Chapter 7.
Angel glares at Spike and wonders why he is with Buffy and Xander. He puts that out of his mind and looks at Buffy who staring right at Faith.
"I cannot believe your protecting her," says Buffy shaking her head. "Giles told me you looked everywhere and you didn't find her. Care to explain?"
"Buffy, let's talk," says Angel.
"Talking is so the last thing I want to do right now, Angel. Especially with you."
"Wesley Cordelia, take Faith out of here." Angel is still looking at Buffy in the eye as he orders his crew to get Faith out of the hospital.
"Oh no, she's not going anywhere." Buffy tries to get through Angel but Angel pushes her back. Spike and Xander get a little angry at Angel step up. The two challenge Angel and Angel gets ready to take them.
"I've got this," says Buffy stepping closer to Angel. "You really got a lot of nerve."
Wesley, Cordy and Faith head out of the hospital. Buffy follows Faith with her eyes as she exit's the hospital. As they exit, they could see Riley's helicopter land nearby.
"You're here to punish her, is that it?"
"I'm here to stop her. She off base and not alright."
"She's fine. She wants to change and she has a chance to because I'm going to give it to her."
"You're the second guy she comes around that thinks she can change."
"Who's the first?"
"My boyfriend."
"You have a boyfriend?"
"Oh, great."
"What?"
"I know that look."
"What look?"
"Man this is getting boring," says Spike. "I thought there was going to be screaming and girl fights. I'm going outside for a smoke."
"Hey, wait for me," says Xander as he follows Spike. The two head out and see a helicopter. Then they notice that next to the helicopter is one of those soldier boys, Graham, and he is putting someone on the helicopter. "Hey, isn't that…"
"Soldier boy," says Spike. "What's he doing here?"
"I meant Riley."
"I can see that." Spike rolls his eyes.
Faith turns her head to Xander and Spike. She then looks over to the helicopter. Her eyes get fix on Riley who putting on one of those ear things as Graham put his seat belt on. Faith then starts to inch closer to the helicopter. Spike turns to Faith and walks up to her. She stops.
"Hey, love your work," says Spike shaking her hand. Faith is confuse.
"Spike, that's not a good thing to say when she is trying to reform," says Xander. They face each other.
Wesley and Cordy's attention are on the hospital entrance and what Buffy and Angel are doing. Then Spike and Xander notice Faith getting closer to the helicopter.
"Faith," says Wesley as he notices her look at him then start to run to the helicopter. "Faith stop. Come back."
Back inside, Buffy and Angel are still arguing about Buffy's boyfriend. They keep going back and forth. Buffy rolls her eyes at Angel constantly and Angel hates when she does that to him.
"I'm not the one who left, you did," says Buffy. "So you don't have the right to tell me that I shouldn't have boyfriend without telling you."
"You could of called," says Angel. "I thought our love was like eternal or something."
"It was something and it's over."
"Fine."
"Fine."
"You are so childish."
"Am not."
"Are too."
"I can't believe I'm having this conversation with you."
"Because you can't take it that you…"
"Don't even finish that sentence. We're not here for us. We're here for Faith whom you're spoiling as we speak."
"I'm not spoiling her."
"Yes, you are. You're keeping her from me and lying to me was not the way to handle this. She is a criminal and killer."
"Yes, I accept that but she's not going to do that anymore and I'm going to help here like I tried before. She wants my help. She asked for it."
"I don't believe that."
"That's the reason she came to LA. I'm the only one she can trust."
"You're not the only one."
Then they hear Wesley's voice call out Faith's name. They both look at the entrance then back themselves.
"This is all your fault," says both Buffy and Angel to each other. Then they start to run. The two run right by Xander, Spike and Cordy.
"Spike stop Angel," Buffy yells. Spike starts to run right after Angel. He jumps on Angel's back, which stalls him a little giving Buffy the lead.
"Spike get off me," says Angel.
Then Xander comes over and gets in front of Angel. Angel has no idea what Xander is about to do so he continues to try to get Spike off his back. Spike has got a good hold on Angel and this bugging Angel. Then Xander punches Angel in the face. Angel is caught by totally surprise and loses his balance. He falls on the floor.
"Ouch," says Xander as he shakes his fist. "That's for leaving Buffy."
"That was bloody brilliant," says Spike as he pulls away from Angel who is touches his nose to check if he is bleeding. "Do it again so I can see it from this angle."
"I don't think so Spike. That kind of hurt. Maybe I can kick him." Xander sees Angel on the ground with blood on his nose. "Maybe not." Xander gets behind Spike.
Angel gets up and is really angry at Xander. He start to rush him but Wesley and Cordy grab him from his arms and begin to pull him back.
"Angel stop it, please," says Cordy. "Xander you are so a child."
As they are all doing that, Faith had reached the helicopter just as it was going up. She jumps and grabs on to the bottom part of it with one hand. Buffy comes right after her and grabs on as well right next to her. Riley and Graham inside notice the weight shift and look down to the side.
"Faith? Buffy?" says Riley seeing them both hanging for their dear lives on the bottom part of the moving helicopter.
"Riley, why do you always fall for the crazy ones?" asks Graham when he sees the two girls.
"They're not crazy. They're eccentric." Riley turns back to the girl who are trying to pull themselves into the helicopter.
"That's an understatement."
"We need to land this now." Riley shouts at the pilot.
"What?" asks the pilot as he flies higher into the air.
"We need to land," yells Riley. "There are two girls hanging on the bottom."
"That's insane." The pilot decides to look down and sees the girls. He is surprise and he jerks the helicopter a little. "They're insane. What are they doing?"
"Riley, we'll pull them up," says Graham. He takes his seatbelt off grabs on to a handle on the side of the helicopter door. Graham bends down and sticks his hand out to Faith.
As the helicopter jerked again, Faith loses her grip from one hand. Buffy, Graham and Riley see that.
"Faith," Buffy and Riley both say.
The helicopter jerks again and Graham falls back against the pilots seat. Riley sees his friend fall then he turns to Faith and Buffy. He sees Faith losing her grip.
"Faith hold on," says Riley as he begins to unfasten his seatbelt.
"Riley don't!" says Faith. "You're hurt."
Buffy hears this from Faith and grows angry that she doesn't know that her own boyfriend is hurt. She the puts that out of her mind. Then she wraps her legs around the helicopter part she is holding on to. She looks at Faith and at that moment Faith's hand slips. Buffy acts quickly and grabs her hand in mid air.
Riley's heart is in his throat as he tires to grab Faith. He is relief that Buffy grab her hand in time. Buffy pulls her up.
"It's too heavy," says the pilot to Graham. "Only one of them can get on. If we don't lose one we'll crash."
"Riley…" says Graham. He knew Riley heard what the pilot said.
"Like hell," says Riley. He turns to look at the slayers. Some how Riley needed to make a choice. Pick one of the girls and lose the other or have them all crash.
"You have to Ri, our lives depend on it," says Graham.
"I can't choose," says Riley.