A/N: this is a short chapter but I wanted to do this before continuing.
Watchers Council: New Beginnings
Life seemed so surreal. Buffy had spent the past month trying to get over the loss of Sunnydale. Now she stood in the middle of a mass of slayers who were gossiping about how cute there new watcher was and the excitement of taking classes that actually sounded fun for once in their lives. She was positive that Willow was beside herself with anticipation over getting to teach. Buffy was happy for her friend Willow had gotten Oz back and was getting to do something she had always loved. Buffy was not so sure about how the whole motherhood thing. She had not enjoyed having to treat Dawn that way and she was sure that she was going to screw up. Dawn was another subject altogether. Where had the Spike thing come from? As Buffy looked back on the last few years, it was clear that everything Dawn had ever done had been for the sake of being human. She had literally experimented with all aspects of human life and behaviour. She hoped that Dawn's impulses would soothe now that she had responsibilities here with the slayers. James had surprised her the day before she had not been expecting such a radical change in the way they lived. What was the most frustrating to Buffy was that she seemingly had the short end of the stick. All of her friends now had real jobs they had to plan lessons and take responsibility for the education of her slayers. Moreover, while being a mother is a challenging job it was not a formal one. It bothered Buffy that her girls seemed to take the news of her being their legal guardian seriously but at the same time, it did not seem to affect them. They had latched on to her as if they had always been her daughters. It frightened her as a councillor she had seen the trauma kids went through in bad parental situations. It seemed like all she could do was pray and hope that her girls would see the love she had for all of them.