Author Notes

Okay, sorry I haven't reviewed for this for a while. I've been really busy and have been trying to start another story on here. Anyways, please review.

Restfield Cemetery

Faith had been thinking more than patrolling for the last two hours. She had gotten one vamp, but that's it. She just was so distracted by what was going on. She didn't even sense the 'thing' that was following her at the moment. She didn't know until the last minute, but it was too late. The big, blue, ugly demon with horns coming from his head, had already thrown her into a tree.

"Ow, you son of a…" She started, getting up, but was interrupted when the demon sent a punch to her stomach that sent her reeling backwards. The demon approached again.

"What's wrong Slayer? Can't fight little old me?" The demon asked sarcastically.

"Well, first of all you're not little. Actually I think you should go on a diet, but you got the old part right." Faith said. The demon tried to kick her in the face, but Faith blocked it. Instead, when he got his balance, he backhanded her on the jaw. Faith flew back into the tree again.

"They really need to cut this thing down." Faith said regaining her footing. She took her real fighting stance. The fight was pretty even. Both of them were bloodied and tired. Finally, demon sent a punch to Faith and she fell.

"This won't be the last of me Slayer. Count on that." He then took off into the night.

Summers' House

Faith trudged up the stairs at about 12:00am. The fight with the blue demon had lasted incredibly, about two hours. She saw that she was dripping blood on the carpet.

"Mom's gonna kill me." She said. She went into the closet and grabbed two towels. One was to clean the carpet with, and the other to hold to her heavily bleeding forehead. Once she got the carpet cleaned, she went upstairs. As soon as she walked past Buffy's door to go to her own room, Buffy opened the door.

"What took you so long? You had me scared to death." Buffy all but exclaimed. Once she saw the blood and the way Faith was limping, she softly put her hand on her shoulder. "You're hurt." She stated the obvious.

"I'm fine Buffy." Faith said without turning around. She started walking to her room, trying not to limp, but Buffy stopped her.

"No you're not. You're bleeding. What happened?" Buffy said, first angrily, then softly.

"It was just a demon. I'll tell you tomorrow when I tell Giles." Faith said still not turning around.

"Faith, look at me." Buffy said getting frustrated. Faith, somewhat reluctantly turned around. From the light coming from Buffy's open room, she could see the extent of Faith's injuries. "It looks like it hurts." Buffy said trying to lightly touch Faith's face, but Faith pulled away.

"Nothing slayer healing can't fix." Faith said stubbornly.

"What's wrong with you?" Buffy asked, angry at Faith's attitude.

"You asked me to leave you alone, so that's what I'm doing." Faith said, not trying to be bitter.

"Faith, you're hurt. I can help clean you up." Buffy offered.

"No seriously B. It's nothing a shower and slayer healing can't handle." Faith said. Buffy just looked at Faith and nodded. Faith walked to her room and Buffy watched her, but once Faith was all the way in and Buffy could hear the shower start, that's when she went back to her room.

That night Buffy kept thinking about Faith and even if she was mad at her, she needed to forgive her because Faith needed someone. Buffy partly understood about what happened between Faith and Angel. Their relationship was going down hill, it wasn't what they used to have. It had been happening for a while. She was also proud that her sister was really giving her space so that she could be forgiven. She didn't get much sleep, between the Angel, Faith thing, and what had happened to her sister that night. She really wanted to know what happened.

Faith kept thinking about the demon saying it would be back. She had all these things going through her mind. It could have killed her. She kept thinking, 'What if there's more? Oh God, what if there's more?' With that going through her mind, she didn't get much sleep either.

Author Notes

Hopefully y'all liked it. Again sorry it took me so long. I can only go on on the weekends. Oh, if there's anyone wondering about my other fic Faith' s Angel, I'm working on it. I won't stop any of my fics unless I'm done with them. Okay, again I love reviews.

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