Having Faith chapter 2/?
Post 3x22
After Elena becomes a Vampire Damon leaves as per his and Stefan's agreement.
But months later and miles from Mystic falls he meets a girl that is destined to change his life,and ultimately lead him back to the town and the girl he can't forget.
How will Elena the vampire react to having a slayer come to town? And how will she feel when she suspects that Damon has moved on.
Damon/Faith
Damon/Elena
Chapter Two Renewed Faith
It's been a little over a month since Faith came into Damon's life and he has to admit that whatever else you could say about the changes in said life, no way could it said to be boring.
Entering the slayer compound that first night still gives him shivers when he thinks about it. He knows now that that strange electric tingling he thought was part of his attraction to Faith is actually some sort of freaky early warning system that would allow a vampire (smarter) than him to run for the hills.
He'd practically had convulsions when he first entered the building that housed the twenty or so slayers that were permanent residents of Cleveland. And it had taken him a good hour of being in the Slayers presence for him to feel even close to normal.
The interesting thing was that apparently Spike didn't get the same buzz, he said his was more like a gentle prickling behind his eyes when he first came in to contact with a slayer, but nothing as severe as what Damon had described.
Of course that's when Damon had dropped his bombshell that it was very likely because Spike was a different type of vampire than Damon.
The statement might have caused suspicion and unwanted tension that could have made things very uncomfortable for Damon, but strangely enough it was Buffy, Spike's girlfriend, that diffused the situation. Apparently she'd always wondered why Dracula had been so different to other vamps and after meeting Damon she'd finally got an answer.
Spike then made some rather cutting comments about the poofter and his gypsy tricks but allowed that yeah old Drac had been a bit of an odd one, but since he'd met Damon that same night and everyone had stuck to their human faces he really hadn't thought about it until Dracula had turned up in Sunnydale and tried to kidnap Buffy.
Damon was amused when he learned that Dracula still owed Spike the eleven pounds but decided not to make a case out of the fact that Spike still owed Damon fifteen pounds, He figured Spike's good will was worth the money, especially if he wanted to see a certain slayer again.
So Damon filled them all in on his type of vampire and tried to ignore the disgruntled expression on Spike's face when he let slip that Damon's kind, as far as he knew, had souls and no problem with religious paraphernalia of any type. He figured he'd talk to Spike privately about the whole daylight ring thing, it was the least he could do considering the other vampire was willing to vouch for him.
After that the night had gone fairly well and far better than he would have expected, right up until Faith's ex crashed their little party.
Once upon a time Damon had been a gentleman and even as a remorseless killer he had still had a gentlemanly flair. He might rip your throat out but he would never be rude to a woman unnecessarily.
So when the well muscled drunk, who Damon assumed rightly to be Faiths ex, stumbled into the sitting room where they were having their little show and tell Damon was not surprised that he found himself bristling on the behalf of both Faith and Buffy.
Robyn Wood was a total dick. Within moments of entering the room he made it very clear that he hated Spike intensely and thought Buffy was a traitor to her line, then if that wasn't enough he went on to call Faith a cold hearted bitch that had driven him in to another woman's arms with her inability to commit with anything
other than what was between her legs.
Damon found himself having a whole new level of respect for both of the slayers, as neither of them rose to his bait or his obvious spoiling for a fight.
Spike of course was not so restrained, but before he could leap forward and do something that would most likely not go down well in a building full of slayers, Faith stepped in.
She tried to reason with him and when that didn't work she told him to go sleep it off and they could talk in the morning. Robyn apparently had other ideas and that's when Damon decided he'd had enough.
Robyn Wood found himself suspended a good foot off the ground and looking in to the blood filled eyes of a very annoyed Damon Salvatore.
Damon very calmly informed the other occupants of the room that he would be quite happy to demonstrate any other of his kinds vampire skills and the differences, they only had to say the word.
The word vampire seemed to piss Mr Wood off even more, because he started saying some very unpleasant things about Faith always wanting to take Spike out for a test drive and how it looked like now Buffy could relax because she'd found one of her own.
At that comment Damon let his face melt back into its normal striking beauty and asked snarkily if Robyn thought that he even needed to pull the vampire card to get a woman, didn't Mr Wood think he was pretty enough . He'd even managed a convincing pout as he hefted Wood a couple of inches higher.
He wasn't sure who was more surprised, Wood or himself, when Faith chipped in with her... Hell no, his being a vampire had sweet FA to do with her wanting to ride him at a gallop the moment they'd met. But now that she knew what he was it was still five by five with her.
Spike's guffaw of laughter and Buffy's barely suppressed giggle must have finally told Wood that he wasn't going to get the reaction he wanted, because he gathered what was left of his drunken sanity and asked sullenly if not impolitely to be put down.
Damon dropped him immediately and told him that all he had to do was ask, and Robyn Wood practically slunk from the room.
Damon considered what he now thought of as his first date with Faith to have gone quite well all things excepted. And over the next few weeks he'd been alternately bemused, bewildered and awed as he learnt about the slayers world and all its attendant dangers.
The fact that Cleveland sat on something called a Hellmouth had been staggering enough but the first time he'd seen a demon he had been very glad that Stefan wasn't around to see the look on his face, he would never have heard the end of it.
After that first night he'd found every excuse and opportunity to meet up with Faith whenever possible and once he found out her usual patrolling route (thank you Buffy) he made sure to bump into her regularly, until eventually she just excepted that he was going to be there waiting for her.
Faith, despite her comments to Robyn Wood on the night she and Damon had met, had to Damon's way of thinking suddenly decided to get cautious and back off from whatever it was the simmered between them. He wasn't sure if it actually was the whole vampire thing, or if it was just because she wasn't ready for anything more than a one night stand. He just knew that he wanted her and she was resisting him, and that meant that once again he was being rejected by a woman that he found himself wanting.
So Damon had decided that he was going to either get her to admit her attraction and her reasons for avoiding going to bed with him, or he was just going to get a fucking clue and move on, and quit dating liking or possibly even talking to brunets, for at least the next century or so.
Twenty four hours later Damon was a much happier and well laid vampire. It seems Faith had been holding back because she was just as insecure as Damon. For the first time in his life his looks had not been a plus. Faith, as Damon had guessed, was not into commitment but she wasn't one to share either. She'd seen the way the other slayers had ogled Damon whenever he'd come to the compound and she was determined not to make the mistake's she'd made with Robyn Wood.
Luckily for Damon he'd shown zero interest in any of the other slayers and it was that more than all of the attention he paid Faith that finally convinced her that denying them both was stupid.
So Damon Salvatore found himself in the unusual and largely unknown position (at least for him) of being happy for the first time in a very very long time.
Faith was as passionate and wild in bed as he could ask for and she more importantly she was honest and open about what she wanted from him. Within a very short time Damon not only considered her to be his lover but also his best friend, and by the time they'd been seeing each other for three months even the pain of leaving Mystic Falls was starting to dim.
He still thought of Elena and knew that his love for her would not change, but he found himself beginning to accept what she had decided as being the only possible truth, at least for her. For the first time since leaving that God cursed town he had no desire to return. And it was all thanks to Faith and her passionate care.
That's why it was so damn unexpected and unfair when just four months after he and Faith had first become lovers she turned up at his place out of the blue one night and informed him that she needed him to come on a little road trip with her. It seems there was a prophesy about some two headed threat that would bring about the end of all mankind if it wasn't stopped and the place that it was going down was,(of course) in the ultimate irony that was Damon's life, a little town called Mystic Falls.