Author: dragonflygirl10 (Dragonfly, me!)

Disclaimer: I own no characters, Joss owns them all.

Wow! I really was not expecting such an immediate reaction. As of such I'm uploading the second chapter earlier than I had originally planned. Don't expect Chapter three to come out as fast, all the chapters from here on out will take a little more planning than this one did.

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Dawn grabbed the Phone from her mother. "HI BUFFY!" she yelled into the receiver.

"Hi Dawn." Said Buffy, wincing at Dawn's excessive volume, "What's up?"

"I want to ask you something."

"Ask away."

Buffy heard her little sister take a deep breath before beginning. "There's this guy at school. . ."

"Dawn," Buffy interrupted in a surprised yet teasing voice, "are you asking me for dating advice?"

She heard Dawn make a very distinctive 'yeah right' kind of noise on the other end. "Like I would ask you if I wanted dating advice! You dated a vampire that went all evil and tried to kill all your friends!" The younger girl retorted.

"HEY!" Buffy snapped, feeling rather offended, "Would you ask Mom? She dated a psycho robot!"

"So not the point." Dawn responded in annoyance.

"So if you didn't want dating advice then why the guy from school?" Buffy inquired.

"Well, he's been picking on me. . . I was kinda wondering if you could beat the crap out of him."

"DAWN!" Buffy and her mother both yelled at the same time.

"WHAT?"

Buffy took a deep breath before answering. "No. I can't. Bye."

"Fine. . . Bye. . ."

Buffy hung up the phone and her thoughts began to wander back to Faith. Before her train of thought really got anywhere Willow entered the dorm room.

"Morning Buffy." She said cheerily.

"Morning Will, where were you last night?"

The redhead blushed slightly, but Buffy didn't notice. "With a friend."

"Ok." Buffy responded before lying back on her bed.

"So, any luck with Adam?" Willow asked, glad her best friend didn't ask anything else.

"None. And I can't get that blaster thing to work either." Buffy responded with a sigh.

"Well, maybe we should show it to Xander; he might be able to do something with it."

"Yeah. That sounds good. I'll call Giles, we can make it a big group get- together."

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"So, can you repair it?" Buffy asked Xander

"Sure. Just as soon as I get my masters degree in advanced starship technology."

"Well why don't we experiment?" suggested Willow, "press some buttons, see what happens."

"Giles looked up from the other side of the room. "I'd like to veto that."

"Second." Xander said, raising his hand in agreement. "It's called a blaster, Will. A word that tends to discourage experimentation. Now if it were called the orgasmator I'd be the first to try your basic button press approach."

Buffy was becoming a little annoyed. "Just tell me: can you repair it or not?"

"I'm working on it." Xander replied. "If I blow a whole in my mom's azalea patch the neighbors will not be pleased."

Buffy sighed and sat down, resting her forehead in her hand. She had way too much on her plate right now.

"Are you alright?" Inquired a concerned Giles. He stood up and walking over to Buffy. Sitting back down again he continued. "You've been patrolling round the clock for Three days strait. Perhaps you could use some-"

"What?" Buffy cut in, "Some rest? There's a demonoid killing machine out there, Giles. It doesn't exactly work the night shift."

"I was going to say you might use some back-up, but um. . . now that you mention it building up your strength might not be a bad idea."

"Just get the blaster working." She said in Xander's direction, then more quietly "That's all the strength I need."

"Are you sure?" asked Willow.

Buffy was quick to respond. "Why? Because ray-guns aren't in the slayer handbook? Will, you haven't seen this Adam thing. He's the terminator without the bashful charm, and the last time we met he kicked my ass."

"Oh no; blast away by all means." Responded the witch, "I just meant, no word about Riley?"

Buffy let out a sigh. With all the thought about Faith she had nearly forgotten. "They keep telling me he's fine."

Willow shrugged. "Maybe they're telling the truth."

"Maybe, but I don't even know what the initiatives version of fine is. I mean, they could be forcing him back onto medication or torturing him for all I know."

"From what we've seen I doubt they'll be trying to hurt him." Giles pointed out.

"The only thing I know for certain is my boyfriend is locked away and I'm not helping." Buffy replied, a plan beginning to form in her mind even as she said the words.

A loud electrical noise and a shout of shook came from where Xander was trying to fix the blaster. Oddly enough Buffy was too lost in her own thoughts to notice. She was planning on rescuing her boyfriend from and evil government organization, and she still kept having random little thoughts about Faith pop into her head. This was ridiculous.

Funny thing was Willow and Giles were to lost in trying to figure out what Buffy was thinking to notice either.

"Maybe Giles has a point." Willow put in as Xander turned around looking rather frazzled. "I mean Riley is their top gun guy, it doesn't make sense that they'd hurt him."

Xander turned back to the gun, wondering if maybe he was going to turn invisible like that one girl. That would be kinda cool.

"But the initiative has all those brain-washy behavior modification guys." Buffy pointed out.

"So?" asked Willow

"So what happens when they start not liking his behavior?"

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Ok! Author here. I am getting REALY tired of just writing out these dialogues so I'm just going to skip the rest of them. You all know how it goes. So unless I get some reviews (more than one) asking me to slowly work my way through all the relevant scenes in the show along with some that I have added in I'm just gonna skip strait to the part where Faith arrives at the Summers home, cause that's when my story really starts to turn away from the Cannon.