I like her seeing the scoobies from her adult perspective. They really were child soldiers in a way. And here she is, a 30-something. Kind of like that clone of Jack O'Neill in SG-1. Except only DD knows.
Faith has a chance to 'get it right this time', I hope she figures that out. And... she's the adult in the room now (Not counting the watchers of course). Hm, in a weird way she's like Angel: looks young but isn't. I liked the thoughtful gesture with leaving the blood in his house. She might have some explaining to do on that point someday, of course.
She's likely to find out that a lot is going go happen that she doesn't remember/wasn't told about, all that. But her years of experience will help a LOT.
Hell--she knows where the Scythe is. And the Guardian for that matter.

They really were. And she's going to give Buffy an earful about never training them.

There's a bit of a difference between looking two decades younger than you are and two centuries. And the blood will come into play again soon enough.

She was gone/doesn't remember most of what happened, but it's like meeting a childhood friend. You recognize them and eventually you remember their name. She won't be all knowing before hand, but will have an edge as things happen.

The Scythe... yes. Except that she's not about to dig that up while the old council is still in charge. Reforming the council is a rather big problem that the First really helped them out with.

I keep replaying "Epic" in my mind reading this thing..

I love the story. Thank you.

Yooou waaant it aaaalll but you can't have it.

Hmm, Interesting. Are you using branching timelines or altering the timeline? As if it's a branch their Future!Xander would likely move (and beat up) Heaven and Earth to get Faith back. If it's an altered timeline then Faith could try and get Future!Xander downloaded into his mind ... Unless its a branch timeline and instead of being sent to another timeline only the memories were and Faith is still Young!Faith just with the memories of the other Faith so their is no going back.

Now in thanks ~http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mdV50dDYm4

The Charge of the Batmobile. I'll be honest, the first thing I thought of when I saw the title of the song was "Oh, the Batmobile is electric now?"

I'll admit, I've actually thought about this way too much. In my stories, there's no such thing as time-travel (under normal circumstances) so no altering the timelines as that causes severe problems with causality and paradox. I also don't subscribe to the infinite universe theory where there's a universe born every time someone makes a choice.

In my world, there's the mulitiverse, which is made up of thousands of universes, each of which contain many (sometimes parallel) dimensions. What appears to be time-travel is simply jumping from one dimension to another parallel dimension that isn't quite as far along on their parallel timeline. Side note: there is no such thing as Entropic cascade failure in my worlds.

Now, specific to this story is the problem of magic and Wishing. I've decided that Faith was removed from her home dimension, and placed in the body of the Faith already here. The overwriting wouldn't be noticed as the first 15 years were almost exactly the same.

In Faith's home universe, she either died or disappeared. I haven't decided yet. As, like you said, if Faith were missing, Xander would come looking. And that would create some very interesting situations.

Does that answer you questions?



And thank you back - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz5s5C6sAt0

This is one of the variations of the Faith character I enjoy best. A little more stable, but still emotionally damaged in a lot of ways. I'm a huge fan of the idea that Xander and Faith work well together and they got FAR too little time actually interacting in the series, but you're adding some really great detail with the 'future history' and building a very believable cause for the 'fall' of the Council. Buffy never really has done well with any of her IN CHARGE decisions. She has decent instincts most of the time but is far too sure her 'destiny' that she's hated so much always puts her in the right. Hopefully having another Slayer and Watcher both around will get her to put things in perspective a bit. But I'm not counting on it.
And as much as Faith may miss 'her Xander'... the one in her here and now will be enthusiastic about a Slayer taking an interest. I'm sure she's going to at least offer him some training so he's less vulnerable and more effective.
Great chapter. Looking forward to more.

Yep, training starts next chapter. For everyone. Not just Xander.

Cool story. As surprising as it is, there aren't too many 'x character goes back in time and relives life' fics in the Buffy verse (tho there are too many HP fics like this_.

I'm truly looking forward to seeing how you go about all of this.

I'm looking forward to it too. Just like Faith, I don't really have a plan for what I want to do. :-)

interesting start and I wonder how Faith will change her fate :)

No fate but what she makes. :-)

Wow Faith getting emotional? That is new. Understandable though if she eventually built a real relationship and has just had it ripped away from her. I can't see Buffy being happy about Faith helping take care of Angel either!
Edit: I saw in another review Faith is planning for Dawn not to exist? Why? Isn't that tantamount to killing her? What problem does she have with Dawn that justifies erasing her from existence?

It very much snuck up on her.

REPLY EDIT: She doesn't have a problem with Dawn. She just wants to stop Glory before she destroys the monks that turned her human. Using Terminator as an analogy: if I could stop the machines from taking over, and unmake John Connor's existence; I would do it. Not because I don't like John Connor, but to save a whole lot of suffering and death that would result if the timeline were allowed to continue unchanged.

Really liking the story so far although the future Xander pairing has me a bit apprehensive. Its an issue I have with most redo fics, a person changes as they age and regardless of her physical appearance she's in her thirties mentally while he's still a teenager rather than the man she knew before being sent back. As to the whole Xander/Dawn conversation, the age difference never bothered me as I don't consider five years that large of a gap. I did find it a bit squicky but that was entirely to do with him acting like an older brother to her when she was younger and then being with her later.

I think you'll like Faith's reaction next chapter when she meets 'young' Xander.

EDIT: Just noticed the Rec. Thank you!

Great story so far! I like Faith and Xander pairings. I often thought that is who he should have ended up with instead of Dawn in the comics. Don't get me wrong I adore Dawn but there was to much of a age difference between them even after she got older. Though in hindsight Dawn was the only one who ever truly respected him and thought he was more then the "One Who Sees."

Buffy was a bitch to Xander many times over and Willow took him for granted to. Don't even get me started on Anya. That was a disaster from the beginning. As for Cordy well she was a bitch to but at least she was honest about it and she had the potential to grow past what she was and make something lasting with Xander but that Fallen Bitch Jasmine messed with that by causing the damn Fluke to happen. One of the dumbest things to happen on the show in my opinion. Ranks right up there with killing Tara. Idiot writers.

Hopefully Faith can raise Xander's self esteem and break him out of the habit of being Buffy's lapdog and that he can fight provided somebody gives him the right training. Faith is just that person. Update soon. :D

I've always wondered if Dawn just never grew out of her childhood crush or whether she was simply the only one who saw him for what he truly was. Either way, the age difference always made me squick. Plus Faith is planning on making sure Dawn never comes to be this time.

Thanks :-)

Bahah! Means no - LOL

Saw that on a t-shirt once. Actually... Ah, found it. http://www.tshirthell.com/funny-shirts/baaaaaa-means-nooooo

There you go.

I am really liking the looks of this one. Thank you for writing it. I will be watching for updates.

Glad you like it.

Playing havoc with the future when been there done that could get redundant. Edit: Not yet it hasn't. Too many of these re imagines have the future self controlling the destinies of everyone else. Painful responsibilities are not fun.

Not if the future changes. Also, Faith's the perfect candidate for this since she missed so much of it (just not there or in jail or whatever) the first time around.

interesting. And I did mean as a friend at least until Cordy/Xander break-up, please keep that because of Willow and not Faith because I don't see Faith wanting to make baby Xand a cheater no matter how much she'd want him based off her past relationship with older Xand.

My sentiments exactly. Faith likes that Xander is honorable and isn't going to steal him. The Fluke will happen, but somewhat differently.

Ha! Faith saves her watcher and gets sent back to high school :) Talk about a reward for a job well done :( I'm surprised that killing six vampires and a bunch of other demons wasn't enough to get Kakistos's attention anyway, but I guess Faith isn't known for the subtle approach. I like how she still complains about Diana telling her what to do but she secretly loves it :) And now she has someone to talk about the future with and discuss ways to improve things. I can't see Faith being very secret agenty once she gets to Sunnydale though. She will slip up and make Buffy and the scoobs suspicious. It is just a matter of time before she has to tell them something too.

I don't really have a comment. You more or less nailed the next couple chapters.

Nice to see Faith getting a second chance. Emjoying your story so far.

Thank you. I think she deserves it.