Here's what you need to know about chapter 3: There's gonna be a flashback type of thing. I hope it doesn't confuse anybody.The dividers are the beginning and the end of the flashbacks and 00 these indicate a change of date or time within the flashback 00 Don't worry, you'll get it when you get to that part.
Chapter 3: Remembering
"This is fucking awsome. They're letting us ride their Jet to England. This place we're going to must make tons of money." Said an amazed Faith looking around noting the luxury of the plane. Buffy also looked around the plane, but she was reluctant. After the plane had safely taken off, both girls had sat themselves next to each other on the black leather couch that lined the middle of the plane on one side. In front of them was a small bar filled with all kinds of liquors. There were about four rows of black leather seats two on each side at the front of the plane. The back of the plane was occupied by a bathroom.
Buffy's gaze fell upon two men sitting near the entrance of the plane who were, with no doubt, working for the council.
Probably the ones that do all the council's dirty work. Something here doesn't feel right. Why are they being so nice all of the sudden.
"Check it out B." Said Faith pointing at the back of the plane where a pretty woman came out of the bathroom. The woman had dark hair and soft features. She looked to be in her late twenties and about eight months pregnant. The girl smiles at the other two while walking over to them.
"Bloody pregnancy, has me using the loo every five minutes." She said taking a seat next to the confused blonde. "Hello, I'm Josephin Thomas." Faith extended her hand and shook Josephin's. "Hi, I'm Faith and this here is Buffy" She said pointing at the small blonde who also shook Josephin's hand. A shocked look came over the pregnant wonma as she realized who they were.
"You two are the slayers! They didn't tell me you would be here." Faith looked at Buffy with confusion written on her features. "Slayer?" As she said this Faith clutched her head in pain and the voices in her head came again.
"You're the slayer"..."Slayer"..."We're slayers, girlfriend, the Chosen Two"...
Faith Fell to the floor, her hands still on her head, and now screaming. Both Buffy and Josephin kneeled next to her concerned. Images flashed in rapid succession behind her eyes as if rewinding, the brunette then passed out from the pain. Buffy pulled the unconscious girl to her placing her head on her lap. "What's wrong with her!" Asked an alarmed Josephin. Buffy just looked down with tears in her eyes caressing Faith's hair.
A small girl of about five years of age sat huddled in a corner crying while her mother walked away with a belt in her hand. "And if you forget to wash the dishes again, I'll get Steve to whop you next time!" Yelled the woman going back to get her drink. "Yes mama" The small dark haired girl ran to the kitchen to wash the dishes. "That's right you little shit. You better scrub those dishes." Said Steve, her mom's current boyfriend, handing her an empty beer bottle.
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A girl who looked to be at least nineteen, but was actually no older than fifteen, walked down the street. She wore a tight pair of black leather pants, a tight and very revealing red top, and a pair of black high heeled boots adorned her feet. Stopping at a corner, the girl glanced at the cars that drove by. When a car stopped in front of her she was slightly surprised to find a middle aged woman in the driver seat.
"What can I do you for?" She said as she got in the car. "Are you Faith?" Asked the woman driving away. "Depends on who's asking?" Faith shrugs. "Faith, I'm your watcher and pretty soon you'll be a slayer."
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"NOOO!" Yelled the brunette as she watched her watcher's lifeless body drop to the floor. Kakistos' laughter making her shiver. His huge form moved towards her still laughing and she took her opening. Run now, cry about it later. Move! Move! Move! Using the knife that had fallen on the floor earlier she slashed Kakistos' eye and ran as fast as she could, tears falling down her face.
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Faith was fighting against a vampire outside the Bronze when a blonde girl followed by a group of people come running to help her. "It's okay, I got it. You're, uh, Buffy, right? I'm Faith." Faith directs her question at the blonde girl while shoving the vamp up against a fence. That's Buffy? She's one hot blonde! Probably a bottle blonde though, oh well she's still smoking!
"I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there's a new slayer in town." The short guy filled in for the silent group. Faith then snatches the stake that Buffy had been holding. "Can I borrow that?" She says and then proceeds to stake the vampire. "Thanks, B. Couldn't have done it without you." She then walks past the stunned group and back to the Bronze.
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Buffy and Faith stood in the brunette's cheap hotel room arguing over Kakistos. "You don't know me. You don't know what I've been through. I'll take care of this, all right?" She doesn't understand, no one will ever understand. "Like you took care of your watcher? He killed her, didn't he?"
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Both slayers were in Faith's hotel room once more. "Hey." Greeted the blonde. "What's going on? Scary monsters?" Asked the brunette trying to fix her TV. "No. Um, we're having Christmas Eve dinner at my house, and I thought that, um, if you dind't have plans..." She expects me to believe that this was her idea. That she actually wants to hang out with me. The only time they want me around is when they're in trouble. "Your mom sent you down, huh?"
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The slayers fight in an alley against a bunch of vamps and when they think they're done someone steps out of the shadows. The small slayer pushes her against and dumpster and Faith goes in for the stake.
"FAITH! NO!" The brunette is too late to stop and plunges the stake into the man's heart. Expecting the man to turn to dust Faith looks down at the dying man in shock. "I didn't...I didn't know. I didn't know." The man dies and Faith's snapped back to reality. "We gotta go! Come on, we gotta go!" She pulls Buffy up and away from Allan Finch's lifeless body.
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Faith stands on a roof aiming her crossbow down at the couple. She shoots the poisoned arrow and watches as it embeds itself into Angel's back. If I can't have her, no one will. Now he's going to suffer as much as I have. "Missed the heart." Points the vamp that was accompanying Faith. "Meant to."
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Buffy stepped into Faith's apartment. Faith puts her comic book down as her stereo is turned off.
"Thought I'd stop by." Said Buffy as she stood near the radio. "Is he dead yet?" Asked the brunette getting up from her spot on the bed. "He's not gonna die. It was a good try, though. Your plan?" Buffy moved closer. "Uh-huh. The Mayor got me the poison. Said it was wicked painful." I hope he's suffering right now. "There's a cure." Said Buffy crossing her arms over her chest. "Damn. What is it?"
"Your blood. As justice goes, it's not un-poetic, don't you think?" Damn, the boss didn't tell me this shit! "Come to get me? You gonna feed me to Angel? You know you're not going to take me alive." I'd rather die than be fed to her lover. "Not a problem." They fight hard, both girls giving their all. They break through the window into the terrace where they fight some more, Buffy getting the upper hand and handcuffing them together.
"What's the matter? All that killing, you afraid to die?" Faith snaps the handcuffs and they face off. Buffy pulls out the knife that the Mayor had given Faith. "That's mine." Said the brunette glancing at the knife. "You're about to get it back." They exchange more blows as they move closer to the edge of the terrace. Faith holds the smaller girl at the edge.
"Man, I'm going to miss this." Buffy breaks free and plunges the knife into the brunette's abdomen. Both slayers look down at the wound and Faith looks up smiling weakly. "You did it, you killed me." Faith steps closer to the edge. "Still won't help you boy, though. Should have been there, B, quite a ride." She then falls backwards into the bed of a moving truck. Buffy looks down with shock at Faith's unmoving body riding away.
Buffy shook the unconcious brunette, concern written all over her face. "Faith! Faith, wake up! You can't do this to me, not again!" Faith slowly opened her eyes and sat up slowly. Her gaze was far away and unfocused. "What have I done?" Her voice full of shock. "Faith, what are you talking about? Are you okay!"
"I've killed people. I'm a killer, Buffy. How could you take a killer into your home. How could you forgive me after all I've done to you?" Asked Faith looking down at her hands in horror.
"It was easy to forgive once I remembered the way we all treated you. I knew that you were living in that tiny and horrible hotel room and not once did I offer you a place to stay. I never invited you to come with us to the Bronze, only out on patrol. We only looked for you when we needed you, or when we were forced to. We both made a mistake that night, Faith. I should have been there for you, I should have helped you." Said Buffy taking the brunette's hands in her's.
"No, it was my fault. All my fault." Faith shook her head distractedly. "Faith, think about all the people you saved. Even when you were unconcious you helped me save people. We wouldn't have survived the assention if you wouldn't have told me how to defeat the Mayor in that dream we shared when you were in a coma."
"You were in my head?" Faith looked into the smaller girl's eyes, shock written all over her features. "Yeah, I don't know how it happened, but I was in your dream...or maybe you were in..." Buffy didn't get to finish her sentence because at that moment the plane shook furiously making her yelp.
A crew member came out the front cabin, an alarmed look on his face that he tried to mask. "I'm going to have to ask everyone to pleas take their seats and buckle up. We are experiencing some bad weather. It's nothing to be alarmed about." He then hurried back to the cabin leaving a sea of shocked faces behind.
"I'm not reassured at all." Said the blonde while buckling her seat belt. "Did you see his face. This is some serious shit, B."
"We are going to be fine, you'll see. We'll get through this little situation." Josephin spoke up, trying to be reassuring. The plane shook once more startling it's passengers. Faith looked out the small window and all she could see were dark clouds and lightning. The loud sound of thunder could be heard, and as a bolt struck making a loud bang Buffy jumped and grabbed on to Faith's arm.
The brunette looked at the smaller girl, who was now clinging to her arm as if her life depended on it, with a smirk on her face. "You scared, B?" Buffy tried to look indignant but she just suceeded in looking scared. "No I'm not!" Faith chuckled slightly.
"Sure blondie, whatever you say." Buffy smacked her arm but as the plane shook again she clinged to the brunette's limb once more. "How can you be so calm about this?"
"Because I just recently remembered that I'm a slayer, and my chances of being killed during patrol are way higher than my chances of dying on a plane crash." Faith responded, but the smirk was wiped off her face as the lights of the plane went out and it started shaking a lot more.
Josephin shrieked in terror and Buffy squeezed Faith's arm tighter while the brunette clutched the armrest. A booming sound was heard and suddenly the plane was falling from the sky. Everyone in the plane was screaming as the plane nose dived into the water creating a big splash.
Faith came to first. Looking around she saw Buffy still unconscious next to her. She shook the blonde until she woke. "Buffy, we gotta get out of here." Said the brunette unbuckling her seat belt. The blonde girl looked around the plane and realized it was sinking so she looked around finding the emergency raft. Faith had ran to check on the two men that had been sitting up front but the impact had crushed that section of the plane killing them instantly. She then rushed to Josephin's side, tried to wake her but couldn't, so she picked her up and carried her to the exit where Buffy had already opened the door.
They jumped into the water, Buffy's head popping up first. She looked around her finding herself alone. "FAITH! Faith where are you!" Faith was struggling to swim to the surface while holding the pregnant woman. Finally reaching the surface she gasped for air while keeping Josephin afloat. Buffy sighed with relief and pulled the string on the raft watching it inflate.
Buffy got on the floating raft, pulled Josephin into it, and helped Faith is as well. She then took Josephin's wrist, cheking for a pulse, and leaning over to check her breathing.
"Is she okay?" Asked Faith.
"She's breathing." Answered the blonde girl looking around her only finding darkness.
"What do we do now? We're like in the middle of nowhere."
"I don't know, B." They sat there staring at each other as the raft drifted on the water without direction.
TBC...