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Maineiac: Thanks. I don't like Robin. Mostly because he tried to kill Spike. Glad you like it. Thanks for reviewing.
ztacel: I'm glad you think so. I agree. There needs to be more Tru/ Buffy fic. LOL Um, I don't think I will be making Faith like Tru. They are each going to have thier own respective powers.
Allen Pitt: Yeah, I agree with that too. But that's something she's just going to have to deal with. I think Tru will remember Faith. LOL Yeah, Faith makes Harry look like Giles!
Ch. 2 Time To Think
She had three hours of driving to do. Why had she gone so far? All she wanted was a hot bath and a soft bed. And her lover back.
Faith forced those thoughts out of her head. He wasn't coming back, and that was the end of it. She wasn't looking forward to facing the others after how she had acted. Buffy was the only one she wanted to talk to. Buffy understood.
Well, she supposed Xander did too; but he wasn't good at the comforting thing. He tended to get flustered.
She wished her motorcycles' radio worked. She'd have to fix it when she got the time. It had been broken for a week or so, ever since she'd hit a large demon with it. Flashback:
"My poor baby!!" Faith screeched, stroking her motorcycle and grimacing at the dents and scratches. She gave the demon a very brassed off look and suddenly stormed over and gave it's carcass a good kick.
"Honey, the demon is dead." Robin had said amusedly.
"Doesn't mean I can't kick his ass some more." Faith replied, scowling down at the rapidly dissapearing mass of grey lumps.
"We'll fix the bike." He said soothingly. "Come on, lets go home"
End flashback/
Home was where Faith definately was not going. She was going to Buffys' and stay in bed for the rest of her life.
Buffy'd have something to say about that. Faith would just have to play dead. She sighed as she realized that was not an option. Robin wouldn't want her to give up.
"Fight the good fight." She muttered.
2
Three hours later she pulled up in front of the building Buffy and co. occupied. It just so happened that Buffy was coming home from patroll.
"Faith!" Buffy exclaimed. "Are you okay? We've been looking everywhere for you!"
"Relax B, I'm as okay as I can be." But she wasn't. As she said it, her face crumpled up and she dissolved into tears.
Buffy came forward and pulled her friend into a hug. She'd got there first the night before, when Faith called for help. The brunette slayer had been hysterical. When Buffy had checked him and found no pulse she'd looked up to see Faith jump on her bike and jet. Normally she would have been angry; but she understood this time. She would have done the same.
Buffy and the others had called the police and taken care of things. There was no need to mention Faith at all. Her record had been cleared as a favor from some grateful people they had rescued; but it was a risk too big to take.
"Oh god, Buffy, I love him so much!" Faith sobbed into her best friends shoulder.
Buffy just held on to her. "I know you do." She was thinking about Spike. She hadn't realized how much of a constant he was in her life until he was gone. At least she'd told him, no matter if he didn't believe her.
The two slayers stood out in the cold wind hugging each other.
2
Tru Davies was having a nightmare. There were bright colors everywhere; but something was wrong and her mother was crying. Baby Harrison was crying too, clutched tightly in her mothers arms.
Someone was screaming. Tru wished they would stop. Then she realized it was her. "Faith! Faith!"
Tru woke up with a start. She was crying. She always cried when she had that dream. It made her feel like a child again. The way she had felt on that day. Absolutely helpless.
She remembered it like a movie she had watched in slow motion. She had been behind her mother, eating an ice cream cone like her sister and suddenly Faiths hand was gone from hers. She turned around to see what was wrong.
The tears slipped from her eyes as she remembered the look on Faiths' face. Total and absolute terror was in her eyes. Until they had closed, for the men used something Tru now knew to be chloroform on her sister. Tru had been frozen. Frozen until the men ran away with her twin. Then she remembered dropping her ice cream on the floor and just screaming.
Her mother had been on autopilot for weeks. Her father took over a lot of caring for her and Harry until one day her mother had just got up and made breakfast. The police had been no help. Tru had spent a day with detectives telling them over and over everything she had seen.
Tru caught sight of her alarm clock and shook herself out of her misery. She got up and went to shower.
2
Faith and Buffy were lying on Buffys bed eating chocolate Ice cream. Faith was only halfway aware of what she was doing. Buffy had gotten her to take a shower and lent her some pajamas.
"You're welcome to stay here as long as you want." Her friend had told her. "I can send someone over to your place in the morning to get you some clothes."
"Thanks B." Faith sniffed. "I don't want to go there ever again."
They were watching a late night movie. Faith hadn't seen it before, and she probably wouldn't remember a damn thing about it in the morning.
Buffys' door opened and a sleepy looking Dawn poked her head in the room. She woke up when she saw Faith.
"Faith! You're back." Dawn walked over to the bed and sat down next to the brunette slayer.
"Hi Dawnie." Faith said tiredly.
Not knowing what to say, Dawn just settled in with them and played with Faiths' hair. After a moment or two Faith turned around and hugged the younger girl.
Dawn hugged her back and noticed how shaky the older woman was. She looked at Buffy and her sister scooted over and added herself to the hug.
Faith just bathed in the love of her surrogate sisters. It was good to be a family once again.
end chapter 2
AN: So so sorry about the sappiness! I just had to do a mushy chapter. I'm having a mood. LOL The next one will be better I swear!