A/N Thanks for the reviews. There is only going to be like three more chapters after this one. I've decided to go ahead and cut this fanfic short. The chapter after this one will be a filler episode to give the spot light to a few characters. The other two after it will be the last two episodes of season three. Don't worry I'm going to summarize what happens in season three so it leads up to the last two episodes.

Also I really hate to dissappoint any one but this story want have a happy ending to it. Like Joss Whedon said about the last episode of Angel before it aired, you're going to love it, hate it, but it's going to leave you wanting for more. I'm also going to have an alternate ending for this story too. It's also not happy.

Chapter 21

Quickening's, Witches, and Faith pt. 2

New Mexico

Night

A Greyhound-like bus pulls up to a bus station. The door opens and the passengers step out. It's so dark that we can only see that the last person to get off the bus is a girl with a duffel. As she steps into the cone of the streetlight, we see that it is Faith, not looking too good.

"New in town, right?" a guy asks her as she passes by him. He falls in step beside Faith as she keeps walking.

"You got that new in town look. This is a dangerous part of town this time of night for a young lady, you know? Lot of people down here try and take advantage of a situation like that. - Especially if you don't have any money - place to stay. - I might be able to help."

"I'm cold." Faith says as she stops and turns to him.

"Oh, yeah? Warm is my middle name." the guy says as he takes off his leather jacket.

As he is in the middle of taking it off, Faith hits him in the stomach and then in the face. She keeps hitting and kicking him until he falls into unconsciousness. She then leans down and takes his wallet and put's on his jacket.

"Now I'm warm and I got... five bucks!" Faith screamed in outrage as she opened up the sleazes wallet. 'No way I'm going to get to Sunnydale on that.' she thinks to herself as she walks up to the nearest diner.

'I got to find myself an easy mark.' she says scanning the people in the diner. Finally her eyes rest on a girl and a boy probably her own age. With a devilish smirk she walked closer to the dark haired boy and the pretty black girl, to hear what they were saying.


Seeing that he was still hungry and the bus stop was only five minutes away, Xander and Kendra decided to go to the nearest diner.

As they sat down and ate their food, they start to talk about the fact that Kendra started to take some classes during the summer. She was now enrolled in Sunnydale High as a junior. Even though she was going to be a year behind everyone else in school, it was still very exciting for her.

As Xander was finishing the last bites of his food, a dark haired beauty suddenly bumped into him.

"Sorry stud." the girl said as she walked out of the diner.

"Wierd." Xander said looking from the girl to Kendra.

"Yes... wierd." Kendra said getting a strange vibe off of the girl. She wasn't a vampire or a demon, Kendra could tell. But something was off about the girl. Quickly dismissing it she looked up as the waitress came by with their check.

"Hey my wallet's gone!" Xander yelled as he began to feel frantically around in his pockets. Then a thought hit him.

"That girl must have taken my wallet." Xander said as he stood and ran from the diner.

"Sir you still have to pay for..."

"Dis should cover it." Kendra said as she threw a wad of cash on the table. Walking past the stunned waitress, she ran out of the diner, in hot pursuit of her boyfriend and the mystery girl.


Faith didn't get far, as she heard the boy in the diner yell about his missing wallet. Picking up her speed, she ran down the nearest alley and met a fist to the face. The force of the blow sent her sprawling to the ground. As she got her bearings she looked up and saw the last person she ever thought she would see.

"Mr. Trick..." Faith whispered in disbelief.

"Ahhh... you remembered me." the african american vampire said with fake joy. "Now let's see if you remember him." Trick said pointing behind Faith. Still on the ground Faith looks back and see's her tormentor, Kakistos stepping out of the shadows.

"No.." Faith said as she started to crawl backwards.

"Yes..." Kakisto's sneers as he walks toward her. "You're going to pay for what you did to my face." he says as he gestures to his now badly scarred face.


Xander and Kendra lose track of the raven haired girl as they ran out of the diner. As they were about to turn back, Kendra hears the sound of a fight in the distance. Taking off in the direction of the sound, they run down an alley and see a very large vampire knock, the girl who stole Xander's wallet, into a warehouse door.

They watched as the door shattered under the girls weight and she fell into the warehouse.With a growl the huge vampire walked in after her, along with a shorter black vampire.

Giving each other a look, Kendra and Xander run down the alley and head towards the now shattered warehouse door.


"Faith you've led a merry chase..." Kakistos said as he paced around her, while she stayed on the floor. "but now it ends." he says as he raises his hand, ready to deliver a fatal blow.

"I don't tink so." a female voice says from behind him. Turning he is met with a fist to the face that makes him stagger back. Looking up Faith see's that it's the girl and the boy from the diner.

'What the fuck are they doing here?' Faith thought to herself. 'Their going to get themselves killed.'

"So it seems that there's more people to join the party." Trick says as he vamps out. "Well Faith..." Trick said as he looked back at her. "since you've brought your friends, it's only fair that we bring out ours." he says as five vampires emerge out of the darkness.

"Kill them all!" Kakisto's yelled to his minions.


"Kill them all!" the huge vampire roared. As soon as he said this Xander went into his jacket pocket and pulled out two stakes. Cursing himself for leaving his bag at the diner , which had a few weapons in it, he looked over at Kendra.

"Hey Ken." he yelled as he threw her a stake. Snatching it out of the air, Kendra immediately plunged it into the heart of an advancing vampire. As he crumbled into dust the fight was on.

As soon as the ash started to float around her, a pair of increasingly strong hands come out of it making her drop her stake. With a kick to the groin and a punch to the vamps neck, Kendra decides to run.

She then suddenly stops by a bucket, and putting her foot in, kicks it into one of the vampire's faces. He stumbles backward and over a chair. She does a full spinning hook kick to the other vampire and a side kick to another one behind her. He falls backwards over a table. Kendra then runs and jumps onto the table, log rolls over it and kicks him in the back as he tries to get back up. Kakistos however has his one-eyed gaze fixed on Faith.


As soon as the fight started, Xander rolls to a stand on a table. He picks up a crowbar and swings it baseball style at yet another vampire advancing towards him, hitting her squarely in the neck and knocking her down and out. He then looks over and sees Kakistos advancing on Faith.

Seeing that he wasn't going to make it to her in time, he yells to get her attention and throws the crowbar over to her.

Faith catches the crowbar in mid-air, but before she can swing it at Kakistos, he punches her hard and knocks her into a bunch of large wooden beams leaning against the wall. She hits the floor as the beams go tumbling. Trick walks in the shadows calmly, nodding his head and observing the fight.

Xander knife hands his attacker in the neck and throws him into an assisted front tuck off of the table. Kakistos calmly steps up to Faith as she scrambles up against the wall, cowering. He reaches down and grabs her by the shirt, picking her up off of the floor.

"NO!" Faith yells reliving the night of her Watcher's torment in her head.

Once he has her up, he punches her squarely in the face. Xander is no longer on the table, and he roundhouse kicks over it, knocking the legs out from under a vampire standing on it. He rolls off of the table and onto his back, and Kendra runs up and stakes him cleanly. She looks up at Faith being whaled on by Kakistos.

Xander nods his head for Kendra to go over and help her, as he engages another vampire in a fight. Behind them the unconscious vampire wakes. Kakistos finally hits Faith hard enough to knock her from his own grip onto the floor. He then roars loudly with approval.

Kendra jumps up and runs over to attack him. She roundhouse kicks him in the back of the knee, spins around and tries to backhand him in the face, but he blocks it. She spins around the other way and backhands him in the face. The now wakened vampire gets back up from the floor, and Trick comes up behind her.

"If we don't do something, the Master could get killed." He says, but then considers that for a moment, and decides that wouldn't be such a bad thing.

"Well, our prayers are with him." he said with a smile. He and the vampire then turn to leave.

Kendra tries to stake Kakistos, but the stake can't easily penetrate his thick hide, and so it has no effect on him. He grabs Kendra by the hair, lifts her and throws her back. Trick and the vampire calmly continue on their way out.

"There's a reason these vengeance crusades are out of style." Trick says as he smooths the wrinkles out of his suit. "It's the modern vampire who sees the big picture."

Kendra backhands Kakistos, landing a hard punch. He swings at her, but she ducks. She stands up and tries to stake him again, but even though the stake goes in deeper this time, it still has no effect on him. Again he grabs her by the head and shoves her back into the wall. Faith recovers from her daze, and sees him looming before her, but looking at the other girl instead of at her.

"I guess you need a bigger stake, little girl!" Kakistos says as he laughs maniacally.

Faith sees that one of the fallen beams has a broken end. She lifts it up over her shoulder, and before Kakistos can turn his attention back onto her she thrusts the beam through his chest and out his back. He looks down at it and back up at Faith, and then explodes into ashes.

Kendra stares in amazement. Faith heaves a few heavy breaths. Kendra pulls the hair back from her face and steps over to Faith, who looks around to make sure nothing else is about to attack. They both look down at the pile of ash left by Kakistos, just as Xander runs up to them.

"Are you okay?" Kendra asked as she helped the girl to stand to her feet.

"Yeah, I'm five by five." the girl said excepting the preoffered hand. "Thanks for the assist."

"Now why were those vampires after you?" Kendra asked looking expectantly at her.

"She probably stole their wallets too." Xander commented with a glare to the girl.

"You don't know me!" the girl yelled in outrage. "You don't know what I've been through. I'll take care of myself, all right?"

"Hey just calm down." Kendra said gently. "Me boyfriend didn't mean any harm."

"Here, take your damn money." the girl said as she threw Xander his wallet. "I'm out of here." she said as she walked past them and towards the door.

"Where are you going to go?" Xander asked as he saw her pick up a duffel bag. He recognized her type as a runaway anyway.

"Don't worry about me stud." the girl said with a smile. "I'm the Slayer, I can take care of myself." when she said this Kendra's eyes seemed to bug out.

"You can't be de Slayer." Kendra said stopping her from leaving. "I'm de Slayer."

"Are you Buffy?" the girl asked as she turned to look at Kendra. She had thought that her Watcher had told her that Buffy was white. Maybe that information was wrong. Kendra's brow furrowed with confusion at that.

"No me name is Kendra."

"That's impossible." she said as she walked closer to her "That girl is dead. I'm her replacement." then Kendra thought about that for a moment and it clicked with her. She did die, but only for a few seconds. Maybe that was enough to call on another Slayer. 'And that would explain her strength.'

"Sit down for a second, we have a lot to talk about... um what's your name?"

"Faith."

With that said all three of them sat down and explained things. They told her that they were from Sunnydale and that they knew Buffy. She in turn told them about Kakistos and that she was looking for Buffy, so she could get help.

"Listen, Kakistos' gone now." Faith said as she stood to her feet. "And like I said I can take care of myself." she says as she heads for the door.

"Like you took care of your Watcher?" Xander asked noticing that she totally avoided the subject of her Watcher. This stops Faith cold. She lets go of the doorknob and looks down sadly. A moment later she turns to face Xander.

"Kakistos killed your Watcher, didn't he?" he asked.

"They don't have a word for what he did to her." Faith says angrily.

"What happened?" Kendra asked noticing the far away look in her eyes. Faith is too freaked out to think straight.

"Faith, what happened?" Kendra asked again only this time louder.

"I... I was there when he killed my Watcher, and I saw what he did to her... what he was gonna do to me." Faith said frightened. "I tried to stop him, but I... I couldn't. And I ran."

"Faith, first rule of slaying: don't die." Xander told her as he put a hand on her shoulder. "You did the right thing. Okay? You didn't die."

"Xander it's almost time for us to go." Kendra said looking down at her watch.

"Okay." Xander said with a sad smile. "Listen Faith come with us."

"No I don't except..."

"Just listen." Xander said cutting her off. "Just come with us at least for a little while. If you don't like what you see, then you can leave. But I'm telling you now that if you run now, then you'll be running for the rest of your life."

Faith thinks about it for a minute then she searches Xander's and Kendra's eyes to see if she can trust them. Her decision made she puts her hands around Xander's neck.

"Lead the way stud." Faith said smiling up at him

"Hey get your hands off me boyfriend!" Kendra yells at her sister Slayer. "And he's not a stud."

"Hey!" Xander yells in mock outrage.

Sunnydale

Hours later

"This is your house?" Faith asks with wide eyes as she takes in the huge building. Her whole life she's only lived in dirty hotel rooms and apartments. If only her Ma could see her now.

"Yeah it is." Xander said as he noticed how Faith's face lit up. 'Obviously she's never stayed in a place this nice before.' Xander thought to himself. "Now come on, me and Ken can show you to a room."

"Xander what took you guy's so long?" Sheila asked as she walked into the room. "Did you miss your bus?"

"Yeah and we had a few more distractions." he said gesturing at Faith.

"So you're the immortal babe, Ken and Xand told me about." Faith said shaking Sheila's preoffered hand. "Nice crib." she said taking another look at the lavish house.

"Tank you." Sheila said with a slight smile. "I tink."

Then Kendra and Xander told her what happened with Faith and her Watcher.

"Of course she can stay." Sheila said happily. It was hard for her knowing that she couldn't have children of her own. But now it seemed as though her little family was growing. "As long as you don't mind sharin' a room with Kendra?"

"No problem." Faith said looking over at her counterpart.

"Kendra, Xander!" Little Dee yelled from the top of the stairs. Running down from them, she engulfed them both in a hug. "Who's she?" she asked pointing at Faith.

"Dis is our new friend, Faith. Faith dis is me little sister Dierdre." Kendra told them.

"You're pretty." Dierdre told Faith. Faith just smiled big at that. All her life she had wanted a little sister. Just someone or something to look after and protect.

"Hey do you want to meet me new friend?" Dee asked. Almost as if on cue a honey blonde walked downstairs.

"Tara?" Xander asked with a big smile. "What are you doing here?" he asked as he engulfed her in a huge hug.

"She...Sheila said I...I could stay." Tara said shyly as she lowered her gaze to the ground. Xander then looked over at Sheila questionably.

"Her family didn't want to take her in." Sheila admitted sadly. "So since she's of age, I told her dat she could live with us."

"That's great." Xander said as he took a better look at Tara. "Hey your bruises are gone." he says as he looks at her face and arms.

"Sh...Sheila made a po... potion for me." Tara stuttered out.

"You know that magic sh... stuff?" Faith asked changing what she was about to say. She really didn't want to be a bad influence on Dierdre.

"Yes, only a little." Sheila replied.

"Me and Tara were drawing." Dee told Faith. "Do you want to join us?"

Faith was caught off guard by the question. She hadn't drawed or colored in years. Now there was a little girl with innocent eyes asking her to draw with her. Putting a genuine smile on her face she ruffled, Dee's hair.

"Sure squirt. Lead the way." she said as they walked upstairs. Kendra, Xander, and Sheila watched the three of them walk upstairs with a smile on there faces. Because it seemed that their family only seemed to get bigger.

Giles apartment

the next day

Giles puts on some tea and comes out from the kitchen and into the main room.

"The council has approved our request." he said with a smile. "Faith is to stay here indefinitely." he says as he puts down a tray of cookies. "I'm to look after the both of you until a new Watcher is assigned." He said looking at Buffy and Faith.

He never let the council know that Kendra was still alive. Xander had requested it because he thought that if the Council knew that she was still alive that they would send her else where.

"Good." Kendra said grabbing a cookie. "She really came through in de end. She had a lot to deal with, but she did it. She got it behind her." she said referring to Kakistos.

"I'm glad to hear it." Giles says as his kettle starts to whistle.

"Welcome to the Scooby gang Faith." Willow says, happy that theres another girl in the group.

"I'm happy to be a part of it, Red." Faith says as she stuffs her mouth full of cookies.

TBC...

Please review

I hope Faith didn't seem to out of character. I always found it hard to write her character. Also let me know what you guys feel about my story. If you are reading it and haven't reviewed yet., do so. It might just inspire me to write a sequel to the story, one day. Also BAKAMAN I sent you an email explaining a few things about my stories, let me know if you got it or not.