"I remember Timothy, he was friends with some friends of Jonathan. Liked even less liked than Jonathan," Buffy had explained who the guy who attacked them was and it seemed that Xander was the only one who knew him, "he liked you long before you saved him at graduation."

"So I've had a creeper crushing on me for years? Great," Buffy was standing in front of the group in the loungeroom as usual, looking at the witches doing what they called a detect magic spell on her, Eris and Dawn.

"I've only been here for less than a day and something has already happened," Julie said in a half joking half annoyed tone.

"Sorry, I don't think we've been properly introduced, I'm Rupert Giles, Buffy's teacher," Giles had seen the beautiful woman who had walked in from the kitchen with Joyce and instantly felt the need to introduce himself. He was a man after all and she was gorgeous.

Julie had a quick look at the man in front of her before putting on a charming smile, "Rupert Giles, I assume from your accent you are from England?"

"Uh, yes actually, I was sent here to help Buffy with her Slayer duties."

"Oh I do love England, the accent is so sexy," her words caused Giles to blush slightly which made the group look at him in surprise, "you must tell me all about your home one day."

"I'd love to."

"Mom, enough with the flirting, your family got hit with a random sPelL," the gang all turned to Eris when her voice suddenly took on a younger tone and cracked as if she was going through puberty, "what was tHaT."

"Uh, guys?" hearing Buffy also sounding younger, they looked to her to see her suddenly appear like her younger self, the teenager they had all met in highschool.

"Buffy! You look like highschool you!" Willow said in shock, the clothes that Buffy was wearing had become baggy on her and almost slipping off which made the Slayer try to cover up.

"She's not the only one," Eris said in a now completely teenager voice, they turned back to her to see a much younger Eris in clothes that looked even baggier than Buffy's did.

"Timothy hit you with a de-aging spell!" Tara said suddenly as she finished her spell, "if we don't stop it you will both regress to babies."

"Oh that's just wonderful," Eris complained as she held the clothes to her so they wouldn't fall off, "we can't have Buffy turning in to a baby, she's the only one that can protect Dawn."

"We'll figure out a counter spell as quickly as we can," Giles prompted as he moved over to Buffy, "how quickly can a spell like this take full affect, Tara?"

"Judging by the rate of regression they could be children by nightfall."

"Then we have to act fast," Julie shot back as she took on an air of authority, "those who can work on magic, focus on that, those who can't watch over the two, I will go wake up Joyce and explain what is happening," the woman looked at her daughter, silently happy to see her little girl again, "go wake up your…boyfriend, we will need the protection."

"Ok, this is gonna be so awkward," Eris headed upstairs just as she heard Xander ask the group about her relationship with Spike. Once upstairs, and with immense dread washing over her at him seeing her like this, she opened the door and shuffled over to a sleeping Spike, "Spike, wake up…"

She gave him little shoves which seemed to do the trick. With a groan he opened his eyes to stare at his girlfriend. It took a few seconds for him to realise he was looking at a much younger looking Eris, "whyyyy do you look like a kid?"

"A guy who is obsessed with Buffy hit us with a age regression spell, probably to make Buffy a teenager again when he first got an obsession with her," her younger voice made him scrunch his nose up a little as he sat up.

"This is very weird, but you're kind of cute as a teenager."

"Oh shut up, I was trying to look hot as a teenager," she stomped her foot on the ground, further showing the spells effectiveness.

"I'm not calling underage you hot, cute is all you're getting," he stood from the bed and moved over to the door, "I'll head downstairs whilst you change, I don't want to see you naked right now for obvious reasons."

"Good idea," she watched him leave before quickly looking through her draws to find something that was decent enough to cover her now smaller frame. But as she grabbed a large, oversized shirt and pulled it over her head she felt the magic take effect, the room started to grow in size, or more like she began to shrink.

She had a final thought of, 'oh fuck,' before her mind regressed to her even younger self. And this was where her mother found her, lying on the ground of her room crying her little eyes out as a 1-year-old toddler.

"Do you think I'm not being affected because I technically have never been younger than this?" Dawn asked the group as Buffy was being inspected by the witches.

"You've probably regressed to the age you were when you were, um, made," Giles said to Dawn with an awkward smile, he didn't want to remind Dawn of her lack of childhood.

"What I don't know is why Eris is even dating Spike," Xander said suddenly, a glare shot right at the bleach blonde vampire who looked back at him smugly.

"Jealous I have her Xander? You should be focusing more on your own girl, you're certainly punching above your weight with that beauty on your arm."

"Naw, thanks Spike," Anya said with a giddy smile, happy to be complimented.

"Hey! Keep your eyes off my woman," Xander snapped back.

"Then keep your mind off mine."

"Enough with the fighting," Buffy snapped, "I may be younger but I'm still strong enough to beat both of you up."

"I only believe that because at that age, you did beat me up, multiple times," Spike said just as green smoke started to envelope Buffy.

Right as she shrunk and became a child, Julie was walking downstairs with a small Eris crying and waving her arms around in a tantrum, "we seem to have gotten to the child stage of the regression," she commented as she placed her daughter next to Buffy.

"They both look so cute!" Willow commented as she stared at the cute girls in the ground.

Spike walked up to Eris with an awkward look on his face, "I think right now I'm officially single," his voice made Eris immediately stop crying, she looked up to Spike and got onto her wobbly feet so she could waddle over to him and hug his leg, "what, what is she doing?"

The group watched her giggle and bring her hands up to make grab hands at him, "I think she likes you, she wants you to pick her up," Tara said as she watched the cute exchange.

"I've never held a child before, what do I do?"

Willow moved over and picked up Eris who started to let out little whines since she thought she was being pulled away from Spike, "here, like this," she placed little Eris into his arms and moved them around so he was holding her securely.

The group watched as little Eris babbled unintelligible words and looked at Spike with a big smile, even as a baby she wanted to be around him, "I'm jealous that my own daughter wanted you more than me," Julie said as she came further into the room, she looked at him with a frown but didn't make any move to take Eris away, instead she picked up Buffy and brought her over to Joyce who had just come downstairs, "aren't they just the cutest?"

"Oh, I missed when they were this little," Joyce cooed at her little Slayer who quickly snuggled into her mother's arms.

"Have we figured out how to fix this?" Xander asked Giles as he closed his book.

"Its quite simple but we need to go to the Magic Shop, the supplies we need are there."

"Should we really go outside with these two like they are?" Xander asked in worry.

"The sooner we fix this the safer they will be, Dawn will need the reversal as well."

The group nodded and got ready to move out. Julie would stay behind and watch over Joyce as Giles held Buffy and Spike held Eris. The raven-haired child didn't want to leave Spike and the vampire had felt a strong urge to protect her so he didn't let anyone take her from him either.

He wondered if this would be how Eris' child would look like, or would she take her father's features. He felt a slight twinge of sadness when he realised, he would never be able to be the father of Eris' children but brushed that from his mind as quickly as he came. He didn't really want screaming kids anyway, he just hated being reminded how different they both were.

They were walking to the shops as quickly as they could once the cover of darkness allowed Spike to travel. At any point they could be attacked, and they didn't have a Slayer to protect them. "There are only a few things needed to fix this, place Eris on the table please Spike," Giles instructed as he placed Buffy on the round table they had once they entered the Magic Shop

Buffy was easily placed as she could be distracted with a small trinket Willow had grabbed from one of the shelves. Eris, however, did not want to let go of Spike. When he tried to place her down she wailed and clung on to his arm, "she doesn't want me to put her down."

"Yea, Eris was raised by Nanny's when she was young so she was pretty spoiled," Dawn commented as she moved over to Buffy. She was kind of enjoying being the older sister for once, and Buffy was a pretty sweet toddler.

"What do I do then?"

"Um, you will have to hold her as I do the spell, you're at least strong enough to handle her sudden, um, growth," Giles had walked back over to the group with a brown pouch and a purple crystal, "I need you and Dawn to stand either side of Buffy, I will sprinkle the powder I have in this pouch over the three effected then recite a spell. It will take the spell from them and place it in the crystal here."

"This was a lot easier than with Demon Eris," Anya said from beside Giles, she was curious about how the spell worked and if it would dip in to their money.

Dawn and Spike moved to their positions and kept still as Giles grabbed pinches of the powder and sprinkled it over the girls. Buffy sneezed when she sniffed the powder and Eris started eating it, luckily it wasn't toxic. As the Watcher recited the spell the gang watched as the green spell pulled itself out of the girls and into the crystal that trapped it there.

Slowly, Buffy and Eris started growing and becoming the age they were meant to be. And before Spike's eyes he was suddenly holding his adult girlfriend who was luckily wearing an oversized shirt that could cover her naked body, "oh, hi there," she said to Spike when she realised she was being held by him, "I remember chucking a tantrum that you wanted to put me down."

"It was very cute, even as a kid you like me."

"Shut up," she said light heartedly as she leant down and kissed him.

"No gross, I don't wanna see that," Buffy complained from the table, the baggy clothes they made sure to keep around her fitted correctly against her after a bit of quick adjusting.

"You love that I'm happy, admit it."

"I do; now can we go home? I'm suddenly craving a juice box and orange slices."