Spoilers: Kind of AU threw some of the seasons. Which means that some things in the Buffy verse happened and some of them didn't, so if you haven't seen the whole series or don't know how it ended, don't read. Things that didn't happen in the Buffyvers for this story. wasn't evil. Alan got to the Slayers in time and a plan was hatched. and Willow were just friends. was killed and Willow went slightly evil she tracked Warren and put him in jail he was killed in prison by a fellow inmate 4. Anya is dead. She wasn't a vengeance demon just a normal girl that had transferred to Sunnydale during Senior year 5. No Spuffy 6. Robin and Faith were just a one time thing. 7. The Slayers-in-training are all gone they went their separate ways after the fight 8. Kennedy and Willow were never together. 9. Forrest didn't die he was injured in the finale showdown in the Initiative and was given an honorable discharge 10. Dawn is real. 11. Buffy did die fighting Glory they both fell threw the portal. Willow brought Buffy back though.
12. No Oz and Willow 13. Willow never had a thing for Xander. A/N: Takes place after the series finale.
The battered up school bus rolled down the highway. Its occupants all sleep as the bright sun shined down on them. The seven people on the bus all in various stages of filth. It had been four days, four days since their home had imploded on itself, four days since the former Slayers in training turned Slayers parted ways with the group, four days since they lost two members of their group.
Behind the wheel sat Rupert Giles, brown hair grayed by years and worry. His glasses perched on his nose, he eyes on the road ahead of him. The signs for exits passed by as he kept on his path.
Looking in the mirror above him he saw his wards, his children all lay out in the seats. His eyes landed on Buffy his Slayer.
Buffy's blonde hair was pulled up in a sloppy bun on her head. She, still wore the clothes that Vi's mother had given her. Her blue shirt too big for her small frame, her jeans all wrinkled. Her head propped against the window as her legs were stretched out on the seat. Giles smiled at her reflection as he thought back to how his slayer was the one to defy all the odds of the Council,
and he was proud of her.
His eyes then shifted to Dawn, her head propped up on her arms and her T-shirt and blue jeans clad tall frame curled up on the seat across from her sister Dawn, Buffy's little sister, the girl had been threw so much in her life. She had watched as her parents went through a divorce, moving to Sunnydale, lost her mother two years before and Buffy's death a year earlier had really torn her apart. He remembered all the times he had sat with her and listened to her talk about which boy band member she thought was cute. He loved her as a daughter just as much as he loved Buffy.
His eyes slipped over to Faith, his other Slayer. Faith's dark brown hair was falling around her face in tangles, which Vi's mom had given her clothes she had declined and still wore her own,
her legs bent up in the fetal position. She had come into the group when Buffy had really didn't need any more distractions. The two of them had split the slaying until the group had caught wind of the Mayors plans when the Deputy Mayor came to them for help. Faith went undercover as a hired assassin for the mayor. She had, had a tough childhood, her mother was a careless woman and so the young girl had turned to the company of men, which never turned out right for her. Giles had enrolled her in home schooling. She had gotten her high school diploma the year before.
His blue eyes next found Andrew, the overly excitable Scifi geek, who had somehow found his way into the group. His sandy blonde hair full of dirt leaning against the window with his legs curled up to his chest and his button up shirt was sticking out of his pants, which were blue jeans that looked about one size too big for him. He had started as their hostage but he soon he had become apart of the team and was declared the 'Mother hen' by the ex-slayers-in-training. Giles couldn't help but feel badly for the boy. His big brother was in jail, his parents gone and his two best friends were both dead, one by the hands of an inmate in prison and the other by Andrews own. Giles was a bit found of the boy but even under torture he would deny it.
Next Giles eyes landed on Xander. The young man who had grown up so much in the past few years that it made Giles wish the boy was truly his for he was that proud of Xander. Xander's head like the others rested against the window with his legs not stretched out on the seat or close to his body, however they were hanging over the back of the seat in front of him. Giles gave a slight laugh, Xander the ever loving goof ball of the group still a kid in many ways. Xander's eye was closed, his brown hair cut so short that even if it was messy no one would be able to tell. His right arm reached out across the aisle to the seat next to him.
His eyes landed on the last member of the group, Willow. The redhead was in the seat across from Xander the two were holding hands as if they were each others life lines, which in reality they could be. Willow's head was pillowed on her left arm, her legs curled on the seat. Her green shirt which was given to her by Vi's mom, and her jeans looked to be starting to wrinkle.
Travers had been right he did love Buffy like a daughter but what the Council hadn't notice was that he loved all of them like his children. He had been through so much with all of them, and he wouldn't have changed it for anything in the world. Giles put his focus on the road once again as the group slept. He watched as he passed by countless gas stations and restaurants.
"Hey Giles. What town are we in?" came the question from Willow as she sat down in the seat behind him rubbing the sleep from her green eyes.
He looked at the road and then back at the sleepy redhead, she was the only one awake which considering it was only ten in the morning was shocking. Dawn and Andrew where usually the first two up.
"We are about two miles outside of Ann Arbor, Michigan."
"Oh great! I know a place we can go. Can I drive?" she asked.
"Sure thing just let me pull over." he said as he brought the bus to the side of the road and let the redhead in the driver seat taking her now empty seat.
Willow eased the bus back onto the road and soon Giles was lost in all the twists and turns that she had taken he wasn't sure if he would be able to find the highway again. Twenty minutes after Willow had taken over the driving duty, Xander awoke when he didn't feel Willows hand in his anymore. He sat up looked around and then looked at Giles who looked baffled as to where it was Willow was taking them.
Buffy was the next one up and soon Faith was sitting up in her spot. Dawn was the next one to get up, Andrew would have slept longer but Faith had reached behind her and whacked him in the head and said," Scifi get up." which made the young man start whining, saying that he was going to sleep as far away from Faith as possible the next night.
"Hey check it out a resort. Though, why we are stopping here I have no idea." Buffy said as Willow stopped the bus in front of a very huge and expensive looking, building, with a gate and everything. The whole street was lined with buildings just like it.
"Um Wills I love you and all but there is no way we can afford a Resort. We can barely afford the gas for the bus." Xander said as he looked at Willow who was now standing beside the drivers seat.
"Yeah I mean I'm all for a resort stay Red but I hear they are really expensive." Faith said as she watched the redhead open the doors on the bus and walk off.
"Um Willow? Hey where are you going? Seriously Will we can't afford this place." Dawn said as the group hurried after Willow.
Willow walked across the pavement to the front gate and pressed an order of buttons. When the front gate opened she walked in knowing that the others would follow. She walked up the walkway staring at all the cars that where in front of the building.
"Willow come on now. You have had whatever little fun this is to you. We should get back on the road." Giles said speaking his mine on the matter.
"Why the Hellmouth in Cleveland isn't going anywhere Giles. Besides there is something I have to do." Willow said and with that she opened the front door to the building and walked in.
The group looked at one another and then at the door that was still open. Faith stepped in behind Willow and soon the others followed.
"Red I love your style here but I don't think they would let us stay even if we promise to make Scifi back there to cook all their meals." Faith replied looking around in awe.
The place was nice, classic almost, with nice polished floors and large art work on the walls. The front was set up like a living room. Of course these places were, supposed to have homey vibes to them right?
"It's not a resort guys, it's a house. Hey music I hear music." Willow finally said she headed down a long hallway that led to the back of the house.
"Oh so that thing you had to do was adding, Breaking and Entering onto our criminal records?"
Dawn whispered after the redhead.
Willow was stopped at a table by the back door and was looking at it in horror, when the group caught up with her. On the table lay a pile of papers all looked like they had the same thing on them. Giles picked one up and looked at it and let out a gasp. It was an obituary, Willows obituary.
"They think I am dead." she whispered just before she walked out the door and in the middle of her own funeral just as the last cords of the song faded.
"I don't know if I should be impressed or insulted." she said once the music had stopped playing and she knew the people could hear her.
Heads turned to look at her and several people gasped some people's mouths dropped open in shock and two of the old ladies rushed to Willow, one of them muttering in Hebrew.
Willow hugged the women as her friends watch from behind her. Her eyes scanned the crowd and then landed on the two eldest men there.
"Well.." she started but was interrupted.
"Willow Daniel Rosenberg don't you EVER do that again. We thought you were dead." the old woman who had muttered, scolded.
Willow looked at her, and she couldn't help what she said next, she really couldn't.
"So I see Grammy. Nice choice for a casket what's in it? Bricks? This isn't a traditional Jewish funeral service." she replied tilting her head to the side.
"Don't talk to your grandmother like that young lady. I'll whip you good. Well your dad told us how you denounced the Jewish customs for the newer ways so we thought this would be better suited for you." came the remark from a tall dark haired man with a slight beard and mustache on his face. He looked pretty built from were Buffy and the others were standing. There were three other guys beside him, all of them had brown hair cut short. All four of them had their arms crossed and looked at Willow with stern looks.
Willow on the other hand wasn't intimidated. She looked at the one that had spoken and snorted. Giles had never seen her so careless with others.
"Yep, sure Uncle Jeremiah, and thanks I think." she retorted only to be popped up side the head by her grandmother. Who looked at Willow
with a look that read 'don't-sass-us.' Willow turned to look at her confused friends and asked.
"Is that what I look like with the resolve face?" she received, nods from them. "Cool I look like you Grammy."
"Why didn't you call and let us know you are okay after Sunnydale sunk in we were worried sick." came the question from one of the eldest men there.
"Well I would have but you have that pesky phone system that won't even ring if the phone number that is being called from isn't pre-programmed into the phone."
"Where's your cell?" her uncle Jeremiah asked.
Willow looked at them batted her eyes, doing little half twists with the upper half of her body.
"It's at the bottom of the Sunnydale crater." she said in the sweetest voice she could muster.
Faith gave a silent snicker at the redhead's antics; she suspected that they were seeing the true Willow now.
One of the boys, who had dirty blond hair and brown eyes, took out his phone and dialed a number. After a few seconds he started laughing, those around him looked at him.
"I want the same service plan she has." he said as he put the phone on speaker and her ring back blared though the small holes.
Willows mouth feel open in shock, "It's been four days! It's still has power?"
"That's what you ask? It still has power? Your phone is at the bottom of a crater and is still getting service and you are amazed it still has power?" one of the men in front asked.
"Sorry there Uncle Iezekiel I'm a little shocked here." she muttered.
Her grandmother looked at her husband.
"Ichabod she needs a new cell phone."
"I know Gail. We will go tomorrow." he said
The Sunnydale group looked at one another and then at Willow.
"Um Wills. Your grandfathers name is Ichabod?" Buffy asked in slight wonder.
Willow nodded her head, "Yep that's my Grandpa, Ichabod Rosenberg, Grandma, Gail. Aunt Nataile, she and Uncle Jeremiah met when he went to Britain years ago, as my cousins Natanael and Joshua well be happy to know that their parents WERE married before, either of them were born. Aunt Abagail and Darren, their three sons Zachariah, Ian, and John. Uncle Isaiah and Aunt Lillian their three boys Noah and Philip, Liam. Uncle Iezekiel and Aunt Moran, and that there is their three boys Efren, Judah, and Isaak."
"Alrighty well I will never be able to watch the movie Sleepy Hallow and not think of your grandpa now. Two questions why are two of your aunts glaring at one another? Was your Uncle Iezekiel a twin and your grandma gave the other one up, and he turned into an evil woman hating preacher man who pokes peoples eyes out?" Dawn replied.
"Oh that's Aunt Abagail and Aunt Lillian they don't really get along with each other at times, I think it has something to do with Ian and Philip blaming each other for a prank gone bad years ago. Neither one of them wanted to admit that their little boy could do such a thing so they fight periodically. No I did notice the very uncanny similarities between Calab and Uncle Zek though,
scared the crap out of me at the vineyard when I saw him." Willow said as two blonde twin girls rushed up to her and gave her one of the biggest group hugs.
"Who are your friends bubee?" Willows grandmother asked her.
Her grandmother was always using Yiddish vocabulary. She wasn't the only one to use it most of the family would say something Yiddish periodically.
"The blond is Buffy Summers, my best friend and the little brunet beside her is, Dawn her sister.
The last girl is Faith, we are all good friends." Willow said introducing her friends but was interrupted by her uncle.
"I have a question. Why is there an zayde hanging out with a bunch of kids?" her uncle Darren asked.
Willow's mouth fell open. "He is not a zayde, he's our grownup friend, uh...not in a perverted way. He's our mentor. He was our high school librarian." she replied defending Giles.
"You would befriend the school librarian, Willow." Natanael said.
"Well at least I know where the library is Natanael Rosenberg. Now you hold your tongue or I'll potch you." Willow glared at him.
"Nice Nat get the Princess mad at you." Noah said from beside him.
"Ah shut up Noah." Natanael said.
"Willow, um you forgot a few of your friends in all the bopkes." her grandfather said trying to get her attention back on the introductions.
"Oy! Oh ok this is Giles, this is Andrew, he is kind of our hostage...and this is Xander." she said as she hugged Xanders arm.
All eyes turned to him after the intro.
"This is the infamous Xander?" Uncle Darren asked once again but his voice held a note of pride.
"Yep this is my Xander shaped buddy." Willow smiled.
"Oh I get it now." Zachariah said aloud.
Everyone looked over at him in confusion. Willow didn't know what he meant and the rest of the scoobies sure didn't.
"You get what Zachariah?" Uncle Jer asked.
"Buffy... Buffy is Bunny that Aunt Sheila is always being a Yenta about." the boy said.
A collective of 'OH' came from the family as realization dawned on them.
"Speaking of which, where are mom and dad?" Willow asked fearing the answer.
"Oh I had to zetz your dad on the head. He was in such a stage it gave me a headache. He's up stairs sleeping it off." Jeremiah said.
Willow glared at her uncle.
"You gave my dad a concussion?"
"Yep. I didn't mean to hit him so hard but well you know me and my strength."
"Well I'll let him sleep and go see him and mom in a bit." Willow said as she hugged one of her cousins.
A look was exchanged by all of her family. There was something that they weren't saying. She knew those looks.
"Well um, your mom isn't here." her grandma said.
Willow looked at them and then it dawned on her. Her mom wasn't there, it wasn't a she's not there she ran out for ice, no she wasn't there as in not in Michigan.
"She didn't come to my funeral?" Willow asked looking at her grandmother with hurt in her eyes.
"She said and I quote; 'I don't see the point in missing work, it's not like my going is gonna bring her back.' I'd like to zetz her a few times. I really don't see how you came from that. I still think you were made in a test tube and your dad didn't have to sleep with that to make you." Iezekiel said trying to make her laugh but the tears were shining in her eyes.
"Oh, bubee come here. It doesn't matter, we all knew what she was like. Did you really aspect her to?" Gail asked.
"Well yeah I mean I am her only child and it is, supposed to be my funeral." Willow said into her shirt.
Her grandmother led her back into the house and into the living room. They sat down on the sofa as Willow cried about how her own mother wasn't at her funeral. Both groups, family and friends all moved into the house and silently waited for Willow to stop crying. Everyone stood to the side and watched.
The front door opened and closed and five mouths dropped to the floor in shock.
"What?" Buffy said pointing at the new comer.
He looked around the room and spotted Willow and her grandma on the sofa. He rushed forward and wrapped his arms around the redhead, and started whispering in her ear, all the Buffy's mouth was wide open and she was pointing. The other Sunnydale members weren't doing much better.
As her crying slowed he looked down and realized she was asleep. He stood up taking her with him, and carried her up the stairs and out of sight. Willows family led her friends over to the sofa and chairs, the group still in shock. They had no idea why they were in shock. Their new guest never returned but Willows dad Ira did join them. He looked at the group then at his mother.
"She's upstairs, cried herself to sleep over that nebish woman you call a wife." his mom said.
"Is she okay?" Ira asked as he took a step toward the stairs.
"Cookie is with her." his brother Isaiah said.
"When did he get here?"
"About thirty minutes ago."
Everyone sat around no-one knew what to do. They were all watching her friends start to come out of their shock induced comas.
Gail patted Andrew on the back as his eyes avoided everyone as he was waiting for his friends to come out of their shock.
"Would you like something to eat?" she asked him. The boy looked like he could use something to eat, they all looked starved. His head turned to her and his eyes were wide.
"You want me to cook? Willow could tell you I'm a good cook, I make meals all the time. I'm really good at baking things, I can make, cakes and cookies." he rambled until someone laughed.
"I think he picked up a habit from Willow. Come on man lets get you some de-cafe and some food." said one Willows cousins as he pulled Andrew up.
"Philip behave. Don't scare the poor boy." Gail called out to him.
As the group started to move again everyone relaxed. Giles started up a conversation with Ira and Ichabod.. Buffy and Faith started talking with some of Willows cousins. Xander sat on the bottom of the steps looking up ever so often. Dawn was having a very entertaining conversation with Willows cousin Zachariah .
"That can't be true!" she exclaimed.
All eyes looked at the pair.
"Willow's really the only girl in the family?" she asked looking at Gail.
"Yes Willow is the first girl to be born in the Rosenberg family in nearly five generations'. We all thought that we were incapable of have girls but Ira had to be the golden son and go and have a daughter. Which is why the boys called her princess earlier." Jeremiah said as he sat down with a plate of food.
"I have a question. It seemed terrible rude of Willow to forget to introduce some of her family and well I know how her constant chattering can sidetrack her, but who are the rest of these people?" Giles asked Ira.
The man laughed.
"Oh I know how my daughter's babbling can be, but these are not Willows family. These are Cookies family. See that there is Gerardo Miller his wife Isabella Miller, their boys Anthony and Michelangelo Miller. Their daughter in laws Selvia and Lia Miller. Their grandsons, Cookie of course, but also Jenoah, and then finally their granddaughters: Sara, Alessa, the twins Kyara and Karisa, Katrina, Anabelle, Cara, Carissa, Arianna, Rosabella, and Mariella. My dad and Gerardo have been best friends for years. So all the kids know each other, and they all adore Willow. Well Cookie cares more about her then any one I had ever seen, I honestly think the boy loves my daughter. Which is good he's a good guy."
Giles just nodded his head, it did seem that all the kids really had been thrilled to see Willow,
and 'Cookie' had gone right to her.
Meanwhile upstairs
Willow slowly opened her eyes. She silently groaned, her head was killing her she must have cried a lot, she closed her eyes again to fight off the headache. She felt something being pressed against her lips, she opened her eyes again. Bright blue eyes stared down at her a soft smile on the owners face. She opened her mouth and the two aspirin were placed in, a glass of water was placed on her lips.
"Swallow."
Willow followed orders and swallowed the pills. She took one more gulp of water and looked up at her helper.
"Aren't you supposed to be in Africa." she asked.
"Aren't you supposed to be dead?" he retorted.
Willow thought it over, shrugged and grinned.
"Good point."
He leaned down and pressed his forehead against hers.
"Don't you ever do that to me again. I almost punched my CO after grandpa called me and told me about Sunnydale." he said as he kissed her head.
"Well I would have called but my phone is at the bottom of the crater. Grandpa is taking me to get a new one tomorrow." she said as she sat up.
He thought back to the group down stairs and chuckled.
"If their reactions where anything to go on I'm guessing you never told your friends you knew me." he said.
"No I never got around to it." she said.
He gave a slight laugh. "I could tell."
"Come on we should head down there. Dad is probably up by now and I really want to see him."
Willow said as she sat up but was stopped by the arms around her waist.
She fell back onto her bed and looked up at him. He was leaning over smiling down at her. He leaned his head on hers once again saying, "I really missed you Nature Girl." as his lips met hers.
She kissed him back. It was a slight peck nothing more. They had shared small kisses like this most of their lives, it was all the same for them.
"Come on Nature lets, go see how badly your friends want to kill me now." he said as he stood up and dragged her with him.
"I'm glade you got to come home. I missed you Cookie boy." she said as he opened the door and the two of them headed down the stairs to the living room.
They stepped into the room and found the families sitting around chatting and laughing. Willow didn't see any of her friends.
Ira rushed up to her and hugged her. She never thought that she would be so happy to see her dad, but she knew he loved her. She returned the hug and sat down next to him on the sofa and Cookie sat on the other side of her.
"I am so happy that you are okay. Don't worry they already told, me why you didn't call, so I'm not mad. I do want to ask you though, how would you feel about my filing for divorce from your mom?"
Willow looked at him and smiled, not a sweet smile that everyone was used to but a smile full of malice. "I think you should save your money and let Uncle Jer make her some concrete boots and matching pants."
Everyone raised their eyebrows at her reaction. She was the one constant in both families the only one that never used those measures' as a revenge method. Her dad looked at her and was awed by the amount of hatred in her eyes. He backed away a bit in fear.
"I always new she was my niece." Jeremiah said as he smiled at Ira.
Willow grinned. She glanced around, and still didn't see any of the Sunnydale gang. She turned to her grandmother and asked where they were.
"Oh well that Dawn girl had to use the restroom and when she didn't come back uh.,, Buffy?
Yeah Buffy and Faith wasn't it, went looking for her and well when they didn't show back up the boys went to find them."
Willow started laughing, "So they're lost?"
"Pretty much." came the answer from her grandpa.
Willow grinned even more and winked at her family. She opened her mouth and shouted.
"Marco!"
She waited a split second before someone from somewhere in the house shouted, "Willow?!"
"That's not the name of the game Dawnie." Willow yelled back. She was trying to hold her laughter in, she really was. "Where are you? Describe the room."
"Uh, it kind of looks like your dream room. Allot of computers and stuff." Buffy's voice yelled back.
"OH that's the security room. Three doors to the left and then one to the right and four to the left and you'll be back in here." Willow called out.
She could hear the group arguing over the directions as they moved closer to the room. She giggled when she heard Faith say,"Scifi shut up or I will throw you from the roof." It wasn't long after the threat that there was a squeal and Andrew came running into the room with Faith hot on his tail. Willow raised her eyebrow at the two.
"What did you do Andrew?" Willow asked as he dodge Faith.
"Come here SciFi." the brunet said as she lunged for Andrew and feel into one of Willows cousins lap.
"I don't know, she's crazy I tell you!"
Faith glared daggers at Andrew from Willows cousins lap. The cousin whom, even though they had all been introduced she still had no idea of his name but he apparently decided to wrap his arms are her waist and keep her in his lap. His leg started bouncing, which caused her to bounce,
which earned him looks from the rest of the scoobies as they walked into the room.
"Huh why is Faith in his lap?" Dawn asked as she sat next to Zachariah, the two of thembecomingomeing fast friends.
"She couldn't resist how handsome I am." Faiths seat replied.
The laugh from next to Willow drew the scoobies attention.
"Efren you really are full of it. I doubt Faith thought you were that handsome." Cookie says as he grinned at Efren.
"Bite me Cookie." Efren said as he rolled his eyes.
"Cookie?" five voices said as one.
Buffy's eyebrows disappeared into her hairline. Faith, still in Efren's lap, was grinning and looking at him funny. Dawn was giggling next to Zachariah. Xander was staring at Cookie as if he was going to bust out laughing.
"Yeah nickname. I call her Nature girl."
"You call him Cookie because?" Faith asked waving her hands in front of her asking for an explanation.
Willow looked at Faith and smiled.
"I call him that because his name is a type of cookie."
"Willow is a tree in nature so she's Nature girl. Yeah she's my Nature girl and no one else can have her all mine."
Willow turned to look at him. Ah crap he knew he shouldn't have said that last part. Yep he was going to get it.
"What?" she asked.
"Uh oh you shouldn't of said that Graham wife-y poo is upset." Willow's Uncle Iezekiel replied.
Buffy's eyes widened as she looked at Willow. Xander's mouth dropped open in shock. Faith looked from Willow to Graham and back again. Dawn looked like her face froze in shock. Giles had ripped his glasses from his head and was whipping them with his shirt. Andrew shrugged and waved at Graham.
"Willow I can't believe you. You married him? After what his best friend did to me? After what he TALKED his best friend into doing to me! I can't believe you would do this to me, some best friend you are." Buffy cried at Willow.
"Well you brought it on yourself, if you hadn't of treated him like crap maybe he would have stuck around. Besides you had your chance and you never showed so it's your fault." Graham said as he looked at the blond.
Buffy glared at him, but he wasn't as afraid of her as he was when Willow turned to look at him and narrowed her eyes at him.
"Graham Anthony Miller you did not just say that." Willow asked with a lot malice in her voice.
"I'll be shutting up now dear." he said putting his head down staring at the floor.
Andrew and Xander looked at each other grinned and as one along with every male family member from both sides made the whipped sound and movement. Faith laughed, Dawn giggled and Giles looked down at the floor. Buffy huffed at him, turned and walked out.
Willow was still glaring at Graham. He looked around at her family then at his with pleading eyes.
"Help?" he said in a small voice.
"There is no helping you. You can be such a..." Willow faltered but Graham's cousin was there in a heartbeat to help.
"An Asino?" Carissa supplied.
"Rissa!" Graham shouted in shock at her.
"What's that mean?" Dawn asked.
"Think donkey." came the reply from one of the twin girls Dawn wasn't able to tell them apart yet.
"Yeah that will work. I can't believe you are being so mean to Buffy. She's right you know, you did talk Riley into leaving. It took me a month to fix my best friend after your best friend ripped her heart out and did the Cha-cha all over it. Then when she was finale okay with it, he shows back up MARRIED!"
"It took me three months to fix my best friend. It took three months after that for him to even look at a female again, and I doubt he did the Cha-cha I don't think that boy can dance his way out of a paper bag. Sam and Riley are no longer together, after that trip to Sunnydale about two months later she was killed in a training accident." Graham said now facing Willow.
"Well that's nice, you make my best friend cry and insult yours, what is wrong with you? I'm sorry to hear about Sam tell Riley we are sorry. Now if you will excuse me I'm going to gonna go check on her. Oh and just so you know. She did."
Graham's face became confused as he stared at her.
"She did what?" he asked.
"That night, she did show up. She watched as the helicopter carried him away. She was twenty feet below him yelling out his name, trying to get his attention, if you had just waited two more minutes my best friend wouldn't of been so heart broken."
Willow gave him a small smile, stood up on her tip toes popped him on the head and went off to find Buffy.
She heard Sara say "Lui sicuro metta il suo piede in lui questa durata. Come fa il Suo tast di scarpa?" as she left the room.
She walked down the hall and looked into each room as she passed looking for her best friend.
She reached the storage room and heard a sniffle. She opened the door and stepped through. She saw Buffy sitting on a chair by a create.
"I should have known you would find the storage room." Willow said as she sat down next to Buffy.
"I can't believe that you would do that after everything he did. I mean, he talked Riley into leaving me, then you married him?" Buffy said looking up at her with tears running down her face. Her eyes red from all the crying. tear tracks ran the length of her face.
Willow laughed. Buffy looked at her.
"Wills this is not funny."
"Yes it is. Buffy. Look here is the deal I've known Cookie... Graham a very long time. Our grandfathers are best friends, have been for years. Anyway the point is Graham has been a friend for pretty much my whole life. Look he didn't mean what he said, at least he better have not, if he knows what's good for him. Besides we were kids when we got 'married' I was ten he was thirteen. I just took the opportunity to come back to the family home when I saw the chance. I'm sorry."
"Why didn't you ever say anything. Like oh I don't know when we were dealing with Adam and the Initiative." Buffy replied as she wacked the create next to her a whole left in it's place.
Buffy's eyes looked at the whole she had created, she reached down and picked out the black object that had partly fallen out of the hole.
"Uh Wills? Your family wouldn't happen to be like a large group of cops would they?" she asked holding up the gun.
Willows eyes widened as she looked at what Buffy held. She stood up and rushed out of the room, Buffy followed.
"Wills? Willow? Nature Girl?? Hello. What the heck?"
Willow rushed back toward the living room. She stepped in the room and glared at her Jeremiah.
"Hey Prin..." he started but stopped when he saw the deathly look in her eyes.
"Wills gezz girl, I never knew you were that fast. What's with the mass weapon collection though?" Buffy asked as she rushed into the room.
All of the faces from both families went from smiles to frowns at Buffy's question.
"Now do you see why I'm mad Uncle Jer? What would have happened if Dawnie or one of the others had been the one to come across them?" Willow asked.
"Willow calm down. They came in early this morning we hadn't had time to put them up, what with planning your funeral and all." Ira said standing up. He knew beside his dad and Graham he was the only other one that could calm her down.
"Oh. Well I still think that it was a bad move leaving them in the open like that." she replied.
"They were in the storage room how is that leaving them in the open? Besides how did you get into that? The crate was locked." her grandfather said as he reached for the weapon.
"Oh I broke the crate on accident." Buffy said.
"How? That thing was solid oak it took all of us and a dolly just to move it." Philip said as he looked at the blond. Buffy's eyes went wide as she looked at her friends.
"Buffy's the Vampire Slayer. Well actually she and Faith are Slayers but that would be the cliff-notes version of it." a voice said from the sofa.
Everyone turned to look at the speaker Buffy's eyes went even wider.
"Dad..." Willow started but was interrupted by her father.
"I know all about Sunnydale. I knew it was different, I was away enough to notice." Ira stated as he looked at his daughter and her friends. "We all knew about it. That's why Graham asked to be transferred there after basic, he wanted to be able to protect you and your friends, without you knowing of course."
"Okay what the heck Wills? Your family and Cookie Dough boy's family are really freaking me out. You said this was your family home, did your family win the lotto or rob a bank?" Buffy said looking to her best friend.
Willow looked from her family to her friends and laughed again.
"No my family didn't rob a bank, recently, that I know of." she replied with a nervous giggle.
"What do you mean recently?" Faith asked more than a little intrigued.
Willow was looking at anything other than her friends, and trying to avoid eye contact. Oh she was about to blow the secret in a big way. She had never really meant to keep it from her friends she just never thought it would be an important factor.
"Well you see, uh, my grandpa...he is..uh, well he is the Capo of the Jewish Mafia." was the reply that none of the Sunnydale survivors were prepared for.
"Your grandfather is a, what for the, what? Willow! You mean to tell me that I was best friends with the Princess for the Jewish Mafia? The granddaughter of a petty criminal." Buffy said now very angry.
"My family is the Italian Mafia." Graham said pointing to his own family.
Willow's face took on a look of confusion and then anger as she looked at Buffy.
"Was? What do you mean was? Are you saying you don't want to be my friend anymore? What?
Petty criminal? I will have you know my family is very well respected, and it's not all crime.
They all have legitimate jobs. Uncle Darren is a doctor. Uncle Jer is a business investment banker. Uncle Zek is a lawyer."
Buffy ran her hand through her blonde hair which had fallen out of the bun and looked at the floor then back up at the face of the girl who she loved like a sister for seven years.
"I don't know. I honestly don't know. I guess, they just like to keep crates full of guns in case our armed forces run out huh?" the blond said and walked out the door.
"B? Oh come on!" Faith said as she got up and took off after Buffy.
Willow's face went from confusion to shock, she really hadn't thought that Buffy would react that why. The redhead looked at the remaining group of friends. Dawn was looking at her then at Zac then back at her.
"I'm surprised she didn't drag you out with her." Willow said to the girl.
"She could have tried. It's alright just give her time to adjust to all this. Besides we all know Buffy can be;"
"Dawn." Giles warned the girl.
"I was gonna say an asino." which earned her grins from Graham's family.
"Sure you were Dawnie." Xander added smiling at the girl. "Is all your family members part of it?"
Willow nodded her head. She sat down next to Graham and explained everything. How her family was proud to be in the Mafia. They really weren't about petty crime, they only killed if they had to which most of the time they didn't. After Willow was born they all decide that she could be a very big gambling chip since she was the only girl, so Ira and Sheila moved to Sunnydale when she was two. Sheila continued her work as a therapist and Ira continued working with his family. Willow really couldn't believe Buffy flipped out like that.
A/N:
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Translations:
Lui sicuro metta il suo piede in lui questa durata. Come fa il Suo tast di scarpa? (He sure put his foot in it this time. How does your shoe tast?)
Asion (Donkey, Jackass)
