SUMMARY: There are family issues some people just cannot escape...
SPOILER: Up to like Something Blue. NO! I hated the sappy B/R shit in that. Up to Pangs.
DISTRIBUTION: Sandee, of course - My site - - Crystal and Butterfly if they want it - A Soul's Redemption - Anyone else - sure, just email me & lmk where it's going - I like seeing my name in print =)
RATING: TV-PG
DISCLAIMER: Stupidhead Joss owns da characters. Well, some of them. Sort of.

"How'd it go with Angel?" Willow asked as they walked towards the quad.

"You've already asked me that a thousand times."

"And you've already sidestepped it a million." Willow sat on a bench and Buffy sat next to her. "If you just tell me the truth, I can help you. We can throw things or send spam email or burn his pictures."

"He's a vampire, he doesn't have any pictures." Buffy pointed out.

"Buffy--"

"I know, I know." she closed her eyes and threw her head back. How am I gonna tell Willow what happened? she asked herself. I can't really say, "Hey Will, well, it went all right the first time. We kissed and we did it and all was perfect and then Angel had to be better than everyone and save the day as usual so he erased it all and no one remembered but him, or so he thought. So you sorta had to live a day over too. Sorry about that."

"Buffy?" Willow waved a hand in front of her face.

The Slayer sighed. "It didn't go the way I wanted it to go. Can we please leave it at that?

"Of course."

"Thanks."

"And just so you know, if you ever really *do* need to talk--"

"I know, you're here to listen." Buffy gave her a quick hug. "Thanks."

"Buffy," she turned when she heard her name being called. "Buffy!" Riley was jogging across the quad and waving.

"What is that?" Buffy asked, giggling.

"Oh, did Angel remind you what a real man looks like?" Willow asked.

"Ha ha ha." she said dryly as Riley arrived in front of them, panting.

"Hey Willow. Buffy, there's something I wanna ask you."

"No, I'm not taking psyche next semester."

"That's not it." he smiled a phony smile. "I have to go home next weekend and I was wondering if you wanted to come with me."

"To *Iowa*?" she demanded.

"Yeah. My sisters just had babies and I want to see them. It's not every year I get to become an aunt times eight."

Buffy coughed and Willow's mouth dropped. "Eight?" she managed to screech out.

"Yeah. Rebecca just had quintuplets and Regina had triplets. Her third set." he smiled again.

"Rebecca, Regina and Riley?" Willow said. "That's cute."

"Actually, it's Rebecca, Regina and Renee, they're triplets. Ryan and I are twins, and then there's Abbigail and Anderson."

"I'm surprised they're not all R names," Willow commented quietly. Buffy just looked afraid.

"Oh, Abbigail and Anderson are their middle names. Their first names are both Roger."

"Okay," Buffy scooted closer to Willow. "What did your sisters name their new babies?" she expected more R names, of course, though she wasn't sure there *were* eight more names that began with the letter R.

"Well, Rebecca named the boys AJ, Nick, Kevin, Brian and Howie D. Regina named her girls Britney, Christina and Mandy."

"Interesting," Buffy commented.

"And my other sister, Renee, she has six kinds. Ross, Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Chandler and Joey. And my brother Anderson has two daughters named Victoria but they call one Vicky and one Tori." he smiled. "I was thinking maybe when you and I had kids that we could name them Piper, Prue and Phoebe. And maybe Brooke and Sam too."

"First of all," Buffy stood up. "Get a clue. Second of all, I would *never* name my children after characters on a pathetic WB drama."

"Charmed isn't pathetic," Willow said.

"I meant Popular." she snapped. "*Third* of all, Why in God's name would we have children? I don't like you. I don't even *know* you. I would never date you."

Riley looked confused, then he asked, "Does this mean you won't come with me?"

Buffy screamed. Then she smiled and said, "I'm sorry, but I've already got plans for this weekend. I'm going to LA to visit my husband."

"Husband?!" Riley demanded.

"Yeah, we've been married almost two years now." she took off and Riley did the confused look again, then took after her.

"Wait! Wait! You haven't even been properly courted yet! We can't get married!"

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