Chapter 4

'Final Fight'

Faith sat on top of a kitchen counter eating potato chips. She was full of sorrow and she couldn't get Buffy off of her mind. She felt more rage power over her. Again, she wished she could have been there, to save Buffy, but she wasn't. Faith remembered the people that she had killed, and when she went to the dark side. Buffy and Angel tried so hard to redeem her, but she completely and utterly screwed them. Faith now regretted this, and she wished she had listened to them, instead of having to go to the 'Girls Correctional Facility'.

Faith went downstairs to where Buffy kept all of the weapons. She found a knife and put it in the inside pocket of her jean jacket. She was about to walk out of the front door when Giles came up behind her.

"Where are you going?" he asked.

"I was gonna go patrol," Faith answered. "You gotta problem with that?"

"I'm going with you," Giles answered as he picked up a stake. Faith dropped her arm off of the door and rolled her eyes. They headed out. They found a deserted warehouse and decided to check it out. It was a pretty big place and they searched around it for a while. There were many large platforms that were very high; otherwise the place was quite empty. They were just about to leave when finally, they heard a noise. Faith turned around and a vampire fell out from one of the platforms. Giles immediately pulled out the stake from the inside of his jacket, so the vampire went to him first. He kicked the stake out of Giles' hand and then again he kicked him in the stomach. Giles doubled over but the vampire caught him. He grabbed Giles by the shoulder and threw him through some glass and onto the first floor. Faith round kicked him very hard in the head, and in exchange the vamp hit her underneath the jaw and punched her in the stomach letting her fall to the floor. Faith caught herself before she became flat on her stomach on the floor, but the vampire kicked her in the stomach and she flipped a couple inches off the floor and onto her back. She rolled over onto her stomach and tried to get up again. She spit a large amount of blood from her mouth. She imagined what it would have been like for Buffy when she had died, and how frightened Buffy would have been. She got the strength to pull the knife out of her shirt. She threw it across the room and it stabbed the vampire in the chest.

"Ouch baby," he said. "That hurt." He removed the knife from his chest.

"Screw you," Faith said.

"Ooh maybe afterwards." He smiled. "I like my girls to lie still." Faith had no strength to get up off of the floor. Even though she tried she couldn't bring herself to it. The vampire slowly walked toward her. He sat down beside her. She tried to punch him in the face, but her punch was so slow and weak that he easily moved his head out of the way. He grabbed the hair in the back of her head and yanked it back. "How about it?" he said, and he bent his head down and started feeding on her.

Faith could feel the blood being drained from her neck. She screamed a little and then saw Giles.

"FAITH!" he cried. He threw Faith the stake that was on the floor. She caught it and rammed it through the vampire's heart. He bursted into dust. Faith grabbed onto her neck where the vampire had bit her, he hadn't drained all of her blood, he hadn't had the time to. She looked at Giles as he ran up to her.

"Are you alright?" he asked her. Faith lifted herself onto her knees and gave him a weak smile.

"Kicked his ass," Faith said as she fell to her side. Giles picked her up and carried her as fast as he could back to the house.