Yin and Yang

Summary: A Jo-Jelly-Bean and Dreamcloud818 tagteam. Um... I guess we'll call it a Jel tagteam, since Dreamcloud is El, and Jo is, well, Jo. Plus it goes with the Jelly-Bean part. Anyway, in a shifting accident, Lianne from Jo's 'Mixed up Emotions' falls into a paralell universe, meeting Faith, Dreamcloud's vampire shifter character. Love triangles emerge, maybe affairs... what will happen?

Disclaimer: Roses are Red, His Eyes are Blue(haha) We don't own mediator, so-never mind, this poem is way over done...

THIS DOES NOT AFFECT THE OUTCOME OF THE VAMPIRE SHIFTER SERIES!

Chapter Five: What a Tangled Web We Weave

Faith's POV

At first, I wanted to say, 'huh?' but then I counted the many moments I've looked like an idiot, and decided not to add one. Especially not in front of Li. Oh, and my ex's dad.

So, I gave them one of my oh-so-witty replies.

"Her strange obsession with doughnuts."

Li shot me The Look. I shrugged. I get that thing daily from Charity. No wonder Li is wondering how the heck we're friends.

Maybe it was the Yang necklace.

Maybe it was just the fact that at the time, I was feeling serious lust vibes between the two of them.

Huh.

I could get used to this.

Meanwhile, back at the Mansion(haha, that's funny to write...)

Charity's POV

"Dude. Calm down."

Magnus looked distracted. OK, he usually is, what with the whole Coven Leader thing. And his tangled love life. But this time, he looked really distracted.

"Charity," He said, "Remember the time you messed up the Time Space Continueum?"
"Yeah. That was awesome."

"Uh... sure." Magnus's sapphire eyes showed that he was thinking. Hard. "Anyway, I saw some... odd... things."

"Like what?"

"Paul Slater is an interesting man. Why don't we do some... vampiring?"

I smirked. "You've come to the right vampiress."

Faith's POV

You know what? I have been through some very tough situations. And sometimes, I just... explode. Usually, this involves me making out with the random hot guy. But since there weren't any around-Paul was cute, in an older guy way, but seriously. He's Ben's DAD- I began to giggle.

Hysterically.

"OK, OK!" I laughed, "First, I meet my reincarnated twin. Now I realize that she shares this lust thing with my ex boyfriend's DAD? Lovely!"

Paul stared.

Li shrieked.

"How'd you know about the lust thing?" She clapped a hand over her mouth. "Um, I didn't say that!"

"Hello! I am Lust!"

Wow. That was an odd sentence.

Li's POV

"Oh," Paul grinned, "Yin and Yang? Excellent."

Meanwhile, I was glaring at my counterpart, who seemed incapable of saying anything but 'this is so FUNNY!' constantly.

Actually, it was kind of funny...

But I'm not telling her that.

"Look, Paul," I said angrily, "How much do you know?"

"Everything," Paul murmured in my ear, "Every kiss..."

I jumped away from him. What the...

Faith had heard that. She suddenly grew silent. Her eyes brimmed with tears. Something was seriously bothering her.

"Ow!" I exclaimed, backing up, my eyes squeezed shut. My head hurt...

"Then let me say something about you, m'lady! You are the most hyperactive, inept, psychotic-"

He broke off, his eyes boring into me.

"You, Faith Isabella de Silva, are the most annoying creature I've ever met. And I love you."

"What the...?" I muttered, shooting a glance at Faith. I hadn't been able to distinguish the guy's face, but I knew that he had obviously been a lover of Faith's.

Nice.

She got up. "Every kiss, huh?" She whispered to herself, "Well, sounds a lot like someone I was with."

"Of course," Paul smirked.

Faith suddenly gave him a sweet, seductive smile. Wait... seductive?

"Paul," She murmured, "You seem a lot more attractive to me now."

She weaved around him, catlike. This girl knew her tricks.

"Do I?" Paul asked. I was frozen. He was... flirting with her.

Then again, I have a feeling that, back in ye days of olde, everyone flirted with Yang.

"No," Faith giggled, "I lied."

And she kicked him.

I really don't need to tell you where.

Faith's POV

"Why'd you do that?" Li screamed.

"Bad memories," I muttered, staring at Paul. He, like any guy, was on the ground, moaning.

How amusing.

"What?" She made a swallowing noise. "You guys weren't... together... were you?"

"Ew!" I cried, "Heck no!"

My eyes narrowed.

"But you were with him, weren't you?"

Li's face went bright red, and she looked down.

"No!"

"You, my odd somewhat twin," I smirked, "Are a bad liar. Here's how you do it: 'Are you kidding? He's old!'"

"He's not old!"

"I lied. Again. That's how you catch a bad liar."

Paul was now standing-quite tenderly, I might add. "What do you want?" He groaned, staring daggers at me. I really didn't care. Instead of dwelling on this, I buffed my nails.

"We would like to know about this Yin and Yang thing. Oh, and about your whole knowing Li thing."

"Fine. Come inside."

I've been inside Paul's house a lot of times. I mean, I went steady with his son. Three times. And Li's probably seen the inside of his house in her universe, if my theory is correct...

Li looked a bit uncomfortable under my scrutinizing glare.

"Uh... Paul?" She asked.

"Yeah, Li?"

She flinched when he used her name.

"Look," I muttered out of the corner of my mouth, "I've been with Paul's son. Again. And again. I know Paul very well. And I know when he likes a woman. He's been with you."

Li looked down, then back up.

"Fine. In my universe, Paul was my teacher. And, more or less, my boyfriend. You know, the whole affair thing? Semi-illegal?"

I smirked. "Been there."

"No way."

"Paulie?" I asked, "Give us a moment, will ya?"

He shot me a dirty look, but said, between gritted teeth, "Sure..."

I dragged Li up to Ben's room, where we could talk. And found Ben, just in his boxers, playing his play station.

Now, that's just sad.

"Ben," I sighed, "Get a shirt on. And work out."

Blubbering, he obeyed.

"Faith," He cried, "What're you doing here?"

"Get out of the roooooooooom," I said in my idiots-only voice.

"OK," He muttered like a little boy, walking out.

We sat down on his bed. Li opened her mouth, but I waved a hand for her to stop.

"Wait. Let me do my best Prescott imitation," I insisted, then made my voice all bubble gummy. "OK, like, spill!"

Li rolled her eyes. "Not much to tell. Girl meets teacher, they have an affair, yada yada."

I knew there was more.

My head felt like it was splitting open...

"Your mom hated me, OK? I lied. I didn't want you to think of me as a complete loser. In fact, you scare me, you're gorgeous, you're passionate, you're stubborn, you're flirty and not afraid of anything. You really do scare the heck(a/n: Had to change it from hell to heck, since I have an overprotective mom) out of me. And you know what? I love you, so live with it." He ranted.

"Um..." I began, "Dang. Both of us have issues, you know that?"

Paul called us from downstairs.

"FAITH! STOP SCARING MY SON!"

"DAD!"

Li and I exchanged glances before going downstairs.

"This isn't over," I hissed to her.

"So," Paul said-Ben was gone. "You want to know about how I'm here?"

We nodded.

"Well. When two certain vampires messed up the Time Space Continueum-"

"Wow. Go Magnus and Charity!"

"Faith... Anyway. No one knew about but them. And me. And my counterpart in the alternate universe. We met in some odd way, and devised a plan. We wanted to switch places for a while, you know? So... I'm Li's Paul. I mean-er... you know..."

Whoa. He was blushing.

Sweet.

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Li's POV

Tonight was my first night in an alternate universe. I wondered what my parents were thinking.

"Hey, Faith," I smiled, "You never told me about your love life. Tell me. Pleeeeeease. And if you tell me the whole story, and not a short summary like Charity's or mine, then I'll tell you about mine."

Daring, but I really wanted her to describe how Magnus kissed. 'Cause I'm pretty sure he kissed her.

Faith looked thoughtful.

"Deal," She said, shaking my hand.

"OK. It all started when..."

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Jo will continue that... R and R!