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a/n: I made a mistake when posting the chapters I never posted this one so I'm sorry for the mix up this is chapter twelve and i am going to repost Resurrectio. Which is chapter 13. sorry for the miz up enjoy

Chapter 12: A Ghost Between Us

“They need to be together” a voice came from the void. Hecate growled, cursing Amdis for creating the Powers.

“Shove your pompous riddles and rhymes up your high asses and feed them for some low being that is easily swayed by them. I have been around for almost as long as you have and I don’t have time to be playing these damn GAMES!” she screamed out, her eyes flashing blood red.

The powers were quiet as Hecate breathed out in anger, her body tightening as she paced in the dark room.

“So be it,” the Powers finally said.

“So be what?!” She yelled out, her impatience becoming thick in her voice. She stopped as a figure appeared in the darkness.

“Who the hell are you!” she yelled out, tapping her foot as she crossed her arms. The figure chuckled as it stepped out of the light. Hecate’s mouth dropped open as her arms fell to her side.

“Apparently I am the one who is supposed to help” the woman said, her sapphire eyes dancing in the light.

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Willow rubbed her eyes, trying to focus them back on the computer screen that she was staring at. She looked up at the clock on the shelf, its red numbers glaring midnight at her. She sighed, stretched her arms over her head, moaning in relief as she felt her back pop back into place. She turned her head, cracking her neck. She sighed again as she rubbed the sore muscles in her neck. She turned her head as she heard the door to the study open, a tired Kennedy appearing in the room.

“Baby, we will find out everything we need to know about this immortal who seems to want to help us later. You haven’t been sleeping properly ever since the beginning of the whole ordeal. The slayerettes are going to be showing up soon and you need all the energy if you want them to get settled and ready” Kennedy said, walking up behind Willow. She smiled at her lover as she placed a hand on her shoulder. Willow touched Kennedy’s hand.

“I know but I feel like I am missing something. Like I was supposed to know something but I never found out” Willow said, turning back to the computer. Kennedy sighed, rolling her eyes as she leaned against the fax machine. It rolled away from her, causing her to fall hard to the floor. Willow suppressed a laugh as Kennedy glared at her from her back.

“You know that wasn’t funny,” Kennedy growled, scrambling to her feet. Willow laughed aloud, trying unsuccessfully to muffle the noise with her hands.

“I just figure you would have learned from the last time you leaned against that thing,” Willow said smiling at her.

“Whatever” Kennedy mumbled looking down at where she landed. She frowned as she picked up the flattened paper. She opened it, reading the contents of the paper. Her eyes widened as she looked at Willow whose face was contorted in worry and curiosity.

“Honey I think I found out what you were supposed to know” Kennedy told her as she looked back down at the paper.

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Dawn wandered into the living room, sighing as Andrew’s shrieks followed her from the kitchen.

“I think they might actually kill him this time,” she said aloud, plopping down on one of the lazy chairs. Helena giggled at her as Dawn smirked.

“Why do they attack him like that?” Helena asked, her accent getting thicker as she spoke. Dawn shivered, shaking her head to clear it.

“He is just an easy target, and he always manages to be in the wrong place or say the wrong thing at the wrong time. They really love him though and wouldn’t do anything to hurt him…” she trailed off as the sound of broken glass came from the kitchen, “I hope” she ended as she looked back at Helena. They both broke out in laughter.

“Your sister said that I was going to be able to join you in New York, but it looks like things are heating up soon” Helena said as Dawn got up from her seat and fell next to her on the couch.

“Yea she had told me that. But that was all she told me, she seemed distracted the last time I talked to her. She didn’t tell me much about you,” Dawn said, smiling at her.

“Well I was born in South America but my parents ended up moving us to Southern Asia when I was 10, so I am multi-lingual. I love the states though, and my uncle always loved New York so I figured since I was given the chance I would go there,” she said. Dawn sat up and turned to face her on the couch, crossing her legs under her.

“That is cool. I grew up in California, all four years of my human existence,” Dawn said, bobbing her head up and down as she tried to stop the grin that was threatening to cross her lips at Helena’s confusion.

“To make a long story short a couple monks made me out of Buffy so she would protect me from this Hell Bitch who wanted to use me to get back to her dimension. That happened four years ago. But I have memories for as long as I remember so to me it seems like I’ve been here forever. But technically I am not” Dawn rambled. Helena blinked at her, her mouth opened in shock. She shook herself out of it, laughing at Dawn.

“So if these monks made you out of Buffy wouldn’t that make her your mother?” Helena asked. Dawn scrunched her nose,

“I never really thought of it that way. I mean all of my memories are around Buffy being my sister. I just know that I share a special bond with her that I know no one will ever be able to break. No matter how many times I manage to get on her nerves,” Dawn laughed. Helena smiled at her,

“You have a pretty smile,” she said, her smile getting wider as Dawn blushed.

“Thank you” Dawn said, looking down at her hands, a half smile gracing her lips. They sat in silence smiling at each other as Andrew’s strangled cries echoed through the house.

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Xander and Giles walked around the slayer’s barracks. Buffy had shown them around earlier before she left to talk to this new player that showed up in Sunnydale a couple weeks ago. Xander shook his head in amazement as Giles opened the door to look into one of the training rooms. “Slayer Central” was what Willow named this place, all Xander could think was how Buffy pulled this off after all these years and not let him help build it.

“I couldn’t let you know guys I’m sorry!” she said as Xander glared at her. She looked down at her feet as she played with her fingernails.

“So I tell you Xander and then suddenly something happens and this place is found out! Everyone knows you are a Scooby dammit. Why do you think demons usually attack around places you are? To get to me they know all they need to do is get you. If something ever happened to you, or if they followed you then this place would have been discovered and all of it would have been for nothing!” she stopped, taking a deep breath as Xander nodded.

“I took the greatest care then had all the workers memories erased. On the outside, this place is just another warehouse okay. They will be safe here, we cannot house those girls anymore,” she said as she walked up onto the platform that overlooked the training rooms.

“Okay but how would you know to make this place this big?” Xander asked her.

“I knew that over time we would probably come across a problem like we did with the mayor where we would have to gather a large amount of people to help fight. I wanted to be better prepared so I made this place,” she said as he took a deep breath. After a moment of silence he looked over at her and smiled goofily,

“So you got any money for dinner?” They broke out laughing, smiling at each other as they walked down the stairs.

Xander was now leading Giles around the place, smiling at his awe of what Buffy did.

“And to think we believed Buffy to be just another blonde slayer” Xander laughed as Giles glared at him

“It does seem even we can underestimate her at times” he said as he took his glasses off, polishing them. Xander smiled at him,

“Yes it does”

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Buffy sat up, rubbing her eyes as she looked around the room. She was still at the mansion; a small fire was still burning in the fireplace. She stretched her arms over her head, the sound of the vertebrae in her back snapping into place echoed throughout the room. She looked over at the clock on the wall, the outside. The clock glared 11:45 as she walked out of the room into the courtyard. She stopped when she saw Faith. She watched her silently as she went through her movements. She had never seen that kind of Tai Chi before, it looked graceful, ancient. Faith smiled as she stopped, opening her eyes. The moon shone behind her, Buffy’s breath caught in her throat.

“Good evening” Faith smiled as she walked over to her. Buffy watched her muscles ripple with each step, her movements graceful over the stone floor. She had on black flowing pants and a short black top, her feet bare and her hair pulled back into a messy ponytail. Buffy muttered a good evening back to her as she looked up into her eyes. They stared at each other, the moon making the courtyard glow. Buffy’s mind raced back into the day’s events. She had spent the early hours training with Faith, and then had a wonderful meal as they talked about everything that was anything. They skirted around the serious topics, wanting to just spend one night getting to know each other,

Buffy pushed back the plate, rubbing her stomach as she moaned in contentment. Faith laughed at her as she waved the plate into the sink.

“I’ve never made a woman moan like by cooking for her” she chuckled as Buffy’s face flushed.
“Well it was delicious,” she said as she looked out the window. The sun was rising over the horizon. She sighed as she stood up, causing Faith to frown at her.

“What’s the matter?” she asked, as Buffy’s face grew sadder.

“I should be heading home right now. But that means that I have to face reality and I don’t want to do that yet” she sighed. Faith stood up, taking her hand in hers and she moved closer to Buffy. She brought their hands up to their chests and looked deeply into her eyes.

“Then stay with me, even if it is just for a few more hours. Stay with me and forget reality” she said softly. Buffy shivered as she felt the deep rumble of Faith’s voice vibrate in her chest. She looked up into her eyes, falling deeper into the swirl of green, brown and gold.

“Only for a few hours” she whispered to her.

They sat on the couch talking about Buffy’s childhood and the things she liked to do. They talked about Faith’s love of poetry; Buffy even got a private reading of some of the poetry she had written over the years.

Faith shook her head, as Buffy’s pleas grew more insistent.

“C’mon Faith. I want to hear some of your poetry,” she begged, smiling as she realized Faith was just playing hard to get.

“You’ve probably heard some of my poetry before, in your English classes in high school,” she said as she leaned back into the couch, the noonday sun blocked by heavy, dark curtains.

“Are you serious?” Buffy looked at her incredulously. Faith smiled at her, enjoying the wonderment that appeared on Buffy’s face whenever she brought up history.

“What you think Shakespeare could write all those plays, sonnets and poems in his lifetime. The man did have a life though, even if he was sleeping with his neighbor” she smiled as she went to the bookshelf, pulling out a book.

“You mean he was cheating on his wife with another woman,” Buffy asked, acting as if she knew him and saw him everyday. Faith laughed at her,

“More like him, he was sleeping with his neighbor’s husband” she chuckled as Buffy’s jaw dropped in shock.

“No WAY!” she exclaimed, disbelief settling in her eyes.

“Yea but I can’t prove it anymore. Almost all of the evidence of his life has been destroyed. Now I have to listen to men and women speculate and it drives me insane,” she said as she flipped through the pages. Buffy looked at the book intently. Faith smiled at her curiosity.

“A good friend of mine gave me this book to write in. These poems are over 3 billion years old” she sighed, running her hands over the yellowed pages.

“It’s in good condition” Buffy smiled at her softly. Faith chuckled at her.

“It should be mulch. I cast a spell on it so the only this it would do is have the pages yellow over time” she said as she looked down at the poem.

“Brilliant red and orange
Sparking into the air
Dying on the ground
Littering corpses overlapping and rotting
Swept away like dust
Colors dulled of black and brown
No life left inside the veins
Of the millions that are dying today
Wind relentless
Fanning the flames
No water could save it
No individual can stand out
Among the dying dawn
Nothing left of golden life
Change cannot be stalled
Days of cold are near
Tears gone no one cries
For those million who died
Tears frozen
On the sunless dawn
Darkness prevailed
Their yearly wake
No matter how hard they tried
They just can’t shake
Cannot avoid their fate.”

Faith looked up as she ended, her eyes softening as she saw Buffy’s eyes tear.

“That was beautiful” was all she could manage to say. Faith smiled shyly, looking down at the page again.

“I wrote it as I watched Fall creep upon Atlantis. I was sitting in a garden that surrounded the castle and there was this beautiful tree, so old yet strong. It was glowing a bright red in the setting sunlight and it just moved me…” she trailed off, her eyes growing sad as the memories of her time in Atlantis flooded her mind. Buffy looked at her, studying the array of emotions that crossed over Faith’s face.

“Tell me about Atlantis,” she said softly, breaking Faith out of her memories. Faith smiled at her.

“You would have loved it B. There was never a more beautiful and peaceful place than Atlantis. Even I was tamed by its charm; it was so warm and loving. The people were vibrant and carefree and a general feeling of happiness filled the air. And when something bad happened, the entire country mourned. In all my years of watching this planet and its people, I have never seen such a unified and wonderful country. The rich colors of the forests contrasted gracefully against the deep sparkling blue sea. And its ruler was the gentlest creature of them all” she smiled, blood tears brimming her eyes.
She took an unneeded breath before continuing.

“You’ve seen her picture before. Her name was Eve and she was beautiful, and mysterious. You could not help but be drawn into her, especially because of her eyes. They were as blue as the sea…” Faith smiled lovingly. Buffy frowned as she felt a pang of jealousy pull at her heart.

“You loved her” she said quietly, Faith stared off into the fire.

“Yes I did. But it was a long time ago. It is best to leave things in the past sometimes. You need to move on otherwise you drive yourself crazy. And if you were like me and lived forever, well that would not be an enjoyable experience” Faith chuckled closing the book. Buffy stared at her in silence for a few minutes before smiling at her.

“You are right, because time does go on and you never know what new thing can be right in front of you,” she whispered to her. Faith looked up at her sharply, searching her eyes for a hidden meaning. Buffy just smiled at her and put her hand on her shoulder.

Faith looked up at the clear sky, smiling as Buffy’s memories fading back to the present. They stood there in silence, watching a shooting star fly across the sky. Buffy was the one to break the silence.

“The others will be worried about me, I really should be getting home,” she said softly, hating that her words were true. Faith smiled at her again.

“How bout I take you home,” she said, scooping Buffy into her arms.

“Whaaaa!” was all Buffy could say as they flew off into the night sky.

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“YOU REALLY EXPECT HER TO BE HELPFUL!!!” Hecate screamed out into the room. The girl in front of her flinched as the noise echoed.

“She will do fine” the voices boomed.

“YEA SHE WILL BE FINE IF YOU WANT TO ROYALLY SCREW WITH THESE TWO!! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS? MOST OF ALL TO FAITH WHO JUST TO REMIND YOU IS YOUR CREATOR!!” Hecate screamed, her chest heaving as she took deep breaths.

“It is done, everything will happen accordingly” the voice said, fading away.

“OOH NO YOU DON’T COME BACK HERE!!!!!!!” Hecate screamed out, glaring at the girl in front of her. The girl just shrugged and smiled.

“Oh this is going to be peachy,” Hecate growled at her, grabbing onto her hand. They disappeared from the room.

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Buffy smiled and hugged Faith goodbye as she stood on the path leading to the front porch.

“Thanks for the ride, that was truly amazing” she smiled at her. Faith shrugged her shoulders, giving her a lopsided grin.

“I love to fly, wanted you to experience it,” she said nonchalantly as she backed away from Buffy, walking into the middle of the street.

“Catcha later B” she waved as she disappeared into the night.

“Bye” Buffy said as the wind blew past her. She walked to the door, smiling to herself as she reached for the doorknob. The door blew open to reveal a disheveled red head,

“We have a problem”.


A/n: sorry it’s kinda short
The poem is called “On Fire” and it is by me so if anyone rips it off I will hunt you down and sue it. It is 0745 hrs on July 6, 2005. SO There you cannot take it now LOLOL I know I am being silly. Hope you enjoyed the chapter, I hope to have chapter 13 up soon. Love ya all. Shout out to AR for the great review.