Wanna Be

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Summary: Faith finally becomes one of the Scoobies after a lot of hard work and some TLC from a certain vampire. This is an S/F fic. This is a challenge response. Spike's Kitten website.
Challenge: Must include the following: - Spike/Faith - Spike getting the chip out of his head - Spike being friends with Willow - A birthday party - Whipped Cream - Someone catching Spike with Faith (in a 'compromising' position) - Buffy's bed at her mom's house - A noosebleed - A houseplant - Ice Cream Sandwiches
Distribution: My site Strictly Fic. I doubt anyone else will want it but if you are brave, email me at richess78@hotmail.com I will most likely say yes.
Disclaimer: I own nothing. All BTVS characters belong to J. Whedon and Mutant Enemy Productions. Song: Wanna Be by Nine Days.
Author's Note: This is not typical Faith this is changed reformed Faith. Remember that. Thanks to SpikesPet for betaing this chapter.

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Part 4

Faith got out her trusty first aid kit from her room and began the arduous task of cleaning up Spike’s wounds.  She had no clue were to be begin because his whole chest was covered in blood.  The touch of the alcohol on his skin woke him up.  His eyes were wild and it was clear he was desperately sought refuge from the pain.  She tried to lull him into a sense of security by stroking his face but she could tell the only thing he was registering was the pain.

“Spike, do you hear me?”

Faith received no response.

“Ok Spike, I am gonna try and get you to the bathtub.”  She helped him sit up and try to stand, but once his feet hit the ground he yelped in pain.  Faith quickly inspected the bottom of his feet and realized that her lie to Helio wasn’t completely false; she could see jagged shards of glass embedded in the soles of his feet.  She scooped him up in her arms and carried the vampire the few feet to his bathroom.

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“I don’t know what happened, but she said Spike was hurt,” Willow explained to Buffy as she and Giles briskly walked to Faith and Spike’s apartment.

“Did she say anything else?”

“I didn’t let her.  I told her I’d be right over,” Willow said as she pulled open the door to the ex-warehouse.  It had been turned into eight trendy lofts.

They opened up the door to the apartment slowly and Buffy instantly saw the blood. “Faith?”

The girls got no response and started up the staircase following the footprints up into Spike’s room.  The vampire was asleep.  They looked to see Faith in a pair of sweats moping up the bathroom floor.  Buffy and Willow gasped at the bandages that covered his torso.

“Faith!”

The Slayer jumped startled. “Hey, I didn’t think you’d get here this soon.”

“Did he say what happened to him?” Willow asked, sitting next to her good friend.  Over the last year Spike and Willow had become really good friends.  He often asked her for advice, especially the way to break Faith’s iced heart.  Willow often told him to leave her alone she wasn’t worthy of his love and that normally caused the good friends to fight.  She had tried to accept Faith into the Scoobies fold.  But for her, too much damage had been inflicted.  Being civil was the best that she could muster. 

“He hasn’t been a talking mood,” Faith replied quickly.

“What do you mean? We have to know if it was Glory that did this too him or if he squealed about Dawn being The Key,” Buffy asked worriedly.

“Buffy, you know Spike wouldn’t do that to Dawn.  He’s not in a talking mood because he’s more in a catatonic state.  If I had to guess, Glory brain sucked him.”

Willow looked over the blood on the bed, “But that means…”

“We don’t know what it means.  He’s a demon.  We don’t know if brain sucking a demon as the same effects as brain sucking a human,” Buffy said, trying to keep a glimmer of hope for both girls. “The first thing we are going to do is call Giles.  Second thing you and I are going to track down Glory.” Buffy said, the last part directed at Faith.

“Just let me get changed and killing the bitch shouldn’t be a problem for two slayers.”  Faith grumbled as she walked out of the room.

TBC...