Faith the Vampire Slayer
Pilot Episode
"Pieces to the Puzzle"
Author's note: This is my attempt at a Faith virtual series. If it sucks let me know and I'll stop writing it. If people enjoy it and want it continued then I'll update about once a week.
Summary: This story takes place two years after the fall of Sunnydale. It will revolve around 3 slayers. Faith, Colleen, and Kori.
There are hundreds of people moving hurriedly throughout the airport, each of them trying to make it to their destination on time, many of them not succeeding. Through all the chaos sits a woman who is very used to this type of madness, writing in her journal.
So here I am sitting in the airport waiting for my flight back to LA. I hate to admit it but I am terrified...not just because I'll be staying in LA for who knows how long, but because I'll be flying on a damn plane. You would think that with all my flying I would be used to it by now, but nope I'm not. Of course I would never let anyone know that Big Bad Faith is scared of flying. I don't know how I got myself into this, but I do know that it'll probably end badly.
FLASHBACK:
Faith had stopped at a gas station off the side of the service road to fill up her motorcycle. Once she had paid the hefty bill for the gas she headed back out to the bike about to climb back on when she got a call.
"Hey G-man you work fast, I just finished up this job and you've already got another one for me?" Faith smirked at the sigh she heard on the other end of the line, loving how she irritated the British man.
"Well hello Faith, it's always such a pleasure to speak with you. As to your question, yes I do have another job, but one I'm sure you will not like."
"Oh come on old man, how can it be any worse than what I've already done?"
"Because it'll mean settling down, putting down roots for a certain period of time, something that I know you don't enjoy doing."
Faith sighed but decided to listen anyway, "Before I say no I'll at least listen to whatever it is that you want me to do...but, after I'll still probably say no."
"Very well. With Angel no longer working full time in LA we need someone to monitor the city and I couldn't think of anyone, other than you, who could do this." The Brit knew playing to her ego probably wasn't going to get her to say yes but he wanted to try anyway.
"So, I guess B is still off traveling the world, bumping uglies with any cute guy she meets, and couldn't possibly be bothered with this nice little offer?" It was no secret that the dark slayer was jealous of the blonde, even if she did try to keep it one.
Giles knew they were about to get into a touchy subject so instead of continuing on about Buffy, he decided to ignore the statement all together, "You out of everyone, besides Angel, have done the most good there and it's not like I would be sending you there alone. You'll have a team of two other slayers and a watcher to share the load with."
Faith thought about it for a few moments and decided it couldn't hurt to try and after a pause said, "Alright I'll do it, but I'm not promising I'll stick around long, but I will give it a shot."
END FLASHBACK
Oh right I remember how I got myself into this, I actually agreed to it. That was dumb, but then again I'll have my very own "Scooby Gang" that everyone thinks is so important to me.
As the brunette continued to write in her journal it was announced that the 10:20 flight to LA was now seating her row, so the slayer reluctantly got up to board the plane, but not without saying, "Well, this should be a blast."
A few hours, and a few drinks later, Faith exited the plane and started looking for whoever it was that was supposed to pick her up, figuring that it would be some stuffy British guy dressed in all tweed. What she found, however, was a girl around the age of 20 dressed very much like Faith with dark jeans and a tight red t-shirt holding a sign with her name on it.
The brunette girl was slightly taller than Faith and had the goofiest grin on her face. I guess this is one of the slayers I'll be working with, but why the hell is she looking at me like that?
"You must be Faith, what with the evil glare you're sending my way. I've heard a lot about you...mostly bad things but I guess since you're here that's a good thing so.." The girl never got to finish her babbling because she was interrupted by an impatient Faith.
"Yeah, I'm Faith, and are you always this annoying?" The older slayer was definitely not in the mood for whatever else this girl had to say.
"Well no, I don't know, I guess I'm just nervous to be meeting you. But anyway my name is Kori and I'm gonna be taking you to the house." The girl was clearly nervous and Faith did feel just a little sorry for being so rude but the feeling faded quickly.
The two slayers headed out to the Dodge Neon Kori drove up in and Faith couldn't help but make a dig at the beat up car, "Nice wheels, Council set you up with that?"
"Actually, no, it's mine from back home," the younger slayer said looking down at her hands somewhat embarrassed.
Feeling a little sorry again Faith asked, "Where's home?" Why am I feeling like this, I know I'm supposed to be all good now but I never feel sorry for people.
"I'm from a small town in Texas, out west, I've been out here for a couple of weeks now, training, trying to get better, but I don't think it's working. Oh by the way, Colleen is in class so she couldn't make it, we're all gonna be staying at her house."
Throughout the girls babbling Faith couldn't help but notice how excited the other girl was getting and just for a split second, thought it was cute. What the hell?
"You like to talk a lot...me, not so much, so lets just head on over to this house." Faith saw the young girls face fall slightly and felt a pang of guilt at making her feel bad, then added, "you know what,screw it. Tell me more about yourself."
The whole way to the house while Kori rambled on and on about things the dark slayer really didn't care much about, she couldn't help but notice that the further they went, the worse the neighborhood got.
Well at least it looks a little like home.
They finally pulled up into the drive way of beat down house. Paint peeling off the wood, shingles missing, and windows boarded up. In all honesty Faith did feel like she was back in Boston, in her old neighborhood.
"Wow, it's like I'm back in Southie," Faith said while the other girl just looked confused. "Boston...where I'm from. You guys sure do know how to treat a girl, pick me up in this hot ride and bring me back to this dope crib. I'm touched, really."
"Well the Council's pay really is crap, you should know that, and one more thing you could have brought your hog out here if my car doesn't meet your standards," the younger girl added annoyed, with her arms folded across her chest.
"Free plane ticket," Faith shrugged.
As the girls walked into the house Kori went on to tell Faith that she would have her own room. "As bad as this place looks it has a pool, and we each get our own room so it's really not that bad. After stories I've heard about you I'm kinda glad we don't have to share."
Faith smirked at the other girl and said in her husky voice, "Oh, I don't know, I think you might have enjoyed it." Then let out a laugh when saw the other girl quietly gasp and take a step back.
The older slayer looked around the house some more and realized it really wasn't as bad on the inside as the outside appeared. The house was fully furnished with nice furniture, a fairly big TV, with tons of movies to accompany it, and the kitchen held lots of food the slayer knew she would enjoy later. No mac and cheese though, gotta change that.
Faith continued her tour of the house, passing the bathroom and each of the other girls' rooms until she finally found an almost empty one, which she assumed was hers. It had a queen size bed and a set of drawers as its only furniture. The bed had black sheets, a black comforter, black everything. Wow they know me pretty well, I guess this won't be so bad after all.
Kori walked into the room and saw the look of approval on Faith's face, "I hope you like it, it wasn't hard to pick since you know...it's just black. But anyway Andrew will be here in a few minutes."
What the hell? Maybe this WILL be bad, very bad.
"Wait, what? Andrew as in Andrew Andrew?" Faith was completely shocked, "what the hell does Andrew have to do with anything?"
"He's our watcher, Giles didn't tell you?" Kori tried hard not to laugh at how worked up Faith was getting, but knew exactly where she was coming from, having to deal with the annoying man before.
"No, if he had do you really think I would be standing here right now?" Getting angrier by the second, Faith couldn't help but think she had been tricked into this. Giles knows how much I can't stand that kid,he's so annoying.
"I know what you mean, when I was first called or whatever and was finally contacted about a month ago they said I would start training with my new watcher."
"Which happened to be Andrew?" Faith's annoyance and anger were slowly being replaced with pity for this other girl.
"Yeah, and in the few weeks I've been out here, it's save to say I've learned nothing. Which is another reason you're here, to kinda help train me," Kori finished her sentence looking somewhat hopeful.
"Why did it take so long for you to be called and contacted?" Faith asked a little confused.
The hopeful look the other girl was wearing was replaced with a sad one, "I don't know, I guess the whole magic spell forgot about me and it's just now kicking in."
Still feeling sorry for this girl and not knowing why, Faith agreed to help with training.
After Faith had unpacked what little possessions she brought, she heard a knock on the front door and went with Kori to answer it.
"Speaking of the dwarf, hey Andrew, come in."
"Hey there Kori," then looking over at Faith then back to Kori, whispered, "hide all your food."
The little man tried to act as if he was happy to see Faith and not scared of her in the least. It wasn't working.
"Don't worry Andrew, I'm not gonna steal anymore hot pockets. I learned my lesson after all those death stares you were sending my way," Faith said laughing.
"Right," Andrew sighed, not trusting the ex-con but continued anyway, "well I guess I'll explain the mission. We are all here to protect LA from the surge of evil that will inevitably come. You three young girls, Slayers of the Vampires, under the guidance of your handsome watcher, are all that stands between light and the darkness looming in the future..."
"Andrew, shut up, I'm here because Angel isn't, I get the plan. I don't need your drawn out dramatic story," Faith interrupted more impatient than ever.
"Well yeah, that pretty much sums it up," the boy said quietly while Kori just laughed.
"So how did we get stuck with you anyway?" Faith asked the question wanting it to be answered quickly, but knowing Andrew it probably wasn't going to be.
"Well I've been helping Giles rebuild the Council and would sometimes go out on missions with Xander to find new slayers, kill demons, whatever needed to be done really," then the boy paused and blushed a little, "everyone thought it might be a good idea if I tried something new...without Xander."
With that said Faith busted out laughing, picturing in her head all the moves Andrew probably tried to put on Xander.
"Anyway," Andrew said, cutting into Faith's laughter, "the Council set me up with this swank little apartment right down the road, complete with bars on the windows and everything."
Once again Faith couldn't help but laugh at the thought of this high maintenance man living in such a dump. Priceless.
After her laughing subsided the front door opened and in walked a short brunette girl. I guess all slayers are brunettes now, which is a good thing I guess, I really don't need anymore reminders of...no never mind.
"Hey Faith, I'm Colleen, you probably don't remember me from Sunnydale, what with all the girls there and everything but anyway welcome to my very humble abode."
Colleen couldn't have been much taller than 5'2 and appeared to be about 22 or 23. She was dressed in a white skirt that went down to her knees and a pink cami. Faith couldn't help but think of a certain blonde, but those thoughts were quickly squashed as she listened to what Kori was saying.
"Andrew was just filling Faith in on why we're all here, so you haven't missed much."
"Well, I wasn't real excited about the idea when they first came to me, I mean I was trying to live as normal a life I could after Sunnydale and working with Angel, but it was getting harder and harder to be normal, so I agreed," the small girl rambled on.
What's with these girls and all the talking? Then Faith caught on to what the girl had said, "You worked with Angel?"
Colleen smiled and said, "Yeah, for a little while anyway, until I decided I wanted to go to school instead."
Kori, after listening to the other girl smiled a sweet smile at her and said, "Yeah she just couldn't stay away from the fighting off evil thing."
The group all shared a laugh but stopped when they heard Andrew giggling and just gave him a look that asked 'what the hell', to which he responded to with, "What, why are you guys looking at me like that?"
The three slayers all rolled their eyes and laughed again.
"Well, the pieces to this puzzle have finally come together," a once again giggling Andrew put in.
"Guys, I have such a great idea. Why don't we come up with a team name? Oooh, like the Fantastic 4," Colleen blurted out a little too excitedly
Kori thought about it for a second and then reminded the girl, "Yeah, but there's only three of us."
"Hey, what about me, I'm a group member too," Andrew whined, looking a little hurt.
Ignoring the hurt look on his face, Faith quickly added, "Yeah, Fantastic 4 won't work."
"How about the Trinity?" threw out Kori.
"Isn't that some Christian thing or whatever," Faith argued.
Listening to the bickering between the others Colleen finally asked, "Well do you have any ideas?"
As Faith rolled her eyes, not believing she was actually participating in this conversation, replied, "The Three Musketeers, the Three Amigos, why do we even need a group name?"
"Because stupid, all groups have names. Take for instance the Fantastic 4, Justice League, the Scooby Gang, and you know...the Ninja Turtles."
Faith smirked at the Scooby Gang reference Kori had made in her rant, remembering that she did want to be a part of something and decided a group name couldn't hurt.
Colleen, wanting to add her two cents in added, "I kinda like the Trinity. I mean, we fight on the side of good so that's kinda Christian like."
"And since I can't be in the group, I guess it's a suitable name," a very sad looking Andrew said softly.
After a pause Faith looked at each of them and smiled, "Yeah...the Trinity...well, the Trinity plus Andrew."