At the park Tia was having fun and she was playing with a few people, Buffy smiles, her daughter could just walk up to someone and they would love her. The scoobies were sitting on a bench talking about Tia and how she knew about the demons,

"I didn't tell her, she just knew, I think it is that she has some slayer blood in her. But she does get bad nightmare sometimes, a bit like when I have the visions but I understand mine she doesn't understand hers so I usually say that I'll protect her then the next night she has a dream where I kill the demons."

"Has she ever seen a vampire or demon?" Willow asks

"No, not that I know of."

"AWWWW" Buffy looks over to see Tia has fallen over again and then has got back up and continued playing. They stayed there for a few hours until it was six o'clock then they walked back to Buffy house, Tia was tired so Buffy carried her while she had a little nap on Buffy's shoulder.

"Buffy you ok?" Xander asks see Buffy was looking at her watch and biting her lip.

"Yeah I'm fine" why am I so nervous my mate believed the story about the father why wouldn't Angel.

They got back to her house and when they were in the house Tia had woken up and was now hyper again running around the house. They gang sit in the living room with Joyce and Lily. "Mom where's Dawn?"

"Up in her room Honey. Everything ok? Where's Tia?"

"She's running around like a headless chicken." At that Tia runs up behind Buffy and stops, looking at her funny.

"I'm not a headless chicken" then tries to run off again but Buffy grabs her picking her up.

"Come on we better see it you still have your knees." To her mom who was wondering what Buffy meant "She fell over a lot" she walks to the kitchen placing Tia on the counter then grabbing one of her legs, rolling her trouser leg up to see it her knee was cut. It only had a little graze on it "Does it hurt?" Tia shakes her head; then Buffy looks at the other on which had a bruise on it, "does this one hurt?" she shakes her head again.

"Mommy when is that person getting here?"

"Soon" she picks Tia up and puts her on the floor to run around as her wants. Buffy walk into the living room where everyone it talking. She sits next to her mom "She ok?"

"Yeah only a little bruise and graze nothing bad."

"She's strong like you." Buffy smiles, then there is a knock on the door.

"I'll get it" she walks to the door taking a deep breath; opens the door "Hey."

"Hey" she gestures for him to come in and he does.

"Thanks for coming."

"Who is it Buffy?" Joyce asks from the other room.

"Its Angel we're going to be in the dining room."

"Okay"

They walk into the room and Buffy doesn't make eye contact she just looks at the floor and plays with the hem of her top.

"It's good to see you, so what did you want to tell me?"

"Um it's really difficult, but I have um, Angel I have a daughter." She looks at him, he's staring at her, shocked.

"Ooookay, um where is she."

Buffy calls Tia who by this time has sat on Xander's lap and was watching T.V again, when she hears her mother call for her, she looks up and Xander helps her down off his lap, she slowly walks to the dining room where she heard her mother calling her, when she gets there she see a big man, but he isn't scary. She smile up as him, "Hi" Angel smiles at her then bends down to her level, "Hello, I hear Tia is your name it very beautiful, just like you and your mommy." Her smile gets bigger then looks to Buffy. Angel follows her eyes and looks at Buffy as well then stands up to his normal height.

"Tia why don't you go back to grandma and we will be in soon."

"Ok," she walks back into the living room.

"She really is beautiful Buffy."

"Thanks. I guess you want to know who? What? When? Where? And why?"

"A little. Yeah "

"I think it's best if you sit down" he does "ok um where to start? Ok I was 14 when I had her, her father is…was my teacher and now he is in prison but is getting out next month, that why Tia is here I don't want him near her-"

Angel cuts her off "You're lying."

"What? No I'm not"

"Yes you are. You're scared of telling me the truth. What happened?" Raising his voice, everyone looks to the dining room. Buffy has tears in her eyes and doesn't look at Angel "TELL ME" he say in a growl, the tears in her eyes are almost over flowing, "BUFFY"

"I WAS RAPED" the tears roll down her face, she looks at the floor, Angel is filled with anger for the person that hurt his girl, guilt for bringing it out like this, and love, he wanted to protect her more than ever now.

"Come on Tia lets go play upstairs." Joyce picks her up and walks up the stairs followed by Lily.

"What are they talking about?" Tia ask then notices her mother crying. "Mommy?"

"She's ok Tia she just need to talk to her friends."

When they are gone everyone has moved into the dining room and Buffy still hasn't looked at Angel or the scoobies.

"Buffy, look at me." Angel puts his finger under Buffy's chin and makes her look at him. Her eyes are red and her cheeks are wet from the tears. "What happened? Tell me."

She look at him and her friends then to the floor again "I was 14 in the metal hospital and he was a doctor there."

"Metal hospital?" Giles wonders why Buffy was where.

"It was just after I was called as the slayer, I told my patents about the vampires and they thought there was something seriously wrong with me, so they sent me to a clinic. I was there for 4 months. It was the first night I was in there that he raped me. I was tied to the bed to stop me fighting them and I was drugged to help me sleep, but he come in my room and gave me double the normal amount, as I was the slayer it didn't knock me out just made me light headed, he did that so I wouldn't remember but I did. That's when I decided to shut up about the vampires but there was still 4 months of test to make sure that I wasn't insane. So by the time I got out I was 4 months gone. I didn't tell anyone but mom soon picked up on it as I would spend an hour every morning throwing up. Then when I told her that I was raped I was 6 month gone that's when the court stuff started and the only proof they would have of him raping me was Tia's DNA so when she was born they did a DNA test and sent him to prison for 20 years for a number of different things. But somehow he is getting out after 5 years." She had tears rolling down her cheeks and they wouldn't stop. Angel moves to her and wraps her in his arms, the gang stand their shocked, their best friend had been raped as a child and yet they didn't know a single thing about it.

"Shh I'm here. He can never hurt you or Tia again and if he tries I'm going to kill him." She looks at him.

"Aren't you mad at me?"

"No why would I be? It's not your fault, you don't think it's your fault do you?"

"It is my fault, I was the one that told my parents about the vampires and I'm the one that didn't fight back."

"Buffy you couldn't. Like you said you were drugged and tied up. None of this is your fault" Buffy looks at Angel and the others.

"I don't want her knowing and I don't want you hating her for what her father did. She's the only good thing that came out of this."

"She looks just like you" Angel says to her; there is a small smile on her face now.

"Ok that's another good thing." Angel dries her cheek and eyes with his hand.

"I love you"

"I love you too"