Faith Lehane is crude but effective (faithinthedark) wrote in wariscoming, @ 2009-09-24 12:59:00 |
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Entry tags: | castiel, faith lehane |
WHO: Faith Lehane and open
WHAT: Arriving in Kansas
WHEN: Early evening
WHERE: Tibet and then a random street
RATING: TBD
STATUS: In progress
The damn boulder wasn't moving. Faith glared at the offending rock and was almost tempted to go with Buffy's suggestion of just planting trees around the thing and calling it a feature.
Only that would defeat the entire purpose of the exercise. Suppressing the magic, suppressing the demon side through physical labor. Wolfboy had made it sound more impressive, with all sorts of metaphors (or was it analogies and what was the difference between those anyway?) but it all boiled down to one point. Work hard, powers go away. She wasn't sure how it worked or why, but it was seeming to and frankly that was good enough for the now formerly Rogue Slayer. She could feel the powers slowly ebbing away, into the earth or whatever. Sure, she could call them back at a moment's notice, wrenching them back from the soil, but really it went beyond simply hiding magical signatures from Twilight.
She was done. She wanted out.
A few years ago she'd have ripped the arms off anyone who even hinted that she should give up her powers, her strength. But lately the strength had felt like more of a burden than anything else.
I'm not strong enough to have to be that strong
She just couldn't take it any more. The constant fighting, the having to go to a darker and darker place and feeling that sweet call of evil beckoning to her. It felt like an alcoholic having to clean up a mess with a bottle of vodka. Too much and she'd just start drinking.
It hadn't helped seeing what Willow had done, or not so much seeing it as knowing it. Teleport the prisoner away, interrogation. Torture. Magical freaking torture.
She was done. And she suspected Buffy would be too, if given the choice. At least Tibet had given them that bonding time. Tibet and it's stubbornly unmoving boulder. Faith was tired, freaking tired and having a break wasn't a bad thing. She sat down, leaning back against the rock and closing her eyes.
When she opened them seconds later, it felt as though the world was spinning the wrong way too fast, and she could actually feel her strength wrenching back into her, making her gasp. And then Tibet seemed to go away, replaced with a city Faith didn't recognize.
What the hell has Red done now?
Faith stood up, feeling faintly light headed and looked around, suddenly terrified that Twilight would appear, with an army. An actual army with tanks and missiles because no one could tell her that wasn't magic on a huge scale and oh so trackable.
"Oh crap."