Buffy's POV:
"She left? Really?" I ask not believing it. Faith wasn't kidding when she said she wasn't gonna stay. "Yes she left. You got your bloody wish Buffy. She's gone, and so is our chance of ever saving this world," Giles said and I can tell he is super pissed, "She can't… she-she wouldn't," I stammer and he scoffs, "She can Buffy, and she did," he tells me. I know he's just nervous because he knows we can't do this without her. She adds something to the gang that no one not even Kennedy can replace. "No… she wouldn't leave me," I say and he did have his back to me but he turned sharply around, "Yes Buffy she would! She's changed… I don't think she gives a bloody rat's ass about you anymore. You hurt her to much for her to keep caring," he tells me and I look at my feet, "I'll find her… and get her back," I tell him and he sighs I know trying to calm himself, "Buffy if you find her, that's an if you find her please don't mess it up. She's our last chance," he tells me and I nod and walk out of the room in search of Faith.
Buffy's POV:
I feel her. She's in there but why? She should be on a plane back to Cleveland by now. I sigh then take in a deep breath. Here goes everything and I knock on the door as I let out the breath. This is perfect I'm here but have no idea what to say, really and truly I didn't even think I'd get this far.
When she opens the door her arm is raised back and a stake is tensely gripped in her right hand. "B-uffy," she says and I have to fight back the smile at how she almost used my nickname. When she made it up for me I couldn't stand it. Now that it's gone I just want it back. "Faith. Can we talk," I ask her. "Depends on how fast you are," she tells me and moves out of the doorway.
Faith's POV:
Who does she think she is? Oh right she's Buffy, the woman I was and still am crazy about. Sometimes I mean that literally. "Make it quick. I've got sleep to catch up on," I tell Buffy as she looks at me. "Don't leave," she says and I chuckle, "Not that you have any control over me leaving or not, I am not gonna punish innocent humans because we have problems. If I leave you have no chance, and if you have no chance then there is not way in hell the normal people have one. So I'm gonna stay and your gonna keep out of my way. Your not gonna criticize me, and when I try to do the brooding thing your gonna let me. If you don't do these things well I'm not like I used to be, I will hit you, and I promise you'll be seeing stars for days afterwards," I tell her.
She chuckles, "Yeah ok," and then turns to leave. "Wait that's it?" I ask her really not expecting it to be that easy. "Yeah that's it," she tells me when she turns around. I know I still look very confused cause I still feel very confused. "I didn't think you'd give up making me feel like shit that easy," I say not meaning too it just came out. She sighs and looks me dead in the eyes, "Faith this might be the last time I have the courage to tell you this, "What I said to you back in Cleveland… it was out of anger because you left med," she says and I'm surprised because she so told me to leave. "You told me to leave. That day on the bus when I asked you whether I should stay you told me to leave. That no one needed me," I say not believing what I'm hearing. "Since when did you start listening to me Faith?" I ask her. "Since I started second guessing all my decisions; and for the record everything you've ever said whether I showed it or not effected me somehow," I tell her. I watch her face fall as she realized all the hateful things she's ever said to me had an effect on me. "I didn't know Faith. You walked around Sunnydale like nothing bothered you," she tells me and I shrug, "It's no big deal," I say to her trying desperately to change the topic. "No it is Faith. It is a big deal, but it's not why I'm here. Look you had left me alone in a new world ok. I was angry, scared, in love, disappointed, all those emotions I had no idea how to handle anymore. I might have done better but they were all because of you Faith and when it comes to you I'm a different person. Sometimes that person is someone I'm not proud of," she says to me. "You scare me Faith. The fact that you know me better than my best friends scares me. The fact that I could be just like you scares the hell out of me… but it also makes me feel happy. For some god awful reason; everything about you and me is wrong. Light and dark, good and evil, sane and insane, Buffy and Faith," she tells me, "It's not that you're a girl that scares me it's the fact that your Faith. Our history together scares me," she tells me and I look at my feet. What scares me most is every time I let myself feel comfortable around you, you break my heart. I don't want it broken again Faith. I'm missing pieces still from Angel, Riley, Spike even. I don't think I can handle it breaking again," she says and then walks out without even letting me say anything.