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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 7.
Chapter Four: Beneath You
Her breathing was heavy as she ran through the streets, and because of the silence it could be heard echoing off the walls of the buildings she was passing. She didn't know why they were chasing her, but then again she didn't care, she just ran. If someone was chasing you would you stop to ask why or would you just run? Exactly. Coming to the end of the building, she climbs down the side, she didn't remember how she had managed to get on the roof, but she didn't really care about that either. Jumping down to the ground she jogged over to the door, she turned around to see if they were still behind her, they weren't. Taking a deep breath she opens the door, thinking she has made it, that she survived, but just as she is about to step through a hand covers her mouth and she is pulled back. She goes to scream but nothing comes out, she watches as another guy closes the door. She is brought to the ground, she tries to fight them off, but nothing happens, she fails. Eyes widen as she watches as the guy above her brings his knife down into her chest. That's when the release her and disappear leaving her to die, she can't move, she can't scream, she can't get any help.
Her head falls to the side, her eyes still wide and she speaks the words, "from beneath you it devours."
Buffy shoots up in bed the sheet clinging around her body. "What is it?" Faith sits up next to her rubbing the sleep away from her eyes and she looks around the room for any signs of danger. Upon seeing none she turns to look at Buffy who is still sitting there looking into the darkness, breathing heavily. "B?"
"There was girl," Buffy says looking at her. She can see the concern in Faith's eyes, and she smiles. "It was just a dream Faith," she says leaning in and kissing her. "More like a nightmare," she comments and she stands up, getting out of the bed. Walking over to the window, she looks out into the night, the night that is slowly turning to morning. Earlier on her and Faith were out in the night, fighting, killing, slaying, and everything seemed fine, yet looking out into it now, something is different. "From beneath you it devours," she says. Faith comes up behind her and wraps her arms around her from behind. Buffy reaches down and interlaces their fingers. "That's what the girl said, in my dream." She pauses looking back up and out the window. "There are more like her Faith," turning around she wraps her arms around Faith's neck, hugging her. "And they're going to die," she whispers in her ear and Faith wraps her arms around Buffy holding her tighter as she looks out the window.
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Basements are nasty places, but it is the perfect place for Spike, at least that's what he thinks. He hasn't had any blood in a couple days, not since he moved into the basement of the high school and it hadn't been bothering him, but ever since he saw Buffy he has a taste for blood. So currently he is crawling on the ground towards a rat that is sitting atop a box. Spike eyes do not move from where the rat is, they are set on their target. Just as he is about to pounce on the rat, the walls start to shake and everything starts to rumble, like an earthquake.
"No, it's not time, I'm not ready," Spike says moving his eyes away from his meal and towards the ceiling. "I need to make them understand!" He shouts. Spike winces as the room starts to shake more violently. "Stop! Please!" He shouts as he hands fly to his head, gripping chunks of his hair. Spike falls to his knees and he looks toward the ceiling as he starts to scream as things around him begin to fall.
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"So why couldn't Faith drive you?" Xander asks as he looks over at his best friend. "Not that I mind, because I don't, but I thought for sure she'd want to be here for this. Seeing you off to work," he says smiling.
"This is so very exciting," Dawn says as she peeks her head in-between the seats.
"Faith has work this morning," Buffy says.
"Buff," she looks towards Xander. "Her morning starts at noon," he says simply.
"I kept her up late," she says smirking at him. His eyes widen and he nods as his eyes look back towards the road.
"That's gross," Dawn says from the back seat. Dawn sits back in the seat, looking out the front window. "Listen Buffy as excited as I am about you new job, you do know that you cannot talk to me, or even look at me, or anything like that, you must act as if I'm invisible," she says coming back towards the front of the car looking at her sister intently.
"I doubt we'll be seeing much of one another," Buffy said glancing at her slightly out of the corner of her. "That's if I understand my fuzzy job description," she says with a slight laugh.
"It's not fuzzy," Xander says.
"Yeah," Dawn says. "You help troubled teenagers," she comments proudly as if it was nothing.
"Which," Xander says holding up his finger. Looking at the two Summers girls. "Is exactly what you did in high school when you were a student," he paused. "Expect, instead of saving them from vampires and demons, you're now protecting them from either boys or girls, teachers, parents, and the principle, and whatever else teenagers worry about," he comments looking at her, when he notices her look his eyebrows scrunch together. "What?" He asks.
"I prefer vampires, demons, and dooming apocalypses," she says matter-of-factly.
"Either way, they are lucky to have you, I know I was." He says smiling at her. Pulling into the park lot, they could see teenagers walking around everywhere, as well as the high school. They were all hurrying into the open courtyard, and many were hurrying into the building. Buffy remembered when she was one of the students, but most of the time she wasn't rushing to class, more like she was rushing to the library to inform Giles about the latest evil that she faced that night. Buffy's high school experience wasn't about boys or homework, more like it was about saving the entire student body from being eating by whatever lay outside at high, and her senior year, it was about making sure the mayor didn't eat them.
Hopefully this time, the problems the teens here will have nothing to do with the dark side.
Hopefully. For some reason, the school, seemed a whole lot bigger today than it did the last time she was here.
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Once in her office Buffy starts to get this feeling that she is being put in some kind of cage. They had given her this cubical looking this, that were supposed to pass as her office. She didn't really mind though, after all if the forces of evil decided to attack her here she would only have one way out and they would only have one way in, unless they decided to job through the window which is a definite possibility. Looking at her desk she notices that there are a couple of folders on it, with what she is guessing are names on them. She glances back at principle Wood with a questioning look, this job is looking more and more like a guidance counselor, which he said she wasn't.
"Well. I'm hoping that in a couple days time they'll start coming to your themselves," he says pointing to the folders on her desk. "This is only the beginning Buffy," he adds in there to make himself even more creepy.
"What if they don't," Buffy asked. What if they kids don't like her and they don't come. All this time she had been worried that she wouldn't understand their problems and that she wouldn't understand them. But what if they don't like her and they never come and she is doomed to sit in this office for hours with no company because people don't like her. "Should I panic?" She asks as she starts panicking in her head with all the what if questions. Buffy isn't someone that likes surprise, being a slayer and having things jump out at her day and night, she has grown to not like surprises. Can you really blame her?
"You'll be surprised," he says coming over and sitting slightly on the edge of her desk. Buffy looked at him cautiously. She didn't know yet if he was evil or if she should be worried about what he might do while she's here, she hasn't decided but this job will be a great chance to get close enough to him, so she'll be able to kill him if he is evil. After all he is a principle. He looks at her slightly. "You're the youngest of the staff here, I think students are going to be jumping at the opportunity to come sit and talk to you," he says with a wink. Weird. "They need to feel like someone here understands them," he says getting off her desk and back stepping back towards his office. "Everything is going to be fine, trust me, and trust yourself," he says.
"Can I give detention?" She asks but he doesn't answer her. He is already back behind his desk in his office, with the door closed. He has to be evil, unless he took this job without knowing what happened to the other people you had his job. Plus, his office is right on top of the Hellmouth. Buffy pulls out her chair and takes a seat behind her desk. She didn't like school when she was a teenagers because of all the useless amount of hours she had to spend here, and now she came back, willingly, was she insane? She dropped the folder she was picking up because the phone rang, she reached and answered it. "Buffy Summers," she says. Great, no one told her how she was supposed to answer the phone, this is a business place, shouldn't there be a certain way you answer the phone. She didn't think she was going to like this job.
"Nice B, very professional sounding," Faith's voice said on the other end of the line.
"This is creepy," she says, slightly relaxing at the sound of her lovers voice. "You have any idea how many years I spend running around this place trying to stop it from being destroyed by demons, even after I blew it up. And hey I blew it up! He should know that if he read my record, why would you ask me to work here if you knew I blew up," she paused. "Why would you trust someone with kids that recently blew up a school," she adds on.
"Relax B," Faith says calmly. "He has his reasons, but something tells me he isn't evil," she adds on. "Open you're top drawer," she says suddenly.
"What why?"
"There is a little surprise in there," Faith says matter-of-factly. "Just do it, I promise it will help you calm the hell down," she finishes.
Buffy leans back in her chair and opens the drawer. Lifting up what was inside she lets out a small laugh. "I love you," she says simply setting the small item on the desk in front of her.
"I know you do," Faith says. "Well I'm off to work now; I'll see you later on tonight right?" Faith asks not knowing if Buffy is going straight to patrolling or if she is coming home first.
Buffy lefts up her hand slightly and look at the ring Faith got her. It was huge, which was perfect. She always thought she'd be one of those girls that wanted one of those big diamonds on her ring, but the one Faith had picked out was perfect. "Yeah," is all she said before she hung up the phone. It wasn't small either, everything about the ring was perfect. Taking it off she looks at the inside, where Faith had gotten something written. She smiles. Forever yours faithfully.
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Faith looks through the window and sees Buffy sitting at her desk. She smiles when she notices her looking at the ring. Smiling Faith slips through the door and into the basement. She didn't tell Buffy about Spike being in the basement, she knew that Buffy would try to do something, try to save him. But Faith knew that there was nothing that could be done to save him. He's a vampire, a vampire that tried to rape Buffy while she was away on business.
Faith had gone somewhere for Giles when he called saying that some little place needed the slayers assistance. It was something he normally did but he did explain that someone very important to him lived there and he wanted to make sure she was alright. When Faith got there she saw who the important person was. Olivia, the one that she had met when the gentlemen came to town, she had been staying with Giles, and Giles referred to her as his "friend," like they were stupid.
She didn't care that Giles had this type of "friend" but everyone else in the group thought it was weird.
She stops when she sees him kneeling there on the floor. She had come down here ready to kill him. She didn't just want him to pop up and ruin things between her and Buffy because for some reason Buffy always had a soft spot when it came to Faith and last year it almost ruined their relationship. But seeing him now, like this, Faith couldn't bring herself to do it. Walking closer to him she can see his tense up. What the hell happened to him this summer? She kneels down in front of him.
"Spike," she says.
"Kill me, that's what you came here to do," he says looking up at her.
She could see the tears in his eyes. Spike wasn't someone who cried, he was very much like her in that way and that's why she always liked him, until everything happened between him and Buffy, and she would do anything to protect Buffy. "What happened to you?" She asks reaching out and touching his chest, seeing the marks on him. But before she can lay a finger on him he flinches away and stands up. "Spike."
He's looking past her. Faith turns around to see if someone is standing there, there isn't. "She isn't ready," when she looks back at him he still isn't looking for her. "She isn't ready," he says once more, this time looking at her, and then he turns and runs away from her. Faith just stands, she doesn't bother to chase him.
"What the hell happened to you?" She asks, but no one is there but her.
Spike had been someone that she had gotten close to once he got the chip in his head. They were friends, if either one of them would have admitted it. Buffy used to tell her that she liked that her and Spike were friends, that they were so much alike, that she needed someone like him. Of course Faith being who she is denied it until Buffy stopped speaking of their friendship. But Buffy was right. Spike was someone she used to talk to about her relationship with Buffy, and he was the first one she told when she was thinking about marrying her, before she died and everything of course. He had shown her a good place for rings, that weren't overly expensive.
They shared a lot when Buffy died. Faith had shut herself off to the gang and to Dawn because everything about them reminded her of Buffy and how much she missed her. And yet when she was with Spike, they would just get drunk and kill demons, it was a slayers way of dealing. The gang didn't understand that, but then again they didn't have to.
They never told her that they were going to try and bring Buffy back. They didn't include her or Spike in on that little secret. Faith didn't tell Buffy that either, cause Buffy, just like herself, knew what she would have had to do if Buffy had come back as something besides Buffy. And they both knew how hard it would have been for Faith to do what needed to be done. They didn't speak of that night, Buffy refused and so did she. Yet when Buffy was brought back, things between them were strained, and a relationship between Buffy and Spike was formed. Faith would try and talk to Spike about it but he wouldn't, and that pissed her off that their friendship ended, and just as there friendship ended Buffy's and his grew.
So much so that Buffy would leave their bed at night.
She never asked why, or what they did, because Faith knew deep down that she didn't want to know.
Looking into the darkness, Faith could see that Spike had disappeared. Whatever happened to Spike these past few months was something big and she knew that she would have to talk to Buffy about it, but that meant telling Buffy about Spike and she didn't know how to do that…not yet. Then again though that wasn't the big problem.
Spike was talking to someone else while she was down here, someone that she couldn't see, and this someone was talking to him.
Something else was here. She could feel.
And this something is big.
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Author's note: Sorry I'm late with this chapter I'll try to not let it happen again. Please comment, it makes me all happy and giddy on the inside. Lol
