Ranked #2 in Buffy. After Faith wakes up from her coma with amnesia, she attempts to put her life back together again. Buffy is forced to try and help.
Wow, I think this is the first time since Faith has been back that we haven't been met with angry glares when we walk through the door. They almost look happy to see us, Tara especially. I knew she'd see it the second we walked through the door.
"Buffy, it's good that you're here. How are you feeling today?"
I stretch a bit and take a deep breath.
"I think I'm all healed up and ready for action."
Faith pats me on the stomach with the back of her hand, smiling suggestively.
"I'll say."
Obvious much?
I punch her in the arm.
"Faith?!"
"Sorry B, you left yourself open to that one."
She starts her way into Giles' living room and after a moment I join her. Willow speaks up.
"I see you two have worked things out."
Worked things out? Hell yeah.
"You could say that."
"Yeah Red, I kinda wanted to thank you for that."
I join Faith in the middle of the meeting area and take her hand in mine.
"Don't mention it."
I'm really grateful too.
"I wanted to thank you too for what you did."
She gets all uncomfortable like.
"No really... DON'T mention it."
She sounds like she's almost joking.
"Okay then, let's get down to business. End of the world and all that."
I squeeze Faith's hand and lead her over to the couch so we can sit down. 'Somehow' Faith manages to fall into my arms and for some reason I don't really mind. I snake my arms around her mid-section as we settle in.
"What do we know?"
"Not much. I spoke to Wesley over the phone about our current situation, and I'm afraid he hasn't had any more luck than we have, though he has had a number of other things to deal with. He and Angel did manage to arrest one vital piece of information."
"What's that G-man?"
Giles gets a little uncomfortable at the sound of Faith's nickname for him.
I think it's cute, course I'm kinda biased about the whole thing.
"Wesley was able to determine that the leader of the vamp cult is in fact, Omega."
Omega?
"Well that sounds like a nice happy name."
"Yeah, I bet he's got a nice rose garden in whatever dank pit he lives in."
I feel Faith tease the hair on my arm with her fingertips and I can't help but squirm at her touch.
Okay, gotta focus on the end of the world.
"So what does this Omega guy want?"
Xander chimes in.
"I'm gonna go with death, destruction and mayhem."
"Well yeah but who doesn't want that?"
Everyone looks at Faith with this uncomfortable look and I gotta admit if she wasn't leaning with her back against me I'd be giving her the same look.
"Demon wise I mean. What demon doesn't want that kinda thing? Not me cause, I'm not into that kinda thing anymore."
She snuggles into me a little.
"I'm into a new thing."
All of the sudden I have this huge grin on my face.
"So what's the what?"
"Right, well, Omega is not to be taken lightly. He's older than any demon or vampire on record. It is also widely accepted in demonology that he may in fact be the original."
Original?
"Original what?"
You took the words right out of my mouth. Hopefully she'll be doing other things with her mouth later on.
"This is where accounts get problematic. What he is has never been confirmed. No living thing has ever survived an encounter with him."
Oh good.
"And this is the part where you tell us the worse news to the previous really bad news right?"
Faith sits up suddenly and gets really tense.
"By no living thing you mean..."
"Omega has faced 6 confirmed slayers and, well..."
A silence fills the room as Giles stops talking mid-sentence. Faith stands up and paces back and forth.
"This is great... this is just great... he's killed a lot of slayers. So B and I can go up against this guy and get brutally murdered."
Okay she's freaking. Gotta calm her down.
I get up and stop her from pacing.
"Faith? Listen to me."
She looks at me, her breathing getting a little slower.
"We're gonna get through this, I promise."
I take her in my arms and hug her before getting back to the apocalypse.
"So what does this Omega want?"
Giles lowers his eyes and breathes deeply.
"Given that his followers seem rather fixated on the two of you..."
Again the room fills with silence.
"Then we better do something about it by gum."
Spike!
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