Disclaimer: Buffy belongs to Mr. Whedon.

A/N: I'm having a hard time putting my thoughts to words. Do you like it longer and detailed or short and straight to the point? Help me out? Thanks for reading.. I'm getting there, hopefully. Hahaha

BUFFY'S POV

This is it. I have to tell her how I feel. I don't care what she thinks or what she'll say but I'll do anything for her to listen and admit that she feels the same for me. Tomy's right, Faith's in love with me but I was too blind and too naïve to see and feel it before. I think I hated her more than I could hate anyone because I love her all the same and yet I can't admit it to my stupid little self. Without her, my life just hasn't been the same. I will tell her today. Yep, that's decided.

Buffy's getting ready for her "big day", she should look good. With pink top and faded jeans, she headed for Faith's room. She knocked several times but no one answered, so she decided to head to the dinning hall to see if Faith's there.

"What happened?" she asks when everyone doesn't seem too look happy to see her.

"Wesley said his apologies but they can't stay here any longer, they've got things to do in Seattle. He said thank you and said he'll keep in touch to check on Josephine." Giles said cleaning his glasses.

"They left before sunrise. Here," Xander handed her a note.

She's trembling when she took the note from him. This was supposed to be the day she's been waiting for. But instead, Faith took off again, without saying anything, without letting everyone know, without telling her. How can she do that? How? Why? She can't find the courage to read the letter in front of them.

"I..I have to go.." she went to her room and cried..

Buffy,

Thanks for helping. We couldn't have done it without you. Tell the scoobies I said thanks for everything, for trusting me again. And yeah, please take care of Joey. Can't bring her with us but i'm doing what I can to find her parents. Wes will contact G-man as soon as we've found something. Nothing much to say here, Enjoy your life I guess.

Faith

That's it? She really knows how to keep it so simple. No attachments. Should I really believe Tomy when he told me she's in love with me? Why is everything with Faith's so complicated? She has no right to hate me for almost beating her to death, or maybe she has. But she'd done so much more to 

me, to my friends to, my family. And still here I am, wanting her more than I could ever want anybody. Argh!! I need to see her. I need to talk to her and I will even beat the crap out of her if that's what it takes just for her to listen to me.

Somewhere in Seattle

"Wes, have you seen the brat?"

"Oh, He's at Michael's, he went there after school." Wesley said trying to look as if his reading the book.

"Cool, I'm off to patrol. See yah." Faith has been doing a lot of patrolling these days. Ever since, they got back from the castle, Wesley noticed a change in his slayer. She's been going out a lot and always seems to be thinking not to mention that she rarely takes time to bond with Tomy anymore. Not that he's complaining though, coz Tomy told him the deal with Joey and how he lets him orb back to the castle once in a while to let them enjoy some quality time with Joey and Dawn. He knows how the kid loves to be with them but somehow he felt bad that he has to lie to Faith. It took him a long time for Faith to trust him and let him in but it's all worth it. The only problem now is how to tell Faith about Joey and explain to her everything, not everything coz he's not sure how it happened. He still needs to tell his slayer no matter what, and somehow he knows that Faith already knew but she's afraid to let it sink to her. He looked at his watch and thought that Tomy should already be doing his homeworks.

"Tomy, playtime's over. Come on." Hoping that this time, Tomy will actually listen to him.

Slayer Central

"Ooops! Gotta go, Grandpa's nagging again." Winking at Dawn, he kissed Joey on the cheek.

" See ya, Princess. Here." He gave her a picture of him and Faith. "next time, it's gonna be a family pic, with you in it."

"Hey! Not even a hug for the best aunt ever?" Dawn said but Tomy already orbed out. "Nice!" Joey's giggling and jumps over to dawn to give her a bear hug.

"Like this?" Joey said still giggling

"You are officially my favorite niece!" she starts tickling her when a knock at the door interrupted their bonding time. "Kill joy! Comin'!"

"hey Buffy." She motioned Joey to hide the picture of Faith under the bed.

"Am I interrupting something?" Buffy asks

"Course not. So, what brings you here? Coz if you're asking me to tell you …" Dawn stopped midsentence to look at her sister at Joey.

"Hey, come here." Buffy smiled at Joey and let's her sit on her lap. "I'm here coz I never get to see both of you anymore. Are you hiding or something?"

"Or something?" Dawn said and quickly added "Sorry I can't do research, I'm on babysitter duty."

"ok, that's easy, from now on, she'll sleep in my room." Buffy smiled at Joey.

"Hey! I'd rather babysit than do research. So, she's still staying with me. right Joey?"

"uh, right." Joey nodded

"I can't separate you two huh? Ok, I'll just sleep here then." Buffy didn't know why, but being near Joey makes her feel happy and safe, just like with Faith.

"That's settled! Sleepovers with my two favorite girls in the castle! Isn't this fun?!" she takes Joey's hands and they dance around leaving Buffy laughing on the bed.

Somewhere in Seattle

Faith's been walking for hours before she decided to go to Angel's crypt, it's been her safe place ever since he died. She'll just stay there for hours and sometimes, cry her heart out. It's one of the things he loved about Angel, he never questioned her and he'll just listen and be there for her when she needs him, just like the past two weeks.

" Why can't I just stay away from her? Why can't she hate me just like before so we can fucking move on already? I know A, I should be happy, but I can't coz I know I shouldn't be. Everytime I see her, my system's all fucked up and our history's creeping me out. I still can't forgive myself for hurting her and worst, I hate her for not trusting me. I shouldn't have asked for her help but I did and now everything's back to being complicated again, especially with the Joey kid. I don't know how to explain it but I feel different when she's with me, it's like she's the piece that's been missing in me and I wanted to protect her and keep her safe with me at all times but when I look at her, I see Buffy with twice our connection and that makes me afraid. I don't know why but I just am, the feeling's overwhelming….."

Faith took another gulp from her beer "you've told me a prophecy about a child who will mark the line between good and evil, and now I've got two of them. Nice huh? You should've given me a clue. I'm not good with your cryptic messages A, you should've pointed me to the direction and not play mind games with me. Can't hate you for that now, can I?" she started to stand and put the 6 pack she brought on top of Angel's tomb. "Cheers, thanks guys."

Faith's mansion



"Tomy's waiting for you. Where have you been?"

"Out, I just needed some fresh air after patrolling. No worries Wes." Faith gave him a smile

"ok, good night then." Wesley went back to his room

"uh, Wes??...Have you heard from Gman yet?"

"Well, yes but they still haven't found anything yet. Don't worry, I'll tell you as soon as we know something. Or maybe you already know something?" adding the last part when he saw Faith smirked.

"Do you remember the prophecy about that someone who will mark the line between good and evil? It's about a child and now we have two of them. That's all I know."

"Yes, now I remember. I'll call Giles tomorrow so we can research about it. Thanks Faith." Wesley headed to the library, he's not gonna be able to sleep now with the information he got.

"Yeah, whatever. Sweet night Grams. " Faith needs a 12 hour sleep to live.

Dawn's room

"Buffy? Are you ok?" Dawn asked when she heard her sister crying.

"I'm fine, don't mind me. Go to sleep before Joey wakes up." she keeps on staring at the little girl.

"She's not and you're not ok too. It's alright Buffy, I'm here for you." Dawn tried to assure her sister.

"I miss her.. So much that it hurts. But when I'm with Joey, I can feel her. It's like she's here but not really."

Dawn smiled at the thought."Shh, it's gonna be ok. It's Faith, it takes time."

"I know. That's why I need to see her and tell her she can take all the time in the world but I'm not leaving her until she figures it out." Buffy stared at the sleeping child "She has Faith's dimples, do you think they're related?"

"Uh, faith's not the only one to have dimples sis."

"Yeah, I think you've got a point. Goodnight Dawnie." She snuggles closer to Joey.

"Night."

TBC