Sorry it took such a long time posting, but I've been really busy, so please forgive me.

Gile's voice: 'Last time on Buffy the vampire slayer:'

Vampires closing in on unconscious Buffy

Spike: Bloody slayer… always waiting for me to go and bloody save her…'

Willow: I, er, phoned the ambulance. They're on their way.' Her face went a pale greeny colour, as she stared at Buffy's still form. She was alive, thank goodness.

Buffy sat on the hospital bed, propped up on a dozen pillows. 'Fine, thanks. I'm just amazed at how I'm not…dead.'

Dawn: Daddy!

Wolf howl Theme Song

Spike stared at Dawn. 'What the bloody hell did she just call me!' was what he wanted to say, but he held his tongue. He prised the girl off him, and looked at Buffy for help.

She smirked. 'Well Spikey, what are you gonna say to your daughter?'

He glared at her. 'I hate you!' he mouthed to her.

He turned back to his 'daughter'. "Hey…..niblet.'

'Niblet? Daddy, You always call me your darling, or princess!'

Spike had to stop himself from throwing up. When did his alternate self become such a dork?

Buffy sat there, wanting desperately to laugh out loud. She wanted to scream in delight as she saw Spike squirm, trying not to kill everyone in the room.

'Well?' Dawn's eyes shone 'Aren't you going to call me darling? Or Princess?' Her bottom lip quivered.

'Uh, aren't you a bit old for those stu- those um… names? I mean, you ARE a teenager…Heck, when I was your age, I-'

He stopped. Something was wrong. 'When I was your age?' That was just stepping the line. He was sounding like, like, a parent! And he couldn't help it, the words just seemed to come out of his mouth. I mean, in HIS world, he had liked Dawn, thinking she was cute, and maybe, he cared for her… just a tiny bit, but this, this, was impossible.

'What Daddy? What did you just say? Are you saying I'm a baby?' Suddenly her eyes welled up with tears. She was getting emotional for nothing. But, so much had happened, she deserved to be allowed to cry. She knew, somehow, that the Buffy and Spike here, were weird, but no, It couldn't be…

Spike, seeing Dawn's face, suddenly had this strange, and utterly weird urge to take her out for a sundae.

'What?' went through his mind, as he led his 'daughter through the halls of the hospital, and outside, as he called down a nearby taxi.

'Charlie's Sundae Place' he found himself saying to the cabbie.

'oooh!' was Dawn's reply. She had been suspicious, as to her father's intentions, as, he never told her where he was taking her. She had thought he was taking her home.

But, Charlie's was cool.

'You know, I'm kinda worried about William, Buff and Dawnie,'

It was Xander's voice. They had all been kicked out of the hospital room again, due to Willow's wishes, who, had arrived just as Spike and Dawn left.

Buffy was alone, again. She went over to the door, and pressed her ear to it. Yeah, it was eavesdropping, but, they were talking about her!

'I mean, they said it was a joke, but all of them? They've been acting soo weird, I dunno if they're joking, or not, but…'

'Stop worrying. I mean, uh, they said they said it was a joke, so, we should believe them, right?'

'Right. Let's go. We'll come back later'

'No!' Buffy silently pleaded. Talk more! Talk more! What did they mean about Dawn? What was she doing? Tell me!

She heard footsteps, and then, there was silence, save for the ordinary sounds heard in a hospital.

She lay down on the hospital bed, slowly, as she was still delicate. Man, she really missed her super-slayer powers, now. The accelerated-healing one especially. She never thought she'd say this, but…………. she missed being the slayer.

'Sooo…' Spike said, as he found himself eating a strawberry sundae, sitting across a small table opposite Dawn, who had a gigantic chocolate sundae, with chocolate sauce, chocolate sprinkles, and some chocolate buttons on top. He was still wondering how a wallet had appeared in his pocket, so that he could pay for the expensive treats. Was that the money left over from his kitten gambling game? He didn't care. He stared at Dawn.

'Sooo.. what?' Dawn looked up at him from her food.

'So…. Um… What do you wanna do after this?'

'Um.. I don't know.' She smiled. 'Daddy? Can we go shopping? Pretty please?' She blinked her eyes at him.

'Uh, yeah. Ok then.' Aaaaahhhhhh! Bloody hell! What was wrong with his mouth? He couldn't control it! Shopping? What?

He watched helplessly as Dawn dragged him out of Charlies, and into all the other surrounding shops.

'Bloody hell!' Spike screamed, one last time, before he was dragged into the depths of 'Claire's accessories'

'Noooooooooooooooo!'

Fade to black

To be continued

Yeah, a kind of pointless chapter, but I hope you like it, I mean Spike's uncontrollable mouth? And Claires?

Please review! So that I know that it is worth carrying on but, to those who HAVE reviewed, thankyou!