Title: Together (2/4)

Author: Bert

Disclaimer: BtVS characters are owned by Joss Whedon, The WB and Mutant Enemy, no copyright infringement is intended, blah blah de-blah

Summary: Still pointless

Willow glanced up from the book she was reading and gazed longingly out of her window into the bright sunshine. Stretching she stood up and paced around the room trying to relax after a hard mornings studying. "I know, I'll go see Buffy" she told herself, "she must be awake by now"

Reach Buffy's room Willow gently knocked on the door, getting no reply she quietly opened the door and slipped inside to check that she was ok. "Oh my god" she blurted when she saw the scene in front of her, closing her eyes she slowly counted to ten and opened them again, it was still there. "Oh my god" she repeated not believing what she was seeing.

Buffy stirred and softly kissed Xander on the shoulder before she noticed the other occupant of the room, "Willow" she gasped gently nudging Xander. "Willow is here" she hissed into his ear.

Xander groaned and tried to bury himself further into the bed, "why do you have a tree in your room?" he asked.

"Not a tree stupid, it's Willow"

"Our Willow?"

"Willow" she confirmed.

"Willow?" his muffled voice came from somewhere in the pillow where his face was buried.

"Willow" repeated Buffy whilst grinning sheepishly up at object of their conversation.

"Our Willow?" he asked sleepily.

Buffy nudged him harder, "it's our Willow"

"Oh" Xander suddenly sat up and turned over in one graceful movement, realising that this move had inadvertently exposed more flesh than he was willing to show he frantically grabbed the covers and pulled them up to his chin. "Willow" he grinned, "what are you doing here?" he asked.

Willow looked across the room at them snuggled together in the bed and quirked an eyebrow, "I could ask the same thing" she said.

Buffy struggled to come up with the right reply, "it's well, er, you know…"

Xander glanced over at Buffy, "it's not what it looks like" he said hurriedly.

Willow smiled, "it looks like you just slept together"

Buffy nudged Xander, "nice move" she whispered.

Xander grinned at her in return, "ok.." he drawled slowly, "but it's not what you think" he finished triumphantly. Next to him Buffy merely rolled her eyes.

"I think you just had sex" she accused.

"She's smart isn't she?" he said aside to Buffy.

"Uhuh"

"Ok" started Xander lamely, "it is what it looks like and what you think but is it… eek" he trailed off with a small squeak as Buffy grabbed something she shouldn't have under the blanket and gave it a little squeeze.

"Can you erm.. leave now?" she asked imploringly.

Willow smirked, "I'm out of here" she grinned, "I can't wait to see Giles' face when he finds out" giving them a parting wink she giggled mischievously as she exited the room.

Buffy pulled away the covers pushed Xander back down onto the bed whilst kissing him, "you were saying?" she asked briefly breaking away.

Xander looked up at the object of his affections, "ah never mind" he said as he surrendered to the inevitable.

Buffy smiled and slipped closer to him, "thought as much, now where were we?" she asked pulling the covers over them.

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"Shh" whispered Buffy as she quietly opened her room door, stepping out into the corridor she motioned Xander out of her room before silently closing the door behind them.

Slipping her key into the lock she froze at the slight sound of metal scraping against metal. Biting her lips she turned the key and winced at the quiet click as the tumblers inside the lock turned. Glancing nervously up the corridor she let herself breathe softly when she realised that they had made it.

"Hey Xander, Buffy" said Tara as she walked past.

Buffy groaned and slumped against the door as the door to Willows room flew open and she came running out, "we gotta talk" she exclaimed grabbing each of their hands and pulling them outside.

"So how long have you been sneaking behind my back?" Willow asked as she licked her ice cream.

Buffy looked away from Xander long enough to answer her, "since last night" she said.

They walked in silence for a short distance, "It's a beautiful day" Xander spoke up suddenly, "the sun is shining, the birds are singing and Buffy is in my arms. Everything's perfect"

"I'm going to be sick"

"Willow" exclaimed Buffy shocked, "ok I admit he's still a bit mushy but it wasn't that bad"

"No, I'm mean sick" she replied clutching at her stomach trying to hold its contents in, "I think that ice-cream was off" she ran off towards the toilets.

"Should we follow?" asked Xander concerned.

Buffy thought for a moment, "nah, we better go tell Giles about last nght"

"What, all of it?"

"Just the demon" Buffy smirked, "well it's either that or a thousand questions from Willow"

"Good point" Xander said hurriedly as he grabbed her hand and pulled her along with him.

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"Well here we are" Xander said as they stood outside Giles' home, "do you think Willow has got round to telling him?" he asked.

"Dunno, but there's one way to find out" she said entering the house.

"Hey Giles" they said nervously.

They relaxed when he looked up from the book he was reading and merely said "morning". Giles looked across at the clock, "you're early" he said.

Xander glanced at Buffy and shrugged, 'he doesn't know' he silently mouthed to her. "We came across a freaky demon last night" he said.

"Freaky" Giles said, "just how freaky"

Xander grinned, "really freaky"

"Really freaky" Giles repeated slowly, "would that be slightly freaky or run of the mill freaky?"

"I'm telling you Giles it was really freaky," exclaimed Xander as he tried to describe what they saw last night.

Giles frowned, "freaky? Really, a demon that looked freaky how strange" he said sarcastically, "now should I look that up under F in the demon almanac?" he went and picked up a book and flicked slowly through it, "f.. f.. f.. ah yes here it is, F for Freaky demon" he looked back at Xander, "well what do you know, it's in there"

Buffy sighed and decided to break up the argument before it started, "it flew" she said, "it was large, about the size of a horse".

"Bigger," interrupted Xander.

"Ok, maybe a bit bigger." She replied giving him a quick smile, "it was dark coloured and well looked freaky"

Giles looked like he was ready to explode, "I need more to go on"

"That's just it" Xander replied defensively, "even though we saw it, we couldn't exactly register what it was" his voice became quieter, "it was too horrible, as it approached I felt that I had to flee, to put as much distance between myself and it as I could." Buffy moved over and sat next to him when he finished the description.

Hearing this description Giles' blood ran cold as he recognised what they were describing, "oh my" he whispered softly before rushing towards his books. Pulling out the dusty tome he frantically flipped through the pages, "is this it?" he asked pointing at the picture present.

They leant forward to look at it, "yeah, what is it?" she asked resisting the urge to kiss her boyfriend in front of the watcher, Giles is old and well it would be ick. Her thoughts stopped and backtracked a bit, 'Boyfriend' she smiled to herself, she liked the sound of that.

Giles pulled the book back and read the name, "it's a Thrixacotl"

"So what's a Thrac.. Thrax.. Thicotal… a whatsit then?" he asked struggling to get his mouth around the strange name. Right now there was something much more interesting he wanted to get his mouth onto, as well as his hands and… well. He blushed slightly at the trail of thoughts he was having.

"A Thrixacotl" Giles supplied the name again to his inattentive audience, they broke away from looking at each other with difficulty, "it's a soul eater" he said simply not really wanting to ruin their moment.

Buffy came right to the point, "How do we kill it?" she asked darkly.

Giles relaxed, "they're quite easy to kill, holy water is lethal to them, the merest splash is enough to finish one off. If you go out patrolling remember to carry some, it will be your only chance, the reports say that the dying by one is painful but naturally there haven't been any survivors to confirm it."

"We know, it had caught someone when we saw it"

Giles looked worried, "The more important question is who was stupid enough to summon it"

"What?" they exclaimed shocked.

"Oh yes" Giles beamed at having an audience that was listening and not making smooching noises during a lecture, "they aren't a proper demon as such as in not hell related. They're from another plane and can only remain here whilst the summoner is alive, it's anchored to them so to speak." Giles smiled at them impressed that they managed to keep apart during his speech, he would never have thought that they would last this long.

"We done?" asked Xander hurriedly.

Giles smiled, "We're done for now, we can finish this later tonight. Now you two can go and do whatever." His grin widened when he saw them grab each other's hands and dash for the door. "Oh by the way" he called stopping them at the door, "congratulations" he chuckled at their shocked expressions before they hurried out.