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Chapter 20

Too Far Gone

Buffy's body cracked slightly as she crouched down, ready for another brawl. In reality she'd given all she had fighting Brock and she didn't know if she'd survive a go with the Dark Slayer. As she had those frightening thoughts of dying for her friends, her sister Slayer Kendra was suddenly by her side, supporting her.

"Identify yourself!" Kendra yelled out as she saw Buffy tense at seeing the new woman.

"Hey easy, B." Faith said as she took a step back. "This ain't what it seems."

"Faith! What the hell are you doing here?" Riley asked hotly as he brought up his rifle.

"Hey everybody just relax." Hank begged as he let go of Dawn and walked towards his oldest daughter. Buffy would always have feelings of the man being her father but she didn't like him, nor respect him, and would never forgive him for walking out on their family. "I don't fully know what's going on myself but maybe we should all go somewhere and..." before he could complete his sentence the reanimated corpses of Warren and Brock suddenly sat up off of the ground.

Before anybody could think to do anything, a pair of sai's hovered in the air and embedded into their heads re-killing them. As everyone seemed to collectively say what the fuck, a light around them suddenly shimmered and Buffy literally saw a girl she thought she'd never see again. It was Marcie Ross, the invisible girl from high school.

"You gotta aim for the head, yeah." Faith commented as Marcie twirled her sai's around and walked towards her.

Looking back and forth between the invisible assassin and Faith, Buffy decided to keep her eyes on the dark haired woman. Glaring deep into Faith's eyes and not having the strength to fight anyway, Buffy dropped her guard. Her eyes starting to droop, Buffy suddenly looked to Riley. "These people don't know what to do. Tell them that everything is going to be all right so we can start to help them."

"Everybody listen up!" Riley yelled out as he and Sam addressed the crowd again. He took another look at Buffy and decided that they really needed to have a long talk about what he knew she must have been feeling at the moment from having to kill someone in the public's eye. Hell he really needed to talk to Fred as well.

As they started to go towards the people, Buffy saw as they started to drag away the bodies of Warren and Brock, before she looked towards her boyfriend. "Take Fred somewhere where she can lay down. Stay with her because she needs someone strong to talk to." Scooping the still crying Fred up in his arms, he gave her a nod before walking off towards the apartments they had when they first lived in Warrenville. "Gwen use your radio and tell Amy that everything is... okay and that we'll be home soon."

As Gwen turned away, Hank and Dawn suddenly approached the Slayer. "Buffy, I can't tell you how happy I am to see..." as he reached out to hug her, she suddenly brushed past him. She'd been hurt by the man once before and never again.

"Buffy it's da..." Dawn stopped talking as she looked into her sisters eyes. She didn't know what Buffy had been through with their father so she decided to let sleeping dogs lie.

Looking around she saw Warren's house on the hill that Gunn had told her about in one of his reports. Seeing that it was as good as any place to have a meeting, she started to walk. Stumbling, Kendra was suddenly at her side wrapping her arm around hers.

"I've got you." Kendra whispered into her hair. "No matter what happens, I've got you."

Touched by her words and her gesture, Buffy leaned into her sister Slayer's embrace. As they slowly started to walk, Buffy saw Andrew still on his knees. She didn't know much about him, but trusting her gut she knew deep down that he was still a good person, despite him helping Warren. "You're still needed here." as she whispered that to him, a tear fell from the tiny man's eyes as he looked up at her.

Her eyes starting to droop again, Buffy looked back at Faith and nodded to her, letting her know that she wanted her and her group to follow her. "Whose dat girl?" Kendra asked as they got a certain distance from the others.

"When you died... Faith was your replacement." Buffy responded as Kendra's back went stiff.

Shaking the dark thoughts of Buffy's words out of her head, Kendra continued to help her into the posh manor. Following her instincts, she led Buffy and the others into Warren's living room. Carefully placing the senior Slayer in a chair, Kendra stood behind her to keep a watchful eye on the new group, particularly Marcie. Taking her eyes off of the invisible girl for a second, she looked towards Buffy again.

When they had first met, the other woman was dripping with power but now she seemed broken down, weak, and fragile. So fragile that she reminded her of one of those pretty porcelain dolls that she wanted Mr. Zabuto to give her when she was a little girl, but never got. It was at that moment Kendra knew that she had to become as Buffy's right hand to protect her and the others. Looking at Dawn, who sat next to her sister, she knew that she couldn't fail at that task.

"All right, Faith." Buffy started as she struggled to get comfortable in her chair, fighting back her sleepiness. Putting her hands on the armrests of her chair, she looked directly across the table at the dark haired woman. "How did you get here?"

"Before you start, I just wanted to say something." Hank interrupted as the little girl from before suddenly sat in his lap. "I... I wanted to say that... I'm sorry for not being at your moms funeral." as he said that he looked more towards Dawn, who had managed to contact him shortly after his ex wife was buried. "And... and I'm sorry that I haven't been there for you girls." to her credit at least Dawn seemed to accept his apology. His oldest daughter however seemed to stare past him.

"Whose the kid?" Buffy asked simply, making Hank gulp and hold the silent girl tight in his arms.

Steeling his nerve, Hank looked her in the eye. "She's your baby sister."

"What!" Buffy exploded as she slapped her hand on the table and stood to her feet. "She... she has to be like eight or nine."

"Sarah just turned ten." Hank interrupted her. "I was... I was having an affair with my secretary Michelle for years and she had my Sarah. I couldn't take lying to your mother anymore so I told her what happened and we got a divorce."

"But... but we used to spend the weekend at your house." Dawn spoke up, her heart tearing apart. It seemed that their whole life was a lie. She could only imagine how Buffy felt because for years Buffy thought that her burning down her school gym and proclaiming that vampires were real were the cause of their parents divorce. But now... "Buffy even spent a whole summer with you and she..."

"I told Michelle to take Sarah to our summer home then." Hank told her. "I thought it would be easier if you girls didn't know about this."

"So you were content with me and Dawn not knowing that we had a sister?" Buffy asked through gritted teeth. As if she had ran out of reasons to dislike the man.

"Where's Jerry Springer when you need him?" Marcie whispered over to Faith. Slapping her arm lightly, Faith reminded her of Slayer hearing. As both young women looked over the table they saw Buffy and Kendra staring coldly at them.

Tearing her gaze away from the Dark Slayer for a moment, Buffy suddenly looked towards her new found sister, who was staring at her just as intensely. Breaking the staring contest, Buffy looked back to her father in disgust before looking over at Faith again.

"Well?"

"You might wanna sit back down for this story, B." Faith told her as she sat back and propped her feet up on the table. "Cause it's gonna be some of the craziest shit you ever heard."

Sub-basement

Somewhere in Warrenville

A naked male android laid on a table as a glowing green uranium power core was suddenly covered by synthetic skin on it's stomach. As it's eyes snapped open, the Warren android sat up and took a power cord out from the back of it's head.

Months ago the real Warren had found the core close to the city and had taken and embedded it in an android copy of himself. He had the idea that he wouldn't live forever so he had made the android to not only be self sustaining but it would get all of his memories up until the time of his death.

"Just beyond the stroke of death." the Warren android said as it smiled to himself. "Soon, Slayer. Oh so very soon."

End season two.

A/N If you guys want more let me know in a review and I'll be back with the start of season three in a few weeks that will chronicle how Faith and her team made it to where Buffy is and it'll show what exactly happened to Angel, Cordelia, and the others.