"Well B your not the one and only anymore, how's that feel?" Faith asks and Buffy says nothing she just looks at the crater inwardly thinking 'I haven't been the one and only in 4 years' but never voiced that. "What are we gonna do now?" Willow asks then Dawn steps up, "Yeah Buffy... what are we gonna do now?" she asks and Buffy shrugs really not knowing.
"Well there is a hellmouth in Cleveland but I suggest we go to LA, Angel will be able to help us until we get situated," Giles says as he pushes everyone back onto the bus. He climbed into the driver's seat and started on the way to LA.
Faith came up to Buffy on the bus but didn't sit down she just stood there, "Uh B... I gotta ask you something," she says really wanting to stay with everyone because as much as she hated to admit it she actually liked the scoobs, yeah they were horrible at times, and Buffy was a bitch most of the time but Faith had always loved Buffy and they were only horrible to her because she was horrible to them. "Yeah Faith," Buffy said looking her up and down. It was awkward especially since they had been sleeping together since she got back. But Buffy never expected herself to feel this way towards Faith and she didn't know that she could allow herself too after everything she had done. Buffy had went from getting off post slayage hornies to actually becoming attached.
"Look now that the big bad is toast and there are a bunch of slayers around you really don't need me. Plus your about to meet up with Angel so you don't need anyone to keep you warm," she says and Buffy sighs, "Faith get to the point," she says and Faith takes a deep breath, "Fine. I'm just gonna lay it out and you can decide for me because its to much for me to decide on by myself. There's a hellmouth in Cleveland that needs a slayer, and I work better alone so you know I'm your girl. That would give The Slayer," she said putting emphasis one 'the' a chance to take a break, or relax and teach new slayers at her own pace and also have the badies taken care of. Or I could stay here with you and everyone else. And we could have... whatever it is we got goin on right now," she tells Buffy and Buffy gulps hating this choice being put on her. She hated having Faith's life changing choice be put on her, but in some way it made her feel superior and that's what she's always wanted., "Faith," Buffy was at a loss of words all these emotions goin through her head the strongest two were lust, and hatred. She knew she felt something for the slayer. She was perfectly capable of excepting she was gay, but she was not gonna except that she loved Faith, or even liked her. "I think you should leave. We don't need an ex murderer teaching the slayers. I really think you should go back to prison but going to the hellmouth sounds better," she tells Faith and Faith's face saddens as she turns around, "No problem, won't hear from me again," she says you can hear that she was seconds away from crying and when Giles stopped to get gas Faith got up off telling everyone she was gonna help Giles. But Guiles came back and there was no Faith and everyone knew that Faith and Buffy had been talking just before that. They had learned to like Faith, especially Kennedy, who didn't like Buffy to start with but now she hated her guts.
They didn't hear from Faith for a year until Giles made Buffy go out to see Faith because he had not heard from the brunette in a month and she usually checked in at least twice a week; and Buffy had blamed herself ever since and Giles felt that a reunion would bring both slayers together again, it didn't go as he had planned because when Buffy got there all she could do was yell at Faith which made her cut herself off from the council and the slayers all together. No one knows what was said to make Faith become an independent party but the all know it was Buffy's fault because they all know that Faith wanted desperately to redeem herself in their eyes, and breaking away would do nothing to help that.
