A/n: Hi again, not much to say here! Just please REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW! It's really important to me that you review! Well since I don't have much to say, here's the story.

WAIT, I lied, I wanna add a quote from Dead Man's Party:

'Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage and hootenanny, well, it's chock full a hoot, just a little bit o nanny." HEHEHEHE! I think it's funny!

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"Ana, I presume." The man said smiling and extending his hand to Ana. She did not take it and continued to stare at him. He drew back. "I think we should talk."

"About what?" Ana asked. He opened his mouth to answer when Spike tried to intervene.

"We weren't finished so could you all leave." He said. Sami then stood.

"No, we're done for now." She said to Spike then turned to Ana. "Do you know this man?" she asked. Ana looked back and shook her head no.

"Can we go some where private?" the man asked. He made a reach for Ana's shoulder but she stepped back.

"no, you think I'm stupid?" Ana retorted and continued because of the look on the man's face, "My friend was just attacked, then a strange man wants me to come with him somewhere alone, with the protection my friend offers. I think not thanks. Whatever you have to say, say it in front of them or don't say it at all."

The man stood dumbfounded for a minute. During that time Madam Pomfrey came in.

"Alright, lets just have a look here dear." She said. She checked over Sami as Ana and the stranger continued to stare daggers at each other. When she pronounced herself satisfied and dismissed Sami, Sami hopped back off the stupid hospital bed and grabbed Ana's arm and dragged her out of there. The man and the dog followed. Spike seemed to disappear into the school but no one really noticed or cared.

"I don't believe I've introduced myself properly." The man said as they stopped in the middle of some hallway, the two girls unwilling to admit they were completely lost. "I'm Remus Lupin, werewolf and wizard. I taught Defense of the Dark Arts here for a year." He said very formally. Sami spoke up.

"Samantha Jones, Slayer." She said rather snippy, nobody, I repeat, NOBODY messed with HER friends. Then things started fitting together. He was a werewolf, Ana, according to that Oz guy, had werewolf blood. They looked the same, well not really but they had the same facial expressions. She saw it now.

"Ana Martinez, correct?" he said to Ana.

"How do you know?" she asked suspiciously. He simply smiled.

"I guess nobody told you. You look so much like her. Nobody would ever guess." He said. He seemed to be savoring the moment.

"Who? What? Huh? I missed something." Ana said. Sami laughed slightly.

"What's new hun?"

"True." Ana smiled at her friend who you could count on to lighten the mood and stop her from fighting.

"You look just like your mother." Lupin remarked. His hand jerked as though it wanted to reach out and touch Ana but thought better of it.

"You know my mother?" Ana asked. He smiled once more. He saw Ana's mother's fire in her, her readiness to fight and defend herself.

"Maybe you should sit down or something." He suggested.

"I'll be ok just tell me." Ana said.

"Ana, dear, I'm your father." Lupin said. Ana and Sami looked at each other and started laughing. Remus looked at the two laughing and was confused. "What?"

"That was a little to Star Wars for me." Sami said. He didn't understand the reference. "You know, 'Luke, I'm your father'." Sami said. Remus put this aside and turned to his daughter.

"Ana, your mother and I had a wonderful relationship. We created you. After you were born she was killed fighting some Death Eaters and I knew they'd be after you so I had to give you away, for your own protection. I'm so sorry." He said. Ana, normally strong and able to handle news, staggered a little. This was too much for her. She slid down the wall. Sami could see her struggle. She hated to cry, Sami was probably the only person she had ever let see her cry but the tears demanded to flow and would not be stopped. Sami put a hand on her friend's shoulder to comfort her. She knew there was nothing she could say, there was nothing wrong. She was just stressed beyond reason. Remus helped his little girl onto her feet.

"Get away from me." She snapped. She was always moody like that. Remus stepped back, the hurt in his eyes was unbearable. Sam decided to intervene.

"Come on Ana. Why don't we go back to the dorm?" Sami offered. She thought that maybe a little down time would help. She hoped. Today was just not a good day. Ana nodded at her friend and Sam began to guide her toward what she thought was the right direction. They climbed a set of stairs and turned a corner and realized they were completely lost.

"I'm really starting to get annoyed with this place." Sami said turning around trying to figure out where to go.

"We'll find it. If not we could just walk in circles for a while until someone finds us. That'd be fun." Ana joked wiping away her tears. Sami came back over to Ana.

"That's not what I mean." Sami retorted. "I mean, I know that some of this is the whole Slayer thing but it's also this place. If we weren't here that wizard guy wouldn't have attacked me. If we weren't here, we wouldn't have never even heard of that Remus guy." She raved and they placed a hand on her head. "My head's gonna explode."

"Don't worry chica. We'll figure out a way and defeat this guy. We always do." Ana comforted the down Slayer. They heard someone coming and looked up.

"There you are. We've been looking for you." Matt called running down the hall. Dawn was with him. She ran up next to him and hit him lightly on the arm.

"See I told you they were probably just lost. Nothing to worry about." She laughed. Matt just glared at her then back at the girls. "What's wrong Ana?" Dawn asked.

"Long story." She answered. Matt and Sami were just gazing at each other not paying any attention.

Dawn noticed and whispered to Ana, "Why don't you and me go somewhere else to talk and leave these two love birds alone." Ana agreed and they walked off.

"Are you ok?" Matt asked.

"Yes. I wish people wouldn't ask me that. It's not like he hurt me physically, he just took control of my mind. No big." She replied. Matt just smiled at his strong little Slayer. The smile faded from her face as he smiled. She backed into a wall and sat down on the floor cross-legged. She hung her head into her hands looking like she was about to cry.

"What's wrong hun?" Matt asked sitting down next to her. He wanted so badly to kiss her and make all her troubles go away. He knew that there was no way it would be that simple.

"Everything." She said and tears started rolling silently. "Just everything and everyone is wrong. I'm so sick of all of this."

"What do you mean. Everything's fine. No big bad." Matt said placing his hand on her's which was on her lap.

"You're forgetting the wizard guy and the vampire badies at home."

"They're not a problem. They didn't even stay and fight you. It's not a problem at all. We'll get this Voldemort then we'll party all night long at the ball." He laughed.

"Don't you wish life was like that. Defeat the bad then party. It's not. There's too much crap in between to be able to do that." Sami continued to let the tears roll down her cheeks making no effort to curb them.

"What crap?" Matt asked trying his best to be comforting but it wasn't working much.

"The crap with Ana being adopted and being part werewolf. The crap with being a Slayer. It never ends, it will never end. There's always gonna be evil and I'm always gonna have to fight. I'm always gonna do it in the dark and secret of night. No one will ever know. They'll just think I'm a freak and move on. Is it worth it? I mean really have I done much good?" Sami retorted.

"You've done a world of good. There are plenty of people, myself, Ana, Dawn, and Frankie include, who you have saved. I probably would be dead or a vampire if it weren't for you."

"Would you? I mean you wouldn't even know about vampires and demons if it weren't for me. It probably would have been better if you hadn't met me."

"Don't say that! This isn't like you! I don't know what's going on with you but you need to get yourself together. For the sake of the world you better get yourself together. You need to fight. You were born to save the world." Matt said.

"How do you know if this is me or not? I don't know me. The real me. Back home, before I was called, I never acted like this. I wasn't strong, physically or mentally. I was shy, I never really talked to other people. I danced, did you know I danced? Did you know I was student of the year at my dance studio or that I was an angel child to my mom. Do you know that now she thinks that I've changed for the worst, that I've fallen from grace. That I've decided to throw my life down the drain. She doesn't know that I fight evil. She has no clue at all. I wanna tell her. I tell her everything but I can't. Giles won't let me." She raved.

"I didn't know some of that stuff but that's not you anymore. You're different. The Slayer thing isn't something that happened to you, it is you. You were chosen for a reason. Someone thought you'd be great at saving the world. That's why you're doing what you're doing." Matt said. "Giles just wants the best for you."

"Yea right." Sami laughed. "You mean, he wants the best for Buffy and Dawn and Willow and Xander. He doesn't care about me."

"How can you say that? He's your Watcher, of course he cares about you." Matt replied, confused.

"I'm not his first Slayer. He cares more about Buffy. It's always, Buffy could do better. Buffy wouldn't be scared. Buffy would have fought me on that." Sami raved. "Well, I'm not Buffy. I'm Sami. I'm a different person, I'm not as good as she is or as strong but I'm me. Can't that be enough?"

Matt really didn't know what to say to this. They said in silence for a minute or two. Each teen thinking about what the other had said. Matt broke the silence, "What about your dad?"

"What?" Sam asked confused on where that came from.

"I never hear you talk about your dad. I was just wondering." Matt explained.

"I never talk about him because there's not much to talk about. I don't know him. He doesn't know me. He's dead so it doesn't matter." Sami said.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have brought it up." Matt said looking away.

"No it's ok. He died when I was about a month old. It was because of me." She said and Matt looked back at her. She averted her eyes and continued. "He lost his job and couldn't afford me. He didn't want me anyway, I was an accident. My parents were in the middle of a divorce when my mom found out she was pregnant. By the time I was born, they were divorced. My dad had taken me for the weekend. He went out with the last money he had and bought himself a bottle of sleeping pills and a bottle of whisky. My mom found him the next day when she came to pick me up, I was crying. He had written her a note explaining why he did what he did and the cliffnotes version is that he couldn't handle me and didn't want me to live. Instead of trying to kill me, he decided to let me live and kill himself. I just wish I hadn't ever been born, it would of made life a whole lot better for my mom." Sami finished not realizing that there was a pool of tears in between her crossed legs.

"Don't say that. If you weren't born," Matt put his hand under her chin and lifted her head so her eyes were looking into his, "I would be empty." He kissed away her tears and they sat, Sami's head resting on Matt's chest. Both were unaware that someone had been listening. Someone named Giles.

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A/n: what do you all think? This has taken me forever to finish, sorry!