Message: 10 Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:21:02 -0700 From: "DaBear" Subject: FIC : Unexpected Arrival (1/1) - Dark Fic (Warning Character Death) R TITLE: Unexpected Arrival (1/1) AUTHOR: DaBear E-MAIL: peeplesr@mindspring.com RATING: R - language and disturbing images SPOILERS: Third season general spoilers DISCLAIMER: The characters do not belong to me, they belong to Joss Whedon, 20th Century Fox, UPN, WB, and such forth... SUMMARY: Very short fic, dark and twisted. F/X - An unexpected arrival changes the third season finale. Warning Character Death!! The two slayers crash through the glass patio door and out onto the balcony outside. One light, one dark. The glow from the streetlight illuminating the battle taking place. The stars seemingly the only spectators to the fight waged between the two Slayers. The fight is vicious and fast, blow after blow being thrown and blocked. Feint followed by counterstrike, a riposte leg sweep coming on the tail of a particularly nasty palm strike. Neither girl seeming to have the upper hand for a long enough period to do anything productive towards ending the fight. Buffy's speed and agility more then making up for Faith's greater height and strength. Finally able to wrest the wickedly curved blade away from Faith, Buffy gains the upper hand. Trying to avoid her own knife Faith is desperate to get away from Buffy, and makes her fatal mistake. Faith sees the recognition of the mistake flash across her sister slayers eyes, sees the darkness blaze out at her and in slow motion watches as the blade draws back and begins its inevitably fatal stroke towards Faith's unprotected stomach. Suddenly Buffy jerks in place, and the thrusting knife twitches out of her hand. It's clanging to the cement the only sound in the night. Every noise stopped, hushed as if a large hand had dropped across the night and muffled the sound, no crickets chirped, no passing noise from automobiles, no sirens off in the night. Faith watches as Buffy coughs gently and spits up blood, it leaving a dark red trail down her chin. Buffy slowly collapses in on herself, sliding bonelessly to the ground. Faith now sees the hilt of a knife sticking out from in-between the third and fourth rib, the bright red stain spreading across the back of the blond slayers shirt. Faith looks up in shock at the man that had killed Buffy. Had placed a knife in her back. Cleanly and smoothly piercing the heart and ending the life of the petite blond. Smirking at the stunned look on Faith's face Xander takes out a celphone and calmly says "Couldn't let her save Angel now could I, after all the trouble it took me to find that damned poison in the first place?" He then dials a number into the phone and waits a second as it rings on the other end. "Hey Rich, mission accomplished. One slayer off to the great beyond. Buffy. No. She's fine. What? Of course not. Hey, you've known from the beginning… Yes. Right here. Of course." Handing the phone to Faith he says, "Mayor wants to talk to you." After giving the Slayer the phone he reaches down and pulls the knife out from Buffy's back and calmly slits her throat to make sure of her death. Shruggin at Xanders actions Faith puts the phone to her ear. "Yeah Boss?" "How are you doing Faith my dear?" comes the rich tones of the Mayor of Sunnydale over the celphone. "Fine now that the cavelry has arrived. How long you have X-Man on the payroll Boss?" Faith asks. "Oh, he has been on board for a while now. Longer then you in fact. Yes, that boy shows real potential. I was very happy when he told me you two had gotten together. Then you had to go and throw him out." Faith hears the mayor sigh over the phone 'He's a good boy Faith, you should give him another chance. " Watching Xander go into the kitchen and grab some garbage bags from under the sink Faith responds to the Mayor "Well, if I had known we were working on the same side I may have. I really didn't want a conflict of loyalties." "That's what I like about you Faith, you have always throw yourself into the work. It's a work ethic not seen much now a days." Xander has now gotten an axe from Faiths weapon cache and is coming out to the patio again. "Faith you have any duct tape?" "Hall cabinet." "Thanks." From the phone Faith hears the mayor the mayor say something. "Huh, sorry Boss Xand asked me something. What'd you say?" "I was saying that there was going to be a change of plans Faith. I want you and Alexander there to go ahead and leave town tonight. I'll make sure to settle my remaining affairs and deposit them into your two accounts. Don't really need money where I am going after all. Make sure you take you bank card with you my dear. Have a nice life Faith dear and tell Alexander goodbye for me." With that the Mayor-cum-demon cuts the connection. Flipping the phone closed Faith watches with a little twinge of disgust as well as awe as Xander calmly proceeds to chop off Buffy's arms and legs with her axe after cleanly removing her head. Wrapping the six body parts in the garbage bags and duct taping them closed, Xander then throws them over the patio railing into the trash dumpster three stories below. Stripping of a pair of latex gloves she hadn't know he was wearing he threw those in another garbage bag and proceeds to strip off his pants and shirt. Throwing those into the bag as well he then grabs a bag off the floor where Faith hadn't seen it and pulled on a pair of black running pants and a black T-shirt. Closing up the last trash bag Xander looks at Faith and says with a nod towards the dumpster. "Go ahead and pack up what you want to take, we should be out of here before Giles or Willow come looking for her." "What the fuck just happened Xand?" Faith asks with hands on hips, refusing to move till he tell her. "Besides my saving your shapely ass?" Xander says with a leer. Smacking Xander on the arm, Faith asks "What the fuck Xand? When'd you switch sides? I could have used some reliable backup on some of my other jobs. You know how I hate working with vamps!! There fucking stupid." "Not my decision Faith. Mayor foots the bill, he gets to call the shots." Xander says with a shrug. "A few weeks after Angel came back I was approached by some of the mayors people, started out real simple. I watch Angel and report his actions and I get paid a grand a week. Moved up to general handy man/contract killer from there. Now I get close to 5 million dollars, Angels head on a stick and my tormenting fellow students turned into monster kibble. Not bad for the town loser huh? Now go grab your shit, we need to be outta town by dawn." Grinning and with a bounce to her step Faith walks past Xander and smacking him on the ass asks, "Where we headed to stud?" "Damn Faith, watch that." Replies Xander rubbing his sore rear. "Slayer strength remember. And I was thinking Vegas. How's that sound?" "You know you like it boy toy," comes Faiths voice form her bedroom. "And Sin City sounds like a blast." Fifteen minutes later Xander and Faith are walking arm in arm past the dumpster holding Buffy's remain and Xander asks Faith, "Hey, when we get to Vegas, you want to get married?" "Sure. But I don't see how your going to beat the engagement gift you got me." Faith says nodding towards the dumpster. With a maniacal grin and a glint to his eyes Xander says "Don't worry, love. I'll think up something." -------- DaBear