Fallen Angel

By: Nova (live journal: novonia)

Disclaimer: The characters, and the shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel both belong to Mutant Enemy, Joss Whedon, etc. (not me) The only thing I have created is the new situation, and storyline that the characters are in, as well as the original plotline.

Summary: Faith has been the slayer for 4 ½ years, she has just recently found out that her sister Dawn, is not really her sister at all; she is the mystical key that the monks turned into a human by using her blood. Spike is chipped and a convenience to Faith. Dawn doesn't know that she is the key yet, and she and Spike are best of friends. When Faith finds out that Spike loves her she dismisses him and orders him to leave Sunnydale. Will be Spuffy in the very near future.

Prologue

Faith lies down on the bedspread and spreads herself on top of the covers; she's had a long day today. College was rough today, and to top it all off Spike had to go and announce his undying love to her. Right now, she didn't care; Faith would deal with it tomorrow.

After she escaped from Spike and the insane vamp Drusilla, Faith had went to the Bronze, she knew the Scoobies would be there. Tara and Ford, her friends from High School were outraged at Spikes actions. Faith would have been too if she weren't so tired. She will deal with it tomorrow; Faith will send Spike away tomorrow. Faith lets sleep envelop her as she thinks of what she was going to do to Spike tomorrow.

Chapter 1

Spike is asleep on the sarcophagus in the upper level of his crypt when Faith kicks the door in. Spike quickly sits up, predator instincts at the fore with the sound that is now making his sensitive ears buzz. "Spike," Faith begins.

"I think I get the jest of this one luv," Spike says. "Spike keep away from me, my sister dot dot dot. S'at it luv?" He asks in a snarky voice.

Faith walks up to Spike and punches him, breaking his nose. "No, that isn't it Spike." The slayer says as the enjoys the betrayed look on his face. "I want you to take your stuff and get the hell out of my town!" Faith says at first at a normal sound decibel and then increasing it until she is yelling.

"Wot?"

"Yeah, I don't give a shit that you like me or whatever. You're soul-less, you can't love, and I don't want to see you near my family or in this town again! I don't want you, no one wants you. You're a worthless de-fanged puppy. So again, get out of my town, if I see you here tomorrow I'll make you wish that vamp ho had never turned your sorry ass!" Now happy, Faith then storms out of the crypt and slams the heavy stone door on her way out; leaving Spike sitting on the sarcophagus.

Spike recoils at the slamming of the door. "Fine, you want me to leave, so I'll leave. See how you get along without good ol' Spike." He jumps off the sarcophagus and starts to pack his few belongings into a few supermarket store bags.

1630 Revello Drive

Dawn watches from the stairs as Faith storms in. "What happened?"

"I sent his good-for-nothing highness out of my town." Faith responds.

"What!" Dawn shrieks. "You sent Spike away!"

"What?" Faith asks, confused about Dawn's demeanor. "It's not like anyone is going to miss him!"

"What do you mean no one will miss him!"

Joyce hears her girls fighting and comes out of the living room. "Girls quit yelling!"

"Mom, Faith sent Spike away." Dawn tells.

"So what? I told you no one will miss that sad excuse of a vampire."

Dawn steps up in front of her sister. "Did you ever think that I would miss him, or that Mom would miss him! If he leaves I would miss him more that I would miss you if you left!"

Hurt, Faith slaps her sister accidentally using her slayer strength.

Dawn gasps and looks wide-eyed up at her sister, she brings her hand up to her mouth and her fingers come away bloody due to a lip split in several places. Dawn stares shocked at her sister had never slapped her before, much less had put her slayer-strength behind it. Dawn runs up the stairs and into her room, she slams the door and then looks under the bed and comes out with her suitcase. 'He can't have left yet, please don't let me be too late. I'd rather be with him that sad excuse for a sister' Dawn packs her favorite belongings and leaves via the window like Faith did so many times in her youth.

Dawn shimmies down the wall and gracefully lands on the ground. Dawn holds a stake to her chest for safety as she runs to Restfield cemetery. She smiles when she sees the Desoto still parked out in front, and rests on the hood of the vehicle.

A few moments later Spike comes out of the cemetery gates carrying a few grocery store bags inside those bags his few belongings. He spots Dawn on the hood of the car. "What are you doing here niblet? Big sis would stake me if she knew you were here." Spike then notices the bag. "What's that for?" Spike asks pointing at her luggage.

"I'm coming with you." Dawn says, the cut on her lip opening again.

"No, nib you aren't." Spike replies, knowing the two eldest Winters would have his behind if he allowed her to come with him. It is then that he smells the blood. "What happened nib?"

"Faith hit me, and not just a normal hit she used her slayer strength. So there is no way I'm going back there."

"What! Why would she do that niblet?" He asks outraged at Faith.

"Cause I said I'd miss you more if you left than I'd miss her if she left."

"Bit that's an awful thing to say to your big sister."

"I don't care because it's true, and lately Faith and her friends have been looking at me weird, and she's treating me more like a thing than a little sister. We used to have fun together, but now it's not the same."

"What am I going to do with you?"

"We could get fake papers saying I'm your daughter." Spike looks like he's still going to say no so she ups the ante. "I would follow you anyway Spike." She then gives him her puppy dog eyes. "Please, Spike, Please?"

"Oh all right nib, no need to bring out those eyes, you always know I'll say yes."

Dawn happily squeals and hugs him. She puts their bags in the trunk and then buckles herself into the passenger seat of the Desoto.

Spike puts an 8-track into the player and slams his foot down on the gas. On the way out of town Spike runs over the 'You are now leaving Sunnydale' sign. "Too right," he says. "Too bloody right."

Chapter 3

Faith had let her sister sleep it off, she really was sorry that she had hit her it didn't even register that she had used her slayer strength until she was being scolded by her mother. Her mother whom she found out would also miss Spike, and strangely their conversations over hot chocolate. He won't be doing that from now on Faith says to herself. Though her mom didn't put how she would miss Spike like Dawn had last night. Faith plods down the stairs to see her mother working on pancakes for breakfast.

"Faith would you get your sister up please?" Joyce asks.

"Sure mom." Faith walks back up the stairs and knocks on her sisters door, "Dawnie, time for breakfast!" She announces. Faith quirks an eyebrows when her younger sibling doesn't come right out the door at the announcement of food. Faith walks back down the stairs, "I guess she's still mad at me? Do you want me to set the table while you go up and get her?"

"I still think that you should of talked to her last night Faith."

"I know, I just wanted her to cool off before we talked."

Joyce nods and then makes her way upstairs to her youngest daughters room. "Dawnie, can I come in?" When Joyce gets no answer she knocks again. "Dawnie?" She enters her youngest daughters' room.

When Faith hears a thud above her she races up the stairs to see her mother had dropped to the floor in a faint in front of Dawns room. When she peers into the room her eyes-widen, Dawn isn't there. Faith crosses to the window and see's shoe scuffmarks down the siding of the house. Faith walks back to her mother and gently shakes her. "Mom, mom?"

Joyce wakes up to see Faith standing over her. Joyce abruptly sits up and stares into Dawn's empty room. "Dawnie," She says into the empty room. "Where are you? Why did you leave?"

Faith sits down next to her mother, and tries to console her. "I should of listened to you, if I had confronted her last night then maybe we could of caught her in time."

"If you hadn't of slapped her and sent Spike away, she wouldn't of left!"

"Spike, he may still be there, he may know where she went. I'll be right back mom, I'm going to go check on Spike." Faith gently helps her mother up, when she comes back ten minutes later Joyce hadn't moved an inch.

"Was she there?" Joyce asks. "Faith, was Dawn there?"

"No, nothing. He left his TV but that was it, his Desoto was gone too." Faith tries to comfort her mother again, but she is pushed away.

Joyce stands up and enters Dawn's room, she lays face down on the bed and cries.

"Do you want me to call the police?"

"No, I'll do it later. Just go eat your breakfast." Joyce says a bit too harshly. Dawn won't get to eat this breakfast. Joyce waits until her eldest leaves the house before she goes downstairs to eat her own. She sadly gathers her things and goes to work, knowing that it cannot wait. Just like every other normal day, except its not.

tbc...