This are my first three chapters I wrote, my first version. You can see the
difference of the new chapters that got Beta read. That are posted after
it.
Faith's Traveling North, A Fresh Start.
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Title: Faith's Traveling North, A Fresh Start.
Author: Darklight
Rating:
Pairing: Faith/Phoebe eventual my goal, for now all Faith
Email: dmiovski@zonnet.nl
Content: Crossover
Summary: Faith gets released from prison and leaves LA and runs into the Charmed Ones. I rewrote the starting piece of a RPG, this takes place before "Bosses Gift to Faith".
Spoilers:
Disclaimer: The characters in the Angelverse & Buffyverse & Charmedverse were created by Joss Whedon & David Greenwalt & Spelling. No infringement is intended, no profit to be made. The story idea belongs to me.
Distribution: www.fanfiction.net, otherwise inform me where my fic goes so I can look it up.
Notes: Not really a writer, but I have some idea's about things I would like to happen on the show, what could have happened and no one wanted to take such detailed challenges I made out of the idea's, so I started to write them myself. Rewrote the Faith part of a RPG "abc" starting piece by Kit that I never got the chance to post before the group simple disappeared. Had prepared some written pieces to use, and liked what I had written and possible directions I came up to move Faith in the game so I made it into my own Fic.
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**Chapter 1**
Sitting in her cell, having nothing to do made Faith being bored out of her skull (as usual). There was absolutely nothing to do as to sitting there and watching the walls and waiting to be let out the cell.
Faith was quick learner and she learned early on in her stay that as much fun as fighting and kicking the crap out of the other inmates was, it wasn't worth the time she got for it in solitary.
It was bad enough to be locked up in prison and in her cell all day, but her time in solitary made her see that she really hated being confined into small spaces for long periods of time without the possibility to get out even for short periods.
But the time she spend there did put her in touch with her senses, she could now make a three D picture in her mind, from her surrounding and navigate through it blindfolded. Like that Daredevil guy in those comic books she read.
Moreover, being bored out of her skull, having nothing else to do she started to train her newfound ability too such a degree she was now able to locate any inmate or guard within the prison. And also know what guard or inmate it was.
In one glance, Faith now has the ability to knows if they are a danger to her, if they are human, demon or something else and how strong they are. It only took her 6 months of training 24/7, awake and asleep, to attain this degree of skill. She didn't have anything else to do helped a lot.
Faith made a real reputation for herself and most inmates preferred to stay away from her. Not that anyone sane messed with her anyways, not after she put a few would be 'big men' into the infirmary. None of them ended up death, although the state they were in, after Faith got through with them, they wished they were death.
That little skirmish put her in solitary for a couple of weeks.
So from that last fight Faith started to behave herself, so far one could say Faith behaved.
Faith had established a certain regime she followed, to work out on an daily base. Her only means to relive herself a little of the stress, boredom and tension she experienced by being cooped up 24/7 in prison.
Channelling all that excess energy into working out gave her a lot of relieve from the mind numbing day to day prison live. Every day was the same no deviation of any kind, waking up, eating, working, sleeping and the next day start over at the beginning. And the occasional riot, but those were rare and few in-between.
Faith could do nothing else than bide her time till she would be finally be released and leave prison once and for all.
At firs Faith really enjoyed Angels visits thinking she finally had someone who cared about her. Thinking she could finally trust someone, then from one moment to another he stopped coming, no explanation or anything.
For weeks I thought something had happened he simply couldn't contact me or come. Even after he missed his second visit I made excuse why he didn't come, simply didn't want to give up on the idea that there was someone out there that cared about what happened to me.
I really missed Angel's weekly visits they broke up my daily routine and I welcomed anything that brought me out of my scheduled prison live.
But after him missing his visit for 6 months and no sign from him, his credit and brownie points he made with Faith evaporated as snow in the sun.
For that reason, Faith was rather surprised when the guard showed up and informed her that she had a visitor waiting for her.
Not that she was complaining but after 24 weeks of silence, anything to relieve the tedium was welcomed. And Angel definitely did that and he could explain to her where he was for the last 6 months.
So Faith followed the guard to the visitor room, expecting to see Angel, she already had prepared her speech for Angel.
So she was even more surprised to see Lilah, the lawyer bitch from Wolfram & Hart, the only visits she had where from Angel seeing her stunned her for a moment.
No Angel to be seen anywhere instead the bitch who hired her to kill Angel when she first arrived in LA, was waiting for her.
Seeing who my visit was I almost turned around to leave the visitor room again the same moment I entered. But I stopped myself, anything to stop the boredom and maybe she could get some answers out of her.
And if she hadn't hired me to kill Angel, he wouldn't have been able to reach me and save me from my darkness and madness I was consumed by.
So maybe I owed the woman something even if she was the reason with that other guy that got me in prison in the first time. You can't have everything, I shrug as I make my way to the table and sit down opposite of her.
At least I could give her the courtesy of listening to her, I could always smash her face in, I look at Lilah as she smiled.
"Hello Faith. Enjoying prison live?" she purred.
Faith gritted her teeth hearing her speak those words and had to choke down the desire to throttle the lawyer. How close Lilah came to end up death for uttering those five words at that moment she'll never know, now I understood all the remarks the Bossman made about lawyers being minor demons. Real pest to have to deal with, but necessary pests.
"What do you want?" I growl at her she was already stretching the limits of my civility and patient. The only thing keeping me from hitting her was me ending up in solitary again and she simple wasn't worth it.
Lilah just kept smiling that perfect smile of hers, the one that made Faith *really* want to punch it in, to erase it for once and all.
"Don't worry Faith dear. All your problems as off now, well, the ones here, are over." She held up a piece of paper pushing it toward me.
"The warden is processing your paperwork as we speak. You're a free woman Faith."
I was prepared for anything she could throw at me, tell me but not that.
Sure enough, one of the guards the same one that escorted me here, clearly not really happy, walked in and hooked a thumb over my shoulder.
"You're out of here Wilkins. Seems like there was some kind of misunderstanding or something like that. The judge has dropped all charges against you. Now get out of here before I throw you in solitary." He told me grinding his teeth all the while.
Not knowing what to think of it I glanced from the guard to Lilah's beaming face back and fort.
Lilah extracts a handful of papers from her briefcase and hands them to me. Accepting them and not knowing what to do with them I simply hold on to them, while Lilah continues her speech.
"We where instructed by the former Mayor of Sunnydale, a very good client of W&H, to take care of any and all problems regarding a Faith Aisling Wilkins, that's you, that would arise to be taken care by us. Further we were instructed to hand over those papers to you and a Box you'll get when you leave. I think it would be best for everybody involved if you left LA as soon as possible and never came back. Here's some money to get you on your way, buy yourself some new clothes and to eat. Do try to dress like something other than trailer trash." Lilah snapped her briefcase closed and left the room, not deeming Faith worth another look.
Faith just looked at the papers in her one hand, the money in the other and Lilah leaving. The guard already being bored, shrugged.
What to do next?
There was nothing really keeping her here, Angel hadn't contacted her for months, either by phone, visiting or letters and he hadn't reacted to any of her letters.
Faith didn't have anything personal in her cell, just the things she arrived in.
So with nothing really keeping Faith here anymore, she followed the guard to the reception area to pick up her box, the one Lilah told her about would be waiting on her.
"Lets find out what the box is Lilah talked about." Faith murmurs walking ahead of the guard.
Arriving at their destinations Faith almost started to laugh, seeing how the guards started turning red in their attempt to lift the backpack off the ground.
The backpack that contained the mysterious box from the Bossman, didn't want to be moved or lifted of the ground.
Standing there and looking at it for a couple of minutes, at the four guards futile attempt to lift the thing and failing miserable, it wouldn't budge.
It took all my strength to keep myself from bursting into laughing. Seeing them making a spectacle out of themselves made my day, struggling to get it of the ground and not succeeding. Attracting more and more attention and more and more guards came to their rescue, help them with it. But nothing worked.
Having had quite enough of the show that was performed in front of her Faith asked in her sweetest voice "Would you mind if I pick it up? So I can finally leave.", the guards looking at her and started smiling, thinking she'll never be able to lift the damn thing they let her try.
Faith leans over the counter, takes the backpack in her right hand, and lifts it with ease over the counter. Opening it to take a look at what's in it, seeing the box, she puts the papers she got from Lilah, not bothering to read them, in the backpack with the box.
The guards' are looking at her like seeing Faith for real for the first time. Seeing her lift the backpack with such easy where they all failed to even move it at all, realizing for the first time what power and strength's contained within her frame, disbelieve and fear can be seen in the guards eyes.
Getting all the necessary papers ready Faith was out of there in less than an hour later. The fastest release in years, the guards really wanted Faith gone and after having witnessed her strength they knew that for the same money she could have used it on them and they would have been death.
So Faith found herself standing outside and in front of the prison gates. Looking and taking in her surrounding, her first moments out of jail.
"So what am I going to do now?" Faith asks herself in a quite voice not having an easy answer for the moment.
Faith goes to the first thing of business now that she's free, is to get food. Faith starts walking down the road toward a fast food joint she spotted, it's located about a mile or four down the road.
Faith walks into the fast food joint and looks around for an empty place and sits down in a boot, a waitress comes and takes her order.
"So honey what will it be", and Faith places her order.
"Give me 10 quarter pound burgers with everything, 10 portions fries and 3 cola's big", the waitress gives her strange look but takes the order and leaves.
Within 15 minutes the food is ready and served, Faith starts to eat, the first 6 burgers, 6 fries and a coke are inhaled by her starving Slayer metabolism. After her worst hunger is stilled, Faith slows down and starts to appreciate and enjoy the remaining fries and burgers. Half an hour later she's finished with her burgers and fries, takes a stop at the bathroom, pays her bill and leaves.
Faith was so over this area. From the moment she arrived she only had gotten nothing but grief from it. She wished she never came here on her run from Kakisto.
Not wanting anybody able to find out how she left LA and where she would travel too. Faith starts walking down the street toward a gas station and railroad crossing further on. Faith enters the station to stock up on some junk food, a lot of chocolate and coke cans.
Paying cash for her purchase Faith leaves disappearing into the night. Walking to the railroad crossing down the road, Faith starts walking along the railroad tracks for an hour until she reaches a railroad crossing, with railroads going all directions. Waiting for a cargo train to pass, that will take her away from L.A., Faith makes herself comfortable and waits.
Didn't have to wait to long for the first cargo train passing by on it's way north and away from LA. So Faith hides from the sight of the machinist until the locomotive has passed her, before jumping up and grabbing hold of the train and heaving herself onto the train.
"Yes, I finally left."
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**Chapter 2**
A couple of days later a storm hits LA, the reign pours down from the sky for 24 hours non stop, washing any and all traces of Faiths departure away.
Faith's left LA inside a cargo train, getting the hell out of South California. Being anywhere else would be preferable to being here in this place and time, only grief lies here for her.
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At the time of Faiths departure, the cargo train she left in, she didn't know what direction it went only that it was taking her away from LA.
The train went up North, through Oxnard, Santa Barbara, Obispo, San Luis, Salinas, San Jose, and Oakland, with finale destination San Francisco.
Maybe the North of California would bring Faith more luck than the South had, only time could tell.
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The railroad tracks follow the coastline and the cargo trains follows them at a comfortable speed of 20 miles an Hour.
Faith sits inside her cargo train surrounded by some cases and some hay.
She really did it, she left.
Looking into the night Faith takes in the ever changing landscape in front of her. It is quite, no sounds can be heard. It's a clear sky, full of stars. A warm breeze hits her body.
The only sound that can be heard is a rhythmic metallic ticking, ~Click- clack click-clack click-clack click-clack click-clack click-clack~, caused by the train moving across the railroads. It has a soothing effect on her.
She can smell the salty warm air being blown from the Atlantic up the coast, it's a nice smell. She even sees the ocean in the distant from her place.
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Her first night out of jail, she got enough money to live easy for a couple of months, food and drinks for a couple of days. Live is starting to feel good again.
Faith stands up and goes to her back pack to get something to eat and drink.
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It's been a hectic day, Faith starts to feel the strain she's been under, getting out of jail, her past and everything connected to it being left behind in LA and Sunnydale.
Not looking back anymore, but looking forward to the future and a new start. Where ever she will end up will be better than the place she left behind it simply had to be better.
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Faith makes herself comfortable after finishing her candy bars and coke. Uses her backpack as pillow Faith slowly drowses of into a deep uneventful sleep. Her first night since the death of her first watcher, that she sleeps without nightmares and isn't afraid to close her eyes.
The rhythmic ~Click-clack click-clack click-clack click-clack~ of the moving train carries Faith off into a peaceful deep sleep.
**Chapter 3**
The train comes to a sudden and abrupt stop, Faith's awake in an instant and on her legs. Having a feral and wild look in her eyes, trying to get her bearings and remember where she is.
Seeing the train and box she slept in, she knows again where she is and calms down a bit.
Still a bit on edge Faith takes in her surrounding looking for any possible danger, demon kind or other.
But she doesn't locate anything of danger to her, everything is calm and safe, no vamps or demons or anyone else in her vicinity. Slowly the tension leaves her body and she relaxes a little more.
"The train stopped so I reached my destination, lets find out where I am."
Faith makes her way to side of the cargo train to have her first look at her new home, looking out the only thing she can see are other trains and empty tracks.
She's at a train yard and it's deserted by the looks of it, no living soul anywhere to be seen.
"Perfect, no one to see me get of here."
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It's night the sun just set, the air is still warm and it looks like she just arrived in a big city, those are the only things Faith finds out on her first inspection of the place she arrived at.
Walks over to her sleeping place and gets her backpack and gets of the train.
Faith carefully makes her way across tracks and other trains as fast as possible, still keeping an eye out for anything and anybody. Reaching the fence without any problem she easily jumps over it in one leap and landing on the other side of it.
"Made it, watch out City Faith has arrived."
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Faith looks around trying to figure out in what town she is and where to go next. And decides to follow the railroad to it's end destination.
Walking down the road Faith spots the railway station just ahead of her, it only takes her a couple of minutes to reach.
Arriving at the station Faith makes her way to the front of the station and stands still for a moment to look at it. The building is a big and old, build out of steel, granite and glass.
"That's a big building."
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Walking into the station, she sees only a couple of other people getting ready or waiting for their train. Looking around in the big open waiting room, she sees it filled with rows of banks left and right of the gangway she follows. Maybe half of them have people sitting on them.
Looking around Faith spots what she came for and makes her way towards the bathrooms facilities, as fast as possible.
It looks like she has slept almost a whole day and is in need of some serious bathroom time.
Faith walks into the bathroom and taking a look around to see if there are others. It's empty, she has it all to her own, Faith's lucky, it's empty and clean.
Faith stands in front of the mirror and takes in her appearance for a moment, got a couple straw strings in her hair, removes them and starts to clean and refresh herself, getting the sleep out of her eyes.
Half an hour later she finished and ready to face the outside world again.
The station is busy even this early in the night, Faith heads for the exit to find a place too eat and sleep for the night. Not having eaten for 24 hours straight, makes her tummy rumble, telling her she needs to feed it. The couple of chocolate bars and coke she ate have taken of the edge.
"All right already I'll get you some real food soon."
Getting out of the station, Faith takes in the air she noticed the chill in the air that wasn't there when she got here and the salt tang for the first time, she was definitely further up north and near the ocean.
She hunched deeper into her jacket trying to keep herself warm and the cold at bay, wishing it were warmer, but having lived in Boston all her live the cold didn't bother her that much. She was used to the cold.
Taking in her new surroundings Faith wondered where to go next and for that matter, what city she arrived in?
So she started to look around for any signs that could tell her that, until she found the sign reading "Welcome to San Francisco".
"San Fran! All right! I can get some food and action around here and not necessarily the staking kind." Faith yelled drawing attention to herself.
The moment Faith uttered those words out loud, she realized she made a big mistake, for the reason that the next thing she felt was the twinge. That warned her that a vampire was close by.
"Oh man, I can't get a fucking break for once in my live, I just got here and already you're ruining my first night here! What is with you bloodsuckers!" Fait shouted into the night, drawing even more attention to her and a few curious glances her way.
Faith ignored them for now she had more important things on her mind, mainly trying to find out where the vamps where, how much of them there were and how long it would take her to stake the bastards.
It didn't take her long to locate them, they were getting closer and heading her way. The she spots the vamps coming down the road toward the station she herself had just exited.
"Damn, why did I train my senses that bad that I couldn't miss them even if I wanted? So I'll have to get the food a little later, after having taken care of these vamps, they always find a way to cause trouble." Faith grumbles to herself.
The group Faith sees consists of six vamps walking down the boardwalk.
"Let's get this over with."
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Faith trails the pack of vamps across what seemed like half the city, waiting for the right moment to take them out.
But they didn't stop once and kept on walking, not giving Faith an opportunity to get close enough to them to launch a surprise attack.
Not that Faith trusted a vamp as far as that wimp Watcher Wesley could throw one, but having followed half a dozen fang faces for over an hour, like they were on a mission, not even stopping once on they're track through the city to feed, meant something was UP.
Someone or something very powerful was controlling those six and they feared him that much they didn't dare to disobey whatever orders they were following, so no midnight snacks for them.
For a very brief moment, Faith wished she still had a watcher, not that weasel but one like her first one to tell her what was going on, someone she could let ponder these deep thoughts she was having about the six in front of her, marching on like soldiers.
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Looking at them, it looked like the six had finally arrived at their destination, as I watched them from across the street.
They milled in front of a stairway going up to an old looking house. She supposed that if she had actually gone to school, she'd know if it were Victorian, Tudor or some stupid thing like that.
It was obvious the vamps were trying to figure out how to gain entry to the house. They've been marching clear across the city and didn't come up with a plan to get in.
They were arguing about how to proceed and get access to the Manor. Listing to them bicker about it was fun, they couldn't agree on how to proceed. The streets were deserted otherwise they would have attracted a lot o attention.
Having listened to them for a moment I focused my attention on the Manor to see if I could find out why they where here.
What was so special about the Manor, but before I could find out. One of them finally had enough of talking and just went up the steps to the entrance and knocked on the door.
"Duh, that's a new one wouldn't have thought vamps would have any brains to come up with something new so go with the age old ways, knock." Faith thought to herself.
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All three sisters are home, Phoebe has been studying in the kitchen. Because of all the increase in demons that attacked them in the last time Phoebe had neglect her studies and missed a lot of her classes, and telling her teacher that a demon ate her homework, she didn't believe her teachers would understand or believe her excuse.
The manor was quiet a rare occasion; Prue was downstairs in the basement she had converted to a darkroom, developing her films. Phoebe couldn't believe Prue spending time down there she still got the Wiggins about going down into the basement, despite the fact that it was her that had vanquished the Woogy in the end.
He came back once after Grams had banished him that time, so what's not to say he couldn't come back a third time. So Phoebe tried not to think about it and to keep out of the basement if possible.
Maybe that's the reason Prue did it, the one place in the house she know I would stay out off.
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Piper and Leo were upstairs doing god knows what and Phoebe so did not need to know or find out what the were up to or her sister's glare to know better than to disturb them.
Every time they got together some demon decided to come after us.
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Phoebes mind was everywhere but on her studies, she had re-read the same page of her book for the third time before giving up.
She needed a break. The words were starting to blur before her eyes and she was not going to admit that she needed glasses!
So Phoebe put her book down, stood up and headed to the kitchen to get herself something to drink. Maybe even to stretch her legs a little, could help her focus her mind back on her homework.
She had just put the pitcher of ice tea back and took her first sip when she heard somebody knock on the front door.
"Can't have even one night of peace and quite." And Phoebe headed for the front door to see who it was.
Well, that meant either Darryl had some information for them to look at that he didn't want to discuss over the phone at the station or some one trying to sell them something. Let it be somebody selling something, one demon free day isn't asking to much is it.
The bad guys *never* knocked, they just barged in. Now that wasn't totally correct, those shape shifters and that guy that brought those flowers for Grams every year knocked.
Taking her glass of ice tea with her, Phoebe went to the front door to see who was there at this time and opened it.
Hmm, the guy that was standing at the front door was kind of cute. So were his buddies standing behind him.
Guess that let out Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert us again. Piper got real annoyed at me the last time they showed up at the front door and I honestly answered that I was a witch.
It wasn't my fault that they had absolutely no sense of humour. Besides, I told them the truth!
She batted her eyelashes. "Hello handsome. What can I do for you?" giving them ample view of herself.
He smiled charmingly. "Um, hi. We were told to report to this address." He held up a cell phone in front of him almost in my face. "But it was a bit hard to hear the details." giving the performance of his live.
Phoebe returned his smile, all right.
"Oh! You must be here for Prue's photo shoot. Figures she didn't bother to tell us. C'mon on in." Phoebe invites them in.
Phoebe turned her back and was on her way towards the kitchen, intending to call Prue and inform her of her visitors, so she didn't see the guys face morph.
But Faith did, she couldn't believe her ears when she heard the vamp tell his story and get invited into the house.
Faith was across the street in an instant and dusted one vamp in the back before they even knew what happened one of them was already dust. Everyone else had by now entered into the Manor.
"Watch out!" Faith screamed when she dusted her first one.
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Phoebe turned around as she heard someone yelling "Watch out" too see what was going on and seeing the vamps and stared at them.
The cute guy she just invited into the Manor wasn't so cute anymore. His eyes gleamed yellow and he grinned, showing his fangs.
"What's the matter? Aren't I still handsome?" he asks Phoebe.
Phoebe only hesitated for a split second before taking action. With a karate yell, she snapped a high kick to his face, knocking him back a step. To bad for Phoebe it didn't take him long to recover from her kick.
With a growl, the vamp launched himself towards her. Trying to avoid his attack Phoebe jumped and levitated out of his reach and yelled for her sisters.
"Piper! Prue! We got company!" Phoebe screamed.
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Piper moaned not hearing Phoebes calling for her. As far as she was concerned, nothing existed outside of her bedroom and her love for Leo this night.
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Faith didn't waste time gawking at the girl that was now floating above the floor just out of the reach of the vamps for now.
(well, she *did* take a second look. N-o-t bad she smirked to herself) but one of the vamps got it in his head to take her out by swinging at her and interrupt her ogling.
That was a very dumb move from the side of the vamps.
Phoebe didn't see when the dark haired girl came into the Manor appearing out of nowhere.
And first she thought she was with the bumpy faced demons but when she started making stiff armed gestures at them and they disappeared into a :poof: of dust, she changed her mind. Working her way around so she was back to back to her, Hopefully the other female could tell her what's going on.
For her part, Faith was concentrating on staking vamps after being blindside by one of them while she was looking at Phoebe.
In the back of her mind, she thought about keeping one of them alive, well, undusted. But long enough for her to find out what's going on and make them pay for that cheap shot, but it was harder and harder to keep herself in control her blood was singing hungry for the kill, hunt and battle.
It had been a very long time since she had a good staking and the opportunity to go full out and not hold back. In prison she had to hold back and keep her real strength a secret, the only good thing coming out of it was that her control was now second to none.
She had a lot of energy pent up from her 8 month coma and 6 month stay in jail, she just was itching for a good fight.
Faith was so taken with fighting the vamps she forgot she was now inside someone's home as she sent vamps flying every which way. The vamps started to fly into walls, tables and other furniture and in the process getting wrecked, making a hell of a noise. Enough so to get the attention of the others in the house.
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"Honey, did you hear that?" Piper asked while she tried to get Leo to wake up and go down to see what was going on.
"Hmm?" Leo was satiated and didn't have a lot of energy to care about anything right now.
"I could have sworn I heard a crash." Piper was quite familiar with furniture breaking downstairs, it was almost a daily occurrence it seemed like. Not to mention the bills they paid to replace the broken pieces.
"Huh, well, if you're going downstairs, could you bring me a glass of milk?" with that, Leo turned on his side and was sound asleep in seconds.
"What is *with* guys? Is it genetic that they always fall asleep that fast? or is it just their way of getting out of everything else?"
Piper wondered to herself as she slipped out of bed and quietly padded down the stairs. If it *had* been demons, her sisters would have been calling for her, wouldn't they?
She came down far enough the stairs to see a guy go flying towards the grandfather clock.
"OH! NO you don't" Piper yells and with a gesture, she froze everything in the room. Well, everyone except her sister Phoebe.
"Phoebe!" she yelled. "What's going on? Why didn't you call for help?" Phoebe doesn't answer her immediately.
Phoebe looks around looking for the dark hair girl, noticing that the dark haired girl was frozen in time like the bumpy fangy monster.
"Hmm, guess that means she isn't a witch. Nuts."
"What do you mean? Why didn't I call, I called, screamed." She tells Piper.
Piper doesn't answer her but looks around taking in the scene in front of her, all kinds of broken furniture and counting two guys with bumpy faces and yellow eyes, a man shaped wall of dust right in front of the strange girl who, now that everything was frozen, can be seen burying a wooden stake (?) in the heart of the dust.
"Ok. just what is going on? What are those things and why is there dust all over the place?" Piper demanded.
Before Phoebe could do more than shrug, they heard a crash coming from the basement and Prue yelling. "Hey! Get out of here!"
Piper and Phoebe exchanged glances and raced towards the kitchen to see what was going on with Prue and to see if she needed any help.
Behind them at the same moment as Piper exits the living room, the vamps and Faith unfreeze. And before the vamps could do anything Faith had both of them dusted in quick order, before realizing that the blonde she was rescuing and covered her back had disappeared.
"What the hell? Where did she go so fast one moment we were fighting them together the next she's disappeared" Faith wondered before hearing the sound of a crash coming from another room. Following the sound Faith enters the kitchen.
Phoebe and Piper reached the door leading down to the basement and stopped short of falling into the basement, Phoebe flailing her arms to regain her balance. Being pulled back to safety by Piper.
Looking down Phoebe sees that the staircase was gone, in ruins. Barely noticeable at the bottom of one protruding spur of wood was a small pile of dust. A little of an overkill to take out one lone vamp.
Standing there between the rubble that was the former staircase was Prue glaring up at them.
"What the hell is going on?" she demanded, unconsciously echoing her sister's words.
Faith sauntered up behind the sisters and peered over their shoulders saying one word. "Vamps" she commented before turning around and seating herself in one of the kitchen chairs.
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Faith's Traveling North, A Fresh Start.
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Title: Faith's Traveling North, A Fresh Start.
Author: Darklight
Rating:
Pairing: Faith/Phoebe eventual my goal, for now all Faith
Email: dmiovski@zonnet.nl
Content: Crossover
Summary: Faith gets released from prison and leaves LA and runs into the Charmed Ones. I rewrote the starting piece of a RPG, this takes place before "Bosses Gift to Faith".
Spoilers:
Disclaimer: The characters in the Angelverse & Buffyverse & Charmedverse were created by Joss Whedon & David Greenwalt & Spelling. No infringement is intended, no profit to be made. The story idea belongs to me.
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Notes: Not really a writer, but I have some idea's about things I would like to happen on the show, what could have happened and no one wanted to take such detailed challenges I made out of the idea's, so I started to write them myself. Rewrote the Faith part of a RPG "abc" starting piece by Kit that I never got the chance to post before the group simple disappeared. Had prepared some written pieces to use, and liked what I had written and possible directions I came up to move Faith in the game so I made it into my own Fic.
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**Chapter 1**
Sitting in her cell, having nothing to do made Faith being bored out of her skull (as usual). There was absolutely nothing to do as to sitting there and watching the walls and waiting to be let out the cell.
Faith was quick learner and she learned early on in her stay that as much fun as fighting and kicking the crap out of the other inmates was, it wasn't worth the time she got for it in solitary.
It was bad enough to be locked up in prison and in her cell all day, but her time in solitary made her see that she really hated being confined into small spaces for long periods of time without the possibility to get out even for short periods.
But the time she spend there did put her in touch with her senses, she could now make a three D picture in her mind, from her surrounding and navigate through it blindfolded. Like that Daredevil guy in those comic books she read.
Moreover, being bored out of her skull, having nothing else to do she started to train her newfound ability too such a degree she was now able to locate any inmate or guard within the prison. And also know what guard or inmate it was.
In one glance, Faith now has the ability to knows if they are a danger to her, if they are human, demon or something else and how strong they are. It only took her 6 months of training 24/7, awake and asleep, to attain this degree of skill. She didn't have anything else to do helped a lot.
Faith made a real reputation for herself and most inmates preferred to stay away from her. Not that anyone sane messed with her anyways, not after she put a few would be 'big men' into the infirmary. None of them ended up death, although the state they were in, after Faith got through with them, they wished they were death.
That little skirmish put her in solitary for a couple of weeks.
So from that last fight Faith started to behave herself, so far one could say Faith behaved.
Faith had established a certain regime she followed, to work out on an daily base. Her only means to relive herself a little of the stress, boredom and tension she experienced by being cooped up 24/7 in prison.
Channelling all that excess energy into working out gave her a lot of relieve from the mind numbing day to day prison live. Every day was the same no deviation of any kind, waking up, eating, working, sleeping and the next day start over at the beginning. And the occasional riot, but those were rare and few in-between.
Faith could do nothing else than bide her time till she would be finally be released and leave prison once and for all.
At firs Faith really enjoyed Angels visits thinking she finally had someone who cared about her. Thinking she could finally trust someone, then from one moment to another he stopped coming, no explanation or anything.
For weeks I thought something had happened he simply couldn't contact me or come. Even after he missed his second visit I made excuse why he didn't come, simply didn't want to give up on the idea that there was someone out there that cared about what happened to me.
I really missed Angel's weekly visits they broke up my daily routine and I welcomed anything that brought me out of my scheduled prison live.
But after him missing his visit for 6 months and no sign from him, his credit and brownie points he made with Faith evaporated as snow in the sun.
For that reason, Faith was rather surprised when the guard showed up and informed her that she had a visitor waiting for her.
Not that she was complaining but after 24 weeks of silence, anything to relieve the tedium was welcomed. And Angel definitely did that and he could explain to her where he was for the last 6 months.
So Faith followed the guard to the visitor room, expecting to see Angel, she already had prepared her speech for Angel.
So she was even more surprised to see Lilah, the lawyer bitch from Wolfram & Hart, the only visits she had where from Angel seeing her stunned her for a moment.
No Angel to be seen anywhere instead the bitch who hired her to kill Angel when she first arrived in LA, was waiting for her.
Seeing who my visit was I almost turned around to leave the visitor room again the same moment I entered. But I stopped myself, anything to stop the boredom and maybe she could get some answers out of her.
And if she hadn't hired me to kill Angel, he wouldn't have been able to reach me and save me from my darkness and madness I was consumed by.
So maybe I owed the woman something even if she was the reason with that other guy that got me in prison in the first time. You can't have everything, I shrug as I make my way to the table and sit down opposite of her.
At least I could give her the courtesy of listening to her, I could always smash her face in, I look at Lilah as she smiled.
"Hello Faith. Enjoying prison live?" she purred.
Faith gritted her teeth hearing her speak those words and had to choke down the desire to throttle the lawyer. How close Lilah came to end up death for uttering those five words at that moment she'll never know, now I understood all the remarks the Bossman made about lawyers being minor demons. Real pest to have to deal with, but necessary pests.
"What do you want?" I growl at her she was already stretching the limits of my civility and patient. The only thing keeping me from hitting her was me ending up in solitary again and she simple wasn't worth it.
Lilah just kept smiling that perfect smile of hers, the one that made Faith *really* want to punch it in, to erase it for once and all.
"Don't worry Faith dear. All your problems as off now, well, the ones here, are over." She held up a piece of paper pushing it toward me.
"The warden is processing your paperwork as we speak. You're a free woman Faith."
I was prepared for anything she could throw at me, tell me but not that.
Sure enough, one of the guards the same one that escorted me here, clearly not really happy, walked in and hooked a thumb over my shoulder.
"You're out of here Wilkins. Seems like there was some kind of misunderstanding or something like that. The judge has dropped all charges against you. Now get out of here before I throw you in solitary." He told me grinding his teeth all the while.
Not knowing what to think of it I glanced from the guard to Lilah's beaming face back and fort.
Lilah extracts a handful of papers from her briefcase and hands them to me. Accepting them and not knowing what to do with them I simply hold on to them, while Lilah continues her speech.
"We where instructed by the former Mayor of Sunnydale, a very good client of W&H, to take care of any and all problems regarding a Faith Aisling Wilkins, that's you, that would arise to be taken care by us. Further we were instructed to hand over those papers to you and a Box you'll get when you leave. I think it would be best for everybody involved if you left LA as soon as possible and never came back. Here's some money to get you on your way, buy yourself some new clothes and to eat. Do try to dress like something other than trailer trash." Lilah snapped her briefcase closed and left the room, not deeming Faith worth another look.
Faith just looked at the papers in her one hand, the money in the other and Lilah leaving. The guard already being bored, shrugged.
What to do next?
There was nothing really keeping her here, Angel hadn't contacted her for months, either by phone, visiting or letters and he hadn't reacted to any of her letters.
Faith didn't have anything personal in her cell, just the things she arrived in.
So with nothing really keeping Faith here anymore, she followed the guard to the reception area to pick up her box, the one Lilah told her about would be waiting on her.
"Lets find out what the box is Lilah talked about." Faith murmurs walking ahead of the guard.
Arriving at their destinations Faith almost started to laugh, seeing how the guards started turning red in their attempt to lift the backpack off the ground.
The backpack that contained the mysterious box from the Bossman, didn't want to be moved or lifted of the ground.
Standing there and looking at it for a couple of minutes, at the four guards futile attempt to lift the thing and failing miserable, it wouldn't budge.
It took all my strength to keep myself from bursting into laughing. Seeing them making a spectacle out of themselves made my day, struggling to get it of the ground and not succeeding. Attracting more and more attention and more and more guards came to their rescue, help them with it. But nothing worked.
Having had quite enough of the show that was performed in front of her Faith asked in her sweetest voice "Would you mind if I pick it up? So I can finally leave.", the guards looking at her and started smiling, thinking she'll never be able to lift the damn thing they let her try.
Faith leans over the counter, takes the backpack in her right hand, and lifts it with ease over the counter. Opening it to take a look at what's in it, seeing the box, she puts the papers she got from Lilah, not bothering to read them, in the backpack with the box.
The guards' are looking at her like seeing Faith for real for the first time. Seeing her lift the backpack with such easy where they all failed to even move it at all, realizing for the first time what power and strength's contained within her frame, disbelieve and fear can be seen in the guards eyes.
Getting all the necessary papers ready Faith was out of there in less than an hour later. The fastest release in years, the guards really wanted Faith gone and after having witnessed her strength they knew that for the same money she could have used it on them and they would have been death.
So Faith found herself standing outside and in front of the prison gates. Looking and taking in her surrounding, her first moments out of jail.
"So what am I going to do now?" Faith asks herself in a quite voice not having an easy answer for the moment.
Faith goes to the first thing of business now that she's free, is to get food. Faith starts walking down the road toward a fast food joint she spotted, it's located about a mile or four down the road.
Faith walks into the fast food joint and looks around for an empty place and sits down in a boot, a waitress comes and takes her order.
"So honey what will it be", and Faith places her order.
"Give me 10 quarter pound burgers with everything, 10 portions fries and 3 cola's big", the waitress gives her strange look but takes the order and leaves.
Within 15 minutes the food is ready and served, Faith starts to eat, the first 6 burgers, 6 fries and a coke are inhaled by her starving Slayer metabolism. After her worst hunger is stilled, Faith slows down and starts to appreciate and enjoy the remaining fries and burgers. Half an hour later she's finished with her burgers and fries, takes a stop at the bathroom, pays her bill and leaves.
Faith was so over this area. From the moment she arrived she only had gotten nothing but grief from it. She wished she never came here on her run from Kakisto.
Not wanting anybody able to find out how she left LA and where she would travel too. Faith starts walking down the street toward a gas station and railroad crossing further on. Faith enters the station to stock up on some junk food, a lot of chocolate and coke cans.
Paying cash for her purchase Faith leaves disappearing into the night. Walking to the railroad crossing down the road, Faith starts walking along the railroad tracks for an hour until she reaches a railroad crossing, with railroads going all directions. Waiting for a cargo train to pass, that will take her away from L.A., Faith makes herself comfortable and waits.
Didn't have to wait to long for the first cargo train passing by on it's way north and away from LA. So Faith hides from the sight of the machinist until the locomotive has passed her, before jumping up and grabbing hold of the train and heaving herself onto the train.
"Yes, I finally left."
*****
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**Chapter 2**
A couple of days later a storm hits LA, the reign pours down from the sky for 24 hours non stop, washing any and all traces of Faiths departure away.
Faith's left LA inside a cargo train, getting the hell out of South California. Being anywhere else would be preferable to being here in this place and time, only grief lies here for her.
*****
At the time of Faiths departure, the cargo train she left in, she didn't know what direction it went only that it was taking her away from LA.
The train went up North, through Oxnard, Santa Barbara, Obispo, San Luis, Salinas, San Jose, and Oakland, with finale destination San Francisco.
Maybe the North of California would bring Faith more luck than the South had, only time could tell.
*****
The railroad tracks follow the coastline and the cargo trains follows them at a comfortable speed of 20 miles an Hour.
Faith sits inside her cargo train surrounded by some cases and some hay.
She really did it, she left.
Looking into the night Faith takes in the ever changing landscape in front of her. It is quite, no sounds can be heard. It's a clear sky, full of stars. A warm breeze hits her body.
The only sound that can be heard is a rhythmic metallic ticking, ~Click- clack click-clack click-clack click-clack click-clack click-clack~, caused by the train moving across the railroads. It has a soothing effect on her.
She can smell the salty warm air being blown from the Atlantic up the coast, it's a nice smell. She even sees the ocean in the distant from her place.
*****
Her first night out of jail, she got enough money to live easy for a couple of months, food and drinks for a couple of days. Live is starting to feel good again.
Faith stands up and goes to her back pack to get something to eat and drink.
*****
It's been a hectic day, Faith starts to feel the strain she's been under, getting out of jail, her past and everything connected to it being left behind in LA and Sunnydale.
Not looking back anymore, but looking forward to the future and a new start. Where ever she will end up will be better than the place she left behind it simply had to be better.
*****
Faith makes herself comfortable after finishing her candy bars and coke. Uses her backpack as pillow Faith slowly drowses of into a deep uneventful sleep. Her first night since the death of her first watcher, that she sleeps without nightmares and isn't afraid to close her eyes.
The rhythmic ~Click-clack click-clack click-clack click-clack~ of the moving train carries Faith off into a peaceful deep sleep.
**Chapter 3**
The train comes to a sudden and abrupt stop, Faith's awake in an instant and on her legs. Having a feral and wild look in her eyes, trying to get her bearings and remember where she is.
Seeing the train and box she slept in, she knows again where she is and calms down a bit.
Still a bit on edge Faith takes in her surrounding looking for any possible danger, demon kind or other.
But she doesn't locate anything of danger to her, everything is calm and safe, no vamps or demons or anyone else in her vicinity. Slowly the tension leaves her body and she relaxes a little more.
"The train stopped so I reached my destination, lets find out where I am."
Faith makes her way to side of the cargo train to have her first look at her new home, looking out the only thing she can see are other trains and empty tracks.
She's at a train yard and it's deserted by the looks of it, no living soul anywhere to be seen.
"Perfect, no one to see me get of here."
*****
It's night the sun just set, the air is still warm and it looks like she just arrived in a big city, those are the only things Faith finds out on her first inspection of the place she arrived at.
Walks over to her sleeping place and gets her backpack and gets of the train.
Faith carefully makes her way across tracks and other trains as fast as possible, still keeping an eye out for anything and anybody. Reaching the fence without any problem she easily jumps over it in one leap and landing on the other side of it.
"Made it, watch out City Faith has arrived."
*****
Faith looks around trying to figure out in what town she is and where to go next. And decides to follow the railroad to it's end destination.
Walking down the road Faith spots the railway station just ahead of her, it only takes her a couple of minutes to reach.
Arriving at the station Faith makes her way to the front of the station and stands still for a moment to look at it. The building is a big and old, build out of steel, granite and glass.
"That's a big building."
*****
Walking into the station, she sees only a couple of other people getting ready or waiting for their train. Looking around in the big open waiting room, she sees it filled with rows of banks left and right of the gangway she follows. Maybe half of them have people sitting on them.
Looking around Faith spots what she came for and makes her way towards the bathrooms facilities, as fast as possible.
It looks like she has slept almost a whole day and is in need of some serious bathroom time.
Faith walks into the bathroom and taking a look around to see if there are others. It's empty, she has it all to her own, Faith's lucky, it's empty and clean.
Faith stands in front of the mirror and takes in her appearance for a moment, got a couple straw strings in her hair, removes them and starts to clean and refresh herself, getting the sleep out of her eyes.
Half an hour later she finished and ready to face the outside world again.
The station is busy even this early in the night, Faith heads for the exit to find a place too eat and sleep for the night. Not having eaten for 24 hours straight, makes her tummy rumble, telling her she needs to feed it. The couple of chocolate bars and coke she ate have taken of the edge.
"All right already I'll get you some real food soon."
Getting out of the station, Faith takes in the air she noticed the chill in the air that wasn't there when she got here and the salt tang for the first time, she was definitely further up north and near the ocean.
She hunched deeper into her jacket trying to keep herself warm and the cold at bay, wishing it were warmer, but having lived in Boston all her live the cold didn't bother her that much. She was used to the cold.
Taking in her new surroundings Faith wondered where to go next and for that matter, what city she arrived in?
So she started to look around for any signs that could tell her that, until she found the sign reading "Welcome to San Francisco".
"San Fran! All right! I can get some food and action around here and not necessarily the staking kind." Faith yelled drawing attention to herself.
The moment Faith uttered those words out loud, she realized she made a big mistake, for the reason that the next thing she felt was the twinge. That warned her that a vampire was close by.
"Oh man, I can't get a fucking break for once in my live, I just got here and already you're ruining my first night here! What is with you bloodsuckers!" Fait shouted into the night, drawing even more attention to her and a few curious glances her way.
Faith ignored them for now she had more important things on her mind, mainly trying to find out where the vamps where, how much of them there were and how long it would take her to stake the bastards.
It didn't take her long to locate them, they were getting closer and heading her way. The she spots the vamps coming down the road toward the station she herself had just exited.
"Damn, why did I train my senses that bad that I couldn't miss them even if I wanted? So I'll have to get the food a little later, after having taken care of these vamps, they always find a way to cause trouble." Faith grumbles to herself.
The group Faith sees consists of six vamps walking down the boardwalk.
"Let's get this over with."
*****
Faith trails the pack of vamps across what seemed like half the city, waiting for the right moment to take them out.
But they didn't stop once and kept on walking, not giving Faith an opportunity to get close enough to them to launch a surprise attack.
Not that Faith trusted a vamp as far as that wimp Watcher Wesley could throw one, but having followed half a dozen fang faces for over an hour, like they were on a mission, not even stopping once on they're track through the city to feed, meant something was UP.
Someone or something very powerful was controlling those six and they feared him that much they didn't dare to disobey whatever orders they were following, so no midnight snacks for them.
For a very brief moment, Faith wished she still had a watcher, not that weasel but one like her first one to tell her what was going on, someone she could let ponder these deep thoughts she was having about the six in front of her, marching on like soldiers.
*****
Looking at them, it looked like the six had finally arrived at their destination, as I watched them from across the street.
They milled in front of a stairway going up to an old looking house. She supposed that if she had actually gone to school, she'd know if it were Victorian, Tudor or some stupid thing like that.
It was obvious the vamps were trying to figure out how to gain entry to the house. They've been marching clear across the city and didn't come up with a plan to get in.
They were arguing about how to proceed and get access to the Manor. Listing to them bicker about it was fun, they couldn't agree on how to proceed. The streets were deserted otherwise they would have attracted a lot o attention.
Having listened to them for a moment I focused my attention on the Manor to see if I could find out why they where here.
What was so special about the Manor, but before I could find out. One of them finally had enough of talking and just went up the steps to the entrance and knocked on the door.
"Duh, that's a new one wouldn't have thought vamps would have any brains to come up with something new so go with the age old ways, knock." Faith thought to herself.
*****
All three sisters are home, Phoebe has been studying in the kitchen. Because of all the increase in demons that attacked them in the last time Phoebe had neglect her studies and missed a lot of her classes, and telling her teacher that a demon ate her homework, she didn't believe her teachers would understand or believe her excuse.
The manor was quiet a rare occasion; Prue was downstairs in the basement she had converted to a darkroom, developing her films. Phoebe couldn't believe Prue spending time down there she still got the Wiggins about going down into the basement, despite the fact that it was her that had vanquished the Woogy in the end.
He came back once after Grams had banished him that time, so what's not to say he couldn't come back a third time. So Phoebe tried not to think about it and to keep out of the basement if possible.
Maybe that's the reason Prue did it, the one place in the house she know I would stay out off.
*****
Piper and Leo were upstairs doing god knows what and Phoebe so did not need to know or find out what the were up to or her sister's glare to know better than to disturb them.
Every time they got together some demon decided to come after us.
*****
Phoebes mind was everywhere but on her studies, she had re-read the same page of her book for the third time before giving up.
She needed a break. The words were starting to blur before her eyes and she was not going to admit that she needed glasses!
So Phoebe put her book down, stood up and headed to the kitchen to get herself something to drink. Maybe even to stretch her legs a little, could help her focus her mind back on her homework.
She had just put the pitcher of ice tea back and took her first sip when she heard somebody knock on the front door.
"Can't have even one night of peace and quite." And Phoebe headed for the front door to see who it was.
Well, that meant either Darryl had some information for them to look at that he didn't want to discuss over the phone at the station or some one trying to sell them something. Let it be somebody selling something, one demon free day isn't asking to much is it.
The bad guys *never* knocked, they just barged in. Now that wasn't totally correct, those shape shifters and that guy that brought those flowers for Grams every year knocked.
Taking her glass of ice tea with her, Phoebe went to the front door to see who was there at this time and opened it.
Hmm, the guy that was standing at the front door was kind of cute. So were his buddies standing behind him.
Guess that let out Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert us again. Piper got real annoyed at me the last time they showed up at the front door and I honestly answered that I was a witch.
It wasn't my fault that they had absolutely no sense of humour. Besides, I told them the truth!
She batted her eyelashes. "Hello handsome. What can I do for you?" giving them ample view of herself.
He smiled charmingly. "Um, hi. We were told to report to this address." He held up a cell phone in front of him almost in my face. "But it was a bit hard to hear the details." giving the performance of his live.
Phoebe returned his smile, all right.
"Oh! You must be here for Prue's photo shoot. Figures she didn't bother to tell us. C'mon on in." Phoebe invites them in.
Phoebe turned her back and was on her way towards the kitchen, intending to call Prue and inform her of her visitors, so she didn't see the guys face morph.
But Faith did, she couldn't believe her ears when she heard the vamp tell his story and get invited into the house.
Faith was across the street in an instant and dusted one vamp in the back before they even knew what happened one of them was already dust. Everyone else had by now entered into the Manor.
"Watch out!" Faith screamed when she dusted her first one.
*****
Phoebe turned around as she heard someone yelling "Watch out" too see what was going on and seeing the vamps and stared at them.
The cute guy she just invited into the Manor wasn't so cute anymore. His eyes gleamed yellow and he grinned, showing his fangs.
"What's the matter? Aren't I still handsome?" he asks Phoebe.
Phoebe only hesitated for a split second before taking action. With a karate yell, she snapped a high kick to his face, knocking him back a step. To bad for Phoebe it didn't take him long to recover from her kick.
With a growl, the vamp launched himself towards her. Trying to avoid his attack Phoebe jumped and levitated out of his reach and yelled for her sisters.
"Piper! Prue! We got company!" Phoebe screamed.
*****
Piper moaned not hearing Phoebes calling for her. As far as she was concerned, nothing existed outside of her bedroom and her love for Leo this night.
*****
Faith didn't waste time gawking at the girl that was now floating above the floor just out of the reach of the vamps for now.
(well, she *did* take a second look. N-o-t bad she smirked to herself) but one of the vamps got it in his head to take her out by swinging at her and interrupt her ogling.
That was a very dumb move from the side of the vamps.
Phoebe didn't see when the dark haired girl came into the Manor appearing out of nowhere.
And first she thought she was with the bumpy faced demons but when she started making stiff armed gestures at them and they disappeared into a :poof: of dust, she changed her mind. Working her way around so she was back to back to her, Hopefully the other female could tell her what's going on.
For her part, Faith was concentrating on staking vamps after being blindside by one of them while she was looking at Phoebe.
In the back of her mind, she thought about keeping one of them alive, well, undusted. But long enough for her to find out what's going on and make them pay for that cheap shot, but it was harder and harder to keep herself in control her blood was singing hungry for the kill, hunt and battle.
It had been a very long time since she had a good staking and the opportunity to go full out and not hold back. In prison she had to hold back and keep her real strength a secret, the only good thing coming out of it was that her control was now second to none.
She had a lot of energy pent up from her 8 month coma and 6 month stay in jail, she just was itching for a good fight.
Faith was so taken with fighting the vamps she forgot she was now inside someone's home as she sent vamps flying every which way. The vamps started to fly into walls, tables and other furniture and in the process getting wrecked, making a hell of a noise. Enough so to get the attention of the others in the house.
*****
"Honey, did you hear that?" Piper asked while she tried to get Leo to wake up and go down to see what was going on.
"Hmm?" Leo was satiated and didn't have a lot of energy to care about anything right now.
"I could have sworn I heard a crash." Piper was quite familiar with furniture breaking downstairs, it was almost a daily occurrence it seemed like. Not to mention the bills they paid to replace the broken pieces.
"Huh, well, if you're going downstairs, could you bring me a glass of milk?" with that, Leo turned on his side and was sound asleep in seconds.
"What is *with* guys? Is it genetic that they always fall asleep that fast? or is it just their way of getting out of everything else?"
Piper wondered to herself as she slipped out of bed and quietly padded down the stairs. If it *had* been demons, her sisters would have been calling for her, wouldn't they?
She came down far enough the stairs to see a guy go flying towards the grandfather clock.
"OH! NO you don't" Piper yells and with a gesture, she froze everything in the room. Well, everyone except her sister Phoebe.
"Phoebe!" she yelled. "What's going on? Why didn't you call for help?" Phoebe doesn't answer her immediately.
Phoebe looks around looking for the dark hair girl, noticing that the dark haired girl was frozen in time like the bumpy fangy monster.
"Hmm, guess that means she isn't a witch. Nuts."
"What do you mean? Why didn't I call, I called, screamed." She tells Piper.
Piper doesn't answer her but looks around taking in the scene in front of her, all kinds of broken furniture and counting two guys with bumpy faces and yellow eyes, a man shaped wall of dust right in front of the strange girl who, now that everything was frozen, can be seen burying a wooden stake (?) in the heart of the dust.
"Ok. just what is going on? What are those things and why is there dust all over the place?" Piper demanded.
Before Phoebe could do more than shrug, they heard a crash coming from the basement and Prue yelling. "Hey! Get out of here!"
Piper and Phoebe exchanged glances and raced towards the kitchen to see what was going on with Prue and to see if she needed any help.
Behind them at the same moment as Piper exits the living room, the vamps and Faith unfreeze. And before the vamps could do anything Faith had both of them dusted in quick order, before realizing that the blonde she was rescuing and covered her back had disappeared.
"What the hell? Where did she go so fast one moment we were fighting them together the next she's disappeared" Faith wondered before hearing the sound of a crash coming from another room. Following the sound Faith enters the kitchen.
Phoebe and Piper reached the door leading down to the basement and stopped short of falling into the basement, Phoebe flailing her arms to regain her balance. Being pulled back to safety by Piper.
Looking down Phoebe sees that the staircase was gone, in ruins. Barely noticeable at the bottom of one protruding spur of wood was a small pile of dust. A little of an overkill to take out one lone vamp.
Standing there between the rubble that was the former staircase was Prue glaring up at them.
"What the hell is going on?" she demanded, unconsciously echoing her sister's words.
Faith sauntered up behind the sisters and peered over their shoulders saying one word. "Vamps" she commented before turning around and seating herself in one of the kitchen chairs.
*****
