I tried as much as I could to leave time frames out of it and I hope you guys don't get lost with the multiple jumps back down memory lane. Also I would like to remind you that there are new original characters so bear with me because they need their respective introductions so you can know them and grow to either hate them or love them.

Enjoy!

Chapter One

"Damn it Josh!" exclaimed the Young blond slayer while she shook the vampire dust of her clothes "Do you have to be such a show of?"

A tall bald man with a leather jacket jumped down a two story building landing in front of her grinning "Of course I do, why else would I spend so much on this fucking awesome high tech crossbow" he said while slinging it back over his shoulder.

"You are such an ass" The blonde replied shoving him lightly.

"Takes one to know one" He bantered back.

"Hush" whispered harshly a third person that was with them standing a bit apart.

They both went over to the brunet and waited.

"I sense it" whispered the blonde just as a hooded figure walked quickly by them.

The three stared at the figure and just as it was about to disappear behind a building the figure turned to them and smiled.

"Shit" exclaimed the guy taking his crossbow and putting it in place "you did see that, right?"

"We'll follow but nobody engages" ordered the brunette and as soon as she received two nods they started to walk to catch up with the figure. After a block they had to start jogging and then running at full speed as the hooded figure seemed to be getting away.

They followed the figure into an open space on a park; all the lights were on so the place was well lit. They all stop, both the blond and the man on either side of the brunette, as the hooded figure stopped without turning.

The blonde slayer was already in a fighting stance, the man was aiming with his crossbow and the brunette woman was assessing the situation. Something about the energy coming from the hooded figure seemed familiar to her.

The figure removed the hood letting show that it was a female with long red hair. To this the brunette place a hand on the guy's crossbow, indicating to lower it, which he did and she took a couple steps close to the figure. ยท

"Long time no see Red" she said stopping only a couple feet away.

The figure turned around with a smile "Definitely a long time".

"You know there are cell phones and emails right?" said the brunette grinning "you don't have to go throw all the theatrics"

"Well Faith" shrugged Willow still with a smile on her face "were is the fun in that?"

They both chuckled and then Willow surprised Faith by pulling her into a hug which Faith returned after a couple seconds.

When they pulled apart Faith asked "To what do we owe the pleasure of this visit?"

"Can we go somewhere to talk?" replied Willow.

"For sure, come on" They both turned over to the other two people and Faith made quick introductions "Red, these are Sam and Josh. Guys, this is Willow Rosenberg".

Willow waived a little and Josh waived back while Sam exclaimed "OMG you are THE Willow? Sunnydale's Willow? Super powerful Wicca Willow?"

"Oh wow-I" started Willow a bit embarrassed thankfully being saved by Faith who interrupted "Oh come on Bo, let's get home and then you can fangirl Willow all you want. I'm sure the brat won't mind" She finished as they started walking.

"If you are referring to Kennedy we broke up a year ago" Said Willow.

"Oh shit" answered Faith "I'm sorry"

"Don't be, it's not like the gossip is included in the monthly reports" dismissed the redhead.

"That's why you are here, right?" Inquired Josh "Because of the whole issue with the power loss"

"Josh" warned Faith in a harsh tone, indicating that he shouldn't be questioning Willow.

"It's ok" Said Willow calmly placing a hand on Faith's shoulder for a second. "Yes, that is why I'm here. I'll explain everything".

The four continued the walk back quietly, each thinking on the issue that had been plaguing their minds for the last three months. After the Hellmouth was closed, the gang moved over to England to regroup and made something really amazing of the whole sitch with slayers and watchers. They had built an Academy in which the slayers were trained and then sent, when ready, to different locations around the globe. Each continent had their own headquarters that were run by the slayers that fought that battle in Sunnydale and survived and everything was supervised by the original gang in England. When they got to L.A. after the fight, Faith announced she was going to go back to prison but was surprised when Gun informed her she had no longer any criminal record. Both Angel and Buffy offered a place with them but she respectfully declined, she insisted that she had to earn her way back from the very bottom. She left to New York for a couple months where she met a new Slayer, Lili. Lili was originally from Mexico so after a year they both decided to head to Tijuana were they settled for a couple months. They met Sam at a Rave, after the blonde starting causing problems and fighting off the security personnel that was twice her size. After talking to her, it turned out Sam had been in England for a couple months but she had some really big issues regarding authority figures so she refused her calling and bailed. Faith didn't want any problems with Buffy, which she hadn't spoken to in nearly two years, so she decided to contact her and let her know that Sam was with her and that she was going to try to help her out to accept her calling. Buffy agreed and encouraged Faith to keep in touch but the brunette only contacted them for extreme situations. After talking to Giles, both him and Buffy convinced Faith to help them by letting them send her the extreme cases of undisciplined slayers, a responsibility Faith accepted after talking to Lili and since then they had received three girls which had been able to be relocated to other countries and counted as success cases. Sam had decided to stay with them and they were both happy with that. Almost three years had passed since the incident in Sunnydale that changed everything when they all started noticing something very odd. It started with lapses of about 5 minutes in which some of the slayers completely lost their powers, these lapses started to happen at random to about 5 girls at the same time but for the same amount of time and the most alarming part was that the time frames kept increasing. The times started with 5 minutes of total power loss, then 15, then 30, and the last one had been an hour. In some cases it did repeat in a girl but it seemed to be completely random. Neither Buffy, Faith nor Kennedy had experience any of these lapses leading them to believe that the original slayer line indeed was suppose to continue through Kennedy. One of the first reports was actually one of the longest conversations that Faith and Buffy had had over the phone.

Buffy woke up startled by her cell phone ringing to Ellie Goulding's You, My Everything. She looked over at the clock and it said 3:46am "It's always bad when it is a call in the middle of the night" she grumbled and reached for her phone. "Are you ok?" She immediately questioned worriedly.

"Yeah B, just worried and honestly very confused" replied Faith sounded exhausted "I'm sorry about the time but something happened over here".

"What happened?" Asked the blonde, as she got up from her bed and went over to her desk to get her Ipad.

Faith sighed "It's Lili" the brunette paused to look over to the dark haired woman lying in her bed with a couple cuts over her arms and face.

Buffy already knew about Lili, it seemed like someone very important to Faith from the way she always talked about her.

"We've been tracking some demons that go around in day looking a lot like a regular person but actually feeding on humans" Faith continued and Buffy got comfortable in her bed turning her Ipad on. "She got attacked by two which would totally be ok since she is a kick ass fighter" she paused "she actually is like you, you know? She's very resourceful and very strong".

Buffy could hear admiration in that comment and smiled a little bit but when Faith didn't continued her smile disappeared "Faith is Lili ok?" She asked fearfully.

The brunette slayer went over to the bed and carefully caressed Lili's injured cheek. Then she walked out to the balcony and sat on the railing lighting up a smoke. "She got hurt pretty bad B, the way they told me it happened was that she got attacked by two "people" which she was handling ok, but suddenly the people around say that she doubled over and when she got back up she was at a loss".

"What do you mean at a loss?"

"She was overrun, just lying on the floor taking the beating, she didn't seem to be able to get back up or respond" the brunette let out another sight "There was this guy, Josh, I've worked with him before in a couple cases. He has some warlock blood and his one hell of a fighter. Fortunately he was passing by and stepped up, he couldn't defeat them but it was enough for them to bail and for him to be able to bring Lili home".

"Faith I'm really sorry" Buffy honestly replied "you think it was magic?"

"He describes it to me as if she was completely powerless" Faith flicked the cigarette of and lit another one "Everything happened so fast. He says everything happened in two minutes tops. Two fucking minutes B!" Faith exclaimed aggravated "in which she was receiving punches and kicks completely defenseless!"

The blonde slayer felt confused also and very alarmed. From what the girls that had met Lili and what Faith told her, she was a fierce fighter. So she quickly scheduled a meeting first thing in the morning and sent the notice to the stand-in teachers that they would take over the classes that needed attending.

"What about right know? Has the healing kicked in?"

"Yeah, Josh said that about two minutes after he was carrying her over here he noticed the most superficial wounds finally starting to ease" Replied Faith.

"Ok, so it seems her powers came back after around 5 minutes" Buffy summed up while continuing to work on her Ipad. "Did he notice any essences, any magic, any props, any lights?"

"Nothing B, he didn't see anything, not even his tap into magic could detect any Magic signatures" The brunette finished her second cigarette "There was no magic"

There was a pause in which they were both assimilating what had just happened.

"What is happening to her Buffy?" Asked Faith very upset.

Buffy sighed "I don't know Faith but I promise we will figure it out"

"I can't lose her B" The brunette whispered and Buffy could almost imagine tears in Faith's eyes.

"Faith, I am not letting you down again" the blonde reassured her "This is right now top priority. We will find out what happened"

"Thanks"

"Faith I'm here you know? For whatever you need" she paused "and I don't necessarily mean work related stuff".

"I know it's just really hard forgetting we have a past" said Faith as she rested her head back on the wall, looking up at the sky.

Buffy turned off her Ipad and snuggled back in under the covers, turning off the light "But its past Faith, we both let each other down. We can change that now, we are different people than who we were then, aren't we?"

"I certainly hope so"

There was another pause.

"Buffy?"

"Yeah?"

"You really believe you and me can be friends?" Faith asked somewhat hopefully.

Buffy smiled and answered "Here is a confession. Even with all this slayers running around in the world the only one I feel a connection with is you".

Faith smiled a little "Yeah I know what you mean, I've always felt it".

"It was one of the concerns I had when we had to do the spell back in Sunnydale"

"What do you mean?" Questioned the brunette

"I had a talk with Willow in which I asked her if that connection would be lost, but there was no way of knowing that, there were no records for that and technically she said if it was a Slayer thing it could pass on to the rest of the new slayers"

"Damn" Chuckled Faith "Didn't know you thought that much about our connection"

Unnoticed by anyone Buffy blushed "I always did"

"Thank you B"

"For what?"

"For everything" Faith replied honestly "I wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for you, so thank you"

"Yeah well I would say there is no need to thank me for that or that you also saved me, but I will actually use this to obligate you to call me more often" Buffy said smiling.

The brunette chuckled "Noted B, I will keep in touch and not strictly for Slayer stuff"

"Promise?" Asked Buffy yawning

"Promise" Confirmed Faith "now go back to sleep so you can be up and about later and we can figure this whole thing out"

"Alright mom" the blonde teased "Talk to you later Faith. We will figure this out"

"I know B, I trust you" Faith hopped down from the railing

"Bye Fai"

That morning Buffy had briefed the rest of the Scoobs of what had happened in Mexico and they contacted each headquarter individually making sure they realized the importance. Since that very moment the reports started filing in. It was happening all over the globe, but it never happened to more than 5 girls. So the immediate response was that patrols were always in groups bigger than 5 people.

On Faith's side, Josh had decided to stay with the girls and they had gratefully accepted him in their group. Lili had recovered and they had gone back to normal. The only thing that changed was that no one was left alone.

Buffy and Faith started talking on a daily basis about random stuff and of course also about slayer issues. Very frequently the blonde would ask Faith to move over to England with them, but she said she would have to consult it with the team and she never did. She didn't feel ready to be fully back. Except now that Willow had appeared well it seems things were about to change drastically, otherwise why would a Scoob fly all the way over to Mexico; besides of course the mojitos, margaritas and micheladas.