PROMPT NINE: Love

Buffy thought that she knew what love was. Her relationship with Angel she had thought was all about love. They had the devastating passion and the long intense stares that seemed to go on forever. She knows now that she didn’t know what real love was until she started going out with Faith.

She finds the strangest things about the brunette Slayer endearing. She loves the way Faith’s eyebrows scrunch together when she’s concentrating, she loves that the other Slayer is actually really shy and will hold her hand really tight whenever she’s feeling insecure, she loves that the brunette actually likes to cuddle and will seek her out just to hold her close to her body, she even loves the cute little snore the dark Slayer is emitting as the two of them lay entangled together on the couch.

She loves that she can feel Faith’s heart beating, she loves that she can feel Faith’s chest rise and fall with each breath that she takes, she loves that she can feel the snores reverberate through the other Slayer’s body, she loves that all those things remind her that Faith is alive. She loves all the things that Faith gives her that Angel never could.

“I love you,” she whispers into the sleeping Slayer’s ear and she loves the way that the sleeping Slayer murmurs it back snuggling deeper into her arms.

She loves Faith in a way that she has never loved anybody before and that she is loved in return.