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Title: Time, It's All We Have
Pairings: Buffy/Faith
Summary: Faith never went to prison, she did kill the guy, but she let Buffy help her, and because of that help, they have become what they did in my story…re-write of season 8.
Chapter Three: Lessons Part Three
"Excuse me," Faith stops as someone steps out in front of her. "I'm Principle Wood; can I help you find someone?" He asks but Faith is too busy looking around trying to find where Xander said the bathroom was. Taking a step forward Wood puts a hand on her arm stopping her. "Can I help you?" He asks stressing the words.
"You don't know me, which was obvious when you put your hands on me," Faith says swiping her arm away from this man standing in front of her. The man who hit on Buffy, he isn't bad looking, and she guessing that if she and Buffy weren't together Buffy might have actually flirted back. But then again Faith doesn't really know what happened between the two of them this afternoon; Buffy might have flirted, maybe not, either way it doesn't matter. This guy attempted to hit on his girl, he's lucky she doesn't kill him where he stands. "I'm looking for the bathroom," she says simply as if it is some natural thing.
"You're not a student here," he says crossing his arms across his chest.
"Well duh," Faith says. "My friend, Xander Harris is do construction here, and he asked for help, I just need to use the bathroom," she says calmly. "Aren't ladies allowed to pee?" She asks smirking and tilting her head to the side. She notices the look on his face and she wants so badly to laugh. Men are so easy. "If you don't mind," Faith says side stepping him and walking past. She doesn't need to turn around; she can feel his eyes on her. Does he seriously think he has a chance, probably, but then again he doesn't know that her heart belongs to Buffy, and once you love Buffy you love no one else. "Xander?" she calls out as she peeks her head into one of the girls bathrooms.
"Faith," Xander says and she sighs. "Thank god," he says upon seeing her.
"Where's Buffy?" she asks when she doesn't see her blonde lover anywhere in the bathroom. Her eyes look down the hole in the floor. "She's so reckless," Faith says simply as she runs her fingers through her hair. "Have you found a thingy?" She asks him.
"A thingy?" he asks. "Are you serious?"
"Yes," she says.
"You have been hanging around Buffy for way to long," he says and she just looks at him confused. "She called it a thingy mabob," he says matter-of-factly.
"Well what would you call it?" She asks crossing her arms across her chest.
"Uh," he says looking up trying to think of something smarter to say than 'thingy' or 'thingy mabob'. "Fine," he says looking away from her and when he turns to look back at her she's gone. "Faith!" He yells into the hole after her. "You were supposed to help me find it!"
"Sorry Xand, I was never one to do the sidekicks job," she says taking off.
"Great," Xander says throwing his hands in the air. "Slayer's and their egos."
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"Dawn?" Buffy yells as she looks around corners as she walks around what she is guessing to be the basement of the high school. It's a creepy looking basement for a high school. The floor is dirt, Buffy figured since they were doing construction on it they could at least put some concrete down. Even the old school had concrete.
"You won't be able to protect her!" Turning around Buffy notices the same janitor that was in the girl's bathroom when she was in there earlier.
"Can't talk right now I'm busy," Buffy says turning away from janitor and when she turns around she notices a tall skinny nerdy look kid standing in front of her now. "Oh great," she says putting her hands on her waist. "What I wasn't able to save you either?" She ask clearly frustrated.
"She will die down here, you'll be too late," he says.
"Excuse me," Buffy says as she reaches in and grabs her cell phone. "Wow reception is awesome," she comments seeing her sister's name on the caller ID. "Dawn, where are you?" She says and when she looks up both the janitor and the teenager are gone. "Thank god," she says under her breathe and she continues to walk.
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"Buffy, I need help," Dawn says. She's looking around her trying to find something that will be able to tell her where she is, also something that will help Buffy find them. While she and the girl from the stale were down here they ended up running into some kid. At first Dawn couldn't tell if he was just another ghost or if he was actually a real person, but when she saw the cigarette she knew. "Me and two other people in down here with these crazy ghost things following us around," she comments.
"So their ghosts, not zombies?" Buffy asks.
"Well I don't know they haven't…" she is cut off by the hand choking her. Her eyes widen with shock as she stares at the dead janitor standing before her.
"She will not save you!" He yells.
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"It's like a freaking maze down here," Faith mumbles to herself as she turns another dark corner. Just as she's about to turn another corner she notice something out of the corner of her eye. "Buffy? Dawn?" She calls out as she turns and starts walking in the other direction. "Hello?" She calls out again when no one answers. "Great Faith, now you're seeing things," she mumbles turning back around and walking the way she was before. Yet before she is able to take a step she is stopped by someone standing in front of her. "Spike?" She asks looking up at the vampire. He just looks at her. Something was wrong with him, that much was clear, but then again Faith wasn't someone to care.
"You son of a bitch," she says rearing back and punching him in the face. He steps back slightly so that there is more space between the two of them. "How dare you show your face here after what you did to her!" She yells and as she is about to charge him someone appears before her, someone who appears to already be dead. "Who the hell are you?" Faith asks him.
"You won't be able to protect her," he says rearing back and bringing a pipe down on Faith. And Faith being too distracted by Spike's sudden laughing. The guy in front of her continues to hit her with the pipe before she is able to grab a hold of it.
Yet when she gets to her fight ready to fight back the guy is gone. "What the fuck," she says noticing that not only is the guy done but so is Spike. "Time to find Buffy and Dawn and get the hell out of here," she says to herself getting a better grip on the pipe and walking down the dark corridor.
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"I cannot believe that I am in here crawling around on the girls bathroom floor," Xander comments to himself as he peeks around the toilet to see if the 'thingy' was back there. It wasn't. Getting to his feet he carefully maneuvers himself so that he doesn't fall down the hole and into the other stale. "This is stupid, why do I have to be the one doing this, why couldn't I be blessed with powers," he grumbles. "Stupid slayers and their stupid slayer powers."
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"My sister is going to kick your ass," Dawn says as she swings a purse full of books that she had gotten from the girl how feel through the hole with her. Who she later found out was Kit. Dawn falls to the ground after coming into contact with nothing. She wasn't ready for this, Buffy and Faith hadn't finished training her. She wasn't ready. Buffy has only taught her about vampires, not about ghost zombie people. There was too much more she needed to learn.
"Why are you after us?" Kit says through tears. She scared and Dawn understands that but does she understand that she is asking unnecessary questions to ghost zombie things. Probably not.
"Why wouldn't we pick you?" A girl appears next to Kit and she screams. "No one will care when you're gone, just like no one cared about us," she says watching as Dawn once again tries to hit the janitor. "You will be stuck her just like we are," she adds on and just as she appeared she disappeared.
"You're wrong," Dawn says not bothering to turn around. "People care about us, people will miss us, people will save us," she says and then she gets knocked down by the janitor. "Damnit," she mumbles.
"Dawn?" Buffy says as she enters through the door. The janitor turns around and swings something at her, she doesn't quite see it because she drives underneath whatever it was and kneels next to Dawn. "Hey, weapon?" Buffy asks and Dawn hands her the bag before she moves away from the oncoming attack. Buffy moves out of the way. She twirls the bag in her hand, getting momentum behind it, and then bringing it into contact with the janitor sending him flying into the wall. "Can't say she didn't warn you."
"You'll pay for that," the girl says as she appears behind Buffy. Before Buffy has a chance to bring the bag around on the girl, the girl disappears.
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"Yes! Talisman!" Xander shouts as he lifts it in the air, and just as he does someone jumps on his back and he drops it. "Hey!" He yells trying to get the girl off his back and get to the talisman in time so that he can get rid of these things, whatever they were. They could touch you so they weren't just ghosts, but they could appear and disappear so they weren't zombies either.
Just as soon as he felt the girl jump on him she was gone. Looking up Xander notices Faith grabbing her, but then she disappears. "Xander, break it!" She yells as she points underneath the sink to where it is lying. He dives under the sink and grabs just in time for the girl to reappear. "Just give up!" Faith shouts,
"She'll never love you like you love her," the girl says and Faith hesitates in punching her, which allows the girl to get a hit in on Faith sending her inside the hole and back down into the basement.
Xander breaks the talisman and the girl disappears, but instead of rejoyceing in his win, he crawls towards the hole and looks down. "Faith?" He yells down but she doesn't answer. "Faith don't move, I'm gonna find a way down," he says looking around the room.
"No!" She says groaning. "No, I'm fine," she says opening her eyes but she still doesn't move. "Just go get some rope so you can get me out of here," she say. "Oh and Xander," he peeks his head into the hole again. "Buffy doesn't hear about this," he nods and then leaves.
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"Did we win?" the boy asks from where he was hiding.
"Yeah, Xander must have came through," she said looking around. "Who are they?" Buffy asks looking at Dawn.
"That's Carlos, he was down here when Kit and I fell through the bathroom floor," she says and the she looks at Buffy confused. "I'm not going to have a normal high school experience am I?" she asks and Buffy shakes her head. "Great."
"Let's get outta here," she says.
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Opening the door from the basement back to the main floor of the school Buffy looks out before she gives the all clear for them to all leave. Seeing no one in the hallway she moves so that the three teenagers behind her can come out after her. "Well I guess we're headed back to class," Dawn says looking at the two people standing next to her and then at Buffy.
"Don't worry, you guys are gonna be fine," Buffy says smiling.
"Thanks, really," Kit says leaning in and giving Buffy a hug.
Buffy looks at Dawn with a confused look. "No problem," she says. After Kit moves away from Buffy Dawn leans in and gives her sister a kiss. "I'll see you later," she says shrugging. "I have to find Faith and work on damage control," she says smiling.
"I'm sure she'll forgive you," Dawn says and she walks away following the other two.
"Yeah," Buffy says turning around and almost running into the principle. "We have to stop meeting like this," she says looking up at him.
"Huh," he says looking past her. She follows his gaze and then turns to look back at him. "Those two, you know the two who aren't your sister, they are actually going to class. That's weird," he says looking at her.
"Why?" She asks.
"Their files are almost, and I stress almost, as thick as yours," he says.
"You've read my file?"
"The school board said I should look into it, and I have to say it was a very interesting read," he comments. She just looks at him. "You managed to get them to go to class, that is very surprising," he says looking past her at the retreating teenagers. "I did not expect that," he finishes. "You know Miss Summers, something tells me that this place," he pauses to look at her. "It was made for you," he says.
If he wasn't so creepy Buffy might have smiled. "What's that supposed to mean?" She asks.
He smiles. "The students here need someone their own age, someone to help them along," he explained. "You already have the two worst students headed to class; I think you'd be good at the job. But we wouldn't be able to pay you a lot and it would only be a couple days a week, but I think it'd help this school out a lot," he explained.
"Are you asking me to be a counselor?" she asks.
"We already have a guidance counselor; maybe you could help her out, you know…"
Buffy notices Faith standing behind Wood as Xander walks away, she looks pissed. "I'm in," Buffy says quickly, her eyes not moving from Faith's.
"You heard the part about the money right?" He asked.
"Yeah I heard, it's cool," she says as she notices Faith turning and walking away. "You have to deal with my funtastic schedule and I'll deal with the lack of money," she says with a laugh.
"Check me out, my first day and I already bullied my first family member into helping out," he says as he starts to walk away. "I'm gonna be the best principle yet," he exclaims as he walks into a crowd full of students.
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Buffy had looked everywhere for Faith when she was done with the principle, but she was gone. So the next possible place that Faith could be was home, cause the look on her face told Buffy that Faith really wanted to talk, and Buffy was guessing that if she didn't show up at home soon Faith wouldn't be forgiving her anytime soon. The only reason Buffy knew Faith was here was because her car was in the driveway. Walking in the house Buffy looked around and Faith was nowhere to be seen. She checked around the corner and looked into the kitchen and it was empty, the next place would be upstairs and if she wasn't upstairs than she was more than likely outside, probably smoking, but that was unlikely since Faith promised she was going to quiet.
"Faith?" Buffy calls out to her.
"Upstairs," she hears her yell. Buffy takes the steps two at a time. When she reaches the top she all but runs to her room. But she doesn't, she doesn't want to seem needy. "You know, I needed to talk to you today, all day, I had something on my mind, but you didn't seem to care," Faith says as she picking up her discarded clothes around the room. "You were too worried about Dawn going back to school, but you wanna know the worst part," she asks turning around to look at Buffy. "You had all reason to be worried, we the zombie things after her, I mean I can't even be mad at you for that." She paused sitting on the bed. "Xander called me, that's why I was there," she says.
"Oh," she says walking closer to the bed and taking a seat next to Faith. She reaches over and places her hand on hers. "I'm really sorry about today, but hey on the plus side I got a new job so no more smelling like fast food nastiness," she says turning so that she was facing Faith. "I really am sorry, I didn't expect this to happen, I only expected to be there for like twenty minutes or so," she says running her fingers through Faith's hair. Faith reaches into her pocket and pulls out a little box and Buffy's hand stops. "What's that?"
"I had this big ol' romantic thing planned." She says tossing the box on the bed, Buffy picks it up slowly. "I had all these things I wanted to say, all these things I wanted to tell you," she says turning to watch as Buffy open the box and as her eyes widen. The tears are forming in Buffy's eyes, she can see them. "I wanted to tell you how much I love you, and how you have changed me in so many way, and how loving you has made me a better person, there was so much I wanted to say," she says kneeling in front of Buffy. "But right now," Buffy looks at her. "The only words I can think to say are," she pauses and Buffy takes out the ring. "Will you marry me?"
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"From beneath you it devours," Buffy shoots up in bed clutching the sheet to her body. She looks around the room at the complete darkness and then looks down at Faith's sleeping form next to her. Smiling she raises her hand so that she can see the ring as it sits upon her finger. Faith had asked her to marry her; she had asked her to be with her forever. It was so unlike Faith that Buffy couldn't believe it. Laying back down she closes her eyes as she feels Faith put her arm around her and bring their bodies closer together, she smiling as she once again falls asleep in her lover's arms.
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"I had a speech," Spike says as he kneels down on the ground. "She wouldn't have understood, not after," he stops as he starts to rock back and forth pulling at his hair.
"I'm beyond her understand Sparky," Warren says as he comes walking behind Spike's kneeling form on the ground. "She's just a girl." She pauses. "I'm more than that, more than flesh…" as Warren is talking his body morphs into the form of Glory. "More than blood. I honestly don't think there is a word for what I am," she says laughing slightly and then she morphs into the demon Adam. "She's exactly where I want her to be," he says and then he morphs again into the Mayor. He kneels down so that he is eye level. "So you thought that everything was going to be easy when you got your soul back, but they're slippery little devils. Why do you think I got rid of mine," the mayor morphs into Drusilla. "You'll never be your own man, you'll always be mine," Drusilla turns into the Master. Standing straight up once again. "These next few months are going to be quiet a ride, things are going to be very interesting, and maybe we'll learn something about ourselves in the process. You're trying to do what's right," he pauses. "Just like her, but when will you get it, it isn't about what's right or about what's wrong," finally the Master turns into Buffy. "It's about power."
Spike stands and looks at her and she smiles.
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