"Willow? Xander?" No answer.
"Willow? Xander? Where are you?"
There was giggling from behind the couch.
"Willow and Xander you come out from behind there right now!" Giles instructed sternly as he hung up the phone.
"Nuh uh!" Willow replied stubbornly.
"Willow." Doyle tried, putting Buffy and Angel on the couch and kneeling on it to look over at the little witch and Xander who were sitting calmly on the floor, pens and pencils strewn around them.
"Look Doyle! It's a fire truck!" Xander said proudly displaying his artwork done on Giles' living room wall.
"Oops!" Buffy cried with a grin.
"You're in trouble!" Angel told him in a singsong voice, the two of them flanking Doyle on either side.
"Nobody's in trouble." Doyle cut in immediately as he watched Willow's eyes fill with tears, heading off another tantrum from the mini witch, while Xander just looked down guiltily, scuffing the side of his shoe against the carpet.
"We're not?" The little boy asked hopefully, turning big puppy dog eyes on Doyle who shook his head at Xander.
"No you're not. Though I'm sure you will be when you grow up." The ex teacher said with a wry grin at Giles, who was just coming back from the kitchen with a sponge and some soap.
"So, um Giles, why are they like that?" Cordelia asked nodding at the toddlers seated on Giles' living room couch staring at Cartoons on the TV, Willow, Xander and Buffy looking on in almost as much awe as Angel and Spike.
"As much as I can tell Cordelia, because Buffy, Spike and Angel all fell into the circle as the spell was being undone, they not only interrupted it but as the effects took hold again they were drawn into it as well, unfortunately the spell to undo this particular one can only be done once every two days to give the energies time to recharge.
"You mean we're stuck with the little monsters for another two days?!" Cordelia's shriek was drowned out by a loud scream from the couch.
"Lalalalalala I can't hear you!" Xander taunted.
"Doesn't matter if you can't hear me! He's still better!" Buffy returned.
"Is not!" Xander indignantly exclaimed, pulling his fingers out of his ears.
"Is so!"
"Is not!" Willow chimed in with Xander
Buffy gave the other little girl a hurt look before replying "Is so!" and pushed Xander. Xander immediately shoved her back, right into Angel, who pushed Xander and then Buffy hit him.
"Hey! He's my friend only I can push him!" She told Angel with a little glare.
"You're stupid!" Angel announced and pushed Buffy.
"Yeah! And you have stupid hair!" Spike agreed, siding with Angel. Buffy glared at the two and drew back her fist to hit them both when
"Buffy Anne Summers!" called a voice from the doorway breaking up the little argument.