Title: Chances
Summary: Faith goes back to Sunnydale to help Buffy and the Scoobies. Follows the finale episodes, but with a little twist. I suck at summaries, just read it and find out.
Pairing: Buffy/Faith
Note: It´s my first attempt to write fanfiction so feedback is welcomed, and I´m Spanish so if there are lots of mistakes I´m sorry, I´ve done it as best as I can.
Rated: K+ (I´m not sure just in case)
C.1 LiberationAt the L.A women penitentiary the inmates lived a normal day as far as it was possible in the institution. But in a cell, trying to get by unnoticed, a dark silhouette rested in its bed. Thousands of thoughts were crowded in its head while the hour of the liberation approached slowly.
3 o'clock, that was the determined hour so that its freedom was given back to her, there were still some hours left, but hours weren't going to mean a difference after three years locked up between those walls. Three years in which she had had time to think, she never liked to think since that took her irremediably to remember and remember filled her with pain and remorse for what she had done and for what had been done to her. A hoarse voice took her out of her thoughts.
Guard: Faith! You have twenty minutes to take a shower. Then you must go to the director's office, and do it quickly.
The brunette rose slowly, she had been laying down for so long that her head was spinning, when she was in good condition she went to the showers and got a little cleaned up. Next obeying to the guard Faith visited the director, who made her sign some papers and told her that she could leave that place, that she was free.
Once she was out the first thing she noticed was the Sun that burned with force in the sky, of course Faith had seen it on her recreation moments at the patio of the prison, but it definitely wasn't the same, now she could see it from the outside, without having the claustrophobic feeling caused by the walls that surrounded her in prison. The second thing she was aware of was that she was alone. That she had made sure of, during her stay in the penitentiary Angel had visited her several times, but now she needed time, perhaps she would go to visit the vampire in a couple of days, but at the moment she was hungry and needed a place to stay. So the young women went to one of the slums of the city and rented a room in a motel that reminded her of the one in Sunnydale, but worse. During the next two days Faith remained calm, just leaving the motel to eat and to hunt a pair of vampires, but nothing bigger. Soon she became bored of that life and decided to visit her favorite vampire with a soul.
When she arrived at the door of the hotel owned by Angel she wished that Cordelia and Wesley weren't there. Faith called by intercom and after seconds of delay a feminine voice, that she did not recognized but guessed was Fred, Angel had told her about the girl, answered.
Fr: Who is there?
F: Eh...I am Faith, I'm looking for Angel.
The girl seemed to doubt if she about opening the door because it took her some minutes to do it, finally Faith heard the click that indicated that she could enter. She did it and when she arrived at the hall of the hotel she saw an enormous table, behind it a woman with chestnut hair and kind face rose from her chair and hold out her hand to Faith.
Fr: Hello I'm Fred, I work for Angel. And you are?
F: Pleased to meet you, I'm Faith, I am... Well supposed to be a vampire slayer.
Fr: Oh! You are Faith? Good, you can go find him, he is in the second floor, first room of the right.
I guess he won't get upset with me for not warning him of your arrival.
Faith agreed and went up the stairs, following the signs that Fred had given her she opened the first door of the right. When she opened it what she found was a room totally sunk in the dark, in addition the hairs of her nape of the neck bristled warning of the proximity of a vampire. In the thick dark any of the two figures could distinguish more than the silhouette. Angel switched on the light and in his face reflected the surprise to see there the hunted brown eyes of the slayer. His face changed to dedicate Faith a warm smile.
A: Faith, what are you doing here? How...when?
F: Men, those are lots of questions, calm soul boy, I haven't escaped nor anything of the sort, I was released a couple of days ago.
After surpassing the moment of surprise caused by Faith´s presence, Angel approached her and put her into a big hug.
A: Why didn't you tell me? I would have gone to pick you up.
F: I needed time, needed some days to clarify a little my head and to get used to me being free again.
A: You already know what you're going to do now?
F: In fact I thought about sitting in one of your chairs if it does not matter to you.
A: You know what I mean, Faith.
The brunette looked away and gave a sigh. What was she going to do now? That was the big question, she needed to find a job that was for sure. But Faith knew that Angel talked about Sunnydale, what the vampire wanted to know was if she was going to return to Sunnyhell or not. But she couldn't give him an answer at the moment, the idea of returning to Sunnydale had crossed her mind, but there were too many complications related to that idea and she preferred not to think about that at least for the moment.
F: Yeah I know, the problem is that I don't know. I don't know what I'm supposed to do now.
A: Perhaps that is your mistake, to think about what you are supposed to do, think about what you want to do.
F: Sure because that's one great idea, do what I want... I've always done what I've wanted and look where it has led me.
A: You are different now, I'm not telling you to rush into anything I just think that slowly you will return to be what you were born to be, a slayer. And this time I am sure that you will not go wrong, you committed a mistake, ok, but that is the past. If you don't have a little trust in yourself, then you are going to end badly.
F: Geez, I can see that sensible sermons still are your strong point. No, seriously, I will think about what I can do, but I've only been outside for two days, I have time. Five by five?
A: Sure lets talk about something else.
F: Listen, Where are Cordy and Wesley? I didn't saw them when I arrived.
A: They have gone on patrol with Gunn.
The conversation was interrupted by a pain filled scream that both recognized as Cornelia's. Angel and Faith rose and ran towards the low part of the hotel to see what was happening. When they arrived they saw that it was indeed Cordelia, who was seated in an armchair with her hands in her forehead and a grimace on her face, which explained the scream, she had had a vision. Angel approached her and bent on his knees in front of the woman.
A: What have you seen?
C: It was Sunnydale, I don't know exactly what it was, only that it was Sunnydale and that there was some kind of danger but just this, the rest was blurred.
A: Ok, It doesn't matter. And Gunn and Wesley?
C: They left me here and went to do...something, why are you asking me? Like I care.
Angel turned towards Faith that had remained back to prevent Cordelia from seeing her, and given the state of the girl it was not very difficult.
A: Let's go to my office, I will call Sunnydale and we will know what's wrong.
F: Sure.
To be continued...
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