Title: Chances
Summary: Faith goes back to Sunnydale to help Buffy and the Scoobies. Follows the finale episodes, but with a little twist. I suck at summaries, just read it and find out.
Pairing: Buffy/Faith
Note: It´s my first attempt to write fanfiction so feedback is welcomed, and I´m Spanish so if there are lots of mistakes I´m sorry, I´ve done it as best as I can.
C.6 Problems
Underground, inside a little warehouse, The First in its Buffy appearance was reunited with Caleb. Telling him what he had discovered.
"It seems that the two slayers have developed a somehow... How can I say it?...special relationship"-The First explained.
"You think we can take advantage of it?"-asked Caleb.
"Of course we only need a little help and our brunette slayer will be history"-The First said.
"But, I thought you wanted her to be in out team"-Caleb was confused by the changes in his boss's plans.
T.F: Yes, at first I did. But why bother if we can destroy her easily.
"How?"-inquired Caleb.
"The important thing is not how, more like who"-The First said simply.
"I am afraid I'm not following you."-Caleb grew more confused as the conversation went on.
"You will see, you will see..."-was all that the demon said, feeling irritated by Caleb´s ignorance.
At the same time in the Summers house, more concretely in the room that Buffy and Faith shared, the two slayers continued sleeping embraced.
The brunette was the first to wake up, she lowered her eyes and saw a lot of blonde hair in her chest. She smiled happy to see that what had happened between them wasn't a dream, that it was real. Buffy chose that precise moment to stretch and open her eyes, raising her head she found Faith's eyes fixed on her, she gave the brunette a sweet kiss on the lips.
"Mmmmm...I don't want to go out of this room never, could stay here forever"-Buffy said still sleepy.
"I know what you mean, I like it here too, but I have the feeling that is not going to be possible for us to stay locked up here forever"-the brunette said.
"Nooo, you are right. Plus The First is still somewhere"-Buffy said.
"Don't worry babe, there's two of us now, we will win, you will see"-Faith said trying to reassure her girlfriend.
"That I hope"-Buffy answered.
Seconds later they rose from the bed, not without sharing some more kisses of course. They went down the stairs, and entered the kitchen where they found Willow, Giles, Xander, Anya, Kennedy and Wood.
Any of the two slayers said or did anything to give up the change in their relationship, since even if they never talk about it, they knew that the other wasn't ready for it, that it would be better to wait until the fight with The First was finished before telling them.
"Buffy, Willow and I have found what could be something important in the First plans. It's some kind of Egyptian mausoleum, we think that they must be keeping something important there"-Giles explained.
"Good, I will go take a look"-Buffy said
"I'll go with you"-Faith offered not liking the idea of her girl going to that place on her own.
"No, you stay here in case it was a trap and they decide to attack the house or something"-Buffy refused.
"But..."-the brunette tried to argue not completely understanding why Buffy wanted to go alone.
"No buts, I will be careful, and if I see anybody roaming I won't enter. I promise"-Buffy said seriously.
Faith didn't understand why Buffy didn't want her to go. So she waited in the house for the blonde to return, but finally decided to go out and search for the other slayer.
When she approached the mausoleum window what he saw inside stopped her dead in her tracks.
Buffy was inside with...Angel, both were looking at each other and then... they were kissing passionately, when Faith saw the kiss she felt like she couldn't breathe and it was as if a million of needles were nailed in her chest, she slowly moved away from the window and started running as fast as she could back to the house.
Inside the mausoleum Buffy finished killing Caleb with the axe she had found and turned to Angel. He gave her the medallion and told her that it could be helpful for the fight. They walked outside leaving The First near Caleb's corpse, once again the evil form was unnoticed.
"Sorry Caleb, but you have sacrificed yourself for a superior good, everything is going as we planned"-The First said and he smiled evilly satisfied with the fact that his plans where going perfectly.
Buffy and Angel continued talking in the cemetery, speaking about the blonde's relationships, suddenly the vampire with a soul stopped.
"What?"-asked Buffy.
"Faith..."-Angel simply said.
"Fa... Faith? What...Faith what? She is not here, is not here now, is she?"-Buffy said so fast that she almost chocked on her words.
"Buffy you're babbling..."-Angel said.
"Eh? Oh! Yes o.k. I will shut myself up, shut up good, yes, that. What were you telling me?"-asked Buffy who was clearly nervous at the mention of the other slayer name.
"Are you going out with Faith?"-asked Angel
"But... How do you know that?"-Buffy inquire surprised.
"You smell of her"-Angel explained.
"Well, anyone could think that after all this time I would be able to remember the vampire's power for smells, but no, I don't"-Buffy said sarcastically.
"Then it's true, you are going out with her?"-asked again Angel.
"Yes"-Buffy answered still nervous but sure of her feelings for Faith.
"I see, well I guess that if I must choose somebody to see you in love...then Faith is good, also I think she deserves to be happy and so do you. And you can do it with each other"-Angel said reassuring the blonde that it was ok for her to have feelings for the other slayer.
"Thanks Angel, you do not know how important it is for me"-Buffy said sincerely.
The slayer gave the vampire a kiss on the cheek and saying good bye she parted to the house, while Angel returned to L.A.
Faith arrived at the house and entered without saying anything to anybody. She stayed quite some time seated on the bed thinking about what she had seen and the consequences that it could trigger. She didn't want to think badly of Buffy, on the contrary, she wanted to trust her, the blond was after all her girlfriend, right? But she always had confidence problems that seemed to be evident for everybody, but that anybody tried to help her with. What everybody thought was that her problem was that she couldn't trust people, but they were wrong. The problem was that she didn't trust herself, that she never thought that Buffy was going to stay with her, that she would be able to make Buffy happy. That lack of confidence had drive her into a lot of problems and she didn't want to repeat them, so she decided to shut up and to see what happened before telling the other slayer what she had seen. Some time later Buffy arrived at her house, she told all her friends to meet at the dinning room to discuss something, and explained to them everything that had happened at the mausoleum and showed them the new weapon she had found. But she never mentioned Angel's visit, which caused the return of Faith's doubts. Did Buffy planed the whole encounter? Was that the reason why the blonde didn't want Faith to go with her in the first place?
"I Think now is the moment to attack them, we have a new weapon and we have to try and surprise them, I also think we can win"-Buffy said.
"You have a plan?"-asked Giles.
"More or less"-Buffy answered.
The blonde put her hand in the inner pocket of her jacket and took out the medallion that Angel had given her.
"I'm still not too sure about how it works, but it is important, and with the slayers axe in our power..."-Buffy said.
"You found it at the mausoleum?"-again it was Giles who asked.
Buffy did not answer and the noise caused by the news about Willow activating all the potentials made it easy not to do it.
"Well, get ready for the fights, tomorrow is going to be a very hard day"-Buffy said.
All retired to their respective rooms, and Buffy and Faith to the one they shared.
They didn't talked, they just got into bed and got closer until their bodies were practically one upon the other, and that's how they fell asleep, Buffy before Faith.
Morning arrived too soon in the brunette's opinion, all the house was a spectacle, girls where everywhere holding weapons, choosing them, all of them totally nervous, and for a moment Faith was conscious about the fact that she probably wasn't going to see those same girls after the fight, many of them were going to die, and maybe she would die too. She had lived with the girls for days and...feeling was supposed to be a weakness, but she guessed that feeling was one of the prices of redemption, she laughed about it, she was a lot more human than three years before.
When all of them were ready for the battle they left the house to go to the school. Prepared for the final fight, thinking if they would survive or not, they all knew that some of their friends were going to die in the final step of the way...
To be continued...
Just a couple of chapters more and the story will end, what do you think?