The F in Pike Chapter 22

Intersecting

Author's Note: Here's where the story crosses over with Sins of the Past. Make sure you read both to understand what's going on. Also, for those interested, I've started posting the sequel to these stories over on Wattpad. Feel free to move over that way if you'd like to read the rest of this story and then its sequel more quickly.

"Connor?"

Connor?

I turn to Faith.

"Who's Connor?"

"I'm Connor."

My focus turns to the skinny guy in the room.

"Okay, and who are you?"

Dawn speaks up at this point.

"He's the one who did this to me."

Looking over at my sister, she pulls on the restraints she's under.

Why is she being restrained? What's going on?

"What are you doing here Connor?"

And how the hell does Faith know this guy?

"I go to school here."

"I meant in this room."

Dawn again tries to get involved.

"He's trying to hurt me."

That makes Connor turn to Dawn.

"I'm not trying to hurt you."

I'd be willing to believe that if I knew who the hell he was.

"Then why exactly is my sister tied up?"

"For her own protection."

What? That doesn't make any sense.

"Why does my sister need to be protected?"

"I don't. This guy's just crazy."

Faith turns to me attempts to reassure me.

"He's not crazy."

She turns to Connor.

"At least, I'm pretty sure he's not."

That has him holding up his hands.

"Trust me, I'm not crazy."

Dawn can't help but comment.

"Says the crazy person."

"Look, who the hell are you people?"

What kind of question is that?

"I'm her sister. The hospital called me and said my sister was hurt."

"Well I'm the one who brought her in here."

I'm not sure if I believe that.

"And he did it against my will."

Is he holding her against her will? Maybe I need to break her out.

"Well, I'm guessing that since you're her sister, that means you're a slayer?"

He knows about slayers?

"How do you know about slayers?"

Dawn tries to interject.

"I told him about them."

"No, actually, you didn't. I already knew about them."

Is that how Faith knows him? How long have they known each other? He seems pretty young.

I turn to Faith.

"Is that how you two know each other?"

"Yes and no."

What?

"Oh god..."

We all turn to Dawn at her words.

"You slept with him didn't you?"

I look at Faith and then this Connor guy.

Could they have? But... when would that have even happened? She's been working with me ever since we left Sunnydale and I've never met him. He doesn't look old enough for her to know him before that. Unless they somehow met when she was in jail or something.

"What? No..."

"Oh come on, it's what you do with everyone isn't it? Get in their pants and leave them?"

"DK, I..."

This Connor guy speaks up.

"She and I never slept together. I mean, I probably wouldn't have said no if she asked but..."

"Connor, how about we not go there?"

"Right, that's beside the point."

Well we better start going somewhere because I'm still confused.

He turns to Dawn.

"Especially since the only person I've slept with in this room is you."

What?

I look between them but Dawn beats me to the point.

"What?"

"You slept with my sister?"

"It was her idea."

"Oh, god, eww..."

Faith thinks that's disgusting? Why does Faith think that's disgusting?

"So the truth finally comes out. You can't stand the thought of sleeping with me."

"No, Dawn, baby, that's not..."

"I knew it... I always knew it."

"Dawn, it's because he's Angel's SON."

What?

That has me stepping back a bit, more out of shock than anything.

"That's how we know each other. Through his father."

I can't help but look him over. He seems pretty confused about all this. Dawn starts pulling at her chains even more.

This is Angel's son? I mean, Angel told me about him when it first happened but, I never knew what he looked like. I never had a chance to meet him. Then again, apocalypse and all that. But she knows him through Angel?

"You asshole!"

Dawn's words have us looking at her.

"You knew, didn't you? You knew exactly who I was when we met. You were spying on me weren't you?"

Again he seems confused.

I'm not sure he knew. But what would make Dawn think that? It seems like a big leap... but then clearly I don't know everything.

"No, I had no idea. You were just some random girl at my college."

"And so you decided to pick her up? Didn't Angel teach you better than that?"

Umm, Faith... I'm not sure that's helping.

"No, I mean, yes. It's just... that's not how it happened."

Dawn tries to interject.

"Yes it is."

Connor turns to Dawn.

"No, it's not. We didn't meet through a hook up. I rescued her from herself. She was being attacked by a gang of vampires and I rescued her. Then I found out the girl she was with was turned without me knowing it. So I tried to protect her from a vampire with a grudge. That's how we met."

He saved her?

"I don't know..."

I turn to Faith.

"What do you think?"

She watches Connor for a second.

"I believe him. He's not exactly the best liar. I saw right through him the first time we met."

"What? You believe this asshole? Of course you do, you were probably in on this together."

She thinks Faith and this Connor guy were in on it together? That doesn't sound like Faith.

"What are you talking about Dawn?"

"Isn't that how I meet everyone I sleep with? Through one of you?"

Dawn looks at me.

"You did it to me with Faith."

She turns her attention to Faith.

"And now you're doing it to me with this idiot."

I can see the hurt look on Faith when Dawn says that.

"DK, you know I would never do that to you."

Faith is right, she wouldn't do that to Dawn.

"Sure, and I'm supposed to just believe you? I'm just supposed to think that me running into Angel's son was a complete coincidence?"

Her questions have me looking at him again.

It does seem like a weird coincidence. I mean, what are the chances of Dawn going off to college and meeting Angel's son? Then again, nothing in my life should surprise me at this point.

I look over at Dawn.

So why does it surprise Dawn? And why is she tied up like this?

"Well, it is DK. I didn't send Connor here and neither did your sister."

What?

"No, I... I learned my lesson the first time."

Connor asks the obvious.

"The first time?"

Like we need to make this whole situation more complicated right now.

"It's... complicated. But this still doesn't explain why my sister is tied to a hospital bed."

Faith and I kinda alternate between looking at Connor and Dawn.

"Because he's a sociopath."

"It's like I said, it's for her own protection."

"That's not what you said a second ago."

He said something different a second ago?

"You said it was to protect other people from me."

That doesn't make any sense.

"Why would other people need protection from my sister?"

"Because she's dangerous."

Dawn?

"My sister's not dangerous."

"I keep telling him that but he won't listen."

"I gotta agree with them there Connor. Dawn's not really a dangerous person. At least not on her own."

"Then you haven't seen what I've seen."

Faith and I look at each other before focusing back on Connor.

"She has... abilities."

We look over at Dawn for a second.

"What kind of abilities?"

"It's nothing. He's being an idiot, like always. I guess it makes sense if he's Angel's son."

Why is Dawn being so mean to him?

"That vampire I was protecting her from? Sarah? Dawn did something to her."

What?

"What did she do?"

"I have no idea, but it's something I've never seen before. She... she turned Sarah back into a human."

That... there's no way to do that. This guy doesn't know what he's talking about.

"That's not possible. You can't make someone human once they've become a vampire."

"B's right, you can't do it."

"I know that. Except that she did. Then she did it again."

What?

"After Sarah became human again, Dawn somehow managed to make her a vampire again."

"How?"

Good question Faith.

"I don't know. But it has something to do with her blood."

Her blood?

I look over at Dawn who is looking right back at me with an anger I don't think I've ever seen on her before.

End of Chapter 22