Happy To Bleed For You

(Fpov)

I heard Willow and Buffy enter the house just seconds after we did. Willow came up to the staircase and called to Sammy. She turned very slowly and very stiffly,

"What?"

"I would appreciate it if you listened to Buffy from now on. If we're going to beat out the source and whatever else is coming we
need to be concentrating on that."

"Sure Willow."

I could tell Sammy was trying her hardest to control her rage,her usually soft laib back air was bubbling,her soft hands clentched into tight fists by her sides making her knuckles white. "Stupid brat..." she muttered under her breath as Buffy passed
by. By now she was stomping with every step she was taking and I kind of had to laugh a little. Sammy whirled on me but her
fustration left and she smiled one of her special smiles that I noticed she only used around me.

"You look really tired Sam."

"Heh..yeah. I don't think I'll be sleeping much with Willow and Dawn staring me down all night. I think I'm just going to stay
out on your balcony if you don't mind.

I became a little worried she really needed to sleep especially since we had only found her like about nine hours ago and she
hadn't rested. "Sammy-"

"Shh," she wrapped her arms around my waist, resting her head in the spot between my neck and shoulder whispering softly , "It's
okay Faith,you should get some sleep."

I made a move to grab her hand but she was swift,faster than I thought possible for a girl to move. She was already pushing past the glass doors and leaning against the white railing,the moonlight casting over her and leaving her looking like a goddess in
all mighty splendor.

"Good night Faith." she said fluidly with her perfect articulation.

"Night." I said sleepily,feeling a little better despite the fact that Sammy got her butt kicked thanks to me.

I swayed into my room feeling quite exhausted. I was barely able to stand upright while I changed into a muscle shirt and white
tank top. I head had barely hit the pillow and I alread was dozing off...

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(Npov)

The damp cell smelled of blood and sickness,dark spots splotched on the walls and cold cement ground. "Get in there!" a guard
shouted at her,striking her between the shoulder blades with her baton. Another guard known as Patsy grinned as she stuck her
Faith juice coate fingers into her mouth to taste her,

"Mmmm,not so tough now are we Faithy?" Patsy kicked her across the stomach earning a strangled whimper from Faith. "What's the
matter? Four months ago you were a little wild cat, a little firecracker,now look at you."

She shuddered invouluntarily,the pain was overwhelming and the sick twisted feeling of being the guard's playtoy was gnawing away
at her inside and out. "Ugh,..."she groaned,Patsy yanked her up by the shoulfers slamming her against the cold steal of the metal
bars in the cell.

"Hold still," Patsy warned kneeing her legs apart.

"Fuck you!" she snapped flipping over the guard and smashing her face into the concrete wall.

"Damnit! Somebody grab her!" Patsy yelled out,blood dripping from the cut across her eyebrow. "You're ganna pay for this." She
yelled as three more guards beat upon the convict. But she didn't stop. Until she heard a click and then a loud bang that bounced off of the walls.

"Wh-...what...oh g-" Faith wasn't able to finish her sentence before another deafening bang echoed off the walls and hall nearby.

"What the hell are you doing?!" Eddie,the only male guard Faith spoke to shouted.

Patsy got to her feet,"she attacked me!" she growled.

"So help me god Patsy,get an ambulance over here!" he commanded watching as the other guards took off to call the paramedics.
Eddie walkd into the cell and felt a pang of guilt wash over him as he watched Faith's shaking body sprawled across the floor,a
bullet through her stomach,the other right inder her ribs.



Faith sat alone in isolation,her knuckles bleeding from beating the harsh walls for hours upon hours.Her mind was reeling,going at a million miles per second but even then the only thought that actually made sense was that she deserved to be there. A flash
of excruitiating hot white pain shot through her body,leaving her on her hands and knees gasping for a breath. She was sure she
was about to pass out from the pain radiating from her stomach and side but she didn't care,she deserved this and a whole lot more for the things she had done.

The door opened revealing Patsy and James. Patsy wore an eyepatch over her left eye and a scowl that would have been intimidating
to anyone else.

"Let's go," James barked,waiting for her to stand up. "Lets go!" he shouted when she still wouldn't budge.

"No." she whispered defiantly,maybe if she pissed them off bad enough they would kill her.

"So help me god if you don't move." Patsy warned,reaching for her concealed gun.

"Noone else will,go ahead." Faith mummered under her breath,Patsy drawing a tazer gun instead. She grinned however and pu the gun
away.

"No,you're nothing but filth and that's the way you'll be treated murder." She stepped aside seven of thr prison's worst inmates
marching into the confined room. The leader,Chata,growled and touched her brokemn nose.

"Faith,"she snarled removing a baseball bat from a trashbag.

Faith tensed waiting for the beating that she knew always came but suddenly she found herself standing in a tall building,a
crossbow in her hands and a vampire next to her. She knew what was going to happen,she yelled for her body to stop but it seemed
to move of its own accord.

"Angel!" Buffy shrieked,mangaging to grab ahold of his upper body before the completely slumped to the ground, an arrow lodged
deep in his chest. A crowd of people gathering to stare as blood seeped into Angel's shirt.

"You missed the heart." the vampire next to her pointed out.

"I meant to."

Again everything flashed. This time there was a loud bang as she hit the cold unforgiving floor.There was a splash and she spun
around to catch a glimpse of a figure bolt out through a door that was the only source of light in the dark as pitch room.

"Hello?" she called out,messily getting to her feet.Hello?" she tried again as a dreaded feeling seeped into her lungs.

"Faith," a hoarse voice whispered making her stop dead in midturn.It sounded familiar yet noone came to mind.

"Who is it?"

"Faith," it chuickled evily,"you're a monster.You deserve to die like the animal you've become."

Suddenly the voice clicked in her head. At the exact same time the dark part of her,the evil part of her stepped out of the
shadows complete with tight black leather pants short pitch black straight hair,pale cold face,blood red lips, and eyes so black
they resembled an oblivion.

"Hello Faith,long time no see."

Faith stared at the image before her,blood covered her hands and a twisted smirk she once thought was charming left her feeling
disturbed, "You're-you're-"

"I'm you Faith.That little part of you that you keep trying to forget...But you can't forgrt can you Faith?"

Faith shook her head visciously,turning around only to come face to face with herself again. "You can't get rid of me Faith,I'm a
part of you,I am you." The dark Faith lifted her hand and pointed to the door,a smile on her face like she had just found a treasure, "Look in there Faith,I'm sure you'll find it rather interesting.

Faith started slowly for the door,making sure to glance and assure herself that her dark half was still there. She reached the
door and took a peek over her shoulder.

"Go aheaad,go in."

Faith took in a deep breath steadied herself and walked into the blindingly white of the room.She blinked a few times trying to
adjust her eyes.

"Oh my god!" She fell to her knees in hysterical sobs,her face pale and horrified,her body shaking with the weight of her shock.
"oh god,"

The dark Faith casually strided over to her side nudging her leg to make her look up "Heh,not god...you.You did this."

"N-n-no!I didn't!I couldn't!" Faith sobbed feeling like the weight of the world had decided to go ahead and crash down on her full force.

"Really?Why don't you don't you tell that to her?" She pointed at Willow,her eyes were gorged out,barely dangling over her chin,
arms ripped off and stuffed into the giant hole in her chest were her lungs had been pulled out. "Or him."

Xander's neck twisted in several knots almost leaving him looking like some kind of deformed stick figure. The pink tongue
hanging out of his mouth while bile continued to drip from inside him and trail down his chin like a black river. "ooor her."

"No!" Faith shrieked as her eyes befell a very much dead Buffy.Her intestines hung out of her stomach like strung out popcorn
rope,her body lying in a pool of deep crimson blood which contrated greatly against her impossible white face. The slit on her
throat from ear to ear revealing weins and flesh.Faith shuddered feeling another painful sob rock her body,Buffy's wide eyes were
staring at her,accusing her. Faith pitched foward heaving dryly,nearly choking when anything refused to come out.

The dark Faith chuckled twistedly as if she'd just heard the funniest joke in the world."Even good ol' Buffy agrees don't cha B?"

"It wasn't me...I-I,it it wasn't me." Faith chanted in a silent mantra,hoping to god she could just pass out or die,which ever
could come forst.

"Faith," the dark part of her called in a singsong voice,both of her eyebrows shooting into her hairlines. "the blood is on your
hands."

She glanced at her shaking hands."No," she choked feeling her heart try and leap out of her chest.The world completely stopped
turning,the stars stopped shining,and everything froze as she stared at the blood of all those people,all of her friends,that she
killed littering her skin. She shook them out fiercly trying to get rid of the vile intrusion,but it semmed the more she tried to
the more the blood spread until she was covered up to her elbows.

"faith?" a voice whispered at her.

"No,leave me alone,I didn't kill them,"she whispered catatonically.

"Faith?" it repeated this time with noticably louder and...concerned?

Suddenly she felt herself being lifted up and down,over and over again. "No please just leave me alone," she pleaded,a weird
phantom pain settling in the scar where Buffy had stabbed her.

"Faith! Damnit stop it!"

"I-I didn't kill them,B,I didn't kill them.I didn't kill them.I-I couldn't kill them-"

"Faith wake up!"


Sammy yanked her out of the bed slapping her hard a few times before Fiath finally stopped thrashing and fell limp again. She fell out of her arms only to shoot up straight as an arrow,trembling,eyes dull and filled with so much pain that she could feel it.

"Wh...what-"

Sammy grabbed her settling her into her lap and holding her hands down to keep them from hitting one of them as they trembled
violently,"Faith calm down." she cooed,smoothing away strands of hair from her face and wiping tears away."

"B-Buffy,"she choked going stiff hearing a cracking sound as Buffy,Kennedy,and Willow burst through the door looking like someone
had scared the shit out of them. They looked around the room on guard thinking somebody was dying when they heard the crys. Oddly
though there was only Sammy and Faith. Faith did however look noticably paler than before and she was shaking and jerking like a
fish out of water.

"Um...where's the demon at?" Kennedy asked after a short moment of silence.

"It's not a demon you can kill." Sammy whispered holding on tighter to Faith who was squirming.

"You're-you're alive,"she said sounding as if there was something totally wrong with that fact.

"No thanks to you," Buffy grumbled dropping the bat she had carried into the room.She watched Faith flintch at her words,and just
for a milisecond she felt bad for acting the way she was. That changed however when Faith buried her head into Sammy's shoulder
who was rocking her like some little kid who needed to be comforted after they saw their little puppy get runned over. "Look if
all that screaming was because you two were busy doing I don't want to know what you seriously need to get a room." Buffy took a step back as her eyes locked with Sammy's,were they glowing or was it just her? It looked like she was about to go over there and
rip her apart but Sammy's attention was quickly diverted when Faith whimpered into her neck...Wait a second?! Faith whimpered?!

Sammy sighed sadly feeling Faith's hot tears slide down her neck. She wrapper her arms around her,dropping her hands which were
more or less stable enough not accidently jerk out and poke an eye out. "Faith it's okay.We're okay,they're okay." she pleaded
with her.

Kennedy gasped a look of no freakin' way on her face flashing before she became overly concerned. "Faith-"she stopped deciding to
take a different approach, "Sammy what happened?"

"don't please," Sammy heard Faith whisper quietly into her ear.She shuddered,a begging Faith was definately not right.

"She had a bad dream I guess."

"You guess!" Buffy cut across the room incrediously.

"Buffy!" Willow chatised her taking a step towards the bed. "Faith...are you okay?" Willow sat on the edge of the bed,reaching
out to remove a strand of hair that was in the way. "Faith you're burning up." she said worried now.

"I'll go get her a glass of water." Kennedy offered seeing the look of concern on her girlfriend's face.

"Thanks.Faith? You need to tell us what's up." Sammy said gently rocking her slowly and rubbing circles on her back with one hand
as her other wrapped around her waist.

"N-nothing," Faith whimpered.

'Yet.' A tiny voice said at the very back of her head.