Unexpected Visitors
by LynX
Unexpected Visitors
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Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters, except for Andariel of course, she is my own:-) But all the characters from the show belong to Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy.
Feedback: Much appreciated. As always, email me at: lc_4_gohan@hotmail.com.
Plot: This is part 4 of "Something About You." Willow receives an unexpected surprise from Amy, who gives her a book she might like. What follows has both Willow and Buffy wondering about their future together and taking necessary steps. Also, an unexpected visitor drops in to see Buffy and Willow.
Pairing: Buffy/Willow (wouldn't be here if it wasn't) and also a new pair, Dawn/Faith. Ooooh, the plot thickens.
Warning: This story contains love scenes between two females, so if you're offended by female/female relationships or just plain don't want to read sex scenes, then I suggest you get the fudge out. :-) Also there is a little bit of swearing in here somewhere, so watch out for it.
AN: [ and ]refer to flashbacks and/or memories.
PS: If you want to use Andariel in any of your stories though, you may, just as long as you email me first and tell me what your story is so I can check it out.
"Check mate." Dawn proclaimed as she moved her white knight into position on the board. Andariel looked bemusedly at Dawn from her side of the board.
"How'd you ever get so good at this game?" Andariel asked. Dawn smiled and shrugged her shoulders
"Practise I guess." she answered. Dawn and Andariel had been slowly building up their friendship over the week, and it all started with Andariel saving Dawn from the clutches of a hungry vamp.
[ She'd been walking home from Janice's this afternoon when suddenly the sky darkened and it began to rain, thunder rolling in the distance. She had forgotten it got darker earlier in Winter.
Dawn covered her head with the hood of her jumper and crossed her arms as she began to walk home.
'It's ok, as long as I hurry and don't look all alone and helpless I should be safe.' Dawn reassured herself, unaware of the vampire silently following her in the shadows.
She cursed as she realised there was a cemetary not too far from where she was, and although she didn't need to go anywhere near it to get home, she still didn't like the idea of it being within 'sniffing' distance of herself and any hungry vamps lurking in it's darkness.
She quickly stepped up the pace, realising she was only 3 blocks from arriving home, but cried out rounding a corner as the vampire suddenly lunged out of the bushes at her and threw her to the ground.
Dawn quickly tried to scramble away as the vampire stalked towards her.
"Buffy!" She called, hoping the slayer's senses would tell her that her little sis' was in big trouble.
"Oh man....this isn't good." Dawn said as she stood up and managed to gain her composure. She looked at the male vampire hungrily sizing her up. The vampire moved all too casually, not bothering to use it's speed and agility, knowing that this girl was no match for it.
"Y-you better back off......my sister is Buffy....the v-vampire slayer....if you hurt me......" but she cried out as it lunged at her once more and reached it's sharp fangs for the pale flesh on Dawn's neck. Dawn screamed, closing her eyes as she prepared to have the life sucked out of her, but suddenly realised there was no sharp pain of the fangs sinking into her neck.
The vampire flew through the air and landed painfully on it's back on the cold, wet and hard tarmac. It turned to it's attacker, bearing it's fangs once more and luging at the person who had ripped it from it's meal.
But as it landed on it's attacker, it's chest landed squarely on a sharp piece of wood held tightly in it's attacker's hand. The vampire had a look of shock on it's face before it vanished into dust.
"Cough....cough...." Andariel closed her eyes and coughed as she frantically tried to wave the demon dust out of her face. Dawn turned to her saviour, a wide smile suddenly spreading accross her face.
"One thing I'll never get used to..." she mumbled as she turned to Dawn, not looking at the girl but looking at her dust covered clothing and trying to wipe away the mess with her hands, stake in one of them.
"You saved me..." Dawn started. Andariel shrugged the comment off.
"Yeah well....I wouldn't have had to if you hadn't been out at this time of night. Geez, you know California's not safe after sun set." Andariel chastisised the girl lightly, only annoyed at the fact that Dawn had been so careless, not because she'd had to rescue her. Dawn looked at the ground.
"Yeah well....I forgot the sun set early in Winter. My bad. I'm sorry." Dawn apologised. Andariel sighed and looked up at the rain soaked girl. She was also covered in rain, but she knew that being a slayer she didn't look as vulnerable as this girl before her.
"Let's get you home. I don't want you catching a cold." Andariel told Dawn, who instantly smiled at the comment and started walking alongside the somewhat arrogant slayer. Dawn couldn't help but think she was similar in a ways to Faith, the dark slayer turned bad then good again.
As the two walked alongside each other, Dawn couldn't help but feel safe in the presence of the superhero turned vamp-slayer.
They were silent as they reached the house, and as Dawn entered through the front door she turned, surprised that Andariel remained on the doorstep, not entering.
"You're not coming in?" Dawn asked her, seeing the rain soaked slayer standing with hands in coat pocket as the large drops of water continued to fall on her. Andariel smiled wanly.
"I've got slayer stuff to do....you know." Andariel said, and when Dawn's expression prompted her for more words, she sighed.
"Take care of yourself Dawnie." Andariel finally said before turning to leave.
"Andariel!" Dawn called out, and waited for the slayer to turn back around. She looked at Dawn.
"Thank's for saving me." Dawn said sincerely.
Andariel gave her an understanding and appreciative smile, before finally turning into the rain and leaving. Dawn closed the door as she decided to go upstairs and change into fresh clothes. She hadn't realised who had been standing behind her.
"Saving you from what?" Buffy asked sternly, arms crossed as she stood before Dawn, unwilling to move until she got an explanation, and after much hesitation she got one. And Dawn got the 'What where you thinking?' speech again, before Buffy decided to let it go, realising that Andariel had saved her, and she had a feeling that no matter what, Andariel would always be there for Dawn. Something Buffy herself wasn't always able to do. ]
And since this Dawn and Andariel's repor had improved. Each time Andariel visited, the excited Dawn would come up with some excuse for playing otherwise innoccent games with her. Like chess for example. Dawn's excuse had been 'But it's good for your thinking and logic skills. If there's anything a vampire slayer always needs it's more logic skills.'
Andariel had thought it cute and had agreed to a chess game with the girl. But one game quickly developed into 7 when Andariel realised that no matter what, she couldn't beat this kid at chess!
And now Andariel sat, baffled, by the fact that she really was hopeless when it came to playing chess. Dawn grinned at the expression on the slayer's face.
"Give up?" Dawn asked in a triumphant voice. Andariel nodded.
"You're too good for me." Andariel admitted as the ecstatic teenager began to pack away the board game.
"I know." Dawn replied, all too simply, but anything but modest.
"So tell me Dawn, what's it like being the world's chess playing champion?" Andariel asked in a radio interviewer's voice as she held up and invisible microphone for Dawn to speak into.
"Well I knew I could do it. The other player's moves were simply too predictable, and I was just too good." Dawn replied into the invisible microphone. She and Andariel grinned.
Just then there was a knock at the front door and they both turned to face it. Andariel sighed and decided to be the one to open it, and just as she got up and walked over to the door, Willow jogged past her and reached it first. Andariel was speechless. 'So not fair.' She thought to herself as Willow clenched the door-knob and turned it. She quickly turned to Andariel, grinning.
"Too slow." she proclaimed as she turned back to the door and opened it. Andariel couldn't help but grin. She didn't think it would be possible, but it appeared that even her past parents who hadn't even conceived her yet liked to enjoy the game of 'race to the door', a game that in her future would leave everyone scrambling to answer the door first. Andariel's grin became wider at this memory.
Willow opened the door and was more than just a little shocked to see her old magic buddy, Amy, standing at the door.
Willow was left open mouthed as the woman at the door grinned widely.
"Long time no see!!" Amy proclaimed as Willow's mouth moved up and down, no words coming out.
"A-Amy.....I....didn't expect.....I mean you didn't say.....it's just that..." Willow babbled before she finally started smiling.
"Wow it's good to see you." Willow finally said before she stepped forwards and embraced Amy in a tight hug.
"Good to see you too." Amy said as she hugged Willow back.
Willow couldn't help but now notice that Amy was carrying a large book under her left arm.
As they let go of each other, Willow motioned for Amy to come inside.
"Come in, we can talk." Willow said to her, but Amy shook her head, still smiling.
"No that's ok, I just came here to give you this book. I saw it in a store one day and thought you might like it. Besides, it looks like you've got company." Amy explained, and noted the presence of Andariel who stood slightly behind and to Willow's right. Andariel didn't smile, she simply looked at the book which Amy handed over to Willow.
Willow took the book's weight in her hands and looked at it carefully. It was an old looking book, and heavy. It was thick with many yellowed pages, Willow figured it was a spell book of some kind.
"Gee....I don't know what to say Amy." Willow said as she continued to look the book over. Amy smiled.
"Thank you would be good." Amy joked. Willow smiled and looked at Amy.
"Thank you Amy. Although I really wish you would stay and have a chat." Willow insisted. Amy waved Willow's comment away.
"It was nothing. And despite the fact that I really would like to stay and have a catch up, well....I kinda' can't." Amy said, and for the first time, Willow noticed the small child hiding behind Amy's legs. Willo's eyes shone instantly as Amy coaxed the child out from behind her, taking her by the hand.
Willow knew that it had been a while since she'd seen Amy, but she never thought Amy to be the child having type. Amy almost seemed to read her mind.
"She's not mine, she's a friend of mines daughter. I'm baby-sitting her for the day." Amy explained with a smile, as she glanced down at the 3 year old girl chewing on her right index finger-nail. Willow seemed slightly relieved that it wasn't Amy's, after all, it had been just about a year since she'd last seen Amy, and to her it seemed inconceivable for Amy to have a 3 year old child in the time span of 1 year. Well, it seemed incoceivable full stop.
"Willow this is Mishka, Mishka this is Willow." Amy introduced the two. Willow bent down and smiled at Mishka, gently taking her hand and shaking it.
"Well it's nice to meet you Mishka." Willow said and smiled as the shy little girl looked at the ground and tried to move back around Amy's legs. Willow stood up.
"So....once again...thank's for the book." Willow said to Amy, and Amy was about to reply when a figure suddenly lunged at Willow from the staircase and wrapped her arms around her neck, placing a kiss behind her ear.
"Gotcha!" Buffy proclaimed, and it took her a moment to notice the eyes of Amy watching in awe, and Andariel somewhat in embarrassment. Buffy let go of Willow and tried to look casual.
"Amy?" Buffy asked. Amy took a few moments to respond. She shook her head, clearing the cobwebs.
"Hey.....Buffy? Willow, I didn't know you two were a couple. What happened with the whole 'dating Kennedy' thing?" Amy asked. Willow blushed.
"Uhh....well.....she....umm.....I....she left.....and...." Willow stuttered, unable to form coherent sentences, but fortunately Buffy came to the rescue.
"She went to LA to slay vampires there. Willow didn't want a long-distance relationship and decided it would be best if they broke up." Buffy explained. Willow sighed, thankful that her lover was able to fill in the gaps.
"Well.....this certainly is an interesting turn of events." Amy proclaimed. Willow cleared her throat.
"Yeah....umm....well....it was nice seeing you again Amy." Willow said, trying to change the subject. Amy smiled.
"Yeah. You two. I'll try to drop in and see you sometime this month....that's if I have time." Amy said.
"Ok sure. So I'll see you later then?" Willow asked.
"Yeah. Seeya later." Amy replied. And with that, she took Mishka by the hand and led her to her car, before getting in and driving off.
Willow closed the door then lent up against it, releasing a breath she didn't know she'd been holding. Her hand that was holding the heavy book was all clammy and sweaty. Andariel cleared her throat and mumbled something about helping Dawn put the chess game away. Leaving Buffy and Willow to their own devices.
Buffy pulled Willow into an embrace and held her loosely, planting soft little kisses on the Wiccan's face and neck.
"Something's bothering you." Buffy said simply. Willow took a deep breath and let it out.
"You know I'd practically forgotten about Kennedy until Amy mentioned it." Willow answered. Buffy momentarily stopped the kisses before she nuzzled into Willow's neck, smelling the soft peachey smell of her hair.
"Why do you think that is?" Buffy asked, knowing that probing Willow like this would finally force her to find some closure over her tumoltuous emotions and feelings. Willow sighed, partly at exhaustion from trying to figure things out herself and also partly because Buffy's touches were so soothing and loving.
"Kennedy was an island in the ocean during a storm. I know it sounds weird, but while we were battling the First, she was the only one there to help pull me up when I was down. I tried searching for you, and I hoped that it was your hand that pulled me up, but it wasn't. Kennedy was my shoulder to cry on, but I don't think I ever really allowed myself to feel for her. Atleast not in the same way I felt for Tara......or you." Willow explained. Buffy looked into her eyes, her expression asking Willow to continue.
"And then my island was slowly drifting towards land. A huge country. You were that country. And so I got off the island and started swimming for land. Swimming for you. Leaving Kennedy behind. As if she'd just been a gas stop on my way to Atlantic City." the last part made Buffy smile. Willow could be very humourous at times.
Buffy reached out and tucked a strand of hair behind Willow's right ear. Willow smiled at the gesture.
"Every one needs gas stops some time in their life Willow." Buffy reassure her, looking deeply into her lovers eyes, before planting a soft, tender kiss on the Wiccan's lips. Willow sighed, feeling safer here in Buffy's arms than she ever had in anyone elses. She knew that when Buffy held her that everything would be alright.
* * * * *
Andariel bent down to pick up a stray knight off the carpet as Dawn shoved the board back into it's foam box. Tight squeeze, but that's the price you pay for wanting to protect a glass chess board and playing peices. Andariel handed the knight to a smiling Dawn, who took the piece from Andariel's hand, but not before Andariel noticed the way Dawn's fingers brushed over her own calloussed ones.
Andariel said nothing, but knew what Dawn's intentions had been clearly from the way she had touched her. Andariel sighed as Dawn shoved the knight into its respectful place, finally closing the lid on the game and shoving it under the couch.
Dawn got up quickly and flopped down on the couch, sinking back into its couchey goodness. Andariel gave her the eye.
"What? You're not going to sit next to the chess champion and keep her company?" Dawn asked with a mischeivous grin. Andariel sighed and sat down next to Dawn. They both eyed the staircase as a giggling Willow lead a more than compliant Buffy upstairs. Andariel shook her head.
"You never quite get used to it." Andariel said, and noticed the way Dawn gave her a funny look. She realised she had almost given it away that she was more than well aquainted with Buffy and Willow's antics.
"People acting all mushy that is." Andariel quickly covered, although she wasn't really lying, to her she never really could get over people acting all lovey dovey, except for herself. 'I mean it's different with yourself, it's not like you're looking at two people acting mushey, it's an act of love with the person you love' she thought to herself, instantly thinking she really wasn't convincing herself.
"I know what you mean." Dawn said as she finally smiled. Andariel rolled her eyes.
"Teenagers." Andariel said as she stared accross the room at nothing in particular. She felt Dawn elbow her sharply in the ribs.
"OW!" Andariel said, despite the fact it hadn't even hurt, just slightly taken her by surprise. These were the kind of antics that got her and Dawn into trouble in the future with their relationship.
"Teenager hey? I happen to be a young woman." Dawn told her triumphantly., crossing her arms stubbornly. Andariel complied.
"Ok, so you're a young woman." Andariel shrugged her shoulders. She turned to Dawn.
"So where's your boyfriend then?" Andariel asked her, grinning slightly. Dawn blushed.
"Well....I don't have one yet. But who says you need a boyfriend to be a woman?" Dawn proclaimed. Andariel's grin was misheivous.
"That's right. Maybe you need a girlfriend to be a woman." Andariel teased. Dawn blushed more. Andariel nudged her lightly.
"Hey....just kidding." Andariel told her, noticing how the beetroot red colour instantly started to recede from the embarrassed girl's face.
"So you want a soda?" Dawn asked. Andariel got up.
"Yeah sure. You lead the way." Andariel told Dawn, who instantly jumped up and made her way to the kitchen. But just as they neared the kitchen door, a loud, earth-shattering noise came from the lounge-room window, and they turned to see the window lying in millions of tiny peices on the lounge-room floor, including various bits of plaster and wooden framework. But to top it all off was what lay in the middle of the mess.
"Faith?!?!" Dawn asked, shocked to see the raven slayer slowly getting up, her shirt slashed and various cuts poking through frayed material. Faith limped into a standing position, and Dawn and Andariel followed her gaze through the hole in the wall. There stood a demon, ugly and angry looking, standing on the front lawn, seemingly glaring at Faith and the two others standing behind her, still slightly in shock.
It pointed at her, leering.
"I'll be back for you....Faith!" It warned, and in a flash, it was gone.
Before Andariel could react, Dawn had left her side and had instantly ran to the slayer's to check over her wounds.
"I'm ok Dawnie, really." Faith reassured her. Dawn inspected the slashes on Faith's arms and back, and ran her fingers lightly over the little scratches on Faith's face.
"What are you doing here? Who was that guy?" Dawn asked. Faith took a few breaths, steadying herself on her uninjured leg.
"Well I came here so B could have her time off to enjoy with Willow, but I guess there's still a few big bad's around who want slayers like myself 6 feet under." Faith said, using her normal joking crossed with sarcasm in her sentence.
Andariel came over to Faith and looked her over.
"Another slayer huh?" Andariel said as she heard frantic footsteps thundering down the stairs. She looked over to see Buffy and Willow, both slightly dissheveld, entering the room. Faith instantly noticed how Buffy had her shirt's buttons in the wrong holes. She grinned.
"Didn't mean to drop in on you guys like this. Hope I didn't get you and Red outta' bed B." Faith said, teasing the slayer slightly. Buffy glared at her.
"No, I'm sure you didn't mean to drop in on us Faith." Buffy said, trying to mask the sarcasm in her voice. Faith sheepishly smiled.
"Dawn what happened?" Willow asked, trying to ignore Faith and Buffy's usual antics. Dawn looked at Willow, but didn't leave Faith's side.
"A big ugly demon guy threw Faith through the window then told her he'd be back for her. I didn't recognise him but then again we could always check it out." Dawn explained before noticing the way Faith favoured her left leg to stand on.
"You hurt your leg?" Dawn asked her. Faith looked down at it.
"Yeah I think I mighta' sprained my ankle. No biggie, what with slayer healing and all." Faith tried to reassure her, but soon found herself being pulled away by Dawn to have her ankle first-aided.
"I'd love to stay and chat B, but....." Faith said as Dawn dragged her to the bathroom. Buffy's eyes followed Faith and Dawn down the hallway until the bathroom door closed after them. Then she turned her eyes to Andariel.
"Andariel did you recognise the demon that attacked Faith?" Buffy asked sternly. Andariel looked at Buffy.
"Well he kinda' reminded me of this one guy that back in my time came after Faith cos she killed one of his relatives or something. Wasn't too hard to kill, but he sure knew how to wreck a house like no other. Seemed to be his favourite pastime." Andariel explained. Buffy nodded. Willow looked at her lover. She knew she was upset because they had been interrupted during wild, passionate, fiery, wiccan and slayer love making, but Buffy knew they could make up for that later.
"So how do we kill him?" Buffy asked. Andariel looked at Buffy from under lowered eyebrows. She could sense the tension between the Slayer and her Wiccan.
"Well you just have to cut his head off...." Andariel explained, but before she could add anything else, Buffy butted in.
"Good. You know what to do, I trust you. Go find him and kill him." Buffy ordered her daughter, but Andariel could feel that Buffy's tension's had eased slightly, so she silently nodded before using her ability to fly to exit through the hole in the wall and out into the open, leaving Buffy and Willow behind.
Buffy sighed.
"Xander's gonna' have to fix that." Buffy said exhaustedly looking at the damage done to their loungeroom window. Willow smiled, putting an arm around her lover.
"Later." was all the Wiccan said as Buffy felt the fiery lips against her neck, and she knew there would be no room for argument, and honestly, that was the last thing she wanted to do right now. So she and Willow went upstairs to finish what they had started.
* * * * *
Faith took a seat on the edge of the bath-tub as Dawn followed her in, grabbing the first aid kit out of the bathroom cabinet.
Faith sighed slightly as Dawn rolled up her right pant leg and pulled off her sneaker and sock. Dawn pressed the slightly puffy ankle, causing Faith to emit a sharp "OUWCH!!" from her throat. Dawn gave her a sarcastic look. Faith frowned and allowed Dawn to continue her medical duties.
Faith decided to make conversation as the girl firmly wrapped bandaging around the ankle.
"So Andariel huh? I heard about her, what's she doing in California, and even bigger question, what's she doing here?" Faith asked. Dawn shrugged and continued to bandage.
"All I know is she's a slayer. Don't know much else about her though. We've become real good friends though, she even saved me from a vampire one day when I was out after dark." Dawn explained, her voice becoming more excited as she told Faith about her close encounter with the fanged kind.
"Huh....is that so. You know I could give her a run for her money." Faith said, masking the slight envy with over-confidence. Dawn looked up at her smiling. But the smile quickly faded as she finished bandaging the ankle.
"Take off your shirt." Dawn told Faith as she retreived Iodine from the first-aid kit. Faith's eyes widened.
"My shirt?" Faith repeated, unsure of whether she should comply. Dawn gave her a knowing look.
"Well if you want me to disinfect your ouchies then your going to have to take it off cos I can't get to them if you're wearing a shirt over top." Dawn stated in a "derr" kind of manner. Faith grumpily complied and lifted her shirt off, letting it hang off the edge of the bath tub on her right side.
Dawn sat next to Faith on her left side and gently started dabbing the smelly and stingy liquid onto Faith's cuts and gashes. She even had to remove bits of glass from some wounds. In the end Faith sulkily looked at her band-aid covered arms and cringed at how many different cuts she could feel stinging all at the same time from the blasted iodine.
She gingerly slipped her shirt on and just when she thought it was finished, she felt Dawn's hand hold her firm to stop her from getting up. Dawn looked at her.
"You've still got cuts on your face." Dawn told her firmly. Faith sighed.
"Just when you thought it was safe to Slay vampires....." she said sracastically as Dawn dipped a cotton ball in iodine and gently took her face in her hands.
Faith felt her heart skip a beat at how gently Dawn was attending the cuts on her face, and gulped as the soft fingers tenderly traced every inch of her skin, over her cheeks, forehead, chin and neck. She knew Dawn was only searching for any other damage that might have been done, but Faith just had to admit to the feelings this girl was causing in her body.
When dawn was finished she turned away, disposing of the cotton ball and turning back to Faith, smiling, pleased with the job she'd done.
"There you go! All better." Dawn proclaimed as she admired her great bandaging and medical skills. Although she knew keep down that she had done this because she sincerely cared for Faith and her well being.
"I feel like a walking band-aid." Faith said as she stood up, admiring and cursing the great job Dawn had done, both at the same time. Faith looked in the mirror and cringed.
"I even LOOK like a walking band-aid." she said sulkily. Dawn smiled.
"Better safe than sorry. I mean, it's better this wasy cos atleast your cuts won't get infected or anything. And you wouldn't want that, believe me. This one time I got cut with a piece of glass from this glass I accidentally dropped once and Buffy told me to put iodine on it so it didn't get infected, but I didn't, I just put a band-aid on it. But then it got infected and all yellow and pussy and it was pretty gross." Dawn recalled, nodding her head at agreement with her statement that you should always disinfect wounds. Faith sighed.
"You're right Dawnie. Iodine is good, no matter how, stinky, stingy or just plain annoying it is." Faith agreed, seeing Dawn's side of the story but also not wanting to argue with someone who she cared for. Dawn smiled and opened the bathroom door for Faith, who gratefully exited through it.
As Dawn followed her out, she noticed Faith heading for the front door and instantly became worried.
"You're not going out are you?" Dawn asked nervously as Faith turned to her.
"Dawnie I'll be ok. It's still daylight outside." Faith reassured her. Dawn came up closely to her and looked into her eyes.
"But what about that big bad demony guy, he isn't affected by sunlight, and he could be out there. Waiting for you. And besides you PLAN to stay out until night time, and then you'll be all hurty and you wont be able to fend for yourself." Dawn tried to make Faith see reason. Faith looked around, unsure of what to say.
"Look I'd love to stay and reminisce kiddo but I really can take care of myself." Faith told her firmly. Dawn looked hurt and Faith instantly regretted what she said. She was about to take back what she said when Dawn cut in.
"So that's it huh? I'm not important enough for you to want to stay with me for a while? And kiddo? Incase you haven't noticed Faith, I'm not a kid anymore. I'm a young woman and I'd appreciate it if you treated me that way." Dawn raised her voice as the tears slipped out from under her eyelids. Faith reached out a hand to comfort the girl but instantly Dawn turned away and ran upstairs.
Faith stood where she was for a moment, trying to think of what to do. She cursed herself for being so ignorant and careless with her words. She suddenly decided to go upstairs to find Dawn.
Once she got up there she moved to the door she remembered gained entrance to Dawn's room and slowly turned the knob.
As she entered the room she saw the small framed girl lying face down on her bed, crying, sobbing into her pillow. Faith quietly closed the door behind her. She walked over to the bed and sat down on the matress next to Dawn.
"Dawnie I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say what I said, it's just....." Faith struggled to think of what to say next. She bit her lower lip for a moment.
"I'm a slayer, and a slayer with a dark past. I've been in jail Dawn, I'm not exactly the picture perfect person you see me to be." Faith said carefully. After much silence, Faith opened her mouth to say more, but found a quiet voice beating her to the draw.
"But that's just it Faith." Dawn said quietly, and after a few moments, she completed her sentence. "I do see you to be perfect.....you're perfect to me."
Dawn's words silenced the slayer, and Faith found herself unable to find any words that suited the moment. Instead she gently picked Dawn up in her arms, turned her to face her and looked into her eyes.
"Dawnie you don't mean that." Faith didn't know if she was asking it as a question or telling Dawn not to mean what she'd said. Dawn just looked at her, the tears stopping but still staining her red cheeks. She smiled slightly.
"But you are. You're this great Slayer who turned evil and then got thrown in jail, then fought against all the odds to get back into everyone's books as a good slayer again. Despite the fact that you were turned to the bad side for a while, that doesn't mean you are bad. You always had a good heart, and you still do. You just have trouble showing it." Dawn explained. Faith had to take a deep breath to stop the emotions from reaching her tear ducts, so she quickly pulled Dawn into a tight hug, so that if she did look like she was on the verge of crying, the girl wouldn't be able to see her.
"You don't know how much that means to me Dawn." Faith admitted to her, allowing herself to sniff once, giving it away that she actually did have emotions. Dawn embraced the raven slayer, and for the first time made the once turned evil slayer feel like she really was cared for in this out of control world.
"I think I do know how much it means to you." Dawn replied, comforting Faith.
As they moved away from each other, Dawn saw the few tears slipping down Faith's cheeks, and instantly wiped them away gently with her thumb.
"You were right Dawn. You are a young woman, and you deserve to be treated like one." Faith told her. Dawn smiled appreciatively, but wasn't exactly prepared for what came next.
Faith moved forwards, and Dawn thought it might be for another hug, except for the fact that Faith's lips were heading right for her own. Before she knew what had happened, her mouth was burning, full of desire and passion as a heated exchange of kisses between her and the raven slayer left her breathless and begging for more.
The slayer's hands were like liquid fire as they flickered over the soft flesh on her arms and down her sides, gently but at the same time firmly gaining entrance to the smoothen silk of Dawn's back as they pushed under her shirt. Dawn gasped at the contact, shivering as Faith's hands were equally cold and warm, soft and calloused, gentle and demanding.
The kisses continued and Dawn unexpectedly emitted a throaty groan as the slayer's fiery lips moved on to her neck, suckling the flesh between her lips in the way that people did that left love bites. Faith smiled as Dawn became vocal at the simple act of kisses from another woman. She hoped B and Red didn't hear, although she had a pretty good feeling that they were more than distracted right now.
All Dawn could do was comply, and at the moment, that's really all she wanted to do.
She felt her body start to fall backwards onto the bed, and realised it was Faith gently lowering her to the matress. For a few moments they looked into each others eyes, and Dawn knew that Faith was asking if this was what she wanted with nothing more than a comitted gaze. Dawn couldn't reply vocally, so she pulled the slayer's lips to her own as confirmation that she wanted nothing more than to have this beautiful woman show her how much she cared for her, with every inch of her body.
Dawn drew in quick breaths as Faith's touches left her insides screaming for more. She groaned again as Faith's lips kissed her collarbone and all the flesh she could get at before the shirt Dawn was wearing denied her access to more. Dawn closed her eyes, thinking that this could be nothing more than a dream. A really, really, realistic dream that was leaving her feeling like she was going to explode if Faith didn't give her body what it wanted. But she was brought out of her thoughts as Faith spoke.
"Dawnie....." she said urgently, and Dawn looked down to meet Faith's eyes, and noticed the way the slayer was tugging at the girl's shirt. Dawn simply nodded and allowed the slayer to pull her up momentarily, allowing for the removal of her shirt.
As Dawn's bare back came into contact with the cool silk bedsheets she groaned again, her bra being the only upper peice of clothing she was wearing.
Faith's lips hungrily started to explore this newly uncovered flesh with a burning passion she never thought could exist. She noticed the way Dawn would momentarily clench the bedsheets before releasing them, which was all the conformation Faith needed that Dawn was more than ready to go to the next level.
Faith brought her eyes up to meet Dawn's again, her lips trailing all the way up to the girl's. Dawn opened her eyes as Faith slowly lifted her own shirt over her head, and after a moment of allowing Dawn's eyes to wander the slayer's muscly physique, she lowered herself to Dawn again, her lips touching the girl's gently.
Dawn felt slightly light headed at the fleeting kisses, and noticed the way Faith kept eye contact with her. The girl suddenly gasped, but it was silent, as she felt the slayer's right leg move between her own and her thigh press into her center. Her mouth moved, but no sound came out as Faith gently rocked her pelvis against her own, causing an infuriating need to acheive release, but Dawn knew it wouldn't happen through her jeans and Faith's leather pants.
Faith smiled as Dawn tugged at the belt holding up her leather pants, and almost laughed at the frantic expression on the extremely aroused face of Dawn, who in her current state found it hard enough to breathe without having to remove another's clothing.
Faith, using her skilled fingers, used a single hand to unclip her belt and pull it away from her body, before letting it drop to the floor. She unclasped her pants and after a slight struggle managed to remove them from her. Dawn groaned at the sight of Faith in nothing but bras and panties, and realised she was still wearing her own jeans.
Faith noticed Dawn now motioning at her own pants, and smiled, moving her body down so that she could gently remove them from the girl, taking it at an excruciatingly slow pace. Dawn groaned as Faith gently pulled the jeans down her thighs, at the same time letting her fingers trail over the surface of her silky soft skin.
Once the jeans were removed, Faith gently started trailing kisses up Dawn's left calf, slowly allowing her lips to taste the flesh of her soon to be lover and at the same time increasing the need and want in Dawn.
As Faith's lips finally met the material of Dawn's panties, she trailed soft kisses all around their edges, but never allowing for them to come into contact with what Dawn wanted most. Faith noticed how the clenching of Dawn's fists had become more frequent, and she could see the need in the girl's eyes.
Faith once again moved up her body and met Dawn's lips with her own, her fingers all the while easily moving around Dawn's back to unclip and remove her bras. Once this was accomplished, Faith removed her own, and Dawn cried out at the contact as Faith pressed her body flat against the girl's, once again bringing her right thigh up into Dawn's center, still covered by a small peice of material that Faith would soon remove.
But Faith found herself beaten to the draw as Dawn's fingers finally found the strength to pull Faith's panties down to her knees. Faith smiled slightly and kicked her underpants the rest of the way down. Finding that it was what Dawn wanted, she removed the girl's pants also, and savoured the throaty groan Dawn let out as she pushed her thigh into the girl's now naked center.
Faith hadn't expected Dawn to be so compliant, she had thought the girl might even be slightly shy. But now, she could smell the familiar musky scent of another woman ready to be made love to. But this time it was slightly different. Faith cold sense that Dawn was ready, and that she wasn't just doing this as a fling, or as a way to get what she wanted She was doing it because she cared for Faith and wanted to do this as a way of showing her, and also as proof that the feelings they shared were mutual. She could sense Dawn was ready to give herself to the raven slayer. And the slayer was ready to give herself to Dawn.
Their lips met once more, and Dawn drew in a sharp breath as Faith started the rocking again, and she could feel the heat starting to rapidly build inside of her. She looked into Faith's eyes and could see the passion there, the desire and need. But the need the slayer had didn't prepare her for the feeling of Dawn's right leg lifting itself firmly into the slayer's center, so as to provide her with the exact same pleasure that she was giving to Dawn. Faith let out the first groan she had since they'd first kissed and she momentarily closed her eyes before returning her gaze to Dawn's, suddenly realising that the girl was determined not to allow herself to be pleasured unless Faith was pleasured at the same time.
Faith quickly and passionately fused her lips to Dawn's and sped up the tempo. She found it hard to concentrate on keeping pressure because of the fire quickly building in herself as she and Dawn's centers moved against the other's thigh.
Their passions grew and the groans echoed through the room as Faith pushed harder, and they both grasped the other tightly as the feelings raged through their bodies, like a tidal wave hurtling towards the shore.
Faith was the first to cry out as the mixture of pain and pleasure exploded through her body like she'd just been hit by a huge current of electricity, and seemingly this triggered the same reaction in Dawn. But because it was the girl's first time, the feeling was 10 times stronger than what Faith experienced, and the slayer was shocked to feel the girl digging her nails into her back, which had already healed to some extent. Dawn's back arched and she closed her eyes as the last few, furious pumps from Faith forced the explosion all the way through her body and out into the open. Faith quickly dampened Dawn's scream of pleasure with her hand, not wanting Buffy and Willow to hear.
If it was possible for energy to leave your body and vanish into nowhere, Dawn was sure that had just happened to her. It felt like all the tensions she had ever felt had been shoved out of her body by the extreme pleasure she had just experienced with Faith.
Dawn puffed, trying to catch her breath as the slayer gently lay her body on top of the girls, and Dawn could feel Faith's chest rising and falling quickly against her own. After everything she'd heard from people she knew that had had sex and experienced orgasm, she never ever believed that she would be able to experience such pleaure with another person. But her thoughts were interrupted by a voice.
"Was it good?" Faith asked, slightly unsure. Dawn looked into the slayer's eyes, sensing slight doubt radiating from her. Dawn kept breathing.
"Can I.....catch....my breath....first?" she asked, erasing all the doubt from the slayer's mind and bringing a smile to her face. Faith planted a kiss on her lips then rolled over onto her back on Dawn's right side.
"You know I think I'm gonna' have to give up smoking in order to keep up with you Dawn." Faith joked lightly as she eyed the small box of cigarettes that had fallen out of her pants pocket which lay on the floor. Dawn looked at Faith.
"You mean there's gonna' be more of this in the future?" Dawn asked, finally able to catch her breath. Faith chuckled lightly and pulled Dawn to her.
"As long as you keep being you, there's gonna' be plenty more where that came from." Faith grinned and passionately kissed Dawn on the lips.
Their post-sex make out session was interrupted slightly by the sound of a thump radiating from Buffy and Willow's bedroom down the hall. Dawn and Faith's ears pricked up slightly.
"Sounds like those two are enjoying themselves." Faith said and grinned. Dawn giggled and wrapped her arms around Faith.
"You know it's getting kinda' late, maybe we should go downstairs and start some dinner?" Faith suggested and looked at the bright smile on Dawn's face.
"Good idea. I'm starved!" Dawn proclaimed and jumped up, putting her clothes on. Faith smiled slyly.
"You certainly must have worked up quite an appetite." Faith teased. Dawn hit her lightly before continuing to get dressed.
They both put all their articles of clothing on before heading downstairs to start dinner.
* * * * *
Buffy hadn't seen Willow like this before.
First she had been instistant on leading her upstairs and forcing her into their bedroom, and then she had torn Buffy's clothes from her body and urged her to make love to her, in her own words "Right here, right now."
Of course Buffy had complied, and the two shared an extremely heated love-making session, with Willow on top, something that surprised the blonde slayer somewhat. Usually Willow was simply happy to allow her lover to be on top and make slow, passionate love to her.
Buffy couldn't help but think it strange that Willow had read from the book Amy gave her right before she went all sex crazy.
But she couldn't help but realise that it was the most productive love-making session they'd ever have. Willow had rocked against Buffy in hard long thrusts until she exploded with a furious need, and Buffy found that her own orgasm seemed to travel through her body like a lightning bolt and it travelled into Willow's body, causing the Wiccan to scream out in complete ecstasy.
Buffy and Willow now lay together, completely spent and drained of all energy that gave them a will to move. Willow was draped over Buffy's body, and Buffy lay underneath, completely happy but also surprised at how passionate her lover had been. She smiled slyly at this and hoped there would be more of it in the future.
"You bet your boots there will be." Willow said, her voice slightly muffled by Buffy's smooth skin. Willow had been tracing light patterns over Buffy's abdomen with her fingers, but now that stopped. Buffy looked in surprise at Willow, who returned her gaze, her mouth slightly open.
"Will.....did you just read my mind?" Buffy asked quickly. Willow's mouth moved but no sound came out.
'Willow you're sexy!' Buffy quickly thought to see if she could get a reaction. Willow's face turned a bright shade of red as she heard what Buffy thought.
"I am? Wait, Buffy!.....I did read your mind!" Willow said, finally realising. 'oh boy....what now? Can she read my mind too?' Buffy looked at Willow.
"Willow I can. I read your mind!" Buffy told her. They both quickly sat up, in the process, Buffy banged her head against the headboard, emitting a loud thump throughout the house. Willow looked at her in concern as Buffy drew her hand to the back of her head.
"Are you alright Buffy?" Willow quickly asked her.
"Yeah I'm fine Will." Buffy replied. 'fuck that hurt. I can't let Willow think I'm weak for hitting my head and whining like a baby'
Willow gave Buffy a look.
"Buffy! You did hurt yourself. And no I wouldn't think you're weak if you whined like a baby." Willow told her firmly. 'geez that girl's got a potty mouth, I should wash her mouth out with.....' Buffy looked at Willow in shock at what the Wiccan thought she should wash her mouth out with. Willow's face turned bright red.
'I did not just say that I did not just say that I did not just say that.....oh no Buffy's got that look in her eyes, no Buffy!' Willow even rambled in her thoughts. She couldn't mistake the look of fiery passion in Buffy's eyes.
'I'd like to take you up on that offer Will' Buffy thought mischeivously, licking her lips. She knew Willow had heard her, and they were both still naked. Willow's blush resided slightly as she looked at Buffy.
'Buffy I don't know....'
'It's ok Will......I won't bite.....'
"But Buffy...." Willow protested. 'oh man it's starting again....she's going to do it....I just know it....goddess I want her so badly....' the last part pleased Buffy, so she brought Willow down onto her back and started kissing her way down Willow's stomach. Willow groaned. 'that feels so good Buffy'
'I have every intention of making it feel good'
'thank god'
Buffy brought her lips straight away to their destination, and she instantly started to massage Willow's center with her moist tongue and lips. Willow groaned. 'oh fuck....' Buffy grinned.
'now who's got the potty mouth?'
'Buffy....stop thinking and just give me oral already, do you want me to die from waiting?' Buffy grinned and complied, applying the pressure to Willow's nub and pressing harder the more the Wiccan's thoughts begged for it. This time Buffy noticed how all of Willow's vocal signs of pleasure had moved to her thoughts, and Buffy found herself orgasming at the sound of Willow screaming in pleasure in her mind. Buffy liked it because she knew no one would hear them at all.
Once it was over Buffy moved back up to meet Willow's lips and gave her a tender kiss.
'man that was good....'
Buffy smiled, glad that her lover had found it pleasurable. 'you weren't so bad yourself....' they both had to laugh lightly at that thought as they shared a few sweet kisses.
"Mmmm....I can smell something good...." Buffy commented as the smells from downstairs wafted upstairs. Also her slayer sense of smell had alerted her to the food cooking in the kitchen downstairs almost as soon as it had started cooking.
"Must be Dawn and Faith." Willow commented as she stretched her now relaxed and completely sated muscles. That last orgasm had been the icing on the cake. She smiled to herself.
"We should go downstairs and see what they're up to." Buffy said, finding herself unable to resist the tempting aromas any longer. Willow agreed, so they got up and pulled their clothes on before heading downstairs.
As they entered the kitchen, Buffy noticed how close to Dawn Faith was as the girl stood at the stove frying some chicken. Buffy's ears pricked up as her slayer hearing detected Dawn's faint giggle.
"Smells good." Buffy commented, casually entering the room and moving over to the stove. Faith and Dawn both turned, not expecting company so soon. Faith smiled slightly before moving away from Dawn to retrieve a glass of orange juice from the fridge. But not before Buffy's slayer sense of smell detected the slightly musky smell on Faith, and also the over prominant scent of none other than her sister. Buffy tried not to panic.
She moved over to Dawn to pretend like she was looking at what she was cooking, but what the slayer was foccussed on was the smells on Dawn. She smelt like Faith, sweat, musk, the pungent aroma of sex with the raven slayer. Ok, now Buffy was panicking. But she didn't let on. She looked at Willow who sat at the kitchen table eyeing her lover strangely.
'Willow this is serious, I think Dawn slept with Faith. I need you to take Dawn out for a while.' Willow looked suspiciously at Buffy.
'Uhh....are you sure? What do you want me to say?'
'Just tell her we need some coke and ice cream, take her out for a while. I need to talk to Faith.'
'Ok, if you say so....' Willow turned to Dawn.
"Hey Dawnie, I just realised we don't have any snacks for tonight, do you want to make a shop run with me? I'm sure Faith can watch the dinner while we're gone." Willow said to the teenager. Dawn looked quickly at Faith who nodded, sensing that Buffy knew what was going on and that she had some explaining to do.
"Ok, I-I guess." Dawn replied and handed the spatula to Faith, before heading out with Willow.
Once the front door shut behind them, Buffy came up behind Faith who now fried the chicken with enthusiasm.
"So Faith, let's talk about Dawn." Buffy started in a sing-songy voice. Faith winced.
"What about the kid?" Faith tried to act casual. Buffy came up behind the raven slayer, too close for comfort.
"Gee Faith, I don't know. How about the fact that you two both smell like you just had a very productive Fuck session with each other?" Buffy told Faith. Faith swallowed, turning slowly to Buffy, flicking the hot plate off.
"Buffy look, it's not like that.....Dawn is a grown woman, she's 18 now. She's old enough to make these kind of choices." Faith tried to reason. Buffy was quiet as she looked into the raven slayer's eyes.
"I don't know what makes you think you can take advantage of her like this, but you are going to stop." Buffy told her in a threatning voice.
"No Buffy, YOU are going to stop!" Faith finally snapped, yelling at the slayer. Buffy backed off, surprised by the sudden outburst from Faith.
"Dawn is not a child anymore. You can't always be there to protect her from life, you know. She has to go out and face it sometime. So it's better sooner than later right? And what better way to face life than with someone who actually cares about her, someone who will always be there for her, no matter what?" Faith told Buffy sternly. Buffy found her heart being wounded at the last few sentences. Faith was suggesting that she had never been there for her own sister, and in her heart, Buffy knew it was true. She had never really been there for her sister.
"What are you saying Faith?" Buffy asked quietly. Faith was silent, thinking of how to phrase her comment.
"I'm saying I want you to let us be together. Me and Dawn." Faith told Buffy finally, as simple as that. Buffy looked away, but wasn't expecting the comment that came next.
"I love her Buffy." Faith said. The shocked slayer looked up at Faith, her eyes wide, unable to comprehend what she had just said.
"You love her?" Buffy asked, not sure she had heard right. Faith rolled her eyes.
"Of course I do Buffy. I know the importance of making love to someone, that's why it's called making love. Because you do it with someone you love. Like you and Willow. I mean, tonight, me and Dawn didn't fuck, we didn't have sex, we didn't have a one night stand, we didn't have a quickie." Faith paused for effect as the words sunk in for Buffy.
"We made love." those 3 words almost made Buffy break down and cry. She never really accepted the fact that her sister was now technically an adult, and never wanted to face the truth about the girl's somewhat crush-like feelings for the raven slayer that stood before her. She never realised that maybe the feelings weren't so crush like, and maybe more love like.
Buffy looked away. She didn't even push away the hand that gently laid on her shoulder for comfort. And hand that she had felt the wrong side of on more than one occassion. A hand that belonged to a raven slayer who had done so many bad things in her life, and was only trying to make up for the wrongs she had done.
"I want you to promise me you'll take care of her." Buffy asked softly as the raven slayer watched her. Faith nodded as Buffy turned to face her. Buffy also nodded slightly.
Just then the front door opened and Willow and Dawn entered with coke and icecream. Buffy hadn't realised how quickly the time had gone.
Willow greeted her lover with a sweet kiss on the lips and an enthusiastic smile.
"We've got coke and we've got ice cream, just like you asked my love." Willow told her. Buffy blushed slightly but was elated at the fact that Willow had called her "My Love". But Buffy could see the questioning look in Willow's eyes. 'did everything go ok?' Willow asked.
'Yeah everything is fine Wills. Faith loves Dawn, that's all I need to know.'
Willow seemed to take in this new information carefully, processing it. But then finally she smiled and put her arm around Buffy's waist. Buffy smiled and put her arm around Willow's shoulders.
"So who's up for movies?" Dawn asked excitedly. Everyone looked at her smiling.
"Sure thing, what's on?" Buffy asked, exchanging knowing glances with Faith. Faith smiled back appreciatively and put a hand on Dawn's shoulder, knowing that everything was going to be ok.
"Well actually there's an old scary movie on TV, its called 'The Blob'." Dawn explained as she skipped to the loungeroom, flicking on the tv and finding the appropriate channel. Dawn flopped down on the couch, followed by Faith. Buffy took a seat in the recliner and pulled Willow onto her lap. The red head giggled as Buffy whispered something into her ear. Dawn shook her head.
"Oh no, the chicken!" Dawn finally remembered, her eyes going wide, and was about to get up to leave when the raven slayer's strong hand kept her where she was. Faith leaned in and brushed her lip sover the girls ear, whispering to her.
"Don't worry about it Dawn." that was all Dawn needed to stay where she was. She leaned into Faith's gentle touch and shivered as the warm lips trailed over her neck.
Willow watched from where she was seated, but Buffy's thoughts reassured her.
'they'll be fine. Just concentrate on us.'
Willow couldn't resist her lover's voice, let alone her thoughts, so she leaned back into the slayer's warm embraced and closed her eyes.
It was a warm summer's night, so the breeze that blew in through the open wound in the wall didn't have a chilling effect on the people inside of the living room.
The curtains were drawn, not allowing for any snoops to be able to see in from the street.
But no one noticed Andariel's figure standing right outside the hole, and as the next breeze gently parted the curtains, the slayer covered in blood and monster slime, caught a glimpse of Faith holding Dawn in a more than friendly way.
It didn't matter how much she tried, she couldn't surpress her anger, so she set off once again into the night to find some vampires to take her fury out on.
She had to clear her head if she was to think up a way to break Dawn and Faith up, for good. She smiled at this thought. It was going to be a long night.
The end, for now!
AN: So, what do you think? I KNOW! I finally wrote it, it took a while, but it's done. The 4th part of my series, and I hope you like it cos it took enough time and effort to write it. I tried to add a few twists, and there might be a few things left unclear in here, I know. But I know what i've left unclear, and I did it on purpose so that it keeps you guessing and using your bright little imaginations until I've written the 5th part! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I am evil aren't I? Well, enjoy for now! Remember my little baroshekees, I want your feedback! My email is at the top, or you could just review this story.