Title: Good-bye Hellmouth, pt 10

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"So what's the other problem?" Faith asked uncomfortable with the angered expression. Faith could tell Lily was upset but there was a bit of disappointment hidden within the green depths of her eyes.

"I'm pregnant."

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"How is that a problem?" Faith asked after sitting in dumbfounded silence for several moments.

"James didn't want another child until the war was over." Lily explained. "I didn't mean to…"

"Shhh." Faith reached over and grasped the redhead's hand. "James will understand; he's many things but a drama queen he isn't." She said getting a soft laugh from her friend.

"Thanks Faith." Lily smiled through tear-splashed eyes. "James asked Sirius to be Harry's godfather, but will you be this baby's godmother?" She asked brushing away the brief tear path with one of her hands.

A shocked expression appeared on Faith's face as she stared into clear and honest green eyes. "I'd be honored to." Faith smiled. "What do you hope it is?"

"I'd love a girl." Lily grinned excitably. "But another boy wouldn't be so awful."

Faith chuckled and the two girls talked for a bit longer about names, auror classes and basic woman items, like make-up and clothes. As Lily stood, preparing to leave Faith asked; "Did you want me with you when you tell James?"

Lily looked thoughtful for a moment before saying, "No thank you. I think it's something I need to tell him on my own."

"If you need anything, anything at all, pop on over and Buffy and I will house you." Faith stated giving the slightly taller woman a hug. "Good luck." She whispered as the other woman pulled away. Faith could see the happiness within the green eyes now that she knew she had Faith's support. Faith only hoped that James would be open-minded about this.

"Thanks." Lily said before floo-ing back to Godric's Hollow. Faith finished her drink before paying for her meal and apparating back home.

"Buffy?" Faith called but was met with no answer.

Something didn't feel right to Faith so she prepared her wand and began looking around the flat. Buffy's bedroom door was shut, which wasn't unusual, but it was still odd. Quietly she turned the handle and peaked into the room but was met by more silence and no human presence. She was about to exit when she saw…a letter written on the wall.

'Come alone and your fellow sister won't get hurt. Just touch the lamp by the door.'

Faith checked her weapons, wand especially, before reaching out the lamp. A tugging at her navel told her that she was leaving Buffy's room and traveling to where the captor of Buffy hid. Moment's later she landed on rich midnight blue carpet.

She looked around the room seeing two doors, a fireplace and a bookshelf that looked sparse of books and knickknacks. A few muttered spells determined that there were no jinxes surrounding the room and that she had free reign of the room.

She walked quietly towards one of the doors and slowly opened it to find a torture chamber. The room was filled with chains and other torture devises. Buffy hung limply against one of the walls so Faith closed the door and moved towards the other door. She wanted to be sure that the two slayers were the only ones in the 'house'.

The second door led to a hallway, with deep blue tiles running as far as the lighting would show. Slowly she began the journey down the hallway, her senses on alert and her wand out. She wandered around, not finding anyone and headed back to the first room.

Buffy was still hanging limply when Faith reentered the room. The room was truly a piece of work, from the magical chains, to the instruments and to the weapons. Knifes of all kinds and makes lined one wall along with axes and other sharp metals. "Buffy." Faith hissed glancing around the room.

Hazel eyes opened and looked unfocused. "Run while you can, Faith." The hoarse plea said. "He'll kill you if he finds you."

"Who?" Faith asked looking for a key of some kind, as her wand didn't open the shackles. "I'm not leaving you here alone, Buffy." She added as a last minute thought.

"Petrificus Totalus." Faith heard someone hiss and turned around only to get hit with the spell. Faith's arms and legs went stiff as she fell like a board towards the ground. The last thing she saw before her eyes closed were the crazy eyes of Pettigrew.

It was a while later when Faith woke up. Her dark eyes gazed around the room trying to assess the problem and try to formulate a plan. She noticed Buffy was no longer hanging against the wall but strapped to the bed and that she was in the blonde's place.

Faith pulled lightly at the chains to see what kind of give they had not feeling particularly randy or kinky at the moment. The chains didn't give much pull showing Faith that they were magically enhanced so that the slayer couldn't brake free.

She also noticed her wand was on the other side of the room as were her weapons, causing the brunette slayer to feel naked. She hardly went anywhere without her knifes or stakes, and yet here she was without them. She saw a sharp object on the table and tried to get the object to fly up towards her hand.

After several tries she finally caught it in her hands but didn't have time to unlock the shackles because she heard someone approaching the area. Feigning sleep she waited for the person to reenter the room. The door finally opened and Faith heard two people talking. One she knew was Pettigrew, remembering him from earlier and the other she knew from one of the raids.

"Will you calm down, Regulas." Pettigrew hissed. "No one's going to be able to find us because the portkey only worked once and there's no way to track us down."

"Our Lord won't be too pleased." Regulas said softly. "She's one of his favorites. Malfoy, Snape and the Lestrange's practically love her, not to mention she's our Lord's protégé."

"Stop worrying." Pettigrew insisted. "We're just going to have a bit of fun with her."

Faith remained calm, though she was seething inside. So Pettigrew enlisted the help of Sirius's little brother, Regulas. She always liked the younger man, but obviously it was one sided. She was going to have her just reward, but she needed to be careful how she did it. Albus wouldn't appreciate her killing the traitor even though he didn't deserve to breathe the air he was.

Regulas, however, was a different story. She would present it to Voldemort for final judgment. She knew he was loyal and was willing to over look this, figuring Pettigrew had something over the dark hair wizard.

"You can stop pretending to be sleeping, McRae." Pettigrew's voice had suddenly appeared closer to Faith's body.

"I never knew you were into kink, Pettigrew." Faith sneered. "Though you realize the minute I get out of here, you're head is going to be mounted on my wall."

"I don't believe you're in any position to be making threats, McRae." Pettigrew smugly retorted, though it was obvious that she frightened him even though she was chained to the wall.

Faith glanced at Regulas before kicking her leg out and catching Pettigrew in the stomach. She used her heal to push a table of tools at the darker haired wizard catching him off guard. Pettigrew remained on the ground holding his stomach as Faith distracted Regulas.

Quickly Faith used her fingers to work the utensil into the lock trying to work the lock free. She'd gotten one of the locks undone when Pettigrew stood. Faith threw the utensil at him, hitting him directly on his wand shoulder causing him to cry out in pain as she pulled at the chain.

She heard Regulas stand and dodged the hex he'd thrown her direction before grabbing a scalpel and tossing it in the wizard's direction. The chain was worked free giving Faith enough time to grab her wand and face the two wizards with their wands pointed at her.

"That was impressive." Pettigrew hissed. "You did better than Summers' did."

Just then a leg caught Regulas from behind distracting Pettigrew enough for Faith to stun the rat with a Stupefy hex. Buffy had knocked Regulas out so there was no worry about him fighting back. "How are you feeling, Buffy?" Faith asked helping the blond up.

"Peachy." Buffy grunted, her voice hoarse. "I can't believe the rat is a traitor." Faith only nodded causing the blonde to turn towards her. "You knew?" She asked curiously.

"Yes."

"Why didn't you say?"

"Didn't have the chance to." Faith shrugged. "After I found out, I was thrown out a window by Black and then you went and got yourself slayer-napped."

"I didn't get myself 'slayer-napped', Faith." Buffy countered. "I was resting and was portkey-ed here."

"Slayer-napped." Faith muttered binding the two death eaters together. She was now faced with a decision, two choices. One she could turn them into the Ministry for kidnapping or two she could take them to Voldemort for punishment.

"So what are you going to do?" Buffy asked, feeling the internal battle going on within Faith's head. She knew Faith wanted to do what was right, but she also knew that Faith had some anger to work through. She'd seen what she'd done to Peter from Albus' pensive and had to admit that Faith was a capable woman and enemy.

"I don't know." Faith sighed, running her fingers through her hair. "On the one hand I can turn them into the Ministry and anger your friends, or I can turn them into Voldie to be sentenced to their deaths."

"I don't know what to tell you, Faith." Buffy sighed. "Peter obviously as a vendetta against you."

"Did he hurt you?" Faith inquired.

"Not really."

"Go get Albus and meet me at our flat." Faith said. "We'll put it in his hands, but I've got to do something that will show Voldie that I'm still on his side."

"Right." Buffy said before disapparating out of the room they were in.

Once the blonde was gone, Faith grabbed something off the table and charmed it to be a portkey to the slayer's flat. She then forced it into the pair's hands and felt the uncomfortable tug at her navel before materializing in the living room.

"Faith?"

"Lucius, what are you doing here?"

"I was looking for you." He answered slowly, his gaze on the figures at her feet. "What happened?"

Faith nervously played with her fingers, she couldn't lie to him. She could try, but he would see right through especially with this as the evidence was on the ground at her feet. "Pettigrew slayer-napped Buffy and left a message for me to come alone."

"And you went?"

"Of course I did." Faith retorted. "I take my friendships very seriously, Lucius. I'd do the same for you or Sev."

"What's Regulas' role in this?" He asked glancing at the still unconscious wizard. Pettigrew was staring up at him with hatred in his eyes, but also a sort of nervousness in the inner depths.

"I'm not sure." Faith sighed sitting on the coffee table. "Take them to our Lord." She said suddenly looking into shocked blue eyes.

"Don't you want to take them yourself?" He inquired.

"Buffy's on her way back here." Faith said. "She went to get Dumbledore."

Lucius held her gaze a bit longer before nodding once, tapping his reusable portkey and forced the two on the ground to touch it. Before he disappeared he said, "Come when you can."

"Of course." Faith smirked. Once he was gone her confident mask fell, she was going to be in deep trouble when Dumbledore got there. Just as that thought passed through her brain, Albus and Buffy appeared.

End pt 10

For my reviewers:

Dirbatua: Thanks! Glad you like it and hope you continue reading it.

Godiva: Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying it and I'm glad that you think it's one of the best stories you've read.

Wickedmoemoe: Is that a good thing? I hope you're enjoying the story rather than not, but I'm open to suggestions.

sweetypie15: What do you think Harry should have? A brother or sister? The vote is out for anyone to comment. Thanks for reading and I can't wait to see what happens too.

mentallyinsane: That's for me to know, and you to find out. But, I hope it'll be interesting to you.

AnimeHanyou39: Thanks! I thought out of any of the Scooby's Faith could pull off the half-n-half thing.

Elwing Telemnar: That's an interesting idea, having Lily pregnant with Willow, but our favorite Wicca has already been born by this point. The consenses is that the Scooby gang is the same age as Harry Potter and gang.

Chicklepea: That's an interesting idea. I hadn't thought about Faith and Buffy taking Lily's child into the future. I'm glad you're enjoying this story, thanks for the continuous reviews. Spike did get stuck in the hellmouth, but he didn't follow the slayers into the portal.

Just Me: Thanks for reviewing! I'm glad you enjoyed my intermission peace. I really didn't know what to do about my long absence in updating this story.

Morena Evensong: I know I jumped a bit (okay a lot) but I couldn't think of anything else to write for their school career. Severus will make an appearance, becoming more of a character - even though I don't think I write him well - and I hope you'll enjoy it. You'll be interested to know, I'm trying to bring Spike in because I could see the dramatic entrance too. Thanks for the idea.

Damia - Queen of the Gypsi's: I'm still not sure where Faith/Sirius came from, but I'm glad to have support on the possible pairing. Thanks for reviewing.

Magemaster: I honestly don't know if they're going to meet Hermione or some of the other HP gang. But they have met Harry and Ron - though it's not stated about Ron.

slaygal166: Thanks for reviewing. I'm pleased with the way Sirius/Faith are being written, though I'm not sure where that's going.