SUMMARY: Buffy and Angel talk.
DISTRIBUTION: Ask
DISCLAIMER: Not owned by me. Joss and WB.
RATING: G
NOTE: For my stories Spike is two hundred years old and Angelus' childe. Thanks to Ryan for being my beta reader.
As Giles pulled up to the emergency room door Angel was still in shock. Try as he might he was still having trouble wrapping his mind around the fact that Buffy was having his baby. At Giles prompting he jumped from the car and carefully carried Buffy into the hospital.
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When Giles finally caught up to Angel he found the vampire trying to fill out a stack of paper work. Angel looked up as if to say 'help'. "Angel, why don't you let me do that? I believe I have a bit more experience at that sort or thing."
"Thank you, I've never done anything like this before." Angel paused unsure how to ask the next question. "Giles, are you *sure* the baby is mine?"
"Of course it is. Angel, have you ever heard of this sort of thing happening before?" Giles knew that he was having a hard time accepting that he was about to be a father.
"No. I've always been told that it was impossible. Giles, I'm dead, how can this have happened?"
"I don't know Angel but Buffy needs you right now. She is in there having your baby, a baby that is not due for another seventeen weeks. We have no way of knowing how long the gestation period for a half human half vampire baby is or even 'if' it will survive." Giles voiced the concern that was running through his mind for quite awhile now.
"Giles do you think the baby might not live?" This was the first time a baby would be born of a human and a vampire. Sure he had heard the stories about dhampir but he knew those to be false. They were just a way to explain pregnancies shouldn't be. It was much easier to say they had been forced by a supernatural being that they couldn't fight, than to admit they had been having sex out of wedlock.
"I haven't the foggiest. There is something else you need to know, Buffy has been having a few worries about... I'm not sure how to put this." Giles didn't want to scare him but he needed to know what Buffy was thinking so that he could help ease her fear.
"Just tell me, please." If Angel hadn't been worried before he was now.
"You realize Xander is not happy about your and Buffy's relationship." Giles didn't want to say that the boy was a jealous little creep even if that was what he was thinking.
"I know. What dose he have to do with this?" At the mention of the boy's name he got a very uneasy feeling.
"He was quite upset." Giles glossed over his actually reaction.
"What did he say?" If he knew the little jerk it was something that would hurt Buffy.
"He told Buffy she should abort the child because it would be a demon." < Well that was putting it nicely. > Giles was afraid to tell him what the boy had really said. Afraid of what Angel would do to Xander.
"He did what?" Angel vowed then and there that he would find Xander and making him very sorry for upsetting his Buffy while she was pregnant.
"Buffy is very concerned about the child. I have tried to put her mind at ease but I fear I may not have been successful. She needs you keep her calm. Be there for her, if the baby does not make it I fear it will destroy her." Giles was glad that Angel had made it home. He wasn't sure Buffy could go through this on her own. If the worst happened she would need Angel to help her through it.
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