Disclaimer: I don't own the Buffy universe.
Characters: Faith, Buffy
Rating: K+
Summary: One girl in all the world.
Word Count: 170
The Chosen One
There's this moment. A flash of something. Brief, fleeting.
They're there, together. Surrounded by all these pieces of her life. Shattered, broken. Her life in ruins. Different, the same. Nothing made any sense. Everything was fuzzy around the edges. She looked away and their eyes met. And, in that moment, she knew. She understood. This thing that's always been between them. The Truth.
That there has only ever been one Slayer. Only one girl in all the world. Split between two bodies. Three, four, dozens, hundreds. Thousands. Thrown across time, across space. Reborn, reformed, reshaped. Over and over and over.
But only ever one. The Slayer. Standing alone against the whole word.
It's clear. For the first time. A heartbeat stopped and it woke something in her. She was the one. The power pulsed through her veins. Through their veins. Unstoppable, unbreakable, unshakable. They are one. Two halves. One girl.
The Slayer.
She leans forward, touches her other half. Weak, fading, slipping through her fingers. "Just take what you need."
