Wakie wakie...

Air Date: 30/09/2001

8 Sep 2000, Friday, way too early, Casey's room

Vampires! Casey turns and quickly presses L2 and R2. He spins and kicks the vampire out with his special move. The second vampire moves forward and Casey's special move power is out. He blocks a couple of times waiting for it to recharge. Taking a look over Faith is using the triangle, circle, circle, r2, r2 knife strike. *sliiiich* Knife into the heart and *poomf* the vampire dusts. That just leaves...

The bed rocks slightly and half wakes Casey and he feels someone slide up next to him. His brain slowly starts grinding into work and one eye half pulls open. He finds himself facing a wall covered in Manga posters. He smells musty clothes. 'Ok, my room then' he thinks. Manga. Video's. Last night. 'Yeah, thats right. We had a video night. Erg, it must be friday morning.' There is another scent in the air. Softer, fruiter?

The video night. Went well, from whatever memories are drifting round his sleepy head. Hey, some people crash over in the front room, so.... the person next to him snuggles up to him.... Mary. Mary's conditioner, that's the smell. Yeah, Mary stayed in his room again. Mmmmmmmmm. Casey's mind drifts for a bit, filled with sleepy and happy thoughts. Life is good.

An arm snakes around Casey and Mary snuggles up to him. Mmmm. Mary is a definate snuggler, atleast when she sleeps. She's a still shy when she's awake, but at night she's definatly a snuggler. A smile curls over Casey's lips.

Slowly Casey's mind registers that she's naked, hugging his back. How..? He remembers digging out the PJ's last night and, yeah, he's still in the PJ bottoms. Mary slipping out of the top must have been what woke him. Mary curls around him and Casey relaxes and enjoys the warmth of Mary so close, curled up into his shape.

Just as he starts to fall off to sleep again, he feels Mary's hands gently roll him onto his back. "Shhhhhhhhhhh" she whispers into his ear as she slides under the covers. Casey's mind drifts happy in that warm, loved, sleepy state.

Casey feels his PJ's gently slide off! Part of him cant help but compare this to the last couple of 'screws' as Faith calls them. They'd just rip each other's clothes off and... But mmmmmm, this is sooooo slooow. Nice slow touching.

Part of his brain starts to wake up, but most of his brain is just still drifting and dreaming. Is he dreaming? Mmmmm. Yeah. Probably. Casey consentrates on a bacon and egg breakfast sitting waiting by the bed, but his sense of smell doesnt detect anything like that, only Mary's soft scent.

After an eternity under the covers, Mary moves to slide ontop of Casey. Casey's hands glide up her back, until they hit her damp matted hair. Part of Casey's brain starts to wake. Her hair is too long for Mary. Faith?

Casey pulls the blankets up and notices the blood on his hands. Quickly sitting up and sliding out from under Faith, Casey finds himself suddenly awake. He blinks the sleep from his eyes and looks down as Faith looks up at him. She looks strangly sad. Casey's gaze immediatly drops to the weeping gash on the back of her neck.

Pointing to the "You've got...."

She nods, "Yeah. Demon bite." 'Duh' Casey thinks, like you wouldnt notice something like that. "It's fine. Forget it. Let me guess. Gotta goto class now?"

Casey looks over to the clock. 10:28am. Friday.. Friday... missed the 9am computing methods lecture. Casey's mind filters through his timetable, 11am maths class with Mary next. Casey sort of shakes his head and rubs his face. "Yeah, sort of. Mary's there though, I can just copy her notes. How bad's the bite?"

She cranes over to look at it. "The #@*($&er took a big bite out, but slayer healin' bein' what it is its mostly closed now." Faith shrugs. "We toasted their arse though. Score up 5 calgors and 7 vamps for Team Slayer last night! 'Till Jayde piked that is. Only got 1 more newborn for the rest of the night."

"You might want to wash it off though... wanna jump in the shower?" "Whats a calgor?"

"Na, its, clean. Jayde & I patched each other after we hit 'em. Anyway, I showered before I hit the sack. A Calgor is some sort of messanger demon apparently." Faith shrugs. "Anyway, who cares, we kicked their arse. Alex's got Jayde on poison watch. Apparently they can pass on some 'aspect of the demon' or somethin', so she's all scared that me 'n' Jayde are gunna grow horns or somethin'." She puts on that disturbingly innocent face and bats her eyelids, "See, you cant goto uni today. I might die."

Casey biffs Faith on the arm. "You're awful. So I should maintain a careful examination of your skin and stuff?" He grins and scratches the back of his head, yawning. "Sorry, still sorting out my sleeping pattern. Might have to nap in the afternoon if I'm going out with you till all hours."

"Who sleeps? You should be a Slayer, man. Patrolled 'till 5, play some PS2, sleep for an hour then I got up when I heard Mary moving round. Anyway, who says I'll let you get any sleep this afternoon." Smiling, Faith stares at her arm where Casey punched her. "Gee, I may bruise." Grinning, "I think you should check me out for other bruises. I'm sure I got hit right down here somewhere...." She looks down under the covers.

To quote damien: I think we can assume that the next few hours are spent playin find the bruise ;)

Skipping forward a couple of hours to about lunchtime/scooby meeting time, we find Casey exausted and even bruised himself in a few places. Faith rolls over ontop of Casey and sits up on his chest. She just sits there staring at Casey for a while, biting her lower lip. "Got any plans for the weekend? Ditch the ball and chain and we'll hit the town for a non stop party weekend. What ya say? Once in a lifetime offer, 2 full days of drinkin', dancin' and screwin'. Every nasty little thing you've ever wanted to do. No spending limit, thats to Mr American Express. Drunken debauchury. What'd ya say?"

"Once in a lifetime, you say? Hmmm. Tempting offer." Casey tries to remember if there is anything he's meant to be doing. Study... well, yeah... parties? organised anything with mary?

Well im not sure there are exams yet. Maybe some assignments and stuff and pracs will have started. No organised parties as such...

"I think I'm free - nothing that can't be moved around anyway, and as long as we make it back alive on the Sunday night - got some classes that require you to show up for at least 1/2 the time"

She smiles at Casey. "Wicked cool! Hey, alive I can promise, but I cant promise that you'll be up for Monday... or even able to walk. Cant take responsibility for your crappy recovery powers. So, tonight, right, I know this great club where they attract all the worst types and noone is too fussy about drinking age and stuff. People fight and screw there all night. Figure we could go there, get smashed, have a laugh at all the losers and dance 'till I'm worked up." She flips her hair back and smiles teasingly at Casey, "Maybe I'll pick up a stud or two if you're still worn out. Yeah, anyway, then I was figurin' we head back to the uni and do it on Alex's desk and pass out. Yeah, OK, I'm still workin' on the last bit. Not ideal, but I guess we cant come back here and hang off the ceiling, huh? Or we could do something from your little mind." She reaches down and starts to run her hands through Casey's hair. "Im sure there's some sick little ideas in there somewhere. Come on, let 'em out to playyyyyyy. Little Faithie's here and wants to play."

"Hmmmm. How about a weekend in a hotel room? Have a holiday of it?"

"No! No way! I hate sleezy hotels. Had enough of those back in Boston and Sunnydale. Oh hey! Duh! We could go to an expensive one. Like duh! Yeah, I always wanted to trash a hotel room! Oh yeah, baby, room service!"

Casey gently smacks Faith in the forehead with his palm. "Yeah, a nice one, with a spa and room service. Of course, this depends on you have ing any cash left" He grins.

She throws her head back and laughs. "Duh, Case! Im livin' large on the Mayor's ill gotten gains. Remeber the saying Crime doesn't pay? It's waaaaay wrong. Hey! Limo! I want a limo! Hey, what about you? Come on, what you wanna do? It's make a wish day for my special little friend. And if you're really good, I wont make you beg toooo much."

Casey laughs. "I meant make it a holiday for you - its not like I'm run off my feet or anything. But a limo would be cool"

"I wanna..." she grabs each side of Casey's face and leans in close. "I know you're a nice guy, but whats underneath? I wanna know what goes on inside that head." Suddenly Faith's attitude changes "Tell me your dirtiest little secret, Casey. I wanna know all the rotten..." she leans in very close, "I wanna know if I can trust you."

Casey looks a bit confused. "Sorry? I'm not sure what ..."

"I need to know you." A sad look creeps across her face, "Really know you. I know you're nice to me, but I need to know the sick little parts that everyone keeps inside, if I'm going to really trust you and depend on you. I want to know you and I guess since I started killing people, your favorite pop song just doesn't really cut it any more. 'S @#*$, huh? Still on the plus side, atleast you know that you wont squick me out. Maybe you tell me your's and I'll tell you mine." She rolls of to one side. "Look, forget it. Lets go get a drink. Maybe if we drink enough Vodka we'll forget this whole conversation."

"Hold up... I can see what you mean now... " Casey flops back onto the bed. "You want to know if I feel the urge to strangle puppies late at night, or whatever..."

"Yeah. No. Maybe. I dunno. I just wanna know you. Figure Mary gets to see the nice Casey and I've always been a magnet for sick @#(@#ers, so why fight it, huh? I just really wanna know. I dunno why. Maybe I'm @#$(*#@ed up. Or maybe Im evil, 'cause it doesn't scare me any more and I wanna play with it. Face it, you ain't gunna scare me Case. For a guy like you sick is, what, pervin' at Mary when she changes?" She laughs. "Scary."

Casey turns his head and wiggles his eyebrows. "No, offering video tapes of same. Allegedly." he relaxes back. "Lessee.. I dunno.. I've done some stuff that I'm not happy about... thinks that in hindsight were kinda sucky. But I don't sodomise kids... don't boil live puppies... I don't get off on power trips with people..."

"Yeah, should 'a figured as much. St Casey, huh?" She rolls over and looks at the ceiling. "Well. Im pretty dumb, ain't I? Should 'a figured. Just forget it. Figured it wasn't you."

"Dunno about St Casey, but I try and be a nice guy. Like to be any way." He puts on a ganster voice "You got a problem wif dat?"

"Only that it makes you kinda boring for what I was thinkin'. Im sick of being goodey little Mz Other Slayer. I dont wanna be me with all these @#*($ed up problems. I wanna do something 'wrong' and #*$&*#ed up and nasty. Dont wanna kill anyone though if thats what you're thinkin'. Figured we could camp out in the hotel and play with our Shadows." She looks over to Casey. "Its some psycho babble crap I heard once Young's Shadow or somethin'. Dont you ever just wanna let go and give in to it? Or is that just me and thats why you're lookin' at me like I'm some @#*$&#@ up psycho or a 3 headed dog or somethin'?"

...

Faith continues, "Im sick of it all, C. Im sick of Neo out in the kitchen tellin' all your friends that Im some ex-junky, juvie criminal, who's just got out. Sick of Mary listening at my door and going through my stuff. Tired of Conrad looking at me like I'm a new car for his soul. Tired of keeping an eye out for Watchers tryin' to grab me or wack me from a rooftop. Tired of waiting for Jayde to get like Buffy and decide that 'bad arse Faith' just don't fit in to her perfect little world. And I'm sick of tryin' to figure you out. I dont have time to play headgames any more. Ya know slayers have dreams right? About the future an' all. Well Buffy and Jayde seem to have 'em all the time, but I don't really have 'em. Guess the Powers perfer their preppy little slayers rather than the street trash variety. Anyway, I had a dream last night. I drempt that I do Orme, but he gets a few hits in." She pulls down the covers and looks at the scar on her stomach. "This one gets a buddy right here." She points to just below the scar. "I dont remember much except I remember floating in water I think. Geee, I hope its not in a sewer, the Mayor hated germs. Anyway, I cant see exactly, but I just know that someone comes up and finishes me off. I remember feeling relief that someone had come to help me, then Im slipping under and it all goes black and I feel... I think it's one of you guys. Someone I trusted. I mean if it was the Watchers, I wouldnt have expected help. Its not Conrad because he wouldn't want to harm my body, cause then he couldnt use it." She shrugs. "Too many people wanna do me in."

Casey looks at Faith and sighs. He reaches out to ruffle her hair. "Man, you so need a holiday. Away from all this shit. And if you dream truth, then there's no way you should be taking on Orme, right? Screw destiny, lets try Vegas."

"Na screw that. I leave here and Jayde's watchful eye then the Council 'ill come and dissapear me. Either them or Buffy. Im not running away again. Been doing that all my life and I told myself I'd stop when I turned myself in back in LA. Anyway, I run and Jayde dies. No way she can take Orme alone. All your friends die if I pike. You really want that? Nope. Im staying. Stupid huh? I finally get to be just like perfect little super Buffy and be brave and 'face my destiny' and I wont live through it. Figures, huh? I mean Xander brought Buffy back when she died, but all I get is someone comeing to make sure Im dead. Yay me. Hey, look on the bright side, atleast I got someone waiting for me when I do go to hell, right?"

Faith wants a 'last weekend' and is willing to spend like there isnt any tomorrow to get it. She doesnt want to let to all together because: 1) she doesnt trust herself not to kill again and 2) she is way to paranoid about letting her guard down fully. She will get into it somewhat, but she wants to live vicariously through you. Basically are you in for a weekend of drunken indulgence? How low will you go?

Ok, basically Casey is up for a all the drugs, sex, food, cool new things that Faith wants to try out, but not for hurting or messing with other people. (that's the short form :) Casey is starting to realise that to get faith to a point where she's able to deal with normals is going to take a long time. A long and patient time.

But he's still willing to put in the time?

But that doesn't necessarily mean let Faith run everything all the time :) If he's got stuff planned with Mary, then it stays planned (housefires aside). (btw: casey might check with mary and see if she's been going through Faith's stuff - not an accusation, just checking "that it wasn't the case")

[The plan is to just dissapear on the friday night and maybe come back on the sat'day night and chat/leave a message]

Faith mentions dark magics etc agin but casey is " Its hard to say :-) but if faith pushes too hard, Casey will fall back on the "being good is better in the long run" thing and maybe that relapsing even just for a bit will ultimately be a bad idea.... its like smoking. "

Casey's story continues

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