Chapter 1

"What's this place suppose to look like?" Faith asked. After Giles had given them the information about the amulet that would give the demon its strength back, the girls set out to find it. It was their duty as slayers, their job.

"Old and ugly. Can we just get this over with, I have enough to deal with and a fat ugly demon is just not one of my priorities right now," Buffy's bitchiness was as strong as ever the past few weeks. Angel had left her because it was better that way. In truth, the only reason she was acting like such an ass was that she knew he was right. The worse part, she wasn't even that sad about it.

She loved him, still does, but the spark had been gone for a long while now. She was going to miss having him as an ally though. A two-century-old vampire with amazing fighting skills and first hand knowledge of demons was definitely one of the benefits of having Angel around.

"Right… and what exactly would you be doing right now if we weren't here? The way I see it, you're getting some exercise, saving some people, and hanging with me. Who wouldn't want that?" Faith said it all with ease and made sure to have her signature smirk in place, but secretly Buffy's attitude was annoying her.

What she really wanted to say was, "This is the only time we actually spend together, so could you shut the fuck up for five minutes and actually be here with me?" She knew better though, Buffy saw Faith as her sister slayer. Someone to share the workload with, no more no less. She knew that Buffy didn't want her as a friend, and definitely not as a girlfriend. Yeah, that's right. She liked the annoyingly cute blonde; it wasn't as if she could do anything about it. Buffy was way too caught up in her own world to pay attention to Faith.

"Whatever, lets just find this stupid amulet and get out of here so I can go home and you can go do… whatever it is you do," Buffy didn't even acknowledge the hurt on Faith's face.

"No problem, Cordelia," Faith muttered the last word.

"There it is," Buffy was pointing at a door, proud that she had found it because it looked exactly like everything else in the cemetery, old and ugly.

"Yay!" Faith exclaimed a little too enthusiastically and did a little dance with the upper part of her body.

"Are you making fun of me?" Buffy ignored the adorable little display Faith had just done and skipped to the bitchiness act, once again.

"I'm always making fun of you B," Faith winked at Buffy and went into the crypt.

"You shouldn't just walk into places like this willy nilly, you were just asking to get caught off guard," Buffy didn't even expect an answer, she just had to put her own two sense into everything.

"Willy nilly," Faith snorted. Buffy couldn't help but let her smile out at that. Faith was such a kid.

Buffy went up to the coffin on the far side of the room and asked for Faith's help in lifting it.

"Must be in the other one," Faith gestured to the coffin right next to them.

As they were pushing the top back on, they both heard shuffling sounds outside. Faith went towards the door, but being the careful slayer, Buffy pushed Faith down into the coffin and hoped on top of her.

"B---," Buffy covered Faith's mouth with her hand. She really wasn't in the mood for a life or death fight at the moment.

Faith didn't even know why she was about to protest when she noticed the position they were in. Buffy was straddling her left thigh and she could feel the skin on skin contact from their shirts riding up. Buffy's warm breath was on her neck, and she almost thought she felt Buffy's lips on her neck as well. This was the closest they had ever been, other then sparring. Punching and kicking each other didn't really count though.

Buffy was listening attentively to what was going on out of the coffin. Faith wasn't paying attention to anything other than the warmth Buffy was emanating. She didn't even care that she was being topped, god she had it bad.

"I think they're gone," Buffy whispered onto Faith's neck, and shifted a bit to look down at Faith. For the first time, Buffy noticed Faith's attraction to her. Her body was covered in goose bumps and her face was flushed. Buffy noticed the attraction but that's all she thought it was; lust.

"Yeah," she managed to breathe out.

Buffy pushed the top off of the coffin using the force of her back and got out, unsuccessfully avoiding any physical contact with the brunette. It took Faith a few seconds to regain her composure, when she saw Buffy head off towards the vamps her whole demeanour changed. She rushed out of the crypt to help, and saw that Buffy had stopped in her tracks.

"Damn, they went down the manhole," she pointed down in front of her, Faith finally noticed it.

"So? What the hell are you waiting for?" Faith went to jump into the tight space, but was stopped by Buffy's hand on her shoulder.

"Wait. Stop. Think!," Buffy exclaims, shocked that Faith was stupid enough to just jump into something, when they had no way of knowing what was on the other side.

"No, no, no!" Faith said defiantly, and proceeded to get ready to go in. Buffy stopped her once again.

"It's a manhole. Tight space, no escape, six against two, not unlike three against one," Buffy was desperately trying to get Faith to understand what she was doing wrong on so many levels.

"And there might be more," she grabs Buffy's arm, "so come on. Lets go dust some vamps and save the world, again," she really wasn't getting it.

"You're just gonna go down there? That's your plan?" Buffy questioned. Buffy thought she, herself, was a rebel but Faith definitely beat her on that front.

" Who said I had a plan? I don't know how many's down there, but I

wanna find out. And I'll know when I land. If you don't come in after

Me," she shrugs and smiles, "I might die!"

Without any further hesitation she jumps in. Buffy can't believe it, but

realizes she can't let her do it alone, and jumps in after her.

Buffy lands smack on top of Faith, and they're back to their previous position. Faith doesn't have enough time to get flustered because Faith is off of her almost as soon as she was on top of her.

"This isn't a sewer," Buffy declares.

Faith notices her surroundings, there's what looks to be long abandoned hallways going in almost all directions. Papers are everywhere, along with cabinets, office supplies and pretty much everything else a school needs.

"I think were in the school basement," Buffy is contemplating how the hell they got from a manhole in Restfield cemetery to the Sunnydale High basement.

"Uhh, Buffy," Faith shows her a file that reads the year of 2003.

"Well that can't be right,".