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[true_angelus]

As we made our way through the streets toward ... our house I realized a few things. I was going to be living with three children Merrick, Faith and Connor. Really Lexi counted too but right now at this very soulless moment she didn't need to be counted. I could think of a million other things to do besides counting her as a child that is now under

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[true_angelus]

I was about to answer Lexi's question when I heard screaming. Not your normal every day I'm about to be killed screaming, oh no. Screaming of a child tattling on someone. Connor tattling on Faith and how she'd broken a vase and was now hurt. Hurt? I shot my eyes over to Lexi who was still staring at me with those eyes, eyes I'd seen a thousand times only coming from Faith. I shook my head in slight confusion and wondered briefly if her and Faith just swapped bodies because god damn this girl was killing me with those eyes.

"Mommy? What? Oh no Connor she is not your Mommy." I glanced down at him as he stared curiously at Lexi. I glanced in the house and saw the shattered glass fragments and grumbled. I headed into the house and glanced around the living room for Faith, she wasn't anywhere in the room. I headed back into the bathroom and my bedroom and the other rooms, I heard her heart beat when I walked into the room I often found Faith in.

"Closet, I should have figured." I walked over to the closet and tapped gently on the door so I didn't scare her. "Faith you don't have to hide in the closet it was just a piece of glass, come on out and let me see if you're hurt." I knew she was hurt I could smell her blood filling the small space she was hiding in. I knocked again on the door before slowly pulling it open and glancing at her sitting on the floor with her knees tucked up and arms wrapped around them.

"Come on, let's have a look." I bent down and waited for her to show me where she was wounded. "I can't fix it unless you show me Faith, show me... I'm not going to hurt you." As much as I wanted to I couldn't, I had to hold out for my Faith.

[angels_bitch]

My hand hurt a little bit but I didn't care I just knew that I was in trouble and bad girls got punished. So I hid away in the closet before they could lock in there and nursed my own wound. Wrapping it up in a shirt I found until I heard the knock at the door. Daddy? No. I dunno. It was hard to tell and I didn't feel right at all. Why did Connor have to tattle on me anyway? I never done nothing wrong to him.

I looked up and met his eyes as he bent down and asked me where I was hurt. Was this how it was supposed to happen? I didn't know but I held out the palm of my hand so he could see where the glass from the vase hurt me. My lower lip jutted out as warm tears flowed down over my face. Didn't mean to break it, it was just pretty and I wanted to hold it. Didn't mean to be bad.

"Didn't mean to break it." I said earnestly meeting his eyes.

[john_allerdyce]

I followed Daddy into the room where he found Faith hiding in a closet. She looked really scared when he opened the door and then she had to go and cry. I felt bad because I didn't mean to make her cry.

"Don't cry, Faith." I whispered as I moved past Daddy and crouched in front of her. "It wasn't your fault. I'm sorry."

I looked over at Daddy and took a deep breath. "I made her drop it. When I told her to put it down she got scared and it slipped out of her hands. I'm sorry. Please don't be mad at her."

I chewed on my bottom lip and looked down at Faith's hand. She was bleeding and I could see the glass inside. "You want me to go get the tweezers?" I asked and then I paused. "Where are the tweezers and first aid stuff?"

[true_angelus]

I watched as Connor swept in and made up reasons for her to protect her. He's a good kid really and I had reason to be proud of him, I knew what he really was when this wacky spell shit wasn't happening. I blinked at him as he asked for tweezers? First aid stuff? Well kid usually I just suck all the blood from bleeding future Slayers. Couldn't say that.

"I think there's probably some in the bathroom." I said blankly and glanced at Faith, her face about crushing me as tears poured down her cheeks one after the other. "It's alright. It was glass, it's no big deal. Come on then don't cry." I reached out and brushed my finger under her chin giving her a wink to be brave. What... what the hell is wrong with me? Normally I'd be murdering kids like them but this was different somehow. They were mine and I had to keep them safe.

"You come out of that closet while Connor goes to look for the stuff." I held my hand out and waited to see what she would do next. I held back a small smile as I helped her out of the closet and sat her on the edge of the bed in the room. "He'll fix you right up I'm sure of it." I needed to get out of this room and back to see what Lexi was up to. I walked into the garage and Lexi was gone, just great. I heard a door close behind me and I turned my attention back to the house. Who just came in?

[mommys_star]

I heard noises in the house and woke up looking around my room. I heard the dark Angel and other voices I didn't know, maybe one of them but I wasn't quite sure. I carefully slipped from bed and headed toward the room with the light on at the end of the hall. That's Faith's room who was in there? It didn't sound like Faith but when I got close it smelled like Faith, who did she have in there? I saw Angelus walk down the hall and into the garage before I slipped into the room and shut the door behind me.

"Who are you?" I asked a boy coming out of the bathroom with an armful of bandaids and gauze. My eyes wandered to the bed where a girl sat, a little girl but she... "Faith? Is that you?" I walked over to her slowly and glanced in her eyes. It was her but she was a kid? Like me? She had a heart beat and so did the boy in the room, but I didn't know who the boy was.

"What did he do to you?" I crawled up on the bed and sat beside her taking her hand in mine and stroking her warm flesh. "You're warm and alive, why?" I tipped my head curiously at her and looked back at the boy who didn't understand. I knew he didn't because his eyes were huge.

"Where's Faith and the dark Angel?" I asked them in a confused voice. "Are you even real?" I continued to look at the small Faith and I just didn't understand. Her heart beat was so pretty though and maybe something happened and she was supposed to be little. Fate was like that I remember. Mommy always said to never mess with fate.

[angels_bitch]

I frowned when another little girl crawled up on the bed with me. She was little like me so I smiled a little at her as she sat down next to me and took my hand that wasn't all yucky and hurting in her's.

"I broke the vase by accident." I said, holding up my hand and showing her the boo boo when she asked me what he did to me. Who was he? He didn't do anything even though Connor said that he made me do it. He didn't really and I didn't know why he took the blame for it. He shouldn't have done that. Then Daddy would be mad at him instead. Actually, I was glad he did that. I hated it when Daddy was mad at me.

"I'm Faith." I said defensively when she asked where I was. Right here, Silly. Who was she anyway? She seemed familiar to me and I wondered if I had a sister. I didn't remember a sister. I didn't really remember having a brother or a Daddy either. I was confused and my hand hurt.

[john_allerdyce]

There was a new girl inside the room when I returned with a first aid kit. Something about her seemed different, but I couldn't figure out what it was. I shrugged when she asked who I was, "Connor. Are you another one of Daddy's kids?"

I dropped to my knees in front of Faith and opened the first aid kit. I was going to be really careful so I didn't make her cry again. Taking the tweezers out, I looked up at her and said in a soft voice, "It will be okay. No more crying, alright?"

It only took a minute to remove the glass. I used the non-stinging spray to clean her cut and then wrapped her hand with the white gauze. Suddenly I was hit with a strange flash. I was little and in a weird place and there was another man who I called father, but he wasn't Daddy. He was talking about demons and that I had to fight the evil inside me.

The door opened and I looked up at Daddy and asked in a whisper, "Am I evil?" I tried to remember the words the man called Father said to me, but just as soon as I heard it, it was gone. "Demon spawn. Demons are supposed to be destroyed. Fire. Decapitation. Stake through the heart." I wrinkled up my nose and stared at my father. "What's a demon?"