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Tweak says, "She gave me a pen."

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.