This is the sequel to “Love hurt”, sorry to all the people whose been waiting for this, I eventually finished it!!! So here goes
 
 
 

“Willow I cant believe that you’re actually going to his funeral”

Buffy turned to look at her friend, who was dressed all in black, no one had said anything about Oz when Willow was around and when the police had found his broken body in their apartment they had just said it had been burglars. Everything had gone back to normal, except Willow now lived with Spike and Giles at Giles house. After all the trouble with Oz, Willow still
felt a bit scared to be on her own, so the watcher had kept up his bargain that she come and live with him.

“Buffy I did live with him for 8 months, that’s a lot of time you know”

“Yeah and out of that how many did he hurt you, I think you should go and dance on the dogs grave, that’s what I would do”

Willow looked sharply at the slayer then walked out of the lounge and went upstairs

“You always know the right things to say, don’t you slayer”

“Shut up Spike…. You mean to say that you thinks its good that she’s going to his funeral”

“Of course not but its what she wants to do, and I think she needs to do this for the closure or whatever all that bull is”

“I don’t know, I think she should just move on…I mean he hurt her she should just get over it”

Spike looked at the slayer and shook his head, sometimes she could be so dense that it surprised even him. Standing up he left Buffy and headed into the kitchen where he stood and talked to Giles

“Have you heard this about Willow”

“Yes…I was quite surprised to hear that she wanted to go...but when you really think of it, this is Willow were talking about, she’s always been the one to forgive, especially if the person ends up dead. I’m just glad that he is dead, I was always scared in case, she ended up feeling sorry for him and going back. Our Willow may be clever but when it comes to emotions she can be a little too nice about things”

Spike nodded his head, him and the watcher were not friends, after the vampire realised that there wasn’t really a chance for him to get his bite back, and also he was beginning to enjoy the old man. Although a bit pompous sometimes he was a laugh if you got him going.

Willow slid down the wall as she listened to her friends talk about her…weak…get over it…too nice. With resolve face on she quickly stood up, pulling her shoulders back, she took a deep breath and let it out. She could do this, she was going to prove to them that she wasn’t some weak little girl. She had put up with Oz damn it, walking through the house, she ignored the
stares of her friends as she quickly left the house and headed for the cemetery. Watcher, vampire and slayer watched as the red head left the house. Buffy and Giles were the first to speak

“What was that all about”

“Was it something we said?”

It was getting dark but Willow couldn't drag herself away from the freshly covered grave that held her last love. She knew that she was risking a lot standing outside alone by herself, but as she re-read the engraving over and over again, the guilt that she had been denying came back with full force. Tears fell down her face as she took a final glance at the words then fell to her knees, cradling her head in her hands.

Daniel Osburne
7th October 1980

Great friend
One that will thoroughly be missed

R.I.P

When Willow felt arms go around her she swept her feet out hitting the stranger onto their back, quickly getting to her feet she looked down at her attacker, with a confused look on her face, she stood still as she watched the stranger slowly stand and rub his head.

"Bloody hell love...I know I'm dead but that hurt you know"

"Spike what are you doing here?"

"Your welcome pet…I come to save you from the nasty's and you deck me…I think that you should be the one protecting me"

"Spike!"

"Sorry…I noticed that you still hadn't come home and I was…well I was scared in case anything had happened…so it obviously hasn't so lets go"

"You came here to check up on me"

"No…not like that…I mean you just showed me that you can take care of yourself…"

Spikes speech was cut short as he was engulfed in a big hug by the red head, after a while he pushed away and looked down at the girl.

"What was that for pet"

"You believe in me…not many people do"

"Of course they do pet"

"Do they…they still see poor little Willow, lived with her boyfriend even though he beat the crap out of her…I can take care of myself…but why doesn't anyone believe me"

"We do its just that we care for you Willow, if anything was to ever happen to you…we would all be lost…I thought I had lost you once before, your not getting rid of me easy"

"Good"

Both smiled as they walked out of the cemetery together.

Spike was awoken at eight in the morning to the sounds of someone being violently sick, running into the bathroom, he saw that Willow was the one making all the noise, with her head over the toilet. Pulling her hair out of her way Spike looked at the red head, she looked paler then usual.

"Pet, you OK…what's wrong"

"Nothing Spike, I think I've got a stomach bug or something, ill be fine in a minute or so"

"Maybe I should make you something to eat. To settle your stomach"

"Yeah that actually sounds good, ill be down in a minute, just need to clean up"

"OK whenever you're ready pet"

Spike went down stairs and started making Willow some toast, when it was ready he heard her come down the stairs. Looking up he noticed how much she had changed since moving in with the watcher and him, instead of the quiet and frail girl, here was the original red, she had went back to her proper weight and her eyes and hair shone like the fire and emeralds they were.
Although they had a bit of trouble at first when she moved in, she was a very nervous young woman, sometimes, she would tense at any little thing. Spike had watched one day as she got on her hands and knees and scrubbed the kitchen floor because she had spilt milk on the floor, when he had stepped into the room and questioned her she had simply said.

"Oz liked things to be clean, he would come and examine everything to see if I had done it right…I guess I'm just a little used to acting like this…I'm sorry"

"Hey don't be sorry pet, the good thing about living here is that Giles owns this house so I think Giles should clean this house"
Spike had smiled as he watched Willow laugh softly, one of the first smiles he had seen on her face in a while.  She still had a faint scare on her face from the time that Oz had scratched her, but Spike thought she looked the same as she did before the wolf had even came back to town. He knew that his red would get better, she just needed her friends. Spike smiled as Willow walked into the kitchen. He placed the plate down in front of her and watched as her face turned a nasty colour of green and she scampered to the bathroom, the sounds of vomiting clearly heard even to human's ears. Running up to the bathroom he walked in to see the same picture that had greeted him that morning

"Pet?"

"Sorry Spike…I thought I could eat…but…"

Spike watched as Willows head went back to the toilet, this must be some bad bug she had, he'd get the watcher to check her out.

The next morning Spike was greeted to the same wake up call, walking into the bathroom he watched as Willow splashed water on her face and cleaned her teeth.

"Pet…you should go and see a doctor if this doesn't stop soon"

"Its probably just stress, what with Oz's funeral, and then moving in here, I'm just tired ill be fine really"

"Why don't you want to go to the doctors pet…a check up just to see how you are"

"Spike, maybe…. I don't know, if I don't get better in a couple of weeks then ill go then"

"A couple of weeks…Willow this could be serious…what's wrong with the doctors…are you scared of the man in a white coat"

Spike laughed as he made a scared face, the laugh died on his lips as he watched Willow look around the room, everywhere apart from where he was standing

"Willow…what's wrong"

Spike slowly made his way over to the quiet red head, he missed when she whispered

"I still have bruises"

"What did you say Willow"

Standing back from the vampire, Willow slowly raised her top, Spike watched as her stomach came into view, nasty yellow bruises could be seen all along her stomach and round her back

"Oh god...Willow I didn't know…I'm sorry"

"Its OK…I just don't want anyone to see me like this…they'll be gone in a couple of days, then ill go to the doctors…I promise"

"Willow, if you're worried the doctor would say anything, he wouldn't, I'm just worried in case it's serious or something"

"Spike I'm fine…really"

Willow gave Spike a smile, as they both walked downstairs to see what Giles was doing. Walking into the lounge, both of the new comers looked at the older man asleep with his head resting on an open book. Willow gently shook him awake

"Giles…wakey wakey"

"What…how…where am I"

"Your at home Giles…have you been researching all night"

"Willow? Yes there is a new demon that Buffy needs to get rid of"

"Do you need any help"

"No Willow, its OK, as soon as I find out what it is, it should be simple enough to kill"

"OK, well today I'm going to see about signing up for college again…I think its time that I started to get on with my life"

"You OK going by yourself"

"I don't know…I mean I could get lost and never find my way home again…oh no!"

Spike looked at the red head as she started towards the door with a huge grin on her face

"See you later guys"

Giles smiled as he watched Spike's gaze follow Willow out into the sunlight

"She seems to be getting better"

"What…oh yeah, yeah she's great"

Giles smiled as he walked into the kitchen

Willow placed the phone back into the cradle, she had arranged to go to the doctors the following morning, t had been a couple of weeks since the sickness had started. Spike had continued to tell her to get a appointment so she had rang this morning just to shut the vampire up, Willow smiled as she remembered his face when he had begged her to see a doctor;

“Please Willow, you’ve been getting sicker and sicker”

“I’m fine really…it’s just a bug”

“Well then it should be OK to go to the doctors, if all it is, is a bug, you have nothing to worry about”

“Fine!”

Willow had then walked out of the room and picked up the phone. Once the phone call had been made, Willow walked back into the lounge and picked up the book she had dropped before. Sitting down she waited till Spike came back into the room and sat down beside her

“Did you get an appointment?”

“Yes dad, I got one for tomorrow morning”

“Good”

“Thank you”

~ The next morning ~

“Miss Rosenburg, would you come with me”

Dr. Green sat down at his desk and offered Willow the seat opposite. Taking a seat Willow took a deep breath and looked up, the last time she had been here was when Oz had almost broken her arm, she knew that the doctor had been suspicious, that was one of the reasons that she had put this appointment off for so long

“So what seems to be the problem miss Rosen…”

“Willow…call me Willow, I feel like an old women when you call me that”

“OK Willow, what’s is the problem”

“Well I’ve been feeling sick for the last couple of weeks, I think I may have got a bug, but I don’t know”

“And when do you feel at your sickest”

“Every morning, it gets really bad, I can’t eat or even look at food without having to be sick. I’m fine though once it’s the afternoon” “OK Willow, if you could lie down on the table over there”

Willow lay down on the table, she took a deep breath as Dr. Green pulled her top up, and he started his examination. Noticing her tense reaction to him, Dr. Green started to ask questions to help ease her nerves

“How is that boyfriend of yours, I haven’t seen you for a while, which I’m glad by the way”

Dr. Green laughed softly as his own joke, smiling softly Willow relaxed a bit

“He’s…. Well he’s dead, it happened a couple of weeks ago”

“Oh, how are you?”

“Better…you know”

“Good”

“OK…Willow I think I’m finished here”

Willow sat up pulling her clothes back together, and took a seat back at the desk. Dr. Green made notes as he waited for Willow to take a seat.

“Willow I think I know what may be the problem”

“Yes”

“Willow, when was the last time you had your period”

Willow sat and thought about it, thinking back she realised that it had been a couple of months, with all the troubles during the last couple of weeks she just hadn’t noticed.

“A couple of months I think…Why?”

“I think you may be pregnant”
 

The doctor watched as Willow’s face went paler then usual

“What?”

“We’ll need to do a test but I would pretty much say, your going to be a mom”

“What?”

Willow’s shocked face looked at the ceiling, closing her eyes she rested her face in her hands, after a while she lifted her face to look back at the doctor

“I take it, this wasn’t a planned pregnancy”

“How did you guess…but I cant be…Oz is dead and I haven’t been with anyone else…I was just getting my life back together”

Doctor Green stood and placed his hand on the crying girl’s shoulder, offering the redhead a tissue, he quickly phoned his receptionist to make a follow up appointment for Miss Rosenburg

“There are options Willow”

“Excuse me”

“There are options open to you Willow”

“No”

“There is adoption”

“No…this is my problem. If I am having a baby then it’s my baby”

“Very mature decision of you”

“Yeah wait till it sinks in”

Green watched as a small smile graced the pale redhead’s face

“Do you have anyone to help you with this”

“Excuse me”

“Family…friends, I wont deny I didn’t have some idea about your last relationship, I want to know if you would need any help”

“No…no I have friends…they helped with my *last relationship* as you put it”

“Then it seems you have good friends”

“Yeah…the best”

“Will you be telling them of the news”

“I guess so…maybe then it’ll sink in for me”

Standing up Willow walked to the door and opened it, turning back to look at the doctor

“Thank you”

“You’re welcome…oh and Willow”

“Yes”

“Congratulations”

“Thanks”

Smiling Willow walked out of the surgery, in a daze the red head didn’t see the dark haired boy run up to her

“Hey Will”

“Huh”

“Earth to Willow”

“Hi Xander…how are you”

“Great…headed over to G-mans…Scooby business he thinks he’s found the demon were looking for”

“Great”

“Is something wrong”

“No…I’m fine”

Both walked up to Giles front door, Willow entered first, looking around she saw everyone was there. Sitting down she listened to Giles explain the demon they were looking for

“…So the sooner we find it the better”

Spike watched as the redhead sat down with the moron, rolling his eyes, the vampire watched as Willow unconsciously placed a hand over her stomach, when everyone stood up to go and get ready for patrol, he headed over to the redhead

“Willow”

“Hey Spike”

“Well?”

“What?”

“The doctors”

“Oh…well”

“Yes…Yes!”

“Your not going to believe it…I don’t think I do”

“Come on your killing me…well you would if I was…”

“Spike…Spike”

Spike stopped his rambling when the young women touched his arm, looking into her eyes, Spike watched as she smiled and took her hand away

“Spike…I’m…pregnant”

“Pregnant”

“Yeah…I don’t believe it myself…their sending me for more tests but they’re pretty sure I am”

“A baby”

“Yeah…I’m gonna be a mom”

“A mom”

“Yeah…. Spike are you listening”

Hitting the vampire on the arm, Willow watched as the vampire’s mouth broke out into a huge smile

“So your not sick”

“Just morning sickness”

“Well that’s great…not the sickness but…everyone”

Shouting at everyone, the whole group turned to see Spike standing with a huge grin on his face and Willow smiling shyly behind him

“Listen to this”

Buffy turned to look at the small women in front of her

“Well guys…I went to the doctors this morning”

“Oh my god you’re not sick are you”

“Willow…what’s wrong”

“Shut up and she’ll tell you”

The vampire shut everyone up and moved back so that Willow could see everyone

“Well after going to the doctors…. I found out that I’m… well I’m pregnant”

The whole room stood quiet for a moment, Willow looked uncertainly around her friends, smiling when they all rushed forward and gave the small women a group hug

“Guys!”

“How long…a baby…. your going to be a mom”

“I’m glad you guys are happy, but is this squashing good for the baby”

Everyone jumped back from the redhead, Giles was the first to talk

“Your quite right Willow…but congratulations”

Stepping forward the older man gave the redhead a quick hug, before moving to let Xander rush past

“How long Wills…can I be an uncle”

“Of course…as for how long…I have to go for more tests”

“Tests?”

“Not bad tests…baby tests”

“Oh good”

Giving a final squeeze to the redhead the dark haired youngster moved back. Willow smiled looking around her friends, her smile faltering at the look on the slayers face

“Buffy?”

“Great news Will”

“Thanks”

“So Giles that demon…it’s not going to kill itself is it”

Looking around her friends, Willow saw the tension on their faces before Giles stood forward again

“Yes Buffy…you go…Willow is excused from any further demon hunting, she’s got someone else to think of now”

Watching everyone leave, Giles hugged the red head again before leaving. The tears Willow had been hiding fell slowly down her face

“Willow”

Turning to see Spike had stayed back, the redhead quickly wiped her eyes

“Spike…I thought you would’ve been the first to go demon killing”

“Someone has to keep both of you company”

When his arms went around her Willow’s tears turned into great sobs against the vampires shoulders

“If it makes it any better, I think she’s just in shock”

“What?”

Wiping her eyes the redhead looked up

“Slayer…I don’t think she knew that she hurt you”

“It’s not that”

“Its not”

“Well…okay it is but I thought everything was going fine for me for once, going back to college, getting on with my life, and now. I’m a pregnant 19 year-old that has just left an abusive relationship, things weren’t supposed to go like this…when I was 7 I had it all planned out, got to college get a great job, marry Xander have lots of baby’s…live happily ever after”

“And…so your taste has got a bit better then Xander”

Laughing Spike pulled the redhead to the couch and sat her down

“And…I get this, I never went to college, never married Xander, I found out about vampires…and I guess I’ve started on the baby’s before everything else”

“Willow…life may have turned out different to what you expected but things change, and hey if you didn’t know about vampires, you would never have met me…and what a dull and boring life that would’ve been”

Hitting the vampire, the redhead laughed

“Thanks…well at least I can say my life was never boring”

“Exactly you have to look on the bright side…and how weird is that coming from a vampire”

Both burst out laughing as the group came back from the hunting

“Buffy…if I had known it was a two foot demon I would’ve told you sooner”

“Giles you made us rush to kill a kiddie demon…do I look like a idiot”

“Buffy…”

“No Giles I’m going home…ill ring you”

Rushing out, everyone watched as Buffy left

“What’s up with her”

“No idea?”

Disclaimer: in part 1
Dedications: to Nell, Annie, Angel, Mistress Vamp,
Cyni1, Calliope, Kittikat and Noreen, if ive forgotten
anyone then just get Angelus to punish me :)

Notes: Okay so everyone has been asking me for this,
so at 00.37 this morning, Kimberley has been re
writing this bit because her stupid computer ate the
origional, i dont know if this is better or worse then
the origional coz ive changed a lot, oh well tell me
if you still like it :) <i may also have the next part
out soon!>
 

A few months later

“Watch out women with a baby coming through”

“Shut up Spike!”

Laughing Spike watched as the redhead waddled through the watchers lounge. Setting his mug down on the bench, he watched as the heavily pregnant girl tried to sit down on Giles’ low couch, seeing the frustration on the girl’s face, the vampire moved
forward to help, the only reply from the redhead was a glare in his direction. Sighing Willow flung her hands up into the air and sighed

“I give up…I’m never going to be able to sit down”

“Oh come on pet”

“No…im going to have to stand forever, well forever until you know bump comes along”

Willow walked over to the kitchen table and pulled out a seat. Slowly lowering herself down, the redhead smiled when she was able to take the weight of her swollen ankles

“How is bump today?”

“Heavy…damn I forgot my drink over there”

Spike placed a hand on the girls shoulder to prevent her from standing and headed back into the lounge to retrieve her milk. Hearing a gasp, the vampire forgot about the milk and ran back to see Willow looking at her stomach, rushing over to the girl, a look of fear then confusion passed his face, when the redhead looked up at him smiling

“It moved…”

“So the bump decided to wake up…can I?”

Moving his hand forward, he waited till she nodded her head before kneeling and placing his cool hand over the girl’s stomach, feeling another kick Willow looked down into the vampires smiling face, moving her hand over his, she blinked away tears when her baby kicked again

“Wow…this is so un-real”

“Yeah said the vampire to the pregnant lady”

“No…I mean, that’s another life…in there”

“Scary isn’t it”

“No…not at all…but you do know what this means?”

“What?”

“Well with a kick like that…you’ve got yourself a little boy there”

“And what if it’s a little girl who likes to kick a lot”

“Nah…you’ve got yourself a lad there…Have you thought of any names yet”

“No…I look for them and there isn’t one that I’ve seen that has said “yay pick me”

“Well I’ve heard William is a popular name…very nice name it is too, if I do say so”

“I wonder why”

Laughing softly Willow felt his gaze on her. Lowering her eyes to their joined hands.

“Spike”

“Yeah pet”

“What if…I mean, what if I cant do this”

“What do you mean?”

“Well being a mom…having a baby, geez I’m scared just at the labour part”

“Willow…your going to be the best mother in the entire world, this child has got so much love around it even now that by the time it takes it’s first breathes its not going to know any less”

“You really think so”

“I do”

Seeing her smile, he watched as she sighed and looked back to her stomach, without realising the vampire leaned forward softly running his lips over the soft skin of her hand. Her sharp intake of breath was the only thing that made the vampire snap out of his reverie. Sensing her discomfort he dropped his hand and stood watching the redhead stand his voice shaky

“Willow I didn’t mean…”

“No its okay…I have to go, you know…”

Watching her rush out of the room, the blond growled, hitting the wall before storming to his room. Standing outside in the sunlight, Willow ran fingers over the hand the vampires lips had touched, still feeling the tingling she quickly shook her head and started walking, not knowing where she would go but knowing she couldn’t go back inside just yet.
 
 
 

~ A few hours later ~

Opening the door, Willow just heard the last of Giles sentence as the occupants of the room came into her view

“Yes…so this demon should be pretty simple to take down”

“Hey guys”

Willow waved at the people in the lounge before searching for the blond that had been in her thoughts for the past couple of hours. Seeing Spike nowhere, Willow grabbed the kitchen table chair and brought it into the lounge and sat down, watching everyone stand up and get ready for patrol, Willow really wished she could have went. After finding out she was pregnant
Giles had banned her from doing anything other then research, and even then she had to take breaks every couple of hours. “Your not just got to think of yourself now Willow, theirs are little one now to think of too” Smiling at the generous older man.
Willow watched Xander wave as Anya dragged him out of the door, Giles headed to his bookshelf looking for further volumes to help research the new bad. Seeing Buffy in the back, the redhead stood to go and talk to her friend, since learning of her friends pregnancy, Buffy had practically ignored the redhead, choosing to patrol more then research.

“Buffy”

“Yeah…”

Watching her friend put all the weapons in her bag, the redhead went to help only to stop at the coldness of the Slayer’s voice

“Don’t bother Willow…I’ve got it covered, go and help Giles or something”

“Buffy…have I done something?”

“What?”

“Well I’m just trying to help”

“Look Will…I’ve got to go, maybe later”

Willow placed a hand over her stomach as she watched the slayer storm out of the house. Walking back into the lounge, the redhead grabbed a book and tried to read, nothing much sinking in apart from the look on her friends face, it was so…cold. Running fingers through her hair she was just about to start reading again when a flash of bleached hair came into the room

“Spike?”

The vampire stopped and looked at the girl, his anger and hurt from before had settled down, leaving him with a sickly feeling at the thought of losing the redheads friendship because of his stupid move.

“Red”

“Red…You haven’t called me that for ages”

“Yeah well I fancy a change…its not that different”

“No…I’m not complaining…its just you haven’t called me that for a while”

“Yeah you already said that”

Walking away, the vampire stopped at her voice his back towards her keeping the emotions that travelled over his face unknown to the quiet redhead

“Spike…don’t go. Look about before I was stupid…I shouldn’t have ran away like that”

“It was nothing…forget about it”

“No…I didn’t mean to…to…run but I didn’t mean anything.i was just surprised…you surprised me”

“Well I wont anymore…surprises are stupid anyway, I don’t know what I was thinking”

“Oh…you regret it…right, look we’ll just forget about it and get back to normal”

“Yeah normal”

When he still didn’t turn around, Willow walked closer and placed a hand on his shoulder, turning him slowly she looked up into his eyes and saw the hurt there before he had chance to cover his emotions

“Spike…”

“Yeah”

“Were okay…friends?”

“Of course pet…friends”

Pulling her into a hug, the vampire let his arms surround the girl, taking in the smell of her before pulling away

“Look…if were okay, I think I’ll go and see what the others are up to maybe if I’m really lucky there’ll be a demon there to hurt them a bit for me”

“Spike…”

“I’m kidding…I’ll see if anyone needs the help of the big bad”

“I’m sure they do”

Willow watched as he left, the bad feeling inside lessened a bit by her talk with the vampire, all she needed to do now was find out what was up with Buffy

Disclaimer: I own nothing, wish i did, but i dont so:P
Dedications: Nell, Noreen, Ann, calliope, Kim,

Notes: Nearly finished <Squeal> just one part to go!! well i finished my personal study thing, and i only have one more essay to do, but i had to write this part before i started on my essay, i hope people like this part, the first copy i did of this was so
differant and i dont know if i like this version let me know what you think <damning her computer again for losing the first copy of love heals!> Oh well onto the fic...
 

The redhead turned to the door when she heard the voices of her friends, smiling when they all piled into the little house

“Hey guys, did you slay the demon”

“Yeah Wills…you should’ve been there, I don’t think I’ve laughed so much in my entire life”

“Huh?”

“Well Giles didn’t mention that the so called bad demon was only 2 foot tall and needed glasses to see anything in front of him, it was as blind as a bat”

“Yes…my books obvisoly were just a little off this time, but it was a demon and well one less demon is good”

“Yeah Giles but I’m the Slayer, Xander could’ve killed this thing”

“Yeah I could’ve killed this…hey!”

Willows smile faltered a bit at the hurt look that crossed her child hood friend’s face. Standing up, Willow hugged Xander goodbye and watched as Giles headed to bed, the only ones left were her and the quiet slayer. Looking at her friend, she thought Buffy was going to say something to her when she turned and started to walk to the door

“Buffy?”

“Look Willow I’m tired…some of us have been patrolling and want to get to bed”

“What have I done?”

“Nothing...”

“Well its funny because every time you see me you either walk away or ignore me…and I must have done something really bad for you to ignore me?”

“I’m not starting this now Willow…go to bed, your getting flustered and you shouldn’t in your condition”

Looking at her friend then to her stomach, it all finally clicked in her mind why Buffy had been so distant

“Its this isn’t it”

Motioning to the bump in front of her, she watched as Buffy kept her head down refusing to acknowledge the truth in the redhead’s words

“I don’t know what you talking about”

“Ever since I found out I was pregnant, you’ve went out of your way to not talk to me”

“No I haven’t I’ve just been busy”

“Buffy…even when we were battling apocalyptic demons, you still had time to acknowledge I was still around”

“You don’t know what you’re talking about”

“Oh I think I do…what is it about my baby, that hurts you so much”

“Nothing…its nothing”

“It is…Buffy, you’ve never ignored me before don’t start now”

“It…It’s not fair”

Willow moved closer to hear the whispered words

“What?”

“My life…”

“What are you saying Buffy”

“Everything…your whole life is so perfect, you’ve got everything that I’ve ever wanted. I’ve got probably a couple more years left, and I’ve got nothing to show that I was ever here

“Buffy, don’t say that…. You’re going to have children, it’s just not your time yet…and you’re not going to die”

“No…Willow you don’t get it, I’ve lived longer then every other slayer, I’m going to die…its kinda like my fate”

“No…Buffy you’ve already proved the council wrong, you’re strong and you’re not going to die…”

Willow watched the tears fall down her friend’s face, feeling her heartbreak at the pain she saw etched on the young slayers face. She felt guilty for saying the things she had before, Buffy had only been scared of the thought of never getting to live her own life

“Buffy, look I know you’re the first slayer I’ve met but I know your not going to die…your too strong to die…”

“Willow, I’ve felt it…”

“What?”

“I’ve kept it quiet…but I’m losing it”

“It…what are you talking about?”

“When I was patrolling the other night…a fledgling nearly knocked me out”

“That was probably because you’ve been worrying so much”

“No…he would’ve killed me…I can feel myself getting weaker”

“Buffy…your not getting weaker, look lets go inside and tell Giles and you’ll see Slayers don’t lose their strength…your probably just tired and worn out…”

“And getting weaker…I’m dying, I can feel it…inside you know, and I’m so scared”

“Oh Buffy”

Walking over to her friend, Willow pulled the sobbing girl into her arms, Buffy wrapped her arms around the small redhead, quietly lifting her head she whispered through her sobs

“I’m dying Willow…I know it, I feel it”

“Shh…Buffy you’re not dying, I won’t let you…I need a godmother for bump here you know”

Laughing slightly, Willow looked at the small smile that crossed Buffy’s face, giving her friend a small hug Willow stood back and watched as Buffy walked to the door, turning slightly, the blond looked at the redhead

“Willow…”

“Yeah Buffy”

“Could you forgive me?”

Looking at the pleading look in the blonde’s eyes, Willow smiled as she placed a hand on her stomach

“Of course…what are friends for”

Disclaimer: I own nothing except for the doctors and nurses and the ickle baby <everybody awwww>
Dedications: To Nell, Ann <who ive been bugging none stop because i couldnt wait for the Buffy/Angel
crossover, thanx for listening to my rambles> Noreen, Kim

Notes: Well i finally finished it!! i dont know if its as good as the origional but at the moment this is the way it wants to be written, oh and in the fic there is a surprise for all the people i dedicated!! Now the only question left is do you want a sequel? i have a few ideas but its up to you people :)
 

“Were looking for Willow Rosenburg”

The receptionist looked up at the group of people in front of her, smiling as they tried to regain their breath, she looked down at the names of new admittance’s

“Willow Rosenburg”

“Yes…she’s having a baby, someone called us before”

“Oh yes, here she is…went into labour two hours ago, may I ask who you are”

“We are family”

The blond receptionist looked up at the older man, then her gaze looked at the other teens

“Family?”

“Yes…we just want to know if she’s okay”

“If you will all take a seat, ill get a doctor to come and speak to you”

“Thank you”

“Giles…we cant just sit and do nothing”

“Buffy, this isn’t something you can rush…we’ll just have to wait”

The old watcher looked at his Slayer, she looked tired and had been quiet since her talk with the redhead. Waiting for everyone to take a seat, he paced the room a few times before finding himself a seat to await the arrival.

~ In the delivery room ~

Willow took another deep breath, the pain causing her eyes to close as she crushed the fingers in her hand. It had only been a couple of hours, yet she felt like she had been in pain for days, years even. Slowly opening her eyes as the contraction left her body, she looked into his eyes, glad that he had came with her, the thought of doing this alone made a tear fall silently down her face. Feeling his cool fingers wiping her face, she smiled as he grabbed a wet cloth and placed it over her forehead.
Whimpering as the pain started again, she grabbed his hand again as the pain shook her body.

“Come on pet…your doing great”

His words soothed her a bit as she fought the urge to scream out loud. The doctor had said that this could go on for hours, grabbing his hand, she pulled the vampire down so that she could see his face

“I don’t…don’t think I can do this”

“Of course you can Red…come on I’m here, would I let anything happen to you or Bump”

Shaking her head, the redhead smiled slightly at the nickname her baby already had thanks to the blonde. The doctor came back into the room and smiled at the blond and redhead, seeing the concerned face of Spike, he walked closer and checked to see how much time Willow had left, motioning to a nurse to record the details he looked up at the couple.

“Nearly there Miss Rosenburg..”

“Willow…”

“Excuse me”

“What is it with Doctors…my name is Willow, please call me Wi…Willow”

The last part was forced out through clenched teeth as another contraction started

“Hey Doc…how much longer, these pains they’ve been coming quicker and quicker”

“Yes…that is good, it means everything’s coming along nicely, not much longer I would suspect”

Smiling down towards Willow, Spike pushed some strands of her hair away from her face, nearly there, the words sparked something within him, a baby was about to be born and he was going to be there. Not caring about the consequences, the blond bent over and placed a kiss on the girls cheek and whispered in her ear

“Come on pet…hear that not much longer, and you’ll be a mom”

“A mom…”

Grinning at the smile on her pain riddled face, Spike watched as the doctor left, the nurse grinned at his nervous expression

“Don’t worry sir, he’ll be right back, he’s just sorting out some things”

“But he’ll be back…I don’t want her having a baby alone here”

“She wont…anyway this girl is anything but alone, were finding it hard to find seats for everyone out there…she’s a popular  girl”

“Spike…”

“Yeah pet”

Glancing back, he watched as tears fell down her face. Placing his hand in hers, he didn’t flinch as she squeezed tightly on the already bruised flesh

“I can’t do this…please make it stop…please Spike”

His heart broke at the pain in her voice, looking into her pleading eyes, he placed his cool hand over her fevered brow

“You know I would if I could pet…but your strong, you can do this”

“No…no. I cant, its hurting to much…I cant”

“Yes you can…Willow you’re the strongest person I know and your going to be the best mother as well”

“I don’t think I can…who was I kidding, I cant be a mom, I should’ve stayed with Oz in LA”

“No…now I know your hurting Willow, but the last couple of months you’ve been so strong, don’t go back to that Willow who wouldn’t even talk to me…I need you Willow”

“You need me?”

“Yes and so does this little one…now why don’t we bring little bump into the world, so it can see what it’s missing”

Spike smiled down at the redhead, turning towards the door he watched as the doctor came back in.

“Willow are you ready to have a baby?”

“After nine months I think yeah”

Willow smiled as she looked up at the blond by her side

~ In the waiting room ~

“Oh come on, it can’t take this long”

“Xander…she’s having a baby”

“Yeah well on TV it takes like five minutes”

“I’m just going to slowly walk away…do *not* follow me”

The dark haired youth watched as the slayer walked away, shrugging he walked to the vending machine, in time of waiting, food was always the best way to wait.

“Giles?”

Turning towards the small blond, the old man sighed as he replaced his glasses

“Yes Buffy”

“Do you think everything will be all right in there”

“She’s got Spike with her…she’ll be fine”

“He is good for her isn’t he”

“Yeah…if someone had said five years ago that I would be living with Spike and Willow, I wouldn’t have laughed and thought them as possessed”

Laughing at the thought, the watcher looked at the quiet girl

“Buffy?”

“Yeah Giles”

“Is anything wrong”

“No…nothing…I told my mom about the hospital results”

“How did she take it”

“She cried…a lot”

“I expected that…and you”

“No crying yet, I just wish I knew more”

“You will Buffy and you know I’m here for you”

“Yeah…. Giles”

Looking at the small girl, Giles noticed how small and fragile she did look, after all these years he hadn’t really look at her. But now that he did he was shocked to see how much she had changed, gone was the youthful girl look and in its place was a young woman, a scared young women

“Yes Buffy”

“Thanks”

Pulling the girl into a hug, he refused to let the tears fall as he felt her arms go around his waist. Hearing a cough from the doorway, both looked at the nurse

“You’re waiting for Willow Rosenburg?”

“Yes…is anything wrong”

“No…no, all are healthy and were only waiting for the arrival of the little one, Miss Rosenburg wanted you to know”

“Thank you”

Watching the nurse leave, Buffy smiling at the older man before leaving to tell the others

~ In the delivery room ~

“Just one more push Willow”

“Just one more pet…one more”

“Spike…”

“I’m here…”

“Don’t leave me please…”

“I wont “

“Promise me…please”

“I promise you Willow…you’re stuck with me, I’m not going anyway…come on you nearly there”

Smiling slightly, the redhead pushed once more, hearing nothing she looked up at the vampire whom was staring at the doctor. Her voice low, she pulled on the blonde’s arm

“Spike…”

Looking down at the frightened redhead, he didn’t let his fear show as the silence went on. His chest tight he looked at the doctor just in time to hear the perfect cry of a new-born baby

“Willow…you have a beautiful baby girl”

Looking at the tiny baby, the vampire jumped and turned to look at the redhead, smiling as the baby was placed in her arms, he looked down at the small child before taking in the smile on Willow’s face.

“It’s a girl Willow…a baby girl”

“I did it”

“You bloody well did pet….Sorry about the language, but you did it”

“Thank you Spike”

“What for?”

“Being there”

“No problem…but I want you to know you owe me one red”

Laughing, Willow looked down at her daughter, her daughter. Counting ten little fingers and ten little toes, she was so caught up with looking at her new baby that she didn’t notice the door open, or the group of people who followed

“Hey Willow”

“Congratulations Will’s”

“She’s beautiful Willow”

Looking up at her friends, Willow smiled at their excited faces, and all the balloons and presents they had with them

“Guys…what did you do, buy a whole shop or something”

“Almost…Well we had to spoil little…what’s her name”

“Name…”

“Yeah everyone has one, it’s how people know each other”

“Shut up Xander…I… just after everything, I can’t believe I forgot a name”

“Don’t worry Willow…you’ll find one”

“How about a weird name…like all those movie stars”

“Xander!”

Raising his hands in defence Xander moved to the back of the room. After saying his congratulations Giles soon joined Xander, both watching as the small blond who had stayed quiet throughout everything went to stand next to her friend.

“Guys…could you leave us for a while”

Smiling at the blonde, both men left the two women to talk. Once they had left Buffy smiled and sat down next to the redhead

“Congratulations Willow…I’m so proud of you”

“Thanks…Buffy”

“Yeah…”

“Would you like to hold her?”

“Can I”

Standing up, Buffy softly took the baby from the redheads arm’s, sitting up slightly Willow reached for a glass of water whilst watching her friend

“Buffy”

“Yeah”

“Is everything okay”

Willow watched as her friend stayed silent, the only sound in the room being that of the small child

“Buffy…”

“I’m sick…they don’t know what it is but they know something isn’t right with me”

“They?”

“I went to the doctors a couple of days ago…just for some tests, I got the results back yesterday”

“Buffy…why didn’t you tell me this before”

“Willow you were ready to give birth”

“So Buffy you’re my friend…never keep anything like that away from me again okay”

“Okay”

“What did they say”

“They basically said there was something wrong with me but they didn’t know what, my body is tired, it seems older then it really is…Giles just thinks I’m exhausted”

“Maybe you are…”

“Maybe…Giles says he’s going to contact the council to try to find out what happens to slayers once they get older, but since I’m like the oldest one ever, he doesn’t think they’ll have much info”

“But they might Buffy you’ve just got to think positively”

“Yeah…anyway enough about me, today is about you and baby no name”

“Buffy don’t say that you’d think I don’t care…okay lets think of some names”

“What about Ann…or Nell, maybe Noreen, or Kim”

“I don’t know…you would think this name calling would be easy”

“Well there’s always Xander’s idea”

“Oh yeah…we could call her Lala or Kittikat”

Both women burst out laughing as they thought of weird names for the baby

“No…I want something sweet, but not too fluffy”

“You don’t ask for much do you?”

Laughing Buffy placed the baby back into her mother’s arms, smiling as the child snuggled into her mother
and seemed to calm more

“How about Isobelle?”

“Isobelle…pretty, what made you think of that Willow”

“I heard it the other day on the radio, I never really paid attention before but I don’t know…its pretty, they also shortened it to Belle”

“Belle…I like it”

“How about you…do you like Belle”

Looking down at her daughter, Willow smiled when the small baby made a small noise, looking at Buffy she smiled at her friend

“I guess that answers it…Hello Isobelle”

Hearing a knock at the door, both girls turned to see a blond head pop round the door

“Can I come in?”

“Come in Spike…look Willow I’ll go and see the others, let you get your rest”

“Okay…Bye Buffy”

“Bye Wills”

Waving to her friend Willow watched the small blond leave and the vampire move closer

“Hey Spike”

“Hiya pet…how are you?”

“Both of us are good?”

“So have you thought of a name”

“Isobelle…Belle for short”

“Beautiful”

“Well it was either that or Lala”

“What?”

Laughing at the look of confusion, she shook her head and motioned to a chair next to her bed

“Nothing…would you like to hold her”

Head shooting up, Spike looked at the redhead, with a shocked look on his face he moved closer, his voice low

“Really…can I?”

“Of course…I trust you”

Willow watched Spikes smile grow as she placed the small baby in his arms, looking at the tiny fingers against his own larger ones, Spike couldn’t quite believe that he William the bloody, vampire, killer could be so happy holding a baby. Hearing a yawn escape the redhead, he looked up to see how tired Willow really was. Placing Belle in her own bed, Spike looked at mother and daughter.

“I’ll go Willow let you get your rest”

“No”

Stopping at her panicked voice, Spike turned to look at Willow, walking over to the bed, he watched as she took a hold of his hand

“Please could you stay, just a little while…Hospitals kinda freak me out”

“Sure if you really want me to”

“Yes I do…the only time I’ve been in hospital before was when Dru…well it wasn’t a good time, then with Oz and everything…I don’t really like them, especially when I’m alone, you only have to wait till I’m asleep”

“No problem pet”

Sitting down in one of the chairs, Spike kept his hand in Willows as she lay down and tried to sleep. Noticing the bruising on his hand, Willow looked at the quiet vampire

“Spike I hurt you”

“What… oh that, you were in a bit more pain than me love”

“I’m so sorry”

“As I’ve said before…its nothing, go to sleep…ill keep an eye on Belle”

“Thanks”

“Shh…go to sleep”

“Spike…”

“Yeah”

“Stay with me..”

“Always pet”

Spike watched as Willow lay down and soon fell asleep, her hand wrapped tightly in his.
 

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