DISCLAIMER: Buffy, Angel and the gang belong to the evil Joss and I only own the characters I make up. In a perfect world however I would own all of them, Buffy and Angel wouldn't have broken up and Riley would never have existed.
SUMMARY: Buffy has the baby.
RATING: PG
SPOILERS: General (if any)
TIMELINE: Six Years After (S1) ATS and (S4) BTVS
DISTRIBUTION: You want you can have it, just tell me where you put it.

ANGEL'S OFFICE (2 1/2 MONTHS AFTER THE VISIT)

Angel was hiding in his office, because Buffy was driving him nuts. Her due date was approaching and she was in a perpetually foul mood, even the fact that tomorrow was Christmas eve didn't cheer her up.

"Hey" Doyle said, spotting Angel in his office as he came into work, "What are ya doing in here?"

"Buffy is on another hormonal rampage" Angel told him, "I escaped when she cornered Wesley".

"Jeez. What started her off this time?" Doyle asked.

"Wes commented on how good Cordy looked yesterday" Angel replied. "Speaking of Cordy..."

"She'll be here soon, she had a few last minute presents to get" Doyle said.

They heard shouting and a crash come from the apartment downstairs and Doyle said, "Yikes. I think I'm gonna stay up here with you".

The two men sat in Angel's office and prayed the Buffy wouldn't find out where they were until she'd returned to normal.

THE APARTMENT

Buffy was wandering around the apartment in an extremely bad mood. She'd had a backache all day and the only man she had to yell at was Wesley, because Angel had escaped when her back was turned. All of a sudden a sharp pain wreaked her body, "Aaahhh" she cried.

"Buffy, are you okay?" Wes asked.

"Yeah, just peachy" Buffy replied, sarcastically.

"I'll go get Angel" Wes said, totally panicked, running up the stairs. He found Angel and Doyle hiding in Angel's office. "Angel, something's wrong with Buffy" he said, breathlessly.

"What?" Angel asked.

"She was in pain" Wes replied.

Angel, Doyle and Wes ran downstairs to Buffy but couldn't see her anywhere. "Buffy?" Angel called, just as she came out of the bathroom. "What's wrong?" he asked, rushing over to her side.

"I think my water just broke" Buffy told him, as another contraction occurred.

The three of them helped Buffy out to the car and drove to the hospital.

THE HOSPITAL

When they arrived, the hospital staff took Buffy to a room and handed Angel about 50 million forms to fill out. While Angel filled out forms and Wesley paced, Doyle called Cordy's cell and told her told her to get over there.

They were sitting in the waiting room, except for Angel who was with Buffy when Cordy arrived. She sat down next to Doyle and then asked, "So who called Sunnydale?"

Wes and Doyle looked at each other questionally and Cordy groaned in frustration. "I'll call" she said, grabbing her purse and heading for the payphone.

She pulled out her address book and dialled Willow and Oz but got no answer, it was the same with Giles and Xander. In a last ditch effort, she called Joyce's house.

~Ring, Ring~

"Hello"

"Giles, what are you doing there?" Cordy asked, surprised.

"We're having dinner. Why are you calling?" Giles replied, in confusion.

"Buffy's in labour. We're all at the hospital" Cordy told him.

"Which one?"

"St Kathryn's" Cordy said, quickly.

"We'll be there as soon as possible. Bye" Giles said, hanging up.

Cordy walked back over to the guys and sat down.

"Well?" Wes asked.

"Giles is on his way. I couldn't reach the others" Cordy told them.

The group lapsed into silence, anxiously awaiting the newest family member's arrival.

*

An hour later Buffy was being wheeled into the delivery room. Buffy was in pain and Angel was trying to soothe her, it wasn't working. Buffy was about to tell Angel something really nasty when the doctor told her to relax.

"Why don't you try to relax when you have something the size of a watermelon trying to get out an opening the size of a lemon and tell me how it feels?" Buffy screamed at the doctor. Before she could say anything else another contraction overcame her and she squeezed Angel's hand.

"Buffy that hurts" Angel complained.

Buffy shot him a look and said, through gritted teeth, "Would you like me to show you real pain".

Angel tried to back away but she held on even tighter, and Angel began to pray to the PTB that it would be over soon, not only for Buffy's sake but his as well.

*

20 minutes later Buffy gave one final push and brought their son into the world. The nursing staff were cleaning him up, when another contraction was had.

"Ooww" Buffy screamed.

The doctor ran back to Buffy and suddenly realised what was going on. "Buffy, I'm going to need you to push again" he said.

Buffy pushed again and followed the doctors instructions and 5 minutes later, their second child was born.

*

Giles, Oz, Willow and Xander rushed into the waiting room. "Did we miss anything?" Willow asked, breathlessly.

"Nope. We're still waiting" Cordy told them.

Looking around, Giles asked, "Where's Hank?"

"He's on a business trip, he's due back in a few hours" Doyle told Giles.

The group sat down and waited for any news, they were all silent. Ten minutes later Angel came out.

"Well?" Cordy demanded.

"One boy, 6 pounds 8 ounces" Angel told them.

"Name?" Wes asked.

"We haven't quite decided" Angel said, embarrassed.

"Wow, you're a family. Three of you" Willow said, in awe of Buffy.

"Four" Angel corrected.

"What?" Xander asked.

"Also one girl, 5 pounds 3 ounces" Angel replied.

"Twins?" Doyle asked in shock.

Everyone was in shock, except Giles who kept saying "I told you so".

"When can we see Buffy?" Cordy asked, before Willow could.

"Not for a little while she's resting" Angel told them, "But you can see the babies".

They all agreed and on the way there, Doyle said to Angel, "You had to have kids on Christmas eve, didn't ya? Now they're gonna want double presents".

"Yeah" Angel said, not caring about that at the moment.

Xander was walking with Willow, he whispered to her, "Why is Deadboy so happy?"

"Well one child is a miracle, you know since he's dead. But two is...wow" Willow explained, much to Xander's satisfaction.

When they got to the nursery, everyone praised the babies. "They look just like you Angel" Willow told him.

"That's funny" Angel said, "I swear they look just like Buffy".

"So how come there's two?" Cordy asked bluntly.

"The doctor said that they must have been positioned so only one was visible and their hearts were beating in tandem" Angel repeated what he'd been told.

"Wow" was what Oz said.

Giles was stood looking at the girl and muttering about prophecies and how he was always right and how no one ever listened to him.

"How about we go see Buffy?" Angel asked, feeling suddenly overwhelmed by the crowd.

"Sure" they chorused.

Angel realised that this night was about to get even longer.

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