Life And Death After Highschool: The Damage is Done
by Buffy Anne Harris
The Damage is Done

Xander Harris walked quietly through the halls of Sunnydale community hospital he had come to know his way around this building all too well, over the last few years. He had seen his friends injured and cared for here, and he himself got a personal visit to have a cast placed on his arm after an encounter with Angelus' flunkies. But now he was here for another reason. He stood in front of room 403. His mind going over events in repetition as he opened the door and stepped into Faith's room.

There she lay. Bruised and beaten on the bed. Her body hooked up to machines to monitor her. Xander walked closer and stood above her next to the bed. She had been his first. And then she had tried to kill him. He seemed to have that effect on women he thought as he remembered Ms. French, the substitute science teacher who had been a praying mantis lady. She had had plans to mate with Xander and then eat his head.

Xander shook the thoughts from his mind and returned his glance to Faith. He lightly brushed the hair from her face. Then pulling a chair from the wall he sat down and took her hand. He wasn't sure why he had come to see her. But he felt like he should stay with her a while.


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