Buffy and Faith went into Buffy's room. "Getting the weapons from your magic chest?"
"Yup." Buffy felt a slight twinge at that--magic--it reminded her too much of Willow. She could still remember when they'd left, left her alone in Sunny hell.
Willow had told her that everything was too dangerous. Her parents were dead.... There was some other her running around.... Somehow or another, she'd managed to get all five of them transferred to another high school, one somewhere in Los Angeles (NOT Hemery High, she hoped). But Buffy had decided to stay behind, to fight the good fight.
But now she was wondering why.
"B?" She jerked herself out of the mild flashback.
"You okay?" Faith looked at her, trying to see what was wrong--or if it was just the usual.
"Five by five." She grinned a little, using Faith's trademark phrase.
"How're we working it tonight? Splitting up?"
"Yeah. I'm thinking Bronze for one of us, and cemetary for the other."
The Bronze was dangerous territory lately... It had become much too similar to the one from the other reality, judging from what the other her had said. Before Angelus took her away.....
A few humans still went there, if they were brave or dumb enough. Some actually wanted to be vampires--eternal youth, eternal life, and everything else.
Others wanted to try and kill one--someone who'd killed a member of their family, or a friend, usually. Of course, those few people wound up getting killed too.
It was only a very few people that could manage to kill vamps before being killed themselves--and that number was dwindling all the time.
"I'll take the Bronze. Looking for a good fight, anyway. That's where the vamps will all be, probably. You, in the cemetary, you'll get some fresh little things. Angelus'll probably stay in tonight--if he comes out, I'm getting him." She looked at Buffy, thinking about it.
"Look, sorry if I'm insensitive, but I want that bastard gone."
"I've got it." She smiled a little, then grimaced when she remembered that she'd had to send him to hell to get rid of him last time.
And Willow wasn't here to help anymore.....
"Hey. If we could make him all puppy-like and re-ensouled again, I'd be all for it. But it's not going to happen, B. Look, no one's got the goods anymore, no one around here but Giles. And he really can't do it on his own. I'm sorry."
"It's okay. I just want it over with." She remembered saying those words before Acathla was opened, before Giles was tortured....
Before Drusilla killed Kendra.
"Buffy." She snapped out of the memories, looking at Faith again. "You've gotta stop doing this. You have to let it go. None of those things were your fault, okay? You didn't know. Quit blaming yourself."
She nodded. "I'm ready."
"Then let's go." Faith smiled, knowing what was waiting for her at the Bronze, knowing what could happen tonight. It could happen any night. They'd all been lucky so far. Except for Angel, of course.
"Okay." She tossed a stake to Faith. "Let's go."
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