"Are you absolutely sure about this?" Xander asked. "She can't possibly be old enough." He insisted.
"She's old enough." Cordelia assured him. "We went through this with Gabrielle, she was old enough and now, so is Natalie."
"But -."
"No." Cordelia narrowed her eyes at him. "And I don't think I'm not well aware of the fact that you want to terrorize him, Doofus. You just keep those impulses under control or she'll never forgive you. Gabrielle wouldn't speak to you for a week after you terrorized that boy."
"The boy I was well aware had thoughts about my daughter that made me want to shoot him?"
"The kind of thoughts you have about me." She grinned at him.
"Yeah, but we're adults and married, there's a difference." Xander insisted, certain he was right about this.
"The kind of thoughts you had about me when we were teenagers and long before we were married?"
"She's my baby, I'm allowed to worry." Xander grumbled.
"Of course you are, but they're all well able to take of themselves." She reminded him. "They can handle a variety of weapons, think in a crisis and Natalie, like all of our kids, has a seed of Magic in her. She can take care of herself. Trust her, okay?"
"It's not her I don't trust, it's the horny teenage boy she's going on her first date with." Xander answered. "He'd better keep his hands to himself or he's going to lose them." Cordelia rolled her eyes as she went to answer the knock on the door.
"Mason, hi." She greeted her father in law and looked down at the small girl tightly gripping his hand. "Is this Megan?" She asked.
"Yes, the Potential in a bad home situation, a lot like Faith's was." He looked down at the little girl. "These are the people I told you about, Megan, the ones who want to be your Mommy and Daddy."
The little girl shyly stepped forward into the arms of a family determined to love her and prayed she'd never be called as the Slayer.
"Welcome to Sunnydale, Megan." Xander stepped forward. "Come meet your family." He took one of her small hands in his as Cordelia took the other. "This is your Uncle Jesse and your Aunt Faith." He introduced them. "These are your cousins, Kara and Anna and these are your sisters, Gabrielle, Natalie and Amanda. We're going to make sure you have a long and happy life." He promised as a small dachshund excitedly jumped around her feet.