Happy To Bleed For You

Crow-Thanx alot. I luv you and it's thanks to you that I even continued this story in the first place. Let me shine a little light on the Sammy situation for you. Lets just say she's not invincible anymore,but that's not all...something else happened and it involves Faith to the fullest...and what happened is what the sequel will revolve around for most of the beginning. Ok that's all I'm ganna say,I don't wanna ruin it for ya. If you figure it out though,Kudos.

Thanks to all of my reviewers! You guys are totally awesome and motivate me to churn my wheel. I'll keep updating,you just keep enjoying the story.


It's All For You.

(Spov)

I'm currently scanning Buffy's room for a pen and a sheet or two of paper. I can't take in all this shit happening and just act
like nothing's going on and continue with the normal girl normal life play. But Faith is my girlfriend,no! She's more than just
my girlfriend,she's my campanion,my lover,my love,my friend,my weakness,my strength,my life,my heart,my soul,my sun,my moon and
all the stars accompanying the night. She's my everything. So really now? Is it that bad for me to lets say want to sneak out,
find Jack then castrate him?...Okay maybe that was a little drastic,but her certainly deserved drastic,physcotic even.

I found the materials I was looking for in Buffy's drawer,which was also filled with certain things I would have rather not known even exsisted. Damn,I guess she's not so innocent. Making sure not to wake Faith,I discretely rest my upper body against a
table in the corner of Buffy's room to write her a quick note before I rake off. If I know Faith,I'm pretty sure that when I get back I'll be in crutches for a few years.

'If,in my low moments,in word,deed or attitude,through some error of temper,taste,or tone,I have caused you discomfort,pain, or
revived some deeply hidden fear within you,that was not what I intended. Please forgive me,and charge it to my heart and not my mind. For my mind is wise and knowing and advices me to step away from insanity. But my heart is a fool for love and would glady
drown in a pool of fire just to feel you beside. Faith,I am tough enough to fight,tender enough to cry,human enough to make mistakes,humble enough to admit them,strong enough to absorb phsical pain,and resilent enough to bounce back and keep moving.
However no matter if we lived to be a milion,I would never know how to cope with losing you,body or spirit. I have to do this,
not just for you,but for me as well. Please understand. I know you would do the same for me if the situation were vice versa.
I love you truly and I'll see you in a bit. By the way...I'm taking the last poptart. I love you,but not that much...haha! Just
kidding...or am I? Hugs and kisses Faithy. And tell Dawn to keep her teenager hornyness away from you,I bite when provoced.'

I fold the paper and slip into the pillow next to Faith,hopefully when she wakes up she'll find it. Hopefully by then I'll be done teaching Jack that he can't come here,back into Faith's life and ruin it all over again. Last time Faith had noone to stand
up for her or protect her. Well this time I"m here.


(Npov)

Jack looked on intently,his interest quite quirked by feeling of pure hate and power imanating from the cementary closeby. This
was the spot Raemeus had sent him to explore. He didn't understand what was so special about the particular cave in this park, but he hated having to go out and examine pebbles when he could be driving a knife right through the slayer's heart instead.
Why the hell was Raemeus so bent on torturing her when he could just simply get it over with.

He shoved his hands in to his pockets,feeling the smooth cold surface of the needle in his right. So Raemeus had explained to him that this wasn't regular Orpheus,it was a more concentrated and enhanced mixed that would leave the slayer conscious while
reeling from the pain. It would take away her powers for a period of time,long enough to torture and kill her,but it would still
have the effects of Orpheus,it would make her unable to even think with the pain and if that didn't kill her surely Raemeus would finish the job.

"Finally,"he sighed in exasperation,his cold dead eyes falling on the entrance to the cave a few feet away from him. He took a
few steps,stopping just outside the cavemouth and pulled out his cellphone. With calloused fingers he dialed the Inferno number
waiting for the receptionest,Marc,to pick up the phone.

"Hello. I presume you have goodnews?" Raemeus,smooth cold voice barked at him.

"I found your damn cave. Now what the hell do you want me to do. And I hope it's no stupidass go spy on rocks things." he said
rather annoyed.

"I assure that this time it will be worth your while."

Jack scatched at his chin,"Oh yeah? What might that be? Spying on old ladies now?" he snapped. He was really pissed. You never exposed a demon of fear to a slayer with that much in her and then pulled him away,it's like keeeping cocaine from a junkie and it can get ugly rather quickly.

Raemeus sighed on the phone,Jack was pissing him off too. "You done being a bitch?"

"Just tell me what the hell you want."

"That's more like it Jack. Her girlfriend is out looking for you right now,so Faith doesn't know where she is. Go to the house of the other slayer,Buffy,and trick Faith into thinking you have her. Make sure she and Buffy follow you back to the cave."

A cold smile spread on Jack's thin lips. "Well that certainly is worth my while."

Raemeus snorted,her could pratically hear the dead smile in his voice. "And don't forget to torture her for a little bit. You know give her a trip down sweet old memory lane...Jack." he emphazised his name.

"Gladly. I'll bring her back her in a about an hour. What do we do about the other girl?"

"I have some really interesting plans for her. Just try to avoid her for right now. Go have some fun Jack."

(Spov)

I'm really really pissed right now. I can't find that asshole Jack anywhere and I'm starting to get the distinct impression that
leaving the house was a bad idea...like a really really bad idea. Okay maybe I'm just being overprotective,but certainly with
damn good reason. A demon from your past,something so deep is much worse than any other. The others you can kill,the past you can't.

Man life is so fucked up sometimes! But it's like they say,no good deed goes unpunished. You would think that Buffy,Faith,and I
would be living the Justice League or X-Men life,cars,jets,big meeting rooms with eightynine inch plasma screens for survilance and friday night football,the cool suits and shit. But no. Here we are,fighting for our very lives just to try an get home to
give our loved ones a kiss. Everyday we have to live it as if it were our last,because with the way things are going we just never really know when indeed it will be. Wanna talk about bad karma? Wanna talk unfair? Give us a call.

Time to snap back to reality. Looking around I notice that I have ended up at the park right across from where the highschool used to be. Weirdness ensures as I get a strange tingle at the back of my neck. Strange because it seems to be drawing me closer
and closer to what appears to be a very out of place cave smacked right in the middle of SunnyDale. Whatever,after all,this is
SunnyDale home to all weirdness like the lost boys only not hot,things that look like chewbaca,things that look like they were
pulled straight out of Steven King's head,and the list goes on.

A crackling noise catches my attention and then it's followed by a rather nerve racking roar. Bingo. Letting my years of training take over me,my body automatically shifts,my knees bend and my feet spread,my eyes are sharp and my fist are positioned
one in front of my face,one in front of my chest and I start slinking into the cave.

It's pitch black in here except for one orange glow I'm assuming is fire at the very end of the path. Damn! Deja vu much? This is a repeat of history,but I'm rather comforted by the fact that Faith is back at Buffy's sleeping like a little baby.

Again I hear the roar and I recognize it as belonging to Raemeus,the crazy ass vampire dude. Okay so no big deal,uber vamp that's it,just gotta punch in the stake a little harder and faster that's all. Right at the entrance to what looks like a ritual
chamber I stop. Ritual chamber plus SunnyDale times chanting vampire god equals so not good. I kneel into the dirt and poke my head out just enough to hear his whispered words. They're latin,I can translate that. Something about loyalty to the Eus family.
Something about humble servant,something about the slayer. 'Not good.' And for the sugar sprinkled on top...on the night of the
new moon,rise under me army of darkness.

Okay,definately not good. Why is it always an army? We can't catch a damn brake I swear. I'm thinking about making Faith resign.
Maybe move back to my town,sweet beautiful demonless,okay less demon filled less apocalypse a day Miami. Faith would sure look
good with a really golden tan and on the beach waxing my surf board while I rub her down with-

Out of topic.

Taking long,but careful backword strides,I start making my way to get out of the cave and give good old Giles a visit. If I
translated right,the night of the new moon is...tomorrow!

"Shit!" Time to bolt back and gather the troops. I think I'm a little more afraid of waking up Faith than a couple of hundred
vampires.

"Find them!" I hear Raemeus shout in total anger.

'Opps.Did I yell that out loud?'

Apperantly so because I am currently streaking across the park with Luc right on my ass and about thirty of his thugs. Death by
waking Faith will have to wait for now,I can't lead these vamps right to them. Time for a little suicide mission...and lucky me
cause I'm only a block away from Buffy's place. After I dust these imbacils I'll just head on over there and assemble the team.

I stop like a wall and kick out my foot! Hah! Stupid Luc isn't too smart. He's sailing through the air now as another handful of
idiots join him. They're like domino stacks,you drop one they all fall. Luc's back up now,and despite seeing vampires and demons
all my life,I've never seen a scarier look in all my life. The look someone gets when you've just basically handed yourself over
to them,the look someone gets when you just walked straight into a trap.

I'm about to say something,but my right knee goes out from under me as a vampire drop kicks it and before I can even stand up I'm already fighting to stay alive. Oddly though I'm not afraid for myself,my attention is all on one thought. 'They're going for Faith.'

(Npov)

Jack stares intently at the large two storied house,his attention on a particular window that is sure to be Faith's. His hand
unconsciously strokes the needle in his pocket and he takes a step foward,his mind filled with only the thought of Faith's pain
and then the death of the slayers.

"I shall enjoy this." Jack laughs,hearing a very familiar voice scream out in pain from a few streets over. "They have the immortal. My turn." he kicks the door down,and enters the house. Already he can hear people jumping about,freshly woken from
slumber.

"What the hell is-" he hears Faith's grumpy voice coming from around the corner upstairs. She stops like she ran into an invisible wall and pales instanly. Jack's lips turn upwards into what can only be discribed as a snarl.

"Hello Faithy,I'm back." he anounces in a singsong voice. Again he hears the screams and his snarl widens as Faith's eyes do the
same.

"Sammy," she whispers,feeling her heart stop.