Chapter 2:
Buffy has finally decided to stop being a reclouse and join me in the study after dinner. Since our trip to London, I've noticed that our time together is very limited at best, she doesn't completely avoid me, but she doesn't go out of her way to try and talk to me either.
Since that trip I can't help but feel like I am missing something. If my dreams of late are any indication, I think something may have happened that she won't tell me about. I dream of holding her in my arms and making love to her until the sun comes up. But that isn't possible, she sees me as a father and not a lover. I would give anything to change that.
I look up from my book and notice that she has fallen asleep. I cross the room and cover her with a blanket as I place her book on the table next to her empty tea cup. I think she must be ill for Buffy hates drinking tea no matter what the reason. As she lays there, she shifts her postion and I notice the scar on her neck from where Angel bit her. I came so very close to loosing her that day, and I know that the scar is her reason for not contacting him, it reminds her of what he really is and what they can never have. I would give Buffy the world if she were to ask for it. She would never ask it from me though.
I sit back down and look at her. I haven't seen her too much of late and notice that there is a glow about her. She seems happy. Maybe she has found someone, maybe she is truly content for the first time in her life. It's hard to be happy when one lives on a hell mouth and fights evil daily.
Our trip in to the Academy is quick and we each part our separate ways to our jobs. Normally during my day I never get to the training rooms where she conducts her class, but today I feel compelled to go by and see her. I stand outside the room watching her train those on the skills that I helped her perfect for over 7 years. She never misses a beat or a step. When she turns the class over to Marie one of the older girls, I notice that she is pale and in an instant she has fainted.
The watcher in me takes over and I'm right there next to her, checking for injuires and a pulse, when I have the confirmation that I need she is alive, I pick her up just as I did all those years ago when Amy's mom cursed her and carry her to the medical portion of the building. They have me place her on a bed and shoe me from the room. I wait outside and call my assistant to cancel my remaining portion of the day. After an hour the doctor finally comes out to talk to me.
"Doctor is she quite all right?"
"Yes, she is fine. She just overdid it today. I told her yesterday to take it easy and not to do too much. I guess she thinks being the Slayer gives her leeway."
"I don't understand, you say you saw her yesterday?"
"Yes. Ms. Summers is with child. She needs to take it easy. As you are her roommate as well as her employer, perhaps you can make sure that she takes care of herself."
"Yes, of course. May I see her?"
"Yes, I want her to rest the rest of the day and take the next few days off. The nurse will go over her care with you before you go."
"Thank you." I watch as the doctor walks away down the hall and I stand there as my heart falls to the floor, Buffy is pregnant, but who, how and when? I'm confused I wasn't aware that she was even seeing anyone. She would surely have told me. I put on my smile and walk into the room to see her, she's lying there with an iv in her hand and some color back in her face. She's beautiful to me.
"Giles, can I go home yet?"
"In a bit, they want you to get some more fluids in you. You overdid it a bit. You know that you should be more careful in your current condition."
"My current condition, I'm pregnant not preparing to swim the English Channel. How do you know anyway?"
"The doctor told me, he figures that as your roommate and employer I would be able to make you take it easy. He apparently doesn't know you at all."
"Apparently not. That wasn't how I wanted you to find out."
"No I suppose not, but now that I know, I can help take care of you and the baby." I pause to grab her hand and give it a reassuring squeeze. "Do you need me to call anyone for you, the baby's father perhaps?"
"No, he knows but that's all for now. I have everyone that I need right here with me."
"All right. I'm going to get some things from my office and your bag, when I get back we should be able to go home and let you get some rest." I let go of her hand and walk out of the room. Once I'm at my office I pick up a priceless trinket and throw it against the wall where it shatters. I'm not mad at her, I'm mad at the pillock who is the baby's father who has more important things to do than be with her right now. I'm envious of him, that he gets to have this with her. However he is not here and I am, and I will do everything within my power to help her take care of that baby and give her the family that she never thought that she would have.
