Two days after their conversation in the Library Hope and Joss hadn't spoken outside of class. Hope spent almost all her time with Destiny and Joss was struggling to catch her alone.
He was starting to realise if he was going to ask her to go out with him he'd have to do it in front of her brother.
There was something strange and mysterious about her, well both the twins. They were popular or at least everyone seemed to know them somehow. They didn't play sport or any other related college activity and they almost never talked about their lives outside school.
All he had managed to gather about Hope was that she was English, she actually enjoyed Monday's double physics lesson and she was almost always with her brother. She mad him feel uneasy whenever he was close to her but he still felt himself drawn to her, he couldn't resist playing with fire.
Hope was the last to arrive at the dinning table that evening. She silently took a seat next to Xander and started to fill her plate from the many dishes on the table.
Buffy passed the pitcher she had just filled to her daughter. Hope smiled now, "Thanks mum." She spoke as she poured the scarlet liquid into her glass before passing it to Destiny and watched as he did the same.
Hope raised the glass to her lips and felt the warm fluid caress her tongue and slip down her throat.
At the end of the huge table Buffy sipped from her glass of wine. These days she was allowed alcoholic beverages but her friends and husband insisted she only drank them in the house where they could keep an eye on her!
Willow sat silently pawing though the food on her plate. Buffy looked at her with concerned eyes. "Ok Will?" the ex-witch looked up slowly, "Huh? Oh, yes I'm just not that hungry. I just want to go to bed." She said before leaving the table. The large door clunked behind her.
Buffy and Xander exchanged a concerned look before she turned her attention back to the twins. "How's your first week of high school going?" she asked her children. "No demony things to report or public humiliation?" Xander added.
The twins looked up, then at each other and back, "No, it's really boring." Hope complained. Destiny laughed, "At least if nothing is happening then nothing bad is happening." Hope glared at her brother, "Or perhaps it is and we don't know about it yet, did you think about that? Huh?"
Xander's brow shot up at the outburst, "Chill Hope. Nothing's happening and if it does we'll deal with once it's happened." Hope raised brow at Xander, "I think being the mum's only advisor now Aunty Dawn is in England is going to you head." She retorted. Xander only smiled and shrugged.
"How long is dad going to be away?" Destiny asked. "Dawn said he is determined to stay with her until the end of the month." Buffy answered him in a neutral voice, her eyes cast down. Xander patted her arm, "It's ok to need someone, even if it is Spike." "He didn't think you'd forgiven him." Buffy replied softly, "He dose feel bad Xander." "It's Ok Buffy, Anya and me were on the rocks for a while, I left her. I was too afraid to go through with it." Buffy Gave her friend a half smile, "Sorry Xander but I thought you guys made up during the much pain and worry after I vanished with Dawn." Xander nodded, "We did. We're friends again." He emphasised the word 'friends'. Buffy smiled softly, "Dawn would say it just wasn't meant to be." Buffy offered. Xander laughed now at Buffy's attempt to console him, these day's she was much more like the sunny girl he had met in High schoolTwo days after their conversation in the Library Hope and Joss hadn't spoken outside of class. Hope spent almost all her time with Destiny and Joss was struggling to catch her alone.
He was starting to realise if he was going to ask her to go out with him he'd have to do it in front of her brother.
There was something strange and mysterious about her, well both the twins. They were popular or at least everyone seemed to know them somehow. They didn't play sport or any other related college activity and they almost never talked about their lives outside school.
All he had managed to gather about Hope was that she was English, she actually enjoyed Monday's double physics lesson and she was almost always with her brother. She mad him feel uneasy whenever he was close to her but he still felt himself drawn to her, he couldn't resist playing with fire.
Hope was the last to arrive at the dinning table that evening. She silently took a seat next to Xander and started to fill her plate from the many dishes on the table.
Buffy passed the pitcher she had just filled to her daughter. Hope smiled now, "Thanks mum." She spoke as she poured the scarlet liquid into her glass before passing it to Destiny and watched as he did the same.
Hope raised the glass to her lips and felt the warm fluid caress her tongue and slip down her throat.
At the end of the huge table Buffy sipped from her glass of wine. These days she was allowed alcoholic beverages but her friends and husband insisted she only drank them in the house where they could keep an eye on her!
Willow sat silently pawing though the food on her plate. Buffy looked at her with concerned eyes. "Ok Will?" the ex-witch looked up slowly, "Huh? Oh, yes I'm just not that hungry. I just want to go to bed." She said before leaving the table. The large door clunked behind her.
Buffy and Xander exchanged a concerned look before she turned her attention back to the twins. "How's your first week of high school going?" she asked her children. "No demony things to report or public humiliation?" Xander added.
The twins looked up, then at each other and back, "No, it's really boring." Hope complained. Destiny laughed, "At least if nothing is happening then nothing bad is happening." Hope glared at her brother, "Or perhaps it is and we don't know about it yet, did you think about that? Huh?"
Xander's brow shot up at the outburst, "Chill Hope. Nothing's happening and if it does we'll deal with once it's happened." Hope raised brow at Xander, "I think being the mum's only advisor now Aunty Dawn is in England is going to you head." She retorted. Xander only smiled and shrugged.
"How long is dad going to be away?" Destiny asked. "Dawn said he is determined to stay with her until the end of the month." Buffy answered him in a neutral voice, her eyes cast down. Xander patted her arm, "It's ok to need someone, even if it is Spike." "He didn't think you'd forgiven him." Buffy replied softly, "He dose feel bad Xander." "It's Ok Buffy, Anya and me were on the rocks for a while, I left her. I was too afraid to go through with it." Buffy Gave her friend a half smile, "Sorry Xander but I thought you guys made up during the much pain and worry after I vanished with Dawn." Xander nodded, "We did. We're friends again." He emphasised the word 'friends'. Buffy smiled softly, "Dawn would say it just wasn't meant to be." Buffy offered. Xander laughed now at Buffy's attempt to console him, these day's she was much more like the sunny girl he had met in High school