Of fighting, friendship... and that other f-word.
Who: Candice and Faith Where: Giles' place When: Sunday Afternoon
Candice felt a little odd standing at the door to Rupert Giles' home. She'd only met the man once, and she found him... oddly terrifying. Still... she had to check on Faith, especially once The Hotness of Baily had told her she'd broken up with Ben. Knocking tentatively, she prayed the man wasnt going to be the one to answer...
Faith heard the knock at the door, but it took her some effort to want to answer it. She was doing OK, but still more than a little pissed at herself for allowing someone like Ben to get so close to her that he could hurt her like that. She gave a small grin to Candice when she saw her on the other side. "Hey, babe. What's up?"
"Evidentily a lot!" Candi walked in, all snarky smiles. "I go to Avarice, FINALLY, and start dancing with this hot bitch... and I end up finding out about you and The Boy Wonder... and now I feel all shitty for not being here to help you burn pictures and like... sing 'I Will Survive' 300 times."
Faith shut the door behind her. "If you heard me sing, you wouldn't be saying that." She flopped down on the couch. "Boy Wonder turned out to be an asshole extraordinaire. Had to be too good to be true."
"Well, from what you said, at least the sex was good. Had to count for something, right?" She laughed, lifting Faith's legs to sit on the couch, then laying the girl's legs on her lap. "See... this is why I say guys are good for that one thing: then you take their money, climb out the window, and never call again."
"Definitely what I should have done," Faith said, making herself comfortable again. "Still, he tricked me by saying the 'L' word. Come on, even hardened vets like us can still be suckered by that sometimes."
"...you sure he didn't? Mean it, I mean." Not that Candi was condoning relationships here... "I mean, everyone's a big flaming douchebag at times... did it mean he didn't love you though?"
"I don't know. Giles actually said something like, he probably thinks he loves you, but he doesn't really know how," Faith said with a shrug. "And he's doing something pretty unforgivable. From someone like me, you know that's a lot."
"And now is the part where you have to share." Candi gave a wicked little grin. "Not that I like gossip or anything. It's cause, you know, I care."
"Well, he's running this fight club, thing," Faith said, knowing how stupid it sounded as soon as she said it. "You know, that's one thing. Kind of skanky, but whatever. He's got a Slayer in the ring of fighters, but she doesn't know what she is, and he's going through no effort to tell her."
"Oh shit! For real??? He's hoodwinkin' the gal? That's fucked up." Candi still hadn't totally grasped what the whole Slayer thing meant, but managed to be angry anyway. "Speaking of the whole Slayer thing.. I got my ass kicked but good recently. Thus, why you haven't seen me much."
"I know, right? He knows that this stuff means a lot to me, and he's totally pulling the wool over this girl's fucking eyes," Faith said, looking quite pissed. "Really? What the hell happened?"
"Lucky me ran into that Frost bitch." She grumbled, crossing her arms. "Sad to say, she beat me like Ike beat Tina."
Faith cringed when she heard that. She had never had the pleasure, but had heard about what she did to Skylar's watcher. "Dude, you're lucky you got out alive. Bitch likes to eat hearts, from what I hear."
"I ain't even frontin', girl. She let me live. I was like... a message. Last night was the first time I was able to go out and have fun since then, even with the cool-ass healing that comes with this gig."
"Wow...you really are lucky. She must have fucked you up bad for it to still take so long." Faith looked her over. "You look good as new, though."
"Sad part? Dude... for a psycho? She's fucking hot. Like, if I didn't wanna kill her so bad? I'd get TOTALLY biblical with her." Candi laughed and ran a hand nervously through her hair. "I'm really fucked in the head, ain't I."
"All the really hot ones are fucking bonkers," Faith said with a laugh. She was already feeling a little better. "I understand ya, though. Just because they're evil doesn't make them less hot."
"Hey... speaking of hot? Not that you wanna hear his name any more right now, but you ever see Ben's cousin Baily?" Candi asked, a cheshire grin spreading across her face like wildfire.
"Yeah, I've seen her a couple of times. Hot, but as friendly as a porcupine. Why?" Faith kind of knew where this was going, but she wanted to hear about it anyway.
"Yeah... yeah...." she buffed her knuckles on her t-shirt. "Hit that shit like A PUNCHING BAG, girl."
"Holy shit? Really?" Faith asked with a laugh. "I didn't realize that she even liked girls...or people. How was it?"
"She might not, really. I mean, asexual people probably couldn't turn this shit down." She motioned to herself. "She was better than I expected, for someone who'd never been with a girl before. Granted, I did most of the worl and loved every minute, but still."
"Hmm...good to hear. Always kind of worry about trying out girls for the first time," Faith admitted. "She seemed like the type that wouldn't even bother, though."
"Well... she's just the latest. Seriously. If I'm gonna be riskin' my neck for the people of this city?" She looked dead serious here, too... which was oddly sad and hilarious. "I figure I at least got a right to bone as many of them as I want."
"No fucking kidding," Faith said. "Gotta work out the kinks in some way, right?" She laughed. She knew that she was probably going to be exploding soon in that sense.
"See? You just gotta get over it, and move on. We'll do it together, even." This was her idea of being supporting. God bless her.
"Yeah, get over it and move on. I'm down for that."