Author's note: This is just a quick idea. If I get enough good
response, I'll continue it and turn it into a full story... so please r
& r!!! Oh, yeah, this show doesn't belong to me, yadda yadda yadda,
all that good disclaimer stuff... Hope you like it!
Rupert Giles glanced around him tentatively. The smell of overall filth
assaulted his nostrils, although his eyes seemed to tell a different story.
By all appearances, the prison was sterile, all white and metal, but a
noxious mixture of unidentifiable scents wafted from the direction of the
cells.
Death, disease, evil, Giles thought with a sniff. What a place.
"Giles?" an incredulous voice asked.
Giles looked towards the voice. Separated from him by heavy glass,
the brunette girl stared at him in disbelief, questioning him with her
eyes.
"Hello, Faith," he smiled wearily.
"What are you doing here?" she asked, surprise still evident
on her face.
The British man pulled off his glasses with a sigh, wiping them
on his shirt. "I'm afraid I have some bad news." he said slowly.
"About Buffy."
Faith waited several seconds, then cut in impatiently. "Yeah?
What about her?"
Carefully setting his glasses back on his nose, Giles cleared
his throat. "She's, uh," he took a deep breath. "She's dead."
Faith sat for several moments in silence, shocked to the point
of not noticing Giles was fighting back tears. Although she herself had
tried to kill her fellow slayer several times, she had always known, deep
down, she wouldn't be able to do it if it came down to it. And Angel had
honestly shown her the light- turning herself in was a decision she had
not yet regretted, although prison life was not something she really loved.
She was really trying to change, and it was working.
"God," she breathed finally. "Giles, I am so sorry."
"Me, too," he managed, blowing his nose on a cotton handkerchief.
"But that's not the only reason I came. As you know," he took a deep breath
before continuing, "when Buffy was temporarily killed, Kendra was activated
as slayer, and she was succeded by you."
"Right," Faith nodded.
"Well, since Buffy has now... passed on, you are the only remaining
slayer."
"You mean a new slayer wasn't activated?"
"No, you see, one already was- Kendra. You are really the official
slayer, Faith."
"And I'm in jail."
"Exactly," Giles replied. "Which is why the Watcher's Council
wants you dead."