This was an olddddddd fic that I read, that I have spent the better part of 2 days looking for, lol. I remember it was set after Buffy sent Angel to hell and she was in L.A. as Anne working at the diner. Spike comes across her and chats her up, trying to draw her back to Sunnydale (on Faith's orders). Buffy is wary of him but after (I think) a few days/weeks she ends up going back to sunnydale. Unbeknownst to her, Faith is the latest big bad in Sunnydale. She runs the demons and vamps, and everyone is at her mercy. Even Spike, which makes Buffy leery of trusting him since she knows he works for Faith. It comes out that Faith had Drusilla (during a crazy spell) killed in front of Spike, and he wants revenge for that, so he pretends to be her lover/confidant while secretly giving Buffy and the Scoobies info on what she plans.
Some other details I remember are that at one point, Giles gives Spike over to Faith, as a show of good faith (no pun intended) and puts Spike under a spell that's activated by a word.Then Spike is left to the mercy of Faith, and she tortures and I think rapes him, before Giles comes back for him. I do believe this is a claim fic. But the claim wasn't a big part of the story since it happened at the end, or close enough to the end. I also think Buffy initiated the claim, and Spike was reluctant to accept it. Faith dies at the end (actually I think Spike kills her, in part for Drusilla and for the pain she inflicted on him when he was under the spell).
This story is also NOT "Have some Faith"- while Faith was part of the big bad group, she was no where near as bad as she is in the story I am looking for.
Thanks in advance!!
