Happy To Bleed For You

(fpov)

"Faith please." Buffy is pleading,her face a mask of terror.

"Buffy,"

I don't know what to do. If I attack,he'll kill Buffy then he'll go after Sam to finish her off. If I don't do he's still ganna kill us off. It's a matter of the lucky ones going first or picking your poison. Run. I can run from here and never look back. I
could stop at Willow's place and let them know where they are and then I can disappear. I can forget everything and everyone,
start a new life with a clean slate. Why? Because that's what Faith Lehane does,that's what Faith Lehane is.

"Faith please!"

I catch Buffy's gaze,I shake my head no and start backing away towards the exit.

"Faith! Faith! Oh my god."

"I'm sorry B. I don't know what to do."

"Don't run you coward!" Buffy's face of betrayal is back and it's hrting me very deeply. "What about Sam,are you just ganna let
her die?!"

"I can't help B."

Vlad laughs as my stake hits the ground at his feet. "It would seem that you are the smart slayer. I have a proposition for you
dear."

I stop dead in my tracks. "What's that?"

Vlad raises a brow at me. "Join me slayer. Let me turn you and be my queen,in turn I will let these two live to do as you please
with them."

"Don't you do it to save your own skin Faith!" Buffy says my name like it's poison.

"What's the catch? What do you want from me?" 'Come on,say it.'

"Bow down before me slayer,that's all you have to do."

I hesitate,then give up or act like it anyways,walking to him we're toe to toe,I never back down from him,I keep my head bowed
but my eyes are trained on him. Vlad drops B and he places both cold hands on my shoulders.

"Don't act so defeated slayer,in the long run you'll be an immortal,your friends will be spared from me and you'll rule the world
it's a very generous offer I'm sure you'll agree with me."

I fall to my knees,and I bow to him,my hands outstretched,my forehead pressed against the cool dirt of the cave. "Very generous
indeed."

'Score two for me.' I think,my fingers wrapping around the smooth surface of the stake I had tossed at his feet.

"Great slayer." he throws his head back laughing victoriously.

'Laugh it up crypt keeper.' I hope to god he is weak enough for my plan to work. What the hell?! The first time I actually plan
and it's already got suicide written all over it. Standing erect on my knees I throw myself against his legs,hugging his thigh.
Vlad pats my head like I'm his little pet or something.

'Yeah I'm a pet...a pet that's about to bite you.'

As quick as I can with my slayer powers,I plunge the very pointed end of the red oak stake that Sam gave me straight into the
inside of his right thigh.

"Move it B!" I shout,twisting the stake in deeper,Vlad's blood splattering on my face.

"Wench!" Vlad's harsh voice reaches me before I feel my throat close off and my eyes nearly bulge out of my head. "I should have
know. You wouldn't know a good deal if it bit you on the neck." he sneers,his fangs shining in the torchlight. "It's not going
to bite you though." Vlad pulls his arm back,unclentching his fist so that his inch long nails are pointing straight at my heart.

I always heard that right before you die,your life flashes before your eyes. Well it's not my life flashing before my eyes,but
only one particular moment. Sam and I are sitting on the roof of Williow's house holding hands,watching a pair of squirrels
running around chasing each other. Sam leans over and gives me a soft peck on the cheek and says we should name the one chasing
Sammy and the one running Faithy. I laugh at that,then I return her kiss and smile when she blushes a pretty shade of rosy pink.

Vlad's hand pitches foward at incrediable speed,here it comes.

'At least I can die as the hero.' I close my eyes. So this how Faith Lehane ends,thinking about squirrels and rosy blushes.

"Faith," I hear a whisper in my ear. I crack a lid open,joy to the world!

"Sammy." She smirks at me. Behind her head is her hand holding Vlad's in midstrike,the look on his face priceless. I focus back
on Sammy's face and-whoa! Her ashy brown hair is jet black as are her eyes. "Sam-Sammy what happen-"

"Hold that thought."

She flashes her over her shoulders and Vlad blanches at her grin. Quick as the speed of sound she shoves her elbow backward.
The way Vlad frails through the air you would think he got shot out of a cannon.

Sam wraps her arms around my waist very gently,her face buried into the side of my neck. "Faith,you're okay." she says,sounding
so relieved and guilty at the same time.

I shudder involuntarily,there's this weird feeling radiating off of her. My senses are going all haywire but I can't figure out
why,this thing with Sam isn't bad,I can tell,it's just...different? Like going from watching Veggie Tales to anime porn different
yep.

"Sam what happened to you?" I ask,closing my eyes and inhaling the scent of her hair. It's something like an ocean breeze,cool,
relaxing,soothing,and refreshing.

(Npov)

"You're okay. That's all that matters." She tells her,Faith's eyes widening as she snatches her up and leaps twenty feet away
from there original position. Looking over her shoulder she sees the bloody stake impaled into the ground where she was standing
at. "Damn! Lets kick this dude's ass. Teach him a lesson." she pops her knuckles.

"No Faith." Sammy pushes her to the ground next to Buffy. "You didi your part in this already. It's my turn babe."

Faith quirks,just when she thought she had Sammy all figured out. "Can you keep you hair black but get your grey eyes back?"
Well okay,random and so off topic.

"Like this?" Sammy blinks and her eyes return to normal,by her standards anyways because there's no way eyes the expressful and
beautiful are normal by any means. If Sam was hot with brown hair,she was ten thousand degrees with jet black hair. It went
perfect with her tanned skin and it made her grey eyes stand out even more.

"Yeah." Faith smiles. Sammy spins on her heels and stalks towards Vlad with the grace of a cheetah during a hunt. She's a predator,a beautiful dangerous as hell predator that will have anyone on their knees simply with a look. Shaking her head to
clear the thoughts of being her prey,Faith turns her attention to Buffy who is trying to wrap her jacket around her shattered
kneecap.

"B you're doing it wrong."

"So all that was just an act? Before I mean?"

"Yep." Faith grins,"world's best actor B."

Buffy snorts. "I can't argue with you on that one,you had me fooled...Thank you Faith. You saved my life."

"No problem B."

Buffy shrugged her head towards the glowering Sammy currently holding Vlad in a headlock,"So what's her deal? She's dying then
she comes back all ubered out?"

Faith tied the jacket on her knee tightly,giving her an apologetic pat on the shoulder. "No clue B. She's hot though."

"I really can see that Faith."

"My girl B."

"Too bad." Faith glares at her with mock anger,Buffy shrugs with a pout.


"Come on Vlad. If you're the god of all vampires I'd hate to see the rest of them once I'm through with them." Sammy taunts,
kicking out his knee from underneath him.

"I know who you are and I know what you are no longer. You look just like her...just like Clairedence."

"She's my mother," Sam ducks an upper slant stroke from Vlad's mean sword,"so you do the math....Ouch." She rubs her head,
mumbling under her breath,"stupid rocks."

"This is not a game Samsoneia! You have stained the honor of your family by conspiring with the slayers!" Vlad roars at her,
jabbing the butt of his sword into the small of her back.

"Don't you call me that! You've no right to speak of honor or my family!" she snaps in a rage.

"But I do Samsoneia,Claire is my sister."

Sam felt like she'd been steam rolled,mainly because that would explain those grey eyes. It certainly added up except for the
white hair of course.

Vlad stared intently at her,watching many emotions flood across her face. "You know it's true." he reached out only to have his
hand smacked away.

"If you are my mother's brother why are you a vampire? My mother is a goddess not a monster." She spat.

"I was a god too." he spoke,sounding distant. "I was the god of war. I was a noble and father praised me. He loved my ability to
lead justly in war,my ability to keep my head straight and not lose myself to the chaos and the feeling that was killing. One day
however in the heat of battle,I accidently killed the slayer. And it wasn't just any slayer,it was the original slayer and a dear
friend of my father's. Father was a kind noble ruler,he punished me accordingly,by turning me into the one thing I despised. A
mindless killing machine with no ethics or morals." Vlad's voice was cold,filled with hatred. "All because of that damned slayer
of his." He shot a glare that made her flinch back. "And here you are cuddling with them!" In his rage he struck the wall so hard
his knuckled bled.

Sammy found her knife. Yanking it from her waistband she flung it at Vlad,the dagger finding it's new sheath in his forehead.
"I don't care if you're Zeus I'll kill you for her without even half a first thought."

"HAh!" he chortled,pulling the knife out as if it were just a simple annoyance. "You're not so pure yourself Samsoneia."

"Now what are you ranting about? I've never killed anyone."

"Are you sure? Look deep down inside...remember Andy?"


Faith gasped,watching as Vlad changed into what she could only guess was Andy."Sam don't you fall for it! It's not her!"


Sammy shuddered,tears overflowing. "You're not her." she said through the knot in her throat. Suddenly she didn't feel like such
a hotshot. In fact she felt like she was getting torn up in the inside. "You're not Andy." She knew it was a trap,but she
still moved towards her.

Andy extended her hand,a loving look in her green eyes,her soft features in a sad smile. "Why do you say that koi?"

Sam gasped,only Andy had ever called her koi. It meant dearest in Japanesse. "You're not her." she accused,but her conviction was
gone. She wanted to believe so bad that it was Andy. "It can't be." she sobbed softly.

"Yes it can." Andy hugged her,rubbing her pair,placing feather light kisses on her tearstained cheeks. "It's me koi,I'm here.
Remember Chico?" she giggled,resting the palm of her hand in the small of her back.

"I'm-I'm sorry." she cried into her shoulder.

"It's okay. It wasn't your fault."


"Sammy it's a fucking trick!" Faith begged,feeling more and more hopeless by the second.

"She can't see through it unless she wants to Faith." Buffy watched on in awe.

"It was my fault. I screwed up so bad. I miss you."

"I'm right here baby." Andy jerked,Faith was trying to get through to Sam. "I'm right here no matter what,and I love you. Every
one makes mistakes,it's only natural."

"I know," Sam glanced at the stunned Faith. "You're not here right now," she met green eyes,"you don't love,you don't know the
meaning of the word."

Andy's mouth opened and closed,incredious. "How can you say that? I died for you."

"You didn't die for me,Andy did. And she forgave me."

Andy's faced morphed back into Vlad's,a disgusting smirk on his lips,"Yes,"

"Uhh!"

"but I don't forgive you," he twisted the blade in her gut,the point protuding from her back and leaking almost black blood on
the floor. "not by a long shot." he repeated the process with the second sword.

"Gah...damn." Sammy grunts,back flipping and kicking Vlad hard enough to break his jaw. Her knees thud as she lands. "Oh goodie,"
she drips with sarcasm,removing the blades that are infused with her intrails. "Why couldn't mom make me immune to pain?"

"Because you deserve it!" Vlad pounced on her,swiping,scratching,punching.doing everything possible to hurt her. Left fist to the
face,right to the gut (literally to the gut),left the jaw,three long gashes from the top left side of her eyebrow down to split
her lip. "Not so tough now are you?" he bit into her wrist,drinking greedily.

Sam bucked her hips up,flipping him over her head then rolling over him now having reversed the positions. "You'll be dead soon
enough to matter." she informed him,taking her own hand and pressing her thumb into the hole in his forehead.

Vlad shrieked,the hole sizzeling under her touch. Something was wrong,very wrong,his strength was dwindling. He slapped Sam
across the face knocking her off of him. "What did you do?"

"Black blood,hmmm,not exactly the type I would drink if I were you." she snickered.

"Poison."

"Yup-" she coughed,"poison Vlad. Compliments of Claire."

"Don't be so cocky. You can't even stand anymore,the battle is not over until one of us dies."

"I don't have to,myou're out. Either by my blood or the sun that will be coming up in around fifteen minutes."

"It's not over yet." Vlad crawls to his feet, "If I die I'm taking someone with me. Did you think it would be so easy?"
Vlad removes a gold staff loitered with diamonds and stabs it into the alter. The ground shakes,rocks peeling and raining down
inside the cave. There is a pulse then an explosion that causes the columns to collapse. The only thing keeping the cave from
falling in is the spell of the staff.

"Christ..." Sam jumps to her feet,heading for Vlad.