Title: Death Do Us Join

Summary: Ok, this starts from the episode 'The Gift'. Basically, when Buffy dies, Faith goes into a coma due to slayer link. They meet in a plane in the middle of life and death to resolve their differences, and what happens as they do.

Pairing: Buffy/Faith, Willow/Tara later, Xander/Anya etc.

Disclaimer: If I owned them, let's just say that Faith would not have gone evil, Tara would not have been killed off, and Buffy would never EVER have been with Spike..

WARNING:Femslash, Femmeslash etc. If you don't like this, please don't read.

Prologue

The brunette slayer sat in her cell, with her head in her hands. Every night without fail, if one bothered to look, they could see her in this same position, eyes half closed, although they were seemingly distant, as if she was not really present at all. Periodically a small groan escaped her lips, but otherwise, everything was silent.

Inside her head however, it was a different story. As night approached, when Faith was alone, memories that haunted the dark slayer also approached, with each successive one worse than the last.

At the moment, her mind was on the first human life she ever took.

Flashback

Buffy: FAITH NO!

It was too late however. Already, Faith's hand was descending, and by the time Buffy's words registered and she tried to stop, the damage had been done, the stake had plunged into Allan's heart.

End Flashback

Sometimes, when Faith looked at her hands, she could still see the blood, although, generally, she knew it wasn't really there. Angel had told her that it was a by product of her guilt, all psychological. Yet, even though it wasn't there, Faith knew that for her and all the people that knew her then…Angel…Bu…the Scoobs, for them, it would never be truly gone. Often, Faith wished on nights like this, that she could see Buffy again, just to apologise, so maybe one night in three she could sleep. She also knew that there was a higher chance of hell freezing over than of that happening.

At least, Faith thought, looking around, she was asking for Buffy's forgiveness in a way, doing what she wanted. There was one good point; no one was around to witness her as she went through her repentance. After seeing her strength in the prison gym, and with the rumours about her which were flying around, no one wanted to share a cell with her. That suited her down to her little toes anyhow.

Faith lay backwards on the bed, as she lapsed back into her thoughts…but this time…it was different.

Start of Vision

There was a portal, which was destroying everything in the surrounding area.

Dawn…who looked…older, was running past Buffy to try and get to it, but somehow B stopped her, and they had a conversation which was blurry and indistinct.

Then, some flashbacks occurred within the vision, which Faith didn't even know was possible, although Faith couldn't understand any of thevoices, except the last one, the voice of a woman which said "DEATH IS YOUR GIFT".

Coming out of the…whatever it was…momentarily Faith frowned, shaking her head. Upon standing up, she realised that her whole body felt weak, and went to drag herself over to the sink, hoping a splash of water on her face would revive her. Halfway there, however, she was pulled back into the vision.

Things had changed slightly, and this time, instead of Dawn, Faith could see Buffy running towards the portal, leaving her sister standing there, crying. Buffy swan dove off the platform, right into the heart of the vortex.

As the vortex swirled around Buffy, Faith could feel the weakness in her own body growing, and, as it finally closed and Buffy's body fell to the ground, lifeless, in a pile of debris, so finally, did the vision vanish from the dark slayer's mind as she too fell to the floor in her cell, everything around her going black.

The thump alerted the prison guards to a possible problem, and, thinking that the mostly silent, slightly surly prisoner was trying to make some sort of escape, three of them rushed to her cell. When they arrived, Faith was on the ground, motionless. While two had made no move, the third rushed to her side to try and find a pulse.

"She's still alive." He yelled. "Call the damn medic!"

A few days later while the Scooby gang stood in a graveyard, beside a small gravestone that read

BUFFY ANNE SUMMERS
1981-2001
BELOVED SISTER
DEVOTED FRIEND
SHE SAVED THE WORLD
A LOT

Faith lay in the hospital infirmary, with only Angel beside her, in a coma, though no one knew how or why. They didn't even know if or when she would recover.

The vampire watched Faith, and, as she lay there, he made a wish for her to recover, to come back from wherever she was. He couldn't lose this brave woman, who was struggling so hard to atone for her past, as well as losing Buffy. Little did her know that Faith was with Buffy, and that they had a few things to discuss before Faith could return.

Author's Notes- Its my first BTVS piece that's more than a drabble. Please review and tell me if its OK?