Mending
by bad shot
Mending
[reviews]
Epilogue
A bump in the road caused a girl with black hair and worn out clothes to pull her head up and sit up. She looked around for a minute then saw a sign signaling that they where three miles from hell. The place that she had spent six years of her life and now she had to go back and make things right. At the moment she was happy that she had been awoken because she was having a nightmare about the night that all her troubles began. Her thoughts where interrupted by a horn honking as a car sped around the side of the bus that was apparently going to slow. She then settled back into her seat determined to make things right.
As she arrived in her destination she breathed deeply and steeped off the bus. She watched the bus leaving and wanted to run back on it but she new she had to face the stupid and evil things she had done to her best friend. Willow.
Chapter 1
Willow was just coming back from L.A. with reinforcements. She had brought Faith to help with the first because Buffy wasn't there. Buffy. That one word brought the redhead longing, love, hatred, and disgust at what the blonde had done. They came up behind a bus that was coming into Sunnyhell for some reason. It was moving slowly and Willow was in such a hurry she didn't care if she was rude. She honked the horn of the small car and shot around the left side of the bus. Faith was changing the radio station when her head spun around like something sent off her slayer sense.
"What is it?" Willow asked the brunette girl.
"Um... I don't know what actually just that there was something else on that bus, as in the non human kind," she said still looking at the now fading bus.
"Should we go after it?" Willow asked starting to slow down a bit.
"Red we don't even know what it was and its looks like its coming straight to our town so we should just tell Giles and worry about the SIT's right now," Faith said and Willow let the subject drop.
The black haired girl was sitting on a bench and watching the sun set she knew she could delay no longer. She stood up and took a deep breath and started walking down the sidewalk with her hands in her pockets. She looked down the final street and saw only one house still had lights on. She wheeled around as if shocked by something and stood in a defensive position. A man dressed in a priest garb stepped out with his hands behind his back. He looked at her with mock interest. But the girl sighed and dropped out of her defensive position. The man used the opportunity to attack her from behind. As he ran she flipped the man over her shoulder with practiced ease. He landed on his feet and sweeped the girl's legs out from under her. He jumped on her pulling his arm back to punch but she threw him off herself. She got up and aimed a kick at his head which he blocked. He pulled out a piece of pipe from under his robes and swung wildly at her most of which she blocked but he got a few in to give her a cut over her eye and a thudding pain in her chest. It continued for a few minutes but the black haired girl finally dropped to a knee from exhaustion and the beating her arms and body had took. He took advantage of this and sent a kick to her head which knocked her over unconciouss.
The car screeched to a stop when they saw a girl fall out of the truck in front of them. The went over to her and checked on her.
"Faith is she still alive?" Willow asked.
"Not for long if we don't do something red," Faith anwsered solemnly.
"Help me pick her up," Willow asked and Faith acknowledged. They brought her back up to the car and put her in the back. Faith went into the back and helped make the new girl comfortable.
When they reached the hospital what doctors and nurses that where left rushed the girl in the E.R. It was seven o'clock so Faith went to the pay-phone and called Giles to tell him where we were. Willow went straight to the waiting room and got a cup of coffee from the machine they had in the back room. Faith made her way back to the waiting room and sat down. They only had to wait ten minutes before a doctor came to tell them that the girl was stable but had only been saved because of them.
The first thing the black haired girl met when she woke up was pain. Lancing through her skull. She tried to pull her hand up to her head to find it chained to her side. She started to look around the dark place she was in waiting for her eyes to adjust to the dark. When they did she saw she was in a basement with wine barrels or something all around them.
"So this is the real slayer," said a mocking voice, "I thought you would be taller or at least put up more of a fight. But in this haste I forgot to introduce myself. The names Caleb and yours is Elizabeth Winters. But of course that's not your real name is it," it was a statement not a question so the girl kept quiet, "I happen to know that for a fact the question is why did you leave your name behind Buffy Summers?"
Faith was on the way home with Willow. They were a block or so away from the house and hadn't spoken till now.
"Do you think she will be okay?" asked Willow in a small voice.
"Red you heard what he said, he said it would be fine. So lets just get home and get you in bed," Faith said taking Willow into a hug.
"Eww, I stepped inn something," said Willow jumping back from what she had stepped in. Faith kneeled down to study it by putting a finger in it and sniffing it.
"Blood," Faith stated. Willow looked to the pile and back to the house hoping that Faith got the hint, "Don't worry Red I don't think it was anybody from our house." With that they walked the rest of the way home.
"Willow, and Faith thank god we really needed some help," Xander said giving Willow a hug.
"Ya I knew you would be happy, but did you guys hear anything happening outside sometime today," Faith said but Xander just looked at her with a puzzled expression so Faith elaborated, "We found a puddle a blood a block down the street and wondered if it was someone was attacked."
"Oh well to anwser your question we have been at the Bronze tonight so we haven't heard anything but music," Xander stated. The SIT's were in the living room watching a old western movie. Willow and the others moved into the room with a bucket of popcorn to watch the rest of the movie.
Buffy woke up to the sound of people rushing around her.
"I bet you want to know what is happening," said the evil voice that belonged to Caleb.
"Ya you know for some reason I just don't know why I would ask that but it may be the minor concussion talking," Buffy retorted.
"Well I think we may need to wash that mouth out such back-sas from such a pretty, young girl. But as you should know we have an answer for almost everything including this," Caleb took out a very pointy knife and waved it in front of her. Buffy didn't like the thoughts that came to her from that one gesture of Caleb.
The house was bustling with activity. In the middle of the night someone had thrown a brick through the window saying It has something we want at the old vineyard. We knew that it was going to be a trap we even had a argument over it but in the end we decided to go out tonight and scout around to see what it was and get some info. It was some of the more experienced SIT's in one group with Faith and another with Willow, Xander, and Giles. They decided to check out the graveyards first and where rewarded with eight dusted newbies and one wierd demon thing. Then they made their way to the outside fence of the vineyard and saw a bringer walking into the basement of the building.
"Faith don't you think this is a bit obvious," said Kennedy an arrogant SIT with a hot head.
"Don't you think I have thought about this Ken just be quiet and follow my lead," Kennedy pouted but held back a retort that was about to come. Right when they moved to open the gate a blood curdling scream came from inside the building.
"What the hell was that?" asked Rona another SIT. The truth was Faith didn't know and went back to talk to Giles and the others.
"What do we do?" asked Faith trying to get Giles to talk.
"Well this may be a trap using a innocent to lure us but if it is then we have to go in but if it's just someone allied with the first screaming then you see our dilemma," finished Giles starting to clean his glasses. Another scream weaker than the last came from the basement and Willow eyed the door trying to think about their position. One last scream came and then all was silent.