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Chapter 17
BUFFY'S ROOM - NEXT MORNING
Buffy woke to the soothing sound of a heartbeat and the feeling of a hand running through her hair. Sighing happily she opened her eyes and looked up at Faith. "Morning" she said huskily, kissing Faith gently on the lips.
"Morning B, how did you get on last night? I didn't hear you come in." Faith asked, twirling a strand of Buffy's hair through her fingers. Buffy laid her head back on Faith's chest before answering.
"We managed to catch a vamp and nobody got hurt, so it was a success." she said. "despite the fact that Kennedy did a disappearing act." She could feel Faith tense at the last piece of information.
"Don't tell me she left you to fight them by yourself!" Faith said angrily.
"Um….yeah." she replied. She raised her head to look at Faith's face, watching her reaction.
Faith's eyes flashed yellow in anger "Dammit you could have been hurt or even killed B, and she didn't even care! I'm gonna fuckin kill her when I see her!" she said growling slightly. Buffy placed a soothing hand on Faith's chest, calming her, she watched as Faith reigned her temper in and her eyes returned to normal. "Sorry." she muttered.
"It's okay." she said rubbing her chest gently. "I know how you feel, Giles is going to get Wesley to have a word with her but I don't know what good that's going to do."
Faith sighed and ran a hand through her hair "She needs someone to beat some sense into her."
"Half of Sunnydale are queuing up to do that baby and I'm at the top of the list so you'll just have to wait your turn." Buffy giggled, she stuck her tongue out at Faith, breaking the tension. Faith darted her head forward and captured Buffy's tongue with her teeth, pulling her into a passionate kiss, Buffy moaned gently. Pulling back she looked down at Faith whose eyes had darkened with desire "Looks like I have you right where I want you." Buffy said huskily. Before they could get any further they where interrupted by the phone ringing. Groaning, this time in frustration, Buffy rolled off of Faith and answered the phone. "Hello, this had better be important." she snapped.
"Oh…..um…. good morning Buffy I hope I haven't interrupted anything." Giles said.
"No, Giles it's okay, what can I do for you?" she sighed.
"Wesley and I have been up all night attempting to glean any information we can from the Daywalker and have had no luck so far. I was wondering if you would be able to come and take over, while I head home for some rest." he asked.
"Sure no problem I'll bring Faith with me." she replied "I'll see you soon Giles." Hanging up she turned back to face Faith. "Looks like we've got a job to do." Buffy pouted.
"No rest for the wicked B." Faith said placing a kiss on Buffy's lips before standing and stretching. She grinned as she felt Buffy watching her, she padded over to the bedroom door before turning back to face her, "Race you to the shower." she said before taking off down the hall. "Hey no fair you got a head start." Buffy whined, chasing after her.
MANSION - TWO HOURS LATER
When Buffy and Faith finally arrived at the mansion they where greeted by a tired and dishevelled looking Giles. "Sorry we're late." Buffy said. "We got……..held up on the way here."
"I was beginning to think you wouldn't show." he said turning to Faith he asked. "Hello Faith, how are you feeling?"
"Five by five G-man." she replied grinning at the look of confusion on Giles' face.
"Uh….yes….well….glad to hear it…..just let me know when you need those stitches out." he stammered. Faith nodded in reply. "I shall leave you girls to it then, hopefully you two will have more luck than Wesley and I."
"Do you want me to phone you if we find out anything?" Buffy asked.
"No, right now all I need is some sleep. I'm meeting Wesley later at the library to discuss Kennedy, come over then and let me know how the pair of you got on." he replied gathering his things. "I shall see you two later." he said, shuffling out the door. Buffy watched him leave before turning to speak to Faith. Buffy noticed she was no longer by her side, looking round she saw that Faith was looking at the corner where she had been previously chained for two weeks. Buffy walked over to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Penny for your thoughts?" she asked gently.
Faith turned and gave her a small smile before turning back to face the corner. "You know I can't believe you still want to be with me." she said quietly. "I mean most people would run a mile if their girlfriend went all wild on their ass." Buffy moved in front of Faith and rested her hands on Faith's hips.
"I'm not most people." she replied raising her hand to cup Faith's cheek. "So I'm sorry to break it to you but your stuck with me." Faith gave Buffy a full wattage smile. "Ooh theirs those dimples." Buffy exclaimed.
"Hey I don't have dimples!" Faith said in mock outrage. "I'm too tough to have dimples." she pouted.
"Sure baby and I'm the pope." Buffy giggled. "And I thought bad asses weren't supposed to pout?" she said causing Faith to pout even more.
"Your ruining my reputation B. I've worked so hard and so long to get this far and my achievements have been shot down by a small blonde." she said sighing dramatically.
Buffy playfully whacked her on the ass "Hey less of the small!."
Faith laughed at the look of mock outrage on Buffy's face. "So how do you wanna do this questioning thing with the vamp? We gonna do good cop, bad cop or what?" she asked changing the subject.
"Well I was thinking I should go in alone first, I mean the Daywalkers don't know that your still alive so I figure I'll see what I can get out of him, before you try." she said watching Faith as she thought over the idea.
"Sounds like a plan B." Faith replied. "I'll just wait out here, yell when ya need me." she said moving to sit on the sofa.
"Will do baby." Buffy said, grabbing her bag of 'tools' and heading into the room where her new 'friend' was waiting.
WESLEY'S APARTMENT
Wesley was worried. Kennedy still hadn't shown up and wasn't answering her cell phone. She had never disappeared like this before. He was contemplating going to look for her when the front door opened and she waltzed in.
"Where the bloody hell have you been! I've been worried sick." he shouted.
She ignored him and walked through to her room.
"Kennedy answer me!" he said following her.
She turned to glare at him "I was just walking around, I had some stuff to think about okay."
"I thought something had happened to you, you should have at least told me where you were going. And leaving Buffy to capture a Daywalker by herself, how irresponsible can you be!"
The look on Kennedy's face hardened at the mention of Buffy's name. "For God's sake I've had it up to here with Buffy! That's all I hear about Buffy, Buffy, Buffy! She's dating a fucking werewolf! That's not normal behaviour for a slayer last time I checked, she's supposed to slay the Goddamned thing not date it! Course knowing her she's probably ditched the wolf and moved onto the Vamp." she said, Wesley watched as she began searching for something.
He seemed shocked at her outburst. "Is that what this is about, your angry with Buffy because she is dating the thing that infected you!"
Kennedy spun round to face him. "When can you get this into your thick skull I can't stand Buffy or her super geeky friends!" she exclaimed. "And I'm not going to be infected much longer."
"What do you mean?" he asked, taken back by her revelation.
"I met someone that says he can cure me." she said walking over to her closet she threw it open and grabbed a holdall.
"Who? and how do you know you can trust this person?" he asked watching as she stuffed clothes into her bag.
"I can't tell you who, but he's the only one around here that's making sense. The rest of you are too blind to see that we don't have a hope in hells chance against these things." she said. Throwing her bag over her shoulder she turned to face Wesley.
"Where are you going?" he asked.
"I quit Wes, I ain't staying around here when I could be batting for the winning team." she said heading out the door. He followed her numbly. She stopped in the hall and turned to face him, "You know Wes, you can come with me if you want? He'll make you welcome." she asked. Wesley stared at her in shock, unable to process what was happening. He shook his head numbly. "Guess I'll see you around then." she said as she strode out the door without a care in the world, leaving a shocked Wesley behind her.
MANSION
Faith was getting restless it seemed as if Buffy had been in there for hours, occasionally she would hear the vamp screaming in pain, but she couldn't quite make out what was being said. She looked over at the door as Buffy came out of the room followed by the sounds of the vamps laughter. "I give up!" she said throwing her hands in the air. "I can't get anything out of him and the fun of torture wears off after half an hour. I just want to stake his annoying ass!" she shouted.
Faith raised her eyebrows at Buffy's little outburst. "I'll give it a go B, if you hear any girly screams that's your cue to come in." she said as she stood up and headed into the backroom.
Buffy watched her go before slumping onto the sofa "Have fun." she called after her.
MANSION - BACKROOM
Faith ignored the vamp as it wolf whistled at her. She walked over to where it was chained to the chair and knelt in front of it. "Hey there little girl wanna let me out of this chair and I'll show you and your blonde friend a good time." the vamp leered. "Although blondies a little plain for my tastes." Faith looked at the vamp in disgust.
"Okay buddy there's a few things you gotta know. First off I ain't into necrophilia, secondly that blonde chick is my mate and thirdly……… I ain't a little girl." Faith finished her sentence with a growl and the vamp watched in horror as she morphed into a six foot pissed off Garou.
Buffy, who had been listening on the other side of the door, grinned when she heard Faith say that she was her mate. I knew it! She heard the vamp let out a girly scream of fear, and couldn't help but laugh. That's my cue. Opening the room door she saw Faith in wolf form advancing on the terrified vampire. "Guess you've never met a Garou before have you?" Buffy asked, casually walking over to the vamp she stopped in front of it and crossed her arms over her chest.
"A G-Garou." he stuttered. "But it's s-supposed to be d-dead." his eyes widened in fear as Faith stepped closer to him, growling loudly.
"Obviously she's still alive." Buffy said gesturing at Faith. "Now if you answer my questions I'll call her off, but if you refuse to co-operate I'll leave you two to……… get acquainted." Buffy said, the vampire looked over at Faith who growled menacingly.
"O-Okay I'll tell you everything. J-Just get that thing away from me." he gulped.
Buffy gestured to Faith who stepped away from the vampire. "Wise choice. Now talk. Who is your master?"
"His name is Olmeck," Buffy looked at Faith as she growled slightly, she turned back to the vamp as he carried on speaking. "He is older than time, he tried to open the Hellmouth before but failed because of the Garou. This time he has the vessel. He says it will help us win the battle."
"What is this vessel." Buffy asked.
"It is a person, who will channel the powers of the Garou and the Drachna, becoming powerful and capable of great destruction."
"Do you know who the vessel is?" the vamp shook his head. Buffy gestured towards Faith who stepped closer to the vampire.
"I don't know!" he shouted "Olmeck wouldn't say."
"What about the daggers of Anubis? What do they have to do with the vessel?" Buffy asked.
"The daggers are u-used in the ceremony, they allow the p-powers to combine." he stammered.
"When is the ceremony?"
"Imbolg." Seeing the puzzled look on Buffy's face the vamp sighed. "It's one of the witches Sabbats. The master will begin the battle when the Vessel has arisen."
Buffy turned to Faith "Anything else?" Faith morphed back into her human form.
"Nope I think that's enough information for Giles."
Buffy turned back to the vamp and slammed the stake into his chest. "This is bad isn't it?" she asked looking at Faith.
Faith placed her hand on Buffy's shoulder "We'll get through it B. At least we got the information we needed." she said.
"But how are we going to defeat all of those vamps. Theirs only nine of us including the Scoobs and Kennedy and Wesley, and only three of us are actually trained fighters. There's thousands of those vampires." Buffy said. looking up she saw that Faith was grinning. "What?"
"I think I know where we can get more ammo B."
Tbc.
