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Cordelia's POV
I was trying to wake up and open my eyes but they felt so heavy. God, was I still in that damn cave in the mall? I remember Catherine telling me that Angel had found us and I remember seeing and talking to Chase. I was finally able to open my eyes and when they focused I realized that I was in a hospital. I saw my hero stretched out beside me sleeping and clutching my hand. I tried to sit up and pain shot through my leg. I tried to keep my groan quiet but super vampire hearing kicked in and Angel woke up.
"Cor are you okay?"
"My leg…hurts…" I mumbled. He reached over me and hit the call button.
"You're leg was crushed. You've had surgery and they put pins in your leg." I felt my eyes fill with tears.
"Will I ever be able to walk again?"
"Yeah Cordy. You'll walk again. You will have to go through a lot of physical therapy but you'll be fine."
"Mrs. Angel. How are you?" A nurse asked.
"My leg hurts." I mumbled tearfully.
"We'll get you something for that as soon as I take your vitals." I nodded and the nurse got to work. Angel never let go of my hand and he stared at me the whole time. "Okay Mrs. Angel. Everything looks good. I'm going to inject some pain medication into your IV and you'll feel better soon."
"Thank you." I watched as she injected something into my IV and within seconds I felt my body begin to relax. I laid my head back and closed my eyes. I felt really good and then suddenly thoughts of my daughter entered my brain and my eyes flew open and I looked at Angel. "Catherine. What happened to Catherine?" I began to sob quietly. "Angel where is our daughter? Is she…" I felt myself growing hysterical and I couldn't help myself. I knew that she wouldn't have left until everyone was out and I knew that the building was unstable and could have collapsed at anytime. "Please don't tell me that she…" I was unable to finish my sentence because Angel took me in his arms and held me tightly, running his fingers through my hair soothing me.
"Cordy calm down sweetheart. Catherine is fine. Everyone is fine." He told me but I wouldn't believe him until I saw her for myself.
"I have to see her Angel. Take me to see her." I begged him frantically.
"Okay." He stood up and pulled the curtain that separated me from my roommate. When the curtain was pulled I saw my daughter lying in the bed next to mine with David stretched out sleeping next to her holding her hand like Angel did with me. "See honey she's fine."
"If she's fine why the hell is she in the bed next to me?" I snapped through my tears.
"Well she's having some breathing problems from breathing in all of that dust and she was dehydrated so they had to give her fluids but other than that she's fine."
"Why isn't she awake?" I knew he was holding something back.
"She's exhausted Cor."
"Angel."
"Okay fine. She woke up hysterical a few hours ago and she had to be sedated."
"Hysterical? Why was she hysterical?"
"She's been through a lot and it crashed down around her but she's a strong girl like her mom and she'll be fine." I burst into tears. "Cordy?"
"I'm not strong Angel. I am a weak woman. I'm her mother and I'm supposed to take care of her but I couldn't. I was so scared and in so much pain…"
"Cordy its okay to be scared."
"I made her hit me Angel. When they tried to move me it hurt so bad I couldn't take the pain so I made her hit me and knock me unconscious because I was too weak to handle the pain. She didn't want to but I made her do it. I made her hit me." I sobbed.
"Cordy calm down. Everything will be okay." I allowed him to hold me until I heard the sweetest voice in the world.
"Mom." My tears immediately stopped and I lifted my head.
"Baby?"
"Are you okay?"
"Angel move my bed next to hers." I demanded and Angel didn't question me. He immediately moved my bed next to our daughter's and I reached out clasped her hand tightly.
"Mommy I'm so sorry I hit you." She blubbered.
"Catherine baby, I'm sorry that I made you hit me." I told her through my sobs. "You were so brave. You saved our lives sweetheart. I am so proud of you."
"I was so scared mommy." It broke my heart to here those words. She only called me mommy when she was hurt or scared.
"It's okay to be scared. You don't have to be brave all of the time. I love you Catherine."
"I love you too." She sniffled. I wished that I could reach out hug her but my damn leg kept me from doing that so I did the next best thing. I just held her hand tightly until the drowsiness from my pain medication took over my body and I fell asleep.
Angel's POV
Catherine was released from the hospital the next day and Cordy a week later. We practically closed our office the week after the quake because everyone was at home recuperating or was at home with the recuperating patient. Once Cordy was home I worked out a schedule so that either Catherine, or I were at the house with her at all times since she couldn't get around yet on her own. Chase was more then willing to come over and help his mom out but since she needed help with personal things like showering, dressing and using the bathroom neither Chase nor Cordy was comfortable with that.
Cordy drove all of us nuts like she did when was put on bed rest during her pregnancy with Catherine. Cordy was the type of person who hated lying around doing nothing and for the next six weeks that's exactly what she'll be doing so nothing can please her and she tends to complain a lot. On the days when Catherine was with her I would come home more often then not and would find them curled up on our bed together sleeping. It was really cute.
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Four weeks after she was home was when Cordy had her first major breakdown. I had been out most of the night staking vamps and I had just drifted off when I heard her cussing. "God dammit."
"Cordy?" I groaned.
"Sorry. Go back to sleep." I closed my eyes and tried to go back to sleep but she continued the cursing. I rolled over, pried my eyes open and saw that she had a wire hanger shoved down her cast. I reached out and took it out of her hands. "Angel."
"Cordelia. You can't do that. You can scratch yourself and cause an infection under your cast."
"It itches." She complained.
"Sorry honey."
"Fine." She swung her broken leg out of bed.
"Where are you going?"
"I need to take a piss. Is that okay with you?" She snapped.
"I was just asking. Do you need help?"
"No. I can do it myself."
"Fine." From the corner of my eye I watched as she grabbed her crutches and hobbled to the bathroom. I knew that I wouldn't be going back to sleep anytime soon so I laid there and waited for her to need me and sure enough I heard her struggling. I climbed out of bed and made my way to the bathroom and found her trying to stand on her crutches and pull her pants down at the same time almost in tears. "Cordy let me help you."
"No. I can do it myself."
"Cordelia please, let me help you."
"I hate this." She yelled. "I hate feeling so damn helpless."
"Cor this is just temporary. Only a few more weeks with this cast. You can do it."
"No I can't." Tears began to spill down her cheeks. "I can't pee by myself. I can't shower by myself. I can't do anything." She fell sobbing into my arms. I honestly thought that this would happen sooner. "I'm sorry." She mumbled into my chest.
"Don't be sorry. Can I help you?" She nodded and I assisted her so she could go to the bathroom. When she was done I carried her back to bed and cradled her in my arms.
"I got fired yesterday." She told me. Since the earthquake she hadn't been able to work and her soap opera hired a replacement for her character until her leg healed.
"What? That's discrimination." I snapped.
"Well I wasn't technically fired. My contract is up for renewal and they decided not to renew it. They're killing Margaret off." She sniffed.
"Aww honey. I'm so sorry."
"I just feel like my life is falling apart and I'm losing everything."
"Your life is not falling apart and the only thing that you have lost is a job. You can always find another one. You know that you always have a place at Angel Investigations don't you?" She nodded. "And you can retire if you want babe. We have enough money so you don't have to work."
"I'll get bored."
"Don't worry Cordelia. We'll find something to keep you occupied."
"I feel like such a loser." Her eyes filled with tears again.
"Cordy, honey, you are not a loser. That soap opera was stupid to let you go. You are an amazing actress, an amazing mother and amazing wife. So you can't go to the bathroom, shower or walk on your own right now? Who cares? I know you feel helpless right now and to a point you are and you need some help right now and Cordy that's okay and that's what family is for, to help those who need it, when they need whether it's to give a hug when someone is sad, kick someone's ass when that someone hurts one of us or to help you use the bathroom. Me, Catherine and Chase we love you and we want to take care of you. Will you let us?" She looked up at me, no longer crying but tears still shining in her eyes and she had a small smile on her face.
"I'm the luckiest woman to have such a wonderful family."
"We're the lucky ones Cordelia. You have no idea how important you are to our family. We wouldn't be a family without you." I slowly kissed her. "Never forget that babe."
"There is something I need that only you can take care of." She said with a coy smile playing on her lips.
"What's that?"
"I need sex. We haven't had sex in a month and I'm so horny." I had to laugh. I felt the same way. Going from having sex nearly every night to going a month without was killing me. I guess we have been making up for all the years that we weren't able to have sex.
"Cordy you have a broken leg that is in a cast up to your hip."
"I still have one leg that can bend."
"You are such a pervert. I don't want to hurt you."
"You won't hurt me." She batted her eyelashes and I was powerful to resist.
"Tell me if I hurt you." I requested.
"I will." She lifted her arms and I removed her tee shirt. She grinned as I eyed her breasts hungrily. I gently laid her back on the bed and removed her sweat pants and underwear. Since I had just gotten into bed when her breakdown happened I was just in my boxers so those easily and quickly came off.
"Cordy are you sure about this?" I asked her one last time. I was terrified that I would hurt her.
"Hell yeah I'm sure." Grinning I positioned myself above her and my lips and body descended onto hers and the two of us became one.
Chase's POV
I was surprised when I walked into my apartment and found Ali on my couch. She had a key and she came and went as she pleased but I talked to her an hour ago and she told me she was going to a study group with some of her classmates. I walked over and sat next to her on the couch, kissing her as I did. "Hey sweetheart. What's going on?"
"I'm late." She mumbled.
"Then what are you doing here? Go on and get going so you're not any later."
"I'm not going to the study group." I was so confused.
"Because you're late?"
"Not that late. I'm late Chase."
"Late for what Al?"
"My period Chase. My period is late."
"What?" I whispered. This really can not be happening..
"You heard me." She snapped.
"Well it's no reason to panic right? Periods are late all the time and that doesn't necessarily mean pregnancy?" I said desperately.
"I'm never late Chase."
"But how? We've always been so careful."
"Remember the day I was released from the hospital after the earthquake. With me being in the hospital I didn't take my pill and then we were so…anxious that you didn't use a condom." I couldn't help but smile even though Ali glared at me. The sex we had that day was so hot, desperate and passionate; it was amazingly wonderful.
"Have you taken a test?" She shook her head and pulled a bag out of her purse.
"Chase what if it's positive? What will we do?" I reached out and took her hand.
"Why don't we take the test and go from there? We shouldn't panic until we know the result." She nodded and stood up.
"Do you want me to come with you?"
"I think I can pee on my own. I've been doing it for years." She snipped and headed for the bathroom.
"Al?" She stopped and turned to look at me. "No matter what that test result is positive of negative I love you."
"I know." She said softly before disappearing into the bathroom.
I waited impatiently for her to return. I moved from my spot on the couch and began pacing. I knew, without seeing the results that my life was about to change and that scared me. I was twenty years old and I had no idea if I was ready to be a father but I always knew that every time I made love to Ali becoming a father was a risk.
"Chase?"
"Is it done?"
"We have to wait three minutes. It's on the counter. Will you sit with me?" She asked, her voice shaking with fear. I reached out for her hand and together we walked into the bathroom where our future awaited us.
As soon as I walked in the bathroom I glanced on the counter and saw the glaring plus sign on the pregnancy test. Ali was pregnant. We were going to be parents. I was going to be a dad and Ali was going to be a mom. We were going to have a baby. "Ali, sweetheart it's positive." I whispered and she burst into tears. I easily lifted her into my arms, carried her back into the living room and sat her on my lap, holding her tightly.
"My dad is going to kill me." She whispered. "Actually, he's going to kill you." She mumbled into my chest.
"Yeah I guessed that."
"Chase what the hell are we going to do? I'm only 18. I'm in college. What about law school? How am I supposed to finish law school and have a baby? I didn't plan on having as baby so soon."
"What are you saying Ali? Do you want an abortion?" The thought terrified me.
"No…I…no Chase. I don't want an abortion. I 'm just scared and overwhelmed. What will my dad say? What will your parent's say? How am I going to raise a baby on my own after my dad kills you?" I had to laugh. "Seriously though Chase how the hell are we going to do this? Who will the baby stay with? Every other night with one of us? Are we going to have to buy two of everything?" She was starting to over think the situation.
"Ali you're like a minute pregnant. We don't have to figure out all of this right this minute. We have eight or nine months to work all of the details out."
"Yes we do." Ali is a person who has to have everything planned out. "I can't let our baby be born not knowing where it will be going home after it's born."
"I know the easiest way to solve that problem."
"Chase there is no easy solution. I'm pregnant. We are going to bring another life into this world. What the hell is so easy about that?" She was on a roll.
"Let's get married. It would solve all of our problems. Your dad would be less like to kill your husband and the father of your baby. We'll get another apartment with two bedrooms and then you'll know exactly where the baby will go after it's born."
"What about school? If I get married dad probably won't pay for college and law school. Chase I really want to be a lawyer."
"We'll work it out. I've got money saved. I'll take care of you and our baby."
"To keep you alive isn't a good enough reason to get married." She said stubbornly.
"Fine. How about this reason? I love you Al. You've been my best friend my whole life and I've loved you for so long. I've known for years that you and I would one day get married so let's make one day now. Let's get married tomorrow."
"Tomorrow…how?"
"Let's go downtown to city hall and get married by the justice of the peace. You've always said that you never wanted a huge big shindig. We can get married at city hall and then have a party later on to celebrate. What do you say?" I lifted Ali off of my lap and placed her on the couch next to me. I then pulled myself off of the couch, got down on one knee and took her hand. "Ali Gunn. I love you so much. Will you marry me?"
"Yes Chase. Yes I will marry you." She threw herself off of the couch, into my arms and we made love to celebrate our new commitment to each other.
An hour later we lay naked on the couch, tangled up in each other's arms, wrapped up in a blanket sharing soft kisses. "Chase." She mumbled
"Hmmm?"
"Chase stop." She giggled as I nuzzled her neck. "I need you to be serious."
"Okay." I reluctantly pulled myself away from her neck, she curled herself into my side and I placed my hand on her still flat belly. "What's up?"
"I've been thinking."
"And?"
"You're right. I don't want a big giant wedding. I never did want that but I don't want to get married at City Hall."
"What do you want? We'll do whatever you want sweetheart."
"How does Vegas sound?" She asked me with a twinkle in her eye.
"It sounds perfect. We'll leave in the morning." She shook her head and now I was confused.
"Not tomorrow."
"Okay…when?"
"Chase I want a small Vegas wedding but I want that with our families there." Her eyes filled with tears. "I want my dad to walk me down the aisle."
"That means that we'll have to tell them."
"I know but I can't get married without my dad and your family with us. Your mom has been like a second mother to me since my mom died. They should be with us."
"You're right Ali. They should be with us."
"So we can tell them tomorrow and then get married on Saturday." She said happily.
"If that's what you want then that's what we'll do."
"It's what I want. I want to marry you with our family there to support us."
"Al what if they don't support us?" It wasn't my parents that I was worried about. I had a very strong feeling that her dad would not be okay with this which was one reason why I wanted to sneak off and get married but she was right. We had to give him the chance to bless our marriage and baby.
"I don't want to think about that; not right now. I only want to think about you and our baby." She lifted her head and kissed me softly. "I love you Chase."
"I love you too Ali and I'm going to be the best husband and father ever."
"I know you will. You had an excellent role model."
"That I did." My dad was the best father that a kid could ask for and I know he has been a good husband to my mother. I see everyday how happy he makes her and I can only hope that one day I can be half the man and father that he is.
Sorry for the delay in posting. My computer broke and I had internet issues. Thanks again for reading, Please review.
