A/N: Hey thanks for the reviews, keep them up. The more reviews I get, the faster I update. On a side note I would like to point out that the bad guys' names are pronounced: Rez-nak and Rez-sheek.
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LPOV
We just got a call and Dawn and Daniel left a while ago to go get the others. I stayed behind because I felt like maintaining the fort. Right now I'm upstairs in my dad's state of the art gym; I swear this place kicks ass! And I'm belting out punishment to this gym bag to a favorite song of mine, called Dance with the Devil by Breaking Benjamin.
Here I stand, helpless and left for dead.
I let the music move right through me as I attack; left punch, right punch, right punch, left kick, left punch, right kick.
Close your eyes, so many days go by. Easy to find what's wrong harder to find what's right.
I do as the song says and close my eyes and let the stress of everything melt right into my punches and kicks.
I believe in you, I can show you that I can see right through all your empty lies.
I won't stay long in this world so wrong.
I increase my punches and kicks and start to get a bit angry as I do.
Say goodbye, as we dance with the devil tonight. Don't you dare look at him in the eye, as we dance with the devil tonight?
Trembling, crawling across my skin. Feeling your cold dead eyes, stealing the life from mine.
I feel something sticky and wet, but I don't stop, I just keep punching and kicking.
I believe in you, I can show you that I can see right through all your empty lies.
I won't last long, in this world so wrong.
I use the memories of my past to egg me on and the more I look back the angrier I get.
Say goodbye, as we dance with the devil tonight. Don't you dare look at him in the eye, as we dance with the devil tonight?
Hold on. Hold on.
And the angrier I get the more strength I put behind my punches and attacks.
Say goodbye, as we dance with the devil tonight. Don't you dare look at him in the eye, as we dance with the devil tonight?
Hold on. Hold on.
Goodbye.
I snap out of it when I hear the chain break and the bag roll across the floor. I turn my head to find Dawn and three people I don't recognize just staring at me and then Dawn comes up to me and looks down at my hands which makes me look down at them and I realize that they are covered in blood. I look back up at the people I don't recognize when the brunette boy says something.
"Oh, great! She's crazy, just like Faith," I'm right in front of him lifting him up by his collar within the second he finished that.
"Say another thing about Faith and I'll show ya why your mom told ya to never pull a tiger by its tail," I seethe through gritted teeth and drop him. He falls on his ass and quickly tries to recover. I crack my neck before I introduce myself.
"Sorry, I'm havin' a bad day, my name's Li," I say extending my hand to them, but then I pull back because they're covered in blood.
"Shouldn't you have someone look at that?" the red-head says.
"Yeah, I should at least bandage it up,"
"Oh, no need," she says and then mutters something in Latin and my hands heal up. I look at my hands and look back at her.
"You're a Wicca," I say and then I sniff her. "A very powerful Wicca," I say studying her for a moment and she shifts uncomfortably under my stare.
"Uhm…yeah, my name is Willow and this is Giles," she says pointing to the old guy. "And that's Xander," she says pointing to the dipshit. I back out of her space and look to Giles.
"I'm assumin' ya wanna see them?" I say as I make my way downstairs.
DPOV
This whole thing is starting to affect Li. I start to go down stairs with the others until Evy stops me.
"What do ya think you're doin'?"
"I'm going downstairs with the others," I say.
"No, I mean, what do ya think you're doin' with Li?" she says with a glare. I stay silent because I believe that, that is none of her business. "Don't think I'm stupid, I can smell her on ya and you on her. And let me tell you somethin', ya hurt her and you'll have to deal with me," someone comes up behind me.
"And me," Rex says. I stare her down for a moment or two before I excuse myself and go downstairs.
LPOV
"Li?" Giles asks to get my attention. I look up at him. "What did you gather from their condition?"
"Why ya askin' me? You should be askin' Evy and Rex,"
"You're here and you have heighten senses; Humor me," I give him a look and go over to where Buffy and Faith are still passed out. I sniff them for any other scent and I found one it's very faint and even if it was strong I couldn't place it, but I can tell that it's a dog-like demon.
"Well? What is it?" dipshit asks.
"It's a demon, dog-like, and…that's all I can tell," I say getting up. "Follow me, I'll show ya where the library is," I say going across the house; from the living room, pass the din, across the dining room and into library.
"Oh dear lord," Giles say and the rest gasp. Heh I guess they're impressed, hell I'm impressed and I don't even read all that much. This place is HUGE!!
"Well, let's get to it," I say aloud and then I turn to Dawn. "Are you ok?"
"Yeah, I just ran into your friends, Evy and Rex,"
"They gave ya the death threats didn't they?"
"Pretty much, yeah," she says and we go join the others to research on what's going on here.
DPOV
It's been a couple of hours and dawn is almost breaking. Excuse the pun. Xander's snoring while drooling all over the book that he was reading, Willow's yawning like mad, Giles is pacing, and Li…she's sleeping too, only without the drooling and the snoring. I'm sitting here watching her sleep until her dad walks in and wakes Li up.
"Li, who are these people?"
"Unh…Oh, these are friends of Buffy and Faith's,"
"Mister Raine I presume?"
"Yes?" Li's dad asks with a cocked brow. Now I know where Li gets her looks from.
"My name is Rupert Giles, and might I say what an extensive collection you have here,"
"Thanks,"
"AH HA!! I mean, Ah ha! Looky here Giles," Willow says aloud and hands the book to Giles.
"Reshiek, children of Resnak, bearers of bad memories," he hums as he skips over some stuff. "Their bite brings the worst memories out in people, oh bother,"
"What?" Li asks.
"Just think, if the bite brings the worst memory out, what's the worst memory that both Buffy and Faith had to endure?" everyone's eyes go wide because we all know.
