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.7a The final battle

They arrived at the school and in silence each one of them went to their positions. Buffy and Faith remained at the entrance to talk.

"Well, it seems like this is the end..."-Buffy started to say.

"Or the start depends of how you look at it..."-Faith interrupted her.

"It depends on if we survive"-Buffy concluded

"We will survive, we always do, and we have to now that we are together"-Faith said sounding more sure of herself that she was.

Seeing Buffy contemplating the possibility of not seeing each other alive again, all her doubts disappeared, at least for the moment. She took the blonde by the waist until they were touching and kissed her, it wasn't a passionate kiss there wasn't any force on it, it was tender and full of love, thought in order to reaffirm.

"I will see you when everything ends"-Faith said trying to believe her own words.

"Sure you too... I..lov..em will be waiting for you"-Buffy said.

"Five by five, I will go to my place now"-Faith said as they parted.

The blonde was with potentials, cursing herself for not being able to tell Faith she loved her, it wasn't because she didn't feel it, it was that she didn't know if the brunette was going to survive the fight and if not and Buffy couldn't see her again then it would be too painful to live with it.

On the other hand the brunette was also thinking about it, but fearing that the reason was that Buffy in fact never felt love for her. She arrived at her position, but everything was dark and in theory it didn't have to be that way, was she lost? Almost without time to think the entrance closed behind her, she took a step backwards while everything was filled with dust and Faith closed her eyes with force to avoid getting blind. When she opened them again...She saw Allan Finch dead body against the wall, his mouth was open and drops of blood were dripping from it and into his jacket and shirt.

The brunette remained petrified looking at the man, a feeling of guiltiness arose from the deepest corner of her soul and it scattered through all her body. The only thing she wanted to do was to get away from the body, but her eyes never left the corpse. Suddenly behind her appeared Buffy (The First), but what would have been obvious for anyone, since the entrance was still locked and the blonde had appeared out of nowhere, for Faith wasn't so obvious, the only thing she was conscious about was that her victim was in front of her.

"Bu... Buffy...What's happening?"-asked Faith totally confused.

Faith moved to touch the blonde, but this one separated from her.

"B?"-Faith tried again.

"You really thought I was sincere?"-asked Buffy/The First with hate in her voice.

"What are you talking about?"-Faith asked again feeling even more confused and now even scared.

"You really thought I could love you? How is it possible to love someone like you? Someone who was able to do what you did to that poor man. Look at him, what do you think he felt while your stake was nailing his heart, at those painful moments before he died?"-Buffy/The First asked internally smiling at Faith´s reactions to his mind games.

"No...I didn't mean to...it was an accident...an accident"-Faith said difficultly.

Images of what had happened that night began to fill her head and the brunette's eyes started to water.

"An accident¡¡¡¡ people have accidents every day and they do not kill anybody! And what about the professor? an accident too? You tripped and stabbed him with your knife?"-Again it was the First who asked.

"B, please, enough already, I have changed, please, please..."-The brunette was frantic, she wasn´t sure of what was happening around her.

"You have not changed, you're still Faith, and you will always be"-Buffy/First said angrily.

Again images of what happened flooded through the brunette's head, this time much more intense, from the murder of Allan to the one of the professor, Faith could feel what she had felt all those years ago, a cold sweat crossed her body and she felt like she couldn´t breath no more. The images passed from one to another very fast, until everything stopped and Buffy's voice resonated in her ears.

"How it is possible to love someone like you?"

The following images were from the past, but not of the recent one, but of her childhood.

It was a ruinous house, all the ground was full of tins, in a corner a small girl, with dark hair and deep brown eyes was crying against the wall. A door resonated in the house and the sobs of the girl stopped, in the room appeared a young woman, who in previous times had probably been quite beautiful, witch bad life had battered. The woman approached the kid.

"Why you cry now, you stupid? Can´t you stop making noise?"-she said with an angry voice.

"My head hurts"-little Faith answered.

"Your head hurts? What do I care?"-The woman asked.

The woman fell to the ground in front of the girl, the drugs catching up with her.

"Momi, you o.k.?"-the little girl asked.

"No, of course not, and you know what's my problem? YOU are the problem, if you had not been born your father wouldn't have gone away. You shouldn't be here, shouldn't have born, never!"-the woman shouted.

At that moment Faith was sobbing uncontrollably, her mind couldn't distinguish between reality and fiction. And less could her notice that Buffy no longer was with her.

Meanwhile outside the real Buffy continued fighting with all her forces against bringers, but they were too many and she still didn't know how to use the medallion.

But the most important thing that happened outside at that moment was the fact that one of the bringers stabbed Anya with a sword, killing her right away. Xander, who was in the other end of the place did not see it, so when The First approached him like Anya he wasn't aware of the change.

"Anya, What are you doing here?"-he asked.

"Xander, you have to come"-The First said.

"What happens? What´s wrong?"-the brunette boy asked again.

"Faith has gone mad, she is attacking our people"-Anya answered.

"That bitch, I knew it, don't worry I will solve it"-Xander shouted.

Blinded by rage and whishes of revenge Xander grasped his weapon and ran towards the brunette slayer´s position, decided to kill her. When the boy arrived to the room Faith was in, without finding any obstacle in his way, the rock that covered the entrance wasn't there any more.

"¡You won't win this time! You won't play with me"-Xander shouted to the brunette girl, failing to see the disturbed face of the slayer.

Faith raised her glance off of the ground, tears still escaping her reddened eyes. She saw Xander running toward her with a fiery face and axe in his hand, and then the blow that came from the dark haired man. The girl backed away several steps by the impulse of the blow, and when she saw another one coming she pushed Xander pinning him against the wall. A chain that came out from the rock wall held the boy by the foot making his weapon fell from between her hands and to the ground. Faith crouched and gathered the weapon off ground, soon she was in front of the boy, watching him intently. His breathing was laborious, his heart beating like crazy while she continued observing him. The brunette boy started to feel panic, began to think that perhaps he should have called Buffy and let her take care of Faith. Behind the slayer appeared The Mayor/The First, he approached her until Faith could feel his breathing on the right part of her face.

"Do it, you know you want to, just do it. You think if he could kill you he would doubt about doing just so, I don't think so. You want to give him the opportunity to try it? Because you know he will do it"-The First said to Faith.

Xander was confused, Faith seemed to have her attention directed to the right side of the room, but he couldn't see anybody, so he decided to prove luck.

"Ummmm...Fa... Faith?"-Xander tried

"¡Do it for once! It's what you do better you know it, is who you are. ¡AN ASSASSIN!"-The First shouted to Faith.

"¡Noooo! Shut up , leave me alone"-Faith said almost losing her mind.

"Ok...ok..."-Xander said trying to calm Faith down, fearing that the girl was going to kill him.

But it was too late, the brunette was out of her mind, she hold the weapon with force and raised it in the air, with all her forces she lowered it until it hit against...

To be continued...

Just one more chapter, well actually the second part of this one wich I cut because it was too long, hope you enjoy.