{ Buffy invites Ami on a day trip to LA. Time to pick up Dawn at the airport. }

"What are you doing tomorrow?" Buffy asked, watching Ami dry herself off at the beach, following the movements of her delicate hands as they rubbed the towel Up and down lightly tanned limbs. The hospital had given the short doctor a long weekend between changing shifts. "Besides your daily swim."

"Reading, catching up on correspondence, cleaning," Ami told her, draping her wet towel over her beach chair and joining Buffy on her large beach towel under the umbrella.

"How'd you like to go to LA for the day?" Buffy asked. "I have to pick my sister up at the airport. We could drive down in the morning, have an early lunch, do a little shopping, and go to the airport."

{ They find Dawn at the airport talking to Setsuna Meioh and Hotaru Tomoe, (Hotari and Dawn met at riding camp.) meeting in LA to visit Ami, on their way to NY to join Michiru Kaioh and Haruka Tenoh}