You Can't Run Forever: Part Five
by PiercedHeart114
Part Five
Jenny smiled as the living room filled with laughter. She quickly grabbed the five bowls of popcorn and entered the living room to hand them out. Xander started digging into it even before Jenny took her hand away.
“Man Xander, I happen to like my mom’s hand,” teased Faith.
“It’s okay, I’ll live,” replied Jenny at Xander’s apologetic glance.
Rupert entered and looked around the small room. All ten teenagers were lounging in various places. Buffy, Angel, Faith, and Lindsey were sharing the two ends of the couch; Oz and Willow were sharing the recliner, while Spike, Drusilla, Xander, and Cordelia had combined all the sleeping bags together to make a comfortable mat on the floor.
“We’re heading to bed now so that means I don’t want to hear any noises,” cautioned Rupert.
Buffy laughed, “Relax dad, we’ll be good.”
Jenny flipped the light switch and the room was covered in darkness. Everyone curled up with their significant other and slowly fell asleep.
~*~
Faith and Buffy bolted up from their sleeping positions. Both were breathing heavily and their sudden movements had woken up Angel and Lindsey.
“What’s wrong?” grumbled Lindsey as he woke up.
Before either could answer Dru also woke up suddenly thus waking up Spike. Dru grabbed the blanket off of Cordy to warm herself up with while Spike tried figure out why she woke up. Angel, who could barely see in the dark, turned on the lamp waking up everyone who had still been asleep.
“Don’t warn the tadpoles!!” yelled Willow as she woke up.
“What’s going on?” asked a very angry Cordy.
“Don’t know but something woke up Buffy, Faith, and Dru,” explained Angel.
Everyone looked at the three girls; Drusilla who was still trying to get warm and Buffy and Faith who were huddled together in the middle of the couch.
Willow spoke slowly, “Dru what did you see?”
Dru shivered and shook her head, “Nothing, I didn’t see anything I just felt pure evil.”
Buffy leaned against Angel and buried her head in his shoulder. He slowly rubbed her back to try to calm her down. Faith, looking at her sister and best friend, realized that she had to be the brave one this time and find out what was going on. She slowly stood up and headed for the front door.
Buffy sat up in a panic, “ON!!!”
Faith looked at her sister, “Oot evah I. Eno evarb eht eb ot nrut ym s’ti.”
Buffy nodded, “Luferac eb esaelp.”
Everyone looked expectantly at Buffy as Faith left the room.
“What was that about?” asked Xander.
Buffy looked around in surprise, “Sorry, we’ve never done that before in public.”
“What was it? That wasn’t English,” asked Willow.
Oz shook his head, “In a way, it was,” everyone looked at him, “Twins usually have their own language, most commonly known as twin speak.”
Spike looked at Oz, “You know it’s really weird that you know all this stuff and yet you still managed to be held back a year.”
Oz just shrugged and Buffy smile at him and nodded, “Faith and I actually talk backwards. It’s funny, dad recorded us once and played it forward so no one could understand us but as soon as he played it backwards everyone knew what we said.”
Faith slowly reentered the living room crying; her hands shaking with fear. Buffy bolted off the couch, over to her sister and grabbed the paper from Faith’s hands. Buffy read the letter slowly.
My darling girls,
To think that you left me to just find you again makes my heart happy. How are Rupert and Jenny? I hope they are enjoying your company till you both come back home. The two of you will never leave me again; your mother got in trouble for trying that, remember? How do either of you deal with the incompetents at that school? Are all teachers stupid? You would think that being 2hours away from LA would do Sunnydale some good. Oh well, enjoy the pictures, I’ll send more soon.
Soon,
Your loving father
P.S. Those boys you’re dating had better be treating you well or I’ll kill them myself.
Faith started to whimper, “How? How? How?”
Buffy quickly looked through the pictures of her and Angel at the movies, Faith and Lindsey at the beach, Rupert and Jenny sleeping in bed, the girls talking in their room, and some from when they had lived in New York. The pictures fell from Buffy’s hand in shock.
“DADDY!!!!!!” yelled Buffy.
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