Disclaimer: I do not profit off any of this in any way and do not own any of the characters.
Detective David Vega sat at his desk, currently working on paper work for a case he recently closed the week before on a narcotics bust. He's been a detective for the past five years and devoted family man, doing his duty while trying to stay connected to his family. His wife Holly was a nurse and both his girls were growing up attending high school at a performing arts school here in California. It wasn't always easy but he loved them and would never give up on any of them.
That train of thought brought him to think of his youngest and her recent revelation that Holly had told him about after he came back to the hospital from taking Buffy home to a seemingly dark and empty house. He wanted to say something but she just smiled at him as she jumped out saying "thank-you" and heading up to her front door so he just sighed and headed back to his beloved wife just thankful she was still alive. He had seen Tori's reaction to when Buffy came into the room but he had mistaken it for adoration for someone who had saved her mom but apparently that wasn't exactly the case, there might have been some adoration but from what he was told it was more of an attraction.
He honestly has no problem with Tori admitting that she was gay, it's more for the fact that she's driving herself nuts because of it. This morning she looked like she hadn't gotten any sleep last night and there were more than a few glares between the two younger Vegas, he just chose to stay out of it. Tori hadn't told him yet but he was sure she would soon but hopefully she learned to calm down before then.
His cell phone rang interrupting his thoughts, he realized he had been staring at his paper work for the past couple minutes so he shook his head and grabbed the phone. "Detective Vega" he spoke clearly. {"This is Susan with Out There Wrecker and we have some of your wives personal belongings here. After our driver bought it in he found a purse in the floor board. Most of the items are destroyed from the water but some things like her ID survived intact."} He smiled "that's great, I'll stop by about noon and pick up everything there is." {"Noon is fine Mr. Vega we'll see you then."} David hung up the phone and concentrated on his paperwork, he was taking his lunch to do that so he really needed to get it done.
His unmarked car pulled to the wrecker service where his wife's destroyed car was. After letting the girl know who he was she went to retrieve the purse. While he waited he had a thought so when the girl "whose name was Julie" came back he asked if he could see the car. She happily agreed and led him out into the service area and out the back around the corner of the building straight to the destroyed vehicle.
He walked up from the rear, looking in the back window seeing the soaked interior, continuing to walk around to the driver's side where he noticed it was strapped down to the car. He furrowed his brow in confusion looking closer at the seam of the door noticing it bent outward like it had been ripped open, looking closer taking in all the odd details and moving to the front. He moved closer and his confusion only grew noticing the U-shaped dent in the grill, which shouldn't even have been there since she never hit anything or anyone. He stood there just staring at the car trying to come up with what could have made the damage since nothing in the reports stated anything else. He finally forced himself back to his car but had decided to check the traffic cams around the area and see if there was anything there to explain the cars condition.
Buffy crouched down waxing her brand new 2005 Hayabusa with gentle care. After they had left the house that morning they went straight for a local diamond retailer where after waiting for an hour they were finally meeting the owner, they showed the crude uncut stones explaining they were family heirlooms. The owner took a while confirming what Buffy and Dawn already knew, he could hardly control himself and offered them a rather large check in which the girls suspected to be a low figure for what they had but didn't really care since it wasn't hard to find more.
They both went straight to the bank depositing the check and went shopping for anything they could think of, which when Buffy saw the dark red motorcycle sitting on the showroom floor of a dealership they were passing decided in that moment that would be her bike. The 1500cc's of raw power and sleek low to the ground nature was just calling to her and nothing was going to stand in her way. Of course when Dawn saw what Buffy was after she wasn't going to be left out so they ended up with two very fun and very fast bikes in which they put to the test running the highway up the coast pushing the bikes limits and loving every minute of it.
Buffy smiled at the memory, that had been two days ago and now they planned to go riding again since it was Sunday hoping the traffic was lighter. Buffy was just going over the last coat without really seeing what she was doing allowing her memories to unfold when she was interrupted "I didn't know waxing needed so much concentration" came from a feminine voice behind her. She smiled knowing that angelic voice anywhere but didn't turn around "no but I didn't have anyone to talk to so I was out here all by myself." Buffy finished with a playful pout even though it couldn't be seen.
"Well hopefully I can be enough company for you?" She said somewhat flirtatiously.
Buffy stood up and turned around seeing smiling cholate brown eyes looking right back into hers "I don't think I'll ever get bored talking with you." Buffy smiled seeing the light blush.
Tori smiled tucking a strand of hair behind her ear "My mom came home yesterday and her and my Dad wanted to invite you and your sister to dinner tonight. I convinced my Dad to give me your address so I could come over and ask myself, I hope that's ok?" Tori said with slight concern.
She shook her head "I'm glad you came by." Buffy stepped closer and hugged Tori tightly relaxing into the embrace after feeling Tori do the same. After a few moments they slowly let go taking a step back but both girls smiling brightly at each other. "You're free to come by anytime, and I'm sure we can find something to do. Actually" she turned around and pointed to the two bikes "we just picked these up the other day and were about to go out riding, if you want to come with us you can ride with me." Buffy smiled turning back to Tori.
She was about to respond when they heard a new voice interrupt them "Hey Buff, you done with your bike yet or are you gonna sit out here petting it all day." Dawn said coming out the front door. She saw the other girl standing next to Buffy, she briefly wondered who it was, so never being the shy one decided to go find out. "I just finished up with the last coat a second ago, and it's not my fault if I like my stuff to look good." Dawn smiled while walking up to the other two knowing that was going to be Buffy's answer.
Tori watched as the girl Dawn walk from the house to them noticing the similarities between the two sisters. She smiled at their banter glad they seemed to get along better than her and her sister and knowing it was just the two of them being on their own they seemed to be doing good. She extended her hand "hi I'm Tori."
Dawn shook her hand "oh so you're the famous Tori I've been hearing about?" she said while chuckling only to receive a nasty glare from her sister but sparkling eyes from Tori. She leaned into Tori and staged whispered "I'll tell you all about it later" which got Tori giggling and Buffy's face to briefly turn red from embarrassment. Deciding to change the subject she made a quick decision and turned to Buffy "hey Buff I need to make a few calls and visit our neighbors" she pointed to the Tasker house down a couple houses and across the street "so why don't you head out without me and I'll catch up later." She briefly flicked her eyes over to Tori.
Buffy was confused for a moment until she saw her eyes flick over for a brief moment and she smiled and turned to Tori who was watching the sisters "so how about it, you want to join me for a little ride?" She turned back to Dawn all of a sudden "oh yeah were having dinner with Tori's family tonight, her mom and Dad invited us so no ordering out for us tonight." She saw Dawn nod her head and turned back to Tori who was looking slightly nervous.
Tori didn't know what to say to that, she had never been on the back of a motorcycle before but the idea of riding behind Buffy holding on to her while speeding up the coast line with the sun setting was the perfect picture of beautiful to her. She briefly looked to Buffy's bike then back to her who was smiling and looking at her with a hopeful expression. Tori started to bounce in place getting excited by her romantic fantasy "Ok, I'm in."
Dawn stood back smiling glad her match making idea was working out. She didn't really mind not going riding today and she really did need to make a call later. She watched as Buffy and Tori talked about where they were wanting to go and how Tori had never been riding before, they walked around the bike while discussing it.
"Alright I need to go in and change, so do you want to come take a tour of the new house, maybe Dawn will show you around?" Buffy said the last part while looking over to Dawn watching her nod ok. She needed time to find something that looked good hoping Tori would think the same thing.
Tori was more than happy to see the house and she was also curious to see how just two teenager sisters lived together "I would love to come in." She walked along side Buffy as Dawn led the way up the porch into the house. She looked around the almost spotless front room "I'll be back down in a few minutes" she heard Buffy say as she bounded up the stairs.
Dawn looked over to Tori "this is the front room" she motioned around the large fully stocked living room. A large sofa dominated with a large flat screen TV and a nearly empty book case against the wall, there were also several paintings hung up. Dawn continued on down the hall motioning to two spare rooms and a utility closet. She opened each door showing a fully furnished bedroom with a queen size bed and flat screen in each room. She shut each door only leaving the utility closet only to pass it up without even looking at the closed door. Tori found it strange but shrugged it off following Dawn through the house in which they ended in the kitchen without going up stairs yet. "Do you want a bottle water or we have some pop, your choice."
"Bottle water sounds fine" Tori said while sitting at the counter while Dawn moved to the fridge. "So do you guys know when your mom's supposed to be back?" She asked hoping it wasn't too personal.
Dawn grabbed the water and turned back "nah, she's doing what she think she needs to do and me and Buffy both support her in it." She handed her the bottle and leaned against the counter "when she sees the house we're hoping she likes it, we put in the art work you saw hanging on the walls in yesterday since she loves art and even owned an art studio at one time." Dawn smiled thinking about her mom.
Tori couldn't help the look of surprise she wore "your mom's never even seen the house?"
"No, we moved from Colorado straight here, she let us handle everything and with the help of some really good movers we had it set up in no time." She smiled softly at Tori seeing her surprised expression for a second "she wanted us to move here and continue our education so after talking it out we all were ok with it. She's with some really great people and we know she's learning a lot but I do miss her, we both do so we're keeping ourselves busy so we don't dwell on it to much."
Tori nodded and smiled, she sounded like a great person and was looking forward to meeting her but she thought for a second. She didn't remember seeing any family photos hanging or on any shelves, something she found odd since every family had at least one. She went to ask when she heard Buffy walking into the kitchen, she looked over and froze at the dangerously sexy woman that just entered. She looked to her feet and continued up all the way to her seemingly glowing blonde hair in which she was sure was because of the light. Right then and there she decided she loved leather after seeing the jet black leather pants she was wearing along with the skin tight plain red shirt and black leather jacket.
Buffy saw Tori look at her and freeze in place looking her up and down which…was precisely the reaction she wanted. She smiled while waiting a few moments for Tori's eyes to meet hers, she didn't have to wait to long before she was staring into beautiful brown eyes. She watched as Tori's eyes widened in surprise at being caught checking her out and turned a very interesting shade of red which made her chuckle. She looked to Dawn who was smirking so she scowled right back "don't you have a call to make?" making Dawn roll her eyes but grinned and nodded her head while turning to go call Henery about certain neighbors deciding to not to tease Buffy any more.
Buffy turned back to Tori after Dawn left the room seeing her looking nervously back at her so she softly smiled at her trying to put her at ease "So how do you like the house?"
Tori smiled feeling her embarrassment fade after a moment "I loved it, your mom's going to be proud of what you guys have done with it."
Buffy laughed lightly at that "Dawn picked out most of it, we went to a few places yesterday" she shook her head "I was so lost, I actually felt like a true blonde dealing with some of that stuff." While she was talking she had grabbed a water out of the fridge using the chance to subtly check out Tori from the corner of her eye. Taking in her tight black skinny jeans that hugged her hips just right, to her deep purple blouse hanging off her tanned shoulders and straightened brown locks with sun glasses perched on top of her head. Even though it was December it was still warm during the day.
"I have some friends that are into art but I'm lost when it comes to anything close to it." Tori said trying to make Buffy feel better. She was a singer and loved everything about it along being a decent actor or at least she would like to think so, she worked hard at school to become the best she could be.
Buffy finished her water and threw it in the trash along with Tori's empty bottle "you ready to head out? We can go wherever you want to and since I just moved into town I think it's your duty to show me the sights." Buffy finished with a cheeky grin facing Tori.
Tori only nodded trying not to scream with excitement, being so close to this mysterious but beautiful blonde was more than she could have hoped for. After begging her dad into letting her come here to ask she became nervous on the drive over, trying very hard not to work herself into a frenzy about what could happen or what she wanted to happen. Seeing Buffy again was the only thing she could think about after they met in the hospital, sitting in class Friday she couldn't concentrate even in some of her more favorite classes. Now she was going to be spending the rest of the day with Buffy arms wrapped tight around her while they were pressed close together.
Dawn listened to them leave and shook her head, she hoped everything worked out ok with them, even though she hadn't really talked to Tori to get to know her but she seemed like a really good person and they planned to go over to her house tonight for dinner. Which gave her plenty of time to get a few things done and what she told Buffy was only part of what she wanted to do.
She walked down the hallway to what she told Tori was the storage closet reaching up to above the door for the hidden key and unlocking it and replacing it. She walked into a midsized room with a laptop and a secure phone line the secret agent guys set up before they moved in courtesy of the NSA, it was pretty self explanatory and easy to use only needing their individual passwords to use. There was also a wall full of different kinds of blades they had got a hold of the past couple of days directly behind her. She sat down at the desk and typed her password in allowing a moment for the machine to load up. After it was done she was able to click on the program to secure the line and picked it up dialing a number stored in her phone. {"Ah Ms. Summers, so good to hear from you again. How's the house, I was assured it was a great find."}
She smiled hearing the somewhat familiar voice "Mr. President, I've told you to just call me Dawn." {"And you young lady I have told you to call me Henery"} he chuckled over the line. "Well to answer your question the house is fantastic, whoever found it for us really knew what they were doing." {"Well I'm glad you like it and I'll pass along your compliments."} He paused for a moment {"Now what can I do for you since I don't think this is just a social call."} Dawn nodded "yep about that, Buffy and I got to talking about the neighbors I met the other day and came up with a couple conclusions" she took a breath and gathered her thoughts for a moment "we think somebody moved us here on purpose to have our neighbors keep an eye on us." She paused again "now what I need to know is if they're a threat or are they just somebody's idea to just keep an adult eye on us?" He sighed deeply hoping he hadn't hurt the trust between them {"I'm sorry Dawn, I wanted somebody just to keep an eye on things and they are two very trusted retired NSA agents who even at one time saved Miami from a nuclear threat almost ten years back. I wanted you close to someone I could trust, all they know is you're associated with Project Blue Book but nothing specific about the program since he doesn't have the clearance level."}
Dawn sighed knowing he meant no harm with his actions "alright but when Helen slipped, me and Buffy thought we were being watched by someone not of the good, we could have taken care of them if we hadn't stopped to think for a moment." {"And for that I am grateful"} "Yes but without the right information we almost did so I'm asking you to send us the info on anyone around here we should know so something doesn't happen that it shouldn't." There was a brief pause {"you're right and I should have told you girls, you both have the clearance of course. I'll have the information sent to you soon."} Dawn smiled "thanks Henery." He chuckled "you are welcome Dawn now I must get back but if you need anything else don't hesitate to call me. Good bye Dawn."} "Bye Mr. President!" She ended the call and could have sworn he was chuckling as he hung up, she really did like him. She sat back in the chair thinking of what to do next, she could go visit the Taskers but she wanted to wait for the information first so that left one thing which she was looking forward to. So she got up locking the door behind her and walked out only briefly glancing in the Taskers direction before hopping on her bike, she was looking forward to buying a new car since all they had were bikes and with the money they had left she was planning on getting her a nice one.
Buffy and Tori rode until they reached the coast line, Buffy kept the speed down to the directed speed limits since she had Tori beautifully wrapped around her while they made their way through traffic. She drove loving Tori's arms wrapped around her middle and when she put on a burst of speed occasionally her hands would tighten up pressing into her stomach which she did maybe a little more often than necessary. Tori was loving the ride, they didn't talk much since yelling over the wind wasn't very appealing but that was ok with her and she took every chance she could to squeeze Buffy feeling her rock hard abs.
They rode up the coast line to a little pizza shop called Sal's Pizza, pulling into an open spot on the side of the building since a couple of high performance cars were parked in front. Tori got off first after a moment's hesitation not wanting to let go but knowing she had to and Buffy feeling the same way. Buffy walked next to Tori really wanting to hold her hand but not wanting to push to far so she settled for next to her "so…have you ever been here before?"
Tori was grinning like an idiot but didn't care, she shook her head "I didn't even know it was here really. Me and my friends came to around this part of the coast wanting to go swimming but we ended up getting trapped in my friends trailer for hours" she shook her head and looked to Buffy who was looking at her in both confusion and wonder which made her giggle "it was so hot that day and it got even hotter inside since the windows wouldn't open." She laughed at the memory "my other friend Robbie even got so thirsty he drank fish water but ended up throwing up in Trina's hand bag" making them both laugh.
They both walked into the pizza joint looking around they found a table out on the patio so they could enjoy the sea air and the beautiful view of the ocean. Sitting across from each other they chatted until the waitress came by, both girls ordering something light not wanting to spoil dinner in a few hours at Tori's. "So how's your mom doing?"
Tori smiled brightly "she's doing great, she came home yesterday looking good and the only way you can tell something happened is by the bandage on her forehead where she hit the steering wheel." Tori then reached out setting her hand on Buffy's "all because of you she's fine and back home" she said slightly misty eyed.
Buffy blushed at the praise but didn't know what to say so she just dipped her head then looked back up and locked eyes with Tori only than she seemed to realize her hand was incased in warmth and looked down to see a perfectly manicured hand over hers. Apparently Tori noticed she was still holding Buffy's hand but before she could move it back in embarrassment for being so bold she felt the blondes hand move and interlock their fingers together making her heart rate speed up. She locked eyes with Buffy again and saw a nervous smile playing across her face, she understood right then what was happening and she offered her own reassuring smile putting Buffy to ease watching as the actual tension left her shoulders.
The moment was broken when the server brought their food, only then did let go of each other's hands and sit back while their food was set in front of them. Buffy grinned watching the slightly red tint that appeared on Tori's cheeks but never once looking from her which told Buffy what she wanted to know. They ate in a comfortable silence enjoying the view of the ocean and each other and after they were done and Buffy paid the bill they made their way back to Buffy's bike for the enjoyable ride home.
Buffy was just about to swing her leg over the bike when a smoky voice interrupted both her and Tori instantly grating on her nerves.
"Well well look what we got here" the over muscled jerk turned his head to his two friends who were all shaved sporting tattoos everywhere and wore jeans and dirty leather jackets, he grinned and turned back to the two girls sporting a nasty smirk "a couple of dyke bitches that have no idea how good a man can be. I think we could show you ladies what real men can do."
Buffy felt Tori start to shake, she looked over and noticed the wide eye look and anger welled up. She never wanted that look in Tori's eyes, she turned her attention back to the greasy biker wannabe's and took a step forward and slightly in front of Tori and took up a bored appearance "so…you three are going to show us huh?" She giggled "and some people wonder why I'm gay, I don't know why anyone would want a floppy tube of meat" she shuddered thinking about it "but my girl is more than enough and can do things your tiny thing would never be able to do."
Everyone was silent for a whole minute speechless, Buffy could feel Tori staring at her but didn't turn around. She watched the leader turn red with rage not having the brain power to come back with anything except "you little bitch!" before he charged bringing what looked like a hunting knife from behind his back. She idly noticed two other people come around the corner and start running straight for them but her main focus was the guy charging and wanting to gut her. She heard Tori scream but ignored it watching the guy who was at least a foot and a half taller than her and outweighed her by a good 200 pounds got within striking distance, she grabbed the wrist holding the knife with her left hand and used her right to palm thrust into his chest making him stop in his tracks and groan in pain for a split second before her fist came across his jaw breaking it instantly and knocking him out all in one. He fell flat on his face kicking up some dust from the sandy pavement, she looked to the other two leather clad assholes but noticed they were down from the two other people that entered the fight.
Buffy turned back to Tori and noticed she was still shaking but looking at her with concern so she smiled trying to put her at ease and gripped her hand locking their fingers again to try and calm her down. "You ok?" Tori gave her a hesitant smile and nodded. Buffy turned to the two people who were walking up to them glancing to the guy I put down but back to us in a second.
"You girls ok?" The brunette asked, Buffy just nodded her head and squeezed Tori's hand who had stopped shaking. "Names Letty and this is Dom" she gestured to the other guy.
I smirked "thanks for the help."
"Doesn't look like you needed much help" Dom said glancing over to the guy I knocked out. He had a deep gravelly voice and if I wasn't gay I probably wouldn't want him any way but she could see why other women would with his wife beater and muscles.
I shrugged "I'm Buffy and this is Tori" she said introducing both of them. She looked over to Tori and noticed a smile directed at her so she smiled back feeling better that she didn't seem terrified anymore.
Dom looked past Buffy and Tori to the bike parked behind us "nice bike."
"Thanks, I just picked it up the other day." Buffy said.
He looked to Buffy then to the guy laying unconscious a few feet away from the group then back to Buffy "it looks like you can handle yourself pretty well too" he said smirking.
"Are you kidding, she was amazing!" Tori said surprising Buffy while jumping around to the front of her and wrapping her arms around the blonde's neck holding her close. Buffy could feel her cheeks heating up a bit but loved the feeling of Tori's body pressed up against hers. She let go and turned to the only people to come help them "how'd you guys know to come help us?"
"We were in there having lunch when we saw you two leave but those three were watching you and got up to follow after you were around the corner." Letty said shrugging. She had noticed the two girls sitting at one of the tables laughing with each other, she silently thought they looked pretty good together making them memorable for the moment.
Buffy was about to reach her hand out and thank them one last time when she heard slow movement, she concentrated only vaguely noticing Tori thanking them again when she heard a click. She moved her eyes to one of the biker wannabes, using her x-ray vision she saw while laying on his stomach he had grabbed his gun and was using his body to muffle the movements and sounds he caused. He begun to pull his gun out when her instincts took over but knowing she couldn't do anything super human she only had one option which was the blessed knife kept in a sewn in sheath in her leather jacket she did herself in the back vertical just to the right of the spine upside down kept in with a simple snap.
Buffy grabbed her knife and threw with deadly precision already knowing it was going to hit where she wanted it to. The others had stopped talking and Dom had even moved in front of Letty but all movement stopped when everyone saw what had just happened. A beautiful looking knife had been thrown about 40 feet, it stood at an angle with the hilt shining in the sun and the blade sticking a quarter of the way into the concrete holding his arm in place by his leather jacket.
Buffy ignored the sudden looks she got from everyone and walked to the struggling goon who wasn't smart enough apparently to switch hands quick enough before Buffy was standing next to him. He was in the process of switching when she used her foot to press down on his wrist making him whimper in pain so she could reach down and grab the gun. She looked down at him with nothing but contempt, human evil here is just as bad as the vampires back home "look at me" Buffy said quietly. He slowly turned his head with his face contorted in pain he looked up but the moment he saw her eyes he also saw a fist making his world go dark into unconscious.
Tori stood there frozen in place after watching the blonde do what she did, she knew she should probably be kind of freaked but right now there was no one sexier than Buffy right now. She was saved again…well maybe not her, that guy could have shot anyone of them but she wasn't thinking about that while watching Buffy pull her knife from the ground. Tori watched as Buffy walked back towards them but was looking nervous and shy while putting her knife away, she understood in that moment that she was more afraid of her reaction than anything else. That right there told her what she needed to know about Buffy and even though she carried a knife and knew how to use it, she knew how to put down a guy 3 times her size Buffy was afraid of a negative reaction from her.
"Where'd you learn how to do that?" Letty asked while gesturing to the guy the small blonde had knocked out.
Buffy shrugged while walking towards them only keeping her eyes on Tori "I had a couple of serious teachers back home." She stopped in front of her "are you ok?" she whispered, afraid that the brunette was about to freak out and never want to talk to her again.
Tori kept her face blank for a few moments but she saw how Buffy was getting more nervous by the second so she smiled brightly and nodded her head "I'm good."
Buffy released the breath she was holding and was ready to jump up with joy knowing she wasn't going to run from her but held in the impulse. She turned to the two others and saw both of them smirking so she just rolled her eyes "so…I think it's time to get out of here before someone sees this."
"How about you guys come back to our garage with us, meet the rest of our crew and we could even put that bike of yours up on the rack and see what we could do about pulling the most out of it." Dom said "even if it is on two wheels" he added.
Buffy looked to Tori and shrugged, they had a while until dinner tonight and they were just going to ride back to her place so this was a chance she could take to spend more time with the sexy brunette "it's up to you, we can do whatever you want."
Tori bit her lip with indecision and glanced to Letty and Dom, she was weary about going to hang out with strange older people but this was a chance to spend more time with Buffy and she was confident nothing was going to happen since Buffy had a way of saving people. Even though both Dom and Letty were two very intimidating people she didn't get a bad vibe from them and they had even ran to help them when no one else did. She looked to Buffy and nodded "sounds good to me."
"We'll see if you girls can keep up" Dom smirked and turned to go get in his car with Letty following to get in her own car.
"You really want to do this?" Buffy asked pulling her leg up and over her bike straddling it.
Tori followed suit making a note of the strange hardness pressed into her front that she knew now was the sheathed knife but didn't let it bother her. She shrugged while her hands wrapped around Buffy again "it sounds like fun and I know you'll be there to protect me" she smiled and squeezed loving the feel of rock hard abs under her hands.
Buffy smiled watching as two high performance cars turned out on the road and sped off with high speed. She looked over her shoulder to Tori "hold on tight and enjoy the ride" she finished with a wink and took off laughing when she heard Tori yell with excitement.
They followed both cars flying in and out of traffic up the coast. Despite the speed Tori was having a blast, she knew somehow without a doubt that Buffy wouldn't let her get hurt and doing something so dangerous was thrilling. She gripped her tighter when Buffy took them around a bend in the road at high speed and squealed when she accelerated still following Dom and Letty.
Tori had never done something like this, it seemed to come so naturally to Buffy as they raced through traffic passing cars with ease. Buffy was a force of nature and nothing was going to stop her, when that big guy attacked her she thought for sure Buffy was dead but not only did she stop him she knocked him out. She could have sworn she heard a loud crack as Buffy hit him across the face and when she threw her knife to stop the other guy from pulling his gun she just about swooned and confessed her undying love for the blonde. Thankfully she hadn't since her head would have exploded from the rush of blood due to her embarrassment. No, thankfully she stopped herself from looking like an idiot but god help her she wanted to.
They pulled up to an open building in a business district, the large door was open and Buffy could see a couple cars inside with people moving around. Buffy pulled in behind the two cars she was following parking her bike outside the garage and shut it off, feeling Tori climb off so she could do the same. Tori made to walk up and say hi but Buffy grabbed her shirt sleeve halting her in her tracks which made her turn to look to a blushing blonde.
Buffy let go and looked everywhere but directly at Tori "I just wanted to say sorry about what happened back there" she gestured behind her "I basically outted myself and called you my girl all in the span of 15 seconds which has to be some kind of record, I mean who does that ya know? Apparently I do so I hope I haven't made things to awkward between us or if you are I understand and can take you back to your car." Buffy said in one long breath.
Tori watched as Buffy babbled on working herself up more and more. She grabbed the blondes shoulders "Buffy! Buffy! Relax you didn't make it weird or awkward." She finally caught Buffy's eyes glad to see she would actually look at her now but after a moment she let go looked down and whispered "and maybe I liked being called your girl."
Buffy froze not sure she heard right, she looked at Tori who was the one that wouldn't look at her now and smiled brightly. She reached to cup Tori's cheek to get her to focus on her and leaned in slowly not wanting to scare her off and pressed her lips softly against Tori's. Buffy felt the half Latino freeze for half a second before relaxing enjoying the fireworks going off behind her eyes. She pulled back missing the contact instantly but gazed into warm cholate colored eyes, she stroked her cheek with her thumb while smiling enjoying the intimate moment until it was broken hearing Letty yell for them "hey love birds, come on!"
She smiled even more watching Tori's cheeks tint red, she grabbed her hand and laced their fingers together "come on let's go see what these guys are all about." Tori nodded still somewhat dazed from where Buffy had kissed her, she could still feel the tingling on her lips and could even taste a hint of strawberry chap stick. There was a small whisper in the back of Buffy's mind after she kissed Tori, after they parted she tried to figure it out. It wasn't anything bad just a feeling of something she couldn't discern but mentally shrugged it off, it didn't really matter and if it did she would figure it out eventually.
Buffy walked with Tori into the large garage with several cars spread out with some in the air and some with parts spread all around. Everyone in there stopped what they were doing to look at the two girls that had just walked in, all wondering why Dom and Letty would be letting them in.
Dom was about to introduce the two girls but Vince stepped forward interrupting him while leering at both of them "so you're bringing bunnies in now Dom?" Vince said. He turned to face him with a hard look but turned back around to the two girls. Dom said nothing wanting to see what Buffy would do when Vince put his foot in his mouth and said the wrong thing knowing he always gave new people a hard time.
Buffy watched the byplay between Dom and this guy Vince and when Dom never said anything back to this rude asshole she understood what he was doing. Buffy needed to show him just why she wasn't this bunny he was calling them, he was Dom's friend so she decided not to hurt him too badly. She glanced to Tori and sent her a quick wink and squeezed her hand which got a small smile in return.
Vince smirked "so sweet heart you here to be the entertainment cause I got a private room in the back so we could have some privacy." leaning up against his car he developed a cocky stance.
Buffy grinned and walked towards Vince swaying her hips back and forth knowing all eyes were on her but she needed to teach this guy a lesson about how to treat her and Tori. She walked right up to him with a smirk of her own, placing her left hand on his chest "I can be very entertaining when you get to know me" she whispered sensually while stepping close to him.
He smirked back "how about we head in the back and you can show me." He made to move but her hand bunched his shirt pinning him to the car but what he didn't see was the fast movement with her right which no one else had seen. He felt it though when the seam at crotch was being cut open from the bottom slowly, he paled losing his smirk instantly and looked down slowly seeing the held knife this girl had pulled from nowhere so close to his precious junk.
Buffy grinned "move an inch and you're going to be singing soprano the rest of your life." He nodded but didn't move. "Now all I need you to do is apologize to my girl Tori and me and we can put this whole thing behind us. We're just here to be friends so after this we can move on and never talk about this again." She arched her eyebrow in question.
Mia had watched as both girls walked up hand in hand smiling, if they weren't a couple then they would be soon. She wondered why her brother would bring them back to the garage but before anyone could ask him Vince had to step forward swinging his huge male ego. She was about to step in to protect the two young girls but didn't get the chance when she saw the blonde walk up to him and press him against the car a speak softly so no one could hear what they were saying. She raised an eyebrow when she saw him become deathly pale and look down so she followed his line of sight which caused her mouth to hang open.
"So you think you could do that for me so we could be friends or should we just go the other route?" Buffy asked quietly nudging him slightly with the knife making him wince slightly.
He nodded his head slowly and relaxed exhaling deeply when the blade was taken away. He saw her step back and swiftly put the knife away behind her back with ease and smile at him gently before returning back to her girls side. He straightened up and walked up to both girls "look back there what I said was rude and I apologize." Tori grinned and Buffy nodded, he seemed like he could be a good guy but he thought too much with another part of his anatomy.
Dom walked up impressed with Buffy after everything he'd seen, she couldn't have been older than eighteen but moved and fought like a seasoned veteran, like she'd been doing it her whole life. "So now that you met Vince let's meet the rest of the crew." He started pointing to everyone "that's Mia my sister over there and over there is Jesse" he pointed to a gorgeous black haired beauty and a young looking guy who looked a little twitchy. "Over there we have Leon and you've already met Letty" he said gesturing to her behind him.
Buffy waved smiling wide "Hi, I'm Buffy and this is Tori."
Dom turned to Jessie "I need you to hook up her bike for me and see if there's anything you can do to tweak it a bit." He smirked and looked over to the blonde "from what I've seen she's not afraid of a little speed and can handle it." Jessie nodded and headed out to get the bike with Buffy, Leon following and after more than a few moments hesitation Vince followed too. The guys wanted to get a look at the bike and after a while everybody was paired up for the most part either talking or working or even screwing around.
Buffy had gotten lost when Jessie was telling her what he could do with her bike and was talking with Vince and Leon. Dom and Letty were under the hood of her car doing something there and Tori and Mia were sitting on the other side laughing at one of the stories Tori had told her.
"You don't think she went a little far back there? She doesn't seem like the psyco type but the girls got skills Dom but Vince was just being his usual self." Letty said while tightening down her alternator.
Dom was standing next to her watching her work "no, she understood the situation and she didn't even hurt him which we both know she could have." He paused long enough for her to look up at him and catch his eye "and your just pissed you didn't think of it first." Letty just shrugged with a smirk and got back to her car.
Mia actually liked Tori, she found she was easy to talk to and sitting back just talking about random things wasn't bad either but there was still a question she hadn't asked yet so when there was a lull in the conversation she leaned forward and slightly whispered "so…you and Buffy seem pretty friendly, plus she keeps glancing over here looking at you." She nodded in the blondes direction.
Tori smiled and tried to be subtle about trying to see what Mia was talking about but gave up after she was looking way to obvious and she heard Mia chuckle at her. She smiled anyway "today was like an unofficial date I think, we just started it hanging out but it became much much more." Tori looked around to make sure nobody was ease dropping then leaned in to whisper "she kissed me after we got here, she wanted to talk for a second but ended up just kissing me." Tori felt so much better, she was about to bust with needing to tell someone.
Mia genuinely smiled at that, these two seemed like a really cute couple and it looked like it was just starting to happen.
After a while Jessie came over to where Buffy was still talking and laughing, she actually liked both Vince and Leon. After Leon stopped trying to hit on her and Vince laughing at his lame ass attempts they all got along pretty good, they showed her their cars that they had put so much work into. She was actually impressed and if they did what the boys were telling her they did then well…she wanted one, it sounded like fun and a car she helped build would hopefully be able to handle her reaction times. "Buffy, I did everything I could without putting any new mods on."
Buffy smiled "thanks Jessie, we need to head out in a few minutes so your timing is perfect." She turned to head over to her bike "so what did you do to it?"
"I changed the factory settings, changed your gear ratio so you'll have to get used to that but you should notice you're not running through them so fast." He was walking with her up to the bike "I did a few more things but it's a little technical but basically you'll take off faster and you'll have to let me know if you ever hit top speed."
Buffy smirked which all three guys standing there couldn't tell if it was a good thing or not and Jessie hoping she didn't end up killing herself on it because of him. She ran a finger along the body of her bike loving the feeling but it gave her an idea, she hadn't noticed Dom walk up she was so lost in thought over what she wanted. She looked over to Jessie "hey Jessie, could you put together a list of local cars…maybe ten or so, of the ones you think could have potential to be great at street racing after it was done? I'll pay you 200 dollars to do that and let me know in a couple days that way I can pick one." She looked around to four stunned faces "I might need somewhere to keep it while it's being worked on though" she looked straight to Dom "I guess I could take it home and work on it in my garage but that would take a lot longer." Buffy shrugged not really wanting to take it home but this was Dom's garage and his crew so she would do what he wanted.
Dom shrugged off his stunned silence and smirked "you know how to fix up cars now too?" He walked up to her "because what you're talking about can get costly and a lot of work to get it to where I would let it roll out of here." He looked her dead in the eye "I'm not gonna let some half assed street racer roll out of my garage and make me and mine look bad." He turned around and walked up to Letty who had joined their conversation noticing Mia and Tori walking over to them. "There are rules, my rules and if you can't follow them then you can find your own car and find someone else to teach you." He had a good feeling about her and after seeing what she could do with a blade and her bike she apparently had no fear and didn't back down which the type he liked to roll with and maybe someday call family, he held out his hand to her "welcome to my crew."
Buffy and Tori pulled up to her house, not seeing Dawns bike in the driveway she wondered where she went but as long as her dear little sister was back in time to head to Tori's for dinner she wouldn't call and find out. Buffy parked her bike feeling Tori get off from behind her and Buffy following suit. They stood in awkward silence for a second, they hadn't had any time to talk yet but both wanting the same thing. They were standing close so Buffy reached out and lightly hooked her fingers with the brunette making their eyes meet and Tori smiled softly. "Thanks for coming with me today Tor, I had a great time."
"I had a great time to." Tori almost whispered.
Buffy gathered up her courage "I would like to take you out to dinner and maybe a concert or a show next Saturday. I'm really wanting to spend a lot of time getting to know you." She held eye contact only vaguely noticing the sun setting allowing some street lights coming on.
Tori could have jumped up screaming for joy after that but held herself in check only smiling so wide her cheeks were going to hurt tomorrow but didn't care "are you asking me on an official date?"
Buffy chuckled and nodded "yeah and I would also like it if I could call you my girl from no on?"
Tori stepped up to Buffy allowing her to automatically put her hands on her hips pulling her in at the same time Tori wrapped her arms around the blondes neck "I would love to be your girl."
Buffy grinned not able to speak at the moment with Tori's body so close to her own, she leaned in and softly met the half Latino's lips with her own in a slow light kiss. She sighed into the kiss relishing in the feeling of Tori's body pressed into her own loving the way they seemed to fit together perfectly. With oxygen becoming an issue for Tori she pulled back slightly with her eyes closed she smiled wanting nothing more to continue, she had never felt this way after a kiss with any of the guys she dated before. They were always so forceful and rough and sometimes grabby and pawing at her, this was nothing like that and she was loving every moment of it. "I would love to keep kissing you but I should probably get home and help with dinner since I know my sister probably hasn't lifted a finger to help." Tori said saddened, she didn't want to leave but she couldn't leave her mom to all that work either.
Buffy nodded and smiled "it's ok, I should probably figure out where Dawn is and get ready to head to your house." They slowly let go and Buffy led Tori to her parked car. Buffy laughed feeling giddy "I have to have dinner at my girlfriend's house." She shook her head "that is a first for me."
Tori laughed and squeezed her hand "you'll do just fine. I have faith in you, plus you saved my mom's life so their bound to really like you." Tori knew they already approved of Buffy when she had come out to her mom so she didn't have to stress over that particular issue. "I like your car" Buffy said as they walked up to the new looking Ford Focus.
Tori smiled "thanks but it's just a rental. I borrowed this from my mom since she's waiting for the insurance company to get her a new one and I don't have one of my own." She ducked her head slightly embarrassed "it costs a lot to send both Trina and I to Hollywood Arts so they don't have the money to get me a car yet." She sighed and looked back to Buffy and put on her best smile "but I've almost got enough money saved to buy a used car so it shouldn't be to long from now.
She unlocked her car and got in after Buffy opened her door and looked up to see the blonde lean down for one last kiss before they parted ways which she gave more than willingly already addicted to her soft lips.
"It's ok Tor, it'll all work out. I'll see you soon" Buffy whispered mere inches from where she pulled back from Tori. She noticed the faint whisper again but ignored it since it didn't seem that important.
Tori nodded dumbly after Buffy had just kissed her but smiled all the same. She closed her door and pulled away trying to keep Buffy in her rear view mirror until the last possible moment but all too soon she was too far so she sighed happily and drove home feeling excited and alive. She turned up the radio and started to sing along as loud as she could needing to expel the excess energy, she checked her phone for any missed calls and updated her status on her Slap page.
Tori briefly thought about what she would put as her status on her Slap page. The social media web site all her friends used along with everyone in school and millions of others was great and easy to use but she wasn't sure what to change her relationship status so she kept it the same and would talk to Buffy later tonight. All she wanted to do was shout her relationship from the roof tops but she didn't know what Buffy wanted to do so she updated having a truly great day and her mood, dreamy.
Buffy watched Tori's car drive out of site and almost skipped up to her porch, she couldn't believe how today went and even more unbelievable was that she had a girlfriend now. Something she was proud of and wasn't willing to hide them from view, Tori was beyond beautiful and being able to say she was hers was more than mind blowing.
Buffy reached for the front door when her cell started ringing, she was startled for a minute still not used to having it. She had only really heard of them back in Sunnydale, featured in magazines but never really put too much thought into it since no one she knew had one. She reached in her back pocket and answered the unknown number "Hello." {"Well if it isn't my favorite mighty mouse blonde teenager."} the caller said with amusement. Buffy dropped her head and sighed "ha ha Jack, still sitting on your ass doing nothing?" Buffy said with equal amusement, she really did like Jack O'Neil and after meeting him got a long with him just fine.
He laughed {"yeah well we all can't be all young blonde and full of energy Summers, they got me sitting here doing paper work all the time but every once in a while I get to get out of here."} Buffy walked into her kitchen to grab a bottle water "if you don't you'll end up sitting there letting yourself go and I know you don't want that." He chuckled {"well you're right about that."} Buffy took a swig "so what can I do for ya?" {"I need you to call me back on your secure line, I got something important to talk to you about."} Buffy paused mid sip at that, that could mean a lot of things but it sounded like she would get to at least hit something "sure Jack, just give me a couple minutes, I just got back in." {"Make it fast Summers, I got other things to do and contrary to popular belief my world doesn't revolve around you."} Jack said, he really did like both Summers girls after he met them. After he was introduced to both of them they all seemed to just naturally get along, it didn't take long before he felt pretty protective over the two girls. Buffy laughed lightly "you love me and you know it so there's no denying it." She hung up before he could say any more and headed to the one locked room in the house.
After logging in she waited a second for the secure connection before she heard the ringing, Buffy sat back in the chair waiting a second for Jack to pick up. {"Alright Summers, time to get down to business so I can get home, I've got a new episode of the Simpsons to watch and a beer waiting on me."} She rolled her eyes "yes sir General sir, I'm ready to be all I can be" she said with a mock salute. {"That's the army"} he said in a monotone voice {"ok, after you and Dawn caught Kinsey for which I can't think you enough for by the way, Carter and a team have been going through his computers. It turns out Kinsey wasn't the only one with a brain washed goa'uld in his head, he had a couple test subjects from his own personal strike team. We've in the process of tracking the few out there but we're still searching along with any other off world tech they might have. Carter did her smart person routine hoping to get a hit and we got lucky, one got hit and had and his finger prints popped up about an hour ago."} Jack paused and Buffy looked at the screen of her laptop where the info of this guy had just popped up.
Buffy looked it over {"you should have the info now, his real name is Allan Taper but he's going by Jeff Barnes. He was picked up this morning by NYPD after sexually assaulting a young woman in her apartment then beating her. The local PD showed up during the beating when neighbors heard screaming, he was extremely intoxicated but it still took several taser shots to put him down and get him subdued."} Buffy shuddered with disgust. {"He was one of Kinsey's first attempts with a brain washed goa'uld but he was a little unstable so Kinsey made him into a lab rat but apparently escaped after three months and has been living under the radar ever since. He's a trained Special Forces operative and after reading the reports of the arresting officers he's manage to put three of them in the hospital before they got him into a cell."}
"Is the girl going to make it?" Buffy asked. {"She's in the hospital right now and will be there for a while. Physically she has a black eye and a broken wrist and some broken ribs but mentally I have no idea."} "Alright what do you need me to do?" she asked already having an idea. {"I need you to head to New York and be there by 2130 (9:30pm) and head to the FBI building where two SG officers are arriving by helicopter to meet you on the roof. The two officers know who you are but they don't know exactly what you can do."} He chuckled all of a sudden {"it seems you have a fan club too. They both volunteered for this assignment after everything that happened in Atlantis and they've both been part of SG teams.
Buffy scrunched up her brow wondering what he meant "um Jack, why would anyone volunteer to work with me? {"Major Graham Miller was the one you and your sister saved from one of Wraith ships and Captain Riley Finn is his best friend who was stationed on the Daedalus at the time. They were both planet side on leave for some R&R, the Major talked to me about wanting to meet you and thank you so I figured this was the best time."} Buffy sighed glad he was ok but still slightly uncomfortable with people thanking her.
{"Anyways since it will be almost impossible to find the right building from the air Major Miller has a green strobe light he'll activate once they arrive. After you meet up you assume leadership of your team as an official operative of the NSA as per the Presidents orders. He sees a lot of potential in both you and your sister."} Buffy felt a little shocked but also pride that the President would put so much trust in her even though she still had a lot to learn he knew she could get the job done. {"Now don't let this go to your head mighty mouse, think of this as a trial run and Miller and Finn are going to report back to me."} She rolled her eyes but was grinning all the same. {"The three of you will take the vehicle waiting for you in the underground car garage and head to the 16th Precinct and talk to a Captain Cragen, you'll have to take it from there but this is your show."}
Buffy was looking over the file Jack had sent her while listening, she felt this was going to be pretty easy although she knew that could change in an instant but she wasn't going to let anything stop her from getting this guy. "What's being done to help the victim?" She could practically feel his warming smile {"All her doctor's bills are paid for and that includes everything for her recovery and a good portion of Kinsey's assets will make sure she'll never have to work again."} Buffy smiled wide at that "good, I hope she gets all the help she's going to need.
Buffy got done skimming through the information he had sent "yeah Jack I can take care of this guy and I promise not to break your SG guys either." He grinned {"we train'em tough Summers so I hope they can hold their own or at least refrain from crying."} She laughed "alright Jack, if that's it I got somewhere to be and with the time difference between here and New York I have just enough time to enjoy myself before I fly off to get this done." Jack chuckled {"keep yourself safe Buffy and tell Dawn I said hi."} "Bye General" {"Later Mighty Mouse."}
Authors Note: Thanks for reading guys. I'm still just getting my footing on actually writing a story instead of just reading them so if you have any suggestions just post it and I'll take it into consideration. Plus if you want to see any certain cross over that you think would work in my story post that and I'll see what I can do.
