Chapter 4
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After my long shower I got some jeans and t-shirts out of my closet and went to the kitchen to make a late breakfast, looking at the clock I see that it's one clock.
'If been hitting the punching bag for six hours and still feel angry, those damn Watchers are going to wish they've never met me I'm going to make them pay.'
Start concentrating on making breakfast for both of us, the Mayor kept his word and the kitchen is fully stocked, everything I need is there.
Dawn walks into the kitchen. And sits herself down and starts to watch me.
"So Faith what got you so upset you were breaking down the gym and punching bag?" I look at her and think about what I am going to tell her.
"Some midget woke me up at six in the morning, had a message and package from the Mayor for me. I took it, in the package was a video and played it, afterwards I went to the gym and started to punching the bag till you threw the towel at my head, the cassette's still in the video, if you want you could watch it. The short story is the Watcher kept the money, house and my family name from me deliberate and I'm going to kill those bastards for that."
The way Faith said that last part gave me the chills I wouldn't want to be a watcher at the moment and run into Faith. So I decide to leave Faith alone for now and go take a look at the tape that got Faith so worked up about.
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Put the food I prepared on the table and call Dawn.
"Food is ready come and get it." Dawn sits herself at the table and looks at me..
"So you believe what the Mayor told you?" Without any hesitation I answer.
"Yes, he wouldn't lie to me and the watchers he caught they supported that they kept the house, money and my family from me, but not who was behind them. It would be easy for me to find out that he lied."
"Oke" not knowing what else to say to Faith, so we both keep silence for the rest of the time and eat the late breakfast Faith made.
*****
After we've finished eating and cleaned up, Dawn went to her room to gather the stuff she would take with her, in the end she only took her jacket and left the rest in her room.
On our way to Dawns house, we came across a store and I ask Dawn to wait for me for a moment as I enter the store.
A couple of streets from our destiny I stop, as close as I can without the risk of some of the SG see me.
"The rest of the way you have to walk by yourself, I'll watch you till you enter the house to make sure you arrive safe and sound make sure that no one sees me."
Get something from my jacket and hand it Dawn.
"It's yours so you can come when ever you want, make sure none of the SG or Buffy see or finds it." Dawn takes it.
"You made a second key, when you made me wait for you, my own personal key to the house." Dawn screams and jumps at me and kissing me.
Calms down a little holding her key and gets a serious look on her face.
"Are you going to be OK?" referring to the message of the Mayor and the actions of the watchers.
"I'm still mad at them and I'm going to get even with the Council, they're going to wish they never had interfered." The hate I feel towards the watcher at the moment can't be put into words, if I ran into any watchers at this time and place they would be dead."
And Dawn walks toward the house, I follow her with my eyes till she reaches the door, Dawn looks back and waves one last time and enters the house. Looking at the closed door for a moment and leave for home.
*****
The pre Kakistos and Sunnydale Faith starts to emerge again, every movement precise, powerful with no unnecessary movement. For the last two weeks she's been going through the same strict training regime she impost on herself. Dawn hasn't visited in that time, Buffy has her grounded for two weeks and doesn't let Dawn out of her sight for even a second and keeps someone with her at all times.
Poor kid is going bonkers being cooped up all the time and never having a moment for herself.
During my time in jail there wasn't much to do than workout, eat and sleep. Because I was in jail I couldn't go full out and the food was just barely enough to keep my body working, barely. I was bored out of my scull, and the only way I knew to alleviate was working out till exhaustion and falling asleep afterwards.
So starting the morning with a big big breakfast and 60 mile run out of town, making sure not to run into any of the SG or other people, I make my way to the desert just outside of SD before going full out by running around 30 mile through the desert before running the same distant back. Most the time it took me around 2 hours, after all the time not be able to go full out it was exhilarating to cut loose.
Adding weights to each morning run, in two weeks I added eighty pounds off weights.
After the run I take a quick shower and head to the gym, it took me a couple of days but I got myself into the swimming pool and got myself to stay in the pool for three hours. Got out and clean up and go to get a bite to eat and hit the weights next, go at them for a couple of hours alternating between the different machines.
Getting something to eat from the small kitchen and start the most difficult part of getting back in shape. Em taught me all kinds of fighting styles, but after Kakisto I lost it and forgot most of her teaching or simply did not use them anymore and went to brute force.
Now I had to relearn them and Em even provide for that occasion, it took some time go through them and get the right once, but the study provided me with all the books with the fighting styles Em taught me. Refreshing my memory of her teachings, and accelerating the way to get my old skills back and improve them.
This part of the training regime I put myself through brings the most of my memories about Em to the surface, all the cool and fun things we did, her training me and guiding me. Letting my mind go back in time and play out the Ems teachings in my mind, past and present mingle and can almost feel myself back to the early morning training sessions with Em.
Now after two weeks of getting back in shape it's time for my first patrol and see how I'll do against a vamp.
*****
It's around midday, a time none of the scoobs would be walking around the graveyards or be in this part of town. Faiths walking between tombs and graves, looking through walls searching for vamps holed up there for the day waiting for nightfall to come out.
The few tombs I ran across till now held only one, two or no vamps, they were dust before they even knew they were staked, no challenge at all. Searching those tombs was more fun, like in Boston, I found a lot of goodies that vamps hid in all kind of secret compartments, they're real packrats.
Locating their secrets hiding places in the tombs, searching for the vamps secret stash, was fun and not real difficult. Getting to open them was another thing, it took me most times more time to open them than locating and staking the vamps.
Most contained trash, stuff of no value, but some times there would be some real gems between the rubble. Some bundles of money most of the time there is some, gold jewels, diamonds and other stones, precious books, scrolls to find are very few, blood plasma bags and drugs are common but have no value for me so I destroy them or leave them behind, the rest I took with me. For now I only gathered some money, some pieces of jewellery, some knives, a shot gun and put all of them in my bag with the other items I took with me on my first patrol.
The last place for today I wanted to take a look at for today was the biggest tomb of all, of the ones I ran into on my way through the graveyard. Slowly advancing the tomb making sure to make no noise that could alert any potential vamps that are holed up in there. Looking through walls of the crypt, I start to smile.
"Finally a challenge", there are around fifteen vamps holed up, that I can see, "This is going to be fun.".
Putting down the bag I had with me, starting to take out ten swoosh balls filed with holly water, winding them up for use.
I ran into them on one of my visits to the mall, seeing them in a window of a toy store, on a TV was shown how they were used and I came up with the idea to use them against vamps. Filling them up with water and winding them up and then throwing them to each other as fast as possible before the mechanism runs down and releases the water in a big wave and soaking the person holding it. Seeing that I knew I had to use it on a vamp, always liked to find or develop new ways to take out vamps with a minimum of danger to myself, lets see if this will work.
Looking in the tomb, all vamps where asleep for the moment, excellent opportunity for an attack, they're not expecting an attack in brought daylight and being such a big group they feel save from attacks.
Kicking the door to the Tomb open, three vamps get caught in the light of the sun that shines through the door and turn to dust. Taking a nap that close to the entrance was dumb.
"Twelve to go", the screaming wakes every remaining vamp, before they turned to dust I spread the ten swoosh balls through the crypt. Three seconds later the balls release their cargo and soak the vamps in holly water and screaming starts again. Two seconds later, everything is calm again and seven vamps are dust.
"And then there where only five", they last five standing had all to some degree burns from my attack with holly water. The big leader of the pack looks at me with murder in his yellow eyes.
"Who the hell are you?" he screams at me, dropping his vamp face, I just stand there smiling at him and walk out of the light into the crypt, still looking at them and smiling, not answering his question and keeping my mouth shut. It annoys the hell out of them when they don't know who's dusting them, gets them really worked up.
Losing his patient at me standing there doing nothing but smiling and not saying a word, he screams at his remaining force to attack me all at once.
"Get her!"
Coming at me all at once screaming that they'll feast on my blood, storming head on. Taking a stake in both of my hands I also launch myself at the four, not waiting for them to reach me. Running both stakes right through their hearts and before both of them can turn to dust, I run the stakes through the hearts of the two after them.
"Four in one, that was simple to easy, couldn't find any better henchmen, could you?" I ask the last vamp standing, no answer forthcoming
"And that leaves One."
"That's no possible, who the hell are you and what do you want?" the vamp screams at me again, all the while looking for a way out.
Taking my sword out of the harnas, grab the handle of the sword behind my shoulder and take it out of its sheath. Bringing it in front of me and letting it sing a song of death, in two clean moves, I separate both his arms from the rest of his body, falling to ground. Disarming him literally, following it with a fast sweep to his neck.
"Slayer" I whisper to him just before I take his head, in one clean cut.
Looking around at the dust that the vamps left, this really was not very challenging. But I got to use my new toys to dust vamps and they worked.
Lets see what kind of goodies they have hidden, there has to something with such a large group in one place. Slowly start to take a better look around.
"I fucking can't believe it!" walking to the back end of the crypt, opening the hidden access door, after a couple of tries I succeed and step into the room. Standing at the centre of the room I take a look around, to my right every conceivable type of weapons are displayed, swords, knives, guns, rifles etc. To my left a rows of bundles of cash, at least a couple of million of dollars and at the end all kind of gold, jewels, books and other stuff as blood bags and drugs.
But the one thing that really caught my eye and interest was right in front of me, the most beautiful sight a Harley.
"She's mine now" I whisper and slowly walk over to the bike. Let my fingers trail over it, shame to leave such a beautiful peace of machinery in the hands of vamps and in this damp crypt. You're definitely going with me, examining the bike from every site, she's simply beautiful, painted midnight blue.
Filling the saddlebags with all the money they can hold and filling my duffel bag with gold, jewel and some wicked cool looking blades, handheld axes and swing it on my back.
Taking a look around to see how much is left and find out how many times I will have to come back to empty it completely.
"I'll need to make at least three more visits to the crypt to get everything out and back to the house."
Carefully manoeuvring my newly acquired Harley out of the crypt, making sure no one is around to see me leave, I close of the secret chamber and roll the bike to the exit of the cemetery, hop on her and kick-start the motor and roar down the street. Open the throttle full and let the wind blow through my hair, this is the only way to travel.
Make three more visits to the crypt on foot to not attract any attention and getting back just before sunset. The living room table is covered in money, gold, jewels and other valuables. A couple of dozen ancient looking books are strewn between the furniture, emptying the backpack and the two saddlebags
Guns and other weapons I already stashed in the weapons room in the basement to inspect and clean them latter.
"One last visit and I'll have emptied the chamber", the last of the money a couple of hundredth grand, some books and a couple of knives should easily fit in my back-pack, but first to eat something.
After eating my two fifteen pound steaks, I start to prepare myself for my first time out of the house at night, preparing for the eventuality of having a run in with one of Nocturnal Residence or Buffy and her Scooby gang.
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*****
After my long shower I got some jeans and t-shirts out of my closet and went to the kitchen to make a late breakfast, looking at the clock I see that it's one clock.
'If been hitting the punching bag for six hours and still feel angry, those damn Watchers are going to wish they've never met me I'm going to make them pay.'
Start concentrating on making breakfast for both of us, the Mayor kept his word and the kitchen is fully stocked, everything I need is there.
Dawn walks into the kitchen. And sits herself down and starts to watch me.
"So Faith what got you so upset you were breaking down the gym and punching bag?" I look at her and think about what I am going to tell her.
"Some midget woke me up at six in the morning, had a message and package from the Mayor for me. I took it, in the package was a video and played it, afterwards I went to the gym and started to punching the bag till you threw the towel at my head, the cassette's still in the video, if you want you could watch it. The short story is the Watcher kept the money, house and my family name from me deliberate and I'm going to kill those bastards for that."
The way Faith said that last part gave me the chills I wouldn't want to be a watcher at the moment and run into Faith. So I decide to leave Faith alone for now and go take a look at the tape that got Faith so worked up about.
*****
Put the food I prepared on the table and call Dawn.
"Food is ready come and get it." Dawn sits herself at the table and looks at me..
"So you believe what the Mayor told you?" Without any hesitation I answer.
"Yes, he wouldn't lie to me and the watchers he caught they supported that they kept the house, money and my family from me, but not who was behind them. It would be easy for me to find out that he lied."
"Oke" not knowing what else to say to Faith, so we both keep silence for the rest of the time and eat the late breakfast Faith made.
*****
After we've finished eating and cleaned up, Dawn went to her room to gather the stuff she would take with her, in the end she only took her jacket and left the rest in her room.
On our way to Dawns house, we came across a store and I ask Dawn to wait for me for a moment as I enter the store.
A couple of streets from our destiny I stop, as close as I can without the risk of some of the SG see me.
"The rest of the way you have to walk by yourself, I'll watch you till you enter the house to make sure you arrive safe and sound make sure that no one sees me."
Get something from my jacket and hand it Dawn.
"It's yours so you can come when ever you want, make sure none of the SG or Buffy see or finds it." Dawn takes it.
"You made a second key, when you made me wait for you, my own personal key to the house." Dawn screams and jumps at me and kissing me.
Calms down a little holding her key and gets a serious look on her face.
"Are you going to be OK?" referring to the message of the Mayor and the actions of the watchers.
"I'm still mad at them and I'm going to get even with the Council, they're going to wish they never had interfered." The hate I feel towards the watcher at the moment can't be put into words, if I ran into any watchers at this time and place they would be dead."
And Dawn walks toward the house, I follow her with my eyes till she reaches the door, Dawn looks back and waves one last time and enters the house. Looking at the closed door for a moment and leave for home.
*****
The pre Kakistos and Sunnydale Faith starts to emerge again, every movement precise, powerful with no unnecessary movement. For the last two weeks she's been going through the same strict training regime she impost on herself. Dawn hasn't visited in that time, Buffy has her grounded for two weeks and doesn't let Dawn out of her sight for even a second and keeps someone with her at all times.
Poor kid is going bonkers being cooped up all the time and never having a moment for herself.
During my time in jail there wasn't much to do than workout, eat and sleep. Because I was in jail I couldn't go full out and the food was just barely enough to keep my body working, barely. I was bored out of my scull, and the only way I knew to alleviate was working out till exhaustion and falling asleep afterwards.
So starting the morning with a big big breakfast and 60 mile run out of town, making sure not to run into any of the SG or other people, I make my way to the desert just outside of SD before going full out by running around 30 mile through the desert before running the same distant back. Most the time it took me around 2 hours, after all the time not be able to go full out it was exhilarating to cut loose.
Adding weights to each morning run, in two weeks I added eighty pounds off weights.
After the run I take a quick shower and head to the gym, it took me a couple of days but I got myself into the swimming pool and got myself to stay in the pool for three hours. Got out and clean up and go to get a bite to eat and hit the weights next, go at them for a couple of hours alternating between the different machines.
Getting something to eat from the small kitchen and start the most difficult part of getting back in shape. Em taught me all kinds of fighting styles, but after Kakisto I lost it and forgot most of her teaching or simply did not use them anymore and went to brute force.
Now I had to relearn them and Em even provide for that occasion, it took some time go through them and get the right once, but the study provided me with all the books with the fighting styles Em taught me. Refreshing my memory of her teachings, and accelerating the way to get my old skills back and improve them.
This part of the training regime I put myself through brings the most of my memories about Em to the surface, all the cool and fun things we did, her training me and guiding me. Letting my mind go back in time and play out the Ems teachings in my mind, past and present mingle and can almost feel myself back to the early morning training sessions with Em.
Now after two weeks of getting back in shape it's time for my first patrol and see how I'll do against a vamp.
*****
It's around midday, a time none of the scoobs would be walking around the graveyards or be in this part of town. Faiths walking between tombs and graves, looking through walls searching for vamps holed up there for the day waiting for nightfall to come out.
The few tombs I ran across till now held only one, two or no vamps, they were dust before they even knew they were staked, no challenge at all. Searching those tombs was more fun, like in Boston, I found a lot of goodies that vamps hid in all kind of secret compartments, they're real packrats.
Locating their secrets hiding places in the tombs, searching for the vamps secret stash, was fun and not real difficult. Getting to open them was another thing, it took me most times more time to open them than locating and staking the vamps.
Most contained trash, stuff of no value, but some times there would be some real gems between the rubble. Some bundles of money most of the time there is some, gold jewels, diamonds and other stones, precious books, scrolls to find are very few, blood plasma bags and drugs are common but have no value for me so I destroy them or leave them behind, the rest I took with me. For now I only gathered some money, some pieces of jewellery, some knives, a shot gun and put all of them in my bag with the other items I took with me on my first patrol.
The last place for today I wanted to take a look at for today was the biggest tomb of all, of the ones I ran into on my way through the graveyard. Slowly advancing the tomb making sure to make no noise that could alert any potential vamps that are holed up in there. Looking through walls of the crypt, I start to smile.
"Finally a challenge", there are around fifteen vamps holed up, that I can see, "This is going to be fun.".
Putting down the bag I had with me, starting to take out ten swoosh balls filed with holly water, winding them up for use.
I ran into them on one of my visits to the mall, seeing them in a window of a toy store, on a TV was shown how they were used and I came up with the idea to use them against vamps. Filling them up with water and winding them up and then throwing them to each other as fast as possible before the mechanism runs down and releases the water in a big wave and soaking the person holding it. Seeing that I knew I had to use it on a vamp, always liked to find or develop new ways to take out vamps with a minimum of danger to myself, lets see if this will work.
Looking in the tomb, all vamps where asleep for the moment, excellent opportunity for an attack, they're not expecting an attack in brought daylight and being such a big group they feel save from attacks.
Kicking the door to the Tomb open, three vamps get caught in the light of the sun that shines through the door and turn to dust. Taking a nap that close to the entrance was dumb.
"Twelve to go", the screaming wakes every remaining vamp, before they turned to dust I spread the ten swoosh balls through the crypt. Three seconds later the balls release their cargo and soak the vamps in holly water and screaming starts again. Two seconds later, everything is calm again and seven vamps are dust.
"And then there where only five", they last five standing had all to some degree burns from my attack with holly water. The big leader of the pack looks at me with murder in his yellow eyes.
"Who the hell are you?" he screams at me, dropping his vamp face, I just stand there smiling at him and walk out of the light into the crypt, still looking at them and smiling, not answering his question and keeping my mouth shut. It annoys the hell out of them when they don't know who's dusting them, gets them really worked up.
Losing his patient at me standing there doing nothing but smiling and not saying a word, he screams at his remaining force to attack me all at once.
"Get her!"
Coming at me all at once screaming that they'll feast on my blood, storming head on. Taking a stake in both of my hands I also launch myself at the four, not waiting for them to reach me. Running both stakes right through their hearts and before both of them can turn to dust, I run the stakes through the hearts of the two after them.
"Four in one, that was simple to easy, couldn't find any better henchmen, could you?" I ask the last vamp standing, no answer forthcoming
"And that leaves One."
"That's no possible, who the hell are you and what do you want?" the vamp screams at me again, all the while looking for a way out.
Taking my sword out of the harnas, grab the handle of the sword behind my shoulder and take it out of its sheath. Bringing it in front of me and letting it sing a song of death, in two clean moves, I separate both his arms from the rest of his body, falling to ground. Disarming him literally, following it with a fast sweep to his neck.
"Slayer" I whisper to him just before I take his head, in one clean cut.
Looking around at the dust that the vamps left, this really was not very challenging. But I got to use my new toys to dust vamps and they worked.
Lets see what kind of goodies they have hidden, there has to something with such a large group in one place. Slowly start to take a better look around.
"I fucking can't believe it!" walking to the back end of the crypt, opening the hidden access door, after a couple of tries I succeed and step into the room. Standing at the centre of the room I take a look around, to my right every conceivable type of weapons are displayed, swords, knives, guns, rifles etc. To my left a rows of bundles of cash, at least a couple of million of dollars and at the end all kind of gold, jewels, books and other stuff as blood bags and drugs.
But the one thing that really caught my eye and interest was right in front of me, the most beautiful sight a Harley.
"She's mine now" I whisper and slowly walk over to the bike. Let my fingers trail over it, shame to leave such a beautiful peace of machinery in the hands of vamps and in this damp crypt. You're definitely going with me, examining the bike from every site, she's simply beautiful, painted midnight blue.
Filling the saddlebags with all the money they can hold and filling my duffel bag with gold, jewel and some wicked cool looking blades, handheld axes and swing it on my back.
Taking a look around to see how much is left and find out how many times I will have to come back to empty it completely.
"I'll need to make at least three more visits to the crypt to get everything out and back to the house."
Carefully manoeuvring my newly acquired Harley out of the crypt, making sure no one is around to see me leave, I close of the secret chamber and roll the bike to the exit of the cemetery, hop on her and kick-start the motor and roar down the street. Open the throttle full and let the wind blow through my hair, this is the only way to travel.
Make three more visits to the crypt on foot to not attract any attention and getting back just before sunset. The living room table is covered in money, gold, jewels and other valuables. A couple of dozen ancient looking books are strewn between the furniture, emptying the backpack and the two saddlebags
Guns and other weapons I already stashed in the weapons room in the basement to inspect and clean them latter.
"One last visit and I'll have emptied the chamber", the last of the money a couple of hundredth grand, some books and a couple of knives should easily fit in my back-pack, but first to eat something.
After eating my two fifteen pound steaks, I start to prepare myself for my first time out of the house at night, preparing for the eventuality of having a run in with one of Nocturnal Residence or Buffy and her Scooby gang.
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