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

This moment became more awkward by the second. It probably didn't help that neither Faith nor Riley had spoken yet.

"Um, hi" Faith managed to get out. "I'll uh, just go and get B for ya now, okay?" Faith rushed of into the kitchen to fetch her girlfriend, who emerged a few minutes later.

"Riley?" She frowned, a little confused, but gave her ex a hug. "I haven't seen you since that thing with Spike and the demon eggs. What are you doing here?"

"I'll, explain everything, I promise, but.." said Riley, gesturing to Faith, "What's she doing here?"

"She lives here" Buffy replied, not quite ready to explain the whole 'I'm gay and the woman you slept with that time she stole my body is now my girlfriend' situation. "Don't worry, she's been switched back to the right side of the force for a long time now." The Slayer inwardly groaned at her 'Star Wars' reference, thinking she should really stop letting Andrew force them all into watching a marathon of all six movies every time he and Giles visited. "So, you said something about explaining.."

"Yeah" said Riley. "Can we sit down?"

"Sure" Buffy replied. While she led Riley to the lounge room, Faith, still feeling awkward, slipped away upstairs. Sophie was still waiting for her aunt to come back and continue their tea party, but when a certain former commando entered the room, she suddenly became uncharacteristically nervous. "Oh Riley, this is Sophie, Willow and Tara's daughter."

"Didn't Tara die?"

"Yeah, but we brought her back" Buffy explained. "Long story. Sophie, this is Riley."

"H-hi" Sophie stuttered, before she too ran away upstairs.

"That's weird" said Buffy, frowning, as she and Riley sat down. "She's not usually so shy."

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Sophie knocked on the door of Buffy and Faith's room, before Faith ushered her in.

"Hey Little Red. Sorry we didn't get to finish our tea party."

"That's okay Auntie Faith" said Sophie. "Um, can I hide in here with you?"

"Sure" The Dark Slayer raised her eyebrow, a little confused. "But why do you want to hide? Did Riley ask any inappropriate questions about you and your moms? 'Cause if he did I'll.."

"Riley didn't say anything bad" said Sophie. "He just gives me a yucky feeling in my tummy, and I feels like something bad's gonna happen while he's here."

"Like what?" Faith frowned.

"I don't know" replied Sophie. "I just know that it's gonna be really, really bad!" Faith noticed that the little girl was pouting, and didn't want to make her more upset than she already seemed to be, so she decided not to force the issue. The Dark Slayer sat down on the bed, patting the space beside her.

"Come sit up here with me Little Red, I'll tell ya the story of how I broke out of the big house again."

"Really?" Sophie grinned, her eyes lighting up.

"Sure" Faith smiled, happy to make her niece happy. "Come on up." Sophie climbed up onto the bed and settled comfortably beside her favourite aunt. "Now, how did that story go again.."

"Once upon a time, your old watcher Wesley, who isn't known for making the greatest decisions, decided thats it would be a good idea to take Uncle Angel's soul out to get information" Sophie began.

"Yeah, that's it!" Faith grinned. "Anyway, someone stole the jar with Uncle Angel's soul in it, and then he escaped. The Fang gang needed my help to get him back, but I was in the big house at the time...