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Chasing the Girl

By: Leia
folder -Buffy the Vampire Slayer › FemmeSlash - Female/Female › Buffy/Faith
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Chapter 8

Disclaimer - see part one

Thank you guys for the reviews!!! I thought I'd update with one more chapter tonight.


Part 8

Faith woke to an incessant banging on the front door.

"What the hell?" She said out loud as she walked sleepily out of the room. Looking on the pillow before leaving, she found a note:

"Faith, had to take Will to work, some sort of problem arose. Shouldn't be gone long. Xander's off today, so it should be okay. Get yourself something to eat and call if you need anything. K."

"Okay, okay. Hold on, jeez, what time is it anyway?" She said glancing at the clock.

"8:00. Okay, that's not normal." Faith said, as she rushed to open the door.

"Faithie," Xander said, pushing past her. "long time no see, how's life?" She started to reply. "Really? That's good, you think they have any food here?" Faith had just noticed the little girl, 'Rose', she thought, as Xander walked past her into the kitchen.

"You know, I'm a bachelor. Yeah, the bachelor's life for me. So I have no breakfast sustenance, I actually have nothing but cheetos and beer and grape juice, which, as you can see, the little devil spilt all over her shirt. I mean, come on, purple juice? What were the girls thinking? Don't they make clear grape juice or something?"

Faith was too busy staring at the little girl, who up until that point had her head hidden in Xander's shoulder.

The little girl picked that time to speak. "Hungry." She said, pulling on Xander's shirt.

"I know, Rosie, let me see what they have." He opened the fridge, handing Rose to h.
h.

"Okay, eggs. You want eggs?"

She shook her head no.

"What about toast?" No again. "Well, we'll just go get breakfast then, once we change your clothes. Where're the girls?"

Faith handed Xander the note.

"Oh, you wanna go eat with us?"

Faith was still staring at him, holding a giggling Rose about two feet away from her body, suspended in mid-air.

"Umm, Faith, she doesn't have a disease, or anything." Faith looked at him and cocked an eyebrow.

"I mean, if you had more clothes on, not that I'm looking or anything, cause no offense, but way past lusting over Slayers, seems to get me near killed and all, but she's not really gonna get juice on the top." He said pointing to her. Faith figured out what he was saying and pulled the child on her hip.

"Yeah, I'm not good with babies, Xander." She said, looking at him like that was enough.

"I not baby." Rose chose to speak again.

"Of course you're not." Xander said, as he took her from Faith. "How about I help the little lady change, and the big one can change on her own, and then we'll all go get breakfast. My treat?"

They got back to the house about ten, with no sign of Kennedy or Will.

Faith had to admit breakfast was a treat, alright.

Just not the one he meant.

Seems the kid has her mother's demeanor, throwing a nice temper tantrum when she didn't get her juice. It took both of them to calm her down, and by that time Faith had lost her appetite and really just wanted to grab a smoke and go back to bed.

"Shit." She heard Xander say, as she stubbed out her cigarette and went back inside.

He had not mentioned Buffy and she hadn't asked. She marveled at how easy it was for him to pretend the girl didn't even exist.

"What is it?" She asked.

Rose was on the floor coloring, and Xander was hanging up the phone. He looked at her pleadingly.

"Oh no, didn't sign up for that. You gotta stay here til the girls get back." Faith said, guessing what he was gonna say.

"I'm sorry, Faith, site emergency. I called Ken and they'll be home in an hour or so. I just changed her, she's fed, and she'll probably just take a nap."

"No nap." Rose said, looking up from her coloring.

Xander was backing up, hands in the air.

"Don't do this, Xand, I'm still a Slayer and I can kick your ass\n
\\n
"You'll be fine. Like you said, Slayer and all, what's one little girl?"

'Jackass.' She thought. 'I never said that.'

When he had shut the door, she looked at Rose, who had noticed the exchange and was about to cry, still timid of Faith.

"Oh, come on, don't do that." Faith said, as she scooped the little girl up. "Come on, how about I rock you a little and sing a song, huh?"

The little girl nodded shyly.

"Good."

Faith sat down in the chair and started to sing. "Wait. Can't sing that song." She said. "No, I can't sing that one, either." She said, thinking all of them over, one by one. "You know, Rosie, I don't know any song that's not about sex, or, well, that's all I know are sex songs. I'm a good role model, huh?" She asked, hugging the little girl who was staring at her amusedly.

"Sex." Rose said, staring up at Faith. "Sex, sex, sex." She sang.

"Oh, no, don't say that." Oh crap, Red is gonna kill me. "Let's not say sex."

"Sex." The little girl repeated, singing and clapping her hands.

"No no no." Faith said, trying to control her breathing, "How about puppy? Can you say puppy?" She asked trying to get the little girl to change her song.

"Puppy sex." Rose countered.

"Shit, Shit, Sh'' Fa'' Faith said.

"Shit." Rose smiled at Faith.

"Okaaay, no more words, huh?" Faith said getting up and setting the little girl down on thoundound. "You don't want Red to get me, do you?"

The little girl shook her head.

"How about we take a nap?" Faith tried. 'Anything to change the subject.' She thought.

"Nap. Couch." Rose said.

"What, you wanna lay on the couch?"

"You lay down." Rose told Faith.

Faith walked over to the couch and laid down.

"Like this?" She asked the little girl. Rose nodded and climbed onto her stomach.

"You wanna sleep here with Faith?" Faith asked.

"Slwithwith Faith." Rose copied, as she laid her head on Faith's chest.

Faith put her hands tentatively around Rose's back and rested them there. Then the little girl wrapped her chubby arms promptly around Faith's chest and fell asleep.

Faith peered down at the little girl nuzzling on her chest.

'Shit, B.' She thought. 'What were you thinking, fifteen minutes and the kid has me wrapped around her fingers.' She softly rubbed the little girl's back, humming.

As she fell asleep, her mind drifted.

'Well, there's no way I can ever get back to Boston now.' Faith thought, still rubbing her back.

"Well, Rosie, guess you hold the new record for making me fall in love the fastest. Even got your mom beat." Faith mumbled to herself, as she closed her eyes.

To be continued
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