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Buffy was completely stressed. She lay there in her room reflecting about everything that had happened 24 hours ago and years before that. She had been fighting the first now for about a year and she had made almost no progress. Basically all she had accomplished was hurting her friends and the potentials. She had even called Angel up in the very beginning, he came and tried to help, but he knew that he just wasn't strong enough. So one day he told her the one thing that she had realized long before, but did not want to admit to herself. They needed the help of Faith. She told him no. So he backed off for a little while. Eventually he knew that it was unavoidable, and told her again. She knew he was right, but there was just too many bad memories. So again he backed off. This time he only waited a short time and approached her. She still said no, but this time he would not take no for an answer. They needed help and as the old saying goes, desperate times call for desperate measures. So she finally gave in.

Angel was on his way to the jail right now and she still couldn't register what was happening. Her best friend and worst enemy was coming back. Buffy was afraid of what she would do when Faith arrived. Would she attack her? It definitely was a possibility. She hated Faith. She hated her for hurting innocent people, hurting her friends, hurting Buffy, breaking Buffy's heart, but most of all, making her love her. Though she had never told Faith how much she cared for her, she still felt a deep bond between them that she had never had with another person, not even Angel, who was supposedly the only person outside of her family and close friends that she truly loved. Or at least that's what she let the outside world think. She kept her feelings for Faith to herself. Her feelings were what caused her to hate Faith so much. Buffy was the slayer; she wasn't supposed to feel vulnerable and hurt. Especially another woman who happened to be her fellow slayer. When Faith shut her out after the incident with Finch and turned to Buffy's worst enemy at the time, the mayor, for support and love, it killed Buffy. The person she loved did not share her feelings and she thought that a monster was better than Buffy. All those things added on top of each other are what pushed Buffy to stab Faith in the gut and put her in an eight-month slumber. Buffy thought she had killed the only person she had loved. So she offered herself to Angel out of guilt. She didn't think that she deserved to live. Then when she found out Faith was alive she was relived, but at the same time disappointed. And then Faith hurt her again when she woke up. From that moment on she just wanted to hurt Faith for all the pain she had caused her.

When she truly thought about this she knew it was wrong. She was being selfish. Buffy didn't think of any of the things Faith had been put through. It didn't make up for everything, but the pain she had gone through still counted for something. Buffy knew Faith was good deep down, but Buffy was so caught up on herself that she forgot to account for that.

So Faith was going to be there any time and Buffy was afraid of what she would do. Would she let her in, or would she slam the door in her face? Or would she do something even more drastic? The thought scared her, but she knew that could happen.

She was suddenly jarred from her thoughts by the shrill ring of the telephone.

"Hello. This is Buffy," she said into the receiver.

"Buffy, it's me. I'll be there in a couple of minutes. This could be bad. Got to go," said Angel in a serious tone. He didn't even give her time to respond before taking the phone away from his mouth, but she knew he hadn't quite hung up the phone yet, because she could hear his voice in the background saying in a soothing voice, "Shhh, Faith, honey it's going to be OK. The guards aren't here anymore. Please stop trembling, hon. You're safe now. Oops. BEEP," and the phone was disconnected. Buffy couldn't believe what she had heard Angel say. Strong, smart-ass, Faith trembling? The Faith Buffy knew would more than likely be sitting there with a cigarette making sex jokes in the back round. It had to be a trick. Faith was up to something. She was evil. Faith didn't do things like tremble. She lied and deceived.

After thinking about Faith for a long time she had grown angrier and angrier. She needed to take out her anger so she was about to go do a little training when Angel walked in, followed by Faith who was cowering in the shadows. When Angel pulled her out, Buffy saw that her face had cuts and bruises all over. For some reason this made Buffy madder at Faith. So she her anger out on her. Buffy ran over to Faith and began punching her all over her body.

Author's Note: Well how did you like it? I wrote this one for Jessica, my sole reviewer so far. I tried to get some action and I left you with a cliffhanger :o) mua ha ha ha ha! Yeah, so, anyways, I'll update soon, unless no one decides to review, because then what would be the point of putting it on the world wide web if no one's going to telll me if it's good or if I suck? So, um, please review! Thanks! PS: You rock Jessica!