Kragdon

PART 4: Surprise

Waking up after her short nap Sar'ah yawned the yawn of the well rested. She had been dreaming of her mate Selena again. It had been three years since she had been stolen away from her by the hunters. In the beginning her brother in law Marcus had tried to help her get Selena back and he almost died in the process. Laying on her bed thinking about that time and the time before, Sar'ah could have sworn that she felt the presence of her mate outside of the tent that she had been calling home for two years now.

Shaking her head of the impossibility of that thought she went to stand and check on her patient's wounds. Sar'ah looked over to the cot in the corner that her patient was supposed to be on but when her eyes settled there she noticed that the girl was gone. Panic filled her body as she immediately stood up and scanning her eyes around to see if the girl was still inside the tent but much to her disappointment and making her worry even more the girl was nowhere in sight.

What she did notice was that one of her dresses was missing and that the tent flap was a little open. Rushing to the entrance she reached to open it and just as her hand grabbed onto it, it lifted and standing right in front of her she saw her patient, a little girl who she had seen maybe once or twice, and much to her shock her Selena, all of them looked as if they were talking and stopped when they saw her as if she had surprised them.

She didn't pay much mind to the other two standing in front of her cause her eyes were solo on the object of her desire, her affection, her wife.

Both seemed to be in there own little world, looking into each other's eyes searching for something that only they knew. It was Sar'ah who broke the silence first when what she saw confirmed her suspicions.

"Selena?" she uttered in a voice barely above a whisper before she promptly fainted.

*****
Sunnydale

Buffy was strolling through Restfield cemetery looking for vamps, for something, anything to slay. It was the second time this night that she had been out. The first time it was with the gang, and they only ran into one vamp that night. Xander had been fighting with Anya again over some silly thing and Willow and Tara were hanging in the back making googly eyes at each other. After about two hours of all this going on Buffy had gotten irritated and walked everyone home before going back to the cemetery. Everyone thought that she had gone home but she really wasn't ready to go home yet. School was starting in a week and everyone was getting ready for it. Every one but Buffy herself.

Lately she had been just going off into her own world. She was slipping into Slayer mode more and more lately and she was even starting to block out most of Willow babble whenever she was with the red head. It was like she wasn't even there. Willow thought that she was still bummed about Riley breaking up with her, but little did the redhead that Buffy was the brakee of that relationship. When she had found out that he had slept with Faith when it wasn't her body, it felt as if something inside her had broke. Her knees had begun to go weak and she had the urge to cry until her tears turned to blood like Angel's. He had tried to fix it and she let him, but there just wasn't anything there. She broke it off with him a week later.

But during all that time not once did she break down crying like she felt like doing every time she saw him. He wasn't the reason though that she wanted to cry, it was the thought that he had touched her Faith and Faith had let him was what made her want to cry. When Faith had first come to Sunnydale she had been this force of life that called to her entire being. She had tried to deny it at first by pushing her away and then when she finally did give into her Allen Finch happened and she freaked. She pushed Faith away and made her go to that monster who said he loved her.

She still remembered that one night they had shared, though no one knew about it. It had been before Allen and the Mayor. In that back alley way where they shared their first kiss and so much more. Sometimes at night she'll dream and when she woke up her whole body would tingle and she would be so hot that one touch would send her to her imminent release. Imagining Faith soft but calloused hands roaming her body making her feel thing's Angel never could invoke. It was like she was complete.

It was after that he left that Willow had found her on their dorm room floor, her whole body shaking from the convulsions that the tears sent her in. Though she didn't scream or vent she felt a war warring through her entire body. Willow had thought that she had loved Riley, but the truth of the matter was he did nothing for her, that it was Faith that she was in love with. The only reason that she was even with him in the first place was because he resembled something that was as close to normal as Giles was. She had thought that was what she wanted but she knew now that that wasn't true, the only thing that she wanted right now was her sister slayer here with her again being the Chosen Two.

It was Willow who had pulled her through and reminded her of the Adam problem and got her to focus on that. It had been about two and a half months since they had destroyed Adam and the Initiative. Almost six month since Faith had disappeared. They still had no idea where she was. The last sighting that the council had of her was in Denver before she completely disappeared off the face of this earth and that had been about a month ago. The only reason that she knew about it was because of the contacts that Giles still had who were involved with the councils inner working.

Buffy looked at her watch and noticed that it was three in the morning and she still hadn't made any kills. So she decided to pack it in for the night and look tomorrow. Disappointed and a little aroused from thinking about Faith she headed home, to a cold shower and a warm bed to sleep in. She had to get up early today; she was supposed to be helping her mom at the gallery, moving boxes and things of the like.

Little did Buffy know that in the distance following her, hiding behind the trees was one not so stealthy Riley Finn.