Giles House

2:00 PM

"So Drusilla is your mother?" Cordelia asked Rose. Rose sat on the floor near the couch where Cordelia lay. Rose nodded.

"Crazy," Cordelia murmered. She too had seen how much Rose resembled her mother.

"What are you watching?" Rose asked, her voice barely above a whisper. Cordelia could tell, watching her, that she wasn't a very happy camper. She looked like she was under a great deal of stress. She hugged her knees and when Cordelia didn't answer her original question she decided she'd try another.

"Who else lives here?"

"Giles and his twins, Nicky and Alex," Cordelia said scratching tiredly at her arm. She was so sick of being itchy and feeling hot all the time.

"Mr. Giles? The librarian?" Rose asked.

"Yeah. Why?" Cordelia asked.

"He was just so nice to me yesterday." Cordelia smiled and thought about her first day of high school when Giles had given her her text books and smiled, making her feel immidiately welcome into her new and scary environment.

"How old are his boys?" Rose asked.

"Five," Cordelia answered.

"Only five? Where's their mom?" she asked.

"Well, Nicky and Alex were abandoned when they were really little."

"How old were they?" Cordelia thought a moment.

"I'd say 4, 5 months old. Anyway Buffy and Angel found them one night on patrol. They brought them to the local police but they were never able to track down their mother. They gave full custody to Buffy a few months later. You know at that time we were all just starting high school so there was no way Buffy could take care of them on her own. That's when she turned to Giles, her watcher and one of the only people she trusted at that time. He promised he would love them with all of his heart and protect them from anything. So before the boys had their first birthday they were under Giles' full custody." Rose took a few moments to soak in all of this information. She slowly nodded.

"Why is there a crib in the back bedroom?" she asked.

"Willow," Cordelia answered.

"Her and Oz have a little girl named Kalani."

"What's her story?" Rose asked.

"Well there really is no way to say this were it won't sound offensive to Will or her family," Cordelia said.

"Try me."

"Kalani was an accident."

"How so?" Rose asked.

"Well Willow was pressured. Pressured into sex by myself, Buffy, and Anya. We didn't mean to do it. We all had boyfriends at the time and we had all done it so she wanted to too. She felt left out. We were all young and stupid and we were all experimenting with different things. Well Oz and Willow were no different then any other teenagers at that time so there was no reason not to. So they went for it."

"So you mean the first time Willow and Oz ever had sex Willow got pregnant?" Rose asked.

"Well, yeah. The next day Willow was all giggly and stuff. Not her normal self. Buffy and I asked and she spilled the beans. One thing she did tell us that stuck out in my mind was they didn't protect themselves but she wasn't too worried about being pregnant. Two weeks later in health class they told us about unwanted teenage pregnancies. They told us all these horrible stories about what people did to the unwanted babies. I remember coming home that day and hugging Nicky and Alex and reminding them how much I loved them. I was just so grateful, at the time that Buffy and Angel had found them. So anyway the talks kind of freaked Willow out and we went with her after school to take a pregnancy test. And sure enough Will was knocked up. She kept the baby after she was born because it didn't seem right to do any of the things are teacher had told us about." Rose sighed and thought about this too.

"Maybe you shouldn't of told me any of this," Rose replied, a twinge of guilt in her voice.

"No," Cordelia said.

"But now I am eager to hear your story."