FF: Blind Faith act5

["Sam" <shadowmage_draco@xxxxxxx>]

Blind Faith

By

Sam


Act Five: The Talk


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: B/F (well not yet but it is coming, eventually, they 
haven't even seen each other yet.) W/T, X/A
Thanks: To coy for continuing to do a totally cool job of beta'ing, 
providing cool advise and for putting up with my madness.
Summery: A reformed Faith is injured and faces an uncertain future 
with her fellow slayer.
Notes: Contains spoilers for season four. Willow and Tara return to 
LA and have a talk with Buffy. May contain some angst, it all 
depends on your definition of the word. <> Indicates thought.
Feedback: Feedback is the fuel to please send it, as it is most yummy.
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Sunnydale...

Buffy sat in her room staring at the clock on the wall, it had been a 
half hour since Willow had called to let her know that Tara and her 
where back in Sunnydale and said they needed to talk. She only hoped 
that Faith hadn't been able to fool her friends like she had fooled 
Angel. What she really wanted was for Willow to come back and tell 
her that she had been right, that way they could put this whole mess 
Angel had created by showing up in the first place behind them.

The slayer looked at her alarm clock then at her watch, <What in the 
hell is keeping them, they should have been here by now. > She got 
up and started pacing back and forth across her room, every couple 
minutes glancing down at her watch, <why haven't they gotten here 
yet. > 

Willow held on to Tara's hand as the two Wicca nervously looked at 
Buffy's door. They had been standing there for almost 15 minutes now 
and still hadn't gotten up the courage to knock on the door. They 
knew that Buffy most likely wasn't going to take what they had so say 
very well and hopped that she would listen, but sometimes she could 
be so stubborn.

"Willow, are you r-ready?"

"Not really. What if she won't listen?"

"We're her friends, she'll listen."

"But this is Buffy, she's not exactly strong in the listening 
department, plus she wasn't that thrilled with us for going to LA 
with Angel."

Tara turned and faced Willow, she put her free hand on the redheads 
shoulder, "We have to try and make her understand things are 
different with Faith now."

"And if she doesn't believe us?"

"Then at least we tried."

"Okay. Let's do this."
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Buffy watched as Willow and Tara sat nervously on the edge of her 
bed, "So how was LA?"

"It was nice, definitely nice. Wouldn't you say it was nice Tara?"

"Yeah it was nice."

<Their acting weird something's not right, > Buffy leaned forward in 
her chair, "Are you two OK? Faith didn't hurt you? Did she?"

"No its nothing like that," Willow exclaimed, "It's just that?well?"

"Just what?"

Willow took a deep breath, <Okay here we go, > "She's different 
Buffy."

"How so," Buffy asked, not liking for one second the way this 
conversation was going.

"She's changed," Willow replied as she squeezed Tara's hand, "she's 
not like she used to be."

"I see, and what made you come to that conclusion," Buffy asked with 
a hint of anger in her voice.

"We talked to her, for a long time, she's sorry for what she did 
Buffy. I mean really truly sorry."

"No she's NOT! It's all a lie Willow, can't you see it, she's trying 
to manipulate you two just like she did Angel."

"Buffy she wasn't lying."

"And just how would you know that! Faith's like a professional lair, 
it's what she does, it's part of who she is!"

<God this is going bad, she's not going to listen. >

"Well?!"

Willow took several deep breaths as she tried to re-organize her 
thoughts, they had to get Buffy to listen to them some how, "W-w-
we..uh well, we?"

"You what," Buffy snapped.

"We did a spell, w-we would know if she was lying or n-not," Tara 
replied.

"A spell," Buffy asked, sounding slightly deflated.

Willow draped her arm around Tara's shoulder, maybe now Buffy would 
listen, "Yeah we cast it before we went to see her, if she told us 
anything but the truth we would have know."

Buffy flopped back down in her seat as she tried to take in what 
Willow and Tara had just said. Willow got up and moved over next to 
Buffy, "She didn't fool us or Angel Buffy. Faith really has changed, 
she regrets all the stuff she did."

Tara walked up next to Willow and took her hand, "Buffy she's right.  
Faith is a different person now."

Willow saw that Buffy wasn't going to say anything, <Good she's 
listening>, "Buffy, she asked me to forgive her, it was hard but I 
did it."

Buffy jumped straight up out of her chair startling the two 
witches, "You WHAT!!"

"I forgave?."

"Wills, have you gone mad. This is Faith you can't forgive her."

"Buffy, you don't understand."

"No! I understand perfectly, she tricked you and Tara just like she 
tricked Angel. She hasn't changed, can't you see it."

"Buffy! Faith didn't trick us, if she had tried to the spell would 
have picked it up."

"Then she found a way to get around your spell," A very agitated 
Buffy exclaimed.

"Buffy she didn't know we cast a spell. How's she gonna get around 
it?"

"I don't know, but she did. It's the only explanation."

"And why is that," Willow argued.

"Because she can't change!"

<God why won't she listen> "Buffy people change everyday."

"Not Faith!"

"And why not?"

"Because she's Faith. Don't you remember what she's done, how she 
hurt everyone."

"Buffy I do remember," Willow replied on the verge of tears, "How 
could I not remember."

"Then how can you stand here and tell me that's she's changed and 
that you forgave her," Buffy retorted.

"Because she has. I would have never believed it if I hadn't seen it 
for myself, but Faith
has changed."
Willow moved over and stood right in front of Buffy, "Look I know 
it's hard to believe but it's the truth. You're my best friend and I 
wouldn't do anything to stir you wrong so you have to believe me that 
she's different."

Willow placed her hands on Buffy shoulders, "Buffy forgiving Faith 
was one of the hardest things I ever done, but I did it. If I can do 
that you could at least go and see her."

Buffy lowered her had and just shook it, "No, I can't do it."

"But why Buffy," Willow pleaded, "Why can't you go see her. We would 
go with you."

"I can't do it Willow, I just can't do it!"

"Why Buffy?"

"Because I just can't!"

"But Buffy?"

"But nothing," Buffy exclaimed, "I'm not going to see her and that's 
final."

"Buffy," Willow pleaded.

"Wills you're my friend, and I can respect it if you want to forgive 
Faith but I'm not going to," Buffy stated turning away from Willow 
and Tara, "This conversation is over."

Willow looked over at Tara in desperation, "What do we do now?"

Tara wrapped her arm around Willow, "There's nothing we can do, and 
she's not going to listen."
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Buffy waited for Willow and Tara to leave. She walked over towards 
her desk, tears forming in her eyes. She clenched her fist tightly 
then punched the top of her desk so hard that it broke in half 
<Damn! After all this time, why now>.


TBC?