[OTA, Arrival] The point of no return.

[trialbyheart]

Sunnydale was no more. There was nothing left, and there was a moment where her mind wondered if someone might find it ridiculously funny (inappropriately so, but never mind that) to look at a place where a whole row of buildings had been and see nothing but a vast, caving inward crater. It was the kind of thing that might have been studied in

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[faiththatfuelsu]

Faith was enjoying her morning on the beach, using the time to stretch and focus. In all honesty she'd just discovered that doing her yoga on the beach was the fastest way to get a date for the night, but she wasn't about to admit that out loud. She'd just moved to Tai Chi when a blonde appeared laying in the sand. She quirked an eyebrow at the new arrival and started to turn her back. She'd gotten sick of the new arrival speech fairly quickly, someone else could fill blondie in... except- Faith squinted in the sun, Blondie was familiar.

"That you, B?"

[trialbyheart]

"Faith?"

Of course it's me, who else - Then again, I'm on a beach when I was in a hotel room a few minutes ago and this..there's no way that..

Buffy shook her head once, hard and visibly, as if to jar any other thoughts of what was possible and what wasn't from her mind. It was best, she knew from more than one experience, to just..go along with things and find the explanation as they came. Panicking and going on and on about how something wasn't impossible was the fastest way to die.

"Yeah," she said, "yeah, it's me." Her steps broke into a jog and she closed the distance easily between them on the sand, wondering if she had ever been quite so glad to see the other girl in her life. "What happened? What are we doing here?"

[faiththatfuelsu]

She hadn't thought about it before Buffy had come jogging towards her, but was suddenly thankful something had worked in her favor. If this Buffy had been from before... well, it could have gotten real ugly, real quick. The fact that they weren't involved in a knock down drag out fight was a lucky break from the Powers that Be, and this version of Buffy looked almost exactly like the last time Faith had seen her.

"What's the last thing you remember, Buff?" It was easier to figure that out and go from there, even if she already had a pretty good idea of the 'when' Buffy got pulled from.

[trialbyheart]

"The last thing I remember? Leaving the crater-like remains of where we used to call home." Buffy blinked once, then again at the face of her friend-turned enemy-turned back to friend (it was confusing enough even to her mind and she'd thought she'd seen it all) and shoved a few strands of hair behind her ear with a twist of her fingertips. "We left, found some hotel and holed up there. I passed out asleep even though I didn't think I'd be able to sleep again and - "

A pause, enough space for two breaths in between.

" - why? What's the last thing you remember? Don't you remember the same thing?"