Happy To Die For You: The Immortal

Buffy backed away towards Kennedy,her slayer taking over suddenly and her body tensing into a fighting stance. " I said Wood is coming over for dinner tonight."

"Mom you know principal Wood too? What's up with that?" Kristin huffed annoyed. She looked to Jessie for help but she was currently playing with the cut offs at her ripped pant knees,slipping her sandals on and off,trying her best to look preoccupied. "It's not working J." she growled lowly into her neck.

"Damn." The corners of her lips twitched into a small grin. "And I was concentrating so hard too."

"You're no help."

Jessie leaned into her side,laying her head on her shoulder. "Aw baby,it's cool that your moms know so many people in the school. It could work to our advantage." she wiggles her brows in a little wave.

"Or principal Wood can tell them about busting us practically eating each other in the library the other day." Kristin counters for the sake of holy arguement.

"Or that. But whatever Faith's cool with it so I'm sure Buffy will be fine with it too."

"Do you know Buffy Jessie? She'll castrate you."

She shivers involuntarily,"that's not physically possible."

"Oh she'll find a way,trust me she'll find a way."

Jessie squeezes her hand,"Suddenly I don't feel so good."

"I can't believe you invited Wood over for dinner. What are you smoking the magic herb or something? Since when do I cook anyways?" Faith is punching her fist into the palm of her hand,feeling the need to hurt something. The current possible target is Buffy who's acting like it's no big deal.

"You really need a chill pill Faith." Buffy is tired of all the drama,she know what's really going on,Faith is still upset about what happened in the morning. "Faith if you're still mad about this morning let me tell you that-"

Faith raises a hand to stop her. "You know what B? Forget it. I can't deal with all this shit right now.I'm going out to patrol tonight. Keep an eye on these two." she points at Jessie and Kristin,"Dawn do you mind staying here tonight? As a favor for me?"

"Sure. I don't think Spike will mind. But how long are you planning to be out?"

Faith grabs the jacket Kristin had been wearing earlier on in the day much to her dismay. She shoves a stake into the sleeve pocket and another into the waistband of her faded Levi's. "I don't know,probably late,I really wanna kill something tonight. Might take a while to find anything remotely able to take the edge of." she's already stalking towards the door.

"What about dinner with Robin?" Buffy shouts out.

"You invited him not me. Order some pizza tell him I died from a stroke and get rid of him." Faith is only half serious.

"Faith," Buffy grabs her arm spinning her around to look into her eyes. "Why are you doing this?" she says it loud enough for only Faith to hear.

"I'm sorry B. I'm like an elephant,I never forget...so excuse me if I can't forget the girl who saved my life in more ways than one." She doesn't mean for it to come out like an accusation,but none the less Buffy gets the wrong impression,she shoves her arm away rather harshly.

"Fine then. Go ahead. Go cry outside of that fucking hole that used to be a cave. Who knows,maybe if you try hard enough she'll rise up from the dead for you like some lame movie plot after five years of being a corpse. When is it ganna get through to your head?"

"Fuck you Buffy." Faith walks out of the door,taking her only seconds to vanish down the dark street.

"Yeah well," Buffy watched her walk away and slams the door shut,"fuck you too."




The vampire howls one last time before his body implodes into a hunk of ashes,the last he saw the figure dressed in a leather trenchcoat.

"It's like they want to die." Shoving the stake into pocket of the coat,there's only a short moment of peace before a painfully familiar voice shouts out across the cementary.

"Hey you!" Faith's voice is like a beacon in the otherwise silent graveyard.

The trenchcoat tail flaps in the night wind,black layered hair following suit. In a second it's on,both of them bolting through the muddy soil at incrediable speeds,neither relenting,neither willing to give up the exciting chase and run.

Buffy feels Kristin's eyes on her. That's the one thing that always bothers her. Those eyes. Sammy used to look at her that way back when she still hated Faith. Now Kristin looks at the exact same way. "What is it Kristin?"

"Can I speak with you,in the kitchen please,alone?"

"Come here." Buffy signals towards the stairs instead.

Kristin gets to her feet,"I'll be right back J."

"Sure thing. I'll be right here." Jessie assures her with a gentle smile which she returns before facing Buffy and following after her.

They decide to speak in Dawn's room since it's closer. Buffy allows Kristin to enter the room first,going in last herself and shutting the door. "What's this about Kristin?" she flops on the bed.

"Why did you say that to her Buffy?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Don't play dumb with me,you know what I'm talking about,slayer hearing hello?"

Buffy feels remoresful towards Kristin,she's acting like her now too. "I had everyright to say that to her. She always acts like this when she starts thinking about Sammy too much."

"Well if even half of the stories are true I can see why. You can forget a love like that,it's too strong,even if you ever do move on,it's always there,just beneath skin,right beneath the surface." She places a hand over Buffy's,"But it's true you know."

"What's that?"

"Sam. She's dead and she's not coming back so why are you acting like this?"

Buffy shakes her head,fidgeting with her hands. "I guess...I guess I'm just jealous. Faith will never love me like she does Sam. She does love me,I know that,but it will never be close to what they had. I guess I just have to learn to live with it. Heh! You know that was her name."

"What?"

"Kristin. Sammy Kristin Olivares. That was her name."

"Mom?" Kristin interlaces their fingers,"can you tell me about her? I mean,if it's not too much trouble?"

Buffy smiles at her,she's a good kid."What do you want to know?"

"Anything. Tell me anything about her. I just want to know."

"Okay. Lets see." she scratches at her chin thoughtfully. "Oh okay I got it. So it turns out Sammy wasn't just the immortal,that was only part of it. You see when Faith killed her by accident she lost her immortality. During the fight in the cave she got these super badass powers and it turns out that she's a goddess from another dimension of some sort. She's the princess of her father's Kingdom and the
entire time she was trying to get to them,it turns out that her mother was actually posing as her aunt the entire time. And then it turns out that Vlad was her uncle."

"Oh shit." Kristin says excitedly.

"Yeah. Talk about the Adams Family tree. But in the end Vlad respect her because he was a god of war and he understood the meaning of the sacrafice that she was commiting in order to save Faith and I. Mostly Faith though,but she used me to get Faith out of there. Ah!
I just had to get my leg broken in there. I remember thinking I was going to die because Faith was about walk out on us again."

"What else?"

"Well Sammy was really and I mean really beautiful. And she always loved Faith,since the first time she laid eyes on her she wwas always sticking up for her against everyone,always telling Faith how special she was and gushing over her. You know I don't think a single day went by without Sammy telling Faith how much she loved her. Sammy always knew how to treat Faith,she treated her like a goddess,and she fucking loved her so damn much. I don't think I ever saw Faith happier than when she would spend the day with Sammy
wether it was at the beach,at the lake,on the roof of the house,at the park,or just in the backyard holding hands. I remember Sammy could always make her laugh so easily. With the stupidest little things like talking about squirrels,or Elmo,just plain random stuff had Faith hurting with laughter...your mom was a good person...she didn't deserve what happened to her." Buffy felt bad as the meaning of her own words sunk in. "I guess I'm no competition when it comes down to it. All I ever did was make Faith hurt inside."

"I would love to meet her if I had the chance. But no matter what,you're my mother Buffy and I won't ever love anyone else like I do you."
Kristin assures her.

Buffy laughs,the waterworks ready for display." I love you too kid. So much."

There is a low grumble followed by two more. Kristin blushes,feeling Buffy's amused eyes on her. "I think I'm hungry mom."she pats her flat stomach.

"I think so too. So what should we make? Principal Wood is still coming for dinner."

""Yeah about him. What's his story?"

"Wood? He's the son of a slayer I had a crush on him once,Faith slept with him once,he got gutted,we left him at a hospital and we never saw him again until today.'

"Uhhuh. That's really gross." Kris looks disturbed. "And this dude Riely?"

"I was dating him in college,Faith showed up after being in the coma for eight months and switched bodies with me and then had sex with him." Buffy explained cooly,as if it were no biggie.

"And she tried to do that with Angel too?"

"Yup. Broiled chicken or enchiladas?"

"Chicken. So Sammy is the only person she ever actually loved and dated?"

"Yup."

"Oh man that's wicked. So I'm guessing I got my super smoothness from Faith and my super romantic side from Sammy?"

"Yup,that's about right."

"Brains from Sammy?"

"The ability to wear leather so nicely from Faith.'

"Damn. I got the best from booth worlds." Kristin checks herself out in the mirror.

"Lucky you."

"Lucky Jessie."

Buffy cocks a brow at her,"So have you guys,you know,done anything yet?"

"MOM!"

"What? I'm your mother ,I have a right to know."

"You really want to know?"

"Try me."

"Well actually,yeah. Once or twice."

"As long as it was special. Don't pick up on want take have. Pick up on wanting something more."

"Sammy?"

"And me."

"I'm not like mom in that department. I love Jessie."

"It's obvious she loves you back. I like her. She's well mannered,smart,and she's smoking hot and she takes care of you. That's good enough for me."

Kristin punches one of Dawn's teddy bears. "Yeah tell that to Faith. The first thing she said was make sure she's good in the sack. What kind of motherly advice is that anyways?" She's now taking out her pent up fustration on the teddy.

"That's the Lehane type of motherly advice."

"Thank god you're here then. I don't know what I would do with you being my sane anchor."

"Probably party like a rockstar the way Faith used to. She still does actually."

"Mom's a rebel."

"You got that right. Lets go cook before Kennedy and Jessie blow up the kitchen..."

"Again."

Buffy lets out an exaggerated breath,"Maybe she's not too smart."

"Maybe she's been exposed to Kennedy too much."

"Or that."




"Damnit!" Faith grunted,her knee was badly injured from jumping over fences and houses and just about everything else possible. But she had to catch that...chick. It was a girl,she could tell by the way the jacket hugged her every perfect curves. That was sad,now she was checking out rebel vampire killers. She cleared a car,barely avoiding getting trampled by it and now she was back to the cementary where the chase had started. What the hell was she playing at? Did she plan on running around the entire town over and over again until she tired out?

"Hey! Damnit stop running!" she used a nearby tree to push off of it,and she went plummeting into the girl,knocking them both to the ground and sending them in a frenzy of limbs down a small hill. She was the first one up,quickly kicking the girl's knee to keep her down. She punched her sides repeatedly,then rammed her elbow into her face. "Stop moving!" she was grappling with her now. There was something
weird though,she wasn't even trying to hit her,she was just trying to get her off of herself. Using her slayer power she managed to stun her enough so that her face was planted firmly into the ground,her arms pinned behind her back.

"Okay now. Sit still and I won't pop your arms out of place. I'm ganna ask you a question and you're going to answer okay?"

The girl nodded her head but said nothing,her body relaxing and seeminly molding into the dirt.

"So I'm a slayer,you know what that is?" she nodded again. "Well goody. Okay I can't feel any vibes coming off of you, You're not a demon,
and you're not a vampire so I'm confused. You're out here at night killing vampires with no help and it just ticks a little weird with me."

The girl huffs,and in the blink of an eye Faith finds herself on the ground by herself. "What the hell?" She hears a small chuckle from behind her. Whipping her head around she finds the girl leaning against a crypt wall,arms and ankles crossed over each other,her face hidden by the black pikes. Faith jumps up,and starts an assult of agressive punches and kicks landing home on her. She continues but feels her resolve drop a little. The girl is just standing there stock still,allowing herself to get beat up with so much as flinching. Faith knocks her a good one to the chin,pretty sure she'll be knocked out,but there's no such luck. She jumps back to try and catch her breath.

"Damn. What the hell is wrong with you? Don't you bleed?" Faith bends over to pant,keeping her eyes on the figure. There's something so damn familiar about her,it's freaking her out.

"I bleed. You'd be surprised...Faith." Comes the low husky voice.

"Who are you?" Faith feels frightened all of a sudden,that voice is so damn familiar. She knows this person,it's right at the back of her mind. If only she could see her face she would know who it is. Who does she know with really long jetblack hair with spiked bangs? With a low throaty voice that makes her skin crawl and not in a bad way.

"See ya."

"No wait a second!" Faith shouts after her but she's already the distance of a block away. "Who the hell was that?"



"You're burning the chicken again!" Buffy shoved Kennedy out of the way,yanking the stove door open and having a wave of black smoke blast in her face.

"You did it again Kennedy. Aren't you like some seriously rich school brat,shouldn't you be all sophisticated and know how to cook?" Jessie pesters her,much to her annoyance.

"Why don't you go makeout with your girlfriend in the corner? Besides I don't see you trying to help here."

Buffy tosses the burned food into the trashcan. Picking up the phone she dials the number for Pizza Hut. "Yeah can I get two large and a pepsi? Yeah. Revello Drive. Yeah this is Buffy. Oh hey Xander! Hey can you like get them here in the next oh I don't know twenty minutes or fifteen would be better. Twenty five? Yeah that's fine. I didn't know you were working today. Sure. Okay bye."

Dawn tosses a kitchen mitten at her face. "Xander's working at Pizza Hut?"

"What planet have you been on?"

"Planet college thank you very much. Ever heard of it?"

Buffy flicks her off,slightly startled when the front door slams shut. Her mind must be out on the table.

"Mom's here." Kristin openly states,a hint of worry in her usually cool calm voice. Jessie follows behind her,then Kennedy and Dawn,and Finally Buffy. Faith is standing by the fireplace,looking like she just got back from a fight with Oscar De La Joya and The Great Kahli in a mud pit. "Mom what the hell happened to you?" Kristin practically shrieks in her ear.

"Hey hey bitsize,I'm not death. What's up?" Faith asks,trying to hide the panic in her voice,past if off as gentleness.

"What's up?! What's up?!" Kristin says incrediously,"you tell me what's up."

"You have quite the attitude on you there. Better watch it or you can forget about your little sleepovers for a whole month."

"What?" Kristin's voice drops around three octives,her glare gone and only the worry present. "I'm sorry mom. I'm just worried about you. I mean look at you."

"Oh," Faith dusts the back of her pants,cussing when she feels a tear under her butt. "Damn these were my favorite pants too. I got into a fight with a-" Faith catches herself just in time to avoid blurting out what happened. "I uh,got into a fight with a vampire,we decided to play duck duck goose for a bit." she wrinkles her nose,"what's that smell?"

"Ah ah! Don't change the subject here Faithy girl. We wanna know what happened." Kennedy cuts in to avoid the painfully embarassing burned chicken discussion again.

"I thought I just told you what happened. Whatever,anyways I'm ganna go take a shower then hit the sack."

"Faith?"

Faith stops halfway up the stairs,dreading the fight that is sure to come. "What's up B?" she tries to sound complient so as to not start another brady love bunch moment.

"Nothing. Good night."

"Good night.: she answers sweetly,giving her a small genuine smile.

"Okay something's definately up with her." Kristin once again states the obvious. "And those pants would look better on me now that they're torn."

"I concure." Jessie nods.

Buffy stares at the now empty staircase until she picks up on the bathroom door closing. "I'll talk to her later." she says seriously,which is rewarded with a handful of feral growls. "What? I can talk to my girlfriend whenever the hell I feel like it. You don't like it,there's the door."

"Do you have to start up another big fight?" Kristin loves Buffy,she really does,but if it comes down to it it's Faith that has her heart. She can't even begin to count the things Faith has done for her that Buffy probably wouldn't even think about. Like jump in front of a bullet the last time the vampires got freaky-er and decided to use guns on them instead of fist. "Buffy please mom is-"

"Your mom needs to get over it." Buffy says sternly,leaving no room for arguement.

"You need to get over it,"Kristin grits her teeth as Buffy slaps her across the face. Taking Jessie's hand she flips around and starts heading up the stairs.

"Kristin wait!" Buffy shouts,already sorry enough to offer herself as a human sacrafice.

"Don't!" Kristin growls,tears in her eyes and her cheek pulsing red. "Good night Aunt Dawn,Aunt Kennedy."

"Night baby girl." Kennedy waves,draping her jacket over her shoulder and tossing the car keys up and down,ready to leave.

"Night hun." Dawn smiles sadly at her and Jessie. Knowing Ken is uncomfortable and herself as well she ask Ken if she can stay with her tonight.

"What?!" Buffy's voice is everything but nice. "So now I can't even discipline her without you guys getting all hostile?"

"Nobody is being hostile here but you. And that isn't discipline Buffy,that's called being a damm bitch." Kennedy yanks the door open,not waiting for a response and storms out. Asides from Faith,she is the one that would do anything for Kristin,she's like a little sister to her so standing around while Buffy takes out her pentup fustration for Faith on her is definately not on her favorites list. She guess Dawn must agree because she's sulking out of the house as well,just as Wood shows up.

Robin looks at them rather confused. "Hello Dawn,Kennedy. Did I come too late?"

"Well you missed physco slayer part one and two but I think you're just in time for pizza." Kennedy motions to Xander in a red four by four with the logo on top.

"Physco slayer? Did Faith get drunk again?" Xander kids,approaching the door with the order.

"No,Faith didn't do anything,it's Buffy." Dawn climbs into Ken's durango. "We'll see you later Xander. Robin...good luck."

Robin and Xander watch the car pull out and speed down the street,giggling when the car squeals and Ken shouts profanaties a dog in front of her,blaring the horn like a maniac.

"Well. It's nice to seee you again Xander." Robin offers his hand.

"Yeah likewise. So um,when did you come back to SunnyDale?" Xander leads him to the door,not even bothering to knock.

Robin however stays back."I've been here about six months give or take. Um are you sure that's safe?"

"What? You mean barging into the lion's den while the lions are pissed off? Yeah,but if you don't want to risk it I'll tell Buffy you're here."

"That's sounds like a great idea," Robin sits on the railing,"I'll be right here."

"No need." Buffy appears from the doorway. Reaching into her pocket she pulls out the money and gives it to Xander,telling him to stick it in the refrigerator. "Hey Robin." she sits next to him.

"Buffy. You don't look too happy to see me,is it the suit?" he tries to lighten up the mood.

"No. Listen I'm sorry about tonight,bu I don't think now's the best time for-"

"I understand." Robin gets to his feet,giving her the flowers he had hidden behind his back,"I'll just have to take a raincheck."

Buffy stands as well,thankful that Robin is such a smart understanding guy. She hugs him,placing a kiss on his cheek. "Thanks. I'll see about the raincheck,maybe next time it won't be pizza cause-"

"Kennedy?"

"Kennedy."

Robin chuckles shaking his head. "Goodnight Buffy."

"I doubt it."




Who was that girl? Why was she so familiar? Why did her heart skip a beat when she heard her voice? Why did her body feel so familiar to hers? Why couldn't she sense anything off of her? But most importantly,why did she feel like she had betrayed someone very important when she didn't go after her again? Why the hell was she obessesing now and why did she get the distinct feeling that something very big was going down? It has been too long now that no big bad has come into to town to try something...that can only mean that something's cooking up and it's going to blow up in their faces when it comes out.

Turning the water off,Faith climbs out of the shower and slips into a pair black corona pj pants and a matching black tank top. Not bothering to do anything else,she simply runs her fingers through her wet hair and tosses her dirty clothes into the basket. She opens the door and starts down the hall.

Is the girl and ally or a foe? If she's an ally why hasn't she seen before until tonight? Why didn't she say so? If' she's a foe then she's a lousy one because she let her ass get handed to her back there? What if she's neither? What if she's something more or something less. Well more because anybody that can get inside her head like this is definately something.

Looking down at her hands,Faith tries to still their shaking as she stands outside of Kristin's door. In the quiet of the hall she can hear her heart pounding into her ribs,her eyes becoming watery. "Damn it who is she!?" she punches through the wall,completely forgetting that Jessie and Kristin are there.

"Mom!" the door swings open and Kristin flys out,looking around the hall for something green or slimey. She finds nothing however,just an enraged,crying,trembling Faith with her fist stuck in the wall and a little blood dripping from her wrist. "Mom? What happened?" she asks
with deep concern and worry,prying her fist from the wall,fliching at the mangled flesh.

"...noth-...nothing bitsize." her voice trembles. "I just got a little...carried away."

"Mom,look at your hand,that's more than carried away." She presses the hem of her shirt to her still shaking hand. "Was it Buffy?"

Faith snaps out of her trances hearing the remorse in her voice. And now she takes in the red hand print on her cheek. Reaching out she lays her free hand on it. "What happened Kris?"

Kristin shudders,Faith's voice is too even and emotionless too fast. "Nothing."

"Kristin Lehane Olivares."

"Oh my god,don't kill her mom it was my fault." Kristin pleads.

"What?" Faith eyes widen,her mouth falling agap. "Buffy? She hit you?" Faith's voice is incrediouos,shocked,awed,pissed,loathing,trembling,
regretful,hurt. "She layed her hand on you like that?"

Kristin takes a death grip on Faith's injured hand,flinching when a small hiss escapes her lips. "Mom. Listen to me. It was an accident,I pushed her. She was just so worried about you and I said the wrong thing. Please mom,please don't do anything rash. Why don't you um, sleep in the room with me tonight?"

Faith shakes her head no a murderous look on her face. "No. But you go to your room. Buffy and I need to have a talk."

"Mom,please listen to me-"

"Kristin go to your room,now. You listen to me."

Kristin slams the door shut in Faith's face,hoping she'll get mad and barge in there to ground her or something,anything to keep her from going down stairs to confront Buffy.

"You okay baby?" Jessie leaps off the chair,striding to her and embracing her.

"No," Kristin whimpers,burying her head into the side of her neck.

"Kristin don't cry." Jessie rubs her back in small circles.

"I can't help it." Jessie flinches,she's never heard her girlfirend sound so heartbroken before. "Lets go Jessie."

"Go? Go where?" she pulls away to look into her soft grey eyes.

"For a walk or something. I can't stay here."

"Kristin your mom would fr-"

"Please Jessie."

Jessie sighs,but nods taking her hand and leading her to the window. "Why must you have those cute little eyes I wonder."

Kristin goes out the window first,helping Jessie out second. "Ask my mother."

"I thought Buffy had green eyes,Faith has brown." Jessie grunts,hitting the ground. They both take off at a sprint,not stopping until the house is at the least a good fifty feet away.

"Not Buffy,my real mom."