Disclaimer: It's the same as always. I don't own any of these characters except Faith, Doc and Brian. Got it? By the way, sorry I haven't updated because the computer crashed and I didn't have any way to get any of my stories on here. With that said, enjoy.

Chapter 6: Meeting Brian

Richard looked out the window of his bedroom and out across the yard. He was supposed to getting ready to go to a near by restaurant to finally meet the infamous Brian. It had been three weeks and somehow Brian was always too busy or not around. Faith had finally gotten a hold of him at his work and he agreed to meet Richard.

"Richard are you ready yet? You take longer than a girl." Faith called through the door. Richard got up and opened the bedroom door. Faith looked at him and saw his bare chest and that made her want to die on the spot.

"Yeah, I just have to get my shirt and then we'll head out." He left the door open and grabbed a button down shirt from the closet. Faith silently watched him button it up.

"You clean up well." She commented.

"As do you." Faith looked down at her outfit. She was wearing a long black skirt with a red ¾ sleeve shirt. She left her hair down in curls and put on very little make up.

"Thanks." Richard was used to seeing her in running pants, tank tops or pajama bottoms.

"Alrighty then let's get this show on the road." Richard said clapping his hands together.

They drove to a little restaurant a few miles away. Faith knew the old Italian woman who owned the store from when she worked there for a short time. She now worked at a bigger, busier restaurant in the city. The two sat down at a table near the back and talked while waiting for Brian to show up. An hour later Brian was still no show.

"He probably just forgot or got tied up at work." Richard tried to reassure Faith who had tears welling in her eyes.

"Yeah. Let's go home." Faith paid the bill and said goodbye to the little old Italian woman and left. When outside Richard suggested going for a little walk before going home and Faith agreed. They walked down the street past the local theatre, past the only fast food restaurant until you came to the city, past the little shops. When they came to the last store which was a dating service some stuck up woman ran with people they slept with. Faith stopped in her tracks and looked in through the front window and saw Brian talking to one of the woman. He leaned in and kissed her and Faith's heart broke into a million pieces. Faith couldn't run, couldn't speak, nothing. She felt so numb that she didn't even feel the tears spilling down her cheeks in rivers. Richard stepped in front of her blocking her view.

"So that's Brian right?" He started walking toward the door of the agency but Faith grabbed his arm.

"Don't, I just want to go home." Just then Brian walked out and bumped right into Richard.

"Faith! What are you doing here?" He asked clearly surprised and worried.

"I was about to ask you the same thing." She snapped.

"I uh am trying to hook up a friend so I came down to the agency to see what I could get."

"Exactly. To see what you could get. I can't believe this. How could you?" She asked fighting back the tears that were threatening to come again.

"I don't know what you talking about Faith. I just told you why I'm here. Why don't you believe me?"

"Look we'll talk about this tomorrow. Until then." Faith started walking away but Richard stayed where he was.

"You are just an ass. I can't believe you'd even do that to someone like her. She's beautiful, smart, funny, everything. What more could you want?" He said straining to not hit him.

"What I want is someone that's not looking for a commitment. That's what she wants, then I don't want her."

"How could you do that to Faith."

"Sounds like someone has fallen in love with her." Richard just glared at him and stalked off in the direction Faith had gone. A few minutes later her got to the car and saw Faith sitting in the drivers seat, head on the steering wheel. Silently he slid in the passenger's seat and shut the door. Faith lifted her head up off the wheel.

"Where did you go?"

"I just wanted a word with him. Sorry it too so long."

"You didn't hit him did you?"

"No. Wish I did now though."

"It's not worth you getting in trouble again." Faith started the car and they drove the rest of the way in silence. When they got home she got out of the car and went straight to her room. Richard let her go, knowing she needed time and when she wanted someone to talk to, she'd come to him. Around dinner time Faith came out of the room and went down to the Billiard room. Richard followed and she continued walking down the hall to the saunas and showers. (If you didn't know, they have a mansion. Sorry if I didn't make it clear before. The house is just like the one in Valentine with David Boreanaz.) Faith soon walked out through a hidden door and into the backyard. Eventually they made it to the tree house and Faith climbed up. Richard waited a few minutes before climbing up. When he did he saw Faith huddled by the window like the first night he had been there.

"Faith?" Her head slowly came up and he could see that her face was red and her eyes were puffy from crying. He crawled toward her and just held her.