The Dark Slayer (therogueslayer) wrote in salemscenes, @ 2016-07-01 11:29:00 |
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Entry tags: | buffy summers (littlebufferin), charles gunn (cantberigged), faith lehane (therogueslayer) |
Who: Faith and Buffy with Gunn later
What: Hunting vampires and shit happens
When: Tonight
Where: Around Salem
Warning: drug talk
Once upon a time Faith Lehane would have given anything to start over with Buffy.
But this was no fairytale and Faith’s life was as fractured as it had ever been. The only difference was she knew people here who thought of her as friend. She hadn’t felt that in a long time. Sure, there was Angel but their relationship somehow transcended friendship. Now she had people like Gunn, Cordelia, Alec, Molly, Spike, Magnus and even her weird ass roommate Amara looking at her like they expected something from her. She hadn’t felt that since high school. Tommy had been her one friend. The one gay kid in a school full of assholes that used to bully them all the time. Things probably would have been fine but a bunch of douchebag jocks were pushing Tommy around, calling him “fag” and stuff and so Faith did what any good friend would do. She broke the jock’s arm. It had seemed like the right thing at the time but it had only served to scare Tommy. He expected high school bullies to be bullies but he hadn’t expected Faith to get downright scary. He left her nothing but a shitty little note before he bailed on Boston with his boyfriend. Faith vowed to never have another friend after that but vows were made to be broken.
Now she prowled the back alleys of Salem side by side with Buffy as they stalked Angelus. Faith had suggested that they follow the trail of fledglings that Angelus tended to leave hanging around. She hadn’t forgotten about the night he had sent so many after her that she had a hard time fending them all off.One at a time they were no challenge but in droves they could be difficult to manage. Still, Faith won the fight. She was bleeding like a stuck pig by the time she crawled her way to Buffy’s place but she had won. And that night she had finally broken down and gotten real honest with Buffy. But this Buffy didn’t know that. She didn’t know about the promise the other Buffy had made her. It was so tentative that Faith wanted to make the pact with someone else. Maybe Spike. Gunn would have been a better choice but Faith wasn’t sure that Gunn could take down a slayer turned vampire. Yep. Spike was her guy. She would talk to him about that later.
She hadn’t shared her drug problem with Buffy either. It wasn’t like it sounded. Faith didn’t do drugs, she wouldn’t even take a damn Tylenol anymore because Orpheus had fucked her up so badly. The other Buffy had been the sole keeper of Faith’s secret. Now she intended to deal with it herself. Nobody needed to know. She had migraines, that was her story and she was sticking to it. Other slayers probably had migraines, right? Faith didn’t actually know but she was glad that Giles and Wes were around to dispute that.
Faith heard something snap above and both her and Buffy stopped and tilted their heads up just in time to see a bumpy face and yellow eyes disappear over the top of the roof. Faith jumped up and grabbed the fire escape ladder, pulling it down so they could use it to get on top of the building.
“Going up?” she asked Buffy cheekily.
She followed up the ladder behind Buffy, trying not to admire the view of Buffy’s ass too much on the way up. Girlfriend was fit as hell. Her mind wandered to the other Buffy who had confessed she had always wanted to have sex with Faith. Did this one fantasize about that too? Faith would probably never know but it was fun to think about.