Title: I Won't Leave Again
Chapter: Watchers, and Fainting, and Scoobies oh my!
Author: Niki (Sunnygurlie)
Rating: PG13 If you watch Buffy, you can read this. It's got some sexual innuendo and a little swearing(Bloody Hell mostly)
Spoilers: Takes place ten years after the end of season six, so anything up to season six is fair game. Season 7 didn't happen. I don't watch Angel, so Cordy & Angel's timeline thing is kind of warped. Here, Angel and Cordy had started Angel Investigations, and Cordy had become half demon. Connor never existed, and none of the other characters are mentioned. And, because I felt like it, Cordy had a baby with Doyle.
Summary: Ten years after season six, Dawn is a single mother, Buffy is dead, and Willow and Xander are married and have a baby. Dawn is being hunted by Angelus, and Spike comes back to Sunnydale with a little surprise.
Disclaimer: I own Nothing! Jos owns everything. Although I wish I owned Spike (insert evil laugh here)
Ships: Xander/Willow, talks about Angel/Dawn, Will eventually be Spike/Dawn.
A/N-to make things less confusing, Willow's nickname will be Wills, and William will be Will.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Hey Everybody! I'm typing as fast as I can, but my pesky life keeps getting in the way! I really appreciate all your comments. I wonder how many people I can get to faint in one fic? Niki ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Dawn wolk up to an eerie silence in the house. It was never this quiet. There was always some sort of noise, be it a giggle from the children's rooms, a snore from downstairs, or even just the washing machine running. She opened her eyes, and was surprised at how dark it was. Spike was not in bed with her. She looked around the room. she had sunproofed it a few days ago, so the windows were completely sealed off. No reason to wake up with a pile of ashes next to you. She walked into the hallway, and blinked at the light. It was clearly daytime. Padding down the stairs, she followed her nose into the kitchen, where Spike was cooking pancakes.
"Kids?" she asked groggily
"Sent off to school a couple hours ago." he answered.
She looked at the clock. It was 10:29. "In black?"
"Only Will. The girls decided to all wear pink t-shirts and blue jeans." he grimaced while saying this, and Dawn giggled.
"I gotta leave to pick up Giles in half an hour."
"I know. I thought I'd take you."
"Um Spike? It's day. Remember, sun equals big pile of ashes?"
"My minivan is fully equipped with sun-proof windows."
Dawn sighed. "Of course it is." she giggled. "The new and improved vampmobile 3000, comes equipped with sunproof windows, front and side airbags, and a built in car seat for those squirmy meals on the go!"
He tried not to laugh, but was unable to help himself. Finally, the two were able to get off of the ground, and after serving her up some pancakes, Spike went upstairs, presumably to get showered and dressed. After about five minutes, she heard the shower stop running, so she went upstairs to get herself ready.
~*~*~*~*~
15 minutes later they were in Spike's minivan, on the way to the airport.
"Spike?"
"Yeah pet?"
"I didn't tell Giles yet."
"Not surprising. I don't suppose he'll be happy to see me?"
"Well, he..." she trailed off.
"What Nibblet"
"I think the exact words were 'He will wish he was dust by the time I'm done with him'"
"When did he say this? After Buffy told him about.."
"No. We never told him. This was after he found out Buffy was pregnant, but you had left."
"So I may have a chance of being pushed out of the car as soon as he gets in."
"Hopefully he won't be that extreme."
Spike got off the highway at the airport exit and had to stop talking to concentrate on the thick LA traffic.
Soon they were at the airport terminal. Dawn got out of the car and went into get Giles while Spike parked.
She walked into the large building, and after staring at the electronic signs figured out that flight 293 from England had landed, and was disembarking at gate 12. She walked down to that gate and saw the watcher she had grown to think of as her father.
"Giles!" she shouted, and waved her arms.
He saw her and immediately started weaving his way through the throngs of people towards her. They chatted animatedly about England and his trip as they got his luggage, and didn't get to the subject of Sunnydale until they were in the parking lot. When asked what had happened in his absence, she told him that Angelus was back. Right before they got to the minivan, she stopped him.
"Giles."
"What is it Dawnie?"
"Well, Angelus wasn't the only one to come back." as she opened the car door, revealing the once bleached-blonde vampire, she finished, "Coincidentally, Spike's back too!"
"Good Lord" was Giles' reply before he fainted.
~*~*~*~*~
For the second time in a week, Dawn had a man passed out on her couch. She had been worried when Giles hadn't woken up for the entire 1 1/4 hour trip from the LA airport(normally it took two, but this was Spike's driving), but Spike calmed her, saying that it was perfectly normal for a person to be out this long. Even so, she was extremely glad when he awoke, about three hours after he had fainted in the airport parking lot.
"Dawnie?" Giles asked, "Why am I on your couch?"
"Well, I picked you up from the airport, and told you some news, and you fainted."
He sighed "What did you tell me?"
"Promise not to faint again?" she asked in a very small voice.
"Dawnie." he said threateningly.
"Spikesbackandhehasadaughterbutshe'snotreallyhisdaughtershe'shisbrothers-"
"Dawnie! I do not speak frantic teenager! Please slow down."
"What she said mate, was that I'm back, and I have a daughter, but she's not really mine, she's my brother's."
"Dear Lord! Spike, you're back!"
"Finally caught on have you."
"Now what is this about you having a daughter?"
Spike explained the whole story.
"You didn't turn your own brother Spike, did you?"
"Giles! You know Spike wouldn't do a thing like that!"
"Dawnie, our Spike wouldn't do it, but the newly vamped Spike would."
"It was Angelus."
"Umm mates? As much as I'd like to let you continue with your wonderful little argument, the kiddies need to be picked up by someone who isn't allergic to the sun."
"I'll go, Spike, catch Giles up on all the Amares stuff."
"Okay, Bit."
~*~*~*~*~
Giles and Spike were sitting in the Summers' living room, discussing Angelus.
"The Bit and I were able to block him out of her mind, but the claim is still there."
"According to the Watcher's Diaries, the only way for a claim to end is death."
"There's one other way."
"There is? Well, what is it?"
"There is no way Nibblet will ever go for it."
"Just tell me Spike."
The once-evil vampire sighed. "Time for a history lesson. Hundreds of years ago, it was commonplace for a master vampire to claim a human lover. The human lover, once claimed, had no choice over the matter. She was bound to that master for life. But, if another master vampire wanted her, and she wanted him, the second master could challenge the first, and claim the girl himself."
"So you're saying..."
"I could claim Nibblet."
"You could what!" Dawn had chosen this moment to walk into the house.
"Dawnie dear, I will explain this all later..." started Giles.
"Maggie and Anna, homework, kitchen table, I'll be in to help you in a little while. Joy and Will, upstairs, you may watch TV in my room if you like. Spike, Giles, sit down, I want an explanation now!"
The children immediately did what they were told, but Giles and Spike remained standing, shocked by the authority Dawn held.
"Okay, You've definitely proven to me you're not the same little fourteen- year-old Nibblet I left here ten years ago." said Spike, sitting down.
"Dawnie, when did you get a better watcher voice then me?" asked Giles, as he, too, sat down.
"Now what was Spike saying about claims?"
"It seems the only way to break the claim, besides you dying, is for you to be claimed by another master vampire, namely Spike."
She sighed, "Sometimes I think it would be easier to just die."
"No Nibblet!" Spike said sternly. "That is letting the bloody bastard of a wanker win, and there is no way in hell I'm letting that happen!"
"But how do you really feel, Spike?" giggled Dawn.
"Back to being serious," Giles gently reminded, "I know my vampire lore, and we'll want to keep the claim as a last resort. I don't think you and Dawnie..."
"What!" she demanded, "What are you two keeping from me."
"Nibblet, do you remember what you and poof-boy were doing when he claimed you?"
She blushed bright red. "We were..umm..."
"Exactly Bit."
"You mean,"
"Yeah"
Now all three of them were bright red.
~*~*~*~*~
Spike and Dawn kind of avoided each other for the next few days. They had settled into a routine; Dawn would wake the kids up and dress them, Spike would make breakfast, Dawn would drive them to school on her way to work, and pick them up after school, where Spike would have their afternoon snack waiting. She would go back to work while he watched the kids, and when she came home at six, dinner would be just about done, and they would eat. After dinner Dawn would clean around the house, and Spike would play with the kids. Dawn would do baths, and get them cleaned up for bed, and Spike would tuck them in and tell them stories. Then they would retire into Dawn's bed, talking as little as possible.
This cycle was interrupted about 4 days after Giles had come back, when Dawn came home in tears.
"What's wrong platelet?" Spike asked, wiping his hands on a dishtowel as he came out of the kitchen.
"I got fired."
"OK, that's not too bad.."
"Not too bad!" she screamed histerically, "Hello? Mother of two, caretaker of three! It costs a lot of money to raise these kids."
Gathering her into his arms, Spike said soothingly, "I know Nibblet, I know. You don't have to worry. I'm a vampire, remember? I have millions of dollars stashed away."
"What!"
"Well, if you live for more than a century you start to collect money. And I played the stock market for a while. Nothing better to do."
"So you have a lot of money. This has to do with me getting fired how?"
"Nibblet, I couldn't use all the money I have stashed away if I lived another thousand years. Of course I'm going to share it with you."
"You'd do that" she said through her tears.
"Of course, Platelet."
She hugged him ferociously. "Thank you Spike."
~*~*~*~*~
The next day was Tuesday, official Scooby meeting day. Dawn and Spike drove over to Giles's house with the kids at dusk. They shepherded the four little ones into the house, and into the playroom Giles originally had set up for Maggie, so that she would have somewhere to play when her mom was working out, training, or slaying. The room had grown in toy quantity as the scoobies had more children. Currently the room held Maggie, Joy, Will, and Anna, plus Cordelia's ten year-old daughter Kim, who she had had with some guy named Doyle that Dawn had never met. He died before the child was born. He had made her get the visions by kissing her or something like that. The Powers made her a half-demon to keep her alive. It was this whole complicated mess Dawn didn't even want to get into.
The slayer and the vampire sat down with Giles, Anya, and Cordelia. Cordy and Anya didn't seem to be surprised to see Spike, so Dawn assumed Giles had filled them in.
Cordelia had moved back to Sunnydale when Angel had moved back to be with Dawn. They had started a new branch of Angel Investigations here on the Hellmouth. When Angel lost his soul, she continued helping the helpless, with Anya's help
Anya was still a demon, but wasn't really in the vengeance business anymore. She and Xander hadn't been able to get back together, but they had become friends over the years. She had been convinced by Cordelia to used her demon powers, mostly strength and the whole teleportation thing to help at AI.
"So," Anya asked, What's on our agenda for tonight?"
"Number one, Angelus is back, and worse than ever, Number two, Maggie is having weird dreams about everybody's histories, Number three Spike's back... Anybody have anything to add?"
"I've found another prophecy we need to look at." Giles replied
"I had a vision today that I wanna talk about." added Cordy.
"Why don't we start with Angelus, and work our way down." suggested Giles.
Dawn explained everything that had happened in the past few weeks, leaving out only the part about Spike being able to claim her.
"I'm really afraid that he'll find some way to get to the kids." Dawn finished.
"It's not the kids he's looking for." said Giles and Cordy simultaneously.
"What?"
"You go first Cordelia."
"My vision. Guess who's going to try to use the key for his sinister plan to reopen the Hellmouth and end the world?"
"Oh great. You know what, I think we should just go on Jerry Springer. My ex-lover, who used to be my dead sister's true love, is trying to use me to end the world!"
Cordy snorted.
"Well, Dawnie the prophecy I mentioned agrees with Cordelia's vision. But there are still a few parts that are confusing. I'll explain once we get to it."
"On to number two. Maggie has been having really weird dreams, involving all of us. She had some of Buffy and Spike, others of Dru and Spike, and some with the whole gang, like you were in high school. No me, just Xander, Cordy, Willow, Oz, and Buffy. And some had just Angelus, or just Spike"
"Oh!" exclaimed Giles, "that's what it means!"
"What!" the entire room shouted.
"A slayer, younger than ever before, will open the door." he muttered to himself. "Phrophetic dreams or dreams of the past are a sign of being a slayer." he explained, "If you remember, Buffy used to have dreams of other slayers before her. Well, I can only assume she is dreaming Spike, Angelus, and Dru because of the family ties. There has never been a half vampire slayer before, and certainly never a slayer this young."
"What are you saying Giles!" demanded Dawn.
"Well, Isn't it obvious! Maggie is a slayer. The youngest ever, and half vampire at that."
As Dawn was about to answer, she heard a scream from the other room.
"Aunt Dawn!!!!!! Daddy!!!!!" screamed Maggie.
All the adult rushed into the playroom.
"What is it sweetie?" asked Dawn rushing over
The little girl was clawing at her neck.
"It burns!!!"
Spike, having figured out the problem, ripped the little silver cross from Maggie's neck, only to hiss and drop it.
Giles quickly ran to the bathroom, and came back with some neosporin and bandages.
Spike grabbed the supplies from the retired watcher and lovingly cared for his daughter's wound.
"It's okay sweetie, you're OK," he murmured.
He carried her out into the living room with him, rocking her in his arms.
"Go back to playing, Maggie's going to be fine." Dawn reassured the other kids, and with that, the adults walked back into the living room.
"When did Spike become all fatherly?" Cordy asked in a hushed voice.
"Sometime in the last ten years apparently." answered Giles. They took their seats in the living room, hoping the rest of the meeting would be much more uneventful.
"So you're saying that my little girl is a slayer?" Spike demanded, rocking the quickly falling asleep Maggie in his lap.
"Yes, Spike. I do not know if she has been called yet, we will have to test her to be certain."
"The watcher's council doesn't get involved! I've witnessed what their 'tests' are like!" growled Spike.
"Of course not, we wouldn't dream of it."
"Now that that is settled, on to the next item. Spike's back!"
"Well, obviously!" answered Cordelia.
Just then, Dawn's cell phone rang. She picked up the phone and immediately brightened up.
"Hey Wills!.....Yeah, we're at a Scooby meeting.....You what!....No, I'm not mad, It's perfectly fine....I'm sure it's for the best...Yeah, yeah, I'll tell them...... Well, I see you in a couple weeks. Bye"
"What was that all about? asked Anya.
"Xander and Wills are going to be staying at Willow's grandparents' mansion indefinitely. They are coming back in a couple weeks to say their good-byes and pack up the rest of their stuff, and then they'll be gone."
"Auntie Willow's not coming back?" Maggie asked from Spike's lap.
"No, sweetie, she and Uncle Xander are moving away."
"But who will watch us during the day?"
"Your daddy will."
"Really? You're not going away again?"
"Course not Mags, can't leave you, you're my daughter."
"Yay!!!!"
"You're staying Spike?" asked Anya. "I assumed you had come to help fight Angelus, and then you were going back... well, where ever you've been living."
Spike explained about Anna and her parents.
"Ok, so every single child in that room is at least part demon?" Cordy asked.
"Yup!" smiled Dawn.
"This 'family' puts the fun in disFUNctional!" added Spike.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What do you think? This got rewritten about 4 times before I was happy with it. I'm busilly working on chapter eight, and it should be out relitively soon. Please be patient! Luv You Guys! Thanks for all the reviews!! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Chapter: Watchers, and Fainting, and Scoobies oh my!
Author: Niki (Sunnygurlie)
Rating: PG13 If you watch Buffy, you can read this. It's got some sexual innuendo and a little swearing(Bloody Hell mostly)
Spoilers: Takes place ten years after the end of season six, so anything up to season six is fair game. Season 7 didn't happen. I don't watch Angel, so Cordy & Angel's timeline thing is kind of warped. Here, Angel and Cordy had started Angel Investigations, and Cordy had become half demon. Connor never existed, and none of the other characters are mentioned. And, because I felt like it, Cordy had a baby with Doyle.
Summary: Ten years after season six, Dawn is a single mother, Buffy is dead, and Willow and Xander are married and have a baby. Dawn is being hunted by Angelus, and Spike comes back to Sunnydale with a little surprise.
Disclaimer: I own Nothing! Jos owns everything. Although I wish I owned Spike (insert evil laugh here)
Ships: Xander/Willow, talks about Angel/Dawn, Will eventually be Spike/Dawn.
A/N-to make things less confusing, Willow's nickname will be Wills, and William will be Will.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Hey Everybody! I'm typing as fast as I can, but my pesky life keeps getting in the way! I really appreciate all your comments. I wonder how many people I can get to faint in one fic? Niki ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Dawn wolk up to an eerie silence in the house. It was never this quiet. There was always some sort of noise, be it a giggle from the children's rooms, a snore from downstairs, or even just the washing machine running. She opened her eyes, and was surprised at how dark it was. Spike was not in bed with her. She looked around the room. she had sunproofed it a few days ago, so the windows were completely sealed off. No reason to wake up with a pile of ashes next to you. She walked into the hallway, and blinked at the light. It was clearly daytime. Padding down the stairs, she followed her nose into the kitchen, where Spike was cooking pancakes.
"Kids?" she asked groggily
"Sent off to school a couple hours ago." he answered.
She looked at the clock. It was 10:29. "In black?"
"Only Will. The girls decided to all wear pink t-shirts and blue jeans." he grimaced while saying this, and Dawn giggled.
"I gotta leave to pick up Giles in half an hour."
"I know. I thought I'd take you."
"Um Spike? It's day. Remember, sun equals big pile of ashes?"
"My minivan is fully equipped with sun-proof windows."
Dawn sighed. "Of course it is." she giggled. "The new and improved vampmobile 3000, comes equipped with sunproof windows, front and side airbags, and a built in car seat for those squirmy meals on the go!"
He tried not to laugh, but was unable to help himself. Finally, the two were able to get off of the ground, and after serving her up some pancakes, Spike went upstairs, presumably to get showered and dressed. After about five minutes, she heard the shower stop running, so she went upstairs to get herself ready.
~*~*~*~*~
15 minutes later they were in Spike's minivan, on the way to the airport.
"Spike?"
"Yeah pet?"
"I didn't tell Giles yet."
"Not surprising. I don't suppose he'll be happy to see me?"
"Well, he..." she trailed off.
"What Nibblet"
"I think the exact words were 'He will wish he was dust by the time I'm done with him'"
"When did he say this? After Buffy told him about.."
"No. We never told him. This was after he found out Buffy was pregnant, but you had left."
"So I may have a chance of being pushed out of the car as soon as he gets in."
"Hopefully he won't be that extreme."
Spike got off the highway at the airport exit and had to stop talking to concentrate on the thick LA traffic.
Soon they were at the airport terminal. Dawn got out of the car and went into get Giles while Spike parked.
She walked into the large building, and after staring at the electronic signs figured out that flight 293 from England had landed, and was disembarking at gate 12. She walked down to that gate and saw the watcher she had grown to think of as her father.
"Giles!" she shouted, and waved her arms.
He saw her and immediately started weaving his way through the throngs of people towards her. They chatted animatedly about England and his trip as they got his luggage, and didn't get to the subject of Sunnydale until they were in the parking lot. When asked what had happened in his absence, she told him that Angelus was back. Right before they got to the minivan, she stopped him.
"Giles."
"What is it Dawnie?"
"Well, Angelus wasn't the only one to come back." as she opened the car door, revealing the once bleached-blonde vampire, she finished, "Coincidentally, Spike's back too!"
"Good Lord" was Giles' reply before he fainted.
~*~*~*~*~
For the second time in a week, Dawn had a man passed out on her couch. She had been worried when Giles hadn't woken up for the entire 1 1/4 hour trip from the LA airport(normally it took two, but this was Spike's driving), but Spike calmed her, saying that it was perfectly normal for a person to be out this long. Even so, she was extremely glad when he awoke, about three hours after he had fainted in the airport parking lot.
"Dawnie?" Giles asked, "Why am I on your couch?"
"Well, I picked you up from the airport, and told you some news, and you fainted."
He sighed "What did you tell me?"
"Promise not to faint again?" she asked in a very small voice.
"Dawnie." he said threateningly.
"Spikesbackandhehasadaughterbutshe'snotreallyhisdaughtershe'shisbrothers-"
"Dawnie! I do not speak frantic teenager! Please slow down."
"What she said mate, was that I'm back, and I have a daughter, but she's not really mine, she's my brother's."
"Dear Lord! Spike, you're back!"
"Finally caught on have you."
"Now what is this about you having a daughter?"
Spike explained the whole story.
"You didn't turn your own brother Spike, did you?"
"Giles! You know Spike wouldn't do a thing like that!"
"Dawnie, our Spike wouldn't do it, but the newly vamped Spike would."
"It was Angelus."
"Umm mates? As much as I'd like to let you continue with your wonderful little argument, the kiddies need to be picked up by someone who isn't allergic to the sun."
"I'll go, Spike, catch Giles up on all the Amares stuff."
"Okay, Bit."
~*~*~*~*~
Giles and Spike were sitting in the Summers' living room, discussing Angelus.
"The Bit and I were able to block him out of her mind, but the claim is still there."
"According to the Watcher's Diaries, the only way for a claim to end is death."
"There's one other way."
"There is? Well, what is it?"
"There is no way Nibblet will ever go for it."
"Just tell me Spike."
The once-evil vampire sighed. "Time for a history lesson. Hundreds of years ago, it was commonplace for a master vampire to claim a human lover. The human lover, once claimed, had no choice over the matter. She was bound to that master for life. But, if another master vampire wanted her, and she wanted him, the second master could challenge the first, and claim the girl himself."
"So you're saying..."
"I could claim Nibblet."
"You could what!" Dawn had chosen this moment to walk into the house.
"Dawnie dear, I will explain this all later..." started Giles.
"Maggie and Anna, homework, kitchen table, I'll be in to help you in a little while. Joy and Will, upstairs, you may watch TV in my room if you like. Spike, Giles, sit down, I want an explanation now!"
The children immediately did what they were told, but Giles and Spike remained standing, shocked by the authority Dawn held.
"Okay, You've definitely proven to me you're not the same little fourteen- year-old Nibblet I left here ten years ago." said Spike, sitting down.
"Dawnie, when did you get a better watcher voice then me?" asked Giles, as he, too, sat down.
"Now what was Spike saying about claims?"
"It seems the only way to break the claim, besides you dying, is for you to be claimed by another master vampire, namely Spike."
She sighed, "Sometimes I think it would be easier to just die."
"No Nibblet!" Spike said sternly. "That is letting the bloody bastard of a wanker win, and there is no way in hell I'm letting that happen!"
"But how do you really feel, Spike?" giggled Dawn.
"Back to being serious," Giles gently reminded, "I know my vampire lore, and we'll want to keep the claim as a last resort. I don't think you and Dawnie..."
"What!" she demanded, "What are you two keeping from me."
"Nibblet, do you remember what you and poof-boy were doing when he claimed you?"
She blushed bright red. "We were..umm..."
"Exactly Bit."
"You mean,"
"Yeah"
Now all three of them were bright red.
~*~*~*~*~
Spike and Dawn kind of avoided each other for the next few days. They had settled into a routine; Dawn would wake the kids up and dress them, Spike would make breakfast, Dawn would drive them to school on her way to work, and pick them up after school, where Spike would have their afternoon snack waiting. She would go back to work while he watched the kids, and when she came home at six, dinner would be just about done, and they would eat. After dinner Dawn would clean around the house, and Spike would play with the kids. Dawn would do baths, and get them cleaned up for bed, and Spike would tuck them in and tell them stories. Then they would retire into Dawn's bed, talking as little as possible.
This cycle was interrupted about 4 days after Giles had come back, when Dawn came home in tears.
"What's wrong platelet?" Spike asked, wiping his hands on a dishtowel as he came out of the kitchen.
"I got fired."
"OK, that's not too bad.."
"Not too bad!" she screamed histerically, "Hello? Mother of two, caretaker of three! It costs a lot of money to raise these kids."
Gathering her into his arms, Spike said soothingly, "I know Nibblet, I know. You don't have to worry. I'm a vampire, remember? I have millions of dollars stashed away."
"What!"
"Well, if you live for more than a century you start to collect money. And I played the stock market for a while. Nothing better to do."
"So you have a lot of money. This has to do with me getting fired how?"
"Nibblet, I couldn't use all the money I have stashed away if I lived another thousand years. Of course I'm going to share it with you."
"You'd do that" she said through her tears.
"Of course, Platelet."
She hugged him ferociously. "Thank you Spike."
~*~*~*~*~
The next day was Tuesday, official Scooby meeting day. Dawn and Spike drove over to Giles's house with the kids at dusk. They shepherded the four little ones into the house, and into the playroom Giles originally had set up for Maggie, so that she would have somewhere to play when her mom was working out, training, or slaying. The room had grown in toy quantity as the scoobies had more children. Currently the room held Maggie, Joy, Will, and Anna, plus Cordelia's ten year-old daughter Kim, who she had had with some guy named Doyle that Dawn had never met. He died before the child was born. He had made her get the visions by kissing her or something like that. The Powers made her a half-demon to keep her alive. It was this whole complicated mess Dawn didn't even want to get into.
The slayer and the vampire sat down with Giles, Anya, and Cordelia. Cordy and Anya didn't seem to be surprised to see Spike, so Dawn assumed Giles had filled them in.
Cordelia had moved back to Sunnydale when Angel had moved back to be with Dawn. They had started a new branch of Angel Investigations here on the Hellmouth. When Angel lost his soul, she continued helping the helpless, with Anya's help
Anya was still a demon, but wasn't really in the vengeance business anymore. She and Xander hadn't been able to get back together, but they had become friends over the years. She had been convinced by Cordelia to used her demon powers, mostly strength and the whole teleportation thing to help at AI.
"So," Anya asked, What's on our agenda for tonight?"
"Number one, Angelus is back, and worse than ever, Number two, Maggie is having weird dreams about everybody's histories, Number three Spike's back... Anybody have anything to add?"
"I've found another prophecy we need to look at." Giles replied
"I had a vision today that I wanna talk about." added Cordy.
"Why don't we start with Angelus, and work our way down." suggested Giles.
Dawn explained everything that had happened in the past few weeks, leaving out only the part about Spike being able to claim her.
"I'm really afraid that he'll find some way to get to the kids." Dawn finished.
"It's not the kids he's looking for." said Giles and Cordy simultaneously.
"What?"
"You go first Cordelia."
"My vision. Guess who's going to try to use the key for his sinister plan to reopen the Hellmouth and end the world?"
"Oh great. You know what, I think we should just go on Jerry Springer. My ex-lover, who used to be my dead sister's true love, is trying to use me to end the world!"
Cordy snorted.
"Well, Dawnie the prophecy I mentioned agrees with Cordelia's vision. But there are still a few parts that are confusing. I'll explain once we get to it."
"On to number two. Maggie has been having really weird dreams, involving all of us. She had some of Buffy and Spike, others of Dru and Spike, and some with the whole gang, like you were in high school. No me, just Xander, Cordy, Willow, Oz, and Buffy. And some had just Angelus, or just Spike"
"Oh!" exclaimed Giles, "that's what it means!"
"What!" the entire room shouted.
"A slayer, younger than ever before, will open the door." he muttered to himself. "Phrophetic dreams or dreams of the past are a sign of being a slayer." he explained, "If you remember, Buffy used to have dreams of other slayers before her. Well, I can only assume she is dreaming Spike, Angelus, and Dru because of the family ties. There has never been a half vampire slayer before, and certainly never a slayer this young."
"What are you saying Giles!" demanded Dawn.
"Well, Isn't it obvious! Maggie is a slayer. The youngest ever, and half vampire at that."
As Dawn was about to answer, she heard a scream from the other room.
"Aunt Dawn!!!!!! Daddy!!!!!" screamed Maggie.
All the adult rushed into the playroom.
"What is it sweetie?" asked Dawn rushing over
The little girl was clawing at her neck.
"It burns!!!"
Spike, having figured out the problem, ripped the little silver cross from Maggie's neck, only to hiss and drop it.
Giles quickly ran to the bathroom, and came back with some neosporin and bandages.
Spike grabbed the supplies from the retired watcher and lovingly cared for his daughter's wound.
"It's okay sweetie, you're OK," he murmured.
He carried her out into the living room with him, rocking her in his arms.
"Go back to playing, Maggie's going to be fine." Dawn reassured the other kids, and with that, the adults walked back into the living room.
"When did Spike become all fatherly?" Cordy asked in a hushed voice.
"Sometime in the last ten years apparently." answered Giles. They took their seats in the living room, hoping the rest of the meeting would be much more uneventful.
"So you're saying that my little girl is a slayer?" Spike demanded, rocking the quickly falling asleep Maggie in his lap.
"Yes, Spike. I do not know if she has been called yet, we will have to test her to be certain."
"The watcher's council doesn't get involved! I've witnessed what their 'tests' are like!" growled Spike.
"Of course not, we wouldn't dream of it."
"Now that that is settled, on to the next item. Spike's back!"
"Well, obviously!" answered Cordelia.
Just then, Dawn's cell phone rang. She picked up the phone and immediately brightened up.
"Hey Wills!.....Yeah, we're at a Scooby meeting.....You what!....No, I'm not mad, It's perfectly fine....I'm sure it's for the best...Yeah, yeah, I'll tell them...... Well, I see you in a couple weeks. Bye"
"What was that all about? asked Anya.
"Xander and Wills are going to be staying at Willow's grandparents' mansion indefinitely. They are coming back in a couple weeks to say their good-byes and pack up the rest of their stuff, and then they'll be gone."
"Auntie Willow's not coming back?" Maggie asked from Spike's lap.
"No, sweetie, she and Uncle Xander are moving away."
"But who will watch us during the day?"
"Your daddy will."
"Really? You're not going away again?"
"Course not Mags, can't leave you, you're my daughter."
"Yay!!!!"
"You're staying Spike?" asked Anya. "I assumed you had come to help fight Angelus, and then you were going back... well, where ever you've been living."
Spike explained about Anna and her parents.
"Ok, so every single child in that room is at least part demon?" Cordy asked.
"Yup!" smiled Dawn.
"This 'family' puts the fun in disFUNctional!" added Spike.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What do you think? This got rewritten about 4 times before I was happy with it. I'm busilly working on chapter eight, and it should be out relitively soon. Please be patient! Luv You Guys! Thanks for all the reviews!! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^