A/N: I'm so sorry for the delay I hope you haven't given up on me. My muse was being a bitch until my sister and friend Rain kicked her ass, so you can thank her.
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LPOV
We're all still kinda shocked. If Buffy and Faith have to go through that again there won't be any turning back, and when they do get their real memories back it'll be too late.
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God it's always hot out here. I fucking hate California, but I guess it's the price I have to pay for killing a human; I get to live in the earth version of hell. You can just smell the irony. I'm pulled out of my thoughts by the sounds of fighting near the north gate.
"Well looky what we got here girls; fresh meat," Big Alice says. She's always trying to be top dog, wonder who she's kickin' the shit out of now.
"Bite me, bitch," the brunette girl says. Something's not right, she doesn't smell like the other girls. It's like she human, but she's not. Alice draws back her arm for another strike and I catch it. She turns her head to me.
"Well, looks like Li wants to play," she say's getting in a pouncing stance.
"Leave. Now. Or do I have to tell the whole yard what ya really did to get in here?" Alice tells everyone that she got in for murdering three men, but that's not what her record says. She actually raped and killed a thirteen year old boy and if that was to leak out she'd become somebody's bitch and the guards will let them have at her. She visually gulps at my threat, she thought no one knew, but I did she had the scent of the boy's blood on her when she got in.
"You don't know nothin'," she says getting in my face.
"Oh, I don't? Tell me Alice, how was that little boy ya raped and killed? Did ya get ya jollies?" I seethe to her and she attacks me, I pick her up and throw her over my head just to scare her. She lands and I can hear the bones brake in her back.
"I don't want to see ya mess with anybody again, got it?" I don't wait for the answer. I go straight to the brunette girl and help her up.
"Hey, I'm Li,"
"Faith,"
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I'm pulled out of my thoughts by Giles waving his hand in front of me
"Hello, Li, are you with us?"
"Yeah, I'm with ya. So what did ya say?" I say. He sighs audibly. Dipshit gives me a glare and Willow gives me a half grin.
"I said I want you, Willow, and Xander to go out on patrol, see if you can find this Reshiek demon,"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, there, watcher man, uhm…no. Me, Rex and Evy are goin' out on patrol. You four are goin' to stay here and look up that Resnak character, I'm thinkin' it has somethin' to do with this," I say as I get up to walk away, but dipshit speaks up and stops me.
"Who do you think you are, bossing us around?" I get pissed at this
"Excuse me? I'm sorry, but I have two slayers out of commission right now and at any moment they're goin' to wake up and they're goin' to try to kill each other. Do want that to happen? So you're goin' to have to stay alive so in other words: STAY HERE," I turn my head to Willow. "Willow, I think we have a room with a bunch of ingredients for spells and stuff, so if you'll just follow my dad he'll show ya where it's at," I say and turn to head for the weapons rack until someone stops me again.
"What can I do?" Dawn asks. She is such a sweetheart.
"You can stay here and help the others; I don't want ya gettin' hurt, ok?" I say as I smooth some strands of her hair behind her ear.
"But, I can hold my own," she say looking at me with that pout.
"Please, humor me, 'cause if anythin' happened to ya…I don't know what I'd do," I say and then give her a passionate kiss and walk away to get ready. We need to move fast 'cause sunrise is in two hours.
DPOV
After Li walked away I'm getting wide-eyed stares from everyone except for Li's dad, who is just smirking.
"What?"
"Y-y-you just kissed her!" Willow exclaims.
"If you're going to give me the 'Oh, my god, Dawn you're a lesbian?!' speech, save it. Maybe if you had kept in touch you wouldn't be this shocked,"
"Dawnie, when did this happen?" Xander asks. Oh, I can answer that in one word.
"College," and I get a round of ahhs.
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I hate being a freshman. I can't find my classes for one. I'm walking around in some hallway, I don't know where the hell I am. My head is running in circles so much that I just bumped into some one.
"Oh sorry," I say. I scramble to collect my books and then I look up and see a beautiful tan girl with black hair and brown eyes. What the hell?! Why am I thinking she's beautiful?
"Excusi? Are you ok?"
"You're fine, I mean I'm fine, I'm Dawn," I say extending my hand to her. She takes it.
"My name's Romina,"
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I think I have a thing for girls with brown eyes.
LPOV
"I don't see anything yet," Rex says through the radio.
"Keep lookin'," I say back. We've been out here for forty-five minutes now and no sign of anything not even a fucking newborn vampire. I look up at a tree right beside me. "I'm goin' up" I report and climb into the limbs of the tree. Ah, there we go, much better view, and so far nothing.
"So Li, what are ya wearin'?"
"REX!!" Evy and I exclaim through the radio. Powers, Rex is a pervert, but he's a lovable teddy…cougar? Nonetheless.
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Once again my stupid father kicked me out. And now I have nowhere to go…again. I don't care what he says mom loved me, she'd have to want to have me right? I wonder what she looked like anyway. I'm pulled out of my thoughts by my senses telling me there are more Maji around. I sniff the air to find that one scent is familiar and one isn't.
"Hey Evy," I say with a smirk on my face, not turning my head around.
"Damn it, I can never get one over ya," she says. I turn around and she comes out from behind the alley with some guy I've never met before.
"Who's ya friend?" I say as I give her a cocked eyebrow. She turns her head to look at him and then looks back at me.
"This? This is Rex,"
"Hey," he says with an upward nod. "What's your name, chérie?"
"Rex, this is Salali," she says and I just wave at him. "So, your dad kicked ya out again?" Is it that obvious?
"Is it that obvious?"
"Pretty much. Hey why don't ya come with me? I know a place where ya can stay for the night,"
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And we all stayed up all night just talking the night away. Good times…wait I hear something. I look down at the ground in a far off distance and I see the Reshiek. Perfect it's Showtime.
DPOV
I'm getting restless, I can't stay still for a second knowing that Li can get hurt. I don't know why I'm feeling this way. I know she can handle her own, but I just can't help the feeling that something bad is going to happen. I got to get out of here. I have to get to her. I get up and head for the library without Xander and Giles noticing me leave. They're too busy looking up Resnak to notice anything. I head across the house and grab my jacket and leave. That was easier that I thought it would be.
FLPOV
Dawn just left. I better follow her. There's no way I'm going to let her get hurt out there cause if something happens to Dawn then Li will get angry and probably become a rogue.
LPOV
"Fuckin' piece of… grr," I growl out as I get up. Let me tell you, this thing is one tough bitch. I circle around it as I watch for a weak point. Apparently it's doing the same cause it has its eyes on me. We pace around each other for awhile and then I pounce; going for its shoulders, but at mid-pounce I shift into my tiger form so I can shake it up. Now we're both fighting like complete animals. It slashes its claws across my chest as I bite its neck, I shake my head to tear it veins. I was just about to finish it off before heard someone scream my name.
"LI!!" Dawn? I look up to see her and some yellow skinned demon about to attack her.
'DAWN!!' I mentally yell. I get up and run as fast as my tiger legs will take me. The demon strikes out at her, but all of the sudden I see my father in between the demon and Dawn; intercepting the attack. Oh no, Dad!
FLPOV
Fuck that was painful. I look down at my stomach and see that it's bleeding , oh no I think this is it for me. Dawn was the first to my side. That's it, I got to do it.
"Mr. Raine!!"
"This is interesting. Well, Tata for now," the demon says and vanishes in thin air.
"We need to get you ho-"
"NO! It's too late for me," I pause. It's getting hard to talk, I better do it quick. "But not it's not too late for you," I retract me fangs and bite her neck and give everything I have into it. I let go of her neck and see a white light. Adsila I'm coming home.