A/N: You know if I was to get more reviews from people maybe I would update more often.

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DPOV

"Li, I'm sorry, but I need to know what happened," Giles asks. I look at her and I can tell that she wants to either tear him to shreds or just break down. I mean you would too, if you saw your father die in front of you, right? She's trying to keep strong, that much I know. She looks to me for confirmation on rather she should say something or not and I nod my head, silently telling her that it's ok.

"I found the Reshiek, I fought it and I was just about to kill it, until I heard Dawn scream, I ran as fast as I could to stop this demon from attackin', but my dad beat me to it… and took the blow," Giles eyes soften a bit and Xander actually looks sad for Li. "He died saving Dawn, but before he died he gave her his powers,"

"So you're saying…" Giles was about to ask until Li cut her off.

"No, not completely, at least not yet, she has to see the elders and go through trials," Trials? I have to go through trials? I hope it's not one of those you-lose-you-die kinda trials, but with my luck it is.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, you mean to say that Dawn's a tiger now? My little Dawnie?" Xander says building rage. "First it's the dating thing, which far be it from me to say that two girls can't date, but I honestly don't see what she sees in you and now you're telling me that Dawn's a tiger?! If your dad was alive I'd kill him myself!" he rages out. I look at Li and see tears already forming and now I'm pissed.

"Listen here you poor excuse for a man, you hate me for being gay, you hate me for now being a Maji, but you WILL NOT talk to her like that and about her father in that way, that man saved my life, he saved my life not only for me, but for her, and I will not sit here taking your shit. So you either shut up and help look for something on Resnak, or you can get the fuck out and if you chose neither, I will make you get the fuck out, is that clear?" I roar at the end for good measure.

"Crystal," Xander gulps audibly. Li looks at me with a relieved look on her face and I come closer to her and wrap my arms around her and let her cry her eyes out which she does, but she isn't sobbing, she's just holding on for dear life and crying silently. I look over to Giles as he reaches for another book on the shelf, cracks it open, and skims through it. He stops and faces me and Li.

"I believe I've found something," Giles says and he puts the book down on the table. Both Li and I break the hug and she clears herself up. She looks down at the page of Resnak and both her and I gasp and start to build rage.

"We saw her… out on patrol… this fuckin' bitch is goin' down!" Li seethes. She backs off and heads to a weapons case, but Giles stops her.

"Hold on there, Li hear this. Resnak has many followers, not including the Reshiek, one in particular called Meletus, the jester of corruption,"

"Oh boy, I've read about him, He enter people's minds and screws with their memories, and poison their minds, but the only way he could get in there in the first place is…oh fuck," I run downstairs and race to Buffy, Faith, and Willow with the rest of them following me. I look at the three sprawled out on the couch and they all look like they're having a nightmare.

"The only way he can enter someone's head is if they recover lost memories, something tells me that Resnak didn't want them to kill each other,"

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To be continued in my next installment; Wrong Way Out.