"Ohh. So just slap some pointed ears on something then." Lily laughed.

"I should."

"It’d work, eh?" Gabrielle sat on the couch watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lily shook her head and rolled her eyes at the same time.

"Gabby," she said. No response. "Gabby. Earth to Gabby!’ Gabby still didn’t respond. Lily sat on the couch next to her. She poked Gabby in the side. Gabby turned her head to look at her.

"Ouch, that hurt. What was that for?"

"Because you didn’t answer me." Lily motioned to the television. "You were to enchanted by Spike to hear me."

"So? Since when is my paying attention to Spike a bad thing? You didn’t have to poke me you know."

"What are you going to do if you marry Christian and he wants to poke you. Are you going to yell at him too?" Lily pouted.

"Noo. Oh, fine! Poke me all you want." Lily shook her head.

"Look, Buffy’s over now. Why don’t you talk to me? I am your room-mate you know."

"Sadly, you’re right," Gabrielle shot back. Lily pouted again. "And STOP POUTING!" Lily climbed off the couch and sat in the closet corner, crying. "Awwww maaaan, don’t cry either! Geeez." Lily burst into tears. "Aww, c’mon, know what would make you feel better?" Lily looked up with tears streaking down her face. "Poking. Go ahead," Gabby informed her. Lily started to cry harder and hugged her knees. "Oh for the love of...." Gabby sighed. "Want a cookie?" Gabby asked her. Lily nodded slowly. Gabby handed her a chocolate cookie with m&ms on top. Lily smiled and nibbled on the cookie, her crying stopped. "There. All better? I sowwie" Gabby said.

"S’okay...I forgive you. I sowwwie for poking."

"Das okay. You can poke me if you want. I don’t mind." Lily shook her head. "But don’t get jealous when Chrissy pokes me then, kay?" Gabby asked.

"Kay."

"Good then. The world is once again safe."

"Yup," Lily said, nodding.

"Weeeeell then......Uuuummmmm......Uuummmmmmmm..." Lily sighed. "What do we do now?" Gabby asked.

"Ummm...I dunno."

"Sooooo.......Uummmm.....PILLOW FIGHT!!!" Lily grabbed a pillow and tossed it at her, feathers flying everywhere. Gabby sneezed and grabbed a non-feather pillow and whipped it at her before running and hiding in a corner. Lily ducked and cringed when the pillow made a soft thud against the wall.

"Missed me!" Lily called out. Gabby stuck her tongue out at Lily. Lily stuck hers out at Gabby. Gabby ran out of the corner and bounced on the bed for the fun of it. Lily sat on the floor cross-legged, expecting Jeff to show up behind her. She snapped her fingers and he was there, rubbing her shoulder. "Ohh! Gabby look! I did it!!!"

"Yeah and? I can do it too!" Gabby snapped her fingers and then Edge, Christian, Kael and Raven all poofed up behind her. Lily snapped, making Shane, Shannon, and Evan, and Matt appear behind her, their hands on her other shoulder. "NOOO! I was gonna steal Shannon!!!!!!" Gabby stole Shannon. "Hah!" Lily stole Raven. Gabby stole Jeff.

"No fair! I’m sicking Matt on you!" Lily sent Matt over to get Jeff back. Gabby directed Matt to the buffet table. Lily redirected him over to Gabby. Matt poked her. Gabby snapped her fingers and Matt disappeared in a puff of smoke that smelled of food. Lily grabbed Jeff’s wrist and pulled him over to her. "You’re so mean to him." Gabby grabbed Jeff’s other wrist and started pulling. Lily pouted and let him go so she didn’t hurt him. Gabby smiled happily.

"And I’m not mean to him," she replied.

"You so are. And I meant Matt. And you were hurting Jeff. Just look at the poor baby." Lily pointed over to Jeff who was rubbing his wrist and pouting to go back to Lily.

"But he likes it," Gabby said.

"Can’t you see? He wants me back." Gabby gave Jeff a distraction cookie. Lily made herself disappear and then reappear in Jeff’s arms. "Now he has me back and is happy." Jeff smiled. Gabby shrugged and jumped Christian. Lily laughed. "Dear, I think you’re making Edge jealous."

"Well, let him be." Lily laughed again. She snapped and made Matt come back.

She clapped and cried out, "Yay! Mattie’s back!" Gabby peeled herself off of Chrissy and poked Matt’s pudge. "Leave him alone," Lily whined.

"Noooo! It’s fun! Look, his tummy jiggles when you poke it!"

Lily made Chrissy disappear in a shower of white bird feathers.

"Haaaaay! My Chrissy!" Gabby sniffed for a second and then ran over to Edge. Lily climbed out of Jeff’s arms, much to his objection, and walked over to Matt, hugging him. "Eeeewwwwwww! You hugged Maaaaat." Lily kissed his cheek.

"So there," she said, wrapping her arms around his shoulders and hugging him again.

"Even eeewwwwer." Lily giggled. Gabby jumped Jeff when Lily wasn’t looking. Lily glared at her. Gabby smirked back. Lily snapped her fingers and made Christian reappear in a puff of purple smoke. He glared at her as well.

"Gabby..." he stammered. "How dare you! I’m scared for life now! How could you turn your back on me?" Gabby looked from Christian to Edge and then back to Christian. Torn between the two, she ran over to Chrissy. He turned his back to her. "Apologize," he pouted.

"Noooooo!!! I do NOT apologize."

"Well now, this is an interesting turn of events," Lily commented. Gabrielle pouted and ran for Edge. "Chrissy dear, take her back. She didn’t mean it." Christian pouted as Lily directed him over to her.

Gabby moved away from Edge and stared at Christian, thinking to herself, "He’s so damn cute when he pouts." Lily moved from Matt to Jeffy as Jeff sat down. Lily climbed into his lap.

"Happy now Gabby?" Lily asked. Gabby smiled happily.

"I think so."

"Me too. I got Matt and Jeffy and you got everyone else," Lily replied.

"Good. I got Chrissy an Edge an Raven and Kael somewhere around here. But for NOW I’m happy with Chrissy."

"Good. The only ones you can’t have are 3 Count. They’re mine." Gabby pouted.

"Can’t we share Shannon?"

"I suppose so," Lily responded.

"OhOhOh, guess what," Lily lead.

"Umm.....what?" Gabby asked.

"I gots an early/late/right-on-time birthday gift for ya."

"Oohhh you do?? I loooove presents," Gabby said, clapping. Lily snapped her finers and made Shane McMahon appear in a poof of purple smoke. Gabby squealed with delight, but stayed put in Chrissy’s lap. Lily looked up as she remembered something.

"I forgot them too," she said.

"Forgot who now?" Gabby asked. Lily smiled, snapping and making Sickboy and Lodi appear in purple smoke poofs as well. "I gotta do something about that purple smoke thing," Lily mumbled, being cut off by Gabby jumping off of Christian and bowling both Lodi and Sickboy over. "I can send them back if you don’t like them..." Lily added slyly.

"NoNoNo! I want, I want." Lily laughed and looked around the room.

"I think we have all of our candidates for our barn, yes?" Lily asked. "Oh wait, we forgot," Lily snapped and Y2J Chris Jericho appeared in blue smoke, "him." She looked around again. "Now I think we have them all."

"Wait!" Gabrielle cried out. Lily sat, waiting. Gabby snapped her fingers and made both Xander and Dracula from Buffy appear. Lily nodded and added Angel appear from Angel. Gabby laughed and added Doyle from Angel appear too.

"I think that’s it..." Lily pondered outloud.

"I think so," Gabby began to say. "NO!!!" She made Gangrel appear with the rest of the newly added boys in the barn.

"How could we forget him?" Gabby asked.

"I don’t know. I think that Matt and Jeff were pre-occupying my thoughts," Lily stated, motioning to the two boys who were fighting back and forth over who’s lap she sat in. Both girls laughed. "We are both outnumbered, did you notice that?" Gabby nodded and they laughed again.

"Yeah, I know what you mean. I had Chrissy an Sickie an Lodi and everyone else on my...uh...thoughts."

"What about Kidman?" Lily asked.

"Hmm....Flock style when he was all grungy?" Lily nodded. "Yeah, go for it. Someone to keep my dear Lodi company when he’s bored." Lily weaved through the threads of time to get the old grungy Kidman. She placed him in the heap with everyone else.

"That is?"

"All that I can think of." Lily nodded. "Ohhh!" Lily looked at her with confusion. Gabby went back in time and grabbed Stevie Richards with long hair, teeny little shorts, a half shirt and a goatee. "There. Now we’re all done." Lily closed her eyes and made all of the people appear in the barn, giving everyone their free space and air.

"No more squishy apartment room," Lily said, sighing.

"I CALL THE LOFT!!!" Gabby ran to the loft with Christian and Edge in tow.

"Not fair," Lily whined.

"NO!! Is it too late to add someone else?" Lily dived into a pile of soft hay, Jeff and Matt landing on either side of her.

"No....I don’t think so. There’s always room for one more, depending on who it is." Gabby snapped and Eddie Vedder appeared in the barn, looking around.

"How DARE I forget him?"

"I was actually just thinking that," Lily said.

"We can’t have a barn of hotties without Eddie."

"Riggghhht. I have feeling we are forgetting someone though."

"I know...me too," Gabby agreed. Lily looked over at Matt and Jeff and wiped the hay out of their hair. Gabby pulled a checklist out of thin air. Lily thought a moment, turning to Matt and cleaning the hay from his hair as well. "Kay.....we’ve got Matt, Jeff, Chrissy, Edge, Shane, Shann, Evan, Raven, Lodi, Sickie, Stevie, Kael, Xander, Dracula, Shane #2, Eddie, Jericho, and...is that all? And Grel, we have him too. And Kidman."

"Angel, we have Angel too."

"And Doyle too. I think that’s it, isn’t it?"

"I still have a feeling that we’re forgetting someone," Lily confided.

"I know, I know...I just don’t know who..." Gabby thought a moment. "TEST! Heather will want Test." Gabby poofed up Test.

"And I think that it’s KC who likes X-Pac. But I don’t like X-Pac...can we hang him in a cage when she’s not around?"

Lily asked.

"We can poke him too," Gabby offered.

"With a stick," Lily added.

"Why don’t we poke you," Jeff whispered into Lily’s ear. She hit him playfully on the shoulder.

"Shhh," she told him. "We weren’t talking to you."

"A pointy stick," Gabby added again. "With a flame on the end of it."

"No...umm...a hot poker attached to it! Cause I mean....we got the fire place." Lily pointed to it.

"Oooohhh...can I borrow in front of the fireplace for tonight?" Gabby asked.

"Yeah sure...but only if I can have the loft tonight."

"Okay, that works," Gabby inserted. "You know, we’re gonna be wore out before everyone else gets here." Lily nodded.

"Oh well."

"A small price to pay."

"A very small price to pay."

"Wow," Gabby announced, "all this because I started a pillow fight. Don’t you love being a writer?" Lily nodded, poking Jeff in the tummy. Lily looked up.

"I’ll be back in a few minutes. I gotta go get something from our apartment." Gabby nodded.

"Ooookay then. I’ll be here, keeping the boys warm." Gabby giggled. Lily disappeared.

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