The Scooby Gang
Book I: Buffy vs. Powers
Disclaimer: I have no property rights to any published or copyrighted material that is reserved to those that make money from ideas which I do not.
Summery: This is the first book in a series. This takes place in a Buffy-Parallel verse that things happened a bit differently than they did in Cannon.
Warning: Multi Ship M/FFF ahead!
Added corrections as per reviews by Difdi
CHAPTER 4: Pain, Pains, Understanding, and a Javelin
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The group congregated in the high school library. Willow was driven by Cordy who'd stayed with her the rest of previous night. They'd planned to come to help research stone statues and Drusilla today. Willow was insistent on the research but Cordy wanted to talk with Xander about telling people.
Xander was first to arrived after Giles, he wanted to talk to Giles and then Buffy.
"Giles" Xander said coming in.
Giles looked up, "Xander, here to help research?"
Xander nodded as he set the donuts he'd picked up down on the table. Giles almost groaned at them. Xander asked him flat out, "You know Buffy's sister?"
Giles squints in concentration, "Dawn I believe?"
"She had some spell on her to make us ignore her; I'd say to the level of Marcy. I think it was the Powers. Its supposition but the fact that the spell ended shortly after Whistler delivered that statue… Am I grasping at straws here or…? Do the Powers That Be have some kind of limit on how much they affect our reality or influence people?"
Giles nodded, "There is limited information concerning Powers, their Conduits, and their Champions. I believe you have the right of it; their power on the mortal plain is extremely limited. The Powers and Infernal Powers, they are said to be the controllers behind the scenes. The Powers control who it is that is called, whereas the Infernal Powers, often called the Dark Powers, will influence demons on who to kill, where to go, and what to do. The Dark Powers are the main focus in the annals. It usually isn't an issue because the Dark Powers are far from subtle making investigating them simpler."
Xander groans at Giles, "If Dawn was that important; either side might have made us ignore her. Angel did a whammy to get me to remember. I wanted to know if I was under a spell all this time, it was confirmed."
This time it was Giles turn to groan, he barely manages to hold it in, "I am not sure I would have trusted Angel to do that, he could have forced you do to anything while under his influence." He shivered.
"I haven't much liked Angel, and in some things I don't trust him… but if both Powers are working to send him to hell and giving our enemies powers no pun intended; we need him."
Buffy hearing that last bit enters the library with a question, "Need who?"
Behind Buffy came Dawn in tow. Giles and Xander ignore the question and focuses on Dawn's presence in the library with her sister.
It's Xander that voices the thought on their minds, directed at Buffy, "I see you too were under a spell."
The voice seemed to shift making it obvious who Xander was talking at, "Dawnie, I would never ignore you if there wasn't a spell on us to make it so."
Buffy shrieks, "A spell!?" Her inner turmoil was relieved of the crushing guilt she'd been experiencing all morning.
Xander nods, "According to the whammy Angel put on me to relive all my memories this morning."
Upset Dawn asks, "A spell to make you ignore me, why?"
Xander hugged her. He couldn't help it. Buffy smirked at her younger sister taking full advantage of that Xander shaped hug. She'd taken advantage of those hugs in the past and knew how helpful they were.
"Xander pointed out" Giles started, "with the current state of affairs that it leads credence to the idea that the Powers were the cause of the spell. It could have been either Powers to tell the truth. However the 'why' of the spell is easily answered, you are someone that could either harm or help their plans."
Cordy and Willow entered the library, both of them seeing another woman in Xander's arms groan and glance at each other.
Cordy suddenly realized who the girl was. "Dawnie" she said and smiled slightly. "Why are you here?" Turning to Buffy with a whine in her tone at Dawn's lack of answer; "Why is she here?"
Willow bumped Cordy in the ribs with her elbow before glaring sternly at her, "Not that we don't want her here."
Cordy glared mildly amused at Willow. The new interplay wasn't lost on Buffy who was utterly shocked at it. One of the things Cordelia shared with Willow the night before was her need to have a conscious in regard to others' feelings, and agreed to allow Willow to be that if she could. Willow promised to try and help her but only if Cordelia promised to try to heed Willow's efforts.
Instead of Buffy answering it was Giles who explained what Xander did, had Angel do, and what the deduction was. After the brief explanation and theory Janna excused herself to collect a few herbs for a spell. They checked Dawn's aura to ensure there were not lingering or still active spells effecting her, then moved on to check everyone in the room for any active spells to affect their mind, control, and free will. This might not work with some forms of possession such as a slayer or even a Halloween costume as she can only check the persona and mind that is there, but it was good enough to ensure that everyone was who they thought themselves to be.
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The Powers were glaring at the board. Grudle growled in frustration; "Why are our moves being countered by our own pawns?"
Jasmine hedged her answer, not realizing it was a rhetorical question. "I don't know, but this last move will negate our influence even more."
Yutide shouted, "I want them off my board!"
"If I may," Jasmine's calm presence intruded overtop of the group's anger. "Glory is on her way there, we could have D'Hoffryn send one of his. Perhaps a wish might be in order."
"If you have ties to that demon lord, use them."
Grudle offered up, "We can send word to Kakistos that two slayers are in Sunnydale perhaps the appeal of more than one will stir his inner demon."
"Make sure that Miss Walsh and Richard are properly introduced!" he added instruction to Grudle's idea as the Power fades to a lower realm in order to interact with a messenger.
The simple limits prevented messengers from being in the same realm as the scrying boards. The Boards signified the level of existence and as such, a level of limit on how much they could interfere with the lower levels of existence. Using those that were between the two levels, neither in their realm or on the board was easily done. The more they interacted with the lower levels the harder it was to ascend to higher levels, but then the PTBs had no desire to join the ascended ancients or the others.
After the Jasmine and Grudle fled the Board Room Realm, Yutide, the Power in Charge (PIC of PTBs) looked down at an unused pawn one from the other side and smirked as a plan formed. He could see the path that pawn was going to take unaided by them. He was sure with just a bit more power that path would be taken a bit early. He pushed power into the 'enemies' pawn.
Warren Mears suddenly had the idea to make his sex bot a bit more purposeful and the ideas on how to do that were suddenly much easier to dream up. He smiled as he set to work and even took to whistling thinking of the parts he liked and parts he disliked, his mind already thinking of ways to improve the likes and use or eradicate the dislikes.
The Power groaned and sent more power hoping that the influence would push the pawn back onto his previously usable path. It didn't work and now the pawn was completely off the board it would never experience the desire to learn of the supernatural. That meant he'd just eliminated their and the Infernals ability to manipulate or influence the pawn's life.
As it stood now the geek would make loads of money and have sex with the machine girlfriend until the end of his very long and fulfilling life. It even appeared that he would fall in love with the sentient AI and spawn a melded AI that uses his DNA to provide a random programming fault that would give the 'offspring' a merge of human and machine traits.
It had change Warren's life. Despite the intent Yutide had acted with, his power was based in love, joy, fulfillment, and sacrifice which meant the misogynist born of lust and anger was never even close to the surface.
The Power screamed in frustration when he looked at the general path of the former usable Pawn of the enemy's. He let his anger get the better of him and as he was alone in the Board Room he smashed the board to smithereens. Within seconds the board reassembled itself and seemed to sparkle with new power as though it was taunting the Power.
Warren's mystical change and careful manipulation by the Lesser Infernal Power named Sigmund had was now for naught and it really pissed off the ITB. In eliminating the Pawn the PTB eliminated the ITB's usefulness in the current scheme of things. The other ITBs were shocked at the play and surprised they'd not considered this tactic.
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The phone range and Giles headed over to the library phone and answers it, with a crisp professional tone, "Rupert Giles speaking."
"What?" he was shocked. His voice held a barely suppressed anger, "Mr. Zabuto is there a reason I was not notified of this right away?"
A moment later the anger was still there but his words were overly polite. "I see, then I must go, good day to you Mr. Zabuto."
"Kendra is on her way here; the statue we are looking for is Acathla. Xander would you mind terribly picking up supper from that palace place; the Double Meat Palace?"
"Sure G-man" he said and Giles handed him two twenties.
"Kendra is most assuredly going to be hungry it is a very long flight."
Xander nodded get three slayer specials instead of two. He usually ate loads as well. He smiled at the mental work Xander was doing.
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While Xander was out, he stopped at home to let Angel know what was going on. "Kendra arrived today. At least the Council let Giles know this time even if it was at the last minute."
Angel lifted an eyebrow. It wasn't just the information; it was Xander coming to relay it instead of just waiting. Of course the information was good as well, he didn't hold any grudged against the dark skinned slayer, but he really would have preferred to have her stake him to trusting the human scum Willy to leave him in the cage and not free him later. Of course that's only with the thinking of him not having a soul.
"Anything else I should know?" he asked the young man.
Angel has suddenly understood, 'He's always kept the girls away from his home, no his parents. That is a good reason to let me know what's going on and come to do it himself rather than having one the girls think they should do it.'
Xander nodded to the vampire with a soul, "We're getting together at the library about sundown or shortly after. You might want to head there as soon as you can." He glanced at the door that faced the morning sun and Angel nods.
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Angel was about to leave Xander's basement still cognizant of Xander's last visit, 'Even if he just didn't want to have to follow me there, or he didn't want the girls around his father, it was still a bit too considerate for Xander. Maybe I should check the doorway for pranks.'
Angel wasn't sure, but then again after he checked the door he started to walk to the library mindful about Xander's recent alteration to his modus operandi. 'Xander's always gone out of his way to annoy me. Now he was going out of his way, even if a little bit to be polite to me. Is he suffering a bout of niceness?' He'd asked himself and smiled slightly. 'If that's what it is, I'm not about to complain.' The fact that he had been inside the boy's head and even now felt lingering energy from the strength of the boy's emotions, he couldn't simply pass the boy off.
'Xander's force of will was like nothing I've felt before. In fact all of Xander's emotions were extremely strong, stronger than I've ever felt. That includes that gut wrenching fear he feels when facing a vampire, or when he does it with one of the girls around, and I've had my share of tasting fear, at least as Angelus I have. I use… no not me… Angelus found fear to be intoxicating and had studied it like a geek would a comic.'
The demon had so enjoyed that feeling along side the feeling of having the power to cause that fear. Xander's fear was stronger but still was not enough to immobilize or scare him off. Angel knew that the only way for a master vampire to ever enthrall the boy would be the use of blood. Xander had such a wide variety of emotions that it would be difficult for a master vampire to ever overcome those emotions in him.
There were times that Angelus had used the thrall to great affect aside from fear, and in those times he'd more than once ran across anomalies that had a wide variance of emotions like Xander did but even they did not have a tenth of strength of feeling Xander possessed in most of his emotions. Usually when someone had conflicting emotions they fight against their influence and weaken, but even then it was next to impossible to thrall them as their emotions creep up on them. He could just picture Angelus trying to enthrall Xander and shook his head in amusement.
A few times Angelus has thought of doing a blood thrall on a woman, but if it worked they never acted normal afterwards and were of no use. Angelus had never wanted to create a ghoul. When a ghoul is created they share emotions with their master which goes both ways even if one is subservient to the other.
Usually a vampire can control the thrall, the ghoul, but the emotions are still there according what he understood and the idea that any vampire would share emotions constantly with someone that had that many that strong made Angel think of the three stooges played by a vampire and two of its minions, just to try and make Xander laugh so they didn't have to feel his darker emotions eclipse their own.
As Angel entered the library he paused, Dawn was here.
"Hey Dawn" he said softly.
She tuned and smiled forced. She didn't like him, he knew that instantly but at least she would tolerate him it seemed.
She looked around and glared at him. "You hurt my sister I'll make sure your ash is so spread out they'll never be able to find two specks of ash to put together." She said and nodded with a smile. He shivered he wasn't sure why people thought he would hurt her.
"It's good to see you here." He said softly.
She nodded with a smile. "Good to be seen… finally." She sighed, "They've been working on researching Drusilla, the stone demon, Acathla according to Giles. He got a call from some Zabuto guy and Kendra the Jamaican slayer is here with a sword."
He nodded, he knew some of that but not about Acathla; looking around it seemed the library was almost empty so he asks, "Where is everyone?"
"Buffy and Kendra are doing a quick patrol around the factory area. Xander and the two slayers spent some of the daylight hours to recon the neighboring buildings with no luck, they thought that with a stone statue of a demon it wouldn't be moved far and hoped that once night fell some vampires might return by accident. I know Xander mentioned burning them out during the day but without knowing where their new digs are that's not going to happen. They did have Buffy confirm that the factory was where Dru was in her dream. I think she was hoping her latest dream would have some hint on where she's moved to."
Curiously he asked, "The statue wasn't there?" double checking. He'd not thought to check when they looked before and was cursing internally. At least he wasn't the only one, he was sure Xander was too.
Dawn shook her head, "It was cleared out, but Xander is on his way back now. He said he was stopping at Willow's on the way." she frowned and asked him, "Willow and Cordy went home just after lunch, they spent most of the day together; isn't that weird to you?"
He raised an eyebrow and nodded. It was indeed strange as normally they were at each others throats.
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Xander entered the library in a daze. He'd stopped by Willow's to talk to her and ask why Cordy had stayed the night. Her parents were absent so he'd entered the house the way he'd usually done and headed up the stairs. This wasn't any different than normal. What he saw shocked him and made him a bit upset at first.
Cordy was sitting on Willow's bed with her arms around Willow. They were kissing and it seemed the hands were a bit wilder than Cordy had been with him. He was both sad and turned on; he wasn't sure what to do so he left silently. His soldier skills and hyena abilities had been pulled to the surface so it was natural for him to move silently and with the shadows. His skills played a nice part earlier with the recon.
"Xander, are you alright? Where're Willow and Cordy?"
"I'm sure they'll be coming soon. I didn't want to interrupt them."
Dawn nodded and went over and hugged him; he looked like he needed it and she'd still been high from all the physical affection she'd been receiving lately.
"You know," she said with an asking tone, "after we deal with this stupid stoned demon, do you want to catch a movie?"
He looked shocked and slightly amused that she had no problem talking to him as a dating interest regardless of his being a year older. "I'd like that but I think if I accepted, I would end up hurting someone I care for.
Dawn nods but before she can say something a voice from the doorway interrupted them, it was Cordy's voice, "Just go out with her already, Xander!"
He turned shocked she was there.
She crossed her arms and said, "You won't hurt me by accepting, unless you're in broom closets or stacks with some other girl and haven't told me?"
After talking with Willow she'd found she was just as turned on by the thought of kissing Xander as she was of the thought of Xander kissing Willow.
"No" he said, shocked that she was being so open about sharing their status.
Agitated, Cordelia asks him, "I thought you were going to stop by Willow's!?"
Willow nodded though she was flushed.
He looked down and said, "I did."
She sighs and says fondly, "Dufus," before complaining, "You could have made some noise and joined in."
She'd had it all planned out and he'd gone and ruined a perfect penthouse set up. Angel looked at the two sniffed the air and glanced at Xander and Dawn.
"Joined in?" Dawn asked and her eyes widened. "You caught them in bed together?" she had a sparkle in her eyes as she asked, "And you still turned me down after that? Are you two dating?"
Cordy smiled, "Not quite yet, we're just in the kissing and groping stage."
Dawn nodded pleased with the bluntness of the older girl. "It's a good stage so when did you start doing that with girls too?"
Just then Buffy and Kendra entered the library. Dawn interrupted whatever Cordelia's response, "Never mind I'll talk with you later. Sometimes, some people need a smack to the back of the head to understand blatant invitations." She told her fondly glancing at Xander.
Xander and Buffy seemed to take on an offended air and spoke in unison the same words of denial. "I so don't!"
They both turned and looked at the other, Buffy blinked in surprise, and Angel laughed… loudly. The laughter died almost instantly as he grabbed his chest in pain that would have been akin to an elderly man's cardiac arrest.
"Angel?" Buffy rushed to him. "Angel, are you alright?"
"I think so. That didn't feel too good! I felt burning like I was touching a blessed cross but deeper in." He rubbed his chest.
"What do you think it is?" Buffy was mother hen now.
"I don't know but it's gone now. There's an echo of the pain, but I really can't feel it now."
He didn't say the pain was still lingering strongly for his demon to feel. He smiled and shook his head. "We need to deal with the stone statue."
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Xander was confused and a bit worried. He'd come in three hours ago, Angel collapsed three hours ago, and the girls started giggling in the corner – yes, three hours ago. Cordy, Willow, and Dawn were there solidly. They would look his way and giggle as they whispered back and forth. Buffy had gone over and had come away minutes later shell-shocked, that was about two and a half hours ago or just longer. Since then Buffy had kept glancing at him with worried and awed expressions.
Angel had kept his slight smile on his face during these last three hours but Xander wasn't sure if the smile was because of what he was able to eavesdrop or some other odd reason, but he was sure the vampire was taking a delight in a younger man's confusion. Xander had no way of knowing that Angel's smile was over the demon feeling a constant pain that he didn't feel, but it had taken some time to realize the difference between himself feeling it and the demon feeling it.
Kendra had joined the three gigglers about two hours ago, when she first got back. She'd gone with Giles to pick up a few books he'd had at home. Since she'd been added to the corner of giggling girls she hasn't left. Her glances in his direction were followed shortly by her blushes.
Giles and Miss Calendar had ignored it, though Jenny had glanced a few times at Xander with a small knowing smile although she seemed to show more relief in it than anything else. Giles had been stern in his performance of ignoring of the four girls conversation topic. Xander was sure from the looks he's snuck of his mentor that there was a soft smirk playing at the corner of his lips.
They finally found a few things.
"It seems that the reason is lost but the spell recently ended on Dawn was a very powerful spell and it was tied into her magic. She was born with magic and had ever since but the spell was to make sure she had little influence on the changing life around her."
Sounding hurt, Dawn asks, "Why would someone do that to me?"
"My guess is that you would have had an extremely high impact on your sister's calling from the start and those that put the spell on you did not think that it would ever be broken."
Willow asked curious "Why was it broken, I mean can we tell that magically?"
"I believe we may eventually be able to determine if the break was purposeful and if so the motivation behind said break was. However that will not be for some time to come, to begin following the path we will need to etch runes into a wooden slab and then rub a few drops of her blood into the runes just before the rising of the light on the day before the sun is at its highest so before summer solstice." Giles said and they nodded.
"It's not a priority right now" Jenny spoke up, "Right now we need to find out why Angel's been in pain, what causes it, and deal with Acathla."
Kendra nodded her agreement and spoke with an accent. "The dream seemed to be directed at de statue and de sword."
"I don't know" Xander spoke up and Giles looked over at him. "I mean, it's stone right now, right?" Xander asked, he felt useful the last few days and his confidence was inspiring his forthright nature and unique thinking.
"Yes Xander." Giles nodded, and asked, "What do you have in mind, lad?"
Before he could answer he added a reminder of his last suggestion, "Flash powder worked marvelously with the arm belonging to the Judge."
Xander smiled. "Nitroglycerin or dynamite should work but I don't want to look up the steps to make Nitroglycerin and if I remember right there were warnings enough to detour even Jesse" he smiled slightly, "I was thinking of sneaking into the army redoubt near the edge of town. They should have some 'ground to air' missile launchers. We could drag the statue out to the middle of nowhere before we just blow it up."
Kendra blinked and looked at Cordy who was smiling and then at Willow who glanced at her and smiled herself. Dawn was the one that moved first and she hugged Xander.
"You're a genius." The youngest girl there claimed before adding, "If you can pull it off."
"I think I can if…" He glances at Willow and Cordy.
Seeing the look he was sending her Cordy asks, "What is dweeb boy?"
He could hear the husky tone she used when she said dweeb.
"I need you to dress like Harmony would and have some car trouble right near the edge of the redoubt just a ways away from the armory."
She looked offended but then gave him a shark-like smile. "Come on Willow, Dawn; you two are coming with me!"
Xander looked shocked at the declaration but nodded half shrugging. "I need Willow to use her hacking skills and shut off the silent alarm notices on the Armory, should be easier than the morgue."
Willow gave him a look that he took for affirmative, it wasn't quite a nod but as she grabbed her laptop…
Giles saw Xander's look as the boy turned towards him with an open mouth, as if to ask or say something; with a smirk Giles beat him to the punch, "I don't want to know!"
Somehow Xander knew that Giles was telling him he didn't want to know about the sudden giggling girls go in groups.
Kendra smirked sexually at the boy and tried to make her voice sound as husky and sexual as she could, "What do you need me for, Xander?"
He closed his eyes, knowing she was teasing. Buffy burst out laughing and buried her face into Angel's chest. He winced momentarily as the pain solidified in his demon again.
He widened his eyes, mumbling in shock, "My heart just had two beats."
Buffy eyes suddenly widened, she smiled and said, "I heard them!"
"I've never felt that before. It felt… strange" he said. "I think now that I've felt it. I might have had a single beat of a few times the last few hours. I wonder if that was the pain." He said trailing off.
"Maybe it was part of the curse against your demon?" offered Xander. "Becoming human, or more human? I would think a vampire would hate that."
Angel smiled. "Maybe you're right, Xander." He smirked, "If that's the case it's Angelus that's in pain, what could hurt worse than a heart beat? That's about as lively as life energy can get inside the heart without dusting a vampire. I mean the heart the center of the demon's power and life energy there usually destroys the demon."
He nodded, "I need wheels unless, Angel do you think you could give us hand and run the launcher quickly out of sight?"
He nodded but Kendra spoke up pouting just a bit at the distraction, "I will go as well!"
Xander smiled and nodded. "I may need help inside, too. So you can be inside with me."
She smiled widely. Buffy blinked in shock; there was most definitely a sexual purr about Kendra's smile.
Kendra announced, "I must go change into…" she paused and looked at Xander with twinkling brown almost black eyes and asked, "black?"
Xander nodded and she left. Giles had to ask, though not with any intent aside from teasing Xander, "Xander you didn't cast some spell to get all the girls to notice you did you?" His smirk was showing thought.
Buffy burst out laughing as Xander rapidly shook his head. "I've been with Cordy for a short time now. I went to Willow's earlier today, I hadn't even realized Cordelia was going to be there, though I guess I ought to have. They were making out on her bed." He said blandly. "Of course now, in hindsight I suppose that it would have been better to have made a bit of noise when I caught them out. Cordy said something about me joining in."
Buffy stopped laughing, her eyes wide with shock and her voice breaks as she asks, "Joining in?"
Xander smirked at her as Angel laughed at their interaction.
Xander shrugs, his smirk fading to a soft smile, "I really don't mind. I care for them both even if in slightly different ways. But I'm officially worried. Cordy was enough for me and now she seems to want Willow and if I'm not mistaken she was encouraging me to accept a date with Dawn. That doesn't even mention Kendra." He gestures with an almost panicked arm movement then sighed and slumped and whined out, "Why are they doing this to me?"
Buffy giggles into Angel's chest again. Angel felt his heart beat and smiled at the feeling and the top of Buffy's head.
There was a soft smile on vampire's lips and he turned up to face Xander. "Xander, I recommend that you let them set the pace. I made loads of mistakes with Buffy thinking to separate myself from her and I now see that was hurting her and me."
Xander nodded and Buffy looked doe eyes from Angel to Xander. The eyes were for Angel regardless of her glancing at him.
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Cordy, Willow, and Dawn were at the Chase Manor. "I can't believe he walked in on us and left." Willow moaned, "Am I that un-sexy like?" she asked the two girls.
Dawn giggled.
"I don't think so" Cordy said, "Though I have to admit that the kissing a girl was a new thing for me. It was much less passion to begin with;" she added, "but it felt just as nice. It was only lacking passion until…" she licked her lips.
"Xander got me hot and bothered with verbal sparing. The kissing was a release to a point. Though it made it build up faster every time." She smirked at Willow who was flushed while Dawn found it amusing.
Willow asks still flushed, "So why did he leave?"
Dawn answers her softly, "I don't think he realized he was invited and thought he was intruding. He looked heartbroken when he came into the library."
Cordy groaned and glared at Dawn.
"What?" she asked.
"Did you have to tell me that?" she whined, "I might admit he's likable and I have a thing for him but to know he wasn't going to interfere and was heartbroken…" her last word sounded more like a shriek before she let it trail off and pulled out a miniskirt handing it to Dawn, "This should fit you!"
It was obviously punishment for point out the facts and Dawn blanched at the size of it and hisses, "Fine."
The three were dressed like sluts to the extreme. Willow was in red and Dawn was in blue to complement her eyes what little of it was there. Willow had stockings and a belt for a skirt. Cordy had a skin tight leather skirt and stockings. But her blouse was leather too and it was just as tight.
Dawn licked her lips. "You know if you two kiss while waiting for the guard to distract, it would work out really well." She mentally added, 'For me.'
The other two looked at Dawn with utter shock at the arousal her voice seemed to relay. All the attention so suddenly, the giggling in the corner, and the sharing of very personal opinions, had Dawn very horny and she currently didn't really care if it was Xander or one of the girls that caused it or helped relieve it.
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Willow and surprisingly Dawn had worked on the laptop to hack into the base's computer system. Dawn was very good and working together gave Dawn a chance to test the waters. She was the first to tell you that she wasn't all together the most stable and balanced persona, she'd been utterly lonely all her life and this was really the first time she had a chance to live among others.
"Alright we're ready" Cordy said to Xander.
He turned and closed his eyes quickly before nodding almost eagerly. The girls all giggled.
"I too am ready and waiting" Kendra said from the corner, she was dressed in a black skin tight outfit.
He asks the three girls dressed in sexually appealing clothing, "You know what to do?"
The girls all shrugged.
Xander sighs, "You drive to about fifty feet from the guard shack, get out, and lower the air pressure in the car tire; one of the back ones on the side facing the armory."
Cordy nods and offers. "And then giggle and show him we appreciate his help?"
"Yes, make sure he's completely diverted for twenty minutes or so."
They nod; as they leave Willow flushes red muttering. "I don't know if I can do this, Cordy."
With a smirk Cordelia tells her, "You don't have to." Willow however knows that if she doesn't then the meaning of that smirk was, 'you lose'. That meant she had to.
Dawn spoke reassuringly, "Just relax, Willow."
They get into Cordy's car, all the front seat and start to drive slowly. This had two purposes; one was to give Xander, Kendra, and Angel time to get there but the other was also to give them-selves time to work up the relaxed courage to ignore the presence of another un-trusted male.
Cordy had been feeling bold ever sense she had agreed to kiss Willow waiting for Xander to show up. It hadn't worked out like she thought it would but she'd been turned on then and not shut off since.
Cordelia had one hand on the wheel, her left. Her right was stretched over a bit and resting on Willow's inner thigh. Willow wasn't complaining. She's long passed conscious thought and was moaning in need. Cordy moved her right hand up and down Willow's thigh agitating the redhead's state of being. Willow's UST (Unresolved Sexual Tension) was being resolved almost violently from Cordelia overloading her physical senses.
Dawn was on Willow's right side and both of her hands were on Willow's right leg. She and Cordy together had succeeded in spreading Willow's legs apart, exposing the redhead's soaked panties. Dawn was not as bold as Cordy and wasn't playing with the upper thigh. She was instead playing with Willow's knee.
Suddenly Cordy had her hand over Willow's panties and was rubbing up and down over the moist area. Willow was moaning; she was so close to an orgasm right then and there that she didn't care where they were. That's when Cordy stopped and popped the trunk giving Dawn's leg a good feel as she got to the glove box. She left the two in the car all wound up.
Before she moved out of sight, Cordy turned to Dawn, "Keep her worked up will you?"
If she'd thought a week ago she was lesbian she'd have freaked but for some reason she didn't mind and the thought of Willow and Xander or Xander and Dawn or Willow and Dawn turned her on.
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Cordy had let the air out and got the tire and jack out when she saw Xander and the other two ready.
She skulked up to the gate, "Hey, you mind helping a few girls out Mr. Soldier man?"
He looked out. Cordy had a bit of tire smudge on her forehead. He looked over and sure enough there was car with an obvious flat.
Jack Smith smiled and nodded. "Sure thing lass, let me grab my flashlight."
Cordy smiled gratefully.
There were two guards on duty at any given time of night. One was roaming and the other was always in guard shack. If they were going to sneak in they'd have to worry about the roaming challenge but going in the front negated that guard easily. Jack Smith kept an eye on the three girls and on anyone coming by, just in case. He never saw the three shadows move past him easily.
Jack Smith had introduced himself and the girls had giggled, they were a distraction on a boring night but they were jailbait enough that his suspicion hadn't raised a bit. It was quite a while before he got the tire changed and he smiled at the job well done.
"You young ladies have a good night get some air and that there tire and get it checked out." He told her and Cordy nodded and kissed his cheek. Jack might have been a strong middle-aged man of high morals but he wasn't immune to their affects. He went back to his post blushing like a school girl and getting razed by the roaming guard switching posts.
Willow was so worked up when the three got back into the car that she grabbed Cordy's hand and shoved it into her wet waiting center.
"Not until we get Xander alone." She said.
Willow whined piteously and pouted the entire return trip to the library.
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Xander and Kendra made their way to the armory sticking to the shadows and trailed by Angel; the vampire claimed he'd wanted to give them some privacy in a facetious tone.
Xander entered the key-code into the number-pad by the door and Kendra's eyebrow lifted, he didn't notice nor did he realize the soldier in his head was someone that shouldn't really have been able to gain a master access code for anything much less an armory for a base he'd never set foot on.
Getting into the building was somehow anticlimactic; Kendra had kept an eye out upon approach and as he was entering the code and there had been no surprises.
"This is what we need." He patted the box and intoned, "This is a FGM 148; a Javelin."
It was more like a crate than a box and it weighed more than Xander thought. Before he got to the door Kendra's voice interpreted him as she took in the weapons, "What are these?"
Kendra had never seen some of them but they were screaming at her to pick them up and play with them.
"Those are hand guns." He told her and then looking closer he sounded surprised, "That row is a Glock 18's. It's the only Glock that's also a machine pistol. I'm surprised they have them here. That row is MP5Ns; they're normally used only for Spec Ops and shouldn't be here either. That's a row of Beretta Nines, sorry M9's." He pointed, "Those are M11's also called SIG P228's. This is a row of M1911, that's P-90s, and these locked boxes at the end of the rows are ammo boxes for weapons in their rows."
Kendra had a gleam in her eyes. "We should grab some while we are here."
Xander hesitated but sighed, "We'll need to grab one from each row to keep it even." He shivered, "They will notice this but if they don't right away then they shouldn't be able to time it down without serious investigation. Investigation in Sunnydale isn't going to happen not with the Sunnydale effect."
She nodded and opened the crate with the Javelin. They put one of each hand gun, a number of rifles or carbines whatever they were called. He put in a grenade launcher both an M203 and another that he didn't know the name of. It was stuffed and Xander couldn't lift it without extreme strain. She giggled at his attempted manliness and lifted it for him.
Xander picked up a large canvas bag and collected couple of the officer's swords, large combat knives including a K-bar and bayonet. He added to that a few M18A2 Claymores he slung it over his shoulder, grabbed an M84, and put in a few M116A2 hand grenades before he strapped three medium sided cases that held some kind of optics. He wondered if they'd catch on first to the missing weapons or the night vision and heat sensor specs.
"We've been here too long; we need to hurry." He said as he piled the things he'd picked up and strapped on, to the top of the case. The girl smiled and pulled him into a kiss and nodded. He was shocked and dazed as he left slowly following the girl carrying close to four hundred pounds of weapons.
Angel was a great help and they rushed away just in time.
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