❝You want to be a mess, be a mess. I don’t care. I can take it.❞
Send a Grey’s Anatomy meme.
Her first inclination is to be defensive and brash. Shell out a rude insult. Stick ‘em where the sun don’t shine. But this is Buffy. And therefore once she takes a deep breath, she finds that she doesn’t even know where to begin. They’ve spent so much time fighting. First together against big evil and then against each other. How does one slayer have a regular interaction with another slayer?
Trick question.
They aren’t even supposed to coexist. She sees that now. Faith sees a lot more these days. Head out of her ass and all that. So here, across from Buffy, their conversation teetering between civil and aggressive, Faith simply says:
“Thanks. I think I should go.”