Rose
by Kuma

Joyce walked inside of Buffy's hospital room. She looked at her daughter. Willow noticed that Joyce had entered the room and exited.

"Buffy, you and I both know that what you did wasn't right." Joyce walked over to Buffy's bed and held her hand.

"I know Mom, we went through this already," Buffy sighed.

"But I know that I can help you get through this. It may have been a mistake, but it may be the best mistake you ever made." Joyce replied, smiling. She saw the way that her daughter's eyes lit up when told her that.

The nurse from before walked inside of Buffy's room. "I would like to keep Buffy just a day to run some tests and make sure that everything's okay."

"That's fine." Joyce replied, knowing that Buffy hated hospitals. The nurse left. "Well, I'm going to go home. I'll see you tomorrow."

"Okay, Mom. I love you." Buffy kissed her mom the cheek and watched as she left.

Willow and Giles walked in. Willow wanted to know what Joyce had told Buffy.

"Basically she said that everything will be okay and that she will help me get through this." Buffy replied, smiling.

"So, I guess you're happy. I mean...being on good terms with your mom and everything." the red head said.

"Nothing could be better. Except if Angel were here," the slayer sighed with disappointment.

"Speaking of which," Giles spoke up, "Willow and I will be sitting outside of your bedroom just in case Angel does want to come by."

"It's not Angel. It's Angelus. I want to make that clear," Buffy struck back with a tone she didn't mean to use.

"Yes, and you seem to have that down." Willow said, knowing that her best friend wanted to keep as much difference between them as possible.

They all fell silent as the nurse came in. She nodded at Giles and Willow and proceeded towards Buffy. "Visiting hours are over," she turned to Willow and Giles, and watched as they left. "I just want to take a blood sample to make sure everything's okay," the nurse told Buffy in a voice that was used to calm a child. She stuck the needle in Buffy's arm and withdrew blood. The nurse pulled the needle out and went towards the door. Before exiting, she added, "If you need anything, just push that button on the table beside you."

Buffy gave a thin smile and watched as she left and shut the door. "I need for you to stop treating me like a child," she murmured. Buffy decided she should make the best of it and tried to go to sleep.

*A couple hours later*

Out in the hall, Willow was sitting in a seat close to Buffy's room. She had a book on her lap. The book cover showed a vampire face in the shadows. The book, itself, was old, yellow, and the pages were ridged. She put the book down as Giles showed up with two cups and a bag.

"Thanks," Willow said politely. "This book is very interesting. All the different vampires and monsters."

"Yes," Giles replied and set down the cups and bag down on the table in between them. "It's rather old. Some of the vampires no longer exist. The peritrian vampire, for example, they died out centuries ago."

"I don't think I read about them," Willow said and took a sip of her coffee. "What are so special about them?"

"Well, the peritrian vampire could walk in the daylight and only feed during the daytime. And when night came, they had to replenish their energy by drinking Convecidor's blood. Convecidor was like the master, very powerful. He was a peritrian vampire as well, the first one in fact. He was made by accident. One of the vampires were trying to make him, uh, more powerful and something went wrong in the spell." Giles took a sip of his coffee and looked at Willow. "Every peritrian vampire soon died when a slayer eventually killed him."

"Wow." Willow said slowly. This was the most amazing thing she had ever heard. She read a lot of books about vampires, but never crossed one that had this vampire in it. Perhaps because they were more recent than the one she had now. "That's amazing. I'm glad we don't have any today. The victims must of had a gruesome death. Daylight and all."

"Yes. Perhaps you shall find something else interesting." He told Willow and opened a book of his own.

*A few hours later*

Angel walked into the hospital and say Giles and Willow sitting in front of Buffy's room. He saw that Willow was asleep and Giles was about to fall asleep himself. But he knew Giles would fall asleep on Buffy's account. He watched until Giles nodded off. Even for five seconds, but that's all he needed. He quickly went pass Giles and Willow. Then, he went into Buffy's room.

Giles quickly opened his eyes and looked up. He thought he heard something, but wasn't sure. He took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. He knew he only nodded off and thought nothing of it. He looked at Willow sleeping and smiled. He knew she needed her sleep. Giles picked up his book and started to read again.

Angel walked around in Buffy's room, concealing himself in the darkness. He was quiet as a mouse when he walked. He stood in the corner of her room, as if to seem to be planning something.

Buffy knew someone was in her room. She had woken up by the foot steps. No one else may of heard them, but she was the Slayer. She could hear a mouse walking across grass with the wind blowing. That's how good her Slayer senses were. "You know, hide and seek isn't really the best game to play in the dark," Buffy spoke out as she sat up in her bed. She watched as Angel...Angelus to her, stepped out of the corner.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't the little pathetic Slayer. Here in bed and no one can help her." Angelus spoke as if he was insulting her.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't another pathetic vampire," Buffy said, mocking his tone. She glared at him and watched as sat down in a chair.

He watched her. As if he was trying to studying her weaknesses. Or waiting for her to attack him. "No one can stop me, you know. I walked right past Giles, and he didn't even see me."

"If you did anything to him or Willow, I swear I'll make your death very painful." the Slayer threatened.

"I didn't do anything to them. Why hurt them when I can kill you and watch them grieve over your death and the way they found you?" Angelus said calmly with a smirk on his face.

"Which is more than I can say for you," Buffy replied. "You know you won't kill me. You wouldn't dare harm your child." Buffy replied. She watched as his eyes softened for a second. She knew Angel fought to get out just then and succeeded. But the coldness in his eyes returned.

"Yeah, you're right. But after you give birth to our child, then I can kill you." He tried to hurt her more by reminding her that it was her child, too.

Buffy was in no mood to mess around. She wanted things done. "I know I can kill you," she hid the fact the she had no stakes, because he didn't know that. "But if I couldn't, maybe Giles couldn't, or the orderlies. Maybe even the police officers couldn't. But I'd like to find out." She replied with a smirk of her own.

"Why does that so familiar? I know! That's what that little twerp Xander said the last time I tried to visit, lover. Where's your little bodyguard, now?" he questioned her as he got up and stepped closer to her bed.

Buffy didn't take her eyes off him for even a moment. But she needed something to defend herself with. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a stake that Giles must have left for her, on the table. The moment she did look away, something hit her in the head. Hard. She felt dizzy and her head hurt.

Angelus opened the window in her room. He turned to go get Buffy when he was tripped and saw her standing over him.

"That isn't the polite way to say 'Get Well', is it, lover?" she had a smile on her face, feeling confident.

He grabbed her ankle and pulled it towards him. She fell and hit her head on the floor. This time, the impact threw her into unconsciousness. He stood up, smiling that he had gotten the Slayer. He picked her up and went through the window.

Giles heard something pound against something else. Obviously, so did Willow. She woke up quickly from her sleep, rubbed her eyes, and looked at Giles. Giles got up quickly and entered Buffy's room. Willow wasn't far behind. He looked at her bed and she wasn't there. His eyes instantly went to the window and went wide as he saw that someone had opened the window.

"Giles! Where's Buffy?" Willow asked in anger. She frantically searched the room.

"I don't know! Maybe she left?" Giles hoped that was the answer.

"It's not like Buffy to leave, especially with us just right outside the door." Willow answered in a rush.

"Angel must have been here. I thought I heard someone pass by me when I nodded off," he passed by Willow, rushing towards the exit of the hospital.

"You nodded off?!" Willow complained as she followed Giles out the exit and towards the parking lot.

"Well, I didn't see that you were wide awake, either." he shot back at her bitterly. Willow didn't answer, for she knew she shouldn't have fallen asleep. They got into Giles' car and headed towards Buffy's house.

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