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"Wow, I'm impressed." Buffy said looking around the huge entranceway to Wolfram and Hart. I mean for an evil law firm this is huge!"
"Yes it is both huge, and evil, but we are working on the second one." Angel said.
"Angel." Buffy said letting her guard down for a second.
"Buffy." Angel replied without any emmotion. This had to be the first time he had seen Buffy and not wanted to kiss her. He only hoped she felt the same way.
"Angel, this is your daughter, Angie Summers." Buffy said.
Angie stepped forward and smiled at the man who looked like her daddy.
"Hiya fake daddy." Angie said giggling as she chewed on her chubby finger.
"Hey there kiddo." Angel said smiling and crouching down to her level. He held out his arms to hug her, as she slung her little arms around his neck he stood up.
"You Angie's real dadda?" Angie asked.
"Well kind of. I am the same, I just didn't know about you." He said. Buffy's heart jumped a little seeing this big, tough vampire acting so sweet towards the two-year-old.
"And these are the others." Buffy said shaking the thoughts of Angel out of her mind. "This is Danny, April, Tabitha and JD."
"Hey guys." Angel said, putting Angie back down again and patting her on the head.
"Well hello Buffy, its great to finally meet you." Lorne said, "I am Lorne, I'll be helping Dawn take care of the kids."
"Yeah Lorne is great with kids, and he and Fred already got a room ready to entertain them." Angel said smiling proudly.
"Okay great." Buffy said, "Sounds like you guys will have fun here while mom works yeah?"
"Okay." Danny said, "Come on guys."
Buffy was glad that Danny and April had been trying to take care of the three younger kids. Angel was just as shocked that Buffy was being nice to the kids.
Dawn and Lorne shook hands and took the kids down the hallway to the room they had made for them.
"Wow, this is awesome!" Danny said as he and the other kids entered the room.
They all looked around at the colorful room. It was painted all different colors. There was a desk and chair, games and more toys than anyone of the kids had ever seen at one time.
"Wow, this is great. How did you guys do this?" Dawn asked looking around with big eyes.
"Well we have the resources now. Its like a great kids playground huh?" Lorne said. "Wait this is the best part!"
Lorne turned to the cd player on the wall, and turned on some music.
"Music is the key to success you know?" Lorne said smiling, "So kiddos what are you waiting for? Get to it!" Lorne said excitedly.
Dawn and Lorne stood back to watch the kids play.
"Is she in here?" Spike asked as he walked into the room slowly.
"Spike?!?" Dawn yelled.
"Oh hey Little Bit." Spike said.
"What the heck are you doing...alive?" Dawn said trying not to let the kids hear her.
"Well honestly, not sure. I have been back for a while, but i couldn't tell Buffy and you guys until I knew why I was back. But now you two are here so..." Spike trailed off.
Dawn ran at Spike and threw her arms around him
"I wish you told us!" Dawn said squeezing his chest. "Buffy has been so...not herself since you well since you've been gone."
"She has?" Spike said.
"Yeah Spike, she really does miss you." Dawn said.
"Really?" Spike asked.
"Yeah she loves you." Dawn said.
"Nah, she never has loved me Dawnie. She'll always love Captain Forehead." Spike said.
"Well she never mentions him. They are not on good terms since he owns Wolfram and Hart. They can't even have a civilized conversation anymore! Every single time they have talked on the phone since you left they have been fighting." Dawn explained.
"Oh." Spike said grinning slightly.
"Daddy!" Tabitha said running full throttle towards Spike.
"Hey there tiny bit." Spike said as the little girl threw her arms around his leg.
"Daddy!" JD yelled as he too threw his arms around Spike's other leg.
"Meet Tabitha and JD." Dawn said smiling down at the five-year-olds.
"Hey guys." Spike said picking the kids up in his arms.
"Hey you aren't really our daddy, but you are like him right?" Tabitha said.
"Yeah! Of course I am." Spike said, immediately taking a liking to the kiddies.
"So have you figured out a way to send them back yet?" Buffy asked, as the two went to the lab where Fred was, and Giles and Wesley went to Wes's office.
"Not yet." Angel said.
"You haven't?" Buffy said sounding frustrated all of a sudden.
"No Buffy these things take time you know." Angel snapped.
"Well for a super huge evil place like this it shouldn't." She snapped back. "Well we don't have to help you. We could be like hmmm you and not." Angel said raising his voice.
"Or you could, she's your daughter too!" Buffy yelled.
"Well I could send you home." Angel said.
"And why the hell would I go? You need me here too!" Buffy said.
"And why would we need you? We don't need your slayer strength here Buffy. And thats pretty much all you have to offer so don't make everything about you. You're in my territory and you don't need to be such a bitch!" Angel yelled until he saw the hurt and tears forming in Buffy's eyes.
"Look Buff, I'm sorry. I didn't mean that, lets just stop fighting for the next 24 hours so we can get this dealt with okay? Deal?" Angel said.
"Deal." Buffy said looking into his eyes. She would have kissed him then if he hadn't have quickly looked away. That was new, Angel had never looked away from her before.
"Hey Freddy. Got anything yet?" Spike asked.
"Nope, working on it though. Did you meet your kids then?" She said looking up from her book and grinning.
"Yeah. They're great! Just like their old man." Spike said smiling proudly.
"Oh great." Fred said laughing.
"Hey Fred, any luck?" Angel said as he walked into the lab.
"Buffy this is Fr..." Angel began.
"Spike!!!"
"So Giles how has it been in Rome then?" Wesley said.
"Well I haven't been there long, but Buffy and the gang have been enjoying a semi normal life." Giles said with gin.
"Thats good. Okay here's the resources." Wesley said.
"This is it?" Giles said looking at the few books, "we had more books in the Sunnydale library."
Wesley just smiled, "Name a book you want to start with."
Giles said the name of the most unusual book he had ever heard of dealing with Inter-dimensional travel. Out of no where the book apeared as it always did for Wesley.
"Good Lord." Giles gasped.
"We have everything here. Books you could never imagine seeing." Wes said.
"Well we had better begin then." Giles said, almost sounding excited.
"Lets get to it." Wes replied as they sat down and opened books.
"Buffy." Spike said.
"What the? How? I mean..." She gasped and then turned to Angel, "Is he real? Is that..."
"Yes its Spike." Angel said finishing her sentence.
"How did this happen?" Buffy asked in shock.
"Buffy I'm so sorry I didn't come to you sooner. I was a ghost first, and then I just needed to see why I was here again. We don't know why I am back, but I am." Spike said.
"I can't believe it!" Buffy said, surprising them all by hugging Spike. "I have missed you so much."
"You have?" Spike and Angel asked at the same time.
"Well yeah." Buffy said.
Suddenly the phone rang on Fred's desk.
"Angel. It was Harmony. We need to get up there. Vamps." Fred said. He and Fred left quickly leaving Spike and Buffy alone.
"I can't believe you didn't come and find me." Buffy said stepping back.
"I couldn't Buffy. I have never been afraid of anything in my un- life, anything except for you. I loved you Buffy, I love you. i loved you even before I had a soul, and even more when I had one. And I know you never loved me, but I was afraid to find you." Spike admitted.
Buffy didn't know how to respond. She simply pulled Spike into her and kissed him.
"I do love you." Buffy said.
"No you don't." Spike said, "you love Angel."
"Yes, I do love Angel, but I am not in love with Angel. Angel was the first guy I ever loved and what we had was special, but its over. Long over. I'll always have him in my heart, but I have you in my life and I'm in love with you, not him." Buffy said smiling into his eyes.
"So you love me then?" Spike asked.
"Yes." Buffy said kissing him again.
"Oooooh! This Buffy and Spike are in love too!" April said giggling.
"Hey kids, what are you doing?" Dawn said, then she saw Buffy and Spike. Buffy's arm was still around Spike.
"Thank God, you know she loves you now right?" Dawn said smiling. "Good no more gloomy sis."
TBC...
Author's Note: Will they find a way to send the kids back? Will they get too attached to the kids? Find out soon... please r&r...