Chapter Two
Tyler leaned against the wall next to the front door of the school. Students flooded past him into the school. Tyler wore kaki shorts and a black Guns and Roses t-shirt. He had imed Nikki before he left for school to tell her that he was going to wear his Guns and Roses t-shirt. He glanced up at the sky.
"Are you Tyler?"
Tyler took his gaze from the sky to see who had asked. He nodded wondering if this was Nikki. The girl smiled brightly.
"Hi, I'm Nikki."
Tyler grinned. It was a mirror image of his fathers.
"It's nice to finally meet you," Tyler said.
"Yeah."
Tyler glanced at the school behind him.
"We better get to class."
Nikki nodded and followed Tyler into the crowded school. They had first period study hall together. They signed into the cafeteria. Keely, Brooklyn, and Marco came over to them.
"Hey. This is Nikki."
"Hi," Nikki said.
Everyone said hi to Nikki and began to walk over to the courtyard. When they got there Tyler stopped short along with Keely, Brooklyn, and Marco.
"This is so not good," Tyler mumbled.
Nikki looked to see what he was looking at. She saw two of her friends Trinity and Kadence.
"It's cool. I know them. That's just Trinity and Kadence," Nikki said, but by the time she said it only Tyler and Marco were standing next to her.
Keely and Brooklyn went over to the table. Keely took Trinity's stuff from the table and threw it onto the ground. Trinity jumped to her feet.
"What the hell was that for?" Trinity shrieked.
Brooklyn did the same thing with Kadence's stuff.
"That is our table," Keely snapped.
Trinity glanced over at the table.
"Don't see your name on it."
Trinity thought she saw a flicker of yellow specks in Keely's eyes, but wrote it off as something playing with her mind.
"We have been sitting at that table since forever," Keely said.
"Well things change," Trinity, snapped.
Keely lunged at Trinity pushing her to the ground. Trinity kicked her off her sending her flying a good foot and a half. Keely landed and was up in a matter of seconds.
"This is not over."
Keely stormed off. Nikki ran over to Trinity.
"Your Dad said never fight with your extra strength on humans," Nikki whispered.
But for Tyler's extra hearing he heard it. He walked over.
"Don't worry about it. Keely's strong."
Tyler didn't realize that she had been whispering since it sounded like regular talk to him.
"Uh oh," He said when they looked at him weird.
"How did you hear that? I was whispering."
Tyler looked at the ground.
"I can read lips," Tyler lied.
"Really? I wasn't even facing your direction."
Brooklyn came to the rescue by dragging Tyler out of the courtyard. Tyler threw an apologetic smile later and mouthed 'I'll talk to you later'. When they were a good distance away Brooklyn turned to Tyler.
"What do you think you were doing?" Brooklyn demanded.
Tyler shrugged.
"It didn't sound like she was whispering. Could you have lied any better?" Tyler asked.
Brooklyn sighed. She knew he was right. Then Bailey and Marco joined them.
"Who could have lied better?" Bailey asked since he only caught the last sentence Tyler said.
"Tyler almost revealed what he is," replied Brooklyn.
Bailey and Marco both shook their heads. Marco turned to Bailey.
"You owe me five bucks," Marco told him.
Bailey took five dollars out of his wallet and handed it to Marco.
"You bet on me?" demanded Tyler.
Bailey and Marco exchanged glances and shrugged. Tyler shook his head.
"So how much did you get grounded?" Brooklyn asked.
"How did you know we got caught?" Bailey asked.
"Your you, that's why."
Buffy Summers walked into the local café to get a cup of coffee. Her sister slayer Faith was right behind her. They walked up to the counter and were too into their conversation that they didn't notice that Cordelia Chase was in front of them.
"Look B all I'm saying is that we need to install a new punching bag. That one is going to be coming down with all the abuse it takes on a daily bases from just you and me combined," Faith concluded.
"I guess we can install something a little more sturdier. I'll talk to Giles when we get back."
"Buffy? Faith?"
Buffy and Faith looked forward and found Cordelia Chase staring at them.
"Hey Queen C," Faith said being the first to break out of shock.
"Hey Cordy," Buffy echoed.
Cordelia turned and took her coffee that she ordered and paid for it.
"Sit and have coffee. Let's catch up."
"Ok," Buffy replied.
Cordelia left them to find a table. Buffy and Faith ordered their coffees. Faith turned to Buffy.
"Wow. I can't believe we ran into Queen C. I haven't seen her since I broke out of prison," Faith remembered.
Buffy nodded.
"I haven't seen her since high school."
Then they got their coffee and Buffy paid for it with the council credit card. They had convinced Giles that they should be refunded for their caffeine addiction. Cause without they would be very cranky slayers. Giles had agreed not wanting that to happen. Buffy and Faith went and found Cordelia sitting with someone at a table. Cordelia waved them over. They took a seat across from the two.
"This is Fred," She introduced the girl sitting next to her, "I work with her. Fred this is Faith and Buffy."
"Hi ya'll," Fred said with a hint of her Texas accent.
"Hi Fred," Buffy said.
Faith echoed Buffy.
"So how have you been Queen C?" Faith asked, "Still working with Angel?"
Buffy looked at Cordelia curiously when she didn't respond right away.
"Yeah. Still working there."
She looked down at the table.
"What's the matter Cordy?" Buffy asked.
"I kinda married Angel."
Buffy's smile never faltered.
"Conrad's."
Cordelia looked up in surprise. She thought the blonde slayer would be mad that she had married her first love. But it appeared she wasn't.
"I got married too. To Spike," Buffy told her when she saw her confusion.
Buffy pulled out a picture of her kids and showed it to Cordelia.
"That's Keely, she's sixteen. And that's Tyler, he's fourteen. And those are my five-year-old twins Dylan and Taylor," Buffy said pointing to each child in turn.
Cordelia smiled and pulled out a picture of her own.
"Well I only have two Connor whose sixteen and Trinity who's fifteen," Cordelia explained.
Faith looked down.
"I feel left out."
So she pulled out her picture of her son.
"I only have my son Bailey," Faith said showing Cordelia and Fred a picture of her son.
"You know you want to show us your picture of your daughter," Cordelia told Fred.
Fred nodded sheepishly and pulled out a picture of her daughter and showed Buffy and Faith.
"That's my daughter Nikki. She's Fifteen."
Buffy realized something.
"That means all of our kids go to school together," Buffy announced.
"I wonder if they're friends.
Bailey pushed Connor into a wall.
"What the hell is your problem man?" Connor yelled.
"You."
Bailey was distracted for a moment and that gave Connor enough time for him to push Bailey to the ground. It was then he noticed that a crowd had gathered. Connor's group was on one side glaring at Bailey's group, which was on the other. Bailey jumped up and went after Connor again. They punched each other until James pulled them apart. Tyler and Marco decided to only now come and restrain their friend. It only took Connor's sister Trinity to restrain him. That's when Principal Cambridge came out and glared at Connor and Bailey.
"Both of you my office now.
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