A/N So thanks to what I'm assuming is auto correct every time I've used Claire's last name its become Sheldon instead of Selton so hopefully I'll have that corrected soon enough in old chapters.

Clark looked at Buffy like her head had fallen off. He doesn't understand why she wants to know about this but he answers. "He was my former history teacher, what about him?"

Buffy looked at him and got ready to break the news. "Milton Fine isn't who he says he is. We have proof that he's been here before the meteor shower."

"I know." Clark assured her also picking up her slay tone. Buffy is better at hiding it then Faith but she still shows it. "I know Fine is a Kryptonian playing a round of identity theft with a circus performer who died in Smallville last year."

Giles nodded knowing something was different about him but he wasn't expecting that. "Are you sure?"

Clark nodded. "He told me as much himself. He's also a good friend so what is this about?"

Buffy looked at him blankly. "Why would you not tell us that?"

Clark shrugged and answered the best he could. "It's just he's been nothing but helpful to me and he asked not to tell anyone about himself. He pulled the silver kryptonite out of me before I killed Faith he helped me track down Lex's bio weapon after saving my mom from it. He's been doing nothing but help me since he got here, and I'm the last person that has the right to question anyone about secrets"

Buffy lets it drop for now there's no denying Fine has done some good but there is something very wrong that she doesn't like about him. But she's not risking being at ends with Clark, at least not now anyway. "Fine, just stay alert alright, betrayal sucks.I'll just talk to him later."

Clark looked at her actually grateful that someone was trying to protect him for a change. "I'm thankful to both of you now you can go to the bronze I have some vampires to sweep up on the way there."

Buffy watched him go as Clark ran off in a blur. She knows she's being obsessed but something doesn't sit right about him but she needs proof before starting a witch hunt knowing what being on the wrong side of the fire is like. She has to find Spike and make him talk.

Two Months Later

Clark hit the floor with a resounding thud looking around the training room in the magic box. He looks up and sees Faith running at him and quickly uses his feet to keep her away and shoots up to his feet taking another stance similar to crane style as he is currently teaching her torquasm. Of course he'd rather be teaching her meditation and mental training aspects of torquasm to protect them against magic and mind control better given the situation they're in right now but Faith's never been one to turn down a way to hurt people. Clark is teaching to help her ignore what they've been trying to ignore for the past eleven minutes. Clark watches and waits for what he thinks is an opening but Faith moved blurry and caught his arm slamming him to the floor as a bell rings.

Faith looked up nervously these two months have been interesting. First Faith nearly cheated on him during the Jonathon Levinson is god phase but that came to an end and the worst bit was calling out Jonathon in bed once which she made ten times worse by trying to say it was another Jonathon in which case it would be Mr. Kent. After all that stress, they went to a party which was a very good thing because she and Clark screwed each others brains out for thirty six hours causing him to nearly forget his own name let alone Jonathon's which was a very good thing until Faith realized something very bad. She didn't have her three days of putting Clark, Xander, and Giles through hell like the rest of the girls. Faith walked over and collected the white stick it's hard to believe that the rest of her life can change forever from taking a piss.

"And…"

Faith looked down and freaked. "Blue line, Clark, there's a blue line… I can't… I'm not…

Clark stopped her and hugged her close looking at the results. "Wait… where's the box?"

Faith picked up the box and handed it to him. "So what's the word? Last one was negative why was this one…"

"This one's negative too." Clark informed Faith seeing her blunder. "You got two different tests."

"But there's a blue line." Faith pointed out not that she's not happy she just wants to be sure. "Blue line means preggo."

"Blue line meant you're pregnant on the last one. Blue plus sign means you're pregnant on this one." Clark replied he wasn't exactly ready either but given what Jor El said about the odds he hoped.

Faith nodded in relief. "Thank god, so I'm going to out to celebrate, you want to come?"

"No, I'm just going to patrol OK." Clark replied not in the mood for it.

Faith shrugged. "OK I'm going to shower and head out… later."

Clark nodded weakly and gathered his things. "Yeah… see you later."

Faith sat the bar with only Claire for company each of them getting a beer.

Claire looked at her she can't get drunk her body burns up alcohol too fast. So she doesn't see the point here. "Faith I'm fine, why do you think I needed a night?"

Faith pointed to the TV up on the wall and Claire watched. "In a shocking swerve to a recent story featuring Metropolis' favorite son Lex Luthor was released today cleared of all criminal charges in what has simply been known as the Sunnydale fiasco. In a shocking reveal of events Mr. Luthor had no knowledge of what the true mastermind Professor Margaret Walsh and his father Lionel Luthor were up to. Mr. Luthor has announced forsaking Sunnydale and returning to Metropolis after opening up a shelter for Walsh's victims. This is Toby Raines for MNN."

Claire grabbed a chair and tried to throw it but Faith stopped her. "Easy hothead, Clark warned you there was a chance this would happen."

Claire put her fists through the table breaking it. Technically they were all too high on drugs to positively ID Lex when he came around, Clark just threw around 'baseless' accusations in his grief, and Lex's involvement couldn't be proven. "Yeah, but I figured he would at least stand trial." Claire opened the bottle might as well use the fake ID Faith got her.

Claire looked at two guys that walked up to her and Faith.

One of them was studying her trying to line up the face. "Hey, I know you. You're on those muties that will testify against Walsh."

Claire didn't taker her eyes off her drink. "You have me mistaken for someone else pal."

The guy looked at her. "No, I'm good with faces. You're one of those freaks who claimed Lex kidnapped you and studied you."

"Lex did but he just had a great lawyer in Mr. McDonald, as opposed to Sunnydale lawyers who are about as bright as their cops." Faith replied.

Faith eyed the guy as he ran his hand down Claire's arm counting to ten to control a punch. "So what's really up your ass tonight?"

"With Luthor leaving I find myself out of a job thanks to freaks like her."

"Freak!" Claire shouted as she punched him in the face watching him hit the floor.

Faith just smiled knowing what's about to happen as she sees most of the bar get up. She hopes Clark has money to bail them out as one of her her favorite songs start playing.

Chloe walked back from the streets of Sunnydale kind of nervously. Coming out this late was not her best idea but she had a deadline for her job interview. She walked forward and walked right into someone as she fell to the ground.

Chloe looked up at the person not getting a clear view of the man's face and rolled her eyes. "What the hell?"

The man looked at her and offered his arm to pull her up. "Sorry pet, saw a tiny blond thought you were someone else."

Chloe got to her feet and dusted herself off. In this town that could have gone a whole lot worse. "No problem, so who exactly are you looking for?"

"Girl I used to know." The man answered.

Chloe looked at him carefully. "Girlfriend?"

"Mortal enemies on a Sunday, caretaker on a Monday it's complicated." The man replied. "I spent a couple months hunting for someone and I can't even get close without getting ginzued. Starting to think I might need help with this one."

Chloe shrugged well best of luck to him but. "Why come after me?"

"I smelled Red on you figured you were Buffy." The man replied.

Chloe quickly took a spray bottle out as the man came out of shadows revealing a blond haired Milton Fine.

Spike looked at her. "What are you going to do?"

"This." Chloe sprayed and Spike backed up as his game face showed.

"Bloody hell, what is that stuff!" Spike shouted holding his face.

"Holy water mixed with honey to stick." Chloe answered. "Billy Idol look Milton Fine's face that makes you Spike right?"

Spike nodded as he forced himself to calm down. Stupid soul won't let him rip her throat out. "Yeah, so can you take me to Buffy?"

"Tomorrow afternoon." Chloe offered knowing Buffy's patrolling tonight and then early class in the morning.

Spike nodded that works for him. Sooner he gets the slayer in the game sooner he could find and kill his doppelganger at night. "In the meantime I'll escort you home."

Chloe looked at him. She can't run he might kill her. Right now she'll keep quiet if he bites, she'll heal.

Clark blasted a five hundred pound demon to ash and watched as the people he set free run just another night in the life of Clark Kent. Clark looked at his phone and saw he actually missed a call. He picked up the phone and listened to his voicemail as an automated machine comes on. "Will you accept charges from…?" Clark listens as Faith's voice comes up. "Me and the hot head just got done beating the crap out of a bunch of pigs to living dead girl. Bail us out with five hundred bucks please."

Clark hung up the phone and in a blur hurried to the police station. Clark walked up and looked at the cop in charge. "I need to talk to you about two of the people you're holding here."

"What are their names?" The cop asked.

"Faith Lehane and Claire Selton" Clark replied. "I was wondering if you could find it in the kindness of your heart to let them go."

The police officer looked at him. Lex made things better and now he and his men have to deal with all the freaks that escaped those two can deal with a night in the cell and a delayed release. "Now why would we do that?"

Clark saw the look on the cops face he's not exactly surprised. He thinks back to Van the first time he nearly died thanks to a kryptonite bullet. He sees the same hatred in this cops eyes seeing the meteor infected as nothing but freaks. "Because they just came back last night after being missing a week I asked you guys and you said it was most likely gang related PCP."

The cop paled at those words… every cop in Sunnydale knows what those words mean. "You know, maybe your friends have learned their lesson, let's go set them free."

"Thank you" Clark replied.

Faith watched Claire pace the cell doing everything she can not to start a fire out of fear. It's PTSD more then anything and the only reason they're here is because she stopped Claire from going to far. It's not the first time she's been held overnight and it probably won't be the last if crap like this is about to hit Sunnydale.

Claire looked at her. "Remind me again why I'm not melting the bars?"

"Because you'd have to explain to Giles why you melted the bars aka underage drinking." Faith replied. "My way we get out of jail no fuss no muss."

Claire shrugged and leaned against the cell as they heard footsteps coming down of at least two people on of who was Clark.

Clark looked at the scene and just took a picture of Faith behind bars as the brunette glared at him as he simply smiled at her. "So who wants to get out of jail?"

Claire smiled and jumped up and down hanging on to the bars goofing around happy to get out of here. "I do, I do."

Faith nodded in agreement. "Seriously I could eat a horse." They all heard a rattling and saw the guard dropped his key. "You OK man?"

The cop nodded and quickly opened the door. "Do it like the rest of Sunnydale take it outside."

Faith and Claire nodded as they each headed for Clark as the three walked out of the prison sighing in relief nothing on their records, nothing. How the hell did Clark do that? "Do you have leverage on him for something?"

Clark shakes his head no. "I have my ways."

Claire smiled and was so happy to be free. She hates cages and she'll do whatever it takes to avoid another one. "So I take it Giles is going to find out what we did?"

Clark looked at her and how nervous she was. "Not from me, so what exactly happened anyway?"

Faith shrugged and started to explain. "A couple sleazebags started giving Claire a hard time she fought back then one spanked her in the ass when she wasn't looking so I dislocated his jaw. After that it led to a twenty on two brawl. With yours truly standing tall with her hot headed friend."

Clark had a feeling that wasn't the complete truth but no one died so it's enough for now. "Yeah well there's a building on fire. I'm going to go get some people out."

Faith nodded as he ran off in a blur.

Claire looked at Faith and Clark that was cold at best. "Something happen between you two?"

Faith shrugged at sixteen she's been more crap then most go through in a lifetime so people having sex definitely won't surprise her. "We had a pregnancy scare… damn it Clark why didn't you remind me."

Claire shot up alert and ready to fight. "What is it?"

Faith sighed she misses her carefree days. "Clark can't usually have kids… so I gave him false hope and blew him off. Hothead I gotta go OK."

Claire nodded and waved her off watching them go. Clark is like the big brother she never wanted and Faith is the cool big sister that shows her things you're not supposed to know like fake ids as she spent the night as Angelica Jones.

Chloe walked to her door she has no idea how this happened but she's being walked home by a vampire. She put her key in the door and smiled. "So thank you for walking me home tonight.

Spike nodded. "You might want to wait longer."

Chloe looked at him carefully. "Are you planning to eat me because I'm a good screamer and I'll stay alive till help arrives and see you carted off in an ashtray."

Spike smiled he likes her she has a good attitude and plenty of shark which is very much needed in Sunnydale. "Well wasn't planning on it but Red's getting lucky from the smell of it. I think she doubled down on perfume to make this night happen."

Chloe smiled good for her to get a guy after Oz broke her heart. "Good for Willow for me not so much I guess I'm crashing at Buffy's and Tara's tonight."

The blond reporter and the vampire walk.

"So what are you, 300?" Chloe asked.

Spike stopped and looked at her. He's been feeling guilty and dealing with the voices but he doesn't think he prematurely aged that much. "I'm not even one fifty got it."

"Testy for an old man aren't you?" Chloe quipped.

"Is everyone from that corn chucking town as annoying as you?" Spike asked.

Chloe rolled her eyes. "No, though they aren't half as bad as people here though. Sometimes you get the creepy guy walking you home while checking out your neck looking for a spot to chomp."

Spike walked her to the door. "Yes how could I forget that in Sunnydale the best way to defend yourself with is holy water and a sodding tazer?"

Chloe opened the door and sighed. "Oh Buffy's not here, come back tomorrow afternoon."

Spike nodded. "Trust me glad to bleeding woman."

Chloe blushed fiercely as Spike left she can't wait until tomorrow maybe she can talk to Buffy about killing him. OK she knows why Buffy isn't here she's out patrolling but where is Tara?

Faith walked into the attic and saw Clark bouncing a ball off the wall so he's back to status quo. Faith caught the ball and threw it aside. "I'm sorry."

"For what?" Clark asked.

Faith sat down next to him. "The pregnancy test, I was so scared of a positive test that I forgot what it could mean to you."

"What could it mean?" Clark asked.

Faith took his hand and squeezed it. "That for the hour I told you about it. You might not have been the last son anymore. So I'm sorry I danced on your dreams and crushed them like that."

Clark looked at her and gently kissed her. "I knew the chances I just…"

Faith pulled herself up. "You'll be a great father someday Clark I don't care what Jor El says."

Clark turned to her. "You know I've seen you with Claire. I think you'd make a great mother."

Faith just made a sound with her mouth saying not likely. "Hey I'm just teaching the baby slayer the ropes… that's all."

"Right how foolish of me to think otherwise." Clark deadpanned. "So how's her work going to get Joyce and Giles together?"

Faith shrugged not sure what to say. "Well she's dedicated problem is thanks to band candy Giles won't stay in the same room with Joyce unless someone else is around but I don't think she's giving up on it.

Buffy came in to her room the next day and collapsed on the bed. "87 I got a B plus moving onto the next year."

Tara smiled genuinely happy for Buffy. "Oh that's good for you it's just what are you going to do next year?"

Buffy shrugged with a slayer life expectancy she really hadn't given it much thought. "I don't know but I am going to talk to Milton Fine before I decide."

"The history guy" Tara stated like she was asking a question.

Buffy nodded. Clark setup a meeting between the three of them and sadly Buffy couldn't get anything but normal teacher and what a great guy Clark's father was as Fine claimed he made him the man he was today. "I just have to make a phone call first. So where have you sneaked off to this month?"

"I had a place to be." Tara replied deliberately leaving out anything that could cause trouble for Willow.

Buffy heard a knock on the door and to her surprise she saw Spike standing at the door with Chloe. When did she step into crazy world? Two months and he just shows up. "Spike, what are you doing here?"

Spike pointed to Chloe. "Found this little bit last night. She's a breath of fresh air… thank god I don't breathe. So am I going to get invited in?"

Chloe rolls her eyes and walks in. "You wound me really. And that's not up to me."

Buffy shakes her head. "I'm not inviting you anywhere else."

"Yes, how dare I have cocoa and marshmallows with your mother. Until you barge in the door like a lunatic and threaten to castrate me and make me spend eternity as a living torso." Spike quipped.

Buffy glared at him and pushed him aside shutting the door. "Outside!"

Buffy walked to him outside not believing. "How did you even get here, its noon?"

Spike shrugged and lit up a cigarette. "Tunnels blankets as long as we avoid direct sunlight we can move around without becoming crispy little creatures during the day."

Buffy looked at him. "OK, so what do you want?"

Spike looked at her and thought about what to say. "Looking for a fine looking fellow. Pretty much me in my Nazi look minus the jacket."

Buffy rolled her eyes why is she not surprised Spike was a Nazi. She assumes he means Fine but first thing's first. "What are you eating?"

"Pig's blood, Angelus told me torch the place but it conveniently slipped my memory." Spike replied.

"So where have you been the past couple months?" Buffy asked.

"I spent a month adjusting to everything. You ever have that bad dream where you wake up and you're Hitler? Getting your soul back is a lot like that." Spike replied. "Thanks for making sure I was a semblance of myself again."

Buffy nodded wondering how Spike is so similar with or without a soul while Angel is so different. "So what brings you here after all this time a sorry I nearly killed you every day for two years."

Spike looked at her she's got to be kidding as he points to her. "Slayer" He points to himself "Vampire you knew the sodding score ain't my fault you couldn't pull the trigger."

Buffy looked at him. "Well as fun as this is why don't you cut to the point of why you're here."

"Milton Fine returned my soul." Spike answered memories are still blurry that day from the trauma. "I was the decoy to get you out of the way so he can resurrect Todd or something of the sort. Kneel before Todd."

Buffy looked at him. "Do you have any idea what Fine is?"

Spike shook his head no. "If I had to guess I'd say he's the terminator you know knife from hands. Would have taken him out myself if I thought I stood a chance. But that bloke spent months tearing me apart I'd never get close and I still can't. You not so much."

Buffy nodded she hates when things goes like this... but on the bright side she gets to tell Clark I told you so. Well she better be one hundred percent certain as who knows whether or not Clark will believe Spike. "Well I'm about to try something I'm going to go meet him with someone and talk about my second year."

Spike nodded in understanding. "Ah so waiting for the new boy toy huh."

Faith came up to the room and looked at the two. "Sup B, why did you want me to meet up with you behind Clark's back?"

Buffy smiled and wrapped an arm around Faith. "Honestly, we're just good friends. Faith meet Spike."

"Sup… can I kill him?" Faith asked knowing who Spike is.

Buffy is tempted to sic Faith on him. "No, he has a soul."

"Like Angel"

Spike shot up offended yes he has a soul but that doesn't mean he's anything like Poof. "Angel wears lifts and he's bloody stupid."

"He's helping now come on there's someone I want you to meet." Buffy replied.

"Cool… lets motivate."

Spike watched the two go confused. Slayer's new pet has a familiar smell to her like Fine and he thought Red was the one who started shagging girls from the smell of the third blond in the apartment. Spike was going to head for Dru but she hated him enough as is add a soul she'd never touch him. He walked back to the door and focused on Red's lover. "Hey can a guy get an invite."

"Sure come in."

Chloe rolled her eyes at Tara as Spike walked in. "OK me and you are talking hellmouth etiquette because apparently Willow thought you were safe with a slayer."

Author's Notes

Thanks for the reviews

Clark is a very trusting idiot. No matter how many daggers he pulled out of his back as Lex, Lana, and sadly later on Chloe he kept forgiving them. So considering Fine saved him from killing Faith and 'saved' Martha Clark would need definitive proof that the guy is evil.

I was trying to avoid the timeskip but outside of what's posted from Lex framing Walsh, the bits from superstar and the mystical sexathon episode I couldn't get anything together and it has quickly turned into a long time since I updated this.