I'm back! Sorry, I didn't have time to update after I got back from my vacation. I feel bad so here is a … kind of longer chapter. Get ready for some more drama! Enjoy!

Chapter 35: Meddling Mother

Monday at the Pier was fun too, Buffy was sure there was a conspiracy going on. There was no way these people would be so nice to her! It was either a Government conspiracy or they were abducted by Aliens but Buffy didn't see much of a difference in those two theories.

While everyone else was on rides Buffy and Angel walked down by the water. "You family is being really nice." Buffy told him as they walked hand in hand.

"Yeah…" Angel looked at her skeptically. "I don't know what's up with that. My parents are never that nice."

"Well… its nice that they are… nice." Buffy smiled.

"You know who I thought was nice?" Angel smiled at Buffy. "Giles and Jenny. I really like them. You have so many good people in your life, Baby."

Buffy nodded. "Yeah, I have a pretty bad ass extended family, don't I? You should meet Weevil and Wallace. They are awesome too. But they have to go and have girlfriends. Whatever" She smiled.

"Why didn't they come yesterday?" Angel asked.

Buffy looked at her feet in the sand. "Wallace thought it was to soon to bring his girlfriend around his friends and he is really family oriented. He might have just wanted to be with his mom and his little brother… or he thought it might be awkward because his mom dated Keith and there was a chance Keith was going to be there. Weevil, well I hate keeping secrets from everyone mostly Veronica but he is dating someone who they don't know is back in town. He wants to keep it that way."

"Right." He nodded remembering Buffy mentioning it before. "Do you know what Giles said to me?"

"Something stuffy and British?" She said taking a shot in the dark.

Angel smiled. "He said he doesn't know my father very well but from what he saw, he doesn't think I am anything like my dad. That I'm better."

"Well, I don't know about your dad because he is so up in the air when he is around me. One time he doesn't like me then he is nice, then he is semi not so nice and then he is nice again, but…" Buddy stopped walking and turned to look at Angel. "I think your made of pretty amazing stuff."

"Really?" Angel asked her.

"Yeah, I mean just look at you. You're a total babe." She joked. "But honestly, you are the sweetest guy I have ever met."

"You wouldn't say that all the time. You get pissed at me a lot." Angel said softly.

Buffy shook her head. "Not pissed. I have yet to be actually pissed at you. You just hurt my feelings a lot."

Angel looked into her eyes sadly. "I'm sorry. For all the times I hurt your feelings and I hope not to in the future but I'm sure it will happen. I'm sorry for every time that happened happened yet."

"Can we hope it doesn't?" Buffy smiled.

Angel nodded, kissing her head. "I hope it doesn't."

"On a plus note, Giles likes you." Buffy said talking Angel's hand and walking along the water again.

Angel looked over at her. "I don't know how he could form an opinion. It was the first time he ever met me or my dad."

"Giles is good at reading people. Plus, I have talked about you a lot." Buffy smiled. "He wasn't to keen on the whole me living with guys thing, I had to sell him on it. I told him not all of you were bad. You, Doyle and Gunn seemed nice. I tried to leave Spike out of it but he caught on that I only mentioned three names when I had originally said four guys."

Angel chuckled. "So you had to convince him it was okay to live with us?"

Buffy nodded. "Him, Keith, Xander… pretty much every male I have in my life. My mom was pretty cool with it though, so was Willow and those were the two I was the most worried about."

Buffy and Angel were going to leave the Pier at 11:00AM so they could head back to the Condo and get ready for their date fill second half of the day. Angel said they were just going to go and everyone else should stay and have a good time but Angel's mother insisted they all go back at the same time. Buffy thought that was a little odd but she didn't say anything. She was afraid to say anything, what if she did and they stopped being so nice? Its been peaceful the last couple days and Buffy wanted it to stay that way.

While Buffy and Angel were in the car driving back to get ready they hadn't said anything since they got in the car. Buffy was wondering how much longer his family was going to be nice for, Angel was wondering almost the same thing. If they were going to be staying for another 2 weeks he didn't know how much longer his parents could take being nice.

"Are you sure that your okay with my parents staying longer?" Angel glanced at her then back to the road.

Buffy nodded. "Yeah, I mean its your family. You don't tell me how often I can see my family. They don't live here, they are like 6 hours away and in a few months you are going to be moving somewhere else. Who knows when you will be this close to your family again. Take the time you have with your family while you still have it."

"Your amazing, you know that right?" Angel smiled.

Buffy smiled back. "Yeah, I am pretty amazing, aren't I?"

"As much as my parents get on my nerves, your right. I don't know when I will be this close to my family again. I really miss Kathy too." Angel told her watching the road.

Buffy nodded, she still didn't know how she felt about Kathy. Angel had seemed to be spending more time with Buffy now and she was surprised that didn't make Kathy even bitchier then she normally was to her.

"You know what I was thinking?" Angel asked. "We should get a dog."

"What?" Buffy asked.

Angel smiled. "We both love dogs. I had to give mine away and you always wanted one. Veronica's dog doesn't count as yours."

"Backup loves me like he is mine." Buffy joked about Veronica's tan over grown Pit Bull. "You have to leave though."

Angel nodded. "I thought about that. I was thinking you could keep the dog here and take care of it while I am gone."

"Why?" Buffy asked.

"Didn't I say we bother love dogs?" Angel smiled. "And, since we aren't having an actual baby we could have a dog ."

Buffy looked at him skeptical. "And take care of it like a baby?"

Angel raised one eye brow. "I don't know, how far would you take it?"

"I wouldn't take it anywhere! It's a dog, not a baby." Buffy leaned back in her seat and looked back over at Angel. "You really want a dog?"

Angel nodded.

"Okay. Lets get a dog." Buffy smiled.

Everyone pulled up to the Condo together. Kathy and Irene got out before Patrick, as Angel went around and opened Buffy's door for her. Angel went ahead of them to unlock the door. Spike, Gunn, Doyle and Patrick seemed to be taking forever.

Angel opened the door and saw a large envelope. He bent down to pick it up, it had his mothers name on it. The other four guys walked up to the door as Angel was turning to his mother. "Mom, it says its for you." He said handing it to her. Buffy glanced at the envelope as Angel handed it to his mother, the hand writing looked familiar to her.

Irene smiled as she took then envelope. She had been expecting something and actually got a phone call while they were at the Pier saying it was delivered. Irene and Kathy hurried into the kitchen to look at what was inside.

Angel put his hand on Buffy's back and kissed her head as Kathy yelled "Oh my god!"

Everyone looked at each other confused, Kathy and her mother hurried back out into the living room to see Angel and Buffy still there.

"Liam, you need to see this." Irene said handing the large envelope to Angel. He took it from her hand slowly, not knowing what his mother wanted him to do.

Angel opened the envelope and pulled the contents out. They were pictures. Pictures of Buffy. Pictures of Buffy walking out of a abortion clinic. Angel looked up at his mother, she looked serious but he saw Kathy behind her with a small smile on her face. Angel looked at a few of the pictures, his anger was rising but he was trying to keep his cool.

"We thought Buffy was acting suspicious so we had to find out what was going on. We thought she was cheating on you at the most but no." Irene told her son. She looked at Buffy. "Tell me Buffy, who's baby were you aborting? You haven't been with my son long enough for it to be his."

Angel looked at Buffy. She knew that look, he was about to explode just like he had when he thought she was going to break up with him and was seeing Ben. "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?"

"Angel, I didn't…" He cut her off though.

"I DON'T WANT ANY EXCUSES! I WANT THE TRUTH!" He yelled at her. Buffy grabbed the pictures to look at them. She couldn't believe this.

"Why bother." Buffy whispered.

Angel's eyes became slits. "YOUR NOT EVEN GOING TO DENY IT?"

Spike sat down on the couch. "This is better the Passions."

Gunn watched them, afraid something was going to happen like before. Doyle saw it too, he didn't know another hole in the wall and he didn't want them to break up. "Guy's lets just come down." Gunn said.

"Angelus, breathe. You know you cant let your temper get the best of you." Doyle tried to reason.

Buffy shoved the pictures back at Angel, a few of them falling to the floor. "You never let me get a word in when you mad anyway."

Buffy ran up the stairs. Patrick looked at his wife and daughter who looked pleased, he heard the slam of a door. Angel ran up the stairs after her.

He stormed into their bedroom, slamming the door and throwing the pictures at her. "THIS IS WHY THE PREGNANCY TEST CAME BACK NEGITIVE THE SECOND TIME? BECAUSE YOU ALREADY TOOK CARE OF IT!"

Buffy looked up at Angel from where she was sitting on the edge of the bed. He had never seen her look like that before. She was pissed. She looked like she could murder him. "You are really fuckin dense sometimes, you know that!"

"I'm dense? I'M DENSE? I'm not the one who killed our baby!" He was pissed, but so was she. She wasn't scared of him this time, this time she wasn't going to back down and he could see that.

Buffy stood up and got right in his face. "How could you think I could do that?" She asked him in a dangerously low voice. Buffy looked into Angel's eyes "A part of me. A part of you. How could I do that?" She whispered, sadly.

"I don't know! How could you do that!" He raised his voice but he wasn't yelling as badly as he was before.

Buffy walked back to the bed and picked up two of the pictures. "Do you even look at these pictures? I mean really look at them?" She handed him the pictures. He looked at her with a mixture of emotions. Pissed and confused being plainly visible on his face. "That's Northeast." She told him.

"So. They do abortions there. You told me yourself. Did you think this wasn't going to back fire on you!" Angel was still angry. He couldn't stop himself from yelling. "You said yourself you aren't ready to be a mom!"

"Angelus, just shut up for a minute and look at the damn pictures! Actually look at them, don't just freak out on me! Look at my clothes! Don't you remember those clothes?" Angel shook his head no to her questions.

Buffy walked back to the bed to look at the other pictures, she spotted one that she hoped would calm him down, if not then he was deathly stupid. "I suppose you didn't look at all the pictures?" She handed him the picture and he stared at it understanding what she was trying to get across to him. He was in the pictures, whoever took these pictures took them as Buffy was coming out of the doctors office when he was parking the car. They must have made a mistake because Buffy and Angel were both in the shot of the camera even though he was on the far side halfway cut off.

Angel walked over to the end of the bed and sat down. "Me. That's when we went to the doctors together. So, you didn't…"

"I wouldn't." Buffy whispered sitting next to him.

Angel looked at Buffy apologetically "I'm sorry, Baby. I just lost it."

Buffy took his hand in hers pulling it into his lap. "I get it. You just… you have to let me explain things to you when your mad about something that more then likely is a misunderstanding."

Angel nodded.

Buffy got off the bed and kneeled in front of Angel, still holding his hand. "I wouldn't do anything to hurt you. That's the last thing I would ever want to do. You just have to trust me." She brought their hands up and kissed his hand.

Angel watched Buffy closely. "I'm sorry. I don't think I can say it enough. Its just my mom…" Angel trailed off as a realization hit him. He looked shocked. "and Kathy. Kathy was smiling. She was in on this! My mom kept saying "We" I just thought she and my dad but Kathy knew too."

"I just love your family, Babe." Buffy said sarcastically.

Buffy watched as Angel's face changed again, he looked pissed again. He slightly pushed Buffy out of the way and stormed out of their bedroom running down the stairs. All the guys had cleared out wanting to give Buffy and Angel their space, Doyle was still in his room just in case he needed to break up the fight between Buffy and Angel if it got to heated. Patrick had gone into the kitchen to sit, Irene and Kathy were sitting on the couch in the living room. The girls had tried to hear what was going on with Buffy and Angel but they couldn't make out all the words. The yelling had died down so they sat down to wait for whatever was going to come next, Buffy running out crying is what they had hoped for.

Angel didn't even give them time to glance up at him before he started yelling. "Get out!"

"What?" His mother asked shocked.

"Get the fuck out! Don't even think about coming back!" When Buffy heard Angel yell she hurried down stairs and Patrick stormed into the living room.

"What is going on?" Patrick asked.

Angel glared at his father. "Oh, you didn't hear me? Get the FUCK out and don't even think about coming back!"

"Bear." Kathy said childishly. The voice she always used when she wanted her way.

Angel whipped his head towards Kathy and glared at her too. "Don't 'Bear' me! You were in on it too! I know you were. Word of advise Kathleen, if you don't want someone to know you did something don't smile about it!"

"Liam, how dare you accuse your own family…" His mother started.

"Why am I even surprised!" Angel yelled. "You two have been trying to ruin my life for years!" He looked from his mother to his father.

Patrick looked upset. "Angelus, I assure you…"

"Just get your shit and get out!" He yelled grabbing Buffy's hand gently he turned for the stairs. "Next time hire a better photographer."

Buffy glanced back at them. Irene was pissed, Kathy was crying and Patrick looked confused.

Doyle came running out of his room and found Angel gently pulling Buffy up the stairs behind him. "What is going on?" He asked them.

Angel stormed passed him. Buffy mouthed 'Tell you later.'

Buffy and Angel laid in bed together as his family were getting their stuff together. They were making a lot of noise so either they weren't very good packers or they wanted Angel to know they were still there and he could come back and apologize any minute. Buffy looked over at Angel, he was staring at the pictures. He didn't know how he could have been so stupid. If he had just taken the time to look threw them all maybe he would have seen the picture he was in, if he didn't just stop looking at the pictures when it registered in his head that there was an abortion sign behind Buffy.

She grabbed the picture he was looking at from his hands. "Oh my god! Am I really that fat!"

Angel took the picture back and kissed her on the cheek. "You look beautiful, Baby."

"You know that car from that day?" Buffy asked. "The car you said almost hit you. I thought it looked familiar but I couldn't place it. Then today on the envelope I thought the writing looked familiar too. I know who your mom hired."

"Who?" He asked her.

"Vinny Van Lowe. He is the seediest Private Dick out there. A real low life. Not to good at what he does… take these pictures for example. First of all, if he wanted to make it look like I wasn't with you then he should have made sure you went in the picture." She said picking up the picture he was in. "A Private Detective shouldn't stoop this low. I never would, I know Veronica and Keith wouldn't either. Weevil, still up for debate but he isn't anywhere as bad as Vinny. Also, he broke a very important rule."

Angel watched her as she talked about her work. "He didn't hand deliver the pictures to the client. He stuck them in the door. You need to meet with your client, show them what you found and talk about it. See where they want to go from there."

"I wonder if my mom knew this guy didn't like you. I see it now. My family doesn't like you." Angel said tossing the pictures to the end of the bed. "There isn't even a reason. You never did anything to them to make them treat you this way."

"I was hoping your sister would have been different when I first saw her. She looked nice. " Buffy looked down at her hands. "But I didn't even get a chance to introduce myself to her before she jumped me."

Angel looked down at her trying to meet her eyes. "What did she do?"

Buffy sighed. "Told me I didn't live here. She was just very rude to me at first but then as soon as Gunn said I was your girlfriend… I thought Arnold Schwarzenegger was going to bust threw the wall and say 'Come with me if you want to live.' walking human target."

"I'm sorry I didn't believe you." Angel kissed her.

Buffy just gave him a small smile.