Faith was still in her bed letting her mind drift when out of no where four
men dressed in black jumped through her bedroom windows and through a net
over her. WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?! Were Faiths only thoughts. She tried to break
through the net, which should have been easy with her slayer strength but
it was made out of something almost sticky and strong. She couldn't get
out. She could feel the men grabbing her at all sides and start to pick her
up, she gave out a scream and started kicking. She managed to through two
of them off, net or not but she couldn't get at the other two. She heard
the door swing open from behind her and Angel's voice.
"Faith?!" she felt the two behind her getting grabbed and torn away. Once they were gone she could finally get that net off of her. She grabbed one of them and punched him and kicked another so hard he was thrown out the window he came from. In another few moments three had been thrown form a window and one retreated. Suddenly she heard Angels voice behind her.
"Faith? Are you okay?" she turned around to see him starring at her with a terrified look. She went over to him and went into a hug. He hugged back.
"Yeah. I'm fine just a little shaken up." She said stepping away. Unwillingly Angel let her go. "Who were they?" she asked.
"I don't know. They were after you though. Are you sure your okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine."
"Looks like we're going to have to get some more windows for you rooms again. You can sleep in my room I'll take the couch.
"Angel you really don't-"
"What's that?" he said looking at her hand.
"What?" she look down. Her left hand had a deep cut in it and the blood was pouring out. She hadn't even noticed until Angel had said something.
"Your hurt." He said taking her hand. "Come on there is some stuff in the lobby that can clean that up." They both walked out of the room.
"Can I just ask you what the hell do you thought you were doing?" Lilah said with Lindsey sitting next to her.
"You weren't moving fast enough for us, so we decided to capture her ourselves."
"Well that's great not that you have Faith you don't need us anymore, oh. Wait. I don't see her anywhere. And now Angel and his little friends all know that someone is after her which is going to make them all much more prepared and are job that much harder.
Lindsey looked op from the papers he was holding. "This isn't the first time you tried to catch her was it? Here it says you tried to shoot her?" he said looking at them in disbelief.
"We need her and you weren't moving fast enough. Besides we made it look like a gang fight or something."
"That's not the point. Look we know you need Faith and the senior partners want Angel. We have a plan worked out. Well now we might have to change some things."
"Hurry the full moon is almost over and I'm not waiting another month."
"Why not? You've waited this long."
Faith sat in a chair as Angel fixed up her hand and wrapped it with bandages.
"I didn't even notice it." Faith said looking at her hand.
"I know. It'll be okay." Angel said looking at her. "You look tired. You can have my room I'll sleep down here." He said still looking at her in concern.
"Angel I don't need your room, I'm not tired anyway you should go to sleep." She said walking over and sitting on a nearby coach.
"I guess we're both staying down here then." He said sitting on the coach next to her. They both sat in complete silence.
"You know we REALLY need to get lives." Faith finally said.
"Maybe." Angel simply replied. He couldn't have a social life. Not like Faith could. Why didn't she? Why didn't she have other friends? Why didn't she date? The others did. That's one of the things that made them human, Faith may be a little different but she was still human. She needed to enjoy that. She didn't even know how precious that was.
"You should enjoy yourself more." He stated, seemingly out of nowhere.
"Where did that come from?" she asked genuinely confused.
"Just, you don't go out much. You don't date. You don't even talk to many people expect for me, Gunn, Wesley, and Cordelia. Your young and beautiful and you have lots of personality. You shouldn't stay in a dark hole in the wall your whole life." He half hoped that she missed the 'beautiful' part. He was still shaken up from the dream and wanted to separate himself from any possible attraction of Faith. But another half of him just wanted to say it because she needed to be told it.
"Your one to talk. How long have you lived in some hole in the wall?" Faith asked with that same sharpness he's grown used to.
Date? Faith thought to herself. Why does he want me to date? What does he expect? Me to just go out find the perfect guy, who is also not freaked out by the whole slayer demon thing, and get married and have a few kids. Was he crazy? Or was he just tired of her being there all the time and wanted some one else to take her off his hands?
"Faith I just want to see you happy. The others deal with the darkness we fight all the time but they have lives outside of this. You don't. You stay in the dark like me. And nobody knows better then me how lonely it is. I just don't want you to get pulled into that."
"I'm not lonely Angel. I was lonely before I meet you guys, not now. Besides even if I'm in the dark at least I'll have company." She said with a sarcastic smile.
"I'm serious Faith."
"You know what. I think I will just take your room." She said getting up and walking away.
Angel starred after her. He didn't understand her.
Faith walked into Angel's almost inhumanly clean bedroom and went directly under the covers. She wasn't lonely. She wasn't in a hole in the wall. She was happier now then she had ever been before. Why did he think her life was so terrible? She was happy like this. With a family. People who cared about her. A purpose in life. Why was this so terrible for him? What did he want? She was happy. And dating? What the fuck? Why dating? She didn't have any love life but considering her past experiences it didn't sound so bad to just be alone for a while. This was the longest she'd gone without having a fucking one night stand. She didn't have to anymore. She had people she could talk to, to notice her all the time, not for just a moment. She didn't want to get pushed out back to where she was. Why was that so hard to understand?
Angel sat down at a bar in front of a green demon named Lorne.
"So what do you think?" Angel asked.
"About what?"
"About anything, about me."
"Well you do seem a little stressed out and I think you know the cause of it."
Angel thought a moment before admitting "Faith?"
"No not Faith exactly. You stress out over how you feel about Faith, and I gotta tell ya. You keep this up it'll drive you crazy."
"And how do I feel about Faith?" Angel said more anxiously. That was the whole reason he was here after all. {Not that he would admit that}
"I think you already know the answer to that." Lorne said standing up.
A look of confusion crossed his face. "And that is...."
"You know." He said leaving.
Well, glad THAT really helped. He thought to himself getting up to leave. What did he expect? It's not like that guy would ever give anyone a clear answer.
Faith sat in a dance club drinking. She'd gone out to get away like she sometimes did. She wasn't old enough to drink but no one asked about an i.d so what the hell. She looked around to see what was going on. Same old same old. You could go to dozen night clubs in L.A and see the exact same thing. She felt some one sit down next to her.
"Want to dance?"
She looked over to so a young man in his early 20's most likely. He was cute. Angel asked why you don't date. Why not make him stop asking.
Angel sat in the lobby yet again. Once more waiting for Faith. Wesley and Cordelia had been with him earlier. They got tired of his silence and brooding and went home. That was the other night. Now it was night all over again. Where the hell was she? He was terrified. Was she kidnapped, hurt, dead? Did she go out slaying and some vampire got her? A million things could have happened to her. He had to find her. And how he supposed to do that? They lived in a city with over six million people. She could take off one night for a soda and never be seen again. And there were those guys who attacked her the other day. They were clearly after Faith. And he doubted that they were going to give up after just one try, and who knew what they wanted her for. Or what they were going to do to her. He heard footsteps behind him. He recognized the footsteps. Faith. He turned around to see her starting to walk up the stairs.
"Faith!" he ran toward her.
"Where have you been?" he said not bothering to hide his concern.
"I went out." She said simply.
"Out where?"
"Club, dancing, you know the usual. It was no big deal." She said walking up the stairs.
No big deal? He almost had a heart attack. What was that on her? A foreign smell on her. Another person? A man. Why the hell was that there? He now felt more angry and annoyed then he was worried.
"Yeah it was a big deal. I thought you were dead, I thought whoever your attackers were had gotten you and were torturing you in some basement and you were out all night and day with some guy?"
"Why are you so mad?! That's what you wanted me to do, remember? Get out of the hole in the wall, meet other people, date. I did what YOU TOLD ME TO DO!!!!!!!!"
"That's NOT what I told you to do!"
"Yes it is! Where WERE you yesterday? That's exactly what you said for me to do."
"Not like this!"
"This? And what is THIS exactly? What did you want me to do? Find some nice uptown guy for you to meet? Have him "court" me here until we get married and have a couple of kids? You are out of your ever-loving blood-sucking mind!!!"
"NO! That's not what I wanted to happen!!"
"Then what did you want to happen!?!?!"
"You should know!!! No I don't know, and you never say anything about it anyway!"
"Maybe because EVERY time I try to you get all bitchy and try to bite my head off!"
"Maybe that's because you ask the wrong things at the wrong time, all the time!"
"Maybe THAT'S because you NEVER tell me what's going on! You just bottle it up and you never tell anyone what's really going on even though there is some deeper reason that you just HATE talking about!"
"You know have you stopped to think there is a reason that I can't tell you? No you just make up reasons in your mind before that. AND speaking of people who bottle things, speaking of people who NEVER tell ANYONE what's going on, what about you!!!"
"I have a reason!"
"And I don't!
"You never tell what that is!"
"Neither have you!"
"Yes I have!"
"Have you REALLY Angel? Because you seem to just sit in the corner and think about things a lot!!"
"Maybe because I have to!?"
"No. You don't "have to" you just do it so you can shut yourself of completely from other people."
"That's not it and you know it!"
"You know...." she said giving out a sarcastic laugh. "Yesterday you said I could use your bedroom as long as I could sleep in mine. I hate doing that because then your sleeping on a couch and I wasn't going to do it tonight but now I think I'll just go up there and laugh my head off because I know that you can't sleep down here. PLEASANT DREAMS JACKASS!!!!!" she turned and walked quickly up the stairs.
Wesley walked into the lobby. He had left a book here earlier that her needed. He was trying to find some identity to those who attacked Faith the other day. He walked into the front doors to see Angel sitting on the couch in a sulking position.
"Ummmm Angel. What are you doing?" he said looking at him oddly.
"Faith and I had a fight so she kicked me out and now I'm sleeping on the couch! That's what happened!" he said glaring at him.
"Angel are you....sure you got that right?" he said starring at him. "You sound more like the two of you are married then anything else and.....why are you sleeping on the couch again?"
"I don't want to talk about it."
"Okay." Said Wesley turning away, still completely confused.
Angel just sat there. He wasn't trying to stay away from humanity. He had an excuse for all the brooding crap he did, Faith didn't. End of story. And he DIDN'T tell her to go out and date like that. Having sex with a guy you don't know isn't dating. And that's what she'd done. That's what she let on anyway. He wanted her to be happy, wanted to see her smile. Maybe if she had some one to kiss her and hold her she'd smile more. He just wanted to see her with some one...she could be with, some one she should be with. Maybe someone more serious with a lot more life experience, some one more loyal, more trusting. Some one........more like him? No. Right?
He heard the door open to the side. He looked over to see a young man walk in. He was in his 20's, brown hair, tall, handsome. Wesley walked out form behind to counter.
"Can we help you?" he asked
"Maybe. Does Faith live here?"
Angel felt himself getting defensive immediately.
"And who are you exactly."
"I'm an old friend of hers." He said with a smile. "My name is Ryan."
So how do you guys like it? I re-did the whole thing a few times.
"Faith?!" she felt the two behind her getting grabbed and torn away. Once they were gone she could finally get that net off of her. She grabbed one of them and punched him and kicked another so hard he was thrown out the window he came from. In another few moments three had been thrown form a window and one retreated. Suddenly she heard Angels voice behind her.
"Faith? Are you okay?" she turned around to see him starring at her with a terrified look. She went over to him and went into a hug. He hugged back.
"Yeah. I'm fine just a little shaken up." She said stepping away. Unwillingly Angel let her go. "Who were they?" she asked.
"I don't know. They were after you though. Are you sure your okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine."
"Looks like we're going to have to get some more windows for you rooms again. You can sleep in my room I'll take the couch.
"Angel you really don't-"
"What's that?" he said looking at her hand.
"What?" she look down. Her left hand had a deep cut in it and the blood was pouring out. She hadn't even noticed until Angel had said something.
"Your hurt." He said taking her hand. "Come on there is some stuff in the lobby that can clean that up." They both walked out of the room.
"Can I just ask you what the hell do you thought you were doing?" Lilah said with Lindsey sitting next to her.
"You weren't moving fast enough for us, so we decided to capture her ourselves."
"Well that's great not that you have Faith you don't need us anymore, oh. Wait. I don't see her anywhere. And now Angel and his little friends all know that someone is after her which is going to make them all much more prepared and are job that much harder.
Lindsey looked op from the papers he was holding. "This isn't the first time you tried to catch her was it? Here it says you tried to shoot her?" he said looking at them in disbelief.
"We need her and you weren't moving fast enough. Besides we made it look like a gang fight or something."
"That's not the point. Look we know you need Faith and the senior partners want Angel. We have a plan worked out. Well now we might have to change some things."
"Hurry the full moon is almost over and I'm not waiting another month."
"Why not? You've waited this long."
Faith sat in a chair as Angel fixed up her hand and wrapped it with bandages.
"I didn't even notice it." Faith said looking at her hand.
"I know. It'll be okay." Angel said looking at her. "You look tired. You can have my room I'll sleep down here." He said still looking at her in concern.
"Angel I don't need your room, I'm not tired anyway you should go to sleep." She said walking over and sitting on a nearby coach.
"I guess we're both staying down here then." He said sitting on the coach next to her. They both sat in complete silence.
"You know we REALLY need to get lives." Faith finally said.
"Maybe." Angel simply replied. He couldn't have a social life. Not like Faith could. Why didn't she? Why didn't she have other friends? Why didn't she date? The others did. That's one of the things that made them human, Faith may be a little different but she was still human. She needed to enjoy that. She didn't even know how precious that was.
"You should enjoy yourself more." He stated, seemingly out of nowhere.
"Where did that come from?" she asked genuinely confused.
"Just, you don't go out much. You don't date. You don't even talk to many people expect for me, Gunn, Wesley, and Cordelia. Your young and beautiful and you have lots of personality. You shouldn't stay in a dark hole in the wall your whole life." He half hoped that she missed the 'beautiful' part. He was still shaken up from the dream and wanted to separate himself from any possible attraction of Faith. But another half of him just wanted to say it because she needed to be told it.
"Your one to talk. How long have you lived in some hole in the wall?" Faith asked with that same sharpness he's grown used to.
Date? Faith thought to herself. Why does he want me to date? What does he expect? Me to just go out find the perfect guy, who is also not freaked out by the whole slayer demon thing, and get married and have a few kids. Was he crazy? Or was he just tired of her being there all the time and wanted some one else to take her off his hands?
"Faith I just want to see you happy. The others deal with the darkness we fight all the time but they have lives outside of this. You don't. You stay in the dark like me. And nobody knows better then me how lonely it is. I just don't want you to get pulled into that."
"I'm not lonely Angel. I was lonely before I meet you guys, not now. Besides even if I'm in the dark at least I'll have company." She said with a sarcastic smile.
"I'm serious Faith."
"You know what. I think I will just take your room." She said getting up and walking away.
Angel starred after her. He didn't understand her.
Faith walked into Angel's almost inhumanly clean bedroom and went directly under the covers. She wasn't lonely. She wasn't in a hole in the wall. She was happier now then she had ever been before. Why did he think her life was so terrible? She was happy like this. With a family. People who cared about her. A purpose in life. Why was this so terrible for him? What did he want? She was happy. And dating? What the fuck? Why dating? She didn't have any love life but considering her past experiences it didn't sound so bad to just be alone for a while. This was the longest she'd gone without having a fucking one night stand. She didn't have to anymore. She had people she could talk to, to notice her all the time, not for just a moment. She didn't want to get pushed out back to where she was. Why was that so hard to understand?
Angel sat down at a bar in front of a green demon named Lorne.
"So what do you think?" Angel asked.
"About what?"
"About anything, about me."
"Well you do seem a little stressed out and I think you know the cause of it."
Angel thought a moment before admitting "Faith?"
"No not Faith exactly. You stress out over how you feel about Faith, and I gotta tell ya. You keep this up it'll drive you crazy."
"And how do I feel about Faith?" Angel said more anxiously. That was the whole reason he was here after all. {Not that he would admit that}
"I think you already know the answer to that." Lorne said standing up.
A look of confusion crossed his face. "And that is...."
"You know." He said leaving.
Well, glad THAT really helped. He thought to himself getting up to leave. What did he expect? It's not like that guy would ever give anyone a clear answer.
Faith sat in a dance club drinking. She'd gone out to get away like she sometimes did. She wasn't old enough to drink but no one asked about an i.d so what the hell. She looked around to see what was going on. Same old same old. You could go to dozen night clubs in L.A and see the exact same thing. She felt some one sit down next to her.
"Want to dance?"
She looked over to so a young man in his early 20's most likely. He was cute. Angel asked why you don't date. Why not make him stop asking.
Angel sat in the lobby yet again. Once more waiting for Faith. Wesley and Cordelia had been with him earlier. They got tired of his silence and brooding and went home. That was the other night. Now it was night all over again. Where the hell was she? He was terrified. Was she kidnapped, hurt, dead? Did she go out slaying and some vampire got her? A million things could have happened to her. He had to find her. And how he supposed to do that? They lived in a city with over six million people. She could take off one night for a soda and never be seen again. And there were those guys who attacked her the other day. They were clearly after Faith. And he doubted that they were going to give up after just one try, and who knew what they wanted her for. Or what they were going to do to her. He heard footsteps behind him. He recognized the footsteps. Faith. He turned around to see her starting to walk up the stairs.
"Faith!" he ran toward her.
"Where have you been?" he said not bothering to hide his concern.
"I went out." She said simply.
"Out where?"
"Club, dancing, you know the usual. It was no big deal." She said walking up the stairs.
No big deal? He almost had a heart attack. What was that on her? A foreign smell on her. Another person? A man. Why the hell was that there? He now felt more angry and annoyed then he was worried.
"Yeah it was a big deal. I thought you were dead, I thought whoever your attackers were had gotten you and were torturing you in some basement and you were out all night and day with some guy?"
"Why are you so mad?! That's what you wanted me to do, remember? Get out of the hole in the wall, meet other people, date. I did what YOU TOLD ME TO DO!!!!!!!!"
"That's NOT what I told you to do!"
"Yes it is! Where WERE you yesterday? That's exactly what you said for me to do."
"Not like this!"
"This? And what is THIS exactly? What did you want me to do? Find some nice uptown guy for you to meet? Have him "court" me here until we get married and have a couple of kids? You are out of your ever-loving blood-sucking mind!!!"
"NO! That's not what I wanted to happen!!"
"Then what did you want to happen!?!?!"
"You should know!!! No I don't know, and you never say anything about it anyway!"
"Maybe because EVERY time I try to you get all bitchy and try to bite my head off!"
"Maybe that's because you ask the wrong things at the wrong time, all the time!"
"Maybe THAT'S because you NEVER tell me what's going on! You just bottle it up and you never tell anyone what's really going on even though there is some deeper reason that you just HATE talking about!"
"You know have you stopped to think there is a reason that I can't tell you? No you just make up reasons in your mind before that. AND speaking of people who bottle things, speaking of people who NEVER tell ANYONE what's going on, what about you!!!"
"I have a reason!"
"And I don't!
"You never tell what that is!"
"Neither have you!"
"Yes I have!"
"Have you REALLY Angel? Because you seem to just sit in the corner and think about things a lot!!"
"Maybe because I have to!?"
"No. You don't "have to" you just do it so you can shut yourself of completely from other people."
"That's not it and you know it!"
"You know...." she said giving out a sarcastic laugh. "Yesterday you said I could use your bedroom as long as I could sleep in mine. I hate doing that because then your sleeping on a couch and I wasn't going to do it tonight but now I think I'll just go up there and laugh my head off because I know that you can't sleep down here. PLEASANT DREAMS JACKASS!!!!!" she turned and walked quickly up the stairs.
Wesley walked into the lobby. He had left a book here earlier that her needed. He was trying to find some identity to those who attacked Faith the other day. He walked into the front doors to see Angel sitting on the couch in a sulking position.
"Ummmm Angel. What are you doing?" he said looking at him oddly.
"Faith and I had a fight so she kicked me out and now I'm sleeping on the couch! That's what happened!" he said glaring at him.
"Angel are you....sure you got that right?" he said starring at him. "You sound more like the two of you are married then anything else and.....why are you sleeping on the couch again?"
"I don't want to talk about it."
"Okay." Said Wesley turning away, still completely confused.
Angel just sat there. He wasn't trying to stay away from humanity. He had an excuse for all the brooding crap he did, Faith didn't. End of story. And he DIDN'T tell her to go out and date like that. Having sex with a guy you don't know isn't dating. And that's what she'd done. That's what she let on anyway. He wanted her to be happy, wanted to see her smile. Maybe if she had some one to kiss her and hold her she'd smile more. He just wanted to see her with some one...she could be with, some one she should be with. Maybe someone more serious with a lot more life experience, some one more loyal, more trusting. Some one........more like him? No. Right?
He heard the door open to the side. He looked over to see a young man walk in. He was in his 20's, brown hair, tall, handsome. Wesley walked out form behind to counter.
"Can we help you?" he asked
"Maybe. Does Faith live here?"
Angel felt himself getting defensive immediately.
"And who are you exactly."
"I'm an old friend of hers." He said with a smile. "My name is Ryan."
So how do you guys like it? I re-did the whole thing a few times.