Epilogue

"Xander, what time is it?"

"It's two minutes after the last time you asked, Dawn." *That pacing is going to drive me nuts...*

"Why is this taking so long? It shouldn't take this long."

"It's only ten minutes, Dawn. You can wait ten minutes." *...if the rambling doesn't get to me first.*

"But we've been waiting forever."

"There's only a little bit left to go." *Is it possible to speed up time. Surely, science has managed that by now.*

Dawn flopped onto the bed beside him. "I just don't think I can take waiting another minute. Arrgh." She ran her fingers into her hair and pulled.

Xander rolled onto his side and propped himself up on his elbow, looking down into Dawn's face. He just sat looking until Dawn finally looked back at him and said, "What?"

"You know Dawnie," Xander said casually as he looked at the little wand he was waving around in his left hand. "If waiting ten minutes makes you that crazy, then by the end of the next thirty-five weeks you may be completely bald."

Dawn froze. "Thirty-five weeks?"

"Yeah. It will look kinda funny if mommy and baby neither one have hair."

She looked like she was afraid to hope. "Baby?"

"I guess we can always hope the baby has lots of hair."

"Did you say baby?"

"Yeah. I said baby." He moved the wand into her line of sight and watched as her eyes focused on the plus sign.

"Congratulations, Dawn. We made a baby."

Author's Note: I'm already working on it. Those of you who wish to send flames and death threats may do so to the address in my profile.