Forever, Always, and Then Some

Chapter Nineteen

When they return to the house, Gunn, Wesley, and Fred head back to LA. Angel calls over to Cordy and tells her he will pick her up that evening. She is spending the day with Aura. Angel packs his bags hours before sunset. Buffy watches sadly.

Angel: Buffy, I will stay if you ask me to. But you know I will have to leave eventually.

Buffy: No, It is time. I am just going to miss you. My bed is going to seem awfully big.

Angel: I know what you mean, and awfully cold…..I like having something warm to snuggle with.

Willow comes to the door.

Willow: Buffy, Dawn and I are taking off. The three of you have the house to yourself. Can we trust you to behave?

Buffy: Bye.

Angel: Just us? What you want to do?

Buffy: Lets go downstairs. Liam is swinging and I just want to enjoy the time I have left with……my husband.

Angel: Whatever my wife wants. Where did Giles go?

Buffy: He is checking out the shop records. He is going to stay here for a few more days then back to England.

Angel: And Holtz? Any decisions?

Buffy: I think the Watchers Council might help, they are curious to examine a man over 200 years old. They are considering taking him to England for tests. Only be temporary solution but hey it will buy you a few weeks or maybe months. Time will tell.

Angel: It is a start.

Meanwhile in LA:

Lila and Gavin are in her office with the lab results.

Gavin: It can not be. There is no way that the baby is hers, it has to be Darla’s

Lila: The proof is right here. The DNA is a match. The slayer is the mother of that child. Darla and her baby have slipped through our fingers.

Gavin: We have got to find her.

Linwood: (having stepped in) And you better find her fast. The senior partners are not too happy that you have spent all this time and money staking out the wrong baby.

Gavin: I have no idea how he did it. He used this other baby as a subterfuge. He even had his name on the birth certificate.

Linwood: That is not all he did. Our people just informed me, he married the slayer last night.

Lila: Married?

Linwood: Married. Looks like our boy is turning into the real family man. Now lets find the rest of his family. His real son. Find Darla.

Lila: We may need help. I wonder if we use the other vampire if she can help us find Darla…..there is suppose to be all that connection with those sired right?

Linwood: Possible, but do you have any idea where the other one is?

Lila: That I do. She keeps me informed, just in case.

Linwood: Well get on it.

In Sunnydale.

They spend their last afternoon together. That evening he kisses his family goodbye and heads on back to LA and Angel Investigations. Buffy has not been on patrol since the night of the attempted kidnapping so she decides she better get back on the street. She leaves Willow and Dawn with her son. Tara once again places a protection spell upon the house.

Buffy is walking through the cemetery when she senses something behind her.

Buffy: I hope you are a vampire because I feel like kicking some ass.

Spike: OOOO I am liking that idea. Lets go sweetheart.

Buffy turns around.

Buffy: Spike, I so don’t have time for you.

Spike: Where is the fancy boy? Did you finally send the eunuch away?

Buffy: Angel headed back to LA. He does have a job there.

Spike: Good, now you can quit playing and we can get down to some real business.

Buffy: Spike there is no way I going get down to anything with you.

Spike walks toward her and she steps back.

Spike: Quit acting hard to get and let me show you what a real man can do for you.

Buffy has had enough and hauls of and backhands him across the face. Her diamond rings makes a jagged cut across his cheek.

Spike: What the bloody hell did you hit me with.

Buffy looks down at her hand.

Buffy: Looks like even when Angel is not here he can hurt you.

Spike: What does Angel have to do with this.

Buffy: Only it was the ring that he gave me that sliced your face open.

Spike: Oh so the great vamp detective makes a little money and buys you a little babble. Honey money can’t buy what you really need.

Buffy: Angel has given me more than one ring. The best thing he gave me did not cost him a dime.

Spike: And what did the flaming poof give you that was so bloody wonderful?

Buffy: A baby.

Spike: A baby? Your pregnant? You can’t be pregnant. Vampires can’t have children. And Angel can’t even do it. Bloody hell is it mine.

Buffy: I am not pregnant. Someone else carried the baby for us.

Spike: Carried the baby? It is here. The baby is already here. Heh......wait a mo….vampires can not have children. Who is he trying to con.

Buffy: Angel can and we did. We have DNA test to prove it. And why am I even talking to you?

Buffy turns to walks off.

Spike: Go ahead walk away but you will be back when you find out he has conned you. He can’t be a real man so he tries to trap you with some lame baby crap.

Buffy turns back even angrier.

Buffy: If you say one more negative thing about my husband or my son, I will stake you even if you are impotent.

Spike: Impotent? Impotent? I can’t bite, but I am not bloody impotent….and you should know.

Buffy walks off.

Spike: (to himself) Husband? Son? What?

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