13 Years Ago Boston

"Mommy? Mommy?" a small girl, around five years old, with dark hair and eyes asked looking across the room at a group of men and women who were at the time laughing, drinking and making out. One of the woman looked over with a scowl on her face the others were too drunk to even here her let alone understand her.

"I told you, you little bitch, don't EVER call me that!" the woman said with a tone that could freeze water. The others still didn't notice.

"But I had a bad dream. There were people biting other people and eating there blood. I'm scared."

"Go to room! Don't come out here at night. I told you don't talk to me. Go to your room and don't come out until launch tomorrow. Well? GET OUT?" she said throwing an empty beer bottle at her. In her drunken state she missed but to the little girl it was clear. Leave or you're going to get a beating until you can't see. She clutched to the teddy bear she was holding, her only toy, and turned and ran into her room and shut the door behind her.

The room was a bit small but it looked rather large from lack of furniture. All that was in there was an old bed and a night stand next to it with an old lamp. The little girl still holding on to her teddy bear went over and climbed up on top of the bed. She put her head on the pillow and looked out the window that was next to the bed. It's just a dream she kept repeating over in her head. But it seemed do real. They looked normal then there faces looked wired, they bite the people and drank. It was so dark. Just like in her dream.

The little girl turned her head to the side again not wanting to look out the window the monsters could come trough. She could hear loud laughter from the people her mommy brought home at night. They were always different and they were mostly men. They always scared her though, she just stayed in her room. And wonder, what was going to happen to her?



"Faith! Look out!" screamed Angel seeing a vampire about to grab her while fighting off one of his own.

Faith turned and kicked him then quickly took out a stake and stabbed him with it and watched him turn to dust. Suddenly she thought of Angel. He would turn to dust if he was stabbed like that. He would turn to dust and she would never see his face again. There would just be......nothing. No body for a funeral, no last good-bye. Just....nothing. She heard Angel stake a vampire behind her. He let out a sigh of relief and looked over to her. "Faith? You okay? You look kinda......." Angel wasn't really sure how to describe the look on her face. It wasn't horror or worry or anything more like a unhappy thoughtful look.

"Yeah, you know just thinking." She said walking over. They were in an ally a little ways away from there home. They found a nest of vampires and gotten rid of them.

"Let's go home, it's almost sunrise and I don't feel like being cooked into dust just yet." They walked side by side to the hotel. Angel opened the front door to see a room full of roses.

"What the HELL?" he said looking around. There were bunches of them everywhere.

"Where did they all come from?" Faith asked walking over to touch them. "They're pretty aren't they." Faith said picking up so that had been tied together. She noticed a card fall to the ground. She bent over and picked it up.

"Hey Angel there's a card!"

He turned to look over at her. "What does it say?"

She opened it up and read the inscription:

For every night I want to spend with you.
Ryan

"OH crap there from Ryan!" She said tossing the roses she was holding onto a nearby chair. She should have known.

Her statement immediately made his blood boil. If he EVER found him around here he'd beat the crap out of him. Four the past four days he'd been calling non-stop leaving messages on the answering machine. Faith would get upset and of course close him off completely. Couldn't that guy take a hint? And what the HELL were they supposed to do with all of these flowers. Angel through a nearby vase on to the floor.

"Angel!" Faith shouted at him. She knew this whole Ryan thing was bothering him too but he was almost taking it harder then she was. Why?

"Just everything is getting to me! We have kidnappers that are either after you or all of us. You have a personal stalker and these dreams are driving me CRAZY!!"

"What dreams?" Faith asked still starring at him.

"Dreams? Uh......." Angel wasn't exactly sure how to get out of this. "I had a dream about a week ago, there were the powers that be and they kept saying things about humanity, that stuff."

"That's only one."

"What?"

"You said dreams, that was only one dream."

"Yeah well......It's just been very stressful." He said turning away. The last thing he wanted to do was tell his best friend that he had been having erotic dreams her.

"I'm sorry."

He looked over at her. "Why?"

"Some of it just seems to be my fault."

"NO! It's not your fault. Most of this wouldn't get to me like this, it's just that it keeps coming, it doesn't stop." He said sitting down.

"Maybe we should take a vacation." Faith said half laughing while she said. There was no way she could imagine Angel EVER taking a break from ANYTHING.

"Takes a good idea." He suddenly.

"Uh....Angel maybe the rose smell is getting to ya or something but..."

"No. I mean Cordelia can have a vision anywhere. And leaving would get us away from everybody else. We should go somewhere all of us. Just take a break for once."

Faith laughed. "Okay, then where would we go?" she asked.

"I have an idea." He said.

That's it for right now. Just so you guys know I'm going on a trip and wont be back until Tuesday so I wont update anything until Wednesday most likely. {I hope the plane doesn't explode or anything} So where do you guys want them to go on vacation? e.