K, disclaimer, joss Whedon gets all credit for this. All characters are his cept for the ones I made up… heehee. But yah, this is after season six, spike comes back, they get together, and Buffy has a baby, named Maggie. I named the kid after my dog…. My dog is cool… Anyway, here comes story time! Please read and review….

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"Oh my gosh, Spike, there's a rat!" Buffy squealed, trying to resist the instinctual urge to jump on the bed and failing. "Get it!"

"Calm down, love, its so little! Maybe Maggie would like it as a pet." Spike teased, nodding towards the little girl who was right behind him, staring at the skittering shadow in a happy fascination.

"Not funny! Maggie, come here." Buffy scolded her lover while the obliging two-year-old tottered over to her mommy.

"Mommy, it's a wat!" Maggie stated, giggling a little bit. "Xandew says dey is icky!" She said, her giggles starting to climax.

"Yes, they are, whats so funny?" Buffy inquired, since her little girl busted out laughing when Buffy agreed with her.

"Xandew says dat daddy is a wat!" She managed to control her giggles, but not for long. She doubled over in an exagerated guesture.

"Yeah, well Xander is a…a….a poo!" Spike said, trying to come up with a word that would insult Xander in a way that Maggie would understand, and poo was what he came up with, since Maggie was at the stage where those bodily functions were something to laugh at. It worked, Maggie doubled over again.

"Spike!" Buffy called out, warningly. "Maggie, daddy isn't a rat and Xander isn't a..." She glanced menacingly at Spike, "poo" She finished with Maggie nodding wisely at her mommy, since Maggie loved Buffy more than anything in the world, except maybe for daddy. She wasn't sure yet.

"Spike!" Buffy cried out, pulling Maggie from her toddler speculations. "There it is" Buffy shrieked, reminding them all of their original quest.

"Gotcha!" Spike said, and proudly held up the hairless tail of the squirming rat. However, most coincidentaly, during Spike's triumph, he held up the rat right were the only patch of sunlight was, and the little rodent burst into flames and was soon a pile of dust on the carpet. Buffy gasped and held Maggie closer while Spike looked at his fingers in a confused awe.

"Mommy, I don't want a wat…" Said a wary and freaked Maggie. Her eyes weren't leaving the dust pile on the floor.

"Ok sweetheart, you don't have to have a rat." Buffy held Maggie tighter and mouthed to Spike 'Get Dawn and tell Giles'. Spike nodded and was out the door.