Episode 7- Just A Little Magic- by buffyfan1973

Faith finds Dawn in the demon Bar.

Willie: "Slayer in the house!" Many of the rogues get up to leave but many just sip

their drinks. "See lookie there Faithy, they know your redeemed, you get the same

reaction a not so pleasant slayer towards me used to get."

Clem: "Faith I've been watching her, Xander told me to help find her, I haven't let

her do anything."

Dawn: "You won't find me next time Faith, count on it." She starts to take off but

Faith grabs her arm and spins her around.

Faith: "Look D, you can hate me all you want I don't really give a damn. You can

not however act like a ten year old brat and intrude on my job. I have work to do

get it kid? Now straighten your ass up and get the fuck home!" The bar is quiet as

Dawn tries to get free. "Better yet, I'll take your ass home. How's a little

humiliation work the tough ass ego." She picks Dawn up, tosses her over the shoulder

and walks out.)

(cut to next evening, magic box)

Andrew: "Robin I think I've got something." Willow frowns at him as Xander starts

making fight noises.

Robin: "Let me read this, it does look like that ring."

Lamyac's ring is said to bring power to a human untold. The strength and agility

brought forth by this ring upon a soul entering it, a good soul, infuses the ancient

Goddess who prepared the ring. Upon the infused rage of the Goddess the ring's powers

can be used to end the world as we know it. The Goddess hails over the plane of Danzathar.

The guys sit staring for a moment waiting for him to tell them what he'd found. Just

then two demons come, one grabs Robin knocking him cold as the other battles

Xander and Andrew. Meanwhile Amy magically moves the book back on the shelf.

(cut to basement)

Faith is racing down the stairs towards the seal and sees Caleb who is letting the

uber vamp's pile out.

Faith: "Oh Fuck!"

Caleb: "Your the dirtiest of them all slayer, you little slut."

The uber vamps rush her as he takes off. Willow and Kennedy come in quickly joining

the fight.

Faith: "Andrew's tears, Buffy told me they'd close it, hurry." Willow's eyes go black

as she chants and Andrew is suddenly with them screaming in fear. "Close it pansy

now damn it!"

A vamp knocks her to the ground as another wriggles her sword free and another is

kicking her in the face. Kennedy isn't doing much better having her ribcage thrashed

in as another is readying to bite. One knocks Willow across the room just before

she could do the light spell. Andrew, out of total fright cries over the seal and

it's once more closed.

Andrew leaps at one of the vamp's who have Faith as they bash her head against the

wall; doing nothing but distracting it for a moment. Willow has the sword and decapitates

two of them as Robin finally gets free. Blood is oozing from Faith's forehead as

her eyes glaze over.

Andrew: "Sweet mother of Jesus, she's going to die!" Faith can see the shimmering

light turn into Joyce but no one else can.

Joyce: "Faith they need you, please get up, you can do it sweetie, I believe in you.

You've got someone on your side. Come on Faith, get up, you've got to." Her eyes

manage to focus on Willow for a second then she suddenly thrusts her arm around the

neck of the last vamp on her squeezing.

Andrew: "Oh God help me! Get me out of here, I'm going to die! Christ Willow sword!"

Willow decapitates the vamp as the remaining three have scattered.

Kennedy: "We've got to get her to the hospital."

Faith: "No, no hospitals, I can't do that again, no!" She jerks away from Willow's

hold. "You ain't taking me back there."

Willow: "Faith I'll stay with you, I swear, please, I won't let them hurt you." Willow

puts a hand on Faith's shoulder to try and calm the agitated slayer who's obviously

remembering her last very long stay in the hospital.) "Kennedy you can't get her,

you need to go yourself."

(cut to the hospital)

Dawn is standing watch in Kennedy's room, Willow is in Faith's and Andrew is on the

phone with Xander having just been told Robin was taken away and he can't find the

book, he didn't know Amy slipped it into her coat while she was calming him of course.

As Willow sits holding her hand, trying to stop her restless sleep, Faith dreams.

She sees herself as a young girl, before Sunnydale, maybe ten years of age,

just before she was taken for training. She is in the snow holding a very little

girl's hand, they're walking fast and Faith is playfully threatening to put her in

the snow bank. Her body jerks violently as she yells, "no!"

(fade to black)