Five minutes after? I'm guessing a whoooooooole lot of ugly.

The scary thing is, the way this story was conceived was for it to be a cheerfully amoral story where Xander and Faith make off with the jewel and it ends with them giggling on the subway as they head for the Airport. I swear to you that the "Buffy" ending came out of nowhere. I started writing this last part early last week and she just showed up with the line, "I want my friends back you son of a bitch." For serious.

The last time a character showed up out of the blue like that in a story I wrote was "Mars Rising," and that was Faith who did that.