Faith Lehane (slayer_faith) wrote in btvsal, @ 2009-06-03 19:49:00 |
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Current location: | Giles and Faith's Place |
Current mood: | pissed off |
Entry tags: | faith lehane, place: la, rupert giles |
It All Falls Down Again
Who: Faith and Giles
Where: Giles and Faith's Place
When: Same Night that Helen Died
Faith was coming home late after another night of slaying. She actually killed six vampires tonight. It seemed that there were a lot of new vampires being made lately. Probably something that she should tell Giles. Of course, he was probably sleeping now. Either that or maybe out with his new girlfriend, Helen. Faith wasn't sure how much she liked her. Nothing wrong with her on the outside, but maybe it was just because she was distracting Giles from paying attention to her. Either way, she probably wouldn't be able to tell Giles anything until morning. She used her key to get inside and walked in through the living room, shutting and locking the door behind her.
So imagine the Slayer's surprise when, as she walked in, she saw Giles, sitting by himself on the sofa, head in his hands, a stone look on his somber face.
"Giles? What happened? They discontinue your favorite brand of tea?" she asked. When he didn't rise to the bait, however, she knew something was up. "Seriously, what happened?"
He could barely speak, and his hands were clenched into tight fists. "It's... Helen." It was all he could get out at the moment, but it didn't take a brain surgeon to put two and two together.
She watched him for a second after he said that it was Helen, and she quickly knew what happened. "Oh Giles, I'm so sorry."
"I... I had just gotten home... and I got the call." He wasn;t even looking her in the eye, he was staring straight ahead, at the wall.
"What happened? Did whoever that called at least tell you that?" Faith asked. She couldn't believe that this was happening again. Everyone around them just kept dying.
"She'd... been murdered." He couldn't go into details. Not now... not while it was so fresh.
"Oh my god," Faith said, actually stunned for a moment. She wasn't really sure what to say past that. She was stunned out of words for once in her life.
"I'm going to find out who did it." He said, more to himself than to Faith. "And they're going to pay. Dearly." She'd never heard him like this. So angry, so cold... yet so robotic and steely at the same time. Like he wanted to cry... but instead channeled it into silent rage.
The closest that Faith had seen to him being like this was when Ben screwed her over, and not in the fun way. Still, even that was miles away from this. No one got to hurt her Watcher like this and get away with it, though. "Yeah, Giles, they're gonna pay for doing this. I'm going to help you with that."
Normally, he would have told her he didn't want her getting invovled in this. Hell... in the near future, he still might tell her that. But for now? To hear her say it, to hear the worry and concern in her tone... it was exactly what he needed. Without another word, he turned, setting his forehead against her shoulder, letting out a silent, strangled sob.
Faith wrapped her arms around him. "It's going to be OK, Giles. We're going to get the bastards who did this." She held him as close to her as she could when he let out the first sob. "We're going to get this taken care of."