"Wha. What?" Faith stammered wide-eyed.

"Um. I think I love you." Buffy said suddenly regretting what she said.

"I. uh." stuttered Faith.

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have put you on the spot like that. I know you wanted to go slow. that was unfair of me. You don't have to say anything back. I. um." Buffy said backing away from Faith as if she was going to attack her.

"No, Buffy. I'm sorry. I. I didn't answer because I feel the same way. I'm in love with you, too. I think I always have been," Faith said.

"Really? I can't believe it!" Buffy exclaimed and ran up to Faith and hugged her, but Faith pulled away.

"I still want to go slow though. I have bad experiences with love. not that I think you're going to hurt me. it's just men have told me they loved my while they were fucking me and then afterwards they would ignore me and tell they're friends that I was a sure thing and that I was a slut. which I guess is true. and then my parents used to tell me he loved me and then he would hurt me. Plus, this is more special than any of my previous relationships and I want it to last," Faith said.

"That's fine, Faith. Whatever you need. I'll wait for you," Buffy said and embraced Faith again.

"So when do you want to tell the other's that we are a couple?" Faith asked.

"As soon as possible, but if we do tell them now they would all have to come to this room, because you are not getting out of bed," Buffy said switching back into her "motherly" mode.

Faith smiled and said, "That's cool," and thought to herself, I love it when she does that.

"I'll go get them," said Buffy and with that she got off of Faith's bed and carefully walked to the next room.

There she spotted Spike and realized that he was going to be really upset. He was in love with her and she didn't share his feelings. And then she realized that he was going to find out one way or the other and it would be better if he found out by being told instead of seeing Buffy in Faith's arms. "Hey, Spike," Buffy said and before she could say anything else he gently picked her up and kissed her.

"I'm glad you're awake, luv," he said softly in her ear.

"Um. thanks Spike. But could you put me down? Faith and I have to announce something and we need everyone in the room with us, so could you put me down?" Buffy said and he gently laid her down. "Oh, and could you see if you find everyone else.?" she added and he nodded and walked away slightly angry at her reaction to his kiss.

Buffy walked back into the room and said to Faith, "This is going to be harder than I thought. Spike and I were kind of dating before you came." Faith looked at her with wide eyes.

"Oh, my god. I'm sorry! We don't have to say anything. we don't even have to do anything." said Faith.

Buffy shook her head and said, " No, I want to do this. I just don't know how Spike is going to react. He just kissed me in the hall. I just don't want to hurt him. but at the same time I have to. We'll tell him, and if he gets hurt, I'll just explain to him why it has to be this way."

"How I'm going to react to what?" Spike asked with Willow, Giles, Angel, Anya, Wood, and, at Willow's insisting, Kennedy behind him.

"Oh, um, come in here and we'll tell you," Buffy said bracing herself for his reaction. They walked in and stood or sat in various places around the room.

"Alright then, what did you need to tell us?" Giles asked.

"Uh. ok, so. um. I'm not sure if this is a great time to tell you, but we figured you should know so that you wouldn't have to ask questions later. Okay, so Faith and I. are a couple." said Buffy and held Faith's hand. No one said anything. They just sat there and stared. A few of them were sputtering responses. Well, Angel wasn't doing any of this, but he had realized this was going to happen sooner than everyone else. Spike had a neutral look on his face.

"Wow. When did this happen?" Willow said breaking the silence.

"Oh, well, officially it started a couple of minutes ago," Buffy said.

"Okay then. I guess congratulations, and now let's get back to training," Angel said starting to leave the room.

"Is that all you have to say? I mean this is pretty big, I never would have thought this was going to happen and all you can say is congrats now lets get back to work?" said Xander.

"Well I kind of guessed it was going to happen. I'm not really surprised and I personally wouldn't like it if people bombarded me with questions on my relationship," Angel said and after he said that it was as if Spike cracked and he just left the room.
"Well, I guess you're right, Angel. Let's leave them alone. Oh, and Buffy, you might want to have a talk with Spike," Giles said and escorted everyone out of the room.

"Well that went better than I thought." Buffy said thinking about Spike.

"Giles is right. You need to talk to Spike. I mean you two were together and you didn't even say anything to him before everyone else," said Faith who was feeling extremely sorry for Spike.

"I know. I will, I promise. But I feel kind of tired right now so do you mind moving over so that I can get a little sleep?" Buffy asked edging into the bed with Faith.

"Hmmmm. sure," Faith said as she and Buffy snuggled together and fell asleep.

Meanwhile Spike was walking around the town.

*That stupid bitch. I can't belive she took Buffy from me! I hate both of them. I'm going to kill that bitch Faith.* His thoughts continued on like this for sometime when suddenly he found himself surrounded by bringers. Caleb emerged from the group.

"Well lookey here. One of the slayers little helpers," Caleb said apparently recovered from his run in with them the night before.

"I don't want to fight you," Spike said walking toward Caleb.

"I don't blame you. You would die trying," he said smirking as usual.

"No, it's not that I don't think I could beat you. I would rather join you," said Spike.

"Oh really? Well follow me and we'll have a little talk with my boss about that," and with that the bringers surrounded Spike and Caleb led them to the first as if the were children following the pied piper.

Author's note:

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