Nothing But You
by Whedonist
Chapter 13
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Disclaimer: It does not and unfortunately will not ever belong to me. It all goes to Joss and Fox *although why they get credit is still beyond me* and ME Productions.
A/N: In keeping with the uber romantic theme of Chapter 12. Chapter 13 is kinda sappy. So ya know be warned. It's all fluffy and light and shiny. Though when you think about it, it's not really a bad thing. At any rate, enjoy. Oh and uh thanks for the feedback.
Chapter 13
It was well known among the mismatched family that Faith and Angel in the kitchen's a great combination and true to holiday's past they laid out a huge breakfast spread. The dining room table was loaded down with food.
"So are we feeding the US Army or just the town?"
"Mornin' B."
Buffy smiled, "Morning Faith."
Faith sent a smirk to the two girls and walked in to the living room to join the rest of the people that had already gotten their food. Buffy and Willow grabbed a plate and loaded up in the hopes that they wouldn't have to make another trip in there.
"Good morning girls." Joyce said walking into the dining room.
"Morning mom." Buffy leaned in and gave her mother a kiss on the cheek.
"Morning Mrs. Summers." Willow squeaked out.
"Willow honey, please you can either call me Joyce or mom. Either one doesn't make a difference, but the Mrs thing makes me sound too old."
Willow blushed and nodded, "Ah sorry...Joyce...?"
"See isn't that better?"
"You bet." Willow said around a mouth full of pancake. Buffy nudged Willow with her elbow and moved her into the other room. The two took a seat on the floor by the door and watched as the rest of their family laughed and opened up presents, ate, and made fun of Xander. It was an excellent Christmas morning.
Once the living room was cleaned up, Willow had pulled Buffy back up to the bedroom. She wasn't willing to tell the girl what was going on in that busy head of hers only that they should get dressed. An hour later, they were getting ready to leave when Willow stopped them on the sidewalk and produced a blindfold.
"Ah Will, it's really not an appropriate environment for kinky fun."
Willow raised an eyebrow at her girl, "It's the last part of your Christmas present, a surprise, you can't see where we are going."
"Oh."
After covering Buffy eyes, Willow lead her to Xander's car. Willow had talked to Angel last night and much to her surprise he was able to set everything up for her inside an hour. It was still kind of baffling some of the connections the young man had. Shaking off her internal ramblings, she switched on the radio and grabbed Buffy's hand.
"Wills, where are we going?"
"Surprise."
"I don't even get a hint?"
"No."
"Fine, but just so you know, I declare that this is ridiculously unfair."
"Complain away."
"I stick my tongue out in your general direction." Buffy folded her arms across her chest for all of 4 seconds before she took Willow's hand and placed a few kisses along the palm and slim fingers.
Thirty heated minutes later, Willow was pulling Buffy from the car and guiding her up a walk away. A man came out to meet the two girls.
"Ms. Rosenberg?"
"Hi."
He opened the door, "Everything is setup. You girls have fun. No need to lock up. I'll take care of everything when you're done."
"Thank you."
"Merry Christmas girls."
"Merry Christmas to you to." Willow turned to Buffy, "Are you ready?"
"I'm dying here babe."
Walking Buffy into the building, Willow moved around to the back to untie the cloth. Buffy squeezed her eyes shut and then blinked to let her vision clear. As her eyes adjusted, she saw the ice rink in pristine condition before her.
"What?"
"Well yesterday Xander and I were talking and you never told me you were one of the biggest dorks of all time when you went through your Dorothy Hammill stage and he said that you still like to ice skate, but you never have time and besides the..." Willow was cut short by Buffy's lips. "Hmm, gotta love the way you stop my mouth."
"I'm beginning to think that you only babble now to get me to shut you up."
Willow blushed and shook her head no. "Farthest thing from the truth. It's so, it's like the biggest untruth ever. Anyway, the ring was well, it didn't feel like enough and this seemed like it would be fun so uh, Merry Christmas."
Buffy grabbed her girlfriend's hand and led her over to the bench where two pairs of skates were sitting.
"Have you ever been ice skating before?"
"Nope."
"You are going to have so much fun."
"What..ah..no see I was planning on staying on the dry part of the ground where there aren't sharp blades and slippery ice that frighten the hell out of me and where I won't injure myself or you."
"No you don't. I'm going to teach you how to ice skate today. It's really super easy." Buffy kneeled down and began removing Willow's shoes. Once she had Willow laced up, she got her skates on and stood.
"Come on Wills, let's fly."
"Buff I don't want to hurt you."
"You won't." stopping and looking into the mildly frightened eyes of her girl she said, "Do you trust me?"
"With my life."
"Then let go and let me lead you."
"Fine, but if I die, you're bringing me back so I can kick you."
"Deal."
Willow stood on wobbly legs and carefully followed the blonde to the rink. Buffy stepped out first and allowed Willow a small amount of time before tugging on her hand to prod her along.
"It's kinda like skating on roller skates or blades, but slightly different, your center of gravity is slightly lower, bend your knees slightly and now come on."
Willow listened to Buffy's instructions and timidly stepped on to the ice. It wasn't nearly as bad as she thought it was going to be, but she was still unable to shake the image of her falling, taking Buffy down with her and injuring her love fatally and accidentally.
"See no big. You're doing great." Buffy moved to Willow's side and wrapped her arm around the other girl's waist. With her other arm she took Willow's hand and began pushing them along gently. "See easier than learning to walk."
Willow let out a short laugh, "For you maybe. Buff not all of us were born with your level of grace. Me, I'm kinda spazy. It's why Dawn and I get on so well she's kinda spazzy, I empathize."
"I noticed, but that's also a lie. You were just never given the confidence to find your inner me." Buffy smirked and moved them along faster.
It took two laps around with Buffy at her side for Willow to get comfortable on the ice. After that she was zipping along right beside Buffy and having a great time. After an uncounted number of laps, they stopped to grab some water and Buffy was glowing.
"You're a natural."
"Thanks, but I give credit to the teacher. She's great."
"I'll tell her you said so."
"Please do. So did you ever skate in like competitions?"
"When I was little, but then I kinda got into dance and cheerleading. Skating though it's more...I don't know, I mean you get out there and you can just pretty much ignore the rest of the world, it's you and the ice and god am I biggest dork ever."
"No not at all, you love it that's good. The most I've ever loved something like that was my laptop. Even then I can't say it ever did much for my motor functions."
"You ready to go again?"
"I think I'm gonna sit a minute. My tootsies are kinda sore. Did you have to lace the boots up so tight?"
"They need to be tight, if not you can't control your feet then you fall and there's badness and stabbing pain."
"Go let me watch."
"You sure?"
"Yeah, go."
Buffy stepped out on to the ice and picked up speed. It had been at least a year since she'd been in skates, but as soon as she stepped on to the ice with Willow it all came back to her. Deciding to show of a little and see if she still had some of that training her mom spent a small fortune on she tried a few toe jumps with great success. Adding speed and spinning around she moved into position for a jump.
Willow leaned on the railing of the rink and watched Buffy float on the ice. She made it look effortless. She saw Buffy spin around and skate backwards and watched as the blonde pushed off the ice. She spun twice, her hair catching the light from the rink and Willow didn't know if it was the jump that was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen or if it was Buffy. The small girl landed with ease and looped around the rink one more time before stopping at Willow red-faced and out of breath.
"Wow that was..."
Buffy grabbed a drink of water and pulled Willow on to the ice.
"Come one just a few more laps and then we can go." She stepped up to Willow and placed a soft kiss on the girl's lips. "Then we can go back to the house and I can finish giving you the rest of your present."
Nodding enthusiastically, Willow followed Buffy around the rink. By the time they got home it was close to six.
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"Mom, Giles...? Anyone?"
Not receiving an answer, Buffy walked in to the kitchen and saw the note on the refrigerator.
Buffy,
We went to Angel and Faith's for dinner. Meet you there.
Love you,
Mom
"Oh, I well I was hoping to spend the rest of the day with just us. Damn."
"Can't we just tell them we stayed at the rink longer than expected?"
"You want me to lie to my mom? On Christams?"
"No, but I to was kinda hoping that you and I could just be you and I the rest of the day. Everyone's great and why wouldn't you want to spend time with them, but this is the first chance you and I have had for some serious down time, alone, together."
Buffy quirked an eyebrow and shrugged, "Works for me. Besides they'll bring leftovers which are way better than fresh any day."
Willow gave Buffy her best smile and drug her up the stairs. She pulled the blonde to the bed and fused their mouths together. Abandoning most of her inhibitions, she removed Buffy's top and then her own.
Many moment's later they were lying there semi-nude and cuddling. Buffy had put on some music earlier and the two were just lying there enjoying the quiet.
"Wills?"
"Yeah Buff."
"How far did you and Ed ever get?"
"Well, third base...?"
"Ok so what's your idea of third base, 'cuz I've found that my idea of the bases is vastly different than say what my mom thought the bases were."
"Uh I went down on him. That's my idea of third base, First base is making out and light petting, over clothes, second base would be under clothes and heavy petting, see the last hour for reference, and well third base I guess would be oral."
"Okay so your bases are in line with my bases and if my bases and your bases mesh all the better. Wait you went down on him and did he ever return the favor?"
Willow turned a little red and with Buffy's head resting in the crook of the redhead's shoulder she saw that the blush carried well past the neck line. Deciding it was one of her girlfriend's most endearing qualities, she waited on a response.
"No, I mean I just never and he didn't ever seem to think to ask although I probably wouldn't have let him anyhow. I mean it's just that, I'm kinda..." Willow trailed off.
Buffy leaned up, "You're kinda what Wills?"
"I'm it's like..."
"You were scared the he wouldn't like the taste?"
Nodding, Willow gave Buffy a tight smile
"It's normal to be scared. I mean I thought I was going to die of embarrassment the first time."
"Really?"
"Really, really. I mean the thought of the actual act seems kinda icky if you don't know what it's about, but really it's one of the most amazing things that someone can do for you. At least that's how I look at."
"Hmm. What about you? You and Faith, I mean look at her I'm sure you guys..."
"Had sex? No, at least not in the traditional sense."
"Huh, but with Faith and the cleavage and her..."
"Oozing of the sex?"
"Well yeah."
"The farthest we got was third and a half base."
"Third and a half base?"
"She went down on me, but there was never any penetration, I did however" Buffy's face got slightly red at the words she was saying, "I did uhm use my fingers and tongue on her."
"Oh," it took a half beat later for Willow to get the full picture, "Oh, wow. Why didn't you ever?"
"I just, there were a few times that we, I got close to telling her to, but it just, I don't know really. I wasn't ready. She knew and was happy with what we did. One thing Faith is great about is reading people. She knew I wasn't ready and then we broke up or were in the process when I thought that I could."
"Wow. So Faith was a good girlfriend despite the one incident?"
"She was. The first year we were together, I mean you look at her and you think bad girl, but she really is one of the sweetest people. Don't tell her I said that. She'll never forgive me."
"The secrets safe with me. It's just that I mean she's all, well she comes off kinda slutty and I'm all five by five and wicked cool man. Like the world could just take a flying leap off a tall building and she wouldn't care."
"She'd like people to think that, but no I'm afraid she's just as emotionally vulnerable as you or I."
"Color me surprised."
Buffy studied her girlfriend. This wasn't where she had intended the conversation to go, but Willow seemed good with the information. She let her eyes take in the pale form below her. How the girl lived in southern California and remained as porcelain white as she was was beyond comprehension to the blonde. She herself tanned with little to no help and always evenly with no burning.
"Will," she wasn't sure she was asking this, but she wanted Willow to know there was nothing to be scared of. An urge welled up in her to give the redhead this gift.
"Hmm?"
"I don't it's just that, I don't want you to be scared and well you can say no if you want and I'm very very happy with how far we've gonebutcanigodownonyou? It's just you should know what it feels like and wellireallyreallywantataste."
"Buffy, uhm, what did you just say?"
Finding her resolve she moved to eye level with her girlfriend and swallowed. "Okay see I asked if I could go down on you, and before you freak and bail on me listen please, you're worried about the taste and that's valid most girls are their first few times, but I really really want to. Let me do this for you. Please?"
Willow was redder than her hair. She couldn't believe Buffy had just asked her that and what scared the girl more was that Buffy was nearly begging and Willow despite her reservations couldn't say no to the face before her.
"I, are you sure?"
"Surer than sure I'm absolutely 100 percent positive. There's nothing I want to do more."
"Okay." The permission came forth without any thought. Willow leaned forward and snared the blonde's lips. Buffy took her time building Willow up. She wanted her to be on edge before she moved lower. Kissing her neck, ear and down, across her shoulder, she took her time. Waiting for the redhead to truly relax and give into the sensations of her mouth and tongue. She moved lower, from the right to left breast to the redhead's sides and down to her bellybutton that Buffy nipped at. Buffy's hands tugged at the hem of Willow's underwear and then slowly pulled them down. Willow's hands were buried in blonde hair. Buffy smiled as Willow shifted so that Buffy could get her underwear off. She divested of the clothing, throwing it somewhere behind her. Buffy moved slower and spread Willow further apart as she settled between the girls thighs. She licked, nipped and kissed soft flesh and then finally looked forward. The hair was neat, trimmed, red and as Buffy moved forward let the hairs touch her nose, realized they were soft. She looked up and locked on to emerald eyes. Willow looked more aroused than worried which was what Buffy was going for. The redhead gave a slight nod and Buffy smiled.
"Love you Wills." Buffy whispered the sentiment before laying her tongue flat against her nether lips and licking upward with a hard flat stroke.
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Willow laid there in post-orgasmic bliss, her breathing was still labored and her body hummed in approval from the blonde's ministrations. Buffy was still between her legs, her head resting just below her belly button. Willow groaned as Buffy shifted creating friction between their bodies.
"Hmmmmm, so was that the last part of my gift?" Willow smiled coyly at the blonde.
"No, that was a spur of the moment type of thing. The rest of your gift is underneath the bed."
"If it's anything like what you just did, uh, maybe you can give it to me tomorrow morning. I'm all boneless right now."
Buffy laughed and kissed her way up the redhead, "Nah, but anytime you want me to do that, just let me know. I could do that forever." Buffy kissed her lips and laid half on top of her and half on the bed.
"I'll let you know."
"K," Buffy rolled away and heard the whimper from the redhead. She looked down over the bed and rummaged underneath a moment before finding the gift box. She righted herself and went back to snuggling the warm body. Buffy placed the small box on top of the other girl's stomach and waited for her to open it up.
Willow picked the offered package up and tore the wrapping paper off. Inside sat a picture of her and Buffy from their trip to L.A. Willow thought back and remembered the day it was taken. They had all went to the park for a play, Willow and Buffy had snuggled up next to a tree. The pose was Willow lying against the blonde. They were looking at each other and Willow was shocked to see the look on both of their faces. It was clear to the redhead that even then she had fallen for the blonde and wasn't even aware at the time, but it was obvious in the picture. She ran her hand over the glass and smiled at her lover.
"Thank you. It's beautiful."
"You're welcome." Buffy leaned up and kissed the girls cheek. She couldn't keep the grin off her face as she laid back down. Her stomach growled in hunger and she giggled, "So what about dinner?"
Willow glanced at the clock and saw that it was 8pm, "Well no one is back yet. We could always call and see if everyone is still at Angel's"
"Not a bad idea. Why don't you go get cleaned up and I'll call my mom."
"What's to clean?"
"Ah, nothing.?"
Willow blushed, "It's just that, I can still feel you on me and I don't want to wash up just yet."
"It's cool. I wasn't planning on cleaning up much myself." Buffy moved to grab her phone and called her mom.
"Buffy, where are you?"
"Will and I just got back from the skating rink. Sorry we kinda lost track of time. Is everyone still there?"
"Yes, Angel and Cordy have some stuff they want to talk to us about and he's refusing to talk with out you two here. Do you want one of us to come get you?"
"No, we still have Xander's car. We'll see you guys in about twenty minutes."
"Alright."
"Bye mom."
"Bye Buffy."
She set her phone down and went about the room collecting her discarded clothing. She had just finished getting dressed when Willow came back into the room.
"Angels?"
"Yep, they are waiting on us. Apparently Angel has some news that he's not willing to share until everyone is there."
"Let's go then."