Chapter 2: Entry 2: "Preparations for a family fight."
Chapter 2 Beginning Author's Notes:
This one has some parts that happened pretty close to the end of Season 3, but with some major differences; Faith (my character) still went bad, but in a totally different way than she did in the show... so some people from High School show up in this, Sunnydale High, that is.
Oh, and there're some kooky parts to this chapter; also: Buffy's friends will, if not in this chapter then in the later ones, find out that Faith is now B's stepmom (which, let's just say "the sparks will fly" about that!).
I hope you people enjoy this.
This chapter is basically "Faith's reflections", as she reflects on some of her High School days in Sunnydale High.
Simply put, B did not like having me take her daddy's place in the home; there were a lot, and I mean a *lot* of squabbles between myself and Joyce on one side, and B on the other... little D tended to stay out of it for the most part, but sometimes sided with one side and sometimes the other. Now, Joyce and I love eachother intensely; and I and B are pretty much rivals at work... that adds a totally different dimension to our relationship, which is fun, let me tell you!
To be blunt, B's schoolwork grades and conduct at school had taken a nosedive. This didn't fly with Joyce, and as the disciplinarian of the home now, it was up to to me to set B straight on some things! I relished this task, of course; anything to put that little homophobe in her place was fun to me!
I just had to come up with a plan; and luckily for me, there were some elements I could use... now, B's still a slayer, so she's still dangerous when provoked, but then again so am I; so I needed to enlist a little magical aid to accomplish this task, and a plan formed itself in my head when I was told by my wife that she had to work but Principal Snyder needed to meet with her, so she asked me to go in her stead.
"This could be immense fun."
I thought to myself as I dressed for the meeting and my schoolday. I picked out a knee-length skirt that had some movement room in it for my legs, a blouse, my favorite purse... I put my hair into a ponytail, and put on some flats for my feet, with stockings to round out the image. Principal Snyder is one of those fellows who's very traditional, and I wanted to make a good impression... just to throw him a bit, however, and this is where my quirky side came out, I made sure that my wedding and engagement rings were on and in full view. I also put on some earings to be fashionable too; and eagerly awaited the meeting as I got ready for the bus. The reason why I had elected to look stylish was because of the meeting; in reality I prefer to wear leather pants, a stylish shirt, and some thick-soled combat boots, but the matter required more fancy dress-code, so I "dressed to kill", as the saying goes.
Let's put it this way: waiting for the bus with B and Dawnie was almost fun, if you consider getting into fights bordering on fun- my elder stepdaughter does *not* like me, or so it seems! We argued the whole time we were waiting for the bus! I generally had the attitude of
"B's now acting like a total bitch, so let's see if I can make her *my* bitch!"
running through my head, and I inwardly chuckled at that. All three of us were wearing our backpacks, and frankly, B and I almost got into a fistfight waiting for the bus, a fight about me becoming her stepmom and replacing her dad in the home! I knew from our workouts and sparring exercises, plus conversations with Mr. Giles that I've got more muscle strength than B does, but she's better at martial arts than I am, so I knew that before I moved to take her on, I needed to get some aid from someone who knows a bit of magic at least- and I doubted that Joyce either knew any magic (which would surprise me to no end, by the way, but you never know) or that Dawn knew any (which would be even more surprising!), so I had to look elsewheres... besides, I really, and I do mean really doubted that Joyce would help me to fight Buffy... besides, as her stepmom, I had to compel her to respect me, and winning that respect would be the way to do it- so I had to do this myself. And that'd require magic lessons from someone of questionable morals and magical skill and power; or... someone who's morals could be eroded.
Since Diana had told me about the Hellmouths, I had discussed it with her and we'd come to the theory that the main effect of living on one is that your conscience gets eroded, pretty quickly too, I might add, and the longer you stay there, the more rapidly it gets eroded... this was confirmed when we, the Scooby Gang, found out that the Mayor, Richard Wilkins III had moved to the spot to found a town, back when he was known simply as "Richard Wilkins". I did a bit of spying for the Scoobies, I recall, and tried to dissuade Mr. Wilkins from his suicidal plan- or so I remember, and it seems to have worked... though, got to say, he didn't like the idea of me marrying a woman, especially a divorced one!
"Eroding morals"
I thought,
"Now, who can I employ to aid me in this?"
I silently asked myself as I rocked quietly on my feet next to my stepdaughter B, with Dawnie standing both inbetween us and slightly behind us the whole time; with B berating me the whole time... this was only making me mad, but I chose to bide my time till I had the edge. Sure enough, it came about all right: with Buffy being a total bitch, that could only benefit me in stealing her friends and making them
my
friends, which was only step one of my plan to humiliate B.
B herself was getting increasingly more and more rebellious ever since I married her mom; in this case she was dressed in some short shorts, and a workout top that was basically a t-shirt. Inwardly I smiled, while she looked very attractive, I knew that if I started to make moves on my stepdaughter that'd be a quick route out of the family, but in my noggin I smiled, imagining myself seated on B's lap for the bus ride; and that thought made me happy inside. B has such a pretty little body, and imagining myself covering her more made me happy, besides, I had taken a liking to sitting on my elder stepdaughter, which I found to be intense fun, and with B being increasingly more and more rebellious, that was getting increasingly more and more likely all the while. I relished the thought of riding to school seated on B's lap the whole, or almost the whole, time.
I pulled my sweater close around me, as a cold wind was blowing by, and I saw B shiver; then an idea entered my noggin and I proceeded to pull my stepdaughters into my arms to hold them and keep the three of us warm.
The bus arrived shortly thereafter, and first Dawn got on, then B, then myself. I looked around and saw that all the "in crowd" that I wanted as my friends were already on, and I aimed to have a little fun to say the least. I saw Xander mouthing to me "Sit with me" and I smiled lovingly at him and walked down the isle to sit next to him. He and I smiled at eachother, then I noticed that his eyes were focused on my rings in my left ring finger.
"Wait a minute, Faith... you're
married
?!" Xander asked, shocked.
I wiggled my left ring finger holding it up so he could see it clearly and replied simply "Yes."
"No way you're married." Xander said, shaking his head a few times, then he blinked several times in shock, next he asked me "Fine then, so tell me, who's the lucky guy?" he said, then paused, and said, conspiratorially "It
is
a guy, am I right?".