Title: A New Life pt. 3
Author: Faith, Faith_Dru@lcos.com
Disclaimer: The characters of BtVS and AtS belong to Joss Whedon and company. I'm merely playing with them.
Season/Spoilers: Totally AU, although the idea was brought up because of "Welcome to the Hellmouth"
Distribution: If you like, tell me and you can have it
Pairing: It looks like a definite friendship between William/Faith, Angelus/Willow and Oz/Dawn are couples.
Rating: Looks like nothing more than a PG to a PG-13
Feedback: Please! Keeps me writing. Plus it keeps me sane (where ever that is).
Author's Notes: Again this is totally AU and has nothing to do with the season. Just read and you'll understand (hopefully). Oh and everyone's human. And Sunnydale's not the hellmouth. Also I made up Faith's grandmother's name and last name.


{At Faith's House}

"Grandma I'm home!" Faith called, slightly out of breath from her run from William.

"Faith, hunny how was your day?" A tall woman with dark hair and green eyes asked walking out to greet her grandchild.

"It was fine, grandma." Faith said kissing her on the cheek. "Is mom here?" Faith asked walking in to the kitchen.

"No, I'm afraid you're mom wont be home until late tonight. She called saying that she got stuck at the office." The older women replied. "Are you hungry? I've got dinner almost ready." She finished when the doorbell rang.

"I'm starving, and I'll get the door." Faith said walking out of the kitchen back to the front door. "Hello? William? What are you doing here?" She said nearly falling down after opening the door.

"Hey, pet. Can I come in?" William asked hoping that she wouldn't shut the door in his face.

"Grandma, I'm going outside for a sec." Faith called.

"Okay, I'll get you when dinner's ready." She called back before the door closed.

"What's up?" Faith asked trying to pretend nothing happened, but failing miserably.

Thinking for a moment trying to choose the best words for this situation. "What happened back there?" He asked giving up looking for the correct words.

Yeah, what did happen? Signing briefly before speaking she finally said, "I'm not sure. I know I shouldn't have done that but I can't take it back, not that I want to. I really like you, and look at me I'm talking way too much." Great babble in front of the guy that you find incredibly gorgeous and make a foul of yourself.

Smiling his best grin he walked the extra feet between them and lowered his lips to hers. Pulling her closer after she didn't pull away, he wrapped one of his arms around her frame and the other one in her hair.

The kiss would have gone on longer if the front door hadn't opened reveling Faith's grandma. Clearing her through she said, "Faith dinner's ready."

Blushing like a fool, Faith replied, "Grandma this is my friend William. I met him at school today."

"Hello, Mrs..." William started.

"Young man you can call me Julianna." She said taking in the sight in front of her. "If you'd like you can stay for dinner." Had that said she turned and walked into the house.

"Thank you." He said to the now closed door. "Shall we or should I just come by later to check on you?"

Thinking for a moment she said, "I'd love to have you come in for dinner."

Smiling he pulled her into a hug and followed her through the door.

[After Dinner]

"That was a wonderful dinner, Julianna." William said as he finished off his plate.

"It was great grandma." Faith said standing up to remove the plates from the table.

"Here let me help you with those." William said also standing up to clean the table up.

"It's cool, I've got it." Faith said smiling.

"Yes, William let her clear the table I'd like to speak to you." Julianna said handing her plate to Faith and then taking William by the arm and walking into the family room. "I hope you wont see me as being mean, William, but I'm a little concerned about what you have planned for my granddaughter." She said after sitting down on the couch.

Looking in to her concerned green eyes he spoke with care, "I respect Faith for who she is. She's truly a special women and I swear that I wont do anything to hurt her."

Seeing the truth in his blue eyes she responded, "Fair enough. Did you two have plans tonight?"

"Well we were going to ask permission to go out with the rest of the people she met today. Also I've got to run by my flat and get dinner ready for my uncle." He said noticing that Faith was standing at the doorway.

"Faith, dear. If you don't stay out too late, you may go." Julianna said. "I'll explain to your mother when she gets home."

"IF she gets home. Thanks, grandma." Faith said kissing her on the cheek.

"Well, I expect you home at 11 because it's a school night." She said returning the action on her check.

"I'll have her home at 11, because my uncle's expecting me home early too." William said standing up.

"Thank you William." Julianna said walking them to the door. "Faith, make sure to let me know when you get in."

"Sure, grandma." Faith said hugging her as she walked out the front door.

[At 10:45 pm]

"I had a wonderful time." Faith said as they were walking up to the porch.

"I'm glad." William said turning her to face him when they reached the front door.

"Are you going to be able to make it home on time?" Faith asked worried about him getting in to trouble.

"I'll be fine. Besides Uncle Giles', understand. I was walking a lovely lady home." William said grinning.

Blushing at his complement she put her head on his shoulder. William put his hand under her chin and lifted it up to his lips and placed a soft kiss on her lips. Reluctantly pulling away Faith said, "Thanks for a wonderful evening. I'll see you at school tomorrow."

"You're welcome. C-ya." He said letting her go but bringing her hand to his lips and placing a kiss on her knuckles before saying, "Good night."

Faith just stood there and watched him leave. When he rounded the corner she walked into the house to find her mother sitting on the couch watching TV. "Hey mom." She said walking towards the stairs.

"Where have you been?" Wendy asked getting up and walking towards her daughter.

"Didn't grams tell you? I went out with some friends." Faith said facing her angry mother.

"And who was that boy. The one you were kissing out on the porch." Wendy questioned.

"That was William. Grams met him earlier." Faith replied trying not to anger her mother further. She could smell the alcohol on her breath, it seemed that she's been drinking for hours.

"And you couldn't be decent enough to bring him in to meet your mother?" Windy snapped.

"I'm sorry mom. I didn't know you were home. Grams said that you would be working late." Faith calmly replied.

"That's not acceptable. I don't want you going out with this boy until I meet him. Is that understood." Windy said like she was laying down the law.

"Mom! You're never home, how can you meet him?" Faith said knowing she was treading in dangerous waters now. "Besides I really like him mom. He's nice and I think it'll be good for me to hang out with him." She finished before her mother walked away.

"My minds made up. You will not see that boy until I meet him and his parents." Windy said reaching for her drink.

"Uncle." Faith said quietly.

"What?" Windy asked turning around.

"He lives with his uncle who has custody for him." Faith said simply.

"Still, I want to meet him and his uncle before you go out with him again. Is that understood?" Wendy questioned.

"Yes, mom. I'll invite them over for dinner sometime and we can all talk and have a good time." Faith said hoping that would appease her mom.

"Fine, but we'll do it next week. I'm working late every day this week." Wendy said going back to watching her TV show.

"Fine. Night." Faith called as she walked up the steps to her room.

"Faith dear. Could you come in here for a minute?" Julianna called.

"Sure, what's up?" Faith said walking into her room.

"I heard what your mom said. I'll talk to her about leaving work early for one day so we can all have a family dinner, including William and his uncle." Julianna softly said.

"Thanks, grams." Faith said hugging her good night. Leaving her bedroom she said, "Night grams."

"Sweet dreams, sweetie." Julianna said.

Walking in to her bedroom she looked around and her eyes fell on her balcony. Walking to the double doors she opened them up and went outside to enjoy the cool California night.

"Psst!" A soft voice whispered.

Looking around Faith's eyes hit the source of the voice. "William, what are you doing here?" She whispered loudly back to him.

"Can I come up?" He asked.

"Sure, but hold on a sec." Faith called back. Shutting the doors she grabbed the rope ladder and threw it over the edge of the balcony. When he reached the top she asked, "What are you doing here?"

"I came back because I noticed your mom's car outside and heard what she said. I couldn't leave it at that." William said hugging her.

"William, what am I going to do? I can't not go out at night with you, I'd miss you too much." She said holding him closer.

"It'll be okay, Faith. We'll think of something. Besides I'll see you at school everyday." William said trying to hide the hurt in his voice. He knew it was going to be hard to stay away from her after school.

"How can you know that it'll be okay?" She said searching his blue eyes for some sort of answer.

"I don't know how, I just know that I care way too much about you to let a little thing like this get in our way." He said placing a small kiss on her lips.

Hearing her mother calling out for her she said, "You should go. I'll see you tomorrow." Trying to walk away William grabbed her hand and pulled her into an embrace and kissed her cheek.

"Night, Faith." He said stepping off her balcony.

"Night." She said and called out, "I'll be right there mom!" When he was safe on the ground she pulled up the ladder and walked through her balcony doors locking them behind her and then walking out in to the hall. "What's up, Mom?" She said once she got to the bottom of the steps.

"Grams has asked me to reconsider my decision about you not seeing William until I meet him and his uncle." She said standing up off of the couch. "I've decided that they should come over for dinner tomorrow night so that we can meet each other, because I'm sure that his uncle would like to me the parents of the girl his nephew's getting involved with."

Faith couldn't believe it, she was so happy she walked towards her mother and hugged her. "Thank you mom!" Faith said excitably. "I'll make sure to ask Mr. Giles and William to dinner tomorrow night when I see them both at school." She said after breaking the hug. "We'll I'm off to bed. Got school tomorrow." Kissing her mother's cheek she said her good nights and headed up the stairs to get ready for bed.

TBC