Part 5

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AN: Hello again!!!!!!! Sorry I haven't really updated anything for AGES. I've been really sick and yeah, anyway, here's the next part. Please keep the reviews coming, I'm in a rush so I can't reply to the last reviews now, I will next time maybe. Please read and review! Thanks guys!!!!!!

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"What do you mean she's gone?" Angel asked the next morning.
"I woke up this morning and she'd left. No note, nothing." Dawn said.
"Perhaps she went for a morning walk?" Giles tried to offer a suggestion.
"I woke up over four hours ago," Dawn replied.
"I can't believe she'd just leave," Xander said.
"Well, she did say feel she didn't belong," Willow replied.
"What's going on?" Buffy asked groggily as she slowly came down the stairs.
Angel scurried over and helped support her as she walked over to the group. "You're not supposed to be up, honey," he said. She just shot him a "don't-even-try" look.
"Hey Buffy, how you feeling?" Willow asked.
"Fine," she replied. Giles and Angel looked at each other and rolled their eyes. "So what's happening?" She asked.
"Faith's left," Dawn said matter-of-factly.
Buffy's eyes grew large in horror. "What do you mean, left?"
"She's gone. Left early this morning."
"No way, she wouldn't leave. Something's definitely happened."
Buffy, you heard what she dais last night. She was gonna leave and doesn't think she belongs here." Xander said.
"No, trust me, she wouldn't just run off, not now. Something's happened," as Buffy got more and more distressed she found it harder to breathe and began coughing. "Angel, she saw the photo frame, she knows I want her here. Something's happened, I just know it has."
"OK ok, we'll go out and look for her. Only if you promise to go back to bed," he said claming her down. "Deal?"
"I wanna help."
"You bed, we search. Deal?"
Buffy looked stubborn.
"Deal?" Angel insisted.
"Fine," Buffy finally caved in, "but check the cemetery first, that's where I was gonna go."
"OK. Dawnie, can you take care of your sister?"
"Sure"
"Giles, willow –you check the streets around here. Xander and I will head to the cemetery."
"There's no need," Buffy said looking out the window.
Through the window Faith slowly and painfully limped up the driveway, every single step taking all her energy.
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Giles and Dawn researched the symbol on the necklace wile Xander did "Buffy watch" as he called it, and Willow and Angel tended to Faith's Wounds.
"C'mon Xander, can't I PLEASE go to her " Buffy pleaded from her bed.
"Nope," Xander said, "I'm under strict instructions from the vamp-man to not let you leave that bed. Faith will be fine Buff, you just have to concentrate on getting better yourself."
Buffy just groaned and threw her head back on her pillow.
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Faith sat on Dawn's bed wearing her black pants and a black sports bra. She winced slightly as Willow dabbed a wet cloth with ointment on a cut on her forehead. Angel gently lifted her arms above her head so he could tend to the wounds on her ribs and stomach.
"Uh-uh, nooooo way. You're not gonna touch those," Faith said, "It'll kill."
"Don't worry Faith, I'll be gentle. I've had to deal with an injured slayer many times."
"OK, point taken. Still, it'll hurt." Faith pouted which of course made Angel laugh. "What?" she asked.
"You just remind me of Buffy, that's all. Guess it's a slayer thing. You're all tough when it comes to the fighting and be-heading, but when you're injured – you're a big wuss." Faith didn't know whether to feel insulted or complimented. On one hand, he said she was like Buffy, but on the other, he was calling her wussy. She decided not to respond and to just keep pouting. Angel motioned for Willow to help him and she went to the opposite side of Faith.
"Oh my gosh Faith!" Willow exclaimed.
"What?" Angel asked coming over.
"It looks like she's been slashed, look how deep that goes." Willow said pointing to a huge gash that started on the top of her rib and went diagonally half way across her stomach. IT was bloody and already severely bruised, They couldn't see how deep it went, but it definitely would need stitches eventually. Angel gently touched the end of it which cause Faith to yelp loudly in pain.
"That's one ugly gash you got there," he said.
"It'll be fine," she said stubbornly, pulling away.
"Again, is it a slayer thing? Why don't you girls ever admit it when you're hurt?" Angel asked.
"I'm fine."
"really?," Willow asked sarcastically. She then touched Faith on the rib and she gasped in pain. "Funny, I don't call that fine," Willow said smiling. She got out a bandage as Angel dabbed ointment along the gash.
"Geez, Buffy has trained you well," Faith said, "that WAS gentle."
"Thanks. Now, this is gonna sting for a little while but it'll help, ok?"
"Ok"
"ready?"

"Yup," Faith gulped.
"OK." He and Willow wrapped a large bandage around Faith's stomach as she cried out in pain.
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Well there you have it, sorry, I know it doesn't really have much of a cliffhanger but anyway! Hope you all liked it, please REVIEW NOW!!!!

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