A/N: Welcome back to The Gloves have come off, I know I took a long time to update, but I hope that this short chapter will satisfy your lack! Enjoy! and REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW!

Chapter 12

Things had become normal again at Angel Investigations in the last six months. While they had dealt with demons, none of them had actually attacked them or tried to kidnap Connor, Ellie, or Fred and Gunn's new son, Charlie. "Of course normal is relative." Angel thought to himself as he, Gunn, and Wess walked back into the lobby of AI covered head to toe in green goo that was all that remained of a demon that had been living in the sewers of LA

Of course they had gotten only as far as the first step in front of the door when they heard a command by four screeching female voices, "STOP!" Buffy, carrying six month old Ellie, Dawn, Willow and Fred, with three month old Charlie, ran up to them.

"What?" Angel asked.

"There is no way you are tramping that demon goo all over our office. The children play in here!" Buffy told them off.

"What do you want us to do? Strip right here in front of everyone?" Gunn asked, joking.

"Go for it." Dawn said. She had started college just that fall, and had become a lot more open in certain areas. So much that everyone around her was shocked from time to time.

"Dawn! That's your brother in law!" Buffy sighed, "But she's right. We'll go get a plastic bag to put your clothes in, to keep the goo contained until we can clean your clothes. But we may have to burn it…"

"That's a $200 leather coat!" Angel exclaimed.

"It's not my fault you wore it demon hunting. Just take off your shoes and clothes. Leave them here, just go, take a shower, for all our sakes." Buffy said with her nose wrinkled up from the smell.

"Want to join me later?" Angel asked as he striped in front of his wife.

"Maybe when you are decontaminated, like next year."

Angel, Gunn, and Wesley did as they were told, they stripped down to their boxers, and went up the grand staircase with their surrogate family watching them.

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Dawn watched the two men going upstairs, and she couldn't help but giggle. She had so needed this. She had come home for the weekend after mid-terms at college.

Dawn had been accepted into the Archeology department at UCLA, and as she had taken so many AP and college courses in high school, she was already working on her major instead of her general education requirements that most of the students her age were on. She was already looking forward, with Giles's help, getting into the Ancient Languages Graduate Program at Oxford, then she would become a Watcher.

God knows she had more battle time under her belt than most people who were actual Watchers. And now that the number of slayers were reaching the thousand mark, they were training more people than ever before. In fact, Willow was in town because there were ten slayers living in LA, who's parents wouldn't let them go to train with Buffy. That was what Buffy had been doing for the last 6 months. She had started a school in AI that brought in slayers all over California to train each weekend as well as school vacations. And there were quite a few slayers who were runaways and orphans who chose to live in the hotel and help AI when the situation called for it.

Wesley had been rehired by the restored Watcher's council run by Giles with Andrew as his assistant. After the Watcher's council had been destroyed, Giles had spent the last few years finding new and old watchers to help train the many slayers who had been called by Willow's spell, and the ones that were awoken since.

And Dawn knew that was where she belonged. While she had been half a world away from the final battle which Buffy and Angel had defeated many of the demons still on earth, she owed her very existence to good people, and intended to pay them back. But now, she had to figure out how to get green goo out of these clothes that the men had left on the doorstep.

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Buffy was sitting with Willow, having given up on getting the green off of any of the clothes, and that it was better just to burn them, and insist that from now on, when they went after the big gross demons, that they wear ponchos!

"So, how was Xander the last time you talked to him?" Buffy asked Willow.

"He's good. He's all set up as the leader of the slayer headquarter in Cleveland with Kennedy."

"Are you okay, I know that you broke up last month."

"Yeah, I'm fine, we just didn't have a future. I am surprised that it lasted as long as it did. Every time I was kissing her, I was thinking of Tara. It wasn't fair to her."

"I'm just so glad you came to stay for a few weeks. It's Connor's 3rd birthday, and all of his friends including Wyatt are coming. You haven't seen the sisters in so long."

"Well, it'll be an interesting week, that's for sure…"

To Be Continued…

A/N: Stay tuned for Connor's birthday party, but when the son of a slayer and the son of a charmed ones get together, mischief is bound to occur… I am so sorry it took me so long to update, I had backed myself into a corner, and I had to work on my other projects for a while, but now I'm back and I plan on putting new adventures at our lovable characters…Please REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW!