Disclaimer: I own non of the Characters in this story besides Faith,She belongs to me and is not to be used without my permission. All the others belong to the show and whoever else owns them.
Author's Note: This one would take place after the episode 'Phases'. Jenny is alive,although she isn't in this. Angelus is Angelus (bad). Cordy & Xander,Oz & Willow, Buffy & well....no one. You Get The Picture !!
Night falls quickly. The sky turns dark and the air grows cold within minutes. She stands in the street and observes the surroundings before her. This is the all powerful Hellmouth she keeps hearing about. Sunnydale. She looks around and wonders what that pathitic little twon has to offer. She sees nothing in it so far. Although she had only been in town for ten minutes. She starts walking down the street,her knee-high boots clicking on the paved road as she walks. Her long rich chocolate brown hair swaying back and forth against her back as she takes each step. She looks around wondering where to begin. Her beautiful face glittering in the moonlight.
Then as she passes the street corner she hears a low-pitched grow. She stops aware of the familiar sound. Just then she is attacked from behind and tackled to the ground,In the process ripping the shoulder off her shirt. She quickly does a whip-lash move of her legs and is back on her feet before the vampire can even make another move. She turns to face him. It's then when his eyes widen when he sees the tattoo on her right shoulder. In the spot which he had ripped. His silent gulp is followed by terrified words escaping his mouth,He speaks just above a whisper and is obviously too scared to move. "Faith..."
Part 1
The Next Morning..........
"How did the hunt go last night Buffy ?" Her Watcher asks as he comes out from behind the counter,in which Xander jumps off before he gets in trouble for sitting on it for the second time. Willow smiles then turns to Buffy who sits down in one of the chairs at their table and replies "I got one....in the cemetery...." Rather softly.
"Wow....once again something falls into the 'that's a switch' column." Xander says smiling as he slowly walks over to the two ladies.
Then Giles does the same,noticing Buffy's low voice when she mentioned it. "And... That bothers you ?" He asked confused as he looks down at the Slayer. She looks up at him. "Oh...no...it's just...I was so ready for a bunch of them to come up on me. I mean I trained really good and then...nothing,ya know. I mean I had nothing to....." She stopped mid-sentence,relizing that Giles had sighed and walked back into his office.She smiled to herself then turned back to Willow and Xander who were smiling also. There was more to it then that,but it could wait.
"So what's up for tonight ?" Buffy asked sitting up in her chair and leaning on the table. Willow perked up "Oz is playing tonight at The Bronze !" Buffy smiled at her friend's happy relationship....only to bring back more memories of Angel. She quickly shook her head,earasing them and smiled again.
"So we're calling it 'Bronze Night' again huh ?" Xander asked jumping back up on the counter since Giles went back into his office.
Willow nodded gleefully and turned to Buffy for an 'OK'. She nodded and Willow smiled wider jumping up and garbbing her bookbag which lay on the floor. "Off to Class." She said seemingly happy about it. Xander and Buffy exchanged a worried/playful look,then got up as well. Xander grabbed his bookbag also and waited for Buffy.
While she went back into Giles' office. "Hey Giles....we're going to class now ok ?" She told him popping her head through the doorway. He looked up at her and returned his glasses to his eyes where he had been holding them in his hands. "Um...yes...ok." He said slowly then turned back around to his book. Buffy rolled her eyes slightly and made her way back to Xander and Willow. And Off To Class They went....Only One Of Them Happy About It.
Buffy lets out the breath she had been holding when the last perioed bell rings,which means School....is over. She gets up grabbing her bookbag and makes her way out of the classroom and down the hall until she finds her locker.
Xander and Cordelia come up behind her just then. "Hey Buff !" Xander said happily.
She turns to face him as she shuts her locker "Yeah ?" She asks softly. He shakes his head while repling "Nothing...I just felt the need to say 'Hey Buff' ." Cordelia rolls her eyes while trying to figure out how she can even like this boy. Buffy smiles to herself as she sees the look on Cordy's face.
"So what are we doing til then ?" Willow asks coming up behind Buffy.
Buffy turns to face her instead of Xander and Cordelia "Well,I have to go see Giles." She explains,but gets a confused look from All of them. "There's more to my little 'I only got one last night' story then I told." She finishes and heads for the Library. Meanwhile Xander and Cordelia follow,but Willow goes off the other way to try and find Oz.
"Giles ?!" Buffy calls after she comes through the double doors to The Library,soon followed by Xander and Cordy.
"Yes ?" Giles answers coming back from out of his office.
"Now do you wanna hear my *whole* story of last night ?" She asks sitting down at the center table.
Giles follows her to the table with confusion "T-There's more ?" He asks softly.
"Yeah...but as usaul you wouldn't let me finish,you just roll your eyes and go back to your office...ya know Giles that's very unprofessional." She scolds him smiling.
He sighs wondering when she will get the actual point of this story. She gets the hint and begins talking.
"Okay...Last night I said I got one. And I also said that I had trained that night and had been ready for a *good* fight,but didn't get one. I am this vampire was like the weakest vampire ever,and he didn't try and fight back. He pratically let me stake him." She explained then looked up at Giles for a reason.
"And...that was what had been bothering you.....not that you didn't get a good fight out of him." He stated in a questioningly way. She nodded.
"He looked like he had just seen a ghost or something. I mean his eyes were all big and everything." She added.
"Another Ghost ?!" Cordelia yelled out worried.
Buffy turned to her. "I said he *loooked* like he had just seen a ghost....I don't know if he really did." She explained.
"And what was the postion of the attack on his take ?" Giles asked getting a little worried while stepping closer to the three.
"Um...He came running from around the corner." Buffy answered tring to remember everything.
"Ah.." Giles thought aloud. "No no. That's not what I ment." Buffy stated. "He came running from around the corner. Not *at me*...*from...something else*."
On To Part 2 : COMING REAL SOON!!!