Chapter 2
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The greyhound starts to slow down now that we have arrived at our destination, Sunnydales bus station. And we start to get off the bus, it's still a couple of hours till sunset, enough time to get to my new home.
I'm back in Sunnydale and the one place in the world I didn't want to be.
Standing in front of my house arriving there after only a 15-minute walk, it looks wicked cool from the outside and it's big. We're standing in front of small iron Gate to path leading up to the front door of the house. Looking around I see the house is situated in the upscale part of town. Close to where C lived before the IRS took it all away.
Get my key out of my wallet and push open the gate and Dawn follows me up the path to the entrance, holding the key in my right hand, I insert the key in lock and turn it. Still not totally convinced that it will fit and the house is mine. The key fits and the door opens, I'm finally home, the place Em bought for me her gift to me.
Dawn's standing beside me when I open the door and we walk in, looking around I'm surprised, I would have thought everything would be covered in a layer of dust after all the time that has passed, it's not there, no a speck of dust anywhere, it's like the house has been waiting for me to arrive and move in. Looking around for a light switch, to get an even better look at inside of my house, find it and turn on the light.
There is a big open spacious living room, with a big open fireplace, kick of my boots and slowly walk through the living room, taking everything in. To my left a staircase leading up to the next level of the house, you can look down from the first floor into the living room..
It's beautiful, the next room I walk in is the dinning room, extends from one side of the house to the other, with two tables on both sides. On the left side of the house is a big big kitchen connecting to the dining room, you can look into the kitchen. The setting sun shines through the big window to the right colours the room yellow, orange and red it's beautiful.
To the right there's a study, it's full of books covering all the walls, Em said she took care of me needing any books. The study takes up two floor, there's a spiral staircase connecting both levels of the study.
Walking on till the end of the house, slide the door open and walk onto the patio, in the form of a half circle. To the left are comfortable looking chairs and to the right a real live Jacuzzi, I'm going to love to use and relax in that one.
Looking on, there's a big garden with some kind of structure out there, will take a look at it tomorrow, tonight the house. Walk into the house again to see what else is there. Em said she took care of everything, found the books so where are the weapons.
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Where would Em have hid them from prying eyes, the basement?
"Dawn I'm going to see if there's a the basement in the house, if I can find some weapons it will be there, now that we're back in Sunnydale we'll need them." I yell and walk to the staircase, best place for an entrance to the basement and the only place left, open the door and bingo leads down to the basement.
Switch on the light and start walking down, the floor and wall are made of the same natural stone the rest of the house is made off. The basement is empty, not even a box or anything else in it.
Looking around, the weapons have to be her, start looking at the walls and floor for hidden spaces, on first look there are none. Looking at the dimensions of the basement, it's to small, so there should be a hidden room.
Staring at the back wall I use one of the teachings of Em, start clearing my mind and focus it with all my other senses, slowly the wall starts to disappear, revealing what's behind them, if there is something there.
I always liked doing this with Em she would hide a certain number of items and I had to locate them within a set time limit, I was not allowed to touch, move, open, close anything on my search for them and later on I had to locate them without even moving from my place.
Looking through walls, wood, iron and other things was easy, looking through fabric, clothes was a lot harder, Em had a good body but didn't show it of a lot. I did do it only twice, the second time I looked a little to deep and ended seeing Em from the inside, made sure that I didn't do that trick on her again.
Eureka, there is a hidden room behind the wall, I knew it, the walls are covered with lead, for some reason you can't look through the damn stuff. So where is the trigger to open the entrance to the hidden. Ah there you are, push the stone in and rotate clock wise, and there is the entrance. Put my back in it and bit by bit the entrance widens and a light springs on.
The walls are lined with all kind of weapons, swords, knives, blades, axes, in any form ands size. Some of the weapons are ancient looking and other are more of a contempory period. All kinds of stakes, bows and crossbows, from the big ones to handheld ones, from ancient designs to the more modern ones.
There's a workbench for making stakes, repair weapons and create my own designs, always liked making my own weapons, adapt them to my needs. After Ems death I shut down on that part and only used my anger and body to a pulverise my enemies, instead of using my mind and Ems teaching to take them out fast and clean, so much I lost when that bastard Kakisto killed her.
Walk around and let my fingers touch the swords, knives, blades, axes, bows, crossbows and stakes.
A beautiful sword catches my eye it sings to me, somehow I know it's mine and it will serve me well in battle, I start picking up a couple of daggers, a blade and a couple of stakes from weapons room and exit the room again. Closing the entrance before I head up again to distribute them through the house. The sword I put on my back in a harness on my back, that I Also found with the rest of the weapons
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It's not safe to be unarmed in Sunnydale, so I hand Dawn a stake and dagger, before heading to see what's on the first floor my belly starts growling fiercely, indicting it wants to be fed.
Dawn start to laugh at the sound my tummy made.
I pretty hungry, it's been a while that I've eaten and so has it for Dawn, I ask her if she's hungry too and how pizza sounds.
She's also hungry, so I take the phone and dial a pizza joint. I place the order for 6 pizza's extra big with everything, one normal and the other five with all the extras on it twice as much as on the normal, give them the address and ask how long it will take.
Within twenty minutes the pizzas will be delivered, put the phone back and tell Dawn that we're eating in twenty. It's just enough time to explore the rest of the house and the first floor.
Walking up the stairs to the first level
There's banister around the opening in the floor that lets you see part of the living room, there's a bedroom on the front side of the house.
Dawn's running along the banister toward the front bedroom, Dawn starts screaming and I rush into the room, expecting that someone attacked her.
"Faith this room fantastic, look at all that space and windows, and the best your own bathroom", all the way to the left it has douche and bathtub, I tell her it's her room if she wants it. She starts to scream jump up and down on the bed and I leave her to and go to see the rest of the floor.
Walking back, the first room on my right is also a bedroom with an own bathroom attached to it only smaller, but still bigger than my former room I stayed at, there is a door connecting it to the room directly over the study.
Walk into the study on the first room and look down, seeing the study on the ground floor a lot of space for books. To my left there is another door, walk through it into a hall. To my left there's a door leading to a balcony same dimensions as the down stair patio, with a railing. It gives a fabulous sight on the back garden.
To my left a door to another room, open the door and enter a bedroom, it's bigger than the one in front, and also has an own bathroom also bigger. The Bathtub takes the whole of the right corner and has enough place to hold two people, a douche and an access door leading to the balcony.
*****
Then I hear the bell at the front door, twenty minutes must have passed and the pizzas are here. Run down the stairs toward the door, put my hand behind my back and grab the stake there. Open the door and there's the pizza delivery man, with my 6 pizza's. Pay the guy and close the door and walk into the living room and scream Dawns name and sit down, the pizzas smell heavenly.
"DAWN, PIZZAS ARE HERE, COME AND GET IT", five second later I hear Dawn dashing down the stairs, so she's also hungry.
I give her her pizza and she takes it and picks a piece out of it and takes a big bite, in an instant an smile starts spread across her face.
And I start with mine, I finished my first pizza and Dawn almost finished her second piece, starts to make a race out who finishes her pizza first, no contest, really. I slow down a little and let Dawn get a lead on the eating. She's having to much fun with it, I look at her and start smiling, it's been a long time that I felt happy in somebody's company.
"He Faith where were you?" Dawn ask me, waving her last piece of pizza in front of my face to get my attention. "I have only one slice of pizza left and you still have a whole one, I'm going to win I'm going to win I'm going top win" she tells me in her singsong way and attacks her last piece of pizza.
Off course, I won't let such a challenge pass me by and before Dawn ate half her slice my whole pizza disappeared.
"He he heh I win I win I win I win." I counter all the while the biggest smile plastered over my face and Dawn who gives me her greatest pout in her live.
"Not fair, I was winning." Dawn tells me.
"So are we full?" I ask Dawn and starts to gather the empty pizza cartons.
"Yes, I couldn't eat another piece if my live depended on it."
Dawn also picks up a couple and we dispose of them in the kitchen trashcan.
"So what do you say we use our new bathrooms to clean up?"
And we start to walk the stairs up to our rooms.
"I'll get you some sweats and t-shirt for us to change in, anything else you'll need should be there in your bathroom", I tell Dawn before I search my room for sweats and t-shirts, hand a pair to Dawn and she gives me a kiss before heading to her bathroom.
For a moment I lost all feelings in the rest of my body, only feeling the kiss Dawn gave me. Looking after her, running of to her room.
Slowly turning around walking into my own bathroom, to shower in a real big bathroom of my own, for the first time in almost three days that I'm now out of jail and in all the time I was in prison. Taking a shower on my own as long as I want and all the hot water in the world.
*****
Half an hour later, I get out of the bathroom all cleaned and refreshed. Walking down to the living room to wait for Dawn to get finish her shower. Start surfing through the channels on the TV, there are over 400 channels.
400 channels and I can't find anything decent to watch, going from one channel to another.
Dawn sits herself next to me, leans into me.
"So what do you want to look?" I ask her "Tell me when you see something interesting" and return to zapping from channel to channel.
A couple of minutes later, Dawn hasn't said a word since she leaned into me. Turn around to ask her if she've seen Anything to watch.
"Dawn .." she's fast asleep, it was a long day.
Turn of the TV and take Dawn careful in my arms and walk slowly up the stairs to her room, enjoying her closeness and warmth. I put her in her bed and pull the covers over her.
She's laying in her big bed, leaving the door open. Walking to my own room to go to sleep.
*****
*****
The greyhound starts to slow down now that we have arrived at our destination, Sunnydales bus station. And we start to get off the bus, it's still a couple of hours till sunset, enough time to get to my new home.
I'm back in Sunnydale and the one place in the world I didn't want to be.
Standing in front of my house arriving there after only a 15-minute walk, it looks wicked cool from the outside and it's big. We're standing in front of small iron Gate to path leading up to the front door of the house. Looking around I see the house is situated in the upscale part of town. Close to where C lived before the IRS took it all away.
Get my key out of my wallet and push open the gate and Dawn follows me up the path to the entrance, holding the key in my right hand, I insert the key in lock and turn it. Still not totally convinced that it will fit and the house is mine. The key fits and the door opens, I'm finally home, the place Em bought for me her gift to me.
Dawn's standing beside me when I open the door and we walk in, looking around I'm surprised, I would have thought everything would be covered in a layer of dust after all the time that has passed, it's not there, no a speck of dust anywhere, it's like the house has been waiting for me to arrive and move in. Looking around for a light switch, to get an even better look at inside of my house, find it and turn on the light.
There is a big open spacious living room, with a big open fireplace, kick of my boots and slowly walk through the living room, taking everything in. To my left a staircase leading up to the next level of the house, you can look down from the first floor into the living room..
It's beautiful, the next room I walk in is the dinning room, extends from one side of the house to the other, with two tables on both sides. On the left side of the house is a big big kitchen connecting to the dining room, you can look into the kitchen. The setting sun shines through the big window to the right colours the room yellow, orange and red it's beautiful.
To the right there's a study, it's full of books covering all the walls, Em said she took care of me needing any books. The study takes up two floor, there's a spiral staircase connecting both levels of the study.
Walking on till the end of the house, slide the door open and walk onto the patio, in the form of a half circle. To the left are comfortable looking chairs and to the right a real live Jacuzzi, I'm going to love to use and relax in that one.
Looking on, there's a big garden with some kind of structure out there, will take a look at it tomorrow, tonight the house. Walk into the house again to see what else is there. Em said she took care of everything, found the books so where are the weapons.
*****
Where would Em have hid them from prying eyes, the basement?
"Dawn I'm going to see if there's a the basement in the house, if I can find some weapons it will be there, now that we're back in Sunnydale we'll need them." I yell and walk to the staircase, best place for an entrance to the basement and the only place left, open the door and bingo leads down to the basement.
Switch on the light and start walking down, the floor and wall are made of the same natural stone the rest of the house is made off. The basement is empty, not even a box or anything else in it.
Looking around, the weapons have to be her, start looking at the walls and floor for hidden spaces, on first look there are none. Looking at the dimensions of the basement, it's to small, so there should be a hidden room.
Staring at the back wall I use one of the teachings of Em, start clearing my mind and focus it with all my other senses, slowly the wall starts to disappear, revealing what's behind them, if there is something there.
I always liked doing this with Em she would hide a certain number of items and I had to locate them within a set time limit, I was not allowed to touch, move, open, close anything on my search for them and later on I had to locate them without even moving from my place.
Looking through walls, wood, iron and other things was easy, looking through fabric, clothes was a lot harder, Em had a good body but didn't show it of a lot. I did do it only twice, the second time I looked a little to deep and ended seeing Em from the inside, made sure that I didn't do that trick on her again.
Eureka, there is a hidden room behind the wall, I knew it, the walls are covered with lead, for some reason you can't look through the damn stuff. So where is the trigger to open the entrance to the hidden. Ah there you are, push the stone in and rotate clock wise, and there is the entrance. Put my back in it and bit by bit the entrance widens and a light springs on.
The walls are lined with all kind of weapons, swords, knives, blades, axes, in any form ands size. Some of the weapons are ancient looking and other are more of a contempory period. All kinds of stakes, bows and crossbows, from the big ones to handheld ones, from ancient designs to the more modern ones.
There's a workbench for making stakes, repair weapons and create my own designs, always liked making my own weapons, adapt them to my needs. After Ems death I shut down on that part and only used my anger and body to a pulverise my enemies, instead of using my mind and Ems teaching to take them out fast and clean, so much I lost when that bastard Kakisto killed her.
Walk around and let my fingers touch the swords, knives, blades, axes, bows, crossbows and stakes.
A beautiful sword catches my eye it sings to me, somehow I know it's mine and it will serve me well in battle, I start picking up a couple of daggers, a blade and a couple of stakes from weapons room and exit the room again. Closing the entrance before I head up again to distribute them through the house. The sword I put on my back in a harness on my back, that I Also found with the rest of the weapons
*****
It's not safe to be unarmed in Sunnydale, so I hand Dawn a stake and dagger, before heading to see what's on the first floor my belly starts growling fiercely, indicting it wants to be fed.
Dawn start to laugh at the sound my tummy made.
I pretty hungry, it's been a while that I've eaten and so has it for Dawn, I ask her if she's hungry too and how pizza sounds.
She's also hungry, so I take the phone and dial a pizza joint. I place the order for 6 pizza's extra big with everything, one normal and the other five with all the extras on it twice as much as on the normal, give them the address and ask how long it will take.
Within twenty minutes the pizzas will be delivered, put the phone back and tell Dawn that we're eating in twenty. It's just enough time to explore the rest of the house and the first floor.
Walking up the stairs to the first level
There's banister around the opening in the floor that lets you see part of the living room, there's a bedroom on the front side of the house.
Dawn's running along the banister toward the front bedroom, Dawn starts screaming and I rush into the room, expecting that someone attacked her.
"Faith this room fantastic, look at all that space and windows, and the best your own bathroom", all the way to the left it has douche and bathtub, I tell her it's her room if she wants it. She starts to scream jump up and down on the bed and I leave her to and go to see the rest of the floor.
Walking back, the first room on my right is also a bedroom with an own bathroom attached to it only smaller, but still bigger than my former room I stayed at, there is a door connecting it to the room directly over the study.
Walk into the study on the first room and look down, seeing the study on the ground floor a lot of space for books. To my left there is another door, walk through it into a hall. To my left there's a door leading to a balcony same dimensions as the down stair patio, with a railing. It gives a fabulous sight on the back garden.
To my left a door to another room, open the door and enter a bedroom, it's bigger than the one in front, and also has an own bathroom also bigger. The Bathtub takes the whole of the right corner and has enough place to hold two people, a douche and an access door leading to the balcony.
*****
Then I hear the bell at the front door, twenty minutes must have passed and the pizzas are here. Run down the stairs toward the door, put my hand behind my back and grab the stake there. Open the door and there's the pizza delivery man, with my 6 pizza's. Pay the guy and close the door and walk into the living room and scream Dawns name and sit down, the pizzas smell heavenly.
"DAWN, PIZZAS ARE HERE, COME AND GET IT", five second later I hear Dawn dashing down the stairs, so she's also hungry.
I give her her pizza and she takes it and picks a piece out of it and takes a big bite, in an instant an smile starts spread across her face.
And I start with mine, I finished my first pizza and Dawn almost finished her second piece, starts to make a race out who finishes her pizza first, no contest, really. I slow down a little and let Dawn get a lead on the eating. She's having to much fun with it, I look at her and start smiling, it's been a long time that I felt happy in somebody's company.
"He Faith where were you?" Dawn ask me, waving her last piece of pizza in front of my face to get my attention. "I have only one slice of pizza left and you still have a whole one, I'm going to win I'm going to win I'm going top win" she tells me in her singsong way and attacks her last piece of pizza.
Off course, I won't let such a challenge pass me by and before Dawn ate half her slice my whole pizza disappeared.
"He he heh I win I win I win I win." I counter all the while the biggest smile plastered over my face and Dawn who gives me her greatest pout in her live.
"Not fair, I was winning." Dawn tells me.
"So are we full?" I ask Dawn and starts to gather the empty pizza cartons.
"Yes, I couldn't eat another piece if my live depended on it."
Dawn also picks up a couple and we dispose of them in the kitchen trashcan.
"So what do you say we use our new bathrooms to clean up?"
And we start to walk the stairs up to our rooms.
"I'll get you some sweats and t-shirt for us to change in, anything else you'll need should be there in your bathroom", I tell Dawn before I search my room for sweats and t-shirts, hand a pair to Dawn and she gives me a kiss before heading to her bathroom.
For a moment I lost all feelings in the rest of my body, only feeling the kiss Dawn gave me. Looking after her, running of to her room.
Slowly turning around walking into my own bathroom, to shower in a real big bathroom of my own, for the first time in almost three days that I'm now out of jail and in all the time I was in prison. Taking a shower on my own as long as I want and all the hot water in the world.
*****
Half an hour later, I get out of the bathroom all cleaned and refreshed. Walking down to the living room to wait for Dawn to get finish her shower. Start surfing through the channels on the TV, there are over 400 channels.
400 channels and I can't find anything decent to watch, going from one channel to another.
Dawn sits herself next to me, leans into me.
"So what do you want to look?" I ask her "Tell me when you see something interesting" and return to zapping from channel to channel.
A couple of minutes later, Dawn hasn't said a word since she leaned into me. Turn around to ask her if she've seen Anything to watch.
"Dawn .." she's fast asleep, it was a long day.
Turn of the TV and take Dawn careful in my arms and walk slowly up the stairs to her room, enjoying her closeness and warmth. I put her in her bed and pull the covers over her.
She's laying in her big bed, leaving the door open. Walking to my own room to go to sleep.
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