AN: Well this is the fifth chapter of the final story in my Hidden Hero's Series. I would like to thank one reviewer who has given great feedback and excellent encouragement. Evil Penguin this chapter is dedicated to you.

Your not ready for the world outside, you keep pretending but you just can't hide. I know i said I'd be standing by your side but I.... Your paths unbeaten and it's all uphill and you can meet it but you never will and I'm the reason you're standing still. I wish I could say the right words to lead you through this land, wish I could play the father and take you by the hand. "Giles, Once More With Feeling"

Buffy sighed. "Mom so which one of us will you pass it on to, I mean don't we have enough destinies."

"Well neither one of you can take the balance. The other part that I wanted to tell you girls about is, Buffy you have a twin sister."

Buffy's eye's widened, her mouth dropped open. Dawn just sat there her shock plain on her face. Xander too was shocked. "Joyce what are you saying."

"Buffy, when your father and I started out we didn't have much and then before we knew it I was pregnant with you, we thought one baby how wonderful, until we found out I was to have twins. We talked about it and we discussed it and we came to a decision that was the hardest thing I would have to do in my life. We would have to give one of the baby's up." Joyce's voice clogged with tears as she remembered that day. "I was in labor with the two of you for seventy-two hours but the pain was only a memory when they laid you in my arms, then I was doubly blessed when they laid your sister in my arms but the time had come one of you was to go to another family. I looked at you both, but what I saw on your sister made my decision for me. I saw the mark of the scales, at that moment I decided that your sister would be the one to go to the other family and I would take this legacy to the grave with me."

Buffy could see her mother laying in that hospital bed and deciding which of her daughters she would have to give away. Buffy thought of her own daughter and wondered if she could have been as strong as her mother was. "Who is she, where is she?"

Joyce shook her head. "In the beginning we got progress reports, cause that's what we wanted. We knew the family we gave her to lived in Boston, but the reports stopped."

Dawn too had tears in her eyes. "Do you know her name?"

Joyce sighed, this was a moment she had dreaded all her life and even more so now because of what and who this other daughter is. "Yes I know her name, and thanks to a private investigator I know where she is."

Buffy sighed she didn't know how much more she could take. "Who is it?"

"Well, Buffy she recently got married, the reason the reports stopped was because her father was killed in the line of duty, he was a cop. Her mother turned to alcohol and died around when she was sixteen. She has been on her own since then."

"Mom," Buffy said her mind reeling with all this information, "who is it?"

Joyce took a deep breath. "Her married name is Faith Gordon."

Sunnydale hotel- same night

Jezebel sat and stared out at the night sky, her mind wasn't on her plan to get the champion, she was thinking of the past and her sisters. There were times she missed them even if they didn't show many emotions, then there were times she hated them for what they were and it was those times that surfaced more. Jezebel turned from the window in disgust and walked to her desk. The champion would be protected her sister would have seen to that, but they had also protected Christ, and the innocents in Salem Town, they to had been protected but she had gotten around them and she would do so again. This first attack couldn't be made by her. She wanted to gauge the powers of those that protected the champion. She would summon a Demon, she didn't kid herself she knew it wouldn't be easy, there was a reason these people were chosen to protect the champion. They were most likely the strongest and best at what they did. And at least one was a descendant of the Balancer. She would get even with Victoria and that meddling daughter of hers also, they had almost destroyed her the last time they met. Her eyes narrowed she would get even with them all.

The Magick Box- Later that same night

Faith sat at that table completely unaware of the fact that her whole life was about to change, she was holding a deep conversation with Conner on how to get Dawn to notice him. "Well Con did you try just out right telling her?"

Conner's eyes widened in fear. "I don't know how, Faith most of my life was spent in a demon world just surviving. My dad and I were just catching up on all we missed when Tara appeared."

Faith sighed. "My parents died early in my life, I was always on my own. I will tell you something Conner, that not many people know, I was adopted and I always fantasized about the kind of Mother-Daughter talks I would have with my birth-mother. I didn't get many of those talks cause my mother died when I need them the most."

Conner felt pity and sympathy for the little girl Faith had been. "So how did you get Spike?"

Faith laughed. "It was right after we had battled the First, Spike was now human and him and I were patrolling. I threw him to the ground and staked a vamp, then kissed him."

There was laughter coming from the table that had Spike looking over from where he was standing talking to Giles. He shook his head and smiled, Giles was watching Faith with an interesting look. "She is quite good with him isn't she?"

"Yeah Watcher, I think it was as much a surprise to her as it is to the rest of us."

"What do you know of her past Spike?

Spike sat down wearily. "Not to bloody much, she doesn't talk about it. Just that her Dad died when she was five and that her mother died when she was barely sixteen. I did get out of her that she was adopted and that she has been searching for her birth-parents since her mother died."

"Faith is my sister, you mean the same Faith who switched bodies with me, the same Faith that tried to kill us, The same Faith that Xander slept with!" Buffy was hyperventilating, with all this news.

Joyce nodded worriedly "Yes Faith is your sister, your twin sister."

Dawn was chuckling, Buffy turned furious eyes on her. "And this is funny why?"

"Buffy there's nothing that can be done about it, Faith is our sister, plus she is a different person now, back on her path. Besides how do you think I feel, I just found out I was created from my Older twin sisters."

Xander was trying to keep a level head in this. "Joyce what do we do now, I mean do we tell her."

Joyce nodded. "We have no choice in the matter, added to that," she turned to take in her daughters, "your grandmother wants to meet you."

Before to much could be said a demon burst through the front door taking Buffy by surprise, in that moment of hesitation the demon sent Buffy flying into the dinning room table, and turned on the others. "Give me the champion!"

Joyce's hands started crackling silver and purple energy. "Demon be gone." She sent the energy swirling towards him that blasted him through the front window, Dawn ran to the window and threw her hands out and blew the demon to smithereens, than ran to check on Rose, she found Tara floating by the crib and nodded before running back downstairs to check on her sister. Buffy was getting to her feet and shaking her head at something Xander had said. "No Xander that Demon is the least of our problems at the moment. Our biggest problem is how to tell Faith that the Summers women are her birth family."

Dawn smiled "Yeah Xander it's not like you can go up to her and say Oh Faith by the way, Buffy is your twin sister, I am your little sister and Mom is really your birth mother,"

"It might be easier than you think." Said a voice that had everyone turning around to see Faith, Spike, and Conner standing in what had been the door."

T.B.C.

AN' lol well how did you like the chapter, a little more action in this one, I am sorry for the lack of Action but please stick with me, it is coming there is just a lot of information to get out of the way first