"B you know for you to tell me what happened you actually have to start talking right," Faith said an eyebrow quirked. The two of them had been sitting on the couch for five minutes and Buffy was yet to say a word running over the ways in her head to tell Faith what had happened without sounding completely insane.
"I know but it's hard to explain," Buffy said.
"Here," Dawn said coming into the room and plopping down onto the couch in between the two Slayers shoving something into Faith's hands.
"What the hell is this?" Faith asked her eyes widening when she looked at the photo Dawn had handed her.
"Okay don't freak out," Buffy said hurriedly.
"Freak out, B where did you get this?" Faith asked angrily.
"I took it," Dawn replied.
"You think its okay to just go through people's stuff Little D?" Faith asked her tone softening when addressing the younger Summers.
"I didn't take it from your stuff I mean I took the photo with my camera," Dawn said Faith's tirade cut off when she looked at Dawn in confusion.
"What's going on?" she asked.
"Okay well you said the last thing you remembered was us on patrol right? Well do you remember why we were there?" Buffy asked getting up from the couch and positioning herself between Dawn and Faith making the teen squeal when she was pushed out of the way.
"Giles sent us out after some demon," Faith shrugged.
"Absentitus," Buffy nodded, "Well do you remember what the demon did?"
"I dunno give people back something that they lost? I do remember wanting to bail because it was getting boring," Faith said smirking.
"Well after you wanting to leave and you pushing me off the gravestone which I'm still going to get you back for by the way, well the demon showed up and sprayed you with this purple mist, and brace yourself because this is where it gets kind of weird and you're gonna want to send Buffy to the cuckoo house but I swear it's true."
"Geez B breathe you're starting to sound more and more like Red every day," Faith smirked, "okay so I get misted then what happened?"
"This," Dawn said leaning across Buffy and holding the photo of the baby in front of Faith's face.
"You turned into your baby self," Buffy supplied.
"No fucking way!"
"It's true you've been ten months old for the last week," Dawn said, "I've got more pictures and videos to prove it."
"I-I don't understand, how could this happen?" Faith asked getting up from the couch and standing in front of them the photo hanging limply from her hand.
"The demon, it turns out he isn't actually malicious at all he uses his powers for good, in your case giving you back well," Buffy trailed off pointing to the photo.
Faith's head ducked and she actually looked ashamed before a small smile broke out across her face.
"Bet I was a terror huh," she smirked sitting down again.
"You threw up on Xander, coloured in my carpet with lipstick and totally terrorised this boy at school Brendon by covering him in paint," Dawn said laughing.
"Sounds about right, always a bit of a handful," Faith laughed her eyes twinkling.
"You were pretty cute," Buffy said her eyes glazing over as she remembered baby Faith.
"I'll go get the video camera and you can see some stuff," Dawn said excitedly racing out of the room.
"So how do you feel? Do you feel any different? It's a lot to take in at once the whole you know being a baby and all," Buffy said.
"Calm," Faith said softly, "I feel calm and complete, like there was something I was missing before and now that void's been filled."
"You do have the whole calm thing radiating off you," Buffy said studying the dark haired Slayer with a smile. It was true, without changing her physical appearance she appeared softer and there was a happiness shining out of her eyes that Buffy had never really seen before.
"Still wicked hot though," Faith said waggling her eyebrows at Buffy.
"Glad to see not that much has changed," Buffy smiled back at her.
"So what was it like B having me all baby like?" Faith asked settling herself on the couch.
"Well at first everyone was pretty much freaked out I mean we had no clue what to do with a baby but we got it down pretty quickly. You started saying a few words you would say no all the time but we never really knew when you meant it because you would say it to everything. Oh and you called me Beebee and Dawn 'Nie and you were crawling around everywhere," Buffy said smiling softly.
"Huh even mini sized I couldn't stand saying your full name," Faith laughed ending up in a coughing fit, "Damn that's nasty felt like I coughed up a lung."
"I've heard people don't feel all that good when they get sick," Buffy shrugged.
"Yeah well I've had enough of it now and very much like for it to go away," Faith said rubbing her hands up and down her arms to try and stop the goose bumps that had broken out across her skin.
"Faith you've got the flu it doesn't just go away overnight," Buffy laughed as Dawn skipped back into the room video camera in hand, Willow following not far behind.
"Faith good to see you've joined us back in the land of adulthood," Willow smiled sitting on the arm of the couch and giving Faith a friendly smile.
"Nice to be back Red although Little D said I caused some havoc in mini me mode," Faith said.
"There was an incident where you made Giles tip over all his books that nearly made him explode but I think you won him over with your dimples," Willow said.
"Here look at these," Dawn said shoving the photos into Faith's hand and sitting on the coffee table in front of her so she could watch the brunette flick through them. Faith's face softened as she flicked through the photos her finger unconsciously running over a few of them softly. She ended on one that Dawn had snapped when the subjects had been unaware. Buffy was sitting on the beach in the edge of the waves the sunlight streaming down making her blonde hair shine, she held baby Faith in her lap and was laughing as baby Faith was leaning forward the blonde's nose in her mouth in a signature baby Faith kiss.
"B."
"Yeah Faith," Buffy responded her own thumb running softly over the picture of baby Faith.
"What the hell is with all the pink?"