A/N: Sorry once again for the delay, but I'm not getting enough reviews for my muse to want to work. So send those reviews, if you want this series to live. Sorry that the chapter's so short, but this is all my muse would give me.

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FPOV

"Li-li?" Li-li? Oh my god she is never going to live that down. We're all just standing here waiting for the next move to be made until her dad runs up and clings to her for dear life in a deep hug. This is a bit awkward.

"The Powers That Be! Where have you been, cub?" the man that I assume is her father says to her. She doesn't say anything; she doesn't even hug him back. She just stands there staring at him with anger. The lobby is quite until she speaks.

"93 years. 93 fuckin' years you've treated me like shit and all of the sudden you're dad of the year?! Give me a fuckin' break!" she yells through gritted teeth and runs upstairs and I follow after her.

DPOV

Wow I've never seen Li that mad, not even when we were kidnapped by Alani. Li's dad looks from the stairs from when Faith ran up them back to me and Buffy.

"Robert? Who are these people?" he says in a gruff voice. Who to think that THE Lix Raine would have such a rough, gruff, manly voice. If he wasn't the source of Li's pain right now I would squeal in joy at this opportunity. He's like 5' 11", white hair that comes down past his ears, blue eyes, and stripes on his lower cheeks on his face two on each side, and he's wearing a formal suit without the jacket, and he's caring a cane.

"I have no idea sir; they were with Miss Raine when she arrived," he takes a step towards us and sniffs Buffy.

"You're a slayer,"

"Yeah, how'd you-?"

"I can smell it on you," then he steps toward me and sniffs. He glares at me for a minute and I glare back.

"Why do you smell like my daughter?" he asks giving me a cocked eyebrow glare.

LPOV

I'm in my dad's hi-tech state of the art gym belting out punishment to any of the moving dummies he has, until I smell one particular dummy getting closer.

"Tig? Are ya in here?"

"No, it's just your imaginary friend makin' all this noise," I say while kicking the shit out of the dummies that for some strange reason look like my father.

"Very funny," she says with a smirk and I can't help but smirk back.

"Oh I don't know I thought it was hilarious,"

"Wanna tell me what's crawled up your ass?"

"I think ya all ready know what my problem is,"

"Yeah somethin' crawled up your ass," she says and I snort out a laugh. I'll admit the girl knows how to make me laugh when I'm pissed. "You ok?" she asks and I stop and sit down on a bench near the wall.

"All my life my dad was Jesse Helms now when I come back he's all of the sudden Alan Alda,"

"Who?" she asks. Young people these days. Powers! I'm turning into my father!

"Never mind,"

DPOV

"Excuse me?" I say with a little bit of attitude. I'm not going to respect him not after what he did to Li. We stare each other down for a while until he backs off.

"My apologies ladies, I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Felix Raine. I'm Salali's father," he says. Salali? Wow I thought her name was just Li. "And you are?"

"I'm Buffy and this is my sister Dawn," why is that everywhere we go, Buffy makes all the introductions?

"So you're not just any ordinary slayer, you're THE Slayer. It's an honor to meet you,"

"Likewise," she says with a sarcastic tone. He turns to me.

"And you're my daughter's mate I'm assuming?" he says. MATE?!

BPOV

MATE?! As in mated for life? Oh I don't think so! Not before me!

"Uhm…not necessarily," she says and he tilts his head to the side and I can see the resemblance, Li looks exactly like her father, except her eyes. I'm guessing those came from her mom.

"What do you mean you're not her mate? I can smell her all over you,"

FPOV

"What do you mean you're not her mate? I can smell her all over you," we hear her father say to Dawn as we head down stairs. I managed to convince her to come back down and try to talk to him as civil as she can, but rather she will or not that's her choice.

"Dawn, you don't have to answer that," she pauses "I do," she says taking a couple of steps down.

"Fine then, explain yourself Salali,"

"It's just Li and to answer your question, ya can smell my scent on her 'cause she had to wear my clothes once and my scent just stuck to her," she lies

"Do you really think I'm that stupid, Li? If that were true, then why do I smell her scent all over you?" they stare each other down until that butler guy speaks up.

"Sir, you're about to be late for your banquet,"

"Cancel it," he pauses and turns to him. "And show our guests to their rooms, and tell Jacque to prepare dinner, I'm staying in tonight," he says and heads up stairs and passes Tig and I on his way up.