Losing It

Faith’s POV

“Married? As in, ‘the vow of eternal commitment’…married?”

I look over and Kenn and nod with a smile.

“Yeah. That’s the one.”

She raises her eyebrows and nods.

“Damn.”

I just smile and shake my head as I come to a dead stop in the middle of the graveyard. My Slayer senses kick into overdrive and I can feel it in the tips of my fingers.

Vampires. And lots of them.

I reach out and place my hand over Kennedy’s stomach to hold her back. She looks over at me with confusion. I nod in front of us and mouth the word ‘Vampire’. She nods her understanding and reaches for the stake in her jacket.

If it was anyone else, I’d be worried right about now, but Kennedy’s has proven more than once that she can hold her own. I’ve been training her and teaching her all the shit that my watcher taught me. She’s a quick learner and surprisingly strong for a ‘normal girl’. Not to mention the extended stamina she seems to have, and I’m sure Red is more than happy about that one.

I smile to myself and shake my head. I’m such a perv.

But those thoughts are pushed into the back of my mind when the hair on the back of my neck starts to tingle.

This is about to get fuckin ugly.

I slip my hand into the inside pocket of my jacket and grip the stake there. I nod over to Kennedy and she nods back. I remove my hand that was resting on her abdomen and bring it down to my side. I pull it into a tight fist and silently start to count to three.

I turn around in one quick turn and embed my stake into the heart he fhe first bloodsucker. He lets out a feral growl and then he’s blowin’ in the wind. I smile and turn to face the next fucker.

He swings out at my head and I duck down to avoid it easily. His forward momentum keeps him going and I jump up behind him. I grab him by the shoulder and bring his face down onto my knee before flipping him over onto his back. I ram my stake through his heart and he’s dust.

I pull myself back upright and look over to see how Kenn’s doing.

She appears to be holding her own against two of the biggest fuckin vamps I’ve seen in a while, but it looks like there’s a third one trying to get the drop on her from behind.

I smile and shake my head.

Not this time Pal.

I take off in a sprint. I jump over a headstone and run up the side of the mausoleum to get a flying kick in. My foot connects with the back of the third vamps head and he flies forward…right into Kenn’s back. She lurches forward and I see something fall out of her jacket pocket. Her forward momentum takes her right into one of the vamps and her stake rams through its heart. She falls face first in the dirt as it turns to dust.

The second vamp sees it as an open invitation to an all you can eat and leaps onto her back. I drive my stake through the third vamp’s back and flip over a headstone to land next to Kenn and the vamp. I pull it back off of her by its collar and it goes flying back into a headstone. The headstone bursts into pieces and the vamp’s knocked out cold.

I drop to my knee and put my hand on Kennedy’s back.

“K? You alright?”

She lets out a grunt and pulls her face up out of the dirt. There’s a cut over her right eye and the blood runs down the side of her face. Her face is blackened from the dirt and there is a bruise on her right cheek. She musta hit the ground harder than I thought. I keep forgetting she doesn’t have the Slayer resilience that I do.

“Do I look alright?” let let out a sigh.

“Not really. You look like shit.”

She sits up and runs a hand through her hair. She winces when she pulls the skin too tight around the cut over her eye. I lean in to get a better look.

I pull back with a sigh.

“That’s gonna need stitches.”

Red is gonna kick my ass for this.

Kennedy lets out a sigh of her own and drops her hands to her sides. Her eyes get really big and she takes in a deep breath.

“Where is it?!”

I look at her with confusion.

“Where’s what?”

She looks all around her and starts to panic.

“Where the FUCK is it?!”

Then I realize she’s talking about that thing I saw fall out of her jacket pocket as she started to do a swan dive into the dirt. I jump up and run over to where I saw it fall. I bend down and pick up the box. That’s funny. It looks just like…

“A ring box?”

Kennedy pulls herself to her feet and walks over to me. She reaches out and takes the box from my hand and stares down at it.

“Yeah.”

I stare down at her and she lifts her eyes to meet mine. She smiles and lets out a deep breath.

“You have to be better than me at everything, huh?”

Well if this ain’t the biggest fuckin’ surprise.

I don’t know what to say, so I just stand there looking at her with a dazed expression.

She sighs out and walks over to sit on a headstone. She turns the box over and over in her hands as she stares down at it.

She was gonna propose to Red? But But I beat her to it with Buffy.

I let out a sigh and shake my head.

“Fuck K. I had no idea.”

She looks up at me with a nod and a smile.

“I know. It’s not your fault. I didn’t say anything and it’s not like it matters.”

I shove my hands in the pockets of my jacket and I walk over to hop up onto the headstone beside K.

“What do ya mean?”

She lets out a deep breath and stares off into the distance. She’s quiet for a long time and just as I’m about to say something, she speaks.

“I can’t do it.”

I knit my brow in confusion.

“What?”

She turns to look at me.

“I can’t ask Will to marry me.”

I shake my head.

“Why the fuck not?”

She gets this lost look in her eyes and she swallows hard.

“What if she says no? What if she laughs in my face? Or worse…what if she says yes?”

I just smile and shake my head. I reach over and take the box out of her hand. I open it to reveal the biggest fuckin diamond I’ve ever seen. My eyes get wide and I let out a whistle.

“Fuck. That’s one helluva rock.”

She smirks as she reaches over and takes the ring from my hands.

“Only the biggest for my girl.”

I start to open my mouth and she lifts her hand.

“Don’t even think about it.”

She looks over at me and we share a grin. Her grin quickly fades and she stares down at the ring. I sigh out and place my hand on her shoulder.

“K?”

She lifts her eyes to meet mine.

“She loves you. I can’t imagine why…but she loves you. Ask her. She’ll say yes.”

Her eyes get that lost look again.

“And when she does…you take the ring and place it on her finger. Then you marry her and spend the rest of your life making sure she knows that she is your Angel and there is no one else in the universe that loves her more than you.”

She stares at me for a moment and then smiles.

“This better work cause if it doesn’t…I’ll kick your Slayer ass all the way back to Boston.”

I smirk and nod my head.

“Yeah, sure you will. Come on, let’s go home to our girls.”

She nods and smiles as she tucks the ring back into her jacket.

I hop down off the headstone and she hops down after me. We start to walk off when I suddenly remember something.

“Hang on.”

She stops and turns back to face me. I pull the stake from my jacket and walk over to the vamp that is still lying on the ground. I smile as I drive my stake into his chest. His eyes pop open and he let’s out a shriek before turning to dust.

I flip the stake in the air and then tuck it back in my jacket. I smile as I walk back over to K. She shakes her head and sighs.

“You love this job, don’t you?”

I nod and smirk.

“You damn right.”

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I know you are all anxiously awaiting the smut. I promise, I am wor on on it. The next chapter will be the one you have all been waiting for. I know this was kinda a BLAH chapter...but like I said, I'm working up to the surprise. Please, Please, Please...just hang in there a little longer. I'm getting to it...and I promise...this is one surprise you don't wanna miss...^__^