The moment she had spoke the flashing lights had started to go off in Remus' head. He remembered sitting at another breakfast table yearsbefore where his mother had been talking to him about how he was feeling after one of his worst transformations. And his older sister Anna had come down the stairs and started scraping butter on some toast. His mother had turned to her and asked her how she was and she had answered five by five. He had never known what it meant but it had seemed to be his sister's catch phrase. Just another one of her quirks that had made her the best sister in the world. She had been six years older then him and so had only been in school with him for one year. After that she had moved to America. In the beginning her had heard from her regularly had even gone to stay with her in Boston during one of the holiday, she had been living with a strange man named Richard who he hadn't liked much. He had got the feeling that he didn't treat Anna that well either and was basically bad news. But after a while less and less letter came and by his final year in Hogwarts they had ceased.

"What did you just say?"

He asked her quietly, she looked up at him startled and said

"I said that I'm feeling five by five"

He looked at her for a moment and said,

"What exactly does that mean?"

Faith looked at him for a moment and said,

"It means I'm fine, it's something my mom used to say. I guess I picked it up along the way."

She looked at Willow mentally begging her to change the subject quickly.

"So what do you think about the new proposal which Fudge has come up with this morning?"

Willow tried desperately to change the subject But Lupin just nodded and said,

"Who was your mother Faith? What was her name"?

"Her name... her name was Anna."

Remus' heart began to thump in his chest as he said,

"Anna what?"

Faith stood up and started to walk towards the door saying

"I've got to go..."

Faith ran out of the room leaving the door to slam behind her. Remus stared after her. Willow had jumped off her chair and ran after Faith when she had left the room. So he was left with only Sirius, who let a long breath and said,

"Are you planning on filling us sane people in on why you choose to mercilessly interrogate your fiancé's friends at the breakfast table?"

Remus reached into his robes and pulled out his wallet, a picture which he had not looked at in a very long time was tucked in the inside pocket. He handed it to Sirius who looked at it and said

"That's you and Anna isn't it? She looks so much like Faith..."

Then it suddenly dawned on him what Remus had been thinking, he let out another long breath before handing the photo back to Lupin.

Outside in the corridor Willow was chasing after Faith she managed to grab hold of her legs and rugby tackled her to the floor. Both of them falling in a muddle just in front of Mrs Black's portrait who true to her nature opened her mouth and made as if to start screaming until Willow said,

"Scilentio"

Mrs Black opened her mouth but no sound would come out, she tried several times and in the end just issued deadly glares to both the girls and shut her eyes falling asleep almost instantly.

"What the hell was that?"

Willow asked as she disentangled herself from faith,

"Why did you run away, what are you so scared of?"

Faith who had pulled herself off the floor and was rubbing dust off her jeans said

"What makes you think I'm scared Red, I just wasn't hungry any more that's all, I should be going any way G-man and B will be wondering where I am and how it went last night."

She stumbled backwards grabbed the door handle and said,

"Bye Wills thanks for having me, see you soon yeah? Bye."

And with that ran out of the house slamming the door behind her, Willow ran out of the door and stared down the road just able to make out Faith's fleeting form as she sprinted down the road. She watched the fast moving slayer move out of sight before shutting the door and retreating back into the kitchen.

Faith didn't know why she had run; it had been a stupid stupid thing to do. But she carried on running until she was out of breath. She bent over her arms resting against her thighs and took in deep steadying breaths. Why the hell had she done that? What had possessed her to leave then? She was about to get something that she had wanted for so long, family. Every since her Mom had died she had been passed round like a stray cat that no one wanted. No one had really cared about her or God- forbid loved her since her Mom. And that hadn't bothered her, she had built up defences against the world expecting pain, disappoint and to be unloved. That was why she had found it so hard to let people in even after the destruction of the Hellmouth.

She had been about to receive everything, which she had ever wanted, and she left, she realised suddenly what it was that had driven her away. Fear a stupid emotion that she had always thought herself to be above. That is what had chased her from that house Fear. She felt tears begin to fall down her cheeks as she fell to the floor and leant against the wall. How long she sat there, she didn't know but it was a long time.

Eventually she managed to gather herself together enough to leave. She stood up and walked down to the bottom of the street and hailed a taxi, it was close to sunset when she walked through her front door only to be greeted by a Scooby Inquisition.