DISCLAIMER: Buffy, Angel and the gang belong to the evil Joss and I only own the characters I make up. In a perfect world however I would own all of them, Buffy and Angel wouldn't have broken up and Riley would never have existed.
SUMMARY: An unexpected event occurs.
RATING: PG
SPOILERS: General (if any)
TIMELINE: Over 17 years after IWRY
DISTRIBUTION: You want you can have it, just tell me where you put it.

"I said..." Hope started to repeat her last answer.

"I know what you said", Xander replied. "Buffy can't you control your child?"

"I could do that, but I strangely find myself agreeing with her" Buffy told him.

"Hey. Why am I suddenly being attacked?" Xander whined, when no one spoke up in his defence.

"Because you're acting like a two year old" Cordy answered, from her position between Doyle and Angel.

"Children, stop it" Giles yelled, "This isn't solving anything".

"Sorry" most of the gang muttered in response. Afterwards everything fell quiet again, no one dared to speak in case they occurred the wrath of another.

*

A couple of hours later everyone had fallen asleep, except for Buffy and Angel. So to escape the mounting tension, Buffy went into the kitchen, and since Angel felt they needed to talk he followed.

"What do you want?" Buffy asked, sensing his arrival.

"To talk" Angel stated.

"So talk" Buffy replied, pretending she wasn't interested in what he had to say.

"Why do you hate me so much?" Angel asked.

"I don't hate you Angel, I never could. I think that was the whole problem with the time you went evil, I couldn't hate you, so I couldn't kill you" Buffy replied, pretending to do the dishes.

Angel absorbed the new information, "Then why didn't you tell me about Hope?"

"I was going to, I even drove up to LA. I walked into your office and couldn't see anyone, so I went downstairs and I saw..." Buffy said.

"Saw what?" Angel prodded gently.

"You and some blonde, kissing. So I left LA and went back home" Buffy told him, sadly.

"Kate" Angel muttered.

"I didn't really need to know her name" Buffy replied, shakily.

Angel walked over to her and laid his hand on her shoulder. "You don't understand. If you'd hung around another second, you'd have seen me push her away" Angel said. "I didn't want her or anyone else, because they weren't you".

Buffy reached up to kiss him on the cheek for saying those sweet things. Somehow, she kissed him on the lips instead, and he returned the kiss. The next thing they are tugging at each others clothing, as Angel pushes Buffy back onto the kitchen table, as they begin to relive a little of that lost day.

*

A banging noise from the kitchen woke everyone up. "What's that noise?" Joyce asked, stretching.

"No idea" Cordy replied.

"Want me to go see?" Hope asked, trying to be helpful.

"If you would" Giles replied.

Hope got up and stretched, trying to work the kinks out of her body, before heading off towards the kitchen. She returned no more than two seconds later.

"Well?" Cordy asked, impatiently.

Hope sat down on the couch, looking extremely pale and said, "I think that I now have a fairly good idea, how I was conceived".

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