Episode 19- Have A Little Faith by AnyaRocks

Caleb is seen hanging up the phone laughing spinning his ring on his hand.

Caleb: "Redwitch is surely out of commission and the slayer will dive back inside herself after this one. I fear the plan is for naught now though, at least in this dimension."

(cut to summers home)

Andrew is cooking, Willow is sitting quietly in a chair sipping her coffee, Robin is standing quietly watching before slipping out of the room to the telephone.

Giles: "Yes?"

Robin: "Good it's you. Listen, we've got trouble, we're not sure if Faith's soul is still in tact or if whatever Caleb had in that jar just overtook her body once the orb was released, although we did hear it screaming, she hasn't spoke to us at all since. How is Buffy?"

Giles: "It appears your in a bit of a pickle, tell Willow the items she'll need to check for a soul were left in my apartment in my room. Buffy is, well, she'd like to see you at some point."

Robin: "There may be a problem with the apartment and items, Kennedy is with Amy and they've skipped town. Oh, and, Faith killed Xander while that thing was in control of her."

Giles: "Do get over there quickly, the powers Buffy handed out to the potentials before she, well you know, the potion to permanently unleash them is in there and Kennedy is the only potential left. We don't need another evil slayer. I always liked Xander, I'll tell Buffy when she's better," he hangs up, dials the operator and speaks. "Yes, get me the Sunnydale California police please."

Robin stands perplexed, he feels that somehow, Kennedy isn't the only potential left. Something just isn't sitting right with him plus Giles is acting very strange.

(cut to the gang)

Dawn: "Where is she, the bitch who has done nothing but ruin our lives!"

Willow: "Dawnie, Faith didn't do it, not her soul, we can't blame her," tears form in Willow's eyes.

Spike: "She's right niblet," he tries to comfort Dawn but she pulls away running up the stairs in tears.

Robin: "I'll take her with me, Willow needs some alone time and you two need to find Faith."

(cut to Robin and Dawn in Giles apartment)

Robin: "Looks like Amy cleaned the place out Dawnie."

Dawn: "That figures but I needed to get away," she sinks down to the floor crying. "We bonded, we were close and Faith killed him." Robin is hugging her as Caleb runs into the room.

Caleb: "Just like I'm going to kill you," he swings hitting Robin hard with the ring. He then grabs up Dawn and races out with her screaming.

Robin on the phone: "Yeah this is Robin, Caleb has Dawn, I need help." He hangs up looking where Giles said to for the potion, sticks it in his coat and heads out.

(cut to summers home)

Spike: "I'll go save niblet, I'm sure I'll meet up with Rob along the way."

Willow: "We can't all be scattered like this." Caleb swooshes in, claps Spike in the head as Andrew runs screaming.

Spike is down and Caleb goes after Willow hitting her twice before he's knocked backwards by a swirling wind. Faith comes inside and Caleb lets out a shrill laugh.

Caleb: "Get them slayer, they hate you, remember?"

Faith: "Fuck you, I know they do but I'm still gonna destroy your ass," she knocks Caleb down but he lands a good kick to the chest and skids out the door.

Andrew knocks her in the back of the head with a cast iron skillet and she hits the floor hard as Robin rushes in, holds open her mouth and pours the potion in.

Andrew: "See cooking utensils come in handy."

Robin: "We've got to find Dawn, no time for this." Faith opens her eyes looking at Andrew.

Andrew: "I had to do it Faith. The spell Willow used to activate the potentials was temporary and now you have all the power cause Robin gave you the potion so now the line is restored." She stands up now looking at them all with flashes of what she did to Xander rushing through her head and how everyone called her a murderer among other things a few years ago.

Robin: "I need to explain something. First, Caleb is not going to kill Dawn. His options are running out and she's his bargaining chip. Second, Giles is the one who told me where to find that bottle containing the potion for the powers Buffy once held and handed out to the other potentials."

Willow: "Right, he instructed me to take them back after the battle and when Buffy was ready or we had enough people to watch any living potentials I could redistribute."

Robin: "Well the powers belong rightfully to Faith so now she has them all. I'm suspicious that something is wrong here. Giles told me Buffy wanted to see me and for me to bring the bottle to him." Faith, not saying a word leaves the house.

Spike: "Great, what a time for the slayer to harbor up what she did."

Willow: "Lets go find Dawn, we can talk to Faith later." They leave the house.

(cut to a bar)

Faith is guzzling down another drink. The place looks almost empty and like there was a large battle inside.

Bartender: "Miss, you've caused enough trouble in here, I'm going to have to ask you to leave."

Faith: "Sure thing," she looks at the guy who was standing beside her. "So, Rick, right? You wanna split?"

Rick: "That's right, sure." Spike comes in looking Rick over.

Spike: "Can I speak to you a minute?"

Faith: "Speak," he furrows his brow at her.

Spike: "Faith they all know you didn't mean what you did, so snap out of this, we've got work to do."

Faith: "I'll do my job but I can't go back there, I know what I did, it'll kill them every time they look at me."

Spike: "Fine then, don't help your sister."

Faith: "You jackass," she hits Spike hard who retaliates.

Spike: "Lets have it out, get it out of your system," she pushes him out the door.

Faith: "You've got five seconds to get out of my face or I'll stake your ass. I can't go back there, Red will put on a front but I know she hates me now and D never believed I was her sister anyway so maybe its best. Don't you get it, I killed Xander, this is way different but it proves something. I'm a murderer, evil is inside me, it's all darkness, you know it as well as I do!" She flips a stake dusting a vampire. "Now I'm gonna go find Caleb and kill his ass."

Spike: "Faith it's bigger than Caleb, you don't know everything, you need us just as we need you now snap out of it damn it!"

Faith: "Fuck off Spike!" A scream is heard and they both take off running.

(cut to an old car)

Caleb is shoving Dawn in a car. She's kicking and screaming but he overtakes her easily.

Caleb: "No one to save you now, Xander is gone, Buffy left you so if I don't get time to do as I need, you're a dead little Dawnie!" He smacks her across the face pondering burning a symbol into her with a lighter and the ring as he'd done not long ago to a lady named Shannon.

Dawn is scared and shaking, all sorts of feelings run through her as a white clad woman appears, it's clearly her mom and she screams again but Caleb is unable to see the woman.

Joyce: "Dawnie she is all you have. She's hurting just as bad as you are right now, if not worse. She loved you so Dawnie, and she didn't mean to kill Xander. Look what Willow did in anger, the magic took over her, that wasn't our Willow just as that wasn't Faith."

Just then Faith jumps on the hood of the car which is just pulling out so Caleb speeds up.

Spike: "Damn it all to hell! Hang on Slayer," he yells dialing Willow's cel number.

Caleb is doing around 75 mph and Dawn is crying, scared for her life, shocked over seeing her mother, hurting over Xander all coming out in a floodgate of tears.

Faith kicks in the windshield with the glass cutting a large gash in Caleb's face.

Caleb: "Damn you," he jerks out a gun and fires but she, seeing it as he was reaching for it, dives onto the roof of the car.

Spike: "Bloody hell," he swerves the motorcycle he was on at the car but Caleb dodges him using a bullet to take out a tire sending him crashing into a fence.

Suddenly a shot is fired from a car behind them, sending the car to a screeching halt in a ditch. Faith dives back through the windshield as Caleb, seeing the shooter coming for him and Spike with a knife, dives out the door and runs off.

Faith pulls Dawn out of the car but Dawn pushes her away smacking her hard.

Dawn: "Get away from me you damn killer!"

Spike: "Faith what say I take niblet here home," Spike pulls Dawn off as Willow gets out of her car.

Faith: "It's ok Red, I'm out of here!" Willow puts her hand on Faith's arm.

Willow: "Faith, please, don't do this, plus the cops will be coming, just come home with me please."

Rick: "I'll give you a ride, seems like you got big problems at home."

Faith: "Sure, by the way, nice shot."

Willow: "Faith please don't do this."

Faith: "I don't want your pity Red, nor do I want you feeling like crap every time you have to look at me so I'll save you the trouble," she gets into the car with Rick as Willow turns away tears filling her eyes.

Robin: "Willow, don't give up on her, that's what she thinks you'll do, show her things are really different now, that someone does care."

Willow: "That's what I plan to do, lets go home."

(fade to black.