Alright guys it's that time again. I was trying to get this story to about 40 chapters but now realize that was lofty lol I'm thinking no more than 30 if I even get there. So that means that things will heat up and heat up quickly. I know some people have questions and I promise they will all be answered! Also someone asked if Emily is still hiding her secret and the answer is yes but it will shortly come into light, so very very soon! :) As always thank you all for the reviews/ favorites/ follows/ you guys are seriously the best and I will respond to all of the reviews tomorrow or Tuesday at some point? I'm crazy busy this week :(

I'm extremely tired and super behind on homework and reading! These next few weeks are going to be busy for me so I'm going to try my hardest to get a chapter up every week. On with it then!

P.S. Also I apologize if I've used the religious joke already that Gina uses in this chapter. I honestly can't remember if I have used it or not already *shrugs*

I dont own skins/ buffy but imagine if I did?!

Chapter 21

Emily's POV

I wake up to sunlight streaming onto my face, causing me to wince when I finally open my eyes. I look around the room, noticing the equality and earth posters and realize that I'm not in my room. Why am I not in my room? I turn my head to the side and I feel like a hammer hit me in the face. I moan and bring my hand up to rub my temples.

"Fucking Cook." I grumble, my voice barely even making noise at how thirsty I am. I'm never drinking again. The night comes back to me in blurs and flashes, going out with the gang, taking a large number of tequila shots with Cook, dancing with Naomi and then... blank. Well at least we made it back here. I look over at Naomi and try to gently wake her up, needing to get some food into my system and soon.

"Naoms...Naomi, wake up." I rub her back and whisper into her ear softly, not wanting to alarm her.

"Fucks sake mum, ten more minutes." She mumbles and moves the pillow over her head. I giggle at the sight. Looks like I'm on my own then. I make my way out of bed, going slowly so I don't disturb sleeping beauty. I go to open the door to Naomi's room when I hear something downstairs, from what sounds like the kitchen. I pause and listen and when I hear someone whistling I realize that it can't be a burglar. It must be something worse... Naomi's mum. Fuck, fuck, fuck! I haven't even met her yet! I can't meet her for the first time hung the fuck over! I weigh my options and decide that if I don't eat food soon I'll end up eating Naomi... and not in the good way. I pause at the door again realizing that meeting Naomi's mother in my underwear probably wont get me any points so I quickly steal a t-shirt and a pair of shorts from Naomi's closet. I take a deep breath and open her door, ready for whatever is to come.

I make my way into the kitchen and see that Naomi's mum isn't alone, Effy is leaning against the counter talking more than I've ever seen.

"Emily, nice of you to join the land of the living." Effy says smirking into her cup of tea. Naomi's mum quickly turns around from whatever delicious smelling thing she was cooking at the stove and looks at me. She's tall and blonde with Naomi's eyes except she looks completely open, unlike Naomi when I first met her. She looks warm and inviting, so in other words the complete opposite of my own mother.

"Emily! So good to finally meet you! I've heard so much about you!" She comes over to me and pulls me into a giant hug, similar to a Cook hug except more tender.

"Don't smother her Gin, I think Ems is a bit queasy this morning."

She lets me go and laughs at Eff, "I did hear you all come home very early this morning."

"Sorry about that Miss Campbell, I hope we weren't to loud." I say sheepishly, hoping that I haven't given her the wrong impression already. She waves it away as if waving away a fruit fly.

"Please call me Gina, Miss Campbell is my mother. Now how about some tea? Effy and I were just going to sit down for some." I smiler at her.

"That would be fantastic." She leads me to the table and sits me down and I silently thank her because my hungover body wouldn't have been able to stand for much longer.

We sat around quietly for a bit, chatting lightly, but I could feel the tension in the air and from the way in which Effy was being even more cryptic than usual, she could as well. I wanted to do my best to make Gina like me, especially knowing how important she is to Naomi. We casually chatted about school, traveling, future goals etc. It was all very nice but I could tell she wanted to talk about something else.

"So Emily, are you religious?" I scrunch my eyes and look at Effy, she looks just as puzzled as I do so I decide to go along with it.

"Not really, no."

"Hmm... then how dear did you get Naomi to praise God's name a dozen times last night." She asks with a smirk. I see Effy choke on her tea and let out a loud laugh, one of the loudest I've ever heard from her. I feel my cheeks go red and I look down at the table.

"I'm just playing dear! I don't care! Silly old me trying to lighten the mood a bit and I've gone and embarrassed you. Don't tell my daughter you know how she gets." I laugh at her, feeling the tension leave my body which is why I wasn't expecting what she was going to bring up next.

"So Naomi told you she's the slayer then?" I nod slowly.

"Well, I sort of found out. But she's told me everything."

"That's good, it's good to have an open relationship and to trust each other enough to talk to one another." I nod at her. I feel Effy eyes on me and can't help but feel guilty knowing that I'm hiding something from Naomi.

"She's told you about her nightmares then?" Effy asks.

"Yeah, she mentioned them to me. We haven't really talked in detail about them but I got the gist of it." Effy nods as does Gina.

"So you know then how important you are to her?" I look at her questioningly, not really sure what she's talking about. I go to ask Gina what she means but Effy quickly cuts me off.

"You know she hasn't had one since you've guys have been together. I think it's because you are always there, sleeping beside her." I smile at this information, happy in the fact that I can at least help Naomi in this one thing.

"You're good for her Emily. And she's good for you, I can see the light in your eyes. She's a very special girl, very stubborn and bitchy, but special non the less. Cherish her." I nod at Gina.

"I will." She reaches over and grabs my hand in hers and smiles.

"That's all I ask." Our moment was short lived however when I heard a scream come from Naomi's room. I quickly jumped to my feet, taking the stairs two at time, Effy and Gina quickly behind me. I threw open Naomi's door and quickly assessed the room, seeing no threat I ran to her small and shaking form. I jump into the bed next to Naomi and pull her to my chest. I run my hand through her hair and down her back, trying to soothe her shaking bones.

"It's okay Naoms, I'm right here. We're all right here." She quits down after a while and lifts her head delicately to look around the room and finally at me.

"You shouldn't have to see me like this." She wipes her eyes, trying to hide her tears from me. I quickly pull her hands away from her face and look directly into her eyes.

"Don't give me that bullshit Campbell. I want to see all of you, not just the happy sunshine parts, granted there aren't many of those, but don't you dare try and hide yourself from me. Ever." I kiss her forehead and pull away, seeing that she is much better than when I first came up here.

"Scale of one to ten?" Effy asks. I don't ask her what she means, it must be something that they do regularly when she has nightmares.

"Fifteen." Naomi and Effy share a look between them, seeming to have a conversation all by simply looking at each other.

"Well now that that's over, I'm starving." Naomi says, pulling herself out of bed and into a t shirt and pants. "Note to self, never have a nightmare during a hangover. Holy fuck." I can tell that Naomi is trying to lighten the mood but I catch the look that Gina and Effy give to each other as Naomi leaves her bedroom and I can't help but be afraid of what's to come.

"Whoever decided that the weekend is only two days should be shot." Naomi grumpily mumbled her way up the steps to college.

"I'm sure Giles had a say innit. Guy gets all lonesome withou' us." Cook says.

"He probably did! I'm going to kill him later."

"Naomi you can't kill your watcher. And I don't think Effy would be to happy with you after that."

"Yeah you're probably right. Though do I really need Effy now that I have you?" Naomi playfully says leaning in to kiss me but is abruptly stopped because Effy hits her on the side of the head.

"Ow Eff! That was a sucker shot."

"Oops." Effy smiles and walks away. Naomi turns back to me.

"Now where were we?"

"I think we were somewhere around here." I pull myself into her, just before our lips can touch I hear my name over the intercom, calling me to the office.

"For fucks sake! It's like this entire school is out to get me today." I laugh at her pout and give her a quick peck on the lips.

"Library after class?" Naomi asks and I nod, turning around to walk to the office.

When I get there I tell the secretary my name and she points to the directors office. I'm confused as to why he would need to see me but I knock on the door anyways, waiting to find out. I enter his office and see that its very plain, no pictures or anything in the entire room. The whole room is empty save for a large chair and desk in the middle, in which I see the director writing on. I take a seat across from him and wait until he stops his writing and looks up at me. For some reason, his eyes are familiar to me but I can't seem to place them.

"Hello Emily, I'm Mr. Foster." He holds out his hand and I take it, shaking it quickly.

"Your probably wondering why you're here." I nod at him, signaling him to go on.

"You see it's routine to check up on new students, to see how they are fitting in. So, hows it going?" I almost laugh in his face but barely restrain myself. For some reason this guy gives me the creeps and I can't help but already be on my guard.

"No offense sir, but its more than half way through the year. I think that if I wasn't fitting in it'd be a little late for anything to change." I see a brief flash of anger cross his eyes before he composes himself quickly.

"Of course, silly of me to ask. How is the library? I'm to understand that you spend a lot of time there, am I correct?" He looks at me and I feel my skin crawl. This guys a creep.

"...yes."

"Good, good. It never hurts to read and of course that librarian is another form of entertainment for some students. A particular group that spend almost all of there time there. You are close with them aren't you?" I nod, feeling confused as to why he would need to know all of this.

"If you don't mind my asking, why is it that you all choose the library? Why not the field outside?" I obviously can't tell him the truth so I quickly make up a lie and run with it.

"It's quiet. We like the quiet." He looks me in the eyes, challenging me but I refuse to break eye contact and force him instead to do so.

"Well then Emily. It's good to see that you're fitting in. That is all, you may head back to class now."

The rest of the day goes by without incident, though I can't help but think about that weird meeting with the director as I'm walking into the library and and lean against the table. I see the rest of the gang come in and sit around the table. Naomi comes over to me and wraps her arm around my waist and kisses the side of my head. I lean into her arms, feeling better now that she's there. There's no place safer than Naomi's arms.

"Em, what did they want with you at the office?" Katie asks.

"I don't really know honestly. Mr. Foster wanted to talk to me... it was odd."

"That guys a right nutjob ain' he? Fuckin' rubs me the wrong way." Cook says, a shiver running through his body.

"I would have to agree with Mr. Cook on this one. He is a very strange man." Giles says cleaning his glasses and putting them into his pocket.

"What do you think Naoms?" I turn to look at Naomi and see that she's not really paying attention. For all intents and purposes she is there and awake but her eyes are void and it looks almost like she's staring at a spot on the floor particularly hard.

"Naoms?" I ask her again, getting a bit panicked when she doesn't respond to my call or to that of anyone else. I shake her gently and she still doesn't move. I get desperate and shake her even harder, calling out her name in the process. In a flash of speed I see her hand whip out at me. I feel her hand come up and grab me at the throat, a look I've never seen in her eyes before, one of anger and all encompassing fear. I feel her hand squeeze my throat tighter and I grab with both of my hands to pull her off.

"Naomi!" I try to yell at her but I can see that it's not really her right now, she's not really there. I start to see dots and feel the blood start to rush to my head, getting dizzier the longer she holds onto me. I see Giles and Cook grabbing at Naomi's arm, trying to pull her off of me. I feel the darkness coming in, taking over, I try to fight it but I can't. The last thing that I see is Naomi come back to herself and complete heartbreak comes to her feature. I see her lips move but I can't hear what she's saying. The last thing I say before the darkness takes me is Naomi's name.

*Shuffles out and giggle manically* I wonder what will happen next?! ;)

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Now I have to go read an entire book for tomorrow. Its already 1 am here. I swear I must be a masochist.