Author's Note: Just to be sure you all know, Faith is supposed to be very different here than she is when we see her on Buffy. Please keep R&R! Enjoy!

Chapter Six

Over the next few months Danny and Faith fell more and more in love as the days went by. They saw each other almost every day, and hated to be apart. For a while Faith's world felt normal. When her mother wasn't home, Danny came over and they both played with Ben. They saw movies, went ice skating and horseback riding. Danny even bought her a silver heart-shaped necklace for her fifteenth birthday present. They were inseparable and in love. Faith had never been so happy and she wanted to keep Danny in her life forever.

One night Faith's mom had her jerk of a boyfriend Ronny over and the two were drinking and wouldn't let Faith out of the house.

"Go get us some beers." Ronny ordered her as he turned around and kissed Joanne.

Faith felt anger seer through her body as she did what she was told. How could her own mother be with such a creep and live like this when she had two kids of her own? Faith, unfortunately, could remember her mom before the divorce. She had been the epitome of a "soccer mom". Coming to all of Faith's swimming meets and taking care of baby Ben. Their life had been perfect until Joanne found out about Cynthia. Cynthia was her father's secretary and apparently, as Joanne had told Faith back then, the two of them were more than friends. Now that she was fifteen, Faith fully understood that her dad was cheating on her mom. She hadn't seen her dad since the day he left and it still hurt her that he had never said good bye. Ben could not remember him, but he asked Faith about him once in a while.

All Faith could think now was she was glad Ben wasn't here right now. He had met Ronny once, but Ronny had swore and threatened to hit him for making too much noise playing with his cars. Faith had called their grandma who came and picked them both up. Their Grandma was the only other family member Faith and Ben had met. The others wouldn't talk to Joanne and she knew none of her father's side because they lived in Kentucky. Her Grandma was desperately seeking to gain custody of at Faith and Ben. The courts said they needed actual proof of a problem and Faith was too embarrassed to explain what really happens in their home.

"Could you hurry your ass up?" Ronny yelled from the other room as Faith grabbed two beers from the fridge.

She quickly gave them to her mom and Ronny and left for her room. Once there with the door safely locked she picked up her phone and called Danny.

Later that night, Faith's mom had another episode like the last one. Faith wounded up with a black eye and a cut lip, but luckily Ben had done what she said and kept his door locked at night and didn't come out. Faith felt nervous to go to school and see Danny in case he noticed, but her mom made her go the next day, and of course apologized again.

TBC...