AN: BTVS doesn't belong to me. Thank you for your reviews.

Shaking her head to clear the darkness from her eyes, Lilith saw that everything was still blurry and any noises she heard were fuzzy. She tried to escape despite the splitting headache she has but she found that she couldn't move. This alerted everyone in the room that she was awake. Lilith looked around the room noting that she was still in the house she had been in when the blonde had knocked her out. Buffy was standing in front of the brunette child and looking between the recently awaken rouge and her. She was trying to figure out what happened with her mother still out cold upstairs. The only other people in the room were the Scoobies and Riley.

"We should just call the Initiative to get both of them." Riley said to the blonde slayer eagerly.

"No, they would experiment with them and I don't know what they would do with a slayer in their possession." Buffy said with finality in her voice.

Lilith felt warmth at seeing the Initiative grunt put in his place by his superior. She let a smirk grace her usually emotionless face. Seeing this, Riley snapped and punched Lilith across the face splitting her lip again. He went to strike her again when Buffy caught him and pulled him away from her. This didn't stop the warm feeling or the smirk from falling from her face. Buffy had looked at Riley with anger. Faith looked like she could kill the soldier.

"Riley, what the hell was that? She is just a child even if she is different. We don't hit kids." Buffy yelled into his face.

"Buffy, she has killed people and stabbed me and this is a good way to get information on Adam and his plans." Riley tried to explain.

"Go to hell, mother fucker. That's not a good reason to go around striking children." Faith yelled at the pair.

"You will not raise a hand to Lilith." A new voice interrupted from the doorway.

They all turned to the door way and were shocked to see a very awake and angered Joyce. Buffy went to make sure her mom was okay while Riley tried to salvage this meeting of Buffy's mom. The rest were shocked that Joyce was sticking up for the emotionless child. Lilith straightened up at the sight of one of her leaders but was confused as to why she was conversing with the enemy. This was new for the little assassin as there was no way this woman would have been so accommodating if she were the enemy. 'I don't get it. She can't be the enemy unless she was supposed to turn me against Brother. No, there has to be another reason. She is a superior and I should not be questioning her methods,' Lilith thought.

"Now, why is Lilith tied up?" Joyce asked annoyed.

"She is dangerous, mom. How did you even come into contact with her?" Buffy asked curiously.

"I was coming out of the grocery when I saw her. She looked so lost and dirty so I offered her a meal and a shower." Joyce explained.

"What? You just offered and she came. That's strange." Buffy said

"And here I thought you just had kids doing your work for you." Faith laughed.

"So the mighty rouge Slayer got beat by a ten year old." Willow taunted.

"At least, she lasted longer than that disgrace of a soldier." A surprisingly laughing tone coming from Lilith, which caused Riley to try to hit her again but was caught by Buffy again.

"Riley, if you can't get a hold of yourself than you need to leave." Joyce told him with a threating undertone.

"What! She is sitting there trying to humiliate me and you aren't doing anything to stop it." Riley fussed.

"I am not going to let you hit a child." Joyce told the disgruntled Iowa boy.

Oblivious to the argument going on, Lilith sunk deep into thought. 'I knew she was no traitor. She is trying to help me but she isn't fighting them. What was it that the Blonde had called her? Mom. Doesn't that mean creator or at least that is according to Brother. So she made the Blonde does that mean that she is my enemy but I don't want to fight her. Even if she were my enemy, why is she being so nice to me? I don't get this place. These people are so confusing.' Lilith's head felt like it was going to split in two. It was like a battle was taking place in her head. Her training and soldier nature was fighting against these new emotions. Faith saw a slip in the child's mask. She couldn't, for some reason, stand to see her in pain and no one was paying attention to the little girl they were so vehemently arguing about, despite losing earlier.

"HEY! Why don't you guys just shut up and help the poor kid that looks like her head is about to explode." Faith yelled at them.

"Lilith, can you hear me? Are you okay?" Joyce concern coloring her face.

"What is wrong with this place? There are so many things here that don't make sense." Lilith answered through clenched teeth.

"This is the real world. Nothing ever really makes sense but its okay if you don't understand. You are just a child." Joyce said soothingly.

"These weird reactions what are they and why do I have them? I want them to go away again." Lilith said with a few tears leaking down her face.

"Those are emotions and that is because you are human. You shouldn't want them to go away or you will be left as a shell." Joyce said pulling the still chained child into a hug.

"No, I AM NOT HUMAN! I am a soldier and nothing else. Emotions are useless for a soldier." Lilith yelled before completely breaking down.

Joyce ignored the ringing in her ear Lilith's yelling and pulled the girl tighter to her. She kept trying to sooth the ten year old in her arms over the mutterings of 'I'm a disgrace'. It was repeated over and over as she slipped back into exhaustion. The oldest Summers turned to her daughter and held her hand out for the key. Buffy didn't hesitate to disobey her mom and helped her mom take Lilith up to Buffy's old room to sleep. The room was still in a state of shock when they arrived back. Even Faith looked pensive about what just happened.

AN: Sorry if this seems kind of short but I thought it would be a good place to stop. So please review and help me get better.