The Black Rose

Chapter 7

Faith sat at her desk in the office staring out the window, twirling her knife in her hand, as she contemplated her situation. The vampires blamed Buffy for the death of Saskia and wanted their revenge, Buffy wanted revenge on the people responsible for Alex’s death. The time had come for Faith to decide which path she was going to take, should she let the vamps have their pound of flesh, or should she try and redeem her soul, tell Buffy the truth in the hope that she’d be forgiven.

The sunrise turned to sunset and the darkness crept over the town, still Faith sat not knowing which path to take. The telephone ringing jolted her from her musings.

“Faith, it’s Buffy.”

“What’s up?”

“Nothing I’m just checking in, I haven’t seen you all day. Are we ok?”

“I’ve been busy at work, We’re good B. Why d’ya ask?”

“The last few weeks you’ve been distant. I miss you not being here. I can do this alone if you’re having second thoughts.”

“No, I’m in all the way, side by side.”

“I understand if you…”

“We’re good B, in fact I got a lead this morning on the gang. B I think you should be prepared.” Faith paused collecting herself “It’s looking like the guys responsible could be human.”

Buffy didn’t speak

“B? You hear me?”

“Yeah. All I know is the ones I took out that night dusted like vamps. I want the one that got away.”

“That guy’s hold up in a motel outside Sunnydale.”

Buffy’s tone was strong and determined “These guys may not be vamps or demons but what they did… what they did to Alex… they have no humanity in them.”

“I’ll meet you at yours later, I have a few more things to wrap up here.”

“Ok. I’ll make dinner, say about eightish?”

“Eight’s great.” Faith hung up, her decision made she took a deep breath, flipped the knife, holding the blade she threw it at the door. Picked up the phone and called Tom. “I have a job for one of your wannabe’s.”