Chapter 25: Buffy's Kid Adventure
Buffy left for the DMV bright and early, in fact she left the house to go to the DMV before the place way open! She heard horror stories about how long the lines could be and how long it took. She wanted to make sure she got there before everyone else so she could get in and out. She didn't want to dedicate her whole day to taking a test for her permit that she didn't even know if she was going to pass. She felt confident that she would pass it though. 'I think its Angel. He makes me feel like I can do whatever I want and succeed at it.' Angel had taught her a lot when he took her driving and the last few nights he had been helping her study the drivers manual. On her walk to the DMV Buffy called Lisa, the Army Wife that Angel wanted her to meet. Buffy told Lisa that she was going to the DMV so she didn't know when she could meet her but she did want to see her today. Lisa told her she understood about the DMV and she herself dreaded going there.
When Buffy got to the DMV they had just opened a few minutes before and there were already people there! 'Do these people live here?' she joked to herself.
She got in line and waited. It only took her 10 minutes to get to the front of the line. She asked for the permit test and they gave her a bunch of paper work to fill out instead. 'Okay, I guess this comes first.' Buffy looked at the paper work that asked her questions about herself. 'I didn't know there was a pre test test.' She filled out the paper work and then got back in line to wait again. Luckily there still weren't a lot of people there and she was threw the line in 20 minutes. She now had her permit test and was sitting at a little school desk. 'We didn't even have this small of desks in high school! Are these for like first graders. Damn!' Buffy started her test, she felt like it was really easy. She didn't know why she couldn't take it before. 'Oh yeah, because I sucked at Drivers Ed.'
Buffy finished her test faster then she thought she would. She got up and walked over to the only line that had no one in it. The woman who gave her, her test told her that this was the line for "the grading." which she again, dreaded. She hated people grading her and this was even worse because she was graded right in front of her. Buffy fiddled nervously as the woman looked at Buffy's test writing a bunch check marks on each questions. 'Oh great! I failed!'
The woman looked up at Buffy, expressionless. "Alright Ms. Summers, if you would step over here we will take your picture."
Buffy didn't know what that meant. "I passed?"
"You passed." The woman told her without even looking at her but instead standing at the camera waiting for Buffy.
"YES!" Buffy shouted jumping up and down. She then earned a small smile from the woman behind the counter.
Buffy stepped in front of the white background and fixed her hair a little. "Okay, ready."
The woman clicked the picture the same second Buffy told her she was ready. 'Did she get me with my mouth open? I don't want to go around for the rest of forever with a permit that looks like I'm a hooked fish!'
"You will be getting it in the mail." She told Buffy and handed her a temporary permit.
Buffy walked to her mothers Art Gallery, she wanted to tell her that she had FINALLY passed her permit test after trying for almost 7 years. She walked into the front door of the Gallery causing the bell above the door to ring so Joyce and the other employees would know when a customer arrived.
When the bell rang Joyce was talking to a customer about a painting that was hanging on the wall in the show room. She glanced over towards the door and saw Buffy, giving her a smile. Joyce finished up with the customer and met Buffy in her office.
"Hey Sweetie. What do I owe for this visit? Three times to two days." She smiled. Then her smile fell from her face. "Is there something wrong?"
Buffy shook her head. "Nope. Just wanted to show you this!" She said pulling out her temporary permit.
Joyce took it out of her hand. "Wow! Sweetie, this is great. It only took what… 6 or 7 years." She joked.
Buffy smiled. "Yeah, took me long enough."
Buffy sat and talked to her mother for a few more minutes and then asked her if she could get a hold of Angelus if her mom could drive her to base. Her mom said yes of course. Joyce wanted to see Angelus again, she thought he was a very nice young man who would treat her daughter well. She knew she was going to see him Friday but she felt she should get to know him better. For some reason she thought Angelus was going to be sticking around in their lives for longer then just the 10 months Buffy had told her.
Buffy text Angel and asked him if he could meet her at the gate of the Army Base. He text her back and said only if she comes in the next 45 minutes or his break would be over and he wouldn't be able to.
On the drive to the Army Base Joyce starting asking Buffy questions about her relationship with Angelus. Buffy actually didn't mind telling her mother, as long as she didn't get to personal.
"So you two have been together for…" Joyce asked the same question she had asked last night.
"A month, mom." Buffy said fixing her sunglasses.
Joyce glanced at Buffy and then looked back to the road. "I just ask because you seem to be very close."
Buffy looked out the passenger side window. "I guess we are."
"He really cares about you." Joyce smiled.
Buffy looked at her mother. "I hope so."
"He is a gentlemen too. He pulled the chair out for us last night, said ladies first. I saw him open the car do for you when you got to the house and when you left last night." Joyce pointed out a few things she liked about Angel's manners.
Buffy smiled. "Yeah, she is always like that."
She glanced at Buffy again. "I think he is good for you. Even if he is older."
Buffy looked forward. "Riley was older too."
Joyce nodded. "Yes, that's true. I guess you just like older guys… and there is nothing wrong with that sweetie. Older guys are more likely to be able to take care of you."
"Its not about being taken care of mom. I thought maybe 25 was to old because things didn't work out with Riley but now I realize, its not about age. Its about the person you are with, about you. Your relationship. Riley and I were just doomed. Things started out kind of okay but there wasn't that instant attraction with him, there was with Angel. From the second I saw him, I wanted to be with him. I just didn't think it would happen." Buffy told her mother.
Joyce smiled. "Well… I like him." Buffy smiled at her mom. "I didn't like Riley at first, it took me a little time to come around to him. But Angelus, I can see how much you care about him and how much he cares about you. Just from meeting him once I can tell that if you ever needed anything you could just ask him and he would make sure you had it. He would take care of you. That's all I ever wanted Buffy. To know you are taken care of when I can't take care of you." Joyce looked at Buffy and smiled. "it's a mom thing. Someday you will understand."
As they pulled up to the Army Base gate Buffy saw Angel leaning on the hood of his car right outside the gate. Buffy smiled.
"We cant go in the gate?" Joyce asked.
"Not without Angel in the car with us." She told her mom unbuckling her seatbelt and getting out of the car. 'I will never get bored of seeing him in his ACU's' she thought.
Angel saw Buffy getting out of the car and he pushed off the hood to stand up. "You have a lot of work ahead of you, Mister!" Buffy yelled with a smile.
"And why is that?" He asked.
When Buffy got close enough to him, she put her arms around his neck, he lifted her off the ground so her face was level with his. "I passed." She told him happily.
Angel pulled her closer to hug her. "I knew you could." He kissed her.
"7 years! 7 years of trying to get my license and then you help me for a week and I get it on the first try! I think you have a future in teaching… or at least encouragement." Buffy told him.
Angel held her tighter. "The only person I will teach is you… and our baby of course."
"You could be my own personal cheerleader." Buffy smiled as Angel set her back onto the ground.
Angel kissed her lightly. "Cheerleading is your bit."
"I know you have to get back to work but, I just wanted to see you… and tell you I passed." Buffy said the last part with excitement. "I missed you."
"I always miss you." He whispered as Joyce got out of the car.
Joyce smiled at Angel. "Hello Angelus. Don't you look handsome."
"Of course he does. This is what hooked me." Buffy said pointing to his ACU's
"Hooked you? Or sent you running for the hills?" Angel joked.
Buffy smiled and took his hand in hers. "I didn't run very far."
"Is everything still set for tomorrow? I know your parents are coming so if you need to change our plans that is fine." Joyce told Angelus.
"Believe me, Joyce I would rather spend time with you then my own parents." Angelus told her smiling.
"Just making sure." Joyce smiled.
Angel looked at the Military Police at the gate. "I better get going, I will see you are home Baby." He said kissing her. "Your still on with Lisa, right?"
"Yup, we are meeting in a few hours." She told him. She gave him a quick kiss again and backed away until their arms couldn't reach any further and let go of his hand. "Bye."
"Bye Beautiful." He smiled getting back into his car.
Joyce dropped Buffy off at Mars Investigations to get a few hours of work in before she was going to go meet up with the wife of one of Angelus' friends. Joyce liked it that Buffy was getting to know new people, she loved her daughters friends but she had the same friends for so long she needed to meet new people too.
Buffy walked into the office. "Hey Keith! I'm here."
"Hello Buffy." Keith said walking out of his office to pour a cup of coffee that was in the little kitchen area off of the main office.
"I passed the test! I am now a permitted driver and one step closer to being the proud owner of a Chrysler LeBaron that we are both very familiar with." She smiled. "Okay, so work. What do you want me to do?"
"Nothing. Take the day off. Everything will be fine. Go celebrate getting your permit." Keith said drinking his coffee.
Buffy looked at Keith suspiciously. "You have been giving me a lot of time off as of late… what going on? Are you going to fire me?"
Keith walked back into his office. "Buffy, why would I fire you? You are one of the two best employees I have."
"You have three employees." She reminded him of Weevil. Navarro.
"I know." He told her. "Go. Relax. Because I'm giving Veronica the day off tomorrow."
Buffy called Lisa and told her she could meet when ever was good for her, they decided to meet up in a half hour at Weatherly Park, then take Lisa's two daughters out for a late launch.
Buffy still thought Keith was acting strange. She had never had that many days off since she got her Private Investigation License. Back in high school when she was just the secretary she would often get a lot of time off so she could keep her grades up… well with Buffy having an Average C was keeping her grades up. She just didn't like school, it was all about stuff that happened a long time ago and as Giles always says Buffy likes to live in the now.
Buffy sat down on a bench by the play ground. She looked around, she didn't know exactly what Lisa looked like but Angel had described her to Buffy so she was looking for a woman with long black hair and brown eyes. There was one woman with dark hair but she couldn't tell what color her eyes were because she was wearing sunglasses. Buffy didn't know if she should approach the woman or not but as soon as a little boy walked up to her Buffy went with not. Lisa had two daughters, not a song.
Buffy started to look around again, a woman walked up to the bench and sat down next to Buffy. "Hi, Buffy… right?" said the tall woman with dark hair. She put her sunglasses on the top of her head revealing her dark eyes.
"Yeah, Lisa?" Buffy asked. The woman nodded. "How did you know it was me? I didn't know exactly what you looked like. I thought that woman over there was you." Buffy laughed pointing in the direction of the woman with the little boy.
Lisa laughed. "Angelus. He carries a picture of you in his ACU's. They aren't suppose to but Angelus is higher rank so they don't really question him."
"Oh." Buffy said a little shocked. "I didn't know he had a picture of me with him."
"Yeah." Lisa nodded. "Its of you sitting on his lap at the guys' house and well I guess your house too. it's a cute picture."
Buffy smiled at the thought. She remembered when that picture was taken. It was a few days after Angelus had told the other guys about them being together. Doyle took the picture saying the needed a "couple picture" but she thought it was sitting in a frame on his night stand. She had one by her alarm clock too. As far as she knew the picture was still on his night stand, unless he got a copy of it. Since then they had taken a lot of "couple pictures" most of them took place at the party they had at the house or their weekend in LA. Buffy had a thing with going camera happy and she took a lot of pictures of them in the hotel, at Caritas Bar and swimming at the hotel. Her favorite one though was the picture when they first got to the hotel after they had made love. They were laying in the bed together, all the picture revealed was their faces and bare shoulders though that didn't mean they didn't take some dirty pictures too. They just didn't show anyone.
"Which ones are yours?" Buffy asked.
Lisa pointed at too little girls with brown hair playing on the slide. "Kaylee and Haley"
"Twins?" Buffy asked.
"No!" Lisa said shaking her head. "10 months apart. Kaylee is 2 years old and Haley is 3. I found out I was pregnant with Haley right before John left for his deployment and when he came back from his deployment… well Kaylee was conceived."
Buffy's mouth made a O shape. "Deployments are 10 months long?"
Lisa shook her head again. "Normally they are a year and they get to come home for 2 weeks once they have been gone for 6 months but for that certain deployment the guys were only gone for 9 months. I was about a month along with Haley when John left." She explained.
Buffy looked down at her stomach. She should be about a month along. Lisa looked over at Buffy who had put her hand on her stomach. "Buffy, are you… pregnant?" She asked.
Buffy gave her a small smile and nodded. "As far as we know. I took a home pregnancy test and it came up positive. I have a doctors appointment but they couldn't get me in for 2 weeks."
"How far along?" Lisa asked Buffy.
"5 weeks." Buffy said watching Lisa's daughters play together. It was cute how Haley waited for Kaylee to come down the slide and took her by the hand to go somewhere else to play. Buffy started to rethink that having a baby would be a bad thing. Haley and Kaylee seemed so sweet, until they both started crying that is. Lisa got up from the bench to see what was wrong and Buffy followed her. If she was going to be a mom then she needed to know what to do in a situation where your child was crying.
Lisa bent down and asked the girls what was wrong. Kaylee sniffled. "At oy ushed me."
"A boy pushed you?" Lisa asked her. Buffy didn't know how Lisa could understand what she was saying.
"What boy?" Lisa asked her daughters. Haley pointed to the boy in the sand box. She gave them both a hug and asked "Would you two girls like to go eat now?" They both nodded.
As they were walking to Lisa's car Haley took Buffy's hand in hers when they were about to walk into the parking lot. "Hi." She smiled at Buffy.
"Hi." Buffy smiled back.
When they were all in the car Lisa asked her daughters where they would like to eat. Both girls said "Old McDonalds!" 'I guess that means McDonalds.' Buffy guessed.
Once they got their food the sat down to eat. Buffy and Lisa talked about their lives and what it was like to be with someone in the Military, it was hard. Buffy hadn't even been with Angel for very long and she was already worried about everything that came with dating a man in the service. Once the girls where done eating they went to play on the Play Structure.
"What are you going to do if you are pregnant?" Lisa asked "I mean, do you and Angelus want it?"
"I didn't really think I had a choice in the matter. I mean Angelus doesn't seem to not want it, he talks about what could happen once the baby is born and planning for a nursery and stuff but he is being stationed somewhere else in 10 months and chances I will ever see him again are slim." Buffy said pretending the straw wrapper was extremely interesting.
"Why wouldn't you every see him again?" Lisa asked.
"Well he would be working and he cant come see me here and I work a lot as it is. I wouldn't be able to take time off to see him." Buffy explained.
You guys would just break up when he leaves? That's pretty rough." Lisa said.
Buffy looked down again. "As of right now… that's the plan. He said he would be there for me and the baby but that would be hard with him not even living in the same state. My dad isn't there for me and my sister and he only lives a few hours away."
"That really sucks." Lisa was clearly upset that Buffy and Angel wouldn't be able to stay together.
"It's the way it is." Buffy whispered.
Buffy heard a kid crying. She looked around. "Is that…?"
"Haley" Lisa finished getting up from her seat. Buffy and Lisa looked around in the play structure but couldn't see Haley or Kaylee. Buffy looked up and saw Haley, she was in one of the higher tunnels. They tried calling her name to get her to come down but she just cried harder.
"I feel so bad that we cant go up there, my daughter is crying and I cant even get to her. Even if there wernt signs all over the place that said you have to be under a certain height and weight to go on this thing… I don't think it would hold me." Lisa said upset.
"I don't know…." Buffy said looking around and then climbed into the play structure, into the tubes to get to Haley.
"Buffy, be careful." She heard Lisa call to her.
It didn't take long before Buffy got to Haley. "What wrong, Sweetie?"
Haley hugged Buffy clinging to her. She tried to tell Buffy what happened but she couldn't understand the little girl. "Its okay, just calm down and tell me what happened."
Once again the little girl was to upset and Buffy couldn't understand what she was saying. Buffy say a red mark on Haley's face and asked her what it was from but the 3 year old was still to upset. Buffy picked her up, Haley wrapped her arms around Buffy's neck and her legs around her waist as Buffy began to climb her way back out of the play structure trying to calm the little girls crying.
When Buffy was out of the play area Lisa took Haley from Buffy. "Thank you, Buffy."
"I guess it helps being short." Buffy joked.
"Honey, what happened?" Lisa asked Haley. Buffy couldn't understand the little girls response but Lisa seemed too and she looked very upset.
They took Haley over to sit with them at the table and watched to keep an eye out for Kaylee, it wasn't more then 5 minutes until Kaylee to started crying. Kaylee ran over to her mother hugging her leg. Buffy saw a bite mark on the 2 year olds arm. 'These kids are so mean!' Buffy thought.
After a few minutes Kaylee was fine and wanted to go back to play, Haley was still upset. It seemed that Haley was more of the emotional one and Kaylee was tougher even thought she was the younger one.
Haley told her mother she needed to go potty. Lisa didn't want to chance anything because Haley was potty training and would often get upset if she had an accident. Lisa asked if Buffy could keep an eye out for Kaylee while she took Haley.
Buffy was watching Kaylee play at the top of the structure when a boy that looked about 5 or 6 ran to his mother with his hand over his mouth. Buffy made a grossed out face when she saw the boy had thrown up in his hand. 'Oh, that's nasty!' she thought. She looked back at Kaylee who had just gone down the slide and ran to Buffy giving her a hug. 'That was random, but cute.' Buffy thought. Buffy saw something on the back of Kaylee's shorts when she turned around. 'Oh god!' Buffy took Kaylee's hand to keep her from going anywhere. She took a napkin and tried to wipe Kaylee's shorts off, Lisa came back and sat down.
"What happened?" Lisa asked.
"A kid threw up and she must have gone threw it on the slide." She said looking towards the structure and saw another little boy wiping himself off with a napkin as well.
"Okay, I am going to go tell someone that there is throw up on the slide." Lisa said getting up. "and then we will go. Way to much is happening during one trip to McDonalds." Buffy nodded.
Once Lisa came back she started to get their stuff together. "Someone already told them. I guess a few kids got it on them." She looked at the back of Kaylee's shorts. "We are going to have to stop somewhere to get you some new shorts." She said taking the dirty shorts off.
'Well, I guess her shirt is kind of long enough to be a short dress.' Buffy thought looking at Kaylee who's diaper was showing.
Buffy walked into the condo dragging herself up the stairs, going into Angel's room she threw herself on his bed closing her eyes. 'Sleep sounds so good right now!' Today was crazy. It started out okay with getting her permit but kids are crazy! It was a long ass day!
Angel's door flew open hitting the wall. "Sorry man." Gunn said as he and Angel walked in carrying Buffy's vanity desk.
Buffy picked her head up enough to see what they were doing and let it fall back against the bed not even having the energy to hold her own head up. "What are you doing?" she asked closing her eyes.
"Hey Baby. Didn't know you were home. We are moving your stuff in here since my parents will be here tomorrow. We are just leaving your bed in there, the night stand and maybe your desk for now." Angel said setting the vanity by the window. "How was your day?"
"Oh my GOD!" Buffy yelled. "Kids are brutal! First Kaylee got pushed down at the Park, then we went to McDonalds for lunch and Kaylee got bit! And Haley got kicked in the face! She got KICKED. IN. THE. FACE!" She said each word slowly to make sure Angel understood. "Oh! And then another kid threw up on the slide and Kaylee went down the slide. It got ALL over her shorts! Do you know how disgusting that was to clean? And we had to go to Wal Mart to get her a new pair of shorts!"
"Sounds like this Kaylee kids got some bad luck." Gunn laughed walking out of the room.
"Kids are brutal." Buffy said again shaking her head.
Angel walked over to the bed and smiled down at Buffy. "Sounds like you have a good day." He joked.
"Hold me." She whispered holding her arms out to him.
Angel laughed bending down blanketing her body with his own. She wrapped her arms around his back holding him to her. He kissed her shoulder and then her neck.
"Give me a minute and I will help you." Buffy said rubbing his back.
Angel nuzzled her neck. "I got it Baby."
"Everything?" She asked.
"Mostly. I moved stuff around in my closet to fit your stuff." He told her.
Buffy angled her head so she could see him. "Honey, unless that closet is full you don't have everything." She said sarcastically.
Angel laughed. "Okay, so I don't have every."
"Okay, one more minute and I'm up." Buffy sighed.
Buffy and Angel moved all of Buffy's clothes and personal things into Angel's room. It didn't take very long but then Buffy decided to grab a box from her closet that was yet to be unpacked.
"What are you doing?" Angel asked her. Gunn and Doyle walked by and looked at them strangely.
"I just don't want anyone going threw this." Buffy told him.
Angel took the box from Buffy. "You shouldn't be lifting."
"Are you going to advertise our personal lives a little louder for the other guys who live here?" Buffy asked Angel.
"We have heard you orgasm, I don't think it gets more personal then that, Luv. " Spike said as he walked into his bedroom from the stairs. Buffy rolled her eyes and Angel walked into his bedroom putting the box by the door.
Buffy went back into her room and grabbed a stack of something from her night stand.
"Now what's that?" Angel asked sitting on the bed.
"I don't think you want your parents to see these." She said tossing pictures on the bed next to him. He picked them up and started to flip threw them. The pictures from the hotel. He smiled when he came to a picture of him and Buffy and Buffy had taken herself. In the picture she was biting her lip and had those big 'come fuck me eyes' as he sucked on her nipple.
"I think this is my favorite picture." He said holding the photo so she could see it.
"You're a dirty dirty man." Buffy laughed.
Angel looked up at her near her vanity. "And you're a dirty dirty girl because you took these."
He flipped threw a few more pictures rolling over onto his side. "Did I know you took a picture of my dick?"
"Mmm, I believe so." She said laying down next to Angel smiling.
Angel shook his head and smiled. "It's a good thing we have a printer for pictures, I think we would get arrested if we took these to a store. Now this one I remember!" He said holding a picture for her to see. Buffy had taken a picture of herself in front of Angel right before she gave him oral sex. All you could see of Angel was his penis only inches from Buffy's mouth.
"Your bad." He told her.
"So spank me!" She joked. So, he spanked her.
"Ouch!" She said rubbing her butt.
"You know you love it." He smiled.
"Yeah, I do." She said inching closer to him. Stopping at his lips she said "and if I wasn't so tired I would ask you to do it again." She kissed him.
"All you have to do is lay there." He said against her lips. Buffy laughed wrinkling up her nose. He rubbed his nose back and forth against hers and kissed her again.
"I don't want to just lay there. Wake me up early tomorrow morning and we can fuck all you want… until we have to go to work. Veronica has tomorrow off so I really have to go in." She told him.
"Fuck work. I wanna fuck!" He said rolling on top of her.
"Hmmm, I can feel that." She said pushing against his hips. "Okay! Just a quickie but still wake me up early tomorrow. I need something to get me threw the day." She pealed his shirt off.
"Happily." He smiled.