All You Need is a Little Faith
Hello readers! I know I should be working on A New Spider In Town but I got really into Buffy the Vampire Slayer and I really loved the character Faith and I really wanted to write something so here we are. Co-writing, and also being my beta, with me is MissSpock1701.
This takes place just after Season 5 of Buffy so SPOILER ALERT.
All rights belong to Joss Whedon.
Chapter one: Leaving "Home"
Faith was walking to the visitors center to see who was here to visit her and the guards wouldn't tell her a thing. It was too early for Angel, so she had no idea.
"C'mon bud, you can't tell me who my visitor is?" Faith asked the guard escorting her.
"Faith, just see when you get there, I'm sure you have more friends than that broody guy," replied the guard.
The Dark Slayer just muttered "Yeah right." When she finally arrived at the visitor center she's surprised to see Xander sitting at an open booth. Xander was sitting in the chair and Willow standing as far back as possible. Faith sat down in front of him and picked up the phone. "Well I'm surprised to see you two here," she started "is B around the corner somewhere?" she said with an Echo of her old sarcasm.
Xander's face dropped for a second looking towards then he looked back at her. "About that," he paused as if collecting his thoughts looking at his hands "Buffy's gone."
Faith hoped she didn't look as dumbfounded as she felt "What do you mean gone? Where'd she go? Is there some Slayer vacation package I didn't know about?"
Willow just looked at her like she was disgusted, while Xander just looked hurt "No Faith…she's dead."
She laughed somewhat hysterically "Ok guys is this some kind of a joke? Did Wes put you up to this? I mean I apologized for that whole torture thing," the denial obvious in her voice.
Xander with an uncharacteristically serious face that didn't look right on him. "No jokes, she's really dead."
"So why are you telling me all this? Are you trying to make me feel more guilty then I already am? Well screw you guys! Please just leave, I have cigarettes to smoke! Thanks for bringing me closer to the big C," she started to get up.
"WAIT!" She heard Willow's voice so loud in her head that she forcibly sat back down.
"Red?" she asked out loud kind of quite with Willow just giving her a zip the lip gesture.
"Yes. I'm speaking in your head," Willow thought "Now listen up Faith, we need a Slayer and it's between you and the robot."
"Robot?" Faith whispered.
"Don't ask," Willow thought with obvious disappointment at someone who wasn't in the room, you could almost hear her roll her eyes.
"So what do you want me to do?" Faith whispered. "I'm kind busy for the next couple of decades, so I'll give you a call when my schedule clears up."
"We don't have time for that!" Willow stated "The Buffybot can only fool everyone for so long!"
"Again with the robot?" Faith asked.
"Again don't ask," Willow told her "Now that door is gonna open in about fifteen seconds. So move and move fast the spell wears off in ten minutes."
"Wait what spell?"
"Go!"
That's when Faith's instincts took over and she bolted, moving like a Slayer again, for the door and sure enough it was open. She ran through it, Xander and Willow were already out of the visitation center. The three moved swiftly and quietly through the prison encountering no resistance. Before Faith knew it she was in the back seat of Xander's car driving away from her "home."
They had been on the road for almost ten minutes with no one saying a word. Xander kept gripping and ungripping the wheel, feeling the palpable tension in the vehicle. Willow sat stiffly in the front obviously unhappy that Faith was there and her need for her.
Xander blurted out "Can't we just call him like a normal person?!"
Willow gave him a look "No Xander, whether you like it or not he loves her and deserves to be told in person. What if it was Anya?"
He shut up quickly "Fine," he gripped the wheel tighter "but I'm staying in the car. I want nothing more to do with or his hair gel."
As they pulled into the old hotel, "Fine," she replied plainly, clearly in no mood to deal with his animosity. Willow got out of the car,and almost slammed the door.
Faith sat there with Xander for a few minutes before the sound of him grinding his teeth became too much for her to bare. "I'm gonna step outside for a smoke."
Xander turned around to look at her "Speaking of which when did you start smoking?"
She just gave him a blank look. "I was in prison Xan, not much to do but smoke and lift weights. Anything else involved something being stuck somewhere it shouldn't," she said with an arched eyebrow as she got out.
She had just lite her cigarette when she saw Angel coming out of the hotel looking distraught. He's about to storm past her and their eyes met, Faith saw something in the eyes of her savior that she never thought she'd see, tears. She reached out to comfort him but she decided against it, she was probably one of the last people he wanted to see. He knew why she was there.
Willow came out shortly after, her disdain seemed to waned from emotional exhaust.
The ride back to Sunnydale was taken in a pensive silence.
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