The call to the Scoobies had worked out well, and Giles was on the case to find out who was coming to kill Faith before heading after Buffy. Willow was working her mojo to find out a more pinpointed location of the new Slayer and Xander with a few extra Slayers were on their way to the airport as Buffy had decided that Faith should have a little extra force alongside her.
Faith and Tru in the meantime were comparing notes about their families, or as much of Faith's family that she could remember. So far no relationship had been discovered between the two of them.
"So do you have any family in town?" Faith decided to ask.
"Yeah, brother by the name of Harrison and sister by the name of Meredith. How about you?"
"My only family now is Buffy and her group. Which means we have one hell of a weird time when it comes to Christmas and the like," Faith answered honestly.
"How so?"
"We have a Jewish Wicca, several orthodox catholics, a few people who follow buddaism, an atheist and a partridge in a pear tree."
"Wow, how many are there of you?"
"At any one time at Slayer Central, anywhere between 20 to 50 Slayers and then the main party of Buffy, Dawn, Xander and Willow with myself and Andrew. Giles heads back to England for several months at a time and then we have the LA branch who drop by every now and then," Faith explained, knowing half of it would have gone over Tru's head.
"I've noticed that every now and then, you slip a bit of British type English into your speech. Have you spent sometime there?" Tru asked.
"Yeah, headed over there with Giles for about a year after we got out of Sunnydale. Buffy went to Rome, I went to the land of Tweed."
The phone rang to interrupt any other conversation.
"Faith here, hit me."
She talked rather quickly for Tru to keep up with everything that was covered. The conversation was rather unusual as it covered everything from jelly donuts and exiled gods.
"Oh sweet Robin in leather!" Faith exclaimed. "We're in deep shit aren't we?"
Tru watched Faith's manner and how she was holding herself. Worry seemed to take over Faith's face.
"If they are after D there is no way I am gonna to let them get close," Faith almost growled. "I may have treated the Summers like dirt previously but never again. He's going down."
Faith had slammed the phone down and stormed out of the hotel minutes earlier, leaving Tru to stay behind. Her reasoning to Tru was that she needed to pummel something and she needed someone to wait for Xander and the others. In reality, it was because she was going to do something stupid and didn't want Tru to get into danger.
She came across a demon bar soon after leaving the hotel. It wasn't like Caritas had been, nor even how Willy's was. This place was the pits with several vampires huddled around a human female. To Faith, the human female had an essense of familiarity around her, which signalled to Faith that she had found the Slayer she had been looking for.
"Hey boys..." she called out with a sultry tone. "Can any of you show me a good time?"
With her words, the vampires left their victim and turned to look at Faith. Their faces showed appreciation for her looks as she was able to see more than just bloodlust in their eyes.
"Certainly little girl, we can definitely show you a good time," the head vampire answered, dropping the young female to the ground. Her cry gave Faith courage that she wasn't too badly hurt.
The lead vampire swaggered over to Faith and within moments found himself with a stake in his heart. Two seconds later there was no vampire. Three vampires rushed Faith and with skilled ease she dusted them. The other vampires started to back away.
"Who are you?" one asked.
"The Slayer."
"But... if you're the Slayer, who is she?" he asked jerking his head back to indicate the
young girl.
"I'm also a Slayer," the girl said standing up. "Hey Faith."
Faith had a quick look at the girl and almost shouted in shock.
"Lydia?"
"Yeah sis, miss me?"
"Totally but let's get rid of our audience first before we catch up..." Faith said with an almost feral grin. No one was going to hurt her little sister.
The two efficiently wiped out the rest of the vampires before hugging. Faith almost started crying as her step-sister hugged her. She thought she had lost her when she ran away from her abusive step father.
"How did you know you were the Slayer?" Faith asked.
"Can we head somewhere to talk?"
"Sure."
The two girls headed back to the hotel and Faith found out from Tru that Xander had just landed and would be there in under an hour with five Slayers. Lydia was looking between the two girls and then fixed her eyes on Faith.
"Explain now?" Lydia said with Faith's usual bluntness.
"Don't know how but we look a like. Tru's come to me to help me out. She's knows about Slayers cause I told her... now the matter is, how did you know?"
"Two days after you ran away, a young woman named Vanessa Perkins came to the house looking for you. When dad told her that you had left, she seemed quite worried about you. After dad went out to get drunk, she came back to talk to me. When I told her what was going on, she told me to pack my bags and I was going with her," Lydia explained.
"At first I wasn't sure if I should but she gave me her address and said that if dad tried to hurt me again, I was to go straight to her and she'd help me out. Dad came home and started to hit me so after he fell asleep, I grabbed my stuff and left. Vanessa was originally supposed to be your Watcher but decided to teach me about it and it was confirmed two years later that I was a potential."
"But what happened to Vanessa?"
"She was killed just over a year ago by a couple of funky looking guys with no mouths and stitching over their eyes."
"Bringers. Damnit! Why didn't they bother to let you know to head to Sunnydale?" Faith exclaimed.
"I fled once I saw Vanessa's body. Then a few weeks later, I started to realise that I had been Called but if I have, how are you a Slayer too?"
"There is now approximately 174 Slayers not including myself and Buffy. She's the reason why you're now a Slayer."
So Faith explained what happened back in Sunnydale including the collapsing of the town. She then caught Lydia up on what was going on now including the damage that the group had done in LA when Angel had decided to upset Wolfram and Hart.
"So you are here now to do what? Blow up the town?"
"Nope, here to find the mysterious Slayer that no one had known about. Which, by the way, is you!"
Tru smiled at the way Faith was acting. It made her happy to see her 'twin' so excited.
Especially since now she actually had a family member that was more than just a friend.
"Faith, I was thinking, maybe we can get my boss Davis involved in the whole vampire thing..." Tru interrupted the light fighting between the two girls.
"How so?" Faith asked.
"We work in a morgue. You don't think that having someone in there who once taught what to look for, could assist you in finding out if there is more victims appearing at any one time?"
"Nice idea. Give him a call, if he can come over in an hour, he can meet the Xan-man and the Slayer Juniors."
Tru quickly called Davis to organize the meeting. As soon as she hung up, the phone rang again.
"Faith here, hit me."
She listened for a while before laughing. "It's cool, her name's Lydia Anderson and she's with me now."
She was silent for a while longer before answering, "So it's armageddon again, we'll deal. We always do, and now it's no longer just B on the front line. Tell her, keep an eye on D and we'll be the second front for her."
Faith and Tru in the meantime were comparing notes about their families, or as much of Faith's family that she could remember. So far no relationship had been discovered between the two of them.
"So do you have any family in town?" Faith decided to ask.
"Yeah, brother by the name of Harrison and sister by the name of Meredith. How about you?"
"My only family now is Buffy and her group. Which means we have one hell of a weird time when it comes to Christmas and the like," Faith answered honestly.
"How so?"
"We have a Jewish Wicca, several orthodox catholics, a few people who follow buddaism, an atheist and a partridge in a pear tree."
"Wow, how many are there of you?"
"At any one time at Slayer Central, anywhere between 20 to 50 Slayers and then the main party of Buffy, Dawn, Xander and Willow with myself and Andrew. Giles heads back to England for several months at a time and then we have the LA branch who drop by every now and then," Faith explained, knowing half of it would have gone over Tru's head.
"I've noticed that every now and then, you slip a bit of British type English into your speech. Have you spent sometime there?" Tru asked.
"Yeah, headed over there with Giles for about a year after we got out of Sunnydale. Buffy went to Rome, I went to the land of Tweed."
The phone rang to interrupt any other conversation.
"Faith here, hit me."
She talked rather quickly for Tru to keep up with everything that was covered. The conversation was rather unusual as it covered everything from jelly donuts and exiled gods.
"Oh sweet Robin in leather!" Faith exclaimed. "We're in deep shit aren't we?"
Tru watched Faith's manner and how she was holding herself. Worry seemed to take over Faith's face.
"If they are after D there is no way I am gonna to let them get close," Faith almost growled. "I may have treated the Summers like dirt previously but never again. He's going down."
Faith had slammed the phone down and stormed out of the hotel minutes earlier, leaving Tru to stay behind. Her reasoning to Tru was that she needed to pummel something and she needed someone to wait for Xander and the others. In reality, it was because she was going to do something stupid and didn't want Tru to get into danger.
She came across a demon bar soon after leaving the hotel. It wasn't like Caritas had been, nor even how Willy's was. This place was the pits with several vampires huddled around a human female. To Faith, the human female had an essense of familiarity around her, which signalled to Faith that she had found the Slayer she had been looking for.
"Hey boys..." she called out with a sultry tone. "Can any of you show me a good time?"
With her words, the vampires left their victim and turned to look at Faith. Their faces showed appreciation for her looks as she was able to see more than just bloodlust in their eyes.
"Certainly little girl, we can definitely show you a good time," the head vampire answered, dropping the young female to the ground. Her cry gave Faith courage that she wasn't too badly hurt.
The lead vampire swaggered over to Faith and within moments found himself with a stake in his heart. Two seconds later there was no vampire. Three vampires rushed Faith and with skilled ease she dusted them. The other vampires started to back away.
"Who are you?" one asked.
"The Slayer."
"But... if you're the Slayer, who is she?" he asked jerking his head back to indicate the
young girl.
"I'm also a Slayer," the girl said standing up. "Hey Faith."
Faith had a quick look at the girl and almost shouted in shock.
"Lydia?"
"Yeah sis, miss me?"
"Totally but let's get rid of our audience first before we catch up..." Faith said with an almost feral grin. No one was going to hurt her little sister.
The two efficiently wiped out the rest of the vampires before hugging. Faith almost started crying as her step-sister hugged her. She thought she had lost her when she ran away from her abusive step father.
"How did you know you were the Slayer?" Faith asked.
"Can we head somewhere to talk?"
"Sure."
The two girls headed back to the hotel and Faith found out from Tru that Xander had just landed and would be there in under an hour with five Slayers. Lydia was looking between the two girls and then fixed her eyes on Faith.
"Explain now?" Lydia said with Faith's usual bluntness.
"Don't know how but we look a like. Tru's come to me to help me out. She's knows about Slayers cause I told her... now the matter is, how did you know?"
"Two days after you ran away, a young woman named Vanessa Perkins came to the house looking for you. When dad told her that you had left, she seemed quite worried about you. After dad went out to get drunk, she came back to talk to me. When I told her what was going on, she told me to pack my bags and I was going with her," Lydia explained.
"At first I wasn't sure if I should but she gave me her address and said that if dad tried to hurt me again, I was to go straight to her and she'd help me out. Dad came home and started to hit me so after he fell asleep, I grabbed my stuff and left. Vanessa was originally supposed to be your Watcher but decided to teach me about it and it was confirmed two years later that I was a potential."
"But what happened to Vanessa?"
"She was killed just over a year ago by a couple of funky looking guys with no mouths and stitching over their eyes."
"Bringers. Damnit! Why didn't they bother to let you know to head to Sunnydale?" Faith exclaimed.
"I fled once I saw Vanessa's body. Then a few weeks later, I started to realise that I had been Called but if I have, how are you a Slayer too?"
"There is now approximately 174 Slayers not including myself and Buffy. She's the reason why you're now a Slayer."
So Faith explained what happened back in Sunnydale including the collapsing of the town. She then caught Lydia up on what was going on now including the damage that the group had done in LA when Angel had decided to upset Wolfram and Hart.
"So you are here now to do what? Blow up the town?"
"Nope, here to find the mysterious Slayer that no one had known about. Which, by the way, is you!"
Tru smiled at the way Faith was acting. It made her happy to see her 'twin' so excited.
Especially since now she actually had a family member that was more than just a friend.
"Faith, I was thinking, maybe we can get my boss Davis involved in the whole vampire thing..." Tru interrupted the light fighting between the two girls.
"How so?" Faith asked.
"We work in a morgue. You don't think that having someone in there who once taught what to look for, could assist you in finding out if there is more victims appearing at any one time?"
"Nice idea. Give him a call, if he can come over in an hour, he can meet the Xan-man and the Slayer Juniors."
Tru quickly called Davis to organize the meeting. As soon as she hung up, the phone rang again.
"Faith here, hit me."
She listened for a while before laughing. "It's cool, her name's Lydia Anderson and she's with me now."
She was silent for a while longer before answering, "So it's armageddon again, we'll deal. We always do, and now it's no longer just B on the front line. Tell her, keep an eye on D and we'll be the second front for her."