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Buffy pushed her way through the crowd trying to keep up with Willow and the vampire. She was in arms reach of them when she bumped into somebody. " Excuse you." The girl said sneering at her. " Sorry." Buffy muttered. She brushed past the girl and made her way outside. She looked around frantically but she saw no sign of them. " Damn." She muttered. This was not good.

Just then the boy Xander came around the corner. " Hey Buffy whats up?" She grabbed his arm. " Xander have you seen Willow?" " No. Why?" " She left with a guy." " A guy? We are talking about the same girl right? Shy, little red headed Willow?" " Yes!" "Go Willow, scoring at the bronze!" " Xander we have to find her!" " Why?" " Because the guy shes with...I can't tell you." She said lamely. " Wait, he isn't a vampire is he?" Buffy gaped at him. " Because then you'd have to slay him."
Buffy threw her hands up in frustration. " So you know I'm the Slayer? Was there a town memo or something?" " I know you think you're the slayer. I heard you and the new librarian talking this afternoon." He shot at her. "Xander if we don't find Willow now they'll be another dead body in the morning." " You're serious." " Yes." " Then what are we waiting for?. Lets go find her." As Buffy followed Xander she heard somebody softly calling her name.

" Buffy? Buffy sweetie wake up. Angel's here and you're father and I need to talk to the both of you." Buffy opened her eyes and blinked. " Xander? We need to find Willow." Angel looked down at her confused. " We don't know anybody named Xander and Willow. Who are they Mrs. Summers?" Joyce looked at him with a grim expression on her face. Xander and Willow were two of the children who were at the clinic when Buffy was. The difference between them and Buffy was that they lived at the clinic and would for the rest of their lives.

Joyce looked down at her daughter with fear in her eyes. " Buffy are you having the dreams again?" Buffy nodded. " What dreams?" Angel asked. Joyce ignored him. " Why didn't you tell us?" " Because I knew you would wig out." " No we wouldn't have!" " What are you doing now?" Buffy asked crossing her arms. " You still should have told us!" " Plus, with finding out I'm pregnant and all it kinda slipped my mind."

Joyce leaned down and grabbed her shoulders. " It slipped your mind! How could it have slipped your mind?" " I don't know. It just did mom." " You're lying! You're just saying that it slipped your mind to make up for not telling us!" " No I'm not! I'm telling you the truth!" " I don't believe you!" Joyce said crossing her arms. " Fine then don't! I don't really care."

Hank grabbed his wife by the shoulders and pulled her away from their daughter. " Joyce honey, calm down." " How can I calm down?" " You have to. If you don't you're going to upset Buffy." "So?" " The baby Joyce." " Oh..." " Why don't we go call Dr. Pryce?" " Ok." " And Buffy?" " Yes dad?" " Why don't you fill Angel in on whats going on." Buffy nodded and watched them walk out her bedroom.

She turned to Angel and smiled. " So...did my parents talk to you?" Angel sat on her bed and smiled at her. " You're trying to change the subject." " No I'm not." " You are too. You forget how well I know you Buffy." He said leaning down and kissing her gently. She sighed. " Where do I start?" " How about with the dreams? They have your parents freaking out. What are they about?"

" I'm going to tell you everything Angel, but I want you to promise me that you wont say anything until I'm finished." " I promise."

She took Angel's hand in hers before she started speaking. " It all started when I was a little girl. I started having nightmares about vampires. But they weren't your regular nightmares. They seemed so real. Soon I was convinced that vampires were real and that they were hunting me down to kill me. Anyways, I told my parents and they freaked out. They took me to a shrink, Dr. Pryce and I had a session with him.

After the session, Dr. Pryce told my parents that he wanted to keep me there for further observation. My parents agreed and left me there for a week." Her voice caught and Angel squeezed her hand for support.

" I didn't understand why I was there, and although Dr. Pryce was nice, I was terrified. They did all kinds of tests on me and discovered that I'm borderline schizophrenic. Basically that means that I've created my own little world and when things get too hard in my life I escape to that world. Dr. Pryce gave me medications that worked fine until recently." She looked at Angel before continuing.

" I've started to have the dreams again. In them I'm what they call The Slayer. I fight vampires to save the world." She laughed a little. " I guess you could say I'm a super hero. In one of my recent dreams you were in it. I guess its because out here I consider you my rock. You save me from everything. Lately things have gotten so hectic here that I just want to keep having the dreams. My life there is a lot better than my life here. I just want to stay there. So what do you think? I bet you never thought you'd fall in love with a crazy girl." She stopped speaking and looked up at Angel to see his reaction. He didn't say anything. He just sat there staring at her in shock.