Disclaimer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer belongs to Joss Whedon and Supernatural belongs to Eric Kripke
Spoilers: Directly after "This Year's Girl," this is season 4 for Buffy…
Author's Note: Um, last of the Taken Away arc. I just wanted to get Faith in the story and then a way to get Buffy back to Sunnydale. Next chapter starts another arc, which is a surprise that is obvious at the end of this chapter.
Author's Note 2: Be aware that I'm pushing the finale of season 4 up from May of 2000 to March of 2000.
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March 14, 2000Buffy was a bad friend.
'And a bad sister,' Dean's voice rang in her ears.
Buffy groaned as she dropped her head on the diner table. Repeatedly.
"Bad Buffy, bad Buffy," the eighteen year old whined.
The three Winchester men stared at one another before looking at Buffy, who was still, banging her head against the table.
"What's wrong, Buffy?" Dean placed his hand on hers.
Buffy snatched her hand away from Dean's. She raised her head, a glare forming and currently being sent to Dean.
"What'd I do?" he asked.
"You told me I was a bad sister, after I already told myself I was a bad friend. This is all your fault, Dean Winchester," she pointed.
"Buff," Sam, who was sitting in the booth next to her, put his arm around her. "Dean didn't mean it like that, he was just being overprotective."
John smiled as his daughter placed her on head Sam's shoulder. She hadn't been with her brothers for more than three months and they were acting like they knew her all their lives.
"Yea, and maybe I wouldn't have to be so overprotective if you would cover up sometimes," Dean pointed his hand to Buffy's choice of attire.
John couldn't help but agree. He knew Buffy could take care of herself, hell, she could beat Sam, Dean and himself, but the dad in him couldn't help but worry about her when men looked at her because of how she was dressed.
"So I probably shouldn't wear that micro mini around you then, huh?" she smirked at her Dean's open mouth.
"She's kidding, Dean," John reassured his son. He hoped she was kidding.
"Buffy, you aren't a bad friend," Sam got back to the subject. "And you aren't a bad sister."
"I thought I was going to be back with my friends, but here I am. They're dealing with Faith, and I can't help them. And it's all because my phone broke and I didn't get the message until after everything probably already went down. There's no telling what she did to them."
"Who is Faith exactly?" John asked. When Buffy finally got the message, she didn't really tell them. She just went off patrolling and came back three hours later covered in blood.
"Psycho slut slayer," Buffy rolled her eyes. "Remember at Missouri's when I said she went crazy and killed people? Yea, that's her."
"And this is the slayer that was called after you died?" Dean asked. It was still a little unbelievable that she died.
"No," Buffy shook her head. "Kendra came after, but she was killed by a vampire. Faith was called after that. She came to Sunnydale, a master vampire hot on her heels."
"Kakistos," John nodded. At the look from his three children, he shrugged. "I remember getting word of a powerful vampire crossing the country, going after someone. That I'd recognize him because of his face, hands and feet."
"That was him," Buffy nodded. "He was so old that his face was permanently deformed. His hands and feet went right with 'em. Anyway, basically, we killed him and everything was great, or so I thought."
"I guess I'm to blame too for what happened. I had friends and family that loved me, and Faith; well Faith thought she was alone. We tried to include her, but I guess we didn't do as well as we thought we did."
"One night, Faith and I were patrolling. We were in an alley and someone jumped out. We both thought it was a vampire, but with Faith being closer, she staked him. I realized a second before she did he was human."
"She killed him, didn't she?" Sam sighed.
"Yea," Buffy looked down. "And she disposed of the body and acted like she didn't care. She tried to put the blame on me when the police found the body and our Watcher's got suspicious."
"Please tell me you took care of this bitch?" Dean asked.
"Yea, in a way," Buffy spoke in a low voice. "She aligned herself with the mayor and--"
"Your mayor was evil?" Sam asked in disbelief.
"Yea, something about him becoming a true demon. Meaning he'd become this big snake and attack the town. It was a thing," Buffy dismissed it.
She went on to tell them about Faith doing the mayor's dirty deeds, and the Scoobies stopping her most of the time. She was able to get through talking about Angel getting poisoned by Faith. She wanted to leave the part about Angel being a vampire, but she knew that if she wanted to be truthful with her vampire, then she had to tell them the truth. They were all upset about her dating a vampire, even when she told them he had a soul. Which lead to John exclaiming the only known ensouled vampire was Angelus, which got them all riled up again. She was barely able to get through the story, mostly because after talking about Faith getting away she told them that she made Angel drink from her.
That did not go over so well.
"We're gonna have words with this sonofabitch," Dean muttered.
"Not possible," Buffy said sadly. "He left town after the mayor thing went down."
There was a silence at the table as the three Winchester's digested all the information. John knew the life of a slayer was dangerous, but he never thought his own daughter would have been called. Sam knew he was special, the demon made sure of that, but he wasn't quite sure if he was handling it so well. But now seeing that his little sister had a destiny as well, he knew he wasn't alone, though it's not something he wanted for her. Dean wasn't taking the news so well, on the inside. Sure, on the outside he looked calm, but on the inside, the news only made him want to protect Buffy even more.
"So anyway," Buffy continued, "She woke up from the coma and my friends tried to warn me, but every time I call no one picks up. The only thing that has me not going straight home is that Willow just recently changed her voicemail message, so that means she had the time to change something small in her life, which means Faith has either been taken care of or she's no longer there."
"And you got all of that from Willow changing her voicemail?" Dean asked.
"Yes," Buffy nodded. "Three weeks ago, her voicemail was different than it is now. Willow wouldn't change it if Faith was busy going after them."
"I'm sure they're fine, Buff," Sam tried to cheer her up. "From what you told us about your friends, they can handle themselves."
"Faith is a killer. They can handle vampires and demons, but not a human who ignores her conscience and kills freely."
The cushioned booth started to vibrate by hers and Sam's legs. She looked down and saw her phone was vibrating. The caller ID read Willow. She snatched the phone up and put it to her ear.
"Willow!" she practically shrieked. "I'm so sorry for not getting back. There was a spirit thing and then another spirit thing and yea, bad things happened. Are you alright, Faith didn't do anything to you guys, did she?"
"Buffy!" Willow tried to get her friend to calm down. "Everything is fine, but someone needs to talk to you."
"Is it Giles?" Buffy asked.
"Not exactly," Willow answered, nervous.
There was a pause, and Buffy heard the phone being passed to someone else. Whoever it was, Buffy could hear speaking that she didn't want to talk, but going up against Willow's resolve face meant the person lost, naturally.
"Hello?" Buffy asked.
"Hey, B," Faith's voice came through loud and clear.
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When Buffy had heard the rogue slayers voice, she had gripped the table to the point of breaking it. Sam had to take her phone away from her and speak to Faith. He was clearly siding with Buffy during the conservation, but he listened to what she had to say. She woke up in the hospital, and she had wanted revenge.
That night when she went to the Bronze, she had plans on going after the Scoobies to get to Buffy. But something happened that night.
Angel.
He had kept tabs on Faith, knowing that she would eventually wake up. He was alerted and drove to Sunnydale that night. It was a fight that Scoobies didn't miss, but it turned into something else. Faith fought Angel, but in the end, she pleaded with him to kill her. Angel didn't do it.
Buffy wasn't exactly ecstatic to hear the news, but if Faith had truly wanted help, she was happy she got it. But she had wondered about why she wasn't in jail.
"Angel pulled some strings," Faith told Sam when Buffy asked the question. "I'm going to prison, but after everything in Sunnydale is dealt with. And that's going to happen soon."
Buffy was confused about that. Apparently the government decided to play God with demons and a creation of theirs got free. Since Buffy wouldn't be there in time to deal with the threat, then Faith would have to stand in.
"Tell B not to worry. After this, I'll be in prison."
"People can change Buffy," John shrugged when Sam handed her phone back.
"I guess," she muttered. "I hope whatever is going on back home they can handle."
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March 28, 2000
'You think you know who you are, what's to come? You haven't even begun.'
Buffy rolled her eyes at the voice. Once again, Faith was in her dream.
'I thought being out of coma would keep you out of my dreams,' Buffy turned to look at her. She waited for a comeback, but the dark-haired slayer said nothing, she just stared at her. Buffy had a feeling that, even though this was clearly Faith's body, her mind was taking a little nap as someone else took control. But, can someone who is sleeping, be sleeping in their dream? Not wanting to confuse herself anymore, Buffy focused on the Faith in front of her.
'What's going on, Faith?' Buffy asked her. It was then that she took in the scene around her. There were men, dressed in brown robes. It looked like they were doing a spell or something. This place was old. She looked at the walls, the ceiling and the floor. She was in the past.
'This is where it began,' Faith's eyes looked at the men, monks.
'Where what began?' Buffy started growing frustrated.
Faith turned to look at Buffy once more and uttered one word.
'Dawn.'
"Wake up, Buffy," Dean nudged his sister. He was getting worried about her.
"What's wrong?" she sat up in her bed. Dean, Sam and their dad were standing around the bed, in various degrees of worry. She gave them a confused look before feeling something wet on her cheek. Bringing a hand to her face, Buffy felt tears.
"Some dream," John commented.
She smiled softly. "Yea, I had a dream about Dawn. I did leave her suddenly with Giles, I guess I just miss her."
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Next arc is "The Winchester Connection." Stay tuned, gentle readers.