You Know The Drill
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Part Twelve
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It took them fifteen minutes to get there and when they walked in, it didn’t take them long at all to spot the rest of the group. They were sitting around a table close to the dance floor and they all had worried looks on there faces. There was no telling what crazy stories they had come up with to worry themselves.
“Where have you guys been? We were starting to get worried.” Willow asked.
Angel took the initiative and shortened the story up for them. His version only took a second to tell.
“Come on...let’s dance.” Buffy said as she grabbed Angels hand. He didn’t refuse.
A slow song had come on and it was one of Angel’s favorites. A song by the Goo Goo Dolls, called Iris. He has heard the song a million times. As they stood there holding each other close, he let the words flow through his mind and began to sing them, almost in a whisper, just loud enough for the girl to hear.
And I'd give up forever to touch you 'Cause I know that you feel me somehow You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be And I don't want to go home right now
And all I can taste is this moment And all I can breathe is your life 'Cause sooner or later it's over I just don't want to miss you tonight
And I don't want the world to see me 'Cause I don't think that they'd understand When everything's made to be broken I just want you to know who I am
And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming Or the moment of truth in your lies When everything feels like the movies And you bleed just to know you're alive
And I don't want the world to see me 'Cause I don't think that they'd understand When everything's made to be broken I just want you to know who I am
The first time he had heard the song, he realized right away just how close to home the words had hit him. Neither of them had noticed that the song had ended and that a fast song had begun to play. They stood there holding each other as though they were connected. They were in a way. Well, in many ways actually, they never wanted to let each other go. Someone tapped Angel on the shoulder bringing them both out of the world they were in.
“Can I cut in?” Willow asked Buffy. She never danced much, but just decided that she needed to talk to Angel for a minute or two.
“Sure..but don’t get too close or I’ll have to beat you up!” Buffy said, smiling. Instead of finding someone else to dance with, she decided to go get something to drink.
“So, Angel, how are things with you two?” Willow asked. He was never much of a talker and she didn’t really expect him to give her much of an answer, so she was surprised when he did.
“It’s okay...getting better. Alot better actually. She’s been really open with me lately. We’re so close and yet, I feel like I can never get enough of her.” Angel answered. “I really love her Will. I don’t know what I’d do if anything ever happened to her.”
“How about Buffy? She doing okay? She talks to me and all and tells me alot of stuff, but when you guys came in earlier, she just looked like something was wrong. I don’t know...there was just something wrong.” Willow said.
“Well, you know all of that stuff that I told you all earlier? Well, she was trying to get Giles’ attention and he snapped at her, then called her into his office.....when she came back out, she said she thought Giles wasn’t telling her something. Keeping something from her.. Something’s going to happen Will and I think she’s afraid she won’t be able to handle it. She acts like everything is okay...but she’s scared and won’t admit it. I don’t think she wants to feel like she’s dependent on anyone, like she’s got something to prove. If she lets it take over her, alot of bad things will happen.” Angel said. “Can you do me a favor Will? I need someone to watch out for her when I can’t be there.”
“I already do. You didn’t have to ask Angel.” Willow said reassuringly.
Over the next couple of hours, they all danced and laughed and talked. Before they knew it, it was time to get going. Buffy only had twenty minutes until she had to be home, so they left anyway instead of waiting, then rushing to get her home.
“Are you sure you guys don’t want a ride, it’s not out of the way?” Cordelia asked.
“Thanks anyway, Cordy. I think me and Angel will walk. It’s nice outside anyway.” Buffy answered. The car would have been too crowded anyway with all of them in it. Sports cars definitely weren’t made for public transportation.
“So....” Angel said.
“Yeah, so......” Buffy echoed. Neither or them knew what to say. “Angel, what’s going to happen? Whatever it is, Giles is worried about it. He’s never been this worried. For some reason, he’s hiding something from me.”
“Give him some time.” Angel said, trying to reassure her. The truth was, he was worried too. “Right now, lets just worry about getting you home, okay.” He leaned over and placed a light kiss on the top of her head. With his arm placed protectively around the girl, they rounded the corned onto Revello Drive. Buffy’s house was only a few down the road.
“Angel.....I...I need...” Buffy started.
“Shhhh....did you hear that?” Angel asked. Both of them stopped and just as Angel turned to face the direction from which he heard the noise, a vampire jumped out of one of the nearby bushes.
“Shit....” was the only thing he heard Buffy say and as he turned around to see what was happening, he saw the vampire jump through the air and land a kick directly in the middle of the Slayers stomach. Angel thought to himself that he’d never seen anyone fly so far through the air, unwillingly. His first instinct was to run to her side, but turned, instead, and ran after the vamp. He caught up with ease, and didn’t waste any time dusting him.
Angel was back by the Slayers side within seconds and when he got to her, he realized she was lying almost twenty feet from where she had been standing, now unconscious, next to the tree he’d seen her fly in to. To him she looked so fragile and broken. He didn’t know what to do, so he scooped her up into his lap and tried talking to her.
“Come on Buffy. Buffy, wake up. Oh God, come one, you’ve gotta wake up. I know you can do it....I love you....” Angel was yelling at her. She was breathing , he could see that, so he knew that she wasn’t dead. The only other thing he could think of was the hospital, so he picked her up and carried her into town as quick as he could.
After he got there, the doctors took her from him and told him that all he could do was wait until they sent someone to talk to him. In the two hours that he sat in the waiting room, he managed to call Willow and tell her what happened and told her to fill in the others. She told him that they’d be there as soon as possible, and they were. He had tried to call Buffy’s mother, but only got the answering machine. He figured she must have gone back to the Gallery for some reason or another. Together they all sat there in an hour of silence, then the doctor came it. Angel was up and almost in the doctor’s face before he even got the chance to speak.
“Doctor, thank God. Is she okay...? Please, tell me something...” Angel pleaded.
“Well,” the doctor began, “I’m afraid that your wife has had a miscarriage and she’s...” He was cut off by Angel then.
“My what has WHAT?” Angel yelled.
“I’m sorry sir...uh....Ms. Summers, she’s not your wife?” The doctor asked.
“Just tell me....what’s wrong? What happened?” Angel asked.
“Well, from everything that you told the nurse, that kick she received was enough to cause her to miscarry the child she was carrying. Now, she’s lost a great deal of blood and I’m going to want to keep her here for at least a couple of days. Right now, we’ve got her just down the hall in room 333. She can have visitors, but not more than a couple at a time. I had my nurse give her some medication earlier, so she’ll more than likely be sleeping for quite a while.” the doctor finished.
“Thank you doctor. I appreciate it.” Angel said. When he turned around, he realized that he’d forgotten about the rest of the gang being in the room. All he could see was the shock and dismay on there faces....and one very angry Xander. No one said anything, so he turned and walked out of the room. He didn’t know what was going on, but he knew that if Buffy was sleeping, as soon as she woke up, he was going to find out.
The least confused out of everyone that had been in the room, Giles, just fell back into his chair and put his head in his hands. No one else moved.
“The Hellmouth strikes again, Giles what was that guy talking about?” Xander spat out in one breath.
“Xander, this is not the appropriate time. Not now!! We’ll discuss this later.” Giles snapped. Then he got up and started to walk out the door. “I’m going down the hall to check on Angel an...and as for the rest of you. We’ll talk about this later. I....nevermind.” With that, he turned and walked down the hall. He stopped just outside the room when he noticed that the door was cracked and he heard Angel talking.
“Why? I don’t understand, Buffy. What happened to us? I just...nevermind. You’re asleep and I’m talking to you anyway.” Angel was saying. From what Giles could hear, it sounded as though he was upset. “The doctor says you’re going to be okay. Can you imagine, he actually called you my wife.”
Giles hated to interrupt, but he knew that he need to speak with Angel. He knew that he must be thinking something terrible about the girl. Probably accusing her of something awful in his mind. “Angel, is..is it okay if I..I come in? I need to speak with you about something.” Angel didn’t turn to look, he only nodded.
“Giles, I....I don’t know what to say. The thought’s in my head, I just, I don’t want to even say it outloud, but I...it couldn’t have been mine. I...”Angel started.
“It was,” Giles said, interrupting him, “it was, and yes, contrary to popular belief, you’re the exception to every vampire rule, law, code, whatever it may be....it doesn’t count for you. I should have told you before. You...and Buffy both. But I didn’t. Even though you believed you weren’t able to conceive a child, I still thought that the both of you had sense enough to still be careful. Needless to say, I believe, the prophecy has been terminated, and their plans destroyed.”
Angel wasn’t so confused anymore. All the pieces were slowly bringing themselves together. “So that means, that the child, the vampire has spoken of, ‘the spawn of hell’....it was going to be hers...ours? But why Giles? Why’d this have to happen to her. She didn’t deserve this.” Angel said quietly. He knew that it was going to be hard for her when she woke up. Oh, Giles...I tried to call her mother. I couldn’t get ahold of her. Could you try to call her again in a minute?” Angel stopped when he heard the doctor come in.
“I’m assuming everything is okay in here?” The doctor asked. He was standing there looking at her chart. They couldn’t tell by the look on his face, what he was reading, but Angel was getting antsy and wanted to know what was going on.
“Doctor. I...does she know what’s going on? What did you have to do? I mean, when she wakes up, is she going to know where she’s at or what happened?” Angel asked him pleadingly. He desperately wanted to know what to do when she woke up. “It’s just that, when she wakes up. If she doesn’t know what’s going on, then I don’t want to say anything that’s going to upset her.”
“Well, if she happens to wake up tonight, I don’t want any more than one person in here with her at a time. While she’s sleeping, there can be two. Ms. Summers was completely unconscious when you brought her in and when we had her in the emergency room, my team did manage to wake her up and from what they told me, she didn’t know where she was at and appeared to be very confused. They said she kept saying something about an Angel of some sort and...”
“No....that’s my name. Angel. I’m sorry, I didn’t mention that before.” he interrupted.
“Oh, I’m sorry. I wasn’t thinking about that either. I’m going to go as far to say that, I’m not sure whether or not Ms. Summers knew she was pregnant. I could tell by your reaction that you weren’t aware of the situation either. The young lady was already in a major state of shock, so I asked my team not to tell her what was going on. We’ve found that women tend to panic and very seldom agree to cooperate with us if they are aware that something like this is happening, so, when she wakes up, it may be best not to mention this right away. And if you want, I can come back or I can send one of my female nurses in to help you explain everything that happened to her.” the doctor explained quietly. “Something of this manner is always traumatizing and I promise you that she’s not going to take this well at all. I’ll be back to check on her in a couple of hours.”
Then he left, and as he was leaving they thanked him. Then Angel turned to look at Giles with a concerned look on his face. One that seemed to ask him why.
“Giles, I..uh, I know he said only two, but, I....I don’t want to leave her. Can you tell everyone what the doctor said...and they can come in. What can three at a time hurt?” Angel asked. Then he walked over next to the bed where his girlfriend lay. He thought that she looked so peaceful lying there, not knowing what happened to her. He knew how well she wasn’t going to take this. She could handle a lot of things, he knew. But no woman could have this happen and not completely lose it. Bad things were always happening to her and she never seemed to catch a break. He couldn’t help but feel the pain for her.
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