AN: So you know I don't own BTVS. Sorry for the wait I am dealing with COD: Black Ops and Mass Effect. Both are very good games.
After the incident with Sobek, Faith and Shane had taken to going away to work on Faith's god half. Willow and Tara had taken to arguing as the days had past. Joyce had figured out about Dawn and Buffy agreed to tell her after her birthday which was coming up in a couple of days. Joyce had gone through with her surgery and come out healthy, even surviving the Queller attack the night before. Riley had been distancing himself from Buffy again feeling that he wasn't getting enough of her attention.
Faith and Shane sat down on the ground sweating from their sparring match. Shane was looking at the dense desert around them and thought back to her training with her father. She was brought out of her thoughts when her satellite phone went off.
"Buffy, what do need?" Shane answered knowingly as she only gave the number to the slayer.
"Giles is going over to England and when he gets back in week we are having a meeting at my place." Buffy said then hung up.
"Well that was odd. Think I did something wrong?" Shane turned to Faith, who looked at her like she was crazy.
"Really, she calls to tell you something important and you think you have pissed her off. How the fuck do you think you have done something wrong?" Faith questioned.
"She didn't even say goodbye or anything. Just said in a week we have a meeting at her house and hung up. Well time to get training, we have a week to get at ease with your god half." Shane said standing up.
"Wait we are actually going to be out here for a week. I thought it was just for a few days." Faith said surprised but standing up anyway.
"You didn't really think that it would only take a few days to train, did you? It takes years to actually master what I'm teaching you." Shane said with a chuckle in her voice.
Each got into their own fighting styles. Faith struck first with a swift kick to the shins and Shane countered with knee to the midsection. Striking with a left straight punch, Shane barely missed Faith's jaw. Faith threw her own right jab to Shane's stomach which was caught and draw behind her back. Faith countered by throwing an elbow into Shane's face but Shane didn't let go. Faith twisted outward and mid kicked catching Shane's ribs causing her to release Faith. Grasping her ribs, Shane kicked out hitting Faith's shoulder block. When Faith tried to hit Shane's ribs again with another jab, she was stopped by Shane hitting her jaw. Faith fell at the hit and kicked flipped up and caught Shane's cheek, making it bleed.
They were using their entire god like strength at every hit. They knew that they couldn't hold back with Glory and expect to be able to protect everyone. Shane knew that Faith needed to get the anger out of her system before she could completely start on working with the god inside her. Both of them were bloodied and bruised with all the hits they were taking. Eventually as the sun was going down, they were too tired to carry on and called it a draw. They treated the major injuries. Faith had wrapped Shane's ribs and put a band aid on her cheek. Shane had put Faith's shoulder back in place and butterfly bandaged a cut on her eyebrow and chin. After all that, Shane set to making them a dinner out of MREs.
"Wow, I don't think I have ever trained that hard before." Faith said amazed.
"I wish I could say the same but Aries did the same thing when I was younger. Needless to say, I got my ass handed to me every day. I liked the view though, at least when my eyes weren't swollen shut." Shane stated with a little smile.
"So, Aries abused you and you smile about it. That's fucked up." Faith replied with a scowl.
"I wouldn't say it was abuse but training. I had a chance to walk away but I would have been like you were. That's the reason why almost all gods take their kids to be trained. You can't believe how much trouble I got into with just 8 years on Earth." Shane explained.
"Does Athena not want to raise her kids or did she just not want me?" Faith asked the question she had wanted to know since she found out about her actual mother.
"Neither." Shane stated seriously before continuing, "From what I heard on Olympus and this was after it happened, Athena had thought your birth father was charming and a good guy. She had you down on Earth, as mortals can't enter Olympus. She was tired after the birth and in the middle of the night he took you. Athena was not happy and asked Aries to track this guy down. By the time Aries found the scumbag, he had hid you away somewhere he knew it could mask your power. They tortured him for a long time but by the time they got the location, that bitch had gone. Turns out, he thought Athena was rich and wanted her for the money but when he found out the truth, he wanted to use you as a weapon against the threats he was running from. If it makes you feel any better, that jack ass died slowly and painfully."
"Holy fuck." Faith said in shock.
"Yeah and hey maybe one day, we can get up to Olympus and see her. She is kind of cool. Dad made me study and meditate with her. Ha said I should be well rounded but that never worked out." Shane said to hopefully get Faith out of her shock.
"Do you think she would want to see me?" Faith asked hesitantly.
"I think she would she has been trying to find you since that night but I think your slayer powers are messing with your god side." Shane answered with a smile.
"So, how many tattoos do you actually have and why do you have them?" Faith asked in a change the subject kid of way.
"The one on my arm is from when I was eighteen and finished my training. I got the wolf on the base of my neck when I was thirteen and Aries had it done so it could help me keep in control. The last one I got and also the most recent is a Celtic cross over a Spartan shield with my mother's name across the top and Tara's on the bottom and that is over my heart. I got that one just after I found out about my mom's death and I had come out of my drunken stupor." Shane said.
"Why didn't you ever go back to Tara, if you care about her so much?" Faith asked bluntly.
"I thought that she hated me for what I had done and I needed to work out some of my issues. Then a messenger shows up, says Tara is in danger and I come running to her side. I guess that I can't get over that older sister protectiveness I have. That is the end of story time, I'm going to sleep. Oh and Faith, if you hurt Tara I will employ every torture technique I know. Good night." Shane finished with a devious smile on her face as she slipped into her tent.
AN: So please review to let me know what you think and if I need to do some stuff differently. Also please review my other story which will have a new chapter up later tonight, I hope. Like always give me some suggestions.