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By Buffy Barton

This story takes place after the events of "Chosen", when Buffy is living like "a normal person", but instead of Willow turning all the potentials into proper slayers, Buffy just plainly gave the responsibilities over to Faith, well, as much as she can! Riley is back with her, cos Angel wouldn't be able to make her...well, you'll figure out why she's with Riley when you read the story! Hint: He's (nearly) the only human one Buffy dated, and was in love with. He has left Sam, who turned out to be a robot. (Either that or the woman that played her was a rubbish actress!)

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I used to just want to be a normal girl, but, now I am, I want to be the Vampire Slayer again, the girl that saved the world, a lot!

My life was actually simpler when I was a slayer, and I never thought I would hear myself say that! Spike kept going on at me. He’s made my life Hell, by saying Taylor, my two-year-old daughter, was his! I had a feeling he was right even though I knew vampires couldn’t have children, but I hadn’t the heart to tell Riley, as we were engaged! I will never let Spike know he has a daughter, it isn’t right! A vampire with a child? That could never happen, could it? The thing was, I was pregnant again, and Riley just loves kids! He was ALWAYS with Taylor, and I don’t know WHAT he’s going to be like when the second comes! I didn’t know whether to tell him, or just go and get rid of it! No, I could never do that, kill a baby! I killed vampires for over seven years, but that doesn’t give me the heart to kill a child! Vampires are evil, well except for Angel, but babies, they are helpless, I had to face up to the mistake and tell him, that night!

Dawn didn’t know about the little one inside my tummy, only Willow did, I could trust her! If I had the guts to slay Spike, I would, I just didn’t know what was stopping me! Could it be that I loved him?!

I had to go to the library, and collect some books, as I had entered back into college. I started in the fall, and I have to say, I love it!

Arriving at the library, I was, for some strange reason, drawn to the dark side of the library, to the books about slayer prophecies, and the lists of the slayers!

I hated this part of the place, and I tried to leave, but I suddenly picked up the book containing lists of info about the past, present, and future slayers! I used to think that was stupid, because how could anyone know who future slayers would be? Then I had read it and thought that they probably made names up, but I had seen my name, after India Cohen, and cried, thinking that it might be true, this was BEFORE I was a slayer, by the way.

I read through, and came to my name, it had written beside it, on the "information" side of the page:

"Buffy Anne Summers, slayer for one year before being killed by The Master. She was revived. She then continued slaying for a further five years, then died, saving the life of her sister. Unknown Magicks brought her back to life. She finially saved the world by closing the Hellmouth in Sunnydale, California, but then stopped being a slayer when she became pregnant with her first child. She became pregnant with her second child, and this was a daughter.

I dropped the book, how did they know my future?! And anyways, this must have been updated, because the last time I read this exact book, it didn’t say anything about the Hellmouth being closed, or about my pregnancies. Great, everyone is going to know about my child, even before its father does! It hadn’t even happened yet! Well, everything was true so far, but when I looked at the book again, there was only two names after mine, Kendra and Faith, Thank God! I had thought, at least neither of them are going to be slayers! Then I yelped as writing started to appear on the page underneath Faith:

"Madison Finn, daughter of the slayer Buffy Summers. Trained by her mother, first known instance of slaying responsibilities being passed on from mother to daughter."

I cried and ran from the library, clutching the book, and ignoring surprised faces. I got to a phone booth and rang Willow’s apartment. Kennedy answered the phone.

"Is Will there?" I asked hurriedly.

"Oh, hey Buffy, yeah, I’ll just get her...Will, phone!" Kennedy shouted across the apartment. Then there was a shuffling and Willow spoke.

"Hey Buffy, what’s up?" she asked.

"Will, I need you to come to the library on 15th Avenue, and please, hurry up, we’ll meet at he diner next to it! Bring your laptop!"

"Buffy, what’s..." but I’d already hung up, and Willow replaced the handset.

I know I was probably unreasonable on the phone, because I could hardly understand myself!

Willow came, and as soon as she sat down, she asked me:

"Jeez, Buffy what was wrong, you sounded all worried!"

"Read this. Page 455." I replied, handing her the book.

"Hey, whoa, Buffy, you’re not a slayer anymore!" Willow said as she saw the title. With concern on her face, she patted my tummy gently.

"I know, but that is the reason I’m worried." I sighed, and Willow’s eyes grew wide as she read what it said about Mackenzie etc.

"I just don’t know why it’s not Taylor who’s the next in line!" I said, confused.

Will tapped in some keys on her computer and looked satisfied, as she took a breath and said quickly, "She mustn’t be a child born out of true love, she mustn’t have meant to be, I mean, she she was, but I thought you really loved Riley..." Willow looked confused, and I knew I had to explain that my premonition about Taylor being Spike’s child was right.

"She’s Spike’s after all." I whimpered.

"S-S-Spike’s?!!" she spluttered, almost spilling her cherry soda.

"I was stupid, I kept wanting her to be Riley’s, and I tried to make myself believe it!"

"Whoa, I mean, like, WHOA!!! Vampires can’t have children!"

I glared at her and she looked guilty, "Sorry, I just, I mean, Taylor is Spike’s baby and Riley is looking after her, thinking she’s his, that’ll break his heart?!"

"Hey, thanks for the not so comforting words!" I cried.

I went home that night and lay in bed, listening to Riley breathing, I couldn’t sleep, so I went downstairs and sat at the table, tears falling from my eyes, burning my cheeks.

I was so deep in thought that I didn’t hear Riley come down, and I jumped when he put his arms around me. I told him about the baby, but kind of left out the parts about her prophesised life, and I definitely forgot about Taylor being Spike’s and all. He reacted like I thought he would, overjoyed. He led me back to bed, and I seemed to feel better when he held me, so I snuggled into his warmth. No matter what I felt for Spike, I knew this was the man I was meant to be with. And then Angel came into my thoughts. I still loved him, and I probably always would, but he wasn’t there for me. Riley was, he had even left Sam for me, so he obviously really loved me! Riley had to be the one, didn’t he?

THE END