"You are so lucky Angel is here," Star hissed.
Faith just rolled her eyes. She knew why her friend was mad. The same reason Angel would likely be handing her her ass right now if he knew. She had not played that how Star had expected her too. But Star hadn't been there. Sure Faith had done most of the damage and dominated the fight, but that kid, he knew what he was doing. Her suspicions had been confirmed during their confrontation. He even admitted to having knowledge of vamps, but what did he mean when he said they weren't like what he was used to? The only other vampires she had the oh so not pleasure of fighting had been the Uber-Vamps The First had employed to do its bidding. He couldn't very well have been talking about them, could he?
She shook her head. No. All those ugly bastards had been dealt during the battle. If they hadn't been killed, they were sealed away. End of story. So then what?
"Hey Angel man, besides Ubers have you heard of any other type of vamps?" She glanced at Star before turning her attention to him.
"Faith," Star snapped.
They all stopped walking.
"Do I even wanna know what you two are clearly not fighting about?" Angel asked.
"No," They said in unison, giving each other looks.
"Well, at least you can both agree on that." He shook his head at them. "But no, I have not heard of other kinds. Why do you ask?"
"No reason." she shrugged.
"Should this be something I put Wes on?"
"Na, book-club has enough going on by the sounds of this case." She waved him off.
"Fair enough. One final question."
"Shoot."
"Is this something I should be worried about?" He crossed his arms as he looked at them both.
"No," Faith replied.
"Yes," Star answered at the same time.
"And that's my cue to drop this. Can we focus now?"
"Sure thing boss. What's the demon?"
"Before I go into that, how was patrol? Anything I should know about?"
"No," They said in unison again.
He looked at them both with narrowed eyes before going into the case they had. Faith only half listened as they started walking again. She only cared about one thing when it came to these cases. How to kill the thing they were after. Of course, there was always a general surefire way to kill someone, take off its head. Unless it didn't have one.
"Or it's a hydra," Star finished.
Faith stopped, Angel did too. Had she been thinking out loud? No. She was sure she hadn't. Her eyes shifted to Star, who seemed to realize the mistake she made.
"Oops."
Faith sighed in frustration.
"Since I clearly was not talking about anything to do with a hydra, and I know very well that Faith just tunes me out once she knows how to kill the thing I am going to say you got that from her. Now the real question here is how? She was not talking." His stern looking face seem to make Star sink into her skin. Faith had to detour this fast before it got too bad.
"Look Angel man, we can stand here all day contemplating where Star came up with that, but if we stand around much longer the three of us will turn out to be the two of us plus a pile of ash. How about we head back to the Hyperion and worry about more important things. Like this thing that is terrorizing..." she paused as this was about the time she stopped listening fully.
Angel sighed. "Family Faith, a family."
"Right! Let's go research up and then come nightfall we'll kill the bastard." She clapped her hands and started walking. She was glad to see Angel followed, shortly after Star did as well.
'Thank you.'
Faith heard whispered in her mind.
'Yeah, of course, lover. Just let's not let it happen again okay?' she responded.
It was a funny thing the dynamic between her and Star. Everyone in Angel Inc questioned the relationship they shared, and even Faith had to sometimes wonder her original attraction to the shy girl that had grown to become her best friend, occasional lover, and moreover yet her unofficial watcher and probably the only person besides Angel that kept her from going over the deep end anymore. She loved the girl, not that she would ever say it out loud.
To make things more interesting is Star was somehow known as a half-vampire. A fact that was only known to Star and herself. Something was different about Star, somehow her transition from human to vampire was never complete. She could to be out in the sun, if only for a few amount of hours at a time. Crosses didn't bother her, and more importantly, she didn't have the full hunger of a vampire. In fact, normally she could get along fine unless she was hurt really bad. Which is where the sexual part of their relationship developed.
Faith had already been close to Star by the time she had found out. So in an effort to help the girl she offered her her blood whenever she needed it, but even Faith had a problem with her blood being drank normally. But then she found in the moments of passion she didn't much notice the act, so that was how she provided blood from then on out. The only problem with it, it somehow created a metal connection between the two girls. Faith wasn't sure how, or even why, but after feeding Star a few times she noticed that they could pick up on each other's thoughts every now and then. They were able to have short communications telepathically, and they were able to get a faint sense of where each other was briefly from time to time.
Faith was pulled from her thoughts as she looked up at the Hyperion. Her home sweet home. The entire team of Angel Inc plus Star stayed here. Of course, Star also had her own place, for good reason. Faith spent her time toggled between the two places, but more of it was spent here. As this was the base of work for them, and Faith life mostly consisted of working cases for Angel Inc, regular slaying duties, and spending her few down time with Star.
"Ah good, you all made it. We were beginning to wonder if you had decided to stop for the day," Wesley said walking into the lobby just as they entered the hotel.
It wasn't uncommon for them to do such a thing. Angel or one of the other boys always felt the need to escort the girls back once a case showed up. In the case of Angel if they couldn't make it back to the hotel before sunrise they would stop and stay with some of the few contacts they had littered around the city.
"Faith once your done I..."
"We," Angel interrupted.
"We would like to speak with you."
"Oh joy," she grumbled.
"Pardon?"
"I'll be down shortly." She waved them off as she made her way to her room for a shower.
