Faith stood in the open doorway, watching the power course through the slayer. Her own conscience telling her this is what she had wanted all along, yet it ached her heart to know that she was the one to cause the slayers decent into hell.

Buffy walked slowly around the stranger, her hand gently touching his shoulder “So this is what’s going to happen. I’m going to ask you some questions and you’re going to tell me everything I want to know.” She stopped directly in front of him, leaning down slightly and looking him in the eyes “And if I don’t get my answers, believe me when I tell you I *will* cause you pain.” The man tried to move in protest, mumbling something through the gag. Buffy stood up, looking around the room till she found what she wanted.

She turned on the radio, smirking as Stuck in the Middle with you by Steelers Wheel blasted out. “Mmm. Appropriate.” She returned to standing in front of the stranger “Now I’m going to take the gag off, the first words from your mouth better be the name of the guy you work for.”

“Fuck you bitch.”

Buffy punched him hard in the face “That’s not what I wanted to hear.”

“Fuck.” The guy spat blood and a tooth to the floor “I don’t know what you want.”

“The name of the vamp you work for.”

“What?”

“I want the name of the vampire gang that you work for, and don’t lie.” She tugged his sleeve up his arm “The brand on your arm, that’s from the gang you run for, I want to know his name and where I can find him.”

“I’m not telling you shit.”

Buffy punched him again, this time the chair rocked back and fell smacking the strangers head on the floor, knocking him unconscious. “Fuck. Faith get me some cold water.” Buffy repositioned the chair upright. “Faith?”

Faith stepped from the shadows of the room “B lets just go.”

Buffy turned almost snarling to Faith “Get me some water or get out.”

“He doesn’t know anything B, lets get outta here. Before it’s to late.”