FPOV.

This is too much. I mean I thought she was happy but maybe I just missed all the signs. I've been thinkin bout this for two weeks. Its been two weeks since I've seen anybody. I'm hidin out in a cottage my dad got. I think the family knows I'm here but they also know if I am here I need to be alone. What the fuck did I do wrong. Maybe it was the sex thing. I mean I just wasn't ready. Despite what people think I don't just sleep with anybody. I mean I trust her and all but... I don't know why I haven't slept with her. I can see why she'd turn to him. I need to go back. I can't really be mad at her. It was my own fault for holdin out. Ok so maybe it wasn't but I do feel like it is. I just need to talk to her get everything sorted out. I grab my car keys, yes I have one, and make my way back to LA. I'm gonna check the hotel first. It takes about two hours but I finally arrive. When I get there I kinda wish I hadn't came. I know they were all worried but do they gotta rush at me like they're crazy. Well everybody except Xander. I really don't think me and him will ever get along.

"Faith where the fuck have you been?! Buffy's been moping and crying around these whole two weeks! What did you do to her? I knew you didn't love her and now you've hurt her. You bitch. You don't deserve her love. You don't deserve anything good to happen to you. How she could think you were a good person I'll never know because all you do is hurt her!" he was in my face and at first I felt all my anger risin. I was tremblin and I saw red. My vision was blurrin slightly from the tears. Then it all stopped. Don't know why but it did. Like I didn't feel any anger anymore. It was strange. I just stood there starin at him. Nobody moved. They were all stuck in place. Then...then I smiled at him.

"You're right Xander. I don't deserve her love." I tell him in a calm voice. And I think I believe it. If her way of showin me she loves me is by cheatin on me well then I don't deserve that.

"As if you haven't made her life hard enough. Why don't you just leave her alone?" he practically spat the question at me. I look around and finally see Buffy comin down the stairs. She's walkin behind a very pissed lookin Angel. Wonder what happened. She sees me and runs over.

"Faith I'm so so-" I cut her off.

"Don't worry Buffy. You didn't do anything wrong. You can do no wrong." I say and I hear the distinct bitterness in my own voice.

"Your right for once Faith." Xander says. For some odd reason I still can't feel the anger.

"Xander be quiet! You don't know what you're talking about!" she yells in his face. "This whole thing is my fault. I'm the reason she left." she whispered.

"Buffy don't let her make you feel guilty because she's fucked up." I just stare at him. I am really glad he thinks so highly of me.

"Buffy I'm movin my stuff out of the apartment later." I say.

"Faith? Why are you moving out?" Dawn asks me. I feel sorry for the kid. She really grew to like me. We had fun.

"Just other places I need to be kid. I promise I'll keep in touch though." I tell her. She runs and hugs me real quick and I turn and leave. I don't know what else they talked about and oddly I don't care.

BPOV.

I can't believe she's going to leave me. After all I've forgiven her for she can't forgive this one little mistake.

"What did you do to her?" Cordelia growls at me.

"She walked in on me and Riley having sex." I whisper after a few long minutes of silence. I hear almost everyone gasp. And I know what's coming. I just wait for it.

"Why?" Braden asks me. I didn't expect him to sound so sad about it. Mad maybe but never sad. I look up and all of the Lehane kids look more sad than upset.

"I don't know." I say looking back down. We are all quiet for a few seconds. Then I don't know what happens but Kennedy and the boys and every other slayer let out agonizing screams. All except me. Willow is at Kennedy's side in seconds.

"Kenn, c'mon baby. Are you ok? What's wrong?" she asks as Kennedy starts to shiver. After a few minutes Kennedy looks up at Willow.

"I feel like all my power just got drained out of my body." she says tiredly. Willow immediately gasps.

"Faith..."

TPOV.

When Faith left I left. She's my best friend and I'm not going to let her deal with whatever alone. I know exactly what it is that's hurt her so much. Buffy cheated. It takes a lot to get Faith to trust you the way she trusted Buffy and to have something like that happen has got to be killing her. But that's the thing that scared the hell out of me. When Xander was ranting in her face at first I could see the anger, the hurt. But then it...stopped. Like all her negative emotions cut themselves off. That isn't good. If she cuts herself off emotionally she may never open back up. I'm driving behind her now. She's going back to their apartment to pack. If I know her as good as I think I do, she'll move far away. But she'll always be just a phone call away from all of us. She just got out of her car outside the building and her movements are calm.

"Faith?" I call out to her. She turns and smiles at me. Its sad but its a smile.

"Hey T." she says. I run to her and hug her. Then she lets it out. She starts to sob. Good. I'm happy she's crying. It means she's still here with me. I just rub her back while she cries. Holding her and rocking her back and forth. She starts to calm and then she lets out a pained scream. I pull back to look at her but all I see is pain. Not emotional but physical. Then she collapses. Her breathing is irregular so I pull out my phone and dial 911. they arrive within ten minutes. Within those ten minutes she stopped breathing for a split second. Once she's inside the ambulance and I argued until they let me ride I hold her hand the entire way. Her body is unresponsive. They shine the light in her eyes and nothing. Checking reflexes and nothing. We arrive and they rush her in. I decide to call everyone while I wait for the doctor. Before they arrive the doctor comes back out.

"Ms. Maclay?" I'm up in an instant.

"How is she?" I ask. I don't like the look on his face.

"Ma'am while we were checking her out she slipped into a coma. Has she ever been in one before?" shouldn't he know this. Oh wait she was under the name Faith Wilkins not Kendall Lehane.

"Yes sir. One was eight months and the other was two and a half." he looks surprised for a moment.

"Well given the medical odds she may not ever wake up this time. But from what you just said, two comas, well she just may have a chance if she's fighter." he says. "I'm sorry. When her family arrives you can go in with them to see her." I nod and he walks away. This shit is so unfair. She doesn't need this. She needs to be happy. Out living life. Not in another hospital bed in another coma. This is so fucked up. I look up when I hear Brad call my name.

"How is she?" he asks kneeling in front of me.

"She's in a coma." I say trying to keep my voice steady. He closes his eyes for a moment and when he reopens them they reflect exactly how he feels. The worry. He's worried she wont ever wake up. I stand to go in with him and the family but I see somebody in the corner of my eye and I want to loose it.

"Leave." I say in a deadly voice. They look at me surprised.

"But t-"

"Get out of here Xander. Go back to the hotel. Tell Angel to come by later you just stay away from her." then I walk into the room with her family. Plus Buffy, Cordelia, Dawn, and Andrew. We are all standing around her. Her eyebrows are knitted together like she's trying to figure out what's going on.

"What happened?" her dad asks. Like he's trying to let her sleep.

"We were outside the apartment building and she broke down. After a while she calmed down and then screamed. Then she collapsed. The doctor said while he was checking her out she slipped into a coma." I tell him not taking my eyes off Faith. "That was about an hour ago." I say after a few minutes.

"What was?" Kennedy asks.

"When she collapsed." she nods.

"That was when everybody lost their slayer powers." Andrew says.

"Do you think...?" I trail off leaving the question hanging.

"That all the slayer powers went back to her and overloaded her? Yeah I do." Braden says.

"Do you think she'll wake up?" Cordelia asks.

"I hope so." I say. And then we're silent. All left to our own thoughts, hopes, and prayers for her.

I know I said I'd give Faith a break but you know I got a thing for the drama.