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Chapter 4

Buffy and Willow where currently sat on Faith's front yard, watching Xander attempting, in his own words, 'to kick some female booty' by taking on Faith and Kennedy in a game of street hockey. Sadly enough he was loosing, and his poor attempt to prove that hockey was best left to the boys, was failing miserably. They watched as Xander was body checked by a rather overzealous Kennedy, and went flying head first over a garbage can. Executing a near perfect front flip. Kennedy whooped and high fived Faith, who'd skated over to congratulate her friend.

"Hey you two, play nice!" Buffy called, sounding, and feeling, like her mother, as she told off her girlfriend, and her partner in crime.

"Yeah, or there'll be no sex for you!" Willow shouted, immediately blushing at her outburst, and looking round the street, to see if she'd been overheard by any pitch fork wielding zealots. Her words however, had the desired affect, as the two giggling brunettes, immediately stopped, and simultaneously started pouting.

Xander groaned, as he pulled himself to his feet. Balancing precariously on his skates, as he tried to get his bearings. "I can't believe that happened again." he moaned, "What are you two feeding them?" he asked, as he skated over to sit beside Buffy and Willow. Deciding that he had been humiliated enough for one day. "Cause they are both freakishly strong."

"You should know better than to challenge those two at anything, especially hockey." Buffy said, wincing as Kennedy and Faith slammed at each other to get to the ball.

"You two do realise you're not wearing you're protective gear right!" Willow called, "Cause if you get hurt Kennedy, there will be no boo-boo kissage from me!"

"Or me." Buffy called, "But that statement refers to you Faith!" she added quickly, as she caught the leer on Kennedy's face, and the surprise on Faith's.

Buffy sighed, today was supposed to be about them de-stressing, and by them she really meant Faith. It had been a week since she'd last had a seizure, but the hockey final was tomorrow. This would be the last game Faith and Kennedy would play for the school, and everyone they knew would be there. The Sunnydale Sharks had won the last nine games they'd played. If they won this last game, the school's hockey team would break the record for most consecutive wins, or something. She'd sort of stopped paying attention after a while, and focused solely on making out with her girlfriend. Once Faith started talking about a subject she liked, the only way to make her stop was sex, or food, but they'd already eaten so the last option was void.

To tell the truth, Buffy was waiting for something to go wrong, Faith had been unbelievably calm the last few days. Faith had taken her advice, and had asked Willow to help her with her studies, and according to the redhead she was coming on well. Faith had also managed to avoid Jessie at school, and the coach had put her on time out during practice, which meant that Jessie would be on the bench for the hockey game tomorrow.

In reality Buffy appeared to be more worried about the game than Faith. She was Cheering at the game, but that was nothing new, it was Jessie's reaction to her being there that she was worried about, Jessie's harassment of Faith was bad enough, when she wasn't there. And she was worried about her girlfriend having a seizure, and getting injured. Faith was never someone that you would think of as being weak, but whenever Buffy saw her having a seizure, she was constantly reminded of how vulnerable the brunette really was. And she hated it, she hated the helpless feeling it gave her, as she was powerless to do anything to help. She was never used to being the strong one, and she didn't want to get used to it. She remembered the first time she'd witnessed Faith having a seizure.

(( FLASHBACK ))

Buffy had been in Sunnydale for three months, and had quickly became close friends with Willow, Kennedy and Xander. Faith however was another story. The younger girl was an enigma, one day she could be sweet and charming, the next a pain in the ass. Plus with the constant flirting, and sexual innuendos, Buffy never knew where she stood with the other girl. She didn't know if Faith genuinely liked her, or whether she was just looking for a quick roll in the hay.

They where all currently sitting sprawled across the couch in Kennedy's living room, enjoying movie night. With the exception of Xander, who'd had to skip movie night, to spend quality bonding time with his cousins, despite his pleas for mercy, Kennedy was adamant that she didn't want any ten year old brats 'messin up her shit'. So he'd had no choice but to stay at home.

Glancing over at her friends, Buffy smiled as she saw Kennedy and Willow, snuggled on the couch beside her. While Faith sat, on the floor with her back, against the couch. She didn't know what was wrong with the brunette but she'd been quiet all night, and it disturbed her. Faith was normally quick of the mark with a witty retort, or an innuendo, but she'd hardly said a word. She could see that Kennedy and Willow where concerned as well, as they kept shooting their friend concerned glances.

They all looked as Faith stood up, and stumbled slightly. "You okay sweetie?" Willow asked.

"Yeah, I jus need a drink." Faith replied, running a hand through her hair. "Anyone else want anything?" she asked. Seeing everyone shake their head, she shrugged and headed off to the kitchen.

Buffy noticed Kennedy look at Willow in concern, and was about to ask her what was wrong with the other girl when they heard a crash from the kitchen.

Kennedy leapt up from the sofa, quickly followed by Buffy and Willow. When they entered the kitchen they found Faith on the floor, in the middle of a seizure. Buffy stood at the door in shock, as Kennedy and Willow ran to her side.

"Oh God, what's wrong with her?" Buffy asked fearfully, watching as her friends dragged the convulsing girl into the middle of the floor, away from the cabinets and the broken glass.

"She's having a seizure." Willow said.

Buffy looked at them in confusion. "A seizure?"

"You mean Faith didn't tell you?" Willow said, "She's epileptic."

"Will honey, could you get me a cushion." Kennedy asked calmly, gently supporting Faith's head with her hands, so that she wouldn't crack it off the floor.

Buffy stepped aside, to allow Willow to get past into the living area, but other than that she didn't step any further into the room. She was still in a state of shock at what was happening. "Shouldn't we phone an ambulance or something?"

"No, they can't do anything for her. We just gotta let it run it's course." Kennedy explained, looking up as Willow came back into the kitchen and tossed her the cushion, which she placed under Faith's head.

"I'll wait in the living room, she wouldn't want to know we where seeing this." Willow said, looking at Faith in concern.

"S-She's turning blue, I-Is that supposed to happen." Buffy asked anxiously, not paying attention to what the others where saying. She couldn't seem to take her eyes off of Faith.

Kennedy nodded gently, she could see how freaked out the small blonde was, and knew that witnessing this for the first time was scary. But it was a sight she would have to get used to, if she wanted to hang with them. "Yeah she's okay. She'll start breathing again, when the seizure's finished." she explained.

"What! You mean she's not breathing! How is this okay?!" she asked, her voice bordering on panic.

"This is normal alright. It's hard for her to breath when she's fitting." Kennedy explained. "If you see me start to freak out, that's generally a signal for you to freak out."

"Isn't there anything we can do for her." she asked, feeling helpless.

Kennedy shook her head, "This is all you can do." she said, "You just gotta make sure she's safe, and leave the rest up to her. When she stops fitting, you've just gotta let her sleep, cause they knock the shit outta her."

Faith grunted as her convulsions suddenly stopped, and Kennedy quickly rolled her over onto her side. Gently brushing the hair away from her face, she rubbed her back soothingly, as her friend fought for breath. "That's it chica." she said softly. She looked up and saw Buffy looking at her with a soft smile on her face. "What?" she asked curiously.

"I've just never seen you like this before, you two are really close aren't you." Buffy asked softly.

"Faith's like a sister to me. She's the strongest person I know, but when she's like this, she's also the most vulnerable." Kennedy said, glancing back down at her friend. "She needs someone to look out for her."

"You knew this was going to happen didn't you." Buffy stated gently, "Is that why we had movie night?"

Kennedy nodded, "Yeah, she's not been herself all day. When she's knocked off like that it only means one thing, and we wanted to make sure she'd be somewhere safe when it happened."

"She's lucky to have friends like you." Buffy said.

"She'd do the same for any of us." Kennedy said simply, stroking her friends hair affectionately. "Faith?" Kennedy shouted, shaking her gently, "Fai, can you hear me?" Her only response was a slight groan from her prone friend. "She still ain't with us yet, think it'll be a while before she comes round." she explained. "Do you think, you could help me get her through to the couch? I don't wanna leave her on the floor."

"Yeah, sure." Buffy said, moving over to Faith's side. Between them they carefully sat Faith up, and they each draped an arm round their neck. Faith moaned softly in protest. Without thinking, Buffy kissed her head tenderly. When she pulled back, she saw Kennedy smiling at her knowingly, and she couldn't help but blush.

"She really likes you, you know." she said, "She might joke about it, but you can see it in her eyes."

Buffy was surprised to find herself hoping that it was true, and found that she wanted to know more about Faith. "I hope so." she whispered.

(( END FLASHBACK ))

She was brought back to reality by the sounds of a thud, and when she looked up she saw Kennedy and Faith sitting next to each other in the street, and rubbing their heads, and groaning.

"That's what's called Karma people." Xander crowed, he carried on laughing despite the glared he was receiving from the two girls.

"Okay what did I miss?" Buffy asked.

Willow sighed, "Just our girlfriends skating head first into each other. If they where trying to knock some sense into each other I think it failed."

Buffy stood up and dusted off her jeans, before making her way over to the two brunettes, who where still sitting there with a dazed look in their eyes. "Okay, time out. You two have had enough excitement for one day." she said, helping her girlfriend up, while Willow did the same.

"The Buffster is right, we're supposed to be relaxing people. We all have highly stressful days ahead of us, and today is a day for hanging with my peeps and de-stressing." Xander said, "So what would you beautiful ladies like to do?" he asked.

"Ooh why don't we all go ice-"

"Kennedy I swear to God if you where going to say skating I will slap you." Willow said her resolve face firmly in place, causing Kennedy to snap her jaw shut. "Sweetie try and take you're mind off the game tomorrow okay." she added gently.

"Fine." Kennedy mumbled.

"How bout ice cream?" Faith asked, slinging her arm round Buffy's shoulder.

"That's my kind of thinking." Xander replied.

Tbc.

A/N: There will be flashbacks a plenty in this fic, or as my friend calls them, Backflashes. Sorry if there was any mistakes, I didn't have time to re-read this, please R & R