Piper waited for the coffee to finish brewing while she smiled at the
thoughts of the night before. She had loved making love to Faith all night
long, and more than that, she had loved listening to Faith talk lying naked
in her arms. Overall, to her the night had been just perfect.
"How long have you been watching me?" She gave a quick look at her beautiful lover and turned her attention back to the coffee pot. "How long have you been smiling like that?" Faith joined the eldest witch from behind. "Since the day I met you." Piper replied tightening Faith's embrace. "Well then. That's how long I have been watching you." Faith replied in barely a whisper into Piper's ears, which made the blood rush downward for both the women. Making Piper lean backwards and tilt her head so that she could kiss her lover. "Ahemmm" Phoebe walked in with a grin on her face. "You can continue, I just wanted you to know you have company." "Why are you up so early?" Piper asked not even attempting to free herself from Faith's arms. "So I could watch you two in action. Why else?" Phoebe had to tease her sister, "Not to mention get introduced to a very sexy stranger who spent the night at OUR home." Faith untangled her hands from Piper's waist to greet the younger Haliwell.
"Hi! I am Faith." "Faith, now I already knew that. And I am Phoebe, which you already knew too. But, doesn't it feel good to shake hands?" Phoebe said not willing to let go of Faith's hands. "Phoebe let go of her hand." Paige said entering the kitchen. Piper glared at her sister while Faith just looked around little embarrassed by everything. "Did my OLDER sister tell you that you are very sexy?" Phoebe asked ignoring her sisters and just staring at Faith. "Yes, she did. The moment she woke up this morning in HER SEXY ARMS." It was Piper who answered for Faith. "Ignore her Faith. I am Paige by the way, the youngest and the wisest sister. Phoebe always goes after who ever Piper likes. So, the key is to ignore her." Paige said trying to rescue her sister's lover. "That is not true. I don't go after everyone Piper likes; just the sexy and good looking ones." Phoebe protested. "Then I must say I am flattered. Even though, there is plenty of me to go around." Faith winked at Phoebe siding with her. "I like her Piper." She said, for the first time taking her eyes off Faith. "Get that Phoebe." Piper said trying to get rid of her sister. "You get it." Phoebe just couldn't let go of an opportunity to annoy her sister who seemed so peaceful after a long time. "WE WILL GET IT." Paige pulled Phoebe along as she wanted leave her sister alone, which certainly Phoebe didn't realize.
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Buffy waited in anticipation for the door to open. She was hoping that this time Faith would answer the door. They had reached San Francisco at the crack of dawn and had managed to find Faith's apartment without getting lost too. But, when they had knocked on the door and waited there for hours, it was apparent that Faith was not home and was not coming anytime soon. It was then that they had decided to call Giles and see if council had given him any alternative address for Faith, like her work address. Giles had taken couple of hours to get back to them. When he did, he had given them the address that Buffy had just rung the bell for. As she waited she wondered why Faith would be in a house that looked like old money. She assumed maybe she was doing some construction work inside.
Paige and Phoebe opened the door to a little surprised slayer. "Can I help you?" Paige asked. "I was looking for Ms.Spencer, Ms.Faith Spencer. But looks like I got the wrong address. Sorry to have bothered you." Buffy started to leave. "Well, Faith is here. If you are looking for dark haired about this high, extremely hot woman?" Phoebe had to add the last bit. How can one not, she thought. "Who is looking for her is what she was trying to ask." Paige glared at her sister for being so forward with information. "Oh! I am an old friend of hers. We desperately need to talk." Now, all Buffy wanted to do was pass through those obviously stupid looking women and see Faith. "Come on in." said Phoebe as she let the blond woman in. Paige was not happy about the fact that Faith had already given their address to her friends when she herself had not been in the house even 24 hours.
"Phoebe who is it?" Piper walked into the living room with Faith right behind her. "B, what are you doing here?" Faith asked staring at the older slayer who had just walked in. "Faith finally." That's all she managed to say as she walked quickly to Faith and pulled her into a long overdue hug. Faith hesitated for a moment or two and then pushed Buffy off of her. "Geez thanks B. I never remember being ever greeted so warmly by you." "Faith we have been looking all over for you, for months. You just left and even Angel had no idea where you had gone. I thought of every worst case scenario and I was so scared." "Sorry B. Didn't think I was going to be missed. If I remember correctly the only time you smiled was whenever I left." Faith moved away from Buffy to give herself some breathing room. "That is not true and you know it." Buffy could not believe that Faith still believed that she wanted her gone. For a moment she paused to remember if that night had really happened or it was just a figment of her imagination. Of course it had to have happened. But if it had happened, then she didn't understand why Faith was acting as though nothing had.
Piper was very anxious for the conversation to continue, as she could clearly tell that even though Faith was trying her best to act non-caring, there was some kind of definite sexual tension going between the two women. The feeling didn't make her comfortable but she certainly wanted to be there to hear the end of it.
Just then the light shimmered and Leo appeared. Paige was now in a state of rage, not only was the house listening to two women that were strangers to them, now Leo had just appeared in front of them. Who was going to explain to them who Leo was, and how he appeared like that. "Leo what are you doing? We have company." She yelled through clenched teeth. "I know. You must be the chosen two. The slayers." Leo said, looking at the two new women in the Halliwell living room. "Yeah and who are you?" Buffy asked growing skeptical of the people around her. She was wishing more than ever that Faith hadn't got herself onto the wrong side again. "He is our white-lighter." Piper replied still surprised as how Leo knew them. "They are witches. Good witches." Faith added to make sure that Buffy didn't think that she was in some kind of harm. "Yes. They are good witches. Have you told them about the First?" Leo asked excited at seeing the slayers that he had only heard about. "What First? The one Buffy totaled once upon a time ago?" Faith asked, now very curious as to who Leo was, and what he knew. "Well, I did, but he is back, trying to open the hell mouth." Buffy replied grimly. "Yes, he is back and he is doing more than that. Once the hell mouth is open, he can take over the world with evil. That's why you have to stop him." Leo said trying to make sure that everyone understood the seriousness of the situation. "We know the routine." Faith replied to clear some air. "It's not that simple this time. He has got everyone that could help him. Demons, vampires, orgs, warlocks, you name it he has it. He has already wiped out your council in every country. He also knows about your group trying to round up potentials." Buffy was amazed by the amount of knowledge Leo possessed. "So, who are you and how do you know all this?" She asked still not being able to trust him. "Like you have watchers, witches have white-lighters. Witches have supernatural powers, and we possess few ourselves. Then we have elders, who possess knowledge of past and present, sometime even future. More or less like your council but we are not mortals. That being said, the reason I was sent today was to join the Charmed Ones with the Chosen Two, to vanquish the First." None of them said a word. So, Leo continued looking at the two slayers. "You have to admit. You need all the help you can get and they are very powerful witches." Just then Xander, Willow and Tara entered looking for Buffy. Willow was taken aback by the number of people in the room, and the look of something very important being discussed there in every one of their faces. "Tara!" Leo recognized the young witch immediately and walked up to her to give her a hug. "Leo. My god! I never thought I would see you again." Tara said as the hug ended. "The elders didn't tell me that you might be here." "Well, we." She paused and pulled Willow towards her, "This is Willow." "Oh! This is Willow. Hi." He said apparently recognizing the red head even though Willow was just baffled by everything that was going on. She just returned the greeting as a polite gesture. "Well, we are friends with Buffy." She said looking at the blond slayer, "And Faith." She added seeing the dark slayer in the room. "And they are the Charmed Ones." She added once again before Leo could tell her. "Everyone knows everyone. Isn't that just cheezy?" Faith was as curious as everyone else but she just had to say something. "Buffy, the First killed one of the potentials. We have to go back as soon as possible." Tara said ignoring Faith. Even though Buffy had confessed her love for the dark slayer, Tara was still uncomfortable with Faith's very domineering attitude. "Ok, Faith coming? And you guys can follow us." Buffy returned to her slayer self as now the whole room was to be involved in their fight. Her talk with Faith had to wait. "You don't have to go by cars. Paige can orb you there. I cannot because the First has blocked out all the mystical creatures from the area. Only mortals, even the ones with powers can go through." Leo said trying to save time. "Sure I'll be the means of transportation." Paige said not liking the sound of Leo's assumption. "Leo, you haven't once asked if we even want to help them." "Of course we want to help them." Piper stared at Paige, surprised at her sister's protest. "Well, I just think that we should at least talk it through as sisters as how we are going to help them before we all jump the guns." Paige replied obviously annoyed. "Ok. Why don't you orb everyone to Sunnydale then, come back and discuss and then go back." Leo said attempting to keep everyone happy and rush at the same time. "Sure. Who is coming?" Paige asked. Xander was the first one to step forward as he was feeling lost in the room full of gorgeous women and due to some weird reason he wanted to go back to his girlfriend desperately. Willow and Tara followed their friend and waited for Buffy, while Buffy waited for Faith. "Let me make the next trip guys. I need to take care of few things here." Faith said realizing that she was holding the line. "I'll wait for Faith." As soon as Buffy said those words the impatient Paige simmered into thin air with the scoobies. "You should have gone B. I just needed make some calls to my work, clean up and pack some of my shit." "I could help." Buffy certainly didn't want to leave Faith out of sight now that she had finally found her. "Or I could help." Piper was now glaring at the blond woman that obviously was a threat to her. Faith walked up to Piper and took her hand in hers. "I am sure you need to call the club and make arrangements yourself. I just need to make sure that after we save the world I have a home to come back to. I'll be back as soon as possible." Faith leaned forward and placed a light kiss on Piper's lips. "Got a ride B?" She now turned to the older slayer. "Yeah, I got the car right outside." Buffy replied blankly still not being able to absorb what she had just seen. "I can orb you two to your apartment. Call the manor when you are ready and I can orb you back." Leo intervened once again to save time. He held the two slayers on his either side and simmered. As Piper watched, the feeling of lightness that she once felt with Faith had now been replaced with the heaviest heart she ever had.
"Wow. I didn't see that coming." Phoebe sat down as soon as everyone disappeared. She looked at her sister who was now staring at the empty space where Faith had stood just few seconds ago. "Did you know that she was a slayer?" Phoebe asked. "Yes, she told me last night. And that is Buffy, the woman who tried to kill her." Piper replied trying her best not to show her fear to her sister. Phoebe got up and walked to her sister, "Are you scared that she might try to kill her again?" "No." Piper nodded her and looked at her sister with eyes which were now filled with tears. "I am scared I might loose her Phoebe." Phoebe comforted her older sister trying to soothe her pain as she tried to get her words out through her tears. "I love her Phoebe. I love her."
"How long have you been watching me?" She gave a quick look at her beautiful lover and turned her attention back to the coffee pot. "How long have you been smiling like that?" Faith joined the eldest witch from behind. "Since the day I met you." Piper replied tightening Faith's embrace. "Well then. That's how long I have been watching you." Faith replied in barely a whisper into Piper's ears, which made the blood rush downward for both the women. Making Piper lean backwards and tilt her head so that she could kiss her lover. "Ahemmm" Phoebe walked in with a grin on her face. "You can continue, I just wanted you to know you have company." "Why are you up so early?" Piper asked not even attempting to free herself from Faith's arms. "So I could watch you two in action. Why else?" Phoebe had to tease her sister, "Not to mention get introduced to a very sexy stranger who spent the night at OUR home." Faith untangled her hands from Piper's waist to greet the younger Haliwell.
"Hi! I am Faith." "Faith, now I already knew that. And I am Phoebe, which you already knew too. But, doesn't it feel good to shake hands?" Phoebe said not willing to let go of Faith's hands. "Phoebe let go of her hand." Paige said entering the kitchen. Piper glared at her sister while Faith just looked around little embarrassed by everything. "Did my OLDER sister tell you that you are very sexy?" Phoebe asked ignoring her sisters and just staring at Faith. "Yes, she did. The moment she woke up this morning in HER SEXY ARMS." It was Piper who answered for Faith. "Ignore her Faith. I am Paige by the way, the youngest and the wisest sister. Phoebe always goes after who ever Piper likes. So, the key is to ignore her." Paige said trying to rescue her sister's lover. "That is not true. I don't go after everyone Piper likes; just the sexy and good looking ones." Phoebe protested. "Then I must say I am flattered. Even though, there is plenty of me to go around." Faith winked at Phoebe siding with her. "I like her Piper." She said, for the first time taking her eyes off Faith. "Get that Phoebe." Piper said trying to get rid of her sister. "You get it." Phoebe just couldn't let go of an opportunity to annoy her sister who seemed so peaceful after a long time. "WE WILL GET IT." Paige pulled Phoebe along as she wanted leave her sister alone, which certainly Phoebe didn't realize.
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Buffy waited in anticipation for the door to open. She was hoping that this time Faith would answer the door. They had reached San Francisco at the crack of dawn and had managed to find Faith's apartment without getting lost too. But, when they had knocked on the door and waited there for hours, it was apparent that Faith was not home and was not coming anytime soon. It was then that they had decided to call Giles and see if council had given him any alternative address for Faith, like her work address. Giles had taken couple of hours to get back to them. When he did, he had given them the address that Buffy had just rung the bell for. As she waited she wondered why Faith would be in a house that looked like old money. She assumed maybe she was doing some construction work inside.
Paige and Phoebe opened the door to a little surprised slayer. "Can I help you?" Paige asked. "I was looking for Ms.Spencer, Ms.Faith Spencer. But looks like I got the wrong address. Sorry to have bothered you." Buffy started to leave. "Well, Faith is here. If you are looking for dark haired about this high, extremely hot woman?" Phoebe had to add the last bit. How can one not, she thought. "Who is looking for her is what she was trying to ask." Paige glared at her sister for being so forward with information. "Oh! I am an old friend of hers. We desperately need to talk." Now, all Buffy wanted to do was pass through those obviously stupid looking women and see Faith. "Come on in." said Phoebe as she let the blond woman in. Paige was not happy about the fact that Faith had already given their address to her friends when she herself had not been in the house even 24 hours.
"Phoebe who is it?" Piper walked into the living room with Faith right behind her. "B, what are you doing here?" Faith asked staring at the older slayer who had just walked in. "Faith finally." That's all she managed to say as she walked quickly to Faith and pulled her into a long overdue hug. Faith hesitated for a moment or two and then pushed Buffy off of her. "Geez thanks B. I never remember being ever greeted so warmly by you." "Faith we have been looking all over for you, for months. You just left and even Angel had no idea where you had gone. I thought of every worst case scenario and I was so scared." "Sorry B. Didn't think I was going to be missed. If I remember correctly the only time you smiled was whenever I left." Faith moved away from Buffy to give herself some breathing room. "That is not true and you know it." Buffy could not believe that Faith still believed that she wanted her gone. For a moment she paused to remember if that night had really happened or it was just a figment of her imagination. Of course it had to have happened. But if it had happened, then she didn't understand why Faith was acting as though nothing had.
Piper was very anxious for the conversation to continue, as she could clearly tell that even though Faith was trying her best to act non-caring, there was some kind of definite sexual tension going between the two women. The feeling didn't make her comfortable but she certainly wanted to be there to hear the end of it.
Just then the light shimmered and Leo appeared. Paige was now in a state of rage, not only was the house listening to two women that were strangers to them, now Leo had just appeared in front of them. Who was going to explain to them who Leo was, and how he appeared like that. "Leo what are you doing? We have company." She yelled through clenched teeth. "I know. You must be the chosen two. The slayers." Leo said, looking at the two new women in the Halliwell living room. "Yeah and who are you?" Buffy asked growing skeptical of the people around her. She was wishing more than ever that Faith hadn't got herself onto the wrong side again. "He is our white-lighter." Piper replied still surprised as how Leo knew them. "They are witches. Good witches." Faith added to make sure that Buffy didn't think that she was in some kind of harm. "Yes. They are good witches. Have you told them about the First?" Leo asked excited at seeing the slayers that he had only heard about. "What First? The one Buffy totaled once upon a time ago?" Faith asked, now very curious as to who Leo was, and what he knew. "Well, I did, but he is back, trying to open the hell mouth." Buffy replied grimly. "Yes, he is back and he is doing more than that. Once the hell mouth is open, he can take over the world with evil. That's why you have to stop him." Leo said trying to make sure that everyone understood the seriousness of the situation. "We know the routine." Faith replied to clear some air. "It's not that simple this time. He has got everyone that could help him. Demons, vampires, orgs, warlocks, you name it he has it. He has already wiped out your council in every country. He also knows about your group trying to round up potentials." Buffy was amazed by the amount of knowledge Leo possessed. "So, who are you and how do you know all this?" She asked still not being able to trust him. "Like you have watchers, witches have white-lighters. Witches have supernatural powers, and we possess few ourselves. Then we have elders, who possess knowledge of past and present, sometime even future. More or less like your council but we are not mortals. That being said, the reason I was sent today was to join the Charmed Ones with the Chosen Two, to vanquish the First." None of them said a word. So, Leo continued looking at the two slayers. "You have to admit. You need all the help you can get and they are very powerful witches." Just then Xander, Willow and Tara entered looking for Buffy. Willow was taken aback by the number of people in the room, and the look of something very important being discussed there in every one of their faces. "Tara!" Leo recognized the young witch immediately and walked up to her to give her a hug. "Leo. My god! I never thought I would see you again." Tara said as the hug ended. "The elders didn't tell me that you might be here." "Well, we." She paused and pulled Willow towards her, "This is Willow." "Oh! This is Willow. Hi." He said apparently recognizing the red head even though Willow was just baffled by everything that was going on. She just returned the greeting as a polite gesture. "Well, we are friends with Buffy." She said looking at the blond slayer, "And Faith." She added seeing the dark slayer in the room. "And they are the Charmed Ones." She added once again before Leo could tell her. "Everyone knows everyone. Isn't that just cheezy?" Faith was as curious as everyone else but she just had to say something. "Buffy, the First killed one of the potentials. We have to go back as soon as possible." Tara said ignoring Faith. Even though Buffy had confessed her love for the dark slayer, Tara was still uncomfortable with Faith's very domineering attitude. "Ok, Faith coming? And you guys can follow us." Buffy returned to her slayer self as now the whole room was to be involved in their fight. Her talk with Faith had to wait. "You don't have to go by cars. Paige can orb you there. I cannot because the First has blocked out all the mystical creatures from the area. Only mortals, even the ones with powers can go through." Leo said trying to save time. "Sure I'll be the means of transportation." Paige said not liking the sound of Leo's assumption. "Leo, you haven't once asked if we even want to help them." "Of course we want to help them." Piper stared at Paige, surprised at her sister's protest. "Well, I just think that we should at least talk it through as sisters as how we are going to help them before we all jump the guns." Paige replied obviously annoyed. "Ok. Why don't you orb everyone to Sunnydale then, come back and discuss and then go back." Leo said attempting to keep everyone happy and rush at the same time. "Sure. Who is coming?" Paige asked. Xander was the first one to step forward as he was feeling lost in the room full of gorgeous women and due to some weird reason he wanted to go back to his girlfriend desperately. Willow and Tara followed their friend and waited for Buffy, while Buffy waited for Faith. "Let me make the next trip guys. I need to take care of few things here." Faith said realizing that she was holding the line. "I'll wait for Faith." As soon as Buffy said those words the impatient Paige simmered into thin air with the scoobies. "You should have gone B. I just needed make some calls to my work, clean up and pack some of my shit." "I could help." Buffy certainly didn't want to leave Faith out of sight now that she had finally found her. "Or I could help." Piper was now glaring at the blond woman that obviously was a threat to her. Faith walked up to Piper and took her hand in hers. "I am sure you need to call the club and make arrangements yourself. I just need to make sure that after we save the world I have a home to come back to. I'll be back as soon as possible." Faith leaned forward and placed a light kiss on Piper's lips. "Got a ride B?" She now turned to the older slayer. "Yeah, I got the car right outside." Buffy replied blankly still not being able to absorb what she had just seen. "I can orb you two to your apartment. Call the manor when you are ready and I can orb you back." Leo intervened once again to save time. He held the two slayers on his either side and simmered. As Piper watched, the feeling of lightness that she once felt with Faith had now been replaced with the heaviest heart she ever had.
"Wow. I didn't see that coming." Phoebe sat down as soon as everyone disappeared. She looked at her sister who was now staring at the empty space where Faith had stood just few seconds ago. "Did you know that she was a slayer?" Phoebe asked. "Yes, she told me last night. And that is Buffy, the woman who tried to kill her." Piper replied trying her best not to show her fear to her sister. Phoebe got up and walked to her sister, "Are you scared that she might try to kill her again?" "No." Piper nodded her and looked at her sister with eyes which were now filled with tears. "I am scared I might loose her Phoebe." Phoebe comforted her older sister trying to soothe her pain as she tried to get her words out through her tears. "I love her Phoebe. I love her."