Such a good chapter. So much happened. The scene where Faith is crying in Buffy's bed was especially powerful. Plus the whole misunderstanding with that first kiss and then.. the making out on the bed that ended awkwardly. Great great chapter. Love the pacing and the tone of this story so far. Truly enjoyable overall =)

F-ing council. Barbarian dinosaurs. Grrrr. Glad everyone made it out alive (well of course Faith wasnt gonna die) but its a frustrating situation. If Buffy wasn't getting all loved up with Faith and wasnt firmly in her corner this would be an automatic Faith Goes To The Dark Side scenario I imagine. Very good chapter, that one vampire was a tough coustumer. =)

Back to being 'friends' again after sort of mostly making up after the big Christmas fight. Man, it's good because can't have the realtionship thing resolved this early in the story really. But its always just that big frustrating when it seems like they take one step forward and two steps back. Oh well I'm sure it will work out in the end. This was a very good chapter. The whole thing at the bronze and the girls grinding on guys trying to make each other jealouse was a fun scene. :)

5 weeks of avoiding each other after Buffy turned her down for sex? Geez what a bunch of whiny wimps. Maybe Faith is just an emotional retard... ok I can see that. Not really knowing enough/having enough experience to realize what may be troubling Buffy. But Buffy is the most retarded of them all, its frustrating.

Maybe its just me but I'm direct and hate all that pussyfutting around. If I was in Buffy's shoes I'd be like "Hey, I want you. But if you come back to my place/I go to yours I want us to spend the night together. I loved it that first time we did it and I don't want to go back to not doing that again.". See? That would solve all of the immideate and many of the long term problems.

Oh well. We know that both our Slayers are not the smartest people emotionally speaking. Makes for good drama but can be damn frustrating. Great chapter, look forward to the next.

Fantastic job. Really enjoyed that. It was short and sweet and awesome. Cudos on your story. And that was a LONG love scene but hey, no complaints about that :)

Let's see.. It doesn't FEEL like there was a lot of movement on the Buffy/Faith front in this chapter. But that is totally understandable. There needed to be a transition chapter introducing us to the new situation in Sunnyhell. Having Amy be the Big Bad is kinda nice because its different. Are we thinking like Amy is as big and bad as Bad Willow? I'm guessing she'd be pretty scary if that is the case.

It's weird though because I didn't really feel even a little bit of romantic tension between the two in this chapter. Maybe that was inentional? Maybe not. But I have faith that you will resolve that issue of the non-romanticism tension in the next chapter. That's what the whole fic is about anyway! I can see some angst coming on the Buffy front. She's gonna be all attracted to Faith but feel all guilty because she's thinking of Alt-Faith. I know there has to be some of that but please do something to make it feel different than Alt-Faith being all super-guilty-hesitatant with canon Buffy in FfaG. It would be cool if Buffy was just like 'fuck it, I like you, i know you're not her but I've had two years to grieve and dammit I want your hotness'. That would be sweet. And I'm sure Faith will get all 'she doesn't want me for me, she thinks i'm someone else blah blah blah' and try to sabotage everything even though she really wants Buffy. Sigh. Is that even close to what's gonna happen?

This chapter by itself was important but not quite as viscerally satifying on the romance/feelz department as the last one. But the plot point introduced and the little magical things with Amy were really neat.

Look forward to more next Friday! :)

Your writing style is so compelling. And it's really nice to see Buffy in this story being Pro-Faith in her own way. You'd think we'd see more fics like this but I can't really think of too many like it even though it makes sense that she would be if they could stop Faith from going bonkers right after she wakes up.

I think its realistic and great to see that the adults are willing to give Faith a chance and all the younger poeple are not (I 'm not counting Riley in this). It makes sense and kinda reinforces somewhat that the scoobs are still young and in some ways still kids.

For sure enjoyed this a great deal and am looking forward to the next installment. Great job!

So very different, and so very good! Kinda sad Faith died but... well we never find out she died until after she is re-intrododuced so no real mourning perior or anything.

The whole devil wings and horns and (lol!) tail thing was very entertaining and I can't believe it was never done before. To have Faith looking like a literal succubus? (I know you didnt mean for her to be a succubus but if you look up pictures of them they are your Faith-demon down to the last detail).. it was a fantastic idea.

The interations between B and F were great too. I'm glad Faith went to find Buffy at the end in the hotel room, I didn't think she would.. thought she would pull a Faith and just vanish. Glad she came to her senses. Really enjoyed the story, good luck in winning the contest!

Thanks for adding the final scene. I can see the appeal for leaving it up to the imagination but still... a story ending like that would be so sad! We're Americans, we're all about happy endings and don't deal with tragedies quite so well. We ain't Greek! Anyway that was a lovely story. Buffy and Faith made up very quickly but it was neccessary in a story this short.. but how they made up was great and credible. Buffy admitting the whole trying to kill Faith and how sorry she was etc. was a great scene that I think will the the one scene in this story that will stick with me. Well that one and desperately kissing with one minute left to go. That was pretty darn great too.

Great job with this story :). It was so sweet!

Author's Response:

Lol! I don't think we're all in the US. The British have invaded us. Perhaps they like a tragedy? 

Oh man. That was messed up as hell. It was pretty cool that Faith did in fact complete the 'test' more or less on her own but goddamn. That was most certainly in the not-cool bracket. And I get that she thinks Buffy is hiding something, Faith is unscooled not stupid and she can be pretty perceptive on occasion. Man this was the worst thing ever.

Just random note, it's not a big deal but I'm pretty sure in canon Faith is like a year to a year and a half younger than Buffy. Well, I'm mostly sure but I can't be 100% sure its not something I picked up from just reading fanfiction. Anyway its not a big deal just commenting.

And what the hell was wrong with Buffy that she kept feeling so weak? I really wanted to know. Apperantly it has nothing to do with the Council. Could it be the time travel demon? IDK. Hope she gets better.

It looks like Buffy will eventually have to spill the beans to Faith as to what actually happened. Hope she takes it well. Poor girl.  :(

Oh Snap I forgot about Wesley. He's one of the, if not the character that changes the most throught Buffy/Angel. He really becomes quite badass. In the beginning though he's such an annoying stuffed shirt I'd kinda forgotten about that haha. Though he didn't seem all that bad in this chapter, especially in the beginning.

Buffy's brainless valley girl act with Wes by the way? Priceless. She really pushed the envelope a bit with that one. I was picturing it in my head and smirking the whole time.  

Buffy pulling the girlfriend card on Faith and getting her to behave with Wes.. maybe a little underhanded but well worth it. When you get to do things over a second time I guess you can do them way better. Go Buffy! :D. It's fun because it doesn't always work out right.

It was a tiny scene, but Willow seemingly thinking impure thought about Buffy and Faith and then going on a babble fest of excuses after saying it outloud.. priceless.

BTW I thought for sure Buffy was gonna be responsible this time and not skip out of class. Oh well, no biggie. Fun/great chapter!

You know... if that person who grabbed Willow was Allen Finch, the idiot deserves to get stabbed. I mean who wades into a brawl between Slayers and Vamps and grabs someone from behind with no warning? Someone with a death wish that's who.

The opening scene of Buffy scrambling when her mom came in and kicking the vibrator under the bed was great. Pretty hilarious.

Hope Faith doesn't kill Allen but since this chapter is titled 'meant to be' I'm guessing you were talking about more than just Buffy and Faith's relationship. Whatever happens I hope the badness isn't too bad. Hey you never SAID outright that whoever grabbed Willow was Finch, maybe it really was a vamp? hard to tell.

Love it. Can't wait for the next update :)