Seeds of Faith

Chapter 2

Seeds of Faith

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Chapter 2

"She's like this cleavage-y slut-bomb walking around 'Ooh, check me out, I'm wicked-cool, I'm five-by-five.'"

-Willow Rosenberg

The last time Buffy saw Faith was the day of Battle Sunnydale. Giles got them all a room in a shitty motel just outside of the remains of Sunnydale and all the survivors pilled up in the floor and slept for hours. Only, when Buffy woke up, Faith was gone. All that remained was a piece of hotel stationary by Buffy's head. It said- "Goin' solo. Catch you later Blondie." That's all. No explanation, no hint at where she was going. Just that. Buffy was still kind of bitter.

But seeing Faith again after a month of NOT seeing Faith, and before that, a month of SEEING Faith... Really seeing her. And WANTING her even. Fighting with her and wanting to kick her ass. But then simultaneously wanting to just throw her down and shove her tongue in her mouth.. It had Buffy's head spinning.

Faith had on one of her signature outfits- a pair of jeans, a matching jean jacket, and a tiny maroon halter top. She dropped a duffel bag in the floor as she came into the hotel room, and then spun around. "Nice dive," she said, stepping around Vi, and heading over to the fridge. She pulled it open, "No booze but that's okay. We can fix that." 

"I thought you were going solo?" Buffy said, "Or are you done with that?"

Faith shrugged. "Got lonely. No big d. Thought I'd come find my favorite blonde." She reached forward and spun one of Buffy's curls around her the index finger on her right hand. "You guys don't mind right?" She was asking Kennedy and Vi, but she didn't look at them. Her eyes locked in Buffy's.

"We were kinda having fun being a trio," Buffy told Faith. 

"Yeah?" Faith dropped her hand. "You want me to go then?" She motioned to the door. "'Cause I got plenty of other people missin' me."

Kennedy slid off the counter and held up her hands. "I'm fine with you staying. And I'm sure Vi is too, aren'tcha Vi?" She looked to the redhead and she nodded. "So if you wanna crash with us, I'll take a bed with Vi, and you and Buffy can bunk."

Buffy shot the younger slayer a look, and Kennedy beamed at her. It was obvious she had caught on. 

"Good thing I got the littles on my side," Faith said, "Cause it looks like the Queen of the Slayers is mad at me."

"Your note had six words. Six. I got a better goodbye from Spike and he caught on fire in front of me!"

The brunette smiled and her dimples made Buffy's breath catch in her throat. Faith's dimples always did that. "Six? Looks like someone memorized my note," she said, her voice pleased. "You did miss me, didn't you?"

Buffy stuck her bottom lip out. She didn't mean to resort to pouting, but she couldn't be mad when Faith was smiling like that. "No. I didn't. I'm just tired at you being an emotionless... Meanie."

"Meanie?" Faith's eyebrows went up. "You willin' to fight over those words?" She laughed and shoved Buffy. "Lighten up B! We're all here for the same reason, right? To fight the good fight? To tell some baddies to go fuck themselves?" 

"And to raid a Turok-Han den," Vi added, her voice little. 

Faith spun around. "Turok-Han? No shit?" 

"They've got an underground den," Buffy explained. "Somewhere under the coffee shop on main. Purty's. And I'm pretty sure that the barrista we saw today is a demon. His eyes looked really freaky."

"Sounds like you guys have done enough research," Faith said. "We could go now."

"We could," Kennedy said, "But it's dark. If we go, it needs to be early morning. Just as the sun comes up. So we can lead 'em out into day and watch 'em burn up."

"Nothing like the smell of an ubervamp frying in the morning," Buffy said and pushed her hands into the pockets of her blue jeans. 

"So let's hit the sheets," Faith said, "And get up early and go dust 'em. The quicker we kick their asses, the quicker we can kick other asses."

Kennedy waggled her eyebrows at Buffy at the 'hit the sheets' comment. But then she said, "Sounds good to me. If I have to play another round of Gin-Rummy, I'm going to jump out the window."

"So where's our room?" Faith asked, and got her duffel.

Buffy took the brunette down the hallway and once they were both in the room, she shut and locked the door and rounded on Faith. "Six words Faith? Six!? I thought I meant more to you than that. And what? You get up while I'm still asleep and dissapear for four weeks? I thought you were dead!"

"You tried to kill me before and didn't lose any sleep over it!" Faith said, holding her hands up. "Excuse me for wanting space. It was a big death party down there in the hellmouth and when it was all over, I just wanted to go get drunk."

"Get drunk!? You seriously have a drinking problem! You know that?" Buffy walked up to Faith, stood right in front of her and said, "So that's what you've been doing for the past month? Drinking?"

Faith's eyes flashed from Buffy's eyes to her lips and then back to her eyes. Buffy knew Faith was feeling what she was feeling because Buffy could feel what Faith was feeling too. "I tried to start over. Ya know, not as a slayer. I went to New York. Got a job in a store. Got an apartment. It was all a load of shit. I quit at the end of the second week. I stayed there for a few more days, tryin' to get my use out of the first month's rent. Then I called up G. He told me you guys were travelin' around fightin' crime like some kind of superheroes. Real cavalier and shit. So I took the rest of my money and flew to England to see the rest of the guys. Caught up with Xan-man and the other littles. Willow was real pissed at me. Imagine that! Red being pissed. Kinda thought it was funny for a few days, then it just got on my damn nerves. She said that I hurt your feelings leavin' without a goodbye. Then I started thinking about you. About the vibe I'd been gettin' from you back in Sunnydale, everytime we got near each other. And I wanted to be sure that I'd actually felt what I felt. So I asked the council for some money. Told 'em I wanted to join you guys on your adventures and they paid for me a plane back to Georgia. And here I am."

Buffy tried to stand up straighter. She tried to appear a little taller, a little more intimidating. "And? What have you found out?"

Faith's smile came back, thought it was really sly. "I wasn't wrong. I can hear your heart beating, B. You want it as bad as I do."

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