"What now?" Buffy asked. "I swear I better not have any more kids." She muttered under her breath.
"Hey mommy," The little girl in front of her said smiling. "Oh mommy you cut your hair...and got new clothes. Hey where are we?"
Oh brother, Buffy thought to herself. There is no need to ask who this one's father is. She is the spitting image of Riley Finn.
"Hey what's your name?" Giles asked.
"Huh? Uncle Giles, you know my name. April, duh! You are not that old are you? What is going on here? All your hair is different, and where's my daddy?" She said looking at everyone as if they were aliens.
"Honey, I am not really your mother. Well I am, but not me. You are in a different dimension." Buffy said.
"Oh okay, well send me back, I like my world better. I just got paid to kiss a fifth grader." She said precociously.
"Why don't they seem to be bothered by the fact that they switched dimensions?" Giles asked.
"Buffy is their mother." Xander said sarcastically.
"You did what?" Buffy asked with her hands on her hips.
"Wow, for not being my mother you sure act like her!" April said grinning.
"Oh God why do I have such psycho kids?" Buffy asked Willow quietly so that April couldn't hear. "Okay honey why don't I take you in to meet the other two kids I have from other dimensions. You can't tell the littlest one what is happening though."
"Sure thing momma," The 10-year-old said following Buffy into the next room.
POOF! BANG!
"Dang that girl needs to take the pill!" Xander said.
"Xander!" Giles said, "That is unnecessary."
"Hello Giles, Willow, Xander, hey where are we?" The little girl asked as she suddenly realized she was no longer at her house.
"Um were on a vacation." Willow said, kneeling down by the twins.
"Hey guys lets play the forgetting game!" Xander said kneeling down by Willow.
"What's that?" the boy asked.
"Well Giles is pretending he can't remember anything, not even your names, or how old you are. You have to help him remember." Willow said winking at Xander.
"Yes I seem to have forgotten everything." Giles said grinning.
"I like this game!" the girl giggled.
"I am JD Summers and I'm five. And my name's like the Jack Daniels. That's like beer or something. Yum!" JD said.
"Stop that JD, you know that beer is bad, so shut up!" she said. "Anyway, I am Tabitha Joyce Summers, and I am also five years old. And I know that beer is bad. And I am a mini vampire slayer!" She said proudly puffing out her little chest.
"Good job guys. You rock at this game!" Xander said grinning at Giles.
"What's going on in here?" Buffy asked as she walked in.
"Oh we were just telling JD and Tabitha about the vacation we are on." Giles said.
"Oh right okay." She said smiling, and then her expression changed. She could only guess whose twins these were. Tabitha had long, straight blonde hair; and JD's was blonde and slicked back across his head. Spike!
"Hey guys, are you excited about the vacation?" Buffy asked trying not to think about the day Spike died.
"Yeah! Fun fun!" Tabitha giggled. "But momma, where's daddy?"
"Um, well he had to um work. He had to work so he couldn't come with us." Buffy said.
"Oh poop." JD said, "I miss dada."
"Don't worry Hun, he'll be back soon." Buffy said trying not to show the tears that had now filled her eyes.
"Hey Auntie Dawn!" Tabitha called out excitedly as Dawn entered the room.
"Hey there!" Dawn said giving Buffy a lift of the eyebrow at the number of kids she now had. "Want to come and meet the others?"
"The others?" Tabitha questioned.
"Yeah they're our new friends." Dawn said, taking their hands.
"Cool!"
"Yeah yeah! Gamey gamey!" Little Angie giggled.
"I'm Danny Summers, but you can call me D-Dawg if you want to, and I'm 12." Danny said.
"Doggy Doggy!" Angie said smiling. "My name Angie and Angie is 2!"
"I'm April Finn and I'm 10." She said smiling at Angie.
"And I'm Tabitha Summers." Tabby said.
"I'm JD Summers. We're both 5." JD said pointing at his sister.
"Good okay guys are you hungry?" Dawn asked, "I'll make you all dinner while you get to know each other." She said walking into the kitchen.
"What is going on here?" Tabitha, who was very intelligent for her age, asked.
"Yeah I agree, something weird is going on. How can all our last names be the same?" JD asked.
"Well..." Danny started to say.
"We're not supposed to tell them Danny." April said placing her hand on his shoulder.
"They can know, it involves them too." Danny said.
"Okay, guys none of us are in our real homes. Buffy is all of our mothers, but a Buffy in another world. Actually four different worlds." April tried to explain.
"Well that's good to know." Tabitha said.
"This doesn't surprise you?" Danny asked.
"Nope, I mean Buffy is my mother too, we go through this weird stuff all the time." Tabby said.
"Geez you're pretty smart for a five-year-old." Danny said.
"Thanks." Tabitha said blushing slightly.
"So do we all have the same dad, because that means we are all brothers and sisters!" April said.
"Well our dad is Spike." JD said. "He's a vampire, but he has a soul."
"Spike! My mom, I mean Buffy got togther with Spike!" April said, "And he has a soul! Weird!"
"Hey he's nice now okay." Tabitha said.
"Well my dad is Riley Finn." April said.
"And mine is a...well he's a jerk! His name is Parker, and he does not live with us." Danny said.
"And who'd your daddy Angie?" April asked.
"My dada is Angel. He a vampy too, but a nice vampy." Angie said smiling. "I want my daddy."
"It's okay Angie, don't be sad. Come here." April said pulling Angie onto her lap and hugging her.
"Well what are we going to do?" Danny asked.
"Since adults can't sort things out, we'll have to find a way home on our own." Tabitha said.
"Yeah we can do it easy!" JD agreed.
"So what are we going to do about this?" Willow asked, after Buffy left to help Dawn in the kitchen.
"Well I'm not sure. I really don't know enough about Inter- dimensional travel to send little kids through portals. We would need a lot more sources than we have. The only idea I can think of is not going to be a popular one with Buffy." Giles said.
"What's that? Make her keep the kids?" Xander said sarcastically.
"Xander this is serious." Willow said sternly.
"Okay, okay, then what?" Xander asked.
"Well first we'd have to contact Angel..." Giles began.
"I can see how Buffy may not like this plan too much." Xander said.
"Anyway," Giles began again giving Xander a stern look, "We all now how evil Wolfram and Hart is, but with Angel running it we can only hope he is trying to turn it around. They have more resources than we could ever imagine. More books, more texts; anything can be found in their databases merely by asking. Wesley has informed me of this, so I'm sure they will know what to do. We may even have to bring Riley in on this. We could use his intelligence, but of course not Parker."
"Oh boy. Buffy is not going to like this plan, but I can see that it's the only way to go." Willow said.
"Yeah who's going to tell Buffy?" Xander asked.
"Tell me what?" Buffy asked walking in the room.
TBC...