Buffy foot was slowly rocking a bassinet while in her arms lay a small child nuzzling her. She was in the backyard watching as Eliza attempted to chase Xander around the yard. It brought a smile to her face. Xander came over with Anya for Buffy to meet. Anya was sitting next to her going on about some man she made his penis drop off in the 1900's. Buffy at this point had turned the little switch in your head where you can't hear what someone says and concentrate on something else. At the moment she was trying to not to freak out at the fact that they were having a bunch of people come over for a picnic in an hour. Buffy knew she knew everyone but it had been awhile since she had been around this amount of people. There would be Willow, Tara, Xander, Anya, Giles, Dawn and Faith said she might make a cameo.

All people she had seen in the last month on a regular basis but not so together. Yes she had been back in Sunnydale for a little over a month now and her children were growing. They were born on March the 14th and it was now Late April. Eliza would be 8 in November and was proud that she was older than someone else. Buffy couldn't wait until she introduced Dawn to Eliza properly, as her Aunt Dawn. Buffy hadn't introduced Giles yet to her little family, deciding to do it when they were both more comfortable with their relationship. So today was that day.

Buffy took Joy off her chest and repositioned her clothing and put the near asleep child over her shoulder to burp her. After hearing the much needed noise she repositioned the child in her arms and just stared at her sleeping form. She didn't even notice that she had a group of people looking at her until she heard someone clear their throat.

She looked up a little startled and blushed when she saw the whole gang looking at her amused. She got up and put the sleeping child next to her brother and said "What? Can I help it if I love my kids."

Giles shook his head and Xander said "I'll take the bassinet upstairs for you Buff." She nodded and Giles came and sat between her and Anya and said "It is a beautiful sight."

She nodded and said "Their so little. Anyway what's up with you and Dawn?" They both looked up to see Dawn and Eliza running around each other in some sort of game. He smiled and said "She reminds me so much of your mother and you. She's my little girl." She nodded and said "yeah I get that. Although if you had told me this before Eliza I would have probably been very jealous and not talked to you for a week". They laughed and he patted her hand and said "So can I go kill Angel?"

Buffy's head whipped around to him and said "Huh? Where did that come from?" He stared at her hard and said "I have been thinking about it for weeks now. I would think he would at least want to see his baby". Anya suddenly spoke up and said "You should make him pay you money, I hear babies are good way to make them pay." Buffy looked over at Anya and said "Thanks Anya but I think I can do without the hassle."

Giles squeezed her hand and said "I think you should go and talk to him" Buffy nodded and said "I was actually planing on going and seeing him next week."

"Who you going to see B" Faith at that moment shows up with a smirk and plops down on the other side of Buffy." Buffy rolls her eyes and said "Angel". Faith's eyes twinkle and she says "Oh so it is time already! Cool can I watch?" Buffy smiled and then looked a little sad and said "I think you are going to need to hold him down."

Giles looked confused and said "Hold him down?"

At the moment Eliza comes running up the steps laughing and grabs Buffy's hand and says "Show Dawnie Helicopter mommy." Buffy shrugged at everyone and followed Eliza down the stairs but inside sighed and thank the gods for interrupting.

She picked Eliza's hands up and started to spin her around fast enough to make the girl dizzy but not sick. After a few spins she stopped and Dawn ran over and yelled "DO ME DO ME". She smiled at her pint sized sister and grabbed her hands and did the same. Eliza wanted another go but Buffy said "You trying to kill me girl?" Eliza laughed and said in her best pouting voice "Please?" Buffy sighed and said "Just one more go!" Which caused the girls to run around her shrieking with joy and made Buffy shhh them in case the babies woke up.

All in All the day was a success, everyone had fun and Buffy managed to keep Giles from Angel. All she told him was that after her visit to Angel, he would understand and she would tell Giles the whole story afterward. In truth she didn't want Giles to know about Cordelia, she knew he would probably let her but she would feel guilty so she didn't tell him. It was hard keeping it from him but she didn't exactly lie to him she just missed some items from her explanation. After he left at about 7pm she had sent Eliza up for a shower and had changed the twins and nursed them again and then Faith, Willow, Tara and Buffy had sat down to talk.

They had basically talked about a way of getting Cordelia alone and disarming her and how it would be best to break the spell on Angel. It seemed that the girls were all for ether killing her or at least throwing her into an alternate reality. As much as Buffy despised what was happening she needed to work out a way to break the spell without actually having to take a human life.

So they had put their heads together and came up with a spell that would dispel the demon but in the process kill Cordelia without actually causing her any harm. It made no sense to Buffy because if she was dead wasn't that harm? Willow tried to explain it as "If you cut and hacked her up, Cordelia would feel that pain but if we dispelled the demon then the demon would be the only one to feel the pain. Once we did the spell all you have to do is wait." Buffy had nodded at this and Willow had explained that in order for this spell to work she would need Cordelia and Angel's blood otherwise with only one blood or no blood the spell on Angel would still be in place. So now Buffy had a mission, a hard one albeit but still a mission.

In one week she was leaving for LA and wasn't returning until she had her soul mate. The children were going to be in the hotel with her where there was a nursery because in her heart she knew there was no way she would leave them by themselves for however long it would take.

SO IT BEGINS!!

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Author note: Next chapter is when it gets interesting so enjoy! Thanks again to everyone reviewing because I know I wouldn't have continued without them!