• 1-REBELLION
• 2-Cry Havoc And Let Slip The Dogs Of War
• 3-"...And Slowly But Surely They Drew Their Plans Againtst Us."
• 4-"Who Wants To Live Forever?"
• 5-"No Prayer For The Dying."
• 6-Chosen
• 7-"Into The Valley Of Death..."
• 8-"The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions."

“…Cry Havoc and Let Slip The Dogs Of War.”

Second in the Rebellion series

A Few Months Later

"Faith!" Came the scream from Dawn as she ran up to her friend. The slayer looked up slowly, she looked like hell. Her face was so cut-up and covered in blood that she was scarcely recognisable, her hair was matted with encrusted blood and dirt and her clothes were torn into .

"Hey Kiddo," Faith croaked weakly before falling into the teens arms.

Dawn quickly dragged the brunette further into the small cave before starting to tend to the more serious of the slayers wounds.

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Sunrise - The next day

"B, I'm sorry, so sorry. It's not enough I know but I'm sorry…B don't….."

Dawn had lain next to the almost comatose slayer for hours, listening to her say her sisters name…in fear, in anger, in regret, loathing …and…love.

"She nearly died." She said as she addressed the man behind her.

It's because she's still trying to prove something to Buffy - to prove she's as good and can save the whole world single-handed!"

"Dawn…." Faith groaned in obvious pain, cutting the younger brunette off in mid-sentence. 

"No Faith, listen, Buffy NEVER did this single handed - she always had the Scoobs to help her, which made her stronger…"

"Dawn's right Faith." Wesley cut in quietly but with a serious note in his voice, "You insist that you are the slayer, that it is your duty to fight the darkness - until recently that would have been true. Things have changed Faith! The whole world is shrouded in darkness and it will take more the the power of the slayer to defeat that darkness!"

Faith pulled herself to her feet and staggered against one rough wall, "Wesley you're disabled at the mo. You can't fight. Dawn I can't let you fight! B would kill me if she found out that I'd put you in danger!"

"Faith, I'm in danger all of the time now. Besides Buffy is dead! And even if she isn't she is as good as, she isn't coming back!" There was a bitter note in what Dawn was saying that made Faith pay attention, it did more than that - it scared her.

Dawn had said what every one of them had been thinking and the shock showed on Faiths face.  Taking a deep breath she tried to convey to them how hopeless this was, how hopeless it all was. "It's been three months, in that time I've killed numerous kinds of demons, master vamps and all that.

Face it! This is the end of the world boys and girls! For every creature I kill there's a thousand to take its place - for every human I save millions will be killed!

Don’t you get it - There's nothing I can do about it! NOTHING!

THIS IS THE END OF THE HUMAN RACE!!!

And if I hadn't fucked everything up, maybe I could have done something to stop it!

It's hopeless…

A lostcause…

Don't you see it, they've taken over the world…

This is