Buffy and Spike walked down alley after alley looking for any signs of Dawn and Willow. As they walk down an alley they see two figures, as they get closer they can see the two figures are two little boys. Both boys were short and skinny, with green eyes and short blonde hair. The only differences were the hair styles and the clothes they wore, which were very similar, they were both wearing dark blue jeans, a red t-shirt, and leather jacket, but the one without a faux-hawk had a unbuttoned black button up shirt on over the red t-shirt.

"Hi, my name's Buffy and this is Spike. What's your name?"

"Hi, Buffy. My name's Eric and this is my twin brother Ethan." answers the one with a faux-hawk.

"How old are you?" asks Buffy

"nine." answers Eric

"Well, Eric can you, or Ethan tell me what you two are doing in an alley, alone, at night?" asks Spike

"Yes, Our mommy died last month and our daddy died two years ago." answers Ethan.

"Well, sorry to hear that, but shouldn't you two be in an orphanage?" asks Buffy

"We were, but this mean old man who wants someone to do his work for him is suppose to adopt us tomorrow." answers Ethan.

"Well how about Spike and I adopt you. Would you like that?"

"Yes, yes, and yes." both boys chorus together.

"Are monsters real, or was I hallucinating? asks Eric, but before Buffy, or Spike can answer Ethan says, "If he was hallucinating so was I cause i saw it to. It changed faces and without thinking i put a piece of wood through his heart, and he exploded into dust."

"Well i was gonna say yes, Spike's supposedly a monster, but he acts like a man. He can't and wouldn't hurt anyone."

"Can we see?" asks Eric

Spike looks at Buffy questioningly and at her nod, changes his face into his vampire mien and Ethan watch as Spike's face forms ridges, his eyes turn yellow, and fangs come out of his regular teeth.

"That's so cool. Why won't he hurt anyone?" asks Ethan.

"'Cause he's in love with me and if he hurts anyone it will hurt me not only 'cause I'd have to kill him, but cause it'd break my trust in him. If i want to be truthful I'm in love with him too."Spike shoots her a disbelieving look and so she says, "Spike, I know your love's B and if i lied, you'd walk out into the sunlight, but trust me I tried not loving you. I told myself I was only going back and using you. I guess in the beginning I was using you, but I do. I love you."

"I love you, too, slayer."

"What's a slayer?" asks Eric

"One girl in all the world with the strength to fight evil. In other words I'm suppose to kill his kind and other demons. I had to kill my ex who is a vampire, but he came back. My other ex was working for this underground place called the initiative, who were capturing and experimenting on vampires and demons. His boss tried to kill me."

"She tried to kill you!" Spike, who Buffy had never told, was devastated they tried to kill his slayer.

"Yeah, sent me on a "mission" and trapped me with some very lethal demons."

"But you kicked their butts right?" asks Ethan

"Yep."

All of a sudden they all heard a really loud scream. . . . .