Author's Note: Hi. This is an "I Have Writer's Block" peice I wrote after watching The Facts of Life...Um, right. Read on, good people.

Set some time in Season 6 ish, All events after All The Way have not happened except for Buffy working at Doublemeat.

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The bell above the door of the Magic Box at 3 in the afternoon as Dawn Summers entered the shop, bookbag slung over one shoulder. It was a Tuesday, so Buffy was in the back training before her shift at Doublemeat Palace. Xander was working on a broken shelf, Anya was counting the cash in the register, Spike was smoking a cigarette and playing with Chicken's feet, and Willow and Tara were reading at the roung table.

"Hey, Dawnie, how was school?" Willow asked, looking up from the text she was reading from.

"Unbareable." the teen answered, then looked over at the vampire sitting on the counter, "How did you get here? The sun's shining away."

"Sewers. I was bored, came to annoy big sis."

"Can I help?" Dawn asked, dropping her bag on the table.

"No." Buffy replied as she came up from the training room, "Spike, go home."

"Free country." He retorted.

Buffy ignored him and returned her attention to her sister, "How was school?"

"It was horrible. They're forcing us into this class. They call it Family Studies. It's this cheesy version of sex ed. We get to learn the "facts of life" as if we aren't old enough to know already."

Xander smiled from where he was repairing the shelf and said, "Well, you take the good."

Willow giggled, "You take the bad."

"You take them both!" Tara chimed in.

"And there you have the facts of life. The Facts of Life!" They all chorused (minus Spike, Anya, and a completely baffled Dawn) to the tune of the theme song.

"Lost your minds, you all have." Spike muttered, hopping down off the counter, "I'm out of here."

"We won't miss you." Xander muttered, packing up his tools.

"Excuse me, but what just happened?" Dawn asked, still staring at her friends and sister in the wake of the musical moment.

"I believe they were referring to 1980's sitcom The Facts of Life." Anya said helpfully, shutting the register with a *ping*.

Xander smiled at his fiancee proudly and kissed her forehead.

"Right." Dawn rolled her eyes, "I fear all of you."

Buffy ruffled her hair, "Ready to go home? I'll make dinner before I go to work."

"Really? No Doublemeat burgers?'

"No Doublemeat burgers."

As the sisters left, Willow began collecting ingredients off the shelves while humming the TV theme song. As she stepped down off the ladder, two jars slipped from her grip and shattered against the floor. Purple and green vapors converged and from them emerged a large, slimy, tentacle-covered creature.

"There's gonna be troub-llleeee." Xander remarked, and Tara ran to catch up with Buffy.