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"I want pancakes!" Em said loudly. She stood up for a second on the booth before Xander sat her back down.

"Pancakes for Em, I think I'll get french toast." he said to the waitress apologetically.

"I think I'll take some steak and eggs." she said then folded up her menu, as Xander did as in addition to Em's and handed them to the waitress. Who left the table. He had wanted to put this off longer but he had to know.

"Willow have you talked to Dawn?"

"I talked to her a bit last night." she admitted..

"And how is she?" he asked.

"I am not a telephone...If you want to know you have to ask to her." Xander nodded, he thought he was probably going to get an answer like that.

"Did she say anything about being willing to talk to me?"

"I'm not getting between you two Xander, please don't ask me to." Xander nodded, he was lucky enough that one of his friend had forgiven him easily, he didn't want to push her beyond her comfort level.

"Sorry." he apologized. Willow just gave him a strain smile back.

"So you told me Rebecca was in France. What's she doing there?"

"Her grandmother is French, she goes there twice a year with her mom and dad, and little sister for vacation for two weeks." Xander nodded. He did a lot of states traveling, but not a lot of out of states traveling. Not because he afraid of flying like Dean, but because it was hard to bring weapons on planes and he usually had plenty of work in the states. Not to mention Em, she had trouble sitting still for long periods of time and sometimes others found her chattering to be annoying. Which in turn made him pretty angry. He didn't like it when people hurt his daughters feelings even little things like calling her annoying. He was extremely protective of Em and anyone who knew him knew that.

"Have you ever been?" Willow smiled faded into a sad look.

"I met her there." oh something he would know if he hadn't been away.

"Oh." the conversation lapsed into silence, of course with Em there there wasn't usually silence for long.

"Do you like unicorns." she asked Willow, Willow gave an amused smile.

"Yes I like unicorns."

"How about fairies?" Willow nodded.

"I like those too."

"How about penguins." Willow just nodded sensing a theme.

"How about horses?" Willow nodded.

"How about mermaids?" Willow nodded. Xander was going to have to distract Em so that Em didn't spend all of breakfast asking Willow what she liked.

"Em look at these crayons." he picked one up and picked up a kids menu. She looked at it disinterestedly.

"Okay." he sighed, then gave her his phone which she took with relish.

"Already a gaming addict at 5." he said kind of sadly.

"You seem to be a great father."

"Thanks Willow." he smiled.

"No problem." she said.

"Rona's coming" he blurted out.

"Is she?"

"Yeah I called her last night, she talked to me all of five seconds then said she was coming to Cleveland."

"Well that's good isn't it? I mean you'll get to see her talk face to face with her."

"Yeah if she not coming on a plane to kill me."

"She's not going to kill you Xander."

"You don't know that for sure. Maybe she didn't want to tell me on the phone in case I had plans to run."

"Or maybe she just wants to see you in person." Xander nodded although he wasn't sure.

"I called Giles too, he was very cool about it."

"See that's good." Xander nodded. They sat in silence for a little while but it wasn't uncomfortable and then the waitress brought them food.

"Pancakes!" Em said loudly as she as she saw them and tried to stand on the booth again but Xander managed to prevent her from doing so. The pancakes were put in front of the 5 year old who looked at them in delight then started digging in with her fork. She didn't quite have the ability to cut her own pancakes well, so Xander took her knife and fork and cut the pancakes into manageable sizes for her. He then handed the plate back to Em who grinned at him and started eating the pancakes. He cut his own french toast and watched Em and Willow eat their respective breakfasts.

Boy was he hungry. He wolfed down the french toast and still had room to spare, which was good since Em hardly ever eat all the food she was given even from the kids menu. Her pancakes didn't look too bad either, of course he couldn't have them until she pushed away her plate. He looked back to Willow who was eating at a much more gentle pace then he had been. He wondered if she realized that he had no money, no real stable money at least. He did what other hunters did and hustled pool and run credit cards scams. He'd pay for this meal with hustling money it seemed slightly more honest. Em finished before Willow, he knew because when she was done she pushed away her food and said.

"I'm done." she was consistent about it at least, she never waited a few minutes then picked up the fork again.

"You sure?" he asked anyways. Em nodded her head. Xander slid the plate over to himself and starting at it. Willow finished first the second time around and she politely waited for him to finish which he did a few moments later. Xander waved a waitress over and asked for their check. Once she left Xander looked at Willow and Em in comfortable silence until their check came back. After he paid the check they got all their stuff together and made their way outside, where they paused a little bit away from the front door of the place.

"We should met for breakfast again tomorrow. My treat again." he offered. Willow smiled.

"Thanks but I'll pay for my meal tomorrow." Xander knew he should probably decline, but he didn't really have much in the way of money and wanted to use the credit card scam as little as possible.

"So see you then?" he asked.

"See you then."