A Love That Knows No Bounds
Disclaimer: Joss is the Almighty Ruler of Buffy and all the other characters, except Dr. Dana Culbert. If you want to use him please ask. This is PG-14 for language. This has Spoilers for upto Innocence. Angel was bad but they found the curse right away.
Part One
Open at Sunnydale High Library:
"GILES!!" Buffy screamed as she dragged Angel's limp body into the libray. Giles stormed into the main room of library and saw Angel. "Good God, what happened?" Buffy was lying him down on the floor. "Spike."
Giles was confused. "I would have thought he would have been able to handle him." Giles asked, "Does he know?" Buffy looked down and said "No." "You should tell him. It means you two can be together." Buffy and Giles brought Angel in to Giles's office and laid him on his couch. "After my birthday and well...you know, I don't think either of us are ready."
Giles sat down in his chair and Buffy sat next to Angel, stroking his head. Giles said "I understand, but he does need to know. Do you want me to.." Buffy jumped up in suprise and yelled loud enough to wake the dead "NO!"
She calmed down and said "I'll do it when he gets better." Giles stood and said with concern on his face" We should call Willow and Jenny. They will know what to do." Just then Angel started to flinch. "This is my fault because I didn't tell him."
Thirty minutes two cups of tea, a phone call, and a hell of a lot of pacing later:
"Oh my god! Angel!" Willow said, shocked. "What happened?" "Spike." Buffy said flatly. "Is he moving at all?" Buffy was very worried but showed sarcasm "Well if you call a few eye flutters and a few grunts moving then yes." "Well that's a good sign. If you lift his head, *GENTLY*, I can look at the back of his head." After minutes of looking Willow said with relief on her face. "He just has a small cut on the back of his head. With some care, he should be fine." Buffy got up and gave Willow a big hug. "Thanks Will. You're the best." Just then Angel started to wake up. "OOHHH..." Buffy held him. She tried to keep him from moving. "Slow down, you got yourself a nasty bump on you head. Willow, will you help me take him home?"
Three painful days later
Buffy was sitting in a chair next to Angel's bed and Angel was lying in bed. Buffy got up and sat next to Angel on the bed. "I am glad that Giles let me take off the week to care for you." Angel smiled that oh-so-so-sexy half smile of his. "I am too." Buffy got a worried look on her face. "Angel..?" He looked at her. "What?" She began to stutter and Angel got worried.
"It is about the curse..." She got up to pace but Angel grabbed her by the waist and sat her in his lap. "Buffy, I know. We can never be together. If you want to date a guy that you can..." She got a shocked look on her face. "Angel, that's not it. I love you and I would NEVER want to be with another guy. The curse..We... Will.. your soul.."
She started to cry tears of joy into Angel's chest but he didn't understand that they were tears of unbelivable joy. She curled into his lap. "Buffy, it's going to be okay." She stopped crying and sat up and held his hand. "Will and I found a curse... spell that's gonna kill the demon. Your soul is forever. NOTHING can take it away." Angel was in shock and couldn't hold his emotions back. "You mean..." Buffy gave him a smile. "Yes. You can be as happy as you want and you won't want to kill me. Angel grabbed her and kissed her so long that when he released her she was gasping for breath.
"I hate to stop this but I have to check in with Giles." Angel looked at her and kissed her. "I really hate him." Buffy laughed and tried to kiss him, but Angel pinned her arms to her side and tried to go in for a deep kiss but Buffy stopped him. "Don't make me stake you just when you..." Buffy got a sick look on her face and grabbed Angel for support as a wave of dizzyness sweept over her. "Buffy, are you okay?" She sat down on the bed but couldn't hold herself up. Her vision became blury and her speach was incohearent.
"Giles!!" Angel screamed at the top of his lungs. "Angel, what is it?" Giles said without looking up at Angel. "It's Buffy." Giles turned around to see his Slayer in the arms of her lover, unconscious. "Good God, what happened to her?" Angel wanted to explain this minus the make-out session. It was going to be hard. "We were talking about my curse, when all of a sudden she grabbed me, sat on the bed and then blacked out." Giles and Angel walked into his office and Angel placed Buffy onto Giles couch.
Just then Willow and Xander walked in. "Giles." They both sounded at once. "Giles, are you here?" He finally heard them. "In my office." He said. Just then Buffy started to wake up. "Buffy!" Angel was at her side in less than a second. "Where am I?" Buffy tried to sit up but Angel kept her down. "Don't sit up." She tried to push him off of her but it didn't work. "Angel, what happened? And let me sit up. I'm fine." He was really worried about her. "No, you're not. We were at my place and you blacked out when we were...talking. I brought you to the library." Willow and Xander both walked in to the office to see Buffy looking not like she normally does. "Buff. What, did you and Angel go at it again?" Everyone glared at him. "Sorry." Willow rushed over to Buffy and said, "What happened Buffy? Are you okay?" She sat up, against Angel's wishes, and told Willow that she was fine. "Okay, everybody, I'm fine. I'm just thirsty. Xander can you get me some V8?" Xander went and got some while Angel asked, "I thought you hated salty food."
"Guess not." Xander came in with a drink and Buffy sucked it down faster than you could say 'vacuum effect'. "Angel? Can you take me home." He helped her up and said, "Sure. My place or yours?" She looked up at him with a hopeful eyes. "Yours?" He kissed her gently and said "What ever the boss wants. (Whispers) I love you." "I love you, too." They said good bye to everybody and walked to Angel's place.
As they walked down a street (there are only a few in SunnyHell so don't ask which one) Buffy suddenly remembered that she had to go home. "SHIT!" Angel looked at her with suprise. "What is it?" She said, "I told mom that I would come home tonight. There go my plans." "What plans?" She looked at him with an admiring eye. "Nothing. Just being with the man of my dreams." Angel laughed and joked "What about me?" Buffy smacked him hard enough to break a mortal's ribs, but it didn't phase him. "I mean you, you hardass." With that she squeezed his butt. He put his hand on he shoulder and stopped her from walking. He picked her up and asked "Do you know how much I love you?" He was so happy to be with her. "Show me." He gave her a very passionate kiss and walked her home.
As Buffy walked into her house, she told Angel that she would see him tomorrow. Angel was ten yards from the front door when he heard Buffy scream "MOM!". Angel ran through the front door and found Buffy holding her mom...with two puncture holes in her neck.
Buffy was holding her mom and saying over and over, "Mom can you hear me? It's gonna be ok." When Angel ran into the house, he jumped two chairs and a table in the kitchen and was at Buffy and Joyce's side in two seconds. "She had a cross in her hand. She must have scared him off just before she passed out." Angel took Joyce out of Buffy's arms and Buffy knew to follow him. They were at the hospital in less than two minutes with the way the ran.
"Giles?" Giles sounded groggy when Angel called him at the library. "What?" "It's Angel. I'm at the hospital with Buffy." As soon as 'hospital' and 'Buffy' hit his ears he was instantly awake. "Oh, my god. Is she ok?" Angel was trying to keep him from have a coranary right there in the library. "Yes. She's fine. It's her mother. She was attacked...by a vampire." Giles was now 'freaking'. "Is she okay? How much did they drain? Is she...?" Angel knew not to hesitate to answer that. "Dead. No. She is stable. It turns out Buffy is her blood type. Buffy had some of her blood drained and Joyce should be fine. Oh, I gotta go here come the doctors. Bye."
The doctor approached Buffy and Angel with undecided looks on their faces. "Is my mom okay?" The doctor reasured her, "Your mother is fine. My name is Dr. Dana Culbert. Your blood seems to replace her in half the time. We are happily suprised." Buffy and Angel gave each other a knowing look. < Only the Slayers blood would do that. >
"But Miss Summers, when we ran the test to make sure that you were compatable, we found out something." Buffy grab Angel's hand expecting the worst. "How old are you Miss Summers?" She was confused. "Seventeen last January." Dr Culbert looked at Angel. "Are you her boyfriend?" Angel felt like he was under a microscope. "Yes." Angel squeezed her hand ever harder. The doctor told them something they didn't expect. "Miss Summers, you're pregnant. Then the blackness took over her vision.
"Dr. Culbert, she's waking up." Buffy felt weird. Like something had happened to her. < Oh, SHIT! I'm pregnant. > Angel was right at her side. She was lying in a hospital bed with, of course, Angel, Will, Xander, and Giles all with very worried looks on their faces. "Giles, everybody, can I have a moment alone with Buffy?" Everybody left the room but Angel. "Buffy, I have something to say...and ask." Buffy sat up in the bed. "Shoot. I'm not going anywhere."
Angel grinned a bit, just to loosen the ever tightening stress he was under. "Buffy, you are carrying my...our child in you. Do you know how much that means to me? I didn't even think that was possible." "Angel, you have no idea how happy it makes me to be carrying our child. I want to be with you forever." Angel just sat there, like the love sick fool he was, not remembering the task at hand. Then, "Buffy, I feel the same way. I just want to know..." He gets out of the chair and gets down on one knee. Buffy starts to cry. "Will you do me the honour of being my wife?" Buffy practically rocketted out of the bed. It was only when the heart monitor was ripped from her chest that the moment was interupted, by two nurses, a doctor, and the entire Scooby gang.
"Do you mind? My fiancee and I are trying to share some quality time together." Willow squealed at the thought that Angel just proposed. "MARRIED!! Are you insane, Buffy!" Xander was fuming. He always had a crush on Buffy and knew Angel had her heart, but MARRIED. He NEVER in is wildest dreams... strike that nightmares thought she would marry Dead Boy. "Buffy, that's great. I am so happy for you." Willow was on the brink of tears. "Oh, Puhlease. I'm gonna be sick!" The idiot Xander said.
Angel was to starting growl now and all Buffy could do was laugh. That made him calm down a little. "Oh, come on let me just rip ONE of his arms off." Buffy put her hand on his cheek. "Sweety, don't you think it would be a LITTLE suspicious, if a guy came *in* with two arms and *left* with one ripped off. Personally, his behavior is pissing me off, but that may be the pregnancy talking. < OH SHIT!! Again. > Mom. How am I gonna tell my mom? 'Hi mom I'm pregnant and marring a two-hundred-and forty-three year old vampire that tried to kill you.' Yeah, that's gonna work."
Giles came up to comfort her. "Buffy, don't worry. I will help explain the pregnancy part. And as for being a vampire. Doesn't she already know that." Buffy was visibly relived. "Thanks, Giles. I just need to get out of here. Angel, when they say it is okay, will you take me home?" Angel was a little nervous with all those people around him, but looking at his fiancee, he couldn't say no. "Sure Buffy. I would be glad to have you at my place, but what about your mom?" Buffy cringed again and said, "Giles, will you get my mom to the library tommorow night? I want to explain it to her with a lot of people around. So she doesn't stake Angel." Angel smiled at the last comment. Angel laughed out loud. Everybody gave him a perplexed look. "Funny thought." "Care to share, Dead Boy?" Angel growled and got up to smack him. "Honey, no ripped limbs of hurt body parts! Remember?" Angel had a look of defeat. "Later, Xander. Later." He muttered just loud enough for Buffy and Xander to hear.
Just then Dr. Culbert walked in, "Hello Miss Summers.." "Please call me Buffy. 'Miss Summers' makes me feel old." All the doctor could do was laugh. "Ok, Buffy. Well you are stable. And we can release you." Buffy was gripping Angel's hand with joy. "But your mother isn't doing as well as we thought. We thought that your Sla...blood donation would help her but it was not enough." Buffy looked at Giles. He had heard it too. Dr. Culbert had started to say Slayer. Could he know? It wasn't possible. Was it?
Dr. Culbert was getting nervous. He had slipped. "I need to talk to Buffy alone." Buffy kept her hand on Angel and grabbed for Giles. < They aren't going anywhere. > "Stay, Giles." The doctor figured there was no use fighting with The Slayer. "Okay they can stay.... Buffy, I know about you. I was sent to help you. This is a prohecy. Not a bad one though. This will make you stronger. But you must carry to term, though." Buffy felt a lot of pressue. "I am Rupert Giles and I must ask...." Dr. Culbert cut in "You must be her Watcher. (Looking at Angel) How old are you?" Angel paused. He wondered if this doctor knew he was a vampire.
"Two-hundred-and-fourty-three." Dr. Culbert was very confused. "I am... was a vampire." Dr. Culbert jumped back and grabbed a cross from his pocket. "If you hurt him I will sick Spike on you!" Buffy stated plainly.
"YOU PROTECT A VAMPIRE!?!" (Short pause) "He has a soul. 100 years ago he had his soul restored by a clan of Romani Gypsy. And, my friends and I put an unbreakable spell on him. He will be human by the time OUR child is born. So, if you hurt my fiancee, I will kill you." He put the cross down. "I heard about that. I heard that Angelus had one moment of happiness and he lost his soul." Angel got up to face him. "Angel, honey, did you lose your soul."
Angel put his game face on and walked towards the doctor. "I don't think so. Well actually, I did, but I *think* I have it now. Maybe the good doctor would like to test that theory." The doctor was backed up against the front wall with a vamped-out Angel. "I belive you. I belive you." His voice was dripping with fear from sheer terror. "Down boy. You can have your fun with me," Buffy was smiling with that taunting smile of hers "When we get home." Angel grabbed the doctors forms and read them. The terrified doctor said, "Y-y-you can l-l-leave. J-j-just check out at t-t-the counter." Angel had a wheel chair faster than humanly possible. < This is going to be an interesting patient. > "Honey. Honey? If you get me home fast, I'll give you a treat." Angel had her in the chair and in the lobby so fast, her eyes were spinning. "But Angel, if I puke, it won't do you any good." He gave her a sweet little kiss. "Sorry. I'll go slower next time."
They signed out of the hospital and went home. When they got home Angel almost dropped Buffy when they saw what lay before then in Angel's apartment.
Willow and Jenny were standing in the back of Angel's apartment holding baby clothes. Buffy and Angel were surrounded by over five thousand dollars in baby furniture. Angel was just about to drop Buffy, when she jumped out of Angel's arms and hugged Jenny and Willow. "Oh my god, how did you guys afford this? And the ducks, good choice!" Angel walked over to Jenny and gave her a hug. "Thank you. Buffy and I are very grateful." Angel was his usual conservative self. "Angel, you're so excited." Buffy said smiling. Then the two engrossed themselves in each other. Jenny and Willow picked up on the vibes that the two lovers were silently sending out. They quickly made there way out of Angel's apartment. Angel and Buffy began to make their way over to Angel's bed while still kissing.
Buffy woke up the next morning with a motherly glow. It also helped that she finally had Angel and he didn't lose his soul. She was glad that the doctor told them that it would be ok to make love. She got out of bed and tried not to wake Angel. It didn't work. He was awake and grabbed his fiancee's waist. "Hey. I want to take a shower. You left me icky from last night." Angel gave her a fake hurt looked. "You helped" in a whiney voice. She pulled him off of the bed. "Yeah. So did you. Now your gonna HELP me clean up." Angel started to pout. In a kiddy voice he said, "You're a mean teacher. As long as you don't spank me..." And with that Buffy hit his hard cute little ass.
"I said don't. Now I get to punish you." Buffy smiled. "Yea. I have been a bad wittle girl." Doing her best Tweety impression. Angel and Buffy were just about to go into the shower when there was a knock on the door. "WHO IS IT!?!" They both answered angrily.
"It's Giles. I have some news on your...child." He said. There was a twinge of saddness in his voice and Buffy pick up on it. "Angel get dressed. And get me a robe. (To Giles) Just a second, Giles." Angel and Buffy threw on robes. "Come on in." Buffy said. Giles walked in to Angel's apartment and was quite embarassed. He saw Buffy and Angel's clothes all over his apartment. It was obvious they 'celebrated'. "Dr. Culbert called me last night with some intriging information. The prophecy tell that the Slayer is...impregnated by a man she loves...a mortal." Buffy and Angel just looked at each other.
"How..why..when..but..Angel.." Buffy couldn't put together a sentence. "Are you sure?" Angel was just as shocked as Buffy, but he, unlike Buffy, could think strait. "I'm not sure, but that's what the prophecy said." Buffy finally got her thoughts together. "I have thwarted these things before. Couldn't this just be another case of 'Buffy-- I hate prophecies, so I will not abide them.'" Angel smiled a little at that comment. But the subject at hand stopped his smiling. Either Buffy wasn't pregnant or he wasn't the father.
"Angel is the father. I haven't been with..." Buffy got a very happy look on her face. "YOU are the father. When we...you know...it was YOU not the demon. That's the only answer. I NEVER loved the demon. I loved...love you. If you had asked me to marry you, even if I wasn't carring your child, I would have said yes in a New York minute." Angel started to cry and when Buffy saw that, she was next in line.
Giles thought that then needed time alone, and plus he was VERY unconfortable around these two when they are like this. "God, Buffy. I wish I could tell you how much I loved you, but there are no words to express how I feel. No motion to show you, no touch to light up you body. I love you with all my heart and I am so happy that you are going to be my wife and are the mother of my child. Stay here."
Angel went to his dresser and pulled out a black box. He walked over to Buffy and took out a silver ring. "I was my grandmother's first grandson. She gave this to me when I was 20. She told me to give it to the woman I fell in love with on our wedding day. I don't know why I held onto it. I guess I knew I would find that woman."
Buffy started to cry again. She gave Angel a long loving kiss that made him realize that they were meant to be together. "Buffy, this in an Irish wedding band. It is called a Claddagh ring. The hands are friendship, the crown--loyalty, and the heart...love. Heart pointed in and you belong to someone. I need to get that heart inlarged." Buffy laughed through her tears.
"All we have to do is exchange these and, according to my tribe, we are married. If you want it to be legal in the U.S. I don't mind, but this is all I need." Buffy took his hand. She looked at it and saw that he wore his ring on his right hand. "Which hand does it go on?" He helped her place it on his left "When your married, the left." Buffy took his ring off of his hand and kissed it.
He took his grandmother's ring and placed it on Buffy's left ring finger. Buffy did the same to Angel. "Angel." "Hmm?" "We don't have anyone to say 'I now pronouce you husband and wife'." Angel lood at her and laughed. "I think it would be 'Slayer and Vampire' don't you?" "You know what? I suddenly don't care. I am with the one man in all the world that can save me from myself. You are..." She stopped because she let out a huge yawn. "You're tired. Let's go to bed." He picked her up and brought her to bed. "God, I hate how well you know me."
Angel woke to Buffy thrashing in bed. "Honey, wake up. Buffy? Wake up." Buffy jumped up and would have fallen out of bed if it weren't for Angel holding her. "Bad dream?" She curled up on him and said, "Understatment. Our baby was HIM." Angel knew what she was talking about. The only other vampire to drink her blood besides himself. < The Master. > "Buffy, our baby is going to be normal. As normal as a baby can be born to a former vampire and the Slayer. I love you. Now go back to sleep." She was alseep before he finished his thought.
Angel had started to drift asleep and, of course as it always does, the phone rang. "Hello? Who is this. Oh, hello Giles, what time is it? Shit! Buffy has a doctor's appointment in an hour. Thanks. Bye." Angel hung up the phone and crawled out of bed. He had to call the doctors to let them know that they were going to be late.
Fifteen minutes later Angel had called the doctors and was in the shower. Buffy woke up to find that Angel was not there. "Angel. Angel? ANGEL WHERE ARE YOU!" < I knew this was to good to be true. > Angel heard his name being called and jumped out of the shower dripping wet. He grabbed a towel and ran out of the bathroom. "Buffy, what's wrong?" Buffy was relieved to see Angel. She even smiled a little when she saw him wet and in towel. "I thought you..." "I'm fine. See just little ol' me. Nothing missing. We have to be at the doctors in forty-five minutes and you need a shower." "Fun." She said with an evil grin.
Angel and Buffy were in the shower, cleaning up and being good (for the most part). Angel got done first and laid out something for Buffy to wear. Buffy got out and dried off. She saw what Angel had picked out for her and she laughed. A white t-shirt and a pair of his leather pants. With it was a note:
Your Angel
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