Disclaimer: I do not own either Buffy the Vampire Slayer nor The Covenant.

A/N: alright, here is chapter two. Feel lucky it got completed, i know i do. Copper has been very A.D.D this past week so it's hard to get him to sit down and feed my ideas. KyroxIsxSmexy: thank you for the review :) I must agree, you do have to love Reid.

Chapter Two

"Buffy." Reid whispers in my ear, his hand lightly tickling the exposed skin on my side where my shirt has ridden up slightly. "Wakey wakey." I groan and bury my face in the pillow that smells like him. He just laughs at my antics. "Come on honey, we need to get up so you can make yourself pretty for Caleb." I groan again, I don't want to confront Caleb, especially if he's as bad as I'm thinking he is. "He needs you." Reid whispers in my ear.

With a sigh I roll over and open my eyes to look at him. I can't help but smile at his bed head hair. Even with all his beauty and power, he could still look so childlike and innocent when his guard was down. "Alright, I'll be a grown up now." I say, pouting up at him still leaning over me grinning. He lowers his head to rest his forehead on mine, looking me in the eye.

"That was the best nights sleep I've had since you left." he tells me, smiling coyly at me, probably hoping for a blush.

I just laugh at him and stroke the side of his soft face. "Don't think I've slept that soundly since the last night I was here either." he just grins at me in that special way only Reid can. After a minute more of just staring at each other I sigh and roll out from under him to climb out of the bed. Standing next to the bed I glare down at him, laying on his side with his head resting in his hand watching me. "Why don't you have to get up?"

"You take longer than I do." he tells me, nestling back under the warm covers and closing his eyes. I growl at him, reach down, yank the pillow out from under his head and smack him with it before I grab my shower bag and a towel and head out the door to the showers down the hall.

A couple hours later Reid is criticizing my outfit as we walk across the parking lot to Nikki's. "Tell me how boots with five inch heels and a long leather skirt is proper attire for fighting."

"Not that I plan on fighting but I've taken on demons in less appropriate clothing." I inform him.

"Such as…"

"Well, there was the formal dress I died and then killed The Master in. the eighteenth century gown I beat Spike down in. oh! And that time I stumbled on a sacrificial ritual in stilettos and a mini skirt." I tell him, recanting only part of some of my horror stories. "That was a bad night. Went home covered in blood and goop and smelling like a barbeque pit." I shake my head. I'd really liked that skirt too. "I suppose it's better than smelling like sewage."

Reid just smiles and shakes his head. "Someday, you're going to explain the whole 'died' thing you just mentioned."

"You got it." I tell him. "But it's really not as interesting as I'm sure it sounds."

"I'm sure." he says, holding open the door for me and then follows me into the loud bar. "I'm gonna go find the guys, get us drinks?" I nod at him and he gives me a kiss on the head before disappearing in the crowd.

I make my way to the crowded bar and lean across the counter to get Nikki's attention. He glances over, recognizing me almost immediately he leaves the people he's helping and makes his way over to me grinning. "Buffy!" he exclaims loudly, practically pulling me completely over the counter for a hug. "Drinks on me." he tells me when he lets go, grinning. I'd forgotten how exuberant he was.

"Thanks Nikki, it's great to see you too." I tell him, laughing.

"It's great to have you back. What'll it be?"

"Two Pepsis and some chicken fingers." I tell him, it'd been much to long since I'd had his amazing chicken fingers.

"You got it babe." he says before heading to the back, leaving me sitting at the bar. I sit down on one of the bar stools and lean my back against the bar to watch the room. When I focus myself I can feel out all four boys different power signatures and I notice that Caleb's has been tainted with another. Reid hadn't told me someone willed Caleb their powers. I glare at the strangers in front of me as the slayer tries to figure out Caleb's new powers. After a minute Nikki's back with my food and with another grin he gives me my drinks before heading off to help more people.

With skill that would impress Giles, I balance my food on top of one of the drinks and maneuver my way across the bar, following my senses to a table in the corner where I know my boys are sitting. Walking up behind Caleb I smile at Reid sitting to Caleb's right and place our stuff next to him. I lean into Caleb and whisper in his ear. "Hey stranger." he turns his head quickly and I meet his surprised brown eyes with a smile in my own green ones.

"Buffy?" he whispers and the next thing I know he's wrapped his arms around me and picked me up off the ground. The instant he touches me the slayer is straining to get at his excess power. The slayer knows it doesn't belong to him and she wants it. Without my consent I'm suddenly kissing Caleb, pulling his power into myself. I immediately start fighting with myself to pull away from him, but it takes too long for me to over power the champion and by the time we've separated there's too much power in my system and I faint, barely aware that someone catches me before I hit the floor.