Chapter 1: The Plot
Author's Notes: Christmas! Yey! Ok, so you guys know the drill ' ' means thoughts. This is a short one, just to get into the spirit of the Holidays.
I don't want a lot for Christmas
There is just one thing I need
I don't care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever now
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas...
My Chemical Romance - All I want for Christmas is you
'Damn' Faith sighed "Why can't you guys give her a break, hu?" She whispered looking up at the sky.
She continued walking on the sidewalk taking a couple of coins from her jean pocket and putting them in the pot the Santa Clause had by his side. The jolly man smiled at her and jingled his bell, giving her a "Merry Christmas".
She smiled slightly, remembering her past Christmases. She shook her head 'None good'. Her only fond memory of one was that night, some years ago, in Sunnydale. When she went over to spend it with Buffy and Joyce, even though the blonde slayer had bailed in order to go help Angel, she still had spent the Holiday with Joyce. And that was one of the few moments that she held dearly in her heart.
'Joyce' She bowed her head and placed her hands in her coat pockets. 'I'm sorry' She furrowed her brows and turned to look at the window of the store on her right. The smiling people in the fancy pictures from the photography studio seemed to be making fun of her. She looked over at a photograph in which two young women and a man were laying on the grass, their feet in the air and the three smiling looking at the camera.
She remembered her conversation with Buffy just a couple hours back. The blonde was upset beyond believe that she was spending her first Christmas, in a very long time, without her family. After the fall of Sunnydale, they had all gone their separate ways, except for Faith. She had asked Buffy if she could stick with her. The blonde was beyond happy, surprising them both by jumping into the brunettes arms. Dawn had decided to go to Canada to study and maybe later join the New Council. Robin was in Spain, running the center there. He had decided to go there the moment Faith told him there was nothing to pursue with her. Angel had stayed in L.A. running the evil law firm, along with Wesley, Gunn, Fred and Cordelia. The ex-cheerleader had made a surprising recovery after a little help from Willow, and had decided she wanted to keep fighting with them. Willow had gone with Kennedy to Brazil, where they ran the center located there. Kenney had come over to Scotland a couple times to visit Faith in the year and a half that had gone by. Xander was in Japan, he had said he wanted to train, to stop being the princess in distress they needed to save all the time. Of course everyone told him that wasn't the case, but still, he wanted to be able to fend for himself. Spike had said he would love helping over in Scotland but Buffy had talked to him and he decided to stay in L.A. Giles, after getting everything running, had been traveling all over the world picking up slayers and talking to them, inviting them to the program. And Andrew, of course, had decided, actually he had whined about wanting to go with him until he caved.
As for Buffy and Faith, they had decided, along with Giles, that Scotland was the place to be. Faith had become Buffy's right hand and a very close friend. Buffy often said "This is how things should have gone since the beginning". There were three slayers that they felt very fond of, well Buffy anyway, Rhona, Vi and Satsu. Thinking about the Asian girl made Faith hands turn into fists. She could- scratch that, everyone could see that the girl had a thing for the blonde slayer and that was when Faith realized that she had a thing for the blonde too. When she had almost pummeled the cocky ninja into oblivion because she had said she was going after Buffy. When the blonde had asked for an explanation Faith had been unable to give her one, just slumping her shoulders and bowing her head. Buffy had shaken her head and embraced her. Holding her close to her.
So, yeah. Buffy was upset because her family was all over the world and they weren't spending Christmas together. Faith sighed again 'Damn'. She stopped walking when she reached the door to her room. She could feel that Buffy was there. The blonde spent a lot of time in her little kind of apartment and she could already tell that Buffy was crying. 'Gotta do something' she though as her heart ached at hearing Buffy hurt.
