Efren and Faith were in the front yard sitting on the bench that was placed about fifteen feet from the entrance to the house. They were far enough away that they could hear if some one opened the door so they were in a heated make out session.
"You don't think our relationship is weird?" Efren asked after a moment.
Faith lifted her hear from his neck and raised an eyebrow at him.
"Relationship? This is a relationship? Don't tell me you want to talk about your feelings, I'm gonna start thinking you are the girl in this situation."
"You know I'm not a girl, I think I have proven time and time again that I am not a girl. I mean is it strange to an outsider that I'm dating a girl that my uncle has pretty much adopted into the family, making her my cousin?" he asked looking up at her as he glided his hands up her arms to her shoulders and back again.
"I guess to an outsider it would seem weird or odd but who cares what others think about us. I don't see where it's anyone else da..." she was cut off as tires screeched at the gate.
The two looked up and over to the gate to see three cars, ones they knew very well, all in a line at the closed gate.
"That's strange they are never home at this time." Efren said looking up from his watch, as he took in his uncles cars followed by Michelangelo's car.
"You think somethings up?" Faith asked sliding off of his lap and onto the bench beside him.
"Don't know yet. Though dad has been out in the shed awhile." he muttered.
"What's the shed got to do with it?" his girlfriend asked confused.
"It's were we keep the heavy duty cement mixer." he replied as the line of cars pulled to a stop in front of the two.
Ira jumped out of his car and ran around to the passenger side and lifted Dawn out. He looked at Efren and handed the girl to him.
"Get her inside. Tell everyone there's a meeting in the living room in ten." he said.
Efren and Faith looked at each other then at Dawn, Efren did as he was told and took Dawn inside and sat her on the sofa. Faith went about the chore of telling everyone that there was a meeting neither had thought to ask what the commotion was about.
Faith wandered into the greenhouse were Gail and Isabella were.
"Grandma?" she spoke up.
The two women turned to her with smiles on their faces. Gail was holding a tulip and Isabella was holding what Faith realized was a gardenia.
"Uh, dad said to tell you all that there is a family meeting in the living room in ten."
"What's it about dear?" Gail asked as her smile faded a bit.
Faith gave a shrug and looked down.
"I don't know but dad and the uncles are in like a panic mode." she told them
The two older women looked at one another and paled. They knew the signs of a mafia freakout they had witnessed them enough over the years. Something had gone down and the men were frantic.
"Alright dear. Thank you, can you round up some of the others, we will find whom ever we can." Gail asked.
Faith gave a quick 'Yes ma'am.' and went to find who ever she could.
Faith went through the bottom level of the house and found Buffy, Willow, Giles, and surprisingly Alessa.
"Hey family meeting in the living room in five." she said.
She had figured she had wasted five minutes looking for the few people she had found. After walking off she walked down the hall to find, Andrew, Philip Karisa and Isaak in the game room.
"Family meeting in the living room." she told them.
As Faith made her way back toward the living room she ran into Carissa and Noah, instead of saying anything she just grabbed the boy by the hand and yanked him toward the living room, and since he had a hold of Carissa's hand she was forced to follow. As the groups settled Faith saw Dawn was gone, the brunette looked over at Efren with a look. He pointed toward Ira and then upstairs. She gave a nod.
Everyone else had been located and were now sitting in the living room.
"There's been an attack." Ira started.
"What? Where?" Gail asked in a shockingly calm manner.
"At the school. We aren't sure who ordered it but we do think it might have been an inside job." he told her.
As Ira was talking Darren was sneaking behind Buffy with a needle. They had agreed to give the girl a sedative just powerful enough that she couldn't kill anyone when they informed her that her sister had been a target. Darren stuck the needle in the blondes arm so fast that she thought it was a bug bite and swatted at the place that the needle had just been seconds before.
"Why do you think that?" Philip asked.
"They were able to get into the Miller room where Jenoah and Dawn were hiding." Ira answered and as predicted the blonde slayer flew up from her seat and pointed at them.
"Why didn't you tell me my sister was attacked!" she demanded only to fall back in her chair in a daze.
"Buffy listen to me okay. Dawn is fine if not a little shell shocked. She's physically perfect. Jenoah risked his life to protect her." Ira said as he tried to calm the girl down.
"Is he alright?" Cara asked as her sisters sat up straighter upon hearing that their brother had fought with armed men.
"It's a little touch and go right now but I believe he will be just fine girls." Darren said trying to ease the worry that the group of girls suddenly felt.
"What happened? Do we know what they were after?" Laim asked.
He was answered with shakes of the heads.
"At this point all we've found out is that we believe they were after Dawn for some reason." Jeremiah answered as all eyes turned toward Buffy who now thanks to the sedative Darren had injected her with, had a goofy smile on her face and was gazing off into la-la land.
"Oh my goddess what did you give her Uncle Darren!" Willow asked as she waved her hand in front of her stoned best friend.
Darren grinned and said, "A light sedative."
"You doped her up!"
"Relax, Willow you know how worked up Buffy gets when Dawnie is in danger I think it was a smart move on Uncle Darrens part." Xander interjected as he rubbed his face.
"I could have done it for you." Willow said to her uncle, earning a look of amusement.
"You really think this is an inside job?" Rosabella asked in horror grabbing Joshua's hand.
"Yes, we do, but who would want to hurt Dawn? She's a seventeen year old girl." Isiah wondered out loud.
"What are we? Monkeys?" Alessa wanted to know raising an eyebrow at him.
Isiah shook his head and threw his hands up. "I surrender." he muttered.
"Okay back to people wanting to hurt Dawn. Did Jenoah get a good look at them? Could he possible I.D. Them?" Katrina inquired.
"Russian." a voice said from the doorway.
Everyone's attention, save Buffys, turned toward Jenoah who was being supported by Dawn. Michelangelo rushed from behind the young man and helped the young girl support the weight of the heavy boy. Together they carried him to the sofa and sat him between the two waiting grandmothers.
"So there are Russian mobsters now?" Xander quipped.
Every head in the room turned to pin him with a look of incertitude. Even Andrew was shaking his head at the older boy.
"The Russian mob is one of the oldest chapters of the mob." Phillip told him rolling his eyes.
"I knew that, it was a joke. Get the stick out of your a..:"
"Alexander." Gail said in a warning tone that left no room for argument.
"They were after me, but Jenoah wouldn't let them at me. They had these guns, and I've never been shot at so that wasn't a pleasant experience. You could have been killed you stupid fool." Dawn said, the last part aimed at her savior with a punch to the arm.
"Ow! I'm injured here woman!" Jenoah grimaced.
Dawn stuck her tongue out at him.
"I know something else you could do with that." he muttered earning himself laughter from his friends and shrieks of disgust from his sisters and cousins.
Isabelle and Gail excused themselves to go start dinner.
"Why would anyone want to hurt Dawn, no offense but you're not that intimidating." Efren said trying to steer the group back in the right direction.
Dawns eyes bore into him with a heat that if it had manifested the house would be an inferno.
"Well neither are you but you could kill someone seventeen different ways with a spork." Alessa countered.
"A spork?" Dawn asked.
Efren nodded.
The scoobies, except Willows and Buffys, heads turned to look at Efren.
Faith tilted her head to the side and nodded at him giving him a look of approval.
No one saw Andrew lean over and whisper into Phillips ear. Phillips eyes went wide as he comprehended what the other boy had said.
"No Andrew I don't think that is stupid at all, in fact I think we should run it by the parents. It even adds to the inside job theory." he told his friend.
"What?" Lillian asked.
"Well Andrew had an idea about the possible suspects behind the attack."
As one all eyes turned toward the shy and skittish scifi nerd.
"Well what was your theory? " Jeremiah asked growing impatient.
"Uh, well, uh wouldn't the person behind the attack have to know about the stuff in Sunnydale and both of the families?" Andrew asked looking at the men for confirmation.
"Oh my god, he is right." Ickabod grunted as he put his head in his hands.
The room got silent as everyone looked at Andrew in shocked understanding. Michelangelo and Anthony both turned their eyes to the Rosenberg men. All of their eyes were wide with surprise. It was Giles dismayed voice that broke the silence.
"Oh dear lord."
"Great going Scify you made G-man go all ODL on us." Faith said rolling her own eyes.
"Faith. He has a point, a very valid point." Ira told her as he pointed at Andrew.
"So, who would be someone that would know about all three things?" Lillian asked glancing around the room, she received shrugs.
Willow had a look of thought on her face, it was a look that they had all known to be her I have a theory but don't know if I should say it look.
"How about we get something for dinner, and discuss this some other time." Isabelle suggested as she and Gail entered the room.
"Like when my sister isn't higher than a kite?" Dawn wanted to know looking at her sister for the first time.
Buffy's head was on Sara's shoulder. Buffy's hand was petting the brunettes head.
"I kinda like druggy Buffy."
"Are you sure it was a light sedative?" Gail asked Darren as she eyed the loopy girl.
"With her super duper immune system it should be wearing off." Darren informed them, right about the time Buffy's eyes focused and she shook her head lightly.
Light green eyes zeroed in on Darren. The doctor suddenly sympathized with all of those demons and vampires that had been on the receiving end of his adoptive nieces rage.
"You suck." Buffy told him as she tried to stand up.
TBC:
On the next chapter:
The boys make yet another mistake were the girls are concerned and go into hiding.
A look at things on the side of the globe that Graham and Riley are going.
A/N: Thank you all for the reviews and I am sorry that this took this long to update I thought I had updated it already. I also have a co-author account with a friend of mine that will house our collaborated works. Our pin name is Divas of the Buffy crossovers. I will put a link to our page in my profile soon so be on the look out for that. We are in the process of writing our first Buffy/Walking dead fan-fiction, we also have a Buffy/Wwe story that we need to finish.
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