Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy. I do own Sophie, Lily, Jesse and Echo :)

Our brave Scooby heroes decided that they still needed needed to help Xander no matter what trouble it would cause them. So, they piled into the Mini-van that they'd recently bought for family trips, picked up Anya and Jesse, and, with Faith at the wheel, now found themselves circling The Mall's Parking Lot on Christmas Eve searching desperately for a space.

"Look, there's.. Oh never mind, there was a really tiny car in it."

"There.. No, some other guy got it."

"There!"

"That's a Disabled spot, B."

"Oh.."

"Quick, somebody pretend to be a cripple!"

"Anya!" Willow gasped.

"What?"

"Even when I was playin' for the bad guys I never stooped that low" said Faith, shaking her head. "I'm not gonna start now."

"But we've been driving around in circles for an hour!" Anya whined.

"I know" Faith groaned.

They drove around and around and around. And around and around some more. Until..

"Pram spot, pram spot!" cried Sophie, pointing. "We got prams!"

"Alright! Nice one, Little Red" Faith grinned, pulling into the spot.

"Okay, here's the plan" said Buffy, taking charge, after they had all poured out of the car and Lily and Jesse were strapped into their strollers. "We split up, and search every possible store where we could find a copy of 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' on DVD. Got it? Good. Let's go!"

"It's very crowded in here" said Tara as she pushed through the masses with her eldest daughter, searching shelves of DVDs as they went. "Make sure you stay close, okay Sweetie?"

"Okay, Mama Tara" Sophie replied. They continued to search. And search. And search some more. "This is gonna take a long time, isn't it?"

"I'm afraid so" Tara sighed.

Suddenly, they heard a whoop from elsewhere in the store, and looked around, seeing an excited Faith a few aisles away. She quickly spotted them.

"Oh, Hey T!" The Dark Slayer wove through the crowd towards them, a DVD case clutched triumphantly in her hand. "Hey, Little Red."

"What are you doing here Auntie Faith?" Sophie frowned. "We were 'sposed to split up."

"I didn't know you were here" Faith shrugged. "B didn't tell us where to go. Doesn't matter now anyway, 'cause I found what we're lookin' for!" she held up the DVD.

"Great!" said Tara, until she got a closer look at the cover, and her face fell. "Oh."

"What's 'oh'?" Faith frowned.

"You got the wrong movie, Auntie Faith" said Sophie.

"What?"

"She's right" Tara sighed again. "We need 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'. You've got 'I Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown'."

"It's not as good as 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'" said Sophie, at an age where she was beginning to notice differing quality in cartoons. "And it won't make Uncle Xander feel better."

"Damn it!" Faith groaned. "Oh well, better keep lookin'. How about we just stick together for now, get this place done quicker?"

"Sounds like a plan" Tara agreed, nodding.

Meanwhile in another store, Willow was pushing Lily's stroller through the Entertainment Department, when she heard a shriek of rage. A very familiar shriek of rage. She ran around trying to find the source of the noise, before seeing Anya, rolling around on the floor with some other woman, locked in a vicious catfight with some other woman over a DVD. Jesse watched wide-eyed from his own stroller.

"Give it to me!" Anya screeched.

"No!" The other woman snapped.

"Anya!" Willow cried, settling Lily's stroller beside Jesse's and then trying to break up the fight, no easy task because, probably due to some residual demon-ness, Anya was physically stronger than Willow by a rather wide margin, and Willow couldn't really use magic right in the middle of the Mall. "Anya, what the hell are you doing? Stop!"

"I can't!" Anya growled. "This is the last copy of Xander's movie!"

"We'll find another one somewhere else!"

"You don't know that!"

Lily and Jesse shared a look. The adults were getting nowhere. It was time to take matters into their own tiny hands. So, Lily magically snapped open their buckles, letting them climb out of their strollers and toddle away, hand in hand, into the crowded Mall..