"Have Faith" Pt 2/?
The potential slayers stood around the kitchen eating breakfast, the smell of burnt toast finally fading in the air. None of them spoke. It wasn't because there was a new FULL slayer in the house, and it wasn't because of the burnt toast. It was because their slayer, their trainer, their stronghold, had gone straight to the basement at dawn and had not surfaced since.
Questions hung thick in the air. Most of the slayers in training had been asleep when Willow returned with a new slayer. However, some of the girls had been awake when Buffy came in holding a very beaten and bloodied Spike. The sight had stung them as Spike was considered a major form of protection recently. If he was hurt----who? Why? How? So many questions!
Though awake, the girls had not seen the scuffle in the driveway the night before, so none of them knew how Spike had been hurt. Secretly they were worried.
"Maybe he ran into one of those uber vamps?" One of the girls spoke aloud. Her toast hadn't been touched.
"I sure hope not! I didn't like those ugly vampires! I rather go up against the bringers again than fight another uber vamp." Another replied.
"Well, if it's true--if Willow really did bring home a full slayer---then it means we have more power right? I mean, you saw how Buffy took care of that thing by herself. Two slayers could easily take one on---couldn't they?" Yet another girl asked the silence and burnt toast.
"Her name is Faith," said on of the girls who had been awake when Willow came in with the new slayer. She had run into them in the kitchen while looking for a bedtime snack. "Willow says she and Buffy used to fight side by side here in Sunnydale when Faith's watcher was killed in a patrol accident. Then Faith left Sunnydale when a vampire with a soul fell in love with her."
"No no no!" Said another girl who had also been awake. "She said that Faith and Buffy had fought together here in Sunnydale until Faith was possessed and tried to kill Buffy. Then they fought each other and Buffy won---she exiled Faith from Sunnydale."
Another girl opened her mouth to give her explanation but was stopped by a jab to the ribs by the elbow of the girl next to her. Buffy had walked into the kitchen.
"How is everyone this morning?" The slayer asked in a tired voice. Finding her way through the ocean of girls to the refrigerator, and a glass of orange juice, Buffy heard a murmur of 'good' and 'very well thank you's.
"Good to hear. Willow is waiting in the living room for you when you are finished your breakfast. She has someone to introduce you to. I want you to give her your full attention." After these quiet words and her 'or else' look, Buffy took her juice and retraced her steps back to the basement.
After a long period of silent toast crunching, a tiny voice spoke. "I-I wonder if she heard us."
