Chapter 3
Buffy and Faith brought the girl to an abandoned house that was just as abandoned in their own world. They figured it was haunted or something. Since they were slayers, it wasn't exactly a big problem for them. If they saw anything unusual, they'd slay it.
The slayers still had no idea how this girl knew Buffy and Faith. They decided to tie her up and talk to her since she didn't seem to have any supernatural powers and she definitely wasn't a demon. Although, she seemed to know everything about creatures of the night, and that they were slayers.
"What kind of demons are you?"
"Do you really think Buffy won't be able to kick your ass?"
"Shape shifters, that's it, you're shape shifters. I've read about those," Dawn had been ranting none stop since they'd tied her up. She was unable to stop talking.
Faith was about to tape her mouth shut, but Buffy pulled her aside.
"We're not the bad guys here. We should play nice and find out some more about this world," Buffy reasoned.
"She thinks were demons B," Faith was jumping into the action part of being a slayer, not minded any of the technical reasoning. That always seemed to get on Buffy's nerves.
"She also seems to know a hell of a lot about demons and slayers. She can tell us about what everything's like here and maybe even help us get back to our own reality,"
"Yes, because that's exactly what she wants to do; help out the chicks who tied her up to a chair," Faith won that argument.
"Let's just explain to her what happened and see how she reacts. We'll go from there," that was the final decision; it wasn't as if they had many options.
The girl had stopped talking and was staring at the slayers funnily.
"What exactly are you going to do to me? I'm getting kinda bored here," she said without hesitation, obviously having been in similar situations before.
"Nothing," Buffy took the lead, she figured having Faith trying to act nicely wouldn't work, seeing as the girl had completely freaked out on her.
"So, exact copies of the only two slayers in the world, one of which is my sister, just decided to kidnap me for fun?" the young girl said defiantly.
"You have a sister?" Both slayers exclaimed to each other at the same time.
"Whoa, what the hell is going on?" the girl said.
"We don't fucking know," Faith was getting discouraged.
"Honestly, we were chasing some vampires and they went down a manhole. Faith jumped in, I went after her and all of a sudden, we land into the basement of Sunnydale high from an alternate universe that seems to be ahead of us by four years. We saw the other Buffy, ran into you, who by the way I have no clue who you are, and then you started screaming. Naturally, we had to stop you, so we brought you here. Now we're looking for Giles but he wasn't in the library because the library wasn't there!" Just talking about it was getting her pissed, and now out of breath. Buffy hated being left in the dark.
"Well first of all, I'm Dawn, Buffy's sister, and yes we do have a Giles here, but he's in England," Dawn had no idea why she was revealing all of this to them, but she had a feeling they were being honest, even Faith seemed oblivious of what was going on.
"What about me?" Dawn hadn't mentioned anything about Faith as of yet. She was starting to think she was dead in this dimension. Maybe that's why Dawn had screamed back at the school.
"You're uhh, in L.A" Dawn was hesitant; this Faith didn't seem to have any idea of what had happened at graduation. Which made sense since, supposedly, she was from an alternate universe.
"Why? I wouldn't leave B- Sunnydale; the hellmouth's here," Buffy heard the slip up, but chose to listen to Dawn's explanation.
"Well, a few years ago you kind of went a little… bad," she paused to gauge Faith's reaction, the dark slayer didn't show any emotion.
"You killed someone," Faith's eyes widened, "By accident," she was hoping Faith wouldn't freak out, that never led to anything good.
"That still doesn't explain why I'm… Why she's in L.A," Faith was raising her voice, Buffy gently put her hand on the girl's shoulder, which visibly relaxed her. Dawn noticed the action, but didn't say anything. She had always thought Faith had a crush on Buffy, everyone seemed to.
"Well you see," Dawn looked at Buffy for a sign to go on, and received a head nod. Buffy didn't know what Dawn was going to say, but whatever it was, this Faith deserved to know.
"After you killed him, by accident, you were kind of a wreck. Buffy, my Buffy, tried to help you out, but she wasn't in the best of places at the time. Her boyfriend had just left, and she was being a complete bitch," Dawn realised that she was ranting and moved on.
"You started working for the mayor of Sunnydale, who was evil. Basically, you became the big bad. You killed a professor, that time was on purpose, and well Buffy went to confront you and stabbed you," the slayers eyes widened.
"She said she had no choice, she said it was a life or death situation. You ended up in a coma, and when you woke up you weren't a happy camper," Dawn hadn't thought of Faith in years and she was telling the story like it had happened the day before.
"You did some bad stuff, again, and went off to L.A. Angel lives there, and he kinda got to you. The whole redemption thing, I guess. You turned yourself in, and you've been in prison for like two years now," Faith was halfway out the door by the end of the story. Dawn just exhaled.
"Faith," Buffy yelled after her, and followed her out.
Faith hadn't gone far, she was leaning against the brick wall, facing away from Buffy.
"Faith," Buffy put her hand on her shoulder, only to be shrugged off.
"Faith, just talk to me," Buffy pleaded, she wanted to be better than the Buffy in this universe, little did she know.
"And say what," Faith forcefully turned around, only then did Buffy notice the tears in her eyes. She had never seen Faith cry, she didn't even think she was capable of crying. "That I'm a fuck up," Buffy backed away a little, scary Faith was starting to make an appearance.
"Faith, the Faith here isn't you. You aren't the same person, you'd never kill anyone, and I don't really think you would want to kill me," Buffy whispered the last part.
"I just… the B here, is a lot like you apparently, so what makes you think the Faith in prison isn't like me," Faith wasn't willing to let anything go.
"Because," Buffy stepped closer to Faith, and gently wiped the remaining tears off of Faith's cheeks. "I just don't believe your capable of doing anything evil. You may pretend you're a bad ass Faith, but I see through that," Buffy's hand was still on her cheek and she was gently caressing it with her thumb.
Faith was biting her bottom lip, she didn't know how to respond to what Buffy had said, and the way she was touching her wasn't making matters any easier. As she was contemplating over what to do, Buffy leaned in, catching both herself and Faith off guard. Buffy had no idea what had made her do it, but she gave Faith a lingering kiss that took both their breaths away.
"B," She was at a loss for words.
"Shh," What was she doing? All Buffy could think about was kissing Faith again, so she did. She could feel the other girl's tears on her own face, but it didn't stop her. Buffy ran her tongue on Faith's bottom lip, what was she doing?
Faith was in another world, until she felt Buffy's tongue in her mouth. Even when kissing, Buffy came off as shy, It seemed as if she was afraid of Faith's reaction. She really had no clue how much Faith liked her. Faith wasn't going to stand there like an idiot, even though that's exactly what she'd been doing for the past minute, she took hold of Buffy's hips and gently pressed her up against the wall. Not once loosing contact of their lips.
When Buffy took her breath, Faith continued to kiss down her jaw, slowly, down to her neck where she was leaving her mark. A moan escaped from Buffy, which caused Faith to return to her lips. They had both completely forgotten where they were, and why they were there. Too lost in themselves, so as Faith reached under Buffy's shirt to cup her breast, neither of them heard the footsteps coming up the front porch.
"You think you can just come back here with some slut, and kidnap my sister without me knowing?" The older Buffy was just a tad surprised to see Faith making out with a girl, she had her own suspicions about the girl's sexuality. Why the hell would Faith bring a girl to Sunnydale to kidnap her sister? It just didn't make sense.
Buffy and Faith sprung apart at the sound of the older Buffy's voice.
The older Buffy was about to tear Faith to shreds, when she noticed who the blonde was.
"What. The. Fuck."
