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

AN: The events of the next couple of chapters all take place at around the same time, and will converge in the chapter after that. Enjoy!

"And where exactly are we goin' again?" asked Faith, a little confused, as she left the Hyperion with Buffy and Echo, the dog's leash clutched firmly in her hand.

"I grew up in L.A, remember?" Buffy chuckled, taking her wife's other hand and kissing her cheek. "I'm taking you on the 'Buffy's childhood dream tour', with some bits of 'The time Buffy ran away for three months and didn't tell anyone where I was going' thrown in. Not my finest hour I'll admit, but I saved a lot of lives in the end, so I guess it was a fair trade off.."

"Ah, here we are" Buffy smiled, stopping in front of a large building that was familiar to both of them. "Hemery High, my first high school."

"Yeah, I know" said Faith, looking around. "I've been here before."

"You have?" Buffy frowned, confused. "When?"

"The whole time travel thing" said Faith, pointing to a gate a little way down from where they were standing. "I saw you comin' out of school, right there."

"Cool" Buffy grinned. "Well, see that step out the front there? That was where I met my first Watcher, Merrick, and he told me that I was the Slayer. I thought the guy was nuts." Faith raised an eyebrow, surprised.

"You had another Watcher before Giles? He retire or somethin'?"

"No" Buffy shook her head, and the sadness in her voice let Faith know what had happened. "He was killed by a vampire named Lothos. I don't really like to talk about it." Faith understood, and didn't push the matter any further. She didn't like talking about her Watcher's death either. Buffy quickly changed the subject. "Oh, see over there by that tree? That's where the Gym used to be, before I burnt it down. And that path there, that's where I had to do the walk of shame to Mom's car after I got kicked out of School for burning down the Gym."

"Damn, and my School thought I was bad" Faith chuckled. "At least I never set fire to any of it!"

"How many times do I have to explain this!" Buffy cried, throwing her arms in the air. "That Gym was full of vampires!"

"Sure it was, B" Faith smirked.

"It was, really!"

Next, the Chosen Two called past the apartment building that Buffy had lived in during her Summer away, the diner she had worked at, and a mall she'd used to frequent before moving to Sunnydale.

"So, where to next, B?" Faith asked as they walked down the street, Echo padding along just ahead, occasionally stopping to sniff at something.

"Well, I told Willow and Tara that we'd meet up with them and the girls at the beach" said Buffy, "So I was thinking we'd start heading there now, unless there's somewhere else you'd like to go first?"

"Nah, the beach sounds great" Faith grinned. Buffy smiled, she hadn't expected any objections. Faith almost never passed up a chance to spend time with her precious nieces. "Damn, have the kids ever been to a beach before? I don't think they have, we didn't take 'em last time we were here.."

It was, in fact, the girls' first time at the beach, and both were loving it. Willow watched Tara and Sophie in the water splashing each other, while Lily sat beside her, playing in the sand.

"Ih-oh" said Lily, drawing her Mother's attention.

"Yeah, Sweetie?"

"Uv u" said Lily with a smile, opening her little arms.

"Aww, I love you too baby" said Willow, pulling her into her lap for a hug. Lily squealed excitedly, pointing over her Mother's shoulder.

"B! Fai'!"

"Hey, guys" Willow grinned, turning and waving to her approaching friends. "What took you so long?"

"Give us a break, Will" Buffy chuckled. "I told you there were some other places we wanted to go first."

"B!" Lily wriggled out of Willow's grasp, toddling towards her favourite aunt. "B, B!"

"Hi, Lily" Buffy cooed, scooping the little girl into her arms.

"Hey there, Lilypad" said Faith, lightly ruffling her hair. "You havin' a nice day at the beach?"

"B!" Lily said again, snuggling up to Buffy's shoulder.

"Yeah, she's not quite up to answering questions yet" Willow shrugged.

"Ah, that's okay, plenty of time for that" said Faith, stooping to unclip Echo's leash, at which point the dog bolted into the surf towards Sophie and Tara. The dog's presence alerted the pair to the Slayer's arrival, and they looked up, waving cheerily. Faith waved back, then having worn her swimsuit under her clothes on the suspicion that their day may end at the beach seeing as they were in Los Angeles and all, stripped down and ran into the water to join them.

"So, where did you go exactly?" asked Willow, as Buffy sat down beside her.

"Well.."

Buffy and Willow were having a nice little chat, watching their wives play with Sophie and Echo. Or at least they were, until Tara suddenly let out a cry of pain, and the next thing they knew, Faith, who may have been slightly over-reacting, was bolting from the water with Tara in her arms and Sophie clinging around her neck like a monkey, Echo running along behind them.

"Oh my God, what happened?" cried Willow, grabbing Lily before she and Buffy ran to the spot where Faith was setting Tara down on the sand.

"Jellyfish" Tara winced, indicating the angry red welt appearing on her ankle.

"Okay" said Willow, trying not to panic. "It's okay, we just have to.."

"Pee on it!" yelled Faith, about to pull down her bikini bottoms.

"What? No!" cried Willow, disgusted.

"Eew!" said Sophie.

"I'm with you, Soph" said Buffy, nose wrinkling. Faith halted her actions.

"We have to get you back to the Hotel" said Willow, handing Lily to Buffy and helping Tara to her feet, deciding to pretend Faith's suggestion had never happened. "We made that ointment with vervain in it, remember?" The witches headed for their car, with Sophie close behind.

"You weren't really going to pee on her, were you?" asked Buffy, turning to Faith.

"Hey, I saw it in an episode of 'Friends' once" Faith shrugged.