#83 Addictive

Title: Addictive
Author: Christy
Rating: FR 13
TtH Prompt: #83 Picture
Fandom/Theme: Angel/Highlander/Star Trek
Word Count: 450
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters featured here. They belong to their respective creators and production companies.
Distribution: NeverNormal.com and TtH
Spoilers: None
A/N: This was written for the tth100. The only linking thing for these is Faith in them.
Summary: Angel thinks about pictures he’s taken of Faith.

I have a photo of us from when we first got together. We’d been sparring in the basement and Willow snuck in and snapped a photo. She’s got Faith on the floor, straddling me and smiling. That was something we always found fascinating- how much fun we’d always had sparring. I guess it goes back to when we first met in Sunnydale and how she begged for my help after trying to kill me all those years ago.

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There’s another photo of us, soon after she came back. We hadn’t known she was an Immortal until she woke up at the morgue and we got a panicked call from the coroner. Her teacher persuaded her to train away from us for a few years, but she eventually came back to find us. To say that our first night back together was intense was putting it mildly. We must have done it in more positions than I remember doing that one night with Darla – and infinitely more enjoyable. I woke up before her and she just looked so relaxed, I had to get a shot of it.

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She left a few years after that. She knew the non-aging thing wasn’t really an issue with me, but felt it would eventually be so with the others – well, that was the gist of the note she left for me one morning She’d send me notes from time to time, telling me how she was. After Starfleet was created, I figured she’d be on the first ship out. I wasn’t too far off. It wasn’t a sleeper ship like the one that Khan was on, but she got off planet soon. I masqueraded my way through the centuries, noticing her on various ship rosters, but I think what really got me was when she signed on as head nurse of the Enterprise after it was refitted from its first five year mission. I followed her as Nurse Chapel for a few years, surprised at some of the adventures that crew encountered. It brought to mind the End of Days fight and what we’d had to deal with at Wolfram and Hart. Then I ran into her on Deep Space Nine. She was close friends with the station Commander, a Ben Sisko. She later told me that he’d known because his Trill friend had run across one or two over the years. He’s the one that took our wedding photos – we went to Bajor for the honeymoon, since I got Shanshued as an immortal human, I could enjoy the sunlight again. Faith had always loved me, but it took three centuries for her to realize that what we have is stronger than time.

And, as of now, my TtH 100 is FINISHED!!!!