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September 18 2005

"Angel!"

"Buffy!" They grabbed each other in a bone crushing hug. They stood there holding onto each other, while Joyce, Giles, Willow, Xander, Cordy, and Oz started at them. Angel broke the silence of the room.

"What was it?" Angel asked. Buffy knew exactly what he meant and smiled. Angel had remembered.

Buffy turned around and screamed for Faith. Faith walked up to Buffy and handed her the little girl. Everyone saw the little baby in Buffy's arms. All of her friends were wondering if the baby was the reason in which Buffy had left. Buffy handed the sleeping baby to its daddy.

"What's her name?" Angel asked.

"Joy Eliza Summers," Buffy answered.

Angel held his daughter, and everyone stared at the group.

Buffy stared at Angel and Joy, hoping beyond hope that she and Angel could work everything out. Buffy turned her head and faced Faith. Buffy then bent down and started looking through her bag, until she found a book. She closed the bag and walked over to Giles.

"Here's your book. Sorry I stole it," Buffy said, while looking down at her feet.

Giles grabbed her chin and made her look up at him. Tears were slowly making their way down Buffy's cheeks. Giles stood up and grabbed his slayer in a tight hug. He missed her. She hugged him back.

After a few moments they pulled away and Buffy walked back to Faith and she started speaking.

"Everyone, this is Faith. Faith this is Giles, Willow, Cordelia, Xander, Oz, and mom," Buffy said pointing to each person as she spoke.

Faith looked at the one person Buffy hadn't introduced and spoke. "So B, who's the hottie?" Faith asked, as she looked at Angel.

"That would be Angel," Buffy said, looking at her 'hottie' blush at the comment.

"Last thing I heard Angel was dead," Faith said with bluntness.

"Well, that makes two of us," Buffy answered. Then her brain turned the light bulb on, and she ran over to Giles and grabbed the book out of his hands. She flipped through to the page that she knew very well and suddenly she understood. The last part had been unclear, but now it made sense. She plopped the book down in Giles lap, and ran back to Angel. She put her hand over his heart and she felt it beating.

Angel was alive. It was weird enough that he was here, but it was even weirder knowing that he wasn't undead. She took the baby out of his arms and handed her to Giles. Joy was starting to wake up, since mommy was just passing her around. When she opened her little blue eyes a weird man was holding her and she started to cry. Giles handed her right back to Buffy. Babies were not his thing.

Joy stopped crying and just looked up at mommy. She closed her and was once again asleep. Joyce walked up to her daughter and lifted the baby into her own arms. Buffy figured that her mother wanted to hold Joy, and so she let her.

Joy snuggled gently into her grandmother's arms, knowing some how that she was safe.

Faith had been staring at Angel for the last few minutes and one thing ran through her mind. That little girl was in no way shape or form going to be ugly. Buffy picked a hottie.

Buffy was talking to Willow about something and everyone had been passing poor little Joy around. The little girl was smiling. Faith loved Joy, she was so cute. Faith held Joy tight in her arms, until she fell back to sleep. Faith stared at all of Buffy's friends and wondered why Buffy had been so scared, about coming home. They all seemed to have missed her.

Later that night

Buffy was saying good night to all of her friends as they were leaving. Joyce said that Faith could stay in the guest room and Angel had currently been staying there anyway.

Joyce and Angel had been kinda bonding, in an odd sort of way. Angel had come out of Acathla 9 days ago and Willow and Giles had found him. He had been living with Joyce ever since. He told her that Buffy would come back when she was ready. He had told Joyce more about Buffy's calling and he explained why Buffy had never told her.

Angel hadn't told Joyce that Buffy was pregnant, because he had promised Buffy that they wouldn't find out. He had thought that Buffy might have already had the baby anyway.

Joyce didn't have a problem with Buffy and Angel sharing a bed that night either. She knew that they would only be sleeping and that they would have a little baby between them. Joyce had seemed to take a liking to Faith as well. Knowing that Buffy wouldn't have to slay alone was comforting.

Joyce had no idea why everything was so calm now. She hadn't taken the whole slayer thing that well at the beginning but now everything seemed okay. It was a weird feeling.

Buffy and Angel were in bed, and holding a little baby between them. Joy was fast asleep and looking content. Mommy had stopped passing her around to strange people and she got feed, which meant happy baby. Buffy lifted Joy up and placed her on top of her stomach, and she moved and snuggled her head into Angel's chest.

The three of them were so cute together. They just snuggled and fell asleep. If you think they'd just fall asleep you'd be dead wrong. Buffy and Angel hadn't talked much and they needed to talk now, while they were alone.

"Angel?" Buffy questioned.

"Buffy?" Angel said in reply.

"Is everything gonna work out, with us?" Buffy spoke with fear in her voice.

He looked her dead in the eye and thought deeply. 'Could they make everything work?' That was his only thought. Still looking into her eyes he replied. "We'll make it work," and as he said that he knew it was true.

"You promise?" She asked.

"I promise," He whispered.

Buffy knew from experience that Angel always kept his promises or tried at least. There was still one promise that he hadn't kept, but she knew in her heart that he'd be keeping that promise later.

Everything would be okay for now. She had four, well actually five of the most important people back in her life. She had her mom, her watcher, her Willow, her Xander, and most importantly she had her Angel back.

Buffy knew though that everything wouldn't be okay forever. Joy was a Vampire Slayer, and she was supposed to fight an apocalypse, that Buffy knew would be the worse thing they ever faced.

The Powers that Be had sent Buffy and Angel this child so that they could protect her with their lives, and that was just what they'd do. They would protect their daughter, and in Buffy's mind maybe make another in the process.

I know it wasn't that great of a chapter probably 'cause 'bout half way through writing it my train of thought ran off without me and I fell trying 2 catch it again and only barely holding on as it speed up.

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