"So, you've seen both of them." Cordelia told Faith, driving with one hand on the wheel and taking a drink of coffee with the other. "Which one's the biggest?"

Faith laughed, almost choking on her own coffee. "I'm not going to tell you that, I'm a lady."

Cordelia burst out laughing. "Yeah, right, and Fred's a slut. Who's bigger?"

Faith was still laughing. "Neither."

"Huh?"

"It's not just Angel and Wes that I've seen." She said smugly.

Cordelia took her eyes off the road to look at Faith incredulously. "What have you been up to?"

"Nothing, I just happened to see certain other people while they were doing things." She replied cryptically.

"Like who?"

"Uh, Gunn for one, and Spike."

"How the hell..?"

"Well, Spike and Buffy were getting it on down in the basement the last time they were in town and I happened to see them."

"And Gunn?"

"Oh, I only saw his flaccid."

"Only? I only like never saw it, come on Faith, spill!" She demanded.

"He was peeing and he didn't know I was in the bathroom."

"How didn't he know?"

"I'd just turned the water off and I was stood in the shower. I kind of had a peek." She admitted.

"But who is the biggest?" Cordelia asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Gunn." She relented and told her.

"Are you sure? I mean, I know he's black and black men are supposed to be the biggest, but Angel is pretty big."

"Oh, I know that, but I think Gunn may just have an edge." She concluded.

"Damn, how the hell did he end up with a wallflower like Fred?" Cordelia muttered.

"And not you?" Faith smirked. "You're married little lady!"

"I know that." She told her, waving her hand for emphasis. "And I love Angel, but little Fred with big Gunn? It doesn't fit somehow."

Faith laughed. "Damn straight. And I didn't get the chance to test him out before she did."

"Aw, poor Faith." She clucked and pulled over. "We're here."

The demon took no effort to kill and they arrived back at the hotel just after lunch. The phone was ringing and Cordelia had to run to catch it.

Cordelia was startled when she realised it was Dawn.

"Cordelia, I need to talk to you, it's kind of private." She told her.

"Okay, you can talk to me, you know that." She leaned over and slammed the office door with her foot so Wes couldn't hear; she could see him shuffling around with a pencil stuck in the side of his mouth. She held a finger over her mouth to tell Faith to be quiet.

"Well, I've kind of being seeing this guy for a couple of weeks."

"Does Buffy know?"

"No!" Dawn exclaimed. "And you can't tell her 'cause she'd totally freak!"

"Why?"

"Well, he's a couple of years older and he's got a car and she'd just freak. Anyway, the other day, we kind of did it."

Cordelia's eyes widened. "It?"

"Yeah, you know, sex."

Cordelia spluttered. "Dawn, aren't you a little young to be having sex?"

Faith's eyes widened and she scooted closer to Cordelia so she could hear better.

Cordelia covered the mouthpiece and asked Faith to put some coffee on. She got up grudgingly, making her promise to tell all afterwards.

"No, I mean, all my friends are doing it so I did it."

"Dawn, your friends might be saying they've done it but they might not have, that sort of thing is the kind of thing they tell you when they want be the most grown up and most popular and the coolest. They want to look like they're the best and so they say things like that when probably they haven't done a thing." Cordelia told her, partly speaking from personal experience.

"So, they might not have done it?" She sounded disappointed.

"No." Cordelia told her gently. "Of course, they might have but you shouldn't do things just to fit in and be 'cool'. You should do things because you want to. Did you want to?"

"I guess so." Dawn sounded crestfallen.

"Were you careful?"

"Of course, no-one was in when we did it so there was no chance of us being caught." She replied almost proudly.

Cordelia shook her head. "No Dawn! That's not what I meant. Did you use birth control?"

"I guess so." She replied.

"You guess so? What does that mean?"

"I guess he used a. a thing." She told her.

"A condom?" Cordelia supplied the word.

"Yeah, I guess he used one."

Cordelia closed her eyes. "He either used one or he didn't."

"I don't know." She admitted.

"Dawn, this is serious. You could have gotten pregnant or caught a sexually transmitted disease."

"No, it was his first time too."

"Dawn, are you sure? Because boys lie." She said bluntly.

"I don't think he was lying, and anyway you can't get pregnant the first time."

Cordelia flinched. "You can Dawn! Didn't you listen in Sex Ed?"

"I missed that lesson." Dawn replied quietly. "Could I get pregnant?"

"Yes Dawn, you need to speak to Buffy right now, okay? Then you can get a pregnancy test and work things out from there."

"I don't want to be pregnant!" Dawn panicked. "I'd have to quit school and the team and I'd have to leave home because Buffy would be so angry with me and."

"Dawn!" Cordelia interrupted. "Buffy would understand. Her first time wasn't exactly a hallmark occasion."

"What?"

Cordelia flinched. She probably shouldn't have said that. "When she slept with Angel, she turned him evil. Anyway, you need to talk to her." She hoped she's skipped over Buffy's first sexual encounter quick enough for Dawn to forget she'd mentioned it. It seemed to work.

"So, she won't kill me?"

Cordelia laughed. "She's your sister Dawn, and she loves you. You're allowed to screw up and she still has to love you, that is the rule."

Dawn smiled. "I guess so, but can I ask you something else?"

"Sure."

"Is it supposed to hurt that much?"

Cordelia took a deep breath before answering.

"Dawn had sex." Cordelia told Faith as she put the phone down after explaining to Dawn the perils of first time sex.

Faith nodded. "I heard."

Cordelia shook her head. "That's not the worst part."

"It's not?"

"No."

"Then what is?"

"She thinks she might be pregnant, or at least she does now."

"She didn't use birth control?"

"No."

"Wow."

"That is not 'wow'! This is a freaking big deal!" Cordelia exploded. "Buffy will freak!"

"What did you tell her to do?"

"Talk to Buffy."

Faith laughed. "Good girl, let Buffy kill her before the baby is born!"

Cordelia held up a finger. "This is not funny!"

"One of us has to see the humour and I can see it's not going to be you." Faith replied with a grin. "Who's the guy?"

"Some older boy who told her it was his first time and that she couldn't get pregnant the first time she did it!

Faith pulled a face. "Scum! Why did she fall for it?"

"All her friends told her they'd been having sex and I guess she believed them. She didn't want to be the only one not doing it."

"Didn't you tell her that girls lie?"

Cordelia stopped her pacing and turned to her. "Of course I did! I may be a married woman with two children but I can still remember my high school years!"

Faith laughed at the look on Cordelia's face. "Maybe we should call Buffy and give her a little warning."

"Can't do that." Cordelia shook her head.

"Why not?"

"I kind of happened to mention to Dawn the whole Buffy plus Angel equals evil Angel."

"You didn't!" Faith grinned.

"I was trying to make her feel better!"

"You could have mentioned the whole Cordelia plus man equals demon pregnancy." She joked.

"I told you that in confidence!" Cordelia sighed and sat down next to Faith at her desk. "I have to call her and at least give her a little warning."

Faith shook her head. "Maybe you shouldn't."

"I thought you said..?" Cordelia began.

Faith held up her hands. "I know that, but hey, I say a lot of things."

"That's true." Cordelia replied.

"What are you two up to?" Wes asked, coming out of the office.

"Nothing!" They replied guiltily.

"Buffy, hi!" Cordelia said down the phone brightly. "How are you?"

"I'm okay, a bit tired, how about you?"

"I'm good too." She replied, obviously better than she would be in a minute. "I need to talk to you."

"Okay, go on." Buffy replied, sensing the conversation was going to turn serious.

"I need you to be completely trustworthy about this, I mean; you can't tell anyone or mention it until someone else tells you, okay?"

"Okay." Buffy agreed. "I got a phone call the other day from a mutual acquaintance." She began, hoping it was sounding right. "And she's in a bit of trouble but she's scared to say anything because she thinks she's going to get shouted at or kicked out or killed, for instance."

"Okay, can I ask who?"

"Ask that when I've told you what trouble is." She advised, nibbling on a nail.

"Okay." She agreed. "But I have to admit, you're scaring me a little."

"I'm sorry; I'll get to the point." She promised. "Our mutual acquaintance has made a very silly mistake, and she knows it and she's sorry, and she's scared of what her friends and family are going to think because there are consequences to her mistake."

"I'm sure it can't be that bad, I mean there was that time that Giles accidentally said the wrong word in a spell and we ended up with pigs running around the Magic Box."

"Not the point right now Buffy." Cordelia told her nervously.

"I'm sorry, go on."

"She slept with someone that's not right for her and she admits that she made a mistake and now there is a chance that she could be pregnant." She paused, letting the news sink in.

"Is this Faith we're talking about?"

"No!" Cordelia reassured. "It's someone in Sunnydale."

"Well, it can't be Willow or Tara because hello, gay, or Anya because she's with Xander and wouldn't cheat on him." Buffy thought for a moment. "I'm out, who?"

"Dawn." Cordelia replied gently, but matter of fact. "It was Dawn."

Buffy burst out laughing. "Boy Cor, you really got me there! I actually have tears running down my face!"

"I'm serious Buffy, she called me yesterday. She's really scared and she knows she's made a mistake and she's scared to tell you, she also has no idea I'm talking to you so."

"Dawnie? But she's only seventeen, she's practically a kid! How could she be pregnant?" She murmured, almost to herself. "She must have been playing a prank on you 'cause Dawn wouldn't be so stupid as to have sex with some guy she hasn't even told me about!"

"Buffy, listen to me, you need to talk to her." Cordelia told her. "Be understanding, you remember what it was like to be sixteen."

"You're really serious aren't you?" She asked. Cordelia nodded and then answered. "I am."

"What do I do?"

"Talk to her." She advised. "Play sister rather than mom."

"I'll call you back."

"Okay, good luck."

She hung up the phone.

"How did it go?" Faith asked.

Cordelia shrugged. "I don't know. She didn't believe me at first, I think she does now though. She's gone to talk to Dawn."

"Fireworks in the Summers' household." Faith commented dryly.

"Why?" Wes asked, walking through.

"They bought some." Faith lied bluntly.

Cordelia turned to give her a strange look. "I don't even want to know what goes on in your head."

"I gave up trying to break past her frosty interior." Wes commented and walked back out.

"He loves me really."