Faith is Back

Chapter 3

"Dawn, wake up, you're gonna be late for school" Dawn heard her sister yell all the way from the kitchen. "It's already 7:30"

Dawn could tell that it was gonna be a tough day, with all that had happened last night and all, still she decided not to make such a big deal out of it… She got up slowly and went straight to the bathroom to wash her face. The water was cold but still she felt nothing, her eyes were swollen from crying so much the night before. After she had washed her face she headed back to her room and picked out an outfit to wear, she chose her white tennis shoes, a pair of blue jeans, a white long sleeved top and her blue jacket to go with it. It was cold this time of year and she hated it, she put some make up on and headed downstairs where Xander was waiting for her, him and Willow got there in the morning, Willow went to college with Buffy and Xander dropped Dawn off then was on his way to work. She arrived at school 15 minutes late, but she didn't care.

"I'm back" Xander stated happily after dropping Dawn off at school.

"Hey sweetie" Willow welcomed him with a kiss. "And bye, I'll see you after school"

"You ready to go Will?" Buffy asked grabbing her jacket.

"Yeah"

"Bye Xander!" And with that they headed out the door and as soon as Xander finished eating his breakfast he made his way out too.

The week went on and nothing in particular had happened, same old, same old. Buffy could tell something was wrong with Dawn, but if she wasn't gonna talk, she wasn't about to make her. Besides, Dawn had made it pretty clear she didn't wanna talk to her after that temper tantrum she threw at the Majick Box the night before when Buffy asked her about R.J. She figured they just had a fight or something, but she knew well enough how bad it hurt when she and Angel fought, since he was her first and all…

"Wow, that was the toughest test I have ever taken, I just don't get why teachers have to be so mean" Buffy told Willow as they both walked out the door of Profesor Walsh's class.

"I found that test to be pretty darn challenging too! I almost didn't understand the essay question at the end" Willow replied. Buffy gave her a playful look saying that she didn't understand it at all, and they both laughed.

"Hey B, where are you headed to?" Buffy heard a voice say from behind her. No, it can't be who I'm thinking, she's in a comma… somewhere in England and this is Sunnydale, and… Buffy turned around only to face her fear. Faith.

"Faith, what are you doing here, are you here for the weekend?" Willow asked while Buffy was speechless.

"No, I'm here to--" Faith started to say but was hastily interrupted by Buffy.

"Let me guess, you decided jail wasn't for you?"

"Well, that too, I'm gonna start going to college here also though. I'll start classes Monday" Faith said sarcastically

"Goody" Willow managed to say "Wait… Don't you have the whole cops going after you and if you enroll here they'll…" With that Willow realized that Faith wasn't being serious. Then again she never was. She was always the type that loved to do spontaneous stuff. Faith followed Buffy and Willow to the Magick Box and stuck around until it was time to close, keeping them entertained with all the stories about her time in England, how she had woken up from her comma a month ago but didn't decide to get back to Sunnydale until the weekend before but couldn't because she had prior engagements with other people. Buffy wasn't happy about her being back, but then again she hadn't been for a while so it didn't make that big of a difference to her. They got to Buffy's house and Buffy knew Faith didn't have a place to stay and she didn't wanna be a bitch since Faith was being pretty cool now. They arrived home and Buffy started telling Faith about how she was welcome to stay until she got a place of her own, but Faith was barely listening to her anymore. Her dark eyes had caught sight of the one person she wanted to see the most, Spike.

Spike was looking directly at Faith, and when her gaze met his, he bit his bottom lip they way he always did when he was embarrassed. He finally smiled. That smile. Those eyes. That face. "Miss me?" Faith mouthed at him, pouting her lips playfully. Her heart sped up as Spike slowly got up from the couch. He looked better than she remembered. If his heart could beat, it would beat much faster than hers.

"Hey you" Faith breathed when Spike got up to hug her. Tears came to her eyes and she pressed her face into Spike's chest. Now she was really home. He felt like picking her up and twirling her around kissing her again and again. He wanted to tell her how much he loved her, but he couldn't.

"What have you been up to?" He asked her.

"What have I been up to?" Faith repeated. She laughed. "If only you knew. I've been so, so bad!"

"20 bucks says she's been thoroughly fucked" Xander told Buffy and Willow in the kitchen. "Doesn't she look fucked? Maybe she had some sort of prostitution ring going on over there" He added laughing.

"She looks kinda spaced out too, maybe she's on drugs" Willow replied grabbing some vegetables from the refrigerator and helping Xander out with dinner. Buffy rolled her eyes and headed upstairs to check on Dawn.

"Buffy doesn't know, does she?" Faith asked Spike quietly. Buffy who? Spike thought. "No, if you haven't told her, she doesn't know" Spike said.

But Xander knew, which was almost worse. Spike had blurted out the information out at the Bronze about 2 weeks ago in a drunken fit of complete stupidity. They were both drunk and Xander had asked "So, Spike. What was your all time best fuck? Mine was Anya I'll tell you that. Too bad she moved away"

"Well, I did it with Faith" Spike bragged like an idiot. He knew Xander wasn't going to keep it a secret for long. Specially with Buffy and Willow being his best friends.\

"Shit. I missed you like crazy, Spike" Faith said bringing Spike back from his fantasy world. "I wish you could have seen the stuff I pulled. I was so bad."

"Dinner's Ready!" Willow called out from the kitchen as Buffy and Dawn headed to the kitchen from upstairs. Faith followed Buffy and took the seat next to her at the table. Spike took one last look at Faith and headed back to his crypt. Buffy didn't say a word during dinner, while Faith had all the attention, she was busy stuffing her mouth. Maybe Buffy does know, Faith thought. Why else would she be acting so weird?

"Whoa" Faith said, watching Buffy eat. "You must be hungry." Buffy nodded and shoveled a forkful of spaghetti into her mouth.

"I'm starving" She replied.