The Price We Pay for Love - Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty: The Bad in Each Other
He waited for her. Despite the fact that it was well passed dawn and the sun, shielded from his UV-ray temperamental skin by heavy window blinds, was blazing overhead in the eastern sky, Angel refused to sleep. Then again, though, he wasn't sure if he'd allow himself to close his eyes again for weeks, months, however long it would be that his daughter was still alive. On a more practical level, he also wanted to talk to Buffy.
There were so many things that he wanted to ask her, not the least of which was why - why she had kept the fact that she had given birth their child a secret from him, why she never asked for his help after she found out Ash was sick, why, even after all her deceptions, she still seemed angry with him. However, those questions could wait... at least for a few hours. Knowing that particular discussion had the potential of turning ugly, Angel refused to have it anywhere near his daughter, and he knew that Buffy would want to spend some time with Ashlinn after being away from her during her work shift. For the moment, he would be satisfied to ask her questions about the early months of her pregnancy, about how and when she discovered that she really was pregnant and that he was her child's father.
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