Giles House

2:30 PM

After some careful explaining and a lot of questions the story about Rose and Emily was out. Drusilla had cheated on Spike with a mortal and they had Rose. A few years after Rose was out of the picture, Spike forgave Drusilla and the two had Emily. Emily was taken from Drusilla by Angel when she was only 2 months old. Angel, still not knowing that the vampires had broken into the orphanage system, put Emily up for adoption and she was put with her current family who disrespected her and treated her as if she wasn't there.

As Willow asked Rose some questions, Buffy slipped out of the room and into Giles bathroom. She searched around in the cabinet for a while before pulling out a bottle of aspirin. Emily saw Buffy leave the room and scrambled out of Cordelia's lap to follow her.

"Buffy," Emily squeaked. Buffy jumped a little before noticing Emily. She couldn't help but smile at the little face that looked back up at her.

"Drusilla and Spike are my mommy and daddy?" she asked. Buffy got down to Emily's height, knowing Nicky and Alex really liked that, and held her hands in hers.

"Em, this all very complicated and I am really sorry that you have to be caught in the middle of all of this mess."

"Will I be able to see my Mommy and Daddy?" she asked. Tears were slowly forming in her eyes and a large lump grew in Buffy's throat.

"We'll try and work something out okay?" Emily nodded and led Buffy back into the living room. Tears were rushing from Rose's eyes and she didn't know why she found herself so upset. Drusilla broke into Rose's head of mixed up emotions. Dawn rushed in the front door, just getting off of school.

"Rose, I have something very important to tell you." Rose let out a sharp yelp and fell over clutching her head. Drusilla's prescence had never been painful before. Today, though, her head was throbbing, she felt hot and nauseated, and her heart thumped painfully against her chest. Buffy, Xander, and Dawn quickly rushed to her side.

"It's about Daddy. Your Daddy. He's alive and here with you." Rose cried and started to shake.

"It's Xander, love. Let him love you. Let him into your heart and let him protect you!" Drusilla was gone again and everything was quiet as Rose's cries quieted. Her eyes opened and she stared at Xander who was knelt down at her side. At that instant Xander knew. He knew Drusilla had told her. And for one of the very rare times the gang had seen her, Rose smiled. She smiled through her tears and got to her knees, her eyes never leaving Xander's. Xander found himself smiling too. Slowly, Rose rested her head on Xander's chest and locked her arms around him. Xander responded immidiately and hugged his daughter and the two cried. After about 3 or 4 minutes of quiet Xander turned to his friends and explained everything.

How he was out on night and Drusilla was upset because Spike was ignoring her again. Secretly, he snuck out every night to be with her, and finally Drusilla accepted him as a person and Xander accidentely got her pregnant. Drusilla kept telling him that it was impossible but the impossible had happened. For the first time, Buffy noticed Rose's, same gentle chocolate brown eyes and her fun-going attitude. It was a mirror of what Xander was inside.

Buffy realized that Rose was deffiently her father's daughter.