. Summers, you can go in." said the Guard.
Buffy passed through the second set of steel doors into the limited admittance section of A&CO. marching straight to Angel's office.
"Angel isn't seeing anyone right now." said Laura swiftly.
"Laura, I would advise you to get the hell out of my way." yelled
Buffy.
Buffy pushed through Laura and slammed the door open and then shut it.
"Angel what the hell is your problem?!? Revoking my pass! I work here too!" yelled Buffy angrily.
"Not anymore Buffy. Your fired." said Angel calmly.
"You can't do that! You have absolutly no reason to fire me,
except for your stupid personal reasons!" yelled Buffy.
"Would you calm down already. I have every right to fire you, do you forget that I own and run this place, therfore, I'm the boss and I'll do whatever the hell I want. And fire who ever I want to. Now, go to your office and collect your stuff." said Angel.
"Since when did you become such an asshole?" Buffy spouted.
"Since when did you become a liar?!" yelled Angel.
Buffy walked out and went to the large square office she had right next to Angel's. She saw that boxes and bubble wrap had already been placed there for her to start packing up her stuff. As upset as this made her, she didn't start anymore mischef. Angel and Buffy had never got into a fight like this one before. It was different. Even when he did say he was going to leave, he never did. For he had an undying love for Buffy, but she didn't know just how strong that love for her was. But that day, the undying love, died. And you can't salvage a love like that. It's as if you burned a candle down to the core, you can't make that candle whole again. She felt that he looked at her differently. And he always would.
She, at this point, was baffled with suddenly realizing just how much Angel cared for her. And how she threw it all away for a man that hadn't even been in her life for that long. She tossed a love of 4 years away. She knew she couldn't fix this. No, not this time. She suddenly felt a gushing sickness in her stomach, like she had to vomit. she grabed the nearest trash can and threw-up a liquid-blood mixture. Something is not right. She picked up her office phone and dialed 911. Within a few minutes, loud sirens approached the gigantic building. By this time she was already in the lobby. She explained to the paramedic what had happened and he told her to climb up into the ambulance and onto the strectcher. The women in the ambulance prepared an IV and stuck it into her hand. The female paramedic started writing down information as Buffy slowly fadded out. When Buffy woke up, she was in a hospital room with IV's and monitors hooked up to her. She looked to her left and Jensen was sitting in a chair patiently looking at her. She also saw Angel standing there in the corner. This surprised her. She noticed a clock above the door that read 8:23pm. She knew the time that she got to A&Co. was about 3:00pm.
"Angel, why are you here? Don't you hate me?" said Buffy groggily.
"I don't hate you Buffy." said Angel Firmly.
"Good." Said Buffy with a slight smile.
Just then, the doctor that was treating Buffy walked in.
"Ms. Summers, I'm Dr. Evie Fox, I have been treating you the last few hours." said Dr. Fox.
"I'm ready to leave now. I'm fine." snared Buffy.
"Ms. Summers, I'm afraid thats now going to be possible right
now. See, what happened is you had an anxiety attack. A
severe one at that, which isn't good for you baby. Even though your only 3 1/2 weeks into your pregnancy, it still can very
much affect your baby."
"Oh great. So why again can't I leave?"
"Well, we want to make sure your really okay, on the inside. To make sure there's no internal bleeding of the fetus or any organs. To help make sure of accuarcy, I'm going to have to ask you some questions." said Dr. Fox.
"Um, okay." said Buffy.
"Have you recently gone through a great deal of stress or anxiety? Like in the last 24-48 hours? questioned Dr. Fox.
Angel and Jensen "coughed" sarcastically at the same time.
"Well, um, Maybe? Okay yes." snapped Buffy.
"Okay I need to know what caused it." said Dr. Fox patiently.
"I'm not quite sure how I should answer that one." said Buffy.
"Okay, Ms. Summers, Is this your husband?" Said Dr. Fox pointing
towards Angel.
Angel looked at Buffy as if she were to answer in an ultimatiam situation.
"Hahaha no!" Buffy burst out in laughter.
Angel flashed a slight look of dissapointment.
"Then is he?" Said Dr. Fox becoming slightly irritated with the side situation going on.
"Yes, Dr. Fox, this is my husband." Buffy smiled.
You would have to be there to see the shocked look on Jensen's face.
"Wait, what did you just say? Because I could have sworn you just said that Jensen is your husband." Angel blasted out.
"Okay guys, this obiviously isn't a good time, I'll come back in alittle bit." Said Dr. Fox.
"That would be good.." Said Buffy.
"Okay Buffy, did you just say that we're married." Said Jensen still shocked.
"Yeah, I guess it was impulse." Said Buffy Laughing.
"Or just what you had on your mind." mumbled Angel.