YELLOW BRICK ROAD
By: Lisette (lisette@chaletian.co.uk)
Rating: PG-13 so far - might change later on.
Distribution: Want, take, have. Just e-mail me first.
Summary: Faith is released from prison - but there's a catch.
Feedback: God, please.
Angel, Buffy, the whole lot, belong to JW, Mutant Enemy, and anyone else who officially owns them. I don't. Big surprise.
Okay, a few notes. Firstly, I haven't seen any of season 3 yet, though I know vaguely what happens. So, definitely after "Billy", and Fred and Gunn are getting with the happy, but "WITW" never happened.
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Chapter Ten - Into the Dragon's Lair
Once the mind reader issue had been resolved (see a mind reader = run), the meeting dispersed. Fred and Gunn disappeared together, while Angel went off with Cordy and Connor to get ready for the trip to Caritas, and Lorne skedaddled to get everything ready, murmuring something about socket covers and extra insurance. Eventually Faith and Wesley were the only ones left in the foyer, and she looked at him defensively.
"Now what?"
"Get your things together, and get back to the motel. If anyone asks you about where you were last night, don't lie - it's too easy to check, if they don't already know. Tell them you went to Angel, and he took you in. Then you killed him. They're lawyers, the institution of double-crossing is something they believe in implicitly."
"How do you know I won't?"
"Because I know you, Faith."
"Yeah, right, that's what you said when-I'll just go get my stuff." With that awkward reminder of the past, she ran up the stairs, leaving Wesley alone, looking up after her. Wondering if he'd done the right thing.
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"Ms Morgan, there's a young lady to see you." Lilah looked up from the case she had been perusing, then focused on the buzzer.
"I'm busy, Emma."
"Uh, she says it's urgent - a contractual matter." There was a note of panic in her PA's voice that made a slow smile cross Lilah's face.
"Show her in." The door flew open as she spoke, and Faith, in all her glory, stalked into the room. Dressed in leather trousers and a blood red top, make up sultry, expression dangerous, Faith was the living embodiment of the femme fatale - literally.
"Faith. Do sit down." Lilah showed no signs of perturbation as Faith failed to do anything of the sort. "I have to be honest, I wasn't sure I'd see you again."
"Yeah, well, I'm a woman of surprises."
"And our…terms of agreement."
"Fulfilled." Lilah's smile spread further.
"I am so very glad to hear it."