Prologue

Faith crept in the shadows the cold making her unfold the collar of her leather jacket. It was late and all she wanted to do was finish her whiskey and pass out. After her break up with Robin Faith had made her way to Cleveland in search of the Scoobies. She had only found the two love bird witches, but no sign of Buffy or Dawn.

She began following a vamp just outside the bar. She had noticed it hiding in the shadows turning quick as it laid eyes on her. She hadn't expected the word of the slayer return had speared yet. It was odd how familiar it had seemed like Faith had seen this vamp before. Faith tried to think back, maybe they had met maybe at one of the bars she spent most her evenings. All she knew was she didn't care, all she wanted to do was dust the vermin and get home to bed.

Here thoughts as usual, wandered to the times Buffy and her use to patrol together. She remembered the last time she saw Buffy and the Scoobies, it was after Sunnydale's collapse when they saved the world from yet another big bad. They had asked if she wanted to go to Cleveland with them. She had declined, but promised to visit, that was ten years ago and she never did keep the promise. She missed them though, she missed Buffy's wits, Xanders jokes and of course most of all she missed Dawn.

She never did tell anyone how she felt about Dawn. How much just seeing her smile made her heart race. There were times she did want to tell her, but with all the stuff that happened between her and Buffy, She thought that she would be rejected maybe even humiliated. But now she would give anything thing just to see her face again. Once again Faith scolded herself for being so soft she was acting like Buffy over Angel and it was annoying her.

Finally the vamp turned into an alley out of sight of the public, Faith followed it into the alley. Bending down to take the stake from her boot.

"Hey," Faith shouted, trying to get its attention, the vamp stopped for a second before continuing to walk forward quicker than before

" I said hey" Faith shouted again, quickening her own pace to keep up with it. Like before, it kept walking quicker, ignoring Faith

" Damn girl you are really getting on my nerves" Faith shouted, running to catch up with it. The anger was starting to boil. This thing had no right to ignore her who the hell did it think it was.

" Hasn't your mother ever told you, it's rude to ignore people, " Faith finally caught up with it, grabbing it's arm spinning it around before punching it's jaw all before she could see its face. The vamp landed on the ground covering their face, Faith stood waiting for it to stand and fight back. She glanced over its body, noticing its feminine form, if it wasn't for the fact she was a vamp she would of had a little fun. Faith noticed she never got back up and she could hear the soft sniffles as the vamp cried.

"Really, you're going to start crying like a five-year-old, stand up and fight" Faith said he anger rising more, she moved herself into a defense stance and waited once again.

"Don't look at me, " The vamp demanded her hands, raising to cover her face as she recoiled into the darkness. Faith lowered her arms and relaxed her body, the realization hit her that the voice was familiar. It was a voice she never dreamed she would ever hear again. All she could do was hope she was wrong.

"Move your hands" Faith said, moving closer to the huddled up vamp.

"No" She exclaimed, moving further back into the shadows.

"Damn it girl I said move your hands so move them" Faith shouted, she was trying hard not to let her voice break, to add even just a little authority. But her voice had let her down the words coming out quickly and in a hushed tone. Slowly the vamp moved her hands and Faith saw its face, her game face was still up. Faith wasn't sure if it was real or not, if she was just imagining but. The vamp she looked just like.. No, it couldn't be she thought to herself. She fell to her knees, tears filling up her eyes for the first time as she finally realized she was right.

" No, not you please" Faith pleaded, moving forward so she could gently place her hand on the vampire's face.

"It's me, Faith, I'm... I'm so sorry, " She said concern filling her voice

" No, it can't be how.. How did this happen..." She watched as the game face slowly disappeared and for the first time in ten years, She looked into the eyes of the woman she loved. She looked into the eyes of Dawn and her world fell apart.

A/N

So finally a rewrite of one of my most popular fictions. welcome back to anyone who is here from the orginal hopefully i can finally do this story a bit of justice