A Walk in the Clouds
by Nykademis
The Bitch in Me
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Title: A Walk in the Clouds/ The Bitch in Me
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Buffy sat alone in Nowhere for a while, though there was no true passing of time she did have 'time' to think.
"Hey Vaya?" she called into the well furnished room she sat virtually 'alone' in "I know you're there"
The 'guide' appeared standing well away from Buffy, eyeing her as well as the chair she was sitting in for any sudden movements.
"What slayer? If you're gonna try to kill me again tell me now" leaning up against the textured white walls Vaya crossed her legs at the ankle and waited for Buffy to speak.
"You said Willow helped me plan out everything. And the contract said that my friends were in 'every' reality. But that last one.." Buffy's voice trailed off as she got a slightly confused look on her face. Thinking hard about it turned sideways in her seat.
Vaya flinched when she moved but made no other motion in the act of ducking or dodging "What about the last reality?"
"Willow had a sister. She's never mentioned having siblings, and Tara? How was she related to Giles?" Buffy rolled on her back to stare up at the starscape that made up the 'ceiling' of Nowhere.
"It's all different" Vaya shrugged "I mean Buff, hon, there's a reality where Willow and Xander are married and about to divorce because she's sleeping with you and the Xand-man and Giles are doing the horizontal mambo" Vaya began pacing missing the disgusted look on Buffy's face.
The slayer's mouth hung open, her eye's displaying her disgust with no intention of hiding the horror of the visual Vaya's rant gave her.
"I don't really 'choose' where you go Buffy. I just guide you to the place they say" Vaya finished turning to face Buffy.
Buffy ran her tongue over the roof of her mouth as if the get rid of a bad taste "Xander and Giles? Please don't send me there"
"It's not insanely happy" Vaya waved off Buffy's worry "They won't send you there"
"Well all of them so far have had there own set of problems. Me and Faith are globe trotting Apocolypse preventers, Willow's pissed and all mood swingy and Faith's doing the 'wild thang' with my little sister, which by the way. Eww she's like 4 years older than Dawnie.."
"Year and a half" Vaya interrupted.
"What?" Buffy craned her neck to look at the child like entity.
"Faith is only a year and a half older than 'Dawnie'. She'll be 19 in another 3 months" Vaya scratched a nervous itch as Buffy stared at her incredulously.
"You're telling me that bad-ass 'I'm a slut, ask me how' Faith was only 15 when she blew into Sunnydale?" Buffy exclaimed after counting backwards twice just to make sure she wasn't an oxymoron.
"Yep" Vaya made a pouty face "They grow up so fast..."
Buffy began laughing hysterically, not exactly sure if she found humor in the fact her past nemisis/lover/slayer sister was in fact so young, or how cute Vaya looked doing her pouty face. She closed her eyes but couldn't quite get the image of Vaya's expression from behind her eyes.
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"Buffy?"
Buffy continued to laugh, the plain unbelievable truth of the matter not letting her go.
"Buffy honestly you're starting to scare me"
Buffy rolled over trying to calm herself down. Sliding from the chair she hit the floor with an audible 'thump' that cleared the shock of Faith's age out of her system. Opening her eyes she found herself in her dorm room with Willow staring at her as if she'd lost her mind.
And to the Wiccan it seemed she did.
"Sorry Will. It was a funny dream" Buffy pulled herself back up and crawled into her bed. The serious green eyes of her best friend watched her every move.
"You should really talk to Giles about these dreams. They could be slayer dreams" Willow lay back down making herself comfortable on her side facing Buffy.
"Nah, I think it's just the stresses of college and life as a slayer" Buffy covered quickly. She had yet to forgive Giles for his recent decision to leave Sunnydale and return to the Council's main chambers in Brittain.
"You shouldn't push him away Buffy. You should make yourself sick of him until he leaves" Willow practically read her mind.
"How could he leave Will? I mean Faith's still in Highschool" Buffy frowned "And I don't like their 'replacement' much either" Buffy frowned harder at the thought of 'Wesly'. The sniveling little rat had yet to impress her in any way.
"It's her last year. She's at the top of her class. You're both doing fine and Wesly's actually getting better at the Watcher thing" Willow reasoned.
"Wesly's a pathetic little fag..." Buffy ranted.
"Buffy" Willow admonished.
"Not that I have anything against gays" Buffy kept talking as if Willow hadn't spoken.
"Buffy..." Willow's voice took on a warning tone as she rose on her elbows to stare over at the slayer.
"I mean I'd nail you given the chance. You gotta admit Will's, you 'are' one hot little Mama" Buffy finished by raking her gaze over Willows pajama clad form stopping to leer openly at her pert breasts.
"Buffy! Stop channeling Faith and listen to me!" Willow blushed from her hair line to her toes.
"Hey if the girl's right the girl's right. You 'are' hot Willow" Buffy continued refusing to stop the conversation.
Groaning Willow attempted to smother herself with her pillow than thought better of if, facing the slayer once again her resovle face firmly in place.
Buffy opened her mouth to speak only to utter a few vowel sounds before falling silent.
"You don't like Wesly, I get that. If he keeps fucking up I'll be your damn watcher. But give the little ass a chance" Willow growled.
Buffy felt a shiver go through her when Willow's voice dropped low to growl "Why wouldn't you sleep with me in highschool? I coulda made you scream..."
Willow gave in to her most basic urge, and threw that pillow at Buffy's smirking face.
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Buffy strut along campus noting the lustful gazes of both her male and female peers. She tossed a wink out here and there, even going as far as blowing kisses to a select few she'd flirted with at recent parties.
She'd become well known on campus quickly with her outgoing personality and downright gorgeousness.
"Hey Buffy"
Buffy looked to the side missing who'd greeted her so softly. Taking a few steps back she located Tara, one of the girls from Willow's Wicca group, sitting in the shade of one of the many tree's looking through a spellbook.
"Hey Tar-bear, whatcha doin'?" she slid down next to the shy Wiccan leaning over her arm- accidently on purpose letting her breasts brush against it- trying to see in the spellbook.
"Oh j-just looking o-over some l-l-levitation spells Willow's been using. Some of them could come in handy when you're slaying" Tara said barely above a whisper. Being around the slayer made her nervous. The girl was so self assured and able. She often made Tara feel decidedly inadequate.
"Spells for me to learn?" Buffy perked up. She liked magic. It was something she and Willow often compared notes on. Giles had drilled some basic spells into her head through highschool. So far she'd only mastered temporarly shields, for when she was incapacitated on patrol and needed a moment to gain her feet.
"Y-yes. You know levitating st-st-stakes so you can dust two or three at a time" Tara flipped through some pages "You don't even have to speak for a few of these"
"Nice" Buffy caught the shy blondes eye and winked at her "I'm meeting Will's for lunch wanna hang?"
"W-with you?" Tara's blue eyes widened her surprise more than evident.
"Yeah" Buffy stood pulling the taller girl to her feet as well.
"I-in public?" Tara stared forward frozen in place at the invitation. She thought the slayer hardly noticed her presence most of the time. Much less wanted it.
"Yeah. In public. For lunch, with me and Willow" Buffy smirked as she dragged the stunned blonde beside her towards the Quad.
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"Well" Giles cleaned his lenses once more as Faith sighed after finishing her tale.
"Well what G-man cuz I'm guessing Buffy didn't say a thing about it to you huh?" Faith kicked up her feet, resting them on the finished wood of the library table.
"Feet down, and no she did not" the Watcher smack his younger slayers legs when she didn't move at his command "You've been having the same dreams?"
Faith bit her lip and nodded silently "It's Red, and Tara and that little skinny thing Tara calls her sister"
"And Xander?" Giles sat down after retrieving several texts.
"Not a stitch of the Xand-man present" Faith ran her fingers through her wavy hair. Standing up she checked her watch "I'm outta school for the day I think I'll go on campus and see what the Mod Squad is doing"
"Very good I'll tell Wesly. Faith you really should've gone to him with this" Giles spoke without looking up.
Tugging at the demin jacket she wore Faith stared at him until she looked at her "I don't trust the Weasly man" Faith said pointedly "Did I mention in my dream he had scales and one of the snakey tongue things?"
"No you didn't" Giles looked back down trying not to chuckle at the thought.
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Buffy held in her temper for as long as she could while the idiot stone sang his parody of 'Three Blind Mice'.
She, for one, wasn't enjoying his rendition of 'Three Hot Dykes'
Finally she let go after his third verse of
'They lick each others hot wet slits, and scream and moan as they suck their clits, and groan and writhe and have humping fits..'
She decked him before he finished the chorus.
A young man in their growing audience squealed in glee when he won the bet on how long it would take for Buffy to knock the guys teeth down his throat.
Tara ducked her head down lower when a cheer went through the crowd and Willow tried to pull Buffy away from the guy.
"I got it Red"
Willow stepped back as Faith literally swept Buffy off her feet and carried her away. Which caused many wolf whistles and the occasional cat calls for a threesome.
"You okay Tara?" Willow asked the shy young woman as they quickly gathered their things and headed for Stevenson Hall.
"Y-yeah. Just not used to being the center of attention" they walked briskly through the sunny walkways until they reached their dorm.
They found Buffy and Faith in the room wrestling as the blonde tried to get back out the door.
"B calm the fuck down already" Faith growled as she pinned the smaller slayer down.
Willow dropped her books on her bed and sat down with a sigh "That's the third time this week Buffy!"
Tara took a seat on the slayers bed.
"He needs a new song" Buffy whined from beneath Faith.
Slowly the darker girl let her up, but stayed close making sure she didn't bolt for the door.
"He needs to stop smoking shit" Faith rolled her eyes and smiled at the blonde "Howzit Tara"
"Disconcerting" Tara answered with a smile.
"Welcome to my life" Willow grumbled "Buffy ever since Giles said he was leaving you've been acting like..."
"Like a royal ass?" Faith offered smiling sweetly at the blonde who was glaring daggers at her.
"Yeah. You need to calm down" Willow scooted forward taking Buffy's face in her hands "I love you Buffy. But right now, I really don't 'like' you"
Buffy jerked away "Then why are you friends with me?"
"Because you bitched Cordy out that first day. You stuck up for me-"
"And kissed you-" Buffy interceded.
"And you never made fun of me" Willow began to count off on her fingers "You helped me when I helped you"
"Wait she kissed you?!" Faith's eyes went back and forth between the two.
"Just once" Willow said quickly.
"Twice" Buffy argued.
"That was a dare it didn't count!" Willow put on and innocent face looking between Faith and Tara "It was a dare. Amy thought it would be funny and.."
Her rant ended abruptly when Buffy pressed her lips against Willow's. Her tongue begging entrance...
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TBC