Author's Note: Hey guys this is my on twist on season 3 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer I hope you enjoy it. Please review it and let me know what you think.
"That's the point, I'll never leave. Not even if you kill me…"
Buffy eyes shot open as the last words Angel said repeated in her head over and over again. She sighed looking around at her one bedroom apartment that she's been living in for the past three months after her mother had kicked her out. She missed Xander, Willow, Giles, Oz, and sometimes even Cordelia's annoying voice. She missed Sunnydale; she missed her warm bed and her mom's home cooked meals. Most of all she missed being Buffy. For the past three months she's been Anne, the non-slayer waitress.
Buffy closed her eyes attempting to go back to sleep when her alarm went off. She groaned and hit the snooze button on her clock. She got up and began to get ready for another lovely day at the diner. She arrived at the diner and instantly went to work. As the day continued Buffy noticed her three o'clock truck drivers had walked on it. She groaned as she slowly walked over to them to take their orders.
"So Rick and Sam what will I be getting you two today?" The men smiled at Buffy and looked her up and down.
"Well well well it's our favorite waitress Annie."
"It's Anne. So I'm guessing you guys will be having the usual right."
"I rather have you peaches," Rick replied. Buffy turned towards the counter to place the order, once she turned around Rick went to smack her ass but his hand was caught before it could land on Buffy's butt.
"Now how many times have I warned you not to bother Anne here or I'd break your face Dick," she brunette started to twist his hand as she looked down at Rick who winced in pain.
"Ah shit, Bobby, tell your girl to let go!" Rick yelled to the chef in the back.
"Faith, stop abusing the customers," the chef replied not even looking up to see what was happening.
The brunette let go to Rick and smiled up at Buffy who was shaking her head at her.
"Hey, gorgeous."
"Hi Faith, how are you today?"
"Oh you know same old same old. Working, delivering this crap to you guys, waiting on you to finally admit you want this," Faith replied smirking at the blonde.
"Faith I've told you for the past month I'm not interested."
"Oh come on Anne, I see how you look at me. You want me, which is understandable most people do. You seem like the date type so how about you let me take you out tonight."
"Faith…" Buffy shook her head as she grabbed meals and gave it to their customers.
"Oh come on Anne, just one night," Faith replied giving her full dimpled grin.
"I'm busy tonight," Buffy replied.
"Bull. Come on it'll be fun I promise."
"Sorry Faith, I'm just not interested like you think I am."
Faith sighed walking towards the door, "Playing hard to get Anne. Its fine I'll play along but just so you know I usually get what I want." Buffy giggled at the brunette's cockiness as she left the diner and returned back to work. The next day Faith was back at the diner trying to land a date with the petite blonde.
"Sup Anne."
"What do you want now Faith, I'm going on my break and would like to enjoy it?"
"Well how about I join you. Me, you, lunch sounds good huh?" she said following Buffy out of the diner.
"I rather be alone actually sorry to break it to you."
"You are one tough nut to crack aren't you?"
"You could say that," Buffy giggled, "Sorry Faith but I got to go only got 20 minutes left, see you around."
"See you!" Faith replied as she stared at Buffy as she walked away from her. "Hm, nice butt." She chuckled and went back to work.
The next day Buffy rushed into the diner trying to make it just in time before her shift started. Once she was set another waitress came up to her saying the customer at table 9 was requesting her. Buffy sighed expecting it to be Rick and his buddies, she went over and attempted to make out who was at table 9 but they had the menu covering their face.
"Hi my name is Anne and I'll be serving you. Are you ready to order?"
The customer placed the menu on the table and looked up at her smiling, "Yeah I'll have a date with you tonight and a glass of water."
Buffy shook her head giggling at the persistent brunette sitting in front of her, "Hi Faith."
"Hey beautiful."
"Are you ever going to give up? I'm not even into girls I only like boys."
Faith shrugged, "I don't care, all I'm asking for is one night of fun. Come on Anne, I promise I don't bite…often."
"I don't know Faith…"
"Look if you hate it I'll never bug you ever again. I'll disappear."
"I don't want you to disappear Faith," she smiled.
"Ahh so you do enjoy my company, so then enjoy it tonight. Please."
"Okay fine, one night. Better make it good."
"Promise you'll love it. Pick you up at 8 gorgeous. Catch you later Anne." Faith smiled left the diner.
Buffy finished her shift around 6pm and headed back home to take a quick nap then get dress for her outing with Faith. Her eyes drifted to sleep and she was soon standing with Angel in the middle of the Bronze. They were slow dancing as all of Buffy's friends just watched them emotionless.
"I miss you," Buffy said as she looked up at Angel. Angel looks back at her then to his shoulder where her hand lays and the ring he gave her slowly slips off and lands on the floor. Angel picks it up gripping it in his palm. Buffy has a flashback to her driving the sword through Angel and him reaching for her as he gets sucked into hell.
"I had to…" Buffy says as she stares at Angel. Angel tightens his grip around the ring in his palm and blood starts to trickle from his fist to the floor.
"I loved you…" Angel starts to bleed from his chest, the same area where Buffy had stabbed him.
"Oh god, Angel…"
"Go to HELL!" He smiles and his face turns to a rotting corpse mask, "I did."
Buffy screams and her eyes shoot open as she is covered in sweat from the nightmare she just encountered. She sighs and sees she over slept and missed her date with Faith.
"Oh crap," she gets up takes a quick shower and picks up her cell phone to see three missed calls from Faith and one text message. She opened the message and it read:
"Definitely the first time I've ever been stood up. Look if you didn't want to hang out with me you could of just said no instead of having me believe you wanted to."
Buffy frowned feeling like crap that she had possibly hurt Faith's feelings, she replied to her text hoping Faith would actually talk to her.
"Faith I'm really sorry. I was supposed to take a short nap and I ended up oversleeping. I'm truly sorry is there any way I can make it up to you?"
A minute later Faith responded to Buffy's text.
"Wanna make it up? Come to the Hideout. Go to the front of the line and tell the bouncer your name. When you get inside go to the bar and wait there for me."
Buffy hesitated for a second but then realized she needed to get out of her apartment and hopefully have some type of fun. Buffy was never intending on making friends when she ran away and came to Los Angeles yet she had Faith. Since day one of her working at the diner the outgoing brunette intrigued her. She felt this weird connection to the brunette but couldn't detect what it exactly was. After a month of never speaking to Faith just staring at her, the brunette finally walked up the Buffy wondering why she was always looking at her. Buffy was actually frightened for a split second at the blunt rudeness the brunette had but it quickly changed into flirtation. The brunette soon believed that the blonde was hitting on her and playing hard to get and she accepted the imaginary challenge.
Buffy got dressed in a pair of tight black jeans and a red top with a black cardigan over. She took a cab down to the Hideout. When she arrived she went to the bouncer as she was told to do and instantly got in and went straight to the bar.
The club was amazing, definitely better than the Bronze. Tonight they had glow sticks and glowing paint everywhere, the DJ was blasting techno and dance mix and everyone was up and dancing the night away. Buffy sat at the bar looking around trying to find Faith.
"Can I get you a drink?" The bartender asked with her back towards Buffy.
"A coke is fine."
The bartender turned around with a smirk on her face as she placed the coke on the counter but the blonde was turned around still looking for Faith on the dance floor.
"Looking for someone?"
"Uh yeah actually a girl named Faith you know her?" Buffy turned around to see a hispanic brunette smirking at her placing a straw in her glass of coke.
"Oh yeah I know her. She's a regular here, everyone knows Faith here."
"Is that a bad thing?" Buffy asked worried of the brunettes' reputation.
"No she's only been here a few months but let everyone know not the mess with her from the first night she came here. Most of the guys tried to start crap with her but she quickly put them in their places. Kind of hot actually," the brunette smiled remembering that night.
"So you know Faith well then?"
"You could say that, you a friend of hers?"
"You could say that yeah. She always makes deliveries at the diner I work at and for the past two months we've been talking."
"Wow two months? She must really like you she usually drops her "friends" after one night? I'd know."
"Wait what do you mean? Oh-no me and Faith aren't together at all we are just friends. And what do you mean after one night?"
"Well Faith has a strict motto she lives by. Get some get gone. There she is now," the cute Hispanic pointed out for the blonde.
Buffy looked over and saw Faith emerging from the packed dance floor. She was wearing black leather pants and an electric blue crop top realizing her toned stomach and arms. She smiled when she saw the blonde at the bar and sat on the bar stool next to her.
"What's up Anne?"
"Hey Faith, nice club you've invited me too. You seem to be enjoying the dance floor I see."
"Yeah when I'm out there all my worries disappear. It's just me and the beat."
"Well I'm glad you enjoying yourself. So what's up?"
"Well since you blew me off earlier tonight, I was thinking of how you were planning on making it up to me?" Faith replied with a sly smile.
"I said I was really sorry about that. I didn't mean to oversleep."
"Yeah whatever."
Buffy smiled and took her drink," So how about I make it up to you by doing something you love?"
"Oh yeah what's that?"
"Dancing."
Faith smiled grabbing Buffy's hand and dragging her to the dance floor. The DJ blasted the music loud and Faith grabbed two boys for her and Buffy to dance with. After only five minutes of dancing they had pushed the boys aside and were dancing only with each other.
Faith's hands slipped on Buffy's waist and instead of getting the rejection she was expecting but Buffy welcomed her hands. They danced all night and finally decided to call it a night around 4 in the morning. Faith called a cab and went to her apartment since it was closer and cheaper to get to. Buffy fell asleep on the ride to the apartment so Faith carried her up to her place. Faith carried Buffy to her bed and tucked her in and she grabbed covers and a pillow and plopped down on the couch.