The Path To Redemption
Chapter 16
Author: twin who likes to travel
Rating: R
Summary: This is what happens from the moment Faith enters Dawn's bedroom until the next morning.
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Reviews: I would like them. Constructive criticism is ok.
Author's note: The legal age of consent in Italy is sixteen, and Dawn is seventeen at the moment. I plan to have her not be ready until she's eighteen. It doesn't mean I won't have the couple start to do more and more as it gets closer to Dawn's eighteenth birthday though. Dawn's teasing/taunting toward Faith almost ruins the plans for their date.
A few seconds later, Dawn's bedroom
Faith noticed the light was on low again.
"Can I come in?"
"Yes, I was waiting for you."
"Cool, I would have been here sooner but your sister…"
"I heard."
"You're not mad about what you heard, are you?"
"That depends. Did you mean what you said?"
"About?"
"About how you didn't want to do anything with her since I was into you in that way?"
"Yeah. If you didn't like me like that, I might have tried with her. I wouldn't want to ruin what we had just because I was feeling horny. Besides, you're hot enough to wait for."
"You think I'm hot?"
"Definitely."
"Since when?"
"Since I came back. You seemed to get even hotter when I came to Scotland for your birthday."
"Thanks."
"You're welcome."
"I'm assuming that by going without a bra again and choosing to wear my shirt this time that you wanted to mess with my head again?"
"Uh huh, and that's not all that I did."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
Dawn simply pulled the covers off of her completely to reveal that she was no longer wearing the shorts.
"When did you take them off?"
"As soon as I closed the door. Don't worry. They're not as revealing as the ones you wore last time. See," Dawn confided as she rolled onto her stomach and showed the underwear that completely covered her butt.
"So the plan was to tease me by sleeping without them?"
"Pretty much. What are you waiting for? Take off your jeans and get in here," Dawn ordered as she reached for and pulled the covers to where they were before but held them up.
"Just sleeping?"
"Well, I might want another kiss or two first."
Faith smirked as she turned around, took off her jeans slowly, and laid them on the same nearby chair. Dawn smiled at the revealing underwear, but not as revealing as the other time, as Faith leaned over her bag, making her shirt rise up a little to expose her butt even more. She sighed happily as the slayer got in beside her and lay down on her back. Dawn cautiously leaned over and kissed her on the lips. She didn't stop when Faith pulled her closer and ended up falling half on top of her. Since Faith wasn't pushing her away, she climbed the rest of the way on top of her and deepened the kiss enough to get Faith to open her mouth. She gently slid her tongue into the mouth below her. After one hand found its way into her hair and the other to her back, Dawn decided to take it a step further. She gently grabbed the hand on her back with her right hand and placed it on her own butt. Before Faith could object, she used the older girl's hand to squeeze her butt for a few seconds. At hearing Faith gasp, she broke the kiss, took the hand off her butt, and put it on her back. She smiled at the stunned gaze from Faith, who pushed Dawn off of her suddenly and got out of bed. It seemed like she was going to leave the room.
"Don't go, Faith," Dawn begged in a panic as she literally jumped from the bed and caught up to the slayer just as a hand touched the doorknob. When Faith didn't move, Dawn begged again, "P-Please l-look at m-me."
Faith let go of the doorknob and twirled around to see fear all over Dawn's face.
"I warned you, D. I think I'm going to go back to the family room. It's safer for both of us if I do," the brunette determined as she spun around to leave.
Dawn immediately raced past her and blocked the exit by leaning up against the door and requested a little frantically, "PLEASE stay. I'll do ANYTHING if you do."
"Anything?"
"Yes. I'll put the shorts back on. I'll even sleep in the chair or on the floor if you get back into bed."
Dawn nervously bit her bottom lip as Faith lifted up her right hand, placed it gently on Dawn's left cheek, and whispered, "Now listen carefully because I'm only going to say it once, understand?"
Dawn nodded while clearly still afraid.
"Good. You don't have to sleep on the floor or in the chair. I want you to get into bed. Don't do anything to me unless I say so, or you ask and I say it's ok."
Dawn nodded again, paced over to the bed with the slayer by her side, and crawled under the covers when Faith indicated for her to go first.
"F-Faith."
"Yeah."
"Can I…put my head on you again like we did the last time we slept together?"
"Yes, but let me turn off the light first."
Dawn waited patiently as her guest turned off the light and got onto her back. Then she carefully laid her head on the left side of Faith's chest. A happy sigh could be heard from both of them as this happened.
"Faith, can I ask for one more thing?"
"Sure."
"Could we… hold each other as we sleep?"
"Isn't it a little hard in this position?"
"You could just wrap your left arm around me. And I'll rest my left arm across your stomach. That would be enough."
"Ok."
"I-I'm s-so…," Dawn choked out before she was stopped.
"Sshh, it's five by five now, D. Just go to sleep."
"If you say so."
"I do."
Dawn drifted into sleep with the help of Faith softly rubbing her left arm.
A few hours later
Faith woke up to use the bathroom and gently rolled the teenager onto her back before heading to the door. She hadn't even left the room when she heard some noise coming from the blonde's bedroom. As she left, the sound got louder. She knew part of this was due to her slayer hearing and wondered how well Dawn could hear if she had been awake as well. She strolled by Buffy's door while she heard the other girl talking but wasn't sure who she was talking to at the moment. She quickly used the bathroom and then stopped in front of Buffy's door this time. She immediately noticed the normal talking had changed to low moans and gasps. It was definitely a sex dream, but she still wasn't sure yet who else was in the dream. Her curiosity of who it could be was answered with some giggling and shrieks of enjoyment from the blonde along with her name. At hearing she was the co-star of the sex dream, Faith chuckled. The final shriek had woken up the blonde because Faith had heard her get up and almost instantly got onto the hide-a-bed. She pretended to be asleep when she heard the sounds of a door opening and feet getting closer.
"Faith…are you awake?" Buffy whispered and didn't get an answer so she spoke up a little bit more, "Faith…can you hear me?"
Faith didn't budge until she heard the door close. She got up and slowly opened her eyes to see nothing but darkness. She cautiously climbed out of the bed and trekked back to Dawn's bedroom.
"Where did you go?" Dawn whispered the very moment after Faith got onto her back again.
Faith jumped up and muttered, "Damn, D, give me a heart attack why don't ya?"
"Sorry."
"I had to go to the bathroom. As I was coming back, I heard B get up for some reason. So I had to act like I was sleeping on the hide-a-bed."
"Alright," Dawn sighed before they got back into the same position she was in when she had fallen asleep earlier.
Faith had easily fallen back to peaceful sleep. However, Dawn wasn't that lucky. The very brief worry caused by the absence of her best friend sent her into a nightmare.
Dawn's nightmare
Dawn woke up to see that Faith wasn't in her bed. There were four possible places the brunette could be, the last being the worst: the bathroom, the family room, the kitchen, or Buffy's bedroom. She slowly got out of bed and shuffled over to the door. She heard mumbling coming from her sister's room as she stepped out into the hallway. She decided not to think much about it until she searched everywhere else first. In her rush, she didn't notice the door wasn't completely closed. She started with the bathroom and found it empty. As she passed through the family room in her trip to the kitchen, she saw that Faith hadn't changed her mind to sleep in the family room.
When she left the kitchen, she heard louder noise. She hoped it was only a sex dream, especially after she heard Faith's name called out. She could feel her heart starting to break at hearing that same girl telling the blonde to either be quiet or keep the noise down. She tip-toed to the room and peeked around the door that was partly open. What she saw next shocked her into silence. She found Faith's shirt and bra in one pile and Buffy's pajama pants and underwear spread out a little on the floor. When she looked up, she saw that Buffy's pajama top was unbuttoned all the way and pushed back enough so each side of her chest was about half exposed. Her back was beginning to arch off the bed as she started to moan. Dawn realized where Faith was and what she was doing by the movement under the covers and her sister's moaning. Then she saw more of Buffy's body begin to arch under the covers. After hearing the blonde let out a giggle and a shriek, Dawn opened the door all the way and entered the room.
"HOW COULD THE BOTH OF YOU DO THAT TO ME?" Dawn screamed through tears.
"OH MY GOD, DAWNIE!" Buffy replied and rapidly started buttoning the pajama top while Faith's right hand sneaked out from under the covers.
Dawn noticed that they were up just enough for Faith to discover that only the bottom half of Buffy's underwear was within reach. The same hand grabbed it and quickly disappeared. She could tell from the gasp from Buffy that Faith was helping her get the underwear back on.
"Faith, get out from under there. I think Buffy can put on the underwear herself."
"Whatever you say, D," Faith relented as she slid out from where she had been and landed on her knees briefly before standing up to face the teenager in only the one item of clothing she had on.
"Faith, put on some more clothes already," Buffy ordered after finishing putting on the underwear and getting out of the bed as well.
"Why, B, D has just seen me topless."
"Just do it, ok?" Buffy requested and glanced to her sister to find a mix of anger and hurt.
"Fine," Faith consented and grabbed both her shirt and bra but only put on the bra and added just as casually, "I guess this means the date is off, huh, D?"
"That's right," Dawn responded after smacking Faith hard across her left cheek, "What else did you do besides leave marks on each other's necks and what I caught you doing?"
"Just a little kissing and groping of each other's chests, and I got my fingers inside of her before going down on her," Faith informed.
"You're not my best friend anymore or even a friend right now. I'm not sure when we'll be that way again if we ever will be."
It made Dawn feel good that Faith appeared sad that she had said that. She turned to find her sister standing almost in front of her.
"Dawnie, I'm so so…."
Both slayers were stunned when Buffy's apology was interrupted by a smack to her left cheek as well.
"Sorry, for what? Breaking my heart by having sex with my best friend, who I HAD a date with tomorrow, or that I caught you?"
"Both," the blonde claimed with tears that matched her sister's as she placed her left hand on her cheek.
"You're the only REAL family I have left and you do this? I trusted you, and you broke it in one of the worst ways possible. I don't know if I can ever trust you again. As soon as I can, I'm out of here. Not just this apartment but out of this city and country. Maybe I'll go to Brazil, move in with your best friend, and have sex with her so you can fully understand the pain I'm in. I could have handled it if Faith and I weren't going to start dating. You knew how I felt about her."
"DAWNIE, PLEASE DON'T GO! I will do anything to make it up to you."
"I don't know if you can. I hope you two will be happy together. Once I'm gone, you can have as much sex as you want. I hope it was worth it."
Dawn stared at both of them as Buffy sat down on the bed and cried harder. Faith tried not to act not as upset as Buffy but was clearly fighting a few tears at what her love for sex had made her do to her former best friend. Dawn knew both were watching as she left the room and slammed the door behind her. The second she closed the door, Dawn woke up in her own bed. She sat up and began to cry.
A few seconds later
"Did you have a nightmare or something?"
"Yeah," the younger girl revealed through a choked up tone.
"Is there anything I can do for ya?"
"Yes, get out of my bed," Dawn sobbed lightly.
"Why, I didn't do anything wrong?"
"Yes, you did," Dawn stated and paused by the gawk of confusion, "Not right now, in the dream I mean."
"I wouldn't do anything to hurt you," Faith said hopefully comforting her sad best friend while hugging her, "You want to talk about it?"
"YOU want to talk about it?"
"Yeah, if it will help."
"I…C-Can it w-wait until the morning?"
"Sure," Faith agreed as she fell back onto the bed with Dawn still in her arms.
Dawn was happy that Faith didn't see the tears that came after that.
Later that morning
Dawn woke up Faith in enough time before Buffy was going to get up. She eyed her friend until the door was closed. Then she went back to sleep. As she left the bedroom, Faith was feeling scared. She had NEVER felt this way. The old her would have probably had her way with Dawn and left the moment Dawn had fallen asleep. She wouldn't have woken up the other to get dressed either, leaving Buffy to find her sister naked on the bed a possibility. The old Faith might have even spied through the window to catch the blonde's reaction. For a second she thought about cancelling the date plans. The second thought of Dawn feeling hurt when she did prevented her from doing that. They would go on the date, but she would be very careful of how the date went. Being careful wasn't something she had done that often in the past. The brunette sat up on the hide-a-bed when she concluded she wasn't going to be able to sleep. She debated putting on the pants again and decided to go without them before walking to the kitchen in a search to find something to eat. She was leaning over and scanning the fridge when she heard a soft voice.
"Good morning, F-Faith," Buffy murmured.
"Morning, B. Have any dreams last night?"
"No."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, why do you think I had a dream?" Buffy asked as Faith whipped around and stared at the blonde in front of her.
"Uhh…Faith…," Faith grunted before changing it to a moan, "Mmm…OOhh…FFaaiitth. Oh god, don't stop." Then Faith paused long enough to let out a girlish giggle and a gasp before shrieking softly a few times so she wouldn't wake Dawn if the younger Summers had managed to fall asleep again and finished with, "Of course all of that was a little bit louder than how I said it. I just didn't want to wake D if you hadn't."
The blonde tried to hide a blush as she shuffled over to the coffee maker.
"So you WERE awake?"
"Yeah."
"Then why didn't you answer me?"
"Really didn't feel like it at the time."
"Ok."
"I was obviously good in the dream, but exactly how good?"
"What?"
"How GOOD was I?"
"What makes you think I'd tell you that?"
"Because I'll just keep buggin' ya until you do tell me."
"Fine, it was the best SEX dream I've ever had. Satisfied?"
"Just about. Was I better than Angel?" Faith asked and assumed when Buffy remained quiet, "I was, wasn't I?"
"Faith," the older Summers groaned.
"The sooner you tell me, the better it'll be."
"Yes," the other girl mumbled just loud enough for the brunette to hear and laugh.
"So what made you stutter when you came in? Was it seeing me after having that dream, or was it seeing my underwear while I bent over and checked out what's in your fridge?"
"Faith," Buffy lightly groaned a second time from where she was pouring coffee. She spotted a familiar expression on the other slayer's face when she glanced at her, "You're thinking about our night back at the Hyperion again, aren't you?"
"I wouldn't be if you hadn't had that sex dream about me."
"Shut up," Buffy repeated at a slightly louder volume as she put the coffee pot back.
"It's ok. I dreamed of you once before too."
"Really, when?" Buffy yelped after gawking at her.
"The night we almost had sex."
"Since I brought it up, accidentally of course, what would you do right now if what we said last night was still the same? I mean about you and Dawn only being friends with no chance of getting together?"
"I would get right behind you the moment I noticed your back to me. Then I would grope you like I did the day after my birthday but with one hand on your chest this time."
Buffy gulped as Faith got a lot closer but relaxed as the other girl only reached for a coffee mug for herself.
"Then?"
"Depending on how much you would have liked it, I would have probably started kissing or nuzzling the right side of your neck. As I did that, my hands would begin unbuttoning the top. After that, I would twirl you around so I could kiss you while hands gently moved over your bra and stomach. I might have attempted to get them under your bra, even if I had to undo the back. As soon as I could have got you alone, I would try to do what I couldn't do back in the hotel room because you conked out on me. It wouldn't matter whether it was your bed, the couch, or even on the table behind me," Faith described, getting the blonde to gulp again at Faith's breath reaching her skin, "And I think you might have let me. I would have us keep going until we worked up a sweat. Not sure if I could have gotten you to join me in the shower though."
"You really think I would have let you do that?"
"After we caught you with Satsu, yeah. I bet you would've liked it too. The new me won't because I told Dawn I wouldn't and meant it. I will also say this. You snooze, you lose," Faith answered before pausing to chuckle, "I even gave you a second chance, but you didn't take it. "
"H-How w-was it? The dream you had about me I mean."
"The only way it could have been better is if it hadn't been a dream. You got to love that slayer stamina."
"That's what you said at the end of mine."
"Which part?"
"The part about the slayer stamina. You also said it was rock 'em, sock 'em. What's so funny?"
"That's what I told Robin when we were talking. You know, when we were getting ready for the fight."
"Please don't tell anyone about either dream, ESPECIALLY Dawn."
"Why not?"
"Because I don't know if I could handle what my friends; I mean our friends would say. And Dawn really likes you, so it would hurt her."
"I won't."
As they drank the coffee, Faith had gotten Buffy to tell her everything about the sex dream. In the dream, it was a replay of their conversation the day after Faith's birthday. However, Faith had managed to get Buffy to join her on the other side of the door before the blonde had a chance to button and zip up her pants back up. Immediately after the door had been closed, Faith had pulled the blonde down the stairs and pushed her back to the wall beside it. She had wasted no time in sliding her right hand inside the front of Buffy's underwear. After almost a minute of that, Buffy had assumed Faith would either try to get Buffy's other clothes off, starting with her shirt or start working on her own. That's not what she had done though. With a quick and hard tug, Faith had yanked down the pants and underwear at the same time. Faith proceeded to go down on her as her hands cupped and squeezed the blonde's butt.
The brunette gave her a huge smirk after Buffy confessed that the dream didn't stop there and only the wall behind her had kept the blonde upright the entire time. Faith held in a laugh when Buffy admitted that she had used her right hand to muffle the sounds Faith was bringing out of her and her left hand had held Faith's head in place. Her former arch enemy had gotten the blonde to follow her to the mats on the floor. During the rest of the dream, Faith had been able to do the same thing she had done less than a minute earlier. This time, she had gotten her completely naked. The final shriek she had heard before Buffy had woken up happened as Faith got a few of Buffy's fingers inside her body. The duo instantly moved on to other topics: how Dawn was doing with school, Willow's frequent bad luck with girls she met, the current status of the other slayers they were sending out to fight around the world, and things they saw in the news. When they were both ready for a second cup, Buffy volunteered to be the one to get it for both of them. While they ware drinking it, they heard Dawn coming into the kitchen. What they saw next put a big smirk on Faith's face and shock on Buffy's.
"What's the matter, Buffy, do I have something on my face or a bad case of bed head?"
"No. It's what you don't have on that's the problem."
"Huh?"
"Go put on some more clothes."
"Why?"
Faith gazed at Dawn as Buffy instructed her to look down for a second. Dawn gasped and blushed when she discovered she hadn't put on the shorts or a bra before leaving her room. Dawn rushed back to the bedroom. Buffy growled when she caught their friend blatantly checking out her sister's butt. Faith was imaging some of the different ways she could get Dawn out of her clothes, each ending with Buffy catching them and trying to kick her ass after that.
"Would you mind NOT checking out my sister's butt right now?"
"Oh, come on. I think she looks sexy in just my tank top and her underwear, don't you?" Faith commented as her previous thoughts of seducing Dawn and Buffy trying to kick her ass afterwards disappeared.
"FAITH! That's my sister you're talking about like that."
"I know. Your sister's a hottie, B. And it wasn't just her ass I was checking out. Did you see what she WASN'T wearing underneath that shirt?"
"I swear to God. If you don't stop, I'll…"
"I'll stop, alright," Faith promised with a laugh.
"That's probably a good idea, Faith," Dawn advised after she returned around a few minutes later and became silent as she recalled everything that had happened last night.
"Is there something wrong?" Buffy questioned after seeing the sad glimpse between Dawn and Faith.
"Why do you ask?" Dawn muttered as she grabbed the cereal, a bowl, a spoon, and set them on the table before heading to the fridge for some milk.
"You seem like something something's bothering you, and I saw that look you gave Faith. Did you have a nightmare?"
Both slayers noticed how the younger girl froze with one hand holding the milk and the other on the door.
"You did. You want to talk about it?"
Faith smirked at how she had said the same thing last night and remembering both sisters had dreams about her last night but stopped at the fact that they were both different.
"I guess so," Dawn mumbled before eyeing the brunette again.
"Wait, Faith knows you had a nightmare? How does she know that?"
"Because I heard her last night after using the bathroom," Faith explained and finished with a wink directed to Buffy that Dawn didn't catch.
"What happened?" Buffy inquired while she held back a blush at guessing it meant that Faith had heard hers before Dawn's.
"In the dream, I caught you and Faith…having sex in your bedroom."
"Can you tell us more?" Buffy quizzed nervously.
"Like what…details?"
"Yes."
"Ok. But you two can't say anything until I'm finished telling you about my dream. And, Buffy, you can't get mad about what I'm going to tell you right now."
Buffy wasn't sure what to think at the concerned reaction from Faith.
"Ok, what is it?"
"Faith didn't sleep on the hide-a-bed last night."
"Where did she sleep?"
"We shared my bed last night."
"But…But I saw you on the hide-a-bed last night."
"I was coming back from the bathroom when I heard you get up for some unknown reason. Since I told you that I was sleeping there last night, I thought I'd better act like I had been," Faith announced as she realized she was still in just underwear and a t-shirt and finished with a second wink toward the blonde that was also missed by Dawn.
Buffy almost growled at the brunette, "Was that your idea?"
"No, it was Dawn's. All we did was sleep, B."
"You two share a bed while you're both half naked and expect me to believe nothing happened?"
"We kissed for a little bit, but that's all, I swear. Besides, I wasn't half naked. The only thing I wasn't wearing was pants," Faith insisted, "Now get back to telling us about your dream, D."
"In the dream, I caught you and Buffy…having sex in her bed."
"And?" Buffy cut in.
"Your pajama top was completely unbuttoned. Your underwear and pajama pants were on the floor by the bed. So either you put the shirt back on after taking off the bra, or you managed to keep the top on while taking off the bra. I saw the middle of your chest. Faith's shirt and bra were on the floor as well, and she was under the covers. Your back arched off the bed as Faith started to…"
"As I went down on her," Faith interrupted this time and couldn't hold back a smirk at that, but it ended when Dawn glared at her.
"Yeah, and Buffy seemed to enjoy it with the noise she was making. I came into the room and asked how you could do that to me with a scream while I cried," Dawn hesitated for a few seconds at the gapes from the older two and continued, "You tried to help Buffy put some of her underwear back on. I told you to get out of bed because my sister could put on the underwear herself. Then she ordered you to put on some more clothes since you were still topless. You did that like you didn't care that I saw you without a shirt or bra on as you guessed that the date was off. I said you were right after I smacked you as hard as I could. Before I said that we were no longer friends and that I didn't know when we would be again if ever, I got you to tell me what else you did."
"And that would be?" Faith asserted.
"You both kissed and groped each other's chest, left marks on each other necks, and you got your fingers inside of Buffy," Dawn confessed and frowned at the smirk that she got from Faith.
"What else?" Buffy voiced softly after smacking the other slayer on the arm.
"Then you tried to apologize, but I smacked you before you could finish. I said that the only real family member I had left broke my trust in one of the worst possible ways, and I didn't know if I could ever trust you again. I also told you the same thing when you asked if there was any way that you could make it up to me. I threatened to move to Brazil to live with Willow and have sex with her so that you'd know how I felt at that moment."
Faith chose to be the one to break the silence that followed.
"Buffy loves you, and I really care about you. Do you really think we would do something like to you?" Faith grilled and added at more hesitation from her best friend, "You do, don't you? I can't believe after everything Buffy has done for you your entire life and everything I've done since reaching L.A., you could think that. Maybe we should forget about the date and have Red teleport me back to Scotland."
"NO, don't go. I still want to go on the date with you."
"Then why did you have that dream?"
"Because…Because I was scared, ok? I've never been on a date before that didn't involve being under a spell. I was afraid of how it could go wrong, I still remember the night of your last birthday, and it made me think that maybe you'd really rather be with Buffy instead of me."
"That was before we got to be best friends. Now if I end up with anyone, it will probably be you."
"Probably?"
"Yeah, if your feelings for me don't change."
"So we're ok then? I mean the date's still on?"
"Sure, D, we're five by five."
"Good."
"I'm ok, too," Buffy assured, "Just as long as you know I would never do that to you, Dawnie."
"I know."