Then There is Not
Chapter Two: Seeing Red
Sp there she was waiting at the bus stop at one in the morning. She had classes tomorrow and she was going to kill Buffy if she did not tell her what this was all about. She had a suspicion about what it could be. However she did not want to bring it up to the blond slayer in case she was wrong.
She knew that she was right in thinking that Faith had feelings for Buffy she just was not sure if she was right in thinking that Buffy felt the same way towards Faith.
Looking around the station she could not see the young slayer. She was not sure that she wanted to see her if she was ready to leave town. Buffy must have really done something wrong for faith to want to leave town.
She would much rather have been in a cometary than here. The drunk hobo in the corner was giving her the creeps. He was smelly and he kept looking at her like she was a piece of meat. When she said he smelled she was not kidding the odor that was emitting from this guy was enough to make her nose curl and hide. She thought that she was going to throw up but kept it down the best she could.
There was another girl there with her. She could not have been more than fourteen years old. There was a bag beside her and she looked like she had been crying. Did that mean that she was running away? Willow could not let her do that. She would not survive on her own not if she kept heading out in the middle of the night like this she was lucky to have made it to the bus stop without getting attacked by something or another. There were too many dangers out at this time of night for a girl her age to be by herself or anyone to be by themselves for that matter.
"Hey little girl."
She spoke softly as she approached the girl. Her hair was the same as Willows and her eyes were a light blue that she found very pretty.
"Hey."
The girls voice seemed so small to the wicca. She knew that she was scared by the sound of her voice. She looked at Willow with a smile but that was all hat she could see that was happy. The blue eyes of the girl seemed so hallow like there was no one behind them.
"What is your name?"
" Rebbecca."
"Mine name is Willow. Do you mind if I sit here and wait with you? I am waiting for a friend to get here."
She looked skeptical at first but willow did not blame her she would be too if she was that young and alone in a bus station in the middle of the night. Her features softened though and she nodded allowing the wicca to sit with her.
"So Rebbecca, what are you doing in a place like this at this time of the morning? Are you running away from somewhere?"
She was quiet after that for a few minutes. She figured that she should take another approach if she wanted to get any where with this kid.
"How old are you."
She asked as she turned away from the girl keeping an eye out for Faith. The next Bus was due to leave in 45 minutes so she figured if the young slayer was heading out of town on a bus that she would be taking that one.
"117."
The girl's voice seemed to have become deeper and at the mention of an age that high Wilow spun her head back around to face the girl. She found herself staring into a deformed face. One that was the same as she had been looking at a few minutes ago but one that was completely different at the same time. The once blue eyes were a sickly shade of yellow and the ridge of her brow was more prominent. Her smile now showed one with elongated blood stained teeth.
"Well I see that you have aged really well in that case."
The Vampire that had looked to be a young girl a few seconds ago was looking at her with a confused expression. Her head tilted to one side and her eyes squinted shut slightly.
"Why are you not screaming. Look at me I am a vampire."
"yeah I know what you are. My best friends are vampire slayers and I am not as afraid of you as I would have been before meeting Buffy. Still though the thought occurs to me why am I still sitting here talking to you?"
She did her best to get away from the vampire as quickly as she could but her being nothing more than a wicca meant that she did not have the speed of a vampire. The hobo in the far corner was asleep and she was glad for that because by the smell of him he might be one of the un-dead too.
"Y-you just stay there."
She ran but the vamp caught up to her with little effort on it's part. She hit the floor with a thud and a ringing started in her head from colliding with the ceramic tiles. She turned over in an attempt to get the small demon off of her but it was to no avail. She was on top of her fangs bared, ready t bite.
"Where's a slayer when you need one?"
In that moment the vamp that was descending on her throat burst into a pile of dust and she started to choke on it. When she opened her eyes there was the younger slayer with a cocky smirk on her face.
"you okay Red?"
"I am now that you are here."
She climbed to her feet and dusted herself off. There was always a down side to getting saved. The dust that the vamps turned in to seemed to stick to everything. She looked down beside Faith and saw that she was carrying a bag. So she was leaving. Buffy was right.
"You are leaving."
"yeah it kinda seems that way...Why are you hear anyway?"
She was not sure how she was supposed to answer that question. Did she tell her that Buffy sent her or did she try to get her to stay first? She figured that she should try the latter first.
"Why are you leaving?"
The infamous skeptical look that the young slayer had perfected made an appearance and Faith gabbed her bag from the floor and stepped back a bit. There was no way that she was going to tell Red that she was in love with Buffy and that was why she was leaving. Would Willow even understand that logic? She didn't even understand that logic.
"You tell me why you are here first."
"Look Faith, I don't know why you think you have to leave...but you can't leave."
"You don't know what the hell ya talkin' about Red...So don't tell me that I don't have to leave."
Willow knew that she had to say something or she was going to lose Faith and Buffy would not be happy with her if it was her fault that Faith got on that bus.
"what can I say to get you to stay."
"There is nothin' you can say Willow. I messed somethin' up pretty bad and I know that there is going to be at least one person that dose not want me around anymore."
"Why don't we sit and talk about it while we wait for the bus to come. If you think that you still have to leave after that then I won't stop you."
Faith sat down on one of the old plastic blue plastic chairs.
"Okay Willow. We can talk about this but I am still leaving no matter what you tell me."
to be continued...
A/N: I know I am evil
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