Title: Who's next 10/?

Arthur: Christen Hays (PurplehaysC@netscape.com) if you want to email me during the week email me at (23405@sjamail.net)

Disclaimer: These Characters belong to Joss Whedon, except Tiama and anyone else you do not recognize.

Distribution: Take it, but let me know. If you have any of my other fics, go ahead.

Comments: this is my first fanfic so please be gentle! And I want all the comments good or bad you have!  (Oh I got this idea from reading Child of Love so who ever wrote that thanks)

"Mom!" Tiama screamed as she landed on the floor in her room. She got up and dusted her self off.  "Great, she sent me back!" Tiama screamed mad. Wait dad, he should be back too. Tiama thought as she ran out of her room and to her dad's. As she started to open the door, the knob turned and the door opened.

"Tiama, you got back safely, I'm so glad." Angel said as he hugged her.

"I'm glad too but why are we back?" She asked confused.

"I guess you asked the one question you couldn't get an answer for." Angel said sadly.

"But she did give me an answer." Tiama said shocked.

"I was there, Tiama, she didn't say anything." Angel said confused.

"But then how do I…" Tiama said as she started to remember everything so clearly.

"Tiama? Angel?" Cordy asked as she ran up the stairs.

"We're at the door to my room!" Angel screamed and then turned to Tiama. "How do you what? Tiama what were you going to say?"

"You guys are ok? I was so worried." Cordy said as she ran up and hugged them.

"Yeah we're fine. Cordy, there's no reason to worry. And don't take what Spike says seriously. He's Spike, he never should be taken seriously." Tiama said to reassure Cordy.

"How did you know what Spike said to me? How do you even know Spike?" Cordy asked confused.

"Hey guys, you're back! Cordy here was so worried and now looking at you, I can assume she was right to be worried?" Oz asked as him, Willow, Damon, Giles, Wesley, Spike, Gunn and Fred came up.

"No, everything is fine. I'm just…. I think I need to lie down." Tiama said as she started to head to her room.

"Tiama, just tell me you're all right." Angel begged.

"I… give me a little while because I can't tell you that right now." Tiama said as she continued to walk.

"Should I go after her?" Angel asked Cordy.

"I can't answer that till you tell me what happened." Cordy said.

Tiama sat on her bed crying. She wanted everything to go away, all the visions, the flashbacks, all the knowledge she was receiving. She couldn't take it; she didn't want it. "Take it back! Make it stop! Please!" Tiama screamed. She clutched her head in her hands and started to rock back and forth. "This is not happening. This can't be happening!" Tiama said as she tired to convince herself. It didn't work though because the visions wouldn't stop. Tiama got under her covers, cried and held Andy Bear close to her heart. (if you don't know about Andy Bear then you might want to read Child of Love)

"Angel, you had to have known the risks that doing something like that would cause." Wesley said shocked after Angel told the story.

"He didn't care about the risks or who he hurt, all he cared about was that he got what he wanted." Cordy said mad.

"Cordy, it wasn't like that. It really wasn't and look I'm fine, Tiama is fine." Angel said walking over to her.

"Right, if she's so fine then why didn't she tell you she was?" Cordy asked.

"Because she just saw her mother and when she asked her mother if she was going to die, her mother refused to answer her. I mean how would you react if you were told you were going to die!" Angel said mad.

"What? You let her find out she's going to die?" Cordy asked furious.

"No, Buffy never said she was but… she might as well have."

"Then we need to do something… I'm not losing her Angel, I can't lose her." Cordy said as she started to cry.

Angel grabbed her and held her tight. "Just because that's what's supposed to happen doesn't mean we're going to let it happen." Angel said as a tear started to fall down his face. "I never had a choose about raising her, I missed three years of her life but I'm having a choose in rather I lose her or not and I'm not losing her!"

"Did he just say Buffy is Tiama's mother?" Willow asked Oz shocked.

"Yeah and that she's going to die." Oz said also shocked.

"I'll do…. I mean we'll do what ever it takes to keep her. None of us are ready to say good bye to that little girl ever!" Gunn said.

"I love her and I can't picture her not being in our lives." Fred said crying.

"You don't have to, we're not losing her. We will fight with everything we have to make sure we don't!" Wesley said.

"This family has been through hell and back and we're still together, there's shouldn't be a doubt in any one's mind that we'll make it through this!" Gunn said.

"How could Buffy be her mother?" Xander asked Willow.

"Wouldn't Buffy have mentioned this?" Spike asked.

"That's if you knew." Giles said.

"We'll do all we can." Willow said to Angel. "But you've got to explain this to us. We need to know how you and Buffy could have a child and she wouldn't tell us."

"She didn't know. I could never bring my self to tell her." Angel said.

"Then how?" Willow asked.

"Cordy and I raised her after the Oracles brought her to me. She was three years old at the time…." Angel said as he started to tell his daughter's story.