Following Faith: She could escape any time she wanted to
by vanillagigglez
Following Faith

Disclaimer: Sadly, I do not own Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Joss does. I own the fanfic though!
Set: When Faith was in jail sometime at the beginning of Season 6.
Summary: Ever wondered what happened to Faith in jail? Who she met and what went on? We’ll have to see!



Faith and the guards headed out towards the canteen. The corridors were all long, and surprisingly enough, grey. She looked in some of the other cells and saw a bunch of other criminals. She had already made up nicknames from them when she first came in.

“Shortie, tattoo lady, baldie, fat guy slim head....” she said under her breath as she saw them all.

As she saw another young woman in a cell similar to hers, she nodded her head out of courtesy. Phoebe was about her age and was in for manslaughter. She was ok but Faith didn’t like to get close to anybody.

When they arrived at the canteen, Faith picked up a grey tray and stood in a queue along with the other prisoners. Only 10 were allowed in at a time as each prisoner had to be accompanied by 2 prison guards. At least Faith had Bob and Rob were ok with her, some of the senior prison guards had hearts of steel, if they even had hearts at all. Faith walked along the line and got to the food serving counter. The dinner lady handed her a plate with a ready made meal on. It consisted of mashed turnip, cubed carrots and garden peas. It looked sickening. Faith wouldn’t have minded something like this if she bought it from the shop or cooked it herself, but this place used the cheapest food.

“Man,” Faith said to Bob and Rob. “I wish I was in England, they treat prisoners like guests in a 4 star hotel.”

You know what would be ironic, Faith thought to herself. If Bob or Rob were vengeance demons. She makes a wish and all her dreams come true! Nah, she knew it didn’t work like that. When Buffy’s friend had her wish granted, the whole world was thrown into some weird psycho reality. Urgh! That name again. Buffy this, Buffy that, Buffy's friends, at Buffy’s house. No matter what Faith thought, that name cropped up all the time. As much as Faith wanted to be a Scooby, Buffy would never allow it.

“Leave me alone!” Faith said quite loudly, talking to an imaginary Buffy.

Some people around her stared at her. One man in particular was staring right into her eyes.

“What are you looking at?” he asked her menacingly.

“Your ugly face,” Faith quickly retaliated.

She put her fists up and threatened to punch him, before realising her whole ‘path of redemption’.

“Holy crap,” she swore, and then put her fist down.

“Just keep it calm,” Rob told her.

“Yeah, don’t start fights,” Bob said.

It was then that Faith realised something. They were scared of her. Two of the butchest and strongest body guards in the prison were scared of her. Well, she did kill a man with a piece of wood. Faith could escape any time she wanted to, but the good thing was that she didn’t want to. She wanted to do her time and help fight on the side of the goodies.

“Yeah, yeah,” Faith said. “I’ll behave.”


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