Title Familiar

Author:Nimacu

Summary: Something's Changed

Feedback: I want it, I need it. I crave it

Disclaimer: None of it's mine. It's all Joss.

A/N**I wrote this along time ago and never posted it.

She smiled as she gave the clerk her money, it was an easy sort of smile. It was the kind of smile that gave the recipient the feeling that they shared some sort of inside joke. She took her coffee from the clerk and sat down at a table near the front of the restaurant. The cashier watched her for a moment, wondered what she was doing here alone. But the girl was soon forgotten as the next person gave their order.

She sat drinking her coffee and reading a book, the book had a plan leather cover. If anyone had been paying enough attention they would have guessed she was reading a bible, but no one was, and she wasn't. The girl closed the book and smiled again as she slightly laughed at something in the book. She got up from the table and threw the coffee away, as she walked out of the doors she brushed arms with a man in a tweed coat, she looked at the man for a second, he had the kind of face that seemed familiar even though she couldn't place it. She shook the feeling of déjà vu and left.

That girl had seemed familiar somehow, although why he was certain he didn't know. He soon forgot about her as he ordered a tuna sandwich on rye and a iced tea. He took his order to go and left the restaurant heading back to work.

He walked into the library and smiled at his assistant. "You can go and take your lunch break now." The red-headed woman smiled back at him and left without saying anything at all. She headed to her car in the high-school parking lot, but on her way out of the foyer she noticed another one of the army recruiting officers had set up a table there. She took a look at the man, knowing that military men were usually pretty easy on the eyes. Something about him caught her eye, it wasn't that he was overly attractive, it was more that he seemed sort of familiar; non the less she had to go. Her lunch break was only a half hour.

The army officer watched the red-headed woman walk by. "She's checking me out" he thought to himself. "I've still got it. I'll have to remind the wife of that when I get home." He smiled to himself as he started to pack up his display, he'd been there all morning and it was time to move on to another highschool.

Soon enough the day was done and he headed home to his family, his little girl was playing in the yard. "Daddy, you're home!" She yelled with a child's pennace for stating the obvious, as she ran up and hugged him, before tottering off to play with the neighbor's daughter. He could see his wife on the inside of the screened in porch, she was reading that silly book she'd picked up a couple of days ago at the thrift store.

"Hi Sweetie" She greeted him with the customary peck as he bent over her without even looking up from her book.

"Doll, you're not done reading that yet?" He'd barely seen anything more than her forehead above the book since she'd started reading it.

"Of course I am, I just started reading it again" She sat the book down and smiled at him.

The husband looked around the porch, "Where's A.J.?"

"At my mother's"

He inwardly grinned, if she sent the baby over to her mother in the middle of the day that only meant one thing, he had to be sure. "And Katie's next door?" His eyes were saying things that his mouth wasn't.

"Yes, she staying over there for dinner." She had the "you're-going-to-get lucky-gleam" in her eye, he knew the look well and before she could say anything else he grabbed her in his arms and whisked her inside, the book lay forgotton on the table where she'd laid it down.

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Two men stand shrouded in darkness, they're in what appears to be a basement.

"Have they guessed?"

"No"

"Do you think they will?"

"I hope not."

"What do you mean you hope not, you has sure has hell better more than hope not!"

"It's a powerful spell, to change time. Alter events. Fate has a way of righting itself. The affects of the spell will never disappear, but they might remember things"

"If you value your life, you'd better pray they don't"