Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy, but I do own Sophie, baby Lily, and Echo the puppy :)

The midwives took Lily away to clean her up, leaving Willow and Tara alone. Willow leaned over to kiss her wife.

"You did good baby" she smiled. "I better go talk to the gang.." Willow stood and headed for the door.

"Okay, but Will?"

"Yeah?"

"Just bring Sophie first" said Tara. "I think we need some time with just the three.. I mean, four of us."

"Got it" Willow smiled.

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Willow made her way into the waiting room, and found herself instantly swooped upon by its occupants.

"Whoa, whoa, easy guys!" Willow laughed. "Okay, so the baby's a girl but you knew that already, and she's healthy, and they've just taken her to get cleaned up. Now if you guys don't mind, I'm just gonna take Sophie to see her first, okay?" The other Scoobies were completely understanding, so Willow took her daughter's hand and led the very excited little girl off to see her baby sister.

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Meanwhile, while Tara waited in the room, her ears pricked up as a baby cried, and her heart squeezed. It was Lily. She could already tell her daughter's cry apart from the other babies in the ward. A nurse entered the room cradling the screaming infant.

"I don't think this one likes being away from Mom" she smiled, gently placing Lily in Tara's arms. "She hasn't stopped crying since we took her for her bath. Someone will come in a little while to help you with her first feed, okay?" Tara nodded and thanked the nurse, but her eyes were fixed on her newborn daughter, who had stopped crying not long after she had been returned to her. She kissed the baby's forehead and stroked the soft blonde fuzz on her scalp. It was a few shades lighter than Tara's own hair, but she knew that it would most likely darken to a matching colour as she got older. At that moment, Willow came in carrying Sophie, who's eyes lit up at the sight of the blanket swaddled bundle in her mother's arms.

"Hi sweetie" Tara smiled as Willow placed the little girl on the bed beside her.

"Hi Mama Tara" Sophie replied, gazing in awe at her baby sister. Tara repositioned the baby slightly so that her eldest daughter could get a better view of her.

"Look, Lily" she whispered. "This is your big sister, Sophie." Sophie reached a hand out towards the baby, and Lily curled her own tiny hand around her sister's pinky, gurgling happily.

"See Mommies?" said Sophie. "She already knows me."

"That has got to be the the sweetest thing I have ever seen" said Willow, smiling at her two daughters.

"No arguments here" Tara replied.

"Have you gived Lily Willow Bear yet?" Sophie asked Tara.

"No" said Tara, shaking her head. "You go get her sweetie, she's in the bag over there." Sophie slid off the bed and began rummaging around in the bag.

"Willow Bear?" asked Willow, brow crinkling in confusion.

"Yeah" Tara smiled. "Sophie has a Tara Bear so I thought Lily could have a Willow Bear, but nothing in any of the toy stores looked right, so I just made one."

"Found her!" said Sophie, pulling the teddy out of the bag. It had red fur the same shade as Willow's hair, and two emerald green buttons for eyes. Sophie clambered back onto the bed and held the bear out to Lily, who just stared at it.

"I think she might be too little for a teddy bear Sophie" Tara laughed. "We'll give it to her when she gets a bit bigger." She turned to Willow, holding the baby out towords her. "Do you want to hold her now Will? And you can call the others in now if you want." Willow beamed, carefully taking her baby daughter from Tara's arms and sending a telepathic message to Buffy and Xander. Barely a minute later, Xander, Buffy, Faith, Dawn, and Connor rushed into the room. Dawn squealed and ran over to look at the baby.

"Oh my god, she's gorgeous!" The youngest Summers cried.

"Shh!" Willow hissed, holding the baby closer when she whimpered a little. "You're scaring her!"

"Sorry" said Dawn. "So, what are you going to call her?" Willow smiled, only she, Tara, and Sophie had known that the baby already had a name.

"Lily" she said, gazing lovingly at the bundle in her arms. "Lily Anya Rosenberg."