FF: Blind Faith act3

["Sam" <shadowmage_draco@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Blind Faith

By

Sam


Act three: Conflict.


Email: shadowmage_draco@xxxxxxx 
Rating: R 
Disclaimer: The characters of BtVS slayer are the property of Joss.  
I am borrowing them for a bit for fun.
Archive: If your archiving any of my others stories then by all means 
take this one if ya want, otherwise just ask and I'll say yes.
Pairing: Still no Buffy/Faith (I'm slowly working towards it) all 
the other cannon relationships apply.
Thanks: Coy Thanks for not only beta'ing and providing most excellent 
advice but also for like being a totally cool friend.
Summery: A reformed Faith is injured and faces an uncertain future 
with her fellow slayer.
Warning: Angst ahead, It's gonna be a rough road ahead for the 
slayers but they will get together eventually.
Notes: OK it's time to start to bring the Sunnydale game into the 
mix and that means I need to explain some stuff. Here are a few 
quick notes on this buffyverse. 1. Dawn is actually Buffy's real 
sister, no monks or keys involved here. 2. Joyce is alive and well.  
In addition, there is no Glory. Now with that said and done own with 
the show. 
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LA...

Faith shot up in bed, her body was drenched in a cold sweat, and her 
heart was pounding rapidly in her chest. The brunette's body was 
trembling as she clenched the sheets tightly, "Where the hell am I?  
What's going on?"

She heard the sound of footsteps rapidly approaching her room, <who 
where they, why are they coming>. She slid as far back against the 
headboard as her body would allow. The whole time holding onto the 
bed sheets, afraid that if she let go of them she would fall from 
where ever she was.

She heard an unfamiliar voice off to her right ask her what was 
wrong. She turned towards the voice, her heart racing in terror <Why 
can't I see who you are? Why can't I see where I am? >

The head nurse slowly moved towards Faith and spoke in a calm 
reassuring voice, "MS. Spencer everything is going to be OK, just 
tell me what is wrong."

"What's wrong! What's wrong is I don't know where I am! What the 
hell is going on here? What have you done to me?" Faith cried in a 
panic.

The nurse moved a little closer to Faith; "You're at Los Angeles 
county hospital. You where brought here after a riot at the prison, 
do you remember that?"

It took Faith a moment to put together the nurses words and when she 
did it all came back to her. The cafeteria, Big Marcie and the other 
inmates, the fire extinguisher, waking up her and having the doctors 
tell her that the chemicals in the fire extinguisher had blinded 
her. She tried to calm herself down but found it difficult to do.  
<Why can't I see who's in here with me? It's not right, I should be 
able to see who is in this damn room with me. >

"I'm in the hospital?"

"That's right, your in the hospital, and everything is going to be 
OK."

<She's lying, why the hell is she lying? I can't fuckin' see! It's 
not OK, it's never gonna be OK again. >

The Nurse slowly moved her hand towards Faith, "Ms. Spencer I'm gonna 
help you lay back down in bed so you can get some rest."

<Great, is this what I'm reduced to? Having to have people tell me 
when they are getting close to me so I won't be scared, I'm the 
freakin' Slayer, I'm not suppose to be afraid of a nurse. What the 
hell is happening to me? >

Faith felt her body tense up as the nurse helped her lie back down in 
her bed. The nurse then placed a pill in Faiths hand, and a glass of 
water in the other, "It's a sleeping pill, you need your rest."

<I know their watching. What if I spill the water on myself like last 
time? I can't do this! I can't even drink a damn glass of water. > 

Faith popped the pill in her mouth, and nervously began moving the 
glass of water towards her mouth, <This shouldn't be hard. Why is 
this so fuckin' hard? >

She felt the rim of the glass touch her lips, <please don't let me 
spill any this time, please not why they are watching. >

Faith waited for the nurses to leave her room before reaching under 
her pillow and removing the small wooden box from it's hiding place.  
She didn't know why she still hid it like that; there wasn't anyone 
here that would take it from her. Maybe she had just gotten used to 
it being close to her when she slept.

She placed the box on her chest, and removed Buffy's picture, "What's 
happening to me B? I'm scared, and I'm not supposed to be scared. I 
don't know what to do, I don't know how long I'm gonna last like this 
B. I mean how long before the vamps figure out what's happened, then 
when they do it's curtains for me. I know I probably deserve it for 
all I done but I don't want to go out like this B. If only I could 
see you again before they come."

Sunnydale...

Buffy paced back and forth across the living room of Giles house, 
trying to figure out what possessed Angel to show up in Sunnydale and 
insist that she needed to go to LA and see Faith. After all the dark 
slayer had done to them, done to her. Angel had the gall to show up 
here and tell her she had to go to LA. <What the hell is he 
thinking?!>

She shot a quick glare over at Angel who was sitting nervously next 
to Giles. At first they had though that he had come to warn them 
that Faith was getting out of the prison, but then he started going 
on about how she has changed, how she was a different person now and 
that she had been hurt at the prison and Buffy needed to go see her, 
<Like that's ever going to happen. Not after what she did. >

Buffy stopped pacing, turned and faced Angel giving him a rather cold 
stare but not saying a word. The souled vampire stood up and walked 
over towards her, "Buffy this is important, you have to hear me out."

If looks could kill Angel would have been turned to dust on the spot 
by Buffy's glare; "I've already heard enough."

"No you haven't. Faith's not the dark slayer she used to be. She's 
changed Buffy, and she needs you."

"Like hell she has! Faith can't change; it's what she is. I just 
can't believe you where gullible enough to fall for her lie's again, 
not after last time."

"She's not lying," Angel firmly insisted.

"And just how do you know that!"

"I saw it when I was at the hospital, I heard it as she talked not 
knowing I was there?"

Buffy slammed her fist on the table intruding Angel in mid sentence, 

"Then you saw wrong!"

"Buffy I know what I saw..."

The slayer grabbed a book of the table and threw it forcefully into 
Angels' chest, "You don't know. You're blinded by your need to help, 
but it's not going to do any good, she's beyond help, she can't 
change!"

"That's not true Buffy, and you know it."

"You're wrong, it is true," Buffy bitterly replied, "I know it all to 
well. I tried to change her, tried to help her but all she did was 
turn on all of us."

Buffy walked up to Angel and stared him dead in the eyes, "After the 
deputy mayor I tried everything I could do to help her, and she 
repaid that by kidnapping Willow and trying to kill her, or have you 
forgotten that."

"I haven't forgotten."

"Good! Because that is what Faith is. It was Faith who tried to 
kill my friends, it was Faith who poisoned you, it was Faith who came 
out of a comma and tried to steal my life and hit my Mom."

"Buffy that's in the past, you have to move on."

"I have moved on, I just haven't forgotten what she is, but you seem 
to have."

"Buffy..."

"I'm not done yet," Buffy screamed, "I don't care what you say, or 
how much she has fooled you. I'm not going to allow myself to be 
taken in by her again, I can't afford it."

Angel placed his hands on Buffy's shoulder but the slayer knocked 
them off. He took a few steps back and stared at her for a 
moment, "Buffy I know what she did, I know that she hurt you, she 
hurt all of us. But I wouldn't be here if it wasn't different this 
time. If you could only see her, listen to what she has to say then 
you would know that I am telling the truth."

Angel took a few steps back towards Buffy and reached his hand out to 
her, "Come with me to LA and see for yourself."

Buffy looked down at Angel's hand and slapped it away, "NO. If you 
want to help her then do it, but don't come crying to me when she 
turns on you."

Angel looked at Buffy then turned to the others desperately, "You 
forgave me after what I did. If I can change so can Faith, could 
someone please help me here."

Giles turned avoided looking at Angel and pretending to sip on his 
tea. He wasn't sure if Angel was right this time but he knew that it 
was best not to agitate Buffy anymore, the slayer had a very stubborn 
streak in her and there was no way anyone was going to convince her 
to go to LA anytime soon.

Xander and Anya both just sat there watching the whole scene. Not 
wanting to get pulled into this and risk Buffy getting mad at them 
too.  

Angel looked over at were Willow and Tara where sitting, his eyes 
begging for help. The blonde found herself wishing that she could 
just craw in a hole somewhere to get away from this whole mess but 
her girlfriend was a different story.

Willow stood up, clenching her fist, and with fire in her eyes. For 
the second time that evening Angel was glad looks couldn't kill. 

"Buffy's right! You have no right to come in here like this and tell 
her that she needs to go to LA and see Faith."

Willow then walked over next to her best friend and glared at 
Angel, "Faith's a nightmare, she tried to kill all of us, I had 
nightmares for a long time after she kidnapped me and if it wasn't 
for the people in this room I would still be having them."

"Willow, what Faith did to you and the others was wrong, but she was 
a different person then?"

"No! She wasn't! She was the same person that's in that hospital in 
LA. She's not ever gonna change, she can't change."

Buffy took her best friend by the hand and shot a cold stare to 
Angel, "I've had enough of this, get out!"

"But Buffy?"

"I said GET OUT! I don't want to hear this anymore so just go, 
there's nothing you can say that is going to change my mind."

"Buffy?"

"GO," Buffy screamed, pointing at the door.

Angel slowly walked over to the door with his head hung down; he 
turned around and looked at Buffy and the others one last time before 
leaving, "If you change your mind I'm not leaving till tomorrow you 
know were to find me."

"Go."

Angel then turned away and walked out of Giles' house defeated.


Later at Willow and Tara's dorm room...

"W-willow, can we talk," Tara nervously asked.

Willow hoped on the bed next to Tara, "We can always talk, you know 
that."

"It's about tonight at Giles, it's? well, it's?"

"It's what?"

"It's...you should go see her."

"What? Tara you don't know what she's like."

"I do know, I was here when she took Buffy's body and you've filled 
me in on the rest. I don't know if she has changed or not, but I do 
know that people can change and that we should at least go and see if 
what Angel is saying is true."

"Tara this is Faith we're talking about, don't you realize that?"

"I do, I also know that anyone can change, look at Angel he's a 
vampire with a soul."

"That was magic, it's different with him."

"No it's not, if you can cast a spell to give a vampire his soul back 
then maybe Faith can change."

"Angel didn't have a soul when he did those things, faith did, and 
she still chose to be evil" Willow exclaimed.

"That doesn't mean that she can't change, you should at least go see 
if what Angel said was true or not."

"Why, why should I go," Willow asked trying not to get mad at her 
girlfriend.

Tara gently wrapped her arms around Willows waste, "Because you're 
Willow, it's who you are."

"Tara, what in the world are you talking about" Willow confusingly 
asked.

"I'm talking about the kindest, most caring person I have ever met.  
Willow you're amazing, I knew it the first time I saw you. I knew 
that you where caring and compassionate. Sweetheart, Angel said she 
needs our help, we should at least go and see if she's really 
changed."

"What if she tries to trick us again, what if she lies."

"We could use a spell, you know so we can tell if she is telling the 
truth."

Willow looked at Tara for a moment and placed her hand on her lovers' 
shoulder, "I don't think I can do it Tara."

Tara pulled Willow into a hug and kissed her forehead, "I'll be there 
for you, we'll know if she's changed or not."

"But she did so much, she hurt all of us."

"You're not going to be able to move on if you hold on to the past.  
You have to let it go Willow. If she's changed she deserves another 
chance."

"And if she hasn't?"

"Then we come back here and tell Buffy and the others, and we go on 
with our lives."

Willow looked into Tara's eyes and placed her head on the blonde's 
shoulder, "I'm scared, I don't know if I can face her after what 
she's done."

"I know, but it's going to be OK. I'm gonna be there for you."

"I know but..."

Tara kissed Willow's lips and ran her figures through Willows silky 
red hair, "I'm not going to let you down, I won't let you fall."


TBC...