[ACTD] #4 - Birth
1) birth: represents an anxiety for giving birth; dreaming of giving birth to a non-human creature symbolizes that the dreamer fears the defect of the baby; can also symbolize 'rebirth' or 'baptism.'
Buffy woke up with a start and stared down at her stomach. It was still flat. God she hated Prophecy Dreams. At least she hoped to God that this was a symbolic one like the time that Oz had a monkey on his shoulder. That had been bizarro. Then there was the First Slayer dream with the Cheese Man which uber weird.
She pushed herself out of bed and quickly dressed before she'd gone in search of Giles. One thing about Slayer Central, it was freaking huge and sometimes it took forever to find someone. Buffy had finally found him in one of the libraries. Seriously, she should have looked there first. "Uh, Giles. Got a minute?"
Giles looked up from a book that he was reading in ancient Sumerian. It took him a minute to pull himself out of the text. "Of course." He finally focused on her and noted the worry lines and tense muscles. Giles put the book away and turned his full attention on Buffy.
"Do you still have the whatchamacallit that Angel had that told about all the Slayer prophecy stuff? You know what happens when or did that get swallowed in the crater?" With her luck it either got swallowed or the activation of the Slayers made the book null and void.
There was a bit of confusion in Giles' expression. He knew what she was talking about but the fact that she was asking about them raised a red flag. Buffy rarely cared about those things. "I'm afraid it was lost in the crater as were most of my other books. Why do you ask?"
Buffy thought that this conversation wasn't as bad as the I'm sleeping with Spike one but it was going to be pretty close. "Uh, okay. I'm sure it was just a dream. No big deal right? Probably the weird stew we had last night but um, I dreamt that I was pregnant and you and I went to the doctor's office to have that scan thing done where you see what the baby's like." She rushed on knowing it was better to just rip the band aid off. "Instead of weird alien looking thing that becomes a baby later this sort of looked demon-y. Please tell me there are no prophecies about Slayers having demon babies and I'm not even getting any. Seriously! How can I get pregnant with demon spawn when I haven't had sex? Unless they have this bizarro mating ritual that I so don't want to know about."
That was more information than Giles ever wanted to know about his Slayer and he pulled off his glasses and pinched his nose. He could feel a headache beginning to form and it wasn't even ten o'clock yet. "I'm sure it's metaphorical." Or perhaps Buffy was in tune with events that would transpire for someone else. A warning.
"Meta huh?" Buffy asked him in confusion. "Is that the name of the demon?"
He smiled slightly, memories of younger Buffy coming to the surface. "No. Metaphorical as in not literal but that it means something else. Can you describe what the fetus looked like? Any outstanding characteristics? There are quite a few demons that need a human host to incubate their young."
"Eww! That was something that I didn't need to know thanks and no it looked demon-y. Not vampire human looking but Clem or Lorne or you know demon-y."
"Well, I suppose that means we'll have a lot of research to do."
Buffy opened her mouth to protest that she was Slay girl when Giles forestalled her. "You're the only one that knows what it looks like so you'll have to either describe it better than it looks like a demon or you'll have to look through the pictures of the demons that need humans."
"Ugh!" Has she mentioned that she really hated prophetic dreams because she did.
Buffy Summers ~*~ BtVS ~*~ 651 words
Buffy woke up with a start and stared down at her stomach. It was still flat. God she hated Prophecy Dreams. At least she hoped to God that this was a symbolic one like the time that Oz had a monkey on his shoulder. That had been bizarro. Then there was the First Slayer dream with the Cheese Man which uber weird.
She pushed herself out of bed and quickly dressed before she'd gone in search of Giles. One thing about Slayer Central, it was freaking huge and sometimes it took forever to find someone. Buffy had finally found him in one of the libraries. Seriously, she should have looked there first. "Uh, Giles. Got a minute?"
Giles looked up from a book that he was reading in ancient Sumerian. It took him a minute to pull himself out of the text. "Of course." He finally focused on her and noted the worry lines and tense muscles. Giles put the book away and turned his full attention on Buffy.
"Do you still have the whatchamacallit that Angel had that told about all the Slayer prophecy stuff? You know what happens when or did that get swallowed in the crater?" With her luck it either got swallowed or the activation of the Slayers made the book null and void.
There was a bit of confusion in Giles' expression. He knew what she was talking about but the fact that she was asking about them raised a red flag. Buffy rarely cared about those things. "I'm afraid it was lost in the crater as were most of my other books. Why do you ask?"
Buffy thought that this conversation wasn't as bad as the I'm sleeping with Spike one but it was going to be pretty close. "Uh, okay. I'm sure it was just a dream. No big deal right? Probably the weird stew we had last night but um, I dreamt that I was pregnant and you and I went to the doctor's office to have that scan thing done where you see what the baby's like." She rushed on knowing it was better to just rip the band aid off. "Instead of weird alien looking thing that becomes a baby later this sort of looked demon-y. Please tell me there are no prophecies about Slayers having demon babies and I'm not even getting any. Seriously! How can I get pregnant with demon spawn when I haven't had sex? Unless they have this bizarro mating ritual that I so don't want to know about."
That was more information than Giles ever wanted to know about his Slayer and he pulled off his glasses and pinched his nose. He could feel a headache beginning to form and it wasn't even ten o'clock yet. "I'm sure it's metaphorical." Or perhaps Buffy was in tune with events that would transpire for someone else. A warning.
"Meta huh?" Buffy asked him in confusion. "Is that the name of the demon?"
He smiled slightly, memories of younger Buffy coming to the surface. "No. Metaphorical as in not literal but that it means something else. Can you describe what the fetus looked like? Any outstanding characteristics? There are quite a few demons that need a human host to incubate their young."
"Eww! That was something that I didn't need to know thanks and no it looked demon-y. Not vampire human looking but Clem or Lorne or you know demon-y."
"Well, I suppose that means we'll have a lot of research to do."
Buffy opened her mouth to protest that she was Slay girl when Giles forestalled her. "You're the only one that knows what it looks like so you'll have to either describe it better than it looks like a demon or you'll have to look through the pictures of the demons that need humans."
"Ugh!" Has she mentioned that she really hated prophetic dreams because she did.
Buffy Summers ~*~ BtVS ~*~ 651 words