Comin at you guys with another chapter hope you like it!
Elizabeth POV
"Ten bucks says they're screwing each other's brains out." I say as Liyah sips her sprite, staring at the menu. She looks up at me and laughs softly.
"That's way too easy I'm not betting on that." She says with an amused smile. I fake pout and let out a little huff to add onto the theatrics.
"Not fair." I fake whine.
"Ok ok how about this instead of giving you ten dollars, how about I pay for dinner tonight." She says, and I shake my head.
"Umm no I'm taking you out to dinner, my treat." I say.
"I don't remember agreeing to be taken out to dinner. I automatically thought I was paying for myself." She says with one perfectly arched eyebrow cocked up.
"Nope I'm paying for the both of us, plus I would seem like an ass if I made an injured person pay for their food." We both share a little laugh and then she looks thoughtfully up to the ceiling.
"Yeah you would come off as an ass." I laugh lightly batting my eye lashes at her.
"You think." I simply respond. Then she gets a little glint in her eye and I just know she's gonna respond with something really smart.
"Hey well you know what they say; you are what you eat." She says and laughs as I give her a death glare.
"And who is they exactly?" I ask.
"How the hell should I know, I'm wondering the same thing myself." We both laugh and then fall into a comfortable silence.
"But thanks for this," She refers to the resturaunt. "I really needed to get out of that bed... and away from Faith and her hormones. That girl is really horny, I think she actually might need some help." She says the last sentence with a little bit of seriousness but we both laugh.
"It's all my pleasure, anything for you..." I says with a smile. Wait I think I'm being too obvious so I add on"... You know cause you're my best friend, and I'd do anything for my best friend because that's what best friends do, right?" She gives me a weird look and at first I kinda panic cause I think I'm busted but then she laughs and shakes her head a little. I let out a little breath okay so I'm still cool.
"Yeah it's you alright." She says smiling sweetly.
"What is that supposed to mean?" I ask, but before she could answer the waiter comes and gets our orders. He shortly leaves afterwards after taking our menus with him.
"I'm really happy that Faith joined us, I think she's going to be a great addition to the team you know?" Liyah says.
"Yeah and it's really good to see Tom really smile again, and plus you and Faith seem to be becoming great bed buddies." I say with maybe just a hint of jealousy underneath it all. I can't help it, don't judge me. Liyah being oblivious to the little talk that's going on inside my head laughs a little and smiles.
"Yeah I can already tell that we're onna be getting along maybe a little too well. But don't worry you'll still always be the closest one to me in the group." She says with a wink. Unfortunately for me the wink basically blindsided me and I choked a little on my Pepsi.
"You alright?" she asks with a little smirk. Wait a minute... don't tell me she did that on purpose knowing how I would react. I would have to get her back for that soon. But me being me I just blush and nod, trying to not make more of an ass out of myself. For some reason being at this greasy fast food burger joint with Liyah at this moment seemed so perfect. For this little bit of time I could just pretend it was just me and her and not have to think about all the scary monsters out in the world, and this warmed me to the core.
"Why are you smiling like that?" Liyah asks curiously.
"Is it a sin to smile now?" I say with the smile in place.
"As a matter of fact it is, so young lady i'm going to have to ask you to wipe that smile off your face." She says with a fake detective tone to her voice. I play along and look straight dead into her eyes with a look of defiance.
"Make me." I dare. She gives me a look of pure lust, which surprised the hell out of me, and just before she answered our food was slammed down on the table. Well it wasn't exactly slammed more like put down nicely, but with the tension between me and Liyah the waiter came unexpected.
"You know the waiter guy has been seeming to have perfect timing today." She says when he left.
"Yeah you got a point." I agree. For the rest of the meal we made small talk, but nothing big happened to where the waiter needed to timely interrupt. After a heated debate on who pays the bill, I ended up paying while she gave the waiter a good tip. Since Wren's place is only like a 5 minute walk from the restaurant we walked instead of drove.
"I had a great time spending alone time with you Liz." Liyah says looking up into the night sky. I blush a little and give her a sweet smile as she turns to me.
"Hey don't mention it, like I said earlier anything for you… because we're-"
"Yeah best friends don't hurt yourself there beautiful." She says chuckling. I laugh with her until what she said fully processed through my mind. SHE CALLED ME BEAUTIFUL! Oh my gosh what do I do!? Well for one let's not make an ass out of myself and say something stupid. I wanna let her know I'm interested without seeming like a…. slut? Yeah sluts the right word; okay lets not come across as one.
"You think I'm beautiful?" I ask. Why the hell did I ask.
"Yeah I do Liz." She says looking at me with a friendly smile. Wait her smile is friendly, it's not a "I'm trying to tell you something without saying it" smile it's just a regular smile that you would give a…. friend. Damn I must be hearing things beause I could have sworn I heard something in her voice when she said I was beautiful.
"Aww, thank you. I think you're beautiful too." I say back to her, trying to not let my disappointment show.
"Well here we are." She says as we make it to Wren's house. We go inside and head straight to the basement which led to the Underground world. Which is called the Underground World, how original right? Is it just me or did the writer lose some creativity points on that one? Anyways back to the story at hand.
We noticed something was up because it was pretty quiet downstairs. When we went into the sick room where Liyah and Faith were staying we noticed nobody was there.
"Where is everybody?" I say under my breath.
"Same damn thing I'm asking myself." Liyah says. We exit the room and go to the hallway that's right beside the stairs that lead into the basement. And that's when we hear a lot of screaming. We look at each other for a brief second then run towards the commotion. We burst into the room to find everyone huddled in front of the flat screen tv cheering on either Tom or Faith as their characters beat the shit out of each other in Mortal Combat.
I roll my eyes and Liyah lets out a relieved sigh as we discover that everyone's ok.
"Glad you two love birds can make it to watch me destroy your precious leader with my kick ass moves." Faith says not even turning around to acknowledge our presence.
"Oh shit I didn't know you two were an item!" Christopher exclaims turning around with a grin.
"We're not." Liyah says simply with a hint of annoyance in her voice.
"Whatever you guys say." Chris says impassively. Liyah and I join the gang and soon join in on the fun I cheering for Tom and Liyah of course cheering for her buddy Faith. I know I shouldn't be jealous but I just can't help it.
"Aha take that motherfucker!" Faith yells as her character kicks the hell out of Tom's character.
"Wow they're really getting into it." Buffy says beside me smiling.
"I know right seems kinda childish tho." I say with an equal happy attitude.
"I agree, but just imagine a few days ago we were worried half to death about those two." Buffy says referring to Faith and Liyah. I absentmindedly look at Liyah who's zeroed in on the tv screen with a big smile on her face as Faith gets the upper hand.
"I know right…" I say in a low sad voice. Buffy touches my arm in a reassuring way, and I revert my attention to her.
"You wanna talk about it?" She asks with a sympathetic look. Oh what the hell I need to get this off my chest anyways.
"Yeah." I simply respond.
We head out of the room into the hallway to talk.
"So what's up?" Buffy says giving me her full attention.
"I think I'm in love with Liyah." I say nervously. She looks at me with a blank expression like she's waiting for me to say more.
"Wait that's it?" She asks seeming genuinely confused.
"Yeah.." I respond. Buffy laughs and gives me a little knowing smile.
"Well speaking of the obvious, you two have a little chemistry going on that I picked up the first time I saw you two. I look at her with disbelief.
"You're lying." I deadpan.
"I kid you not." She responds just as quickly.
"Wow I just… I don't know… I just don't know if she even likes me as more than a friend." I say sadly looking at the ground. I hear nothing from Buffy so I slowly look up at her and she's giving me this look I'm the dumbest thing on the earth.
"Are you serious? The girl loves you just as much as you love her, if not more!" Are you two really that blind?" She says with disbelief. I give a little laugh because honestly I don't believe her, and I think she can tell that I don't because her face softens and she puts her hand on my arm.
"I'm so serious. She likes you a lot." Buffy says with so much honesty in her voice that I'm starting to believe her.
"Really?" I say a little glimmer of hope sparks inside of me.
"Hmmm," She says starting to think. "Why don't I prove it to you?"
"Okay!" I say a little too excited.
"Yay it's official we're gonna get down to the bottom of this!"
"Thank you so much Buffy I owe you one." I say, I even hug her to both of our surprise.
"Nah you don't owe me anything. I look out for my friends free of charge." She says with a smile. "And plus you taking Liyah out and leaving me and Faith alone was something I could never repay you for."
"Omg how is she in bed?" I ask before I could think of what came out of my mouth, but Buffy only blushed before she answered.
"She's amazing in bed. Like compared to all the other guys I've been with Faith is the best one in bed times like a million." She says and we both giggle.
"Wow I wonder how Liyah is in bed." I say day dreaming about it.
"She's probably really good." Buffy says and I can't help the smile that lights up on my face, god I'm such a creep sometimes.
"Who's probably good?" Speaking of the devil, Liyah interrupts our little girl time.
"You at lifting very heavy objects." Buffy says without blinking. Wow she's good.
"Well duh! What do you think these muscles are for?" She says completely oblivious to the previous convo that Buffy and I had.
"I don't bro I'm pretty sure I'm way stronger than you." Faith says making an entrance.
"Pshh who the hell lied to you." Liyah says sticking out her chest, Faith just merely raises her eyebrows.
"You wanna test out this theory?" She says.
"Hell yeah bring it on!" Liyah responds.
"You sure? I don't wanna embarrass you in front of your girl over there." Faith says referring to me and I blush and look to the side. Buffy gives me a look and then forms a little knowing smile.
"Look the only one who will be embarrassed in front of their girl is you." Liyah responds cooly. Aww she didn't deny that I'm her girl. Buffy just might be right, she does like me.
"That's never gonna happen. Babe, back me up." Faith says putting her arm around Buffy's shoulder. She folds her arms rolls her eyes and moves away from Faith with an amused look displayed across her face.
"I'm not indulging in you guys childish games." She simply states.
"Seems like your girl doesn't think that you're ready for me." Liyah says with confidence. Faith only snorts.
"Nah she just doesn't want her friend's girl to get her ass kicked." Faith says with a smile.
"Well you seem to be all talk and no walk there partner." Liyah responds with a smile also on her face. At this point they're toe to toe with little smiles on their face.
"Look sorry to burst your little bubble but uhh we got to get to the command center, they want to welcome our new team member." Tom says not seeming sorry at all.
"Finish this later?" Faith asks.
"You already know." And with that they depart.
Faith POV
"Wait are we allowed to come?" Buffy asks Tom. Tom looks thoughtful for a moment then shrugs his shoulders.
"Yeah, what the hell, you guys already know about us might as well meet the rest of the ass holes." He says with a smile.
"Yeah you guys will make great allies anyways." Christopher says. Liyah comes up beside me and puts an arm around my shoulder.
"You know Desmond is pissed that you beat tko'd him in like 9 moves." She says.
"He'll live." I say cooly, and we chuckle a bit.
Instead of walking up stairs out of his basement we head in the opposite direction we take a sharp right and then the deep red hallway seems to stretch for miles leading into a black abyss. I hope this shit is just an illusion cause I really don't have my walking shoes on right now.
After about a minute of walking all of a sudden our surroundings change a full 360, and then it's like we're in another world. We enter into a blue room which seems to have about 28 portals located in random spots with people walking in and out of them. Hell animals were walking in and out of them, but something told me that they weren't ordinary animals, they were shape shifters.
"Welcome home Faith." Tom whispers into my ear and squeezes my shoulder a bit. I look around in amazement, while all the other people seemed totally uninterested in us.
"This is what we call the Transport room. It's one of the many rooms in the command center. This is station 20, and there are 69 in all located in different regions around the world." Tom explains to me mainly, but the scoobies are listening.
"69 huh?" I says with a little smile. Tom just laughs and shakes his head.
"You definitely are my sister." He says patting my back.
"Hey, what can I say I'm a very childish person." I respond back.
"This is amazing." Buffy says beside me.
"Yeah it is. So tell me babe, is this better than those dumbass military jocks who were Riley's buddies?" I ask laying my arm across her shoulder.
"As long as they're not secretly trying to create some hybrid Frankenstein monster then yeah totally better." She says looking at me, I look at her pink pouty lips and after about 2 seconds I give in and give them a little peck cause I'm a total sucker when it comes to my girl.
"I love you." I say while our foreheads our touching. She smiles sweetly and gives me another little kiss.
"I love you more." She says.
"That's impossible." I respond just as quickly.
"Hey you two! This way!" Desmond rudely interrupts as the gang walks out of the room.
"Someday that guy is gonna get something stuck far up his ass." I promise under my breath.
"You wish!" He says, letting me know that he heard me.
When we make out of the room we enter into another huge room that is even more packed than the portal room, but it's big enough that it doesn't feel too crowded. It actually looks like a mall with the various rooms and different floors. Also there were statues of animals, humans, and animals turning into humans placed in different spots in the building.
"Ok so this is the main room, if you look over there to your far right you'll see cafeteria. They have everything you need here we have a weapons room, training room, clothes room, library, transport room, and many others. Right now we're gonna go to the boss's room so he can meet you, and the Scooby gang." Tom explains. I just nod as I soak it all in.
We walk up three flights of stairs to the top of the building, up here there are only a few people walking around, but not as many as on the other floors. The walk to his room wasn't long and we came across a door with two guards in front of it.
"Landers, and Thomson isn't a pleasure to see you two back on the door. The other two assholes were pushing my damn buttons." Tom says with a smile. They smile back and everyone shares a laugh except those who don't know what the hell is going on.
The one who he seemed to refer to as Landers was a bald black guy with a scar under his left eye. He was a very dark chocolate color and seemed very muscular. They both wore a red and black military styled suit, but they both had badges that had a different animal on it. I'm guessing it was their animal companion that they turned into. Thomson was a white guy with brown eyes and very short brown hair they both seemed to be well into their thirties. The black guy had a wolf on his badge and the white guy had a snow leopard on his badge.
"I'm glad you guys missed us." Landers says in a very deep voice.
"Yeah I have to agree Tim and John can be a real pain in the ass, but who's the beautiful panwolf I've never seen around here before?" Thomson asks referring to me.
"How do you-"
"Once you're here long enough you can start to sense the animal inside of everyone, but I got to admit you're rare breed." Thomson says.
"Uhh thanks I guess." I say at a lost for words, all of this is just so new to me.
"No prob there and I'm assuming the woman next to you is your mate?" He says referring to Buffy who has a firm grip on my hand.
"I'm not gonna ask, but yes she is." I say with a small smile.
"Well this is Faith, as you all probably know my long lost sister. But if you fellas would excuse us we need to have a word with the boss." Tom says.
"Sure thing, but I must warn you, you're not gonna like what you see when you get in there." Landers says as he opens the door. We all file in one by one, to be met with a group that was already in here before us. They were talking to a white guy with ray hair behind a desk.
"Well isn't this some shit." Liyah says beside me.
"What is it?" I ask, with a voice as low as hers.
"A bunch of bitches is what it is." She says referring to the other group that is in the room with us. There were six of them three guys and three girls. Basically like us excluding the Scooby gang of course.
"If it isn't the little fuck ups, what mission have you fucked up recently." One of the guys from the other group says. He's a white guy about my height with medium length dirty blonde hair that was combed to the back. His whole group including him looked like a group of smug rich white kids. I already don't like em.
"The only thing I fucked was your mother, and it was up her ass." Tom quips. And the man at the desk clears his throat rather loudly.
"You all are dismissed." Hey says speaking to the other group. They all file out giving us dirty looks.
"Hey why the hell aren't you with them?" I ask Desmond in his ear whose standing in front of me.
"Because I'm not rich and I don't' have a stick up my ass." He replies not looking over his shoulder.
"Could have fooled me with the stick part." I say to Liyah and she just smiles and shakes her head with a smirk in place.
"So you must be Faith." The man says, standing up and offering me his hand. I take it and shake it firmly looking him dead in the eyes.
"Yes, sir the one and only." I say putting my trademark smirk in place.
"I like you already. Well welcome to the team. I wish we could do more with pleasantries. But we have something serious to talk about here." He says switching his voice to a very serious tone.
"What is it?" Elizabeth asks.
"Kakstos, it's time to finish this once and for all. Get ready Faith cause this mission is about to get real heavy." He says. I can only smile, I have some pay back I need to dish with him anyways. Oh yeah it's game time baby.