Summary: My favorite Scoobies get a vacation that's a little out of the
ordinary. I've written another BTVS fic and it had a few darker themes and
I just kinda wanted to play with something a little more fun. It may seem
kinda random, and I'm not exactly sure where this is gonna go, so any
feedback is welcome.

Feedback: Always Welcome, especially ideas anyone may have as far as plot
twists and stuff.

Next Chapter (I kinda forgot to split some of the previous part into
chapters, so I'm just gonna continue without numbers...guess I got caught up
in the writing, whoopsies.)

Faith had always loved the rain; it made her feel peaceful and serene even
when she was in her most crazed state. She loved the way the tiny droplets
sounded when they hit leaves in the trees. It almost seemed cleansing.
Now of course, in paradise it never rains, so the closest thing she had was
the shower. She woke up snuggled in close to Buffy and slipped quietly out
of her fantasy come true to hop in the shower. She was enjoying the way
the water pounded on her skin washing her clean. Tiny, warm kisses of
water trailed down her taught, tan stomach, sliding into places unseen by
day. White trails of soap slid down her legs, contrasting the tan. She
craned her neck back allowing the spray to slick her hair back. She ran
calloused fingers through her dark, silky locks and turned to allow the
spray to hit her in the face for a moment. She took her time, enjoying the
relaxing nature of a hot shower...alone.

The things some people take for granted. She thought with a smile as she
shut the water off. She grabbed a towel and wrapped it around herself as
she made her way into the bedroom.

Buffy looked up from her bed as Faith walked out of the shower. Faith
didn't appear to notice Buffy was awake as she headed for her dresser to
find her bikini. She turned her back to Buffy as she pulled the bottom
half of her suit on under the towel. Buffy almost gasped when the dark
slayer dropped the towel to the floor. A few droplets of water slowly slid
their way down Faith's muscular back and Buffy watched as her shoulder
muscles twitched as she reached behind her to secure the clasp on her top.
The dark slayer slid her firm legs into a pair of khaki shorts and threw on
a tank top. Buffy found herself frowning at the lack of skin Faith was now
showing. Faith turned and finally noticed the fair slayer's awakened state
and smirked at her.

"How ya feeling this morning B?"

"Mmm, little headache, not too bad."

"Good, now come on lazy ass, get up and hit the showers, you drove me out
of bed this morning with your 'I drank way too much last night, and really
the only way I could smell worse is if I had puked' thing you had going
on."

The tip of Faith's tongue stuck out between her teeth as she smiled at the
shocked blonde still lying in bed. Shock soon turned to full-on pout and
Faith laughed and tugged her out of bed.

"I don't smell." Buffy pouted some more and tilted her head slightly and
sniffed. Her features soured slightly and she smiled sheepishly at Faith.

"Okay, maybe just a bit. Shower time for me."

Faith grinned at her and turned for the door.

"I'm gonna start cooking breakfast, so don't be too long."

"Mmm yum."

The slayers shared a smile as Faith left the room. Buffy stood and
stretched slowly before wandering into the bathroom to shower.

Faith made her way into the kitchen and saw Dawn was up making coffee. The
two shared a smile as Faith made her way to the fridge.

"Hey Daybreak."

"Morning Faith."

"Do ya have a hangover at all?"

"Nope, I feel fine, I didn't really drink too much."

"Good"

The two chatted as they made breakfast and soon Willow and Kennedy emerged
from their bedroom. The two lovers greeted the brunettes cheerfully and
both busied themselves in morning tasks. Xander appeared a few minutes
later and poured a cup of coffee for himself. He grasped his mug and made
his way out to the balcony. Faith allowed the others to finish cooking as
she joined him outside. She reached for her pack of cigarettes on the
table next to the couch and lit one. The dark beauty moved to the railing
and leaned forward on her arms, completely caught up in the beauty that
surrounded them.

"This place is so unbelievable."

Xander looked at her, shaking his head to clear his brain. He smiled a
genuine smile at her as they locked gazes. The two seemed to come to a
true unspoken connection. After all these years and all the drama they had
been through, Xander finally felt like he was seeing the true Faith that
she had never let them see before. He also knew that Buffy loved the
gorgeous girl in front of him and that made him happy. She deserved to be
happy...truly, genuinely happy with someone, and Faith seemed to be that
somebody Granted, Faith did drive Buffy crazy sometimes, but she was happy.
Buffy had been through more things than anybody would ever know. Except
him. His gift was to see. Buffy was their version of Wonder Woman, Willow
had all the power of the Earth and he saw...plain and simple. He saw things
that nobody else ever did, and things that nobody else ever would. She put
herself on the line more times than they knew. She felt the weight of the
world on her shoulders everyday and while worrying about the occupants of
the Earth, she had people she cared about depending on her. She battled
with herself everyday and she never gave up and never gave in. Xander knew
the potentials hated her sometimes, and everyone thought she had a stick up
her ass. They called her self-righteous, and arrogant and a bitch. The
truth was she would never let them down, she wouldn't allow herself any
room to fail. While the pressure to keep herself alive was immense, she
also had too many people she cared about to worry about as well. He saw
it...he saw it all. He smiled as he thought again about their defeat over
the first, but his smile faded as he allowed his thoughts to drift to Anya.
Damn, he missed her.

"Anya would have loved it here."

The two shared a sad smile as they thought of the girl that had captured
Xander's heart. Suddenly Dawn came barging out from the kitchen and began
babbling about all the fun stuff they were going to do today. Buffy
wandered out of her room and helped with the finishing touches to breakfast
before they all sat to eat.

After breakfast they packed up toys, snacks and drinks (just soda for now,
not drinking anything alcoholic until at least noon, Buffy's rule.) and
made their way to the beach.

"When did we get steps? Did I do this, or did Xander set the world record
for carpentry?"

Buffy questioned her friends looking confused.

"No, you did this last night, it was kinda tough getting up and down with
that stupid ladder." Kennedy stated.

"Oh."

Buffy shrugged as they descended the steps and got set up on the beach.

"Hey you guys wanna chicken fight?" Dawn asked the group.

"Chicken fight?" Faith questioned.

"Yeah, one person gets on another persons shoulders and the person on top
tries to knock the other person off."

"Can you play with six people?" Xander asked.

Dawn shrugged. "I don't see why not...wanna play?"

The group agreed and made their way to the water. Dawn hopped up on
Xander's shoulders while Willow mounted (hee hee, that sounds funny, stupid
mind half-way to the gutter.) Kennedy's and Buffy got on Faith's. Within a
minute Buffy was the only one remaining. She slapped Faith with a high
five and grinned in triumph.

"Hey no fair, slayer strength." Dawn whined.

"Sore loser." Faith smirked at the girl and Dawn stuck her tongue out in
response.

"Okay fine, this round we'll play slayers on bottom, and next, they can be
on top." Willow said. Faith smirked.

"Is that how you and Kenny play Red?" Faith raised an eyebrow at the girl.

Willow swatted the slayer playfully and the six burst out laughing.

"Okay, let's try this then, X, come on, you're my partner this round."

Xander shrugged and managed to get himself on Faith's shoulders as Buffy
and Dawn teamed up and Kenny and Willow remained a team. Buffy and Dawn
were eliminated early due to Dawn lunging at Willow and Buffy catching a
nose full of water. She jerked her head back and sent Dawn flying into the
water. It didn't take long for Xander to knock Willow off. The two
remaining cheered and shared a high five.

"Time for some slayer on slayer action, hope you three are ready for this
fun." Faith pointed at the three non-slayers with a grin. The three
bottom contenders where jerked all over the place as slayer strength took
over the game. Dawn and Buffy fell first and this time Dawn caught the
water in the nose. They stood and watched the two dark haired slayers duke
it out. Kennedy kept up pretty well, but Faith took her down fairly
easily. Faith sat on Xander's shoulders with her fists in the air
triumphantly. She was grinning from ear to ear and Buffy stood watching
her in awe of the innocence she was exuding at the moment.

"Ha, raining champ, sorry kids I win."

"Hey, you're gonna have to share the title belt with me, I won too."

"Yeah, but B, you were on my shoulders, not going against me. I was on the
winning team all three times. Sorry, I win."

"No way, okay, this time, me and Xander against you and Kenny, I'll give
you the edge with the two slayer thing."

"Hey!"

The five women turned to look at Xander who briefly looked hurt, but then
realizing he was being stupid, shrugged and grinned.

"Who am I kidding, I hold no shame in knowing the three of you could kick
my ass, never mind."

"Ya wanna go again B so we can settle this, fine by me, let's go."

"You're on."

The two hopped up on their partners' shoulders and Willow gave the go-
ahead. The two sat with arms outstretched, waiting for the other to make a
move. Finally Faith lunged for Buffy causing Kennedy to jerk forward. The
youngest slayer caught her footing quickly and tried to move with Faith.
Xander was struggling to keep up with the blonde on his shoulders. He
began to wonder how he got roped into this. He kept up with Buffy the best
her could as he was slung around and was nearly choked as the two tiny legs
tightened in on his neck as the slayer tried to maintain balance. He
coughed and Buffy loosened her hold a bit and her gripped her legs tighter.

Willow and Dawn watched the match almost in awe as the Chosen two battled
for control of the fight. It seemed just as one began to get the upper
hand, the other would get a power boost and even the scales once again.
After fighting for a while, Faith decided to go for the kill. She reached
out and barely missed Buffy outstretched arms and grabbed the blonde's
waist and did her best to tickle her. Buffy squealed began to twitch.
Faith saw her chance and reached out and shoved Buffy over, sending her and
Xander sprawling back into the water.

"Yeah! Ha, we win!"

Faith and Kennedy grinned and Faith dropped off the younger girls shoulders
into the water.

"Yeah yeah, I'll get you for that."

"Oh really B?"

"You just wait."

They grinned and Buffy leaned back in the water allowing herself to float.
Faith grabbed her by the feet and pulled her closer. Buffy giggled
slightly and wrapped her legs around Faith's waist. The blonde reached in
and kissed Faith lightly on the lips before jumping up and dunking Faith
under the water. Buffy grinned as Faith shot back up and lunged at her.
The two continued to wrestle in the water as the others walked back up to
their stuff. Kennedy grabbed the tanning lotion and lathered herself up.
Willow held out the sunscreen to her and asked to cover her back. Kennedy
took her time massaging the lotion on the redhead. The two got comfortable
on their towels as Dawn and Xander grabbed masks and snorkels and wandered
back to the water. The two slayers stopped playing and ran up the beach to
fetch some snorkel gear as well. Willow was stretched out on her stomach
reading and Kennedy lying beside her on her back. Buffy grinned as Willow
leaned in and placed a soft kiss on the youngest slayer. The two slayers
noticed that Dawn and Xander were about 100 feet out in the water and it
still wasn't up to Dawn's waist. Buffy watched intently as the two stopped
and peered at the water. She instinctively increased her pace and felt
Faith do the same. When she reached Dawn's side she realized why they had
stopped. The water they had been wading through was crystal clear and
before them they could all see that the ocean floor dipped down, so far in
fact they couldn't see it anymore. It seemed they were on the edge of a
cliff. Dawn shivered slightly.

"That kinda creeps me out, it would be better if it wasn't so deep."

"I'm with Daybreak on this one."

Buffy looked to Xander who shrugged his agreement to her sheepishly.

"I wish it wasn't so deep."

The four watched as the sand below rose slowly and when it stopped there
was only a slight decline in the ocean floor.

"That looks much more natural, thanks Buff."

"No problem Xand. Oh, I had another idea."

Buffy turned to face the beach and murmured under her breath. The others
watched and suddenly a pool appeared off to the side of the path Faith
created the night before. It was an in-ground pool with a deck surrounding
it and even a hot tub next to it. Buffy smiled in satisfaction.

"I always wanted a pool."

She turned and smiled at her friends and they smiled back before they got
back to the task at hand.

After hours of snorkeling, fishing, swimming and tanning, the six retreated
to the house for lunch. Buffy decided she was going to make the drinks
this time and got to work with the alcohol. Xander and Kennedy played some
pool as they lounged on the patio.

The group ate and decided to hang out by the pool for the afternoon. Faith
was in the deep end with her arms over the edge smoking a cigarette when
she saw Buffy appear at the top of the steps. The blonde had a glass in
each hand and Faith noticed that one of the drinks had a little paper
umbrella in it. She smiled to herself thinking that only Buffy would be
corny enough to enjoy those annoying little creations that always seemed to
poke her in the eye when she drank. She grinned at the blonde slayer as
she sat next to Faith sloshing some of the drinks as she plopped down.
Faith raised her eyebrows questioningly as the blonde grinned and handed
her a glass. The glass without the umbrella.

"Here ya go Faithy, just the way you like it."

Faith took a drink and her features soured slightly at the amount of
alcohol in the drink.

"Damn, B put enough alcohol in these?"

Buffy took a loud sip of her drink and made an 'ahhh' sound.

"I can't even taste it."

Faith smiled and shook her head.

"How many drinks have you had?"

"I made a few testers."

Faith just laughed and sipped her drink. She raised an eyebrow as she saw
Dawn walk down the steps with a similar drink in her hand. Dawn saw this
and smiled hopefully at Faith and the dark slayer pretended she hadn't seen
her.

The group spent the afternoon playing silly pool games that had them in
hysterics. Willow began to get a little too red for her own good so she
and Kennedy retreated to the house. Xander and Buffy sat talking and
reminiscing in the chairs next to the pool as they watched Dawn and Faith
play dunking games and guess the color games. Buffy felt her heart swell
as she watched Faith. It had dawned on her yesterday while Faith had been
playing on the beach that the dark slayer had never had vacations like
these. Buffy had been informed by Dawn about her little 'I love Faithy'
confession the night before and the two sisters had a little talk. Buffy
was surprised, although she shouldn't have been, at Dawn's overwhelmingly
great reaction to Buffy being in love with Faith. To be honest, Dawn had
been the biggest reason behind Buffy forgiving Faith as quickly as she did.
The memories that both Dawn and Faith shared from the monks where very
sisterly in nature. Dawn was in awe of Faith and looked up to her, in
spite of all she had done. On Faith's end, she was extremely protective of
the younger Summers girl. They had too many inside jokes to count and
always seemed to make the other smile. They had mastered the art of
comfortable silences that can really only be formed over time and trust.
Buffy smiled as she watched Faith duck under the water and Dawn step into
her hands. Seconds later Dawn went flying into the air and she did a
summersault and crashed back into the water.

Buffy decided to head back up to the house to shower and begin dinner and
Xander decided to follow. When she stepped into the house she was met by a
very red Willow standing in the living room wincing in pain as Kennedy
applied aloe to her back.

"Ouch Willow, too much sun."

"It would appear that way Xander. Buffy, ya think you could wish me a
little help?"

Buffy nodded at her best friend while sending her an apologetic smile.

"I wish for Willow's sunburn to turn to a tan."

They watched as the 'wish game' continued in their favor as Willow's beet-
red skin slowly turned to a light tan that looked rather odd on the usually
pale redhead. Willow sighed in relief.

"Whew, thanks Buffy, that was pretty sucky."

"No prob Will. Gotta run, the shower is beckoning and if I don't wash my
hair soon, this chlorine is gonna turn it green."

"Wouldn't that be a sight." Kennedy smirked at her.

"Very funny." Buffy smiled and headed to her room, still swaying slightly
from her drinking escapades earlier.

After everyone had showered, they began to make dinner and another round of
drinks. They began to notice another funny thing about this mystery house.
Every time an item was removed from the fridge or pantry another would
appear in its place when nobody was around to see it. They decided that
was a good thing seeing as how they would never starve to death.

After dinner they decided to play drinking games. Buffy agreed happily
noting that her slayer metabolism and dinner had caused her buzz to wear
off almost completely. They sat around for a few hours playing 'asshole'
and 'golf' and any other game they could think of. Faith noticed that Dawn
was turning a little green and decided she'd had enough. Faith stood and
helped the younger girl up wrapping an arm around her middle.

"Come on Daybreak, time for you to get to bed."

"I don't feel so good Faith."

"I know kiddo, come on."

Faith got Dawn settled on her bed before returning to the kitchen and
grabbing a glass of water, the saltshaker and some crackers.

"Here." Faith said handing Dawn the water. "Drink some of this."

Dawn took the glass and drank it in fairly small sips until it was half
empty and Faith took it back. Faith added some salt to the water and
ordered Dawn to finish it. Dawn scrunched her face in disgust.

"Eww, you put salt in it."

"I know, the salt will help your body retain the water, just drink it."

Dawn shot her another disgusted look but finished nonetheless. Faith took
the glass and handed Dawn a few crackers.

"These will help soak up some of the alcohol, just eat them slowly."

Dawn nodded as she nibbled on the saltines. After finishing a few crackers
Dawn snuggled deep under her covers as Faith sat next to her. Faith began
playing with the young girls hair, a habit formed long ago. The younger
brunette sighed contently under Faith's light touch and within minutes, she
was asleep.

Buffy smiled as she watched the sweet exchange from the doorway. Faith
looked up sensing Buffy and smiled at her as she eased slowly off the bed.
Buffy reached a hand out for her and Faith obliged happily.

"She isn't the only Summers that needs to be tucked in." Buffy said in an
almost child-like voice.

"I know, come on B, you're next."

Buffy flashed her thousand-watt smile and let Faith lead her into their
room. The two changed quickly and slid into Buffy's bed and shut off the
light. The moon cast enough light through the window that Buffy could see
Faith was awake and seemed to be deep in thought.

"Whatcha thinking about Faithy?"

"Nothin' B, just enjoying the moment."

Buffy propped herself up on her elbow and gazed down at the girl next to
her. Her left hand moved before she even realized it and made its way to
Faith's hair. She pushed a few errant strands out of her face and began a
steady pace of running her fingers through the dark mane of lazy curls.
Faith felt her body instantly relax under Buffy's tender touch. Buffy
continued to play with Faith's hair and after a while her hand began to
wander. She allowed a finger to trace the line of Faith's jaw and watched
as Faith smiled. Buffy watched as her finger moved to the dark slayers
pouty lips. She placed her hand on the side of Faith's face and traced her
thumb over the soft skin under her eyes. It looked as if she was wiping
away imaginary tears. Buffy smiled as she felt Faith lean into her touch
and the blonde leaned over the younger slayer and placed the lightest kiss
on her lips. Faith smiled and Buffy took it as her cue to continue the
kissing. She showered Faith's full lips with a dozen sweet kisses and soon
found Faith's hands around the back of her neck. The dark slayer pulled
her close and deepened the kiss. Buffy felt like she had butterflies
stampeding in her stomach. Buffy took Faith's bottom lip between her teeth
delicately grazing it before sucking lightly. She heard Faith moan softly
and slipped her tongue into the other girl's mouth. Buffy reached down and
tugged lightly at Faith's tank top, her eyes asking permission to remove
the shirt. Faith gave her silent permission with her eyes and Buffy smiled
and kissed her sweetly before pulling her shirt over her head. The blonde
rolled over on top of Faith and focused her attention to the brunette's
neck. She leaned in and left a trail of tender kisses up to her ear only
stopping to nip at the pulse point. She heard a faint gasp escape Faith's
lips and her tongue darted out quickly to soothe the bitten area. Buffy
took the small lobe of flesh in her mouth and allowed her teeth to lightly
graze the skin and she sucked it briefly. Faith felt herself getting hot
and she began to tug on Buffy's shirt. Buffy sat up quickly and disposed
the article on to the floor. She leaned down and pressed her body up
against Faith's and they moaned simultaneously. They shared fevered kisses
and soon found themselves naked under the blankets. Buffy lying on top of
Faith and had a thigh between Faith's legs. The dark slayer bent her leg
slightly to allow Buffy more friction and the blonde reacted immediately.
The two were as close as humanly possible, limbs intertwined. Buffy leaned
over to turn the light on,

"I want to see you."

Buffy looked lovingly into Faith's eyes and noticed she noticed the
brunette's features were laced with apprehension.

"Faith? Are you okay?"

Faith avoided eye contact with the blonde and swallowed noticeably.

"Yeah...I've just never done this."

Buffy felt her heart ache and leaned in to give Faith a sweet kiss.

"It's okay Faithy, we don't have to if you don't want to."

"No, I want to, just a little freaked."

"Faith look at me."

Buffy saw the muscles in Faith's jaw clench slightly as she struggled to
hold Buffy's gaze. Buffy reached a hand up and forced Faith to look at
her.

"Faith, you don't have to worry about anything, I won't let anything bad
happen to you. I love you."

Buffy felt her heart ache again as Faith's chin quivered slightly and she
looked away.

"Faith, honey please look at me."

Faith couldn't refuse Buffy...ever, especially when she was practically
begging her to meet her eyes. She finally met the older girls stare and
held it.

"I love you Faith."

Faith squirmed slightly and looked away, but only for a second. She
managed to get her head and her heart in check and returned her gaze to the
deep hazel eyes staring down at her.

"I love you too."

Buffy smiled and shifted slightly so Faith could feel the full contact of
her thigh. The brunette's eyelids fluttered as she arched slightly into
Buffy. Buffy kissed her lightly and made Faith keep her eyes on hers.
Buffy would repeat her 'I love you' sentiment every few minutes and kiss
Faith tenderly every time. They climaxed simultaneously and Faith felt
Buffy melt into her. The blonde rested her head on Faith's chest for a
moment catching her breath. When she lifted her head she noticed silent
tears slipping down Faith's cheeks. Buffy frowned and her eyebrows
furrowed as she struggled to keep her slight panic at bay. She reached up
and lightly swept the dark locks off Faith's face and ran a finger absently
across her forehead.

"Faith, honey?"

Faith smiled sheepishly as she wiped her tears away.

"I'm fine B...I've just never had anyone treat me like that before. I've
always been more of a piece of meat. Then again its not like I was any
better to them. You were just so gentle. It's a first for me."

Buffy smiled her sweet sympathetic smile and kissed Faith lightly.

"Well, I can promise that won't be the last for you."

Faith's chin quivered again and Buffy kissed it before it could transfer
into something and Faith gave Buffy a tiny smile.

"I love you Faith."

"I love you too B."