A/N: This is it...unfortunately this fic ran outta steam for me. Lack of inspiration/too many other ideas for other fics/the plot sort of ran its course is the reason for the end. Really thought this would be longer than ten chapters, but what can you do, right? Thanks to everyone who has read the story and reviewed, always encourages me to write more for my entertainment and for yours of course :)

Faith woke up rather late the next day with Buffy curled up next to her, her hand idly running over the dips and curves of her naked hips. Her head was pounding just slightly as she squinted at the bright sun that streamed in through the partially closed blinds. She smiled at the memory of the night before, the ache between her legs evidence enough of how great it had been. After midnight had passed and after having more than a few drinks with their friends, they'd made their way back to Faith's room. The sex had been incredibly mind-blowing and they barely could stop touching and kissing each other until after the sun had rose before they collapsed in each other's arms and let the inevitable tug of sleep pull them away from their ministrations.

"Morning, baby," Buffy smiled as she trailed her lips over her breasts, over the nearly disappearing love bites on her neck and stopped when she reached her lips. "Sleep well?"

"Always do with you," she replied, smiling sweetly as she pulled Buffy fully on top of her. "And good morning to you too, baby."

"Faith, last night was..."

"Incredible?"

"Yes," Buffy laughed as she lightly kissed her. "Incredible."

Faith swept her hands down Buffy's back, kissing her deeply as she gripped onto her pert backside and flipped them over. Buffy smiled against her lips as Faith settled between her legs. She was lost in the moment, kissing her passionately as she trailed her right hand over Buffy's thigh, feeling her shiver under her light touch. Buffy moaned softly as Faith ran her fingers over her already hot and wet pussy, teasing her clit as she pulled away from the kiss slowly. She deftly ran her fingers down the length of her slit, staring deeply into her eyes, knowing what she wanted and yet refused to give her exactly what she needed.

"Baby..." Buffy breathed out softly. "If we start this...we're never going to get out of bed today."

"Kind of the plan, B."

Buffy raised her hips upwards into Faith's hand as she continued to tease her clit. "Oh god, Faith."

"You want more, baby?"

With a quick kiss to her lips, Faith began to trail light kisses down her neck and across her chest, sliding under the covers fully as she teasingly licked each nipple before continuing her descent downwards. After spending all night making love, Faith knew just where to touch her, where to kiss her, that would send her tumbling over the edge in a matter of minutes. It amazed her the first couple of times just how fast Buffy came for her and it amazed her even more so with every little way Buffy's body would react to her touch.

She'd never had morning-after sex, her previous bed partners were always long gone before the morning. She loved how different it was with Buffy. She just couldn't get enough of her, she couldn't stop wanting to hold her and just be with her. Buffy obviously had no objections to having a little morning-after sex either and Faith stopped as she reached the closely trimmed hair at the top of her nearly bare pussy, breathing in her intoxicating scent and feeling her own body begin to react. It was rather warm under the covers and she stopped to pull her hair back from her face and breathed heavily over Buffy's spread pussy, hearing her try to hold back a moan as her hands came down and gripped onto her hair.

She dipped her head down lower, taking Buffy's throbbing clit between her lips and sucked gently as she gripped onto her hips to keep her from bucking up too hard too fast. Buffy suddenly let go of her hair as she released her clit with a soft pop and trailed her tongue down her slit tentatively. She was in no hurry to get Buffy off and she knew by the way Buffy kept jerking her hips that she wanted her to stop teasing. She pulled back slowly, hearing Buffy groan out loudly at the loss of her tongue on her cunt.

Slowly, tenderly she nibbled on the soft flesh of her inner thighs as she brought a hand down from her hips and gently eased one inside her hot, tight hole. The soft moans and sighs coming from Buffy were driving her insane and she tried to tune her out as she continued with her teasing nibbles along her thighs.

"Oh fuck, Faith."

She sighed out at the sexy way Buffy moaned out her name. She'd never get tired of it. She stopped her teasing nibbles on her thighs and licked her way back to her clit, feeling her shiver under her once again. She lazily licked at her clit, sliding in a second finger only momentarily before pulling them out completely. Buffy whimpered as she ran her tongue the length of her pussy several times before spreading the lips with her fingers and driving her tongue in deeply.

All night, every time she'd be between Buffy's legs, she never wanted to stop. If Buffy hadn't pulled her up and taken control, she might have never stopped. It was an addiction, Buffy was her aphrodisiac.

"Baby..." Buffy breathed out, her hands moving back down to her head, sliding through her wild hair as she pulled her fingers away from her pussy, trailing them over her thigh and around to the soft curves of her backside.

She felt Buffy tense as the tips of her fingers deftly brushed over the edge of her other hole and she hoped she wasn't about to do something that would make Buffy want her to stop. Deciding to save it for another time, she swept her hands along the back of her thighs, feeling her pussy clench and pull at her tongue with every languid thrust. Buffy pulled on her hair rather hard as she came and Faith knew she wanted her to kiss her while the orgasm flowed through her body. She rained light kisses over her pussy, giving her pulsing sensitive clit a tender nibble before she slowly licked her way up her body and pulled her head out from under the covers, smiling down at Buffy as she brought a hand up to brush aside the hair that stuck to her sweaty, damp forehead.

Buffy smiled back at her, raising her hand to wipe her secretions off of Faith's lips and chin before she pulled her down for an incredibly passionate kiss. She let Buffy push her onto her back, their lips not parting once as Buffy straddled her hips and slid her hand in between their bodies and over Faith's smooth, taut stomach.

Every touch was sending Faith into an oblivion of ecstasy. She was surrounded by Buffy, completely under her control as she waited for her to continue. The teasing touching along with the gentle yet insistent nibbles on her bottom lip was all payback for the teasing Faith had just done to her. Every touch Buffy made across her skin made her body buzz wildly out of control and she had to fight with herself to stay where she was and allow Buffy to have her naughty little way with her.

"Fuck, B," she groaned softly as Buffy eased a solitary finger over her throbbing clit. "I know they say payback is a bitch, but..."

"You can do it to me and I can't do it to you?"

"B, you can do anything you want to me," she replied, her voice heavy and dripping with arousal as she pulled Buffy back to her lips. "Anything."

"Anything?" Buffy whispered against her lips as she eased her fingers down to her wet hole and roughly slid it inside and she pulled it out just as quickly. "Anything means I can tease you as long as I want to."

"Fuck..."

They hadn't been rough with each other all night, but Faith could feel the animalistic sexual nature deep within her begin to wake up. They'd made love all night long and all she wanted to do now was fuck her senseless. With the last bit of resolve she knew she still had left in her, she pushed away those specific lascivious thoughts out of her head and rolled them over, grinning down at Buffy as she whimpered out softly. They both moaned as Buffy slipped her finger back inside of her, bottoming out as Faith kissed her hungrily.

Faith continued to kiss her as she reached for her hand and hesitantly pulled it away from her. Before Buffy could even break away from the kiss to ask her what she was doing, Faith rolled her pelvis hard against hers, their pussy's sliding with ease and creating the delicious friction she was craving to feel. She could feel her orgasm building quickly, having already been incredibly turned on. She tried to hold out, not wanting to come so quickly and at the same time wanting Buffy to come with her, but she found it nearly impossible to hold out for much longer. She came hard and fast as Buffy raked her nails down her back and moments later, Buffy came right along with her.

They collapsed in each other's arms, breaking away from their kiss and they breathed heavily as they laid there and held onto each other, basking in the afterglow. Her lips found Buffy's again after a few long minutes. She knew she'd never get tired of this feeling, a feeling of euphoria and love and the feel of Buffy's naked body pressed so intimately against her own. They were lost within each other now, the rest of the world just falling away from them too easily. They were so lost within each other that neither of them heard the soft knock on the bedroom door and neither of them heard the quiet click of the door as it opened.

"Breakfast is ready!" Dawn yelled at them, slamming the door shut as she burst into giggles.

"Oh god," Buffy laughed as she pushed Faith away from her a little. "I'm going to kill her!"

"She didn't see anything, B."

"She walked in!"

"She opened the door a crack, B. She didn't see shit. She's a big girl, B. Not like it would've traumatized her if she walked in a few minutes ago."

Buffy flushed a deep red as she pushed Faith off of her and slowly sat up, pulling the sheets with her. "This is something we're going to have to deal with now, aren't we?"

"Well, we do all live in the same house and I guess that's what we get for forgetting to lock the door last night," Faith chuckled softly as she pulled Buffy back down into her arms. "You hungry, baby?"

"No, are you?"

"Technically just ate," Faith smirked and Buffy poked her in the stomach as she struggled to get up from the bed. "What? Where you going, baby? Thought the plan was to spend the whole day in bed?"

"It's a nice fantasy, baby, but we can't. Everyone has to pitch in and clean up from last night and Giles wanted to start on the new patrol schedules..."

"Buffy," Faith groaned as she held her close. "You just had to ruin the moment, didn't you?"

"Dawn ruined it!"

"I wasn't about to let your nosy kid sister ruin our moment, but the second you mention patrol schedules...damn, B, you realize if I had a dick it'd be flaccid right about now?"

Buffy groaned in mock disgust as she ran her hand down Faith's side, her fingers teasing the skin over her hips before she slid her hand between her legs. "You definitely are all woman down there, baby."

Faith wasn't so sure when the little 'baby' pet names had started, somewhere over the course of the last two days, but she loved it when Buffy called her that. It made her get butterflies in her stomach; butterflies she never thought existed before this whole sudden, instantaneous relationship had started between them. Buffy gave her a quick kiss before slipping out of bed and pulling one of the sheets with her, wrapping it around her body as she headed for the door. She turned and gave Faith a smile that completely melted her heart before she walked out of the room and slowly closed the door behind her.

She stretched out on the bed, still feeling fully surrounded by Buffy's scent and the lingering taste of her arousal still on her lips and tongue. She closed her eyes as she heard Buffy and Dawn just out in the hallway, Dawn teasing her about spending the entire night with Faith yet again. Even from beyond the closed door, Faith could almost feel the full body blush Buffy most likely had. She smiled to herself when she heard Buffy tell Dawn to mind her own business before the loud sound of her bedroom door being slammed shut reverberated through the top floor of the house.

No matter how many times she'd tried to believe that this was really happening between them, that it was real, over the past couple of days since Buffy had broken things off with Luke, she felt like she was walking around in a dream, afraid to wake up and find her life would be exactly where it had been before this all happened. The woman she'd been before, even in the days before she fully admitted the love she had for Buffy. She knew everything she'd gone through since that moment was a test of character, a test of her will, her resolve, her strength and her love. Every decision she'd made, every step she took, there were consequences, side effects and she was still feeling each and every one of them.

Sighing out softly, she rolled onto her stomach and held the pillow Buffy had been lying on and breathed in deeply. She knew she was head over heels in love with her, she knew she always had been and now that she had her, it was so hard for her to let go of her, even now. If this was what love was really like, she had no idea why she'd been so scared of it before. It seemed stupid to have fought it and pushed it away all the years she had, but then again, she wouldn't be where she was now if she hadn't held out on believing in love until she had her chance with Buffy.

Eventually she let go of her thoughts and she drifted off to sleep, the long night taking its toll on her body and mind.

****

When Faith woke for the second time that day it was to the sounds of two people fighting downstairs. She groaned in annoyance as she got out of bed and quickly got dressed, bolting down the stairs when she heard a loud crash. She ran down the stairs and came to a stop when she saw Buffy holding Kennedy arms at her sides, both of them breathing heavily as Buffy struggled to keep her pinned to the floor.

"What the hell is going on?" Faith asked, laughing when Buffy leapt off of Kennedy. "Sparring get a little out of control or something?"

"Something like that," Kennedy muttered as she pulled herself up from the floor. "What the hell were we fighting over again, Buffy?"

"I have no idea," she laughed as she straightened out her clothes.

"You two are fucking nuts," Faith said under her breath as she walked past them and into the kitchen.

She had to laugh at what she'd just witnessed. It'd been a long time since she had seen Buffy and Kennedy get into it like that and it was always over the stupidest little things that didn't matter in the end. They were like sisters in a lot of ways, especially when it came down to the things they ended up fighting over. She shook her head as she opened the fridge, quickly glancing back at the clock to check the time. She grabbed a cold beer and twisted off the cap, nearly drinking all of it in one go and she sighed out loudly as she felt Buffy wrap her arms around her from behind. She leaned back into her warm embrace as she drank the rest of her beer and put the empty bottle down on the counter in front of her before she turned around and wrapped her arms around Buffy and lifted her up and placed her on the island countertop.

Faith was about to kiss her when Kennedy walked into the kitchen and audibly groaned as she opened the refrigerator door. "You two just can't keep your hands off of each other, can you?"

"No, we can't, so if you don't mind," Faith said as she motioned for Kennedy to leave.

"Hey, it's a kitchen. It's a very common room in the house where anyone could just walk in whenever they please. You want to get all gropetastic with each other, that is fine with me, totally understand it, but that's what a bedroom is for in case you two have forgotten that you aren't the only ones who live here."

"You mind giving us some privacy, Ken?" Faith asked, flipping her off as she leaned in to kiss Buffy.

"You are impossible," Kennedy muttered under her breath as she grabbed herself a beer and leaned against the refrigerator. "I am not going anywhere. I have every right to be here too."

"Kennedy," Faith growled as she tore her lips from Buffy's. "What gives?"

"Enjoying the free show," she smirked as she took a sip of her beer. "Or at least hoping for the encore to what everyone heard last night."

Kennedy took off then, laughing as Faith held Buffy back from going off after her. Buffy was as angry as she was embarrassed and Faith grinned as she let her slide off the counter slowly. Buffy looked away from her, her face flushed and Faith reached up and brought her fingers under her chin and turned her so she would look up at her.

"What's wrong, baby?"

"Everyone...heard us," she said softly.

"Ken is just fucking with us, B. You should know that by now."

"She's been acting like this all afternoon. She's been teasing me relentlessly!"

"Probably only doing it to entertain herself. You know how she is, B. I don't know why you let it get to you."

"God, I could just..."

"What? Kill her sometimes for some of the things that come out of that mouth of hers?" Faith asked, smirking when Buffy let out a small laugh. "Trust me when I tell you that she's been born to be a royal pain in the ass. Makes me wonder how Willow has put up with her all these years."

"It's the sex!" Kennedy yelled out from the living room.

"See what I mean?" Faith laughed as she shook her head. "So, what are the plans for tonight?"

"Besides patrol? We're expected to show up at the party across the street no later than eleven."

"Think we can get out of it?"

"What? Patrol or the party?"

"Both," Faith whispered in reply as she held Buffy close to her. "Think about the possibilities of being alone in the house for once, just you and me."

"Is that all you seriously think about?"

"It's all you're thinking about right now too," Faith smirked as Buffy ran her hands under her shirt and up her back slowly. "Last night and this morning was amazing, B."

"Yeah," Buffy replied dreamily. "It's all I have been able to think about all afternoon. Do you know how hard it was for me not to come back up to bed?"

Faith leaned in and ran her tongue over her neck just below her ear, smiling against her skin as Buffy let out a contented sigh. She pulled back and stared down into Buffy's eyes, smiling widely at her as Buffy reached up and lightly ran her fingers over the dimples in her cheeks.

It was so hard for her to believe that Buffy was really there in front of her, that she was really there looking up at her with so much love shining in her eyes. It was all for her and only for her now. The relationship was still new, it was still only beginning and yet she felt as if they'd been this way for years. The drama, the insecurities, the fights, the running away and running back, the sex, the kissing each other until they felt as if their lungs were about to burst if they didn't stop; it was all perfect and just the way it should be.

"I'm glad I came back," Faith whispered. "I should have never left."

"You needed to find yourself before you were ready to come back."

"But all those years, B..."

"Don't, Faith. No more looking in the past, okay? It's done and over with and all that matters right now is that you are here where you belong with me, with all of us."

"You know, for the first time in my life I really feel like I've found a place I can call home and have it really feel like home," she whispered as she rested her forehead against Buffy's. "You make it feel like home for me, B. You always have. Don't know why I didn't know how I felt about you until not that long ago. Like you said, I guess I had to find myself. I had to find myself before I could find you, if that makes any sense at all."

"It makes perfect sense, baby."

"Kind of feel like sometimes I don't deserve this, that I don't deserve you, but then I stop listening to that little voice inside my head that's always brought me down and I start listening to my heart."

"And what is your heart telling you?"

"To love you. No questions asked."

Buffy smiled sweetly as she ran her fingers tenderly through Faith's hair. "I never thought you would be like this, Faith. I always wondered about you, always wondered what was just beneath the surface and the many walls you've always put up around you. Thank you."

"For what?"

"For showing me who you really are, for showing me the woman you are capable of being and for trusting me enough to let down your walls and let me in just a little."

"This has been one of the craziest weeks of my life, Buffy. I've never felt so much, I've never been torn so many different ways and I...shit," she choked up, feeling her tears threatening to fall if she continued, but she did anyway. "No matter how crazy it has been, I wouldn't change anything."

"It feels like it's been a lot longer than a week though, doesn't it?"

"About ten days, but who's counting?"

"Are you two done being all gropetastic yet?" Kennedy called out from the living room.

"Fuck off, Ken!" Faith shouted back at her. "You're ruining my moment here!"

"Faith..." Buffy said soothingly as she leaned in to kiss her. "Let's just go upstairs. We have some time to kill before we need to go out on patrol."

"But..."

"We can't just drop our responsibilities just because we want to..."

"But, B..."

Buffy smiled as she grabbed onto Faith's hand and pulled her out of the kitchen. "No 'buts', Faith."

As they walked to the stairs, Faith flipped off Kennedy, just knowing she was about to say something that would piss both of them off. She turned all her focus back on Buffy as she allowed her to lead the way up the stairs and into her room. Faith smirked as she locked Buffy's bedroom door behind her knowing if she had her way they wouldn't be leaving the room for at least most of the night.

****

Just like clockwork, she always found herself sitting out in the cold with a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other. The party at the house across the street was in full swing and she had to wonder if all the neighbours on loved to do nothing more than party as hard as they could during the holidays. It wasn't that she didn't mind it; she just wasn't in the mood to join in on the fun yet again.

Her mind was in overdrive. She wondered if it'd ever slow down long enough for her just to sit back and enjoy everything she now had in her life. It was hard to stop thinking about everything though. She never had this kind of happiness before, she'd never been in love and never had she known what it was like to be a part of a family before. Not like she was never a part of the family, it was just different now.

"Hello, Faith."

She looked up from the ground to look at Luke. "What the hell you doing here?"

"I've come to talk to you and was hoping to be able to talk to Buffy as well," he replied as he didn't move from where he stood as Faith stood up and casually placed her beer bottle on the ground next to her. "I'm not here for a fight, Faith."

"What the hell are you here for then? Cos the way I remember it, I owe you a severe ass kicking for you throwing me halfway across the club!"

"I apologize for that," he responded quietly. "I overreacted. I've known how Buffy feels about you since we got together."

"Oh yeah?"

"Yes," he nodded and he looked back at the house for a moment and turned back to her. "When she told me the other night that it was over between us, I was angry although I had seen it coming far before you even came back here."

"What's the point of this?" Faith muttered as she took a drag of her cigarette and stared into his icy blue eyes. "You didn't come back here to try and get Buffy to come back to you, did you?"

"No. Every relationship unfortunately has loose ends to tie up, things that need to be said and done, once and for all. We never had that chance the other night. Like I said, I was angry and after she told me she was in love with you, I kicked her out of the car before we had the chance to talk things out like rational adults."

"If you laid a hand on her..."

"I imagine you know what I am," he said as he cut her off before she could continue. "I may be a half-bred vampire, but I am not one to lay an angry hand on the woman I love. I know you must think otherwise with what I did to you in the club and I've come to apologize for that. I should not have overreacted that way."

"Whatever."

"However," he said softly and paused for a moment as Buffy walked out the front door and stopped short when she saw him. "I wanted to make things right. I had to apologize to you, Faith and I wanted to talk with Buffy once more before I leave town."

"What's going on?" Buffy asked quietly as she walked down the front steps and stood next to Faith.

"He came to talk to us," Faith replied as she watched Buffy shiver and without thinking about it, she wrapped an arm around her and held her close. "Alright half-boy, talk."

"I would like to talk with her alone."

"No can do," Faith said sharply as she felt Buffy tense up a little. "You talk while I am here or you don't talk at all. In case you haven't figured it out, I don't trust you."

"Baby, go inside. I'll talk to him and I'll be right in."

"But..."

"Five minutes," Buffy whispered as she leaned in and lightly kissed her on the corner of her mouth. "Just give us five minutes, okay?"

Faith nodded and shrugged out of her jacket and draped it over Buffy's shoulders. She smiled sweetly at her as she flicked her cigarette away and bent down to pick up her bottle of beer. She gave Luke a menacing look, one that said 'try anything and I'll come out here and personally kick your ass' and she headed into the neighbours house, forcing herself not to stand by the door and eavesdrop on their conversation.

It was hard not to stand there by the door and listen. She wanted to know what he was saying to her. It was the jealousy inside of her that forced her to stay instead of doing the right thing and just walk away and trust that all they were going to do was talk. She could feel herself teetering on the edge of darkness just then. The rage she just realized was there that had boiled deep down inside of her the instant she saw Luke was almost too much for her to handle. The useless drama of the whole situation that she was throwing out of proportion made her feel as if this wasn't real. She felt like she'd stepped out of her own body and was sitting in front of the television and being forced to watch one of those horrible soap operas Joyce, Dawn and Buffy loved. That's what it really felt like, one long, fucked up soap opera and she had one of the starring roles.

Love really made people crazy and she could see that now more clearly than she ever had before. She looked out the window at the top of the door and watched as Buffy quietly apologized to Luke for having ended things the way she had. Faith clenched her fists at her side, trying to push down the rage that was bubbling deep inside of her. He didn't deserve an apology from her and it hurt for her to see the way Buffy looked like she was about to cry as Luke reached out and gave her a short, quick hug.

"Faith, were you listening?" Buffy asked as she opened the door and found Faith standing right there with her arms folded across her chest. "Faith?"

"Is he gone for good this time, B?"

"Yes. He's gone for good this time."

"Damn," she shook her head and laughed as Buffy took off Faith's jacket and placed it on the chair near the door. "Here I was hoping to get the chance to kick his ass."

"Faith..."

"What, B?"

"Nothing," she laughed as she wrapped her arms around Faith and gave her a light, rather chaste kiss. "I think it's sweet sometimes the way you get all jealous."

"Sweet?"

"Okay, maybe not sweet, but you know what I mean," Buffy smiled as she ran her hands up her back and through her hair slowly. "Do you want to know what he said to me?"

"Kind of heard him."

"He said he was going to come back here and fight for me, try to win me back and then said when he calmed down enough that he realized he couldn't jeopardize my happiness that I've found with you."

"Fucking soap opera drama bullshit," Faith muttered under her breath and quickly smiled down at Buffy. "You were saying?"

"Is that what you really think?"

"Lots of useless drama...yeah."

Buffy scoffed and rolled her eyes as she pulled Faith down for a deep, passionate kiss. When she parted just as quickly, she grabbed Faith's jacket and her own and pulled them out the front door.

"B, where are we going?"

"We are going back home."

"But the party..."

"You didn't even want to be here in the first place and besides," Buffy grinned as she continued to pull Faith down the front steps and towards the street. "After patrol earlier, I know you're feeling more than a little worked up. There's a cure for that, you know."

Faith grinned as she wiggled her eyebrows and followed Buffy back to their house. "Got a cure for both?"

"I'm thinking we could work something out," Buffy winked as she unlocked the front door and pushed Faith inside. "We can work something out as long as you stop thinking that this is some fucking soap opera drama bullshit."

"But it is...you can't see it?"

"No."

"You're biased. You love those fucking shows."

"Maybe," she said as she began backing up the stairs and held onto both of Faith's hands and pulled her up with her. "Maybe not."

"I swear, B...if you make me watch those things again I'll..."

"You'll what?"

Faith shrugged as she let Buffy pull her into her bedroom and she leaned against the door as she shut it behind her. "Dunno. You know me. I have a bunch of useless threats."

"Tell me," Buffy said softly as she pulled on her shirt and dragged her to the bed. She turned her around and pushed her down, wasting no time in climbing on top of her and straddling her hips. "Tell me, baby."

"I...I forget what I was gonna say now," Faith laughed as she watched Buffy pull off her tight black shirt to reveal a small tank top underneath. "Doesn't even matter anymore."

"No. The only thing that matters right now is you and me."

"So, you're sure he's really gone this time? Cos if he comes back..."

"Faith," Buffy groaned as she leaned down and kissed her. "Shut up."

She gave in and became submissive to Buffy as she nearly tore at her clothes. She closed her eyes as Buffy's lips and tongue and fingers roamed over every inch of bare skin, worshipping her, pleasuring her, teasing her and just showing her how much she truly loved her and wanted her.

She went back to thinking of the things she'd thought of earlier that day and she knew that no matter what was thrown in their way, nothing and nobody was ever going to come between them. The side effects of falling in love would always be there and they would continue to be there for as long as she loved Buffy and for as long as Buffy loved her.

And when she thought about it, she knew she really wouldn't have it any other way.

The End