Chapter 6
“S-Super-human strength? How do you know?” Buffy turned to look at Giles; they’d just pulled up outside her house.
“Part of a prophecy – I don’t know anything else, there’s a chance it could mean your baby – given that you are a slayer – and Spike has enhanced strength too, being a vampire. I shouldn’t worry about it too much, it could be something and nothing”
Buffy nodded, and looked at the house. She could see the window open upstairs, and the sound of the radio.
“Where did you find this information, it might be worth checking to see if there’s more”
“That’s just it, I don’t know…this info – it came from, well, Wesley told me”
“Wesley?”
“Actually Buffy, it came from Angel”
“Angel – what the hell has it got to do with him – I just wish he’d keep his nose OUT!” Buffy swiftly got out of the car and slammed the door. Giles winced
“Buffy…Buffy, wait!” Giles followed her down the path, Buffy didn’t stop, she just opened the front door, and left it open for Giles to follow.
She went straight upstairs.
In the bedroom, between them, Willow and Spike had rigged up a drape of dark fabric to shield Spike from the daylight, he was busy painting planets and a comet on to a dark blue painted wall.
“Hey babe – you okay?” Spike grinned at her and kissed her.
“Wow………oh gods, it’s BEAUTIFUL!”
“And Xander’s going to do this slightly dropped ceiling effect, he’s going to put up a board, with hundreds of tiny holes drilled into it, and we can put little fairy lights through them, it’ll look like hundreds of twinkling stars”
Buffy grinned and cuddled up to Spike
“Hey…looking good!” Giles leant against the doorjamb
“Hold on…Spike, coming round the curtain, take cover!” Willow’s disembodied voice said, and Spike ducked behind the closet door while she shifted the curtain to come and talk to her friend.
“’Kay Red, I’m covered”
“Oh, hi Giles…so, Buffy – what do you think?” Willow began to wipe her hands on a rag.
“It looks brilliant – I can’t wait to see it all hooked up with the fairy lights!”
Giles declined the offer of tea, and left.
After Willow had gone, Spike made tea and they both sat on the sofa. Buffy lay against Spike’s chest, he’d got both arms around her.
“Saw Faith today”
“Did you Pet? – Did she say anything to you?”
“Not much – she looked a bit, well embarrassed at first – couldn’t leave fast enough – got a Remalak demon, she wanted the location for it”
“Really – Oh, Clem might have mentioned something about it – I tend not to take much notice these days”
“You know, she never said sorry to me for that body-swap thing she did……… still – as long as she just keeps away from us, I don’t care…” Buffy absently played with Spike’s fingers.
“Giles told me something…it could – okay, OW, OW OW!”
Spike immediately loosened his arms and looked over Buffy’s shoulder wondrously at her belly, which was moving!
“Can you see that? Little devil’s playing soccer with those grapes I ate!” Buffy grinned. Every so often her tummy would stick out at odd little points.
“That’s his elbow…OW and that’s his knee, I think!”
Spike moved and put his head on her tummy.
“Hey, Billy-Boy………go easy on your lovely mum, huh? I know we can both pack a kick and a punch, but there’s no need for you to join in as well!”
Buffy smiled and stroked Spike’s head as he spoke softly to the baby. It worked too – the baby settled down!
“You’re daft, you are!” Buffy said, and Spike leaned up and gave her a soft kiss.
“Yup, that’s me alright, Daft over you two, I know that!”
She decided not to say anything to Spike about what Giles had told her, she was comfy, and relaxed, and knew that the mere mention of Angel’s name would get Spike all agitated. Suddenly her eye’s popped open.
“Er, Spike – Billy-Boy?”
“What, hmm? What about him, is he-“ He went to shift but Buffy held his head to her, twirling his soft curls around her finger – Spike loved this, it always relaxed him
“No, he’s okay, I mean the name!”
“Oh – don’t you like it?” Spike looked worriedly up at her
“Actually…I love it! William, after his lovely daddy!” They grinned at each other.
“Cept we’ll call him Billy, yeah? I can just picture the little slugger, running around – we’ll have to get some proper shutters for the downstairs rooms – don’t want to come down to find Billy and a big old pile of dust, now do we?”
“Certainly don’t………Xander will help I’m sure”
“Yeah – Oh, guess what – according to Red, he’s going to ask the girl who works on-site at the show-house out it’ll do him good, he hasn’t bothered since Anya has he?”
“No…baby – anyway, never mind about him, lets go have a bath, and an early night, hmm?”
“Early night – it’s only 6.20pm now!”
“I know…early, early night then…want you to make love to me”
Grinning Spike stood and scooped her up and carried his love upstairs.
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Spike made love to her gently, she longed for a little athleticism that she was more used to, but they didn’t want to jiggle the baby too much.
Lying wrapped in each other’s arms, sleep came quickly to them both.
While they slept, a ‘presence’ filled the room – a beautiful woman looked over the sleeping pair, and smiled. She raised an arm, a fine mist descended on them both, and then as suddenly as she arrived, she and the mist disappeared.
Buffy woke, got out of bed and went to the bathroom. She got back into bed, and Spike turned on his side and put his arm around her.
“You okay babe?”
“Fine…I had a strange dream”
“Me too – it was about Billy”
“Mine too! There was this voice, talking, telling me things” Spike sat up, and Buffy did too.
“Same here…she was saying how the baby was very special – well we KNOW that – but something about him having great humanity, love for his fellow man.
He will be stronger than a mortal, and certain powers, to be revealed when necessary!”
“He was born for the good, but he will not be sacrificed!” Buffy said, and Spike eagerly nodded
“Yes – Buffy, we had the same dream! Did you see the woman – she looked Greek or something, wearing one of those floaty sleeveless dresses and her hair all done up in plaits…she was very beautiful”
“I only saw her at the end – she was smiling – she told me not to worry, that I’d see my son grow up - Spike…I think it was The Powers That Be…telling us about Billy”
“You think?”
Buffy nodded and said,
“I’m certain…why else would we BOTH have the same dream?”
Spike slowly nodded
“Come on, concentrate, can you think of anything more?” They both sat silent for a few moments…and then Spike said,
“No, I think that’s it…he won’t be sacrificed – and you will see him grow up - thank the gods, I was worried about something like that”
“Were you?” Buffy asked softly
“Are you telling me you weren’t? – Fate threw us a curved ball babe – and then we get this miracle – us having a baby…………I didn’t want to worry you by saying anything, but I kept on wondering what was going to happen to, well spoil things – I was so scared that something would-“
Buffy put her finger on his lips, and nodded
“I know babe, me too………but now we know, everything is going to be alright, and Billy will be extra special – but he won’t have to die to save the world, and I will live to see him grow up – so I wonder where that leaves me as a slayer?”
“Who cares about that now? Gods – I am SO happy!” Spike could have whooped
with joy.
They made love until sun-up, and fell asleep exhausted! Buffy woke to the telephone ringing.
“Hello – Buffy – you and Spike must come to the shop, there is fantastic news!” Giles said
“Is it about Billy?”
“Billy? Who’s Billy?”
“The baby – that’s what we’re calling him – well is it?”
“Yes, we don’t know where it’s come from, but there’s a scroll, like the first prophecy was written on – it says he will be stronger-“
“Yes, we know, Spike and I, well we had the same dream – it told us stuff how he’ll have great humanity, and powers to be revealed when necessary…and I’ll live, to see him grow up…I - I’ve got to go, I’ll see you later”
Buffy put the phone down, and took a deep breath – to have the knowledge that she’d live long enough to see her child grow up overwhelmed her and she wiped happy tears from her face.
Spike was still asleep and she bent and softly kissed his tousled curls and whispered,
“I Love you”
In his sleep, Spike smiled and cuddled up to her warmth, murmured,
“Love you both”
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