Repost- ff:Willow Rosenberg, CIA Chapter Seventeen

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Title: Willow Rosenberg, CIA Chapter Seventeen: Landing Lights On
Disclaimer: All BTVS characters belong to Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy.
Summary: Willow is out of medical school and has been forced to work for the
CIA. Buffy is not happy about it.
Feedback: YES, HELP! Need direction, love and encouragement or the name of a
good therapist. Yes, I already know I suck big time at spelling, grammar as
well as the English Language in general
Rating: NC-17 Smut Alert.
Thanks : Dysfunctional Girl 

Landing Lights On

Breakfast was actually very pleasant in Santa Fe. It was a lovely city with
lost of pink adobe houses and bright sunshine. Light was the on word that
described Santa Fe. They had been walking across the street to a small café.
They were only a block from the palace. Everything in the city had a feel of
warmth. It was a feel of goodness. For two people who lived their life on
the hellmouth and fought evil most of their young lives the feel of the town
was over whelming.

Since both Buffy and Willow were creatures of magic the mystical center in
the town flowed through them like a flood through their soul. They were
giddy and drunk with the power of the magic surrounding them.
Santa Fe stood on the sight of a heaven's gate. It was the exact opposite of
a hellmouth. The Indians of the area had lived and guarded it for centuries,
before Coronado conquered and destroyed the southwest looking for Eldrodo.
The conquestor had been fools. They were looking for gold and walked right
through the golden city of light. The power Santa Fe had was far more
valuable then gold. 

The lovers had felt the power right away when they landed. Renting a car
Willow almost fainted from the power she was absorbing. They both forgot
about the plans to finish the games they started in the plane's bathroom. It
was simply to strong for them. 

When they checked in to their room they curled up against each other and let
the power roll over them. They were wordless but happy. It was the most
peaceful night of sleep either had since they discovered vampires were real.

Breakfast too was silent. Though Willow did giggle a little when Buffy sat
down and remembered she still wore the plug from last night. It was so very
peaceful. After breakfast they both walked around the city, looking at the
churches and the people laying out blankets with jewelry to sell. After that
they walked back to their room. Willow waited out side while Buffy removed
her toy. 

Then they pulled out the map and headed off to find Willow's only living
relative, if the records were to be believed. Catherine Putnam lived in the
desert in a small house. She owned one of the many new age book and crystal
stores in town. If Willows information was right she would be opening her
store at 10 AM. The lovers planned to be her first customer of the day.

They arrived 10 minutes to ten. Both the slayer and the witch could feel
people inside of the store. It took all Buffy's will not to rip the door
open. Willow too was struggling not to use her magic to open the door. 
At 10:15 a girl about 20 opened the door and let the women in. Buffy was
struck by the girl's eyes. They were the piercing green of Willows. 

After making it inside they just stood there not knowing what to do. Then
they began to wonder around the store not really knowing what to do or look
at. Most of the store had little to do with magic and a lot to do with new
age hype. Both Willow and Buffy knew too much about real magic not to know
the difference.

"Is there something in particular you are looking for". The green eyed 20
year old asked.

Buffy who was never good at under cover or patience stated "Yes, we really
would like to speak to the owner."

"She's not here now. But I can help you." The girl said fear in her eyes
"Is she at home now." Willow asked anxiously 

"Ah no she is away for the weekend."

Buffy knew when she was being lied to, " Stop lying, we are not going to
hurt her we just want to talk to her." Buffy was swelling with the power of
the heaven's gate. The magic was filling her as her anger and tension grew. 

"Look what ever you are just leave." The girl drew out a cross holding it up
to protect her.

"Leah put the cross down, it will not protect you from these women. This one
draws her power from the light. I have never seen such anger, ....or power.
You are one of the warriors of light?" The older women stepped out of no
where, to stand behind Buffy and Willow.

" I am not sure what you mean?" Buffy said feeling the power from the woman,
letting it wash over her, calming her. Easing the wash of power from the
heaven's gate. 

"I would guess from your size, sex and relative age you are the slayer?
Though you must be one of the older slayers. Not many make it to there late
20's." It was more of a statement then a question. 

"What are you doing to us?" Willow asked letting her witch self-follow the
flow of magic. 

"Ah little one, you are also a warrior of light, though unlike your friend
you choose this path. Or did you. You are strong little one, fire. But you
have been practicing the craft to close to the dark side. You both have been
touched by the dark side, though you are stronger for it."

"And that still doesn't answer my question!" Willow asked. 

"Do you think what I am doing is harming you?"

"No" Willow said pouting. She knew the woman wasn't harming them she just
wanted to know what she was doing. Visions of Ellen dance in her head for a
minute.

The women laughed. "Curiosity is neither evil or good little one. It just
is. I am washing some of the magic of the land out of your systems. It has
overwhelmed you both. Your bodies have spent so much time in the darkness
fighting it, when brought to a place of light your bodies were overwhelmed.
It is like taking in too much oxygen. I have just helped you slow down you
intake of the land. Are you not feeling less light headed?"

"Yes, now who the hell are you." Buffy said impatiently. She had the
wiggins. Plus she had liked the light-headedness.

"You two are too much, she is helping you and you still come off as, thugs
ready to beat us up." Leah said.

"Leah, she is the slayer, it is her nature, what allows her to survive, you
would not find fault with the wolf for eating the rabbit. Leah, study them,
see there light, they are frightened, and are seeking wholeness. They are
hungry like the wolf."

"So mom, we are the rabbit and should just roll over and let them eat us? Or
worse, do you think we should break into 1980's song flashbacks?"

"No we should ask them into the back room for tea and then find out why they
are here."

In a few minutes they were in the back drinking green tea, and staring at
each other. 

"Are you Catherine Putnam?" Willow asked

"Yes, and this is my daughter Leah."

Both Buffy and Willow just stared at Leah and her green eyes, so like
Willows. 

"What is with you two" Leah said as they stared at her.

"It would be nice to know your names." Catherine said before taking a drink
of tea.

"Sorry" Willow said bowing her head. "I am Dr. Willow Rosenburg and this is
Buffy Summers." Willow wondered why she used her doctor title, but she knew
this woman was somehow related to her and she wanted to impress her.

"A doctor, of what may I ask." Catherine already had guessed why the women
were there. The red heads eyes were not only those of her daughter Leah but
of her mother Rachel. The blond was a mystery. She could have been one of
her nine missing children. She had been told one of them was a slayer. But
this girl's light was too bright, even for a slayer, she was not a produce
of a lab and cruel men playing god. No, there was no demon trace in this
one. Catherine reached into the blond farther. Her light could be addicting
but it was a light she had felt before. Then it hit her. This girl may have
been a slayer but she could not have been more then a generation or two away
from an angel. Her light was that of the angels. Well if demons made plans
for humanity over centuries so must the angels.

"Pathology"

"Interesting, Where do you work?"

"I ah, " Willow always had a hard time when people asked her this. She was
already digging into her pockets to find her ID's. "I work for the CIA"
Willow finally said embarrassed dropping both her FBI and CIA badge on the
table.

Leah picked them up and just laughed. Willow wasn't sure if she believed her
or not but it was definitely amusing her. Willow was struck by how
Faith-like her laugh was, her mouth as she smiled. Leah handed the badges
over to mother. 

Catherine looked at them and smiled, then she asked, "I take it you do not
like working for the CIA?"

"I do sometimes, many of the projects help people and stuff, it just, Oh I
didn't have much of a choice, It was kind of work for us or go to jail."
Willow babbled.

"I see" Catherine said as the visions of Willows arrest, her work at the
CIA. The girl did like much of her work and she did work on the side of
light. But the images of the future were the real concern. Catherine closed
her eyes and let the images rush through her. She could see the love the two
women had for each other. Love was a key to the future. Much must be done.

"You and Buffy are lovers correct. You have gotten married." Catherine asked

Willow took Buffy's hand and held it before answering, "Yes, I love Her. I
pretty sure she loves me." Love poured from the slayer and witch as they
looked in the others eyes.

"Yes that is easily seen, but Willow you need to let her bottom heal for a
few days before you spank her again even though she loves for you to abuse
her this way. Your power is growing, You are far stronger now then you have
ever been. If she wasn't a slayer you might have hurt her. And she loves the
feel of the leather so much she would never tell you to stop. The pain you
give her takes the darkness away with it as it fades. So much darkness, so
much blame. She will always need you do discipline her. To take the blame,
self-hatred, and more importantly the anger away. You two are a very good
match. Still, now is a dangerous time for you. Your friend .....Doyle....his
visions are right. You are playing a game. Even finding me was part of the
game. Pawn takes knight. It is a dangerous game little one. The spell was
not an accident. But its purpose was not what you have assumed. It made you
face your own dark demons. The caster knew it would bring you together.
Teach you the act of master and servant. The name Donna Reed keeps popping
up, but I don't think it's important. They knew you would both be lost in
your demon and your adjustment to the lifestyle the spell forced you to
confront. You both would have reached this point in time with your
relationship just not all at once. But the changes were a distraction. The
search for me is a distraction as well. You are becoming little one. Where
your sister failed and chose the dark side before returning to the light,
you walked in the shadows always on the side of light. And Now you are
becoming. It is a dangerous time for you are and your sister. You need her
help, she can take you where your lover can't. You must complete the
circle." Catherine grew weak and she fell deep asleep. 

Buffy carried the woman to a near by couch covering her with a blanket. 

"So you guys are really into the whole S & M thing. I guess you really are
CIA." Was all Leah said.

They waited around the store for Catherine to wake too afraid to talk to
each other. Willow did managed to write most of what she remembered down.
Buffy left and picked up food for all of them. The store was mildly busy and
Willow found herself studying the entire store. Buffy just kept leaving and
coming back. The Slayer never was good at waiting, age had not improved
that.

"Your girlfriend is really wired." Leah said

"She doesn't like waiting." Willow answered

"What exactly is a slayer? Mom takes about them all the time. Mostly in her
sleep. She is always taking about this crazy daughter of hers" Leah didn't
get to finish

"Faith" Catherine said. "Is she still alive. She walked in the dream world
for such a long time."

"Yes, alive and kicking. She was in a coma for a long time." 

"Was your wife the one who put her there. She spoke with me often in the
dream world. Succubuses are almost as good at dreamwalking as dreamwalkers
or slayers. It's how they first take the hearts of men."  

"Does she know who you are to her." Willow wondered why she asked the
question. But she had the blood of a dreamwalker. She had walked in Buffy's
dreams, in the shadows of her dreams. Had she too spoken with her mother.
More and more Willow was beginning to see this woman as her mother. 

"Some little one. More when you were a child than now. You have questions?
Ask them."

"Who am I. Why? Are you my mother? Well, one of them? Faith's too? What do
they want, why did they do this. How does it go back to Auswitz and the
Nameless place " Willow babbled out. 

"Buffy is about to return and I wish Leah to hear this as well so why don't
we return to the backroom after we close the store."

Once again they were gathered around a table with glasses of tea.

"If you are here then they have lead you to the achieve. I can see parts of
the future. The Putnam witches were gifted this way. Leaving me alive and
the note in the achieves was a test. A chess move. It was not an accident
you found the achieve. It was the same with finding me. In time both you and
Faith would have seen me in your dreams. You would have crossed the
dreamworld and found me. So I am part of the test. 
I do not know who or why. That part of my visions is always left blank. But
the chessboard always has white pieces and dark pieces. Like the warriors of
light and dark. Demons and Angels. "
"Fine but what does it have to do with Willow" Buffy asked. She felt the
walls closing in like she did in the museum the first time. The images were
overwhelming.

"Patience warrior, it is a long story. The achieve you read starts with the
Nazi. My story is much older. The bible talks of a great war in heaven. A
group of Angels trying to take over heaven and being cast out of heaven.
What you may not know is they were cast out to the earth, where they became
demons and beget demon, many think that was the age of dinosaurs. At
anyrate, the time came for mortals to live on earth and the demons were sent
to demon realms. Before the last of the demons left earth it mixed it's
blood with a humans making Vampires etc. So to counter the demon blood in
humans Angels were sent to earth and mixed some of their blood with humans,
making slayers, all the warriors of light. So then the demons, decided the
wanted to keep their reign on earth and with the help of their children they
opened dimensional gates to their realm. Do you know what a Hellmouth is?"

"Yes" Buffy and Willow said together.

"It is one kind of doorway. Here in Santa Fe, we have a Heavens Gate. Same
as a Hellmouth only it opens the other direction. In to the land of light,
not really heaven but a place under it's control. Over the centuries these
doorways have opened and closed. Demons have ascended only to be destroyed,
Angels have fallen. The balance is kept. There are even Oracles, beings here
to keep the balance of power. The Yin and the Yang. They are playing this
game of chess between the light and the dark, each side deterred to win.
Only the beings who are playing this game, think in Millennia, not years.
They plot and plan in terms of centuries.

Now comes the fun part of the story. Somewhere along the way they were given
rules for the game. One of the rules is there can be only one slayer at a
time. 

"Since there is only one slayer at a time one of the darkside chess players,
came up with and idea to rid the world of the slayer. It was called the
Spanish Inquisition. The Inquisition targeted people with money and power.
They taught people to fear magic. Anything they wanted could be called
magic. Instead of having demons run this little war they used humans. Plan
old evil humans. The money was the key element. The church wanted the land,
power and money of the people the Inquisition claimed. Magic had little to
do with it. The knight's templar was one of the first groups to fall. They
were a group that opened trade routes to the Holy Land. They ended the
crusades by trade agreement. These agreements opened the silk road into
Europe and made the knights very wealthy. The knights used their money for
knowledge. They were the watcher's counselors of there time. They were
warriors of light. They were one of the main targets of the Inquisition,
women were the other. Women were always fun to play with, and the
Inquisition gave evil men the right to torture and rape any women they
wanted. Slayers were women. Strong women. They often were the first offered
to the Inquision. The evil done by men in the name of the church was
.......I don't have words. "

"The bastards got off of torturing little girls, 3 and 4 years old. They
burned 3 year olds at the stake for being witches. They got few real witches
during the Inquision. Lots of slayers but few witches. Then the powers that
be stepped in and set things back in balance. They did this by creating a
second slayer. They used a fallen angel and made a second slayer. A new line
of slayers. They broke their own rules. They broke this rule a few more
times. It helped strengthen the angel blood in slayers lines. They did it
only to restore the balance. 

Now lets move to the future. The Knight Templar hid and became the
FreeMasons who in turn became the English Watchers Counsel. The dark and
light continue playing chess. The dark side makes a move again uses humans
to do its dirty work. Its move was Nazi Germany. But instead of killing the
slayer they capture her. Cut off her arms. They also capture and imprison
anyone who could become warriors of the light. Gypsies, witches, anymore
with power in the game, even priest and rabbis' . This time they are going
to keep them alive but powerless. As long as they are alive the Powers that
Be can't restore the order. They can't cheat and have two slayers. Balance
is a lot trickier then that.

Since they are in prison and the Nazi's are doing experiments. They decide
to try and make a slayer. The dark side had left most of these things to
humans so they were not aware of these experiments. Did not understand what
they all meant. Since much of what makes a slayer in divine intervention
there experiments were just cruel. Still they did manage to do some cross
breeding. The only people we need to worry about in this story are 4 people.
The first a slayer, Ellen Jameson, British born. Pissed off her watcher and
woke up in Auswitz with her arms cut off. The next was a gypsy named Rachel.
Rachel was my mother's name and my grandmothers. The next a simple soldier.
Really more of a boy. An SS officer, guard at the prison. Alexander
Heilburg. Last in the story was scientist name Hielg, a geneticist that
started at Liputen House. Ellen was impregnated with good German blood
sliced and diced by Hielg. So was Rachel. Rachel had daughters and Ellen had
Sons. Rachel and Ellen both were young when they had their gene sliced kids.
Then the war ended. Ellen, her sons and Rachel's daughters were taken to
America. Only Alexander fell in love with Rachel, and they were married.
Rachel was allowed to see Ellen and her children for a few years before the
hypnotist erased that memory. They raised a family and lived the American
dream. Ellen was not so lucky. They sliced and diced her trying to make a
slayer. They bread Rachel's daughters to Ellen's son. The oldest of this
union was named Rachel. She is sometimes called subject 5, Just as her
mother was called subject 4. "
"Rachel was my mother. She was bread to James Putnam. The Putnam's had been
part of seemlier experiments in America. They got me. Now they had 3
generations of gene sliced and diced people, in a time of medical expansion.
They could actually clone sheep. Had instruments to see DNA. It was not
guess work anymore. So when I was a girl they took eggs from me. Nine eggs.
And they sliced and diced 8 other creatures, some human some not human and
they made 9 babies. Four they destroyed when in the first 3 years. Too demon
like. One died in a car accident. Two more hand had growth spurts that drew
attention and were destroyed to keep the project secret. Then there were two
left. One of you did become a slayer, fulfilling a prophecy in the codex. 
I think it goes, There will come a time of great need when one shall die,
but not die, yet calling the next. Cycle with two complete, then one by
science hand shall be called. Her lack of love will destroy. She will walk
the path of evil all for love. The immortal one will take her down and she
will roam the dreamland for years. Still seeking love."
You are my other daughter, the one with the scientist genes. I see the elf
and imp as well. You blood screams fairy people. The egg you came from was
mine little one. I have longed to meet you for a while. 

"Little one, I am a distraction, They would have you stay here and learn
from me and I hope a time for that will come. But the game is being played.
Even now my other child is in danger. They see her as the key to making
slayers, to building an army of light. Since she was once evil they believe
she has forfeited her rights. There is another in danger. A Grandson of
Rachel's that has married a witch. His blood also holds secrets. They are
fighting for the light. They are pieces of the dark side. Knight takes rook.
You must waste no more time with me. You must return and come full circle."

It made sense but didn't. Catherine gave Willow her number but asked her not
to call until the circle was complete. Willow could not get Xander and Faith
on the phone. They caught the next fight out of Santa Fe.

After the two had left Leah turned to her mom and asked,"Ok mom, they are
gone explain."

"It is simple, did you not see your own eyes staring back at you. She is
your sister. I have always told you one of them if not both would come to
meet you."

"Ok, so she is my sister and she is into kink. What the hell was the rest of
it about?"

"A war, one you two will have to fight. Choose your side carefully, my
daughter."

"Do you always speak in riddles mom." Leah said flopping down on the couch.

"Always, my child." Catherine laughed. "Leah, Willow is the one they have
been waiting for, she and the slayer. It has nothing to do with science and
everything to do with love, magic, and righteousness. Science may have put
the pieces together but her coming has been foreseen for generations. Since
the time of Adam and Eve. She is the one who will make the choice. She will
make the right choice I am sure."

Leah just through her arms into the air. She would never understand her
mother.