A/N: This story and title is being written as response to a request I got. It is set in an AU Season Six where Buffy died at the end of Season Five and Faith was broken out of jail to help the Scoobies. Buffy came back from the dead and now Faith lives at the house with Willow, Tara, Buffy and Dawn.
An encounter with a demon has some very strange effects on Faith.
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"Come on B tell me we can bail on this," Faith whined as the two Slayers sat atop gravestones looking across the deserted cemetery they had been told to patrol.
"I knew what everyone told me about you being all responsible while I was dead was all a lie," Buffy teased delivering a gentle punch to Faith's shoulder.
"Dude so not true I was a regular goody two shoes while you were away but now you're back I can go back to being all irresponsible and flaky," Faith said.
Buffy regarded her dark counterpart for a second; ever since she had been resurrected Faith had referred to the hundred and forty eight days that she had been dead to her time away. Willow had told her that they had been welcoming to the Bostonian forever grateful for what she did for them while Buffy was dead but the dark haired Slayer had kept mainly to herself. Willow had said she had never spoken about the blonde and had left the room anytime someone had brought her up.
Buffy had tried to approach her about it a couple of times but Faith had always found a way to evade her. Ever since she had come back the Faith she was seeing was the same outgoing and confident one she had known before so she found it hard to believe that Faith had been quiet and reclusive. She realised that she had been quiet for too long because Faith was giving her a strange look whilst she spun the stake she held in her hand.
"Well Giles really wanted us to get this demon so we have to stay here until we do," Buffy told her.
"Spoilsport," Faith muttered under her breath taking out a cigarette from her jacket pocket and lighting it, "What exactly does this thing do anyway?" she asked taking a drag.
"I knew you weren't listening when Giles was going on about it this afternoon," Buffy admonished.
"I told you irresponsible," Faith shrugged her shoulders as she took another drag.
"Well to be honest I wasn't really listening either," Buffy said and Faith raised an eyebrow at her, "But I seem to remember Giles called it a Absentitus or something and it's meant to give what people have lost he thought it would be bad if it affected vampires," Buffy told her.
"Why?" Faith asked absently flicking the end of her cigarette.
"Something about giving them what they lost," Buffy shrugged her shoulders crinkling up her nose as Faith's smoke blew in her face.
"What would be so bad about the blood suckers getting something that they lost back, I mean maybe their dress sense or something but how bad could it be?" Faith asked.
"I don't know maybe that opportunity missed to end the world," Buffy said reaching over and taking Faith's cigarette and flicking it to the floor.
The outraged look on the dark Slayer's face nearly made her laugh but Faith was quick to retaliate reaching over and pulling Buffy's legs up so the blonde flipped backwards over the back of the gravestone she had been sitting on.
"Faith what the hell?" she asked angrily brushing herself off as she stood.
"You took something of mine that I like so I took something of yours," the brunette shrugged.
"My liking of a fully functional spinal cord?" Buffy frowned rubbing her back.
"Nope your liking of sitting comfortably on top of Mrs. Scully," Faith smirked reading the name off the headstone the blonde had been sitting on.
"Saving you from getting lung cancer isn't the same as throwing someone off a headstone," Buffy pouted but not getting back up to where she had been previously.
"It's not gonna be the cancer sticks that kill me B," Faith said absently running a hand through her hair, "what did Giles say this demon looked like?"
"Um grey skin, horns, strange mouth tentacles I think he had a special name for them but you know how I am with long words," Buffy said.
"Oh okay, well this might hurt," Faith said nonchalantly.
Buffy didn't have a chance to respond before she was knocked off her feet the demon she had just been describing having pummelled into her from behind. Faith smirked as the blonde glared back at her as she got back to her feet ducking a punch from the demon as she did so.
"A heads up would have been nice," she ground out her hands trying to stop the Absentitus from biting her.
"I said this might hurt," Faith retorted.
"I'd appreciate some help too ya know," Buffy yelled at her as she dodged another blow from the Absentitus demon who roared in frustration.
"Fine but remember you asked the next time you complain that I took your kill," Faith sighed as she jumped down off the tombstone.
The former rogue didn't have a chance to attack the Absentitus as it turned on her as she hit the ground blowing a purple mist from it's tentacled mouth. Buffy watched in horror as the brunette fell to the ground when the mist hit her writhing on the floor as it encased her entire body. Enraged Buffy turned from the dark Slayer to the demon who if she didn't know any better seemed to be smirking behind his hideous visage.
"Oh you are so going to pay for that," she said.
Moments later she had the demon in pieces literally and breathing hard she wiped demon blood off her hands in disgust knowing that this was another outfit ruined by her after hours job.
"Faith are you okay?" she asked turning to face where the dark haired Slayer had been lying.
Buffy knew her eyes were comically wide as she took in the scene below her. Where Faith had been lying previously sat a baby who would have only been about ten months old. Buffy blinked at the infant who sat staring at her with big brown eyes; the most obvious conclusion as to where the baby had come from sat firmly at the front of her mind but it was just so farfetched that she had a hard time believing it. If the baby hadn't been sitting in amongst the dark Slayer's clothing she would never have even considered the possibility. Kneeling down so that she was closer to the baby in height she took in the doe eyes and wispy brown hair and the small mole above her lip, there was no mistaking who the baby was.
"Faith?" she asked and couldn't help the smile that spread across her face as the infants eyes lit up at hearing her own name and she started to clap and babble happily whilst sitting amongst the clothing.
"This is insane," she said into the night air.
She lifted the baby and held her out in front of her the tank top adult Faith had been wearing hanging past the baby's feet.
"Okay Faith now while I don't have much experience baby wise I do know some stuff and right now you are not wearing a diaper so that means there will be absolutely no peeing on Buffy while she carries you to Giles' place alright," she said looking the baby in the eye. The infant grinned a gummy smile at her revealing two teeth on her bottom jaw and giggled at the serious expression Buffy was giving her.
"I'm going to take your serious mocking of my parental stern Buffy voice as that you've understood and agree one hundred percent to my deal," Buffy said settling the baby on her hip. Faith grabbed a fistful of Buffy's hair and babbled away to herself as Buffy carried her out of the cemetery and towards Giles' house.
"Buffy would still like to have her hair attached to her scalp Faithy," Buffy said keeping her voice light as she tried to balance the baby on her hip as well as wrestle her hair out of the infant's grasp.
"Now Giles is pretty old so we're going to have to find a way to break this to him gently because we don't want him to have a heart attack," Buffy said to the baby in her arms. Readjusting her hold on the infant she knocked swiftly on her Watchers door knowing he wasn't going to be happy with the late night wake up call.
Her instincts had been correct and a very rumpled looking Giles opened the door squinting into the moonlight to see who had woken him at this late hour.
"Hey Giles sorry to wake you but we ran into that Absentitus demon, don't worry we got him but something weird happened," she rushed taking a deep breath at the end and waiting for his reaction.
She was shocked that he hadn't immediately reacted to the baby she held in her arms who was being surprisingly quiet and regarding the man in front of her with a curious fascination.
"Well could this something weird have waited for the morning?" Giles asked rubbing a hand over his eyes.
"Glasses, Giles put on your glasses," she told him exasperatedly.
Her Watcher frowned but fumbled around on the table behind him finally pulling his glasses out from under the pile of papers he had strewn across his desk. Putting them on he turned to face his Slayer his eyes nearly popping out of his head when he spotted the baby in her arms. Buffy snorted under her breath at his reaction and smiled when Faith giggled clapping her hands together in delight as Giles gaped at the two of them.
"Before you go asking no I didn't go and buy a baby in the classifieds, the demon sprayed some sort of mist at Faith and it acted like some really powerfully anti aging cream," Buffy said holding the baby out in front of her. Faith squealed and kicked her legs around happily as Giles inspected her clearly dumbfounded.
"Faith, the baby is Faith?" Giles asked her incredulously taking his glasses off and polishing them on his robe.
"Pretty sure when she appeared in a pile of Faith's clothes where adult Faith had previously been lying. Look at her Giles, the shape of the eyes, the little mole it's definitely Faith," Buffy said resting the baby on her hip again.
"So Faith is a baby," Giles said again trying to wrap his head around it.
"Faith is a baby," Buffy nodded looking down at the baby in her arms who smiled happily back at her, "this is definitely major wiggins inducing."
A/N: What do you guys think so far? Let me know.