26Summary: Faith Lehane was born in Boston to a drunken mother and absentee father, or so she had believed for 17 years. Then she was called as the Slayer and things took a turn for the worse when she accidentally killed the Deputy Mayor. The Watcher's Council learns of the death and tries to return her to England. She manages to escape and in so doing finds out that she had been adopted by the Lehanes and that her birth parents had given her up for adoption. Now she heads for San Francisco to reunite with them and along the way she will try to strive for the redemption she craves.
AU: Set after BTVS Season 3 Episode Consequences and starts in Charmed Season 3 episode Wrestling with Demons.
Pairing: Unknown at this time
Disclaimer: Joss Whedon owns Buffy (TV rights, Warner Brothers owns movie rights) and CBS (possibly as they planned a reboot for a while) owns Charmed.
Prologue
"Faith saved you?" Giles asked. He tended to wounds Buffy had received when she had found Faith at the docks after the Watcher's Council had tried to take the brunette Slayer back to England and failed.
Buffy nodded. "She could have left me there to die, Giles. But she didn't."
"And the fact that she opted to come …" Giles said excitedly.
"She didn't come back," Buffy interrupted. "She wanted me to give you this." She handed an envelope to Giles.
Giles slowly opened the envelope and read it, his eyes going wide as he did so.
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Hey G-Man,
When I stole the truck the Watchers were using to take me to the airport, I found a folder on me. It told that I had been adopted by the Lehanes after being relocated by the Council when I was but a baby, it seems my adopted father had been a Watcher uptil his death. It seems my birth mom and dad gave me up and left me at a hospital in San Francisco. I'm going to find them.
And maybe when I have, I will be able with their help to put this all behind me. I know that the Council very likely has covered up my crimes. So no one should be looking for me, but I also know at least with you all and especially with B, I have things to answer for, wrongs to right.
Once I have found them, then maybe, just maybe I can become the person you all hoped I would have been. The only lead I have is my original birth certificate, which was in the folder. According to it my parents were Prue Halliwell and Andy Trudeau.
For now this is goodbye.
Faith Trudeau
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"How did she appear when she left you?" Giles asked.
"I watched as she wrote the letter," Buffy said. "She also told me about the birth certificate. She seemed sincere about wanting to redeem herself and truly felt that finding her real family would do that. I hope she succeeds, I know from what clues we have that she didn't have a good family in Boston, so I know she needs this. She needs a family like mine, a family that loves her."
