Buffy looked at the girl in front of her and stared in shock. 'That girl looks exactly like me, maybe she is a shape shifter demon who came here to kill my mom and make me watch' Buffy thought as she stared at this girl, it was like looking in the mirror. Buffy put Dawn behind her and grabbed her mom and did the same. "Who are and what are you doing here" Buffy asked her look-alike looking at her with fury.
"Ok, calm down, you may want to sit down for this" The girl replied with a calm careful voice, but showing a bit of nervous-like fear on her face.
"No I think we'll stand, now who are you, answer quickly." Buffy said angry that this girl or thing is even thinking she would calm down, when this women or thing broke into her house and talked to her mother pretending to be Buffy, of all the nerve telling her to calm down.
"My name is Hope Marie Summers, I'm your twin sister" Hope said still with a bit of nervousness and fear in her voice, but also with a side of anticipation for Buffy's reaction. Than out of the blue Buffy starts laughing, while her mom and her sister stare at her and Hope in shock. Hope looks at Buffy in confusion wondering why she is laughing when she didn't say anything that would be classified as funny. "What are you laughing about?"
Buffy looks up and says "Sorry but this has got to be the lamest trick any demon has ever done, I mean, one I would have known if I had another sister and if I didn't my mom would of, and obviously she has no clue who you are and second-"She wouldn't" Hope said interrupting Buffy. "What do you mean?" Buffy said confused.
"I was taken by the watchers counsel right after I was born" Hope stated sadly.
"Yeah but even then my mom would have still known she had another daughter" Buffy said matter-a-factly. 'This demon won't quit' Buffy thought staring at Hope with a look that said 'you are so pathetic, if you think I'm falling for this little act'.
"No, she wouldn't, could you just let me explain, please" Hope said with a sincere voice and pleading eyes. Buffy looked at her and thought 'Well she hasn't hurt anyone so far it won't hurt to hear her out, plus if she tries anything I'll snap her neck before she can touch my family.' "Fine" Buffy said looking at her to continue. Her mom and Dawn had been quite ever since Hope announced who she claimed she was, they just stared at her. Buffy seemed to be the only one who could talk.
"Ok well I think the best place to start is in the beginning, first of all I am a slayer, just in cause your all wondering, plus a witch but I wasn't born with the gift I learned it. Now my life, well it all started with a prophecy about a young girl, a slayer, the prophecy said: On the new moon, in the eyes of February the chosen one will born, daughter of light, sister of the sun who is the key of life, she will be the one we have awaited the one that was called, she shall fall twice and remain thrice, being ever invincible in the eyes of death. She shall ally herself with two other chosen to rid the world of demon forever. So pretty much the prophecy said that they will be a slayer born on February fifteenth and she will be the daughter of light. When is there the most light? Summer so it really said that it would be the daughter of a Summers. The other part about the sister of the sun, that meant Dawn. Then the last part meant that the slayer would ally herself with the other two fighters of the powers that be and destroy all demons forever!" Buffy, her mom, and her sister just looked surprised and a bit confused, motioning her to continue. "So they initially thought that it was me, since it said twice of the thrice, they thought it meant the second daughter of the third child. Although it wasn't what it meant it meant that a slayer would die and come back to life. So in the emergency room, you Buffy were born ten minutes before me, giving the watchers five minutes to do the spell and stop time around a shield they put around mom and themselves, but it only lasts six minutes. So they had three minutes to deliver me, then two minutes to do the memory spell on mom so the she couldn't remember anything that had do with me. No one knew about this kidnapping except three people Quinton Taverns, Martha Mora, and Michel Mora. So they took me, leaving you to think I never existed, while Martha and Michel raised me to believe they were my parents. Though they didn't raise me as a normal kid, they thought it would be a tease. They told about monsters and demons never hiding the truth from me. I learned how to use a stake when I leaned how to talk. I was supposed to be the chosen one why should they hide it. I killed my first vamp when I was eight, became a slayer when I was fifteen, never died though. Then I guess my "parents" found out about you and that you were a slayer too, I guess it was a twin thing but for some reason we shared the power of the slayer as sisters. Then later they found out you died, and your still standing. Plus you killed the master and then they found out you were the chosen one, but they couldn't do anything about it now. So they just left it like that, but a year ago my "parents" were attacked by a demon and the last thing they told me was to find their dairy to see the truth. I did and I found out the truth about myself and where I really come from and ever since then I have been looking for you in all the places you lived, and now I finally found you!" Hope said near the verge of tears looking at her sisters and her mother, right in front of her. Holding out her birth certificate.
Joyce looked at it with a tear in her eye, and Dawn had a look of realization on her face and complete sorrow from what she just heard. At first Buffy couldn't believe it, it was impossible, but then knowing the council nothing was, but she still couldn't believe it without proof, but then she looked into Hopes eyes and knew it had to be true. Then she realized all that Hope had said and put the worst face of all, a look of complete anger. 'How could those monsters do that, she knew they had power, but it didn't make right' Buffy almost felt lucky next to Hope at least she had a normal childhood, Hope didn't. Buffy's mom was the first to move forward and walk over to Hope and give a hug. "Oh honey, I' m so sorry they did that to you, I'm so sorry" Joyce said hugging her on to daughter for dear life.
"Its ok mom at least I'm here now," Hope said hugging her mother back. Dawn was the next come next to her mom and Hope, looking up at her newfound big sister. Then she followed her mother's example and came and hugged Hope as well and said, "Welcome home, big sis." Then last but not least Buffy came forward, a little hesitant at first, but made her way up to Hope and smiled. She came and hugged her as well. They stayed like that in silence, until Dawn said "Oh look were one big happy family" smiling like she just won a lifetime supply of ice cream.
"Oh yeah, now I have two little sister to annoy me to death" Buffy said while pulling out of the hug with the rest of her family following.
"I'm only ten minutes younger than you, you know" Hope said looking at Buffy visualizing what she just said in her mind. 'I wonder what she thinks me and Dawn will pull on her'.
"Yeah I now, but I'm still older" Buffy said in triumph.
"Oh goodness now I have three daughters to take of, meaning clothing, shelter, and…Oh, honey where are you staying" she asked Hope, wondering where was she staying.
"Oh I didn't think of that, I'll find a hotel or something," Hope said really never thought about that.
"Oh don't be ridiculous, stay here, your family." Joyce said smiling at her newfound daughter with such love and pain from all she went through. 'But now it will be better, because I'm here and I won't let anything else happen to my daughter' Joyce thought to herself.
"Mom where, I mean we don't have a room" Buffy said not really wanting Hope to stay here. I mean sure she was her sister, Buffy believed that. Though something, she couldn't put her finger on it, but there was something Hope wasn't telling them. She wasn't sure if she should trust her yet, I mean she did just meet her.
"We'll make room as soon as I get the time; no daughter of mine will be staying in a dirty fringy hotel, not if I have any say in it" Joyce said with a voice that said 'and that's that, and no arguing about it'.
"Ok than, what next" Hope said, happy everyone believed and accepted her.
"Well you could help me patrol and find this new vamp gang that attacked the magic shop" Buffy said just remembering about it after all the commotion with Hope was settled.
"Sure, just let me use the bathroom" Hope said making her way upstairs, like she knew where she was going.
"Um, do you need help finding it" Buffy said yelling to the top of the stairs.
"No, I'll find it" Hope said turning when she got to the top of the stairs.
When Hope got to the bathroom, she opened the door, went inside, and locked it behind her. Then she toke a long deep breath, 'that had been a close one' she thought to herself. Then she closed her eye and concentrated, just like she had been taught. Then she orbed out of Buffy's bathroom into a dark candle lit cave! The cave was dry and the floors were chipping as well as the walls. Hope walked down the cave to a familiar entrance way. She made her way in and then toke a candle from the table before her. Then she chanted: Aconum-Ocartim-Mecep three times with each time getting louder and louder. Then from the ceiling six heads of figures formed. "I bring good news to you, my lords." Hope said pleased with herself for a successful start of her mission.
"What news do you bring?" The figure said awaiting the answer they wanted.
"The slayer and her family have believed my cover story, all is going as planned" Hope said with a smile.
"Wonderful Ma-"Don't call me that, that's not my name anymore, and if you don't mind I would like to be called Hope, so I can remember it." Hope interrupted, not wanting to be called by her birth name. She was hoping to leave that world behind.
"As you wish, I ask why you chose such an awkward name."
"It was on a T.V. show called Xena" Hope said to the figure on the ceiling.
"The irony of that choice"
"Yes I know" Hope said with a knowing smile.
"You have done well, so return before she becomes suspicious"
"Very well, my lord' Hope said bowing and orbing back to the bathroom and walking down the stairs to find Buffy waiting for her.
"Well it toke you long enough, ready" Buffy said teasingly.
"Ready" Hope said with a smile. 'She doesn't even have a clue'