Chapter Two
Willow stands looking at Faith, the woman she was told would never wake up from her coma. The woman who tried to kill her and all her friends, though she catch a bad break mostly at the hands of Wesley. She remembers how she used to love watching her dance and slay. She had a growing fear that Faith wanted revenge in a big way. "Faith?" Willow questions almost in a whisper, not knowing what else to say. She never thought this day would come and was not prepared for this encounter. As she stands looking at the slayer, she wonders if Faith knows that she had been going to the hospital to visit her.
"In the flesh," Faith answers looking in the window of the apartment. "So you gonna haul B out here to tango with the psycho-slayer?" Faith's eyes dart back and forth between the window and Willow dangerously.
"Faith, they, um, they're gonna turn you over to the initiative rather than the cops. Personally I'd much rather deal with the cops cause they are evil and and they have this big cyborg thingie and he's like real bad, Buffy couldn't even stop him." Willow finishes her babble, as Faith moves closer listening intently.
"So that is the other homicidal lunatic they're after." Faith says stoically. "Wanna walk with me red?"
Thoughts run rampant through Willow's head, she knows she shouldn't go with Faith but something about those eyes pulls her to go. She is certain that the gang will be furious with her but decides that she will go with Faith anyway. She wonders if this is a trap or if Faith sees that she isn't going to tell Buffy since she gave her the info on the plans they had for the dark beauty. Lastly, she wonders why she isn't going to tell Buffy when all that is moral inside her screams for her to tell. Everything within her that is, but a tiny feeling deep within that she can't quite place.
As Willow turns to follow the slayer, Riley bolts through the window diving on Faith knocking her to the ground. Faith laughs as Willow runs off. "That all you got boy?"
He pulls a blaster from his coat. "No this is real fire power," he shouts as she jerks his arm backwards snapping it.
She kicks him in the gut with rage in her eyes. "Tell B that's her birthday present from Faith, the woman she used to screw after a good kill because a man couldn't cut the slayer strength." Having said that, she kicks him again and runs as Buffy races from the house.
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Faith stands at the ruins of the high school thinking of the mayor. He was evil but he loved her enough to botch up the ascension and die. She curses herself for the slayer dreams and knew she had told Buffy his weakness. He was the only one who loved her and she let him down. Her face is playing out the emotions of her thoughts, as Willow walks up to her.
"Faith?" Willow asks in an uncertain tone. The look on Faith's face made Willow show hesitancy as to whether or not she should approach her or not.
"Hey red," Faith takes out a cigarette. "You shouldn't be all the way out here alone ya know."
"Why aren't you trying to hurt me Faith?" Willow asks timidly.
"Cause I know what you did red. You came to see me and held my hand. You said you were sorry. I believed ya red, am I right to do that?" Faith looks at her not liking this new vulnerable feeling at all.
"I don't know what's going on with me. Everything you did, I mean, I should be turning you in but, I-I-I just…" Willow looks away from Faith's penetrating eyes.
Faith tosses her cigarette away. "Yeah I get it red. I should be running from you cause being civil to you could get me killed, ya know? If you get soft you get picked off easy but I told you before, I only hurt those who hurt me." Faith looks at the redhead before swiftly moving to her and pulling her close. "I won't let myself hurt ya red," she places her lips on Willow's. "I never finished what I started all those months ago red," she begins massaging her shoulders pulling her as close as she can get her.
Faith lifts the smaller girl up into her arms and begins kissing her down the neck. Hearing a soft moan from the redhead heightens her slayer senses into overdrive. "Faith I've still never…" Willow tries to speak between Faith's animalistic kisses but her quickly overheating body reacts by pushing itself as close to the slayer as she can get. Finally, Willow musters up the courage to pull away receiving a funny look from the slayer. "Faith, I-I-I-I um I've never done this before and I always thought something like that should be well not in the middle of a graveyard. Technically this is a graveyard seeing as so many died here." Willow drops her head in embarrassment.
"Yeah, sorry Red," Faith pushes thoughts back in her mind., Thoughts that maybe Willow is faking all this to get her trapped by Buffy. She decides that she will confront Buffy tomorrow and see how the Wicca reacts.
"Faith," Willow says, trying to get a fix on how the slayer is feeling.
"Don't sweat it red," Faith says, trying to put up the tough front.
"Faith, um," Willow points at the three approaching vampires.
"Fuck," Faith leaps at the vamps swiftly staking one, kicking another to the ground while staking the one that was headed at Willow. She then kicks the one who was trying to get back up and pulls out a stake.
"Faith stop that's Spike!" Willow shouts noticing the vampire isn't fighting back. "There is something wrong with him, he can't fight humans. The initiative is experimenting on demons and now Adam is, well, doing worse things."
"Faith pockets her stake looking at the shocked blonde vampire. She grabs him up by his shirt collar, shaking him then pounds him in the face. "You tell B you seen me with red and I will give you a slow painful death, torture is my game peroxide-man." With that, she releases him.
Just then, a part human part demon comes bounding towards them. "I was about to tell you Adam is coming!" Spike yells.
"Faith run!" Willow shouts.
Adam gives the slayer a haymaker that sends her to the ground. She rolls away from him managing to trip him up before barely missing a blast from an attached weapon. "Faith run damn it!" Spike yells.
The slayer picks up a large rock, tossing it and it connects with Adam's chest. This gives her the time she needs to follow Willow and Spike. "So we have here a humanoid huh," Faith says. "Call me dumb but he's ran by a computer program of some sort so that means, destroy the program and Adam is history."
"He's to strong, we've tried everything." Spike says preparing to slip off in the dark.
"I think he's gonna kill us all." Willow says dejectedly, as Spike disappears.
"Have a little Faith red." Faith kisses her.
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Buffy and Willow are walking around the UC Sunnydale campus looking for Faith. "Will you are acting strange, I'm a little worried about you." Buffy says, as the two walk towards a coffee shop. "I mean we've got Faith on the loose, Adam is in serious need of killing and you need to snap out of whatever this is. Oz leaving, I'm sorry about that but I lost Angel too and we have to move on."
"I'm sorry Buffy, I just…" Buffy spots Faith coming towards them.
"Word has it B is looking for a psycho-slayer," Faith grins flashing her pretty eyes at the women.
"Look Faith, we can get you some help, there is no need to…" Faith pushes Buffy into a dumpster.
"Maybe you are the one who needs help B," she looks at Riley who is coming towards her with his arm in a sling. "How'd you like my birthday present, it was the least I could do since you gutted me," she raises her shirt showing her tummy to everyone watching.
"Will call the police," Buffy shouts rushing Faith with a sweeping kick that sends the dark slayer to the ground.
Faith counters with a knee to the gut sending Buffy backwards long enough for her to stand and deliver a swift kick under Buffy's chin. "Take that B, from one slayer to another." Faith races off, as Riley is about to give chase.
"Riley no," Buffy says looking at Willow; noticing she's looking after Faith. "Will what's going on?"
Willow realizes that she is about to take some mega heat for this but she can't help it. Buffy has to know the truth and there is no time like the present. "Buffy do you remember the night Faith captured me to get the Mayor's box back? Um, well she kissed me. When she went into a coma, I visited her at the hospital as often as I could. I don't know why Buffy and it may be wrong but I like her. I see a different side of her and I don't think the initiative is the best place for her to be placed."
"She's done something to Willow," Buffy's eyes show more rage than the night Faith shot Angel with the poison.
"Let's move," Riley shouts after Buffy who had sprinted off.