Title: My Home
Author: Maggie
Disclaimer: I don't own the Buffy characters. I just own the ones I made up. You might see some of the dialogue here and there.
Summary: Oz is dying and he wants Willow to meet and take care of her daughter. This is set back in season five. I will go from there.
Spoilers: None I just wanted to write this for a long while.
Author's Note: Some of the dialogue in here is from my beautiful girlfriend. She is everything to me. I love you baby 3. I will set my goal for ten chapters but it all depends on the reviews I get.
Alex woke up in the hospital room that was all to familiar to her. Her father had been in there for five months now. He was dying and she knew this, she tried to not let him see her cry. She didn't know what she was going to do without him. He told her once that he would introduce her to her mother, but then he got sick. "Alex go eat something please. You need to eat and get out of this god awful place." She looked at her father and got up. She leaned down and kissed his cheek. "I'll be back in an hour okay?" She didn't like leaving him alone. "Baby girl take your time, I'll be here." She walked out and down the hall she had paced so many nights before.
She exited the hospital and went to a nice little restaurant down the street. She walked through the door and sat down at the booth her and her father always sat at. The waitress' knew her well and always let her stay as long she wanted. Anna one of the waitress' walked over to Alex and smiled. "Alex what would you like today?" Anna smiled and looked at her softly. "Umm I guess the bacon cheese burger. And can I get a coke?" Anna smiled bigger at her. "Of course sweetie. How's your dad doing?" Alex looked down at the table and sighed. "Not good he is getting weaker and the doctor says he might not live through the next week."
Anna was shocked she had gone to see him only a month before and he looked like he was doing better. "I'm so sorry dear. What are you going to do? I mean you are more then welcome to come stay with me." Alex smiled up at her. "No thank you, but I think I'm gonna go find my real mom." Anna smiled again and nodded she and went to put the order in.
Mean while back at the hospital Oz was thinking about something that had haunted him all these years. He was interrupted when his nurse came in. "Hi Daniel how are you feeling today?" He shook his head and chuckled. "I told you Emily call me Oz." Emily sighed as she checked is pulse and blood pressure. "And I told you how many times that once I know your real name you will be called it. I know Alexis doesn't like it when I do it but she lets me anyway." Oz smiled as he thought of his daughter. "So what are you thinking about?" She asked as she pulled the chair over to talk to him for a bit.
"Well I was thinking about calling Willow up and telling her that I'm dying and that I need her to do something." Oz was never surprised when Emily asked him what was wrong. At first he was but now he just waits for it. "You're gonna ask her to come here and meet her daughter aren't you?" Oz nodded and looked at the picture of him and Willow when she was pregnant. "Only I'm not gonna tell her it's her daughter." Emily shook her head and sighed. "Well put on your big boy panties and call her." He laughed as he watched her walk out.
Oz picked up the phone for the fifth time and finally dialed the number of the Summer's house. Buffy heard the phone from upstairs and ran to get. Even though Willow and Tara were in the kitchen with Joyce. Buffy came in out of breath and answered the phone. "Hello?" "Buffy?" "Yes who is this?" After all the problems with her mother trying to date she didn't want some creep knowing her name. "It's Oz is Willow there?" Buffy looked at Willow and handed her the phone. "It's Oz." Willow picked up the phone and sighed. "Oz why are you calling me? After disappearing for five months?" Oz heard the hurt tone in her voice. "Willow I would have come to visit, but there is one problem. I'm dying." Willow almost dropped the phone. She could feel the tears running down.
"What? How? Since when?" Oz knew she would ask those questions she was always the brain. "Willow I need you to come to LA and see me. There is something you need to know." Oz sighed and hung up the phone. Willow was just standing there. "Buffy I need you, Xander, and Giles to come to LA with me. Oz is dying." Willow walked over to her laptop and booked four plane tickets while Buffy called everyone.
Mean while at the restaurant, Alex just finish her meal and was staring out the window. She pulled out a picture of her mother. Anna came back over and sat with her. "Honey she will love you trust me." She smiled and look at Anna. "How do you know?" Anna took her hands and stared into her eyes. "Because only a fool would not love a great girl like you." Alex smiled bigger. She went to pull out her wallet and Anna stopped her. "Honey don't worry about it."
Alex hugged Anna and walked out. She walked down the same street she always did. She walked through the hospital doors and she felt the sadness come back like a nine pound hammer. She walked down the hall to her father's room and went back into the chair she had slept in for the past five months. Oz smiled when she sat down. "Good lunch?" Alex nodded and looked at her father confused. "Dad what are you hiding?" He sighed and picked up her hands. "Well I called your mom and she is coming here. We both know I am dying . I want you to live with her and be happy."
Alex was excited, she was gonna meet her mother for the first time. "I will dad I love you." She leaned down and hugged him. "When will she be here?" He looked at the clock and sighed again. "Well knowing your mother. Probably an hour or so. " He looked back at his daughter and smiled. "Sleep baby girl. I love you." Alex drifted off into her dream world where everything was perfect. She finally was having a good dream after months of nightmares. She was a bright light walking toward her. She stood there unable to move. "Baby I have been waiting a life time for this." It was her mom finally she was home. About an hour later Alex was up.
Alex looked at her father with sad eyes. She watched as he laid there almost lifeless. "Don't look so sad sweetie I'll be okay." Her dad always had a way to make her feel better. The nurse led four people into the room. "Oz my man how are you feeling?" Xander being the first one to speak up. Oz just smiled and then he saw the woman he fell in love with and then looked back at Alex. "So Oz why did you ask for us to come here?" Buffy spoke up trying to take the attention off of Willow.
"Well Buffy I have some news. You all knew I was dying, but I need something from Willow." His eyes never left hers. Willow stepped forward and smiled at him. "What is it?" She knew there wasn't much feeling of in love there between them anymore. "Alex, I have something to tell you. Well really all of you. Willow remember back in high school our baby?" Willow looked down the painful memory was still there. "The one that died." Oz looked at Alex and sighed. "Well she didn't really die." Willow shot up and looked at him.
"W-w-what are you talking about?" She was holding back the tears as Xander and Buffy came to her side. "Willow we have an amazing daughter. She is bright like you, she rambles on about things, she is just like you." Alex looked at her dad and then at this woman she had only seen in pictures. ~Could this be her? Could this really be my mother?~ Those words were all she thought. "Willow met your daughter Alexis Danielle Osbourne-Rosenburg." Willow looked at the young girl. She was the young image of Willow. "Daniel Osbourne you kept this from me?"
Alex looked at her mother. "Mom I was taken from the hospital. Demons came and took me away. Dad knew that if he said I was dead, you wouldn't blame yourself as much." Alex walked around the bed and looked at her mother dead in the eyes. "I have only seen pictures of you. I know what dad did was wrong, but I'm here now." Oz looked at Willow. "Listen Willow she needs her mother. She has magic powers like you and she also has the wolf like me." Buffy looked at Xander and then at Giles who hasn't said a word yet. "Oz why didn't you tell her when you found Alexis?" Giles walked over and looked at Willow and then at Oz. "Umm Mr. Giles call me Alex please?" Giles was taken back for a moment the only other person who called him Mr. Giles was Tara.
"Mom I want to live with you and Uncle Xander and Aunt Buffy." Alex looked at her father as she leaned down to hug him she whispered. "Thank you daddy." Buffy looked at Alex. "Uncle Xander, Aunt Buffy, Oz what all did you tell her?" Alex smiled as she looked at the slayer. "I know you are the slayer and Mr. Giles is your watcher and Uncle Xander is all human and that my mother is a witch and is dating Tara, who is also a witch."