A dark Alternate Universe where the scythe spell failed to turn the potentials into slayers. Buffy, on the precipice of insanity and reckless abandon is held in check by Faith as the world goes to hell around them. Buffy/Faith friendship and eventual pairing.

In the aftermath of season 8, both Buffy and Faith are ready to start the next chapter to their separate lives. But when a new Big Bad surfaces, those disparate lives once again merge. How do you move on when you're haunted by a face from your past?

It’s July 2006, and Faith and Buffy are being sent to investigate a series of unidentified demon attacks taking place at resorts along the California coast. Staying and slaying at an all-inclusive resort with Buffy sounds like Faith’s dream come true. The catch? The location is a honeymoon resort, meaning Faith and Buffy have to go undercover as a newlywed couple while they investigate.

Or: Faith Lehane has rings on her left hand that say Buffy is hers, except this whole marriage thing is only temporary and, worse than that, it isn’t even real.

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Faith knows that she isn’t getting a taste of anything she’ll get to keep, and she accepts that. If Buffy had ever given her a chance, Faith knew it would’ve been temporary. Just a hook-up. But at least there would be proof that Buffy wanted Faith, even if it was for one night only. The real gut punch here is the fact that as close as she and Buffy are going to be during the next week, absolutely none of it is real. It’ll mean everything to Faith, and nothing to the woman currently asleep (and quite possibly drooling) on Faith's shoulder.

And that, more than anything else, is going to be Faith’s undoing.