Title: Kids who needs 'em (a Charmed cross-over)
Series: Help From The Future For The Past (part six)
Author: Kimberly aka last_days_of_pern
Feedback: I have come to live for it, so pretty please :)
Rating: never over R
Pairing: Willow/Tara, Buffy/Faith, Anya/Xander, Cordelia/Kate
Disclaimers: I don't own anything, please don't sue
Summary: What would happen if Willow, Buffy, and Cordelia were turned into five year olds, and can the Charmed ones change them back?
*Magic Box*
"Hey Cordy how do you like your new job?" Willow and Buffy walked into the Magic Box while Cordelia finished helping a customer.
"Well it's better than the dress shop, and less dangerous than working for Angel, so it's ok." Cordelia smiled at her friends. "Tara's helping out a lot too. I'd have no idea what half this stuff was without her."
"Tara the witchy type helper, maybe Giles should hire her too, ooh and you, the two of you are always here taking things."
"Do not!" As Willow exclaimed her and Tara's innocence Tara walked out of the back.
"Yes we do." Tara smiled at her lover and walked over and kissed her, "and I would love to stay and hear the rest of what I'm sure will be a long argument, but I have class, love you."
Willow kissed Tara back and gave her a quick hug, "love you too, but you're still no help." Willow stuck her tongue out at the retreating figure.
With out turning around Tara said, "I saw that, and intend to get you back later." Willow grumbled for a second and was back to her usually perky self. She busied herself by walking around gathering things she had on a list.
"Um Wills what ya doing there?"
"I think I finally got the ball-o-sunshine figured out, I just need a few things."
"Um not to dampen your mood, but last time you tried this you brought back a big troll, who was mean, and destroyed the Bronze. Any of this ringing a bell?"
"Well Anya won't be here to disturb me this time, so as long as you and Cordy let me concentrate, it'll work out just fine." Willow stepped behind the counter and starting mixing things, Cordelia looked between Buffy and Willow and practically ran towards Buffy.
"A big troll you say?"
"Yep, Anya turned him that way, they sent him to the land of trolls though."
"Shouldn't someone like be around to supervise when she's doing spells?"
"You tell her that." POOF. BANG. Everything was suddenly covered in yellow dust.
"Willow what on Earth did you do?"
"I think I made chalk dust."
"Which helps Buffy with vamps how?"
Willow scowled at her childhood tormentor, "it wasn't supposed to do that."
"Hey Wills what is this dust going to do to us?"
"Um, nothing." Willow practically squeaked.
"That didn't sound very convincing. Come on you two are helping me clean this mess up, I hate dusting!"
*Few hours later*
Kate, Tara, and Faith all walked into the Magic Box at the same time, looking around they saw what was left of the earlier accident.
"Lemme guess, you guys were attacked by a chalkboard eraser, am I right?" Faith looked at Buffy who just scowled at her, not to happy about spending her afternoon cleaning.
"Willow goofed."
"Honey what did you goof?"
"Ball-o-sunshine, again."
Tara looked worried for a minute, "please say there's no troll."
Willow lightly punched her lover's arm, "meanie."
Tara ruffled Willow's hair, which now looked orange, and dust flew everywhere.
Kate walked past them to Cordelia who was wiping the counter off for what must have been the hundredth time, "I think it's stained. Hey Katie, catch any bad guys today?"
"Um no," Kate was trying really hard not to laugh at Cordelia's appearance, really hard.
"That's it, shop closed, I'm going home to take a shower, come on Katie."
As Kate walked past the others she smiled to Faith and Tara, "we just can't leave them unsupervised for 10 minutes." The two laughed while the three covered in yellow gave them dirty looks.
*Later that night*
*Cordelia and Kate's apartment*
Cordelia was all washed and feeling better, she snuggled into bed with Kate, "feeling better Delia?"
"Oh yeah, it's a wonder what a two hour shower can do for a person. Of course it wouldn't have taken me that long had someone not insisted on helping get all the dust out."
"Saying you didn't like it?"
Cordelia had a playful face on as she rolled on top of her lover, "nothing of the sort."
*Summer's home*
"Aw come on I thought you looked good in yellow," Faith was still trying to get out of the dog house after some jokes she had made on patrol, it wasn't that often Buffy was covered in yellow dust, it was her duty to make jokes. "Gonna stay mad at me forever?" Faith walked up behind Buffy and pulled her back into her body, "I sorry."
Buffy smiled and leaned back so Faith was supporting her, "I'm still thinking about how I'm going to get you back, but for now I guess I can forgive you." Buffy turned in Faith's embrace and kissed her, then they started making their way towards the bed, never breaking contact.
*Tara and Willow's Dorm room*
"I still can't figure out what went wrong," Willow pouted.
Tara gave Willow a gentle smile, "are you sure nothing will happen? It would be good if we knew what to watch out for." Tara went over to the bed and snuggled in with Willow.
"I don't think anything will happen, but an eye should be kept out just in case…" Willow was probably going to babble on, but Tara kissing her neck stopped all coherent speech.
*The next morning*
Upon waking up Kate, Tara, and Faith found that their lovers weren't in bed. Normally that wouldn't be a big deal, but when searching out the whereabouts of the missing Scoobies instead they found five year olds.
"Well I guess we know what to watch out for," Tara said looking at the small redheaded child, "Ok, I think we should go visit Buffy and Cordelia and see if they are the same way."
*Summers' Home*
"I don't suppose you know how long this will last?" Kate asked as she, Faith, and Tara watched the little kids play together while watching cartoons in the living room.
"I have no idea, Willow didn't even think anything would happen."
"Well Tar somethin' happened alright, they're like five, and I'm so not good with kids."
"I have some friends in San Francisco that might be able to help, I think Phoebe said they dealt with something like this before." Tara felt something pulling at her skirt and looked down to find little Buffy staring up at her, "yes?"
"I'm hungry."
Tara smiled at the small child, "ok, anyone else hungry?" As soon as the words were out of her mouth little Cordelia and Willow ran over shaking their head vigorously up and down. "Ok, I'll start breakfast, Kate, Faith keep and eye on them."
"Um ok, anyone want to play a game," Kate looked at Faith, "what do fiver year olds play?"
Tara chuckled to herself as she entered the kitchen to make breakfast and call her friends the charmed ones. She picked up the phone and dialed the number from heart.
*Hallowell Manor*
Phoebe walked into the manor just in time to hear the phone ringing, "Got it… Tara hey how's it going?"
Piper walked into the room, "who is it?"
"It's Tara, some friends of hers have turned themselves into five year olds, and she wants to know if we can help out."
"Help out what?" Prue asked as she walked in as well. Phoebe just shook her hand at Piper to let her know to explain, after she had Prue laughed, "tell them we're on our way."
"Tara we'll be there tomorrow." Phoebe hung up the phone and joined her sister in laughing, "well we get a vacation in sunny so cal out of it."
The three sister set about making arrangements to leave S.F. for a few days, lot's of packing to do.
*Summer's Home*
Tara heaved a sigh as she hung up the phone, she was glad she didn't have to try and fix this on her own. She was so going to get Willow back when she was a 20 year old again.
Tara finished making breakfast and carried it out to the table, when she checked the living room to make sure everyone was still alive Faith and the three little girls were watching cartoons while Kate shook her head at them. "Breakfast is served." The three half-pints jumped up and ran into the dining room and sat down at the way to big table.
As Cordelia finished her plate she looked at Tara, "yummy, you cook better than our maid."
Tara looked bemused at the little girl, she had heard many stories about these people from when they were little, and she was just waiting for all hell to break loose. "Thank you."
Buffy looked up from chowing down, "where's my mommy and daddy?" After Buffy asked the question the little Willow and Cordelia looked to her as well silently asking the same question.
Tara looked panicked for a second trying to come up with something that they would believe, thankfully Faith came to her rescue, "Your parents all went on vacation to a really boring place, so they left you with us so we could make sure you had fun." The little girls seemed to except this explanation and went back to cleaning their plates; Faith muttered under her breath, "I hope this is over soon."
After breakfast was over Kate called Giles and everyone about what had happened. None of which were particularly worried as long as no new big evil came to town, Giles however wished them good luck and chuckled, at least his store wasn't destroyed this time.
Faith looked around at the restless children, "anyone want to go to the park?" The little ones all jumped up and ran to the door ready to go.
"Sorry Faith, Tara I have to get to work, have fun at the park though." Kate laughed at the face Faith was giving her and said goodbye to the children.
"Cheater!" Faith yelled at Kate as she drove away.
It was a nice day out, and neither Tara nor Faith had a drivers license so they decided to walk to the park, hoping also that it would tire the girls out quicker, and they would want to take a nap later, they had no idea what they were in for.
*The Park*
As soon as the park was in sight the little ones went running leaving Faith and Tara to try and catch up to them. Cordelia went directly to the slide and announced that she was the queen of the slide, while Buffy busied herself in the sandbox, trying to make a castle with the dry sand. Willow just stood on the outskirts by the benches watching everyone else have fun. Tara walked over to her, "what's wrong don't you want to play?"
Willow looked at her with her bottom lip trembling slightly, "I'm scared."
"Of what?" Faith asked as she joined them.
With a shaky finger little Willow pointed to the other kids, "them."
"Aw come on they don't bite, most of 'em anyway. What do you want to do; I'll go with you.
"Could you push me on the swings?"
"Sure come on kid." Willow happily grabbed Faith's hand and led her to the swing she wanted, as they walked away Tara asked,
"Not good with kids huh?"
Faith gave her a dangerous glare, but Tara didn't buy it, she knew Faith was loving this, "bite me."
As Tara watched them from the bench she said to herself, "no wonder she's good with them, she never grew up." Of course she said this with a smile. Still she couldn't wait till P3 got there and helped fix everything. She knew Phoebe and Prue would never let her live this down.
* Train Station*
Prue, Piper, and Phoebe walked off the train to see a blonde woman holding a sign that said P3, they approached the woman and said hello. "Hi, I'm Kate, Tara sent me to pick you up."
"Where is she?" Prue asked being cautious as always.
"Probably separating the munchkins so they don't kill each other."
Phoebe laughed at that, "how exactly were they turned to five year olds?"
"Willow, that's Tara girlfriend, tried to make some sort of ball of sunshine, did something wrong and the next morning they woke up as kids."
Piper smiled at her younger sister, "sounds like something you would do."
"Hey I resemble that," Phoebe stuck her tongue out at them and shouted, "shotgun," while running after Kate to her car.
Piper and Prue just shook their heads at the antics of their little sister, "this should be fun, she and Tara act like little kids when together anyway."
They all piled into Kate's car for the short ride to the Summers' house, when they arrived the first thing they saw was a little blonde and a little brunette fighting, "yo knock it off already," Faith yelled. They stopped fighting looked at Faith and ran behind the couch.
"Smooth," Kate said as Faith came over to introduce herself. Tara walked into the room, and immediately hugged Phoebe.
"Thank god you're here, I'm going nuts! Oh Faith this is Phoebe, Prue, and Piper." They all said their hellos until they heard a scream from the living room.
"Tara you handle it or I'm gonna kill 'em." Faith at that moment looked like she could have too, so Tara grabbed Phoebe's hand and led her into the other room.
"Girls come here I want to introduce you to someone," Buffy and Cordelia stopped fighting (again) and walked over followed by Willow who was staring at the ground, "Phoebe, this is Buffy, Cordelia, and Willow."
Phoebe kneeled down so she was the same height as the little rascals and said in her little kid voice, "hi, nice to meet ya." Buffy looked at her for a second and kicked her in the shin. "Ow, why you little," Buffy took off running, and Tara held Phoebe back before she could go after her.
Cordelia laughed at her and danced away singing some song from a cartoon that had been off the air for 15 years. When the other two little girls were out of sight Willow held out her hand for Phoebe to shake, "hello."
"Hi, well at least one of you aren't evil." Willow gave her a small, shy smile and walked back over to the couch and sat down. Piper and Prue along with Kate and Faith picked that moment to enter the room.
"So how's it going?"
"All three of them are still alive, but in a fight I'm not sure if Buffy or Cordelia would win, they are both quite viscous." Tara smiled at the eldest of P3.
"Well we looked in the book of shadows and I think we came up with a spell that might work, but…"
"Oh no."
"We can't do it without knowing exactly what Willow did to turn them into kids."
"Well that should be fun, just try getting' that kid to talk, even if she could remember, which whoa THEY CAN'T!"
"Faith maybe you should go on patrol and calm down some huh?"
"Yeah whatever." Faith grabbed her leather jacket and headed out, she really felt like killing something tonight.
"So what now?" Piper asked unsure of what to do.
"Kate can you take Prue and Piper to the Magic Box, maybe Willow had a list of ingredients, Phoebe and I will stay here, it will bed time soon anyway."
All three women asked to leave looked relieved, "sure."
After they left Phoebe turned to Tara, "so what first?"
"Um, they had dinner, so bath time?"
"Ok."
"You take 'em upstairs one by one, and I'll keep the other two occupied."
"Gottcha, who first?"
Tara gave her old friend an evil smirk, "well Buffy is already upstairs so…"
"Oh you so owe me for this!" Phoebe walked up the stairs in search of the mini-slayer-to-be. "Buffy you up here?" She heard giggling coming from one of the rooms and decided that would be the best place to start looking, "Buffy?" Buffy jumped out of the closet with a loaded water gun.
"Freeze!"
"Buffy, just put that down, it's bath time."
"No!" Little Buffy shot Phoebe with the water gun and ran out of the room laughing.
"Oh no you don't!" Phoebe ran after her and managed to grab her by the waist and lift the struggling girl up, "ha gottcha." Phoebe dragged Buffy into the bathroom kicking and screaming. Downstairs as Tara sat on the couch reading to Willow and Cordelia, she just laughed, and knew that Phoebe would get her good for this torture.
An hour later Phoebe came downstairs carrying a freshly cleaned and dried Buffy, when Tara and the little girls saw them all three burst out laughing, "Phoebe who took the bath you or her?" Phoebe looked down at herself she was soaked head to toe from trying to keep Buffy in the tub long enough to get clean.
"Just so you know I'm currently plotting my revenge," she put Buffy down on the couch and asked, "who's next."
Cordelia got up and started towards the stairs, "I'm taking a shower, and I don't need help, just a good blow dryer for when I get out."
Phoebe let out a sigh; at least Cordy wouldn't be as difficult as Buffy was. When she got to the top of the stairs Cordelia was already showering so she waited outside until she was done. Twenty minutes later she came out wrapped in a towel, "that is the worst shower ever, and these towels, what were they stolen from roach motel, and just look at this blow dryer it will fry my hair…" Cordelia would have gone on complaining if Phoebe hadn't put her hand over the little princess's mouth to shut her up. After another twenty minutes of complaints Cordelia was in her pajamas and walking downstairs.
"Willow ready for a bath?" Willow shook her head and got up.
"Will you finish the story later?"
Tara smiled at her, "sure." Willow walked over to Phoebe and held her hand going up the stairs. She quietly took her bath and let Phoebe comb her hair when she was done.
"There you go all clean and ready for bed." Phoebe smiled at the shy little girl, she was beginning to like her, she wasn't rowdy like Buffy, or stuck up like Cordelia.
"Tara said she would finish the story, can I hear it before bed?" Willow asked in a soft, quiet voice.
Phoebe picked her up and carried her down the stairs, "one story coming up."
After the story was read, and the girls had brushed their teeth Phoebe and Tara tucked them into the bed in Dawn's room. "Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite." Tara turned off the light and walked down stairs with her friend, it had been one long day.
At about 10:00 Kate and the elder Hallowell girls came back empty handed. "Nothing."
"Well you conveniently got here after they all went to bed."
Prue smiled, "yeah that's what we were shooting for."
Phoebe stuck her tongue out at them and in a playful voice said, "well guess who has breakfast duty, when they are all cranky." Tara shook her head smiling at the frightened looks.
"Yup that sounds fair to me."
Then from upstairs they heard, "get off my side of the bed!"
"Can I have some water, I'm thirsty."
All the grownups looked at each other and said at the same time, "your turn."
*Summers' home*
Tara woke up to the sounds of Pokemon; she walked into the room next to the one she was staying in to find Buffy intently watching the little pocket monsters battling each other. Before she could say anything she saw Cordelia inspecting Dawn's closet, "these cloths suck, mine are so much cooler." She walked out of the closet with a look of distaste on her face.
"Well I'll let Dawn know you think so. Where's Willow?"
"She woke up before us and disappeared. I'm heartbroken about it too, what's wrong with that kid?"
"Cordy nothing is wrong with her, she is just shy, you two stay in here till breakfast ok?" The two nodded their heads and Cordy joined Buffy on the bed to watch cartoons.
Tara closed the door and went in search of Willow, after checking the all of the upstairs she went downstairs and found Willow sitting in Faith's lap while Faith read a story to her. "Good morning."
The little version of Willow looked up and smiled, "hi."
Tara pointed to the book in Faith's hand, "what story?"
"Tippity Witchit's Hallowe'en, it's about a little black kitten who wants to have fun, and there is a witch that makes the plants dance."
Tara smiled at the enthusiasm the little girl showed, "have you seen Miss Kitty yet?"
"Who?"
"Tara's kitten," Faith explained.
Willow's eyes lit up with glee that only a child so young could produce, "can I see her?"
Faith picked her up and set her on the couch with the storybook, "I'll see if I can find her for ya."
Willow picked up the book and looked at the pictures, "do witches really look like this Tara?"
Tara couldn't help but smile, she was going to love telling the grown-up Willow all about this when she changed back, "no, witches look just like anyone else. Like me, or you."
Willow looked at her curiously for a second, "you mean you're a witch?"
Tara marveled at how smart the little girl was, "yup, would you like to see a trick."
Willow shook her head up and down so that she looked like a bobbing head doll, "please." At the request Tara used magic to lift the book from Willow's lap, turned a few pages, and then set it down again. Willow's mouth formed a perfect O, "wow!" Just then itsy-bitsy Buffy and Cordelia came bolting down the stairs.
"It's her fault!" Buffy yelled as she ran to Tara, "Cordy did it!"
"Did not!"
Willow clutched the book to her and scooted down the couch a little.
"Did what?" Tara inquired and regretted it the instant both girls began to tell the story at the same time so that Tara couldn't understand either of them. "Wait, one at a time." Both girls looked at each other and starting talking again, Tara shook her head, "stop," both did, "Buffy what happened?"
Buffy gave Cordy a haha look and stated to relate her version of what happened, "I was sitting on the bed watching that neat show, when she," Buffy pointed to Cordy with a look of immense dislike, "thought it would be fun to jump on the bed. I was totally against it; you could get hurt doing that, so I stood back while she jumped. Then all the sudden a little fur ball flew off the bed and knocked the lamp down. It broked." All through Buffy's story Cordy was shaking her head to the negative.
"Fur ball right, broke lamp right, me and bed jumping so wrong!"
Tara was trying not to laugh, she could just picture the whole thing in her head, she turned and looked at the little red head still clutching the book to her chest, "guess we know where Miss Kitty was hiding." Willow smiled.
Buffy looked confused, "we're not in trouble?"
"I didn't say that."
Cordy looked to Buffy, "shoulda kept your mouth shut stupid."
Buffy looked furious, "I'm not stupid, you're stupid."
"Am not!" With that the two girls attacked each other before Tara could stop them. For fiver year olds they were incredibly strong.
"Faith help!" Faith rushed in from her kitty search and saw the two warring kids. She picked each up by the back of their pj's and held them apart, they were still trying to kick and punch each other as she held them at arms length. "Stop!" Tara surprised them all by yelling, she never did that.
Tara walked to the dining room and came back with two chairs, that she placed in opposite corners of the room, "put one in each will ya Faith. I'm going to wake the others up." Faith did as instructed then sat back down on the couch with Willow to finish the story while the troublemakers sulked.
*Willow and Tara's dorm; later that day*
Tara and Phoebe searched Tara and Willow's dorm room for something that looked like it could be a list of what Willow had used on the spell. So far they had turned up nothing.
"Maybe she didn't have a list, or threw it away or something."
"She would have kept it so she didn't make the same mistake twice though, that's the way she is."
"Well I don't know about grownup Willow, but she's a cute kid."
Tara smiled fondly, "yeah she is, I know you'll love the grownup her too. Speaking of which, when do I get to meet this Cole you've been talking so much about?"
"Cole is… complicated." Phoebe said, but with a smile on her face.
"Uh huh. What about Piper and Leo, how is that going?"
"Have you ever lived with a newly-wed couple, I think I'm getting cavities just being around them." Tara laughed at Phoebe's face as she said that.
"That bad huh. Found it!"
Phoebe looked over Tara's shoulder at the list, "whoa no wonder it exploded."
"She's nuts! Come on let's get back so you guys can do the spell, I have a girlfriend to lecture."
*Summers' Home*
Tara and Phoebe walked into the house to see the Buffy and Cordy bouncing around the living room in front of a camera, Tara walked over to Prue, "what's going on?"
"Kate and Faith wanted proof for when the munchkins are adults again, something about holding it over their heads."
Tara laughed, "oh yeah Buffy and Cordy will just love it, I can see it featuring at the next movie night."
"Find the list?"
"Yup," Tara handed the list to Prue and Piper who looked at it wide eyed, "yeah, I'm guessing she didn't know what she was doing, I'm just glad this is all that happened, she could have blown up the store."
"Well it wouldn't have been so bad if she would have left out the bat parts, that's just asking for trouble."
"So you can do the spell now?" Kate asked hopefully walking up to them.
"Um yup, just gather the kids and try to calm them down, we'll go mix the potion."
"Thank god!"
"Come on girls sit on the couch."
"Why?"
"Phoebe, Prue, and Piper are going to do a magic type show for you, but they said you have to sit still for it."
"Magic is for babies, I'm five and half thank you!" Cordelia sat down with her arms crossed in a defiant manner.
"Are they going to do the rabbit trick, 'cause I figured that one out, and the quarter one too, but if they try to give me a quarter I won't argue, nope siree." Buffy sat next to Cordelia and got ready to point out how everything was done. Willow hid behind Faith, and peeked out from behind her legs every now and then.
Faith turned and kneeled, "don'tcha wanna see the show?"
"Not really."
Tara came over and kneeled next to Faith, "why not, I thought you liked magic."
"I do, but…"
"Come on you're not scared are ya?" Willow didn't move, "is that it, you're scared, 'cause you don't hafta we'd never let 'em do anything bad to ya," Faith smirked, "maybe turn B and Queen C into somethin' but not you."
Willow smiled and hugged Faith before slowly moving over to the couch to sit as far away from the other girls as was possible on the couch. "Liar."
Faith looked at Tara startled, "huh?"
"You said you weren't good with kids, she's attached to you, and you're really good with all of them."
"Yeah well," Faith shrugged like it didn't matter, but the huge smile on her face gave her away. P3 came back in carrying three glasses of a red liquid.
"You kids thirsty?" The charmed ones handed the cups to the little ones and they drank them in one gulp the witches started chanting together, "a spell all in fun, must now be undone. Childhood cannot last, this should all be in the past. By the power that is three, so we will it, so mote it be."
When they were done casting… nothing happened, a lot of nothing. The kids just looked at them like they were nuts, which they were feeling right about now, "it should have worked, I don't understand."
"Well at least you tried, we'll just have to find some other way to change them back." Tara sighed looking at the kids who were just seeming to come out of their daze.
"That was it?"
"Lame!"
"I mean we could have come up with something better than that!"
"Come on Buffy lets go outside and play."
"Ok."
Faith watched them go and then said, "well at least they're getting' along now." This earned her angry stares from Kate and the elder charmed ones, "what?"
*Later that night*
"Ok you guys want a story or somethin'?" Faith, Tara, and Kate were tucking the little ones into bed, which was much easier tonight than the night before. Buffy and Cordelia rolled their eyes, but Willow silently shook her head that she would like a story. "You like books don'tcha kid?"
Willow blushed now that everyone's attention was drawn to her, and again just silently shook her head. "Nothing wrong with that," Kate said, "what story?"
Now that it was established that books weren't evil Cordelia asked, "can we hear the one about the kitten Faith was telling Willow earlier?" And of course Miss Kitty choose that time to pounce up on the bed and curl up into a little kitten ball.
"Sure," Faith grabbed the book and sat against the headboard so the little girls could see the pictures, "Two round, yellow eyes glowed like little lanterns in the barn. Those eyes belonged to a kitten by the name of Tippity Witchit. He was jet black except for a tiny white spot at the very tip of his tail and he laid curled up in the straw with his mother, a nice yellow tabby, and all his brothers and sisters…" Faith took a breath and glanced down to see that Buffy and Cordelia were already asleep, and Willow's eyes were closing heavily.
Faith closed the book and extracted herself from the bed where the little girls had her almost pinned. She kissed each on the forehead and said goodnight, then left and closed the door behind her.
*Summers' Home*
The first thing that Willow noticed when she woke up in the morning is that her arm was around someone, someone not Tara. The second thing that she noticed was that someone's arm was also around her. As these two things sank into her sleepy mind her eyes opened wide to see that she was in a sandwich between a slayer and a seer. "AHHHHHHHH!"
Upon hearing Willow's scream both Cordelia and Buffy also woke up, and had similar reactions, seeing how the last thing either of them remembered of the previous night was making love and falling asleep next to their lovers. "What…we…I mean…how…I thought…" Willow might have gone on stuttering out her babble had P3 not just run in the room to see what was going on.
"Ha, it did work," Phoebe stated happily now that she wasn't trying to figure out why her spell had gone sour.
Buffy who was now fully in slayer mode due to the way she woke up, and the people she didn't know in her house. "Who are you?"
"I'm Piper, these are my sisters Prue and Phoebe, Tara called us here to help out."
"Help out with what?"
No one had a chance to answer since at that point Faith, Tara, and Kate came in and collected their respective girlfriends in big hugs, followed closely by breathtaking kisses of course.
"Oh *kiss* I *kiss* missed *kiss* you *kiss* so *kiss* much *kiss*" Tara said to a very receptive Willow.
"Tara I just saw you last night as we feel asleep, which brings me to the question on how we got here." Willow choked out as Tara held her tightly.
"I second that," Buffy said receiving much the same treatment from Faith. Cordelia normally would have asked the same question, except she and Kate hadn't come up for air since Kate entered the room.
"We'll just leave you all alone to ah, yeah," Prue said as she grabbed Phoebe and Piper and left the room. All the way down the hall Phoebe could be heard stating that she knew that spell would work.
"So?"
"Lemme just say this first, no more ball-o-sunshine trying!" Tara said sternly, but with love in her eyes.
"Huh?"
"When you did that crappy yellow blow up thing you guys turned into little kids, which we are goin' to get you back for, soon." Faith explained.
Buffy, Cordelia, and Willow looked confused, "huh?"
"The past two days you three have been five year olds, we have proof, for the purpose of blackmail of course."
"You were heathens too, except Will, how did your parents put up with you?"
"But how…?"
"Don't worry about it, you're back now," Tara smiled and kissed Willow again, a little more passionately and a little longer lasting this time.
"Ok but that doesn't explain those women that were in here." Buffy queried still a little confused.
"Those were my friends from San Francisco they came to do the reversal spell. We didn't think it worked at first, but it did." Tara smiled still holding on to Willow so that she wouldn't disappear again.
"Oh."
From downstairs they heard a knock followed by Giles and Tabitha's voices, "Faith, Tara?"
"Oh they don't know you changed back yet." Tara said to Buffy's confused look at her name not being called out by someone coming to her house.
They all together went downstairs to greet their guests, "well then I see everything is back to as normal as it ever is." Giles said upon seeing grownup Willow, Buffy, and Cordelia.
"Um yeah I guess, though still not understanding everything yet."
"Well I'm sure your caretakers wouldn't mind explaining, we just dropped by to say er hello, then it's off to ah home for um sleep, er our separate homes that is, me to mine, her to hers and all." The younger occupants of the room smirked; love was definitely in the air!
Tabitha smiled, "see you after some sleep, when Rupert can talk normally again." After the normal rounds of goodbyes they left, to their separate homes of course, to sleep, in separate beds, away from each other.
*Train Station; later that day*
"I wish you guys could stay longer and get to know everyone." Tara said sadly.
"So do I but I have school, Prue has a shoot, and Piper can't leave the club for very long without turning into a wreck."
"Hey I heard that." Everyone laughed, including Piper, it was said in fun after all.
"Call me when you get home, so I don't worry."
"We will…"
"Train 334 to San Francisco is now boarding."
"Bye." Everyone hugged and said their byes and call you soons, and then P3 boarded and were gone. Tara waited till the train was completely out of sight before heading back to the Summers house for movie night, they were going to show the "kid movie" tonight, she couldn't wait.
*Summers' Home*
Buffy, Willow, Cordelia settled themselves in with their girlfriends to watch the alleged movie of them as five year olds, made just the day before. Faith put the homemade video in the VCR and pressed play. The first images were a little shaky as the cameraman got use to the piece of equipment. Then it focused on a very small Cordelia who broke out into song.
"I'm a little teapot short and stout…" of course while singing she was doing all the motions that went along with the song, "here is my handle here is my spout…" everyone except Cordy was laughing so hard at this point many were in tears.
"I don't think it's that funny," Cordelia looked pointedly at Kate, who just laughed even harder, but leaned in a grabbed a kiss as well. When the teensy-tiny Cordelia was finished with her song on the video she curtsied and waved.
Then the video focused in on bitty Buffy, who for a second looked panicked, then warmed to the idea of showing off in front of the camera. After looking both ways to see that none of the kids her age were watching ready to make fun of her Buffy went into funny-face mode, making as many funny faces as she could think of. A monkey face, which Faith thought she did quite well, scary-face, pouty-face, and a face that looked uncannily like Willow's famous resolve-face.
When she ran out of faces to do Buffy looked at the camera guessingly, "what now?"
"Whatever you want it's your movie," the cameraman stated.
Buffy seemed to be in deep thought for a moment before her eyes lit up and she started jamming out a pop song that was at least 16 years old, all the while dancing (jumping up and down, waving her arms, going in circles) around the living room. The little version of Buffy didn't know the words though, so she started making up her own as she went…
"La la la, I saw a dog, ate a bug, then it dug, la la la…" everyone in the room was holding their sides from laughter, some were even rolling on the floor as Buffy continued singing, "be bop shoe op, took a marker made a dot, used the rug to cover the spot, do op boo bop be de shoe op…" the song continued much this way for another five minutes at least. Even Buffy couldn't hold in the laughter at the antics of herself.
Finally the camera settled on itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny Willow, who was just sitting on the couch looking at the pictures in a book. She looked up when the room got quiet and noticed the camera was now on her. She blushed ten shades of red and held the book higher so that it covered her face, still without saying a word. After a minute of Willow poking her head out every few seconds, from different areas of the book, the cameraman asked if she wanted to do anything for the camera, "No!" Willow stated defiantly, but determinedly.
When they realized that in fact she wasn't going to cooperate Faith came over and sat down with her, the camera still rolling. "Why don't you want to do anythin'?"
"'Cause."
"'Cause why?"
"I don't have any talent to show off, or anything neat to do, so you can give Buffy and Cordy my spot, I don't mind."
"Aw come on there has to be something you can do, what kind of things do you like?" Willow didn't respond but she did look down at her book. "Readin'. Can you read some to me?"
"But you know how to read."
"Well I want to hear you, 'k?"
Willow shook her head and looked at the book, "I only know little words."
"Well then read the little words." Faith pulled Willow into her lap so that she could see the book easily in case Willow got stuck on something.
"Wha..what does the lit..tle birdie say, in her nest at p..peep of day? Let me fly, says lit..tle birdie, Ma..oth..er..mother let me fly a..way. Birdie, rest a lit..tle lo..n..g..er..longer, till the lit..tle wi..in..gs are str..on..ger. So she rests a lit..tle lo..n..ger, then she flies a..way." Willow sounded out.
Faith rewarded the little girl with a big smile, "that was great, see you have a very handy talent."
Willow blushed some, then realized that she was still on camera and ducked her head again, Faith just gave her a hug and asked, "read another?" Willow was about to begin when Buffy and Cordy broke out fighting.
"Hey you cheated!"
"Did not, you just suck at playing!"
"Na uh, take it back!"
"No!"
"Yes!" Cordy jumped up and started running from the angry Buffy, she was running circling the couch with Buffy hot on her heals still telling her to take it back. "Stop!"
The camera and everyone in the room looked at Tara as she came in the room with Phoebe, "what are you guys doing?"
"Making a tape, I'm thinking blackmail later on." Tara shook her head but didn't say anything. Faith picked Willow up and put her back on the couch and went to catch the other two little girls who had resumed running around the couch. And that's where the tape ends.
Back in the Summers' living room with the adults Willow looked at Faith teary eyed, "thanks," with that she extricated herself from Tara and went over giving Faith a huge hug.
"No sweat, you were a cute kid."
Buffy lightly swatted Faith's arm as Willow went back over to Tara, "what about me?"
Faith looked amused, "I dunno what about you?"
"Wasn't I cute, I thought I was adorable."
"You were evil in a little package." That comment earned Faith another swat to the arm only with a little slayer strength behind it.
"I still think I was a very believable tea pot." Cordelia huffed comically; everyone looked at her for a second and again burst out laughing. Cordelia smiled, but damn it no one was a better teapot than she was!
"I'm home," Dawn shouted from the door, "whatcha doing?"
"Willow turned Buffy and Cordelia along with herself into little kids while you were gone, we were just watching the tape. Oh we made you a copy," Tara looked at Willow and the other reformed kids evilly, "and we sent one to Xander, Oz, Angel, Gunn, and Wesley."
"You didn't!" All three shouted at once.
Tara, Faith, and Kate just shook their head with wicked smiles on their faces, "P…A…Y…B…A…C…K!"
Dawn looked at them all funny and went to put her stuff in her room, when she got there she immediately noticed, "WHO BROKE MY LAMP?"
Purely on reflex Cordy and Buffy looked and pointed at each other and said at the same time, "she did it!"