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Something Unexpected

CHAPTER TWO


Spike pushed open the bedroom door and found Buffy curled up in a ball on the bed. He put the sonogram picture on the bedside table propping it up against the lamp. Buffy noticed and turned the other way.

Spike took a sharp intake of unneeded breath "Are you okay?" He asked sitting down on the bed next to her stroking her leg.

She sighed heavily "I'm fine"

"You don't look fine from where I'm sitting love, Do you?... On the off chance if I asked you what was wrong would you tell me?"

She close her eyes for a moment then looked up at the ceiling "I'm just... I never thought this would happen" she said softly

"It's thrown me for a bloody loop too Slayer" he said sympathetically

She sat up and turned to face him "I know. I know it's not just me in this, but seeing the baby on the screen today it just brought it all home" she shrugged

He grabbed one of her hands and rubbed the top with his thumb "I know it was pretty wild"

"This wasn't supposed to happen you know, we were never meant to have children" she told him

"I know but it's happening, there's not a lot we can do about it now" he tried to comfort her

"I'm just trying to process it all, what kind of parents are we gunna be huh? A vampire slayer with a sketchy past and a hundred plus year old vampire with an even sketchier past" she said her voice getting louder and louder

"I know pet, but we can make this work" he smiled weakly

"How?" She snapped, removing her hand from his "How in the hell are we supposed to raise a child? I don't know about you but I don't know the first thing about bringing up a baby"

"Buffy, you practically raised Dawn. You're gunna do an amazing job" he smiled broadly

"I don't think I can do this" she whimpered

"So what are you saying here?" He asked

"Maybe... Maybe it would be better if we... If we didn't have this child" she finally said.

"What? Have you gone completely sack of hammers?!" He exclaimed jumping off the bed and pacing the room "Don't you think that this is a little too well thought out? This child could be someone important to this world. It's not everyday a vampire and a slayer find out their having a sprog together!"

"It could also be something evil?! Ever thought about that? What if this baby is gunna open some portal to every dimension of hell or bring on an apocalypse?" She yelled

"Buffy this means something" he told her "We just don't know what yet, I get that you're scared. I do, I'm not exactly doing backflips over the thought of becoming a father. But we have to find out what this means"

"I don't care what it means!" She argued "I am not the one and only Slayer anymore and I shouldn't have to have this burden thrust upon me"

"Right... So my child is a burden to you" he said angrily "You know what I get it Buffy, it's not that you don't want this child. Bloody hell we talked about a family enough, your little dream of being normal. It just that you don't want this child with me"

"It's not-"

"No Buffy" he said cutting her off "I heard all about your little cookie dough speech to Angel, you want a child. Just not with me, why don't you go call Captain Forehead! Get him to be the father!" He yelled.

Before she even knew what she said the words came "He'd probably do a better job than you anyway!" She yelled back. Immediately she threw her hand to her mouth "Spike I'm so-"

"Don't" he said storming out of the room.

"Well I handled that pretty well didn't I" she said to herself

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Spike practically ran down the stairs pushing past some of the baby Slayers as he went.

Dawn noticed the flash of black leather coming towards her "Whoa Spike, where's the fire?" She asked

"Can't stay Nibblet" he said sharply

"Whoa whoa whoa" she said snagging his sleeve "You're not going anywhere Mr until you tell me what's going on"

He shrugged out of the brunette's grasp "ask your bloody sister" he said carrying on his descent down the stairs and out the front door.

Dawn ran up the stairs again pushing past some baby Slayers

"What is wrong with people at this school?" Asked one of the girls "Rude much!"

Dawn ignored the girls comments and carried on up to Buffy's room, once there she burst through the door to find her sister in tears on the floor.

"Buffy what the hell happened?" She asked, rushing to comfort her.

"I. Just. Ruined. Everything" she said sniffling with every word

Dawn picked up the petite blond off the floor and ushered her to the bed. "How?" She asked

"We got into a fight" she said tears still sliding down her face "I told him that Angel would probably make a better father than him, I was stupid I don't even know why I said it"

"Oh Buffy, probably the worst thing you could've said to him" Dawn caught herself "I mean, he'll come around Spike always does" she tried to flash her a smile

"No. Not this time, I've blown it Dawnie" she sobbed

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The next morning the gang minus Spike and Buffy reconvened in the library to carry on the research, Dawn had managed to get her sister to sleep that night with a lot of soothing strokes to her back and comforting words. She'd just finished telling the group of Buffy and Spike's recent argument

"She said that? Poor Buffy" Willow pouted "I have no idea what she must be going through" she said sympathetically

"I know, she's just really hormonal and confused right now" Dawn shrugged

"Has anybody seen Spike since last night?" Asked Giles

"Nope... I'm gunna go out on a limb and say he's probably out there somewhere getting drunk" said Xander "There's a few underground demon bars around, I could check them out?"

"And you'd do that because?" Dawn asked

"Well Buffy's worried about him right? It can't be good for her in her condition to be worrying" He told them

"And that wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that you can't stand researching?" Asked Willow

Xander smiled coyly "Well maybe just a tiny bit, but hey willing to bring the bleached menace back"

Dawn raised an eyebrow "And what makes you think he'll come back with you?"

"I can be very convincing, I helped talk Willow off the ledge remember?"

"Hey!" Willow protested

"Sorry sweetie" he apologised

"Xander just go" said Giles agitated "Hopefully upon your return we shall have some news"

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Buffy sat with her back against the headboard and her knees to her chest. Willow tapped lightly on the door and came in with a cup of tea.

"Hey" she smiled "I thought you could use some tea, it's not bad"

"Thanks" Buffy said still staring off into space

"I'll just..." She placed the cup on the bed side table, she spotted the sonogram that Spike had put there the night before. She picked it up and smiled "Hard to believe right?"

"You have no idea" sighed Buffy

"I get that, I know it's gotta be rough... But Buffy you can do this" Willow reassured her best friend "I think we're close to finding something too"

"Thank you" Buffy smiled

"No problem" Willow began to leave

"Will?"

"Yeah?" She said turning around

"Is he okay?" She asked

"We're not sure, nobody's seen him. Xander has gone to find him"

Buffy's stomach clenched "I should go look for him"

"I think maybe... I think you should let Xander find him" Willow smiled weakly

"I was such a bitch to him" she admitted

"Maybe just a little" said Willow "But I'm sure he'll be okay. A few beers and a bit if violence and he'll be fine"

"Yeah..." Buffy said sadly

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Xander had gone to two of the three demon bar's he knew in London, and still no Spike. When he reached the third he decided to order himself a beer, when he spotted a glimpse of Spike's trademark platinum blond hair sitting in a corner by himself nursing a bottle of Jack Daniels.

Xander paid for his bottle of beer and walked over to him.

"What do you want Whelp?" Asked Spike sinking more of the amber liquid straight from the bottle.

"Just thought I'd come and join ya" he said sitting down at the table

"Not in the mood for company just now" Spike warned

"I know, but I'm just gunna sit here anyway" Xander smiled taking a sip if his beer.

"What do you want?" He asked

"Dangerous question..." Said Xander "But it's not about what I want. It's about Buffy and what she wants"

"And what does that bitch want now?" Asked Spike rolling his eyes

"You" said Xander softly