Mothers (girlxgirl) (Book 3)

Bad Expectations

Author's Note: What do you think will happen when she goes back to Sunnydale?

Faith's POV

What am I gonna do? I know what I have to do. I have to go back to Sunnydale to see the only woman who's ever been anything close to a mother to me. The only real problem is Buffy. There's no telling how Buffy will react to seeing me again. With everything that's happened in the last little while, with Dawn, and now Joyce... she must be on overload. I just hope she'll hold together long enough for me to talk with Joyce.

I look down at the bag I packed by the bed.

If she can't then I'll just have to kick the crap out of her until she won't be able to stop me. Joyce might die if the treatment doesn't work and if her last wish is to see me then she'll get it. It doesn't matter if all she wants to do is yell at me for killing her daughter. It's her dying wish and I owe her enough to give it to her. I hope that's not her last wish. I hope the treatment works and she lives a long time. But I can't help thinking that Joyce wouldn't have asked to see me if there wasn't a real possibility that it might not. I hope she can make it through this.

There's a knock at my door.

"Yeah?"

He opens the door and comes in.

"Hey..."

"Hey Angel..."

"You all packed?"

I look down at my bag again and then back at Angel.

"Yeah I think so, it's not like I have a lot of stuff worth taking with me."

He stops a few feet from the bed I'm sitting on and folds his arms across his chest.

"Well you know you could always think about changing that."

I kinda smile at him.

"I really didn't have all that much time to pack. It was more just get out as quick as possible."

"Well now you might have a chance to go back and get some of what you left behind."

"Maybe, maybe not..."

He gets that look on his face that I never know how to describe.

It's not a smile, and not a frown, the only thing close would be thoughtful. Except it never seems like he's thinking when he looks at me that way.

He comes over and picks up my bag for me, being all chivalrous.

"Come on let's get you to the train station."

Angel moves to the door and I get up and follow him out. We walk down the hall to the elevator at the end of it.

"Are you gonna be okay?"

I take a deep breath as we continue down the hallway.

"I guess... I'm a little unsure what to expect... except resentment, anger and probably some violence. Which I'm all for, I never quite get enough violence here. There aren't enough cemeteries in L.A. You actually have to go looking for evil in this town instead of staring it in the face when you walk out the door in Sunny D."

"Things are more complicated here, that's true. But things aren't exactly simple there either."

I look at him and smile for a second as we stop at the elevator and I push the down button.

"No, they really aren't."

The elevator opens up and I step inside, but Angel holds back. I look at him as the door starts to close and stop it.