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Joycee; Buffy and Angels daughter

Cordelia 'Del' Summers; Angel and Buffys daughter

Jake; Xanders second cousin twice removed, used to date Lenni, knows about the scoobies

It was a Sunday.

Lenora Michelle was being quiet. And, as the residents of the Hyperion hotel knew, that meant trouble.
The dark haired, blue eyed 15 year old was creeping quietly through the corridor, unbeknownst to the other residents due too a invisibility charm she had cast on herself. So, nobody could see her, she was silent so nobody could hear her now all she had to do was avoid any vampires who would smell her and she was home free. On the question of what she was doing the answer would, as usual, be 'nothing good'. She was sneaking a multitude of dangerous and, coincidentally, banned weapons out of the hotel with the intention of doing what she had specifically been told not to do; set up a activities booth for her schools summer fair. An evil and dangerous booth that would probably cause chaos among the students which (of course) was fine with her. She was just attempting to sneak unnoticed through a room that held her Auntie Will, Angel, Cordelia Summers, Spike and good old Connor when she found she couldn't move her feet or anything at all for that matter, and Spike began speaking in an unnecessarily loud voice;
"say Red, do you remember a little talk my daughter and I had last week about taking dangerous and otherworldly objects out of this house when the intention is to cause a big bad lot of chaos?"

The redhead witch grinned slightly evilly "you know Spike, I think I do!"

The other occupants of the room smirked, Spike lifted one eyebrow "and another conversation we had about using magic for non-protection reasons?" The invisible teen rolled her invisible eyes and muttered a counter charm making her (and her big pile of weapons) visible again. As soon as it was complete the binding spell came off too. She pouted, with her hands on her hip(having dropped the weapons)
"hilarious, yo. You guys are such spoilsports, Mom would have let me take em!!"

Spike's eyebrows hit his hairline "no she bloody well wouldn't have, so don't pull that sodding pouty crap Lenni!"

"Mom would have let who do what?" Buffy Summers walked into the room balancing a little girl with blond hair on her hip.
Spike waved a hand in a dismissal gesture at her "not you Mom"

She wiped her forehead theatrically "pheew,!" she looked at the guilty teenager "ahh Lenni,sneaking weapons again?" She got rolled eyes in response, far from responding the older woman just snorted and sat down making baby faces at the disgusted looking toddler in her arms.
"so?" Lenni queried of her un-dead Dad "what you gonna do with me?"

"cos I swear if you guys make me look after Joycee again I will kill myself, kids are gross!"

Buffy hugged the child in her arms and stuck her tongue out at the sassy teen. Everybody laughed

"nah li'l bit, you can just stay in your room for the rest of the week, your grounded till your Mom comes home"

she looked at him disbelievingly "that's all!? No making me run round the block with weights on my ankles? Banning me from seeing Jake for a month? Cutting off my allowance!? Wow talk about a pushover" she shook her head in mock disappointment.
Spike looked confused, grounding is what everyone did!.right? O.K he decided to give her the punishment that most appealed to him "Okay, yeah. Then you're banned from seeing Jake for...3 months!" he nodded his head satisfied, now that was a punishment!

Her eyes widened "noooo! Am I still grounded, then?"

"no, just no boyfriend, Okay!?" he asked suddenly firm

She nodded her head meekly and with that she was allowed to go

But as she trotted out of the room, Cordelia followed. The older girl was frowning slightly "but I thought you broke up with Jake last week, just before school ended?"

Her blue eyes twinkling with mischief, she winked and replied "well yeah, duh..."

The next day.
The kitchen at the Hyperion hotel was silent. Every member of the new and improved Scoobies that was over 25 was there drinking coffee, tea or other liquids while maintaining a comfortable silence. Which was mercilessly broken by a certain mop headed teenager entering the kitchen while singing along to a song on her iPod; "

"I wanna have sex on tha beach, mmm, c'mon there's a party, sex on the beach..."

Spikes already pale face drained of its remaining colour, on his top ten list of things he did not want his teenage daughter saying that only came second to 'bondage is fun!' although to be honest he was quite convinced by now that she did these things just to wind him up. Although nothing could quite trump the time she explained the theory behind the use of Karma Sutra between a vampire and slayer in detail to an appalled police officer who picked her up for shoplifting(although he had let her off without even a warning) when he had arrived the mans eyes had been practical popping out as Lenni cavorted around, straddling chairs and explaining why it was 'more orgasmic that way'

That was one of many times Spike wished himself back into hell, especially concerning his daughter and her increasingly evil seeming antics. It also made him wonder whether his wife had really had a secret affair with his evil grandsire and produced yet another poof junior, unfortunately Lenni looked enough like him to make everyone believe she was his. no chance of selling her.

Back in the present, he ground his teeth "Lenni?" She pulled her headphones off and looked at him, the picture of innocence.
"yes papa, darling?"

He narrowed his eyes suspiciously. She was up to something, he put on his best Giles voice "Lenora Michelle, let us address the issue of you expressing your inappropriate and downright strange desires in public or, to be more specific, in front of me, as i find it disturbing"
His eyes narrowed as he had a unsettling thought, Giles rolled his eyes at the bad impression.

"and Lenora, if you happen to do so in the company of any male of breeding age, and if that leads to stuff, the male involved will suffer a sudden and tragic disappearance and you will be grounded for the rest of my natural life, got it"
he pointed his finger sternly, considering for a second whether it would sound better if he called her 'young lady' but upon seeing Dawn nearly falling of her seat laughing, decided it would make him sound like a prize bloody wanker, and anyway he knew it wouldn't make a difference to Lenni, she did it all to annoy him, just like her sodding mother.

At the moment she was sniggering softly at his facial expression which was a cross between Xander trying to figure out a maths problem and a brain dead chimp, he came around and pouted at her broad grin.

"no sex, ever! okay!? Lenni, Okay!?" he hissed trying to distract everyone from his little lapse.

She lifted her eyebrows with an expression on her face of utter distain, God she look's like Cordelia, he thought.

Xander voiced his thoughts for him "you'd make a perfect cheerleader with that look, its like 'i am Queen, worship me peasants' Cordy had it down to a tee in high school"

she snorted indignantly, and muttered idle threats that she would never carry out 'cause her mother would beat her senseless if she did. Lenni often thought her mother would rather be married to the happy-go-lucky dark haired man, than her grumpy, bleach blond and (shudder) 'gorgeous' father, although the amount of time they spent in the bedroom tended to disprove that theory, ah well.

"Daddy darling, not a chance"

and with a flounce and a wave she swiped her Dads drink and left the kitchen.

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