"Faith? Faith dear wake up! Come on!"

The brunette's eyes flickered open and studied her surroundings. She was in a room with pale blue walls and an IV was in her arm along with a blood packet.

"Hey rose." She smiled weakly.

"Faith, what happened?"

"I should be asking you the same." Faith said, anger filling her voice.

"What are you talking about?"

"You locked me in a ware house with a vampire while I was helpless!" She screamed

"Shhh, Faith, you shouldn't talk about that stuff."

"Go and leave me alone!"

"Faith, we need to know what happened."

She thought. Should she tell them about her attempt to seduce Spike? No, she would take the liar's way out.

"He tried to rape me and then bit me but just as I was bitten, I staked him."

"I didn't see any dust."

"Well I did. You know I wouldn't lie to you."

"Ok well I guess I'll leave you. Here's something to protect you." She tossed Faith a cross necklace.

"What's gonna get me here?"

"This is a public place, do you know how many vampires would die to taste your blood?"

"Every single one. Go I never want to see you or your council again!"

"Faith," The watch attempted.

"JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!"

Rose, turned on her heel and walked out the door. Tears shined on her face as she walked out into the night.

"I shouldn't have left her alone. I should have told her!" She muttered to herself, as she walked a busy street towards her apartment. She prepared for bed and collapsed on it.

As soon as her watcher left, Faith couldn't have helped but feel a little guilty. She stood up, ripped off her IV and blood connection and walked out the door. She passed doctors and nurses who just looked at her. Just as she was about to walk out a doctor stopped her.

"Miss Leahey, you aren't supposed to leave the hospital. You are in critical condition."

Faith spun on her spot.

"I'm fine." She assured the doctor. He grabbed her shoulder and attempted to stop her. "Let go of me." She warned.

"Faith you are not ready to go outside, you're still weak." She gave him a hard blow causing him to loose consciousness.

"I think I'm strong enough." She said as she walked out the door. Faith suddenly felt a strong presence near her watcher's house and ran there. Everything seemed normal and that scared her; when things seemed normal, it was the exact opposite. She tried to open the door but it wouldn't budge. "God I hate it when things don't go my way." She gave a swift high kick, knocking the door off its hinges. The electricity was out and she couldn't see in front or in back of her.

"Rose!" She called to see if the betraying watcher was even there.

"Faith!" The watcher called and then a hard blow and slurping was hard.

"Rose, I need a stake." No answer was heard and something grabbed her from behind. She flipped them over. Right beneath her was the vampire who had killed her watcher. She reached for the holy water on the shelf next to but never got a chance to use it. The vamp tackled her and knocked the wind out of her. She couldn't get this thing off of her. "Ok, here's the thing. I've already almost died." She said

"Well it looks like I'll have to finish the job."

Faith winced and prepared herself to be bitten but the vampire was ripped off of her. She opened her eyes to find Spike standing over her. She kicked her legs up at him but he caught a hold of them and held her upside down. She watched as Spike confronted the vampire. Faith tried to get out of the position but Spike held on.

"How ya doin Spike?" She smirked and then wrapped her legs around his neck and squeezed until he let go. Faith landed in a handstand and rolled out into a fighting position. "I honestly thought that you would want me dead. Why'd you help me?" She asked and aimed a spinning high kick at his jaw. "You left me to die."

"You know that saying, what doesn't kill you can only make you stronger, well I wanted to see if that would work." He sneered and then tackled her to the ground. "Feel familiar pet?"

He smirked. She twisted her legs up and then hit a pressure point that would normally kill a human. "Ouch, that hurt."

"I can hurt you more." She stood up, shoved him against the wall and held him there. She pulled out her bottle of holy water and opened his shirt. He tried to fight her off but her rage was what was powering her strength. Faith dipped her nail in it and wrote her name on his chest.

"I'm gonna kill you sometime Spike. Just not now. I want you to remember the scar I left on you and the one you left on me." She walked off into the night looking for a good slayage.