Title: Again For the First Time
Author: Angelsgal
Parings: B/A- F/S
Disclaimer: They are not mine, they belong to Joss. Even thought he doesn't deserve them.. Ok I won't rant just read.
Rating: Pg-13..its all a precaution and gives me some leeway.
A/N: Just a little side note Buffy has never meet Faith or Spike and (*) means thoughts!! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
They had finally left the crummy hotel and were just about to L.A. The entire time since they're little make-out session they two haven't spoke to each other, verbally, instead he had his hand on her leg and she had a smile plastered on her face. Every so often he would look over at her and smile and send chills down her neck.
*Ok so I fell head over heels in love with this guy and hey I don't even know his last name and I crazy?! Mental slap. ok I feel better now. What's the worst that could happen, he lead me to a vampire nest and leave me without Mr. pointy? Well like that hasn't happened before, besides for some odd reason I feel like I have known him forever, hell it feels as though he holds my soul in the palm of his hand..Oh listen to me babble about soul mates! Geez a day ago I didn't believe in love let alone soul mates. I guess I just feel so comfortable with his hand...and was that some girl fighting a group of buffed up guy that we just drove by?*
"Wait Angel! Did you just see that girl over there?" She yelled causing him to stop the car abruptly; if he wasn't already dead she would have scared him to death.
"Wow Buffy, next time give a guy some warning, no should I back up or are we close enough to run?" He said seeing that she was desperate to go and help, but his question was quickly answered when she just opened the car door and ran out leaving him talking to the empty passenger seat. *And she's off!* he laughed to himself and ran after her.
Buffy arrived to see the girl stake one vampire while the others started to back off.
"Oh come on I was just getting warmed up, please I haven't slayed in weeks!" The girl said in vain as the vamps ran off. "And they called me and 'easy' lunch!" She said picking up her bag and then noticed Buffy watching. "You better head off blondie those guys can really hurt you and I don't have time to save you from them." She said trying to stare down Buffy.
"Please who are you and how do you know about vampires?" Buffy said crossing her arms meanwhile Angel finally caught up and positioned himself by Buffy's side.
"Sorry Miss. Wanna-be- tough-but-still-owns-pom-poms, but I am the slayer and I'm bored." She said and started to walk off but Buffy blocked her path, the girl dropped her bag and growled slightly. "Ok I told you I am going to leave now get out of my way and take your boy toy with you before this turns ugly." She said angrily.
"Right but I want answers first." She said still keeping her position, now the chick was mad and she pulled back for a punch and threw her hardest punch; she aimed for Buffy's face. Buffy just brought up her hand and grabbed her fist. The girl's face turned to astonishment. "Because you see I am the slayer, the chosen one in fact. The one all the prophecies talked about and I don't understand what you are doing here. Well let's start with some introductions; I'm Buffy the Vampire Slayer and this is Angel my soul bound vampire companion and you are?" Buffy said smiling patiently.
"My name is Faith; I was going to the hell mouth because apparently a slayer had died a while ago and the council just figured it out so they are sending me to replace, I'm guessing, you" Faith said in astonishment. She had some power Faith did but this girl didn't even flinch when Faith punched her full power. This girl was practically a living legend, she had survived so much and when she managed to stop a god, well that just proved her strength, but wasn't she supposed to be dead? "Well you look pretty good for a dead girl I must admit. What's your secret?" She asked teasingly.
"Well are you talking about the first or second time I died?" Buffy said smiling and had to give a laugh at Faith's reaction. "My friends just can't accept that I died, either time. So the little magicians they are, they gave me life again, I guess the council didn't get the memo." She said smiling.
Faith turned then realizing who the guy was behind her. "Wait isn't he a vampire? An evil being that, even in our name says we are supposed to kill them?" She said starting to walk towards Angel, but he just laughed, but then she pulled out a stake.
"Ok Faith, here is a little stay alive tip from a girl who, well, TRIES, to stay alive. I will personally take joy in killing you if you hurt my boyfriend so get that look off you face and hand me the stake." She said putting her hand on Faiths shoulder. *Wait did I just say boyfriend?*
Angel's eyes grew wide *Did she just call me her boyfriend?*
Faiths smile widened *A vampire boyfriend for a supposedly `dead` slayer, it's like some ironic joke.*
"Cause you know it just I would really miss him and .." *ok don't say something stupid, too forward or what she supposedly doesn't believe in* "He's very helpful." *ok Buffy Summers you just hit all three in one sentence congratulations.*
Angel smiled
Faith nearly laughed "Girl you do realize that you are a VAMPIRE Slayer and he just happens to be a VAMPIRE, don't you just get the itch to blow him up."
There was no way that Buffy could pull her way out of this one and she knew it, she just hoped the felt some mercy coming her way. She just bowed her head in defeat and started to trudge her way back to the car.
"Nice meeting you Faith, good luck in the hell mouth, its boring and closed. We are heading to L.A where some real demons are." She said still walking and quickly moved out of sight.
"Hey I won't kill you if you take me with you." Faith said not wanting to go to Sunnyhell.
"Sure, but I first.I got to.well." Angel said pointing to Buffy's direction.
"Yeah, oh you better go get her I have to get the rest of my stuff anyway I'll meet you at your car." Faith said turning her back and shuffling through her stuff.
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Angel finally found her leaning against a tree a hundred feet beyond the car. She hadn't noticed him yet and decided the best way to get to her was to surprise her. He cut through a wooded area and while her eyes were closed stood in front of her; he made a quick and probably dangerous decision since surprising a slayer while being a vampire almost always result in sudden death. He attacked her mouth with his. He hadn't surprised her; she merely kissed him back with the same force. When he finally let her go because he was scared of her probable lack of oxygen she had a smile on her face.
"I thought I scared you off when I used the 'b' word and then I thought I'd never see you again." She said laughing then was stopped when she met his gaze again.*Wow can he look right through me, because his gaze is intense.*They were about to start up again when Faith walked up to then, Angel unconsciously growled making Buffy giggle, anyone else would have ran away but she thought it was, well cute.
"Alright are we ready to blow this Popsicle stand? ...Oh, nice car." Faith said running her hands over the hood and then unceremoniously threw her bag of stuff in the back and she then jumped in herself. "So where are we going in L.A? Or are we just jumping from hotel to hotel until lady luck hands us a place to stay?" She said laughing not really mean what she was saying.
Buffy finally got in the passenger seat next to Angel and they looked at each other and then at Faith and Angel said "Yeah that's basically the plan." He said and started driving placing his hand on his favorite new hand rest, Buffy's left leg.
"Really?! Sounds like fun to me." Faith said then noticed where Angel's hand was and smiled then asked. "So how long have you known each other and how long have you been going out?" She was expecting them to say months with the way looked and acted around each other but then was taken back when Buffy said "Twenty-four hours tonight around nine." *well that is surprising*
"Faith piece of advice number two; live your life to the fullest you only live once, or, er, three times if you have friends like mine, but that life is especially short for a slayer so have fun." Buffy said giving a large smile then returning her eyes back to the side of Angels head. *God this going to be the longest hour of my life* Faith thought looking at the disgusting ogling that Buffy was doing to Angel. *Yuck*
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ One Hour Later~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
*OK so we're here now what?* Angel thought. He was one old vampire in the car with not one but TWO Slayers, fate was laughing at him right now.
"I say we park ourselves at a decent hotel and Band I can figure out our sich. And then we all can figure out things like money and what we are doing with our lives." Faith said sounding more brains than bronze, which was odd for her.
"Yeah that sounds good I am super tired and I am in need of some food. Driving around some more with out a purpose just doesn't sound as fun as it did earlier." She said with a yawn. "Besides this car needs a rest it's whistling." She said and then they all noticed the squeal coming from the car and then with a putter and a back shot it came to a complete stop. "Great, Faith and I will push us to the next hotel in sight." It took them nearly three hours to push the car to a semi-decent hotel in the middle of the city, they parked and headed to the reservation desk.
"Ok we need two rooms.." Angel stopped when both slayers hit him in the arm. Then Faith pushed him out of the way and started to talk to the guy, but not without a little protest from Angel.
"Ok, we will take one room with double beds, we'll start of with four nights." She said handing him the money and taking the key. The grabbed their stuff and headed down the row of rooms searching for theirs "Ok, you are such a poof, honestly Buffy what do you see in this guy?" She said to Buffy and Buffy just shook her head
"Faith he was just trying to be courteous." Buffy said giving a grin
"Yeah Faith what the hell was that why did you take over acting like I was a kid not knowing what I was doing." Angel said but then nearly fell over when both slayers gave him a evil look for even talking.
"Here is the prob. Angel, we don't have that much money and we have to stretch it out as much as possible. We can stay twice as long if we get one room instead of two. When we get more money I will get my own room but only then, right now we don't know what is in our future." She said stopping abruptly and opening the door to the room. "Well here we are home sweat home."
"Hey, just to clear things up I was getting my own room." Angel protested setting down Buffy's weapon bag.
"Right and the French are known for their pasta." Faith said over her shoulder checking out the bathroom. "Hey B, I am taking a shower first so- .." But Faith stopped; Buffy was lying on the bed asleep with her jacket being used as a pillow. Faith smiled and looked over to Angel with ice in her gaze. "Look buddy, I know B may trust you and whatever but the fact is I don't get the whole relationship you have. So here it is, I, for the first time ever, feel a connection to B like a sister, maybe it's the whole slayer thing, I feel like I have to protect the gal. So the following rules will apply, there will be no biting her or hurting her.ever. If I ever find a mark on her I will personally hunt you down and kill you brutally so be good while I'm in the shower ok?"
Faith said her little speech and shut the door before he could answer. She didn't know why but this feeling to protect Buffy was strong, she knew Buffy was destined for great things and Faith made a vow to make sure she got to her destiny in one peace. For the first time ever Faith was looking out for someone other than her self *wow faith are you going soft?*She thought to herself with a laugh.
Angel just laughed off Faiths threatening comments and went over to Buffy and picked her up, pulled back the sheets, and placed her gently on the bed covering her up gently as to not wake her up. He then undressed and feel asleep on the second bed, but not before making sure the drapes were shut tight. He heard Faith come in moments later and laughed at the sleeping arrangements. She said some things like `and here I thought I was going to get my own bed` and `geez now they are going to take it slow?! Pfft` and then she huffed and puffed her way to sleep next to Buffy right after she contemplated wither to sleep next to Angel to see how pissed Buffy would get and then decided Buffy wasn't a slayer to mess with, seeing that it was damn near impossible to kill her and not have her come back. He gave a chuckle and fell asleep wandering what their news lives would be like.*At least I wont be bored, he-he*
Author: Angelsgal
Parings: B/A- F/S
Disclaimer: They are not mine, they belong to Joss. Even thought he doesn't deserve them.. Ok I won't rant just read.
Rating: Pg-13..its all a precaution and gives me some leeway.
A/N: Just a little side note Buffy has never meet Faith or Spike and (*) means thoughts!! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
They had finally left the crummy hotel and were just about to L.A. The entire time since they're little make-out session they two haven't spoke to each other, verbally, instead he had his hand on her leg and she had a smile plastered on her face. Every so often he would look over at her and smile and send chills down her neck.
*Ok so I fell head over heels in love with this guy and hey I don't even know his last name and I crazy?! Mental slap. ok I feel better now. What's the worst that could happen, he lead me to a vampire nest and leave me without Mr. pointy? Well like that hasn't happened before, besides for some odd reason I feel like I have known him forever, hell it feels as though he holds my soul in the palm of his hand..Oh listen to me babble about soul mates! Geez a day ago I didn't believe in love let alone soul mates. I guess I just feel so comfortable with his hand...and was that some girl fighting a group of buffed up guy that we just drove by?*
"Wait Angel! Did you just see that girl over there?" She yelled causing him to stop the car abruptly; if he wasn't already dead she would have scared him to death.
"Wow Buffy, next time give a guy some warning, no should I back up or are we close enough to run?" He said seeing that she was desperate to go and help, but his question was quickly answered when she just opened the car door and ran out leaving him talking to the empty passenger seat. *And she's off!* he laughed to himself and ran after her.
Buffy arrived to see the girl stake one vampire while the others started to back off.
"Oh come on I was just getting warmed up, please I haven't slayed in weeks!" The girl said in vain as the vamps ran off. "And they called me and 'easy' lunch!" She said picking up her bag and then noticed Buffy watching. "You better head off blondie those guys can really hurt you and I don't have time to save you from them." She said trying to stare down Buffy.
"Please who are you and how do you know about vampires?" Buffy said crossing her arms meanwhile Angel finally caught up and positioned himself by Buffy's side.
"Sorry Miss. Wanna-be- tough-but-still-owns-pom-poms, but I am the slayer and I'm bored." She said and started to walk off but Buffy blocked her path, the girl dropped her bag and growled slightly. "Ok I told you I am going to leave now get out of my way and take your boy toy with you before this turns ugly." She said angrily.
"Right but I want answers first." She said still keeping her position, now the chick was mad and she pulled back for a punch and threw her hardest punch; she aimed for Buffy's face. Buffy just brought up her hand and grabbed her fist. The girl's face turned to astonishment. "Because you see I am the slayer, the chosen one in fact. The one all the prophecies talked about and I don't understand what you are doing here. Well let's start with some introductions; I'm Buffy the Vampire Slayer and this is Angel my soul bound vampire companion and you are?" Buffy said smiling patiently.
"My name is Faith; I was going to the hell mouth because apparently a slayer had died a while ago and the council just figured it out so they are sending me to replace, I'm guessing, you" Faith said in astonishment. She had some power Faith did but this girl didn't even flinch when Faith punched her full power. This girl was practically a living legend, she had survived so much and when she managed to stop a god, well that just proved her strength, but wasn't she supposed to be dead? "Well you look pretty good for a dead girl I must admit. What's your secret?" She asked teasingly.
"Well are you talking about the first or second time I died?" Buffy said smiling and had to give a laugh at Faith's reaction. "My friends just can't accept that I died, either time. So the little magicians they are, they gave me life again, I guess the council didn't get the memo." She said smiling.
Faith turned then realizing who the guy was behind her. "Wait isn't he a vampire? An evil being that, even in our name says we are supposed to kill them?" She said starting to walk towards Angel, but he just laughed, but then she pulled out a stake.
"Ok Faith, here is a little stay alive tip from a girl who, well, TRIES, to stay alive. I will personally take joy in killing you if you hurt my boyfriend so get that look off you face and hand me the stake." She said putting her hand on Faiths shoulder. *Wait did I just say boyfriend?*
Angel's eyes grew wide *Did she just call me her boyfriend?*
Faiths smile widened *A vampire boyfriend for a supposedly `dead` slayer, it's like some ironic joke.*
"Cause you know it just I would really miss him and .." *ok don't say something stupid, too forward or what she supposedly doesn't believe in* "He's very helpful." *ok Buffy Summers you just hit all three in one sentence congratulations.*
Angel smiled
Faith nearly laughed "Girl you do realize that you are a VAMPIRE Slayer and he just happens to be a VAMPIRE, don't you just get the itch to blow him up."
There was no way that Buffy could pull her way out of this one and she knew it, she just hoped the felt some mercy coming her way. She just bowed her head in defeat and started to trudge her way back to the car.
"Nice meeting you Faith, good luck in the hell mouth, its boring and closed. We are heading to L.A where some real demons are." She said still walking and quickly moved out of sight.
"Hey I won't kill you if you take me with you." Faith said not wanting to go to Sunnyhell.
"Sure, but I first.I got to.well." Angel said pointing to Buffy's direction.
"Yeah, oh you better go get her I have to get the rest of my stuff anyway I'll meet you at your car." Faith said turning her back and shuffling through her stuff.
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Angel finally found her leaning against a tree a hundred feet beyond the car. She hadn't noticed him yet and decided the best way to get to her was to surprise her. He cut through a wooded area and while her eyes were closed stood in front of her; he made a quick and probably dangerous decision since surprising a slayer while being a vampire almost always result in sudden death. He attacked her mouth with his. He hadn't surprised her; she merely kissed him back with the same force. When he finally let her go because he was scared of her probable lack of oxygen she had a smile on her face.
"I thought I scared you off when I used the 'b' word and then I thought I'd never see you again." She said laughing then was stopped when she met his gaze again.*Wow can he look right through me, because his gaze is intense.*They were about to start up again when Faith walked up to then, Angel unconsciously growled making Buffy giggle, anyone else would have ran away but she thought it was, well cute.
"Alright are we ready to blow this Popsicle stand? ...Oh, nice car." Faith said running her hands over the hood and then unceremoniously threw her bag of stuff in the back and she then jumped in herself. "So where are we going in L.A? Or are we just jumping from hotel to hotel until lady luck hands us a place to stay?" She said laughing not really mean what she was saying.
Buffy finally got in the passenger seat next to Angel and they looked at each other and then at Faith and Angel said "Yeah that's basically the plan." He said and started driving placing his hand on his favorite new hand rest, Buffy's left leg.
"Really?! Sounds like fun to me." Faith said then noticed where Angel's hand was and smiled then asked. "So how long have you known each other and how long have you been going out?" She was expecting them to say months with the way looked and acted around each other but then was taken back when Buffy said "Twenty-four hours tonight around nine." *well that is surprising*
"Faith piece of advice number two; live your life to the fullest you only live once, or, er, three times if you have friends like mine, but that life is especially short for a slayer so have fun." Buffy said giving a large smile then returning her eyes back to the side of Angels head. *God this going to be the longest hour of my life* Faith thought looking at the disgusting ogling that Buffy was doing to Angel. *Yuck*
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ One Hour Later~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
*OK so we're here now what?* Angel thought. He was one old vampire in the car with not one but TWO Slayers, fate was laughing at him right now.
"I say we park ourselves at a decent hotel and Band I can figure out our sich. And then we all can figure out things like money and what we are doing with our lives." Faith said sounding more brains than bronze, which was odd for her.
"Yeah that sounds good I am super tired and I am in need of some food. Driving around some more with out a purpose just doesn't sound as fun as it did earlier." She said with a yawn. "Besides this car needs a rest it's whistling." She said and then they all noticed the squeal coming from the car and then with a putter and a back shot it came to a complete stop. "Great, Faith and I will push us to the next hotel in sight." It took them nearly three hours to push the car to a semi-decent hotel in the middle of the city, they parked and headed to the reservation desk.
"Ok we need two rooms.." Angel stopped when both slayers hit him in the arm. Then Faith pushed him out of the way and started to talk to the guy, but not without a little protest from Angel.
"Ok, we will take one room with double beds, we'll start of with four nights." She said handing him the money and taking the key. The grabbed their stuff and headed down the row of rooms searching for theirs "Ok, you are such a poof, honestly Buffy what do you see in this guy?" She said to Buffy and Buffy just shook her head
"Faith he was just trying to be courteous." Buffy said giving a grin
"Yeah Faith what the hell was that why did you take over acting like I was a kid not knowing what I was doing." Angel said but then nearly fell over when both slayers gave him a evil look for even talking.
"Here is the prob. Angel, we don't have that much money and we have to stretch it out as much as possible. We can stay twice as long if we get one room instead of two. When we get more money I will get my own room but only then, right now we don't know what is in our future." She said stopping abruptly and opening the door to the room. "Well here we are home sweat home."
"Hey, just to clear things up I was getting my own room." Angel protested setting down Buffy's weapon bag.
"Right and the French are known for their pasta." Faith said over her shoulder checking out the bathroom. "Hey B, I am taking a shower first so- .." But Faith stopped; Buffy was lying on the bed asleep with her jacket being used as a pillow. Faith smiled and looked over to Angel with ice in her gaze. "Look buddy, I know B may trust you and whatever but the fact is I don't get the whole relationship you have. So here it is, I, for the first time ever, feel a connection to B like a sister, maybe it's the whole slayer thing, I feel like I have to protect the gal. So the following rules will apply, there will be no biting her or hurting her.ever. If I ever find a mark on her I will personally hunt you down and kill you brutally so be good while I'm in the shower ok?"
Faith said her little speech and shut the door before he could answer. She didn't know why but this feeling to protect Buffy was strong, she knew Buffy was destined for great things and Faith made a vow to make sure she got to her destiny in one peace. For the first time ever Faith was looking out for someone other than her self *wow faith are you going soft?*She thought to herself with a laugh.
Angel just laughed off Faiths threatening comments and went over to Buffy and picked her up, pulled back the sheets, and placed her gently on the bed covering her up gently as to not wake her up. He then undressed and feel asleep on the second bed, but not before making sure the drapes were shut tight. He heard Faith come in moments later and laughed at the sleeping arrangements. She said some things like `and here I thought I was going to get my own bed` and `geez now they are going to take it slow?! Pfft` and then she huffed and puffed her way to sleep next to Buffy right after she contemplated wither to sleep next to Angel to see how pissed Buffy would get and then decided Buffy wasn't a slayer to mess with, seeing that it was damn near impossible to kill her and not have her come back. He gave a chuckle and fell asleep wandering what their news lives would be like.*At least I wont be bored, he-he*
