Surprise

"We maked good panecakes hey da?" Rachel scrunched her nose up just like Buffy and angel's heart melted.

"We sure do sweetie!" Angel pinched her little nose releasing the sweet echo of her innocent laughter.

" Maybe Mommy would like some?" Rachel asked thoughtfully. " I don't want to go to school, the teachers don't like me cuz I am too rough with the boys, and the girls won't play with me cuz I am too much like a boy" Rachel sniffled.

"Rachel, you have to go to school, mommy would kill me if I gave into you!"

"Just fo today mama won't be mad!"

"Okay baby we can both stay home today but tomorrow we must both go to work!"

'But I miss mommy too much when we go!" Rachel pouted as Angel swept her up into his arms along with a mound of pancakes.

"Me too baby, me too." He sighed. Anytime away from Buffy and Rachel was hard to bear.

"Okay we will show mommee our pancakes in tree too one!! Surprise!" Rachel and Angel burst into the room with big smiles on their faces to only be faced with utter confusion. Angels and buffy's master bedroom was turned upside down, clothes were everywhere, and the bed was in shackles. The window was open and a cool breeze made the curtains shudder.

Rachel looked around the room, "Mommy?"

Angel ra over to the phone and dailed Giles' number. "Hello Giles, It's Buff I think she is in trouble! I think she was kidnapped."

"Angel you must remain calm. Maybe she left out of her own free will."

"No she wouldn't do that Giles, Rachel and I mean the world to her, or at least Rachel does. We are going out to find her we have to"

"Now Angel do not do anything rash. She might not want to be found!"

"What do you mean???" angel paused, "Giles do you know something about this? What are you hiding?"

"Nothing, nothing."

"Giles!!!"

" She probably hasn't gone far, meet the gang at the magic shop, we will look for her in her old patrol spots at night fall. Angel, Buffy ran for a reason. If we find her it might have consequences."

"I am willing to bear those consequences!"

"Are you, are you really ready for super natural consequences?"

"What are you saying."

"I know what's to come I have read it, it's not a pretty road to travel down, angel listen to me what is to happen must happen for the salvation of the world."

"You are forgetting that I am just a man and all that supernatural crap doesn't sway me. I need my wife and my daughter needs her mother. Goodbye giles, I shall see you at the shop."

Meanwhile Buffy checked into the nearest motel six where she settled in for the night. She was going to go out that night and search for whatever was haunting her dreams, before it got her family. What was this "First" and what did it have to do with Rachel. Everything was starting to add up.

Firstly she was supposed to die with the cancer, she was the slayer she wasnot to become fertile, but she did and she lived. Secondly vamped out cordelia kept ranting about Rachel being the end to her kind. And then the night before Rachel's birth the first came to her to kill the child before she was even born, now the dreams were haunting her sleep. Something was special about Rachel. What did they want with her.all Buffy knew was that they couldn't have her.