Faith Lehane is crude but effective (faithinthedark) wrote in parabolical, @ 2008-10-13 23:20:00 |
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Entry tags: | faith lehane, jack landors |
WHO: Faith Lehane and OPEN
WHAT: She wants to get back to normal, that means fighting.
WHEN: Monday night
WHERE: Near where she was shot
RATING: TBD
STATUS: In progress
She'd told Elaine she was ready to get back in the fight and Faith had meant it. One minor case of temporary deadness was no reason to stop being a Slayer. Besides, Buffy had gone through the same thing once and come out of it ok. Though she was grateful Elaine had dulled the memories of whatever afterlife she'd ended up in. The memories were pleasant, but not over whelming. Except sometimes when she slept.
Faith shook her head and kept walking, even staking a couple of vampires as they cautiously ventured out after the aborted Apocalypse. She felt an odd sort of serenity in the routine of punching and kicking, before finally giving that killing blow with a stake through the heart.
She became preoccupied with it before coming to a sudden realization about where she was. The alley was so familiar to her now and the images of what had happened flashed through her mind, much more vivid than they'd been before. This time she didn't cry, didn't even really react except to stare for a moment, wishing she could go back and stop this from ever happening. Go back to when Sam had been one of the people she trusted most.
It was only the arrival of another demon, bolder than the vamps she'd already staked, that snapped her out of her dwelling and back into the present. She scowled as she slammed a punch into its face, watching it stagger back,