Double the trouble, Double the pain

Chapter 2: Now the Pain

Buffy woke with a huge headache. Rubbing her head, she looked around. “Faith I think we're in trouble. We should go get…” She stopped in mid statement when she looked into the mirror. She wasn’t twenty-one anymore. In fact she wasn’t even Buffy, she was a little girl…she was Faith.

“FAITH, you little bitch get your ass in here.” She heard a man's voice yell for the other slayer. Buffy looked around trying to figure out what to do. As it accrued to her that there was no way out, she sighed and walked towards the voice.

Buffy walked into what looked like a living room of the apartment she woke up in. She seen a man sitting in a run down recliner, he had short black hair and a beer belly. His arms were big with tattoos. He wore a white ‘wife beater’ tank top with black jeans. He had a beer in one hand and a cigarette burning in the other. The man turned from the TV that he was watching and looked at Buffy.

“What are you looking at? You stupid piece of shit.” The man yelled at her.

“You called her…or me.” She replied.

The man jumped up and hit her across the face sending the small child to the floor. He then kicked her in the ribs. “Don’t you talk back to me! You low life free loading son-of-a bitch!” He yelled at her.

“Please don’t hit me.” Buffy said.

“What? You stupid cunt I’m your father I own you and I’ll hit you if I want. You’re so fucking weak.” He said as he kicked her again. This time he knocked her out.
***

Faith’s eyes opened when she heard Joyce calling Buffy.

“Buffy dear come into the kitchen, your fathers’ home.”

Faith looked around the bedroom she woke up in. There were pictures of ice skaters on the wall, and stuffed animals on the bed. The room was painted pink and the curtains had flowers on them. Faith took the room in as she walked over to the mirror and seen a small blond girl looking back at her.

“What the hell? Oh, shit if I’m you then that means you’re…oh no B. You’re me!” She said as she looked at the reflection. “Hang in there B I’ll come and get you…some how.” She said as she ran out of the room to the kitchen.

Joyce watched as the little girl ran into the kitchen. The child had a look of pure fear. “Joyce…or mom. Hi we need to go to Boston.” She said as she ran to the back door.

“Buffy what are you talking about. We can’t just go to Boston right now. You’re so silly.” Joyce told her daughter as she hugged her.

‘Great thinking Faith, you’re what seven and Buffy. Could you get any dumber’ she thought as Buffy’s mother took her into a tight embrace.

“Now your father is in the pantry and he has a surprise for you.” Joyce told Buffy.

‘Okay what would Buffy do?’ Faith thought. “Oh goodie a surprise. What is it?” She asked jumping up and down. ‘Oh gods being B is just torture.’ She thought.

“Okay Buffy settle down and he’ll give you your surprise.” Joyce laughed and hugged the little girl.

‘How am I going to get to Buffy? Oh great more hugs.’ She thought.

“Honey I have a surprise for you.” Hank Summers came out of the pantry with a box under his arm.
Faith looked at the man standing before her. She looked at him and remembered the things Buffy had told Willow and her about her father. “Oh a present.” Faith thought quickly.

“Go ahead and open it.” Hank said with a smile.

Faith took the box and opened it to find ice skates. “Oh thank you Daddy I love them.”
‘What the fuck am I going to do with ice skates? Can B get any cheesier?’ She thought as she ran out of the kitchen to Buffy’s bedroom.
“Okay so get through to bed time and then sneak out and find a way to Boston. If I don’t have, slayer strength then Buffy won’t either and she’s as good as dead. I barely survived it.” Faith told herself as she sat in Buffy’s room.
***

When Buffy came, too she felt her head and found a big bump on the back of her head. Her ribs hurt and her mouth was still bleeding. She was now in a bedroom she looked around and seen an older girl coming in she had a bowl of water. The older girl pulled the chair up to the bed and sat down on the only other piece of furniture in the room. “Dad’s passed out so you’re going to be fine for now. Faith as soon as I can come up with the money we’re out of here I promise little sister. I don’t think he broke anything this time.

“Where would we go?” Buffy asked the girl.

“I don’t know but anywhere is better than here yeah.” The girl said.

“Okay could be that I took a beating but I can’t remember your name.” Buffy tried to talk like Faith.

“Your funny squirt. But I’ll play alone names Hope.” She looked at Buffy and she could see Faith in the girl. She now understood who her roll-model was she didn’t know that Faith had any siblings. ‘Okay so now I can get this girl to take me to Sunnydale.’ She thought.

“We could go to Sunnydale.” Buffy told Hope.

“Sunnydale? Where is that and why?” Hope asked her little sister.

“Its in California and I don’t know it sounds like a fun place. I always wanted to go to a place were there was a lot to do.” Buffy said.

“Okay Sunnydale it is then!” Hope took her sister into her arms and rocked her until she fell to sleep. “Sleep now little one, he’ll be back and you’ll need your rest.” Hope smoothed the child as she slept.

***
That night after dinner, Faith went up to Buffy’s room and planed her escape to Boston. “Okay if I’m right then Buffy is receiving the beatings of her life. Dad hated me with a passion, like it was my fault. Anyway, this isn’t about me I have to get to Buffy. I just hope that…that’s it Hope she’s there!” Faith got ready for bed and was just about to crawl in when Joyce came to the door.

“Buffy dear are you feeling alright? You don’t want to com watch Fame with us?” Buffy’s mother sat on the edge and placed her hand on Buffy’s forehead. “You don’t have a fever are you tired?” Joyce asked.

“Yes mommy I’m tired. I just want to sleep okay” Faith tried not to laugh at the whole mother caring thing. ‘Damn B you had it all!’ she thought as Joyce left the room.

Faith waited until she heard the two adults entering their bedroom. Then she got up and got dressed. “Okay so I’m seven years old and running away from home. Sounds about right but not for Buffy. Oh well I have to get to B.” Faith moved to the window and opened it she was about to crawl out when she heard the fight in the next room.

“What do you mean I spoil her Joyce? She’s my only daughter and I’ll give her…” Faith turned and crawled out of the window to the ground in front of the house. “I can’t care if Hank is spoiling B or not anyway that’s Willow’s job now so fuck it.” She ran down the street and found a pay phone. She looked in the phone book for a name. “Okay Buffy’s first watch was here in L.A. right so he has to be in here.” She flipped through the pages until she found the person she was looking for. Faith put the change into the phone and dialed the number. “Hey you don’t know me but you will. Now listen up I need you to call…”

***
Buffy lay in the girls arm until she heard the front door slam against the wall. “Faith I found your slut of a mother come and see.” He yelled

Hope helped the broken girl up and lead her into the living room. There stood a woman badly beaten and the man who had beat her earlier. She turned and looked up at Hope the other girl nodded her head just a little but Buffy caught the gesture.

Faith’s father walked over and punched Buffy in the face. “I can see him in that ugly face of your. You’re going to be a slut just like your mother.” He said as he hit her again. “You’re a bastard and a worthless piece of shit. I can’t look at you.” He took Buffy by the throat and threw her into the wall behind her. “I would rather see you dead.” He yelled in her face.

Hope stepped to his side. “Daddy please just leave her be.” She told the out rate man. “Mom is the one you hate more not her.”

“Mind your own business child!” He yelled at Faith’s sister.

***
Back in Sunnydale, the gang walked through the cemetery looking for the two slayers. “Giles are you sure Faith came out tonight? What did her note say?” Willow asked the watcher.

“Yes well the note said she was going on an extra patrol. She said that she didn’t want to go home quite yet.” He told the hacker. “Dawn you seen Faith before she left the Magic Box did you not?” He asked the teen.

“Yes she was upset about something and said she was going to patrol.” Dawn gave the information.

“Okay so why are we out here again if both of the slayers are out slaying?” Xander asked.

“Because Buffy never came home and I called Faith’s room and she wasn’t there either. Dawn told them. “So we…Giles look there they are. What happen?” She asked as she ran to the two slayers lying in the grass. “Giles I think they’re hurt!” She called back to the watcher. Dawn checked Buffy and then moved to Faith. She put her hand on the dark beauty’s chest and felt for breathing. “Giles she’s breathing but they don’t look hurt.”

“Okay we should move them back to Buffy’s and keep them worm.” The watch took Buffy into his arms and motioned for Xander and Willow to take Faith.

As they enter the Summer’s home, Giles lays Buffy on the couch and runs to the basement for the small cot to put Faith on. When he returns he finds Dawn talking to Faith’s unconscious body.

“Faith you have to come back. I can’t live with out you, okay you come back and I’ll tell them I promise.” She begged the unaware girl lying on the floor.

He walked to the teen. “Dawn?” She jumped as he said her name. “We’re going to find out what happen and then she’ll be back with you. They both will.” He told the teen.