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When Charles had freed me from the handcuffs, I flashed him a quick smile and then shot a smug look to Faith. She was still stuck in that cage and with the way she was slamming around and acting and so I'm sure the last thing on Charles' mind was opening that cage door. Oh well. Worked better for me that Faith was acting like the psycho slayer she

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"Not really." I said, giving the folder one last glance before closing it shut on the table. Some part of me was tempted to hide it underneath my shirt and keep it. Wes would be pissed for sure and it wouldn't take him too long to figure out that I had been the one who snatched it but I didn't like him havin' a file on her. God, why was I so possessive of Buffy? Tangling with her had never brought me anything but trouble. I needed to wash my hands clean of her, wash her right out of my life.

Really, I needed to kill her. Maybe one day I'd be brave enough. Until then, I needed to find a way to get through the day without thinkin' about her constantly. For as many times as I had screwed up she remained my number one botched job.

I smirked a little bit in Fred's direction when she said she wanted to forget about bein' in love with Xander. Yeah, it was embarrassing but I was already starting to get over it cause it hadn't been my fault. Fred, on the other hand? It might have been her fault....a little bit. She did cast the spell. So maybe she was feelin' it worse than me? I dunno. I was too busy knockin' myself out on the cage. Now that? I could live without.

"Yeah, let's get out of here." I agreed as I stood up and picked up the Buffy file. Walkin' over to the file cabinet I put it back in under S for Summers before turnin' around to look at Fred. "I'm kinda wired after everything that happened tonight. You wanna do something?"

I could go out and slay something, that might make me feel a little better but really? I could use some fun. I had the feeling Fred could too.

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Faith was acting kinda weird with the file on Buffy, but I wasn't gonna and didn't know near enough about it all to ask her any questions. I knew that Faith had her secrets, I mean we all did, and it wasn't like I'd known her all my life or anything so if she wanted to look at some file, then who was I say 'no, you have to tell me everything in that file and more right now if you want to be my friend'. Because those talks just always turned out well.

Standing up from from my chair, I watched her put the file back and then come out closing the cage door behind her. Truth was, I was ready do to whatever as long as it was a girl's night only and not two girls and a guy night. Or even two girls and two guys night - meaning me, Faith, Xander, and Angel. Wouldn't that be something interesting? Yeah no.

"Yeah, anything is just fine with me. We could go back to my place for a little while since I really doubt either one of us want to see Mr. Pryce right now. Well, I don't know about you, but I don't and can do without another lecture about touching the dusty old books versus the really old and dusty books." Those talks were always a blast.

"There's always the Bronze I guess," I said with a shrug and stuffed my hands into my back pockets. "Or whatever I guess. I just really need to unwind and get my mind off everything that's happened today." There was always a certain way that I liked to unwind, but I could do whatever she wanted. "Or there's going back to my place for ya know.. a while and then walking around town for another while. Or the other way around. Whichever."

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"Nix on the Bronze." I said, wrinkling my nose a little bit at that. "Way too big a chance of runnin' into people." People like Xander or well, Angel. It wasn't like I was holding anything against the boys it was just that I'd had my fill of them today what with tryin' to seduce one (and pretty roughly at that) and havin' the other one throw my ass in a cage. Girls night out for sure even if I was tempted to go out just so I had the chance of runnin' into Cordelia to see if she had a big fat shiner on her face from Fred's fist. Now that was the shit I was pissed about missing!

Pickin' up my bookbag I fell in step with Fred as we started walkin' out of the library for the night. The school was deadly quiet, which was weird even for nighttime. Usually there was someone still kickin' around, like the janitor. I guess it was still better than the raging screaming girls that had populated the hallways not that long ago. I wondered vaguelly how Xander was doin'. Poor guy.

"I'm all about goin' back to your place and avoiding Wes right about now, even if for once he's not mad at me." I smirked at her a little bit cause let's face it? He might be pissed at her but how often was it that he was mad at someone who wasn't me? I was the troublemaker! It was kind've nice to be the good one once in awhile.

"We can go to your place. Do you have food there? I'm seriously starvin'. Maybe we could order a pizza or something."

And besides, Fred looked like she needed the company whether she was gonna admit that or not. Either way? I was down for hangin' out tonight. No school tomorrow, thank God and as far as I knew there was nothin' dire that needed to be slain.

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Yeah, yeah, so Mr. Pryce wasn't mad at Faith this time. He was mad at me. Faith can have her moment and relish in how it was me who screwed up this time. Not that I thought Faith screwed up the rest of the time, but she usually was the one who got blamed for whatever happened.I just gave her a 'thanks so much for reminding me' look and keppt walking.

"Yeah, we should have something we can find to eat. Don't know what it would be exactly. Yeah, maybe we should just order that pizza then." We walked out of the school and I couldn't have been happier to leave that place for today. Of course going back home was just a reminder of my actually doing the spell but maybe I'd just use the bathroom down the hall instead of mine for a few days.

We got into the old trusty station wagon and started towards the house. Five or so minutes later and we were pulling up in the driveway. Daddy's car was gone so I guess they were out for the night. Once inside, I dropped my bag on the counter and searched around for the phone and phone book so I could order the pizza.

Finding the number and then the phone, I looked at Faith. "You can go ahead upstairs if you want, I'll be up as soon as I order the pizza. Anything you want.. or well, don't want on it? I can pretty much eat every topping they throw on it."

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I dumped my bookbag on the counter next to Fred's and was just about to hop onto it and sit and wait as Fred called the pizza place but she told me to go upstairs. With a shrug I headed up the stairs. The Burkle's house was so nice. I mean it wasn't like me and Wes were destitute or anything but it also wasn't like the Council was really gonna spring for a decent joint. Then again, I guessed anything was better than the divey motel room I'd first been stayin' at when I got into town. It wasn't just the house either really, it was like the whole vibe. They were a real live family. Her parents were even nice to me. It was weird, most parents don't usually like me.

Maybe if I'd been Fred my mom wouldn't have ended up a washed up piece of white trash who didn't give a crap about me. Kinda doubtful though. Still, just lookin' around her room? She had science stuff all displayed proudly.

Wrinkling my nose a little bit I picked up a piece of a rock and looked underneath it before setting it back down with a shrug. I was never gonna be good at this kind of stuff which I guess was good why I hung out with Fred too. She was pretty much the brains y'know when she wasn't makin' us all go psychotic over Xander.

Plopping down on the end of her bed I picked up a magazine to flip through when a small baggie came rollin' out and landed right on her bedspread. With a frown I narrowed my eyes at it. Was that.....what I thought it was? No way, I mean this was Fred and Fred played around with magic and stuff. Maybe these were just uhh...magical herbs?

Pickin' it up and lookin' it over I sniffed it a little bit before unrolling it and lookin' inside. Yep, definitely what I thought it was. Herb. And not the magical kind. At least not in the strictest sense of the word.

I heard Fred in the doorway and glanced up with a smirk.

"Someone's been naughty."

And for once it's not me! Man, I was on a roll today.

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After ordering the pizza, I grabbed a couple drinks from the fridge and started up the stairs to my room. This was the first time Faith really had been in my house minus maybe some of the downstairs part. Usually we'd hang out at the Bronze or the library or something how weird was it that we all hung out at school when we didn't have to? Well, I guess I did that anyway sometimes, but not usually to just hang out with friends.

Walking into the doorway, I wasn't really paying any attention to anything when I looked up and saw Faith grinning at me and hey where did she find that?? Almost a little worried, I sat the drinks down on the nightstand and looked nervously at Faith. "It's not what it looks like." Was what it looked like a little weed because I guess that really was what it looked like.

"Okay, so it is what it looks like but I'm not some junkie or anything. Just a little sometimes to.." Faith was giving me this 'are you serious' look and finally I just rolled my eyes at myself.

As far as I was concerned this was the perfect time to pull out the bong and make myself feel better because after everything that had happened today? Exactly.

I looked up from the bag she still had in her hand and smiled a little at her. "Want some?"

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The corner of my mouth twitched up into a smirk as Texas suddenly started to backpeddle faster than I'd ever seen anyone else backpeddle before. It was pretty fucking hysterical if you asked me. Tryin' to tell me she wasn't a junkie. Well, no shit. It wasn't like I found a bag of coke in her room or something. Then I might raise some bigger questions and did I really have to remind her that just cause today I happened to be the good child didn't mean that every other day I wasn't the bad one. Actually, it kind of made me like her more. She wasn't my usual speed of friends, not that I'd had a ton of them in my day but the people I used to hang with back in Boston weren't like Fred at all.

They sure smoked alot of weed though.

"Yeah, I do." I nodded at her still smiling as she seemed to finally ease up on herself. Did she really think I was gonna come down on her for a bag of herb? Not likely. "Hold on, wait lemme guess. You seem like...." I stood up and thought it over for a second as I looked at her. "A glass water bong person, none of that plastic shit, am I right?" I asked her as she just kept starin' at me.

"Let's see." Walkin' over to her closet I pulled it open and stopped when I saw what was sittin' on the middle shelf right in front of me. Guess Mr and Mrs Burkle never needed anything out of their daughter's closet. Course if I had a kid like Fred I would trust her too.

There was just what looked like a giant glass beaker filled with water halfway with a hole punched in the middle of it. Turning it around you could the pipe part of it built into the top of the beaker.

"Wow." I said as I took the bong off of the shelf and openly admired it. "This is a work of art, Fred."

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As I sat still on the bed, I watched as Faith went into the closet. Yep, right there on the shelf was the bong. Probably should find somewhere else to keep that since sooner or later Daddy or Mama would probably find it. Sure missed the little hardwood floors of my room back in Texas. Those boards just come right up.

Faith was admiring the glass bong and I just shrugged. "Thanks. I'm working on another like the one I had back in Texas, but it's still hardly finished yet. This was just a little something I spent a couple days doing in.. the science lab after school." Reaching over into the drawer of the nightstand, I grabbed a lighter. Daddy liked to smoke his pipe sometimes, so what was wrong with a little herb? I doubt he'd see it that way. Which is why he wasn't gonna find out.

Faith walked over to the bed with the bong and I went ahead and put some of it into the bowl, using the lighter to ignite it.

"I wonder what kind of speech I'd get from Mr. Pryce if he caught me with this," I said looking back up to Faith. Breaking out into a grin, I shrugged. Hey, he chained me to a pipe so he didn't get to say anything about me using a different kind of pipe for myself.

The smoke started to rise in the chamber and I leaned over, inhaling. Ahh, yeah. That pizza would come just in time. Grabbing one of the pillows on the bed, I held it in my lap and watched as Faith leaned forward to inhale some of the smoke.

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Dude, I could just fuckin' see Wesley's face if he walked into Fred's bedroom right now. Luckily that would never actually happen cause after the funny shocked expression? Would come the really angry one where I was in trouble again. This was a day of Faith not bein' in trouble. Let's remember that. I didn't wanna jinx myself now by thinkin' about Wes findin' out me and Fred were smokin' up. He'd have a fit, or whatever it is the British do.

Fred passed the bong over to me and I lit it up before inhaling. Shit, it'd been a long time since I'd smoked up like this. Maybe I should've asked Fred for it earlier, not that I would have ever guessed she'd be down. But seriously, after the last few weeks? We could all use some time to relax and kick back I was thinkin'.

Exhaling the smoke I passed the bong back to Fred still in total disbelief at the bong she'd been building in the science lab. The science lab at school? I had the best friend ever. Not only was she wicked smart but sneaky and badass too. Now if I could go without fucking this friendship up? I'd be doin' pretty good.

"So....you knew I was gonna ask." I said giving her a serious look with just a hint of a smirk so she'd know I was mostly bustin' her chops. "What's the deal with Xander and Cordy. Oh c'mon, you did the spell for him. He's been clammin' up on me, I think he's embarrassed or something which okay, Cordelia is fairly embarrassing but still, she's kinda hot. Xander could do worse, you know if she wasn't a total bitch."

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Faith had this amazed and amused look on her face as I told her about building the bong in the lab and simply the fact that I had a bong at all. What? I wasn't just little miss science freak. Okay, mostly I was, but it sure came in handy when you need a self-made bong to go with your stash.

Taking the bong from Faith, I lit it up and glanced up at her as I inhaled again. Xander and Cordelia? Exhaling, I sat it down on the bed and shrugged. "I don't know, he's just being all mopey pants over her and wanting her to fall in love with him. He came into the library the day after that night at the Bronze all sad-faced while I was looking through a spell book. I'd never done a spell, well a real spell before so when he asked if I wanted to make a practice run I said okay."

Picking up the bong again, I inhaled then looked sheepishly over at Faith as I exhaled and handed it back to her. "Didn't think all of that was gonna happen." Was kinda funny though when you really thought about it. Well. It was right now anyway. I grinned.

"We all were kinda out there with the violent lovey dovey feelings though weren't we? I think I wanted to make everyone disappear or something." I rolled my eyes and laughed at myself. "Yeah, because I'm sure I could've pulled that one off. Probably would've made the world explode or something."

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My eyes got a little wider and i just blinked at her when she said she probably would have exploded the whole world. Could she really do that? I had no clue but with the way she made everyone at school act today? Maybe? Maybe Wes was right freakin' out about all this magick stuff. I didn't really pay that much attention to it cause I figured Fred could handle herself but hey, I was still the good child today so maybe I should encourage her to do more?

Leaning against the headboard I folded my legs underneath me indian style and leaned over to hit off the bong again before passing it back to Fred but just as I did the doorbell downstairs rang. "Pizza." I smiled at her as we both got up and walked downstairs.

While Fred went to get the door I walked into the kitchen and opened up the fridge. I had cotton mouth something fierce and so I pulled out a bottle of juice and looked at it for a second before shrugging and pouring some of it into a cup. Mmmmmmmm food. I could smell the pizza and I had the wicked munchies goin' on.

"Maybe we should go out tonight." I said with a shrug as Fred came back in with the pizza box in her arms. "We could always go and rent a movie, pop some popcorn."

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I grabbed some money out of my wallet off the counter and went over to the door for the pizza. Giving the delivery guy the cash, he handed the pizza over to me and wow did it smell good. Yeah, he got here just in time or else I'd be having to raid the pantry in the kitchen for something to eat.

Shutting the door after he was gone, I headed back into the kitchen with Faith and mmmmmm pizza. I sat the box down on the counter, immediately opening it up and grabbing a slice. Oww hothothot! What had Faith said? Oh right, a movie. I shrugged a little as I took another bite of the pizza. Popcorn?

"Hey, we have this really good popcorn you know like the kind you get at the actual movies? Not the cheap kind that makes you feel like you're eating cardboard," I told her and went over to the pantry, and grabbed a pack of the popcorn. "See, it's.. 'movie popcorn'." Grinning, I tossed it on the counter and finished off my piece of pizza. "Yeah, let's get a movie."

I went to the fridge and grabbed a bottle of water, taking a sip. Man I was thirsty. "What do you wanna watch? Nothing fluffy and oh I'll love you forever. I've had plenty of that for today thank you very much."

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The pizza box was opened and we both dug in like we were starvin' kids who hadn't been fed in days. Or ya know, stoners. Whatever. I only stopped gnawing on the pizza when Fred showed me the kind've popcorn she had here. Good. I needed popcorn after pizza, how could I still be thinkin' about food as I was already chowin' down on a pizza? I dunno. Maybe we should go to the store too when we went to go get a movie, just to make sure we had everything for our munchie needs.

I smirked a little bit when she said she wasn't in the mood for a chick flick. Did I look like the kinda girl to dig chick flicks? Well, mostly I liked action movies and old movies but pretty much you could put anything on a television screen and I'd watch it. I was pretty easy to entertain that way.

"Hey, you know me I'm a girl of action." I said with a wicked smirk in Fred's direction as I finished the slice of pizza and pulled another one out of the box as I perched myself lazily on the corner of a chair at the kitchen table. "None of that sappy romance crap for me." Mostly. At least not publically, I think.

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Another piece of pizza was practically half eaten and I just grinned wide at her. Action movies? Yeah, that might actually be kinda fun to watch tonight. But really I didn't care. Just nothing with the girl falling in hopeless love with the guy because he was the greatest man in the entire world and nothing could ever become between them. Stuff getting blown up sounded much more appealing right now.

Maybe it's a good idea I didn't ever get anywhere on that making people disappear spell.

Next piece of pizza was now gone and now that Faith had put the idea of popcorn in my head I wanted some now. It was good popcorn! I drank another long sip of water and sat the bottle down on the counter. "Okay, we can decide when we get there. I can be a girl of action." Yeah, of course I could.

I grabbed my keys off the counter and grinned at her as I picked up another slice of pizza. "Alright, let's get out of here. We can figure it out when we get there. Something with action but nothing with Bruce Willis." Popcorn and pizza and the bong would be waiting for when we get back.