Chapter 9

Willow woke up to a pair of blue sapphire eyes looking at her. "Hey." Willow said as she wiped the sleep out of her eyes.

"Good morning." Tara said as she went in for a morning kiss that lasted longer than she had planned.

Willow smiled into the kiss. "Mmmm, it is now."

Tara pulled up and gave her wife a grin. "So, how did it go? Did he behave himself?"

Willow laughed. "Yeah, but I kinda read his mind and I don't think I like it to much."

"What happened, is he just lying to get to me?" Tara said starting to get worried.

Willow shook her head and rubbed tara's belly. "No, he wants to get better but he also has a crush on me."

Tara laughed. "Yeah right, my brother can't stay with anyone after they had sex."

"Well, we aren't going to have sex ever. He kept thinking of how he wanted me and how he wanted to be my boyfriend. It was really disturbing but other than that, he was doing good." Willow stated matter of factly.

Tara sighed and fell back to the bed. "Well that's not good, he isn't one for long relationships."

Willow got on her side and looked to tara. "Baby, we're not going to be in a relationship ever so it won't be like my heart will be broken." She sighed. "Would you care if your dad got a girlfriend?"

Tara quickly turned to face willow. "What?"

Willow sighed. "Well, I can't tell you everything but I think it would be good for him to have someone. Donny is ok with it but I wanted to make sure you are too, I would hate to complicate anything." Tara looked down and then looked back up to willow about to say something. "And don't you lie to me, I know you and you will say you don't care but really you do. If you let that stew inside of you then it will eat at you and I won't have that. Tell me the truth."

Tara sighed again. "I don't know, no one can ever take the place of my mom but he does need someone. I just don't know, she will never be my mother yet my dad will expect me to call her that."

Willow put her arms around tara and brought her closer. "No one can ever replace your mother, if you don't want to call her mother than I will talk to your dad but I think he needs this. I just want to make sure you won't mind."

Tara pulled away to look into willow's eyes. "I won't mind, he can date who ever he wants. Now about this donny thing, he is going to try and go after you."

Willow nodded. "I know, buffy will be there with me so if anything happens then I will be ok." Just then they heard a knock on the door. "Come in."

Buffy came in and looked at the two girls. "Hey guys, have a good sleep?" She asked as she sat on the side of the bed.

Tara nodded. "Yeah, how about you? You look like hell to put it lightly."

Buffy nodded. "Faith and I got our ass kicked pretty hard but we got another gold star for dead demon."

"Wow." Willow said.

Buffy nodded. "Anyway, dawn and bri are a little out of it today. They want the wedding for the day after tomorrow since they have everything already, but they have to make sure that everyone is coming and make sure everything is going good as planned. Just wanted to let you know to watch yourself. I sent them to their apartment but I have a feeling they will be back."

Willow giggled a bit. "Well, I have a session in a couple of hours so I will be gone for a while."

Tara nodded. "I'm going to go read and get some coffee.

"Well me and faith are going to get some sleep and rest our bones. Hopefully they won't come back, they are so stressed out its not even funny. They are worse than willow, they are babbling like crazy." Buffy laughed.

"Hey!" Willow yelled.

Buffy put her hands up. "Sorry, you are still the babble queen don't worry. But you have to admit that when you two were getting married, you were a nervous wreak."

Willow nodded. "Ok, I agree but still, so were you."

"Yeah, I guess your right. Well, I should get back to bed, I am still sore. See you guys later." Buffy said getting up and moving to the door.

"See you later, I hope you feel better." Tara said as buffy nodded and walked out the door. Tara looked back at willow. "We should get up. You need to get ready and you also have to work on that computer program they gave you to do. I don't want you slacking on your work because of my family."

Willow brought tara even closer. "Don't worry baby, slacking is not even in my vocabulary. You know me, work before play."

Tara grinned and kissed willow. "You sure you can't play until you get all your work done."

Willow grinned. "Well, maybe a little play time before the session." With that, tara was on willow and kissing her passionately.

Its been about two weeks and everything was going good. Dawn and bri got married and it went on without a flaw, it was so beautiful and it got everyone in tears, even faith. Tara is a couple weeks away from having a baby and she is getting even more contractions and willow is getting more acetous. Willow finished the program for her job and promoted the rest of her time to help tara's dad and brother. They have had a lot of sessions and willow figured out why they were like the way they were. She knew that she should start to bring tara in the mix so she also went to the sessions with the other two men. Willow told tara everything and got a story from her too. She had some private sessions with tara and got tara to think of her as a psychiatrist instead of her wife and it went quiet well. Tara knew that willow was reading her mind but told her everything about her life even though willow already knew most of it. The boys were doing quiet well, they sold there farm and bought an apartment in Sunnydale and got a job. Willow called in a favor to xander and got him to give them a construction job since that is what they liked to do. The relationship between the father, daughter, and brother is going really great but willow still won't let them be alone in the same room yet. There was one more session to go with all three of them there. They each met there and waited for willow to get there and tell them what was going on.

Willow walked in and saw everyone there. Tara just came out of the kitchen with four drinks in her hand and gave one to willow as she went over to kiss her and sat down. Willow sat in her chair and took out her note pads for each person and looked at them all. "Ok, after hearing everyone and going through the notes I have figured out why you are the way you are. Before we begin I would like to confess something, during each session I could read everyone's mind and I also wrote those thoughts in my pads. I had to do that in order to see if you guys were telling the truth and I am proud of you." She looked at donny. "I could also read your thoughts and you have to understand that I am married, you also have to understand that I am gay so I won't be going out with any guys even if I didn't have tara."

Donny nodded. "I know but I like you."

Willow smiled. "I like you too but not in that way. Don't worry, you will find someone that will make you happy as much as tara makes me happy." She takes out her pad. "Ok, first we are going to start with Mr. Maclay. When you first got married you were a really cool guy, but when you got the farm you started to go bad. Then when she died you started to get really bad and you never knew how to stop. The first problem was getting the farm and having all those chores, we fixed that and now you have to work but it is not that hard. The next was your wife dying, although I can't say I know how you feel because my wife never did but I still know that it is hard. You started to drink because you thought it would help the pain but it didn't really so you started to cause others pain, mainly tara. You kept all your feelings inside so you never got over her death. I have a feeling that now you should be ok and I think you should start dating again, even though you loved her and you will never forget her, you still need to get someone that will make you as happy as you can get. I think that if you do everything that I told you then your life will be great once again." She finished very proudly.

Mr. Maclay nodded. "Yeah I guess your right, I haven't been happy since we got the farm. Thank you willow, I am proud to have you as my daughter-in-law."
Willow smiled. "I am happy to be your daughter-in-law." She took out another note pad and looked at donny. "Donny, you were also a good boy before your dad made you work on the farm, in my opinion the farm was the worst thing that happened to your family besides the death. You kept getting into trouble with the police and never stopped. I feel that this new gob and new place would help you realize that you are more than a troubled little boy who can only stay with a girl for one night. You can have a long lasting relationship with someone and you can get good money and go out on your own and be a real man. You are more than you think." She said as she smiled proudly again knowing that she helped someone.

"Your right, I can do this." He said proudly as he smiled.

Willow giggled. "Good to here it. And last but not least tara, you don't need help like them but you do need help. Professional stand point, I know that you had a bad child hood and it is hard to forget if ever but they are your family. I love my parents even though they never knew I existed practically because they are my parents. I know what you have been through was much worse with losing your mother and all but you still need family and not just a wife and really great friends but blood type family. Wife stand point, I have noticed the change with them and I will allow you guys to be with each other alone. I think that it is time to put the past behind you and get along, once you guys become family again then the rest of us can too. That would be the end of these sessions and I think we all did a great job." She looked around. "I will talk to anyone who needs to whenever you need to. You can now go on with your new and improved lives." She said stranding up.

Mr. Maclay and donny both stood up and walked toward the door. "Thank you willow again, I think this is going to be good." Donny said.

Willow nodded her head. "Your welcome, now go have fun." She said shooing both of them to the door. They both left and willow plopped down on the couch next to tara putting her arm around her. "Done."

Tara turned to willow and snuggled up to her putting her arms around her as willow does the same. "Thank you will, I didn't think it could be done. I didn't think that my family could be put back together like that."

Willow rubbed tara's back. "No problem baby, I am glade to do it. I am your wife aren't I, I will take care of you forever and if that means getting your family back together then I will stop at nothing to make sure your life is perfect."

"Even if I had nothing in the world except you, my life would still be perfect, I love you." Tara said.

Willow smiled and kissed tara's temple. "I love you too, I just want to give you more than me, I want to give you everything you need and want."

Tara looked up into willows eyes. "Will, you already have. All I've wanted and needed in my life since my mother died was love. I never got it from my dad or brother so I got it from you. You've given me what I have wanted since I was little and that is all I'm after. I don't need a big house with a picket fence, all I need is you and my life is more than perfect." Tara gives willow a chaste kiss and looks back in her lovers eyes.

Willow smiles and gives tara another kiss. "I feel the exact same way." She sighs. "Come on, we need to get home. I think buffy is waiting for us outside, I have another program to get started on but I think I might start it tomorrow. I want to spend as much time with you as possible before the baby comes cause we are gonna be busy." She giggles.

Tara also giggles. "Yeah, your right." They both got up and walked out the door to be met by buffy, they all walked home for a couple hours until they decided to go out to the Bronze for some fun. They wanted to call dawn and bri but knew they were at the apartment on their honeymoon and didn't want to be disturbed.

The two girls kept up with the tradition of hanging out with each other till that day came were they would not be the only two in the Rosenburg-Maclay family. Dawn and bri came back and told them what they did on their little honeymoon without going a little overboard on the details. Tara was due any day now and everyone was waiting in anticipation. Tara could barely walk around the house so she usually stayed in the same room for half the day with someone with her to keep her company.

Tara was sitting in the living room trying to read but her contractions were getting worse by the minute. Willow was making tea for them both while buffy and faith went to get some pizza to please tara's cravings. Dawn and bri were in their apartment sleeping and getting rid of a big hangover after a long night with liquor at the Bronze. Even though they are only 20, buffy got them a little something to celebrate.

Willow walked in with the tea and sat it down on the coffee table while she sat down next to her wife. "How you feelin baby?" She asked.

Tara shrugged. "Bad mostly, I just can't wait to get it out of me."

Willow frowned. "I'm sorry sweetie, I can't wait either, we are going to be mothers." She said as she smiled.

Tara smiled too. "Yeah, I can't believe it, our very own child." Tara started to glow but then lost it when another contraction hit. "Holy shit!" She yelled.

Willow took tara's hand getting ready for the contraction herself. "Hang on baby, grip my hand." Just as she was saying this, tara gripped willows hand very hard making willow squeal in pain. She didn't want to yell to much so tara could give her some of the pain she was feeling. After a while the pain subsided and tara was breathing hard. She looked over to willow who was shaking her hand. "I'm sorry, did I hurt you?"

Willow shook her head. "No, it's just like the other times. Don't worry, I can take it."

Tara took willows hand and kissed each digit. "All better?"

"All better." Willow said smiling.

About seven minutes later another contraction came and went. Tara went wide-eyed. "Willow, the contractions are seven minutes apart and getting worse, you heard what the doctor said."

Willow also went wide-eyed. "Oh my god, it's time. I'll call the doctor." She said while getting up and running to the phone.

Buffy and faith walked in. "Got yummy pizza goodness here for a very pregnant lady." Buffy said as they walked into the living room. She notices willow run in from the kitchen. "What's up?"

Willow looked at buffy as she helped tara up. "It's time." She say's as she grabs her over night bag and headed out the door with buffy and faith right behind them.

Buffy was amazed. "Wow, oh my god."

They headed to the hospital and the doctors took tara in with willow at their side. Buffy and faith went into the waiting room and called bri, dawn, Mr. Maclay, donny, and josh who were really excited and hung up the phone before buffy even said goodbye. They waited for a couple hours after everyone got there and they still haven't seen willow or tara yet.

Finally, willow came into the waiting room wearing a blue garment. Buffy saw her and got up getting everyone else to stand up to. "How is she?" Buffy asked.

"She's doing great, we are still waiting but it should be any time now. She wants to see you all." Willow said as she directed them into the delivery room. She walks up to a sweaty tara lying in a bed just waiting for another contraction. "Hey baby, look who's here." She said as she got out of the way so tara could see the gang.

Tara looks around at everyone. "Hey guys, how are you?" She asked.

Buffy walks closer and takes tara's hand. "I could ask you the same thing." Just then, tara had another contraction and squeezed buffy's hand but buffy didn't flinch at all.

Willow saw this and once the contraction was over she asked about it. "Buffy, doesn't your hand hurt?"

Buffy shook her head. "No, I think it is because I can take in a lot of pain before I even start hurting at all, this is nothing." She giggles.

Willows eyes widened. "Wow, my hand feels like a thousand pound anvil fell on it."

"Sorry baby, I guess I don't know my own strength." Tara apologized.

Willow shook her head. "It's ok, I know that you are in more pain so I can endure it for you."

Tara looked at buffy and then willow. "Sweetie, if buffy can take it without any pain then maybe she should be the pain taker." Tara suggested.

Willow looked at buffy and shrugged. "Sure, but I am staying here with you through the whole thing and buffy has to keep her eyes away from your special place." Willow stated.

Buffy laughed. "Don't worry will, I won't look. Faith might have something to say about that." She looked at faith.

Faith nodded. "Damn straight B."

The doctor came over to tara. "Ok, here comes another contraction. Why don't you push on this one." She looks around to everyone else. "You guys will have to leave. Mrs. Rosenburg-Maclay will come get you when she has the baby."

Everyone nods and walks out leaving buffy and willow there to help tara. Buffy held onto tara's hand while wiping sweat off her temple. Willow keeps saying soothing words to tara and gets some not nice things back in return. Willow and buffy both know that she doesn't mean it so they don't pay attention but they are surprised of the words she is using. About a half an hour later the baby is finally out and being cleaned by the nurses.

They hand the baby over to willow. "Congratulations, it's a girl." The nurse said.

Willow takes the little baby and brings it over so tara can see it. "She's so beautiful."

Tara looks at her and smiles. "She has your hair."

The baby opens her eyes and willow smiles. "And she has your eyes."

Buffy came over. "Oh my god, she is so beautiful."

Willow smiled. "Isn't she, and she's ours." Willow said in a loving voice as she stroked her baby's cheek.

"What are you going to name here?" Buffy asked.

Willow and tara both looked at each other. "Remember what we said, the person pregnant gets to pick the first name and the other gets the middle name." Willow said.

Tara nodded and thought for a moment before answering. "Sarah."

Willow furrowed her brow. "Why sarah?"

Tara smiled. "I picked sarah because that is the name of my best friend during middle and high school and she is the one who helped me through the toughest years of my life besides josh. She inspired me to be strong for myself and others cause before she helped me, I was in my own little safety box that I couldn't get out of by myself."

Willow grabbed tara's hand while still holding the baby. "That is beautiful, how come you and josh never talked about her?"

Tara looked down. "She died about eight years ago because of breast cancer, he knows I always gets sad when we talk about her so he never does."

Willow lent down and kissed her head. "Sarah it is."

Tara looked up. "How about a middle name?"

Buffy nodded. "Yeah will, what do you got?"

Willow thought for a moment and smiled. "Since you got to pick on of your closest friends then so will I." She looked down to her new daughter and smiled. "Her name will be sarah anne Rosenburg-Maclay.

Buffy put her hand over her heart with tears streaming down her cheeks. "Aw will, thank you so much."

Willow gave tara the baby and went to the other side of the bed to buffy and hugged her. "It's the least I could do after what you've done for me over the past years. I couldn't leave you out of it, I love you too much buffy."

"I love you too will, thank you so much." Buffy said as she pulled away from the hug and looked at tara. "You are one lucky woman to have her."

Tara nodded. "Yeah I am."

Buffy smiled. "I'll go out and get everyone in here." She waved to the baby. "See you soon sarah." With that she was gone to get everyone leaving willow and tara alone with sarah.

Willow went and sat on the side of the bed looking down at sarah and tara. "She looks so much like us. Your blue eyes and my red hair, your soft skin and my bone structure. Out of all the things I have made in my life, this is by far the best." She stroked tara's sweat damped hair.

Tara nodded. "She is so beautiful, I am sorry for everything I said to you, I love you like crazy."

Willow nodded. "I know, I know you didn't mean anything you said. You could not believe how much I love you, we made a life together with our love."

Just then everyone came in and saw the baby and they gave awe's all over the place. By now, tara was sitting up with sarah in her arms and willow lying on the bed with her. Everyone gathered around. "Hello everyone, I want to introduce to you sarah anne Rosenburg-Maclay. We named her after our best friends, Sarah came from my closest friend from middle and high school and of coarse willow got anne from buffy's middle name."

Josh came in the front of everyone. "Tara, are you serious?" Tara nodded and josh went over to kiss her head. "She would be proud of you."

Tara nodded. "I think so too, I really miss her and now a part of her is in my life forever."

Josh smiled. "Even if you never had this baby, she is still looking down on you. She said she would always be looking out for you and I feel that she is why you met willow."

Tara looked up at willow. "You know, I really do believe that, she is my guardian angel."

Willow smiled. "I like her already, who ever brings me to you and looks out for you is a great person in my book."

"She was a great person." Tara said as she looked down at sarah and gave her a kiss on her forehead.

Willow looked to buffy. "Buffy, me and tara have been talking before sarah came and we were hoping that you would be her godmother."

Buffy got really excited. "Oh my god of coarse I will, that's awesome thank you." She went over to hug them both again.

Tara looked at josh. "Josh, we were wondering if you would be her godfather."

Josh nodded. "I would be happy to." He went over and kissed all of their heads.

Faith looked around and looked at the clock. "Umm buffy, we should get going, we need to get rid of some things so sarah can have a bit of a safer life." She smiled.

Buffy nodded. "Okay." She went over to the bed and kissed all three girls on the forehead. "I love you guys and congratulations."

Tara smiled. "We love you two buffy and thanks, it means a lot to us."

Buffy nodded and she left with faith. After a while later of talking dawn and bri had to go to class and josh had to go to work. Mr. Maclay and donny stayed as late as they could and got to hold sarah as well as everyone else. They left a while later leaving the two mothers alone with their newborn. The doctor said that tara had to stay overnight but could leave the next day. They took the baby and put her in a room with others in it. They slept in a peaceful sleep knowing that the baby would be perfectly safe where she is.

Its been a week so far and willow and tara moved back into their home and got the baby's room all set up for sarah. Everyone got to spend time with sarah and loved her from the moment they picked her up. Buffy and faith loved her so much that they were thinking of one themselves. Dawn and bri are looking forward to kids but know they won't have one for a while.

Buffy and faith were asleep in each others arms, while faith had a dream about kicking some demons ass, buffy was having a very weird dream that didn't make the slayer to happy.

Buffy was walking threw the cemeteries and saw someone walking through the tombstones so she followed them. She followed them to a stone that buffy had never seen before and read it. She recognized the writing as a title of a book she noticed when she was moving it in willow and tara's house and then noticed a page number. She looked at the person who was standing there and all of a sudden they were gone. She looked back at the tombstone and remembered the title and page number. Right next to it another tombstone appears out of no were and buffy reads it.

'Find this book and page or someone you love will die.' Is all it said before buffy woke up. She looked around and then at the clock that read seven. Faith was already gone so she got up and got dressed to go down stairs.

Buffy walked downstairs and found faith in the kitchen. "Hey baby." She said.

Faith looked up to see her wife standing there in deep thought. "What's wrong B?" She asked.

Buffy looked at faith. "Can you call everyone and tell them to meet at willow and tara's?"

Faith furrowed her brow. "What's up?"

"Just do it and I will explain later. I am going to get them up and we will wait for everyone one." Buffy said as she got her coat.

Faith nodded. "No problem."

Buffy nods and leaves for willow and tara's house. When she got there she walked in to find tara in the kitchen breast feeding sarah. Everyone has seen it before and no one really cares so tara just went on when she noticed buffy. "Hey tara, where's willow?"

"Upstairs still asleep." Tara said.

"Damn." Buffy said as she went over to sarah and rubbed her tummy.

Tara watched and smiled but faded when she heard buffy. "What's wrong buffy?"

Buffy looked up at tara. "I had a prophesy dream and I don't know what's going on but I told faith to call everyone and tell them to come over here. I'll go wake up willow." Buffy started to walk away but was stopped by tara.

"Umm buffy, maybe I should. Sarah is done, why don't you take her and I'll wake her up. Willow and I kinda stayed up late last night if you know what I mean." Tara said handing buffy the baby.

Buffy took sarah and smiled as tara fixed her robe. "I understand, well hurry up. I need to look for something. Have you guys moved any of the books since we got them in here?"

Tara shook her head. "Not that I know if." She said as she went to get willow.

Buffy went into the living room and went to where she thought she saw it last. She held sarah in her arms talking to her and looking at the same time which was pretty easy for the slayer.

Willow and tara came down in shorts and a t-shirt. "Buffy, what is it?" Willow asked rubbing her eyes.

Buffy turned around. "I had a prophesy dream and everyone is on their way so I will explain in detail when everyone gets here."

Willow looked at her. "Okay fine, but as long as we are waiting, let me see my baby." She said as she smiled and took sarah away from buffy as she kept looking for the book.

"Hey there cutie, how are you." She said in a baby voice holding her up.

Tara smiled. "I already fed her too."

Willow frowned playfully. "I didn't get a free show?"

Tara laughed. "No, but buffy did."

Willow looked at buffy. "Buffy, you got a free show but I didn't, that is totally not fair?"

Just then everyone came in and piled into the room. Buffy found the book she was looking for and found the page, she read it and her eyes went wide. Tara noticed this and went closer to her. "Buffy, are you ok?"

Buffy looked at tara and shook her head. "No tara, I'm so sorry."

Tara furrowed her brow and went closer. "Buffy, let me see the book."

Buffy shook her head and backed away so she can see everyone. "Can everyone sit down please, I need everyone's attention. This is probably the worst news I have ever had to give." Everyone sat down and listened to buffy carefully. She looked around and took in a deep breath of air. "Ok, last night I had one of my prophesy dreams and it had me walking in a grave yard. I saw someone and I started to follow them until I got to a tombstone that had this book title and a page number." She held up the book she was looking at. "The guy disappeared and then another tombstone appeared and it said 'find this book and page or someone you love will die.' I found the book and page number and I have found out who will die." She stopped herself and started to cry.

Willow stood up and went over to buffy. "Buffy, who is going to die?"

Buffy looked up at her and looked to sarah. She took sarah away from willow and took her in her own arms. She kissed her cheek and looked at willow. Willow knew buffy and the way she expressed herself and started to back up shaking her head. "No, no, no!" Willow yelled as she also started crying. "You can't do that to me buffy!"

Tara got up and took willow in her arms. "Willow honey, what's going on?"

Willow started to cry even harder and buried her face in her lovers neck. Buffy sighed and looked around at everyone and then back at tara. "The book says that two witches, a blond haired blue eyed witch and a red haired green eyed witch would have a baby girl. They would have to teach her how to make hard decisions and to fight until her eighteenth birthday. Once she reaches eighteen, a god will come and fight her. No one can help her and no one can be there with her, they will have swords and there is one place where you can put that sword that will kill him. But once she sticks the sword in him and it is not the right place then she is dead because she would be to close to him and he would kill her with a slash of his sword. She has to make the right decision of where to put the sword or she will die." She looked at the two mothers. "I'm sorry you two, I don't know what to say."

"How about staying the hell away from my family." Willow said as she took her baby from buffy and went out the door.

Buffy looked back to tara. "Tara, I don't know how to make this better."

Tara shook here head. "It's not your fault buffy, you couldn't have known. I'll go talk to her." She said as she walked out the door and found willow sitting on the fountain holding sarah to her chest crying. She walked over and sat down putting her arm around willow. "Will, it wasn't her fault, she was doing us a favor really."

Willow looked at tara. "Doing us a favor, tara, buffy just told us that when sarah turns eighteen then she will die if she doesn't make the best decision."

Tara nodded. "True, but we have eighteen years to train her. If buffy never told us then we would have no idea and when it comes time to fight then she would be dead for sure. Buffy might have saved her life."

Willow sighed as everyone came out of the house and went home saying their sorry. Buffy was the last one out and went up to willow and tara. "Will, I am so sorry that you had to find out but me and faith could train her to fight and make decisions, that is what we slayers have to do everyday of our lives. That is if you'll let us."

Willow sighed again and gave sarah to tara and stood up. "Buffy, I am sorry about what I said, it's just you tell me my first born might die and I went overboard. I'm sorry and I would love for you and faith to teach her. How about this, we all take care of her as one big family and you and faith train her."

Buffy smiled. "Sounds good to me." She went and hugged willow.

One year later and everything is good. Buffy and faith are trying to teach sarah even though it is not that easy so they decided to wait until she could actually understand them. Willow and tara got use to the prophesy and learned how to except it and knew that sarah would win, she just had to. Sarah learned how to walk and she could even call tara mama and willow mommy, but that is about the only thing she can say so far. Xander and anya came down when sarah was about six months old and fell in love with her and anya even got xander to think about having one of their own. Dawn and bri went to LA with them and haven't been home since, they even got a job in LA with angel investigations.

Willow and sarah were at home while tara was grocery shopping. Willow was working on a project for work while sarah was playing with her toys. Sarah come up to willow and looked up at her. "Mommy." She said.

Willow looked down and smiled. She picked up sarah and got her to stand up on her legs. "Hey baby girl, what are you up to?" Sarah didn't know what her mother was saying so she just held up the toy in her hand. "Playing with your toys I see."

Tara walked in after a couple more minutes went by with bags in her hand. She walked in and saw willow and sarah at the computer so she walked in and kissed them both on their heads. "Hey my two favorite girls."

Sarah got really happy at that point. "Mama!" She yelled.

Willow giggled. "It looks like someone is happy to see you." She looked up to tara. "Hey baby, how was shopping?"

Tara leaned down to give willow a small peak before she went to the kitchen. "Good, how was home life?"

Willow got up and put sarah back on the floor. Willow walked over to the kitchen counter. "Good, are there more?" Tara nodded and willow went out to get the rest.

Sarah walked out to the kitchen where tara was putting away the food and went up to her. "Mama."

Tara looked down and found sarah there looking up at her, she picked her up and looked into her blue eyes. She could see how willow loved them so much "Hey sweetie, how are you?"

Buffy walked in before willow with groceries in her hand. She went in the kitchen and put the stuff down. "Hey you two."

Tara looked up. "Hey buffy, what are you doing here?"

Buffy tried to look offended. "What, I have to have a reason to see my family?"

Tara shook her head. "No never."

Buffy smiled. "Great now, how is my godchild?" Buffy said as she took her from tara's arms.

Tara started to put the food away. "She is good, we are trying to teach her how to say everyone's names but she still only knows mama and mommy."

Buffy shrugged. "Well she should know those names but she will learn ours when she does. Can't rush these things you know."

Tara stopped and looked at buffy for a second and went back to putting away the food. "Why are you so insightful all of a sudden?"

Buffy lifted sarah up in the air. "I wanted to sound smart in front of sarah."

Willow giggled. "Buffy, sarah doesn't understand a word your saying and it is freaking us out."

Buffy frowned as she put sarah back into her arms. "Fine, it's kinda hurting my brain to.

Willow frowned and rubbed buffy's head. "Pore buffy's brain."

"I know right. What are you guys up to tonight?" Buffy said as she sat down at the table with sarah.

Willow looked over to tara and shrugged. "Don't know, I am almost done with the program so I am free."

Tara nodded. "I'm always free."

Buffy smiled. "Cool, I kinda need something to do. I've been thinking about dawn and bri and I can't wait for them to get home."

"Did someone say they miss us?" Came a voice from the kitchen door.

Everyone looked over to see dawn and bri standing there smiled. Willow went straight over and hugged them followed by tara. Buffy went over and gave them a small hug since she still had sarah. Bri took sarah and kissed her cheek. "Hey baby girl, how have you been? I haven't seen you in forever, I missed you."

Sarah giggled when dawn started tickling her. "Yeah, we both missed you so much." She looked around to everyone. "How have you guys been with everything?"

Willow nodded. "Good, we are taking it well and she even knows how to say mama and mommy."

Bri giggled. "Does she know which ones which?"

Tara nodded. "Yes, she is very good with that."

Bri pointed to tara. "Sarah, who's that?"

Sarah looked a tara and smiled. "Mama."

Bri nodded and then pointed to willow. "Who's that?"

Sarah looked at willow and smiled again. "Mommy."

Bri nodded and pointed to buffy. "And who is that?"

Sarah looked at buffy and thought for a moment. "Buffy."

Buffy took in a breath. "She knows my name."

Willow looked at tara and they both smiled proudly at their daughter. "Wow, she learns fast."

Buffy was so excited and proud, she took sarah away from bri and kissed her cheek. "You know my name, I am so proud of you."

Willow giggled. "Now you know how we felt when she learned our names, well our names for her anyway." She looked at dawn and bri. "So how was it?"

Dawn nodded. "It was good. Angel and the gang over there say hey to everyone, they really miss you guys. Xander and anya are even talking about having a baby because of sarah.

"That's great, sarah might have someone to play with if they do and they come to visit." Tara said as she finish putting the food away and sat at the table where everyone else was.

Dawn looked around. "So what are we going to do tonight? I feel like partying it up."

Bri smiled and took her wife's hand. "Yeah, we haven't been here for half a year, we need to get back into things."

Buffy nodded. "Right, I'm in." She looks at willow then tara. "What about you too?"

Willow looked at sarah in buffy's arms. "What about the little one."

Buffy thought for a moment. "Got a point, faith would want to be with us and then we got to go patrol later tonight. I got it, why don't we stay here, get some pizza and drinks, and hang out here with sarah. Just because she is one doesn't mean she should be left out."

Tara nodded. "That sounds good, but what kinda drinks are you talking about?" She raised her eye brow.

Buffy giggled. "Liquor drinks that can be kept out of reach from sarah, we promise. Plus I am sure sarah wouldn't get into anything she's not suppose to, she's smart." She looks into sarah's eyes. "Now would you?" She asked in a playful voice.

Tara giggled. "I know that she wouldn't get into anything that she shouldn't but I think that she doesn't ever know what she is getting into."

Buffy shook her head. "No need to worry, sarah will not have a drop of alcohol in her body till she is at least 21."

Tara looked down in her lap. "That is if she makes it to 21."

Willow went over to kneel down next to tara and took her hand. "She will, buffy and faith are going to make sure of that. Have they ever let us down before?" Tara shook her head. "Right, so why would they let us down now. Sarah is the most important thing in every one of our lives and we are not going to let anything happen to her. She will win and we will get to see her grow and marry and have kids of her own, I promise."

Tara smiled and looked into willows green eyes. "Ok, I believe you."

Buffy nodded. "You better believe it, sarah's not going down without a fight."

Dawn got up and bri followed. "We better go unpack our stuff and I need a nap."

Bri nodded. "Yeah jetlag has gotten to me too."

Both girls left and went home. Buffy stood up and put sarah on the floor. "I should get back to the store too. Faith is working now and I told her I would visit her for a while."

Willow nodded. "That's cool, we'll see you guys tonight, I might want to finish my project because I have a feeling I am going to be sleeping in late."

Tara giggled. "Well we can't drink to much, someone has to be the designated babysitting."

Buffy waved her hand for emphases. "Don't worry about it, dawn and bri are only 20 so its not like they can drink yet anyway. I might let them have a beer or two but nothing that bad." She said as she kissed sarah's head one last time before she left.

Willow and tara went on with their day waiting for their little get together with their friends. The night went on good with pizza, drinks, and a lot of fun. Sarah did try and get to the drinks but was stopped numerous times and just played with everyone. They put sarah to bed and tried to be as quiet as they could and everyone ended up going home around two in the morning while willow and tara went up to bed with an impending hangover coming their way.