Disclaimer: Joss and ME own everything Buffy. Rose in Bloomis in the public domain, but was originally created by Louisa May Alcott. I own nothing but the words.
"My dear girl," said Mr. Alec. He sounded sad, but he was her Watcher. "You cannot accept."
"I know," Phebe said. She did know. She might be one of the oldest Slayers ever to live, but that didn't mean she could marry. And even if she could, she couldn't marry a Campbell. She couldn't do that to this wonderful family who had taken her in and given her so much. She couldn't take their oldest and best son from them. It had been all she could do to keep them from knowing Charlie actually had been killed by a vampire.