In Everything Is...
by Holliday
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Heroes.
Author's Notes: Just a thought..
Sunnydale 1999
"I don't care.." The words echoed through her ears as she left the motel room. Faith had said she didn't care. She had killed a man and she didn't care. How could that be, it was a life. Yet somehow she didn't care either, not if it meant losing the other slayer.
Buffy needed time to understand what was happening. Faith was different she wasn't like Kendra she embodied everything a slayer should be and Buffy knew it.
Yet as she tried to rationalize what was occuring she let herself and her friends convince her Faith was the villian. She was going to watch her lover die.. In attempt to stablize her life.
Sunnydale 2003
Buffy was feeling the strain of being the chosen. She felt alone even with the potentials, something wasn't right she had faced countless apocolypses before. Yet somewhere deep inside she knew maybe this time there would be no resurrection when she died this time it would be forever.
Sighing she headed out the door into the cemetery, as she waited for the vamp to rise her mind began to drift. The fight began and for a split second she thought she sensed something. Shaking it off she continued until that feeling made itself known, the warm sensation that only she could bring made herself known. As she caught sight of that body and felt those eyes raing over her. Faith had returned.
2006
The road less traveled is more than meets the eye when two people who have spent their lives denying who they are. Carrying a secret is not an easy life to bare, not for anyone especially teenagers, yet everyday someone keeps a secret.
For a slayer their calling is more than just a secret, it's a burden a gift and a curse. For Buffy it became her prison, yet her friends and eventually her family brought her freedom.
For Faith it was her salvation, until she became her own prison. Yet time can temper even the hardest of souls, and her's was worth saving. The slayers are no longer subjected to the rules of childhood, they are adults and now have the chance to be somewhat like all the other's who the both once wished upon a time to be.
Will they ever be completely like the others. No. Yet they have something between them that eventually will change the world for the better...