Faith opened her eyes to feel Buffy pressed on her. She smiled and remembered what had happened the previous day. She couldn't believe that Buffy loved her. She was reveling in it when Buffy said, "Good morning," and put her hand around Faith's waist.

"Hey, sleepyhead. I was just about to wake you. You need to find Spike," Faith said gently stroking Buffy's cheek. Buffy's eyes shot completely open and she jumped out of bed.

"Your right! I have to get dressed and find him," said Buffy frantically running around trying to get dressed. A few minutes later, Buffy was finished getting dressed. She ran up to Faith and kissed her on the cheek saying, "Bye, Babe. I'll be back in a little while." She was just about to run out of the room when Faith called her name. She turned around and Faith said with a smirk on her face, "Don't you want some shoes?" Buffy looked down and realized she had forgotten them. She smiled and hugged Faith saying, "Thanks. I'll see you in a little while."

Buffy walked out of the door and searched the house for Spike who was nowhere to be found. When she reached the kitchen, she saw Giles drinking some tea and Anya and Xander bickering as usual.

"Hey, um, good morning," Xander said when he spotted Buffy.

"Hey Xand, Anya, Giles. Have any of you seen Spike this morning? I need to talk to him," said Buffy.

"Why? Is it because you are banging your old enemy who happens to be a girl?" Anya asked in her usual blunt way. Giles looked at her and Xander elbowed her. "What? I'm just stating the facts. You better hurry up and find him or he might think that he is really bad at sex," Anya said repeating what Buffy was thinking about earlier.

Xander glared at Anya and pushed in front of her whispering, "Just stop talking," and then to Buffy, "Sorry. You know Anya. You probably shouldn't listen to her. I saw Spike leave the house last night, but I never saw him come back. Sorry I can't help you more, Buff. Who knows though. maybe he went for a walk and then the sun started to come up so he had to take shelter in an abandoned. well. place."

"Thanks, you guys. I think I'll look for him," Buffy said leaving the kitchen. She walked outside and began her search for Spike.

Several hours later she still hadn't found anything. She noticed the sun was going down and began to head home when she saw a familiar bleach blonde head coming towards her. When he reached her she said, "Hey, Spike. Can I talk to you?" He nodded gruffly and took her to nearby ally.

"Ok. so, as you know, Faith and I are together. It has nothing to do with you our anything bad in out relationship. It's just. well I think I've always loved her. I just told myself I didn't. Please forgive me," Buffy said looking at Spike with pleading eyes. His, on the other hand, remained hard and cold.

"So what you're saying is that you never loved me. All the times we were together and happy. you weren't really happy. That's fine. I'm not going to cry about something that was never there in the first place," Spike said his gaze never leaving her face.

"Oh, I'm so glad you understand, Spike! I do love you, just in a different way. Your like my brother," Buffy said and noticed that Spike's eyes had still not lightened or warmed.

"I never said I understood. I don't want to be your brother. If your not going to love me. at least I can make you my pet," Spike said and was immediately surrounded by bringers.

"Spike, what is this? Did you go to the First," Buffy said and for the first time seeing the madness in Spike's eyes that she hadn't seen since he got back his soul.

"Yes, luv. I did go to the First and let me tell you, she looks just like you! Well, I'm not really sure if it's a he or a she." at that he chuckled in a way Buffy had never heard him chuckle before. This was not the same Spike that she had grown to love like a brother. This was more like her soulless enemy Spike.

Buffy looked around and saw that there were too many bringers to fight. "Well, if you don't mind, I'm going to leave now. I have to tell the others that you're not allowed in the house, Spike. You've been a bad boy." She said this and then jumped over the wall of bringers surrounding her. Buffy ran down the street and was met with more bringers. A few rushed forward and she began to fight.

MEANWHILE.

WHERE IS SHE? SHE SAID SHE'D BE HOME SOON! EIGHT HOURS IS NOT SOON!" Faith was screaming as she ran around the house.

"Well, Faith, this is a difficult subject. Maybe their talk is taking a while. Or maybe she had a hard time finding him," Willow said trying to calm her down.

"No! I'm going to go out and find her!" said Faith as she stormed out the house. Willow and Kennedy chased her out.

"Faith I don't think Buffy would want you out of bed!" Willow yelled after her.

"I don't care! I feel fine. I've had worse!" Faith yelled back.

"Well, at least let us come with you! If you run into trouble, we could help!" Kennedy screamed.

"Fine. Whatever!" said Faith.

MEANWHILE.

Buffy was loosing badly to the bringers. She was bruised and cut all over and it seemed that for everyone she killed, there was ten more bringers to take its place. It didn't help that every once in a while Spike had them hold her while he tortured her. Right then was one of those moments. He brought his fist back and punched her in the eye. He quickly followed that with an uppercut. She just couldn't seem to just loose consciousness.

When it seemed that death was imminent, she saw Faith running up, followed by Willow and Kennedy. Willow immediately stopped running and began a spell to throw the bringers off of her. Spike turned around and laughed as if he was Caleb and said, "Well look who's here! The slayerettes!"

The bringers dropped Buffy and began to fight with Kennedy and Faith. Willow threw fireballs at several of the bringers who burst into flames upon impact and then ran around screaming until they eventually died. Spike began to advance on Faith when he suddenly stopped. He looked back at Buffy who had finally fallen unconscious from fatigue. Who shook his head and then called the bringers back. Faith, Kennedy, and Willow were grateful for this, as they themselves were growing tired. Spike yelled something muffled by their own heavy breathing and he and the bringers ran away.

Faith thought that maybe the sane Spike was still there when he yelled back at them, "You beat us this time. but we'll be back for more."

Faith looked at him and said, "Can't these evil guys come up with better lines?" After saying this, the three ran to Buffy who was still out cold.

"She looks pretty beat up. maybe a couple broken ribs. sprained ankle. I guess you could say the usual injuries, just more of them," Willow said quickly checking Buffy.

"Good. Let's get her home," Faith said as she moved some stray strands of hair out of Buffy's face and gently picked her up as they began their walk home.

LATER.

When they arrived everyone bombarded them with questions, but the only answer they would give was, "We're really tired. We're gonna clean ourselves up and go to bed. We'll tell you everything in the morning. If Spike comes home, don't let him in."

So they cleaned up and fixed up Buffy. When they finished, Faith said, "Thanks, guys. I couldn't have done that alone. I can take it from here." Willow and Kennedy took the hint and left the room.

"Hey, Buff. You really scared me tonight. I didn't know where you were. If anything happened to you I. well I'm not sure what I would do, but someone would die. Ha ha. then again I don't even have the courage to tell you this when you're awake. I love you and I would do anything for you. Even die if it was necessary. I love you more than you can ever know. You have no idea how hard it is for me to see you get hurt or for me to not kiss you every time I see you. I just want you to know. even it is subconsciously. that I will protect you no matter what," Faith said and tucked Buffy into bed adding, when she was finished, a little kiss. "Goodnight, my love."

Unbeknownst to her, Buffy was awake.

Author's note: So how is it? Sorry I haven't written in a while. stupid teachers. Anywayz, thanks to:

Joshua: I'm glad you like it. hope ya like this 1 2!

Denise: Hey! I tried to get a little kiss in this chapter even though it was just a peck. The end was for you so I hope you like it!

Terry: Hi. I'm glad you like my ending! Hope you like this one too!

Kairo: Hi! I'm happy you like my story so far. hope you like this part too!

Davide: I'm glad you like it. Hope you like this one too!

BrownEyes: Hi. I'm glad you liked my last chapter! I hope you like this one too!

Demonblues: Hey! I'm glad you like it so far! I hope you like this one also!

Hugo: I'm happy you like it. Hope you like this one too!

Whispers: Hi! I'm glad you like my story! I love Buffy/Faith pairing too! I hope you like this one too!

And once again a big thanks to everyone who reviewed! The next one is going to take a while. I'm going on vacation for a week and a half and when I get back it's Thanksgiving so I'm gonna be doing family stuff and then I'm going to an Evanescence concert in another city for a couple days so. Please keep reading and I'll update as soon as I can. I promise! Bye! ~Jordan~