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The Second Hellmouth And The Slayers Journey

The Retelling

Faith Pov:

The last I heard of Buffy, she Willow and Xander had gone with the new Slayers to Cleveland. She left as soon as Dawn disappeared. Should be there with them but I was careless.
I won't forget that night anytime soon. I got my own souvenirs from it as reminders.
One bullet wound to the stomach, (wouldn't want the scar B gave me to be lonely) 2 very deep stabs wounds, (one to my shoulder, the other went clean through the left hand side of my waist) and bruising all around my neck from the noose.
Not exactly what you'd expect from a standard patrol. Then again it couldn't really have been avoided, but I had no idea.
Buffy being the leading Slayer had led the survivors to shelter. It wasn't much just a few rows of shops for food and a very small hotel.
Lucky for us the area was abandoned. The locals must have headed for the hills after hearing about what was happening in Sunnydale. We all healed up for the following few days and basically enjoyed a well deserved holiday.

Can't say it was enjoyable for everyone though, but a few of us did let loose, Xander was grieving for Anya, Willow and Kennedy hit it off with a few long nights, and nobody got much sleep on those. Spike, well he's dust, and that shocked me, never expected him to sacrifice himself.
Buffy and Dawn seemed to be in fairly good spirits, I can understand why, Buffy finally had her life back because so many Slayers had been awakened. I was really happy for her; we'd been talking a lot more than we had in the past too. As for the G-Man he made a point of not being disturbed while he researched the Hell mouth in Cleveland, but there was one night that he got really wasted and I got the photos to prove it.
Andrew I didn't pay much attention to, the kid annoys me and I always catch him copping a perv on me when I look away, from some people I like that kind of attention but not him.
As for the Slayers that didn't make it, well I'm just glad there's a Heaven. Sounds like a great place from what Buffy said when she was brought back.
Uh, there I go again with the one track mind, I'm supposed to be talking about dead people here. Gross.
Getting back on track, we healed we celebrated, me and Wood mostly. But he's been getting on my nerves lately. I guess I'm just not ready to be close with someone just yet, but he keeps pushing me. Never mind we'll see what happens.

After a good week of celebrations Buffy was back in Slayer mode and wanted to remind everyone of their duties. She ordered nightly patrols of the radius of the crater that was once Sunnydale in case any ubervamps had survived.
So every night two slayers were assigned an area to patrol but no one had any trouble. No one but me of course.
Faith Trouble Lehane, its official I'm a beacon for evil and all things bad. That night it was Dawns turn to patrol with Rona, but around eleven Dawn came down and told me that Rona was sick.
She asked if I was free to patrol with her, and I said I would meet her out the front of the shops at 12. B and I were just finishing sparring. For once I beat her, but she seemed out of focus and had this distant look on her face.
We talked and shortly after I left to meet Dawn, B said she was going to bed anyway after she'd checked on the other slayers. Grabbing a dagger and short sword from the bus I left for the shops.

When I arrived Dawn was already there, equipped with a long sword and her gear she looked the Slayer.
She commented on my choice of weapons saying that it would be difficult to kill an ubervamp with a dagger. Little did she know that it's my weapon of choice, and gets me outta al those tight spots.
We made tracks and headed for the crater, leaving the shops behind us. Dawn started asking about life before coming to Sunnydale, before meeting Buffy.
Basically she wanted to know about my childhood, for me that's a no go zone so I kinda responded with short answers. It wasn't her fault I just didn't like talking about back then. All of a sudden she was asking me questions like 'how did it feel to kill someone' and 'did prison really change me.
I told her to can it and then tried to change the conversation to something easier to talk about.
My guard was down and I was feeling pretty emotional, definitely wasn't expecting a sword to go tearing through my shoulder. I screamed out in pain and fell to my knees; the sword I was carrying hit the floor somewhere in front of me but at the time I was in too much pain to care.
I could already feel blood dripping down my back from the wound. Fighting off the initial shock and pain I got back on my feet and screamed for Dawn to help.

When I turned I came face to face with a smiling Dawn who pointing a pistol straight at me. The sword that was used to stab me was impaled in the ground beside her; I could see it was covered in my own blood. All I could think to say was why; she laughed and her eyes flashed yellow.
Possessed, but by whom, for what reason? She then asked if I was ready to die. Bite me was the first thing that came to mind so I said it just as a bullet hit me in the stomach and I hit the ground hard.
Funnily enough the bullet wound didn't hurt so much; it was the hole in my back that was supplying the most pain. Dawn stood over me, looking down on me as if she pitied me. I would have said something but it hurt to talk. She had the long sword back in her hands and was taunting me by waving it in front of my face.
I've never been so scared in my life, I was powerless to do anything and she knew it. She had planned this. She lifted my shirt a little with the sword and checked out her handy work. She noticed that the bullet wound wasn't fatal but quickly said she could fix that and wanted to make my death slow anyway.
She lifted me onto one shoulder and proceeded towards the Sunnydale crater.

5 minutes later we arrived at a tree and I lost all hope of escape when I saw the noose hanging from one the branches. When I started crying she just laughed louder, saying that Buffy and the others would be following me soon.
She carried me towards the noose but I was ready, pulling free my dagger I aimed so that my attack wouldn't be fatal and plunged it into her back.
Dawn screamed and threw me into the tree with the noose; I hit my head and almost blacked out when I landed. Minutes passed and I thought she was gone.
But she was back smiling with my dagger in her hand. In this body I'm invincible a voice said. Then throwing the dagger away she bound my arms and legs then proceeded to put the noose around my neck.
I pleaded with her telling her she didn't need to do this, and to fight whatever was controlling her.
There was no reaction.

I felt myself being choked when she tightened the noose, and knew that it was over. Dawn looked grimly at me, placing a hand on my face she wiped away the tears that were streaming down before passionately kissing me and groping my breasts. When we broke apart she stared into my eyes with those yellow orbs.
She spoke about how the Hell mouth in Cleveland was even bigger than Sunnydales and asked if I'd really thought we'd won. Before I knew what was happening she'd grabbed the rope pulling it so that I was suspended in the air. Tying the rope to another branch she watched me suffocate for a few seconds.
Content with her victory she used the sword stabbing me right through the midsection and impaling the other end through the tree. I blacked out within seconds but not before I saw the portal.


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