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REBELLION	By : Tanith Category: -Buffy the Vampire Slayer > FemmeSlash - Female/Female > Dawn/Faith Views: 3957 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
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The Scooby gang had been following Faith for hours weaving around in the forest in almost random patterns. They stopped in a rubble strewn clearing when she finally called a break. Faith herself sat apart from the others stiffly, she was anything but relaxed. Even Buffy was tired, she couldn’t match the stamina of the brunette slayer who despite her injuries wasn’t even breathless. She gave a low whistle through her teeth which was obviously a code of some sort. It was answered almost immediately, she gave a relived sigh and relaxed her position slightly.
Giles climbed to his feet and smoothed down his suit, he walked nearer to Faith. “We need some answers now Faith.”
“Can’t you wait for five minutes?”
“Why?” Xander said roughly, “What the hell is going to change in five minutes?”
Buffy stared hard at Faiths face, she had said little since the brunette slayer had shown up to rescue them. Xander continued his tirade while the Chosen Two continued to eye each other. “If I find out that you had anything to do with this you murdering bitch….”
“You’ll what?” Faith drawled showing for the first time a hint of the girl that they had known. Xander momentarily shut his mouth. The dark haired woman began to pace around the perimeter of the clearing, the uneven rubble shifting beneath her feet but she was still making little or no sound, as though she were used to the forest. A lone wolf trotted out of the tree line making for Faith, it sat by her side like a trained dog, she bent to stroke its fur. “I didn’t have anything to do with this, there was nothing I could do.”
“Like we’re supposed to believe you, you murderous bitch!”
“Xander.” Giles warned.
“No Giles! Xander is right, Faith can’t be trusted.” Willow joined in. She had never forgotten those moments when Faith had held a blade to her throat. “She’s evil!”
“You’re one to talk Red. I did hear something about you wantin’ to destroy the world…” Faith said softly.
“Willows nothing like you Faith, don’t try to drag her down to your level.”
Faith sighed, “Haven’t you got anything to say B?”
“I think they said it.”
The dark slayer lifted her eyes to her surroundings, “Where the hell have you guys been?”
“Like it’s any of your business slut!”
“Xander.” Faith sighed. “How long has it been since you last saw me?”
He was shocked by the question so he answered without thinking, “Three years.”
Faith looked at him for a long moment and rubbed her hand tiredly over her face, “And don’t you think a person could change in three years?”
“Not that much.”Willow said quickly.
“Not you.” Xander added.
Faith looked at Giles, “I am afraid that it would take a large amount of convincing.”
“Dare I ask B?”
Buffy looked at the woman standing in front of her and then at the ruins of Sunnydale. “It looks like there have been a lot of changes around here.”
“We’ll never believe that you have changed, not in a million years.”
Faith pinned Xander with an intense look, “Not in a million years huh? Well how about eight and a half?” They all looked at her.
“Eight and a half?”Willow said in a choked voice.
“It’s been eight and a half years since I left Sunnydale, eight and a half years since I went to prison and the last time that I saw any of you.”
“How is this possible, we have only been gone a few weeks.”
“You went missing nearly six years ago.”
Faith broke off the conversation as there was a rustling in the bushes off to their right. “Faith, I’m so glad that you are unharmed.” There was something familiar about the voice that issued from the darkness, “More refugees?”
“Come and see for yourself.”
A figure stepped into the faint morning light and stopped dead when he recognised the slayers company, who could only stare. “ I trust you still remember my watcher.”
“My Lord.” Wesley said
“My thoughts exactly Wesley,” Giles said stepping forward and shaking hands with the former Watcher and rogue-demon hunter. “I hope that you can shed some light on Faiths bizarre story.”
“Faith’s story as you call it is the unaltered truth.”
“You trust her after what she did to you?”
“Implicitly.” Was Wesley Windham-Prices only response.
“How is she?” Faith cut in.
“She was injured and has been asking for you.”
“Can you take care of this please Wes? I need to…”
“Go on.” The gang looked at her as she smiled at him, it was the first real smile that they had ever seen on her face. With one final intense glance at Buffy she ran off in the direction Wesley had come from. And boy could that girl run.
One of Wesleys guards waked up to Buffy, “So you’re Buffy the Vampire Slayer?” At her nod he straightened up and spat in her face, “I lost my whole family because of you, this whole fucking mess is your fault! I wish you were dead!” The man angrily stalked off leaving a slayer shell-shocked in his wake.
“Is that true?” Buffy’s voice broke on the last word, “Is this my fault?”
“In a manner of speaking, yes. Five and a half years ago you vanished, leaving the Hellmouth unguarded. The forces of darkness had a free reign in Sunnydale and two weeks later then managed to open it. Within mere hours it was completely open, demons the like of which have not been seen in millennia walked the Earth and there was nothing to stop them. Faith broke out of prison when she sensed the Hellmouth opening, but by then there was nothing she could do.”
“Does she blame me?”
“On some level she must do but she has never said anything to that effect, on the contrary she often used to express the wish that you were here to help her in the fight.”
“Used to?”
“I’m afraid that we all gave up hope of your return a long time ago Buffy. “
That effectively killed any conversation until they reached Faiths secondary base.
“Dawn…”
“Faith….”
The two Slayers shared a moment of awkward eye contact, “Are you ok kiddo?”
“Don’t call me that!”
“Why not?”
“You’ve got no right.”
Faith looked at the girl in front of her, only then realising how much she had grown. Recognised the strength within her, saw the fire in her eyes.
“Look I…”
“You what? There is nothing you can say to make it better.”
The older slayer sat down heavily and ran her hand through her hair. “No there isn’t, I messed up ok but I’m hoping that you can forgive me.”
“Why ‘cos I owe you so much? ‘Cos I owe you my life?” Her hand slipped beneath Faiths waistband at the back and grabbed her knife, she forced the blade into the other womans hand. Forced the cold steel to her own throat, “Why don’t you take it? You’ve taken every fucking thing else?”
Faith was fighting with all of her strength to keep the sharp blade from digging further into the girls’ neck. Dawn suddenly let go of the knife and through her tears and clenched teeth said, “Do it!” The dark slayer threw the blade across the room and slapped Dawn across the face. The younger brunette lifted her chin her face stung and red from the blow, “FUCK YOU!”
Faith lost the last of her temper at this point, “You already did.”
The punches and kicks Dawn rained at Faith did not connect as the older slayer anticipated every move, until she finally collapsed sobbing in Faiths arms. “Shush kiddo.”
Dawn stopped crying with obvious effort, “Why don’t you want me?”
Something deep within Faith responded to the plaintive cry but she resolved not to let it show. “I’m sorry Dawn but I can’t… There’s something else I need to tell you, it’s you sister, she’s back.”
The younger slayer pushed her away and began washing the blood away from a wound on her arm as though she hadn’t heard. “Buffy’s back Dawn, you know what this means don’t you?” There was no response, “Don’t you get it Dawn, this means…”
The girl looked at her disinterestedly, “No you don’t get it, I don’t care!”
Faith just stared at her aghast again reminded of the past, for a moment she was back in that motel room with B… “Don’t say that Dawn, you do care and don’t ever tell yourself otherwise.”
“Yeah whatever.”
Dawn could feel Faith staring at her for what seemed like hours before she turned and walked away.
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- 8
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