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Chapter 25
CLEARING - WOODED AREA.
Buffy franticly grabbed Faith's head between her hands, pushing it away from her neck. Faith growled and pushed down harder, her blood lust rising as she was so close to her prize. Buffy looked around for anything that she could use as a weapon. She tried to move her legs to push Faith off of her but she realised that she was trapped.
Kennedy watched in fascination from her position on the side lines. "Remember Buffy kill or be killed, you've got two options. You can either let your deranged girlfriend rip your neck out, and you die, or you can snap her neck and live." she said grinning, "Either way works for me."
Buffy winced as Faith's claws slashed across her shoulder, causing her grip to falter and allowing Faith to nearly succeed in biting her throat. Throwing her arm up again, she managed to prevent Faith's jaws from becoming too close for comfort. For the first time in her life Buffy didn't know what to do. She didn't want to kill her girlfriend, but she couldn't let herself be killed, as she was the only one that had a chance of stopping Olmeck. She dodged another slash of Faith's claws, never removing her grip from Faith's head, knowing that if she let go she would die.
When Faith raised her arm to deliver another blow, Buffy saw the moonlight catch off something on her chest. Making a split second decision she grabbed a hold of the disk and pulled hard. Faith let out a roar of agony before falling backwards off of Buffy, where she hit the ground and began convulsing.
"Oh shit, why'd you have to do that!" Kennedy exclaimed, Buffy spared a glance at her before focusing her attention back on her girlfriend. "Well as much fun as this has been, it looks like this is my cue to leave. I'll see you around Buffy." she said before disappearing into the trees. Buffy didn't bother trying to chase after her, she was too concerned with Faith, she could see that the convulsions where lessening and that she was slowly starting to change back into her human form. Soon a human Faith was lying unconscious in the middle of the clearing. Buffy approached her hesitantly, unsure of what Faith's reaction would be when she came to.
"Faith?…Faith? Baby, come on wake up." she said shaking her gently. Faith didn't respond at first so Buffy shook her harder. Faith let out a groan and began to stir. "That's my girl." Faith opened her eyes and looked up at her groggily.
"Buffy?" she looked round at her surroundings, confusion evident on her face. "How did we get here?" she asked. Buffy sighed in relief when she realised that Faith was okay.
"It's a long story, one which involves Kennedy." she said. "I'm just glad your okay." Buffy cupped Faith's cheek in her palm and placed a kiss on her lips, Faith tried to sit up, but winced in pain. "Careful baby you've got some nasty wounds there." Buffy said, carefully helping Faith to sit up, concern evident in her eyes.
Faith looked down at her self and for the first time realised the state she was in, she was covered in dried blood, which obviously meant that the wounds where old. "B, what the hell happened to me? How long have we been out here for?" she asked.
Buffy studied her seriously. "Faith what's the last thing you remember?"
"Waking up with you, then you going to see Willow, and that's about it. The rests all fuzzy. I didn't hurt anyone did I?" she asked panic creeping into her voice. Buffy smiled at her sadly.
"C'mon let's get you home, and get you cleaned up first, then I'll help you fill in the blanks." she answered, deliberately avoiding the question. "Do you think you'll be able to walk?" she asked. Faith nodded in reply. Buffy helped Faith to her feet, and put an arm round her shoulders, so that she could support Faith and take some of the weight off of her injured leg. Faith hissed in pain as her injured leg touched the ground.
"Fuck!" she cursed, stumbling slightly. Seeing Buffy's concern she brushed it off. "It's ok I'm fine, let's motivate." However as soon as she took another step her legs buckled, "Aw hell!" Buffy gently lowered her so that she was sitting on the ground. "Just give me a minute, an I'll be okay." she gasped. Buffy brushed a stray piece of hair out of Faith's face.
"No your not, I shouldn't expect you to walk home in this condition. I'll phone Giles and get him to pick us up." she said taking her cell phone out of her pocket. Looking at the screen she cursed. "Dammit, I haven't got a signal. I'll have to try nearer the road. Will you be okay here?" she asked.
"Yeah I'll be fine, not gonna be going anywhere in a hurry." she said with a weak smile.
"Okay, I'll be back in a minute." Buffy said, getting to her feet.
Faith waited until Buffy had disappeared into the trees before laying back on the grass, groaning in pain, she raised her hand to the wound on her chest that was caused by the disc. Pulling her hand away she saw that it was slick with blood.
WESLEY'S APARTMENT
Wesley sat staring at the phone, he had been sitting there for the past hour and a half debating whether or not he should call the council and update them on the current situation. Half of him didn't want to phone them as it would alienate him further from the Sunnydale group. And how would they be able to work together to prevent the apocalypse if they couldn't trust one another? Although they didn't really like or trust him at the moment anyway. The other half of him, the half that had spent years being trained by the council, the half that had been raised by a father, who was Quentin Travers second in command, knew that if he didn't contact the council, they would eventually find out and he would be ruined. He was torn.
He was reminded again, that peoples lives where at stake, the councils duty was to protect the innocent, and people had already been killed, and more could be at stake. Sighing heavily he picked up the phone and dialled a number he knew off by heart.
CLEARING - WOODED AREA.
Buffy headed back into the clearing, she'd eventually managed to get a signal but she'd had to walk a good way up the road and it had taken longer than she'd expected. Giles had said that he'd be there in about half an hour, which meant that they'd have to sit tight for the time being. As she got closer to where Faith was waiting she was surprised to see her lying on the ground, and she looked as if she was asleep.
When Buffy got closer she could feel her concern for her girlfriend rising, Faith looked ghostly pale in the moonlight and she could see beads of sweat running down her face. Buffy hurried over and knelt beside her, placing a hand on her forehead she realised that Faith was cold and clammy. "Faith?" she called, shaking the brunette gently. Faith groaned and slowly opened her eyes, blinking up at Buffy groggily.
"They're here." she mumbled, and closed her eyes. Buffy looked at her in confusion.
"Whose here? Faith c'mon stay awake for me."
Faith opened her eyes again and looked up at her. "B? They're here an they're scared, need to go to them." she slurred trying to sit up. Buffy put a hand on Faith's chest and gently pushed her back onto the ground.
"No your staying here, Faith, something's wrong with you." She said. Feeling something wet, she looked down at where her hand still rested on Faith's chest and realised that it was covered in blood. Pulling back the top of Faith's shirt she saw eight small holes in her chest. She realised that it must have been caused by the disk that she had pulled off her. Taking the disk out of her pocket she examined the 'legs' the ends where still coated in Faith's blood but she could see something else glinting in the moonlight, it was some kind of liquid. Touching it with her finger she brought it closer to her face. Panic gripped her when realised what it was. The ends of the legs where covered in Silver.
Tbc
