TAKING CORDY'S ADVICE

Taking a deep breath and letting it out slowly, Faith mentally steels herself and gets out of her car, walking the parking lot of Sunnydale High. As she enters through the main doors, Spike sees her and a look of revulsion quickly followed by anger appears on his face, taking in her appearance.

"What the hell happened to you! Who did this? We'll find 'em and beat the holy hell out of 'em."

"Nothing man. Nothing happened."

"In all the years I've known you, I've never seen you look like this. You're wearing a dress; a pink, pastel dress. Did you lose a bet or something?"

"Just come on. We're gonna be late for the assembly."

Following her to the auditorium, they end up behind the curtain of the stage.

"Uh, Faith what are we doing back here? Are we going to get in trouble again?"
"Relax, I already took care of everything, we'll be fine."

Or so she had hoped. It had taken her almost a week to come up with this plan and she had to call in a lot of favors. She really hoped that it wouldn't be all for nothing. Peeking through the curtain she sees the auditorium filled with her fellow seniors. The whole point of this assembly was to go over all the things they would do for their last year, before finally graduating.

"Do you see Buffy?"
"Yeah, she's right there, in the front row." Nodding her head Faith gets the attention of the boy waiting on the other side of the stage and gives him the go ahead. Walking to the audio equipment and hitting the play button, the room goes quiet as everyone waits to see what is about to happen, when singing comes through the speakers.

They read you Cinderella,
You hoped it would come true,
And one day a Prince Charming would come rescue you,
You like romantic movies, And you never will forget,
The way you felt when Romeo kissed Juliet.

Everyone looks at each other questioningly before the curtains open revealing a singing Faith and a stunned Spike, off to the side.

And all this time that you've been waiting,
You don't have to wait no more,
I can love you like that,
I would make you my world,
Move heaven and earth,
If you were my girl,
I would give you my heart,
Be all that you need,
Show you you're everything that's precious to me,
If you give me a chance,
I can love you like that,
(I can love you like that, I can love you like that)

I never make a promise,
I don't intend to keep,
So when I say forever,
Forever's what I mean,
Well I'm no Casanova,
But I swear this much is true,
I'll be holding nothing back when it comes to you,
You dream of love that's everlasting,
Well baby open up your eyes,

Faith makes her way down the stairs and sits back on her haunches in front of Buffy, one hand resting on her knee as she continues to sing.

I can love you like that,

I would make you my world,
Move heaven and earth,
If you were my girl,
I would give you my heart,
Be all that you need,
Show you you're everything that's precious to me,
If you give me a chance,
I can love you like that,
(I can love you like that, I can love you like that)

By now everyone has gotten up to get a closer look at what's happening. Buffy on the other hand sits there speechless and glances at Cordelia, who shrugs at her with a wide grin and Willow on her other side with the same expression.

If you want tenderness,
I got tenderness,
And I see through to the heart of you.
If you someone,
Who will understand,
You don't have to look very far,
I can love you,
I can love you love you,
I can love you like that,
I can love you, girl I can (I can love you love you),
Oh baby oh...,
I can love you like that,
I would make you my world,
Move heaven and earth if you were my girl,
I would give you my heart,
Be all that you need,
Show you you're everything that's precious to me,
I can love you like that,
I can make you my world,
Move heaven and earth if you were my girl,
I would give you my heart,
My heart, my heart, my world,
Show you you're everything (you're everything to me),
Love you like that,
I can make you my world,
Move heaven and earth if you were my girl,
I would give you my heart,
My heart, my heart, my world,
Show you you're everything...

Finishing the song Faith puts the mic down and rises to her knees to be eye level with the other girl.

"B, I know you have reservations about me and there are a lot of bad things I've done and you don't trust because of that. But honestly? I'm not asking for your trust or anything except that you give me chance to show you who I really am. I'm having a party this weekend and I thought it would be good if you could stop by. Maybe?" Having difficulty dropping her smile, Buffy simply nods. "Cool."

"Faith!" She looks up to see a slightly pissed teacher pointing for her to leave.

"Guess that's my cue to get gone." Standing she leaves with the entire auditorium applauding. Leaning against the wall, Spike had somehow gotten out before anyone noticed.

"Now that I didn't see coming."

"What can I say? I'm brilliant. Now, lets get to the locker room so I can change before I lose anymore street cred. These clothes have served their purpose, now I can burn them."

"Nice sandals by the way." Smirking, Spike gets pushed into a nearby locker. "What? I'm just saying." Laughing he trails behind her.