Meet The Family

Meet the Family 8

As Xander walked into the Magic Box he was his cousins sitting at a table with Buffy and Riley all of them had a dazed and amazed looks on their faces. Tara was standing with her hands on her hips glaring at them as Willow sat near by smirking at them. Dawn watched from a corner of the shop her eyes wide, while Giles looked on in approval.


"...And wh-h-at yo-u did was-nt very n-n-nice, either of you!!" Tara said passionately.

Xander walked over to the counter that Spike was sitting with an unlit cigarette in his mouth. Xander nodded at the others, Spike sighed and took the cigarette from his mouth and said, " Glinda's been scolding them. Didn't think she had it in her. But...well, I can see why Red likes her."

Leave it to the one person you wouldn't expect it from. Tara had probably done more than all of Xander's yelling and pleading would have. There were just some people that when they spoke you did as they wished and never question why. Tara just happened to be one of those people and they all knew it.

"Don't you ca-car-care!" Tara asked.

There was a moment of silence then...

"We care," said Wednesday as if she was choking on the words unable to stop them from coming out.

"We care a lot!" said Pugsely in the same way.

"Care a lot!" said Pubert with an almost manic grin.

Xander almost began to cackle like a hyena but managed to control himself. Barely.

"So, Xander, when is your family reunion going to take place?" Giles asked, as very then seemed to sigh in relief at the subject change. Xander guessed they were going to use the SunnyDale Syndrome, if you don't take about it, it doesn't exist or never happened.

Xander scratched the back of his neck then said, " Well, Aunt Tisha has had people RSVPing since last month. We have family coming from as far away as Japan and China. We're holding at the SunnyDale Hilton. Most of the Hotel is book just from my family and people who while are not really related we consider family. The Harris's are a clannish bunch. We like to keep those we care about close."

THUMP!

They all looked at the Slayer who had hit her head on the table in front of her and then looked up and moaned, " Oh, god! There are more of you!"

Wednesday smirked as she crossed her arms over her chest, " If you think we're bad..."

Pugsely looked up from the dagger he had been using to clean his nails with, " You haven't since anything, yet."

Pubert still grinning manically said, " It gets worse."

"Yeah, Buff," said Xander with a smirk of his own, " Just imagine who's coming to town."

THUMP!

Needless to say the Slayer was not taking that ideal well.