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A/N: Hey I am trying to update this fan fiction on the weekend but will have to skip next weekend due to cheering on my sister as she graduates from college, so expect the next update to be in two weeks.

Chapter 2

She arrives slightly early the next day, looking good in her uniform. Sonja sees her and smiles; secretly relieved she will not be the only one on duty for tonight. Buffy gets through the training relatively without any mishaps, figuring even though she is unable to cook food at least she can serve it fairly well.

Towards the end of her shift a teen walks in yells at Sonja to get her the usual and heads towards the bathroom. Buffy glances at Sonja to see what the deal is and all she gets in reply is a smirk and a head shake.

"Every night she orders the largest burger we got plus all the fixings, an order of fries and onion rings and a chocolate shake, puts it away like nobody's business and heads out like she still have stuff to do even though its 1 in the morning," explains Sonja. "Hey why don't you cover her tonight, she is always a good tipper and I have this feeling that you are going to be covering more the night shifts then I will from now on?"

"Oh, okay, so that was large burger with everything, fries, onion rings and chocolate shake, got it," mumbles Buffy as she goes to hand in the order.

As soon as the order is up, she goes ad grabs it ad heads over to where the brunette had settled down after her bathroom trip. Looking at her she notices the brunette was just kinda wriggling around like she had a lot of energy to burn and was just waiting for a fight or something to come her way.

"Hey, my names Anne, uh I am new here and well Sonja is looking to take some earlier shifts now that I am working so she gave your order to me, hope you don't mind, here is your food," mumbles Buffy in what seems to be a very Willowy type speech. Looking up she sees the younger girl slightly smirking at her, wondering that the deal was she just kind of smiles back ad places the food down.

"Oh no prob here, hm Anne, nice name, not much I can do with it though," the girl responds. "See I have this thing about calling people their names so I will have to be on the lookout for a good name for ya."

"Nickname huh, how come you called Sonja by her name then," ponders Buffy or Anne.

"Well honestly she seems more the motherly type, so I figured I would show her more respect and just keep her name the way it was," states the brunette. "Oh by the way the name is Faith, nice to make your acquaintance. Wow that was a big word for me, and hey it just slipped out, cool all that book reading seems to be paying off. Hey don't let me keep ya from your work, that guy looks like he is getting kinda impatient or something."

Buffy glances over her shoulder and seeing the guy Faith had mentioned was trying to get someone's attention she figured she should probably help him out. Smiling at Faith she heads over to the guy and quickly gets caught back up in the rush of dealing with the customers.

After awhile she notices the table Faith had been sitting out was empty, heading over she sees the money that not only covered the bill but also quite a nice tip. Gathering up the money she goes pays off here bill and asks Sonja about how Faith just disappeared.

"Well she orders the same thing every night so she knows the amount she owes pretty good, after the first week she stopped needing a bill, so when she is done now, she puts her money down and takes off. You have to watch the table fairly well to make sure your money doesn't take off though," Sonja warned, a smile gracing her weary face. Looking like she was pretty done for the night she announces it is closing time so everybody order or either head out.

As Buffy, Sonja and Sal lock up, they congratulate Buffy, who pretty much everybody is calling Anne, on such a good night. Apparently some never last the first experience and she had faired pretty good through that experience. After agreeing to come back the next night at the same time and collecting her money she heads back to her hotel truly happy in a long time.

Before her head hits her pillow though her mind wanders back to Faith, the brunette that ate such a large amount and how she seemed like she wanted to start up a friendship at least with Anne. Hoping that maybe this would be her chance at a normal life instead of one having to deal with vampires and having to make constant life or death choices, she smiles to her self as she drifts off to sleep.

The next day was very much the same as the one before, although Anne starts making friends with more and more customers, she wonders briefly when Faith will up and before long she hears a yell along the lines of, "hey Anne the usual please" from somewhere near the bathroom. Smiling she puts in the order and heads off to another customer.

This time as she takes Faith her food she looks closer at her. Faith was wearing a light jacket with a tank top underneath and leather pants complete with well worn Doc Martins, appearing to be ready to go dancing at anytime but with an edge Anne just can not describe right away.

"Here ya go, would ya like anything else?" Anne asks as she puts down the younger girls food.

"Nothing, besides how wondering how your day went?" Faith wonders looking closer at Anne then she had last night.

"Oh well not too bad, been working here all night so hey what can I say?" Anne says smiling at Faith, wondering why she wanted to know. From her talks with Sonja, it seemed Faith was taking more of an interest in her then she had with anybody else at the dinner.

"Cool, well, thanks for the food," Faith mutters quietly, reaching down to glance at her pager. "Oh dang it I got to run pretty quickly, here is your money, thanks." As she quickly demolishes her food, she practically runs out of the diner.

Anne looks down at the money and notices a little note attached to one of the bills, saying Faiths name and if she wanted to get together on one of her nights off so Faith can show her some party spots, her pager number. Smiling to herself, Anne slips the note in her pocket and takes care of her dishes and bill, thinking maybe her dream of a normal life might just come true after all.

After two days of working both the afternoon shift and evening shift, Sal mentions that she could take a day off since he was fairly sure she would be coming back and after all he had her phone number at her hotel if an emergency happened. So she arranges a time to meet up with Faith on that Friday night to hopefully go out and party a bit, hopefully get some fun back into her life she has been sorely missing.

Faith meets her at the diner to take her to a club nearby, and insists on paying the cover for both. After all I usually end up coming here alone, you really are doing me a favor, she explains to Anne.

As Anne starts getting into the beat of the music, Faith inquires if she wants anything to drink. Declining anything, Anne looks around at the other people there. Setting her up at a table, Faith heads off to pick up a coke for herself.

"So I can tell by your voice you haven't really been here long, what area do you come from?" Faith asks as she comes back to the table.

Anne's face slightly closes off at the mention of where did she come from and glances around the room in hopes of an escape. She had been able to just mutter things about being from out west at the diner but she had the feeling that Faith was going to ask more specific things and would not get sidetracked easily. Finally muttering, "Oh well here and there, mostly out west, ya know, California?"

Guessing that Anne might have something to hide, and knowing that no need to pry before she was ready, Faith understandably replies, "Yeah I have heard about it, haven't been out there yet though, hopefully will get a chance later on."

"Hey Faith, I got a weird question and since I can't really ask the people at the diner and you are really the only other person I know, um do you possible know where someone could pick up a fake ID and stuff?" asks Anne, deciding to take a chance.

"Oh, yeah I know someone that could hook ya up, decide to get out of town and not able to grab your purse huh?" wonders Faith, while looking Anne over in a new light.

Anne just mutters, "Yeah something like that, thanks though. It would be really helpful so I can start being paid legitimately at the diner instead of under the table sort of deal."

"Yeah no prob, glad I could be of help." Faith states, smiling at Anne, knowing there was definitely more going on but deciding not to push it for right now. "I can set you up with an address and a time for tomorrow if you would like."

"That would be so great," replies Anne, a large smile starting to form on her face. Getting the feeling that maybe it all will work out after all she decides maybe she wants to head out and dance. "Hey ya interested in dancing or we just gonna sit her and talk all night?"

"Hey was just waiting for you to bring it up, all I do is dance usually, so figured while I had the chance to talk with someone, why waste it." Faith explains as she finishes off her drink and jumps up from her seat. Looking back at Anne, "So you coming or what?"

Smiling Anne just replies, "Yeah, yeah, relax we got all night to dance, you are a bit impatient sometimes aren't ya?"

"Well yeah, but usually only when it comes to fighting and dancing," Faith says while winking at Anne.

"Fighting eh?" Anne wonders as they both start to get lost in the music, swaying to the beat and keeping up to each other and leaving the people around them in the dust, not literally of course.

As the dancing continues, Buffy starts feeling better, knowing sooner or later she will have to start jogging or something to take off the extra energy from not slaying, although working at the diner has cut down on the need, apparently having to deal with customers and being on your feet for five hours at a time saps the energy right out of you.

The lights start to flicker after awhile and both girls look at each other and realize that they had danced all night, and the owner was trying to get the attention of those that were left. They wondered briefly how the other one could have had the stamina to have danced for so long but that was quickly diminished when it was discussed what a great time each had had that night. Parting ways, each headed back to their places of residence.

Buffy walked back to her hotel and quickly drifted off to sleep not having realized before what some exercise will do to your sleeping habits and how she had the lack of it had kept her up thinking all week.

Faith on the other hand meandered around not ready to get home, or what she currently considered home. After all, she had only been calling it that for a short time. She had been rescued not long ago, and although she was glad she had a roof over her head and did not have to worry about fighting to be fed sometimes she missed the freedom her old life had to offer.

Sensing something trying to sneak up behind her, she quickly turned and lunged at her would be attacker. Hitting the guy, his face morphed showing him to be one of her prey. Quickly taking the vampire out, Faith the vampire slayer finally decided it was time to get back to her watcher and report in, after all it had been a pretty good night, a quick patrol coupled with some really great dancing after taking care of one of her double H's.