Chapter 3 - Some Things have changed
When Dawn went to the room that Willow had so lovingly prepared for her, Faith bolted it from the outside, hearing nothing but a short sigh of protest from within the confines of the chamber. Spike looked at her questioningly and Faith shook her head, muttering lightly to herself that he always had been a fool for a pretty face.
She wasn't about to admit it, but Faith was scared what Dawn's return would mean. Since Buffy had died, nothing of the major apocalypse, end-of-the-world standard had even so much as raised an eyebrow, and she was sure of that; she was sure because she had felt it ever since her friends death; she had felt the rumbling and power in the air and she knew now what before she had only suspected; evil was definitely brewing, and if her slayer senses were in working order, she suspected that it wouldn't be long before the beast raised its ugly head and howled.
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"I didn't expect her to be so...scared." Angel looked at Willow and she smiled sadly.
"She's been through a lot Angel. Just think what kind of courage it took to get her here."
Angel blinked and sighed. "There was something...sad about her. She's evil, don't even go near the possibility that she's the same because she's not Will, but...I don't know, I've never felt anything like that before, when I held her, she was fifteen again and scared and she just didn't feel real; she doesn't feel real; not even now, not even after everything."
Xander bit his lip. "What are we doing here Angel? Why bring her back now after everything, why give Willow and Spike false hope and let her back in here when she's evil, has no soul and completely disregarded everyone's feelings and her sister's memory by following that hell-spawn to bed?" He shot Angel an apologetic look. "I just don't understand."
"Xander." He said clearly and moved towards his friend. "We have been through too much; we have lost too much to let ourselves lose her."
Faith walked down the stairs, pushing her hair from her eyes; no longer smiling. "Harris is right Angel. We lost that bitch when she let your son make her evil."
Spike held her by the shoulders. "Then why did to tuck her in and say "goodnight" if you hate her so much? She's a kid Faith."
"Faith removed Spike's hands from her for the second time that day. "B' was special to me. I know I didn't always show it in ways that she - or you guys - could understand, but I'm doin' this for Buffy; for no one else but her, she wouldn't want her little miniature out on the streets despite her species. I never said I hated her; I said she was a bitch, and on all accounts; we know she is." She shot a warning half glance at Spkie. "Stop touching me."
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"Where's the girl tonight Connor?"
Connor shot his friend a glance. "Gone. Dawn's Gone."
And she was. He realised with a sigh that she was really gone. Really this time. She'd left before; in the beginning when it was so hard for her to accept that she loved him despite the whole "evil" thing. She'd run so many times that Connor had thought he had known that she'd always come back; to him, to their nest - the only place she'd ever belonged. She'd gotten so far from him; mentally and physically, that he couldn't even sense her anymore.
He knew where she'd be. Despite not feeling her there. She'd be at the hotel. Trying to make things right. He smiled through the knot in his stomach she could never get her blood running again.
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Faith was still awake and wandering the hotel at 3am. She was scared and all knotted into pieces. She couldn't shake the uneasy feeling that she felt within her stomach as she passed Dawn's room silently. She'd killed countless vampires. Dusted them into thousands of tiny, dusty pieces and not once had she been scared of one. She'd thought that it was the end dozens of times; but Dawn was the first vampire she had ever been scared of. Not just scared; terrified.
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