Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy, but I do own Sophie, baby Lily, and Echo the puppy :)

Lily Anya Rosenberg, now ten months old, sat staring at the front door. She just stared and stared, and stared some more. Dawn and Connor, who had been charged with watching her, found this slightly worrying.

"Buffy!" Dawn called, a little panicked.

"What is it?" said Buffy, poking her head out from the kitchen, where Faith had taken it upon herself to teach her fiance' how to cook something without the risk of poisoning her housemates.

"Um, is Lily okay?"

"She's fine" said Buffy, glancing at the baby. "Why?"

"Well, she's been staring at the front door for the past ten minutes" Connor replied.

"She does that everyday, around the time Sophie comes home from school" said Buffy. "She's just waiting for her."

"But how does Lily know what time Sophie gets home from school?" asked Dawn, confused. "She's not even one yet!"

"She just does" said Buffy, smiling as a grin spread over Lily's face. "Look." Lily gave a happy giggle and began crawling towards the door, and as she did, it swung open, revealing Willow, Tara, and of course, Sophie. Lily's eyes lit up at the sight of her big sister.

"Hi, Lily" Sophie grinned, as happy to see her little sister as she was to see her. "Do you wants to see what I did at school today?"

"Aga ba ga!" Lily babbled happily.

"Okay" Sophie smiled, sitting beside Lily's rug on the floor and waited for her to crawl back to it. Willow and Tara smiled at their daughters, then headed into the kitchen to check that Buffy's cooking lesson wasn't causing too much chaos. Sophie began pulling things out of her backpack. "This is just my pencil case.. You shouldn't touch that Lily, you might accidently swallow the stuffs in it.. That's my reader book, I gots to get one of our Mommies to go through it with me later.." She rummaged through the bag for a few more minutes, before pulling out a piece of paper. "Here it is!" she grinned. "I had to draw my most happiest day ever, so I drawed the day I got you, my little sister!" Sophie smiled at Lily, who giggled, and began pointing out the things in the picture to her. "See, there's Mommy Willow, and there's me, and there's Mama Tara in bed, holding you. You're the little pink thing.."

A little while later, Tara came back into the room, scooping Lily into her arms. Lily fussed, not wanting to leave Sophie.

"Aww, come on kiddo, it's time for your bath" said Tara. "We won't be gone very long, and when we get back you can play with your big sister as much as you want."

Tara took Lily upstairs and bathed her, then carried her into the nursery to dress her. Lily squealed happily, pointing at the cartoonish painting of Sophie amongst the other ones on her wall.

"Ph..Ph.. Phie!"

"Yes, that's Sophie" Tara said, then froze. "Wait, did you just.."

"Phie!" Lily repeated.

"Oh my god, your first word! Willow!" Tara called, "Lily just said her first word!" Willow appeared in the room in what felt like mere seconds.

"Oh my god!" she squealed, rushing in and taking the baby from Tara. "What was it? What did she say?"

"Phie!" said Lily, pointing at Sophie who had appeared in the doorway, having followed Willow.

"She said her big sister's name" Tara grinned. "As well as she could, anyway."

"I'm her first word?" asked Sophie, slightly awestruck.

"It looks like it" Willow smiled.

"Why?"

"Why not?" said Tara. "You are her favourite person."

"I am?"

"Of course you are" said Willow. "Why do you think she's so happy when you get home from school everyday?"

"Phie, Phie!" cried Lily, reaching her little arms out towards her sister.

"Okay" Willow chuckled, setting her down. "Off you go." Lily crawled over to Sophie, wrapping her arms around her leg.

"Phie!"

Sophie giggled, stroking her little sister's soft blonde hair. Then, the moment was destroyed when, after some panicked shouting from downstairs, the house's smoke alarms went off.

"I told Faith it was pointless to try and teach Buffy to cook" said Willow, rolling her eyes.

AN: I'd just like to take this opportunity to point out that one of my other stories, 'Scoobies In Paris', is one chapter away from completion, and some of you haven't reviewed it in a while. If you don't follow that one it's fine, but if you do, could you check it out? I'd really appreciate it.