Who I am...

Sorry that it took me so long to get back to this. Really busy lately and such. And I'm still busy, but I didn't want everyone reading this story to feel completely neglected.
So here goes.
~Disclaimer in the first chapter
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Faith looked at her younger self. Her mind worked rapidly, turning over ideas that could possibly make this work, and discarding each of them, finally, she sighed and shrugged. "I'm you."

The teenager scoffed, and edged closer, ready to attack. "Right, tell me another one."

"You're here to see Buffy, the other slayer. You haven't had a decent time of sleep for over a month…. And it hurts so much inside, seeing what he did to her every time you close your eyes." Faith said, trying the only approach that she could really think of as being at least a little possible at working. Honesty. The younger girl jumped at her, which she was expecting. Who knew Faith better than Faith? She stepped to the side slightly and turned the jump into a throw, landing the younger girl hard on her back on the ground. "You still pray at night, begging that he doesn't find you." The younger girl jumped up and charged her again, making the older Faith toss her out of the way again. It was just like handling a cocky young slayer that B wanted her to pick up. "Your middle name is Mary." That made the younger girl actually stumble. "And right now we're both getting a sick feeling in our stomachs because I'm not supposed to be here. You had the meeting with Buffy all planned out too. She was supposed to come charging out to save you from the vamp, if she's any good at her job… then you'd stake him right in front of her, to show her that you're just as good as her. Best to be on even or better ground. Then you were gonna have the time of your life with her, the Chosen Two, evil beware."

"Fuck you!"

She sighed and looked at her younger self. "And you still miss your older brother, Chris."

"Fuck you! Stop!" The younger girl charged again, but this time the older Faith flipped her in a way that landed her on top, and managed to hold her in a tight, and probably painful lock. "Get the fuck off of me!"

"I'm you, and it was a fucking pain in the ass ending up here, so listen to me." Faith growled. "What the hell do I have to do to prove it?"

"Start by getting the fuck off of me."

Faith slowly let her go, then jumped back, watching as the younger girl struggled to stand. She was looking upset at being defeated. "If you're me, twinkie, how the fuck did you get here? And what's going on?"

"I made some mistakes… you make mistakes… it ends up ruining our life." Faith shrugged and folded her arms, watching the younger girl warily. She knew herself, and she knew that she was just as likely to walk off as listen, or attack again. "I fucked up again, but it did help in that it got me back here again. I'm supposed to do the second chance shit. Show you what you need to know to not become me… not completely at least."

Faith saw the younger self snort derisively. It did sound like something out of a cheesy comic book, admittedly, or an old B movie. "Whatever."

"So you want to spend months in a coma, and years in jail? You want to be alone forever?" Faith asked, not incredulously, but as if she knew that it was doubtful. "Fine… become everything you hate, a murderous evil minion working for a demon… kill humans… try to seduce vampires…. Hell, even go ahead and get yourself a nice little scar like this and drop off into a coma, letting those dreams plague you…." At that Faith lifted her shirt enough to display the scar that still marred the skin there, from that old fight. "I'm what you become."

"So what? You want to turn me into a damned goody-two-shoes bitch? No fucking thanks."

Faith looked up, feeling a familiar tingle up her spine. "B can't see us like this. She'll want to know things that she can't hear…. Make up your mind. Be an idiot, and make all the mistakes… turn evil and be miserable and alone forever, always the inferior, hated dark slayer…. Or take the second chance. What the fuck do you have to lose anyway? He's already here."

The younger Faith's eyes widened at that, hearing that Kakistos was already in Sunnydale, and then she frowned and looked around. She could see a blonde in the distance. "Fine." The younger girl was shocked when that strange necklace was tossed at her. "What the hell is this?"

"All you have to do is put it on." Hesitantly, seeing the blonde running to get closer, the younger faith slipped the necklace over her head, and everything went black.

TBC