Mystical Salvation
by Raven White
Rating: NC-17
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Spoilers: All seasons of BTVS, Set after the events that happen in, Season Four BTVS Superstar and Angel's Sanctuary.
Author's Notes: However, this is AU, the story has been changed to show Buffy pulling her head out of her ass and doing the right thing.
Author's Notes 2: Started on July 21, 2006
Buffy had gotten back home after dealing with Faith being in her body.
*God, what a nightmare.*
Looking around her room, her bed was a mess.
*And do I need a question to know what she did in MY bed?*
"Oh God!"
*No, didn't need to know that she fingered me...my body in that bed, my bed, how can I ever put my fingers inside myself again? Fuck, and I didn't even get a chance to feel her insides. Not going to tell Giles about what happened to my body, he will just make that sound and rub his glasses clean until I climax from Faith fingers inside of me. Ooo NO, I can't believe, I just thought of that, she fucked me and Riley, that is so not right.*
"That's it! I am so going to give her a piece of me....shit...a piece of my mind, that's what I meant. And when did I start with the babbling? Fuck Will, I didn't need to have anymore problems, with me babbling like you!"
She spotted something from the corner of her eye near the bed. Looking down, she saw her favorite stake. *GOD SHE DID NOT!*
......."she did." Reaching down and picking it up, bringing it to her nose, smelling it.. *smells like me.* "So, she knows now that I ain't pure and sweet anymore." Her laughing was heard down the hall as Joyce was coming to her room. The stake was quickly put behind the slayer's back. "Mom, are you okay? Faith didn't...I didn't hurt you? God this is a mess. Mom, I'm sorry that it happened!"
Larger arms came around her body and the slayer embraced her mother's body and cried against her.
"Sssh, Buffy, it will be all right. Faith is who knows where and we are both all right." Being a mom, that was all she knew how to do, reassure her daughter. *But how do they all handle the hell of the Hellmouth?*
"Giles, I am going to Angel's in L.A. He called and said that Faith was there. I am going to go and have it out once and for all with her."
Buffy arrived just in time to see the blood on her fellow slayer's hands and Angel holding her close. "Trying to take another boyfriend away, Faith? Don't you get tired of playing the same game over and over?" said the blonde, frowning.
"B, look, I know what I did back in Sunny D was fucked up. Hell, I am fucked up. I'm Sor..." Faith took off, running for the roof.
A slap was heard up on the roof as the blonde slayer caught up with her; "DON'T YOU FUCKING SAY YOU'RE SORRY, I WILL KILL YOU IF YOU SAY THAT AGAIN!" Buffy's face was red and the rogue slayer had unshed tears starting to show in her eyes. The Council of Watchers then arrived and were trying to shoot at Faith, to either kill or capture her. Buffy was trying to figure out what to do, but seeing Faith's tears was making her re-think her position on what she wanted to do with the other slayer. Finally, instead of running away from the Council's henchmen, Buffy stepped in front of Faith. Holding her hands up, the shooting stopped and the slayers were surrounded by them...
"Guys, she is not going anywhere with you. She is coming back to Sunnydale with me, and I am going to train with her."
Faith was looking at her; "B, it's okay, I should go with them." She was going to step around her partner in slaying, but at the last moment a hand grabbed her.
"NO, You're not going with them and you're not running away this time. We have both run away enough."
Quentin Travers came onto the roof. "Ms. Summers, she is not your responsibility. She is OURS. Now please, step away from her, and we will deal with her," he said, with a sinister smile.
"Quentin, you're an ass. The problem with Faith is my problem. We...She and I need to talk and fix what is wrong. You taking her is not going to solve the problem. I think the only thing that you want to do is to kill her and hope that there is another slayer called. Well, guess what? Without Faith and I, you have nothing to do. So call your dogs off. I will be responsible for her."
Quentin was thinking over what the chosen one said.
"All right, we will play it your way this time, Summers. However, if any problems whatsoever come up, we will be back before you even know it, and we will take you both. Is that understood by you both? You mess up, we take you both, no questions, no answers, you will be at the end of the road."
Faith looked and Buffy; "Maybe you should think about this, B? I don't want to cause you more trouble."
"It's all right, we will do this right this time." Reaching down, grabbing the dark slayer by the hand, she said "Come on, let's go home."
The slayers walked off the roof and into Angel's study. The watchers cleared out and Angel came back into the room.
"I assume that you both need a ride to Sunnydale?" Angel asked, as he was trying to figure out what was going on with Buffy.
Faith sat down as Buffy replied, "Yes, Angel. Are you taking us back or....?" frowning and watching Angel leave before she could get all her questions out. She saw a few tears on the rogue slayer's face..
"B, why didn't you just let them take me? We both know that you would be better off without me....I did so much to you, your body, your beef stick, Riley. I'm just not worth your time."
Buffy sank to her knees in front of Faith, taking her hand into hers, she took a hard and close look at the depressed slayer.
"Look at me, Faith." Taking her other hand, she wiped away invisible tears from the face in front of her. "We both know that you don't trust anyone, but I need you to trust me. We can do this together, but it is going to take a lot of effort from both of us. The past with Allan Finch, the Mayor, Riley, me, my friends, my MOTHER. WE will deal. I need you to be strong. Can you do that for me, Faith?"
"I...B....I'll try to trust you...not sure about anyone else, but I will give it a shot. Thank you and I am really sorry about what I did to you and your friends, and Mrs S. Not sure if they can forgive me, B!"
"It will take time, Faith. Now pack whatever you might have, and let me find Angel so we can leave."
Faith watched the blonde leave her, and sniffed down a sobbing crying sound of a tear jag coming on. *I fucked her and everyone in her life and she is giving me a second chance, don't fuck this up. Yeah, right, I was fucked when I was born.* Getting up, she went into the small bedroom that she had stayed in for such a short time, getting her jacket and a picture of Buffy and her together, putting that into her pocket. She also grabbed the things that Angel had given her since she had been there and put them into a backpack. She looked at the door as her saviour was coming back towards her.
"Ready, Faith?" An eyebrow was raised as the blonde saw the backpack and a new leather jacket.
"Yep B, lets motor," walking past the blonde, waiting to see who was driving them back.
The slayers returned to Sunnydale, where Faith stayed with Buffy and Joyce, in their basement. The girls would talk, and sometimes the blonde would cry at things that had happened to Faith in the past. Faith told Buffy about her mother, the men who would use her, and the abortion that she was forced into, the lies, death, her pain. Faith would hold her and tell her that she couldn’t have known of her trials. Buffy would tell her it was all right to cry, to let the pain out.
As they were working on these things together, training and slaying was shared. Oz came back into Willow's life and left after he was told about Tara. Tara joined the group, her family finally leaving her alone and now she as Willow's girlfriend helped in the fighting, defeating Adam, the Primeval trying to kill everyone, and that guy with the cheese in everyone's dreams.
Buffy was trying to forget the past and what had happen between her and Faith....and with Riley. She and Faith would talk about things when Buffy was feeling blue about what had happened, during the body swap incident, waking up one morning and seeing a girl who turned out to be her sister and not remembering much about their time growing up together. Spike came back into the picture, telling the slayer about how he killed two slayers and wanting to kill her, then realizing that he did not want to kill her anymore. Joyce went into the hospital for brain surgery, and the sisters grew closer. Buffy and Faith grew even closer.
Learning about Glory and that Dawn was a key, given form, that was made flesh and human and sent to the slayers, was really a key to a hell dimension, that all the memories that anyone had of her were not real. Spike came to the slayers, asking them to follow him, taking them both to where they could see Riley in a dark embrace of a vampire. He letting her suck blood from him, telling her to bite harder. Then, learning more about Glory, that she was a god. The slayers and all the Scoobies were paid by the Watcher's Council now and then Dawn learned that she was nothing more than a key to a doorway to a hell dimension. The slayers had met up with Glory once and they both had gotten their asses kicked, so they were looking for payback in the future.
Well it had been one hell of a week. Joyce moved Faith up to share with Buffy, as Tara and Willow were staying at the house now with the Summers family, residing in the basement. The move for the two slayers was an easy one, as they had been sick now for awhile, they were both going to a doctor tomorrow, but Faith wanted to go out tonight on patrol, so she left on her own.
The Bronze was pumping with sound and bodies. The raven slayer was dancing, losing herself in the rhythm, till she felt a man moving against her back. Opening her eyes and looking back, she saw the man that the slayers knew as Ben. "Ben, I didn't know you could dance like this." Faith slipped and would have fell to the floor if not for the sure hands of the doctor.
"Come on Faith, let me take you out of here, you don't look real good right now." They left and Faith was now laying in bed, watching the well-chiselled doctor changing out of his clothes, leaving him in nothing but a pair of boxer shorts. "You look like you’re feeling better there, Faith," as he sat on the end of the bed, watching a look of desire cross the raven slayer face.
"Ben, I haven't been with a man in a long time. Even though I’m feeling better now, I ain't much for staying around, I am more of a get some, get gone girl. I will not tell Buffy about it, if we have sex. I know you have a jones for her. But I’m here now and there’s no reason not to make use of this here nice large bed." Ben moved onto the bed and was pushed onto his back; "I'm in control, just lay back and enjoy the ride.” Faith was enjoying herself, she had just lost her pants and was getting back on top on Ben, when he started to change form... "WHAT THE FUCK?" Getting off of him for a moment as she watched the transformation, one minute it was Ben and then Glory and then for no reason, Ben was back.
"Hey Faith, come on, you getting back on top or what?" The boy was smiling like an idiot.
"Oh Yeah, you got it Ben-boy, lets see if you like this!" A small chuckle left her throat as her hands wrapped around his throat.
"Faith? What are you doing?"
He was having trouble breathing. "Taking care of a problem." Her hands tightened on his throat and squeezed with enough pressure to knock him out. *THIS IS FOR YOU B!* Ben's body arched up and then he was laying unconscious in his bed. Faith got her pants back on, picked up the body and running quickly, she took him to Spike.
The door to Spike's crypt banged open; "Hey pulchritudinous, what you got there?"
"Spike, stop flirting with me, cuz it ain't going to happen and I need you... to turn him."
"Why? I just don't turn any bloke."
"This body is housing the bitch who is after the key! SO no questions, just do it and leave the rest to me." Stepping back, taking a knife to Ben's throat she cut him, so that he started to bleed. The vampire bit into his neck and then was sucking down warm, oh so wonderful blood. He put his hand out to Faith so she could cut him and then the cooler body of the bitch from hell was drinking blood.
"Faith, I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!" Ben’s body was part him and part Glory as they stepped forward.
"I don't think so, BITCH!" The stake hit its mark and all that was left was dust.
"Thanks, Spike, gotta motor." The door clanged back as she left and was running toward home.
*HOME....Yeah, that's what it is now.*
The slayers were in the doctor’s office, waiting for their names to be called. “B, I’m going to go, I don’t need to be here, I need to talk with you about something that happened last night.”
“Faith, I think whatever it is that you want to tell me can wait, till we are back home, or at less on the way there.”
The door to the office open; “Faith Lehane..FAITH LEHANE!?” Getting up, the dark slayer frowned at Buffy...giving her the, 'this was your idea B' look. Walking to the door, she said; “Yeah, that would be me.”
The door was almost closed, as the brunette slayer went through it, missing a small sigh from her fellow slayer, following the directions of the nurse, going into room three...strip her clothes off...putting on the smallest napkin that was supposed to be a gown. "Fuck, it's cold in here."
In the waiting room was a nervous blonde. Doctors were not her favourite people, not since her friend died in the hospital right in front of her. Getting up, she began to pace the floor, stopping as she heard the door to the offices to yet another part of the doctors building.
"Miss Summers, will you follow me please." The woman looked old enough to have alligator skin, her skin looked to be pulled on over her bones. A shiver ran down the blonde slayer’s back. *Okay, not freaking out here, it's not the hospital, no one has ever died just following a nurse to a room...At less, I don't think so...oh no, she said something.*
"Miss Summers? A Buggy Summers?" The old crow asked.
"It's Buffy, miss." Trying not to run back out the door.
"Oh, I am so sorry, someone wrote it down wrong. So what brings you here today?"
"Well, I have been feeling bad lately, more tired than normal." Answering questions as the nurse was pulling out things for the doctor to use on her.
Swallowing hard at seeing the gown. "Hum., don't you have a full one, that I could wear?"
"Sorry, that is all that we have, one size fits all...Just take your clothes off and put it on and then the doctor will be in."
In two rooms, both slayers were now bare as the day they were born and nervous as hell. They were glaring at the walls, ceiling...wondering what the hell was going on.
***Buffy's Room***
*What does Faith have to tell me? Why do they make these gowns so damn small, a midget would not even be covered in the damn things! Why the hell am I here? I have work to do for Giles, there is training that has to be done, or Giles is going to be a bear the rest of the week. OH MAN, JUST COME ON!*
***Faith's Room***
*Why didn't I tell B last night when I got back home about Ben? Cuz, she was in bed, like she is every fucking time that I want to talk to her. I'll tell her when we get home. Am I crazy, or is B laying closer to me than she did when we first started sharing the room together? I love the girl, but I don't even entertain the idea that she could ever look at me. She can do better than me, by a long shot. What the fuck? WHERE IS THE FUCKING DOCTOR?*
In the meantime, a marine is fighting in a large controlled room, using a plastic knife on everything that comes at him. He stops as the doors open, as the demon stops in mid motion. A gray-haired woman is standing there.
"That will be all today, go get undressed SDT and enjoy your time off. Finn, follow me."
"Yes, Sir."
They walk to a small office of to the left side of the larger room.
"Finn, you have been assigned to a special ops unit today, you are to see one Colonel Clayton Jones, he will give you your orders, please go to room 517 and see him. Dismissed."
The slayers’ skins crawled, it felt like the walls were closing in on them. As each got up off from the table that they had been laying on, the doors opened to each room...
"Ah, Miss Summers, I am sorry about the wait. I am Nurse Taylor, I am going be to taking blood from you, getting a urine sample, and of course blood pressure, temp and I am sure that I have missed something, maybe x-rays, if that is deemed necessary by the doctor."
The blonde slayer sighed as the nurse started taking her temp, blood pressure, following her to a small table, drawing a blood sample, and then using the smallest bathroom known to mankind to try to get a sample of urine. *Good thing that I didn't pee before coming here, Faith is going to be having a hard time, she peed at least twice before we left the house.* Closing the door to the bathroom, she saw Faith coming her way. "HEY!" came from the both of them, and then the blonde was being led back to her room, while her fellow slayer was going into the bathroom. There appeared a small smile on the blonde's face as she heard a small sound come from behind the door, "Fuck!"
At the office of one Colonel Clayton Jones, Riley Finn was standing at the door, raising his hand to knock on the door...KNOCK, KNOCK.
"ENTER."
Riley opened the door, entered the room, stood at attention, awaiting orders. "Sir."
"Finn, we have a special ops unit that is leaving tonight. You are going to be leading them on the hunt for a demon. Say goodbye to anyone who means anything to you, this may become a suicide mission. You will be leaving from the airstrip at sundown. Thank you, that is it, Finn."
"Yes Sir, I will be there, Sir!"
"Dismissed Finn."
"Sir." Riley Finn went out the door closing it and the Colonel was standing there grinning his ass off.
Buffy and Faith met in the waiting room of the doctor's office.
"Well, that was a waste of a good three hours," they both said at the same time, breaking into laughter.
"Come on B, we need to get something to eat and we need to talk about something."
"All right, keep your gown on."
"Funny B, very funny. You know, I think I saw something on your ass, when you turned around before."
As the surprised blonde started walking away, she was trying to figure out what she was most surprised about: the fact that Faith had checked her ass out, or that Faith seemed to be behaving funny with her again. Mostly, she was just glad that the nurse didn't have to take any blood pressure again after the urine sample, surely hers was up at that point. Looking at Faith walk into the bathroom was weird and something was jangling at her heart. The more time they spent together, the more it seemed that they were made for each other.
The cafe was not packed with many diners. The slayers got a table in the back and pulled out the menus.
"So B, whatcha going to have?" said Faith, as she started looking over the menu items.
"Faith, I just sat down, how the ....Ooops, can't say that here. I don't know, give me a minute, K?"
"Yeah, yeah, I'll give ya, 2 minutes. How's that?"
"Gee, is that all? Whatever will I do with the half a minute that I won't need?"
"Whatever!"
Their heads went down looking at the menus as a shadow was cast over the table.
"Buffy, I need to talk to you, now!"
"Riley, I just sat down, I'm hungry!"
"Won't take long. I’m sure that Faith here will keep your seat warm for you."
"Whatever, Beefstick!" Faith motioned to the waitress to come over. "Go on, B. The quicker you leave the quicker I can get some food into me."
"Thanks F!"
"No Problem....Yeah, I will have two cheeseburgers, two orders of french fries, order of onion rings and a vanilla shake."
"Are you two splitting the order?"
"Naw, that’s just mine. She will have a chicken salad, ranch dressing, bacon on the side and a large diet coke, but give her about 15 minutes before you put the order in, her boyfriend just took her outside. K?"
"Sure, got it." The waitress walked off with the brown eyes of the slayer watching her.
"Riley, what was so important that you have to hunt me down and talk to me? I have been at the doctors all day and I am hungry, not to mention, I feel like shit. What’s up?"
"Buffy, I am leaving tonight for a mission, and I am not sure when I will return. I had to see you. I love you, you know that I am sorry about sleeping with you...when Faith was in your body."
The blonde slayer sat down on one of the chairs that was lined up outside of the dinner.
"Riley, I thought that we were taking a break. I know that I forgave you of sleeping with me... when I wasn't me. There is just too much to deal with. I am sorry that you are leaving, I want you to be careful. No matter what the past was, you still mean a lot to me."
"Buffy, I just wanted to say goodbye. I won’t keep you. You be safe, let Faith handle some of the slaying. Or maybe sharing it, you both don't look real good."
"RILEY FINN!" The blonde went back inside and made her way to her chair. The dark slayer watched her sitting back down.
"So, what beefstick want? You leaving me, sorry, are you going to be leaving here?"
"No, he said that we both look like shit and that he is leaving tonight for some type of mission. It's no big, he'll be back and trying to get back into my pants before the week is up, just watch...So what did you order for me?" looking over the ketchup that was on the larger plate and the grease left from french fries.
"Ah, you’re back. Here you go, one chicken salad with ranch dressing, bacon on the side and one large diet coke. Can I get you anything else, Miss?"
The blonde was looking at the dark slayer.
"Faith, you are going to get it. You know that right?"
"No, miss. This is just great, wonderful even."
A snicker was heard from the table as the waitress went to wait on another table.
"You are so going to pay for this, Faith. Ranch dressing? You have much sucking up to do."
They both froze as the words came from the blonde’s mouth. There was a blush on the original slayer’s face and a serious fucking smirk on the other one.
"Really B, you game for that?" as Faith reached over and grabbed a piece of bacon off the blonde’s plate.
"Hey, that's mine F. Alright now that is twice what you owe me for."
"Don't fret B. Once I tell you the 411, we will be great, you’ll see. Now eat, I wanna go kick some vampire ass."
The plane soared from the town, as Sunnydale faded from sight. Riley Finn had left town, no one was there to see him off, just one lone solider in a vast army.
The slayers were looking for any vampires to slay. It was like they all had taken off for the night. They had been out for four hours and not one fucking vampire had shown its face.
"B, why don't we call off the slaying and head home? I really need to tell you something important. I shouldn't have waited so long."
"Faith, why don't you just tell me here?"
"I can't, I...I got some money. Why don't we get a room ...What? Don't look at me like that, the room is for talking, you only drive stick and well, I may be many things, but I don't have a stick."
Chuckling..."K, Faith. Let's get the room and watch them all drool."
*I am not going to drool, a room all to ourselves, no mom, no sister, no Willow, no Tara. OH GOD, I am in trouble.*
*B and me in a room without anyone else around, no fucking house full of people. Not sure that I can keep my hands off her. Fuck, I have wanted her since the first time that I saw her, took me long enough to figure out that I was jealous of everyone else getting time with her, mostly of Willow. They spent so much time that I wondered about them. Get a room, tell Buffy about Ben and Glory and maybe I can see that tattoo again.*
"Just let me go inside and get the room and I will be right back B."
*OH GOD* they both thought. Buffy just watched her go. *What was she taking about about my ass anyway?*
"Oh, hell yeah. We got a mini bar, B!"
"No drinking till you tell me what the big surprise is."
"Fine, spoil my drinking. Sit down B. Not sure how this is going to sit with you."
"All right, I'm sitting. God you got me nervous as a black cat on Halloween. What is it?"
"Last night, I went to the Bronze and I was dancing with this guy."
"Faith, I DON'T NEED TO KNOW THIS!"
Grabbing a hand of the blonde's slayer. "B, I was dancing with Ben."
"You and Ben? I thought he liked me? What is it with the men in my life?"
"B, just listen. Please!"
"FINE!"
"I was dancing with Ben, I got dizzy and almost fell. He caught me and took me back to his place."
"I SO don't want to hear this. I am leaving Faith."
"DAMMIT. SIT THE FUCK DOWN BUFFY!"
"Okay."
*Why do I care if she got her rocks off with Ben?*
*Why does she care if I slept with him?*
"When I got to feeling better, we were going to have sex. And yes, I knew that he liked you. But I figured with Riley still being around and all, well, I just wanted to feel something other than my fingers."
"TOO MUCH INFO FAITH!"
"SORRY."
"Anyway, when we were going to get started...well, he started changing form..."
"WHAT?"
"B...Ben was Glory."
"WAS?"
"Yeah, I kinda choked him and then took him to Spike so he could turn him."
"WHAT? ARE YOU FUCKING OUT OF YOUR MIND? BEN, GLORY, AS A VAMPIRE. SHE JUST WON'T TAKE THE KEY. SHE'LL DESTROY US ALL. WHAT THE HELL WAS YOU THINKING FAITH? WERE YOU THINKING AT ALL? FUCK, FUCK, SHIT, GOT TO GET TO DAWN...FUCK..FUCK..I DON'T BELIEVE YOU, FAITH. I THOUGHT YOU CARE ABOUT ME, ABOUT MY FAMILY. WHY WOULD YOU DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT? TELL ME? CAUSE RIGHT NOW, I AM THINKING ABOUT GETTING ANOTHER KNIFE SO I CAN FINISH THE THING."
"Buffy, calm down."
"HOW THE HELL CAN I CALM DOWN?"
"I KILLED THEM!"
"WHAT?"
"If you will stop yelling at me and give me more than three seconds to get words out of my mouth, I will tell you what happened. Will you just be quiet now, for me B?"
"K."
"I cut his throat with a knife, so Spike could bite him and then I cut Spike's hand and let him feed on the Ben/Glory person. When they became a vampire, I staked the bitch. She is not a threat anymore B. Dawn is safe. It's over B."
*OH GOD, I THINK...*
*God, what did I do. She isn't moving one bit.*
"B."
"B, Buffy are you alright?"
*AM I all right? I'm fucking wonderful. Oh shit, got to talk to her now. She looks so beautiful. What? Stop denying it, you love her, always have.*
Getting up, bringing the other slayer with her, the blonde was staring into the deepest brown eyes that she had ever seen. She was getting closer to the eyes and to the lips that forever haunted her dreams.The kiss started off slow, with a whimper coming from the strong raven slayer. The need for air made them break their kiss.
"B?"
"Faith, thank you. Thank you for taking care of Glory, of Dawn. But most importantly, looking out for me. You took something that probably would have cost me my life. You gave me that back. We have come full circle, I can't hold it in anymore Faith, I just can't. I think you feel the same way, I don’t think I'm wrong, that kiss didn’t seem wrong. I am in love with you, Faith, and I have been for a very long time. Faith, Faith." She wiped tears away from her partner’s face, hoping that the words would mean more soon to her.
"Oh god, B! I have loved you for so fucking long. Can I kiss you?"
Hands pulled the dark slayer’s lips closer to her own, and when they touched, she gave control over to her lover.
*Oh fuck me!*
*YES.*
The dark slayer was thanking everyone that she ever thought about, Willow, Giles, Riley. That thought made her pull back.
"What's wrong Faith?"
"What about Riley? You have been dating off and on since the swap."
"I don't love him Faith. I love you. Only you. I don't want or need him. Do you want me?"
"GOD YES."
"Then, let’s make use of that big bed over there. I think I want to know just what goes on between Willow and Tara."
"B, whatever I do to you, has nothing to do with Willow or Tara. We love our lovers in our own way. It would never be the same. Why you crying B?" as she now wiped the tears falling from the blonde’s eyes.
"That was the sweetest thing that I have ever heard."
"You bring that out in me, B. My B!"
That big ole bed was a mess, as was the room. The slayers had made love in the bed: laying claim to what had been crying out since they had first met years ago - the other’s mind and soul.
Come morning light, they left the room with the weight of the world off of their shoulders for once. They head back to what was now their true home. Joyce is at the door with nothing but worry on her face. As is the norm, her oldest daughter tells her everything is alright and she is sorry she forgot to call, but that everything would be explained later in the day at a meeting. The slayers head into the kitchen to eat more than is humanly possible, a pissed off mother following them, and two Wiccas smirking at them from the table.
RING
RING
RING
RING
"WILL SOMEONE GET THE PHONE?"
"YES, Ms. Summers." Tara answers the phone. "Hello, Summers’ house. May I help you?"
"Yes, this is the doctor office that a Buffy Summers and Faith Lehane came to yesterday. I have the results of their test, and I need speak with both of them, please. This is Nurse Taylor."
"Buffy, Faith. It's the doctor's office with your test results. Grab the other phones; they need to speak with each of you."
"Alright." Buffy answered.
"Yeah." Faith said.
The slayers look at each other and pick up the extra phones in the house. The phones are new. After all, there are so many woman living in the house, and they never know if they might need to call Xander or Giles.
"We're here," they say together.
"This is Nurse Taylor, and well, I really wanted to talk to each of you separately. But I guess since I have the same results, it doesn't matter. You do live together and I don't believe that... if you both agree that it will not be breaking any code…then I can speak about your conditions with the both of you. Do you both agree to this?"
"YES!" Comes from both of them. *God come on* is the look they give each other.
"Alright, since we were so slow, we had the time to get the results back faster than normal. I want to wish you both the best in the future. So congrats."
"Nurse Taylor, congrats for what?" Damn, this bitch is making her wish she could stake her though the phone. And why is B looking at her, like she knows what she is thinking?
"Oh, I am sorry. I get so excited, when I get to give the good news. You are both pregnant. You will need to see an obstetrician or an OB doctor, whichever way you prefer to say it. Just let us know what doctor you pick and we will send both your charts to them. It was a pleasure, Miss Summers, Miss Lehane."
"Yeah. Thanks." The slayers hang the phones up and look at each other before sitting down on the couch. Willow and Tara have been watching them, but Joyce has already left for the gallery.
"Buff, so do you know why you have been sick? Come on it can't be that bad?"
"Will, don't push her." Tara can see both of the slayers’ energy flows; they are OK, yet confused.
"Sorry, Tara, just worried for my best friend here." Willow gives her lover her a pout.
"Put that away! Right now. I'll take care of you. Later."
"Promise?"
"Always!"
"Sorry, guys. Me and Faith need to talk first. Why don't one of you call Giles and tell him that we need to get the meeting moved to nine o'clock tonight. We should be alright tonight without slaying. Make sure everyone is there for the meeting. Dawn, too. Come on, Faith, let’s go for a walk."
"Well, that was just weird, Tara. I don't know what is going on with them. I hate when Buffy leaves me out of her life."
"Willow, you are going to have to get over being jealous of Faith."
"I am not jealous of FAITH."
Laughing, "Baby, I know you love Buffy. No, not like that anymore. But you can't tell me that, at one time, you didn't think about her in more than a friendly way."
"Tara, I love you. Have you seen her? I had a crush on her, and then Faith came into her...our life, made it a living hell for a time."
"Didn't Angel do that, too?"
"Damn you."
"What? You were jealous of him, too."
"Fine, but I helped them, too. Are you saying that Buffy and Faith are together like Buffy AND ANGEL? OH GOD....OH GOD....NO..."
"BREATHE, WILL...Come on, baby, they love each other. They know what each other goes through with the slaying, like what we know with the magic stuff. Be happy for your best friend."
"Fine. But if that slayer hurts her, I’ll find some way to hurt her worse."
"She's not going to hurt her. She would die this time before that."
"You really think so?"
"Yes, baby, come ‘ere. You think I wouldn't die for you?" A head shakes, lips meet, and they're lost to the kisses.
The slayers are walking down the road, sometimes holding hands, other times not. Both of them thinking, trying to figure out what the hell is going on. Did they both have the same luck to have sex at the same time and just happen to get pregnant at the same time? Or was something else going on - on the Hellmouth?
"FUCK, don't we ever get a fucking break?" Faith said the words, that they both were thinking.
"Don't look that way!" Buffy, says as they both stopped.
"So, it looks like we have a big research party coming, and either a big bad or maybe the end of the world. Or we could go for Big Bad and the end of the world." Faith, tries not to see the worry in her lover's eyes.
"Maybe we could just skip that and go to Giles’ favorite word. You know, prophecy." Buffy said as she kicks her foot at a peddle.
"You just want to see Giles get a hard on." Faith is smirking.
"Please, no talk about Giles and a hard on in the same sentence. Scary image."
"Oh, please, B. He's a watcher. It's like a weatherman...you know how they get when there is bad weather, they almost get a nut when there is a tornado, or, oh my god, there is going to be hail tomorrow. They have something to live for."
"Haven't we got off the subject here, Faith? We're both going to have a baby we didn't plan on. We didn't ask for it. We sure as fuck didn't want one right now as we are finally building a relationship. I just want to go home and take you to bed and lick you till you beg me to stop. But no, we have to figure out who is fucking with us once again." Tears come to the blonde’s eyes.
"B, don't cry. Can't be the hormones so soon. Oh, don't look at me that way. You tell me you want me to beg, and then you give me waterworks. Girlfriend." Laughing. "What? Yeah, you can look at me like that if you want to. But we are now. You’re my girlfriend. B. We will figure this out. Besides, don't we have the Scooby gang? They always come through. We will have the brats...children..sorry. Come on, let's walk some more, before we gain too much weight and can't even move," she says, chuckling.
A hand hits her arm. "That ain't even funny, Faith."
"Yea, yea, but it got you to stop with the waterworks. Now give’s the hand and let’s motor for a bit, and then nap at home.”
The Meeting
They are at the Magic Box waiting on Xander and Anya to show up. Everyone is thinking the same thing: Anya would not let Xander up out of bed to come to the shop for the meeting. Finally at twenty after the hour they came through the door.
"I don't see why we have to be here. We could still be in bed, with the orgasms. You only gave me four and I want four more."
“An, we talked about this. No talking about our sex life in front of other people.”
"But they don't talk about theirs, so I have to talk about ours. That way then they know it's okay to talk, and I will learn something about theirs."
“Anya, do shut up!”
“Thank you, Giles”
"Shut up, Spike," everyone in the room said.
"Now that we are all here, maybe we can get this late meeting started. I have inventory to do, as does Anya." He looks over at the slayers, trying to figure out which one was going to go first.
"Right, well…I guess I'll-" Faith stands up.
“No Faith, why don’t I?”
“Oh god, we’re never getting out of here.”
“Spike!”
A lighter opens and a cigarette is now being smoked.
"I'll let Faith start, and I'll take over...Faith."
“Yeah, B. A few nights ago, I went out dancing..”
“Was probably looking to get fucked.”
“ANYA...LANGUAGE! DAWN IS HERE!” Giles said.
Buffy looks like she wants to slap her.
"Yeah, anyway. I was sick and this guy offered to take me home and let me get to feeling better. Later, when I was feeling better," she looks over at Dawn, then at B, "we were getting friendly and the guy that was taking care of me was Ben."
"Oh, that's just great. You take the only guy that has shown any interested in my sister. Slut."
“DAWN.”
"It's okay, B. While we were almost friendly, he started to change. His body changed shape. Ben became Glory."
“HOLY FUCK.” Xander said as images went through his mind.
“OH MY GODDESS.” Tara was shocked as the words left her mouth.
“BUFFY.” Willow was worried for her best friend.
“DEAR LORD.” Watcher and Father figure, said his favorite word.
“GUYS, LET FAITH FINISH, PLEASE.” Buffy was loosing her cool with her friends.
“Yes, of course.” The room quietly said.
“I choked him and took him to Spike to turn him.” Faith wanted to whisper out.
“YOU BLOODY WHAT?” Giles was stepping toward the raven slayer now.
“ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE?” Anya said out loud, way too loud.
“SHE IS INSANE.” Willow yelled, while walking up to Faith, looking her in the eyes.
”GUYS! WAIT!” Buffy is beet red from yelling at her friends.
"I cut his throat with a knife, so Spike could bite him, and then I cut Spike’s hand and let him feed on the Ben/Glory person. When they became a vampire, I staked the bitch."
A body hit the floor.
"Someone get some water." Spike said.
The slayers run to her at the same time. The witches stay close to them.
"Dawnie. Dawn, can you hear me?" A hand caresses the girl’s face.
A small voice cried out, "Buffy."
“Yes, Dawnie?” Buffy asks her sister.
“Is it really over?”
"Yes, Dawn. Glory is dead. You’re safe."
The Key looks up, seeing the raven slayer at her left side and behind her the two witches. The others stay back.
Giles hands the water to Buffy, and she gives her sister a drink. "You think you can get up now?"
"Sure. Sorry about falling ... Faith?"
“Yeah?”
“Thank you!”
“Ain’t no thang.”
“It was and I’m sorry about being a bitch to you earlier.”
“You get it in your genes. Don’t worry about it.”
“Faith...Be nice.”
“B.”
Spike watches everyone going back to their seats. Bunch of useless gits. How had they stopped every major big bad that came along? He just didn't know. "Well it's nice to know that you thanked me for my help. Once again, what I did gets over looked. If I hadn’t turned the poor bastard, Glory would still be after little bit here, and Ben would still be riding the slayer slut."
WHAMP...SMASH...sounds of a stake moving through the air, then dust.
"Finally!" Xander says as everyone has their mouths open.
“What? I am sick of his mouth and his ways. He is just one time away of betraying us, we all know it. I tired of people calling my girlfriend a slut today. Faith is not a slut. And the next one that calls her a slut is going to get hit. Is that clear?”
"B?"
"WHAT?"
"SHIT!"
Buffy chuckles. "Well...Faith and I are a couple now, just in case you didn't get that. Please sit back down." All eyes are on the slayers as Faith comes over and takes the blonde’s hand, smiling at her.
"As some of you know, Faith and I went to the doctor yesterday for tests and such. We found out what is wrong with us and there is going to have to be some research done to find out if we are fighting a big bad, apocalypse, prophecy or whatever. We are going to need every one’s help." The slayers look at the room and each other, knowing that there was never going to be a good time for this.
"We're pregnant!"
...to be continued...