Title: Coming Back...

Rating: PG (for swearing)

Disclaimer: I own Chloe and that's it. Joss Whedon owns all BTVS and ATS characters.

Feedback: Yes please!

Author's Note: I wasn't going to make this a long fic but with all the reviews I'm tempted to make it a long fic. Also this chapter is here to introduce the little Harris family.

I know I'm messing around with canon and I have this bad feeling you all leave once you read who I paired Xander up with but their relationship isn't going to be a huge part of the fic. I know you wanted Anya as the mom but I do have her here just not a Xander's girlfriend. Cackles Evilly

Also thanks for the reviews!!! I'm never gotten so many at one time. I'm typing this up and another pops up so thank you so much.

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This is a story based on a challenge of Elisabeth's from Chocolate Covered Strawberries. Except I changed the couples in the story because I cannot write Angel well and I adore writing Xander with a kid fics.

The Other Woman Challenge.

Buffy, after her union with Angel, became pregnant. After hiding it from everyone, she gives the baby to Angel when he leaves Sunnydale. Years later, when she finally thinks it's time to go back for her child. Only, when she does go back to LA, she witnesses something, her child calling someone else "Mom". Requirements: -Buffy's feelings about seeing this. Options: -The other woman can be anyone: Faith, Cordy, Fred, Nina, other.

-The child can be almost any age

-The child can be male or female.

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Sunnydale

Xander smiled at the two women dozing on his couch. They were the most important things in his life. Chloe Jessica his little four year old girl and Tara Maclay the love of his life. Smiling at the sight he tried to be as quiet as he could getting across the apartment.

"Daddy's trying to be quiet." Chloe spoke up giggling from the couch. Xander put a finger to his lips pointing to Tara who was still asleep or so Xander thought.

"It's alright I've been awake since you slammed the door." Tara said rising off the couch Chloe scampering off the couch as well running into her daddy's arms.

"Daddy!" She said kissing his cheek.

"Hey sweetie did you have a good day with Mommy?" He asked wrapping his arms around her.

"Yup we finger painted! I got paint all over my hair so I had to take a bath and the water went all different colors it was pretty. I made you a picture!" She said running into the kitchen to retrieve the picture from the fridge.

"So you were a clean girl." He teasingly asked Tara who smiled coyly.

"No... I had to take a shower later while she was taking a nap."

"I always miss the fun stuff." He said coyly. Chloe returning with the picture looked up curiously at her father and mother.

"What fun stuff?"

"Finger painting sweetie." Tara covered quickly. "Daddy missed the finger painting."

"Oh I thought you meant you missed the shower with mommy and then having a shower sex." She said like she was discussing something as normal as her stuffed animals. Xander groaned, Anya was rubbing off on Chloe.

"Chloe remember how we talked about not mimicking Auntie Anya?" He reminded her. The copy cat nodded guiltily.

"I remember."

"Good. Now are you going to make dinner tonight?" Tara asked Xander, "Or are am I going to have to make it?"

"I'll do it!" Chloe chimed up. Xander and Tara shared a smile. Xander managed to get the image of his daughter covered in flour and pasta sauce out of his head long enough to choke out.

"What are you going to make Chloe?"

"Cookies!" Was the little brunette's response, her parents laughed, while Chloe just looked confused. "Cookies are good food."

"For desert yes, but not for a meal sweetie." Tara explained, Chloe rolled her eyes at the nonsense of such a thing, cookies were good all the time.

"Then I have no ideas you two are own your own."

"Is it possible for a little girl for being so adorable?" Xander asked his girlfriend watching as the girl in question headed to her room singing under her breath a little song something about cookies and dinner.

"In every sweetie there is a little devil." The Wiccian reminded the beaming father. "She bites Spike every time she sees him and takes asking "why" questions to a new level. "

"I know she's got good judgment."

She knew better than to correct Xander, besides like everyone else Chloe met she was under the little girl's pink painted thumb. Except Spike who still thinks of the girl as a pest put on earth to drive the poor vampire insane.

"Now back to the subject of dinner." Xander said, "I think we should go with pizza."

"You just remembered it was your night to cook." Tara replied reaching for the take out menu.

"Pizza is almost better than cookies," They heard a high voice shout.

Los Angeles

"Are you sure you don't want to come with us to watch Lorne sing?" Wesley asked Cordelia as the others headed out of the doors of The Hyperion.

"No I'm tired I think I'm going to head home and curl up with a tub of ice cream and watch Conan." Cordy said putting the last of the case files of the day back into the file cabinet.

"Alright if you want to go watch that obnoxious talk show host go ahead." He said waving goodbye.

"Nothing like a tub of mint chocolate chip after a hard day of getting covered in demon slime." She muttered to herself. "What I do to help these guys out."

Tossing her jacket out to the couch she shifted through her mail pile. "Bills, look more bills, Victoria Secret catalog? Dennis! I told you to stop putting me on these mailing lists. A letter from Xander." She stopped, her hand crumpling the bills in her hand. Tearing it open her eyes scanned the short note from her former boyfriend.

Dear Cordelia,

I hope you're alright in LA. I'm just sending you some pictures of Chloe in her Halloween costume. She had a lot of fun trick or treating with Dawn and I. I know Halloween was months ago but I just got the pictures developed. She loved going as a banker, Anya's idea she managed to convince Chloe bunnies are evil. Willow and Tara were grumbling about all the witches with the fake warts and pointy hats.

Xander.

She pulled out the handful of snap shots, her own brown hair was pulled onto a bun at the nape of Chloe's neck and she was wearing a "business woman of the nineties" skirt and a blue blazer. Another picture of Chloe on top of Xander's shoulder her face lit up with a smile.

I'm never going to see her smile like that. She'll never know that I'm her mother and that I love her more than she'll ever know.

I gave her up; it was the right thing to do.

No it wasn't I shouldn't have given her up. I want to her to know that she has a mommy that loves her.

Does Xander tell her about me? No I'm sure he doesn't I told him in the hospital I didn't want her to know. But I do want her to know. She deserves a mother. Something she'll never have.

It's such a mess.

Cordelia let out a sob that had been stuck in her throat out. She got like this every time Xander sent her a letter or June 13th Chloe's birthday rolled around or when Mother's Day reared it ugly reminding-what-she-gave- away head. Sobbing like the night in the hospital 4 years ago she rested on the arm chair taking a tissue from the box Dennis floated over to her.