I was proud to hear that. Everything ended fine... we eventually dusted them all. When I checked on Dawn, there was a little girl grasping onto Dawn's...waist. Her name was Tori. After we calmed her down we found out where she lived and esc*rted her home. When we got to her house, her older s*ster, Tori, answered the door. That is how Jade and Dawn first met. A Summers' romance if I've ever heard one." Dawn couldn't stop shaking her head from listening to Buffy's last comment."She just loves to. .. thank you," I said, following her into the kitchen. She pulled out my favorite mug and poured the coffee, passing it to me."How have you been, Sarah?" I began, tentatively.She looked at me oddly for a moment. "OK," she said softly."Tell me about the last three months," I suggested, trying to get the conversation going.She gave me that odd look again and then sat in a kitchen chair, looking at her cup, her hands flat upon the table in front of her."I tried to find you, but Renee wouldn't or. We swore we would never be lied to again. We were a small group, less than twenty. We now number more than two hundred. We’re a proud group of warriors, of soldiers.”“You didn’t lie to us, not one damned bit. I thought you were bluffing, but I know now that you would have put that armor back on, led your troops right through all of us. Some of your soldiers would’ve died; all of mine would’ve. Then you would have rolled through Quincy, through Vault 95, made us just a memory. I’m not good with. Pregnant.Very pregnant. Not really, of course, but who cared?I was wearing a similar babydoll to what I had worn inthe "sleep"wear competition, but my swollen bellypushed it out. The "addition" to my body was in myskin tones, attached with sturdy, but removableadhesive, and looked 100% real. I had also abandonedmy heels and stood before the world not only pregnant,but barefoot and pregnant.In millions of living rooms across America, mengroaned and emptied their balls. Refilled them, thenspurted.