Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy, but I do own Sophie, baby Lily, and Echo the puppy :)
Two days later in the early afternoon, Willow and Tara brought their little bundle of joy home from the hospital.
"We're home!" Willow called as she entered the house. Tara followed, cradling Lily.
"This is our house" she explained to the baby, gently bouncing her as she spoke. "We live here with Auntie Buffy, Auntie Faith, Auntie Dawn, and Connor."
"Mommy Willow, Mama Tara!" Sophie cried happily as she ran to them, with Echo scampering along at her feet.. She grabbed hold of Willow's hand and began dragging her towards the loungeroom, gesturing for Tara to follow. "Come on, somebody's waiting to see you!" They walked in to the room to find their favourite Watcher and Watcher-in-training waiting for them, along with their other housemates.
"Giles!" Willow grinned, embracing the Watcher when he reached her. "What are you doing here?"
"We had to come meet the new arrival" said Giles, smiling. "Our flight got in this morning and Andrew and I were going to come see you at the hospital, but Buffy told us that you were coming home this afternoon, so we thought we might as well wait here." Giles' eyes softened as his gaze fell on the tiny bundle in Tara's arms. "This must be Lily."
"Yeah" Tara smiled, fixing the collar of the baby's tiny pink jumpsuit. "Would you like to hold her?"
"Well yes, if you don't mind."
"Of course not" said Tara, carefully transferring her daughter into Giles' arms. "Be careful of her head."
"Yes, I know. She's adorable" he smiled, looking up at Willow. "She has your eyes." Baby Lily stared up at Giles, considering him, then gurgled happily, raising her tiny hand and clenching it into a fist as though trying to grab something.
"She wants your pinky Giles" Willow laughed at the Watcher's slightly puzzled look. "I think grabbing your pinky is Sophie's way of saying hello."
"Oh" said Giles, offering the baby his finger and smiling when her hand curled around it. "Hello."
"My turn, my turn!" cried Andrew excitedly, beaming when Giles passed Lily to him. "She's so cute! And tiny!" Lily didn't seem to know what to make of Andrew, and just stared at the soon-to-be watcher confusedly as he made funny faces at her. The rest of the gang all took turns holding the baby. Faith kept her for the longest, and was surprisingly a natural, instinctively rocking and bouncing the baby girl. The Dark Slayer saw herself as a more official Auntie to Sophie and Lily now that she had fully embraced her newfound status as Tara's sister. Eventually, Lily began to fuss and grizzle, so Tara took the baby upstairs, fed her, changed her, and put her down for a nap.
--
That night, a sleeping Willow attempted to snuggle closer to Tara. Snuggling with her wife was a lot easier now that she could fit her arms all the way around her again. Unfortunately, however, the other woman was not in bed. Willow grinned widely when she realised that Tara was probably feeding the baby, climbing out of bed and quickly creeping towards the nursery and standing in the doorway.
"You're supposed to be asleep" said Tara without looking up from Lily, cradled against her breast.
"I know, but I thought we agreed to share feeds" Willow smiled.
"Yes, but I haven't pumped any milk yet, and the whole point of sharing feeds is that the person not feeding can sleep."
"Psh, who needs sleep?"
"Yeah, I'm sure you'll be saying that again in a few weeks time" Tara smirked. Lily was full, so she stood and handed her to Willow. "There. If you want to share the job you can burp her and get her back to sleep, which is exactly where I'm going." She leaned over and gave her wife a peck on the cheek. "Night, Will. I love you."
"I love you too Tara." At that moment, Lily grabbed hold of Willow's finger. "And you" the redhead smiled, positioning the baby over her shoulder to burp her.