Buffy looked down at the pregnancy test in her hands with shock. She had taken the test to quell her fears, but now… What the hell was she going to do? What was she going to tell Spike? What was she going to tell her mother? Faith? Her friends? These questions screamed in Buffy's mind as tears of fear filled her eyes. She looked up at the mirror in front of her and stared at her reflection. Her face was pale now, tense. Suddenly she heard a knock at the door and jumped from the sudden shake out of her thoughts.

"B, you gonna be in there forever or what?" she heard Faith ask from the other side of the door and quickly wrapped the test in toilet paper, placing it in her robe pocket. She looked herself in the mirror once more, quickly looking herself over, trying to remove the look of pure shock from her face. Finally, after a minute or so, she opened the bathroom door.

"Sorry" she told her sister, walking past her and going back into their bedroom. Faith followed.

"Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, why?" Buffy asked, not looking at Faith, just rummaging through her purse, pretending to look for something.

"You just seem...weird" Faith told her. Buffy looked over at her and sighed.

"I'm fine, Fai, really."

"Okay, if you say so" Faith gave up, going back I into the bathroom and shutting the door. Buffy sighed with relief, sitting on her bed and pulling the pregnancy test back out of her pocket. She stared at it, still not really believing she was seeing the plus sign that was screaming at her. She wrapped it up once more, walking over to her dresser and opening up her lock box. She placed the test under some papers she had in the lock box and locked it back up, placing the key back in her wallet. She had no idea what she was going to do or who she was going to tell first, if she was going to tell anyone at all. After a few minutes, she heard the bathroom door reopen and Faith walked back into their bedroom, shutting the door behind her.

Buffy was changing into her pajamas when Faith walked back into the room.

"You going to bed already?" Faith asked, looking at the alarm clock on her nightstand. It was only barely 8 o'clock and Buffy was usually up pretty late.

"I'm tired" Buffy said simply, crawling into bed and covering herself with her comforter. As she snuggled into her pillows, faced away from her sister, Faith looked on at her strangely.

"What's up with you?" Faith asked, sitting on her own bed. Buffy kept her back turned to Faith. She was trying her best to keep cool, to not let Faith know she was hiding something, but she could tell Faith was suspicious and knew she couldn't lie. She thought carefully about how to respond.

"I just don't feel well, okay?" Buffy told her. It wasn't exactly a lie; Buffy was feeling sick at this point.

"Okay" Faith gave up. She could tell her twin was hiding something, but decided not to push, at least not tonight. Faith stood back up and went over to the door. "I'm not really tired so I'm gonna go downstairs and watch some TV with mom and Dawnie."

"Kay" Buffy said, continuing to face in the opposite direction. Faith sighed.

"Okay, well, if you wanna talk…"

"Thanks" Buffy said. "Night."

"Goodnight, B. I'll be up in a while" Faith told her, turning off the light and leaving the room

Buffy lay there in the dark, trying not to cry and trying not to freak out. She couldn't believe this was happening to her. She was pregnant, with Spike's baby, and had no idea what she was going to do. How was Spike going to react? Buffy pulled her comforter up to her chin as she tried to hold back the tears. She was terrified, had no one to talk to, and had no idea how to handle this.

It wasn't until about an hour later that Buffy finally fell asleep. She didn't hear when Faith came in to go to bed herself. When she woke, Faith wasn't in bed and the sun was shining through the bedroom windows. Buffy yawned and stretched, sitting up. For a brief second, she forgot about her conditioned, but was quickly reminded when she felt a sudden jolt of nausea and covered her mouth. She got up, quickly running into the bathroom. Just barely making it, Buffy threw up in the toilet, coughing and heaving as she vomited violently. When she was done, she slowly got up from her knees, flushed the toilet and went over to the sink, turning on the water and throwing some on her face and into her mouth, rinsing it out. She looked herself in the mirror. Her face was pale and clammy, sweat beading off her forehead. She sighed as she turned the water off and opened the bathroom door to be met by her mother who was coming up to use the bathroom.

"Morning, sweetie" Joyce greeted her daughter. Buffy gave her a weak smile.

"Morning."

"Are you feeling okay, honey? You look sick" Joyce said, feeling Buffy's forehead. Buffy moved past her mother a little.

"I'm fine, mom" Buffy lied. She wasn't fine, either mentally or physically. Joyce looked skeptical, but decided not to push it.

"Okay, if you say so" she told the sixteen-year-old. Once Joyce shut the bathroom door, Buffy sighed with relief and went downstairs. She found both of her sisters sitting at the kitchen island eating breakfast.

"Hey, Buffy, mom made breakfast" Dawn told her through a mouthful of eggs. Buffy's stomach turned at the smell of the eggs, bacon and toast on the Island and she covered her mouth with her hand.

"Ugh, no food, please." Faith looked at her with confusion. It was very rare that her twin turned down food, especially breakfast.

"You okay, B?"

"Just not feeling well this morning" Buffy told her, going to the fridge and retrieving a bottle of water. She removed the cap and took a long drink, gulping it down.

"Thirsty much?" Dawn asked sarcastically with a chuckle. Buffy put the cap back on the water bottle and proceeded back to the stairs to return to her and Faith's room. She wanted to be alone, needed to be in order to form a clear thought. She never, in a million years, would have expected this, even if she was in a sexual relationship. Her and Spike were always so careful. They always used condoms and Buffy had been on the pill since she was fourteen and started having trouble with horrible cramps.

As Buffy headed upstairs Faith got up to follow her.

"Where are you going?" Dawn asked as Faith put her now empty plate in the sink and headed out of the kitchen.

"To check on B" Faith told her without turning back and ran up the stairs. Dawn sighed and continued to eat, no one ever involved her in or told her anything.

Faith opened her and Buffy's bedroom door and found her sister at her desk on her laptop. When she heard Faith enter the room, Buffy quickly shut her laptop and turned around.

"What's up with you?" Faith asked, shutting the door behind her. Buffy had no idea what to say. Faith would see right through any lie she threw at her and there was no way she could tell her the truth. She took a deep breath before speaking.

"I don't feel well." It wasn't a lie, Buffy felt awful. Her stomach still felt queasy and her head ached terribly. Faith looked at her skeptically and Buffy could feel her heart quicken.

"Okay" Faith finally said, not completely convinced. "You sure nothing's going on?" Buffy just shook her head and turned her attention back to her laptop without opening it. "Well…you wanna take mom to look at a couple of those cars we found?"

"Uh, sure…go ask her and I'll be down in a minute" Buffy said, looking back at her sister. Faith nodded and left the room, shutting the door. Buffy sighed with temporary relief. Though the subject was momentarily dropped, she knew it wasn't over. After all, she was pregnant and would eventually have to tell everyone. After making sure her stomach was at bay for the moment and popping a mint in her mouth, she went back downstairs to join everyone else.

Joyce agreed to take her twin daughters to look at a couple cars Faith had found on Craigslist. After having no luck with the first two, they arrived at a house on the other side of town to look at the third. As they parked on the street by the house, they saw a black PT Cruiser sitting in the driveway with a sign on the windshield that had $12,500 OBO on it.

"There it is" Faith pointed as Joyce and her three daughters exited her car.

"I don't see why you had to drag me along. I'm not getting the stupid car" Dawn complained and Faith and Buffy rolled their eyes.

"Because I'm not leaving you in the house by yourself" Joyce told her youngest. Dawn crossed her arms over her chest as Faith and Buffy, ignoring Dawn's immaturity, went to inspect the car.

"I'm almost thirteen, mom" Dawn complained. Buffy and Faith weren't paying attention by this point and were busy walking around the car, checking it out. A couple seconds later, an older woman came out of the house and walked up to them.

"Hello" she greeted them with a smile. Joyce walked over to her twin daughters and the woman.

"Hi, I'm Joyce. We spoke on the phone" Joyce said, shaking the woman's hand.

The woman nodded. "Yes, nice to meet you."

"Likewise" Joyce told her. "These are my girls. My twins, Buffy and Faith and my baby, Dawn."

"I'm not a baby" Dawn said with annoyance in her voice and put on her headphones, getting back into the backseat of Joyce's car. The woman smiled at that.

"Nice to meet you all, I'm Carolyn" Carolyn introduced herself and Buffy and Faith smiled politely. "So, this is it." She gestured to the car and Faith and Buffy turned their attention back to the car.

"How many miles?" Joyce asked, inspecting the car as well. Carolyn opened the driver's side door so they could get a better look.

"There's just under 100,000 miles on it" Carolyn told them.

"And it's a 2005, correct?" Joyce asked.

"That's correct" Carolyn said. "Would you like to test drive it?"

"Could we?" Buffy asked and Carolyn nodded.

"Of course, let me go get the keys and my jacket and we'll take it around the block." Carolyn went back into her house and Faith and Buffy turned to Joyce.

"We want this car, mom" Faith told her.

"Yeah, it's perfect for us" Buffy added. Joyce looked at the car again and then back at her daughters. Seeing the hopeful and excited looks on their faces, she smiled.

"As long as it runs well and we can't see any obvious problems I think we can work something out" Joyce told them. Faith made a 'yes' gesture with her arm and Buffy clapped, jumping up and down. A couple seconds later, Carolyn came back out of the house with the keys in her hand and walked up to Joyce and her daughters.

"Who gets the honor?" she asked, holding up the keys.

"Me!" Buffy said first and Carolyn handed her the keys. Buffy got into the driver's side, Carolyn in the passenger side and Faith in the back. "We'll be right back, ma."

"Okay, be safe and put your seatbelts on" Joyce told the girls and they did as she told them. Buffy started the engine and backed out of the driveway, careful not to hit the cars that were parked on the street nearby.

Ten minutes later, the black car pulled back into the driveway and Buffy turned off the engine and she, Faith and Carolyn got out. Buffy and Faith had smiles on their faces.

"It drives like a dream" Buffy smiled.

"Yeah, it's perfect" Faith added. Joyce examined the car again, not completely sure.

"Well…" she thought. Faith and Buffy looked at her with pleading eyes. "Will you take a check?" The girls looked at Carolyn hopefully.

"I'm not really comfortable taking a check, could you get a money order?" she asked Joyce.

"Sure, I can run to the store down the street and get one" Joyce said. "Stay here, girls. I'll take Dawnie with me."

"Okay, hurry please" Buffy said excitedly and Joyce smiled, shaking her head at her daughter's impatient behavior.

"I'll be right back" she told them and got into the car.

Later that night, Faith wanted to go out to celebrate their new wheels, but Buffy, still holding on to her shocking secret, wasn't too fond of the idea. As Faith got ready, Buffy just sat on her bed, watching her twin.

"B, come on, get ready."

"I told you I'm not going" Buffy protested, hugging a pillow to her chest.

"What's wrong? Since when do you not wanna go to The Bronze?" Faith asked, feeling her sister's forehead. Buffy pushed her hand away.

"Faith, I'm fine, I just don't feel like going out tonight." Faith looked at her, knowing there was something she wasn't telling her. Putting her hands on her hips, she gave her the 'I know you're up to something and you better tell me what it is' look. Buffy tried to avoid her gaze, but it was no use. Damn, how the hell does she do that? Buffy thought and sighed. Faith, raised an eyebrow at her sister, crossing her arms over her chest and waiting for an explanation from the blonde. Buffy's eyes filled with tears, the immense fear of what was to come returning.

"B, what is it?" Faith asked, sitting down next to Buffy on her bed.

"Fai, I really screwed up" Buffy said quietly through tears. "I don't know what to do."

"What are you talking about?" Faith asked. Buffy took a deep breath and then opened up the drawer on her nightstand, retrieving the pregnancy test she took earlier and handed it to her sister.