The Devil's Rejects

Part III

Timeline: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 4, between New Moon Rising and The Yoko Factor and Angel Season 1 Post Sancutuary

She slept with Riley, she tried to kill Angel (again) and she had tied her mother to a bed. And then, as if that weren't enough, Faith had somehow talked Angel onto her side. Buffy Summers was well beyond livid and into the pissed off territory. Angel had picked Faith over her, her boyfriend had slept with her body and hadn't had the decency to actually see that it wasn't her behind the wheel, and Faith was in jail. Willingly.

That bit was the part that really blew her mind. If she thought about it, none of the things that Faith had done seemed particularly out of character for the dark-haired Slayer, and the fact that Angel had sided with her, while unpleasant, wasn't exactly unexpected. Wasn't Angel on a redemption kick of his own?

But Faith. In jail. Willingly. Staying there. The thought absolutely blew her mind. That kind of thing just didn't happen! And that wasn't even looking at the fact that Buffy's Slayer was howling with rage at the thought of her sister being locked up, her sister behind bars. The Slayer knew that Faith's Slayer would be going insane by the end of her sentence, that no matter what Faith did to suppress her, it would like an unscratchable itch beneath her skin. The need to hunt, to fight, to kill would be too much for her.

Buffy knew what happened when she had to skip patrol for a few days running. She had no idea how Faith's sanity would handle being locked up. But whenever Faith showed up, she left chaos in her wake. And she usually tried to seduce/kill Buffy's current boyfriend.

It didn't help that the Slayer kept whispering that if Faith wanted Riley, she could have him. They were sisters, after all, and sisters shared everything. Riley was just a big lump of moron, and an even worse choice in a boyfriend than Angel had been, the Slayer said mutinously. Angel had been everything that she had wanted in a mate—powerful, strong, able to stand on his own against the darkness that a Slayer must face. There was the whole 'mortal enemy' thing that kept screaming in the back of her mind when she was with him, but at least she wasn't at war with a part of herself like she was with the Slayer about Riley.

Faith shouldn't be in there—Buffy should go get her out. Right now. Slayers weren't made to be behind bars, and Faith would break there if they weren't careful. It didn't matter that Faith had betrayed her over and over and over again—she was a Slayer, she was Buffy's sister.

There was nothing else to it.

I know that it's been awhile, and I'm sorry about that. Third chapter, done. I know it's short. It's supposed to be short. If you watch Angel, then you know whereabouts this is referring to. If you don't—quick rundown: Faith turns up in L.A. to escape Buffy and gang, gets hired by Wolfram and Hart, an evil law firm that Angel's fighting, to kill Angel, captures Wes to torture him in the process (Cause Wesley turned up in LA about ten episodes earlier) before she finally realizes what a horrible person she is and breaks down in Angel's arms to beg for forgiveness. He takes her in, him and Wes argue, Buffy turns up to protect Angel from Faith, finds out he's on her side and goes ballistic. In the meantime, Faith finally gets caught up to by the LAPD for the murders that she was suspected for in Sunnydale and runs away. Kate Lockley, a policewoman that knows what Angel is, threatens to lock him up in a cell with a window to burn in the light unless he turns Faith in, Faith chooses to go to jail for her crimes.