Disclaimer: I do not own Buffy, Joss Whedon does, I own the character's Magdalene and Athene Defoe. My idea also!!! Hahahahahaha


Unforeseen Circumstances

Part 1 of the Unforeseen Trilogy


Chapter 6

Rescue


Giles and Buffy scoured the Bronze, looking for sight or sound of the missing girl. They split, each checking a floor. Buffy looked over the mass of teenagers, ignoring the din as she searched. She jumped when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned around in a defensive posture, but lowered her fists when she found a worried Angel. His eyebrows were lowered and he seemed to be biting his tongue, in her opinion. He sighed and offered his hand to her. She took it and he led her to a dark corner. She saw Giles coming near and steeled herself.

"What's up, Angel? We're looking for someone right now, so I don't have enough-" He put a finger to her lips.

"Are you looking for Mag?" Her eyes widened. She nodded.

"How did you know?" He smiled grimly.

"She was caught by a raiding party of vampires. Newbs. Luckily they wanted to show their prize to the Master, so she isn't dead. Yet. The Vampire's are readying her for a ritual. A sacrifice to the Master, I think. Not so sure though. I know that there's a ceremony planned." Buffy sobbed and looked over Angel's shoulder to see Giles' pale face.

"Sacrifice? She can't!" Angel was wheeled around and became face-to-face with Giles whose fists were clenched. Angel put his hands up and stepped back a little, enough not to bump into Buffy.

"I get it. She's pregnant. That's why I'm warning you. She's in the Masters lair right now, and you've got to go now." Buffy and Giles nodded as they followed him out, neither wanting to know how the vampire knew that Mag was pregnant.

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Mag groaned as she woke on a hard surface. She tried to sit up heavily before realizing that she was chained to a stone table. She struggled against it before sensing vampires around her. She raised her head and saw the Master standing next to her. She screamed and he smiled. She took a breath and bit her lip in fear.

"Imagine my surprise, when I expect a sacrifice for my, freedom, and I find my Beldam." He smiled at her confusion. He walked around the table and stood next to her face.

"You are the only child of a human and vampire. You alone have the power to free me and the Hellmouth. I choose you to be my Queen." Mag looked at him as if he'd grown a second head. She coughed, trying not to laugh.

"And I'm going to do this, why?" He looked at her with a smile stretched across his face.

"If you want your unborn child to live, you will." She gulped and tried to go for another angle she couldn't fathom.

"I'm the, daughter of a, vampire." She chuckled and rolled her eyes.

"Okay, I didn't know that my mother was the undead." She pursued her lips and gave him a cold stare.

"Right, so….. I'm your Queen. And, how does that happen? I'm not a vampire. I can't do the face thing like you guys, don't wanna drink blood, and I can go out in the sunlight." She raised her eyebrows when he smiled at her cockily. She heard something in a backroom shift and sensed something amiss, but the vampires in the room didn't notice, busy moving around their teenage sacrifices. The Master backed away from her and lazily paced around the table.

"Do you know who your father is?" He got her full attention.

"A lazy son of a bitch, as I've been told." She smirked at the Vampire, suddenly calm, not afraid of him anymore. For some reason she knew he wouldn't hurt her. He made a clucking noise and shook his head.

"No, he was a celebrated Vampire of his time, but now he's a mere whipped puppy. He had a one-night stand with a human and unbeknownst how, you were born." She bit her tongue and asked cheekily,

"And how would you know this?" She heard a British softshoe slip nearby and never wondered how she could hear that well, as she was used to her sensitive hearing, while wincing at the owner's presence. She could tell two humans, Giles and Buffy no doubt, were hiding nearby listening in, ready to rescue.

"I would know this because he lives around here. I know everything that happens with my vampires." Mag got frustrated at his cat-and-mouse game added with the knowledge of her rescuers possibly ruining this information for her if she didn't ask quick. A Vampire stepped up to the Master and whispered a few words to him. The Master clapped and laughed.

"It is ready then." He turned to the collection of Vampires standing around the group of teenaged sacrifices. Mag pulled at her chains.

"Who is my father?" She knew that the Master was smiling as the vampires started chanting. He turned back to her for a moment before saying,

"Angel." Mag fell onto her back, not moving as she processed her father's image in her head. Her lips twisted in shock.

"Buffy's boyfriend is my dad?" She muttered quietly to herself. She shook her head and then noticed the Master standing over her with blood on his hand and lips. She screamed and heard a flurry of activity. The Master started drawing on her forehead with the blood, ignoring her struggling. She closed her eyes, hearing the sounds of a battle taking place, nearly drowning out the Masters chants, and she gave a blood-curdling scream.

She heard silence fall in the room and her shackles disintegrated as the Master stumbled back. She sat up on the table and raised her hand, her eyes and hair glowing silver. Something seemed to have taken over her as she chanted a few words. Sunlight came out of her hand and every one of the vampires disintegrated, the Master with a scream of anger as he reached to her. When the last speck of dust hit the floor, her eyes returned to their natural color, but her hair retained silver streaks. She slumped back onto the table, exhausted. She heard commotion and opened her eyes, seeing Buffy and Giles hovering over her, checking her vital signs. She smiled half-heartedly, before falling asleep, holding her stomach, and her unborn child, protectively.

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Mag woke slowly and she coughed as she felt bile rise to her throat. She turned to the side and threw up into a conveniently placed bucket. She wiped her mouth and sat up straight in the bed. She looked around and realized that she recognized the strange bedroom. It was Rupert's.

Her eyes widened and she threw her legs over the side of the bed as she started to stand, but then the door opened and Buffy came in carrying a tray. She immediately fussed over her, making her lay back down and put the tray on her lap. The first thing she forced down her throat was prenatal vitamins, then water, then a full breakfast, including pancakes and orange juice. When she finished the breakfast, she just sat there as Buffy picked up.

"What exactly happened last night? I remember bits and pieces but not the whole picture." Buffy hesitated, then gave her a warm smile.

"This isn't my conversation. You need this conversation with some others." Mag's shoulders dropped. Buffy bustled out of the room and Mag twiddled with the blanket covering her. She put her hands on her stomach and felt as it twitched. She smiled, then heard a noise at the door. She looked up, startled to find both Giles and Angel standing at the door hesitatingly, neither wanting to cross the threshold into the reach of the pregnant woman. Finally, Giles stepped in and sat in the chair by the bed and Angel went to stand by the window. Mag looked at both in turn and then sighed, looking at Angel.

"Are you really my father?" She watched as he froze, then relaxed, nodding as he turned to her. His eyes softened as he looked over her.

"Your, mother and I had a one-night stand and, of course, I thought nothing would come of it. I mean, have you ever heard of a child of a vampire?" He looked at Giles, who was pondering the situation. He paused before answering.

"I have never heard of the possibility. I've read all about how the semen dies with the body, so it's impossible. You've been dead for over a hundred years easily. I remember once reading a prophecy, but I don't think it is the same though." Angel's eyes narrowed.

"A Prophecy? Do you remember it?" Giles sighed as he shook his head.

"Something about a Beldam, daughter of a Vampire…" Mag sat up quick.

"Beldam? That's what the Master called me!" Both men looked at her shocked. Angel was immediately at her side.

"He called you that specifically, like a title? What exactly did he say?" Mag tried to think back, straining her memory through the fogs that overcame most of the night before. Her eyes crossed momentarily then she looked at her father.

"He said, 'Imagine my surprise, when I expect a sacrifice for my, freedom, and I find my Beldam,' I think." Angel pondered this revelation and stood up.

"I'm going to go underground and find out whatever I can about the prophecy and the myths and legends surrounding it." Giles nodded at Angel.

"When I go downstairs I'll start perusing the books to see if I can find it again. We'll convene in three days hence here." Angel nodded as he moved towards the door. He went back to the bed quickly and kissed his daughters forehead.

"Sorry I wasn't there, doll. Tell Athene hello for me." Mag smiled weakly at Angel as he left the room. She looked down at her hands as she and Giles realized they were alone together. He coughed.

"Do you remember anything from last night?" Mag pursed her lips.

"I remember waking up chained to the slab, he was above me. He told me I was his Beldam and Queen, Angel was my father and I alone had the power to free him and the Hellmouth because I was the only child between a human and a vampire. I thought that with enough sacrifices and blood he could escape!!!" Giles shrugged.

"Imagine my surprise as Watcher. That's what I believed too. We all believed it. It's possible he knew the prophecy and was planning how to use it." She sighed, looking down at her stomach under her hands.

"And then I remember hearing Buffy and your footfalls before the Master starting to write on my forehead in blood. I remember screaming and then nothing else." Giles looked at her strangely.

"You don't remember anything else?" She sighed and shook her head.

"I don't. Why?" He shook his head. He leaned forward towards her.

"How's the baby?" She twitched, putting her hands protectively over her stomach. He sighed and sat back.

"Are you going to let me claim it as my own? I know I'll have to go through your mother, but I don't want you to go through this alone. This is my fault after all." Mag looked down at her hands.

"I don't know what you're talking about. We never did anything. I got pregnant with a fellow student. You're a faculty member. You can't be the father because you'd lose your job." Giles had to take a moment to figure out her plan.

"You're not planning to raise this alone just so I wouldn't lose my job, would you? I can get another job." She shook her head, refusing him and he felt righteous anger well up in himself.

"I'm going to take responsibility. After you fainted, I brought you here to my house and Buffy called your mother and told her you were spending the night at Willow's with her and Buffy. I can handle things when it gets out." Mag was shaking her head as he spoke. She moved to stand and he automatically met her, to keep her laying. She growled at him and he immediately moved. She stood and went over to the bureau, picking up her clothes as she blatantly ignored the fact that she was naked in front of Giles, as she supposed after Buffy bathed her she didn't clothe her. She put her laundered clothes on and put on her sneakers. Giles moved to intercept her but she brushed past him towards the front door.

"Giles, leave me alone." He blocked the front door from her.

"I can't. Your with my child." She shook her head.

"You don't have a choice." She pushed him aside and walked out the door and out of his life if she had any say in the matter.


(A/N So, the next chapter is the Epilogue, but don't worry, this is only the first story of three! After my epilogue, which is now waiting to be uploaded, I shall start writing Unforeseen Choices!!)