Faith leaned back in the warm water of the bathtub and closed her eyes to think. She needed time alone. She really needed to unwind. Her mind did a quick flash back to last night on the stairs. Maybe staying here wasn't the best idea. Well at least here she wouldn't have to stay here and worry about getting thrown out with out warning. Still getting to know men wasn't the best thing for her to do. She didn't have much luck with them so why bother? How long had it been since she had had a relationship that lasted more then a night? Ryan, when she was 16, maybe 17. He used her and left her. She'd been so deluded. She was better now though. She needed to get a job, one other then killing demons and waiting tables. She never went to school so what kind of job she could get she had no idea. There were a few jobs that needed no education but taking her clothes off that often didn't really appeal to her. She was just so bored during the day. At night there were the vampires for about an hour maybe two then there was a whole day of nothing. Nothing to do, no one to talk to, no nothing. Maybe she'd look tomorrow.



Angel sat in the lobby looking at his book when Cordelia walked in.

"Hey Angel! Came in early to do some filing work. Wow. A book. You? There's a surprise. You really need to think about getting a tv for this place."

"Maybe I'll get one for Faith's room. She seems really bored during the day." Angel replied not looking up.

"You are not seriously going to let the trash whore stay here are you? I'm pretty sure she can handle herself."

Angel felt his blood boil a little when Faith was called a trash whore. Cordy didn't know what she had been through.

"Yes she staying here and she is NOT trash or a whore." Angel said back with a hardness in his voice that surprised her.

"Fine you don't have to get so overprotective." Cordelia said giving him a slight glare. She didn't understand how he could let her stay here. This girl was obviously trouble. How could he not see it?



About an hour later Faith came down the stairs with fresh clothes on and her headache almost completely gone. She was on her way over to the kitchen when Angel came up behind her.

"Feel better." He said.

Faith turned around immediately surprised that she hadn't noticed him.

"Damn! You think you could make some noise when you walk." She said starting to calm down.

"Sorry just wanted to make sure you were okay." He said moving next to her.

"I'm fine. Just going to get something to eat." She said entering the kitchen.

"You'll probably have to order take out. There's not much here. You want Chinese food?" He said walking toward the phone.

"Sure." She said trying not to look to glad. It had been forever since she had Chinese food and it was her favorite.

Angel walked over to the phone and started dialing the number. He'd seen Faith's half smile and guessed that she like it. He was glad she smiled. She almost never did.



Wolfram And Hart

"Thank you gentlemen. We'll tell you the second we have her." Said a Mr. Holland as he opened the door to let a group of young men in expensive suits out the office. When they were all out he shut the door tightly behind them.

"So her name is Faith." Said Lindsey still staring at the door..

"And more importantly she's a slayer." Replied Lilah.

"Now our question is how do we use Angel to get to Faith and use Faith to get to Angel?"



"Where are Gunn and Wesley?" Faith asked. Helping herself to some more noodles.

"Wesley is researching again and Gunn went back to his home neighborhood to help some kids he knows out. It's to bad Cordelia left or you'd have some more company."

"Somehow I don't think I'd like Cordelia's company." Faith replied with a hint of disgust in her voice.

"So I guess no slaying tonight?" He asked.

"No I'm still too tired."

That statement brought Angel back to the reason for his concern earlier. Her drinking. Anything could happen to her in this city, her being drunk would just make it that much easier. He didn't want to ask again so soon and not when she was in such a good mood.

"We can always do that tomorrow."

"How did you become a vampire anyway?"

Angel kept up his face but he flinched a little on the inside. His past was never anything he was really proud, that was including his human one. She already knew his vampire past but she was going to have to hear his human one sooner or later and besides maybe if he did this she'd tell him about herself.

"It was in 1754 when I was 26. I saw some girl in a nearby ally and followed her. It was Darla and she turned me."

"What were you doing following some girl into an alley?"

"I wasn't what you would call an ideal citizen. I was a rich spoiled brat with no respect for anything, zero ambition, and a alcoholic womanizer."

"Guess it's something you don't like to talk about." Faith guessed hearing his tone and starting to wish she hadn't asked.

"It's okay. It's just not something I'm proud of." He said giving a small smile. "My parents weren't exactly proud of me either"

"I know what that's like. My mother never even wanted me." She said playing with her food.

"Faith? You okay?" He asked hearing the quietness in her voice.

"Yeah I'm okay. Just some bad memories." Angel looked at her and knew her mother was a large source of pain for her. He decided not to push it for now.

"How do like it here?" Angel asked out of the blue. He knew that she didn't like where she use to be but maybe she liked where she was now.

"It's okay. Better then some of the places I've stayed. And you guys are nice, I'm still not used to having the same people around all the time."

"Yeah. But you get used to it." He said giving her a smile. She smiled back.

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