It had been about two weeks since her split with Willow. She couldn't believe she didn't have her in her life. She had spent some days since she had arrived in Cleveland by herself, crying, and some hanging out with Cedric.

Currently, she was walking down a street. She didn't have a clue as to where she was, but it didn't matter. She had to get out of that apartment, that constant reminder of not having Willow in her life. It seemed to her that every thought was centered around Willow. She missed her. She felt like a part of her was missing without Willow.

Her thoughts were interrupted by a loud crash from some office building. Kennedy heard a woman scream and it was as if something inside her snapped. It was like being a Slayer made her have this need to save and protect. Kennedy loved that feeling. It gave her a reason, something important to do.

She ran to the end of the street where the building was located. When she got there, she looked in the glass doors. Inside she saw two vampires. One of the vampires was feeding off a secretary and the other was going through a file cabinet.

Kennedy tried to open the door, but it was locked, so she took a brick and threw it through the window. It shattered on impact, gathering the attention of the vampires. They were looking at Kennedy, who was now going through the other door. The vampire at the file cabinet signaled for the other to attack as he continued going through the cabinets. The vampire dropped his now dead victim and jumped over the reception desks towards Kennedy.

Kennedy was ready and easily deflected his attempt to snap her neck. She retaliated with a sharp blow to the side of his head. The blow caused minimal damage and he got back up seconds later. He brought his heel to Kennedy's jaw and sent her spinning to the ground. Now on her hands and knees, Kennedy kicked out her leg and tripped the vampire, who fell flat on his back. She jumped up before the vamp could and shoved her stake through his heart, turning him to dust.

She got up from her current position and the vampire looked at her quickly before darting up a nearby hallway, papers in hand. Kennedy ran after him. He had only just turned to the second case of stairs when she reached him. He knew he had been caught, but he fought to get away.

Kennedy pulled him by his greased stained, red shirt and he flew into the wall behind them, dropping the papers as he fell. He jumped up quickly and instead of fighting back, he went after the folders and papers. Kennedy kicked him in the stomach causing him to lose his grip on the papers. Barely a second passed before Kennedy was kicking him again.

He grabbed Kennedy's foot before one of the blows landed and flipped her onto her back. She hit the cement stairs and groaned. Even with all her Slayer powers, that blow caused her to lose her breath. Also, it gave the vampire time to grab some of his papers and run back down the steps.

Kennedy lay there until some of the pain subsided. She straggled to her feet, clumsily. She was in a good amount of pain, but continued on her way. She stopped and picked up the papers the vampire he left behind before she went.

When she got home it was about midnight and she began to disrobe as someone came into the room.

"Yo, Brat."

"How the hell did you get in here?"

"British man downstairs let me in."

"Why would he do something like that?"

"I offered to sleep with him." Kennedy looked at her, skeptically. "Okay, I'm lying. I had to prove to him I was a Slayer. The guy's kinda twitchy."

"Faith, what are you doing here?"

"I need to talk to you."

"Well, talk then." She began to walk into her bedroom. "Talk. I'm listening." She walked into the bathroom. Faith sat down on her bed and looked around her current settings.

"I think you need to come back to England."

Kennedy, through the crack in the door, "Why would I do that?"

"I don't know…to help us. Or you know your girlfriend."

"I don't want to talk about that." Kennedy came out of the bathroom and was now in her pajamas.

"Maybe you need to. Kennedy, what exactly do you have here?"

"Nothing. Is this what you came here to tell me? No, come on, Faith. What reason could possibly provoke you to show up here after all this time and tell me this?"

"She misses you."

"Right, she hasn't made contact and even when I was there she didn't-" She finally sat down beside Faith. "She never wanted me. She didn't love me."

"You don't know that."

"I do. She didn't say it. All we did was- Look it doesn't matter. I got some good going on here."

"Yeah, good. I personally enjoyed the porn channel."

"Look, I know it's not perfect. Far from it, but it's not important."

"We've talked about what you think Willow feels, but how do you feel? Do you want to go home?"

Kennedy sighed. "Yes, more than anything. I miss her."

"Well go, tell her that. Go see her. Keep this place, but go visit her. She misses you."

"Right."

"She was pretty broken last time I saw her."

"What do you mean last time you saw her?"

"Giles sent me and B to Italy to get some info on Slayer stats. Then, when I was done I came here. Me and B thought I could knock some sense into you."

"So you haven't even seen her since the morning after I left?"

"No, but she was crazy upset."

"Upset. She was-" there was a knock at the door. "Hold on."

Kennedy left Faith sitting there as she got up. She walked into the living room and opened the door. It was Cedric; he seemed panicked.

"Did you put these on my desk?"

"Yeah, why?"

"I think we have a serious problem. Is your friend still here?"

"Yeah. Faith come here."

"What's wrong with- Hey, C man. What's up?"

"A lot is up. Kennedy, where did you get these papers?"

"That office building at the end of East. A couple of vamps were feeding on a secretary. I was too late to save the women."

"The papers, Kennedy, where did you get the bleeding papers?"

"The vamp that got away had them. He grabbed the others he had, but I got these. What's the big?" He sat down on the sofa and spread the papers across the coffee table. Kennedy and Faith sat down on both sides of him.

"The big deal is, I think you may have stumbled upon a rivalry between two vampires gangs."

"Wait, there's some wicked vamp rivalry here and Giles doesn't know it. I don't buy it."

"It's not unlikely that Rupert did not. Even with that witch he works with." Kennedy lowered her head, an action that Cedric noticed. "Kennedy, what's wrong?"

"Nothing. I'm fine. Continue."

"What kind of facility did you uncover these documents?"

"Some sorta banking place. You know loans and stuff."

"Then it probably has something to do with one of the groups needing money."

"I guess that's something."

"What do you wanna do about it?" Faith asked.

"Stop it obviously," Kennedy relied.

"Yeah, I got that, Brat. How?"

"We should probably find their lair."

"We could go through the business files, see if some things don't add up or if the owner is involved."

"Good thinking, Kennedy. You can see to that."

"Tonight. I'll go tonight. I just have to change again."

"I'll go with."

"Fine." Kennedy walked into her room and closed the door. Faith looked on after her. Cedric continued to examine the papers.

Now they were walking down the same street Kennedy had taken earlier. They had been walking in silence, until Faith spoke up.

"Look, Brat. I know you think Willow was just in it for the sex, but maybe you're wrong."

"I told you I don't want to talk about that."

"Tough." She stopped and stepped in front of Kennedy blocking her way.

"Move." Kennedy spat.

"You gonna move me?"

"Faith, look. I just want to get on with my life."

"You're stupid. She was your life. Now, because of your stupid pride-"

"This has nothing to do with pride. You honestly believe that if she wanted me I would be here? I would be with her. I could have been with her forever. No one has ever- No one has ever made me feel like she does. She would touch me and the entire world would just disappear. Nothing mattered, nothing but us. It wasn't enough. Me wanting it wasn't enough. It- I wasn't enough. I know you are trying to help, but don't. I don't want it. I just want to continue on with whatever the hell I was before her. Now if you don't mind, I'm working on my second apocalypse."

She pushed Faith out of the way and walked some more. Faith stood there completely taken aback by how much feeling Kennedy had for this one person. It was astounding. She wondered if she would ever feel that intense. She shook her thoughts away and followed after Kennedy.

They were brought to a halt by a officer's hand, as they rounded the corner to the building.

"Hold on there ladies. You can't go in there. It's a crime scene."

"What happened?" Faith asked the officer.

Kennedy shot Faith a "duh" look that was lost on the officer.

"A secretary was murdered."

"Yeah…thanks officer." Kennedy pushed Faith around to the side of the building.

"Okay, what the hell was that look for?"

"Faith, the secretary was the one vamp's meal, remember?"

"Look that doesn't matter. We have to find a way into this office building of hell."

"How?"

Faith looked around and on the side of the building was a fire escape. "There." She pointed and then took off towards it.

"Faith using her brain. There really is an apocalypse coming." She muttered before following Faith.

The fire escape led directly to the roof. There was a window there and two men were inside talking. When the girls leaned against the window, they saw the one guy was actually a vampire.

"That's the vamp from earlier." She whispered to Faith. She then turned her attentions back to the conversation.

"What did you say to the police?" The vampire asked. He ran his hand through his grease-slicked hair, pulling a cigarette out from behind his ear.

"That isn't your concern, Michael. You just worry about getting the money."

"Right, the money. Sir, why do we need money?"

"For the support. Money equals power and allies. Allies equal pain for the enemy. Now stop questioning me and get me what I want. Or-," he went vamp-faced, "I will get very upset."

He walked around the desk and took his cigarette out of his mouth. He took a drag and blew the smoke in his face. "And that would be bad."

He shoved the cigarette into the other vampire eye, "Very bad."

It began to rain.

"Damn it." Faith said as she jumped down behind Kennedy from the fir escape. "Is it always wet here?"

"It's Cleveland, Faith."

"Right, so what do we do now?"

"Tell Cedric. See what he wants to do about this. The boss is obviously into something bad."

"Unless that fat ass was the boss."

"Well, that thing with the cigarette was pretty cool."

"Oh, yeah."

"So are you staying with me?"

"I guess."

"One condition. No talking about what you came for."

"Fine, but I think you're bein' stupid."

"Faith! This situation is so going to bite me in the ass."

"Come on. We can be bestest buds." She wrapped her arm around Kennedy's shoulders.

"Right." She looked at Faith's arm. "You need to remove that before I bite you." She moved her arm away. "Thank you."

"You know what you need? A night on the town. Hit some clubs. Are there any good clubs?"

"I don't know. I haven't been here very long."

"We need to find that out."

They finally arrived back at the warehouse and opened the door. Cedric was sitting at the table studying a book. He looked up from his book when they entered. They were soaking wet and didn't look very happy.

"How did it go?" He asked.

"Swell." Kennedy replied, her voice drenched in sarcasm. She took off her jacket and rung it out.

"What did you find out?"

"We discovered that the vampire is working for who we think is the head of the company. There was really no way of knowing, seeing as how we were on the roof listening. Oh and the boss is also a vamp."

"Maybe the leader of one of the gangs," Faith added.

"Yes, that is a possibility. Okay well good work girls. Why don't you get some sleep? We can dig up more tomorrow."

"Thanks, C man." Faith said, as she squeaked upstairs.

"Night, Cedric." Kennedy said and then followed Faith.

Kennedy and Faith walked down the steps.

"I said stop. I don't want to talk about it."

"Maybe because you know I'm right."

"Right about what?" Cedric asked sitting down his tea.

"Right about the fact that she should go back to Willow."

"Willow?"

"Her girlfriend."

Cedric coughed and both girls looked at him.

"Faith, he didn't know I dated girls."

"Whoops, my bad."

"You have a girlfriend?"

"Remember yesterday when you were talking about Giles having a witch that helps him?"

"Yes, what about her?"

Kennedy, from across the table, "She enjoyed my 'talents'."

Cedric cleared his throat. "Um…well. Okay, yes."

"Can we please stop talking about this now?"

"No, not until you go see her."

"Go see her? Where the hell did that come from?"

"If you don't believe me about her loving you, maybe the best way to know is to, I don't know…ask."

"That would be my opinion." Cedric said in a matter-a-fact voice.

"Okay, look. That's it." She stood up. "I don't wanna hear about Willow or how much she supposedly loves me. I just want to stop thinking about her. It just hurts too much. I've never felt this bad and you aren't helping."

She stood there a minute and now stopping to think, everything came back. Every single event.

"Excuse me," was all she muttered before she walked upstairs.

Faith tried to follow, but Cedric stopped her.

"No, she wants to be left alone."

"No, she wants Willow."

She paused to gather her thoughts.

"You go."

Cedric nodded and then ascended upstairs.

Upstairs, Kennedy was in the kitchen washing dishes. She heard someone come in and lean against the doorway.

"Faith, please, just don't."

"I'm not Faith."

Kennedy turned around. "Cedric."

"Hello." He sat down at the table.

"Hi." She grabbed the hand towel and then sat down too.

"Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, Cedric. I'm just a tad distracted."

"Distracted? You seem to be a little more then sad."

"Well, that too."

"Would you like to talk about it?"

"Not really, no."

"Why?"

"It hurts."

"I'll bet. From the way Faith made it seem you loved her very much."

"I do, but she didn't' love me back. My tongue ring kept her happy, though."

His eyes widen.

"You have a tongue ring?"

"Yeah, Cedric, I have a tongue ring."

"Well," He cleared his throat, "did this girl tell you she didn't love you?"
"No, but I knew. She just looked at me like anything she was going to say would hurt me. So, I left."

"You mean you ran away."

She got up and walked over to the fridge, "Look, I really don't want to talk about this."

"Go back to her, Kennedy. Ask her again how she feels. If she doesn't answer or says no then come back. Not until. Faith and I can handle things here."

"Why do you care about a couple of lesbians anyway?"

He cleared his throat.

"I just think you'll be better off knowing weather or not your reasons for leaving were just and… Faith will leave you alone."

"For a stuffy Brit you are quite compassionate."

"Thank you. Now then be gone with you and while your in England talk to Rupert. I'll call and tell him about the problem." He stood up. "You're a good person, Kennedy and a hell of a good fighter. You deserve to be happy."

He smiled at her and then headed for the door. Kennedy stood there and though about it. It took just second to decide. She smiled and then went into her room and starting packing.

It was early the next morning when she arrived at the airport. She took a cab to the apartment building. She paid the guy and got out. She stood there and looked up at the three story building. She noticed a van parked a couple of cars down. She had never seen it before. She shrugged it off as being someone from across the street.

She walked up the stairs and approached the door. Her door. She was unsure as to weather she should knock or not.

She knocked twice and heard footsteps. All of a sudden the excitement came. She wanted to see Willow so bad.

Willow opened the door and her eyes widen."

"Hey, Will. I uh…needed to talk to you."

"Kennedy."

"I know everything at really screwed up and I left and it all happened so-"

"Willow, I can't find my clean shirt."

Kennedy looked past Willow and saw Oz, shirtless.

"Fast."

Oz, seeing Kennedy, "Oh, hi there."

End Note: Okay, you're gonna have to wait 'til the next chapter for Kennedy's reaction. :p