Karma: This chapter is dedicated to Burnz for reminding me that I haven't updated this story in awhile. Sorry about this chappie, tho... My computer crashed while writing it, so I may have forgotten bits while I was rewriting it...

Faith was vaguely aware of ringing as she groggily opened her eyes. Suddenly she was very aware of a cold body pressed next to her own. She looked at the body next to her and smiled. 'Spike looks so young when he's asleep. He looks peaceful, and younger. Not too mention hot.' She looked at him again and her eyes widened.

She sat up and looked at him again. 'No. No. No. I'm thinking about him as though I'm in love with him. I'm not in love with him. We're just having fun. It's just a one-night thing. I'm not in love with him. Even though he makes me feel special, and weak when I'm not with him, and loved.' She groaned. 'I am in love with him.' She lay back down in the bed. 'No, this won't complicate things at all. I've always been in love with him.' She groaned inwardly again. 'I'm a vampire slayer. I'm not supposed to have a weakness, especially not when it's another fuckin' vampire.'

Once again, Faith was aware of a ringing noise. Groggily, she climbed off of the bed and grabbed a blanket that had been carelessly thrown off the bed during the night. After stealing one last glance at Spike's sleeping form, she wrapped the blanket around her body and went into the living room to answer the phone.

While Faith walked into the living room, Spike watched her under hooded eyes. He had woken up after the first time the phone rang, but when he had felt Faith's eyes on him, he decided to pretend to be asleep. He hadn't expected Faith's critique of him. Nor had he expected Faith to mutter 'I've always been in love with him.' Spike smiled. 'She really does want eternity. We'll, I've always been love's bitch. And my girl will always get what she wants.'
"Giles!" Willow yelled as she ran into the library. "Giles!" She called again. Willow knew Giles would be here. He and Wesley had been researching Faith and Spike's pasts when she had left. They were waiting for Buffy to return from patrol. Willow ran into Giles' office where she found him asleep at his desk. "Giles." She said frantically shaking him awake.

"Willow?" He asked as he woke up. "What time is it?" He asked again. He had told Wesley to go home at about three, saying he would stay and research Faith.

"Giles." She said avoiding his question. "It's about Buffy." Willow said knocking him out of his thoughts.

"What happened?" He asked suddenly concerned.

"Buffy's house blew up." Willow said frantically.

Giles' eyes widened. "Is she alright?" He asked jumping up.

"I don't know. I was hoping you would know. The police reports said there was a blonde woman on the scene, but they don't know who it was. For all we know it could be Darla." Giles' raised an eyebrow at the babbling redhead. "Who it's not." She added nervously.

Giles closed his eyes for a moment before looking at Willow. "I will call Wesley and have him contact the Watchers' Council to confirm whether or not another Slayer has been called. Then I will contact the hospital and police station to make sure she is not there."

"What do you want me to do, Giles?" Willow asked helpfully.

"Go over to Angel's and see if she is over there."

Willow nodded and quickly hurried out of the library.
Faith hung up the phone and walked back into the bedroom. She smiled at the sight of the still sleeping Spike. Slowly, she walked back over to the bed and threw the blanket that was on her body back onto the floor. Quickly, she crawled back onto the bed, and straddled Spike.

Spike smiled as he felt Faith's body against him. As soon as she leant forward to kiss him, he opened his eyes and flipped them over.

"Spike!" She cried. 'Why was he pretending to be asleep?' "What are you playing at?"

Spike smiled. "Whatever you want, love, whatever you want."
Buffy slowly walked the streets of Sunnydale. She couldn't go home. She didn't have a home. Within twenty-four hours, she had found out her fellow slayer's life was a complete lie; lost a battle with Spike; lost her home; and most importantly lost her mother. Numbly she continued her blind walk down the various streets in the town. She had stopped crying hours ago. She had no tears left. She had no feelings left. She had nothing left but her blood. 'Isn't that what vampires are always after? The blood of a Slayer? Is that really what the mayor wants? The death of a slayer? I'll give him the death of a slayer, alright?' She kicked at a random can on the ground.

"Spike, you killed some one I loved. I kill some one you love." She smiled somewhat fanatically as she began walking towards the old factory, knowing very well that if he really wanted to kill her that's the first place he would look. She had also heard somewhere that the blood of a slayer was a powerful aphrodisiac. "If Spike's gonna kill me, Faith is going to want to be there to watch him kill me. I'd love to see him try to kill me before I kill her."
Inhis office, Mayor Wilkins got the report that everything was going according to plan. He smiled. "End of phase two."

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