Forever, Always, and Then Some

Chapter 71

 

Buffy: I don’t want to hurt you.

Angel: You won’t. But I might hurt myself if I get up to get you.

Buffy walks up to him. He reaches up his hand and takes hers. He gently tugs on her. She lowers herself carefully onto his lap. He wraps his arm around her and places his other hand on her stomach.

Angel: See no pain.

Buffy: You sure?

Angel: Yes, I wouldn’t lie to you.

He raises his hand to the back of her head and pulls her mouth to his. The kiss starts out gentle but soon gets more passionate. She strokes his neck and shoulders. He lowers his arm around her waist to cradle her buttocks and pull her closer. She pulls back.

Buffy: You are going to hurt yourself.

Angel: Shut up and kiss me.

He pulls her back into the kiss. She returns his ardor and the kiss intensifies. Her hands roam over his naked torso. He takes his free hand and runs it down her neck and her chest and rest it on her knee. She shivers.

Angel: What’s wrong?

Buffy: Your hand is cold.

Angel: Oh, sorry.

He goes to move it but she stops him.

Buffy: I didn’t ask you to move it.

Angel: I made you shiver.

Buffy: I shivered from the touch not the cold.

Angel: Huh?

Buffy: Nothing, weren’t we kissing.

Angel: Yes, but I need an answer to something.

Buffy: What?

Angel: Why are you not wearing any panties?

Buffy: I told you, to drive you crazy.

Angel: But why?

Buffy: Sometimes you are just so quiet and proper, I just felt a need to shake you up a little. It worked to.

Angel: I was not shook up, I was irritated maybe.

Buffy: Yeah, you were so irritated you spent half the evening trying to figure out how you could slip your hand up my skirt.

Angel: I did not.

Buffy: I thought you wouldn’t lie to me.

Angel: Oh.

Buffy: So.

Angel: Okay, so kept imagining touching you. You are my wife and we had just spent three hours in here in marital pleasure. Not hard to imagine I wanted even more.

Buffy: Me too. So now you know why I skipped the undies.

Angel: Because you wanted more?

Buffy: Yes, and I couldn’t have more physically so I went for a little mental stimulus. And it helped.

Angel: Oh it did, well it did nothing for me.

Buffy looks at him.

Angel: Fine, it made for some killer fantasizes

Buffy: I knew it would. Now can we get back to the kissing.

Angel: No.

Buffy pouts.

Angel: You need your sleep.

Buffy: I am not sleepy.

Angel: You have to be. It has been a long day.

Buffy: I am not going to bed until I get more smoochies.

Angel: Smoochies?

Buffy moves in toward him. He turns his head.

Angel: I said no.

Buffy: Well I guess we sit her till you change your mind.

Angel: Buffy.

Buffy: I’m waiting.

Angel: I can pick you up. It might hurt like hell but I can do it.

Buffy: Sever pain or kisses, your choice.

Angel looks at her for about a minute before he leans forward and captures her mouth with his. Her hands resume their foray upon his skin. He is not mirroring her passion. She pulls back and goes to get up. He catches her hand.

Angel: Where are you going?

Buffy: It’s like kissing a corpse. No pun intended.

Angel: So are we going to bed?

Buffy grabs her pajamas and heads to the bathroom. When she returns he is changed and in bed. He lifts the covers and she crawls in. He slips his arms around her. She lays her head on his chest.

Angel: Sweet dreams.

After a while Buffy becomes aware that Angel has fallen asleep. She gently slips out of bed and leaves the room. She heads down to the office.

Fred: Hey, he has not rang in yet. Where is Angel?

Buffy: Sleeping thankfully.

Fred: Oh had to sneak out.

Buffy: Where is everyone else?

Fred: Gunn, Cordy and Wesley all went home. Travers went back to the hotel. Everyone else is upstairs.

Buffy: Wes is not staying here tonight?

Fred: No he needed to take care of some stuff.

Buffy: You could have left, you didn’t have to stay because of me.

Fred: I know.

The computer rings out.

Buffy: Perfect timing.

She sits down and the computer connects.

Oz: Buffy? It is you. I can’t believe it. How did you find me?

Buffy: Funny story actually. I was asking Fred if she could help me find you and she already knew where you were.

Oz: Fred? Oh yeah, I remember her she contacted me one day, and we chatted for awhile.

Buffy: She told me.

Oz: How do you know her? Does she go to UC Sunnydale?

Buffy: Oh no she lives here in LA. She works…..oh shit I am trouble.

Oz: What’s wrong? Is it a demon?

Buffy: Uh you could say that, oh you could say that.

Oz: What? Buffy?

Angel: Buffy Anne Summers what in the world are you doing down here?

Buffy: Uh chatting with Oz.

Oz: Who the hell is that?

Buffy: Uh that would be my not to happy husband.

Oz: Husband.

Angel: I roll over and you are gone. And I find you chatting on the computer (he walks around to the computer and looks) with….it is Oz.

Buffy: I told you.

Oz: Angel? Hey dude. What is going on?

Buffy: Angel here thinks he is Jiminy Cricket and that I can’t think for myself.

Angel: Buffy. You need someone to watch out for you. The doctor said you needed to rest.

Buffy: I am fine.

Oz: Hey guys, what is going on?

Buffy: Listen, I need to talk to Oz and then I promise I will go to bed and I will sleep late. Oh and by the way who is with Conner?

Angel: No one so you need to get upstairs.

Oz: Anyone going to tell me what is going on.

Fred: Uh, hi uh Oz..

Oz: Oh hey Fred. What is going on?

Fred: Uh Angel is mad because Buffy is suppose to be sleeping and Buffy is mad because she thinks he is treating her like a child.

Oz: Oh. And what about her husband?

Fred: Huh? What do you mean?

Oz: She said something about a husband…….oh she meant Angel. Her and Angel? I knew they would get back together one day. But then I thought Willow and I would too.

Fred: Willow? She is upstairs.

Oz: Willow is there?

Fred: Yeah, she came up with Dawn to celebrate the news.

Oz: News.

Fred: Uh Buffy, Angel do you want to tell Oz the news.

Buffy and Angel look at her.

Fred: You know neither one of you is going to win, so why don’t you tell O z the news.

Buffy: I was planning to anyway.

Angel: Okay we tell Oz and then you get your butt back in bed.

Buffy: I found Oz because I need to talk to him.

Angel: Lets both talk to him and then we are BOTH going to bed and get some sleep.

He sits down and pulls her into his lap.

Angel: Hi, sorry about that but she is not suppose to be up.

Oz: Uh okay.

Buffy: I am fine, oh I refuse to argue. Hey Oz. Sorry about all this. I thought he had fallen asleep.

Angel: I had, the bed got cold.

Buffy: So when I sneak out next time I need to leave behind what a heating pad?

Angel: No you just stay you butt in bed and no problem.

Fred: You are arguing again.

Buffy: Oh yeah right. Oz, where are you? Willow said she received a postcard from you last summer fro Alaska?

Oz: Postcard…..oh I sent that to you, I thought.

Buffy: Oh, well Willow lives with Dawn and I since mom died and I was well not around all summer. I was well I was kinda dead.

Oz: Okay, first you said your mom is dead and then you said you were dead. Help?

Buffy: Mom died last summer, and I died trying to close a portal to hell dimension. But Willow brought me back.

Oz: CPR?

Buffy: No magic….I was gone 147 days.

Oz: You are serious?

Angel: Yes.

Oz: Is that why you are seeing a doctor?

Buffy: No, I am fine…..nothing six more months won’t cure.

Angel: What Buffy is trying to say is she is three months pregnant and we just found out yesterday.

Oz: Oh….Oh……sorry but uh how?

Buffy: Long story, tell you later. Angel can you go check on Conner, and I will be up in a few minutes.

Oz: Who is Conner?

Buffy: More long story. He is our son, he is six months old. And well we usually don’t leave him alone with everyone trying to kidnap him.

Oz: I am confused but I guess it is another long story.

Buffy: Pretty much. Angel, Conner.

Angel: Oz, is there some other time you two can talk, like tomorrow afternoon maybe. I really need to get Buffy in bed.

Oz: Uh sure. Ring me back between 11 and 2 and I will be here.

Angel: See honey, you can do this at a decent hour.

Buffy: Okay, but I need to ask Oz one thing…….I promise 3 minutes and then I will be upstairs.

Angel stands up and set her in the chair.

Angel: Three minutes and I will be expecting you.

Buffy: Promise.

Angel walks off.

Buffy: Finally. Oz not much time.

Oz: What is it?

Buffy: I am not sure where you are or even what is going on in your life but I really need to talk to you and I don’t want to do it this way.

Oz: Are you asking me to come the California?

Buffy: If there is anyway.

Oz: Actually, I have been thinking about flying down and visiting my parents, I guess I could see you too.

Buffy: When?

Oz: It sounds urgent.

Buffy: I think it is.

Oz: World in peril?

Buffy: Not quite but close.

Oz: And Angel?

Buffy: It doesn’t concern him. Well not yet.

Oz: Buffy, you sound worried, do you want me to come now?

Buffy: The sooner the better. You may not like what I have to say but it has to be done.

Oz: You have my attention. There is no reason I can’t go ahead and come. I will check on the flights and let you know.

Buffy: Thanks Oz. Uh, if we don’t pick up just send an e-mail, Fred will give you the one for AI.

Oz: AI?

Buffy: Angel Investigations.

Oz: Oh yeah Vamp detective agency, no gun, no hat, just fangs.

Buffy: Huh?

Oz: Cordy.

Buffy: Oh. She still works her.

Ox: Oh.

Angel: (m) Buffy.

Buffy: Uh got to go. I guess I will either see you or talk to you again soon.

Oz: You will. Take care.

Buffy: Oh and we can tell you all the long stories. Bye.

She dashes upstairs.

Fred: Okay got a pen for the e-mail address.

Oz: Sure do. So they got married.

Fred: It was a beautiful candlelit ceremony at sunset.

Oz: Sure it was. Okay give it to me.

 

© 2005 Tara