Hell hath no fury, as a slayer lost.: Episode 1x02 : Visit from an old friend
by lieselot
Hell hath no fury, as a slayer lost.
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Episode 1x02 : Visit from an old friend.
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Every time I think I get something, I don't.
I'm just here in this world, trying to survive, I don't know who I am.
I'm to young, I've always been to young to understand myself.
I'm alone, just like B was, the 'chosen one' is always alone.
B. not, not anymore, with all these slayers on the world now.
But me, I'm not just ready to stop fighting, I need to fight for good.
To stay good, to survive, I fight.

***

Faith is sitting in her living room, if you can even call it that, and she is watching TV.
The movie Sleepless in Seattle to be exact.

"Oh god, this is so boring, I know it's Christmas and all, but can't they show ONE freaking action movie!" she is complaining to herself, not knowing, that in a minute or so, she'll get more action then she wants.

She hears a bang, she looks around her, but sees nothing.
Then she hears voices, yelling, a fight, she looks around again, but still sees nothing.

She stands up.
"I swear, this place is haunted." she says as she turns of the TV.

Then she hears a gun going of, she runs to the door, opens it and looks outside, but nothing is there.
Then she hears it again, only closer this time, she turns around.

She sees three (white) men, kicking a black man, kicking him half to death, while another woman, also black, is watching, yelling, crying, begging them to stop.

One of the men goes to the black woman and grabs her by the hair.
"You want a piece of me ?!" He yells, and kisses her, against her will.
"Stop!" she yells and pushes the man so he falls into the ground.
"You BITCH!" he yells, the two other men step away from the black man and look at their leader, getting his gun.

"Now, you and you lover will die, and you get to watch first." he says.

One of the two other men steps forward and grabs the man's arm.
"Don't you think this has gotten to far ?! They won't tell, they never do, come on, just leave them be."
The man with the gun turned around. "You want to die too ? (the other man shook his head.) Then keep your fat nose out of my business!" the man stepped away again, he looked at the woman, and started to cry too.

The woman looked at him too. "Please TJ, help us. I Love You! Please! Help us!!!" she yelled, and right after that, she saw her brother got shot in the head by the leader.
TJ looks away, his mate has fled and his leader turns to the young woman.

"Now look what you did. You black naive girl, you should have just stayed away from one of my own." was the last thing he said to her before he shot her, not quickly in the head, once in the leg, then in the arm, then when she was screaming of pain, he shot her in her heart and smiled, while his buddy was throwing up.

The image disappears before Faith's eyes, she is crying, strange, it isn't something Faith would do if she saw something like this.

"My god. Jenna. Oh my god." Faith says and just stares right in front of her, her eyes like she has seen a ghost.

***

The next day Faith awakes on the floor, she must have fallen asleep after seeing, whatever it was she saw.

She takes a shower, puts some fresh clothes on and calls someone.

Several minutes later there is a knock on Faith's door.
She opens it, and Willow is standing there.

"H... how'd you get here so fast ?" Faith asks a little suprised.
"I'm a witch, remember ? I have a few tricks up my sleeve. And, what happened to those friendly hellos people usually give ?" Will. smiles.
"Oh, right. Hi, euh, come in."

Willow steps into the apartment and looks around, she gives Faith a look of 'gosh, this is a dump', but Faith gives her a look of 'shut up' back.

"Now, you said on the phone it was urgent, what is it ? A demon ? Vampires ?" Willow asks.
"I'm not sure, look I appreciate you coming here and all, but, what I'm about to tell you, has to stay between these walls."
Willow nods.
Faith hesitates, then stands up.
"This is stupid, just forget I ever asked you to come." she suddenly says.
Willow doesn't stand up.
"Faith, I know this is probably hard for you, but I won't tell, I promise you, okay ? Okay then. Now, what happened ?" Willow asks.

Faith first stands up and gets two beers out of the fridge, then she sits down and starts telling Willow what she saw last night.

"OMG, that's horrible. W... why did you this, did you feel connected to them in any way ?" Willow asks, trying to find an explanation.

"Now this is the part where you keep silent about what I tell you. (Willow nods) I knew them all. It was long before I knew you guys, even before I was a slayer. The woman who was killed, her name was Jenna and her brother's name was Leo. I was about 12 years old when I first met them, Jenna was, I don't know, maybe 18-19 years old. Her brother, I never knew how old he was. Their skin was black, and where I came from, people thought like the old days, they were racists."

Faith pauses, Willow asks what happened next.

"I had this friend, TJ."

"The one who turned his back to her ?"

"That's the one." Faith answers.

"He grew up with me, he was the only friend I count on back then. He stood by me, through everything. He was the same age as I was. And he got in a gang, he wanted me to join him, them. I didn't know any better, so I was gonna join them, until that day. That day I was supposed to join them, I saw them beating up a black kid, my age. I wanted to stop them, but I had no power then, they would have just beat me up too. Then I saw Jenna and Leo run to the gang, and they saved that kid. He was almost beaten to death, but thanks to them, he was just fine."

"I never knew people were still so stupid. That was just inhumane." Willow says.

"Tell me about it. So, the next day, I went to them, and asked them why they risked their lives to save a kid they didn't even know. You nod what they tolled me ? (Willow shakes her head.) Because someone had to. After that, they became my best friends, Jenna always looked after me, cause a white kid hanging out with some black kids, I might as well have been black back then. I was about 14 years old, maybe 15, when they died. When they were murdered."

"Did you notice anything strange before their murder ?" Will. asks.

"Yeah, Jenna and TJ, TJ never belonged in that gang, he never did anyone any harm, the only harm he did was to himself by standing with that gang. A few months before they died, TJ and Jenna acted weird, they looked weird at each other. TJ wasn't with his gang as often as he used to be, the same goes fore Jenna. She wasn't with me and her brother as often as she used to be."

"Were they in love ?" Willow smiles.

"There is just one way to find that out for sure, and that is by going to the living. I have to look up an old friend."

Willow understands what Faith means, she nods and they go out the door.

***

"So, where are we going to ?" Willow asks.

"Prison. I called his mom and well, no suprise there, he's in prison. There is just one problem. What if the cops recognize me ?"

"I can do a spell. To make you look different for the cops, but the same for me and TJ."

"Cool, then do that But if it fails, I'll break out of jail just to kick you in the but."

They laugh a bit, normally Willow never laughs with what Faith says, but she figures that she has to let her anger towards Faith go sooner or later. It might as well be sooner.

***

They arrive at the prison and when they get there, everyone sees Faith as a girl with blond hair, short and glasses. Not that Faith likes it, but she likes it more then being in jail, that's for sure.

A gard pushes a button in the visitors room and then calls out the following : "Number 4516582/4582 is coming out!"

***
A man in her mid twenties comes out the door. He has short black hair, and lots of tattoos.
He has a tattoo of a snake on his arm, and one of an eagle on his face. He has muscles, you can see that.

He sits down at Faith and Willow's table.
"Faith. Long time no see. Last I heard you were wanted for several murders." he says.

Faith tells him to keep quit, he asks for what.

"Look, the cops don't actually know I'm me, only you and red here (looks at Willow) know. Besides, we're not her for me, we're here for you... and Jenna."

He stands up.

"Fuck this shit! Fuck you! I'm out of here!" he yells, a cop turns around and gives TJ a mad stare.

"Did you love her ?" Faith asks, she's not one to ask such question, but she needs to know.
TJ sits back down.

"I didn't kill her." he says.
"I'd never kill her."

"No, you did something much worse, you looked away." Faith says.
"I don't even know why I came here, why I thought you'd be good, but I can see in it your eyes. You still have the same look, a killers look. Even if you didn't do it, you might as well could have done it. You pulled the trigger, you're the murderer." Faith says and she and Willow walk to the exit.

TJ stands up.
"Faith, wait!" he yells, she walks back to him.

He looks her in the eye.
"You're right, I might as well have killed her. I've killed after her, so I guess that counts too. I loved her, there is not a day that passes by that I don't feel guilty for letting her and her brother die."
"You'll just have to live with it." she says and walks away again.

"You say you see it in MY eyes Faith! But I see it in yours too! You're as bad as me! You're a murderer too! You bitch!" that one cop is tired of TJ yelling all the time and he runs up to him and takes him away.

***

In the car, Faith doesn't say anything, neither does Willow.

Faith is thinking about what TJ said.
'You bitch! You're a murderer too! You're as bad as me! Murderer! Murder...murder....murderer!'
Faith is driving, and she almost crashes into a tree, thank god that Willow uses her magic to stop the car.

"Faith ? What's wrong ?"

Faith stares out the window, she looks at the birds flying in and out of trees, she sees bunnies hopping over the road, then she turns her face to Willow.

"He was right you know."

"Who ? TJ ?"

Faith nods.
"I am a murderer, I've killed, I've tortured people, for pleasure, for fun, I'm as bad as TJ, even worse, I'm as bad as the guy who killed Jenna and Leo."

Normally, Willow would say something like 'I can't argue with you on that one', but not anymore.

"Yes, You've killed people, but that was all just because, well, first you killed that guy by accident, and then you were on the wrong path. You were a murderer Faith. Not anymore, we all know you're good now. Even Buffy, even tough she would never admit that. You have a bad history, nothing more, nothing less."

"So, what now ?" Willow asks.

"Before he called me a murderer, TJ tolled me who killed Jenna and Leo and who that guy was that ran away."

"Where can we find them ?"

Faith looks up, then looks at Willow.
"The guy who ran away is dead, and the guy who killed them, is gone."

"Gone ?" Willow needs to know more.

"Gone, he's vanished without a trace. There is no way of finding him."
"I know a way." Willow suddenly turns her head to Faith.

"You do ?"

"I do." Willow nods.

***

Faith and Willow are back at Faith's place, Willow is placing some candles in a circle, around where Faith is sitting.

"Tell me again how this works ?" Faith doesn't trust magic, she prefers to fight.

"Okay, I'll do the spell, say a few words, and if he's alive, he will be brought to us, if he isn't alive, he'll be brought to us as a ghost."

"Right, whatever. Just do it."

Willow sits down right in front of Faith, at the other side of the circle, she gets on her knees, closes her eyes and thinks.

"In this somber night, in this darkest hour.
I call upon the newest power.
Bring to me a killer of heart,
Bring to me one torn apart."

All the candles blow out like in some kind of scary movie, Faith turns to Willow.

"You call that a spell ?!"

But before Willow can respond to that, a bright lights appears, followed by some sort of explosion.

And in front of Faith and Willow, a woman is standing.

"OMG, where am I ? What am I doing here ? Am I dead ? Is this hell ? Oh My Goodness!"
It's a big girl with blond hair, and she's starting to freak out.

Faith turns to Willow again.

"I guess your spell didn't work! We were supposed to have a guy! Not a girl!" Faith is totally freaking out too, she's mad at Willow for the spell failing.

Willow closes her eyes again.

"Lett us see this human's true face,
return her back into the one she erased."

Willow opens her eyes again and sees the big girl changing into a man, her hair changes from long to short and from blond to brown. Her clothes change, everything, until she is a man.

Willow turns to faith.
"I know I see a gay person when I see one." she says.

The guy doesn't know what to say, he falls on his knees.

"You remember Jenna and leo ? The two people you shot ? Do you ?!" Faith hits him, Willow doesn't hold Faith back, she knows he deserves a fate worse then this.

"Say it! Say you murdered them because Jenna fell in love with TJ! Say it!" she kicks him.

"Okay, okay!!! I say it! I did it! I say I killed them because she and TJ fell in love! Because she deserved it! I say it! I did!" He keeps yelling.

Then two spirits float trough the room, the guy is becoming more scared with the minute.
The two spirits enter him, killing him from the inside, till they take him away to god knows where.

One spirit returns.
"Hello Faith."

It's Jenna, Faith is stunned, she has the ghost of the best friend she ever had standing in front of her.

"How is this possible ?" Faith asks.

The ghost turns into a hard body.

"The big man upstairs (she looks up) decided to let you see me one last time before I finally move on."

"You didn't move on ?" Faith asks, while Willow keeps herself on the background.

"I couldn't move on until I had justice, that's why i showed you my murder, because I knew you'd help me. I know you've had it hard, and I watched everything you went through, I even heard what TJ said, TJ is lost, he'll find his way too, someday, but you, you are not a murderer, you never were in my eyes. I hope I'll see you again some day, Faith." then Faith lets her do something she wouldn't let anyone else do, she lets Jenna give her a hug.

Then Jenna disappears.

***

The next day, Willow has said her goodbyes and has left, and Faith is going through some old pictures of her and jenna, while the TV is on.

On the pictures, Faith looks the happiest anyone has ever seen her.
Faith smiles.

'Maybe some day Jenna, maybe some day.' Faith thinks and she puts the photos away and watches some TV.

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Hi, I hoped you liked the second chapter of this series, and i want to say I'm sorry if you didn't like my language some moments, it was just to make it more real.

I'll hope you'll stay tuned for the next episode of my series and until then...

Thank you for reading and please leave a review! ;-)

The next chapter will be up in August.



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