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Summary: Buffy and Angel return to her house to find Joyce laying in wait to catch them. A fight ensues which causes Joyce to question wether it was right to send Angel away in the first place? and if that's not enough to convince her...nothing melts the heart like a grandchild will..(unless your Spike and Angel..lol) just think about it you'll get that joke half way through the story! lol:)
AN: The mention of Piper and her potions is a biggie for those who watch Charmed. Piper is a chief and naturally she is the best potion maker out of the three sisters. Next, again from Charmed. Paige was turned into a vampire in the season 4 episode "Bite Me". In the Charmed Universe you usually can not become a demon of any sort fully until you've completed your first kill... which is good for Charmed other wise Piper would still be a wendigo(kinda like a werwolf) and Prue would have married that warlock, cause Piper was gone, then Phoebe would still be a Banshe and Paige probably would have been killed by Shax. (A hitman who killed Prue and was later supposed to kill Paige, but Phoebe and Cole (another demon who happened to be Phoebe's boyfriend) stopped him just in time. Ok, so now I'm just ranting, sorry..
"I'm through ranting, the rant is over. I'll have an acceptance meal and a side of fries."
-Lorelai Gilmore (Gilmore girls)
On with chapter 4...
Chapter 4: Facing the Mother
Buffy smiled at Angel from the passenger seat of his convertible, in the back Prue and Kendra happily played with the few toys that Angel had gotten them while they were in L.A. Angel smiled back at her, but both of their smiles vanished when they saw the car in the driveway.
"Yup," Buffy commented, " I knew tonight was just to good to be true. Who did you say ran everything up there? Cause I would like to have a word with them. Whenever something good happens something bad always follows."
"You should talk to Aunt Piper about stuff like that," Prue told her from the back. "She said the exact same thing a few years back. Well, a few years according to this time that is."
"Yeah, being a witch for her is about the same as being a slayer for you. Aunt Phoebe was terrified when she found out Prue was not only going to be the most powerful witch of her generation, but a slayer as well." Kendra said putting the teddy bears and fairy princess dolls up as the turned into the driveway of 1630 Rovello dr.
I'm more scared of mom and her reaction than of any demon right at this moment," Buffy said stepping out of the car and starting to unfasten Kendra as Angel did the same w/ Prue.
"It'll be fine," Angel whispered in her ear as he took the hands of both girls and Buffy inserted the key in the lock. She turned it and it felt like everything happened in slow motion. Dawn jumped on her immediately upon entering the door.
"Your home!"
"Yes, and I brought 3 little surprises with me," Buffy said to Dawn as she looked around for her mother.
"She's raging in the kitchen," Dawn supplied for her. "You'll want to get it over with quick before she has time to build up steam, bring Kendra and Prue too, what is that line from that one song? Nothing melts the heart like a grandchild does?"
"Let's hope so," said an if possible even paler Angel.
"I didn't think he could get paler?" Dawn said amazed. "Oh, by the way Prue someone stopped by my room for you a um, Penny Halliwell, she said you know her as 'Grams?'"
"Grams!" Prue said excitedly. "She's my mommy's grandma, she's awesome."
"Uh, huh, and she's really good at convincing people of stuff. If we can't get grandma Joyce to like Daddy, we'll call her." Kendra told them Prue nodding in agreement. Buffy looked at Angel and smiled.
"Everything will be fine," she told him.
"Mhmmm," he replied following her into the kitchen. Joyce looked at them as they came in.
"Hello," she said coldly. Kendra and Prue clung fast to Angel's hands partially giving him support and partially because they were afraid of Joyce.
"Hi mom, you remember Angel right?" Buffy said as if she were talking about the news or the latest television show.
"Yes, I do. What brings you back here Angel?" Joyce asked grinding her teeth together and glaring at him for daring to come back.
"Hello Mrs. Summers, I came back because of Buffy, and the latest demon problem…" Angel started looking extremely tense.
"And because of our daughter," Buffy finished for him motioning to Kendra who immediately came forward to her mother. "Mom, I would like you to meet your granddaughter, Kendra Cathrine O' Connor, and" Buffy motioned for Prue who came forward and took Buffy's other hand. "Kendra's cousin, Prudence Melinda Halliwell. Prue, Kendra, say hello to Grandma Joyce," Buffy instructed.
"Hi," said Prue.
"Hello," Kendra said, both looked at Joyce then Prue let go of Buffy's hand and whispered something in Kendra's ear before going back to Angel and lifting her arms to be picked up, and Angel obliged.
"Mom, I know you don't understand it, or like it, but I frankly don't care," Buffy stated dead serious as she looked Joyce in the eye. "I'm going to stay with Angel forever, that is what he promised and he came back to fulfill it. I have walked out of this house before, and I will do it again, Prue and Kendra told us that in their time, their from the future by the way, we live in a house in San Fransisco right next to Prue's. Your only decision tonight is wether you want to keep your daughter and get to know your granddaughter?"
"Buffy.." Angel began, he may not like Joyce, but he didn't want to cause conflict between her and Buffy.
"No Angel, your in my life to stay, no if's and's or but's, Mom can either live with that or without me," Buffy said looking at Joyce for her decision.
"Alright, if I admit you love him, how will that change anything?" Joyce asked, she would not lose her daughter at any cost, but she also did not want to know what Angelus had done that caused all the pain she'd seen last time.
"He's all soul bound and mine," Buffy replied.
"I have a potion that will let him walk in sunlight," Prue said quietly from her position on Angel's shoulder. Buffy, Angel and Joyce looked at her amazed. "Well, when Aunt Paige got accidentally turned and then unturned Aunt Piper decided to make a potion just in case it happened again."
"Yeah, and Prue improved it with Aunt Piper just last week," Kendra said speaking for the second time that night. "Piper says she's going to be a great potion maker."
"Who said what?" Joyce asked.
"Prue and Kendra are witches and slayers mom. Prue comes from a very long line of good witches, she's destined to be the most powerful of her generation," Buffy explained.
"Her mother is a Charmed One," Angel said quietly. "They are the most powerful good witches ever, they've defeated the source 3 times, killed Shax his demonic assassin, killed Balthazar, one of the most renowned witch/innocent killers and along the way have taken out the seer, the oracle, and Barbaras..the demon of fear, he kills you by finding out what you fear the most and causing you to see it happen. Bringing new meaning to the term scared to death."
"I don't like him," Prue said. "He keeps coming back."
"Yeah, they've killed him at least 5 times? Or maybe 4?" Kendra said looking at Prue who nodded. Joyce looked at them, her little girl was not so little anymore, and she now had a little girl, who it looked like would never escape the world that her daughter lived in.
"Fine," Joyce said. "Angel I guess your part of the family now huh?"
"Thank you," Angel said smiling at her, then putting Prue down. Buffy grinned as she lead Kendra and Prue forward.
"Good, then you can come with me to help me find some old clothes of mine for the girls to wear tonight. We're staying here the mansions way to cold." Joyce smiled and took Kendra by the hand as Buffy took Prue's. "Be back in a minute Angel, you get to help me get them ready for bed." Buffy told him grinning at his look of horror, he'd never, ever put a little girl to bed.
Well, that's all I have for right now, sorry it's so short. I'm having a major writers block problem. Ok, um the whole thing about them living in SF I put in there because they have to live somewhere after Sunnydale is destroyed, so assume that Kendra and Prue told them that in the car ride from the mansion to the house. Next, Barbaras is a demon from Charmed and he's annoyingly good at coming back from wherever the demons go after there vanquished ( I think it's the demon wastelands). He's been on Charmed numerous times and as far as I know was last vanquished in the episode "It's a bad, bad, bad world part 2) I don't know if he came back in season 7 because I haven't seen that season yet. Well, thanks for all the reviews and thanks for reading all of my ramble's! LoL, I tend to ramble a lot, well I've got to try and write the next chappie!
Little Prue