Chapter 2: The Master Plan

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That would be Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, etc….

Faith: POV-

So, I'm walking down the street. It's a typical warm summer day here in Sunnydale. I had gotten up early today (early for me is anytime before one o'clock in the afternoon) and decided that today would be the perfect day to start on my "Master Plan".

Ya see, a couple of nights ago confirmed it. After we left off the patrol, B and me went back to her place and just chilled. It was great! No Scoobies hanging around asking dumb questions. No Watchers saying to research this, report on that. It was just me and her, watching flicks and piggin out. It was one of the few times I've seen B just let herself be herself. Know what I mean?

The plan had been in my head for awhile now and the need to start on it had been growing steadily more demanding. Thinking back, the plan had started forming right after the "Great Revelation". Of course the "Great Revelation" had come shortly after I arrived here in Sunnyhell.

It had happened right after the night at the Bronze when I first met Buffy. I'd been in town for a couple of days trying to figure out how I was going to track down the Slayer that my first Watcher had told me about. Then fate or destiny or whatever stepped in. I was on the dance floor when this vamp comes up and starts dancing around me. Guess he was thinking 'quick happy meal' or something. As if no one would notice his clothes looked right out of the disco era. So I decide to play along, what the hell right? I might as well get in some slayage while I'm waiting for this Buffy chick to put in an appearance. Buffy. Man, I almost choked when my Watcher told me that the current Slayer was named Buffy Summers and lived in California. What kinda name is Buffy?

Anyhow, I let this vamp think I bought into his routine and I lead him outside to the alley alongside the Bronze. No sooner do we get into the shadows, when he goes right for my neck. Dumbass. I slap him around a little and then, who should appear at the head of the alley, but this tiny little blonde. No shit, she couldn't have been more than five foot two and a hundred pounds soaking wet. Then I see the wood stake in her hand and put two and two together. "Hi, you must be Buffy. Can I borrow this?" I asked, as I took the stake from out of her hand. Then I spun around and slammed it into the vamps chest, dusting him.

Returning the stake back to the little blonde I said, "Thanks, couldn't of done it without ya. I'm Faith. The vampire slayer." Buffy was standing there with her mouth hanging slightly open, her bright green eyes wide. I took a closer look and thought to myself, 'Damn, she's pretty cute for a midget'. At almost the same time I could feel a little electric shock run up my spine. 'What the hell was that?' I thought to myself.

I gave my head a quick shake to try and clear it. Meanwhile the red head with Buffy started to speak up. "Oh, oh, you're a vampire slayer too? So is Buffy. Hey Buffy, how can there be another slayer? You didn't die lately have you? Changing that whole 'one girl in all the world' thingy again?"

Buffy's jaw finally snapped shut with an audible click as she turned to glare at the redhead. "I'm not sure Will, but maybe we can ask Giles. He probably has a long and boring reason how it could happen." Oh, oh," the redhead gushed out, "I know, I bet it happened when Kendra died." She stood there looking like she solved the mysteries of the universe, but after seeing the look from Buffy she looked down at her feet with her smile disappearing.

I just stood there, listening to the byplay, while checking Buffy out. I couldn't put my finger on it, but there was definitely something about this blonde that I liked. I was getting a feeling from her. Almost like a psychic buzz that I couldn't explain. Nah, I must just be jazzed still from the fight. Yea, that's it.

"So, who's Kendra?" I asked just a little curious. The girl with Buffy responded, "She's a slayer that was here last year. She was called after Buffy died for a little while. She was killed during a fight with a vampire that was helping to end the world. Okay, shutting up now."

I gave Buffy a big grin, "You died?"

Buffy still hadn't said two words to me. "I got better," she muttered. She finished her glare at the red head and turned back, finally getting herself under control. "So, Faith, wanna join us inside? Maybe you can explain how you happen to be in Sunnydale and how you became a slayer?

"Sure, I'm game. Who're you, Red?" I asked.

Buffy seemed a little startled. Like she had forgotten the other girl was even standing next to her, though she had just finished talking to her. "Oh, sorry, this is Willow", she stammered. For some reason, Buffy was acting like something was making her brain shutdown. She blinked her eyes a couple of times and continued, "Willow has been my best friend since I moved here three years ago."

The three of us went back inside the Bronze. I followed them over to the table they had been sitting at before the slay break. We spent some time trading stories back and forth and I was introduced to Xander (lame), Cordelia (hot but snobby) and Willow's boy toy, Oz (bass player in a band, not bad). As the night came to a close everyone headed home. Everyone but me that is. Since I didn't really have a home, I headed back to the shitty little motel room I had managed to get when I hit town.

As I got ready for bed, I couldn't keep thoughts of Buffy from running through my mind. 'Cute, in a valley girl/cheerleading kinda way,' I thought as I stripped off my clothes and slipped into an oversized tee shirt. 'But doesn't seem to be big in the brains department', my mind insisted as I laid down on the motels beat up mattress. 'I mean come on, she like totally forgot that her "best bud" was standing right there next to her? Talk about clueless.' I turned off the light and decided just to forget about it. There was always tomorrow to see what this Buffy chick was really like. So I turned over and went to sleep.

The next day I met up with Buffy and we went to meet her Watcher. Turns out he was the librarian at the school. Convenient, huh? That Watchers Council really knows how to slip into a girl's life. He was an older guy, sorta reminded me of a lawyer or something. Of course he was British, what Watcher isn't? So we go over the whole how I came to Sunnydale after I became a Slayer thing. I felt kinda bad about leaving out the whole Kakistos story, but just telling them my Watcher died was hard enough without going into the gory details. Know what I mean? Giles said he would call the Council and let them know I was still alive and alright, (yea, sure). Then he told Buffy to take me around and show me the ropes of the Hellmouth.

Over the next couple of weeks I found out that I could get Buffy to make the cutest expression if I annoyed her a little. That's when I started calling her B instead of Buffy. I also found out B wasn't quite as clueless as I first thought. In fact after going on a few patrols with her, it was pretty obvious why she was the longest lived slayer so far. She was smart, wicked strong, could think on her feet and when she was in the middle of a battle, she really brought it. I could actually see the way Buffy's eyes would light up as she was fighting vampires. Sure, she was always hesitant to jump into a battle when she didn't know the odds, but whenever I leapt in, B was ALWAYS right behind me.

Then there was the whole Gwendolyn Post deal. That was the only way that I found out that Buffy's ex, Angel, was back from the hell dimension she sent him to. Before that, I had felt that me and Buffy were really getting closer. We were starting to click. Then he came back and all of a sudden it's like I didn't even exist anymore. Which kinda pissed me off. I had half a mind to find Angel one night and dust him just to save B any future pain. Of course in the end I didn't have to. Soulboy screwed up on the "Livin Flame" spell and after the Glove of Myhnegon was toast, so was he. Heh, heh. I'm glad he's gone, but the pain that lived in Buffy's eyes afterward almost made me wish he wasn't. Man, she doesn't ever deserve to feel that much pain. Ever.

Anyhow, the "Great Revelation" came next. Me and B were out on patrol when we came across some vamps. This was right after the Council sent a new Watcher to town. Seems Giles had an issue with the head of the Watchers Council and got himself fired. Go Giles. Anyway me and B were talking back and forth as usual while making with the slayage. When the vamps were dusted, Buffy said that we missed some. "How do you know?" I asked. Buffy just answered back "I think too much", while looking at some footprints in the dirt.

When we had gotten back to the library were Giles and the new (extremely lame) Watcher Wesley something-something were, we found out the vamps were part of a sect called the Illuminati. Apparently these guy's worked for a demon called Balthazar, that needed a medallion of some kind to bring his power back. So Wesley tells Buffy to go out and get the medallion first. Of course I followed her that night to make sure she was alright.

As I got to the cemetery I saw B head into a crypt and a few minutes later six vamps go in after her. The vamps come back out and I go in lookin for B. I couldn't believe it, she was hiding in a cement coffin. She's the god damned Chosen One and she's hiding from a few vamps? So I grab her and we head outside in time to see the last of the vamps jumpin down through a manhole. Buffy wants to work out a plan, like I said sometimes she can be a little hesitant. I told her I was goin and if she didn't come I might die. You know just pullin her chain a little. Like a few vamps could ever take me down.

So we jumped down after them and there turned out to be more than even I expected. We start doing the whole slay thing. Kickin ass, not botherin to take names. I mean we are in full slayer mode and really starting to get in the groove when one of them gets a lucky shot and I'm dazed for a minute. Another one has his sword and he's starting to run me through, when my girl throws a stake from across the friggin room and dusts him. I give her a big smile, dimples and all, and I get that little electric feeling again. I shake it off and get back in the fight, but when I look over, the leader of this clan has Buffy by the back of her head and is pushing her face into a trough of water.

I get grabbed from behind and can't get over to help her. I scream out her name "Buffy" and the "Great Revelation" happens just as she stops movin. She's just laying there with her face still in the water. All of a sudden I don't care what else is goin on, I don't care what's trying to stop me, I know I have to get loose and save her. Why you ask? Because that electric shock I had been feeling hit me again, only this time like a tidal wave and I knew what it was this time. I loved her. I was in love with Buffy. I had never, ever been in love with anyone or anything before in my entire life, but I knew this for what it was. I LOVED Buffy. I would die for her. I would kill for her.

I screamed out my frustration and broke loose from the vamp that held me. I turned and dusted him then moved to get Buffy outta there, but she was springing up out of the water, swinging a sword around like one of the Musketeers. Unbelievable, nothing can keep that girl down.

I give her a shout full of the relief I was feeling, "Yo, B, we gotta motor", just as she disarms the vamp leader. Without blinking an eye she says, "we came for the medallion" then snags it with her sword from outta the vampire's belt. As she looks at it the lead vamp takes off like all the demons in hell are after him, or would that be angels in heaven? Anyhow I asked B if she didn't feel just a little bit jazzed with all the action and you know what she says? She just says "It didn't suck." But she has that look in her eyes, the one I love seeing there, and I knew we would be better than just good together, we would be great together.

The next night we tracked down this Balthazar guy to an old warehouse and blew in like gangbusters. B and me took out the henchmen in record time and as a bonus B threw a power cable into Balthazar's hot tub and fried that sucker. I told you she was good didn't I.

Where was I, oh yea, the Master Plan. Basically my plan is to show Buffy how to live. How to find the fun everyday in our destined to be short lives. Along the way I'm gonna try to get her to fall in love with me. Maybe as much as I'm in love with her.