BtVS Ficlet: Faith In The Future

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Title: Faith In The Future

Fandom: BtVS

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Faith, Robin, OCs

Rating: PG

Spoilers: Nothing really.

Summary: Faith has settled down in ways she would once have found laughable.

Word Count: 491

Written For: juliet316’s prompt ‘BtVS/AtS, Faith, She never thought she end up a housewife,’ at fic_promptly.

Disclaimer: I don’t own BTVS, or the characters. They belong to Joss Whedon.

If anyone had told Faith she'd wind up a housewife, she would have laughed in their face. Growing up, she’d never been a girly girl with dreams of white picket fences and settling down to raise a family; she’d had very definite plans to live life to the limits, take what she wanted, when she wanted it, and then move on. Marriage never crossed her mind; there’d be lovers in her life, naturally, but she’d love ‘em and leave ‘em. If guys could get away with living like that then why couldn’t she?

But Robin's a great husband, he gives her the space she needs and never tries to tie her down. Because she knows she has the freedom to run, she never feels the need, and she's happier than she would have believed possible, a soul-deep contentment that has swept away her wanderlust and left her becalmed in her own little bit of paradise. She’s finding that life in a small town suits her just fine.

She has friends here who have no idea about her past. To them, she’s just a regular wife and mother who’s chosen to stay home and raise her kids. They respect her choices even though most of them go out to work. Money might get a little tight occasionally, but they manage well enough, and if they need a little extra, she does a bit of portrait photography on the side, mostly kids. She has a talent for getting even the youngest of them to sit still and smile for the camera. It’s a hobby that sometimes helps pay the bills rather than a job, but she enjoys it. Funny how people can change as they get older.

Having kids of her own is proving to be the biggest adventure of her life and she never knows what each day will bring. It's not the edge-of-seat, life or death thrill of being a slayer, but it's not without excitement either. The pace can be as frantic as her previous life, keeping the little ones out of trouble, cleaning house, doing endless piles of laundry, shopping for groceries, fixing meals; some days the list of tasks seems never-ending. But then Robin gets home and helps out, bathing the kids and getting them to bed so that the two of them can relax with a glass of wine and some grown up talk.

At the weekends Robin takes over the kitchen and does all the cooking, which Faith doesn’t mind at all because he’s a terrific cook. She gardens when the weather allows, or they might have a day out with the kids, a picnic at the beach. She’s so domesticated it’s almost surreal; sometimes she has to pinch herself to check that she’s not dreaming.

If her old friends could see her now they wouldn’t believe their eyes, but this is the life she’s chosen for herself, and she wouldn’t change it for the world.

The End

Comments

Faith Lehane as a Mother.

[vantiri.livejournal.com]

This is beautiful, I can almost see her as a homemaker, wife and mommy too; thanks to this wonderful little story! It's absolutely spectacular and I wish there was a lot more like it- you, Sir (no idea your gender anyways in the real world) , are an absolutely brilliant author, please: more like this!
Sincerely;
Vantiri, your fan.

Re: Faith Lehane as a Mother.

[bk_forever]

Thank you, I'm so glad you liked it!

I'll see what I can do but it really depends on what prompts I come across. I'm open to ideas, I don't write as much Buffy-Verse as I'd like simply through shortage of inspiring prompts.

Re: Faith Lehane as a Mother.

[vantiri.livejournal.com]

I can provide you prompts/ideas, if those are what you're short of.
May I please share this on my lj page, I guarentee that I cannot remove the original author's name- both because of ethics and because the function will not allow me, and I've had far too many incidents of such beautiful stories as this disappearing from the internet when the person's account where it is stored is purged, or when they die (sadly, but it has happened relatively recently, and I guess that traumatized me a bit- ironically moreso because of the loss of the data than the person's passing away)- I'm not wishing harm on anybody, but I am worried, and want every good story to be backed up for quite a while longer than the internet will allow, but online.
(How that's going to be is anybody's guess).
I have some ideas for you, but I want your opinion of us working together in this regard.
Here's one: Perhaps Faith sees her children playing in the yard and smiles a bit at the warm sensation of affection motherhood brings her.
Or the First tries to destroy her happy little homelife somehow.
Those are just teasers for you to consider as prompts for gentle stories NOT involving sexual immorality and/or violence in excess, but a Slayer as an ordinary girl/woman trying to build a home- with the Evil Spirit trying to tear down everything she's built for her family.
What do you think of those ideas? You were right about a lack of ideas, sorry about not being able to write back to you until now, been busy with schoolwork., but my Spring semester ended just a few days ago, so I've got the time for now.

[feliciacraft.livejournal.com]

That was so sweet! Thank you for giving Faith her much-deserved happily-ever-after!

[bk_forever]

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it!

Faith had a rough time of it, but I figured with all the interventions over time, she'd eventually sort herself out and find peace. Despite everything, she deserves to be happy.

[vantiri.livejournal.com]

I heartily agree!