A/N: I am so unbelievably sorry that this took so long. I had testing and stuff. Next chapter will not take as long, I swear.

It wasn't that I didn't want you it was just that you were so much like him," she says harshly.

"I was four!" Faith shouts. "You were never home anyways. You were always off fucking your latest boy toy," she fumes. "How could you do that to Dad, he loved us?"

"No, he loved you! The man never gave me a second glance because he was too busy with everything else," Rebecca spits. "Why are you taking his side anyways, it's not like he's your real father?" She asks.

Faith's face falls and she sucks in a deep breath. "What are you taking about?" She asks shakily. "Of course he was my father, right?" She asks, turning to acknowledge Missy for the first time. Missy stares at her like a deer caught in the headlights and Faith turns back to her mother. "Oh my god, you've been lying to me this whole time," she says incredulously.

"Me? You were living with him, he was the one that should've told you," she growls back.

"He was too busy blowing his fucking head off to tell me, how insensitive of him," Faith snaps. "If he wasn't my real father, then why did he get custody in the first place?" She asks angrily.

"I had just left him and the courts found that I wasn't stable enough to care for you yet," Rebecca mumbles.

"You must've been pretty un-fucking-stable in order for them to put me in foster-care when I was five," Faith states as she finally goes to walk out the door. "You have no idea how it feels to be so unwanted," she says before she slams the door shut, with all her slayer might, causing the door to splinter slightly. Missy winces at the force.

Rebecca sinks down onto the couch and puts her head in her hands. "This is all just too much right now," she sobs into her hands.

Robert comes over to comfort his wife. "Shh, it's going to be okay. She just needs time to cool off. This has all been a lot to take in for the both of you," he says in soothing tones.

Missy looks out the window and watches Faith leave. She heaves a sigh and looks at her sobbing mother and her father trying to comfort her. "I need to go get some air," she says, but they make no sign that they'd heard her. She walks out the door and walks into Cliff.

"Hey sis, where are you headed?" He asks curiously as he follows her down the driveway.

"I need to get out of there for a while," she says and nods towards the inside of the house.

He looks towards the house and looks a little lost in thought before he suddenly brightens up. "Hey, there's a football game tonight!" He exclaims cheerfully.

"So?" Missy asks as she continues walking.

"Why don't we go? It'll be fun. We can make fun of the cheerleader's intelligence and mock the crappy playing abilities of the football players," he says.

"You just want to go because of a certain cheerleader named Torrance, don't you?" She asks with a small grin. He looks down sheepishly and nods. Missy just laughs good-naturedly at him and lightly punches him in the arm.

"Ow," he whines, holding his arm at the same place she just hit it. "I just don't get how you can hit so hard all the time," he pouts.

Faith walks through the stands at the school's football stadium as the other students really start piling in. She feels a tingle run up her spine and turns around just in time to spot Missy and her brother before he can spot her.

She runs off in the same direction she came and ends up mowing down one of the cheerleaders, a blonde. Just like old times. She muses sarcastically to herself. Reluctantly, Faith offers her hand to help the blonde up.

"Oh shit, it's you again," the blonde says bitchily.

"Hey Courtney," Faith smirks. "You're lucky that your ass broke your fall," she says before trying to walk off.

"Bite me," Courtney mutters to herself. "You're not staying for the game?" She finds herself asking as she sees Faith walk off. She immediately mentally smacks herself.

"No, I', not. But my sister is sticking around so you can probably torment her later," Faith replies.

"But I'd rather torment you. She doesn't even try to fight back," Courtney whines, but Faith is already gone. She just shrugs and walks to the field where the others were just starting to take their places.

In the stands, Missy tell Faith was here and is leaving the area. She sighs knowing that Faith is avoiding her.

"What's wrong Miss?" Cliff asks, putting his arm casually around her shoulder.

"It's complicated," she says slowly before she pushes his arm off of her shoulder. "We'll talk about it later if it's okay," she says.

"Yeah. Of course," he says seriously as he eyes her carefully.

Hours later Faith is walking slowly through a nearby park. She finally gets bored looking for some action and sits down on a bench. Soon, she picks up a stick and starts drawing in the dirt.

All of a sudden, she feels all of the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end and she is on her feet facing her opponent, the stick is pointed menacingly at them.

"Chill Faith, paranoid much?" Torrance asks with a shaky smile.

"Sorry," she apologizes lamely as she chucks the stick to one side.

"It's okay. The park can get pretty creepy late at night," Torrance says as she steps closer to Faith. "Everyone says that there are vampires that lurk out here at night," she whispers as if telling her a secret. Torrance then gives Faith a small smile.

"I wasn't scared," Faith counters. "I just thought that I was alone, that's all." Torrance quirks an eyebrow. "And second of all, vampires? Come on," she says with a big grin as she slowly starts walking.

Torrance comes up next to her and begins to walk in step. "Yep, vampires. Everyone says that they're out here and to be very careful. But don't worry, I'll protect you," Torrance says with mock bravery. Faith can't help but start laughing. "What?" Torrance asks, slightly hurt at Faith's outburst.

"You protect me?" Faith asks, still chuckling.

Torrance scowls at her until Faith stops laughing and shoves her out of the way. "Hey, what's going on?" She asks as she gets up and watches as Faith fights someone with a severely jacked-up looking face. She watches in awe as Faith does a back flip off of a tree and ends up behind her opponent. Torrance is mesmerized when Faith breaks a stick off of a nearby tree and shoves it into this guy's chest. "Faith, what the-" she stops when the guy turns to dust and disappears. "-hell?" She finishes quietly.

A startled Faith turns and sees Torrance as if she had forgotten that she was there in the first place. "That was a vampire," she says softly as she goes over to her. "Are you okay? I didn't mean to shove you as hard as I did but-"

"You saved me from a vampire?" Torrance asks in a daze.

Faith nods. "Do I need to take you to the hospital? Are you hurt?" She asks again, thinking that she's gone into shock.

"No, I'm fine," she replies after a minute. "What about you? I mean, out of nowhere you were all kicking and hitting and jumping. Didn't he hurt you?" She asks, looking Faith over.

"I'm fine. Nothing I can't handle," Faith says with a grin.

"Yeah?" Torrance asks and Faith nods. "Your hand is bleeding and you have a cut on your forehead," she says.

"Faith reaches up and touches her forehead. When she pulls her hand back it's covered in blood. "It probably just looks worse than it is. I did this to my hand earlier," she shrugs. "Look, I'll be fine by tomorrow, I promise," she says, giving Torrance a winning smile

"I don't believe you," Torrance says indignantly while crossing her arms.

"I'm not asking you to believe me, I'm telling you that I will be fine," Faith says. "Now which way is your house?" She asks.

"What?" Torrance asks with the surprise evident in her voice.

"I'm making sure that you get to your house so that I can sleep soundly knowing that you aren't getting your neck ripped out by some vampire," she explains.

"What about you?" She asks.

What about me?" Faith asks with confusion.

"How do I know that you won't get attacked by another one of those things?" Torrance asks worriedly.

"You don't, but I think it's a little obvious that I know how to handle them," she replies.

"Well, you might pass out or go into a coma or something because of your head injury. I'm not letting you go home alone," she states.

"You can't walk me home because then I won't know if you got back safely or not," Faith says.

"Then I'll stay with you tonight," Torrance resolves.

"You won't leave me alone until I give in will you?" Faith asks, trying to hold back a smile. Torrance shakes her head. "Come on then," she says as they start off towards Faith's apartment.

"So Missy, what's going on?" Cliff asks as he and his sister walk back to their house.

She sighs. "I don't know how to tell it to you yet," she mumbles.

"It's okay, just take all the time that you need," he says.

"Thanks Cliff," she says as she gently squeezes his arm.

When they walk in the house, Robert and Rebecca are sitting in the living room. "Hey Mom, Dad," Cliff says. He notices their somber expressions. "What is it?" He asks.

"Cliff, sit down. There's something your mother and I have to tell you," Robert says.

"Sure Dad," he says cautiously. He looks nervously at his sister and realizes that he's about to find out what Missy was trying to tell him.

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How will Cliff react to the news of having another sister? How will Torrance react to finding out that Faith is a slayer? What obstacle will try and threaten Faith's second chance? Find out next time (which won't take as long to write, I promise).