Alexis POV….
It's been a long couple years since Faith left for prison. Right know we have Angelus on the loose and I'm not sure what he hell to do. Wesley's gone to get help, but I keep thinking if she was here….It's been 2 years 10 months, or 34 months since I seen her. That's 1,768 weeks, 12,376 days, 297,024 hours, 17,821,440 minutes, I won't go into seconds that'd be a little obsessive.
Okay so perhaps know the minutes is a tad bit obsessive, but I miss her something crazy. Especially right now because everything is so dangerous and up in the air. First the Beast comes to town, then we unsouled Angelus, now we lost his soul, and the sun is blotted out. I told them not to take his fucking soul. But they don't listen to me.
I'm the baby, well not really Conner is the baby. Within a year he's gone from being a baby to being an annoying bratty teen. And his attitude is not useful in this situation. I'm so tired of listening to him. Angelus threw an arrow at Cordy hitting her in the leg, but in true Cordy fashion she's just kinda limping around. Complaining but not slowing down much either. Fred is scared shitless, as she should be. Wesley is trying his best and so is Gunn. But I mean, seriously I just want to get this over with.
And I know in my heart there's only one person who can actually stop him, and she's in prison. They debated calling Buffy, but seems she's busy. Personally I don't want her here. The first and last time I met her I back handed her. And my control is very little at the moment.
First thing you have to know about me is I'm a werewolf. I was bitten when I was sixteen. I killed three people before Angel found me. He took me home and I slowly learned to trust him. But that trust took time, and built slowly. He got scratched several times, before I actually got control of myself. But finally I did get control, I can now control when I do and don't morph unless I lose complete control.
When Faith showed up a year later I was still learning to control myself. She was so lost…I guess that's a good way to put it. And I just kinda fell for her. For hours I held her, and rocked her. Then finally she got a little better and things were going good. And then she turned herself in.
But I do understand that she's got to earn her own redemption. And going to jail and paying penitence was a big part of that. Although that doesn't really make it easier, nor does it make the fact that I love her go away. Which means that on this end her penitence came at the price of my heart.
But I can't dwell on that, because then I get lost in my thoughts and that would be very bad at this moment. Mostly because there's a psychotic evil vampire on the lose looking for blood. More specifically, our blood. I sigh and look around, Cordelia has long sense went upstairs, Fred is fumbling around in the office, Gunn is patrolling the perimeter, Lorne is trying to get an anti demon spell to work. That's just stupid, it means I can't even fight him if he comes here. It also means he can't fight us, but still. I want to be able to fight him, but no, they don't think it's a good idea. Just because he kicked my ass ounce doesn't mean anything. I wasn't prepared!
Okay, I swear I have like ADD, because that got way off topic. Anyways, Wesley isn't here, he's going for help. I don't know where he's going, he wouldn't tell us. Which means that he's out there, alone, no protection, and it's bugging me. Yes I know Wesley can protect himself, but if it's one thing about being a werewolf, what's yours is yours, and you protect it fiercely. It's the dog DNA I think.
I throw the magazine I had been pretending to read down on the table, stand up and stretch. "I'm going to patrol a little."
"Oh no you ant Sweetums," Lorne says, I roll my eyes, "You ant leaving our sight, so just set ya self back down there."
"I'm not a child, I'm nineteen, almost twenty." I say and move toward him, "Besides I'm just so…." I sigh looking for the right word.
"Out of control? Out of your element?" Conner provides. "I say we go kill him, I mean he's tasted blood, there's no going back."
"Fuck off," I growl out.
"No, he said if anything ever happened to kill him." Conner says.
"Great now he listens" Lorne says sarcasm dripping from his voice.
"I don't get it, he's dangerous why not just kill him?" Conner looks at everybody in turn.
"Because I was evil too, I was dangerous too, but he refused to give up on. He wouldn't put me down," I growl out moving to slap him, but I get slapped by the anti demon spell and get sent flying across the room, "FUCK!"
"That's probably what I'd say too," Angelus says from the top of balusters. "See I got this problem, I need to know what the hell all this shit mean."
I'm on my feet in a second, moving for the trank gun, "You have more then one problem," I say, grabbing the gun.
"Oh is the little wolfy gonna shoot the big bad vampire?" He taunts me.
"If I have to, but you could always go easily." I say shrugging a little as if I'm indifferent.
"See that's not going to happen, I want Angel's soul destroyed." He says jumping down in front of me, "You know were it is little girl?"
"If I did I wouldn't be standing here with a trank gun pointed at your ass, or wait that's your face, hard tell ya know?" I say and shoot at him but miss. He jumps back into the loft.
"I'll be seeing ya." And with that he's gone. It's a bit confusing until the door opens……
Faith POV…..
I've been in jail the last 34 months. I won't go into how many days that is, because I don't want to look pathetic. But you imagine my shock when Wesley shows up out of the blue. I mean there's no love lost, I did torture and try to kill him.
But that seems like a whole other person. You learn a lot on the road to redemption. And mine started before the jail sentence was handed down. Murder two 25 to life, just in case you's wondering.
But I spent two weeks with Angel before I turned myself in. There was no way a jail would hold me until I was ready. And Lexi told I'd be ready one day. But she wasn't prepared when I was.
Lexi. Probably the one thing I miss most about the outside. The one thing it killed me to leave behind. I was only with her and Angel two weeks, but I got attached. Told myself not to, but I couldn't help it.
Anyways, Wes shows up and he's all talking about the apocalypse and shit and says he needs my help. I tell him to come back in a couple decades when up for parole, but then he says he can't wait. Seems like Angelus is on the loose in good old LA. Which means Angel has left the building. And that's so not a good thing. I tell him to step back, and he does. I break the glass, fight the guards and we jump through a window. I think he broke a couple ribs, but over all he's okay. Me too, being a Slayer and all.
So I change and he fills me in on what's the what. Seems Angelus has a son, who was born last year and now he's a teenager. Weird. Anyways, Fred is the nerdy chick who knows it all. Gunn's a good fighter. Then there's Queen C who's just typical bitchy self I guess. The Lorne, demon dude helping out.
But so far he hasn't said anything about her. The her. Lexi, Alexis. Nothing not a word and I'm starting to get impatient but trying not to show it. I know from the letters she's still with them, and from Angel's last visit a couple months back she was hurt pretty bad by this weird fucking demon. But he said she would heal, so what's the deal.
We're in the car, I'm in the back seat changing. Wes is trying to sneak a peak, but it's way to dark for that. I climb back into the front seat, settling down. Waiting for him to go on.
I know that Lexi took me leaving hard. At first the letters were few and far between. She'd write every four months, then it was every two, and know they're almost ever week. They ant much, she don't go too greatly into details, but she still writes. And she says she's doing okay. Says that everything is fine. But I know it's not, nothing ever is what is seems. She didn't visit, not ounce. And I understand that it was to hard, but I would have like to seen her. Some of the letters said she was dating a little, nothing serious. But every one ended with, 'I miss you so much Faith'. So I guess in a way she's pining over me. I hope not, I wanted her to move on.
"Faith?" Wesley says, and I try not to let him know he started me.
"What?" I say looking toward him.
"You were lost in thought."
"What of it?" I ask defensively.
"Nothing," he shakes his head. "I suppose you were thinking about Alexis."
"Maybe."
"She's took your going to prison hard. Took her months to regain control. And I'm afraid as tedious as her control is now days she'll lost is again at the sight of you. But to be honest, there's no other way." Wes pauses for a minute and then goes on, "She's not really dated since you've been away. Although she's brought guys home. Alexis is an incredible young woman, and one hell of a fighter Faith."
"How is she though?" I ask before I can stop myself.
"She's unstable. Stressed out, and feeling cooped up because we refuse to let her patrol without one of us." Wesley says bluntly.
"I want her on my back," I say, "This is salvage only, I'm not killing Angelus." Wesley nods, "And I want her armed too." I say. I know she can fight, and I trust her above all others to have my back.
The rest of the drive is quiet, he pulls over and I get ripped out of the car. I fight the vampires staking them all, and look across the car. He's smiling.
"Though you could use some release before returning to the hotel, how'd it feel? Natural?"
Yeah it was good to get a release and yeah felt natural. I shrug, "Like riding a biker." I say and get back in the car.
We make it to the hotel, and Wesley opens the door and together we step inside….
Third Person POV
The room goes silent, not just from the shock of Angelus having just made his appearance, but because now standing at the door is Wesley with none of the then Faith Lehane.
"Everybody, this is…" Wesley begins.
"Faith…." Alexis's voice is so low that only the three people with expert hearing in the room heard it. But the tension cut Wesley's sentence short.
Faith locks eyes with the girl, whose breathing is now erratic, causing her chest to heave up and down with the effort to breath. She takes a tenuous step forward, eyes still locked on Faith, who steps forward as well.
If the others are talking neither girl notices. Alexis stands in front of Faith, who doesn't move a muscle. Gently she raises her hand, and moves it toward Faith, but stops just short of actually touching the girl. Faith, eyes still locked with Alexis, leans her head into the girl's hand. For a moment Alexis's eyes look at the hand cupping Faith's cheek, swallowing hard. Her eyes consecrated, then her eyes meet Faith's again, and tears spill out the side.
Faith wraps her arms around Alexis, who grabs her neck. "It's okay, I'm here now." Faith whispers over and over again.
Still neither girl is sure if anybody has said anything. They don't specifically care to be honest. Alexis pulls back and cups both sides of Faith's face, getting this timid smile on her face, then licking her lips. She still hasn't spoken since Faith's whispered name, she leans in, pressing her lips against Faith's. She doesn't deepen the kiss at first she just leans her forehead against Faith's as if contact is the only thing keeping her from falling apart. But then she runs her tongue along Faith's bottom lip, Faith quickly opens her mouth. Pulling Alexis as close as she can, Faith lets her tongue battle with Alexis's. Finally Alexis pulls back, leaning her forehead against Faith's ounce more, silent tears falling.
"I just kept thinking…." Alexis tries not to sob, "If you were here….If I could get to you…."
"Shhh," Faith brushes her lips against Alexis, "I'm here."
"I hate to break up the lesbian love fest, but uh, what the hell is she doing here?" Cordelia's voice finally cuts through the fog.
Alexis closes her eyes, regulating her breathing and pulls back. She wipes her tears, and looks up toward the ceiling, regaining another measure of control.
"Who the fuck cares?" She growls looking directly at Cordelia over Faith's shoulder.
"She was convicted of murder." Cordelia says, "She's supposed to be doing like a gazillion years in a state correctional facility."
"Murder two, twenty five to life, for the record," Faith says turning to look at her.
"She's our only shot at getting Angel back. So if you have a problem with it then keep your fucking mouth closed. I'm not in the mood to hear your voice anyways." Alexis warns, her voice still a growl.
Faith puts her arm around Alexis's shoulders, "Hey, it's okay."
Cordelia looks from one to the other, "Okay so you save Angel and go back to jail."
"Donno," Faith says, "Right now we need to set up the search party. Fair warning this is recovery only, we aren't on a hunt and destroy mission."
"If I get the shot I kill." Conner says.
Faith grabs him, pressing him against the wall, "I said this isn't hunt and destroy, we bring him in alive, are we clear?" Conner doesn't answer, "Angel has done to much for me to kill him. We ant putting him down."
"Whatever," Conner says.
"That's not good enough." Faith holds him tighter.
"Fine, we bring him in alive." Conner says.
"Good job, Junior." Faith lets him go. She looks around, "Everybody got it?"
"We trank him, not shoot him, got it," Gunn says.
"I'm," Fred steps forward.
"Fred," Faith says with a nod, "Wes gave me the skinny on you, you're the brains of the operation." She looks at Gunn, "Says you're a good fighter, I want you on rear, Junior, I want you with Gunn. Take a trank gun, if we can't take him down, trank him. Wes, I want you on Lexi's back. Arm yourself how you like," She looks at Lexi, "I want you riding shotgun, anything goes south, you know what to do." Faith watches the girl closely to make sure she truly does understand.
Meaning that if something goes south, and Faith can't handle Angelus, or loses her own control, then Alexis will be forced to kill both. With Alexis's curt nod, Faith gives a nod of her own.
"Alright show me the weapons." Faith says, "I want to be prepared for anything."
Alexis moves beside Faith, handing her a crossbow, "How good's your shot?"
"Good as ever," Faith says.
It doesn't take long to get the search party started.
Walking through the deserted streets and back alley ways of LA Faith could feel her senses tingle. The rush of adrenaline was almost like a high. Prison hadn't been all bad, but she'd missed this. The thrill of the hunt. Looking sideways she takes stock of Alexis's emotions. One look at the girl told her she was allowing the animal inside her to take charge, and to be honest it scared Faith a little. But she new Alexis had everything under control.
Faith faces forward, closing her eyes and letting her sense stretch out. She feels a vamp but knows it's not him. She opens her eyes and sees a chain length fence, she ducks under the open corner and is followed by Alexis, Wes, Gunn and Conner.
"Watch the perif guys, eyes pealed. He's been here." She says quietly moving slowly.
"No sudden moves," Alexis whispers, sward at the ready.
A vampire jumps in front of Conner and he beheads it without thought.
"What are you deficient?" Faith shoves him against the wall.
"He was attacking," Conner tries to reason.
"You thought it was Angelus," She growls, "Somebody get him out of here."
"I'm afraid he's not keen on listening to us." Wesley says.
"He'll listen to me." Faith growls.
"Why is that, cause you're hot?" Conner asks.
Faith growls again, "Because I'm right. Go home."
"No, if he jumps me I'm killing him." Conner says.
Faith steps back, holing the crossbow at his throat, "So help me God, I will shoot you. Angel is one of the two people who never gave up me, and I don't give a flying flip who you are, you will not kill him, are we clear." Conner doesn't answer, "I have no problems killing you." She says, pushing it into his throat harder, "I'm a murderer how about you?"
Conner shakes his head, "No." he whispers.
"Get outta here." Faith nods toward the way they'd come, "Go back to the hotel."
Alexis, who stood beside Faith quietly watching the scene held her sward out so that it caught him throat level, "She's right, she is a murderer. She's not the only one though. And if comes to you or him, you lose kid." She says softly, "Got me?"
Conner swallows hard, if it's one thing he understands it's not to mess with Alexis. He wasn't sure about Faith, but Alexis he was sure of. She'd kill him and not thing twice about it.
Together they move along, keeping their eyes pealed. They make it down to the docs, without so much as sign of Angelus. Wes and Gun stay outside, while Faith and Lexi go inside to look around.
There's a large sign reading "Welcome Faith" on a stack of old crates.
"What am I chopped liver?" Alexis mumbles under her breath.
Faith shakes her head and snorts, "I'd much rather have a nice quiet welcoming party, not this," She says looking around, "Then again you in a bed in that lace nightie you described don't sound to bad, as welcoming parties go." Faith glances sideways and sees a blush creep up Alexis's cheek.
"Hello Faithy!" Angelus's voice calls. "Welcome back! Oh and look you brought the half breed with you."
"Fuck you Angelus." Alexis calls.
"Maybe after," Angelus jumps down behind them, and Alexis swipes the sward at him, "That's not fair, you're not even trying. But I bet you will when you meet my friend." Again she swipes at him, but he dodges.
Faith hears a noise behind them and looks, it's The Beast.
"You brought a slayer and wolf?" He asks, "Stupid vampire."
Angelus shrugs, "Thought you could use some fun stony."
Faith runs at the Beast and punches him, feeling every bone in her hands break. She does a round kick but it doesn't bother him. He picks her up and throws her across the room. Alexis tries to rush to her side but Angelus stops her.
"How about we party princess?" He smirks at her grabbing the sward. "These things are pesky, always afraid you'll hit the heart or something."
Alexis does a round kick but he grabs her foot. She sends a punch right to his face and he lets go. He punches her in the face before she can block it, and she falls to the floor.
Mean while, the Beast has Faith down kicking her ribs over and over, then stepping on her back.
"You are weak." He says.
"Fuck you," Faith says using all her energy to get up, she sends another punch at his face, but he back hands her sending her flying yet again.
Alexis does a round kick and Angelus stumbles a little, but he again knocks her down with a punch. Ounce she's down he throws her across the room, and moves over. She's laying on her back and he kicks her side.
He moves over behind the Beast and plunges the spike in his heart from behind. Then moves toward Faith, but Alexis jumps in, he stabs her with the spike thing he killed the Beast with. Moving in closer to her ear he says,
"Hope you have an antidote."
Faith tries to get to her feet and help Alexis but she can't. "Leave her alone."
"Oh don't worry, she'll be dead within hours, ounce the poison takes effect." Angelus says and pulls the stake out dropping it beside where Alexis fell.
"Son of bitch," Faith growls, but she's in way to much pain to take him on right now.
Angelus smiles, then looks out the window. "You mean killing the Beast really does bring back the sun, I thought that was Angel's retarded idea." He shrugs a little, "Oh well, guess well continue this little welcoming party later."
Faith summons enough strength the throw a set of chains through the window. Watching Angelus move out of the light. She goes to Alexis's side, and sees that she's bleeding really badly.
Wesley rushes into the hotel forty five minutes later, Alexis unconscious in his arms and Faith right behind him.
"She's been stabbed with a spike and we believe it to be poisoned." He relays to the group looking on in horror.
"Who stabbed her the beast?" Fred asks.
"Angelus," Wesley says.
"Who brought back the sun?" Gunn asks.
"He did, Angelus killed the Beast." Wesley says, "Lets get her upstairs, Faith give Fred the spike, see if you can find out what it's poisoned with but be careful."
Wesley, Faith, Lorne, Gunn, Conner and Cordelia take Alexis upstairs and deposited her in a bed.
"She's burning up," Cordelia says looking up scaredly at everybody.
Faith sets down on Alexis's other side, "Get some cool water, it'll help."
"On it," Conner says.
"If I'd just been a little bit quicker." Faith says moving Alexis hair.
"You can't beat yourself up, we haven't the time Faith. We much capture Angelus, alive, so that he can tell us how to rid her of the poison." Wesley says watching Faith carefully.
"You can't expect her to fight, she's not looking so good herself." Lorne says, "She's beat to hell too."
"I'm fine." Faith says, leaning in and kisses Alexis's forehead, "Hang in there sexy." She whispers getting up and moving to leave, "Take care of my girl," She says, "I'm gonna grab a shower, then when night falls we hunt."
"Right," Wesley says.
Despite the fact that Alexis was down seriously injured, despite the fact that Faith really wanted to curl up next to her and make it all better. Or spend the last few hours of her life with her. Those were not an option. She had been brought here to do a job, one that only she could do. Especially with the one person as strong as her down. Faith needed to focus; she needed to turn into that girl again. But the thought terrified her. She was a murderer yes, she was wild yes, she had went evil, yes yes and yes, do we really have to go there?
However, evil was not what she had to be to beat him. She had to a Slayer. She had release the demon within. Because ultimately that's what the slayer part of her was, demon. And if she gave just an inch it would require a mile. If her barrier dividing the two faltered even a little bit, she could lose herself. And that would be very very bad.
So she wouldn't let it falter, she wouldn't touch darkness again. She had tried to train the slayer inside, but it was very much wild. Therefore Faith the person must be in charge. Even if it meant she wasn't quiet as strong as she could have been. She'd use her anger to help her, her pain to help, but most of all she'd use the training she had.
Still she refused to kill Angel. Angelus, she'd love to kill. But that meant that she'd kill Angel. And that was still not an option. Therefore she'd have to figure out how to bring Angelus in, with as few injuries to him and her as possible. Perhaps it was time to change the game. Make him think she'd willingly kill him. Or, injure him just enough to subdue him so she could trank him. That sounded like a plan.
Her plan made, Faith strips out of the clothes. Looking downward she sees the blood dried on her body, seeing her bruised and battered face anger raged through her. But she had to control it. She had to have an outlet. So turning on the water she steps under it, taking a deep breath, and letting out a primal yell she beats the tile in front of her. Ounce she's done she steps more fully under the hot water and lets the blood run off her.
Finally, her shower finished Faith returns to Alexis's room. "What's the deal, yo, you can save her?" She asks not bothering with the time consuming formality of hello.
Startled Lorne looks up, and gives the rogue slayer a weary smile. "It's not silver, which is of the good, my friend of darkness."
"It's actually not a hard fix," Fred says quietly.
"Then fix it," Faith says motioning toward the bed.
"But it's not that simple either." Fred finished looking nervous.
"So what's the deal, yo, cause I ant got all freakin night." Faith says her impatient showing more with each passing moment.
"Well see, the poison is call annatan, and it's really potentate, usually it kills on contact, but see he didn't put enough on it. And if it's not enough to kill instantly it causes slow and painful death. So I'm figuring that he wanted her to suffer. He wants us all to suffer really…" Fred rambles on, until Faith holds her hand up.
"How the hell do you save her?"
"Well, there's two ways, one is to kill Angelus." Fred pauses.
"Not an option yet, what's the other?" Faith says almost dismissing the first option completely.
"Well, there's a potion. It'd have to be made by a really powerful witch, but like I think Willow could maybe talk me through it I don't know though. It uses a lot of dark magic. Anyways, it has to be made at a certain time, and it has to be made from Angel's blood." Fred says.
"How long I got?" Faith asks, knowing she'll have to capture him in time.
"Six hours," Fred says, "Give or take."
"Give or take what?" Faith asks annoyed.
"Six hours." Fred asks looking scared.
"So I capture him bring him back in six hours, and you fix my girl, yo, sounds like deal." Faith says her eyes falling on Alexis, who looks so small in the bed.
"There's something else, we have to have Angel's soul back in him. It has to be Angel's blood, not Angelus's blood." Fred says.
Faith gives a small nod, turning to leave. She puts on her war face, thinking about what she's just learned.
"Alright," She says getting everybody's attention in the lobby, "Games changed." She says picking up a gun.
"You can't seriously be saying we kill him," Wesley begins, "There's the potion that will work to save her."
"Ant kill yo, slowing his roll. I figure we slow him down long enough to trank his big evil vampire ass. Then we come back for before dawn." Faith throws a shotgun at him, "You carry the shotgun, Gunn stay here, I need to know somebody's here to protect them."
"What about me?" Conner asks.
Faith turns to look at him, throwing a gun his way, "You come with me. One step outta line, I kill you, got it?"
Conner nods, "Got it."
"Good Junior, cause I ant kidding." Faith turns from him, "That's a trank gun, we get him down, I want you ready with the trank. But so help me if you shot one of us with it, when this is over, there's gonna be throw down."
"I'm not that bad an aim" Conner says rolling his eyes.
"That's what scares me." Faith says, "Queen C," She turns her attention to Cordelia, "Take care of my girl." She says and Cordelia gives a slight nod of understanding.
"Alright, lets blow." Faith says leading the way toward the door.
It took a good portion of the night in demon bars, smelling stale beer. But finally, she had the lead she needed. She leads Wesley to the back of the bar, looking around. There's several Vamps and girls. You can tell they're both pretty fucked up on some kinda shit. She finds one girl by herself, looking around finding the multitude of needles, "What…the….fuck?" she asks her eyes roaming over the room.
"It's call Orpheus," Wesley says, "The girls shoot up, vampires feed, and use them as a filter. I've heard the effects can be quiet intoxicating for both."
"So what, they shoot up and get high?" Faith looks unbelieving at the girl in front of her, laying sprawled almost naked on the ground. Her eyes move back to Wesley, "Why would Angelus come back here?"
"I can't say, he's showed no interest in these types of drugs. Although the demon did say he was talking to himself. Which means," Wesley looks around, "Could it be that the Beast Master has contacted him, telepathically?"
"I wouldn't rule nothing out," Faith says her big doe eyes looking worried if not a hint of skepticism.
"Maybe she could tell us." Wesley indicates the girl.
"Maybe," Faith says dropping her knees, "What can you tell us about Angelus?"
"He's an Angel?" the girl slurs giggling.
Faith sets back on her heels, "How long you been here?"
"Forever, you're hot wanna make out?" The girl looks up through gazed over blue eyes and Faith glares at her.
"No," She bites out, "We're looking for a vampire, he was talking to himself."
"I can fly," the girl says smiling up at Faith.
"She doesn't know anything," Wesley says.
Faith raises her hand, back handing the girl, "We're looking for the vampire," Faith says more forcefully, "What you can tell us?"
"Okay, God what's your deal?" The girl asks.
"My girlfriend is dying, and the only way to save her is to find him, so what do you know?" Faith says raising her hand.
"Okay, Okay," the girl says, "He went that way." He points to the back alley.
"Come on," Faith says, and gets up to follow the direction.
"How do you plan on taking him down?" Wesley asks falling in step with Faith.
"You know the plan Wes," Faith says, just as his phone rings.
Twenty minutes later Faith and Wesley walk through an old shop building.
"So we think Maury knows where Angelus is hiding?" Faith asks looking around.
"We can only hope," Wesley says, as they come up to a desk, looking over it they see Maury laying dead on the floor, "I suppose he won't know."
"I don't think you'll have to look long," Angelus's voice says behind me.
"Oh hell no," Faith says turning around.
"Hello Faithy," Angelus says smile evilly at her.
Faith does a round kick and tries to knock him backwards but he blocks her. Wesley tries to shoot at him, but he grabs the gun and jerks it away from Wesley.
"Uh oh, Vampire with a gun," Angelus says shooting at Wesley.
Wesley ducks out of the way, and behind a pillar as Angelus turns his attention to Faith. He shoots at her but she runs behind a pillar as well. She pulls out her own gun and shoots at him, but misses.
"Oh come on, you can do better then that. Come on at least aim like you're trying to hit me!" Angelus says moving closer to Faith. Wesley kicks the gun away from Angelus, and it goes sliding across the room.
Angelus knocks Wesley over the ballanster and he falls with a crash to the floor, "You okay Wes?!" Angelus calls, "God I hope I killed him." He turns his attention to Faith, and kicks her down the stairs picking up the gun.
"Still want to die?" He asks following her down the stairs, "You ounce begged Angel to kill you, still want to die?"
"No," Faith says quietly.
"Still think you're a bad little girl?" Angelus asks.
"No," Faith growls.
"Still think you're unworthy?" Angelus asks, "What about Alexis, still think you don't disserve her?"
"NO!" Faith yells.
"Ready to die," Angelus asks.
"FUCK YOU!" Faith screams as he points the shot gun at her face, but it miss fires and she kicks it out of his hand. Attempting to kick his feet out from under him, but he jumps back.
Jumping to her feet Faith throws a punch that he dodges.
"So tell me, what'd you think I'd do just give myself up?" Angelus asks. "See that's not fun," He punches her, "Fun is kicking your ass." He kicks her in the stomach and she goes flying. "Hmmm, you know we really got to work on the bleeding, it's way to easy to make you bleed."
"Fuck you," Faith says getting back up.
"Afterwards maybe, it's a lot easier when you're not moving around and doing that annoying trying to kick my ass thing." Angelus says sending another punch Faith's way, causing her to fall to the floor. "You think Wes is alright? Personally I hope he's dead, never very useful. Always making things worse, just look at you." He kicks her in the ribs, "Come on fight back. At least act like it."
"You don't think I'm going to lay down and take it do you?" Faith asks mustering all her strength to stand up, "If you're going to kill me, then just do it already you evil son of a bitch."
"That's my girl," Angelus says sending a punch Faith's way.
"I'm not your girl, and I'm not that girl." Faith says kicking him.
"You don't really think that the evil is gone, ounce it's there, it stays." Angelus says, "I mean seriously, you and me we're not that much different."
"I'm not like you," She says kicking him again, this time he falls to the ground. She straddles him, "I" she punches his face, "am," again she punches, 'like," another punch, 'you, you mother fucker."
"Oh really?" Angelus asks knocking her off him, "Because I believe you are. You're just as evil as I am, just waiting right below the surface." He kicks her again and she coughs up blood, "You're nothing but a little evil slut. That's why everybody turned their back on you. Oh but the wolf didn't," He says still kicking her, "But then again, she's as evil as you are."
He reaches down and grabs Faith, "But that's okay, I'll fix it," He says morphing into his vampire face and biting down on her neck.
"OH! OH God!" Faith screams.
Angelus lets go, "That's it scream for me baby," He says, biting down ounce more. But he starts to get woosy. "What….the…..fuck….." He passes out.
Wesley sets up, "Are you alright Faith?"
Faith sets up with a half way cocky look on her face, "Kicked his evil ass." She says before passing out herself.