Mothers (girlxgirl) (Book 3)

All Good Things

Buffy's POV

Thank god...

I squeeze Faith's hand as I listen to the steady beeping of Faith's heart rate monitor.

Thank god she's gonna be all right. I don't know what I would've done if she had died in that cave. She's all I have left. She's been with me through so much. We've gone through hell and back in the time we've known each other. It would be horrible and unfair for us to lose each other now.

I take a deep breath and watch her sleep peacefully.

Things were actually getting pretty good. I was starting to really feel okay with the fact that my mother was gone, and Dawn. I guess I should've figured that something bad would happen. I just never thought it would've been Faith's mother that was the bad.

Faith shifts in her hospital bed and I wait to see if she wakes up. She doesn't.

The doctors said it was really touch and go yesterday when I brought her in. There were a few moments where she almost died. They thought she might slip into a coma from all the blood loss. I'm so glad she didn't. If she had gone into a coma again, I probably would've gone insane. I still need her. She's my friend and I care about her. I need her to help me figure out what I'm gonna do with the rest of my life. And now, she needs me too. Finding out that her mother is evil will be really hard on her when she wakes up. She's gonna need someone to help her. She's gonna have a lot of questions. The gang and I will help her find the answers for her.

Again she stirs but doesn't wake up.

I'll be there to help her deal with those answers too. No matter what the answers are, she'll have someone with her. Someone to comfort her when she's sad, and have fun with her when she's happy. Just like I know she'll be there for me if I ever need her for something. We care about each other too much not to.

Faith moans as she slowly opens her eyes. She looks around the hospital room before her eyes fall on me. We smile at each other.

"Hey..."

"Hey B..."

There's a silence between us as we stare at each other for a moment.

"How are you feeling?"

She groans and throws her head back against the pillow.

"Like crap..."

I chuckle at what she says.

"Well, you probably should after what you've been through. You lost a lot of blood. The doctors said you almost didn't make it. I was really worried about you."

Faith looks down at her hands and sees the bandages on her wrists.

"So was I. I didn't think I'd make it either, after what she..."

She stops mid sentence and just looks at her wrists. Silence spreads throughout the room except for the beeping of the heart monitor.

"But at least you're alive though right? We survived."

She pulls her head up and smiles my way.

"Yeah, I guess we did. What happened though? How did we survive exactly? The last thing I remember is bleeding to death while you were chained to a wall."

"Yeah, when the cave started to shake I think it weakened the hold on the wall. I got some of my strength back then managed to break free and... save you."

She takes a deep breath.

"Oh, thanks..."

I squeeze her hand gently.