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Faith. (darklyslaying) wrote in prescott_valley,
@ 2009-04-02 20:55:00

RP THREAD: Faith and OPEN.
WHO: Faith Lehane and OPEN.
WHAT: The slayer finally returns and decides to make her first stop the Magic Box.
WHEN: 2nd April, Afternoon.
WHERE: The Magic Box.
RATING: G Currently.

It was a strange feeling coming back here. A new name didn't make it a new place, it didn't wipe the sins from the ground. Faith snorted, eyes scanning the road ahead. Did she really want to go back to this place? She didn't have anything better to do but so much had gone down here. Things she'd been running from for a long time. She'd been back since, helping out but that had been different - do or die. Now? This could be nothing. Buffy saying 'The First' was back wasn't nothing though. Fingers flexed around the steering wheel, tightening and releasing as she jiggled almost nervously in her seat. Which was silly, because she wasn't nervous. She was perfectly calm, she was sure that coming here was the right thing to do.

The phone call had sent a zing of fear through her - Sunnydale was back. Parading around as something new - as if giving it a new name would stop it from being Hell. Faith was unsure how to react. At first she'd been mildly worried, then a little amused. Really, the place ends up in a hole and they just had to build on top of it. Finally she'd allowed her lazy journey around America to tug her back toward Sunnydale. It had been a gradual thing, as if she was just allowing herself to be slowly seduced by the possibility rather than rushing in stake raised and hell on her lips.

Welcome to Prescott Valley.

Faith had no more time to wonder about whether this was the right thing or not, whether she should go help Buffy with the next Big Bad - she knew one was coming - as she'd just rolled into town. "Well, fuck," Faith purred lightly, taking in a deep breath as she finally hurtled into the centre of town. No going back now.

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It was eerily familiar this fake Sunnydale. Things were a little newer, shinier but to Faith it looked too much like the old Sunnydale. She had spent the first portion of the day finding a motel and booking in then the reminder giving herself a little tour of the place. Faith had walked until her stomach growled for her to stop and feed.

Finding the Magic Box was easy enough, the directions Willow had given her over the phone lead her straight up to the new shop. With a grim smile she enters, the little bell jangling above her head as the door opens in front of her. There is no turning back now, it's all or nothing.

"What do we have here then?" Faith calls as a greeting to the familiar figure in the shop.

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the_normal_one
2009-04-14 04:52 pm UTC (link)

Scratching out another line, Dawn slumped against the counter and thumped her pen against her marked up notepad. The only good thing about translating ancient Galatian was- actually, there was no good thing about translating ancient Galatian. Having one word mean practically twenty possible different things did not make for an easy time.

The shop's bell jingled, announcing a customer and, for once, Dawn was not at all perturbed to stop and help. "Hi," she called, sliding her legal pad into the hefty tome she'd been looking at, and started around the counter. "Just let me know if you need any- Faith." Dawn stopped at the end of the counter and stared at the other woman, raising an eyebrow in surprise. She really hoped that this was a surprise visit because if everyone had forgotten to tell her stuff again...well it was getting old.

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darklyslaying
2009-04-19 03:34 pm UTC (link)

As Dawn emerged from behind the counter Faiths would slow, her hands sliding into her back pockets as her eyes roamed over the familiar face openly. Dawns surprise made her lips twitch into a smirk, "Think I got plenty of Faith."

Faith had never been in the old Magic Box, having missed those few years due to jail and then by the time she was around again the shop was long gone. Eyes moved from Dawn to dance around the room, taking it in before moving back to dawn. "What? No hug? No welcome party?" Faiths tone held amusement and just a touch of sarcasm, just a dash of it. She really disliked feeling nervous...or more unsure of the situation and what was going on.

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the_normal_one
2009-04-19 04:36 pm UTC (link)

Her grin spread across her face, amusement quirking it to one side. "Well maybe if you didn't take so long to show your face," she joked, crossing over to Faith and trying to act aloof. "You never call. Never write. Hardly even recognise you," she added, blatantly sizing up the woman. Finally she broke what little character she had held and chuckled. "No one mentioned you were coming. What brings you to town? Distance made the heart grow fonder?"

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