Author's Note (Sept 13, 2016): Megagalvatron - Some interesting ideas you sent in your PM. Though some I don't think I would want to add to this story. For example Joyce being a friend of Patty's and being a witch who had hers and Buffy's powers bound, I did that in Charming the Slayer. I think I will leave that angle there for now. Another I don't see adding is Penny being friends with Travers. I don't see them being friend at all. While Penny knows about the Watcher's Council, I just can't see her being the kind of person to befriend a man like Travers. That said some of your ideas might be incorporated in some way or another, for example Darryl telling Prue about the abuse Faith received, albeit from Mrs. Lehane only since Mr. Lehane was supposed to be a member of the Watcher's Council in this story. I haven't figured out all the details on it, even though the abuse is canon in BTVS. Maybe Mr. Lehane was killed by a demon and afterwards Mrs. Lehane blamed Faith which drove Mrs. Lehane to drinking and abusing her adopted daughter. I don't know, but that could be the angle I take with that.
Chapter 2: Bride and Gloom
February 8, 2001 – Thursday
Streets of San Francisco
"God, its friggin' dead tonight," Faith said. She had been patrolling the streets surrounding P3 on a particularly quiet night. She glanced down at the watch that Prue had given her and checked the time. She sighed. "She's probably waiting."
It was then she spotted a vampire approaching, carrying a knife. She kicked the knife out of the vampire's hands. She sent a flying kick at the vampire and he went flying onto a car a few feet back. "I'm going to be late thanks to you," Faith snapped as she whipped out a stake. She drove it into the vampire's heart and he exploded to ash. "Stupid vampires. Couldn't they have come out an hour ago?" She turned and hurried down the street.
P3
It was closing on 9 o'clock at night as Faith stood beside Prue's car. Turned out that Prue was still in the middle of a date with a guy named Justin. She would have gone inside but Prue and Piper had both been adamant that she couldn't go in since P3 did serve alcohol. In the week since Grams had revealed that she was Prue's daughter. Piper had actually started paperwork to remedy that, so that Faith would not have to wait in the parking lot for one of them.
Faith smiled as Prue and Justin finally exited the club. "Prue," she called out.
Prue returned Faith's smile and waved. She looked back at Justin. "So, um, I had a really good time tonight, Justin," she said as she and Justin walked toward her car and Faith.
"Did you?" Justin questioned with a raised eyebrow. "I mean, really? The reason I ask is that you seemed kind of quiet."
"No, it's just that, you know, I've got a lot on my mind with Piper getting married and everything," Prue admitted. Not to mention getting her daughter to stop calling her by name, she really wanted Faith to actually call her mom.
"Sure, 'course, if I was the paranoid type," Justin stated. "I would be thinking it was because of me."
"Don't be ridiculous," Prue said as they came to a stop in front of Faith.
"So, who do we have here?" Justin asked looking at Faith.
"Faith Halliwell," Faith answered. Legally she still went by the Lehane name though. Prue was trying to get her parental rights back, but had hit a roadblock. There seemed to be a clerical error with Family Services as they could find no record of Patricia Andrea Halliwell being adopted. In fact, they were having trouble locating any records on Faith under her birth name.
"My daughter," Prue added.
Justin looked at Prue with a raised eyebrow. "Your daughter?" he questioned in surprise.
Prue nodded as she thought back on the memories, Grams had given her back of giving birth to Faith. "I was fifteen, nearing my sixteenth birthday when I found out I was pregnant," she informed him. She smiled as she wrapped an arm around Faith. "I hope your okay, that I have an eighteen-year-old daughter?"
Justin looked at Faith a long moment before returning his gaze to Prue. "Yeah I'm good," he said. "So, are we still on for lunch tomorrow?"
Prue nodded. "Yeah, pick me up at 1 o'clock?" she hoped.
Justin smiled. "It's a date," Justin said as he looked from Prue to Faith and back to Prue. "Why don't you bring Faith along? I'd love to get to know her."
Prue looked to Faith who nodded. She looked back at Justin. "Okay," she said as she and Justin kissed awkwardly.
"Good night," Justin said.
"Night," Prue said as Justin walked away. She looked at Faith. "Go around back and enter through the back door into the office. You can wait there."
"Sure, Prue," Faith said as Prue looked at her with a raised eyebrow. She sighed knowing what Prue wanted. She had been hesitant on calling Prue, mom, for multiple reasons. The first of which was what her adopted mother had done to her. She had been treated like she was worthless by the woman after Mr. Lehane's death. Suffice to say she had bad memories when it came to calling someone mom. The other reason was it sounded weird to her to call a woman she had only met a week before, mom. "Mom…" she said as Prue grinned. "I'm sorry it just, I met you just last week. We know you're my mother thanks to your Grams. But it still just sounds weird to my ears."
"I understand, believe me, Faith, I do," Prue admitted as she smiled at Faith. "I won't be long, okay."
"Okay," Faith said as she sprinted off around the side of the building.
Prue turned and walked back inside and to Piper and Leo who stood at the bar. "Hey."
Piper looked down at her watch. "Gee, Prue, it's only nine o'clock and your date's already over?" she questioned. "How very Disney of you."
"Justin has a meeting early in the morning," Prue informed her sister. "Besides Faith is back from her patrol and waiting for me in your office."
"So, did you decide if you're going to invite him to the wedding?" Piper wondered.
"No, I'm stalling," Prue admitted. While she was happy for her sister getting married. She still didn't understand how Piper and Leo could have a public wedding since Leo was officially dead after all. "Oh, you know, he's a nice guy, he's sweet, but he's just so predictable, you know? There's no mystery, no savoir-faire," she said as she pulled out a tube of her lipstick and began to apply it. "You know; besides, a wedding invite definitely makes a statement."
"That he can tie a bow tie?" Leo joked.
"No, that the relationship is serious, you know?" Prue countered. "That it's going somewhere. All that built-in romance, mingling with the family, hidden tensions."
"All the more reason to have a nice, simple, private wedding," Leo said looking at his fiancée.
"Nice try, mister," Piper countered. "Okay, the wedding planner, tomorrow morning at eleven o'clock, no getting out of it, no orbing out of it, nothing. Don't even try it." She turned and walked away before Leo could get another word in edgewise as she headed for the restroom at the back of the club.
"I don't know. I just don't want to set her up for a big disappointment," Leo said. "I mean, how do you have a normal wedding when a ghost will be presiding and the groom's dead?"
"Leo, don't even try to figure it out, alright?" Prue told him. "It's a Cinderella complex. Every girl goes through it. I've been dreaming of this day my entire life."
"Piper's wedding?" Leo asked with a raised eyebrow.
Prue slapped Leo on the arm lightly with a small chuckle. "No, mine. I mean, I'm the oldest. I'm supposed to do everything first. I'm supposed to talk first and get braces and get a boyfriend and find a husband."
"Well on the bright side," Leo said as he grinned at her. "You were the first to have a child."
"I'm slowly coming to love Faith," Prue admitted. "But it would have been nice if I had gotten married before getting pregnant."
"Hey, Prue," Piper said as she returned. "Can I borrow your lipstick?"
"What?" Prue wondered. Didn't Piper have her own lipstick?
"Lipstick," Piper repeated. "I'm out. Do you mind?"
"Sure, knock yourself out," Prue said as she handed the tube of lipstick to her sister. "You're welcome!" she called after Piper who walked away without another word.
"Not to change the subject, but don't you think it's time to let Phoebe off the hook a little?" Leo questioned. "I mean, she came clean about Cole."
Prue sighed. "Leo, you can't just pretend to vanquish a demon and then two months later say, gee guys, I'm sorry, I didn't."
"I know, but for what it's worth, I don't think she wants him back in her life anymore," Leo told her.
"Maybe not, but that doesn't mean he's not going to try and kill us again," Prue said. "Or Faith. I have to think about her too. I know she can protect herself because of the Slayer part of her. But I still worry, especially so soon after finally learning I have a daughter."
Leo thought about it and nodded. He could see Prue's point, especially where it concerned Faith.
February 9, 2001 – Friday
Halliwell Manor
Faith leaned back against a wall watching her mother and Leo with the wedding planners. They were waiting for Piper who was taking her time in joining them. "Okay, so the more traditional the better as far as I'm concerned," Piper said as she came down the stairs. "The wedding march starts, and I come down the stairs."
"So, no flower girl?" said one of the wedding planners.
"Uh, I don't know. Do I?" Piper wondered looking at her sister.
"Well, unless you want to ask Kate down the street," Prue said.
"It's not something I would ever think of myself doing," Faith admitted as everyone turned and looked at her. "Shoot I'm not fond of wearing dresses, don't hate them just not fond of them." Prue, Piper and Leo all nodded. They had seen that Faith had a particular wardrobe style. Generally, a jacket, t-shirt or tank top and leather pants. "But I would be happy, Aunt Piper, to be your flower girl."
"Actually, I have something else in mind for you, Faith," Piper admitted as she looked at her niece. "How would you like to be the ring bearer? I know traditionally that's a boy's role, but …"
Faith smiled as she wrapped an arm around Piper. "I'd like that, Aunt Piper," she agreed as she gave her aunt a one armed squeeze.
"Okay," said the female wedding planner making a note of Faith being the ring bearer. "I think we should dress the banister with garlands. Maybe even carry the floral theme all the way to the altar. How many guests are you planning on?"
"Uh, let me think," Piper said as she did some mental calculations. "Fifty, sixty," she finally revealed.
"Sixty?" Leo said as he gave Prue a look of concern before looking back at his fiancée. "Like who?"
"Well," Piper said as she thought about it. "There's all the people from P3, friends and Darryl and dad, mom."
"Uh, mom?" Prue said as a frown creased her face. She had a look of concern that matched Leo's. "Piper, I don't really think that you can count her."
"We'll have to if she's going to eat," said the male wedding planner.
"Oh, trust me, she won't be eating," Prue informed him.
"I thought your mother passed on," said the female wedding planner.
Prue nodded. "Mmm hmm."
"Right, she did," Piper said realizing what she had done. "Um, I just I meant I hope she's there in spirit." She said the final word with a glance at Leo.
"Oh," said the female wedding planner.
"You're right, that doesn't count," said the male wedding planner as he scratched out the notation he had made about Piper's mother.
"Also, Faith," Piper said as she looked at her niece. "I'd like to invite your friends also."
Faith hesitated; she knew that when she had left Sunnydale that Buffy had shown her true friendship. But she wasn't sure about Willow or Xander. Of course, she wasn't sure that Buffy would come either for that matter. After all it would mean leaving the Hellmouth unguarded for at least a day. "As far as Red and Xan are concerned, I don't know if they would come, Aunt Piper," Faith admitted. "Not with everything that happened before I left Sunnydale. And Buffy, she has obligations that can't be dismissed very easily, especially with me here."
"We can ask," Piper said. "Who knows, if Willow and Xander are truly your friends, they will forgive you and they will come. And with Buffy, well." She looked at Leo. "You could get her and take her back, couldn't you?"
Leo glanced at the wedding planners for a moment. He then looked back at Piper and sighed. "I'd have to ask of course, but yeah I probably could."
"Now, have you thought of what kind of hor d'eouvres you'd like by any chance?" said the male wedding planner.
"Um..." Piper said as she thought it over, but nothing immediately sprang to mind.
"Pigs in a blanket," Leo suggested.
Piper chuckled at the suggestion. "Leo, I was, I was hoping for something a little bit more elegant," she said as the phone rang.
"I'll get that," Faith said as she walked over to the phone and picked it up. "Halliwell Residence, Faith Halliwell speaking."
"Hi, Faith. It's Justin, is your mom there?" came Justin's voice from the other end of the phone.
"Yeah, just a second, Justin," Faith said as she held out the phone toward Prue. "Mom, it's your date!"
Prue rolled her eyes as she walked over and took the phone from Faith. "Hi Justin," she said. She listened for a moment and looked at Faith. "Yeah I'll meet you there," she said as she hung up.
"Hey, Aunt Phoebe," Faith said as Phoebe walked past her and Prue.
"Hey," Phoebe said as she quickly hugged Faith who just stood there. She shook her head. "You are going to have to get used to that you know."
"I know," Faith said. "It's just I've felt more love from you all in the last week than I have in the last seventeen years. It's just feels a little awkward. I'm working on it though."
"Okay," Phoebe said as she looked at Prue. "Well I'm heading out; I'm running late for school."
"Okay, do you want a ride?" Prue asked.
"Isn't Justin picking you up for lunch?" Phoebe wondered with a raised eyebrow.
Prue shook her head. "Well, his car broke down, so I'm meeting him there and I thought that, uh, we could talk," she admitted. "You know, try and put this whole Cole situation behind us."
"I got to go," Phoebe said as she hurried out the door.
"Weird," Faith said as Piper walked towards them.
"Okay, tell me the truth," Piper said. "Do you think I'm overdoing it with the wedding stuff?" She waited for a reply and began to frown as neither Prue or Faith answered. "Hello?"
"Uh, okay, why is Phoebe going to school without her books?" Prue said looking at the table where Phoebe's books lay.
"Okay, why is neither Prue nor Faith answering Piper's question?" Piper wondered.
"Maybe because Prue doesn't want both of her sisters not speaking to her," Prue admitted glancing at her younger sister.
Faith finally looked away from the door toward Piper. "I was just thinking on how weird Aunt Phoebe was being, sorry Aunt Piper," she admitted apologetically.
"Okay, I have to go meet Justin," Prue said as she glanced at her daughter. "I'm sorry, Faith, it seems he changed his mind, don't know why." She returned her attention to Piper. "Can I have my lipstick back?"
"What lipstick?" Piper wondered obviously confused.
Prue looked at her middle sister with a raised eyebrow. "The one that you borrowed last night at the club," she reminded Piper.
Piper shook her head. She had no clue what Prue was talking about. "Wasn't me."
"Right, I must've gotten you confused with another Piper," Prue said. "Okay, you have fun with what's going on here, 'cause it, it looks great. Okay, bye."
Restaurant
Prue made great time getting to the restaurant, she even arrived before Justin.
"Hey," Justin said as he walked up to her.
"Hey," Prue returned.
"Sorry about my car," he apologized.
"Oh, that's okay," Prue said as he kissed her on the hand. "Not a problem."
"What?" Justin asked as he sat down.
"Nothing," Prue answered.
"You know, I really should sell that old thing but, I don't know, I kind of like having something not so predictable in this day and age," Justin told her. "Know what I mean?"
Prue nodded. "Right. So, you don't think of yourself as predictable?" she questioned.
"Me?" Justin asked surprised as the waiter approached holding a bottle of wine.
"Pardon me. Berringer, private reserve?" the waiter asked.
Justin nodded. "Yes, thank you. Predictable? Hardly."
"Right," Prue said.
Halliwell Manor
Another Justin stood outside waiting on the porch as Phoebe walked up the stairs. "Hey, Justin," she said.
"Hey."
"What are you doing here?" Phoebe wondered just as Faith opened the front door.
"Hey, Aunt …" Faith started to say before she noticed Justin and frowned.
"I'm picking up Prue and Faith for lunch," Justin said as Faith held the door open and Phoebe and Justin walked past her into the foyer.
"Faith, where is your mom?" Phoebe questioned her niece as she set down her purse.
"She's at the restaurant," Faith said. She looked at Justin. "Meeting you."
"No, remember I said I'd pick you both up here," Justin said.
"But you called this morning before mom left," Faith said clearly confused as she looked at Phoebe. "Said your car had broken down, that you had changed your mind about me coming with mom to the restaurant today."
"No, I didn't," Justin countered.
Restaurant
"Oh, no, no. I have to work this afternoon," Prue said as Justin poured wine into her glass.
"So, your photographs are a little fuzzy. Call it avant-garde," Justin suggested.
"Oh," Prue said as her phone rang. She was about to answer it when …
"How important can it be?" Justin asked.
"What?" Prue asked as she turned off her phone.
"Can I ask you a favor, Prue?" Justin asked.
Prue nodded. "Sure."
"Last night when we kissed goodbye, it was, I don't know, not great."
"Yeah," Prue said not sure where this was going.
"How about we try it again, see if we can't do it a little better?" Justin asked. "Come on. What's the worst that could happen?" He leaned over and kissed Prue.
While Prue was distracted by the kiss everything around her changed. One moment they had been in the restaurant, the next moment they were in a cavern.
Underworld
"Where are we?" Prue asked and then she realized none of her limbs worked. "I can't move."
Justin smiled. "My apologies," he said as he shapeshifted into a warlock named Zile.
"It's true," said a dark priestess, Dantalian. "Every bride is beautiful on her wedding day."
Halliwell Manor
Faith watched as Phoebe scryed for Prue.
"Find her?" Piper asked as she came down the stairs carrying the Book of Shadows.
Phoebe shook her head. "Not yet."
Piper sighed. "We're screwed."
"Not yet," Faith objected, though she half-agreed that they may actually be screwed. The Slayer within her was trying to tell her something she was sure of it, she just wished she knew what.
"Leo," Piper called out just as Leo orbed in. "What did you find out?"
Leo sighed. "Nothing."
Phoebe sighed. "Okay, now we're screwed."
"Nothing on the map, nothing in the Book," Piper said looking down at the book in her hands. She then looked up at her fiancée. "Leo, somebody must know something."
"Well, the Elders support your shape-shifting warlock theory," Leo stated looking between the three of them. "But they can't get a clear read on the situation."
"Wait," Faith said as she began to realize something. "So, mom has disappeared and neither you nor these Elders can sense her?"
"Pretty much," Leo said replied looking at the youngest Halliwell. "But she can't be dead," he admitted. "They'd be able to sense that no matter how evil is interfering."
"Okay, then what's going on?" Phoebe wondered. "What are we up against?"
"Something powerful enough to keep us from finding her," Piper said.
"Wait," Faith said. "I know it would be a stretch, but could something or someone have found out she's my birth mom and abducted her as a way at getting at me because I'm the Slayer."
"It is of course possible," Leo agreed. "But it is also possible that a powerful evil is targeting your mom, Piper and Phoebe also, because of who they are."
"Either way, we can't figure out who they are, let alone how to fight them," Piper said with a tone of regret. "That sucks."
"What we need to figure out is why a warlock wants Prue alive," Leo said looking at the three of them.
"Well it's likely not someone after Faith. They would want to make it easy for her to track Prue if they were after her," Phoebe said going over the reasons why someone would want Prue. "And it can't just be for Prue's powers. I mean, they wouldn't need to keep her alive to get them."
"Unless it's an upper-level warlock which wants..." Leo countered.
"All of our powers," Phoebe said in understanding.
"Uhm does that mean mine also, or just the Power of Three?" Faith wondered.
"It could be yours also," Leo said. "The only thing nearly as powerful as the Power of Three is the family magic. If the entire family were turned evil or had their powers taken. Not only would they have the power of three, but the entire Halliwell family magic."
"Wait if I were turned evil," Faith started.
"That would mean the Slayer would be turned evil as well," Leo finished for her. "Maybe the entire Slayer line."
"Which means B should be on guard," Faith said.
"Did you tell her about us?" Piper wondered looking at her niece.
"I haven't talked to her since leaving Sunnydale," Faith admitted. "Just been too much going on here. I guess I should go do that, now just so she knows."
"Okay," Piper agreed as Faith walked toward the phone. She turned to Leo. "We still have the same problem. No idea how to find Prue."
"It's too bad you vanquished that demonic bounty hunter," Leo said. "He could've helped."
"Right," Phoebe agreed as she stood up.
"Where are you going?" Piper asked.
"I have a hunch," Phoebe said cryptically. "Wait for me."
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"Summers Residence, Joyce speaking," came Joyce Summers voice from the other end of the phone.
"Hello, Mrs. S. It's Faith. Can I speak to Buffy? It's important, she could be in danger," Faith told the older woman.
"Buffy, phone! It's Faith," Joyce called out before returning her attention to Faith. "From what?"
"From something after me and my family," Faith said. "I assume she told you that I went in search for my birth family?"
"She did. I take it you found them?" Joyce questioned.
"I did," Faith answered. "Come to find out they are very powerful witches. Something is either after them to get at me or me to get at them. Either way Buffy could be in danger."
"Because the best way to get to you would be either through your family or through Buffy," Joyce finished for the brunette Slayer.
"That's right," Faith answered as she could hear footsteps through the phone.
"Here's Buffy," Joyce stated.
"Faith? Did you find them?" Buffy questioned.
"I found them," Faith admitted. "I would have called before now but it's been a hectic few weeks. Uhm, Buffy, you could be in danger. Either something is after me or my family. Either way you need to be on guard. Especially if the goal is to turn me and my family evil. Because of the Slayer, there is the chance…"
"That if your turned evil it could reach through the Slayer line and turn me as well," Buffy finished for Faith. "I'll be on guard and I will let the guys know so they can watch me."
Underworld
Prue was dressed in black and lay on an alter as Dantalian covered her face with a black veil. "Shall we begin?" Dantalian asked as she covered Prue's face with a black veil, that complimented Prue's new black dress.
Zile nodded as he laid down next to Prue. "I'm ready."
"I hope so," Dantalian said. She touched Prue and Zile. "In the beginning, we were damned, and through damnation, we found freedom, power, and purpose. As I unite you today, I remind you of those gifts." She tied Zile's hands to Prue's. "And in your union, may these gifts increase so your powers may grow in the service of evil. So be it."
"How long before her transformation is complete?" Zile questioned.
"Sundown. Can you wait that long?"
"For the power of the Charmed Ones?" he said with a smirk. "I can wait a few hours."
Dantalian nodded. "Let me be the first to congratulate you," she said as she kissed him.
"Why?" Zile asked as he found himself no longer able to move on his own.
"Because I'm tired of bestowing great power on others," Dantalian said. "The Halliwell Book of Shadows is the key to unbelievable power for me. Evil will spread from this sister to the other two, from them to the Book, from the Book to this sister's daughter. Once both the Book is evil and the daughter, they'll be mine. The Book alone will make me unstoppable. But having the Slayer for an ally will cement my power. And of course, once the Slayer is evil, the entire Slayer line will become evil, including the other Slayer, Buffy Summers. With the aid of the Slayers and once I am unstoppable, I will kill all of you, save the Slayers of course, then topple the Source and rule the underworld in his place."
Halliwell Manor
Faith sat next to Piper as she watched her aunt flip through the Book of Shadows.
"I thought you said there was nothing in the Book," Leo said as he sat down next to them.
"Well, now there's just a whole bunch of weirdness in it," Piper said. "Look."
"Hemlock killing spell?" Leo said perplexed on why such a spell would be in the Book. "That doesn't belong in here."
"But it does have possibilities," Faith grinned.
"Faith!" Leo said shocked that Faith would think that. He had thought since finding her birth family that she had put that part of her past behind her.
"I'm sorry," Faith said as she realized what she said. "I—I don't know what I was..." Suddenly she disappeared and reappeared in the kitchen.
"Faith?" called Piper and Leo from the conservatory.
"In here, somehow," Faith said as Leo and Piper rushed in.
"You blinked," Leo said.
"She couldn't have," Piper said, even though she had to agree that had been what it looked like. Still it was impossible wasn't it; blinking was after all a warlock power. "Only warlocks do that."
"Piper, she did it," Leo said as Phoebe walked up behind them.
"Hey," Phoebe said.
"Where have you been?" Piper asked.
"Uh, brainstorming. How's it going here?" Phoebe wondered.
"Your niece is blinking," Leo said.
"I—I'm, I'm sorry, what?" Phoebe asked shocked at the revelation.
"I have to admit whatever it was, was definitely weird," Faith said, "but it was kind of fun. I was, I was in the conservatory with Aunt Piper and Leo and I was thinking about getting a soda and then suddenly, boom! Here I was."
"That is so cool," Phoebe said excitedly.
"Phoebe is right," Piper agreed.
"Except that it's a warlock's power," Leo reminded them.
"So what?" asked Phoebe with a roll of her eyes. "They're always trying to get one of ours; it's about time we got one of theirs."
"Try it, Aunt Piper, Aunt Phoebe," Faith said. "Maybe you two can do it also?"
"Okay, what do we do? Just think?" Phoebe wondered.
"And blink," Faith said.
Phoebe blinked out of the kitchen, followed by both Piper and Faith and appeared in the living room.
"Catch us if you can!" Piper called out moments before Leo entered the room.
"Have you tried it yet, Leo?" Faith asked. "It's a real head rush."
"Do you realize how serious this is?" Leo asked. "You're blinking, the Book is changing."
"Maybe we're blinking because of the Book," Piper asked.
Leo thought about it. Piper might be partially right after all the Book was an extension of the Power of Three. But at the same time, it belonged to the entire family. What if he had been right that Prue was turning Piper and Phoebe evil, which was turning the Book and…" He looked at Faith. "The Book was turning Faith evil which was very likely influencing the Slayer line turning Buffy evil as well. "The Book is changing because of you," he informed them. "It is an extension of you."
"Huh. I should care about that, but I don't," Piper said as she, Faith and Phoebe walked out of the room.
"This is what I was afraid of," Leo said. "Whoever's got Prue is somehow reaching you too, and the two of you are corrupting the Book. And if I am correct, Faith is being reached through the Book." He had another idea, he wondered since Faith was a Slayer did that mean that Faith had been right this had been to get at her and by extension Buffy as well?
"Okay, Leo, I could tell this really upsets you, but I gotta tell you, I really like this whole think-it-and-it-happens deal," Phoebe said.
"Think of the time you could save not chanting," Faith said looking at her aunts.
"Faith, Piper, Phoebe, you have to fight this," Leo said as the doorbell rang.
"Or we could answer the door," Piper said as she headed for the front door.
"For Prue's sake, stop," Leo cried.
"Don't tell Aunt Piper what to do," Faith snapped at the Whitelighter.
Leo sighed as he looked at the youngest Halliwell sister. "Phoebe, I need your help."
"I am so tired of helping people," Phoebe said as Piper opened the door to reveal the wedding planners standing on the front porch.
"So glad you're home. We have some new floral sketches we'd like you to see," said the female wedding planner.
"Now's not really a good time," Leo countered.
"They're welcome to come in, Leo," Faith told the Whitelighter. "Isn't that right, Aunt Piper?"
"Faith's right," Piper agreed as she showed the wedding planners in.
"I revisited the dinner menu, Piper, and you are going to be thrilled," said the male wedding planner. "I have some dynamic choices that I..."
"Aunt Piper, how about …" Faith said as she whispered in Piper's ear.
"Good idea, Faith," Piper chuckled. "We want pigs in blankets."
"It's nice to see a bride who still has a sense of humor this close to the big day," said the female wedding planner as she and her male counterpart chuckled.
Piper smirked. "No, Faith and I want pigs in blankets," she said as she turned the male wedding planner into a pig dressed in a blanket.
The female wedding planner screamed as Phoebe and Faith laughed. "Marie seems very scared," Phoebe said.
"I always had her pegged as an ice queen," Piper said.
"What a great idea," Faith said as Piper used her power and the wedding planner froze, literally, into a block of ice.
"Now there's a freezing power with kick," Piper chuckled.
"Have you guys lost your minds?" Leo asked staring at the three of them.
"Oh, Leo, get on board," Phoebe ordered. "Whatever it is, this is fabulous. You can't imagine the freedom, the power."
"Phoebe, that is evil talking," Leo interjected with a touch of concern. "You have to fight it."
"What did you ever see in him, Aunt Piper," Faith wondered glancing at her aunt.
Piper shrugged. "I don't know," she told her niece. "He is kind of a stick in the mud, isn't he?
"Oh, another great idea," Faith said excitedly. "May I?"
"Be my guest," Piper said.
"Alright, think about the Power of Three," Leo instructed. "Think about the Halliwell family magic."
Faith smirked and waved her hand and Leo turned into a stick in a bucket of mud. "Hey, that was fun."
Phoebe smiled as she looked first at her niece and then at her sister. "Faith's right," she agreed. "And look at all of it that we've been missing."
"And this is just the beginning," Piper added.
"See ya, Leo," Phoebe said as she, Piper and Faith walked away from the stick in the mud.
Underworld
Dantalian uncovered Prue's face as she smiled. "Just the beginning," she said.
Summers Residence, Sunnydale
"Where are you going, Buffy?" Joyce called after her daughter. She had been worried about her daughter ever since Faith's call and for good reason. She could tell a change had come over her daughter, a change she didn't like.
"Out of here," Buffy snapped at her mother. "I have no idea why I even came back. You really are rooted aren't you." She then chuckled. "Ooh, that's a good idea." She waved her hand and watched as her mother's feet transformed into tree roots as they imbedded themselves in the floor. "Enjoy life as a human tree," she said with a chuckle as she left the house.
Halliwell Manor
"Oh, you know, it's your wedding," Phoebe said as she, Piper and Faith crouched next to the pig in a blanket. "Shouldn't the first kill be yours?" she suggested holding a knife out to her sister.
"This is too easy," Piper interjected as she stood up. "It's boring. I want to do something bigger."
"Count me in," Faith and Phoebe instantly agreed as they too stood up.
"You know," Piper said glancing at her niece and sister. "If what's happening to us is happening to Prue..."
"The Power of Three…shoot the entire family magic…could be truly amazing," Phoebe finished for Piper. "We have to find her."
"We should clean house first though," Faith said looking at the block of ice, the pig and the stick in the mud.
Piper nodded as she changed the pig back into male wedding planner and unfroze female wedding planner.
"I'm sorry," the male wedding planner said with a snort. "What were you saying?"
"You're fired!" Piper snapped.
Faith smirked and waved her hand at the door and it opened. She then waved her hand at the wedding planners and telekinetically threw them out of the house, before closing the door behind them.
"Oh, no," Phoebe said as she looked at the stick in the mud. "What are we going to do with the stick in the mud?"
"Wait, I think we can have some fun with it," Piper smirked as she motioned to Faith who waved her hand at the stick in the mud and it transformed into Leo.
"What happened to Craig and Marie?" Leo asked as he looked around for the wedding planners.
"Oh, they flew right out of here," Faith said as she, Piper and Phoebe all chuckled at her joke.
"Scared the hell out of them," Piper added.
"Leo, we need to find Prue," Phoebe informed the Whitelighter.
"Good, Phoebe, focus on that. It'll help you resist the evil," Leo said hopeful he could still reach the three of them.
"The only thing we're resisting," Phoebe said with an evil grin. "Is the desire to rip you to pieces and have you for lunch."
"But if you help us find Prue, we'll leave you alone, for the moment," Piper interjected as Leo looked toward the ceiling and then back her, Phoebe and Faith. "Oh, Leo, ignore them. What do they know? They're backing a losing team."
"They're revoking my assignment," Leo informed them.
"What?" Piper said in clear surprise.
"Can they do that?" Faith wondered; she too was clearly surprised.
"He hasn't done anything wrong..." Piper told her niece, "…yet."
"You did," Leo countered looking at the three of them. "You gave into evil. You've relinquished your right to a Whitelighter. I'm sorry."
"Well," Phoebe scoffed as they watched Leo orb out.
Faith smirked. "He's gone, we're free," she said excitedly.
"Yes," Piper and Phoebe agreed in as much excitement as their niece.
"No more obeying the rules, considering the consequences, none of that crap," Piper said.
"Time to find Prue and go for broke," Phoebe said as she headed up the stairs.
"Where are you going?" Piper wondered.
"Well, I can't wreak havoc dressed like this," Phoebe informed Piper. She glanced at Faith. "Faith always has the right idea."
"Can't go wrong with leather," Faith chuckled.
Piper glanced from her niece to her own clothing and then back at her niece. "You're right," she agreed.
The Heavens
"Are you sure about this, Leo?" Roland, an Elder, asked when Leo had orbed to the heavens and told them of his suspicions about the entire Slayer line being corrupted as an end result to Piper and Phoebe becoming evil.
"Not one hundred percent," Leo replied.
Roland sighed. "We cannot meddle in the affairs of the Slayer, our agreement with the Powers that Be won't allow us to, save Faith, since she is or was after all a witch as well as a Slayer. But this needs to be checked on and fast. Especially if Buffy Summers now has access to magic. Go to Sunnydale, check on her, we know it will mean revealing yourself to her, but we do not have a choice."
Halliwell Manor
Phoebe walked in to her room and found Cole waiting for her as he closed the door behind her. "Phoebe," he said.
Phoebe smiled. "Cole, you're okay."
"Yeah, barely," he replied.
"Any demons spot you?" Phoebe wondered.
"Just one."
"Oh no," Phoebe said worriedly.
"Don't worry," Cole said. "See, he won't be telling anybody anything."
Phoebe smiled. "The big bad Belthazor strikes again."
Cole sighed. "Not anything I'm proud of."
"Why not?" Phoebe asked as she kissed Cole. "You should be."
"Phoebe, if what I found out is true, Prue's in serious trouble," Cole said as he pulled back from her girlfriend. "She's been forced to marry a warlock."
Phoebe sighed. "Figures that bitch would steal Piper's thunder."
"No, you don't understand. A high-level priestess named Dantalian is rumored to have married them," Cole said as Phoebe started undoing her blouse. "And she's got the power to turn Prue evil and turn you evil too. That's what's happening here."
"So?" Phoebe asked as she kissed him again. "Isn't that the way you want me?"
"Mmm, no," Cole objected as he backed away again. "That is not how I want you to be. It's not how I want us to be. Our only chance is if we're both good."
"Love is love," Phoebe said with a shrug.
"There's no such thing as evil love. It's just gratification, lust," Cole explained.
"You know what, Cole?" Phoebe said growing tired of Cole's yammering. "Your human half is kind of preachy. I think I want Belthazor back."
"He's not coming back," Cole said with a shake of his head.
"Oh, no? I want Belthazor!" Phoebe stated as she began to kneed Cole hard right in the groin. She smiled as Cole morphed into his demonic form. "That's more like it."
"Phoebe?" came Piper's voice through the door accompanied with a knock. "What are you doing?"
"Dantalian's coming for your book. You'd better be ready," Belthazor said as he shimmered out.
"What's going on in here?" Faith wondered as she and Piper opened the door and walked into the room.
Phoebe sighed. "Nothing, unfortunately."
"We heard voices," Piper said.
"Oh, did you?" Phoebe said trying to cover for the fact that Cole had been there. "Um, I had a premonition. Must have gotten pretty loud."
Piper glanced at Faith as if to say do you believe that? Faith simply shrugged as she turned to face Phoebe again. "I guess."
"We got to go. The high priestess that has Prue, supposedly she's coming here," Phoebe said as she walked out of her room.
"High prie—" Piper said as she glanced at Faith. "Must have been a hell of a premonition."
Summers Home
Leo orbed into the Summers home and found Joyce Summers standing, unmoving. "Mrs. Summers?" he questioned.
"What are you?" Joyce asked.
"I'm called a Whitelighter, think of me as a guardian angel for witches," Leo said. "I'm Faith's, her mother's and her aunt's Whitelighter."
"Oh," Joyce said remembering the conversation she had with Faith earlier that day. "Of course. Faith called and said her family were witches and that Buffy was in trouble. Is that why you're here? Checking up on Buffy?"
"Pretty much," Leo answered. "Something is happening to them in San Francisco. My bosses, the Elders, suggested I come check on Buffy. Officially we can't guide Buffy because she isn't a witch and since she is a Slayer, she is considered to fall under the province of another group called the Powers that Be. Based on what is happening in San Francisco. I believe your daughter may now have access to magic. And that…"
"Buffy has gone evil," Joyce said with a sigh. "If what she has done to me is any indication, she has." She motioned toward her feet. Leo looked down and sat that Joyce was barefoot and that her feet had been transformed into tree roots and that the Summers matriarch was now rooted in place. "She rooted me here. How can she have magic? She's never shown that capability before, not like her friend Willow."
"I believe," Leo said. "Because of what is happening to Faith, her mother and her aunts is spreading to Buffy though the Slayer line. Buffy likely became a warlock like them. And warlocks do have access to magic. If Faith and her family can reverse what is happening to them, Buffy should become good again. And everything that they and Buffy did while evil should be reversed including what your daughter has done to you."
"Will she still have those powers afterwards?" Joyce wondered.
"I don't know," Leo answered honestly. "She may not retain the powers she gained by become a warlock. But she may not be able to return to the way she was either, not completely. She could be forever altered. If she is, I will see about having the Halliwells teach her about any new powers she might have gained and what it now means to be a witch."
Underworld
Dantalian smiled. "It's time," she said as she shimmered out.
The Heavens
"So, the Slayer in Sunnydale is being corrupted also," Roland said with a sigh. "And now has access to magic. Your belief that the end result might be to corrupt the Slayer line could very well be right. We want you to return to the Halliwells under the pretense that you could not leave things the way you left them. Try and get them to see what is happening to them. If they can reverse what is happening, then everything should reverse with them."
"Could Buffy Summers retain magic if everything is reversed?" Leo questioned.
"She might," Roland said as he thought about what Leo asked.
"If she does, I would like to be made her Whitelighter," Leo offered. "I believe the Halliwells and Faith could help teach her what having these powers means."
Roland glanced to the side as he thought about Leo's request. "If she retains magic," he said as he looked back at the Whitelighter. "Because of the old covenants she would no longer be a Champion of the Powers that Be. Then, yes, she could be assigned a Whitelighter. We will keep an eye on her. If she does retain magic and since the other Slayer is Prue Halliwell's daughter and a witch. I believe making her your charge could be beneficial. But we must know for sure that she has retained magic before that can happen."
"Of course," Leo said in understanding.
Halliwell Manor
Dantalian shimmered into the attic and picked up the Book of Shadows. "That was easy," she said with a grin.
"Too easy," Piper agreed as Faith came out of hiding and kicked Dantalian from behind knocking her to the floor. She, Faith and Phoebe walked over to where Dantalian laid crumpled on the floor. "Where's Prue?"
"I can help you," Dantalian informed them. "I can teach you evil. You're new at it. You don't know how to realize its full potential."
"I don't know," Faith said with a shrug. "I think we're getting the hang of it."
"Want to see?" Phoebe agreed as she held a knife to Dantalian's throat.
"Where's Prue?" Piper repeated the question as she glared at the woman.
"Kill me and you'll never see her again," Dantalian answered with a smirk.
"Hmm," Faith said with a smirk of her own. "So maybe we should just torture you instead."
Piper stood on Dantalian's arm and flicked her wrist freezing Dantalian's hand solid. Dantalian screamed out in pain and shock. "Faith, why don't you just shatter her hand and see what happens," Piper suggested.
Faith chuckled, liking her aunt's thinking. She lifted a foot and including every ounce of Slayer strength she had she brought it down on Dantalian's frozen hand shattering it.
Dantalian screamed in pain again as she looked down at the stump on the end of her arm.
"Now the really weird thing is, we could do that to the other hand and then go down to your feet," Piper said.
"Actually, we could work up, piece by piece all the way to her head," Faith suggested.
"Where is Prue?" Piper asked again as Leo orbed in.
"I just couldn't leave like that, Piper," he said as Phoebe, Faith and Piper looked at him. He watched as behind them Dantalian grabbed the Book and shimmered out "What's going on?"
Faith, Phoebe and Piper followed his gaze and groaned when they saw both the Book of Shadows and Dantalian gone. "Well, you just helped her escape, that's what's going on," Phoebe said.
Piper smirked and froze Leo into a solid block of ice. "Smash him," she told her niece. Faith spun and kicked the frozen Leo shattering him into a million little pieces. "Bastard."
Underworld
Dantalian flipped frantically through the Book of Shadows. "Death alone will not suffice, my dear bride. Not anymore, not after this," she said as she found a page in the Book on a Dark Priestess. "Yes! Welcome to my hell."
Streets of Sunnydale
Buffy walked with a grin on her face down the streets. "It's all mine," she chuckled.
"Is that so?"
Buffy spun at the voice and her new Warlock senses instantly told her this was an Upper level demon. She smirked. "Yeah that is so. So what brings you to the Hellmouth?"
"I heard that the Slayer had gone evil so, I decided to see for myself," he replied with an evil grin.
Buffy nodded as she held her hand behind her back and an athame appeared in it. "Well you're in luck, I happen to know right where she is." With the speed of a Slayer she whipped the athame out and thrust it into the demon's heart. As he exploded, she smirked. "And thank you for your powers." She smiled as she disappeared in a swirl of fiery flames.
Halliwell Manor
"So, what are we supposed to do now?" Piper wondered as she, Faith and Phoebe came down the stairs.
Phoebe shrugged. "I don't know. Kill innocents?" she suggested.
"No, I mean about Prue," Piper countered. "How are we supposed to find her without the Book?"
"Shouldn't you be mourning the loss of your beloved Leo?" Phoebe wondered.
"Oh, Phoebe, I'm serious," Piper snapped. "That was one pissed off priestess. And if she kills Prue, she takes the evil Power of Three along with her, and we won't stand a chance."
"I think Aunt Piper has a good point," Faith admitted as Piper and Phoebe looked at her. "We have to find mom."
"Wait a minute, we're warlocks, right?" Phoebe asked as Faith and Piper nodded. "We should be able to blink wherever we want."
"But we don't know where to blink to," Piper replied.
Phoebe smiled. "We don't have to know where, just to who," she informed her niece and sister. "To Prue. I mean, isn't that how Leo's orbing power worked?"
"Yeah, but his power was jammed," Piper reminded them. "He couldn't find her."
"That's because he was good, and we're evil," Faith said with a smirk as the three of them blinked out.
Underworld
Dantalian stood before the alter grinning. "Through this book, weave this spell, create the pain of heaven to hell; may she suffer..." she chanted as Faith, Piper and Phoebe blinked in.
"Are we there yet?" Phoebe asked as she noticed Prue. "Prue."
"Too late," Dantalian informed them with an evil smirk. "I've got the book."
"So?" Faith interjected with a chuckle. "How about Aunt Piper just freeze's your head and I shatter it?"
"I may not be powerful enough to fight you yet, but they are," Dantalian said as she magically woke Prue and Zile.
"Whoa, Prue, hey, hi," Piper said as Prue and Zile stood up. "You don't look so good."
"Oh, but that's a great dress," Phoebe said admiring the black dress Prue was wearing.
"Zile, Prue," Dantalian ordered. "Eliminate them."
"Mom, ignore her. Come on, come with us. I'm your daughter," Faith interjected as she took a step toward Prue."
"And we're your sisters," Piper added.
"I'm his wife, not your mother," Prue objected glaring at Faith. She looked toward her sisters. "Or your sister." She telekinetically sent Faith, Piper and Phoebe flying into the wall behind them.
"Alright, I'll take that as a no," Piper groaned.
"We have to figure out how to get mom on our side and fast," Faith told her aunts as she watched her mother.
"How about we get her a divorce?" Piper suggested.
Dantalian chuckled as Zile shapeshifted into Prue and then he and the real Prue blinked out and then reappeared in different places. "Don't want to shatter the wrong one, now do you?" she questioned.
"I love you," said the Prue on the left.
"You too," said the Prue on the right.
Piper chuckled. "Welcome to Planet Narcissus."
"Wait a minute.," Phoebe said remembering what Cole had said. "Cole said that evil can't love."
"Cole?" Piper and Faith questioned with raised eyebrows.
"Uh, never mind." Phoebe interjected. "The point is the one on the right didn't say I love you too." Dantalian smiled as she waved her remaining hand and an athame appeared in the Prue on the right's hand. Both the of the Prues walked towards the three of them. She pointed toward the one of the right with the athame. "Uh, she's the warlock. Freeze her!" Piper motioned and the Prue on the right was frozen into a block of ice. She glanced at her niece. "Well, shatter her. Hurry!"
"No! Zile!" Dantalian cried.
Faith spun into a roundhouse and utilizing every ounce of Slayer strength she possessed kicked the frozen Prue in the chest and shattering her into a million pieces.
"What's going on?" Prue asked. She, Piper, Phoebe and Faith all looked around as they realized they were no longer evil. That with Zile's death that the spell Dantalian had placed on Prue, that had spread to the book, through the Book to Faith and from Faith to Buffy was broken.
"I think we're back," Phoebe informed her sisters and niece. "All of us."
"I think Aunt Phoebe is correct," Faith said as Piper froze Dantalian.
"Which means if Leo's theory on Faith being corrupted because of the Book is correct then the Book should be back as well," Piper said.
"Let's go do something good with it," Piper said as they walked over to the Book. She flipped through it till the found a spell that would vanquish Dantalian.
"Powers of light, magic of right, cast this blight into forever's night." While it was a Power of Three spell, Faith chanted along with her aunts. She had a taste of being evil and now that she was once again good, she didn't want to be evil ever again. So, she chanted with the rest of her family in an act of revenge for being forced to be evil. She smirked as Dantalian screamed as she exploded.
"Well, that was a wedding from hell," Prue chuckled. "Although, I guess I was the first to get married after all, hmm?"
Piper nodded and then she remembered her fiancée. "Oh, no. Leo."
"What?" Prue asked looking at her daughter and sisters.
"Like what we did to your hubby mom," Faith explained. "Aunt Piper froze Leo and I shattered him."
"Oh," Prue said.
Summers Home
Buffy opened the front door of her home. "Mom?" she said.
"In here, Buffy," Joyce replied from where she sat on the living room couch.
Buffy walked into the room and looked at her mother. She was glad Joyce was no longer rooted to the living room floor. "I'm sorry."
"I know, dear," Joyce stated. "You are aware I am going to have to ground you though, right?"
"I know," Buffy admitted as she sat next to her mother. "That said I'm okay with that. You were only trying to protect me after what Faith told us. If not for being turned evil, I would have listened. So, I deserve it because while evil I was still conscious of my actions. So, I definitely deserve the punishment. That said though, I think I am going to have to talk to Faith and her family."
"I take it you think you retained the powers?" Joyce wondered.
"I think so," Buffy answered.
Halliwell Manor
Faith, Prue, Piper and Phoebe looked around the attic for the shattered Leo. Faith had her arm around Piper trying, in what had been an uncharacteristic gesture in the past and had since become a nice change, to comfort her eldest aunt, who was crying over Leo's death.
"Oh, Leo," Piper sobbed. Out of the corner of Faith's eye she saw Leo orb in. She smiled as she turned her aunt to face him. Piper smiled as she moved to him and wrapped her arms around him. "Oh, thank god you're okay."
"Actually, it had more to do with what you guys did," Leo said. "Vanquishing Zile broke the bond and reversed all the evil you had done. And all the evil that Buffy did."
"Buffy?" Faith asked.
Leo nodded. "As I thought. Prue going evil influenced Piper and Phoebe, who influenced the Book, which influenced you. You in turn then influenced the Slayer line, which influenced Buffy. She turned evil when you did. You were right to some degree, Faith, while Dantalian was after the Power of Three, she was also after you. Turn the Slayer line evil, not only would they be powerful evil, but they would no longer go after demons and vampires, ending that threat."
"Wow," Faith said. "I probably ought to call, B, and apologize." She turned and headed out of the attic.
"What about the wedding planners?" Phoebe wondered. "I hope they don't remember what we did to them."
"Unfortunately, they will, but I doubt they'll believe what happened," Leo said.
Piper sighed. "And unfortunately, you will."
"Oh, yeah, Leo, sorry we killed you," Phoebe said apologetically
Leo smiled. "It's okay, Phoebe, it wasn't the real you. Or you, Piper. Or Faith or even Buffy."
"Wasn't it? I mean, on some level it was me," Prue said. "I felt it. They didn't just plant evil inside of me, or us, for that matter. There had to be something there for them to turn to begin with."
"That doesn't make you evil, Prue. You have to choose to be evil voluntarily," Leo said.
"Wait, you said Faith's friend, Buffy. What did she do?" Piper wondered.
"I don't know everything she did in Sunnydale," Leo said. "I do know that Buffy rooted her mother to the floor of their living room."
"Wait how could she do magic?" Prue asked. "I thought you said only Faith was a witch, since she was my daughter."
"First, magic is innate in the Slayer," Leo said. "The first Slayer was created using the essence of a demon. It's how they have their abilities. Secondly, when you three and Faith became warlocks, so did she. We don't know for sure. But it is possible that Buffy may have retained some of the powers. And if she has…"
"She will need guidance," Prue stated. "Does that mean…"
"I will be her Whitelighter, yes," Leo answered. "But also, that means you three will have two witches new to the craft to train."
Prue glanced at her sisters. "What do you think guys?" she asked. "Can we train her alongside Faith?"
"I think we can," Piper answered. "But Buffy will need more that just teachers, she will a need a friend."
"Do you think Faith is ready for that?" Prue wondered.
"I think, she is," Phoebe stated.
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"Hi, Buffy," Faith said as she talked on the phone. "I heard from Leo what happened, is your mom alright?"
"She remembers what I did and I'm grounded of course," Buffy replied. "But otherwise she's alright. So, did what your friend Leo tell mom …"
"Yeah," Faith said. "Everything he told her was true. Buffy, I know that we had a rough time of everything when I was in SunnyHell, but I was wondering. Could we start over?"
"As far as I am concerned, we already have, Faith," Buffy told her sister Slayer.
"Faith," came Prue's voice.
Faith turned and saw her mother, aunts and Leo walking down the stairs.
"Faith, may I?" Prue said as she held out her hand for the phone.
"My mom wants to talk to you, B," Faith told the other Slayer before handing the phone to her mother.
"Hello, Buffy. My name is Prue, I'm Faith's mom," Prue said. "I and my sisters have been talking. We believe that you may have possibly retained some powers when you turned evil as a result of the spell on me. Therefor we would like to offer you the opportunity to be trained in the craft alongside Faith."
"Can I talk to Faith?" Buffy asked.
Prue smiled and handed the phone back to her daughter. "Yeah, B?" Faith said.
"What do you think about what your mom is offering?" Buffy questioned.
Faith smiled as she looked at her mother and her aunts. "I think it's a good idea. Not only that but we could even build up the friendship we should have had when I first arrived in SunnyHell. After all we're the Chosen Two."