Title: Come and Get Me
Disclaimer: This is purely for entertainment; none of the characters are mine, except for ones like Mr Tellman, the Mexican villagers, the boyguards, etc.
Pairing: B/F
Rating: T
A/N: Thank you everyone who's been following this from the beginning. I've finally given up on this because I think I've done all I can with it. I hope the ending has been worth the wait! I'm only sad I couldn't make it longer.
Previously...
'I'm guilty.'
The large man sat back, and sneered. 'See! She's confessed! Confessed, and now she must be condemned…'
'I'm sorry, Faith, Mr Tellman is right,' he began quietly. 'The correct procedure in this establishment for ensuring justice is to rid of the problem, rather than to discharge it. The only way to do so is to destroy you; by order of the Council you'll be given a lethal injection at seven o'clock this evening; that is all.'
Chapter 5
Out of time to decide…
We could lose, we could fail…30 Minutes, T.A.T.U
'Get off me…' I pulled away from Giles restricting grasp for the third time and sniffled back the tears that didn't seem to want to stop coming. In a panicked state I hurried from the room and headed down the hallway I guessed she'd been taken up. 'No, I have to get to her,' I told him in a muttered jeer.
'Buffy, no…you can't…' He tried to stop me and I couldn't see for the love of god, why.
'No, go away,' I decided and continued walking, not even caring that they could chuck me out for kicking open all the doors I would have to to find her.
'We can find another way, Buffy,' Giles told me, hurrying after me.
'And how long will that take? Giles we don't have time; and I am going to fix this. Don't follow me. Go back to the hotel, I'll meet you there.'
'Buffy; no…'
'Giles!' I yelled, stopping still in my tracks. 'I have to do this. I am not just gonna sit back and watch the love of my life die for something I did!'
Maybe I said something out of place; it didn't occur to me Giles wasn't aware of our connection. Yes, I was in love with her, and no, he didn't know. But he did now, and I didn't care.
'What!' he said, lowering his voice and taking a step in towards me.
I ran a hand worriedly through my hair and looked down at the floor, and after a couple of seconds found his gaze with mine. 'I love her, Giles.' I licked over my lips quickly. 'And I'm not gonna lose her.'
I didn't give him a chance to explain as I hurried off down the hallway, leaving him with another surprise to deal with. I inwardly shook off confessing it to him as I searched through the hallways and wiped the tears as they fell from my eyes.
'Faith!' I called, hoping someone would hear and come out from one of those darned doors. 'Faith!' I called again, pushing open a door; a deserted room. I let out a frustrated sigh and continued down the hallway. It seemed my loud voice had caused commotion, as a handful of people came out of a nearby room, frowning and looking to see what the bother was.
And there she was. Sitting in a room with three other people, perhaps discussing how the rest of her day would go. I had to get in there. I felt someone take hold of my arm and stop me, and I looked down at it, then up at them. That man. 'I have to see her, please, just for a moment.'
'And who are you?'
'I'm Bu-'
'She's a friend,' Faith piped up, cutting me off. Mr Tellman looked down at me, then rolled his eyes.
'Just five minutes alone, that's all,' I said to him through a rushed breath. And thank god everyone else left the room, because if the plan I'd formulated was going to work we'd need to be alone.
I entered the room and flinched when they closed the door, and seconds later she was standing up and I was rushing to her and then was holding her so tight I thought it would be impossible for me to let go. But letting go and hitting her across the face were two actions I had no control over.
'B, I…'
'YOU PROMISED NOT TO TELL!' I screamed at her, mad at her for reasons beyond my comprehension. Then I gasped. I just hit her. 'Oh my god, I'm so sorry…'
'Buffy, its okay…' she said quickly. 'I didn't think Giles would say anything, I swear…'
I didn't give her a chance to finish her sentence before I was pressing my lips to hers so hard and melting because that lack of contact was no longer apparent. And then we were holding each other again and warming up to the kiss that brought about tears in her eyes, and I clutched at her, hoping that I'd never have to lose her again.
Eventually the kiss died down and I pulled her into a hug, burying my face in the dip of her neck. 'Why?' I asked, my voice almost inaudible.
I could hear her swallow. 'I didn't want them to take you…from me…' I pulled away, ready to say something, but she rushed along her next sentence. 'It scared me to death the consequences of killing someone but I didn't want you to have to go through that.'
'So you put yourself on the line instead?'
'I had to tell, I had to say somethin' B. If not for the sake of us, then for the sake of you.'
I bit my top lip and then clenched my jaw. 'Losing you is a worse consequence than death, Faith,' I told her quietly, my face inches from hers.
She pulled me in close and I inhaled against her hair, grateful that I was given a chance to just be in her arms one more time.
Then for a moment I felt that she might've stopped breathing, and I pulled back. 'What's wrong?' I asked quickly.
'Are you here to break me out?'
I nodded. 'What else would I be here for, Faith?'
She looked at me plainly. 'But we'll have to run again.'
I shrugged simply. 'So? We're good at it…'
'It'll be never ending-'
'So; we'll fight it, Faith, we always do…'
A silence spirited between us and she glanced over my shoulder at the closed door, then over her own shoulder at the window. 'We can make that jump, right?'
A felt a grin materialise on my face and pulled her over to the window that we would escape from in seconds to come.
I glanced down at the street below, a sense of adrenaline fuelling my body, and then I glanced at her. 'Think we can make it?'
She nodded. 'Oh, sure.'
So that was it. I flashed her an assuring grin, and slapped my left hand into her right and spoke. 'A run and jump?'
She chuckled, nodded and pulled me back a good couple of steps from the window. 'Ready?'
'Uh-huh.'
'Let's go.'
I can't imagine how much attention we must've drawn to ourselves by smashing through the window and tumbling down onto the ground but as we landed, I made a point to look up before we started running. That same set of Council members; that pompous, foolish man.
I chuckled to myself as we ran through the streets, dodging through people as we did.
'So where next?' she yelled at me as we ran. 'San Francisco; Egypt- Italy?'
I chuckled and glanced at her, catching her grinning at me. Honestly? Anywhere was perfect; if I was with her.
The End