hi sorry I haven't updated I was going to update every 2 days but it didn't work cos i started my job (baby - sitting) and I don't get time to write. But here is the next chapter.

and again I'm sorry for any mistakes in it. Please no more flames about them i know they are there i just cant find em. hahaha.

so enjoy =D

Warning (kinda): yeah from here on it might get a little more sexy. haven't decided completely yet.

Buffy woke up with Tia and Angel either side of her. Both asleep, still. Tia's hair was a mess and she was half way down the bed. Buffy felt a pain in her leg. She had felt Tia moving around a lot last night so she must have kicked Buffy. If that had happened Tia has one strong kick. Buffy looked at the clock next to the bed. It was half past six almost. Her mom and sister would be getting up soon to go to work and school. Lily would be… Buffy didn't know what lily would do. Buffy sits up and climbs off the bed not waking up the other people in the bed. She goes to the bathroom to look at herself. She felt terrible. Last night had started well but ended bad. No wonder Tia was moving all last night. She could fell how tense Buffy was. Oh god, now Buffy was affecting her daughter. She had to do something about how she was feeling. What though? She didn't know.

When she was done in the bathroom she goes back to her bedroom to see that Tia had curled up in Angel's arms. He held her like she was the most precious thing in the world. Well she was to Buffy and she hoped it was true for Angel too. She goes to the table and gets her camera taking a picture of them. Then she goes downstairs and makes a drink. She sits at the counter sipping at the drink; thinking of what was going to happen in less than a month. Would anything change?

She didn't know how long she was sitting there but her mom had walked and kissed her on the head bringing her out of her thoughts.

"You okay?" Buffy nods, looking at her drink in her hand. It was cold now.

"How long have been awake?"

"What time is it now?"

"Seven."

"Only half an hour." She looks at her drink again.

"Buffy? What's wrong? Is it the same thing as last night?" Even though everyone knew about the rape, no one would come out and say it. Buffy couldn't decide if that was better or if everyone just saying 'rape' was better.

"I don't know. Last night I had a dream, well nightmare, about it again. After all this time why would they come back?" Buffy finally looks at Joyce waiting for her answer.

"I don't know. It could be that Tia is here."

"No!" Buffy doesn't shout but it makes it clear that Tia isn't the reason for this. "When Tia was born they stopped. She helped me through it."

"Well then it is that he is getting out of prison next months and you're scared that he will get you." Buffy looks away. "He won't Buffy. You're strong. He won't hurt you."

"What do you mean I'm strong? Because I'm the slayer? If he tries anything again I'll be about to fight him off? I was the slayer when he did it to me in the first place."

"Things were different then."

"Because I was tied up and drugged." She says all knowingly. Her anger was rising and she didn't know why. "Mom I was so scared, I wouldn't of been able to fight him off if I wasn't tied up." Tear roll down her face slowly and Joyce moves to hug her.

"Buffy, you know that's not true. He won't do anything. He doesn't know where we are. He can't get you. Shhhhh." She tries to calm Buffy down but it doesn't work much.

"She's right Buffy." Angel says walking to Buffy. Joyce moves away to let Angel talk to her. "He won't get you. I won't let him. He'll be dead before he does anything to you or Tia." She nods the tear drying now. Angel wraps his arms around her and she places her head on his chest. Joyce saw the look in Angel's eyes when he was around Buffy. He loved her and he couldn't hide it.

"Where's Tia?" Buffy asked looking at Angel now.

"She's still asleep." Buffy nods.

"Well Buffy, me and Lily need to leave can you make sure Dawn leaves soon too?" She nods. Joyce walks up the stairs to get Lily and says bye to Dawn. Buffy sits there looking at her drink. She really needs to tip it away. Angel sits next to her. They didn't need to speak. The silence was calming. Buffy was thinking of Angel and if he meant what he had said. He was easy to believe. Angel was sitting thinking of how he could help her. Dawn comes down grabbing her lunch out the fridge.

"You two okay?" She asks seeing them both sitting doing nothing.

"We're fine." Buffy says looking at her. "You coming home after school?"

"No, I'm going over Janice's."

"Mom said you could?" Dawn nods. "Okay. See you later."

"Yeah, give Tia a kiss for me."

"Will do." Dawn leaves the house and goes to school. There was only Buffy, Angel and Tia there now.

"So what do you wanna do today?" Buffy looks at Angel. He was lost in his thoughts.

"Huh?" Buffy looks at him. "Sorry I was thinking."

"It's okay. What do you want to day?"

"Well I can't do much. What do you want to do?"

"I don't know. That's why I asked you." As they were speaking Tia walked down the stairs and into the kitchen. Buffy senses Tia behind her, she turns around seeing her standing there, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes and holding Mr. Gordo. She picks her up placing her on her lap. "Good morning sleepy."

"You okay now mommy?" She nods kissing her on the head.

"This is from Dawn." She kisses her again. Making her giggle a little.

"Where is aunty Dawn?"

"She had to go to school. Speaking of school we need to get you into one."

"Shouldn't you be at collage?" Angel asks.

"You trying to get rid of me? I know Tia is adorable but you can't have her all to yourself." She says smiling. "Nah, we have a holiday. Hey that's idea. Tia why don't we invite my friends around and you can get to know them better. Yeah?"

"Okay." She jumps off Buffy laps running upstairs to get dressed.

"That was easy." She smiles at Angel. Buffy then gets up as well. "I think we better go get dressed as well." He nods.

"You go first. Help Tia maybe." Buffy smile grows bigger. Tia might be six but she still got into a mess when getting dressed. When Buffy got to her room she saw Tia on the bed trying to push her head though a Sleeve. Buffy walks to her pulling it off. "Would you like some help?" Tia nods. "This what you want to wear?" Buffy was holding a long sleeve blue top. "It's going to be hot today. Maybe this would be better." She holds up a Baby blue top with flowers on it and a pair of denim shorts. Tia nods. Buffy dresses her and she runs off downstairs. Buffy then grabs her own clothes and gets changed. She wore a pair of black jeans and a gray top with 'New York City.' written on it. When she was done she put her hair up in pony tail and walked down stairs with a brush and a few hair band. She walks into the kitchen looking for Tia. She was sitting on a chair eating her breakfast, which Angel got out for her. Buffy then noticed Angel had just finished washing up. "You didn't have too."

"I like helping."

"Thanks. You can go get dressed now." He nods walking passed her kissing her on the head before leaving the room. "Right Tia how do you want your hair." Tia's hair hadn't been brushed yet and was a mess. Tia didn't answer just shrugged her shoulders. "Okay, pony tail?" still nothing. Buffy sat down next to her. "What's wrong baby?"

"Why can't Angel be my daddy? Beth has a daddy and Claire." Buffy knew of the two girls. They were Tia friends from her school in L.A.

"Well Angel can't be your daddy because-" She didn't know what to say. She couldn't say the truth. "Things are just different with our family. Why do you need a daddy?"

Now Tia didn't know what to say. "Just because you don't call Angel daddy doesn't mean you don't love him or that he doesn't loves you."

"So Angel does love me?"

"Of course."

"Does he love you?"

"I think so." It's fair to say they will always love each other but was it as strong as it was before he left. Buffy wanted to know if he had moved on. She had tried but didn't get very fair, was it the same for him? This question has been annoying Buffy since he left. "Okay, so your hair. Pony tail?"

"Can I have a half up please?"

"Sure." Buffy puts Tia long, soft hair up. "We really need to get your hair cut."

Tia nods agreeing.

She finishes her breakfast then Angel comes down. Buffy wasn't sitting next to Tia but she was on the phone to Willow. Angel sat next to Tia. She was staring at him. "You okay?"

"Do you love mommy?"

He smiles looking at her in the living room. "Yeah I do. Why?"

"Mommy loves you to. Me too."

"I glad Tia. And you know what? I love you." She smiles at him and then Buffy comes in.

"Well the gang will be here shortly."

"What are we going to do?" Tia asked sweetly.

"Don't know. Talk. Watch T.V. play games. Why don't you go get some?" Tia nods running upstairs again but before she gets to the top of the stairs they here a bang. Then without a cry or a scream they hear Tia continue to run to their room.

"She just fell over, again." Buffy says looking at Angel questioning face.

"Oh. She okay?"

"She falls over to much to let it bother her."

"I wonder where she gets that from. Did you fall over a lot when you were younger?"

Buffy eyes grow dark and she feels sick. "Not really. The usually amount I guess. I think she gets it from… him. He was a clumsy bastard."

"She defiantly gets the strength from you. If she was anyone else's the falling would bother her." He says trying to make it clear that it Tia takes after Buffy the most. Buffy looks at her hands on the counter. "What you thinking?"

"Nothing." She says quickly moving to the living room picking objects up and putting them in their right place. She swallowed a lump in her throat. Angel follows her.

"What's wrong?" She doesn't answer just continues tidying, so he grabs her arms and makes him look at her. She has tears in her eyes. "Buffy, what? Did I say something?" she shakes her head. He had a feeling this was about last night. He wraps her in his arms trying to make her feel better before the tears fell. Tia was standing on the stairs watching.

"Mommy? Why are you upset again?" She says slowly walking to them.

"Just silly grown up stuff. They the games you want to play?" Tia was standing there with a few games in her hands. One of them Uno. "Tia you don't know how to play Uno."

"You and the people can teach me." She says so sweetly that your heart would melt. But Buffy knew her daughter. The voice she was using she was up to something.

"What are you after?"

"Nothing." Tia smile then walks to the sofa putting every down on it. Then sits down looking at them smile. Yep she was up to something. Buffy just hopes it isn't like last time. When Buffy when to see Tia after she started collage she had asked Buffy for a baby sister or brother. To begin with she put it down to every child wanting someone to look after and play with but Tia had continued to annoy her by wining about it. She then went on to help Buffy with everything and being very sweet like she was now. In the end Buffy found out she was acting like that to show she could help Buffy with the baby if she had one. Once Buffy heard Tia talking in her sleep and she said, "Mommy, when the baby comes, are you and Angel going to be looking after it more then me." It was strange because she had only told Lily about seeing Angel before going to theirs. It was when Angel had killed the Mohra demon. Strange thing where happening then. And maybe she got visions like Buffy, which was the only way Tia could have known about Angel. But she pushed it out of her head. But now, was Tia after a sister or brother again?

Tia didn't seem to remember anything about that, but then again it was two years ago so how could she.

They sit watching T.V. for a few minutes then the door went. Buffy gets up and opens it to let in Willow, Xander, Anya and Tara. Everyone was in the living room playing Uno. Tia had learnt to play quickly; then again it was an easy game. Buffy was sitting next and Angel and Tia sat on the other side of them on Xander's lap. She kept looking at Buffy and Angel, which they both noticed.

"Tia would you like something?" Angel asks.

Tia doesn't reply just looks down.

"Tia?" Buffy says making Tia give an answer.

"Why are you and Angel not together?" she says in babyish voice. "I know you both love each other and I don't understand why you can't be together and why Angel can't be my daddy." Her voice gets louder and files with more anger.

"Tia you have asked that too many times in that last day." Buffy says to her daughter. "Things with me and Angel are complicated and you won't understand it."

Tia pouts. "But that still doesn't explain why I don't have a dad. Every one of my friends has a dad and a mom. Even Amy has a mom and dad and they are divorced."

"Thing aren't like that with this family." Buffy tries to keep calm, knowing that this would end with Tia knowing the truth or a big argument between mother and daughter. No matter what, Tia would never find out the truth. She also didn't want to fight with her. What was she going to do?

"Tia." Angel stepped in. "It's not that you don't have a dad everyone has a dad, but you can't choose who they are. It just happens. Because the love people feel makes them family. Like all of us here. We are one family because we love each other a lot."

"So your saying when I have found my daddy I will know because how much I love him and how much he loves me?" Angel nods at Tia hoping she would drop this father thing. He knew it was mostly because of him it was coming out, and every time it did it hurt Buffy. He looked over to her and there was another set of tears in her eyes. He places a hand on her legs giving her silent support but she gets up and walks away into the kitchen. He looks at Tia who hadn't realised the pain in Buffy's eyes. He looks at the group. "Can you take Tia to the park I need to talk to Buffy." They nod.

"Aren't you going to come?" Tia says grabbing Angel's hand. Not once had she noticed he was cold.

"No. But I'll see you later." She says bye and holds Xander's hand as they leave.

Buffy sat still in the kitchen, staring out into the abyss, She heard the group take Tia out and she knew she would be safe so didn't bother stopping them.

"Buffy? I'm sorry."

"What for? You haven't done anything."

"I'm not apologising for what Tia has said... although some of it is my fault. I'm apologising for what I'm going to say."

"If you know you're going to need to apologise, then why say it?"

"Because it will help you Buffy." He moves around the counter to look at her, face-to-face "Tell me everything, what happened."

Buffy simply said "No."

"Buffy, you keeping it bottled up isn't going to help. You need to talk about it. I bet you haven't been able to talk to anyone close to you."

"They didn't want to know." She wouldn't look at him. Is he really going to make me think of that incident again? He looks at her and she can see that he was right. "Mom and dad were busy a lot. They thought I was a slut that I had slept around without using protection."

"You said your mom knew you were raped."

"When I was six months gone, yeah. They only found out I was raped was because of school. They sent me to the counsellor and the person there called my mom telling her that I was showing symptoms of a rape victim. It took her a month to piece it together then she got me to tell her. Well it wasn't really me telling it was more of screaming and then crying. So she got the police involved I didn't want her too but dad told me that it would help. He was angry, I thought he wouldn't care."

"Why? His your dad of course he would care."

"Mom and dad weren't really having a good time. Arguing and all. Dad said a few times he hated me for getting pregnant and that I had put the family in a really hard place. But the police got the information they need and they got the guy that did it, his called Kevin J. Philli. He got sent down when they got Tia's D.N.A luckily he didn't do it to anyone else. Anyway I guess I should clean the house. It's kinda a mess now." She goes to get up but Angel grabs her wrist in a soft but firm grip. She looks at him. He doesn't want to know more, right?

"Sit down Buffy." She does after looking in his eyes. She could see he only wanted to help. "Tell me what happened. As much as you can. It's the small details that hurt Buffy. You have forgiven your mom for thinking that." She nods agree she had. "Now I don't want to force you. You know I never will with anything."

"Okay Angel I get it. You won't rape me. Can I go now?"

"No. Tell me then you can. Let's start with your nightmare last night."

She thinks about it and then slows says, "It was when he came into my room. He unlocked the door and injected me with the drug thing. Then climbed on me. I could feel his hands over me and my head was spinning. I tried to move but I couldn't. The restrains where so strong."

"Is that why you didn't like me holding your hands above your head when we would do our little games?"

She nods, "I guess. But if you hadn't have woken me up last night, everything would of played out in my head again. After it happened I got a lot of nightmares. Mom woke me up sometime before they got to bad but others just went on. When you woke me up you said 'Buffy' and so did he. You touched my arm and he was holding me down. When I woke up I couldn't tell if I was here or there. I was actually scared of you. I don't want to feel that again Angel. I love you, trust you and knowing that he made me scared of you, just for a second hurts." This was an emotional topic so he was amazed she held in the tears that he could see in her eyes.

"Buffy, when you woke up it takes a second to remember where you are. Don't be hurt that I scared you. You remembered who I was and then you were alright?" she nods "So don't worry about it. As for everything else that you don't want to tell me. That's fine; tell me when you are ready. There is no rush as long as you know that I love you and will look after you."

She nods again. "Come on. Let go relax." He takes her to the living room sitting her on the sofa, "What do you want to watch?"

"Anything." Angel goes to put in a DVD. "Let's watch TV."

"You sure?" She nods grabbing the TV remote. Flicking though the channels there was nothing on. "DVD?" Angel asks as he smiles at Buffy, silently saying he was right.

"Nope." She turns the TV onto the adult changes. Angel looks at her.

"You naughty girl. How do you know the channel numbers huh?"

"Oh please I have known them for ages. Don't forget the H and H."

"Hungry and horny." He rolls his eyes.

"Well when I didn't see you I needed something to do."

"So what you have touched yourself when I haven't been there to watch?" She shakes her head, no.

"I just watch. Unlike faith I was able to control myself. I have never liked the idea of doing that on my own."

"But you don't mind if someone else is there."

"If you are there."She points out. "You know you're the only person I have wanted to been with, there has been no one after you. There was a guy but he didn't give me the same feelings as you did."

"So you haven't moved on?"

"Sorry, I know you left because we couldn't be together and you wanted me to be with someone that I could walk in a park with, but the truth is I can do all that stuff with you. Okay walking in a park at night isn't what couple usually do but the stars are beautiful and it being so quiet, I love it. I also know that if we get to close then the whole Angelus thing could come back-"

"Will come back."

"How do you know?"

"I can feel it when I'm near you. The demon tries to get out. My soul doesn't hurt as much when I'm with you."

"Can you feel the change more now than in the past. I mean did you know that you would be Angelus when we slept together?"

"No. I didn't know how much I loved you."

"But you were going to say something and I just told you to kiss me. What were you going to say?"

He thinks back, trying to ignore the felling of being in her. The sensation of being with her. Her body against his. Then remembers, "I was going to ask if that was what you really wanted. If you where happy with what was going to happen."

Buffy's heart melts, he cared so much.

"I love you so much."

"I love you too, I can't tell you how much. I know I keep saying it but I love you and Tia and I don't think I can say it enough."

"Why did this have to happen?"

"What?"

"Us have the forbidden love?"

"I don't know Buffy. Do you want to get back together?"

"To be honest I think we have always been together just apart. Okay that made sense in my head"

He let out a little laugh. "Come on lets watch TV." He looks at it and notices that the adult shows are still on. "Maybe not this."

"Why not?" She says with a pout. He looks at her with lust in his eyes. He wanted her and watching this wasn't going to help. "Oh, okay."

He changes the channel again and they find a film. Nothing exciting. Buffy leans against Angel's chest. He puts his arm goes around her holding her close to him.

The film finished and they got something to eat. Angel had blood while Buffy had an apple.

"How long do you think they will be?" Buffy asked.

"Well not much longer. I don't think they would be able to keep up with Tia." Buffy laughs.

"What time is it anyways?"

Angel looks at the clock, "1:27."

"I hope Tia had something to eat. If she hasn't she will be really grumpy." As she says that the gang walk through the door laughing slightly. Tia was on Xander's back. Talking. Buffy and Angel walk over to them and Xander puts Tia on the floor. She moves over to Buffy jumping up and down. She picks her up and sees the ice – cream around her month.

"You gave her ice – cream." Buffy says the gang that look over at her.

"Only one." Xander says smiling.

"No, Four." Tia says correcting him. Then she sees the look on Xander's face. "Sorry I mean one." Buffy looks at the Gang but can't help but smile. She thought it was funny.

"And how many did you guys have?"

"Only two, many three, each. But we couldn't beat Tia." Willow says following Buffy to the kitchen. She puts Tia on the side and washes her face.

"Has she had anything else?"

"Does coke count?" Buffy glares at her. Tia would be hyper for some time. "Okay, I think we'll leave." Willow goes to leave but Buffy steps in front of her.

"You make my daughter hyper now you want me to entertain her till she calms down. I don't think so you're staying and helping."

"Okay." Willow said happily. "She's adorable."

"You won't be saying that after she has destroyed the house and we are clearing it up."

"Mommy?" Tia small voice says. "I'm bored."

"What do you wanna do?" Tia thinks about it. She doesn't know so she shrugs.

"Come on lets watch something on the TV then."

Buffy and Willow make their way to the living room. Tia still in Buffy's arms. Everyone was sitting talking about what they had done today. Willow sits next to Tara and then Buffy Sits on Angel's lap. Tia Jumps off Buffy and starts to spin around in circles. The gang watch her smiling at the young girl that had so much energy.

"Is it normal for a six year old to have that much energy." Xander asks. Everyone shrugs.

"I guess it could be that I'm the slayer. Maybe she got some of it from me." Buffy says looking at Tia, she could tell Tia would fall over soon. "Xander can you pull that table to you a little please." He does. Then a minute later Tia falls to where the table use to be.

"You okay baby?" Buffy asking as Tia gets up. Then falling again on her butt.

"Yeah." She laughs, "Everything is spinning."

"That would usually happen after spinning around." Tia tries to get up again but stumbles. Buffy stands up picking her up. She was smiling. Buffy held her so she was standing. "You still dizzy?" Tia nods. "You feel sick?" Tia nods. "Okay." Buffy places her on her hip waking to the kitchen.

"How did she know Tia was going to fall where the table was?" Xander asked Angel.

"She saw Tia swaying to the side. Her left leg was also giving way making her fall to the left. As she span more she was becoming weaker on the left side. That's how Buffy saw she was going to fall on the table."

"That's a handy skill to have." Anya says.

In the kitchen Buffy had put Tia on a seat and gave her a drink of water. She was drinking it when Tara walked in.

"She okay?"

"Yeah, water usually helps when you feel sick. I just hope she calms down a bit now." Tia had finished the drink and jumped off the chair running to the living room.

"I don't think she has." Tara says.

"Yeah me too." They walk back into the living room to see Tia jumping on the seat that Tara was sitting on.

"Tia off the furniture." She jumps off then keeps jumping around the house.

Buffy and Tara join the group again. They sit there talking for a few hours while Tia runs, jumps and skips around the house and garden.

When the door opens Tia runs to Dawn who is back from School. She jumps into her arms and Dawn quickly wraps her arms around making sure she doesn't fall.

"Hey." Dawn walks to the living room.

"Hey I thought you were going to Janice's?"

"I am I just need to get something."

"Oh" Buffy gets up again and takes Tia. She had calm down a little now. She didn't try getting out of Buffy's arm instead just sat on her lap after she sits back down. "What do you need?"

"Nothing important. Just some CDs." Dawn then goes upstairs to get whatever and then head back out after saying bye to everyone.

Tia had started to play with Buffy's hand and then ring she was wearing.

"Mommy where did you get this ring?"

"Angel gave it to me. On my seventeenth birthday." She smiles at Angel; he moves his hand to Buffy's to show Tia that he had a matching ring.

"Why do you both have the same one?"

"It shows how much I love your mom and how much she loves me." Angel says looking deep into Buffy's eyes.

The Scooby gang all had a bad feeling about this. Was there any chance Angelus would come forth again? They really hoped not. Not only Buffy's sake, but for Tia's too, not to mention their own.

"Hey where is Giles?" Buffy says pulling her eyes way from Angel's

"His at the magic box." Willow answers. "Should we go see him?"

"Yeah I wanna see Giles." Tia says turning on Buffy lap.

"We can go if you promise not to run around." She nods eagerly.

"Okay we'll go." They all get up and ready to leave. Xander helps Tia on with her shoes that she kicked off earlier.

"What are you going to do?" Buffy says quietly to Angel making sure Tia didn't hear.

"I'll meet you there."

"You sure. I mean it's safe right?" He nods. "Okay well we'll see you there then." Angel nods and kisses her on the cheek.

They all leave the house apart from Angel how would leave in a minute to run into the sewers. Walking there Buffy was talking to Willow, Tara and Anya while Xander was messing around with Tia. Xander was running a little ahead of Tia and she was trying to catch him which she had already done a few times.

"So how far are you two going?" Willow asks suddenly but nicely.

"Huh? Oh me and Angel." Buffy realises what she meant. "We aren't doing anything. We can't." She says sadly.

"So you promise us you to won't have sex and turn him evil so he kills us slowly."

"Anya you really know how to make people feel better." Buffy says looking at her. "We haven't even kissed on the lips. We were going to but Tia started screaming. As for anything more than that, don't worry. Tia sleeps in the same bed if you think I'd do anything with her there, you're insane."

"It's like you're using your daughter as protection." Anya adds. The other three girls look at her strangely. "What?"

"In an extremely weird way I guess so." Buffy says trying to push any thought out her mind. "Can we just drop the subject of me and Angel please? I keep hearing Tia asking if we're together I don't need it off you when you know what happens."

They nod and don't say another thing about it.

They reach the magic box. Buffy had to carry Tia as her feet where hurting. When they walk in the door they see Angel sitting down at the table talking to Giles.

Angel gets up and walks to Buffy taking Tia because she throws herself at him.

"How did you get here Angel? Why didn't you come with us?"

"Well he had to sort out some stuff." Buffy says seeing Angel looking for an answer.

"Yes Stuff that I had to do." He repeats.

"What stuff?" Tia asks.

"You know you're too nosey right?" Buffy says lightly pinching her nose. They walk to the table and they all sit down.

"Hey, Giles shouldn't you be working?" Xander asks as he sees Giles sitting down.

"Am I not allowed a break?"

"NO!" they all say together apart from Tia and Angel. They look at each other pulling a funny face to say that everyone else is weird.

They were at the magic box for twenty minutes before Tia gets restless.

"Come on then." Buffy leads Tia to the training room. "I'll be in here if you need me." She says to the group.

In the room Buffy moves the mats so Tia can run around and fall without hurting herself. Buffy sits on the sofa that's in there watching her.

Buffy loved her daughter with everything she had and she hated that she hurt her so much. Not physically but mentally she was. Not letting her have a dad, the stress Buffy was feeling was affecting her. The fact that she hasn't had a secure life, with people coming and going. Mostly Buffy. Only seeing her a week or two every four months wasn't good.

"Tia? Come here please." She goes and climbs on Buffy lap, looking her in the eye. "Are you happy here or do you prefer it with aunty Lily? I want a truthful answer. I don't mind if you prefer it in L.A."

"I love it here mommy." She has a huge smile on her face that tells Buffy she wasn't lying. But her smile fades. "Why? Don't you want me here."

That's great. Make her feel like you don't want her. "Of course I want you here. But I want you to be happy. If you want to go back to L.A I'd move with you as soon as I could."

"But we're not. I really like it here." She smiles again; so does Buffy.

"Yeah, we'll stay here."

"Is Angel staying here too?"

"I don't know. He lives in L.A and has a business. He says he'll stay but I don't know if he can do that." Looking at Tia and seeing the little bit of hope in them that he will stay. "He said he doesn't want to leave you."

"And you." Tia says making Buffy look down. Then back at Tia. "I see the way he looks at you. He also says he loves you." Buffy tightens her grip on Tia slightly. Giving her a small hug. Then lets her jump off her lap to run around again. Buffy made sure she didn't go anywhere near the weapons.

"You going in?" Willow says quietly from behind Angel, who had his ear to the training room door.

He looks at her, "Nah, I need to do something. Can you tell Buffy I'm at hers and not to go there before six please?"

"Sure." Willow says looking at Angel walk to the basement to go through the sewers.

What was he going to do? Why couldn't Buffy go home until after six?