AN: It's time for some twists in this chapter as we see what Jezebel can really do with her powers

"It might be easier than you think." Said a voice from the splintered doorway. Buffy turned to see Faith, Spike, and Conner standing there.

Joyce took a step forward. "Faith I know you have questions you want answered why don't we move into the living room."

Once they had all sat down, Faith didn't waist anytime, "Why did you give me away?"

Joyce sighed. "I gave you away to save you from the destiny that was mine when you and Buffy were born. You see the woman of our family carry the balance between good and evil inside of them, it has been that way since the dawn of time. I am the current Balancer and you Faith are the next in line."

"I always felt a connection to you guys, even when I tried to kill you I felt a connection, now I know why." Faith turned to Buffy, "well hey B it looks like we're twins."

Dawn was smiling until she noticed the older woman standing in the doorway. Joyce noticed Dawn's look and turned to see the older woman and smiled softly. "It's alright mother, come on in." Victoria stepped into the room and smiled, Joyce stood up. "Girls I would like you to meet your Grandmother. Mom, this is Buffy, Faith and Dawn."

The three women remained still until Buffy broke ranks and walked over to hug her, Victoria smiled softly when Dawn joined the hug, Faith had stood still and watched her sisters hug their grandmother.

"I always wanted sisters and now I have them. I always wanted to a mother I could have mother daughter talks with, now I can have them too. In all my fantasies about finding my birth-family I never thought about grandparents." Victoria's eyes clouded over, and Faith smiled, "but I got to tell you this is better." She threw herself into the hug and Joyce joined them.

Victoria smiled through her tears. "At last six generations of Borden women under one roof  . . ."

There was a laugh from the door that had them all spinning around; Dawn blanched when she saw Jezebel. Jezebel walked through the door smiling. "And it will make it so much easier to kill all six generations." Joyce's hands started glowing purple, Jezebel spun and unleashed an energy ball that struck Joyce, Victoria, and Faith throwing them into the living room with the men, she waved her hand and an energy field wove around the door. "I'll deal with you later." She turned just as Dawn threw out her hand to send her flying and muttered a word, nothing happened. Dawn looked at her hand horrified, Jezebel smiled and sent her flying down the hall way and landing against a wall. She turned to Buffy. "It looks like it's just you and me Slayer."

Buffy fell into a fighting stance. "I wouldn't have it any other way."

Jezebel smiled a cruel smile that froze Buffy in place. "When I finish with you, nothing stands between me and the champion."

Just then a silver light shown from the ceiling, and Tara appeared next to Buffy. "I stand between you and Rose."

Jezebel threw her head back and laughed. "You are nothing but a spook and easily dealt with." She waved her hand, just as Tara opened her mouth to say something and she disappeared. "Well now that we won't have anymore interference."

Buffy didn't wait and launched herself at Jezebel they traded blows looking as if Buffy had the upper hand. Then things changed as Jezebel struck her leg out and caught Buffy in the stomach, then she back handed her through a wall. The china cabinet collapsed on top of her. Jezebel smiled in victory and started towards the stairs just as Willow and Giles rushed into the house. Jezebel turned and sighed. "You can't hope to defeat me, I am a fate." With that she disappeared

The energy field faded and the others came pouring out of the living room, Joyce and Conner rushed to Dawn, as the others rushed to move the cabinet off Buffy. Willow gasped when they finally got to Buffy she was all broken and bloody. Xander and Spike moved her to Dawn's room. Joyce and Victoria cleaned her up then left her rest and joined the others downstairs. Giles was pacing, Xander looked at her mother and her grandmother. "How is she?"

Victoria sighed. "Besides the obvious, I suspect internal bleeding, and a few cracked ribs. If she wasn't the slayer she'd be dead."

Faith looked to Giles. "What do we do?"

"I haven't a clue, this Jezebel is like nothing we have ever faced before."

Dawn was close to freaking. "I'll say, she has to be powerful if she was able to bind my powers and we can't remove the binding, Willow and I have tried."

Xander looked at Joyce and Victoria. "What I don't understand is why she would choose to attack just the six of you and leave the rest of us alone."

Victoria sighed. "Jezebel wasn't kidding when she said she was a fate. A very long time ago she tried to over-through her fellow sisters and take the loom of fate for herself. That would have upset the balance so my great-great-grandmother went against her and won, but couldn't defeat her permanently. I don't know of any way to do that."

Willow looked shaken. "So what can we do. We are so not ready to go against her, beyond the fact that she binded Dawn's powers with just a word. She seems to have been able to stop Tara from coming into this realm."

"You're right Will." Buffy said from the doorway.

Giles stood up. "Buffy I know you're tired."

She looked at him and her voice quavered. "I am beyond tired, I am beyond scared. I am standing on the mouth of hell and it's going to swallow me whole," the steel came back in her voice, "and it'll choke on me. We're not ready, she's not ready. She thinks we're just gonna sit and wait for the end to come like we always do, I'm sick of waiting. She wants an apocalypse; oh we'll give her one!" She took in the whole room. "If anyone wants to run, they do it now because as of this moment we have become an army and we are gonna wage war. We won't just face our worst fears, we will seek them out one by one and cut out their hearts until Jezebel shows herself for what she really is then I will kill her myself. The only thing in this world more powerful than evil is us. She can not have Rose. Any questions?"

T.B.C.

AN: Sorry it took so long to get this next chapter out and it is a short one, but in-between work and classes and the computer crashing well you get the jest of it. I decided to use Buffy's speech because I felt it worked in this chapter. Nothing is as it seems, This is the last segment of this arch. All manners of things are gonna change