FAITH'S SECOND CHANCE
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Jack and the rest of the POTC gang don't show up till Chapter 4.
Takes place between POTC and POTC 2 and at the end of Enemies and end of season 7
"talking"
'Thoughts'
Chapter Seven
Jack and Faith both turned towards the cabin door, as soon as the door burst open, Jack expecting an emergency on deck while Faith expected an attack against her. As soon as Jack saw who it was he relaxed.
"Gibbs…I told you ten minutes man." Jack said sighing.
"Jack I gave you longer, any way here's the whelp." Gibbs told Jack while pulling Xander into the cabin.
"I'm not a whelp!" Xander muttered under his breath. As soon as Faith saw Xander she started towards him, only to be stopped by Jack's arm around her waist.
"Thanks Gibbs. I need you to take the helm from Ana." Jack said, slightly amused at Faith's struggles to get away from Jack. As Gibbs walked out of the cabin and closed the door, Jack let her go and walked to a chest at the opposite side of the cabin and started to rummage through it.
"I want to know what the bleeding hell you're doing on my ship!" Jack said to Faith and Xander, his voice eerily calm, while he continued to dig through the chest.
"Look Jack I have no idea how me and Xander got on your ship, but can you give us a few minutes to ourselves. I need to talk to the X-man here about something." Faith said in her most seductive voice, walking towards Jack - who had just found his bottle of rum in the chest by his bed.
"No can do luv. I have valuable things in this room." Jack pulled out the cork of the bottle of rum and drained half of it. "Anything you say to the whelp will be right here in front of me. Savvy?" Faith watched as Jack sat at his desk and looked over his maps.
"Savvy, Jack." Faith sighed, rolling her eyes.
"It's Captain Jack luv" Jack smirked as Faith groaned and grabbed Xander's arm and pulled him to the far end of the cabin, as far away from Jack as possible. Jack was surprised to see that the one-eyed man looked absolutely terrified at the tiny girl pulling his arm. Jack shrugged and went back to looking at his maps.
"So are you going to tell me why you two are on my ship?" Jack's question stopped Faith in her tracks.
"Well Jack" Faith ignored Jack as he corrected her "as soon as we've figured it out we'll tell you…Savvy?" Faith continued to the furthest part of the cabin dragging Xander with her.
"Xander, please tell me you remember how you got here?" Faith whispered, her voice pleading.
"Well…I was with Dawn and a witch called Lydia came around told us she knows where you are and I told Dawn to go get Buffy. Lydia said she'll send me to you. Then I blacked out. What about you?" Xander said in an equally hushed voice.
"Lydia Post right?" She continued at Xander's nod. "Well I was just going out after the whole thing with Angel pretending to be on my side right. Well I go into the bathroom to get ready see that dick" Faith said pointing to Jack, who was still drinking rum and going over his maps. "in my mirror standing behind me. When I turn around his not there so I come out of the bathroom see the Mayor standing there, then I feel this needle go into my neck. I started to feel weak and then Lydia came along and the Mayor knocked me out. I wake up and I'm on a fucking piece of timber." Faith her little rant, her voice ending up screaming.
"The Pearl is NOT a piece of timber." Jack yelled, getting up from his seat. Faith turned to glare at Jack "You saw me before luv?"
"You weren't supposed to be listening, you asshole!" Faith yelled at a smirking Jack, turning back to Xander. Jack looked out of his window and figured he should go talk to Gibbs about the lass and the whelp.
"Alright, I'm goin to speak to Gibbs. I'll be back soon…Just don't touch anything." and with that Jack left with a new bottle of rum he got on his way out. Faith and stood watching the door with a confused look on their faces.
"Oh well…Faith what do you mean you felt weak?" Xander looked at Faith with concern in his remaining eye.
"Well that needle was full of stuff similar to what they give slayer's on their eighteenth birthdays, well the Mayor had got the stuff off Gwendolyn Post and he had it altered." Faith told Xander, a hint of sadness in her voice.
"What do you mean they altered it?" Xander's voice full of more concern for the young slayer then he had ever felt.
"It's permanent Xand, I'm not a Slayer anymore." She looked at her shoes for a moment before looking back at Xander. For the first time since he had met her saw that she was truly afraid as well as the first time he'd ever seen tears in her brown eyes. "Xand if I'm not the…a slayer then what I am? Before I was a slayer…I was a hell of a lot worse off…Just drifting around not knowing anything. Slaying gave me my life, a meaning you know and it made me focus on something other than my crappy life and…" Faith was cut off as Xander's lips covered hers.
A.N. Sorry it took so long. A belated Merry Christmas to everyone. Happy New Year.