You are going to learn a lot more about Buffy in this chapter but I'm not sure if I am going to dig any further into it or not. Just to warn you now. This girl just can not catch a break.

Chapter 32: The Doctor

While Buffy was at work she got a text from Angel saying he was getting off of Night Watch and he was going to go back to a friends Barracks and sleep for a little while before he had to report again at 10:00AM but he would be off of work by 1:00PM to pick her up for her appointment at 2:00PM.

Angel walked into Mars Investigations at 1:25PM still in his ACU's.

"Hello Sergeant First Class." She smiled. She hugged him and gave him a quick kiss. "You look tired. Are you sure you want to go?"

Angel nodded. "Yeah, we better get going though."

Buffy grabbed her stuff and locked the door when they weren't out. She was the only one there and didn't want any unwanted quest popping in.

As they were driving and said "You are one naughty girl, you know that right?"

Buffy mock pouted. "You mean you didn't like?"

"I didn't say that. I liked, the real thing is better." Angel smiled.

Buffy nodded. "I would have to agree. Sex is so much better then sexting."

"Sexting?" Angel asked.

Buffy laughed. "I take it that was your first time?"

"You would take right." Angel told her.

Angel pulled up to the doctors office, it was pretty packed, Buffy said there were multiple wings in the office a primary care wing, a urgent care wing, a OBGYN department and an abortion clinic. "I will let you out here, go check in while I park and I will be right in."

"Are you sure? I can wait." Buffy told him nervously.

"I will be right in… but if I'm not come back out to make sure I didn't fall asleep." He laughed.

"Poor baby. You should go to bed as soon as we get home." Buffy told him with a kiss.

"If Kathy lets me." He told her with a playful annoyed look on his face.

Buffy got out of the car, walking up to the door she turned around as Angel pulled away to find a parking spot. She felt like she was being watched.

After she checked in the receptionist told her to take a seat and fill out some papers. She sat down, didn't know a lot of the answers but she filled them out the best she could until she came to the part about the expectant fathers information, she filled out a few things but didn't know anything else. 'How should I know Angel's blood type?' She looked up at the clock it had been 10 minutes and Angel still hadn't come in. She took the clipboard and went outside to see what was taking him so long. She heard a car's tired screech on the ash fault and a car speed away. Angel walked up to the sidewalk where Buffy was.

"That guy almost hit me when I was parking!" He told her giving her a kiss. "I had to park pretty far away. You ready?"

Buffy looked in the direction the car was went in, that car looked familiar. "Yeah, I just need some help on the paper work. I never once thought to ask you your blood type. Silly me."

Angel laughed and guided her back into the doctors office so they could finish the paperwork. Who knew you could find so much out about someone from going to the doctors with them. "Have you ever done drugs?" Buffy asked Angel reading off the forms.

"No." Angel told her. "The Army would kick my ass. Have you?" He said pointing to the sheet.

Buffy checked no for both mother and father doing drugs. "Not willingly." She said referring to her little episode with the date rape drug.

"Any STD's or STI's?" She asked.

"NO! I would have told you that one. Believe me." Angel said.

Buffy smiled. "Good, me too."

When they finished the paperwork Buffy took the clipboard back up to the woman and sat down next to Angel. Her hands were sweating so she wiped them on her jeans nervously.

"Hey, everything is going to be fine." He told her taking her hand in his.

Buffy looked over at him worried. "Easy for you to say. Your not about to find out if you have a bun in the oven by getting a needle shoved up your arm."

Angel kissed her cheek. "I will hold your hand."

A woman holding a clipboard walked out into the waiting room. "Summers. Buffy."

Buffy and Angel got up and walked over following the woman to an examining room.

Once they were seated the woman turned to Angel. "Are you the expecting father?"

"Uh.. Yeah." He said. The woman nodded and left the room.

"Creepy." Buffy said about the woman.

Angel took Buffy's hand in his again and kissed it. Another woman walked in and told Buffy to sit on the examining table.

"Wait, your doing it? Where is Dr. Jones?" Buffy asked a little scared.

The woman looked at Buffy's chart. "Dr. Jones is your regular OBGYN. She is free at the moment if you would rather she did it."

"Yes please." Buffy said getting up on the table.

The woman nodded and walked out.

Angel got up from the chair he was sitting in when Buffy reached her arms out to him. He wrapped his arms around her and gave her a hug. "This isn't even the needle part yet and I feel like I am going to pass out." Buffy mumbled into his chest.

He rubbed her back. "Your fine. I'm right here Baby."

A few minutes later a woman about Buffy's height with long dark curly hair walked in. "Buffy. Your not playing with my tools, like you normally do."

Buffy smiled nervously. "Didn't feel like it this time."

The woman looked at Angel. "Hello, I am Dr. Jones."

"Angelus." He introduced himself. "Nice to meet you."

"Like wise." The woman smiled. "I see this isn't your normal check up, all though it should be coming up soon." She looked at Buffy's chart. "Next month. So before I even look at your chart what is going on with you?"

"Might be, maybe pregnant… or says the home pregnancy test." Buffy said a little scared to tell her doctor.

Dr. Jones nodded. "And Angelus here is might be maybe the father? What happened with Riley?"

"Yeah. Um… Riley kinda cheated on me and we broke up." Buffy told her doctor who she often talked to about personal things.

"Ass. Didn't I tell you there was something weird about that guy?" Dr. Jones sounded more like a friend then a doctor.

Buffy nodded.

"So a pregnancy test? You know that involves a needle here right? The pee tests can be wrong sometimes." The Dr told her.

Buffy nodded again.

"Okay, lets get started then." The dark haired doctors got a sanitary needle out of the drawer and prepared to draw blood. "Thank god you came in Buffy, I was bored out of my mind. My patients seem to not be in need of my services this week."

"They told me there wasn't an opening until next week. I only came in today because there was a cancellation." Buffy told her doctor.

Her doctor looked at her. "Really? Who did you make your appointment with? Was it Wanda? She has this thing where she wants to tell people we don't have appointments because if they are pregnant then the longer they wait the less likely they are to have an abortion because it would be to far into the term."

"I don't remember if it was here, she didn't say a name but she has nothing to worry about here. I wouldn't do that." Buffy told her.

The woman pulled her stool closer to Buffy and tied what Buffy called 'the stretchy yellow ouchy' around her arm above her elbow. "Ready?" She asked wiping the area where she was going to stick Buffy.

Buffy took a deep breath and turned her head into Angel's chest. Angel rubbed her back and kissed her head as the doctor stuck the needle into Buffy's arm. Angel watched as the tube filled with Buffy's blood.

"Done." Dr. Jones said as she got up and wrote Buffy's name on the tube. "You always did have good blood." The doctor joked.

Buffy looked at the tube. It was her blood. Mars blood. Not Summers blood.

"I'm going to go run this and the results should be done in a little while. I have nothing better to do so instead of just waiting it out I will tell you while you are still here." She told Buffy.

As she walked out Buffy looked at Angel. "I got a boo boo."

Angel looked at her arm that now had a cotton ball taped to it. He leaned down and kissed her arm. "Better?"

Buffy held up her thumb and pointer finger a inch apart to show him she was a little better.

"What do you want the results to be?" She asked Angel.

Angel looked at Buffy dumbfounded. "I… I don't know. I know if we have a baby our lives with change forever but I also know we will love our baby more then anyone else. If we don't have a baby then nothing will change. They will stay the same as they have been."

"You will still be with me if I don't have a baby?" She asked him.

Angel looked in her eyes trying to find anything that would tell him where she was going with this. He didn't see anything. "Yeah."

Angel sat back down in the chair, it had been 20 minutes and he was starting to get nervous too but he didn't want Buffy to know it.

Buffy looked at him, he was acting different. "If your bored you don't have to stay."

"I'm not bored." He told her rubbing his eyes.

"Tired?" She asked.

Angel nodded.

Buffy looked down at the floor and let out a deep breath. "You can go. Get some sleep. You worked all night. The worst part is over right? Now all they have to tell me is yes or no. Easy enough."

He rubbed the back of his neck, looking to the floor. "I want to hear the yes or no. I wouldn't think this was the easy part though."

"I was trying to convince myself that it was the easy part." Buffy said softly.

There was a knock at the door and Dr. Jones peaked her head in. "Not interrupting anything, am I?"

Buffy shook her head.

Walking in the doctor said. "Sorry it took so long, the machine was in use." She looked down at the paper work to double check. "I don't know if this is a good or bad thing… I don't know the out come you were hoping for but…your's not pregnant."

Buffy's mouth made a O shape and Angel let out a breath he didn't even know he was holding.

"Buffy have you been stressed lately?" She asked. "Anything change in your life recently?"

Buffy shrugged. "You mean that would effect not getting my period? Everything is pretty much the same except I was forced to move back in with my mom when my boyfriend cheated on me, then I moved in with a bunch of guys and I recently found out a few things that changed my life forever… everything is pretty much the same."

Dr Jones laughed. "Sounds like your life has turned upside down. How long have you two been together?"

"A little over a month." Buffy said quietly.

"Is everything okay in your relationship?" The doctor asked.

Angel watched Buffy as she bit her lip and slowly nodded.

He looked to Dr. Jones. "My family recently came into town and things have been a little tense.. Why? Is there something wrong with Buffy's blood tests?"

The doctor put her clipboard down. "I'm a little worried about the stress levels. I know you're a strong girl Buffy, I have known you for years but one person can only take so much."

"What? You think I am going to get depressed and like kill myself or something?" Buffy half joked.

Dr. Jones shook her head. "No, but now that you say that what people joke about something they must be feeling it… are you having any of those thoughts, Buffy?"

"NO!" Buffy shouted. "Why would you even ask me that?"

"A lot is changing in your life, some people don't take changes well. I want you to see your primary doctor in a few weeks and if how your feeling doesn't change… maybe you should be put on anti depressants." The doctor told Buffy.

Buffy looked at the ceiling. "So now I'm like a crazy because I have a few bad days?"

"I know your history Buffy, what your father put you threw and how you reacted to it. I just don't want to see you go back there." Dr. Jones voiced her concern.

Angel looked at Buffy worried as she let out a bitter laugh. "Your in luck. I haven't seen or heard from Hank in years and he wants nothing to do with me. Just Dawn."

"I know that upsets you, Buffy. That he has always been more loving towards Dawn…" Dr. Jones started.

Buffy cut her off. "No. It doesn't upset me. Not anymore. Things are getting better. I swear."

"I still want you to see Dr. Isle." Dr. Jones told her.

Buffy nodded just wanting this to be over with.

Buffy and Angel walked to the car in silence. When they got in the car Angel didn't open the door for Buffy. This was the first time he didn't open it for her. 'Great. Now he thinks I'm crazy and is having second thoughts about me.' Buffy looked at her feet. "I'm not crazy."

"I don't think you are. Buffy, if your doctor is concerned about something then actions need to be made to change the course things are going in." Angel said somberly.

"Are you breaking up with me?" Buffy whispered she could already feel the tears welling up in her eyes.

Angel looked over at her, seeing her cry broke his heart every time. "No. I'm not."

"We just need some time apart right? Because I have already heard that one." Buffy couldn't hold her tears back.

Angel sighed. "Do you think we need some time apart? I was going to say I could talk to my family about leaving soon so we could work threw this."

Buffy looked away from him, out the window. "I don't want time apart. I don't get you for very long as it is."

"Okay." Angel picked her hand up out of her lap and kissed her palm. Then started the drive for home.

During the drive Buffy asked Angel if he could drop her off at her moms house, he drove there without saying a word. He pulled up to Joyce's house, as Buffy was about to get out he put his hand on her arm.

"How long are you stay?" He asked.

Buffy shrugged. "I was just going to talk to her about something. How long do you want me to stay?"

Angel looked into her eyes. "Not long. I missed you last night." He tucked a lock of hair behind her ear. "I was hoping to hold you tonight."

Buffy gave him a weak smile and hugged him. "I wont stay long." She promised.

"Good." Angel kissed her twice before she got out of the car.

He didn't pull away until Buffy was in the house.

"Mom!" Buffy yelled.

Dawn came running down the stairs. "BUFFYY!"

"Hey Dawnie." She said giving her little sister a hug. "I missed you."

Dawn gave her a big smile. The biggest smile she had ever seen. "I missed you too!"

"Where is mommy?" Buffy asked.

"Upstairs in her room. She told me to come get you." Dawn said still smiling.

Buffy and her little sister went into their moms room. "Hey there."

"Hello Sweetie. How is everything?" Joyce asked.

"Okay I guess." She looked at Dawn. "I just got back from a doctors appointment."

Dawn looked at her worried. "You don't have cancer do you?"

Buffy smiled at her sister. "No, not cancer. I went to… take a pregnancy test."

Dawn jumped up "Your pregnant! I'm going to be an Aunt!"

"Your pregnant, Buffy?" Her mother asked her.

She shook her head no. "It was negative. We took a home pregnancy test but it was wrong. Dr. Jones did a blood test."

"I'm not going to be an Aunt?" Dawn said sadly.

"Sorry Dawnie. Not for a long time." She said smoothing Dawns long brown hair.

"How is Angelus doing with this?" Joyce asked.

Buffy sighed "He hasn't said anything about me not being pregnant. I mean he was making plans when he thought I was pregnant but now all he wants to talk about is the fact that Dr. Jones thinks I am depressed and needs to be on crazy pills."

Dawn looked up at Buffy. "Just because you are on anti depressants doesn't make you crazy. More then half of America is on some kind of medication."

Buffy looked at Dawn with a smile. "Have you been watching those medical shows again?"

Dawn smiled back.

"She's right though Buffy. There is no shame in being on medication. If it helps then that's what you need. What does Dr. Jones suggest?" Joyce wanted to know.

"That in a few weeks I go see Dr. Isle and see if things have changed for me. Angelus said he is going to talk to his family about leaving soon so we can work things out." Buffy told her mom.

Joyce smoothed Buffy's hair just like Buffy had done to Dawn. "If that's what it takes."

Joyce and Dawn drove Buffy home, as she was walking up to the door she saw the certain move in the window. 'weird' she thought as she opened the door. She saw Irene and Kathy sitting in the living room.

"Where have you been?" Kathy asked her.

Buffy gave her a strange look. "My moms."

Irene smoother her perfectly ironed skirt. "Angelus has been acting strange. He wont even talk to us. I know you have something to do with it."

Buffy didn't say anything else to them, she walked upstairs and into her and Angel room. Angel was already asleep. She smiled at him as she stripped down to her panties and bra then slipped in to bed. She got more sleep then he did but she was still exhausted. Buffy kissed Angel good night but he was out cold and didn't even feel it. Buffy fell right to sleep too.