*Indicates thought

Buffy just kept pounding and pounding on Faith and she made no move to defend herself. Finally Angel was able to get Buffy off. Buffy looked at Faith in horror. Her face was a bloody pulp. Of course, it would be completely healed within a couple of days, but she had still hurt Faith pretty bad. Faith wasn't even unconscious, which surprised Buffy. Angel ran to Faith and quickly helped her stand. Her shirt was lifted slightly when she stood and Buffy noticed the bruises covering her stomach. She knew that she had made some of them, others looked slightly older.

Finally, Buffy was snapped out of her thoughts by Angel yelling at her. "First you beat the crap out of her for no reason and then you won't even let her lay down somewhere?"

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry, um, the guest room is over here." Buffy said quietly. Neither Faith nor Angel said anything. She led them down the hall to the guest room. Angel gently laid Faith down on the bed. Buffy heard a slight whimper escape from her, which was another thing that Faith would normally never do.

"I'm going to go to the bathroom to get some things to clean her up, can I trust you to be in the same room as her alone, or do I have to take you with me?" Angel asked with a stern look and no humor in his face.

"No, I can stay." Said Buffy.

Angel left the room and Buffy went to the bed and held Faith's hand. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you; I never meant to hurt you. Please forgive me. What have I done?" she asked herself when she received no response from Faith.

Suddenly Faith said in a voice slightly above a whisper, "It's okay, B. But, you're squeezing my hand kinda hard and I have a bruise right there."

"Oh, of course, Sorry," Buffy said wondering whether or not it was her who caused it.

"Thanks," Faith said wincing a bit as she shifted her body.

"I'm back, are you okay, Faith," Angel said as he entered the room with bandages, a washcloth, and some rather gross looking antiseptic.

"Yeah, OUCH!" said Faith as Angel began cleaning her bleeding eye.

*Man, is she lucky she's a slayer* thought Angel as he cleaned her up, *This would have been a lot worse if she didn't have slayer healing. Many of her injuries are already healing. *

"Alright, Faith, I'm done, I think you should get some rest so that you can heal," said Angel.

"Okay" whispered Faith already drifting off to sleep.

"Goodnight, Faith. Sweet dreams." Angel said.

"Yeah, um, see you in the morning," Buffy said while looking at the floor. They both left the room and immediately when Angel thought Faith couldn't hear what they were saying he turned on Buffy.

"Why did you do that to her? She didn't even do anything to you! What, did you think, it's been a while since I've hurt Faith, and I think I'll satisfy my craving as soon as she arrives?" Angel yelled at her as quietly as he could manage.

"Well. I. um. I wasn't exactly expecting to lose control like that, it just sort of happened. I was thinking about the things that Faith did and I just got madder and madder. You just happened to arrive when I was about to go blow of some steam and work out," said Buffy not meeting Angel's eye.

"Oh, well I guess that makes it OK to pulverize her face. You know, for all the things she's done in the past, I guess getting put into a coma, stabbed in the gut, and going to prison where the guards did horrible things to her isn't that bad of a punishment," Angel said.

"What kind of horrible things?" asked Buffy, suddenly filled with fear.

"Didn't you see the bruises all over her? Oh, but I guess you didn't really have enough time to examine her before you added fresh cuts and bruises to her collection," Angel said with, what Buffy thought was tearing eyes.

"No, Angel. I really want to know. What did they do to her? And why did you say the things you did on the phone to her when you thought you had hung up?" asked Buffy.

"The guards beat her up, Buffy! It's obvious they do this kind of thing all the time! I found her in her cell, unconscious. I took her out and when she woke up, she started whimpering and crying. That's when I called you. Right after that she finally calmed down enough to say they had beat her up and once she was unconscious, they raped her." Angel exclaimed. This time, Buffy was sure that there were tears in his eyes.

"Oh my god. And you think that this isn't the first time it's happened?" Buffy asked feeling tears well up in her eyes.

"I'm sure of it," Angel said sadly.

Suddenly Willow came in the door followed by Xander, Dawn, Spike, Wood, Kennedy, and the rest of the potentials.

"Hey guys, what's up?" asked Xander.

"Um, nothing," said Buffy. She hadn't mentioned to anyone that Faith was coming.

"Okay, cool, I guess. The training session went great. We'll take out that meanie guy, the first. We've made real progress. The potentials can take down Spike in groups of only two!" exclaimed Willow.

"That's. awesome guys, but I have to tell you something," Buffy said dreading the reaction she would receive from everyone, especially since she and Willow had told everyone else about how horrible Faith was. Just as she was finished getting ready to hold everyone back if necessary Giles walked in.

"Oh, cool, hey Giles guess what? We kicked aaaoow." Willow elbowed Xander in the ribs before he could say "the a word" in front of the "children", "I mean we kicked booty in training today."

"Oh that's very good, very good indeed," said Giles, "so Buffy, what were you going to tell everyone?"

"Oh. well. um."

"Oooohhhh, hold on Buffy. Before I forget Giles, I have to show you something, let me get it real quick," Willow said and ran towards the guest room.

"Willow no!" Buffy yelled, but Willow had already flung open the door. She just stood there with a shocked look on her face. Then suddenly she screamed, "You bitch! I'm going to kill you!" and ran into the room.

Author's Note: Hello everybody! Thanks everyone for the reviews. You guys rock. Anyway, I know I did another cliffhanger, but I felt it was appropriate. And yeah, I kind of did something weird with the Faith Buffy thing, but I don't like it in fics where they hate each other for ¾ of it and finally when something big happens, they let their "true feelings out" and then one of them dies. So I made Buffy remorseful. I think I'm going to do a love triangle thing with Angel, Faith, and Buffy. But Angel will like Faith, Buffy will like Faith, and Faith will like both. I don't really know though, so please give me feedback on it. But I don't like Buffy and Angel together so that won't happen, but if you don't want that added drama and you just want it to be Faith Buffy then cool. Or I could do Faith likes Buffy, Spike likes Buffy, and Buffy like both, but I'd prefer the other. Whatever you guys want though. So thanks for reading and please give lots of reviews!