Disclaimer and notes in chapter 1.

A/N: Sorry! Sidetracked and writer's block. Finally got an idea for this, but I don't know what I'm gonna do for the next fairy tale. If you've got any ideas, please put them in your reviews.

15 years later...

Buffy skipped - yes, skipped - down a garden path, stopping occasionally to converse with the animals she met along the way.

Back at the cottage...

Angel and Spike were arguing - again -, while Dru danced around the small cottage singing, completely oblivious to the bickering going on between her childe and sire.

"Going to be a party tonight," she sang happily.

(I don't feel like writing the arguement right now. If you all are REALLY good, I MAY write a flashback that explains it).

"Mrs. Narrator-lady?"

Huh?

"Can you magic us up a dress? Neither of us knows how to sew, and knowing Dru, she'd prick everyone and everything by the time Buffy got back," Angel explained.

sighs Alright. But just this once. You guys are on your own with the cake. says something in Latin under her breath and a blue dress appears

"Thank you!" Spike and Angel chorused.

Back in the woods...

A young prince rode swiftly down a trail...

"I am NOT singing," Buffy stated.

You are if you want a decent part in the next one.

"Well, what's the next one?"

Uh, I don't know yet. I'm making this up as I go along, ok?

Buffy sighed. "You're never gonna give me a straight answer, are you?"

Nope. Let's get back to the story. SING.

She huffed. "One question: Do I have to sing "Once Upon A Dream"? I hate that song!"

Yes. Now sing.

Flatly "I know you. I walked with you once upon a dream."

Sarcastically Yeah. That'll attract the prince. With feeling, girl!

"Forget it. I'm not singing anymore."

Then Prince Xander rode up on his white stallion.

Crickets chirp

I SAID, "Then Prince Xander rode up on his white stallion"!

Back at the cottage...

Dru was, as always, completely oblivious to what was going on around her.

Spike was trying in vain to bake an edible cake, while Angel was hanging decorations.

"Do we have to take her back tonight? I really liked having her around. She lightened the place up a bit," Spike said, while mixing various ingredients.

"Spike, I've told you this before. We only had her for 15 years. Now, she goes back to Wesley and Fred. And she learns about her heritage. We have no control over the situation," Angel explained as he was trying to pin a streamer into a beam in the ceiling. "Besides, Giles is going to explain the whole Slayer deal to her. That should prove to be fairly amusing."

Back in the woods...

Xander FINALLY made it to the clearing where Buffy sat, pouring her heart out to the woodland creatures.

"...Uncle Angel and Uncle Spike have been acting really weird lately. Aunt Drusilla has been her usual kooky self, but that can't be helped.

"It's weird. Like Uncle Angel and Uncle Spike know something is gonna happen, and they don't want it to. They've been extra protective lately. Especially Uncle Spike. It's like he's afraid he's gonna lose me. I don't know what to do about it. Every time I try to tell him to back off a bit, he just pretends like he didn't hear it. But I can see it in their eyes. They know something," Buffy said.

Xander watched, intrigued, behind a tree.

"And they wanted me out of the house today for some reason. I think it's because of my birthday, but all three of them are so absent-minded I'm surprised they actually remembered. I don't think that's it. Maybe they're gonna kill each other and they didn't want me to see the battle," Buffy pondered.

A/N: Next chapter: a meeting, a party, and a reunion. See ya!