Loving Willow More
by Rin
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"Okay...so we need to do what again??" Buffy was looking at Willow like she'd lost her mind.
"We need to put in another cup of sugar...otherwise, the cookies are gonna be nasty." Willow looked at the recipe...it did seem wrong. 2 cups of sugar for cookies?? "Maybe we should just...follow the recipe...if they're nasty, then we can always give them to Xander."
"And we're not trying to make up with him, so giving him bad cookies wouldn't matter..." Buffy sighed again. She'd screwed up...she knew it. She wanted to fix everything; she wanted the gang back together.
"Hey...he'll come around. I promise...he always does..." Willow dumped the sugar in the mix, and wrapped her arms around Buffy. "They're all coming over for dinner tonight, aren't they? That's a good first step..."
"Yeah...I guess you're right." Buffy relaxed again, and they went about finishing up the cookies.
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"So..." Xander was quiet, not sure what he should say to them. "I was thinking that maybe I could get a hug?"
"I think that can be arranged..." The girls wrapped him in a big hug, and Anya even joined in...before she started on her 'no Xander for you' diatribe again when the hug lasted longer than usual. "We've missed you..."
"I've been right here." Xander smiled at the girls, as they let him into their home. It was the first time he'd been here. "Nice place..."
"We like to think so." Buffy smiled, and ushered him further in the house, while Willow tried not to be bothered by Anya's random comments on the decor.
"We made lasagna...hope you like..." Willow was proud that they were becoming all domestic. It was something she was scared of to be honest...but now that it was happening, everything seemed to be fine. She just hoped that they wouldn't be so tired tonight...she could feel that low down itch...
"One would think you were trying to butter me up..." Xander loved lasagna...the girls knew that.
"I'm glad you're here. We really should talk...it's been...well, a hard semester, that's for sure. Interesting, odd...scary to some point..." Willow watched Buffy in the kitchen with Anya, smiling at the look of fright on her face from some story Anya was telling. "I'm really sorry, Xan. I never meant for it to get this bad. I should've paid more attention, and I'm sorry..."
"Hey, no sweat...I have to make allowances for the growth point. I'm growing, too. We're all growing. It's just part of growing up." Xander wrapped his arms around his bestest bud. "I'm sorry, too...for being mean the other night."
"Hey...you had a right. We've been ignoring you. Not on purpose but it still happened. We were just so wrapped up in each other, I guess..."
"...which I wouldn't mind details, ever...we really never got to talk about the you and Buffy thing." Xander did want details. Lots of details...but he was serious, too. He wanted the emotions, and all that came with best buddy-dom.
"It's...I mean. It's so different from Fred...the relationship part, and the other parts, too." Willow was blushing from head to toe, and Xander had to snap out of the mental image. "I don't know. It's so intense...so...real. I've never felt anything like this before...and I didn't even know."
"Part of you did know. You were just too wrapped up in Fred to notice."
"There's a lot of wrapping, I guess."
"You are a master MC." Xander kissed her forehead. "You two love each other. That's great, and you're great together. Now, don't get me wrong, I love Fred...but geez...you and Buffy? That's like...a match made in heaven...and I'm not just saying that b/c I like to fantasize."
"Xander..." Willow buried her head in his shoulder.
"Hey...can't blame me. You're both sexy women, who just happen to get sexy together. No harm in mental images. Very nice mental images, by the way...which you know, if you ever wanna share, I wouldn't mind..."
"Xander!"
"What? I'm just saying...stories are a good, healthy way to keep me in the know. I wouldn't feel so left out anymore." Xander smirked. He was milking it, and they both knew it.
"Xander...the closest I'll let you get to my Buffy images is a picture of her in a snowsuit...a full-bodied snowsuit, where you can't see anything but her face...." Willow arched her eyebrow in warning. 'My Buffy' the possessive streak was showing itself.
"Okay, okay...I'll take what I can get." Xander hugged her again, and that's when Buffy announced that dinner was ready.
Faith, Tara, Giles, and even Spike showed up not too much later. They all ate in relative comfort, though they knew they needed to talk, and they still had the Initiative problem to fix.
"I say we go in...get the files..." Faith was a whole lot calmer, especially since Tara had calmed her over the past few days.
"Yeah...but where would we start? And...I'm sure that Walsh didn't keep them where just anybody could find them." Buffy was glad that they were getting along. Dinner was a good idea...
"This is true. The Initiative more than likely are searching for the files, as well..." Giles sipped at his wine, and was glad that the two day hangover he and Spike endured didn't make them chummy, putting them back at griping at each other...the way it should be...
"So...we need to find all her files first. Okay...easy as very difficult pie..." Willow sighed.
"Hey...we bust in, get the files, bring 'em back, and go through 'em. There's gotta be somethin' there...some sorta clue, right?" Faith was starting to get excited. She could feel her fists itching for a good fight. "Besides, there's demons down there still...right?"
"That's what I said. An entire holding cell...so you could take on as many as you want at a time...and most of them are weak, some have the chips...we'll let you and Spike take that end." Buffy was glad to see Faith in a better mood. She was afraid she'd lost all hopes of ever becoming slayer sisters with her again.
"Sounds like a ripe plan to me." Spike leaned back in his chair, and just smirked. He couldn't believe he was actually following orders from a slayer.
"Good...then...Xander, Giles, Anya, and Tara do some mojo on the place...make sure the soldiers can't get to us." Buffy liked this idea. She and Willow had thought it up a few nights ago...but they were glad to have the backup now, as the original plan was just the two of them.
"Yeah, and Buffy and I will steal the files and discs...whatever we can grab. We want this quick..." Willow was a hell of a lot more confident than she was a year ago, and everybody recognized this fact, and all knew the reason why was sitting right next to her.
"So, when does this little plan start?" Xander was glad to be part of the scheme of things again. Plus, he had military training...sorta...so he knew a few maneuvers.
"Now is good..." They all stood, and silently agreed that now or never was the best idea. So...they gathered their stuff, headed down to the frat house, propelled down the elevator shaft, got arrested by soldiers while Buffy and Willow rummaged through files (as they'd taken a different entrance for a reason), and found out exactly where the slayer files were, since escape wasn't going to happen for a bit. They had to save the gang, so they decided to make use of their time, and dig through the files.
Willow encrypted one disc, which she originally thought was the actual files...until it had schematics for another kind of chip...a data chip that programmed the skills of a slayer into another human being. The prototype didn't surprise them...
Somewhere, embedded in Riley's heart...was a nanochip...that allowed him to be like a slayer. That thought scared the girls into action, as they went about gathering back their resources, taking the all the files, and heading to save the gang.
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"So...Riley's a slayer b/c of this Walsh chick?" Faith was confused. Riley was a guy...
"Yeah. According to the file, there's a nanochip that contains all the material she gathered from our sessions. I should've known better..." Buffy was beating herself up. Of course there was an ulterior motive...she knew it was too good to be true just to find out why and what a slayer was...what she was. Of course Dr. Walsh, a mad scientist, would have something else in mind.
"Hey. You had no way of knowing..." Xander was the one to comfort. He was glad to do it, too.
"So, what do we do? We know where Riley is..." The unspoken question was left that way. Do they have to kill Riley to get the chip?
"I think we can subdue him...use a spell to paralyze him so that he can't fight back. If he has slayer powers, then normal anesthetic might not work if we wanna get the chip out without hurting him." Willow looked to Tara, silently asking if she could find the spell.
"I know of a spell that we can use." Giles grabbed the book from his shelf. Well, they did gather back at his place after all...slayer headquarters these days.
"Great...then the question is...how do we get Riley here without all the soldiers?" Xander was rubbing his palms together. He was loving this...being an essential part of the gang again.
"You, me, Buffy, and Spike got that part covered..." Faith smirked. Time for some more action...
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They managed to capture Riley, get the chip, and send him on his way without him knowing anything. However, when they went to put Riley back at the Initiative, the place was sealed shut. There was no way to get him back...and it was odd. It was as though they had completely shut down operations in a matter of minutes.
They dropped him off at the frat house, and they all gathered back at Buffy and Willow's before saying good night, good job. After they had parted ways, Buffy couldn't take it anymore. She put the chip in the safe, locked it, and ran back to the bedroom.
Only...Willow wasn't there...
"Willow??" Buffy was worried until she heard the quiet humming from the bathroom. "Hey..."
"Hey." Willow smiled. The connection was strong, the pull even stronger, as they just crashed together, pawing at each other on their way to the bed. Clothes discarded everywhere, bite marks and hickeys all over bodies...kisses placed all over the place, blankets kicked off the bed...and screams of passion and need filling the house.
After that performance (especially Buffy's very vocal agreement to when Willow went down on her that first time), there was no way the neighbor lady would think them mere roommates anymore. Perhaps that's why Willow was a little more vocal than usual, too...
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Finish season 4
I know, I know...it was a little rushed here but I'm wanting to get to the next season soon!