BPOV.
How? My mom was dead. Is dead. But then how is she standing here in front of me with...Tara. What the hell?
"Mom? But you and Tara? And the dead? Am I missing something?" I ask. I'm trying to grasp this whole thing. I was at both of their funerals. Willow almost ended the world when Tara died and I couldn't save my mom.
"No sweetie," she starts "you aren't missing anything. Although I think you need to have a talk with your girlfriend." she says with that gentle mom smile she always used to do. That I've missed so much. I look over at my girlfriend who is finding the wall a little too interesting.
"Faith?" nothing. Actually she started humming. "Faith?" I say again and she's still ignoring me. "Kendall?!" she sorta winces at the level of my voice and the use of her first name.
"huh?" she says turning towards me but not looking at me.
"Well?" I ask her impatiently
"well what?" I just look at her. About five minutes pass before her patients gets the better of her. "I didn't know they were gonna send your mom and Tara back!" she says.
"Who?" I ask.
"nobody." she answers too quickly. I raise an eyebrow. " the Powers That Be." she says with a sigh.
"Funny I heard you had to either know a spell to see them or be dead." I say to her.
"Spell. I knew a spell." she says again too quickly.
"What spell?" I ask.
"T-The one that lets you go see them..." she says with a frown. Yeah it sounded lame even to her.
"Faith did you happen to die at anytime?" I ask her. I know it shouldn't be a big deal since she's here now but it is. She shakes her head no. I give her a stern look. She holds my gaze.
"Hey was it wh-" Braden starts but she cuts him off.
"No!" she practically yells. He smirks.
"A hit dog always hollers." he says shaking his head.
"When was it Faith?" I ask her. Why is she so keen on not telling me? She sighs.
"I'd rather not say. Lets just say I really had no idea they were comin back when it did happen." she says. I feel like I should just drop it but I can't. I won't.
"When was it?" I ask her again. She's practically pleading with her eyes for me to let it go. But I want to know too bad.
FPOV.
I really wish she'd let it go. I don't wanna tell her this in fron'a everybody. She'll feel bad enough if I tell her at all. I shake my head.
"When I was in prison." I lie. I hope she believes it. She doesn't look like she does. But what am I s'posed to say 'oh you remember that time you stabbed me, well yeah my heart stopped a coupla times at the hospital. And to think you didn't even use my blood.' I don't think that'd go over well.
"Oddly I don't believe you." she says.
"For fucks sake! Stop askin so many damn questions and enjoy the fact you got your mom back!" I snap walkin off. I need to think. When I was talkin to em they asked if I died did I wanna come back and I said no send someone who'll be needed. What I'm not getting is why they sent back two someones. I distinctly remember sayin some One. Yeah sounds singular to me. I get who'll need Mrs. Summers but who'll need Tara? Yeah she's a good person and all but I'm not too sure Red's gonna go breakin up with Kenn cus her old girl is back. What the hell is goin on?
"Faith?" I hear a gentle voice call me. I turn and see Tara. She offers me a small smile.
"Yeah?" I respond. She sits down on the ground beside me.
"Are you ok?" she asks me. Could she know? Nah.
"5x5 T." I say to her. "Look I know you've heard a lot about me and I think we mighta kinda sorta met durin the body swap. I don't really remember too much bout all'a that but if I hurt you I'm sorry." I say sincerely. I really don't remember exactly what went on. Maybe I've received to many blows to the head.
"The past is the past. All is forgiven." she says. "You're probably wondering why I'm here. Who'd need me. You'll find out soon enough and try not to let the revelation shock you." she says. I give her a quick look. Then I turn my entire body towards her sittin Indian style. She copies my movement and we just look at each other for a minute until I speak.
"Where were you?" I ask her.
"What do you mean?" she asks back.
"Where you...where you in heaven?" I ask her.
TPOV.
She looks young. Younger than she is. Like a little kid asking their big sister about a big mystery.
"I think so...yeah...i was." I tell her. Her eyes get all big and she really does look like a kid. I can see in her eyes all the questions she has.
"How do you know?" she asks me. Even if I hadn't died and found out the truth I still don't think I'd see the evil in her.
"Because I was happy. Happier than I'd ever been in my life. Even when I was with Willow I wasn't as happy and at peace as I was there." she looks up at me.
"Cool." is all she says. We sit in a comfortable silence for a while. Then we stand up and make our way into the hotel. Being dead was...really peaceful. Although coming back I received a gift...i'm sort of like Lorne To an extent anyway. I can read auras and see their futures but I'm not a demon like he is. I see his point about it being easier if the person sings. I wonder...
"Hey Faith, can you sing?" I ask her. She looks a little caught off guard by the question but nods. "Will you sing something for me please?" I ask trying to sound all sweet. She looks like I've lost it.
"Whatcha wanna hear?" she asks.
"Doesn't matter. Oh! The chorus to your favorite song!" I say excitedly. I really just want to know if life is going to cut her a break. She deserves it but I have a feeling that if I tell her why she wont do it. I know its an invasion of privacy but I don't want to see her hurt anytime soon.
"ok." she thinks for a minute.
"Ooh,
ooh, ooh
Baby girl it's on tonight
Ooh, ooh, ooh
I'm a keep
ya by my side
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Hold you close and do you
right
Turn off all the lights and lay back while I blow your
mind
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Can't stop livin' this life
Ooh, ooh,
ooh
Let's do it, you and I
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Baby I'ma make you
mine
Gonna have to take a deep breath when I blow your mind"
damn she's good.
Although things don't really look to good for her in the near future.
Why is the same person the source of all her pain I'll never know.
She looks at me for a second.
"Nice." I say with a smile. She smiles back. We both look up at the same time to see Lorne right in front of Faith. He reaches out and touches her cheek.
"You are to sweet for all of this." is all he says. He turns and walks away but not before shooting a glare at Buffy. I wonder does he know what it is she'll do. I only got a vague outline that it'd be her to hurt Faith. Not sure what but she will. Faith looks back at me and I shrug. She nods.
"So what did ya see blondie?" she asks and I look at her with wide eyes and she just chuckles. "Yeah I knew but I sung anyway so what'd ya see?" I hesitate at first but I tell her...
"It was too vague for me to figure out." she accepts this but I'm not sure she believes me. Lorne is right. She is too sweet for any of this.
Two months later...
FPOV.
So my whole family moved here to LA. Dad said somethin bout not wantin to be separated again. Its all good wit me. Everything has been good. Me and Tara are like best friends. Well of course Andy is my bestest friend. Well next to Angel. Yeah Angel, Andy, Tara, and Cordy. No wait its Angel, Gunn, Andy, T- aw fuck it. I got a circle of best friends who got my back and I got theirs. Shit Wesley is even my watcher again. And oh yeah Cordy just found out she's pregnant. Talk about a night to remember. Seems she got drunk one night before I was found and don't remember exactly how she got home. She got tested to. Ya know make sure whoever she did the nasty with didn't have nothin. Obviously they didn't cus all she got was the baby. She said even though she has no idea who the dad is she's happy. But ya know that aint like her. To go and get pissy drunk like that. But everybody makes mistakes. She can't wait for the baby to be born. Andrew well...he's Andrew. Still weird to an extent. He's like a... damn puppy. Yeah a puppy. He's like always happy and he's loyal as fuck. Never lied to me bout nothin. Know it aint been long but I trust him. Then there's Buffy. She's been fuckin great. I just told her two weeks ago finally when I had died. She took it better then I woulda. She was calm although she does apologize everyday. I keep tellin her I'm past it. The past should stay just that. The past.
BPOV.
So its been around two months and things couldn't be better. Well they probably could but I'm ok with the way things are now. A few weeks ago Riley came back. He's changed a lot. He and Faith even get along. As much as they can anyway. They still don't see eye to eye on a lot of things but then again he doesn't really see eye to eye with anyone. But Faith she's been the best. She, Dawn, and I have all been staying in one of her dad's apartments. Mom's is down the hall next to Tara's. Willow and Kennedy live at the 'Lehane mansion II' as its called with the rest of the family. Giles lives downstairs and get this Andrew and Cordelia live together. They live next door. If anybody said those two would live in the past, well I would have laughed my ass off. But he isn't half bad. And since she's gotten pregnant Cordelia has gotten funnier. If you ask me. Enough about them though. You see lately I've been kinda depressed. I mean Faith finally told me when she died. When I stabbed her. I killed her. She says she's let it go but I can't seem to do the same. She says the past should stay in the past but she doesn't know how much the past can affect the future. If only she did.
FPOV.
Right now I'm on my way home from work. I work over at Lorne's club. I'm a bartender/bouncer. Its a fun job cus nobody really steps outta line in there. Speakin'a Lorne he finally came outta the closet. Well kinda. Ok so he admitted that he was bisexual. Yeah. His boyfriend is...ok. I guess. He's nice. Which brings me to the topic of our next discussion. Beef stick Riley. He's ok. Nice enough. He's been back a few weeks but oddly I don't wanna pound his face in. I actually have fun when I hang with him. Sometimes anyway. There's my building. I adjust the ear buds on my i pod as I'm walking up the stairs. It so relaxing to have lifehouse blastin in my ears. I make it to my door and unlock it. When I step inside what I see literally rips my heart out. Buffy fuckin...
BPOV.
"Riley" I moan out. We've been going at it for hours and I must admit the time away did wonders for his performance.
"B" I freeze when I hear her voice. God no. no no no no. Riley and I spring apart and I turn and there she is standing in the door way. I grab a shirt to cover myself and throw Riley's pants at him.
"The least you coulda done was do it somewhere else." she says lookin down at the floor. I step towards her but she moves away. "I'm gonna motor." she says and she does. She runs and I wonder what the hell was I thinking. I've just ruined the best relationship in my life and I don't even have a reason. I am such a bitch.
Yeah
I know faith needs a break and she'll get one. Soon I promise. Don't
know why I got the idea to do this but I did. Oh well review please.
Oh yeah the song Faith sang was Blow your mind by jesse McCartney.
