A/N Thanks for the reviews. I've tried to write this chapter like three different way's but I decided to do it like this. I hope you guy's like it.

Chapter 19

Boston and Down

It took another three days for the kids to finally make it to Boston. Unlike Sunnydale, it was alway's cold or raining in Boston. Checking into the nearest hotel, the group sat in the girls bedroom as they started to talk about what they were going to do next.

"So when are we going to go out and look for your friend?" Johnathon asked as he reclined back on Kendra's bed.

"Tomorrow." Tara replied as she finished putting her things into a dresser.

"She must be very special to you to drive across the country to see her?" Amy asked as she sat down beside Johnathon.

"Actually I never met her." Tara admitted as she sat on the floor in a meditation stance. Everyone's mouth dropped open at her admission.

"So you mean to tell me that you came all the way to Boston, to see someone you never met?" Xander asked. At her nod he continued. "Tara you are officially the wierdest person I ever met."

"Even weirder then a preying mantis lady?" she asked only for his eyes to go wide. Johnathon and the others just looked at them with a "what the hell are you talking about" look.

"Moving on." Xander said as he sat down beside her. "So why did you come all this way to check on her?"

"Because it's just...complicated."

"Come on Tara." Kendra said as she sat up in her bed. "Why is dis girl so important to ya?"

"Because I...okay I'll level with you." Tara said as she stared at the Jamaican Slayer.

"You were supposed to die at the hands of Drusilla and Faith, the girl I'm here to get, was supposed to become the Slayer after you."

"How...how do you know dis?" Kendra asked stunned.

"Hello...vision girl remember." Tara said with a nervous grin. She still wasn't sure if she had did the right thing by telling her about how she was supposed to die.

"About those." Xander said as he duplicated the meditation stance Tara was in. "These visions of yours are...vivid. After all of the study sessions the G-man made us go through, I never heard of visions being this detailed."

(Damn I never knew Xander could be this perceptive.) Angel whispered in Tara's mind.

(Maybe it's because of his possession.) Tara figured. Batman was one of the worlds greatest detectives.

(Yeah maybe.) Angel whispered back to her.

"Hey I work with what I get." Tara told Xander with a shrug.

"Whatever." Xander said with a frown as he stood to his feet and strecthed. "Come on Johnno, let's give the girls some space so they can get some sleep." with that said the two left the room. As soon as they did, Amy started to giggle. As Kendra and Tara looked at her, she explained why she was laughing.

"I was just thinking that this is my first sleepover."

"It's mine too." Tara admitted. Then they thought about something to discuss and they exclaimed it at the same time. "Boys."

"I saw you checking out Kendra earlier." Johnathon told Xander as he cut on the TV. "You must like her or something?"

"Kendra's okay." Xander said as he sat on his bed. At Johnathon's look, he quickly added.

"Okay she's totally hot, but she's to much like Giles for my tastes. Besides..." Xander said with a grin. "I see her checking you out all the time."

"Really?" Johnathon asked with a wide smile. He had to admit, he'd been checking out the Jamaican Slayer himself.

"Yeah really." Xander said as his smile faded.

"So who do you like?" Johnathon asked, not noticing the troubled look on his friends face.

"I like...I like Tara." Xander admitted. "But there's just something about her. Something that she's holding back from us all."

"Hey man." Johnathon said as he put a hand on his shoulder. "Tara hasn't done anything to hurt us, so stop worrying. If you like her just go and talk to her then."

"So are you going to talk to Kendra then?" Xander asked. Johnathon immediately went pale from the question.

"Wha... me talk to..." Xander only laughed from his friends nervousness.

"I totally like Xander." Amy said from her position on the floor. "I mean Johnathon has been hitting the gym and is getting a little buff, but Xander is totally a hotty. So who do you like Kendra?" Kendra immediately blushed from the question.

"I...I like Johnathon." she said nervously.

"Really?" Amy asked. "I would have thought that you would try to go after Xander. I could totally see you two together. So why don't you go and talk to him?"

"Because I was never allowed to talk to boys." she said sadly. "Me Watcher said dat it would interfere with me Slayer studies and training."

"Well he's not here now honey." Amy said with a huge smile. "You have a real future now and me and the gang are going to make sure of it. So if you like Johnno then you should tell him."

"I guess." Kendra replied quietly.

"So who do you like Tara?" Amy asked.

"What?" Tara asked as she looked up from drawing. "Sorry I was busy with something. What did you say?"

"I asked which of the guys on the team do you like, but I think I already know who it is."

"Oh." Tara said bemused. "And who would that be?"

"It was Angel wasn't it?" she asked as she pointed an accusing finger at her. Tara just looked at her with wide eyes. She was completely speechless.

(Tara likes me, Tara likes me) Angel sing songed in her mind.

(Quiet you.) Tara thought back to him as she smiled.

"Aha." Amy said, mis-understanding Tara's smile. "I knew you liked him."

"You don't know what you're talking about." Tara said as she got up and sat on her bed.

"Oh I don't do I?" Amy asked. "Tara come on, everyone saw it. You two used to call each other brother and sister, but when you thought no one was looking I saw you checking him out."

"Just drop it Amy." Tara said defensively. "He's dead now and okay I did love him as...as a kind of a brother figure. That's just... that's just get some sleep, we have a big day tomorrow."

Not wanting to upset her friend even more, Amy got up and turned off the lights.

The next day

After getting room service and eating the gang went out together and checked out the sights. As they did so Amy apologized for what happened last night. Tara did the same. As the day quickly turned into night, the gang silently prowled the streets in Tara's car.

"So do you know where your friend is?" Xander asked as he watched the scenery go by. It seemed as if they were going into the badder parts of down town Boston. He could see drug dealers, dealing drugs and prostitutes propositioning John's as they drove by them.

"I have some leads." she said as she made a turn. When Angel visited Faith in jail she often would tell him of her past. Including where she was around this time of her life.

Seeing a rundown looking apartment building, she pulled into a parking lot and got out.

"You guys stay here and watch the car." Tara told them as she began to walk towards the building. "I'll be right back."

As soon as she left the pimps and some thugs started to look at the car, Kendra and Amy.

(You had better tell me what to say to her.) Tara told Angel. She still remembered how Gunn reacted to her when they had first met.

(Okay, okay.) Angel agreed as he started to whisper some information to her. As they continued their mental conversation, Tara saw the door she was looking for and knocked on the door.

"Hey dog." a big burly thug said to Xander. "How much for that fine white bitch?" he asked as he leered at Amy.

"First of all she's my friend." Xander told him as he stepped out of the car. "And secondly if you want to keep your shiny gold teeth in your mouth you'll never talk to her like that again."

"Is that so?" the thug asked as he looked up at Xander. "Well I think me and my homies would disagree." he said as five more thugs emerged out of the darkness.

"Damn, the things I do for friendship." Xander muttered as he flicked his hand up and punched the thug he was talking to in the jaw.

"Yeah what the hell do you want?" Faith asked as she cradled a baby in her arms.

'Faith looks beautiful.' Angel thought to himself as he looked at her through Tara's eyes. Looking at her now, he could just look into her eyes and see the scared little girl that was hiding there.

But when they first met he didn't see that. He saw someone that was strong and wasn't afraid of anything. But looking at her now he could tell that, it was just a cover up. That scared little girl was alway's in there.

She proved that the night she came to him, begging him to kill her. To end her life. She looked so sad that day. So tired. But looking at her now, he knew that maybe he and Tara could get her out of here, and hopefully change her life for the better.

(Whose the kid?) Tara asked Angel, snapping him out of his musings.

(Faith told me that she used to babysit some of the neighbors kids for money. She didn't want to sell her body like her mom did and she was too young to strip so she did this. She's planning on using the money so she can run away.) At least that's what she had told him anyway. But the whole time Angel always suspected that she did strip and sell her body sometimes. He had always felt that Faith was holding things back from him.

"Listen my name is Tara and I just wanted to talk to you for a minute." she told her.

"Oh hey Mrs. Mckenzie." Faith said as she handed the baby over to the woman behind Tara.

"Hold on a sec." she said as she dissappeared into the apartment. As she came back she handed the older woman a baby bag.

"Thank you dear, you're a life saver." the older woman said as she handed Faith some money and walked off with her baby.

"Are you still here?" Faith asked as she looked at Tara in annoyance. "Listen whatever you're selling I ain't buying." she told her as she started to close the door, only for Tara to wedge her foot in it.

"I'm not trying to sell you anything, Faith."

"How the hell do you know my name?" Faith asked through narrowed eyes.

"I know everything about you, Faith."

"Is that a fact?" Faith asked with an amused tone. "And just what the fuck is it that you know about me?"

"I know that when you were a little girl, that you wanted to be a dancer."

"Is that it?" Faith asked with a scowl on her face. "That's all you fucking know about me? This is so lame..." she said as she again attempted to close the door, only for Tara to wedge her foot in it again.

"And I know why that little girl never became that dancer. It was because her mother used to drink and tell the girl that she was worthless. That she was nothing. All the girl wanted was just to be loved and cared for, but everytime she went to her mom for that love, she got beaten. When the girl got older she would go out and seek the attention she never got with her mom, from older guys. When she found out that they were just using her for her body, the girl started to cut herself."

"Very touching story." Faith said, even though she silently wondered how this strange girl knew of her past. "But why don't you and that little girl screw yourselve's and get the hell out of here?"

"Faith please just listen to me. My name is Tara Maclay and I came all the way from California, just so I could meet you. I came to tell you that you're not worthless. You have a very special destiny to follow and there are some things out there in the world, that seem impossible. Believe it or not Faith but you're very special. All I'm asking is for just five minutes of your time so we can talk. Maybe we could just go for a walk or something."

"Yeah sure." Faith said humouring her. "Just stay here and I'm going to get my jacket." she said as she closed the door.

(So do you think she'll come with us?) Tara asked Angel.

(Probably not.) he answered honestly. (But I really just wanted to make sure she was okay and to warn her of the dangers of the night, before her Watcher shows up in her life.)

"That bitch is crazy." Faith muttered to herself as she crawled through the window and out onto the fire escape. "I'm so getting the hell out of here."

As she ran from the apartment, she bumped into some guys that were in the middle of a street brawl.

"How long does it take to get a jacket?" Tara asked herself as she knocked on Faith's door. Not getting an answer, she twisted the knob and walked in.

"Damn!" Tara cursed as she saw that the room was empty and the window was open.

As she made it downstairs and out to the parking lot, she saw Kendra and Xander punching some thugs hard in the face. Sending out a vicious spin kick to her opponents face, Kendra ended the fight.

"What the hell are you guys doing?" Tara asked as she walked up to them.

"We were just giving these guys a friendly beatdown." Xander said as the punks in question, got up and ran off into the night. Then he looked up at her. "What's up?" he asked as he noticed the look on her face.

"Faith ran. Have you seen her?" she asked.

"Well it would help if we knew what she looked like."

"Oh sorry." she said as she reached into her duster pocket. After unfolding a crumbled up piece of paper, she showed them a hand drawn picture of Faith. "This is what she looks like. Have you seen her?"

"Yeah..." Xander said after a moment of looking the picture over. "She bumped into me when we were fighting these guys."

"Which way did she go?"

"Ummmm... that way." Xander said as he pointed towards a group of buildings. Remembering her vampiric senses, Tara began to sniff the air. Seeing that Xander was correct, they hopped in her car and drove off.

Faith glanced nervously over her shoulder, as she ducked down an alley.

'Man there are some wierdo's in this world.' she thought to herself, not noticing the danger that lurked down the alley.

"Hey babe let's bang bodies." a husky voice said just in front of her. Looking up she saw a man wearing all leather, with a sadistic smile on his face.

"Fuck off!" Faith shouted as she started to walk around him, only for the big man to grab her arm.

"I wasn't asking, I was telling." he said a his face contorted to something demonic causing her to scream. Managing to get out of his grasp, she attempted to run only to find that three more of the things stepped out in front of her.

"She is a pretty one." one of them leered as they formed a loose circle around her. Faith got in a loose fighting stance as she watched them all in turn. 'If these things are going to kill me then I'm going out fighting.' she thought to herself. What happened next Faith would remember for the rest of her life. One of them exploded into ashes.

Looking up they all see Tara standing there with a stake in her hand.

"Hi guys." she said with a wink. "Mind if I join the party?" Not waiting for an answer she kicks one of them in the chest. As the fight starts one vamp is smart enough to realize that Tara is fighting unnaturally strong. Pushing Faith to the ground he attempts to run out of the alley, only for a cross to be shoved into his face.

Looking up he see's a short pasty looking kid and a beautiful black girl. The last thing he saw was a stake coming up and then nothing at all as he turned into dust.

"Are you okay?" Tara asked as she extended her hand. Taking the preoffered hand Faith stood to her feet and brushed the back of her clothes off.

"What the hell we're those things?" Faith asked as they began to walk out of the alley.

"Those were some of the impossible things, I was telling you about." Tara said with a little smile. Faith just gave her a look.

"Okay...okay." Tara said as she looped an arm around the younger girls shoulder. "I'll just start from the beginning. Into each generation a Slayer is born, one girl in all the world, a Chosen One, one born with the strength and skill to hunt the vampires..."

Two days later

Faith took the existance of vampires and demons surprisingly well. After Tara explained Faith's role in the fight against darkness she agreed to come with them.(she didn't tell her that if Kendra died that she would become the Slayer though.) She got along with the rest of the group pretty well, all except Kendra. She found her to be to much of a stick in the mud and she silently promised to change that. Especially if they were going to be traveling partners.

Surprisingly enough it seemed that she took a liking to Johnathon. She would always wink at him and make suggestive comments. But to Tara it seemed that, that was the only reason why she liked him so much. Just because she would always get him to blush and drool all over her.

"Hey Tar' we're going to get something to eat, you coming with?" Faith asked as she threw the duffel bag Tara bought her into her trunk. It still surprised everyone that after 16 years of life all that Faith had in this world was confined to a duffel bag. But neither of them judged her.

"No I'm just going to drop you guys off." Tara replied as she and the others got into the car. "I have some business to take care of before we leave town."

Faith just gave her a look, shrugged and then got in the car.

As Tara dropped the Scoobies and it's newest member off at the nearest diner, she drove off into the night.

Boston Warehouse District

Tara nimbly jumped from rooftop to rooftop of the warehouse buildings, listening for the slightest noise. Her ears perked up as she heard someone laughing. Going to the direction of that horrible sound, she slowly slid down the skylight of the nearest building.

"I'm telling you boss, we should franchise out to some more major cities." a black vampire with a business suit was saying to his sire.

"And I'm telling you Mr. Trick that I'm perfectly content with keeping my operation the way it is." Kakisto's said as he emerged out of the shadows and sat on his throne like chair. "So why would I want to move my operations?" he asked as he started to laugh. As he did so he heard another voice laughing along with him.

This voice was that of a girls. Stopping his own laughter he listened on as a girl laughed maniacally.

"What the hell." Trick said as he looked around the room to determine where the intruder was. Her laughter only bounced off the walls, making an echo cast about the room.

"Who goes there?" Kakisto's growled out. Just as suddenly as the laughter started it stopped. Then a figure emerged out of the darkness with long honey blonde hair, wearing all black.

"You must have a death wish little girl?" Trick asked.

"No I don't have a death wish." the girl replied as a bright light flashed on her arms, revealing golden gaunlets. "And I'm not a little girl, I'm an Angel." With that she brought her palms together and fire started to gather in her hands.

Kakisto's, Trick, and his minion's screams could be heard throughout the night, as the flame quickly started to engulf them.

Thirty minutes later

"So did you finish de business you went off to do?" Kendra asked as she and the others got into the car.

"Yeah I did." she said with a slight smile, as she turned on the radio.

"And in further news, a mysterious fire spread in the downtown factory district. Witnesses say..." Tara then quickly turned off the radio. Nobody seemed to notice though.

"So where are we going now, Captain?" Johnathon asked with a stupid grin.

"I have a friend who I haven't seen or heard from in awhile." Tara said as she turned around to look at him. "He lives in a place called Raccoon city."

"We'll Raccoon City here we come." Johnathon told them.

Sametime

Faith's apartment

A woman in her late thirties knocked on Faith's door and looked on with utter discontent as a man answered the door.

"Yeah what the hell do you want?" the guy asked. The woman just perched her glasses up higher on her nose, startled at the boys language.

"Yes, my name is Evelyn Davis and I'm looking for a Miss Faith Stevens." the woman said in a british accent. "I was hoping that you could direct me towards her?"

"Well that Faith bitch used to be my girlfriend, but she skipped town to go some place with a group of wierdo's."

"Do you know where I might find her?" she asked again ignoring his language. Her only answer was for him to slam the door in her face. "Yes thanks for your time." she muttered under her breath as she took out a cellphone and dialed a number.

"Yes sir this is Evelyn." she said into the phone as she stopped to listen. "No sir she's not here. I went to her apartment but her...boyfriend told me that she skipped town." she stopped to listen again.

"Yes Mr. Travers, I'll report to England at once." she said as she hung up the phone. "I think it would have been a pleasure to have been your Watcher Miss Faith." Evelyn muttered to herself as she walked off.

TBC...

Please review...

I know in real life Faith probably wouldn't have gone with them, but hey thank God for fanfic. Also she was just living at her boyfriends apartment, it wasn't her's. I didn't want Faith to come off as a ho or anything, so that's why I made up that part about her babysitting. So I could show a different side of her character. I hope I didn't dissappoint anyone with this chapter, but part of it was based off of a promise. I had to find a way to get rid of Kakisto's and keep Faith's Watcher alive.