Faith followed Buffy and Spike into the house. She looked around and was amazed at how it looked exactly how she last saw it.
"Whoa, memory lane. Same old house," Faith said looking around.
"Yeah, well, ever piece of furniture has been destroyed and replaced since you left so actually new house."
"Buffy," Xander said when he saw them.
"We have a new house guest," Buffy said.
Giles turned from his reading at the dining room table to see who it was.
"Hey, got a spare bed for a wanted fugitive," Faith said.
"Hello Faith," Giles said.
"Huh, I guess wanted wasn't really accurate."
Buffy ignored Faith's comment.
"Look. I need to get to the hospital," Buffy told them, "Some girl was attacked on her way into town. She might be a…"
"We know," Xander told her, "Willow's been calling."
"She's still there. She's gonna call if the girl wakes up," Giles said jumping into the conversation.
Buffy looks at him. She's still annoyed at him for his little kill spike plan. The air is so tense you could cut it with a knife. Faith feels it and thinks it because of her.
"Fine," Buffy says trying to keep the annoyed sound out of her voice.
She heads out of the room leaving Xander, Dawn, Giles, and Spike. Faith is confused. She didn't expect this much tension from her being there.
"Well, Faith, so we better, um… see if we can squeeze you in for the night," Giles says before heading out of the room as well.
Xander leaves the room soon after leaving Spike and Faith. Spike crosses his arms over his chest and leans against the stairs.
"Not all the tension was about you," Spike informs her.
Faith nodded clearly confused.
"Giles was part of a plan to kill me. For Buffy's own good," Spike adds when he sees that she's confused.
Faith nodded.
"Well that makes me feel better about me. Worse about Giles. Kinda shaky about you."
Dawn watches Faith and Spike from the top of the stairs well hidden in the shadows. She didn't know that she wanted Faith to see her yet. She wasn't sure how Faith would take seeing her. If she would turn up her nose and be extremely mad at her for leaving without fighting. Or would she open her arms and accept Dawn's apology. Dawn didn't want to take a chance on Faith turning her down.