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Faith POV
"Wake Up!" Tom yells banging on my closed door. Buffy and I jolt awake at the sudden sound. I groggily sit up in bed and stretch my arms, I see Buffy do the same beside me while she adds on a big yawn.
"Man I hate this already." I say, and B chuckles a little beside me.
"Stop being a baby." She says beside me while getting out of bed.
"When the hell did you become a morning person?" I ask B, genuinely surprised. Last time I checked B hated getting up in the morning, now she's over here looking as awake as ever and giving me lip for not being on the same page.
"Trust me, never. I'm just kind of excited." She says, she leans in and gives me a soft kiss then she goes in her drawers picking out clothes for her to wear. I however, am still in bed under the covers.
"Well that makes one of us." I say. After staring at B go around the room doing various, and as I see, unnecessary tasks for about ten minutes I get up myself and go pick out some clothes. Soon the smell of coffee attracts me out to the kitchen, I see Desmond, Elizabeth, and Jennifer in the kitchen cooking and chopping while Tom and Christopher is at the dining room table discussing something that from the looks of their face is really funny.
"Good morning Faith." Elizabeth greets me as I make it into the kitchen digging into the cupboard to a mug.
"Take the good off of that and we're on the same page." I say with a small smile.
"Don't listen to grumpy pants over there, it's a good morning." B says, behind me- poking me in the back when she called me grumpy pants.
"That's the spirit Buffy, you should be more like Buffy, Faith." Tom says, and I respond to that with a roll of my eyes. My bad I'm the only one in this room who isn't all shits and rainbows at the crack of dawn.
"Why did I agree to do this again?" Liyah says making her entrance. So I might not be the only one.
"Uhhh does something about a promise of being rich beyond belief and everlasting friendship ring a bell?" Tom asks, I inhale a deep breath of the intoxicating smell of the Colombian coffee I am currently pouring into my mug. Somehow it calms my nerves and makes it seem that the rest of the day is going to go smoothly.
"Thinking about it that rich part does ring a bell, but I'm still trying to remember that friendship part for some reason I keep remembering a gun to my hand." Liyah responds. Elizabeth busts out laughing and I chuckle a little remembering hearing them crack that joke a while back in the cemetery.
"Oh screw yourselves." Tom says, smiling to show that he knows it's a joke.
"Speaking of screwing is it true that you're the only one not getting screwed?" Chris asks Tom, to which to gives him the middle finger and Chris is more than happy to reciprocate it.
"Wait no Desmond is in the no luck boat with Tom." I put in.
"According to who?" Desmond says from beside me, he's currently fixing an omlet.
"According to the law stating that if you haven't had sex with anyone you've haven't screwed anyone." Chris quips.
"That's what you guys think." He says a bit mysteriously.
"I'm sorry buddy but masturbation doesn't count." I quip and everyone laughs, well this isn't so bad of a morning after all.
"Nice one." Liyah and I slap hands.
"If I was stuck with either of you on this mission…" Desmond says with a shake of his head.
"You'd probably end up missing." I say.
"OK enough you guys, Willow and Tara should be here in a few to charm everyone." Tom says.
"What about Xander?" B asks hugging me as I she tucks her head under my chin. I wrap my one arm that isn't holding my coffee around her body.
"Oh yeah, he's with them." Tom responds.
"You know I'm a bit relieved the skills to the job come with the whole package cause if it wasn't I'm pretty sure I'd make an ass out of myself." Chris says, and I laugh knowingly.
"Oh trust me we all would." I tell him.
"Holy Shit!" Liyah exclaims which in turn makes Buffy quickly pull apart from me, causing my hand to tilt slightly and spill scalding hot coffee on my hand.
"Son of a bitch!" I yell as I shake my hand, I turn around to see what all the commotion is about and I see Tara, Red, and Xander all looking a little embarrassed.
"You guys scared the shit out of me!" Liyah says with her hand on her chest taking deep breaths. I roll my eyes as I realize that they had just poofed out of nowhere.
"Sorry." Red says meekly.
"Well thanks for the third degree burn you guys." I say running my hand under cold water.
"Are you ok?" B says beside me gingerly holding my hand and inspecting the damage done to my hand. It's red and puffy and slowly swelling but it's nothing that won't heal in a few hours.
"Five by five, B." I say. She brings my injured hand to her lips and gives it a little kiss before pulling my lips down to hers.
"Well you two better get it in because you two won't be seeing each other for a while," Tom says, and I take that moment to deepen the kiss to where our tongues come into play, and I can feel her automatically melt into me. "OK I take that back."
I laugh as I pull away, and I can see a little blush on B's face. She didn't mean to get as carried away as she was but it's pretty impossible not to get carried away when I'm kissing you.
"Alright shall we get down to business?" I exclaim, deflecting the attention away from us.
"Yeah sure." Red says. We all make our way into the living room and one at a time Red, Jennifer, and Tara would surround one of us then do some little incantations and then when you open your eyes you can look down at yourself and tell you're a different person. You can actually feel it too, there are memories stuck in my head of a place that wouldn't be familiar to Faith but to who I am now I recognize it as the place I've been trained at. I also know a basic layout of the southern castle that I've been taught by my masters.
"This shit is awesome." I whisper looking at my hands. I move to a mirror to see that my long dark hair has been replaced with short bottled blonde hair that's chin length and a face that looks to be in its late twenties. I gotta admit I look pretty hot with my green eyes and red lipstick.
"Wow." I hear B say in her disguises' voice behind me. I turn around to see an unfamiliar brunette with sparkling brown eyes and with a little laugh I notice she's even shorter than B. If B complains about her regular height all the time she's gonna get a kick out of complaining about this.
"Well hey there lil lady." I say in a country accent, she rolls her eyes and gives me an appreciative look.
"Hey there too you, you don't look too bad." She says putting her arms around my neck, having to stand on her tippy toes to accomplish the task.
"Likewise, but you gotta admit B. You turned into a midget." She pouts a little when I point out how short she is and I lean down to suck her lower lip into my mouth; it quickly turns into a heated kiss that we break apart quickly. "A hot midget at that."
"You got that right, small but mighty." She says with a little punch to my arm. I chuckle a little and rub the spot she hit me in. I suddenly notice the outfits that we're in. Those who have to be guards are in maroon red armor full with gauntlets, chest armor, plate legs, and off to the side we had swords.
"So this is badass." I exclaim to the group.
"Man, now I wish I was on security." Xander says sadly as he looks at the rags he has to now call clothes. He has transformed into a very hairy and bulky tanned man with black curly hair, and a deep voice to match his look. He actually looked I don't know middle-eastern.
"Woah Xan Man, you're looking pretty buff over there. Thinkin' that you don't need the armor." I tell him, and he looks at himself appreciatively.
"Yeah I guess you're right." He says.
"Aww you're so nice." B says beside me.
"I can stop as quickly as I started." I only say, and I get a slap on the butt before she walks away to talk to Elizabeth.
"So we all got some sexy ass makeovers." An unfamiliar light voice says beside me, and if I didn't see Liyah get changed I would have automatically hit her as a reflex. She still had her beautiful golden brown skin, but her hair was a dark brown and it was about three inches longer than her original hair, and her eyes are a smokey gray color. Since she was a servant and not a guard she had on a maroon red robe that had gold embroidery.
"Woah, you're not looking too bad either. Gotta admit I'm liking these spells Red." I say giving her a wink, she blushes a little but nods in a way of saying "your welcome".
"Ok guys huddle up." Tom says, now he's just big for no reason. Tom is basically one step away from being a body builder. He has orange spikey hair and his arms are cover in tattoos and a few new deep scars are around both of his wrists, must have a backstory to that. "When we get there as a team they'll brief us on what we need to do, let's keep our eyes and ears open. We're here to get to the bottom of the hostage situation and hopefully that will lead us to figuring out who's behind all of this. Any questions?"
"Umm since we're not with you guys," Xander says pointing to a small meek looking woman with a huge stomach and long reddish brown hair. She was dressed in rags just like Xander. "how do we know where to go?"
"Oh don't worry I know how to get there and what to do already." Tara says, hmm looking at her like that has got me thinking about B and I's future. Are we ever gonna get married, have kids, do the whole domestic thing? A year ago I would have laughed at anyone who would have told me that I would even be thinking about that, but now I'm seriously considering it. I grab onto B's soft hands and she squeezes in response and leans closer to me. My heart flutters and comes to life, the same way it does every time she touches me.
"Ok let's go."
Today has been a first time for a lot of things for me, that including a flying car. When we went to the command center, there was a part to where there were a bunch of cars lined up, at first I was wondering what the fuck we were doing hopping into cars that didn't have wheels but as soon as it lifted off the ground that answered my question.
"Welcome soldiers to the Southern Kingdom." A female servant says as we enter the vast castle cloaked in what seemed like red and gold sheets. To the touch the walls were as hard as brick but they looked as soft as satin, hmmm nice trick. Tom, B, Desmond, and I are what consisted of the soldiers. We followed her through the vast carpeted corridors. It's pretty creepy how this place is lit but there are no candles in sight.
"I'll be taking you all to the king's and his family's quarters. You are to stick with them for the whole day you are assigned to them. For this first week do not worry about night shifts."
"Yes ma'am." Desmond says, eyeing her from behind.
"Oh I'm not a ma'am but thanks for the compliment." She says with a sweet smile, and if I'm not mistaken a little blush.
"Nice going Des." I whisper into his ear sarcastically and he chuckles in response.
"So here we are." She says opening a wide wooden door. Just like with Grant's office back at the command center, there are two guards outside of the door. As we step inside the room is big and plush and seems kind of like a living quarter. I kind of came to that conclusion when I saw a bed at the far end of the room.
"Holy shit this room is big." Tom says under his breath, mindful to make sure no one else but the four of us heard him.
"Yeah, this is the goddamn apartment plus a few rooms." I state looking around in amazement. There's a living room area right when you enter the room and what seems to be like a little office off to the left side. In the middle of the little living room is a family of four a young man and woman and their two little girls, well actually one seems to be at least seventeen. The other one looks to be around eight. The husband or king, I presume, is actually a bit shorter than me. He is African American but is very light skinned with slick black hair combed to the back. His wife and children are the same complexion, but their thick curly long hair draped down their backs. Their posture screamed royalty, as they stood back straight and had an unwavering look of dignity on their faces.
"Hey Faith?" B taps my arm.
"What's up twinkie." I didn't have to see her to know she just rolled her eyes in annoyance. I laugh a little knowing she hates it when I call her that.
"Faiithh," she whines, "I said I don't like it when you call me that."
"Alright I give up, what do you wanna talk about?"
"Didn't want to talk but just wanted to tell you that when you get all rich and powerful don't become stuck up like them, ok baby?"
"I think I should be the one asking that question B," I smirk, "Never had much, and honestly don't really need much. Now you on the other hand princess, are a handful. I think you'd be benefitting more out of this endeavor more than me."
"You've got a point." She giggles.
"Always do." I say, smirking.
"Hello brave soldiers, welcome to our home. This is my Wife Clara and I's bedroom. I understand that you Kate Moon and Rick Ricky our going to be my personal body guards," I try hard to stifle the laugh that comes every time Tom's fake name comes up. I think the witches had a little fun when it came to him. "I know you must have had to graduate at the top of your classes in order to get this position so I want to say thank you, as well as congratulations."
"It is an honor sir." I say with a nod.
"We're very excited to be here." Tom says.
"Thank you, now I wanted to introduce you all to my wife and children since Tommy Whales," I had to stifle a laugh on that one as well, Buffy's been complaining about that name since earlier. "and Sam Pack will be taking care of them, especially my little girls. My wife as I said earlier her name is Clara, my youngest daughter is seven and her name is Lilly and my oldest daughter is Brea and she's seventeen."
"Nice to meet you all." B and Desmond greet.
"Well since we got introductions out of the way it's time for me to head to my meeting, are you two on duty at the moment?" The king asks us.
"Yes we are." Tom responds.
"Well then it's time for us to leave then." He bids his family farewell and I have to hold back the urge to kiss B. Man I'm going to miss her crazy all day, but I have to stay focused we have a lot to do. We instantly make contact and I know she's feeling the same way as I feel. She discreetly squeezes my arm a little and I give her a dimpled grin. There, that should hold us over. Tonight we're spending the night so I won't be seeing her until late tomorrow when we get home around ten or eleven.
We follow him being highly alert of our surroundings and very cautious when anybody gets close to him. Our actions come natural and I know it's all thanks to the magic. He leads us into a suspiciously dark room and Tom and I are on high alert. He snaps his finger and the room is slightly lit to show that it's no bigger than B and I's bedroom. He quickly closes the door behind us and lets out a big sigh.
"Did Shim talk to you two?" He asks a bit of desperation in his voice, his calm composure is completely gone now. I let out a little breath I didn't even realize I had been holding until now.
"Yeah he did so what's going on here?" Tom says getting straight to the point.
"Thank god for you all! Well let me explain this as quickly as possible because I actually do have a meeting in about ten minutes. Now, as you all know I came into power about a year ago, I was just a simple man before this but some people very powerful came to me and threatened to kill me and my family if I didn't follow their direct orders."
"Do you know why they chose you out of all people?" I ask him finding it very odd they didn't pick someone who was already of royalty.
"Still till this day I have no clue, I don't know whether to trust the men around me or not. The only people I know to trust is you two and I presume those other few soldiers I was introduced to today?"
"Yes, that's correct they are on the good side. Wait so you have no clue who these men are, or who is their leader?" Tom asks.
"That's the thing, I don't think they have a leader, but I think they come from the overworld. They never would tell me their name, but they were definitely forum and they sound very weird. I heard some talk of them being called something…ummm I believe they were referred to a few times as being the council or something like that." Right then and their Tom and I looked at each other in a state of alarm.
"Oh shit, shit, shit, shit this is not good." I state, and the king starts to visibly panic.
"What do you mean this is not good?"
"These guys are pretty powerful, and supposedly on the side of good. I knew there was something up with those stuffy bastards." Tom, angrily hits the door behind him. This revelation has turned everything upside down.
"Ok we have to calm down, I need to tell Buffy as soon as possible. Hell I need to tell Giles as soon as possible." I start pacing to calm my nerves.
"Do you think we can trust Giles?" Tom asks seriously.
"I think this is Gile's big escape from the tea club, trust me we can trust him." I say with nothing but confidence.
"Who is this buffy and Giles you two are talking about?"
"You've met Buffy, well you haven't… it's complicated we'll explain later, but we need to get to that meeting. Who are you meeting with anyways?"
"The uhhh Council." He says nervously.
"Ok, let's all just act cool, and you act like you know nothing of them. All you know is they're just the stuffy old assholes who have kept you a secret captive for like a year got it?" I ask the king.
"Yes I have that." He says awkwardly, I guess my lingo doesn't work well in the underground judging by the weird look he gives me when I talk to him.
"Ok show time ladies." Tom jokes trying to lessen the tension between the trio.
"You're five minutes late, are we not important to you anymore?" A man that looks remotely familiar says at the head of the long brown table. There were two other old men on either side of the table leaving only one seat left across from the man that spoke.
"Sorry I just received new guards and I had to make sure they were suited enough to protect me." He says easily as he sits on the small black wooden chair.
"We have something serious to talk about, have you heard of the Slayers?" My heart beat quickens to a maniac pace for the second time today and I struggle not to make eye contact with Tom.
"Who are.. Slayers as you call them?" His voice kind of hitches at the end, I don't remember telling him about us, so that must be a genuine question.
"They're basically a pain in the arse. They were created in ancient times to protect the otherworld from evil, we the council were their guides. There is usually only one slayer at a time, but the first slayer died momentarily calling a new one so now there are two. They have been very rebellious and the new one has aligned herself with the most evil organization in the universe, they're a group of shape shifters who claim to fight evil, but in reality they are evil." Anger rises in my body and I almost ask him to prove it.
"Calm down, don't let any of what he says get you out of character." I hear Tom say in my mind.
"I would love for them to prove their point, they're trying to make themselves look like the good guys." I tell him.
"Let's just keep listening, this is some pretty good information." He responds.
"So what should we do about them?"
"We have a group called the REDS who have reformed those evil shape shifters and are trying to recruit more from those evil shape shifters to turn them into good citizens. As well for the Slayers, I'm afraid we will have to terminate them. Especially the one named Faith she is the one that holds the slayer line, kill her and then a new slayer will pop up, that one we'll make sure doesn't turn against us."
"What about the other slayer?" The king asks.
"Oh Buffy," I can visibly see the king stiffen, as he recognizes the name. "We'll have to terminate her as well, she's very close with Faith and would rise up against us. Now here's where you come in, we want to catch the slayers then parade them around the southern region letting everyone know of their crimes and then visibly persecute them here in front of the palace, got it?" The man speaking takes a much needed sip from his small little cup that undoubtedly holds tea.
"What exactly did they do?" The king asks.
"Well you're asking an unusual amount of questions is there something you want to tell us?"
"No! No, it's just I don't need to be left in the dark.." He trails off.
"We didn't put you in this position to think, we made you king so you can do our will without any back talk. That's enough for today. Good bye." After the king was so rudely dismissed he headed back to his living quarters. He slumps in his chair in the empty room's living room. Tom and I sit on arm chairs in front of the sofa the king is currently seated on.
"Well ain't this some shit." I say.
"So uhh who is Faith?" The king asks, and I chuckle a bit.
"Faith, nice to meet you." I greet him.
"But… you're not Kate Moon?" The king looks even more confused and he rubs his temple.
"And that's Tom over there not Rick Ricky." I point a thumb at him and he waves.
"This is all too much for one time."
"I bet it is. But look, it's all going to be fine; we're going to figure this all out and have you and your family safe. Just know all that they said was a cup of steaming hot bullshit." I tell him.
"But what about you and this other slayer, who is going to protect you all from them?"
"We can hold our own, we have great people looking out for us." I say making eye contact with Tom.
Hours Later…
"Wheww these beds are comfortable as hell." I say as I fall back on a twin sized mattress. Since we're not on night duty we were ordered to go to the sleeping chambers for the gaurds, we pulled some strings and got a room to where B, Tom, Desmond, and I could all sleep in one room alone so we can talk freely amongst ourselves.
"I wonder where the other two are." Tom says taking his armor off, I simply shrug and look up at the ceiling.
"They'll be here soon, I know that much. Oh and you're explaining to them all the shit that we've found out." I quickly say.
"Why do I always got to debrief everyone?" He whines playfully.
"Well that's what leaders do."
"Well I now elect you to be the leader."
"Too late, what's done is done." I chuckle.
"Oh my gosh I am sooo tired." B says, and before she knows it I'm off the bed and I pick her up in a big hug. "I missed you too." She giggles.
I put her down and pepper her face with random little pecks, her arms around my face tighten and she buries her face into my neck.
"You won't believe all the stuff we've found out." I tell her as we pull away.
"Well at least one of us found something out, we were on babysitting duty." She says pouting. I pull away and let her take her clothes off and I follow in suite. The room is huge with two bunk beds on both sides and a huge area rug in the middle. Two huge dressers in the middle up against the wall, and a bathroom on Desmond's and Tom's side basically completes the room.
"So we're sharing a bed right?" I ask B in her ear as she lays beside me on the lower bunk bed.
"No, I've already spent enough time with you today." She says sarcastically and I roughly pull her to me while I gently bite her neck causing her to giggle and try to pull away. I growl a little, feeling some of my animal show through me as I get on top of her and devour her neck with kisses and little nips. Her giggles soon turn into moans, and her hands start to trial lightly up and down my back.
"Woah you two keep it down over there." I hear Tom say, but I really don't care.
"How about this lets make a deal we'll be quiet if you get your ass up and turn off the lights." I say smiling.
"Are we not going to tell them what happened?" Tom says sitting up from the top bunk across the room.
"Oh shit I forgot." I say, and I move away from B and Tom goes on and tells them everything we have found out.
"Wow I wonder how Giles' is going to handle this." B says, she looks just like how the king looked when we were in his room: overwhelmed.
"Yeah I know, honestly I think he had his suspicions." I say and B nods thoughtfully.
"Well that is enough for one day when we get back late tomorrow night we should inform everybody else." Desmond says and we all agree. We call it a night and turn off the lights, I snuggle up close to Buffy and she grabs my arm to pull it around her.
"I would never imagine myself being in this situation in a million years." B says quietly after a few minutes of laying down.
"What situation?" I aks unclear of what she meant.
"Being here, all of this top secret stuff," she pauses for a second looking as if she's trying to collect her thoughts, "Being like this with you." She finishes even more quietly.
"Is it a bad thing?" I ask holding my breath. She turns around and eye look deeply into her beautiful eyes as she brings her hand to my cheek and caresses my skin. I close my eyes momentarily, feeling her soft hands touch my skin sends shivers shooting through my spine, and my breath hitches. I don't know how she has such a physical impact on me, but she does whether she knows it or not. I know we're in our disguises, but she still looks so beautiful to me. I can see straight through her to the angel I fell in love with when I first laid eyes on her.
"Not a bad thing at all." She responds, and I bring her in for a kiss. Her soft lips meet mine and our bodies melt into each other, she smells so sweet and if we were alone I would love to devour her body. It's kind of exciting to explore her new body, but I can tell she's tired so settle next to her with my arms permanently wrapped around her slender body.
"Good, cause you're not getting rid of me." I nuzzle her neck a little, and she lays her head on my shoulder as we both drift asleep.
"I love you too much to let you go." I whisper when she's fast asleep, and then I soon succumb to a deep slumber.
Ok! As I said earlier I would really love a beta. But hope you guys liked this chapter. Review if you like, and soon I should be up with a new one. :)