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Chapter 8: Do You Care!

Author's Notes: I hope u like this chapter and please feed me back

Buffy told them about what happened and her plan, they all start to work on it, they knew that Faith will be here in a couple of hours. Cordelia tried as possible as she can to avoid any contact with Buffy, she wasn't convinced yet that she's not Faith. They all waited in anticipation until Wesley announces Faith's arrival. Buffy and Angel disappeared in his office immediately.

"Thank you for coming that quickly but it's rather very important Buffy" Wesley try as hard as he can to not show anything.

"Sure Wesley, no problem" and then she looked toward Cordelia who was eyeing her suspiciously "Hello to you to Cordelia" "Yes, sure why not" Cordelia said burying her head on the papers in front of her disk.

"Follow me please and I will explain everything to you" they start walking toward Angel office, Wesley opened the door to let her go first. Once she was inside, she felt something colliding with her head and she fell hard on the floor and everything went black.

When she opened her eyes, she found her self chained to a bed. She tried to free her hands or her legs but the chains were too strong. Suddenly the door open and Angel was standing in front of her.

"What's going on Angel? Why are you doing this?" she was confused by what's happening around her. It wasn't Angelus who set her up it was Wesley. What make Wesley, Angel and Cordelia do something like that to Buffy.

"You tell me what's going on, FAITH" he said her name with a mocking tone and her eyes widened with surprise "What? You thought no one will ever know, that you will keep pretending to be her until you die" every word coming out from his mouth were like daggers stabbing her heart "Tell me Faith, what was your big plan, fooling every one around, playing with there feelings for a person they respect and love the most" she couldn't keep herself from crying "Angel I swear I didn't.." "You didn't what Faith, how could you do this to her, what did she do to you to deserve to be dead by you?" Angel was yelling at her with anger "No, no I didn't mean to kill her, I wasn't thinking of all of that...I..." Angel cut her "You what Faith? What was you thinking doing this to her?" "I wasn't thinking I wakeup from the coma and found a switching devise the mayor thought it would help me" she was sopping now "I was scared and I didn't know what to do, I didn't think of anything, I wanted my eight months back, I didn't want her to die" with those words she broke down and cried as hard as she can. Angel left the room.

"Ok, Buffy you heard her, what's next and what will we do with her" Angel asked her, they were all standing outside Faith's room "I really don't know what to do, I believe her that she didn't thought, that was always Faith's attitude, she found the devise and decided to play a little. She didn't think all of this will happen" she took a deep breath and stare at Angel "What do you think?" "I think she's sincere and confused" Wesley cut Angel immediately "No Angel, this girl is evil, and she's dangerous"

They all walked away and sat on the lobby in silence, Buffy and Angel were searching each other eyes for answers.

"Do you think she's evil?" Buffy asked him

"No, if she was evil she wouldn't stay and do your job, she wouldn't risk her life. She could have go and party and do everything she want but she stayed, but I do believe that she could be dangerous"

"This is stupid and you know that, the only reason for her staying is that she got everything for free, a free house and free mom, friends, college" Wesley said

"She went to college?" Buffy said smiling "Wow, I can't wait to see my grades" Angel smiled at her "Buffy this is not the point here" she smiled sheepishly at him "Sorry, you're right. I think Angel is right, Faith is not evil and from living her life, I know now how she's thinking" "Ok, and how in your opinion she's thinking?" Wesley asked smirking "Nothing" she calmly said and they all looked with confusion and said in one voice "Nothing!" Buffy smiled at them a little.

"Look guys I've been in her shoes for more than two months now, I couldn't make one possible plan. There is chaos every where and the only thing you can do is to wait and see what life will throw at you, then you accept what ever this is and adjust your self. Faith was trying to control her life as much as she can, when I saw her friends and there life I really appreciate what Faith did with hers.." Wesley cut her again "this is ridicules, what did she do with her life? She had sex and parties all the time, she dropped school, she.." this time it was Buffy who smirked at him.

"No Wesley, she stayed two and a half years homeless and she managed to survive, she didn't do drugs, she's not alcoholic, she worked in humiliating jobs to feed herself, WESLEY SHE WAS RAPED FROM HER STEP DAD WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM HER TO BE LIKE 'princess Diana'" Angel smiled a little and look at Wesley with a 'she got a point' look "She tried to be polite with us, she was always clean and neat, she never asked for any money or anything from any of us. I saw the motel owner fighting with her for the rent and never once asked my self where she had money to pay it. She tried to raise her self to meet our fucken high standards and when she failed, she proved her self on the other side, she went to the people who look at her like a hero, a slayer not like a whore and some kinda of alien" Wesley didn't say anything, he looked at them with disapproval and left the hotel.

"Don't worry, he'll come around" Angel said reassuring her "Do you think so?" she sighed "Yea Wesley is a good.." Buffy cut him "Do you think we can help Faith?" "Oh! Yes I believe we could, but we must be very careful, we must let her trust us. She must be punished but she must accept that we are doing this not for revenge but because we care for her. Do you?" he looked at her "Do I what?" she was confused "Do you really care for her?"

Buffy thought for a minute, does she care about Faith. Yes she cared, she didn't know why but she cared. The brunette had a strange influence on her, she always thought that she was the one who tried to be her friend but the truth was that Faith tried more but in her own way. She remembered dancing on the bronze, this was the first time she felt close with Faith, the first time she saw her smiling and laughing from her heart. Faith was really happy just by being close to her.

She looked at Angel with determinant "Yes Angel I do care and I want to help her" Angel nodded with a smile.