Chapter sixteen - Two Slayers, Two Camps


Faith was in the middle of gym class when Kat and Alyssa came over. This year at camp Kat and Alyssa were trying to win back Faith's trust and friendship. On the first day of camp Faith just ignored them and continued doing her own thing but today was the second day and those girls were already getting on Faith's nerves.

Faith wasn't about to give in to them and fall for their tricks. She knew what they were like and wasn't fooled a bit. She was tough and was going to have to put up with them by herself no matter how annoying they got. Faith was alone in this fight against Kat and Alyssa. Faith didn't want to start up any real fights with them but on the other hand she didn't want to pretend to be friendly and nice to them. Faith was going to try and be in control of the situation. She knew if she didn't handle it well, they would be in control and Faith would have to become just like them.


When the girls came over Faith just walked away, over to the gym mats to practice gymnastics. The girls watched her while she was training and when Faith had finished she walked over to them.


"Kat.. Alyssa.. What do you want from me?" Faith asked.


"Your trust and friendship back," answered Alyssa.


"Huh?! What friendship girl? We never had any true friendship at all. Don't you get it? We were never friends at all. Never!"


"What are you talking about? We took you in, helped you become a better potential," said Kat.


"Took me in? You must be joking. You never 'took me in', I was told I had to be your friend, be like you, and hang around you. I never chose to be your friend. If you think we were friends, we were friends for a minute at most."


"C'mon, you truly know we were friends for longer, you just can't admit it," replied Kat.


"Me? Admit it? You don't even know what you're talking about. And you think you girls were making me a better potential? Well, well, well, you were totally wrong there sweetie. I was a way better potential than you were, right from the beginning. You're the ones who need to be better potentials."


Faith walked away with a smile on her face. Faith now knew she was definitely in charge of the situation and she felt great. Kat and Alyssa had no idea how right Faith was about everything. They were just blown away by what Faith had said to them. They hadn't realized before that someone had the guts to stand up to them.
Even though Faith now seemed happy with a smile on her face and all, deep down inside, Faith was feeling the worst she ever felt. She hadn't seen Buffy at all at the camp this year and deep down she knew the Council had done something. Not only did Faith have a bad feeling about Buffy she had been feeling a bad vibe from camp this year, as though someone had used black magic at the where Faith was.


Meanwhile back the Council's headquarters; Wesley was holding another important meeting. Everyone from the previous meeting was there.


"Wesley I have a few questions about your plan. Does Faith know anything about her world not being real? I'm only asking because it's becoming obvious to the older potentials from the real camp that something to do with black magic has happened and Faith being an intelligent girl might have noticed something different," said Travers.


"Not that I know of," replied Wesley, "So far the news is that things with Faith are going just fine. Ethan told me that Faith has been hanging out with those specific girls you chose for the plan and she doesn't know a thing about the black magic."


"Oh really.. Well I heard something quite different Wesley. The news from Mrs. Post is that Faith suspects there is a bad vibe from the camp she is in. Are you sure that your spell for the floating, invisible camp worked properly? It better have, if it doesn't then you'll have your own consequences Wes."


"I'm definitely, completely sure it worked properly and correctly Mr. Travers. Don't have any doubts about the plan. We will fix this problem as soon as possible sir."


"Yes you will. Now for another important question."


"Throw it at me, I can handle anything."


"Yes as I was saying. My other question is, has Buffy been following the requirements for the individual plan? Has she been filling out the booklet?"
"Sorry for interrupting you sir."


"It's okay Wesley. Now answer my question."


"Now I know for sure that Buffy is definitely following our orders. She has been doing her activities in her booklet and has started to adjust to the room. She hasn't even tried to escape once. Not even out the window."


"Well at least there is some good news there, well done Wesley. At the end of the week we will have a perfectly trained potential that will obey us and be an individual when fighting in combat. However that girl Faith is a tough one to change."


"I know Faith is a problem, a difficult one. I just got some news in from Ethan on my laptop that Faith hasn't been hanging around with Kat and Alyssa at all. She has been ignoring them and spoke to them once today but left Kat and Alyssa shocked by whatever she said. Apparently whoever told Ethan that news before had got it all wrong. Later on we can bring those girls back over to the real camp and find out what Faith actually said."


"Reply to the message from Ethan and tell him to get in contact today with Kat and Alyssa, and tell them to come here as soon as possible."


"I'll get onto that straight away sir."


"Everyone is dismissed. Half of you stay on this campus and the other half should go over to the camp where Faith is okay. Hurry along everyone, there's no time to waste."


Wesley walked out of the common room and left Mr. Travers sitting there alone. Wesley walked over to the room where Buffy was and opened the door. Buffy was sitting on her bed, looking at her booklet and filling in the tasks she had to do. Wesley watched her sitting in a chair and Buffy didn't look up once, it was like she was in another world within the real world.


Wesley asked how she was, if she liked it here, if she liked the video from the night before about potentials but there was no reply, she remained dead silent writing in her booklet. Wesley then saw on the desk an old red book. He walked over to the book and picked it up and flicked through the pages. He opened it up to one of the pages and started to read it. Straight away Wesley realized what it was. It wasn't a Watcher's diary; it was a Slayer's diary.

He wondered how Buffy had found something like this. Wesley looked back at Buffy and saw she was still in the same position on the bed. He asked if Buffy liked history, Buffy gave a small nod and looked up at him. He picked up the book and walked out of the room. As Wesley closed the door Buffy yelled out, "That's my book!"

Wesley pretended he didn't hear her and kept walking away.


It was getting kind of late and Mr. Travers was still waiting to hear from Kat and Alyssa. Wesley walked into the room with the red book. Of course Mr. Travers asked what it was and Wesley told him all about it and what happened with Buffy and how she reacted. Finally the two girls arrived and explained what happened earlier that day with Faith. Mr. Travers asked a few questions and talked privately with Wesley about what was to happen next.


Back at the other camp it was getting late as well. For the rest of the day Faith had stayed away from Kat and Alyssa, well at least tried to. She stayed mainly in her cabin after she left her gym class earlier in the day. She opened her suitcase and got out a folder.

Inside were lots and lots of different papers with writing on them. Within the folder there were two other folders. Faith had only vaguely looked at all this last year on camp but never dared to take it all out when she was at home. These papers and folders were what Buffy and Faith had found last year.

Faith looked at one of the folders and she was shocked by what she saw and read. The whole file was about herself, there was a picture of her when she was around eight years old and another taken last year at camp. All the information was about her past, life and what went on at camp last year.

Faith placed the file back in her suitcase and looked at the other file. This one was all about Buffy with similar things to Faith's file except about Buffy. Both files revealed major things about the plan for herself and Buffy. Everything was now revealed to Faith except for the latest idea Wesley had installed for them both.