Title: Five by Five
Summary: Faith's long lost twin sister Hope has come to Rome in search of her sister. When two sisters meet everything seems to brighten but does something supernatural threaten to end this new reunion of sisters? And the question of whether Hope is a Potential is overpowering but will she bow down to the ways of the slayer?
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters except for Hope.
Author Notes: Ok the beginning of this is totally out of character Faith. Sorry! I'm just showing the effects of finding your long lost twin sister. Um beginning is more for my personal entertainment and then the ending goes more for plot. You always have to start really unnaturally happy when you finish dark. That's my rule unless it's all dark…. But anyway. Hope the beginning makes you smile. Hehe. Typical sisterly stuff there. It starts at four in the morning by the way.
Chapter 4: Morning Runs
"Rise and Shine!" Hope groaned and peered through her lashes at the perpertrator that had woken her in the midst of a good dream involving ice cream, chocolate and Chad Michael Murray. Faith (surprise, surprise) was the perpertrator and stood over her twin grinning like a maniac. Hope groaned again louder. Then she tried her luck with the English language.
"Wazamatawichu?" She swatted the air above her and wasn't very surpirised when her random sweep didn't connect with anything of the Faith kind. Faith only widened her grin (if that was even possible at this stage).
"Come on little sis, Tai Chi is starting soon." Faith said grinning at her own private joke.
"Wazyaproblem? Leamelone!" Faith chuckled at her twin's attempt at English. And even more at her attempt of a threat when she was buried in pillows and a doona. Plus Faith knew the girl could barely lift a finger right now. And it was her sacred duty to wake the girl up. Was a hard job but someone had to do it.
"Goway." Hope slurred and then Faith's face lit up as she had a sudden thought and she disappeared from view. This caused Hope's eyes to widen and her to wake up enough to form one single thought.
Uh oh.
Then, all of a sudden, she was dragged off of the mattress and onto the ground with much pain and thumping involved. She was then dragged out of the room bellowing and her last view of it was the rest of the girls waking up sleepily and looking curiously at their disappearing roommate. Then she was dragged to the stairs and as Hope saw them her eyes widened.
"No freaking way." Obviously Faith thought otherwise and dragged her towards them. Just as she was on the brink of the first step Hope grabbed the banister and held on for dear life. By this time all of the potentials, or most of them anyway, had gotten out of bed (most of the most weren't asleep in the first place) and were watching the amusing show unfolding before them.
Hope then got out a mini stun gun from the back of her pants whilst straining to hold onto the banister single handedly. Then she used every single drop of energy she had to bring her legs up to her body, dragging a surprised Faith up to within her arm's reach and buzzed her for less than a second on the hand holding onto her leg.
Faith dropped her so suddenly that Hope crashed down onto the stairs with such a massive thump that it shook the entire house down to it's unstable foundations. This caused some cheers among the potentials, some winces and quite a few 'ooh's.
Fait cradled her hand and shot Hope dirties. Hope returned these with equal force and fervour. Hope looked pointedly at Faith's cradled hand and rolled her eyes.
"Don't be such a baby. It's only as bad as a beesting." Hope stood up and put the stungun back in the back of her leather pants.
"I hate bees." Faith said still cradling her hand.
"I know." Hope said simply and Faith shot her another dirty.
"But that's so unfair. You can't use a stunner." Faith insister but Hope just shrugged it off.
"You used your slayer strength."
"C'mon, that is so unfair." Faith said with a slight whinge in her voice.
"C'mon, that is so unfair." Hope mimicked and Faith pulled a pissed off expression.
"Shutup." Faith muttered and Hope smirked at her.
"What's going on?" Buffy asked as she walked out onto the landing yawning, scratching her head and making other generally tired movements.
"Nothin' boss, we was just havin a bit o' fun is all." Hope said in a southie drawl. She elbowed Faith which caused Faith to jump to attention.
"Yea, just a bit o' fun." Faith agreed and Buffy just looked at the two brunettes and shook her head in disbelief but couldn't help the big smile from developing.
"Alright then, everyone back to bed. It is too early and I need my beauty sleep." There were a few laughs and a 'Damn right' which caused more laughs. Everyone began shuffling back to their respective very much shared rooms before Hope asked,
"Isn't there, like, Tai Chi or something?" At this Faith backed away slowly before sprinting as far away from Hope as possible before Buffyt lose her confused expression and answered her. As Hope sasw Faith run off her stomach dropped and she kenw that Buffy's answer wouldn't be a good one and it definitely wouldn't correspond with Faith's reason for waking her up at 4 in the morning.
"That starts in three hours." Buffy replied with a slightly cocked head and a look of curiosity on her face. Hope felt her expectations and thoughts forfilled. 'Damn, Faith is soo gunna suffer' She thought and her mind wen to the mini stungun in the back of her pants.
"Oh. Musta mixed myself up. My body's all ready for Tai Chi, still got jet lag see? Scuse me while I go off to kill my sister." With that Hope sprinted off in the direction Faith went in leaving the potentials with their dose of morning entertainment and Buffy wondering exactly what had happened before she'd arrived.
Hope turned the corner and saw Faith standing there, stock still. She couldn't see what was in front of her or that there even was anything in front of her.
"You know how terrible you are at Hide and Seek right?" When Faith didn't respond Hope asked, "What? No witty res…" Hope had come close enough to see what Faith could and she stopped in mid sentence, not being able to utter a single word or syllable.
There was a body of one of the potentials sprawled on the ground with a pool of half dried blood surrounding her that had mostly soaked into the red carpet beneath her. Hope's eyes widened as she saw that it was the red head who had given her a dirty when she'd first arrived at the share house.
"Tiff…" Faith said quietly.
"Oh god…" Was the first thing and only thing that Hope could say. Then she turned around and promptly vomited.
TBC
Explanations why Hope reacted so violently… Bonding…. Revealing… Trying to catch the crim… So read on…. And make me happy….Hehe
JB
