"Aunt Jenny!" 3 year old Alexandra exclaimed, running into her aunt's arms.
"Hi, Sandy, what have you been up to?" Her aunt asked, picking her up and fiving her a hug.
"I was just picking berries in the woods with mommy!" Alexandra replied, holding up a basket filled with barriers.
"Wow, that's a lot of berries!" Jenny exclaimed, smiling at her niece, "Why don't you bring them inside and I'll tell you a story?"
"Yay!" Alexandra yelled, grabbing her bucket and running into her tent, closely followed by her mother and Aunt.
"Now, have I ever told you the story about Angelus?" Jenny asked once they were inside.
"Jennifer!" Alexandra's mother exclaimed, shocked, "She's still a girl, far too young to be scared by your horror stories!"
"Mommy!" Alexandra wined, "I'm a big girl! I want to hear Aunt Jenny's story!"
"She must know, she needs to find out what he has done to our people, she must learn of the vengeance we serve." Jenny told her sister, speaking as if Alexandra wasn't even there.
"Alright," her mother replied, deflated, "but I'm not staying to hear it."
As her mother left the tent, Alexandra listened as her aunt began the story; "Once, a long time ago, there was a beautiful young gypsy girl why was beloved by her people. Unfortunately, she also had caught the eye of an infamous vampire named Angelus. Alexandra, are you awake? Sandy? Lexi? Lexi!"
Lexi woke with a start to find Willow poking her with a sharp pencil and calling her name "Lexi! Lexi! Wake up! Before Mr. Brand gets back! Lexi!"
"I'm up! I'm up!" Lexi mumbled, wiping her eyes and pushing her hair out of her face.
"Good," Willow told her, "because this class is almost over and we're going off campus for lunch today!"
Lexi looked back at her new friend and laughed to herself at Willow's enthusiasm.
"Don't you love this song?" Lexi walked in just in time to hear Scott say.
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"Uh, yeah," she responded as Lexi sat next to her, "actually, I do."
"Well, would you like to…" Scott asked her.
"Dance?" She asked nervously, but even Willow's encouraging face and Lexi's nudge in the arm didn't quite work convince her it was safe, "um, I don't know, I'm bad with… well… thank you for asking, it's just that…"
"Okay, you know what? I'm just going to go stand by the dance floor, if you change your mind, you can mosey on over and if not, then you don't mosey. No harm, no foul, alright?"
"Great." She told him, smiling.
"Come on, Buffy!" Willow told her, "I mean, the guy is charm! And normal, which is what you wanted to get back to."
"Normal?" Lexi asked.
"Her last boyfriend was… different" Oz explained, "Plus, bonus points for using the word 'mosey'."
"I just don't think I'm ready." Buffy tried to explain.
"What's stopping you?" Willow asked, but before Buffy could answer, Cordelia interrupted.
"Check out Slut-o-Rama over there and her boyfriend Disco Dave. What was the last thing that guy danced to, Casey and the Sunshine band?"
"Eww, why don't people like that just get a room?" Lexi asked, disgusted.
"I don't think that guy thrives in sunshine," Buffy told them, following the couple out.
"Aww, I think she's going to dance with Scott!" Lexi exclaimed, "What? She's leaving! What is she doing."
"Not dancing." Willow told her, getting up and following her out with Oz, Xander and Cordelia.
"Wait, where are you going?" Lexi asked.
"Lexi!" She exclaimed, looking to Xander for help.
"Uh, Lexi, would you mind going up refilling our drinks for us?" He asked.
"Sure…." She told him, heading for the bar, but when she got there, there was a long line. After waiting a few seconds, she followed them out the door, arriving right behind Buffy just in time to see Faith dust a vampire.
"Thanks, B, couldn't have done it without you," Faith said, walking around them.
"Woah!" Lexi said.
"Yeah," Buffy said, glancing at her, then did a double take and turned to yell at her friends, "wait, you brought her out here???"
"I thought you were getting drinks!"
"Yeah, everyone is running outside to watch whatever is going on and I go get drinks? Yeah, right," Lexi pointed out obviously.
"Nice, guys," Buffy told her friends, rolling her eyes, "now we have to go tell Giles."
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"Yes, well," Giles began after finding out, "perhaps you should explain it, Willow, since you are the one who let her know."
"Xander is the one that told her to get us drinks while we were all leaving!" Willow protested.
"Its okay, I know," Lexi said softly.
"Come on, guys," Xander said, ignoring her, "well basicly, demons exist, Buffy is the savior of the world, we help, yada yada yada. Wait, you know? How does she know?"
"Are you a witch?" Giles asked, taking a step back, then muttered after Willow's glare, "not that I have anything against witches, I'd just appreciate a little warning."
"No," She told them, giggling and giving Giles an odd sense of Deja Vu, "I don't have that kind of power."
"Then how…" Willow began to ask.
"I've had relatives killed by vampires before," she told them.
"Oh, I'm sorry," Willow said, "I didn't mean to say that. Well, I did… at the time… but I wouldn't have… if I… okay, shutting up now."
"Its okay," She told them, "but I'd better get to class. Willow, almost ready?"
"Yeah, I'm just gonna… go get my… you know… books," Willow told her slowly
A/N: Wow… sorry guys… it's been a really long time…