29 April 2003 - Faith Crosses The Line

Faith and Paige

"I can't do this anymore."

Faith was tracking a group of vampires. Group? Herd? Band? Whatever. At any rate, she was following them and she'd found their nest. In all, she found about 7, but this was reduced to maybe 2 or 3, because she'd killed some along the way. Who cared anymore? She was going to go into the nest.

"Yo, bumpies!" Faith called down and jumped into their nest. She was right, only about 3 were there. She staked one and looked at the other two.

"Ok, you get a choice... you can kill me now, or, you can just drink from me. What's it gonna be?"

One of the vamps ran away, thinking it was a ploy, so Faith casually blocked the last exit.

"Guess you get to drink."

The vampire charged at her and bit her neck. She yelped as she felt his teeth prick her skin and felt her blood being drained away. Right when she felt she was losing everything, her body was shutting down, she staked the vamp quickly under her arm and pulled away, brushing the dust off herself.

"Damn."

Faith managed to get herself home, and as soon as she got there, Paige opened the door and screamed. She quickly healed her and put her upstairs in her room.

Faith had gone too far.

This had to stop.


Faith and Halliwells

Paige followed Faith upstairs, confused and angry. Piper and Phoebe followed her as she flung open the door and stared at the girl lying on the bed.

"Right, we need to talk." Paige closed the door after her sisters.

"About what?" Faith turned and looked at them.

Piper moved and sat on the edge of the bed. "About what you're doing to yourself."

Phoebe sat at the vanity. "Look, this is getting insane."

"This is the fourth time I've had to heal you."

"I told you not to heal me! I don't want you too!"

"Why not?" Piper reached out to touch Faith, but she recoiled.

"Because I don't deserve it!"

"You don't deserve to be feeling ok?"

"No I... look, even if I wasn't getting hurt, I'd be feeling other crap, and I don't want to, ok? I don't want to feel the pain in my heart. I hurt Zac, and that's killing me when I can feel it, so I need this pain, I need it to survive!"

"You don't need it, you just want it, you know why? It's the easy way out! If you don't feel it, then you can pretend it never happened, but guess what Faith? It did happen, so deal with it!" Phoebe was standing up now, looming over Faith on the bed.

Faith got up and stepped around the bed to Phoebe. "You think you can take me?"

"For heavens sake, Faith! This isn't about fighting! Phoebe is worried about you, we all are!" Piper stood between her sister and Faith.

Paige coughed loudly. "Look, all we're saying is that this has to stop. Ok, go see him, you obviously want to."

"I did. I ran into him when I was out with stupid Noel. And he saw me kiss him, because..."

"Why?"

"Because I thought that if I was with Noel that I could forget about Zac."

"Did it work?"

"It could've... if he hadn't been there. And then after we were talking and he was... I hurt him. Plain and simple. And I can't stand that I've done that, but it was for the best, ok? And that's the way it has to be. So I'll get over it, I will. Just right now, it hurts. But then, I guess that's what you get for letting people in. So I deserve everything I get. Can you guys just go, please? I really need to be alone."

Piper, Phoebe and Paige nodded and left without another word.

Faith sat back down on her bed and glanced at her bag still sitting in the corner. Maybe she'd go to LA for awhile, get away from everything.

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