A quick flash forward to the darkest timeline

It had taken years of searching overseas to find it but find it she did. The second Draconian Katra was not the easiest thing to search for and if Faith had been driven by purely selfless motives, she probably would have given up many years ago. But she had had many nightmares about the Watcher Council catching up with her and putting her in a cage -- not just in jail but in a cage! -- and as far as she knew, a second Draconian Katra was the only way to avoid that fate.

Even when she found it, she had great difficulty in testing it. Volunteers were difficult to come by and even those individuals that she managed to coerce into cooperating with her experiments had a tendency to run away at inconvenient times. Yet finally she tested it to her satisfaction and though she had been tempted to destroy it when she heard about the Watcher Council headquarters blowing up, she held onto it just in case.

By the time she got the courage to return to Sunnydale, there was nothing left of the place save a big, gaping hole in the ground. Apparently there had been a big fight and she -- no, the woman in her body -- had been a big hero. Yes, poor dumb Faith had finally saved the world and she had not been around to share in the victory celebration. That sucked.

Well, it was just as well Sunnydale was gone. She got enough reminders of her old life every time she looked in the mirror and saw the face of her former friend Buffy Summers. It was now time to switch back. Not for B's sake but for her own.

It had been fun for a while, traveling in B's body and taking it to places where she would never ever be likely to go. Places like nude beaches and strip clubs and pornographic movie sets and red-light districts and many other places that would make poor old B blush even if she just thought about them.

However, the excitement was gone and to tell the truth, Faith missed her own body. She knew it would not be likely to be in the same condition it had been in when she had left it but she missed it, anyway. And anyway, by now, B would have had time to get used to living in it. So what better **** could Faith have than to show up on B's doorstep and **** her to get used to a new body all over again?

So though it took about sixteen years after the fall of Sunnydale to track down the former Slayer, Faith finally did so. She located B's home address in a small suburban neighborhood right outside of Washington, D.C. Apparently B was married now. Her spouse was a former Pentagon employee named Riley Finn and it seemed obvious from the number of toys in the back yard that they had had a number of children.

Faith smirked at the thought of B the great vampire slayer settling down to become just another housewife with kids. Indeed, she had laughed when she got her first look at the white picket fence surrounding her front yard because it seemed like B's life had become such a cliché.

Since it was a warm day, she stripped down on the back porch after sneaking her way into B's back yard. She did not have a mirror with her but when she had taken a shower that morning, it seemed fairly obvious from the view she got in the motel bathroom mirror that B's body still looked pretty good for her age. It would be a shame to leave it since it seemed unlikely that a woman with kids would have lavished the same care upon Faith's old body that Faith had lavished upon her new body. But if she did not leave it, her **** upon B would not be complete. And all these embarrassments she had caused B in her younger days would all be for nothing.

She knocked on the back door several times before she got an answer. Before she knew it, she was using her Slayer strength and making sounds that could be heard on the other end of the street.

At long last, the back door was opened and Faith saw herself looking at her own face.

"What are you doing here?" said the woman in Faith's old body.

"Don't you recognize your old body?" said Faith.

"Yes, I do," said Buffy-in-Faith.

And with that, she slammed the door in Faith-in-Buffy's face.