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When class let out, Liz immediately went over to the girls and they all hugged each other.

"What the hell?" Isabel said. "Does she know them?"

The others shrugged and walked up to the four girls.

"I can't believe it's you!" Aqua squealed.

"It's great to see you little sister!" Ruby said.

"We thought you were caught, Liz," Emerald said. "Don't ever scare us like that again, got it sis?"

Liz laughed. "Got it."

"Little sister? Caught? What's going on Liz?" Maria asked.

"These are my sisters," Liz said, a big smile on her face.

"Sisters?" Maria said again. "I don't get it, you guys don't look anything alike."

"We only grew up together when we were kids, but we were so close that we considered each other family, thus sisters," Emerald explained.

"We have a big family," Ruby said. "It's not just us."

"Oh," Maria said. She was a little hurt because she and Liz had also grown up together, ever since they were nine. Liz was Maria's adopted sister, and she felt like they were the closest ever. But now she found other girls who were just as close to Liz, maybe even closer, and she felt left out.

Aqua was very sensitive to people's feelings, and was always good at reading people's faces and knowing how they were feeling. By the girl's tone, she felt that she was jealous and the odd one out so Aqua turned to her.

"What's your name?" Aqua asked the girl.

The girl blinked, surprised that the blonde was talking to her.

"Ma-Maria. I'm Liz's adopted sister," she stuttered.

Aqua smiled. "Nice to meet you." She looked at the others who were just standing around, shuffling their feet. "And you guys?"

"The guy standing over there is my boyfriend, Maxwell, beside him are Michael and Isabel, and beside Maria are Jesse and Kyle," Liz said.

"Cool," Ruby said. A thought occurred to her. "Hey, there's a new dance club opening tonight, called Flash, wanna come? That way we can catch up with Liz, get to know you guys better and dance at the same time. Whaddaya say?"

Kyle shrugged. "I got nothing better to do tonight."

"Me neither," Isabel said. The others said the same.

"Great," said Emerald, smiling. "Then we'll meet you guys there around eightish?"

"Sure," Max said.

"Maria, do you mind if I get ready over at the girls' house? I just sort of want to spend some time with them," Liz said.

A few minutes ago and Maria would have been jealous but these girls were friendly and right now she didn't mind. "No, go ahead."

"Thanks," Liz said.

They went to lunch, and all started to get to know each other.

Ever since the incident in the park the night before, Faith had been avoiding Buffy's gaze. Finally, she had had enough and decided to get some answers.

She opened the door to the room where Faith was staying and sat down on her bed. Faith looked up.

"What is it B?" she asked.

"You," Buffy said. "I feel like I don't know you anymore. You don't talk to me like you used to. You start fighting completely differently. And I get the feeling you're keeping secrets. We're best friends Faith, but I feel like you don't trust me anymore."

Faith just looked at her, struggling not to reveal the truth. It was hard keeping her secret from Buffy, she wanted to tell her, but she knew she couldn't. It could endanger her more than she already was. Faith knew Manticore was gone because on TV it said that a bunch of freaks and mutants were roaming the cities, but that didn't mean there weren't other people looking to kill her. It was no wonder, she was worth millions. And on top of the fact that she was a genetically engineered supersoldier, she was also a slayer with powers.

She opened her mouth to speak, but nothing came out. She didn't know what to say. Finally, she just looked at Buffy, and prayed to the Blue Lady that she would accept the bullshit excuse she was going to give her.

"I do trust you B," she said. "I do with my life. The whole fighting thing was seriously just a new technique I picked up and tried out. And I talk to you B, it's just…" She sighed. "I'm sorry, it's just that maybe being a slayer is getting to me. There have been more vampires in Sunnydale recently and I'm wondering if that's what I'm going to do all my life. Just slay one vampire after another, and the truth is, I'm sick of it. I'm going to keep doing it, of course, but still. I just think a lot more than I used to and that's why I haven't been talking to you."

Liar, liar, pants on fire, a voice said in her head. 'That was the lamest excuse ever,' Faith thought. 'I love slaying vampires. I guess the soldier in me loves to fight.'

But it looked like Buffy had accepted her answer. "Okay." The girls hugged and Faith felt guilty. 'I'm sorry I can't tell you B, but it has to be this way.'

"What's on the database?" Max asked, coming down from her cheery mood and becoming serious.

"It's. Holy, it's a list of locations on the rogue X5s," Dix said.

"My brothers and sisters," Max whispered. "Are they recent?"

"I don't know. But if they haven't moved since the last time then maybe they're still at these locations," Dix said. "It looks like this was Lydecker's list but White found it when he was killed."

Max quickly scanned the list. It said:

X5-379 a.k.a. Ruby – Last known location: San Diego
X5-254 a.k.a. Aqua – Last known location: San Diego
X5-462 a.k.a. Emerald – Last known location: San Diego
X5-275 a.k.a. Crystal – Last known location: Wisconsin
X5-672 a.k.a. Coco – Last known location: Wisconsin
X5-210 a.k.a. Jondy – Last known location: San Francisco
X5-205 a.k.a. Zane – Last known location: Los Angeles
X5-518 a.k.a. Faith – Last known location: Sunnydale
X5-603 a.k.a. Liz – Last known location: Roswell
X5-701 a.k.a. Syl – Last known location: Boston
X5-471 a.k.a. Krit – Last known location: Minnesota
X5-823 a.k.a. Tawny – Last known location: Chicago
X5-573 a.k.a. Michael – Last known location: Detroit
X5-375 a.k.a. Bobby – Last known location: Detroit
X5-742 a.k.a. Evan – Last known location: Detroit
X5-562 a.k.a. Jordan – Last known location: Detroit
X5-452 a.k.a. Max – Last known location: Seattle

Whereabouts of X5-599, X5-798, and X5-734 unknown.

"Whoa. And Zack told me that 2 X5s in the same city was too much, here there's 3 or 4," Max said. 'Zack…' she thought. She missed him so much, sometimes she wished she could turn back the clock and undo what she had done. She needed him now, more than ever. Zack had always mattered to her more than Logan for some reason, but she couldn't very well let Logan be killed. The thing is, when he had tried to kiss her, she hadn't wanted to pull away. She only did so because she thought she was betraying Logan and also because she was surprised. It was a weird feeling, and it scared her, because you weren't supposed to want your brother to kiss you. She snapped out of her thoughts and turned to Logan.

"Logan, please find Alec for me, I need to get to my siblings before White does and I'll need his help."

Logan nodded, the hate that had been there for the transgenic a few weeks earlier was gone because they had told him that they weren't really together. He went off to find him.

Max bit her lip. "I can't believe Deck knew almost all of our locations. And we thought that we had been well hidden."

"Yeah, but he hadn't told anyone," Dix pointed out. "Maybe he just wanted to know where you were to help you if needed."

"Now that's a demented thought. What's sick is that I think Deck actually did love us in his own way. I gotta hand it to him, he sure knew how to screw with people's minds. First he was a bad guy, then he helped us blow up Manticore, then he's a sort of loving father figure? Messed," Max said.

Something just registered in her brain. "Wait a minute, it also says that he couldn't find Brin. Brin's alive?"

"Looks like it," Mole grunted. "So what, you gonna save your rugrat brothers and sisters?"

"Yeah. If you help me I'll get you more cigars," Max said.

A smile spread over his face. "Now we're talking."

"What's taking them so long?" Isabel asked.

"Who knows?" Michael said. "Girls take a long time to get dressed, yourself and Maria excluded."

They were all a little uncomfortable in the dance club, none of them really having been to one before. The Kyle made a sort of gasping noise and they looked at the entrance.

Four gorgeous girls walked in, all male eyes on them. What Max saw made his jaw drop.

Aqua came in wearing a black leather jacket, a sparkly blue halter top and tight leather pants. Emerald had on a black leather jacket, a forest green off-the-shoulder top and black leather pants. Liz and Ruby were also wearing the trademark black leather jacket and pants, except that Ruby had on a brilliant red tank top and Liz had a tight black tube top. The four made their way onto the dance floor and danced in the middle, completely in sync. Their movements were low and sinuous which made all of the boys' eyebrows go up, way up.

"Oh my god," Maria breathed. "Liz completely transformed."

"What happened to your girlfriend Max?" Jesse asked. "She's usually shy, quiet and conservative, and now she's outgoing, confident and dancing like she doesn't have a care in the world.

"I don't know," Max said. But he liked what he saw.

After the song ended, the girls made their way over to their friends and all of them just stared at them blankly.

"What?" Liz asked them.

"You're so… different," Max said. "But a good different."

The girls laughed.

"Different?" Ruby said. "Believe me, Lizzy here is a wolf in sheep's clothing. She's been like this forever."

"You're kidding," Kyle said faintly.

They all laughed again, and Liz motioned for them to follow.

"We're at a dance club, it's to dance," she said.

The boys shook their head. "Dancing isn't for us," Jesse said. "It's hopeless, believe us. Go do what you want."

Maria spoke up quietly. "I'm not very good at dancing."

"Me neither," Isabel said.

Emerald smiled kindly at them. "Well, that's why we're here. Come on, we'll teach you and soon you'll be able to do everything. Mambo, cha cha, hip hop, reggae, garage…"

Maria laughed. "Alright, we get it. Let's go."

"You get the feeling something's off with Faith?" Dawn asked.

"Yeah, and everyday it's getting stronger," Willow responded. "I mean, she's a great friend and I trust her, it's just that there's definitely something she doesn't want us to know."

"She's been acting strange lately," Xander said. "But you know what's funny? Coco and Crystal remind me so much of Faith. I don't know why, but every time I look at them Faith's face pops into my head."

"Get the feeling that those three are connected, dontcha?" Spike asked.

"Yeah," Dawn said. "That's it exactly."

"Well, Faith is closest to Buffy. We'll let her handle it," Willow said. "Besides, if there's something personal that Faith doesn't want us to know, then she should be able to keep it a secret. We don't have to know everything about her personal life."

"Yeah, but still," Dawn said. "She's hiding something. And I get the feeling it's something big."

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