Chapter 25 – Time for battle
Pegasus Galaxy, Atlantis,
Buffy and Faith walked in the room they had put Giles in. "Hello Rupert." Buffy told him catching the old man off guard. Buffy never called him Rupert. "I heard you wanted to talk to me, so talk."
Faith glared at the older man "and for your sake it had better be an apology." She added.
"Buffy I…I am sorry for had has happened but my dear girl, what have you done to yourself to become…what I saw earlier?" Giles asked.
Buffy snorted "I chose between becoming a host for a parasitic snake and free myself of it. The power I gained was an unexpected side effect from the choice I made."
"The slayer essence is supposed to kill the Goa'uld." Giles stated.
"Well in my case it killed it then mutated the remains into a greater source of the slayers power." Buffy informed him. "But I'm still in control. Unlike some people who went evil, I haven't tried to summon a demon, rape my friend or destroy the world yet." Buffy told him.
"Spike was still evil before his soul. Despite his behavior." Giles pointed out.
"I was talking about hyena possessed Xander, not Spike." Buffy told him.
"I see." Giles told her and fell silent. After a moment he said "You said before about wearing a mask around me, Willow and Xander. Hiding part of yourself from us."
"Well if I didn't I'd get into fights with you. You never could place yourself in my shoes after Angel lost his soul. Your feeling I understand, Angelus killed Miss. Calender but you still blamed Angel and me for it." Buffy told him.
"I never-" Giles protested.
"Not in the beginning but when Miss. Calender died I pushed myself to kill Angelus and you didn't care about how that made me feel. All you cared about is Angelus' death. Xander never liked Angel and with Angelus in play he and eventually Willow cheered me on to kill him. Or I believed Willow felt that way seeing I never found out Xander's message from Willow was changed by him until about 4 years later. And when Angel came back from Hell and I hid it from you guys knowing how'd you'd react to him you acted like you couldn't trust me with Angel. Like I'd ever knowingly let that demon out. The demon who hurt me more than any of you.
"True the demon killed Miss. Calender but Angelus wouldn't have killed her if she wasn't connected with me and tried to restore his soul for me. That demon did everything to hurt me. To think I'd risk bringing him back or allowing him to put me through all of that again you guys showed me how little you trusted me. And in turn I couldn't trust you with my feelings, about you or Angelus. This stuff build up over time until I got used to wearing a mask and letting you guys walk all over me thinking you are better than me, that you know what's best for me. Xander always blamed me for everything wrong in his life, it's a miracle he didn't blame him not marrying Anya on me. But while he cheered me on for killing Angel he told me to let him try and find another way for Anya, who killed even more people in her time than Angel ever did. Anya was killing people and needed to be stopped, I'm the slayer, the one with the power. It's my job to stop her, whether I like it or not. Instead of cheering me on this time for stopping someone evil he accused me of cutting myself off and acting like the law. Like I didn't have authority to judge Anya simply because he loved her."
"Freaking hypocrite." Faith cursed causing Buffy to give her sister slayer a small smile before turning back to the watcher.
"And Willow, she never approved of Angel after I came back. I don't know what Xander filled her head with but ever since then she didn't trust me either. Maybe it wasn't totally her fault because I thought I had lost my understanding friend thanks to Xander. But the moment we were friends again after I came back from my summer in L.A. she started pushing me towards other guys. Then Angel came back and he left school started and the process started again. I wouldn't even have thought twice about Parker if not for her and Xander. Then came of course Riley. Hen Willow ripped me out of the only place I was ever at peace without checking to see if maybe I was ok where I was. Like I told Dawn to tell you. So I come back, have to deal with money being gone in my absence and dealing with bills. You didn't even give me time to adjust to being alive again. You just forced me to deal with everything my giving me some money and leaving. Just like Hank did before you!" Buffy yelled at him tears rolling down her cheeks.
It was a verbal blow for Giles to be compared to Buffy previous thought of father.
"You told me I did the right thing in leaving." Giles pointed out.
Buffy snorted "Like I would have really let you carry any guilt around. And in a way you did, leave me for something good, I found my footing again. And learned to stand on my two feet again. But I became too strong and independent and when the stuff with Evil came I chose to distance myself from you in order to look at things more objectively. The only one I let myself get close to was Spike. Because he was the only one beside me who was strong enough to take down whatever Evil threw at us. You resented him for it, and I may have gone overboard in taking his side but I needed him. While Willow is powerful she was afraid of her power, Xander would just get hurt, Dawn I had to keep safe and you who kept placing more and more responsibility on me by bringing all potentials to my house. You didn't even pitch in with the money, just expected me to somehow deal with it and keep everyone safe.
"Truth is we've been lucky in the past years before the fight with the first. We've gone up against evil forces more powerful than us. Angelus, Glory, Adam, Dracula, any of them could have easily taken one of our lives. You were arrogant not to expect casualties. And when there were, when some got injured and killed by Caleb, instead of knowing we were still lucky to come out of there alive at all you guys blamed me. You who knows almost everything about the slayer, about me allowed some new teenage girls to judge me and instead of defending me you joined in bitter that I chose Spike someone who never betrayed me, over all of you who betrayed me again and again. If it wasn't for Spike I wouldn't even have gone after Caleb and would never have found the Scythe." Buffy said him and wiped the tears from her cheeks.
Giles stood there at a loss of words.
"I know I'm not perfect, but I deserved better from you." Buffy then told him and cast her eyes away from the man. "Despite all that you've put me through I still have this hope that it'll get better. Before my latest death I even thought I had forgiven you and that gang. I was wrong. I merely buried my true feelings along with the regret I felt for never making things right between us." Buffy looked at the older man "I do know that right now is not the time for us to fight amongst ourselves. The enemy is coming and we're ready, but we don't have men to spare to watch if you and the others stay in your rooms. So here is the deal I'm offering: You guys can come out and join the fight. But you'll be fighting under Major Sheppard, or I'll have you guys be brought to Teyla's people and you can wait the battle out there." Buffy told him.
"If that is the man you ere with earlier and who is that father of your child I'm not sure that we'll be safe." Giles told her.
"I know the man I'm in love with Giles. He'll do his best to win this battle. And this is a battle so you won't exactly be safe anywhere if you decide to fight." Buffy told him.
"I'll need to converse with the others, and we'll need for Willow to have her powers back." Giles negotiated.
"Willow and Kennedy are out, they are still unconscious and I'm still debating in whether to give Willow that kind of power again. The only way I'd allow her to have her powers back currently if she joins Devon's coven for good. She's not to leave there. I know her power has been helpful on several occasions but she needs to learn emotional control in difficult situations. I barely did something to Kennedy and she went nuts. You know I'm right Giles. Devon's coven treats magic as something sacred. Willow needs to see it that way too and to as a tool for her to use as revenge." Buffy told him.
"What right do you have to decide what is good for Willow?" Xander's voice asked her and Buffy sighed steeling herself before turning around to see Xander and a soldier she recognized as Stackhouse standing in the doorway.
"Because I'm the slayer and it falls under my responsibility because without my influence Willow would never have gone into magics. But I don't expect you to understand that. You're not a slayer. You may have been given power but you don't know how to be responsible for others and make difficult choices. You allow your personal feelings to ruin your objectivity for making a sound decision." Buffy told him.
"Tell me Xander, do you think if Anya came back evil, she should be killed or saved?" Faith asked her.
"What kind of question is that? Of course I'd save Anya." Xander told the other slayer.
"Even at the expense of someone else's life?" Faith half asked half stated.
"Well she helps save the Earth a couple of times." Xander reasoned weakly.
"And that makes her better than others? Despite the number of people she has killed she is more important than them? Why?" Faith asked him then answered her own question "Because she is more important to you. And that's why you can never understand the choices B. makes. The choices I support and will have to make too." Faith told him.
"Oh this is great coming from a psycho murder. I suppose you would kill Robin if he went evil." Xander challenged her to answer.
"If I had to, I'd like to think I would." Faith answered.
"So says the murder." Xander says to her with a disgusted look on his face aimed at her.
"That's another thing Xander. You're so quick to judge others. But you block out parts you don't want to hear. Like Faith may have killed a few people while she was evil but how many do you think Anya has killed. You should know she killed and tortured people for fun since she liked to share the details so much. But that's forgiven right, hundreds if not thousands of men killed by her but that's ok since she was your girlfriend." Buffy chided him. "Faith is so much better than you and you judging her like you're the better man, newsflash. You're not." Buffy turned to Giles "You know the choice you've got. You've got 40 minutes to decide while you talk with Xander. Stackhouse here will come back then for your answer. Faith, Stackhouse, let's go." Buffy told them and left.
"You guys better get it together. B. Is given you your last chance here. If you don't care about her anymore stay away from her and the family. If you guys still want to repair your friendship with her, take it. But if you hurt her again I'll let Illyria, Jack and John kill you and tell them to dump the bodies into space. Maybe I'll tie them to a drone while I fire them towards the sun." with that she followed Stackhouse out of the room.
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Pegasus Galaxy, Atlantis,
Buffy hadn't seen Giles, Xander or Stackhouse since then. It was 2 hours later and there was a space battle going on between the upgraded Goa'uld mother ship and the three Hive ships. Numerous darts had flown towards Atlantis and most were being destroyed by the special gun brought from Earth and Illyria using Willow's magic in combination with her knowledge of it. It had some devastating results.
Buffy glanced at the demon God from inside Atlantis, the demon God was on the balcony commanding huge typhoons to swipe the Darts away into the ocean.
Buffy looked back feeling guilty for not being on one of the front lines with Teyla, Faith, John and the others. But she was to wait here until the chair was finished, then she had to command Atlantis from within it. Using drones to destroy the ships. Originally this was John's task, but since she was pregnant she was being treated like she should be protected by both her father and John. She had protested but eventually given in because she too feared for her baby.
And even though she was inside here it wasn't like she wasn't doing anything. She was using her power as the Key to occasionally open a sudden portal and make a dart crash into another. It would take too much power to try this in space. Still Buffy felt the itch to go out and fight with her fists.
"Buffy Summers." Colonel Everett said through the comm. set.
"Yes Colonel, what can I do for ya?" Buffy asked while reminding herself he was on their side.
"I need some reinforcements near the naquadah generators. The Wraith are pressing us hard down here." Everett told her.
Buffy bit her lip, she had promised her father and John she would stay here… "I'll be right there." She answered. The was the slayer, protecting other was her job. Even if she was pregnant, she'd be careful. But there was no way a few Wraith could be that much of a problem, still, she better be careful. She ran through the hallways of the now not so Lost city of Atlantis.
It wasn't long before she reached the naquadah generator room. She stopped in a dead stop as Colonel Everett came out holding a Wraith stunner and shot her. Buffy's slayer reflexes allowed her to duck to the side, but the blast still grazed her.
"What the hell are you doing Colonel!? I'm on your side." Buffy yelled at him as she kept her eyes at him glaring as she allowed her slayer healing to throw off the effects, but it was taking much longer than normal.
"Same side alright, for someone who killed her commanding officer because she couldn't get along with him and so her boyfriend who be the new military leader!" Colonel Everett screamed and fired at her again.
Buffy threw her body to the other side grinding her teeth as it impacted hard against the other wall. "What the hell are you talking about! I tried to save Sumner from the Wraith."
"You mean to tell me that you with all your power couldn't save one man from just a few Wraith. You don't seem to have that problem now. I told you there were Wraith here pinning us down and you came to the rescue all on your own!" Everett yelled as he continued to fire.
Buffy had had enough she opened a portal in front of her and led it out of another portal behind Everett. The man went down and Buffy advanced to him and took the Wraith stunner from him "I didn-" Buffy was cut off as a blast erupted from the Wraith stunner and she was thrown back.
Buffy landed a couple of yards away from Everett and groaned as she breathed heavily, "my baby." Buffy said trying with all her strength to look at her stomach. Her clothes were thorn and there were small and deep slashes spread around her body. She was bleeding a lot. Buffy reached out to the power of the slayer needing it's healing ability to save her child and herself.
The form of Colonel Sumner walked arrogantly towards Buffy. It stopped by Everett to say "Thank you Everett. You're a real pal." Sumner then changed into Buffy grinning. "Really Colonel, I couldn't have killed that nasty slayer without you."
The Colonel's eyes widened at the realization he had been played by the enemy.
Evil walked towards Buffy and bend over to face the slayer "It's over, you're dying. Stop trying to delay it. Even you're advanced slayer healing can't save your baby. And you don't want to live with losing it, do you?" Evil as Buffy smirked.
"Get away from her!" someone ordered Evil.
Evil looked up "How did you get here?"
"Buffy may have taken my powers, but I can still use the power of the Earth." Willow Rosenberg told Evil.
"Are you going to save her? She did take your powers." Evil pointed out.
"It doesn't matter. Buffy and I have…problems. But I'm willing to work on them. She's been my best friend too long to give up on her now. Besides, she recently saved someone's soul I care more about than anyone else." Willow said.
Willow bend over the blond slayer and placed her hand over the slayers stomach. "Buffy?" Willow asked searching her friends eyes with her own.
"Will…my baby" Buffy managed to croak out.
"Don't worry Buffy, I'll save both of you." Willow said with her famous resolve face.
"No, I won't let you. Not when I'm so close to finally get writhe of her" Evil said and jumped forwards through Willow and screamed as her body reached the point where Willow's hand connected with Buffy's body.
Willow was violently thrown back and looked with fear to her best friend being engulfed into a darkness. Willow forced her body up and placed her hand against the edge of the darkness only to have it recoil. "Buffy!" Willow yelled desperately as she tried to find her in the shadow sphere Evil and her were in.
"Willow? What are you doing her?" A voice asked.
"Giles?" Willow asked looking at him "Oh God Giles. We have to save her! She's trapped in there!"
"Calm down Will and tell us what happened." Xander told her.
"It's Buffy. She's in there. She was hurt bad by something when I came here and I went to heal her but The First Evil or whatever it's called said something about being to close to finally having Buffy out of the way and jumped through me into the connection I had established with Buffy's body in order to heal her. Next I know I'm thrown back and Buffy is trapped in that!" she said waving towards the shadow sphere. "It's like no barrier or shield spell I know of Giles. I don't know how to get through!"
"Buffy is in there?" Stackhouse asked as he got up from his place near Colonel Everett and walked over to the shadow sphere and raised his p90 at it.
"No, don't shoot! We don't know what it would do. You could hit Buffy accidentally." Giles told him.
"Should I try throwing fire at it?" Xander asked.
"No I'm afraid that would be useless. It seems Evil had taken a more direct form of fighting Buffy." Giles told him.
"What do you mean?" Xander asked.
"I mean Xander is that Evil used the connection Willow established with Buffy to enter Buffy in order to kill her." Giles told them.
"Evil is…inside of her." Willow asked.
"I'm afraid so. But we can't give up hope yet. The sphere around her would indicate Evil hasn't gained control of her body. Buffy is fighting it." Giles told them.
"There must be something we can do for her." Willow said.
"There is. We can make this city Wraith free and safe for her when she beats the bitch once and for all." Xander told her letting his p90 rest on his shoulder.
"We can't just leave her here. And what if she loses." Willow asked.
"As strong as Buffy is there is that chance. This is Evil after all." Giles told them.
"No way Buffy is going to let that bitch beat her." Xander told him.
"Xander this is Evil, the thing that raised an army so large slayers and if you remember Anya fell." Giles told him. "It has been around for a long time, and won't be defeated easily."
"Well Glory was around a long time and Buffy beat her. And Buffy beat Evil back in Sunnydale too. Xander is right, Buffy will win an kick Evil's ass." Willow said resolve forming within her.
"Of course I'm right, Buffy hates losing. She'll kick Evil's ass." Xander told them confidently.
"Buffy is the strongest person I know. I may not have been around long all the supernatural stuff but Buffy is tough. I need to contact command. If Buffy is indisposed Major Sheppard will have to replace her in the chair. He's not going to be happy about this." Stackhouse told them.
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Pegasus Galaxy, Atlantis,
'I'm gonna kill her. As soon as she better she's dead…wait I can't kill her because she's pregnant. Well I can keep her locked up somewhere until she gives birth then kill her.' John Sheppard thought as he made his way towards the command chair. 'Stubborn woman, can't not be a freaking hero for 9 months. 9 measly months. So the Wraith attack, she's pregnant. Pregnant women don't fight.' He continued to rant inside his head while worrying whether the woman he loved and was carrying his child was fighting an ancient entity.
He finally reached the room the Chair was being given the final touches. "Let's get this over with." Sheppard muttered and walked towards the chair only to suddenly collapsed not a feet away from the chair.
"Major Sheppard!?" McKay yelled and bend over the Major's body laying the Major on his back.
"What is wrong with him?" Zelenka asked.
"I don't know but he's unconscious. This is just great. Who's going to save us now? Dr. Beckett?" McKay complained then slapped the Major in effort to wake him up. "Damn it."
"Now what?" Zelenka asked.
"Get Dr. Beckett here." Weir said.
"I was kidding." McKay told her.
"We don't have any other options." Weir told him.
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Inside the Shadow sphere, Buffy's mind,
Buffy stood in a large room seeing a small flicker of light being enveloped by black and green energies "What's going on." Buffy wondered out loud.
"Isn't it obvious slayer. That's your power doing everything it can to save your child. Not that it will matter once I have killed you." Buffy turned around just in time to see Evil in her body deck her.
"I have had it with you slayer. This time, you're dead. I'm going to kill you with everything I got." Evil told the slayer as the body she was in changed.
Buffy watched in horror as the thing she had only seen a few times before began to take shape. The was Evil's true form. The ugly demonic thing it was here, in her mind. What did that mean? Buffy glanced back at the cluster of energies swirling and enveloping the small flicker of light.
Buffy suddenly rolled aside to evade a pincer like leg which crashed beside her in the ground.
Buffy stood up as she tried to figure out what the hell was going on. First Willow had bend over her with the promise of healing her, then she was here fighting the first. Had it somehow followed her here, wanting her dead so badly it placed itself at risk at doing so. Still without her slayer or Key power, Evil had a big chance of succeeding.
Buffy jumped backwards evading a swipe from one of the pincer legs and being reminded how helpless she felt against the vampire Kravcheck or whatever its name was. She had lost her powers back then too…or well not really, they were suppressed by the drug Giles had used on her. She still managed to beat him in the end by tricking him to drink holy water. But Evil was smart and Buffy doubted holy water would kill it.
Still no chance in not trying, and since this was her mind…bag appeared next to her and Buffy grabbed a bottle of holy water and threw it with everything she had at Evil who intercepted it with its pincer leg as the bottle smashed nothing happened.
"You think me a vampire girl!" Evil said in a demonic voice "I am Evil, the thing darkness fea-" Evil stopped as a crossbow bolt struck it's front chest and it's tip managed to get stuck in its thick skin. "foolish girl." Evil said and advanced at her and swiped both front pincer legs at her.
Buffy felt an tremendous pain in her side as she was swept aside then something penetrated her body. Buffy saw the mass of powers behind Evil weaken. "It's over slayer."
"No." Buffy said protesting weakly. She was not going to give up, she couldn't give up. Her child depended on her. John and her father depended on her.
Buffy gritted her teeth and held both out in front of her. Two identical swords appeared in her hand and she used all her strength to stick them into the neck of Evil.
Evil screamed and stepped back swinging both front pincer legs in attempt to remove the swords. Not even noticing Buffy being swung away from it.
Buffy coughed blood but sat up anyways to see the damage she inflicted upon Evil. She was no fool, she knew she only bought herself time.
'I need help. I can't defeat it alone in my current state.' Buffy thought to herself.
"Mommy…" Buffy heard an unfamiliar weak female voice. She looked over at the bundle of still swirling energies.
"My baby." Buffy said then reached out through the energies off the Key to her link with John and pulled it back.
There was a green flash and Buffy watched as the familiar shape of John was before her. "John." Buffy said weakly.
John looked around 'ok, where am I now?' John thought until he heard his name. He turned sideways to see "Buffy" he rushed over to her and notices her wounds "Buffy? God what happened?"
"No time. Give me your hand." Buffy rasped and John was about to give her his hand when he suddenly flew aside by something impacting hard in his side. "John!" Buffy yelled and forced her damaged and weakened body up.
"He wasn't invited." Evil told her before attacking Buffy. Buffy rolled aside looked up imaged a piano and then let it drop on Evil. Not waiting for the result Buffy crawled closer to John who was looking at the true form of Evil being hurt by a falling piano.
"John." Buffy called getting his attention.
"Is that Evil's true form?" John asked.
Buffy smiled slightly, whoever said her guy was stupid obviously not clever enough to look beneath his act. She nodded and held out her hand.
John took her hand in his and immediately felt weakened but he noticed Buffy's body began to heal itself at a rapid rate.
Buffy suddenly let go feeling stronger and more energized then since she got here. She noticed with satisfaction that only a green energy was now enveloping her baby. That was good, her baby was obviously out of danger enough for her slayer powers to return to her.
Buffy looked John in the eye and was about to say something when John blurted out "Mary me?"
Buffy blinked at him, had she heard him right, did he just propose. She looked at his eyes and saw the love there along with him fear, fear of what? She wondered then remembered right she needed to answer him. "Yes." She said and then kissed briefly. Buffy then remembered the situation they were in and continued on saying what she wanted to say before he proposed.
"Thanks John, now go save us all by saving Atlantis." Buffy told him placing a brief kiss on his lips before he was engulfed in green light. Buffy followed the link to John's body and placed his essence back inside of it making sure he was alright for a second longer. She whispered "And I'll save myself and our baby from Evil." She then retreated to her own body just in time to hold the pincer-like legs of Evil in both of her hands.
"Guess what?" Buffy asked Evil as she swung the legs over her body taking Evil's body with her crashing it to the ground behind her. "I'm feeling better."
Black energy swirled around Buffy as she held up her hand and summoned her imaginary sword and attacked Evil.
Buffy evaded on pincer leg by jumping aside and she immediately brought her sword down hard cutting the leg off. She didn't stop. Buffy jumped high and landed on Evil's back and brought her sword down hard sticking it inside Evil.
Evil screamed and threw her off. Buffy grunted at the impact against the ground but quickly flipped herself up to see Evil being surrounded by a white glow.
"You will not defeat me, you puny slayer. I am Evil, I have existed for centuries." Evil told her.
"Everything eventually dies." Buffy told it. "Death is a slayers gift. It is my gift to you Evil." Buffy said reaching out to the darkness inside her. Large shadow like worm sudden sprout out of Buffy and shot at Evil. Evil screamed in pain as the darkness consumed it.
Buffy watched with fascination as Evil was surrounded by the darkness of the source of Slayer strength. Without warning the shadow covering the light cracked and Buffy shielded her eyes from the bright light as it exploded.
When the intensively of the light faded Buffy removed her hand and looked at where Evil had stood. All that was left were pieces of demon flesh and part of a pincer leg.
"What the hell happened?" Buffy asked herself out loud.
Her surrounding changed to the all too familiar desert and a familiar figure "Seneya." Buffy stated.
"Hello my child. You have done well in harboring the source of our strength. But your time for that is past." Seneya told her.
"Just like that? I'm not a slayer anymore." Buffy asked.
Seneya smiled at Buffy "You'll always be a slayer. You are just as much as a slayer as you were before. As your sister Faith still is. As I said your time to carry the burden of the source of our strength is passed."
"You mean the mutated snake thing that gave me access to more of the slayers power is gone?" Buffy asked?
Seneya nodded "Oh, good. I mean it was sweet to be all powerful Buffy but it kinda creeped me out. You know the whole spiel about having too much power and it corrupting you." Buffy told her, then suddenly asked "Wait what about my baby? And John?"
"The child you carry is fine. As for your mate. You know that better than I. Fell your connection to him and know. "
Buffy smiled as she did just that then grew serious as she remembered the situation in Atlantis. "So was there anything else I need to know because I'm needed back in Atlantis."
"Just remember to be true to yourself my child." Seneya said cryptically. "I won't be seeing you for a while." Seneya added.
"Does that mean you'll be on Faith's back and I'll get a break?" Buffy asked.
Buffy saw Seneya nod before she blinked again and saw the familiar face of Willow looking down at her concerned.
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Pegasus Galaxy, Atlantis,
John groaned as he raised his weakened body up in a sitting position.
"Major Sheppard!" Dr. Carson Beckett said loudly grateful the man was awake so Rodney McKay would stop forcing him into the chair.
"He's unconscious Carson, and Buffy is indisposed so you'll have to do it." Rodney McKay said having not noticed Major Sheppard getting up.
Carson Beckett rushed around Rodney and towards the Major.
"Oh, Major, you're away. Have a nice nap hmm? Feeling rested now hmm?" Rodney asked him.
"Well actually-" John started but was cut off by Carson. He also heard Buffy in his head saying 'And I'll save myself and our baby from Evil.'
"Good then you can get in the chair and save us all." Dr. Rodney McKay told him he and Carson helped the Major to his feet and into the chair.
The chair activated and John leaned back focusing on the task given to him.
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Pegasus Galaxy, Atlantis, infirmary,
"Welcome back Buffy." Giles said.
"Good to be back, how long was I out."
"Too long." A voice said and Buffy winced as she recognized Jack's voice.
"I'm sorry." Buffy told him.
"You really are grounded this time." Jack told her.
"You can't ground me." Buffy protested.
"Yes he can." John told her.
"But…but…I only left to save a man. How was I supposed to know he was tricked by Evil and tried to kill me?" Buffy asked them.
"You could have called someone else to help Colonel Everett. You Buffy Summers are being punished for not relying on others." John told her.
"Giles?" Buffy whined.
"I'm sorry Buffy but my hands are tied." The Englishman told her.
"But what about a slayers duty and all that?"Buffy asked and locked eyes with Faith "Faith help me out here. I was right to go, right?"
"As slayer yes. As soon to be mother no." Faith told her.
"Just because I'm pregnant doesn't mean I'm made of glass." Buffy complained.
"Just concentrate on motherhood for the moment Buff." Xander told her.
"But…but…" Buffy looked around for support but found non and let out a deep sigh. "Fine I'll give you a week for me to takes things easy." She quoted the last bit with her fingers. "But after that I'm back on active duty."
"5 weeks." John said.
"2, and you're pushing it." Buffy told him.
"4 weeks and 2 of them you'll spent under your fathers watchful eye." John told her.
"You are evil." Buffy informed him "Just for that I'm not giving you any for those 4 weeks."
John groaned "Buffy"
"Don't worry John, she'll never stick to that. As a slayer she can do two things to blow off steam after a work- out. And since Buffy refuses to become fat the horny part of the H & H theory will kick in. plus with all those crazed hormones you two will be having loads of sex." Faith told him.
"By the way Faith Seneya is now going to bother you more while I get to lay back and get fat." Buffy told Faith grinning evilly at the other slayer.
"Oh great, more cryptic crap from cave-woman." Faith muttered annoyed.
"Well do make sure Seneya gets the message that you're off duty on our wedding." John told her.
"Our wedding?" Buffy asked.
"You said yes, remember." John reminded her.
"Yes, I remember. I just…you know what never mind. We're getting married." Buffy said and pulled him to her kissing him lovingly.
"Right, we'll just leave you two alone." Giles said.
"I'd better be maid of honor Buffy. It's bad enough Faith and Illyria are Godmothers. I am your best friend and if I'm not maid of honor I'll let Faith organize your bachelorette party." Willow threatened.
"Oh I can see it now, male strippers everywhere." Faith said dreamily.
Buffy shot her a panicked look before nodding "Of course Will. Maid of honor, all yours." Buffy then smiled knowing whatever problems there were between her and Willow, at least Willow was willing to work on it to save their friendship.