Summary: What happens when Faith comes back to help Buffy with Glory?
Discalmier: Joss is god, I am just a pawn. I own nothing!
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Prologue
Buffy is draping a white sheet over a bed, in her bedroom at home. Through the windows it looks like its late afternoon as sunlight shines into the room. The whispers of the birds outside is the only noise in the room. Buffy smoothes the edges of the bed and looks up at the person helping her, on the other side of the bed.
"They smell good, don't they?" Buffy says in a pleasant tone. The person helping her speaks up.
"What?" The voice belongs to Faith.
"Clean sheets. Like summer." Buffy smiles at Faith.
"I wouldn't know." Faith looks down and at the sheets then back at Buffy, who has now stopped smiling.
"Right. I forgot." Buffy says sadly.
"I noticed." Faith looks at Buffy, trying to read her.
"I-I wish I could stay, but . . ." Buffy hesitantly says.
"Oh, you have to go."
"It's just with . . ."
"Little sis coming. I know. So much to do before she gets here." Faith nods knowingly. Buffy and Faith are now at the foot of the bed and now are facing each other. Buffy looks at Faith.
"Now I really have to--" Buffy starts.
"So go. Don't let me keep--" Faith starts to say but she stops as she hears something. She looks down and sees that two drops of blood have hit the sheet, a dark red on the clean white. Faith looks up at Buffy.
"Damn. Just when we made it so nice." Faith straightens and looks down at her body as she faces Buffy. She lifts her eyes to meet Buffy's, whose expression has suddenly become stoic.
"Are you ever gonna take this thing out?" Faith asks concerned as she indicates to her abdomen. Buffy's looks down, she is holding the handle of Faith's large knife. Buffy looks up with a emotionless gaze, and looks into Faith's eyes. She smirks and a second
later, she suddenly jerks the knife upwards. Horrified, Faith opens her mouth in a silent scream.
FLASH
Buffy and Faith are on the terrace at Faith's building, they are fighting each other. Faith's hand is handcuffed to Buffy's.
"What's the matter? All that killing, you afraid to die?" Buffy smirks at the look on Faith's face. Suddenly, Faith spins Buffy so she can get the leverage to use her legs and manages to snap the handcuff chain. They face off. Faith holds a length of pipe. Buffy pulls out Faith's knife. Faith is shocked.
"That's mine." Faith looks at the knife and back at Buffy.
"You're about to get it back." Buffy says with raw emotion evident in her voice.
Faith swings the pipe at Buffy, who swings the knife at Faith. Faith and Buffy both dodge the attacks and they move to the edge of the terrace. Faith kicks Buffy and she loses balance. Giving Faith the opportunity to grab Buffy and hold her at the edge.
"Man, I'm going to miss this." Faith says. Then with a swift movement Buffy breaks Faith's grip and plunges the knife into Faith's abdomen. Both of them look stunned for a moment. Faith smiles weakly.
"You did it." Faith throws Buffy away from her.
"You killed me." Faith climbs onto the low wall at the edge of the terrace and looks down. She sees a truck in the distance. Knowing she wants to jump Faith looks back at Buffy.
"Still won't help your boy, though. Shoulda been there, B, quite a ride." Faith falls backward off the wall and lands in the bed of a moving truck. Buffy scrambles to the wall and sees Faiths body, unmoving, riding away.
FLASH
A heart monitor, is beeping steadily with the heartbeat it's monitoring, in a room that hasn't been visited in a while. The blue wall has the paint peeling showing plaster. The room is dimly lit. There is an IV stand next to the bed, the tube leading
to the comatose patient lying there. Faith. There is a rumble that sounds through the room, quickly followed by lighting. The flashes pass over Faith's body, showing her pale, innocent form. Suddenly Faith's eyes open. Faith slowly turns her head to the side and sees the monitor beeping with her heart. She raises her left hand in front of her face. It's
bandaged at the wrist where an IV line is feeding her through a vein. She closes her hand in a fist. Faith then grabs the covers, pulled up to her stomach, and throws them off. As she sits up she grabs the wires and pulls the leads off her chest and the heart monitor flatlines. She stands and the IV line tugs on her arm. She rips it from her wrist and throws it on the bed. Softly she says 'ouch' She looks around at the room and see a cabinet. Opening it she sees a pair of jeans and a blue shirt inside. Removing her hospital gown, she puts on the clothes. She then looks to the bottom of the cabinet. Boots. She pulls them on and grabs the backpack inside of the cabinet before leaving the room.
As she walks into a corridor a nurse stops her.
"Excuse me but you can't be down here."
"Uh… I'm lost." Faith lies. "Where's the exit?" The nurse points down the corridor and to the right. Faith nods and walks that way. When she get outside the moon is bright and full. Looking up at it she sighs.
"Where am I going to go?" She looks down and see a newspaper. Picking it up she reads. 'March 15, 2001'. Dropping the newspaper Faith looks around, then starts to run towards the only place she knew to go. The high school. As she gets to what used to be the high school, she sees rubble. Faith walks across the street and stops when she comes to the Caution tape. Ripping it out of the way she walks another ten feet before she falls to her knees. Pounding her fist into the ground, Faith looks up again and screams.
"BUFFY… NO!" Faith is then hit with a flashback.
FLASHBACK
At the end of a building an arm reaches out and grabs Buffy by the shoulder. Instantly she grabs the man and throws him against a dumpster. Faith jumps right in to stake him. He slumps down to the ground, hurt by the impact against the heavy steel container. It's Allan Finch, but Faith is too caught up in things and doesn't realize he's human.
"FAITH, NO!"
Faith swings down with her stake and plunges it into Allan's heart, then pulls it out. Allan grabs his chest in pain and surprise. Blood pours out freely, pumped out by his now punctured, beating heart. Faith backs away as Buffy quickly gets down beside him to try to help him. Allan pulls his hands away and looks down at them covered in his own blood, shaking hard as he goes into shock. Buffy looks at the wound and sees
its severity.
"Don't move!" Buffy says to Allan.
"I didn't... I didn't know. I didn't know." Faith says shocked.
"We need to call 911, NOW!" Buffy says to Faith. Faith is paralyzed with fear. Allan shakes even harder as the blood loss increases. He looks up at Buffy.
"Don't move, i-it's okay…"Buffy tries to apply pressure to the wound, but the blood just keeps coming.
"I-I need, I need something to stop the…" Buffy begins, then Allan begins to convulse. His eyes go wide with the fear of death as blood begins to trickle from the corner of his mouth. He tries to say something, but can't get the words out. Buffy can only watch in despair, unable to help. Allan looks down at his chest one last time, then reaches up to Buffy, but his arm never makes it. It falls to his side, and his body relaxes against the dumpster, finally dead. His eyes remain wide open, staring up into nothing. Buffy stares back at him in open-mouthed horror.
END FLASHBACK
Getting up from her position on the ground Faith begins to walk away from the high school. Heading in the direction of Giles' house. When she gets there Faith looks into the window. Buffy and the gang are all there, and someone else. A boy in the arms of Buffy. 'Bitch' Faith thinks, as she see them kiss. 'I'll show her' Faith says to herself as she back away from the window.