Hey guys, so just finished this chapter. Gave ya a little Faith. It's not as meaty as I would like it to be but I'm super busy and promise to have more up soon. Enjoy :)
"Fuck me? What did I do?"
Faith stood at the window holding a lit cigarette in one hand and a small duffle bag in the other.
"I…uh, um. What are you doing here?"
"I could ask you the same thing B. You do know this is my room right?"
Buffy sat up and turned on the light. Pulling the blankets up around her torso. Her brain was reeling. So many things were running through her thoughts all at once. What do you say now Buff. Come on, use that quick wit of yours.
"B? Hello?" Buffy was clearly letting her thinking process show because her face was contorting into what Faith would deem as the most uncomfortable looking positions.
"I came to visit."
"My room? Or the city?" Faith smirked at her own remark.
Not amused with the comment Buffy made her way off the bed and started collecting her things.
"I just came to visit everyone and since you'd vanished I was given your room. I'll go find another room. I hear there's plenty."
Faith cam closer to her and gently placed her hand on the handle of the bag Buffy was starting to sling over her shoulder.
"Whoa, I didn't say you had to scram. You can stay, you looked more comfortable in that bed than I ever do. I'll just kick it on the couch for tonight. I usually do anyway. It's late anyway. No need to go wandering the hollowed halls tonight."
Buffy didn't hear a word of what Faith had said her focus was still on the hand that was resting on hers. Sending hot chills up her arm and throughout her whole body.
"Hey, you ok? You look pale?"
Buffy physically shook herself back to alertness.
"yeah, I'm uh, I'm fine. Just tired. I'll have Giles find me another room tomorrow."
She tossed her bag next to the bed and settle back in under the covers. This wasn't what she'd wanted out of a reunion, but at this point she'd take what she could get. She watched Faith shed the leather jacket and dark wash jeans she had on. Her figure was far more intoxicating now than Buffy had remembered. Faith laid on her back on the small sofa covering herself with the thin blanket. She couldn't help but feel bad for bogarting the girls bed, but at the same time she couldn't help but feel worse at the fact that her original assumption of the couch had been true. She'd known Faith to always be a little different when it came to common human functions. That was one of the reasons why she'd been so drawn to her in the first place after all. She couldn't sleep. Not now, not with Faith ten feet away. Not with the other girls scent completely consuming everything around her more than it had before. Not with Faith's sleep sounds echoing through the now suffocating room. She'd decided sleep was definitely not possible and settled for just lulling herself into a daze at the sound of Faith's slow breathing.
The next morning she waited until the sun made its way to the windows, before briskly springing from the bed and grabbing as many of her things as she could, racing to the elevator. Once in the lobby she left her bags there to rest while she herself went to rest in the common room until someone else woke up.
She slept a lot longer than she had planned because she was awoken to the sounds of the girls talking quietly around her. Her eyes slit slowly focusing on the girls around her. Faith, one of the intruding voices. She smacked her forehead inwardly and sat up to join the group.
"Good morning B."
Faith sent her a sly smile and gestured to the girls wardrobe choice. Buffy looked down at what Faith was motioning to. Oh fuck me. Seriously. She'd forgotten that almost everything she was currently wearing was Faiths'. She threw Faith a giant fake smile.
"It's been really hot up there, and all I packed were sweats."
Rona raised an eyebrow and shot a glance at the two of them. Faith just shrugged and pulled her sprawled out body off the chair she was sitting on and was gone. Buffy signed. This is going to be harder than it seemed in her scenarios.
"Well girls, I guess I should go find myself a room."
Rona again shot her a thoughtful glance. She went in search of a room that was just far enough away from everyone else but not as secluded as she'd been in Faith's room. Once she'd decided that she'd found the acceptable room she made her way to the small bathroom. She started the shower and let the room fill with steam before getting in. She leaned herself up again the cold tiled walls and let the scalding water wash over her subconsciously trying to drown herself in the waterfall before her. She sunk down to the tub and let the water beat down on her chest. She tried to convince her mind to think of anything but the new situation before her. But as her heart burst with fear and frustration at timing, it simultaneously melted with excitement that Faith was in fact finally here. All her chasing could stop, but only to start a new chase. The one that would lead her to convincing herself she was strong enough to tell Faith of her feelings, and be able to accept the outcome if Faith didn't return them. Or better yet, be strong enough to face life if Faith did indeed feel the same for her.
She convinced herself to turn off the water, seeing as she was completely pruney at this point. Once the water was off she could still hear it running. She was confused momentarily until she noticed from the window that it was raining. She curled up on the bed that was no where near as comfortable as Faith's had been. She laid in her towel and listened to the rain fall. How was she going to do this. There was a knock on her door. No one knew she was up here. She wrapped herself up in the comforter and answered the door. Of course. Who else would it be.
"Hey. Can I come in?"
Faith leaned on the door frame looking down at her shoes.
"uh, yeah."
She motioned her to come in and placed herself on the bed allowing Faith to sit beside her.
"I'm ya know."
Buffy looked at her slightly confused. What was she apologizing for?
"For what?"
"For whatever it is I did to you. To make you hate everything so much. I heard what you were saying last night. I was just gonna leave until I heard you say 'fuck you Faith', then I kinda figured I'd just come in."
Buffy didn't know how to respond to what Faith was saying. She felt uncomfortable having the her this close to her. Saying something that she'd rarely heard come from Faith's lips, and to top everything off she was naked.
"I was just in a bad mood, and I was ranting. You didn't do anything."
"Ha, well ya could have fooled me last night since you said Fuck me the most! But hey, no big. So what are your plans for today?"
"I hadn't really made any yet."
"Cool. Well get some clothes on and come with me."
"Where are we going?"
"Don't worry about it. Just get ready and meet me downstairs."
With that she left the room. Buffy got dressed faster than she ever had in her life. When she met Faith downstairs, the dark haired girl was wielding Buffy's car keys.
"How'd you? Never mind." She rolled her eyes, she didn't need to ask Faith had her ways.
"Ya ready kid?"
"Who else is coming?"
"Just us. Come on lets get outta here."
Buffy found it strange that no one asked where Faith had been, or why she'd left. No one seemed to mind that she just came and went and no one made a big fuss when she did get back. Maybe Faith had found the perfect remedy for feeling invisible, which was to be just that…invisible.
"Ya ever been to Fresno?"
"Wait what? Faith we're not going to Fresno!"
"No, we're not. I was just asking if you'd been there. We're actually just going to the Glendale Galleria."
Buffy smiled at the girl driving her car and shook her head before settling in more relaxed in her seat.
"What's at the Glendale Galleria?"
"Well, it's not really the Galleria so much as it is the hiding places that the Galleria gives us."
"What do you mean hiding place?"
"You'll just have to see. Stop asking so many questions. Smoke?"
She held out a half empty pack of cigarettes offering them up to Buffy. For a minute Buffy widened her nostrils in discussed, then thought about it a bit longer and removed one from the pack. Why not, no one was looking at her a role model anymore. She could live a little, have some vices. One drag later and several minutes of uncontrolled coughing, she'd decided maybe she could find a difference vice and tossed the lit cigarette into the ash tray. There had been no small talk during the drive, but it didn't seem to matter. There was a comfortable silence. They'd trade a glance here and there, a smile or smirk.
Faith parked in the structure and they were now riding the escalators to the ground floor. Once outside the area was more bussling with life than Buffy'd imagined somewhere Faith would go. Faith took her hand and sent electricity shooting through her fingertips. She was being pulled through the crowds and across an open grassy area. Faith stopped and looked around at the people before ducking into an alley between two store fronts. She led Buffy through the narrow hallways of what she guess was the fire escape route for the whole line of stores. They stopped in front of latter that no doubt led to the rooftop. Faith scaled the latter like it was nothing. Not wanting to let on that she was skeptical Buffy to climbed the latter with ease. At first glance the roof looked like any roof might, but upon further observation Buffy saw why Faith had brought her here. There was a small building located in a far corner. Faith took out a little key and unlocked the door to the small space. Once inside she saw a small love seat a TV and a wall full of books. She could see why Faith would come here not so much for the interior, but the view from the window was absolutely stunning. You could see the whole city from here.
"Beautiful."
"What was that?"
Buffy didn't know she was talking out loud.
"The view, it's beautiful."
"Yeah."
"So, why'd you bring me here."
Faith paced a little. Before stopping and sitting at one end of the couch.
"G-man told me you've been a little, down I guess. Said you seemed like you could use some slayer face time. Ya know chattin it up with someone who can understand where you're coming from."
Buffy cursed Giles, and thanked him at the same time. Well I guess that settles how I'll get time to talk to her.
"Oh, yeah I, I suppose."
"Well, I'm here for you to talk to if you need it B."
Buffy couldn't believe what she was hearing. It was as if Faith had completely forgotten everything that had happened between them in the past. Buffy didn't know if that was bad or good. Faith was sitting beside her telling her that she could confide in her and that she was here for her. What was the world coming to? Faith and Buffy on speaking terms, well at least for the moment. That is until she could get up the nerve to tell Faith exactly what she really did need to talk to her about.
Thanks for reading guys. Let me know what you guys are thinking for how Buffy should tell Faith about her feelings. I've got some ideas, but I'm kinda at a loss on how to set the whole thing up.
