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“oh shit!” Xander gasped from behind Buffy and turned shocked eyes to Willow.
“Why didn’t you say he was here!?” Xander said incredously.
“Well I tried to stop you!” Willow defended herself crossing her arms and giving Xander her resolve face which he immediately surrendered too. The couple were so busy talking to each other that they hadn’t realised that the other two people in the room was still standing there in silence. Willow give Buffy an apologetic look before ducking out of the room, Xander right behind her.

Buffy and Spike stood there in silence neither able to find their voices and Buffy shifted uncomfortably as Spike continued to stare at her very swollen stomach with a blank look on his face. Buffy shifted even more as he continued to stare and she placed a hand on her belly in a defensive move. Spike snapped out of his stupor and looked up into

Buffy’s face, seeing the fear and uncertainty in her eyes made him want to smack himself and he opened his mouth to try to stay something but nothing came out.

“hello Spike.” Buffy greeted quietly. When that’s all Spike did was nod at her she sighed and moved to sit on a chair opposite the couch which Spike fell back onto.
“Spike what are you doing here?” She asked, which finally snapped Spike into the now.
“What am I doing here? I came looking for you obviously!” He said with a furrowed brow.
“Oh.”

“Your pregnant.” Spike said quietly again, his eyes going back to her stomach.
“good observation skills.” Buffy said sarcastically
“Is it-”
“Where’s Drusilla?” Buffy interrupted.
“I don’t know, we’re getting divorced.” Spike told her seeing the smile form on her face which she quickly hid.
Buffy did a little dance in her head and hid her smirk before looking back up at him.
“Im sorry.”

“Im not. She’s a crazy bitch.” Spike shrugged.
“Then why did you marry her?”
“She was a different person back then…look Buffy lets not avoid the important things here…Your pregnant.” He repeated still trying to get the information to sink in.
“You don’t class your marriage and your son as important?” Buffy asked with a raised eyebrow ignoring his reference to her pregnancy.

“He’s not mine Buffy. I told you I was waiting for the results of the paternity test and they finally came back. As soon as I got them I left. I love you Buffy not her.” He said sincerely moving forward so he was now sitting on the coffee table in front of her.

Buffy turned her head away and closed her eyes trying to gather her thoughts but she had so many she could barely make sense of herself and she turned back to look at him with a lost expression on her face.
“What do you expect me to say?” She sighed sadly.

“To say you forgive me,” Spike suggested hopefully.
She laughed softly as he gave her his best charming smile and he grinned in response happy that he had made her laugh. He looked down at her stomach and without thinking about it he placed his hand on her belly tilting his head as he seemed to study the rounded bump under his hand. Buffy stared at his face seeing the awe, desperation and fear in his eyes she sighed. How can one set of eyes display so much emotion.

“So how far along are you?” he gulped. It still didn’t seem real and he was waiting for the shock to fade to know whether he’d freak out or not.
“25 weeks.” Buffy answered placing her own hand on her belly next to Spike’s.
“Why didn’t you tell me?” He asked a little bit of anger seeping into his voice.

“Because you were busy with your other baby.” She snapped back giving him a look that clearly said I dare you to judge me. Spike held up his hand in surrender and nodded.
“touché.”
“it is mine right?” Spike asked stupidly.
“No its Giles’s.” Buffy rolled her eyes mockingly.
“Just checking…had a lot of lies thrown at me lately.” Spike sighed referring to Drusilla.

“Join the club.” Buffy said dryly giving him her raised eyebrow look and he nodded his head in acknowledgement and gave her his guilty eyes.
“Im sorry Buffy. I swear I never thought we’d get off that island and even if we did I always planned to stay with you its just…when Dru said the baby was mine I was blown out of the water you know? I never had a dad and I didn’t want that for the kid so I had to know whether he was mine or not, you understand right?” Spike asked hopefully.

“I understand…it took me awhile and a hell of a lot of thinking but yeah…I understand” Buffy sighed giving him a tight smile. Spike felt his stomach flutter happily that she accepted his apology and without thinking he leant in to kiss her. She moved her head out of the way however leaning back into the couch and looking at him with a frown.
“just cause I understand doesn’t mean everything’s perfect again.” Buffy mumbled.

“Yeah…of course im sorry…again.” Spike laughed nervously.
“Look maybe you should go, give us both time to think.” Buffy said wisely standing up and nodding to the door.
“When did you get so wise?” Spike smiled at her warmly.
“The wonders of therapy.” Buffy joked.
“You go to a therapist?” Spike asked in surprise.
“Yep…helps me out a lot turns out I had a lot of anger…mostly at you but im doing really good now.” Buffy said as she walked him to the door.
“So….” Spike trailed off looking out into the street and then back at Buffy.

“Here’s my number Spike. We have a lot of talking to do.” She said with a hint of sadness in her voice.
“cant we just jump straight to the kissing.” Spike joked.
“Nope.” Buffy grinned shaking her head and watching as he made his way back down Willow’s garden path. He stopped suddenly and turned around to face her.
“Im not going anywhere you know. Im staying at a hotel nearby Paradise Springs…if you need me just call…I’ll be there.” He smiled shyly.
Buffy nodded silently willing herself not to cry.

Damn the hormones.

“I love you…and im planning on reminding you of that.” Spike finished before heading off down the street. Buffy didn’t look away not even after he had disappeared from sight

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“oh my god oh my god oh my god.”

Spike paced back and forth his hotel room nervously staring at the floor as his mind worked a mile a minute.
Buffy is pregnant…with my baby!
Its funny how less than three months ago when his wife had told him he was a father he was filled with dread but now that Buffy his…well he didn’t know what she was to him anymore…had announced she was pregnant he was filled with nothing but shock and excitement. She had never looked more beautiful and it was impossible to get rid of the image of Buffy standing there her belly swollen with the life of his kid. A sappy grin stretched his face and he flopped backwards onto his bed laughing out loud to himself.
“Things are looking up buddy.” Spike grinned to himself.

The ringing of his phone pulled him out of his thoughts of Buffy cradling a cute little bundle and he leapt at the phone excitedly.
“hello?”
“hey,” Buffy’s voice sounded down the line.
“Its good to hear your voice luv.” Spike smiled happily.
“We only talked like four hours ago.” Buffy laughed.
“Yep but every second im away from you seems ages.” Spike sighed.

Buffy smiled faintly and traced the pattern of Willows wallpaper nervously.
“Buffy? You there?”
“Spike…”
“Buffy what is it?”
“Okay urm….look I kind of missed my last scan and so I have a doctors appointment and well….I thought maybe…you’d want to come? We can go have lunch or something after…talk maybe?” Buffy managed to stammer out banging her head against the wall ignoring Willow and Fred who was standing next to her making hand movements and mouthing things to guide her through the conversation.

“really!? I’d love to! When is it?” Spike asked excitedly.
Buffy couldn’t help but smile when she heard the excitement in Spikes voice and Willow and Fred’s antics ceased when they both saw the smile on Buffy’s face.

Their friend had improved greatly in the last two months but they both had missed this happy look on Buffy’s face and if Spike was the one who put it there then who were they to complain and they both grinned at each other wrapping each other in a hug, happy that Buffy’s life was finally coming together.

“Its tomorrow my appointment is at 10” Buffy replied.
“Okay I’ll come pick you up. Why didn’t you tell me this today?” Spike asked curiously.
“Well you kind of threw me for a loop Spike. I didn’t expect to see you again and I was in shock I guess.”
“Yeah…I understand that.” Spike laughed.

“kay urm this is my adress okay 110 Craford Street,” She told him her adress hearing him shuffling about on the end of the line to get a pen to write it down.
“Yep okay I got it.that’s near Willows right?” Spike asked frowning down at the paper.

“Yeah just down the road.” Buffy informed him ducking her head even though she knew he could see her.
“Well im gunna go.” Buffy said awkwardly.
“Okay goodnight sweetheart.” Spike smiled.
“night.” Buffy squeaked nervously before putting the phone down. She stared at the phone for a few seconds before turning to face a grinning Fred and Willow.

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Buffy sat on her couch staring at the clock on the wall nervously almost jumping out of her seat every time a second flicked by. She fiddled with the hem sleeve of the top she was wearing and bit her lip nervously and when Willow came in from the kitchen she couldn’t help but laugh.
“Jesus Buffy you look as if your waiting for the end of the world.” Willow chuckled plopping down besides her and taking a long sip of her coffee.

“Well who knows aint it…last time I saw him and not counting yesterday it did feel like the end of the world.” Buffy sighed.
“Aw come on Buff your stronger than that now remember? You got a baby on the way that is gunna be so adorable and spoiled its scary, you got a lovely apartment and Spike, the guy of your dreams has just come whizzing back into your life freshly divorced! What more can a girl ask for.” Willow grinned.

“He’s not divorced yet Will….jeesh it does take some time you know.” Buffy laughed.
“That’s not the point. The point is he left her and now he’s come looking for what he really wants…you.” Willow said seriously and smiled when she saw the shy smile appear on Buffy’s face.

“You think so?” Buffy said nervously.
“Buffy…guaranteed you two will be back top form by the time that baby is born.” Willow smiled patting her stomach.
“I don’t know….we got a lot of issues to deal with….seriously large-Ohmygod he’s here.” Buffy squeaked jumping up from her seat and whizzing to the door.
Willow just grinned after.

Spike gulped noisily as he stepped up to the front door of the beautiful house in front of him.
“Come on you ponce…just bloody knock.” He mumbled to himself wrapping his knuckles on the door and waiting nervously with his eyes cast at the floor. For some reason all his bravado had fled and he was suddenly very nervous of the fact he was going to be spending the day alone with Buffy.

He was so busy, lost in his thoughts of Buffy he didn’t even notice that she had opened the door until a wave of vanilla teased his nostrils and he looked up his breath catching in his throat at the sight before him.
She was just breathtaking. She wore a simple white dress that came up to her knees and wore faded blue jeans beneath it. It was so casual yet at the same time he couldn’t imagine her looking better she simply looked stunning.

“You look beautiful luv, effulgent.” Spike blurted out and turned bright red when he realised what he had said.
Buffy grinned and seeing the redness creep up his neck and along his cheeks she realised she had really missed this cute adorable side of Spike that he rarely le show.
“Thanks…im going to pretend that I know what effulgent means by the way.”” She joked gesturing for him to come in. He walked in and smiled at how easy things felt unaware that Buffy was thinking the same thing.

Its like we never broke up…damn it why cant I be angry at him.

Buffy fumed at herself internally before letting her happiness come flooding back and gesturing Spike to enter the living room. When he noticed Willow sitting there he flashed them both a cheeky smile and raised an eyebrow.

“There’s something your not telling me? You two are together aint you?…not that I’d complain about that.” Spike smiled his face taking on a dreamy look as his mind wandered to images of the blonde and the red head. Buffy whacked him in the chest and gave him her best indignant look while Willow give him her shocked face.
“Eww! Mind in the gutter much? I am a married woman and ewww she’s all…pregnant.” Willow laughed gesturing to her friends stomach.

“Gee thanks for the vote of confidence Will” Buffy snorted.
“I think you look better than ever pet.” Spike smiled.
“yeah right enough smooth talk outta you. Im gunna go get my bag then we can go.” Buffy said as she scurried from the room. As soon as she left Willow sat up ram rod straight and turned to Spike with her threatening face on.

“Buffy’s my friend. Buffy’s my best friend. Its pretty clear that she loves you and I know you can be a great guy but I swear to all that is good and holy….if you ever pull any crap…if you so much as lie to her about anything again I want you to know I have a beautiful shovel out my back yard that’s just the right size to smash in your skull.” She said in a quiet voice.
Spikes eyes widened in fear and he nodded vigorously not losing eye contact with the scary red head the next second however her easy going smile came back and her eyes sparkled with merriment again.

“Okay go have fun.” She smiled happily watching as Buffy led the way out to Spikes car with Spike in tow stumbling on his way out due to the fact he kept his eyes trained on Willow, his mouth still in a perfect o of shock.





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