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Chapter 29:This Day Should Just End Now

Buffy walked to her mothers house. Willow and Oz were closer, hell even Xander but she didn't want to go there. She wanted to be with her mom. She walked threw the front door, her mother heard the door open and walked down the stairs with a huge smile on her face while she put on a ear ring.

"Oh, Buffy. Its you." Her mother said as her smile dropped.

"Thanks mom. That's a great welcome." Buffy said sarcastically then turned confused. "Why are you all dressed up?"

"I kind of have a date tonight and I don't want you to meet him just yet so could we hurry this up so you can go?" Her mom said rushed.

"Mom! I was going to see if I could spend the night. Does Friday Night Date Night mean nothing to you people?" Buffy was shocked. Her mom was never like this.

"Why? I thought Angelus' family was in town." She was confused now.

"They are and that's part of the reason why I am here." Buffy explained.

"Okay, okay, okay! Yes, you can spend the night, you can stay as long as you want but your room has no bed in it because you took it with you when you moved. Now could you PLEASE leave and come back later tonight?" Joyce said in a rush.

"Why? What's going on?" Buffy asked.

Buffy heard the door open behind her. "Joyce, are you ready?" Wait a minute! She knew that voice!

Buffy turned around as her mother's date walked in. "KEITH!"

"Buffy?" Keith Mars looked at Joyce. "I thought you said no kids were going to be home tonight."

Joyce walked past Buffy. "They weren't. Dawn is over at Janice's house and Buffy kind of just sprung in because she's having issues with Angelus' family."

Keith looked at Buffy. "Do you want to talk about Ange…"

"No! I don't want to talk about THAT. Your dating my mother!" Buffy yelled.

Joyce and Keith looked at each other. "I think we should tell her." Keith said.

"Me? She better be me! And you better be telling me something right now!" Buffy said stomping her feet like a child.

"Sweetie, come sit." Joyce said like a mother about to tell her child bad news. 'This better not be bad news!' Once they all sat down Joyce continued. "Yes, Keith and I are dating. He is the one I was telling you about. You shouldn't be upset because he was one of the two men you were referring to that you would be alright with me seeing, isn't he?"

Buffy nodded. "I didn't think it would ever happen though." she whispered.

"How do you feel now that it has?" Joyce asked.

Buffy looked from her mother to Keith back to her mother again. "A little weird. Confused, baffled." she was quiet. "This is real? This is really happening?" She said with a little excitement.

Joyce nodded her head and Keith smiled.

"Am I going to be calling Veronica my sister very soon?" She joked about a wedding.

Joyce and Keith looked at each other once again. Keith nodded to Joyce.

"Buffy, Sweetie. This isn't the first time Keith and I have dated. We were together years ago." Buffy looked at her mother confused. "I know this might be hard for you to understand but…. I was with Keith before I was with your father." Joyce paused for a minute and looked at Keith who nodded again. "There was a chance… there was a chance that Hank wasn't your father after all."

"WHAT!" Buffy yelled.

"Buffy calm down." Keith told her.

"Is there still a chance?" Buffy asked them.

Joyce shook her head. "Buffy, a DNA test.."

Buffy nodded and cut her mom off. "Yeah, a DNA test. Should we do one?"

"We already did. When your father left." Joyce answered her.

"So, he is my father." Buffy said quietly.

Keith shook his head. Buffy's eyes got huge. "I know this is confusing and doesn't make a lot of sense right now…" Keith trailed off.

Buffy stood up and started passing the room. "NO! It makes perfect sense! He knew, didn't he? That he might not have been my father!"

Joyce nodded.

"See, its all coming together now!" Buffy shouted. "Why he was always mean to me. Why you two always got into fight. You!" She pointed to Keith. "Why you always came to my rescue! You were always there for me, more then he was! I always felt more comfortable with you. Why I am so close with Veronica! We are sisters! Why me and Dawn are so different and why me and Veronica are so much alike! We even look alike! I just thought it was a coincidence!"

"Buffy, you and Dawn are still sisters." Joyce reminded her.

"Yeah, I know. I get it now. Angelus saw it. Me and Dawnie are so different and yet so alike because we only share the same mom. He saw how Keith felt about me! Angelus saw it all the first time he met them" Buffy said more to herself then Joyce and Keith. Buffy looked at Keith. "You're my dad." She said with tear in her eyes.

Keith got up and walked over to Buffy. "Buffy."

She threw herself at Keith, hugging him crying into his chest. "All this time, I thought I didn't have a dad that cared." She looked up at Keith and smiled. "But I have because I always had you." Buffy looked from Keith to her mother. "Why didn't anyone tell me?"

"We didn't know how you would react." Keith told her. He looked at her and smiled. She finally knew that she was his daughter instead of Hank Summers.

Buffy sniffled. "Just to let you know, this is a good reaction." Buffy smiled at Keith again. "Do I call you dad now?" she joked.

"Only if you want to but we will have to talk to Veronica and Dawn first if you do decide to call me dad." Keith told her seriously. Buffy nodded.

"You guys should go on your date." Buffy told them looking at her mom.

Joyce patted the couch next to her. "Not so fast Sweetie. Come tell me what had you so upset that you came over at this time."

Buffy sighed, walking over to sit by her mom, Keith followed her and sat in the chair across from the coffee table. "Angelus' family hates me. His parents are just mean. Like stuffy and proper and… snobby is the word I am looking for. His sister was a complete bitch to me before I even introduced myself, they wont talk to me and she totally hogs him!"

"Sweetie, you have to realize that he doesn't get to see them very often. He cant just go to their house whenever he feels like it, you can. Tonight you proved that." Joyce explained.

Buffy gave them an apologetic look. "Sorry about that."

"Its fine." Keith told her. " Your mother is right though. You should let him have time with his family, you will have time with him once they are gone. You live with him. Which I'm not very happy about but your mother talked me off that ledge."

"As for his sister hogging him, why do you think that is? Could it be because she is 16 and loves her brother who is in the Army and could be sent away at any time to fight in a war?" Joyce asked.

"Maybe." Buffy said looking down, then her eyes got wide and looked up. "Oh my god! I am jealous of his 16 year old sister! Maybe that's what her problem is with me! I over heard her talking to Gunn, asking him if he thought Angelus would leave the Army for me and Gunn told her no because we haven't been together that long and Angelus' heart still belonged to her!"

"Maybe." Her mother said.

"Wait… but she gave me attitude before she knew I was dating him. So what's the reason for that?" She said looking to her mother and then to Keith- her father.

"She might not have liked that fact that you were there. She might not like other girls around." Keith suggested.

Buffy nodded. "So I should just go with it. Let them do whatever they want and try not to let it get to me?"

"If you want or you could talk to Angelus about how you are feeling." Joyce suggested.

"Or you could just stay here." Keith said pointing to the floor of her mothers house.

Joyce gave Keith a warning look. "Keith, don't encourage her to run away from her problems."

He held up his arms. "I'm not in any means doing that, but it is my job to keep my daughter from living with her boyfriend at 21."

Joyce sighed. "We had this talk about Veronica and Logan, we also had this talk when I found out Buffy was seeing Angelus. Let it go. They are old enough to do as they please."

"Doesn't mean I have to like it." He mumbled. "And I can still meddle in their lives! I will do it until the day I die!"

Buffy laughed, that was such a Keith thing to say.

"There is just one other thing that was bugging me…. Angelus' kinda not in a accusing way but still insinuated that I slept with another one of our room mated tonight." Buffy said.

"Why would he do that?" Joyce asked as Keith acted like he no longer wanted to be in the room.

"When they came home, I was in Spikes room watching a movie with him. I don't see anything wrong with it, maybe I shouldn't have been sitting on the bed with him but still! Angelus said ever since he had sex with Spike's sister, he is looking to get back at Angelus." Buffy explained.

"Why are they friends then?" Joyce asked and Buffy shrugged.

Keith sighed. "It's a guy thing. They are going to be friends until an opportunity presents itself for a little bit of revenge. It will either make or break their friendship but in the end it will be settled."

"Speaking from experience?" Buffy asked with a small smile.

"Yeah." Keith looked at Joyce. "It happened with Hank. He HATED the fact that I had ever been with you and that I still cared about you even after you were with him."

"Wait!" Buffy said. "Is she your 'great girl' you told me about?"

Keith nodded.

"Wow." Buffy said. "Your one great catch mom."

"You didn't know that?" Her mom joked causing Buffy to laugh.

"I'm good now, honest. You two should go on your date. Have fun." Buffy smiled.

"Are you sure Sweetie?" Joyce asked.

Buffy nodded. "I'm just going to crash on the couch for tonight if that's okay."

"Of course sweetie but what are you going to do tomorrow?" Joyce gave her daughter a pointed look.

"Talk to Angelus?" Buffy guess.

Joyce nodded.

Buffy laid on the couch trying to sleep, it wasn't happening. She kept thinking about how she was going to deal with this Angel thing. She could just let happen whatever happened and see how it ended up but she didn't want it to end badly with her and Angel never speaking again. She thought that was where it was headed now. Maybe she could just let whatever was going to happen, happen but she wouldn't run away from it. She should spend time with his family even if they didn't like it. His family needed to see that she wasn't going anyway, she would stay for as long as Angel would have her. She then put her hand on her stomach, things might get even more complicated soon.