A few years post-chosen and Buffy is really struggling with her existance. Faith is the only one who's stuck by her side, but neither of them understand why. This is a rework with extra chapters of a story I took down a while ago.
Companion piece to "What Could have been". Following Buffy from her first day at Sunnydale in the alternate universe. Any canon events not explicitly mentioned or alluded to - didn't happen. Other relationships are mentioned, but the focus is Buffy/Tara.
Starts partway through Bad Girls (S3E13) just as Faith is about to follow the vampires into the sewer. The slayers will have to figure out how to work together to get back to where they belong.