Oh wow! To be honest I'd completely forgotten to finish this. Thank you (to Anonymous) for reminding me. I'm had some very difficult personal circumstances to deal with so I've been away from human civilization on vacation for a while… okay a long time. Anyway here goes the last chapter…

The night was bitter cold, but Faith was too buzzed to feel it. With the help of her best friends Willow and Xander she had just slayed Kakistos, a big ol' nasty vamp with shriveled up cloves hoofs… or was that hooves?

Faith shrugged. Who cares? That's what Willow was for. She smiled affectionately at her friends. Sure, they didn't always agree with everything she did, they thought she swore too much and that her wardrobe only consisted of black, and she wasn't really into the things they did. Willow liked computers which Faith hated with a passion, and Xander kept macking on that bitch Cordelia. Hadn't he learned? Faith chuckled.

But she didn't care. They were great friends. They'd been hanging out since Faith was young and Faith knew they liked her. She appreciated them so much that years ago when her mom, Dianne, had told her what was going on – why they played with swords together more than games of snakes and ladders, Faith had told them the truth too and they had wanted to help.

Faith was in fact a potential slayer who had to be trained.

Together, the three friends had totaled a bunch of vamps and other nasties, even before Faith got her slayer powers. Dianne told her that the last two slayers lives, one of which had been a Jamaican girl, had been cut very short and Dianne would do anything to keep Faith from meeting the same premature fate.

Faith had come to think of Dianne as her mother, and just like Buffy had predicted Faith knew she was loved.

Buffy… Faith felt the same pang she always felt at the thought of her old friend.

Right after Buffy had left, Dianne and Faith had barely had a week before the Mayor came and repossessed their house, probably for some evil purpose. Faith shuddered.

She just knew that guy was up to no good. She'd had no idea if Buffy had been writing to her as any letters that may have come had never been passed on to her.

All except one. She had gone digging through the Mayors mailbox on a whim, as sort of a dare she had set herself.

She was so surprised to find a recent letter from Buffy which was full of personal information, and written as if Faith already knew most of the details and they had never lost contact. Faith figured that Buffy had never stopped writing to her, and that made her sad. Had the Mayor been keeping and reading her letters? Why? Faith thought. Why might Buffy be of interest to him?

She had been over the letter so many times it had worn thin. She'd extracted as much meaning from it as possible, reading into clues and references to what Buffy had been doing the past ten years. 99% of this particular letter had been about a fight with Joyce and a recent breakup. Normal but personal teenage stuff.

Faith felt like she was almost Buffy's idea of a diary, and she wasn't Buffy would talk to her the same way as in the letters if they were to meet again.

Faith would do anything to see her again.

Xander cut into her internal monologue. "A shiny nickel for your thoughts?" he asked her smiling.

"You ain't got a nickel Xand, you're flat broke!" Faith said back, rolling her eyes.

"Yeah." Willow teased. "I even had to pay for those Cheetos." She pointed to the packet he was demolishing.

"I need a job." Xander moaned. "One preferably with hot women and beer. Say, Faith, you drink excessively… how about gettin' me a fake ID and a job at that bar you like so much?"

"You're dreaming Xand." Faith grinned and slung an arm around his shoulders. "And I'm not an excessive drinker… I might be an excessive celebrater, but hey? What else are we supposed to do when we save the world?"

"That does happen… a lot." Willow agreed.

Xander started to rant about apocalypses, but hearing a noise behind them, Faith shushed him and glared dangerously when he rustled his almost empty packet of cheetos.

"We may have started the celebratin' too soon." Faith said under her breath and pulled Willow and Xander out of sight and crouched behind a bush. She whipped out a stake and tenses her body, ready for a fight. Anything that was creeping around this late was bound to be of the bad. The figure emerged into the clearing and without thinking (which was quite typical of Faith), she jumped out, stake raised and pinned the creature beneath her and was about to deliver the final blow until she noticed that in place of horns, the 'demon' had long blonde hair and was staring at Faith with big shocked eyes.

"Bu…Buffy?" Faith stammered. "…B? Is that really you?" She asked too stunned to move.

Buffy didn't speak for a moment, she just nodded her head. Faith noticed a vaguely familiar cross necklace hanging around her neck, and for a moment felt like she was seven years old again.

Coming back to reality, she jumped off Buffy quickly and extended her hand and helped the blonde up.

"I'm so sorry…B…thought you were something nasty coming at me… not many people walk alone at night in Sunnydale." She said dumbly.

"But you do…" Buffy said. "You were never one for safety."

"Guess not." Faith chuckled awkwardly, realizing she better come up with some explanation. "Oh…I was just…." Faith scrambled for something plausible.

"…slaying some vampires?" Buffy finished with a wicked grin.

"Okay, you caught me. Like old times, right?" Faith said referring back to their childhood. "When you left, I kept up the hunt, only I got these wicked powers now." She admitted. "I'm called the 'slayer."

"The slayer?" Buffy asked, openmouthed.

"The one and only." Faith said proudly.

"SHUT. UP!" Buffy bellowed in full valley-girl mode.

Faith glared at her, not getting what she meant.

"I'm the slayer too. I was the one and only, until I kind of died and came back to life." Buffy explained. "Then I managed to stay alive for a while, but as a result of my death another slayer was called."

Faith just smiled at her. "Always knew you were cool, B."

"Thanks Faith." She smiled back.

"So we're the chosen two huh? What are the odds." Faith stepped closer to her. "So how long you in town?"

"For good, actually. Mom divorced Dad and Dawnie likes this place better than LA."

Faith grinned. "You didn't mention any of this in your letter."

"YOU GOT MY LETTERS AND YOU DIDN'T WRITE BACK?!" Buffy advanced on Faith menacingly.

"Hey, hey." Faith put her hands up in surrender. "One letter, singular. Just got it." Faith fished it out of her pocket. "We moved years ago, but I just happened to feel like stealing mail from my old place just recently."

Buffy calmed down. "Sorry" she said. "I'm not usually a fan of stealing but in this case I'm all for it." She wondered briefly about what happened to the rest of her letters and who had kept them without passing them on.

Faith suddenly remembered her friends. "Oh… hey, you remember Willow and Xander?" she gestured to her friends who came out of their respectable hiding places and each said hello.

"Of course, I do. That sure was a great summer." Buffy said wistfully.

"You're telling me." Faith grinned. "Even though you gave me a girly makeover."

"I've missed you." Buffy admitted. "Nothing's been the same for me since I left this place."

"So I read." Faith said patting the letter in her pocket.

Buffy looked sad suddenly, so Faith leaned forward and whispered in her ear. "I can't say this in front of Willow and Xander, but you're still the best friend I've ever had, Tigerlily."

Hearing Faith's childhood nickname for her was all it took for Buffy. She closed the distance between herself and her best friend and put her arms around her neck, happy to be reunited.

It look Faith a moment, but she soon mirrored Buffy's actions.

"Another summer starts tomorrow, B. Promise you won't up and leave me and the end of it this time?" Faith joked.

"Count on it." Buffy smiled, not willing to break her hold on Faith.

Xander looked them over. "With the two chosen two in town, vamps won't stand a chance now."

Buffy and Faith just ignored him. To them, the chosen two was about more than just slaying vampires. It was about the time they had spent together that had changed everything and had taught Faith trust and love, and Buffy imagination and strength.

But, most importantly, it had created an unbreakable friendship that both girls would treasure forever.

The End

Thanks everyone for taking this journey with me. I've enjoyed writing this so much that I can't end it yet… I'd love to (find time to) do a whole sequel. If it ever hit the 100 review mark I'd definately have to do -something-. :P. Scrawn suggested I should do a rewrite of stuff from the series with this story as the background which sounds like an awesome idea to me. Some familiar villains could definitely stir up trouble for the Chosen 2 :). But at the very least at some point I'll do some more one-shots, explaining parts of this story I left vague or other slayer kid stuff just for fun. Or even conversations between them as adults.

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