"I guess that's kind of the nice thing about chosen family, you know you were chosen but at the same time, there's never that...they have to love me thing. When my Mom died, that's sort of what hit me. There was no one else in the world that was required to love me the way she was," Buffy was still absently tracing shapes on Danny's chest. She wasn't being emo about the whole conversation, even though topically it was kind of an emo conversation. She was too happy to be back to do emo.

"I wish you could have met her. She was a little clueless but really great. She always cut the crusts off my sandwiches for me."