Chapter six – Changes

Buffy was now scared, she didn't really want to change, she knew this place was a bad place and now she couldn't trust anyone, not even her watcher Giles. Buffy wanted to go home and tell her mother about all the bad things that had happened and how she never wanted to come back again.

As she entered the building, a man who worked for Quentin took Buffy and showed her where she would be sleeping and gave her a booklet which told her when her classes were.

The cabin had nine other beds besides Buffy's. Each potential got a bed, night stand and a small cupboard for their belongings.

Buffy just stood there quiet while the man walked away and then Buffy looked around at all the other beds. She was about to go over to her bed and start unpacking when the door of the cabin swinged open and a girl yelled out,

"Your not supposed to be in here! You should get out now otherwise you'll get in trouble with the Council."

Buffy turned around and she noticed something familiar about the girl, it was Faith. But before Buffy could say a word, Faith had run out the door. Buffy quickly ran out the door after Faith but once she ran into the field where all the potential slayers were training, she had no hope in finding Faith.

Faith ran back to the field and found her friends Kat and Alyssa. Her friends asked where she had run off to before because their trainer had asked where she was. Faith just told them that she had forgotten to do something earlier. The three of them continued their training together talking about the potentials they had met earlier that week.

 Faith didn't like talking about that topic much when she first met the girls but as the days went on she could just about talk about anything with them. Kat and Alyssa became her best friends, when Faith had first been taken through the forest she had been instructed to hang out with Kat and Alyssa but had never been told why. Kat and Alyssa were very nice to her because they were told that Faith was different from the rest and that she was only new and had to learn from the best and had to change and they were the ones who could change her.

 Kat and Alyssa at times could be very mean to their class mates but Faith didn't always join in with them but when she did join in, she changed, she wasn't like the Faith Buffy had met on the first day.

The bell rang and it was time for lunch, all the potentials ran to the dinning hall, it was like a herd of animals running to a water whole.

Buffy quickly moved out of the way trying not to get knocked over and at the same time looking for Faith.

She spotted Faith and started to follow her and saw that Faith was walking with two other girls who looked a bit older than herself and Faith. She called out to Faith and Faith heard her but kept talking to her two friends. Buffy just thought that maybe Faith didn't hear her over everyone else.

Buffy ran up to Faith and said, "Hi Faith.. remember me.. Buffy?"

Instead of Faith replying, Katrina replied instead  and said, "Faith doesn't know anyone who's this short and has the name of Buffy, so go away!"

Buffy didn't cry and run away but she just turned around slowly and walked away, but while she turned around she saw Faith give a little wave to Buffy. Buffy then smiled back and kept walking towards the hall and started to cry.

Alyssa started yelling at Katrina because of what she said to Buffy and they started to fight and Faith had to break them up and yelled at the both of them.

 "Stop it! Stop it! This won't do anything!"

They both managed to stop fighting after that. Faith explained to them both that she did know that girl. She told them she met her on the first day of the camp and after  they had met Faith had been taken through the forest to here.

 Katrina said, "Oh! So that's the girl you met earlier this week, I suppose now you'll go off running after her and will be friends with her not us.You know you'll get in trouble, your meant to hang out with us and be our friends!"

Faith replied with, "If I had the choice of who my friends were here, I would never had picked you two as my friends, but guess what…. I didn't have a choice okay! I was just told I had to hang out with you two, act like you two, fight like you, walk like you, talk like you, practically be you. They tried to change me, I never wanted to be changed, I liked the way I was okay. I wanted to…"

Alyssa interrupted with "Yeah… well you just have to put up with the way 'we' do things okay or else we will report you to the council and you won't like the way they deal with people like you, but if you want to get in trouble with the council go ahead and follow that silly little girl. Maybe that's the type of people you would choose as your friends.. get out of here go!"

Katrina joined in too "Go Faith! Get out of our faces! Go away!"

Faith felt like she was going to cry herself a river but she stopped herself so they wouldn't call her a cry baby, she just continued walking away from them towards the hall where Buffy had gone.

Faith saw Buffy straight away, she was sitting by herself at a table at the back at on the right. Faith called out to Buffy and Buffy turned around and when she saw that it was Faith she smiled, she now had hope in having a friend.

 "So who were those girl back there?" asked Buffy.

Faith replied with " 'friends'"

"Those were you 'friends'?"

"Yeah, they were. Well when I was taken through the forest I was practically instructed and told to hang out with Kat and Alyssa and to act like them, fight like them and everything,"

"Woah … back up here, they actually told you to act like them and everything? Tough life back here through the trees and I thought I had it tough over at Junior potential camp, poor you."

 "Yeah I had it tough since the beginning. You have to be careful B, strange things happen here, they try to change you, they changed me, they get girls like Kat and Alyssa to change the new potentials, change they way they act, walk and all those other things, they try to shape us all into one type. I couldn't help it, they changed me until just now, after they said that stuff about you back there, that's when I figured out what they were doing to me and all those others girls. Katrina and Alyssa just then warned me that I would get into trouble because I was now not following their rules and I would get into trouble with the Council for not behaving, for not being their friends. It's scary, the Council made me be friends with them, it's sorta like they threatened me to be friends with them, they just told me straight away that I had to be friends with them and to hang out with them and that was that. I didn't have choice in choosing my friends and now that I have walked away from Kat and Alyssa and were not hanging out, I know something bad is going to happen because I've probably upset the Council, I've stepped outta line, I'm not playing their rules."

Buffy just sat their quiet amongst the loud noises that came from everyone else. Faith looked at Buffy, who was speechless and shocked, Buffy had shock face.

Faith got up and went over to the bench and got her lunch and got something for her and Buffy to drink, since Buffy already had something to eat. When Faith got back to the table, Buffy no longer had shock face and they both started talking about normal things, talking about things that they would have talked about just after they met each other for the first time but instead, instead of getting a chance of talking Faith was taken away.

So now was the time to catch up and talking about what had happened in their different places but they were interrupted by a loud bell and a message which was read over the loud speaker.

"Attention potentials, the rest of  your classes for the day are cancelled because The Council have just got a message that a problem has come up with two of the potential slayers," said a young lady.

Buffy and Faith both looked at each other knowing that they had caused the problem.