Night And Day: Chapter 2
Oakland, California July 1986
"MOM!!" Five year old Buffy Summers screamed from the living room. Her mother, Joyce, flinched when she heard her daughter screaming. It had been five years since Joyce's twin daughters Buffy and Faith were born. The past five years had at times been the most glorious and the most trying of her life. She loved watching her little girls grow up and develop personalities all their own but they had a boundless amount energy and were as different as night and day which caused many conflicts. Buffy was blonde with green eyes, and she was very girly. She hated to get dirty and spent most of her time inside playing with dolls and Barbies. Faith had dark brown hair and brown eyes and was a tomboy. She didn't mind getting dirty and would rather run around with the boys in the neighborhood than play dolls or Barbies with her sister. However, neither girl was shy and both made friends easily, which was good since they were starting school in about a month. It was also good for Joyce cause she would finally be able to relax that is until the baby whom she was carrying was born in 5 months.
Joyce rushed into the living room where Buffy was still screaming.
"Buffy what did I tell you about screaming for me when you can just come get me?" Joyce asked her youngest daughter. Faith was older than Buffy by about 10 minutes.
"I'm not 'posed to do it. But mommy Faith hit me." Buffy whined. "You are such a baby, Buffy." Faith said sticking her tongue out at her sister.
"AM NOT!" Buffy shouted.
"ARE TOO!"
"AM NOT! AM NOT! AM NOT!"
"ARE TOO! ARE TOO! ARE TOO!"
"ENOUGH!" Joyce shouted, "Now Faith why did you hit your sister?"
"Cause she wouldn't let me watch what I wanted to." Faith said matter-of- factly.
"You couldn't just watch something you both like?" Joyce asked.
"No, cause Buffy watches stupid baby movies." Faith told her mom.
"Do not!" Buffy retorted.
"Do-" Faith began but Joyce stopped her daughter by clapping a hand over the little girl's mouth.
"Stop it now girls. Now Faith apologize to Buffy and play nice until I get dressed and then we will go to the park." Joyce told her daughters.
"Okay mommy." Buffy said, hugging her mom. Faith just stood there staring at her mom.
"Now Faith." Joyce commanded.
"Sorry Buffy." Faith mumbled rolling her eyes at her sister. Joyce bent down and kissed Faith's forehead.
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Dominick Brenton had been living in California for the past five years now observing the two little girls who would soon be the Slayers. He had been watching them from afar ever since they were born and had bought the house across the street from them. He had spent the last five years waiting for the call from the watcher's council telling him that it was time to separate the children. Well this morning he had received that phone call. He was to bring the oldest girl, Faith to them. He already had the two tickets to London and was just waiting for the right opportunity. He was sitting at his big picture window watching the house when he saw the two girls and their mother leaving. He got up from his chair by the window and went to his car, pulling out of his driveway behind them. He followed them but not to close until they turned down the street toward the neighborhood park and then he went straight. He now knew where they were going and would take a roundabout way to get there.
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When they reached the park Buffy and Faith ran from the car, Buffy to the swings and Faith to the slides and other equipment. The park was empty except for one other mother and her kids, so Joyce knew she wouldn't lose her kids and sat on a bench pulling out a book.
Dominick pulled up in front of the park and saw Faith sitting on top of a slide out of both her mother and sisters' sight. He got out of his car and slowly walked up to the small girl.
"Hi Faith," He said. Faith looked at him warily but didn't say anything, " Do you know who I am?"
"Nope, and my mommy says I'm not 'posed to talk to strangers." Faith told him.
"Your mommy is a very smart woman but I'm not a stranger. I've lived across the street from you ever since you were a baby." Dominick told the little girl. He had to win her trust otherwise it would be hard to get her to leave with him unnoticed.
"Okay." Faith said.
"Anyways, I have a present with me for you in my car and I asked your mommy if I could take you for ice cream and she said it would be okay." Dominick told Faith.
"Really? What about Buffy?" Faith asked not believing she could do something without Buffy.
"Nope, just you Faith cause you are a very special little girl. Now come with me to my car and I will get your present and we will go get ice cream." Dominick said.
"Okay." Faith said, sliding down the slide and holding her hand out for Dominick to take. He couldn't believe he was actually doing this, separating this little girl from her family and she didn't even know. She was innocent and trusting and it broke his heart to have to lie to her like he was. They reached his car and he put her in the passenger side, looking back at her sister and mother and remembering how they looked so he would be able to tell Faith when she got older. He walked around and got in on the driver's side pulling out of the parking lot. He reached in his back seat and handed Faith the brown stuffed dog he had brought for her. She took the dog from him and hugged it and then kissed its head. She sat in her seat staring out the window as Dominick thought just how unfair it was for him to take this little girl away from her family.
"So do you like the dog?" Dominick asked.
"Uh-huh, I named him Lucky. What's your name?" Faith asked.
"Dominick." He told her. He saw the airport come into view and was already trying to think up a lie about why they were at the airport.
"This isn't where you get ice cream." Faith stated.
"I know, but we will get ice cream and then we are going to go on the plane." Dominick told the little girl.
"Are my mommy and daddy gonna be on the plane?" Faith asked her brown eyes filling with tears.
"No not on the plane, but they are going to meet us when we get off the plane." Dominick said.
"Okay Domnick." Faith said. Dominick grabbed the book bag from his backseat and got out of the car the little girl following him. Faith reached out her hand for him to hold and he took it leading her in the airport. He handed his and Faith's tickets to the man at the counter and saw that they still had 20 minutes before they boarded. He took Faith into a gift shop and bought her an ice cream, some candy for the plane and a coloring book and crayons. He then took her and boarded the plane. He got her settled in a seat by the window and he took the aisle seat.
"Have you ever flown before Faith?" Dominick asked.
"No," Faith said looking at him with her eyes wide with fear. "I'm scared, Domnick, will you hold my hand?" Dominick nodded and took her small hand in his own big one. The plane took off and Dominick realized Faith's ears must have popped because she started to wail five minutes into the flight but quieted down a little by the time the captain told them they could take their seatbelts off. Dominick took his own off and then he took Faith's off, picking up the little girl and putting her in his lap.
"Shhh, its okay darling, you will be fine." Dominick soothed, stroking Faith's hair. She buried her face in his chest sobbing but after a little while calmed down and pulled her face out of his chest facing him.
"Domnick, where we goin'?" She asked.
"England, darling."
"Do they talk funny like you in England?" Faith asked smiling at him. He pulled a napkin out and wiped off her tear streaked cheeks and running nose.
"Yep, babe cause that's where I'm from." Dominick told her.
"Do I gotta talk funny?" She asked innocently. Dominick found himself falling in love with this little girl and her innocence and he couldn't believe that he took her from her family.
"Nope you talk fine."
"Is England really far away?"
"Yep, over the big Ocean." Dominick explained.
"Okay, Domnick I like you." Faith stated, "You make me feel good like my daddy does." She laid her head against his chest and let him stroke her hair and rub her back. In a few moments he realized Faith had fallen asleep. As he sat listening to her even breathing and watching her sleep, he decided to quit the council. There was no way he could ever do this again, it just wasn't right for them to take a child as innocent and as loved as Faith just because in 10 years she could become the Slayer. He knew he could never do it again. He also wondered what they would tell her about her family and why she was in England. His eyes filled with tears as he thought about how hard it would be for her. He leaned his chair back to make himself more comfortable and to make Faith more comfortable. He took his jacket and covered Faith with it. He soon fell asleep also. They must have look so funny, a tiny little girl sleeping on this big British guy.
Neither one of them woke up until they were an hour outside of London. Faith opened her eyes and stretched rubbing the sleep from them.
"I'm hungry." She whined to Dominick.
"Well you see that lady up there?" Dominick asked lifting Faith up so she could see the stewardess handing out dinner to all the passengers. Faith just nodded her head, "Well she is going to bring us dinner." He placed Faith in her own seat and pulled down her tray. The stewardess handed him their trays and Dominick cut Faith's food and she ate it all although airplane food sucks.
Within the hour they had landed in London and when they exited the plane they saw a man waiting for them. Dominick knew he must be from the Watcher's council but he had never seen him before so he must be new. They went to the car he had waiting for them and he drove them to the headquarters. Dominick held Faith's hand tightly as they walked in but Faith soon stopped walking and Dominick turned around and knelt in front of her.
"What's wrong Faith?" He asked.
"Domnick, will you carry me?" She asked in a voice barely above a whisper. He nodded and lifted the small girl in his arms. She wrapped her arms around his neck and buried her face in his neck. They went straight to Quentin's office, where Quentin, another young woman and young man.
"Ahh so this must be Faith," Quentin said walking over to Dominick and the young girl in his arms. "Dominick put her down so I can look her over please?"
Dominick set the little girl down in front of him and Quentin knelt down to her level.
"Hello Faith I'm Quentin." He said.
"Domnick said my mommy and daddy would be here, where are they?" She asked.
"Your parents died in a plane crash on their way here." Quentin said putting a hand on her shoulder.
"You lie!" Faith shouted kicking him in his shin and running back towards the entrance.
"Jenny go get that girl." Quentin told the young woman, who hurried off.
"How could you do that to her, Quentin?" Dominick asked feeling anger boiling his blood, "For god sakes man she is just a child."
"I did what I had to Dominick, she can't be thinking her parents will come from her all her concentration must be on her work." Quentin told his charge.
"She is five years old, she doesn't know about work. All that child knows is that we took her from her parents, and that some mean old man told her they are dead. Well you know what Quentin, I quit. I can't sit here and watch you hurt a child like that it just isn't right." Dominick said spinning on his heels to walk out of the room.
"You can't quit Dominick, you are to be her watcher." Quentin said quietly.
"Fine I will stay on to be her watcher, and right now I'm going to talk to my charge." He said as he walked out of the room. He found Faith curled up against a wall striking out at any one who came near her.
"You can go now Jenny." Dominick said softly kneeling in front of the little girl who in a few short hours had melted his heart, "Faith, love come here." He said opening his arms. She flew into them putting her head against his shoulder crying.
"Domnick was that mean ole man telling the truth?" Faith asked, "Are my mommy and daddy really dead?"
"Yes babe they really are I'm sorry I didn't tell you but I didn't know until just now." Dominick said stroking Faith's hair as she cried. Faith knew Buffy was still alive because as twins they had a connection, whenever Buffy got hurt Faith felt it and whenever one of them was sad the other could feel it. She could still feel Buffy but not as strongly as before probably because they were so far away from each other.
"Domnick why did you bring me here?" Faith asked peering up at the man holding her.
"Faith do you know about monsters?" Dominick asked.
"Yep but they ain't real." Faith told him.
"But darling they are, and me, Quentin and Jenny help fight them, but one girl fights them all and that girl is called the slayer," Dominick told her, "That's why you are so special because when you get older you are going to be the slayer and fight the monsters."
"Okay, but I'm tired now, can I go to sleep?" She asked, sticking her thumb in her mouth.
"Sure sweetheart." Dominick said picking up the little girl who leaned her head against his chest, one arm wrapped tightly around the stuffed dog he had given her, her eyes closing, "Goodnight sweet angel." He kissed her forehead and walked back into Quentin's office. When she was older he would tell her all about her family because he wanted her to know that they weren't dead and that she wasn't alone, but for now he had to concentrate on training her and hoped she didn't end up hating him when he told her they truth.
TBC.
Oakland, California July 1986
"MOM!!" Five year old Buffy Summers screamed from the living room. Her mother, Joyce, flinched when she heard her daughter screaming. It had been five years since Joyce's twin daughters Buffy and Faith were born. The past five years had at times been the most glorious and the most trying of her life. She loved watching her little girls grow up and develop personalities all their own but they had a boundless amount energy and were as different as night and day which caused many conflicts. Buffy was blonde with green eyes, and she was very girly. She hated to get dirty and spent most of her time inside playing with dolls and Barbies. Faith had dark brown hair and brown eyes and was a tomboy. She didn't mind getting dirty and would rather run around with the boys in the neighborhood than play dolls or Barbies with her sister. However, neither girl was shy and both made friends easily, which was good since they were starting school in about a month. It was also good for Joyce cause she would finally be able to relax that is until the baby whom she was carrying was born in 5 months.
Joyce rushed into the living room where Buffy was still screaming.
"Buffy what did I tell you about screaming for me when you can just come get me?" Joyce asked her youngest daughter. Faith was older than Buffy by about 10 minutes.
"I'm not 'posed to do it. But mommy Faith hit me." Buffy whined. "You are such a baby, Buffy." Faith said sticking her tongue out at her sister.
"AM NOT!" Buffy shouted.
"ARE TOO!"
"AM NOT! AM NOT! AM NOT!"
"ARE TOO! ARE TOO! ARE TOO!"
"ENOUGH!" Joyce shouted, "Now Faith why did you hit your sister?"
"Cause she wouldn't let me watch what I wanted to." Faith said matter-of- factly.
"You couldn't just watch something you both like?" Joyce asked.
"No, cause Buffy watches stupid baby movies." Faith told her mom.
"Do not!" Buffy retorted.
"Do-" Faith began but Joyce stopped her daughter by clapping a hand over the little girl's mouth.
"Stop it now girls. Now Faith apologize to Buffy and play nice until I get dressed and then we will go to the park." Joyce told her daughters.
"Okay mommy." Buffy said, hugging her mom. Faith just stood there staring at her mom.
"Now Faith." Joyce commanded.
"Sorry Buffy." Faith mumbled rolling her eyes at her sister. Joyce bent down and kissed Faith's forehead.
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Dominick Brenton had been living in California for the past five years now observing the two little girls who would soon be the Slayers. He had been watching them from afar ever since they were born and had bought the house across the street from them. He had spent the last five years waiting for the call from the watcher's council telling him that it was time to separate the children. Well this morning he had received that phone call. He was to bring the oldest girl, Faith to them. He already had the two tickets to London and was just waiting for the right opportunity. He was sitting at his big picture window watching the house when he saw the two girls and their mother leaving. He got up from his chair by the window and went to his car, pulling out of his driveway behind them. He followed them but not to close until they turned down the street toward the neighborhood park and then he went straight. He now knew where they were going and would take a roundabout way to get there.
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When they reached the park Buffy and Faith ran from the car, Buffy to the swings and Faith to the slides and other equipment. The park was empty except for one other mother and her kids, so Joyce knew she wouldn't lose her kids and sat on a bench pulling out a book.
Dominick pulled up in front of the park and saw Faith sitting on top of a slide out of both her mother and sisters' sight. He got out of his car and slowly walked up to the small girl.
"Hi Faith," He said. Faith looked at him warily but didn't say anything, " Do you know who I am?"
"Nope, and my mommy says I'm not 'posed to talk to strangers." Faith told him.
"Your mommy is a very smart woman but I'm not a stranger. I've lived across the street from you ever since you were a baby." Dominick told the little girl. He had to win her trust otherwise it would be hard to get her to leave with him unnoticed.
"Okay." Faith said.
"Anyways, I have a present with me for you in my car and I asked your mommy if I could take you for ice cream and she said it would be okay." Dominick told Faith.
"Really? What about Buffy?" Faith asked not believing she could do something without Buffy.
"Nope, just you Faith cause you are a very special little girl. Now come with me to my car and I will get your present and we will go get ice cream." Dominick said.
"Okay." Faith said, sliding down the slide and holding her hand out for Dominick to take. He couldn't believe he was actually doing this, separating this little girl from her family and she didn't even know. She was innocent and trusting and it broke his heart to have to lie to her like he was. They reached his car and he put her in the passenger side, looking back at her sister and mother and remembering how they looked so he would be able to tell Faith when she got older. He walked around and got in on the driver's side pulling out of the parking lot. He reached in his back seat and handed Faith the brown stuffed dog he had brought for her. She took the dog from him and hugged it and then kissed its head. She sat in her seat staring out the window as Dominick thought just how unfair it was for him to take this little girl away from her family.
"So do you like the dog?" Dominick asked.
"Uh-huh, I named him Lucky. What's your name?" Faith asked.
"Dominick." He told her. He saw the airport come into view and was already trying to think up a lie about why they were at the airport.
"This isn't where you get ice cream." Faith stated.
"I know, but we will get ice cream and then we are going to go on the plane." Dominick told the little girl.
"Are my mommy and daddy gonna be on the plane?" Faith asked her brown eyes filling with tears.
"No not on the plane, but they are going to meet us when we get off the plane." Dominick said.
"Okay Domnick." Faith said. Dominick grabbed the book bag from his backseat and got out of the car the little girl following him. Faith reached out her hand for him to hold and he took it leading her in the airport. He handed his and Faith's tickets to the man at the counter and saw that they still had 20 minutes before they boarded. He took Faith into a gift shop and bought her an ice cream, some candy for the plane and a coloring book and crayons. He then took her and boarded the plane. He got her settled in a seat by the window and he took the aisle seat.
"Have you ever flown before Faith?" Dominick asked.
"No," Faith said looking at him with her eyes wide with fear. "I'm scared, Domnick, will you hold my hand?" Dominick nodded and took her small hand in his own big one. The plane took off and Dominick realized Faith's ears must have popped because she started to wail five minutes into the flight but quieted down a little by the time the captain told them they could take their seatbelts off. Dominick took his own off and then he took Faith's off, picking up the little girl and putting her in his lap.
"Shhh, its okay darling, you will be fine." Dominick soothed, stroking Faith's hair. She buried her face in his chest sobbing but after a little while calmed down and pulled her face out of his chest facing him.
"Domnick, where we goin'?" She asked.
"England, darling."
"Do they talk funny like you in England?" Faith asked smiling at him. He pulled a napkin out and wiped off her tear streaked cheeks and running nose.
"Yep, babe cause that's where I'm from." Dominick told her.
"Do I gotta talk funny?" She asked innocently. Dominick found himself falling in love with this little girl and her innocence and he couldn't believe that he took her from her family.
"Nope you talk fine."
"Is England really far away?"
"Yep, over the big Ocean." Dominick explained.
"Okay, Domnick I like you." Faith stated, "You make me feel good like my daddy does." She laid her head against his chest and let him stroke her hair and rub her back. In a few moments he realized Faith had fallen asleep. As he sat listening to her even breathing and watching her sleep, he decided to quit the council. There was no way he could ever do this again, it just wasn't right for them to take a child as innocent and as loved as Faith just because in 10 years she could become the Slayer. He knew he could never do it again. He also wondered what they would tell her about her family and why she was in England. His eyes filled with tears as he thought about how hard it would be for her. He leaned his chair back to make himself more comfortable and to make Faith more comfortable. He took his jacket and covered Faith with it. He soon fell asleep also. They must have look so funny, a tiny little girl sleeping on this big British guy.
Neither one of them woke up until they were an hour outside of London. Faith opened her eyes and stretched rubbing the sleep from them.
"I'm hungry." She whined to Dominick.
"Well you see that lady up there?" Dominick asked lifting Faith up so she could see the stewardess handing out dinner to all the passengers. Faith just nodded her head, "Well she is going to bring us dinner." He placed Faith in her own seat and pulled down her tray. The stewardess handed him their trays and Dominick cut Faith's food and she ate it all although airplane food sucks.
Within the hour they had landed in London and when they exited the plane they saw a man waiting for them. Dominick knew he must be from the Watcher's council but he had never seen him before so he must be new. They went to the car he had waiting for them and he drove them to the headquarters. Dominick held Faith's hand tightly as they walked in but Faith soon stopped walking and Dominick turned around and knelt in front of her.
"What's wrong Faith?" He asked.
"Domnick, will you carry me?" She asked in a voice barely above a whisper. He nodded and lifted the small girl in his arms. She wrapped her arms around his neck and buried her face in his neck. They went straight to Quentin's office, where Quentin, another young woman and young man.
"Ahh so this must be Faith," Quentin said walking over to Dominick and the young girl in his arms. "Dominick put her down so I can look her over please?"
Dominick set the little girl down in front of him and Quentin knelt down to her level.
"Hello Faith I'm Quentin." He said.
"Domnick said my mommy and daddy would be here, where are they?" She asked.
"Your parents died in a plane crash on their way here." Quentin said putting a hand on her shoulder.
"You lie!" Faith shouted kicking him in his shin and running back towards the entrance.
"Jenny go get that girl." Quentin told the young woman, who hurried off.
"How could you do that to her, Quentin?" Dominick asked feeling anger boiling his blood, "For god sakes man she is just a child."
"I did what I had to Dominick, she can't be thinking her parents will come from her all her concentration must be on her work." Quentin told his charge.
"She is five years old, she doesn't know about work. All that child knows is that we took her from her parents, and that some mean old man told her they are dead. Well you know what Quentin, I quit. I can't sit here and watch you hurt a child like that it just isn't right." Dominick said spinning on his heels to walk out of the room.
"You can't quit Dominick, you are to be her watcher." Quentin said quietly.
"Fine I will stay on to be her watcher, and right now I'm going to talk to my charge." He said as he walked out of the room. He found Faith curled up against a wall striking out at any one who came near her.
"You can go now Jenny." Dominick said softly kneeling in front of the little girl who in a few short hours had melted his heart, "Faith, love come here." He said opening his arms. She flew into them putting her head against his shoulder crying.
"Domnick was that mean ole man telling the truth?" Faith asked, "Are my mommy and daddy really dead?"
"Yes babe they really are I'm sorry I didn't tell you but I didn't know until just now." Dominick said stroking Faith's hair as she cried. Faith knew Buffy was still alive because as twins they had a connection, whenever Buffy got hurt Faith felt it and whenever one of them was sad the other could feel it. She could still feel Buffy but not as strongly as before probably because they were so far away from each other.
"Domnick why did you bring me here?" Faith asked peering up at the man holding her.
"Faith do you know about monsters?" Dominick asked.
"Yep but they ain't real." Faith told him.
"But darling they are, and me, Quentin and Jenny help fight them, but one girl fights them all and that girl is called the slayer," Dominick told her, "That's why you are so special because when you get older you are going to be the slayer and fight the monsters."
"Okay, but I'm tired now, can I go to sleep?" She asked, sticking her thumb in her mouth.
"Sure sweetheart." Dominick said picking up the little girl who leaned her head against his chest, one arm wrapped tightly around the stuffed dog he had given her, her eyes closing, "Goodnight sweet angel." He kissed her forehead and walked back into Quentin's office. When she was older he would tell her all about her family because he wanted her to know that they weren't dead and that she wasn't alone, but for now he had to concentrate on training her and hoped she didn't end up hating him when he told her they truth.
TBC.