Chapter 3.
"What?" Faith climbs back down and walks down the street. Riley again follows her. He then realizes where she is going. Riley stops her. They are in front of Buffy's house. "What are you doing?"
"Paying a visit to dear old Joyce," says Faith with a grin.
"You're going about this wrong, Faith."
"Look, you don't know me. So, don't tell me what to do, okay?"
"Whatever that thing is, it's not going to help you."
"How do you know? You don't know what I've been through. You don't know the kind of person that Buffy is. That's why you doubt her. She has a license to kill and so I."
"Whoa, wait a minute. You have…" Riley starts to think about what Faith just said. "Are you a Slayer, too?"
"So, B didn't talk about me. That's a shame. My stories were fun." Faith faces the house, but Riley pulls her back by the arm. "You shouldn't have done that." Faith elbows Riley in the face hard, making him fall onto the ground.
"Faith," calls out an unfamiliar voice. She turns around and sees a bleached blonde, long duster wearing, attractive man walking over to her. "You must be Faith." The bleached blonde looks down at Riley, who is out of it for a while.
"Who wants to know?" asks Faith as she turns to the bleached hottie.
"Name's Spike. I like your style, luv," he says. "Killing them all."
"I don't have time for you. I've got me an appointment."
"With who?"
"Mrs. Joyce Summers." Faith starts to walk towards the house.
"Wait a second. Don't even think of going in there."
"Why not?"
"Cause I said so." Spike goes up to her with an angry expression.
"I thought you liked the killing. After all, you are a vampire."
"Yeah, but I happen to have respect for Joyce. She's a nice lady."
"You're right. That's why I'm going to have me a word with her."
"Over my dead body."
"Was that supposed to be funny?" Faith swings her hand toward Spike, but Spike catches it. He pushes it away and Faith loses her balance and falls. Spike's chip goes off and he holds his head.
"Bloody hell," says Spike.
"What's up with you? Didn't even hit you."
Riley finally gets up and sees Spike in a lot of pain. He has no time to argue with the vampire now. Now he wants to stop Faith from entering Buffy's house.
"Faith, stop," says Riley as he sees her get up.
"No chance of that happening."
"Spike, this is a first. I think with the both of us, we can take her even if she is a Slayer."
"Hey, let me have a taste at her."
"Don't you think that's going to hurt?"
"Yeah, but it'll be hell of a good feeling, I tell ya."
They both charge at Faith and tackle her to the ground. She begins to kick and squirm around. Spike grabs her hands and pulls them behind her back. He pulls her over to the steps of the house as Riley tries to hold her legs together.
Who are they kidding? They think that a vampire and a military trained soldier can stop and pin down a Slayer. I don't think so!
Faith kicks Riley in the gut hard and he falls back. Spike is surprised, but has a lot of hope in his vamp strength to hold her down. A vamp with hope, not tonight, Spikey. Faith swings her legs up and captures Spike's head. She tosses him over and he lands right on top of Riley. She gets up and decides to run off.
The two very injured men get up and look around to see if they can catch up to her, but Faith is fast. Riley takes deep breaths and leans on Buffy's house porch. Spike then steps on something on the ground. Some kind of sparkage comes from it as it breaks into two pieces.
"What's this?" asks Spike as he picks up the two pieces.
"That's Faith's," replies Riley, recognizing the device. He takes it from Spike's hands and puts it in his pocket. "Thanks. Again, a first."
"This never happened."
"Right." Riley leaves the scene.
A couple minutes later, Buffy was walking down the street in a hurry. She stops and sees Spike in front of her house. At first she doesn't believe it, but when she walks closer, she sees it's true.
"Spike, what are you doing here?" asks Buffy.
"Keeping an eye on your mum," replies Spike.
"You know about Faith." Buffy nods her head. "Giles and Xander told me you want her to kill us all."
"Yeah, the whole lot of you, but not your mum. She's a nice lady and she likes me."
"Right." Buffy goes by Spike's side without hurting him. Spike is surprised by that.
"You alright, Slayer?"
"Why do you care?" Buffy turns to him as she stands on her porch.
"Just not acting like yourself."
"Got a lot on my mind."
"Alright." Spike turns to go.
"Spike?"
"Yeah?" He turns to look at her again.
"Thanks."
"You're welcome."
Meanwhile, Riley is searching everywhere for Faith, but she is nowhere to be found. He is getting pretty tired and gives it a rest for the night. Riley heads back to his dorm room. As he opens the door, he sees Faith by the window, which is open.
"I've been looking everywhere for you," says Riley as he closes the door and walks over to her.
Faith looks down, then into Riley's blue eyes. She then just goes to him and hugs him real tight. Riley could hear a little crying, but Faith would not admit to it. Riley soothes her as they sit down on his bed.
"It's okay," says Riley as he rubs her back gently to calm her down. She pulls away and wipes any evidence of tears as quickly as she can. "You dropped this. I think it's broken." Faith takes the two pieces and stares at them. She stands up and tosses them in the trash. "That was a good shot." Riley smiles at her. She sits right back on the bed next to Riley.
"Sorry," says Faith in a low voice. She touches his stomach lightly.
"Didn't hurt that much."
"Liar."
"Okay, a little." Riley gives her a smile and Faith smiles back.
"This is going to sound weird, but can I stay here?"
"Sure."
"I'm kind of exhausted."
"Now that's weird, for a girl who's been in a coma."
Faith laughs. She has no idea why, but somehow it happened. This guy makes her feel good for some strange reason. Faith lies back on the bed and looks up at the ceiling.
"Well, tell me more about you?" Riley lays back right next to her.
"The good or the bad?"
"The dirty?"
Faith laughs once again and turns to face Riley. Riley turns as well. Faith sighs. She begins to tell him all her stories before she came to Sunnydale. Then she tells him about some of her times with Buffy and then her big mistake, killing the deputy major.
A half hour later, they fell asleep. Riley stirs awake. He watches Faith for awhile. She is beautiful when she sleeps, Riley thought. He grabs a quilt from the edge of the bed and covers her and himself.
The next day, in Buffy's dorm, she walks back and forth. She is wondering why she hasn't heard from Riley for a whole day. Buffy decides to go to Riley's dorm to see where he has been. As she arrives at his dorm, she knocks on the door lightly.
"Riley, it's me, Buffy," says Buffy. "Can I come in?" No one answers, so Buffy decides to open the door. "Riley?" She then sees Riley's head rise up and Faith is right next to him on the bed. Buffy's eyes widen.