Best Friends Save The World
{Author's Note: THANK YOU PEOPLE! I wanted to thank all the wonderful people that left notes for the last entry of "Hope's Drowning". I loved the suggestion! I wish more people would leave notes like that! Don't like what I'm doing: ASK ME TO CHANGE IT!! Thanx Yall! ~Vix}
Buffy walked down stairs and down to the Kitchen. Her mom had gone to bed a while ago, and she wanted privacy for this phone call. The last thing she wanted was to hear all about her Love life, especially since it was all about a love for Faith. She picked up the receiver and typed the 7 familiar numbers.
"Hello?" Came the familiar voice of Willow through the phone.
"Hey Will, it's me."
"Oh, Hey Buffy! Need some more help?" Willow sounded almost eager to give the blond some advice.
"No that's Okay, I finished about a half hour ago." A 'Bing' came through the phone.
"Really Buff? That's great! I just finished, I'm shutting my computer down now."
"Wow! I can't believe I finished before you . . . Yay me!"
"Ha-Ha Buffy. I got caught up doing my bibliography; I had a bunch of Internet sources that I had to find Page Masters for. How'd you do?"
"I think I did okay. Almost 7,000 words! My hands were killing me after that . . ."
"I bet! I'm used to it, but then I again I spend about half my free time on the computer . . . and the other half fighting demons." Both girls laughed.
"And some times you battle demons by going on the computer!" Buffy laughed.
"So, Buffy," Willow said, her laugher calming down. "What's up? What couldn't wait until tomorrow?"
"I just wanted to see how your essay went. That and . . . other things . . ."
"Ooh! Buffy! Spill!"
"Guess what I did today?"
"BUFFY!" Willow yelled into the phone excitedly, "You told her?! I am SO proud of you!"
"Wait, Will." Buffy said sadly, "Don't get your hopes up just yet."
"Why not?"
"Because there's both good . . . and bad" Buffy said delicately.
"Well tell me the bad first, then tell me the good to cheer me up."
"But what if the bad was the result of the good, so I'd have to tell you the good first anyway?"
" . . . Huh?" Willow was a little lost.
"Why don't I just tell you in the order it happened in?"
"That makes sense."
"Okay, here goes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ."
"Buffy? You still there?"
"Yeah Will, I'm here. I just need to think of how to explain it."
"Take your time." Willow said encouragingly.
"Okay well, I guess it started with Faith and I training."
"Okay, what happened after that?"
"Well., we were sparring, and then all of a sudden, I was on top of her. We had been trying to pin and disarm each other, and I had done both to Faith. But she was supposed to trying and escape . . ."
"But she didn't?" Willow guessed.
"Yeah. All of a sudden she just stopped, and she was just looking at me. So I looked back, and it was weird -a good weird- . . . . . I just got totally sucked in. Here eyes were magnetic, and I couldn't look away. The entire world just melted until all that was left was Faith underneath me."
" . . . wow . . ."
"And then I stopped too. I let go and she still didn't move. We were there. That place between Overwhelmed and Underwhelmed . . . it was bliss. Then she whispered to me, and . . . and she kissed me."
"Oh, that sounds amazing" Willow whispered dreamily.
"It was. It stopped."
"What stopped?"
"My heart, the world, LIFE! It was like it all froze, and those few seconds went on for hours and yet it was all over so quickly . . . . . . . . . and that's when things got bad."
"What happened?" Willow was worried.
"She shoved me off her and ran off."
"Uh oh."
"Yeah, that's what I thought, so I chased after her."
"did you catch up to her?"
"Yeah, and I had to shove her against some lockers just to get her to stop running! Then she broke down crying . . . just repeating 'I'm Sorry' over and over again."
"Maybe she was worried about you getting mad?" Willow asked delicately.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, you said that SHE kissed YOU right?"
"Yeah?" Buffy said slowly.
"Well she'd a girl . . ." no response, "Kissing another girl . . ." still nothing, "Who owns the house that she lives in, and is the driving force behind her group of friends. NOT TO MENTION HER BUSINESS ASSOCIATE!" Short pause.
"Oh!" Buffy said slowly, "I thought I had been a bad kisser or something!"
"Yeah, right . . ." Willow said skeptically, "What happened after she started crying?"
"I comforted her! I wrapped my arms around her and told her that she didn't do anything wrong. That I didn't mind. She just kept apologizing and asking me why I wasn't freaking out."
"What did you say to that?"
"I told her . . . I told her it wasn't her fault!" Buffy groaned, she had just realized it had been the PERFECT time to tell Faith how she'd felt! "Ugh! Why am I so stupid?! I told her that it was the Slaying Lust, and that I didn't blame her . . ."
"Buffy?" Willow asked kindly.
"Yeah Will?"
"You can be really stupid sometimes." She said in just as sweet a voice. Luckily Buffy knew it was said to emphasize the point that Buffy was going to have to tell her sometime, and that she had missed an ideal opportunity to do it.
"And it's getting to the point where I can't hide it any more."
"You're not that stupid Buffy-" Willow started
"Not that!" Buffy interrupted, "The way I feel about her! I don't think I can take much more of this! She came home tonight and she took a shower. I could hear the water running through the walls . . . Angel was over helping me with my paper, but I couldn't concentrate!" Buffy gave an exasperated groan.
"Why not?"
"All I could think about was Faith in the shower! I think I'm going INSANE! I was never this Crazy off Angel . . . I think you were right when I said I had it bad."
"See? A Witch is ALWAYS right!" both girls laughed.
"I don't know about all Witches, or even about the 'Always' thing, but you were right about this . . ."
"Have the two of you spoken since she got home?"
"Yeah, we talked about Snyder and my paper." Willow heard Buffy voice drop over the phone as she continued, "Then, when I told her my hands had cramped because of all the typing I did, she soaked them in warm water for me."
"Ooh!" Willow said excitedly.
"Yeah, and then she started doing this AMAZING thing with her hands . . ." Buffy trailed off.
"Uh Buffy? I'm not sure I want the details about that."
"WILLOW!" Buffy laughed, "You have been spending too much time around Xander!"
"Why?"
"It wasn't like that!" she laughed, "She just started massaging them . . . Mmm . . ."
"That 'Yummy Sound' sounds promising!"
"You have NO idea!"
"Sounds like a busy night."
"Yeah, it was. But then I did something stupid."
"What?"
"Well, we were sitting on my bad, doing some Slayer Journal entries . . . and as a joke -It really was only a joke!- I leaned over to tease her. You know, to make it look like I was trying to see what she was writing."
"Uh Oh . . .What happened?" Willow's tone was accusing.
"She slammed the book shut and asked 'What the hell I thought I was doing' . . . I think she was writing about me. I don't think it was Slayer stuff, otherwise she wouldn't have minded . . . I don't think."
"And?" Willow prompted, tone unchanged.
"Well, she moved to the other end of the bed . . . I don't think she believed me about the joke thing."
"Would you have?"
"Well . . . I would have if it had been you!"
"Yeah, but what if you were Faith and it wasn't me?"
"Good point."
"Buffy, you have to be careful with Faith. I know she tried to act all THOUGH GIRL, but that's not what she's like all the time. She can't keep that up 24/7 and now that you two are living together she needs to be able to be herself around you." Willow was trying to be both supportive and reprimanding.
"I know. I want her to trust me! I want her to be able to be herself around me . . ."
"Did you at least tell her you were sorry?"
"Yeah," Buffy said laughing a little. "And I gave her a hug . . ." Buffy's voice was dreamy.
"Oh really?"
"Yeah . . ." Buffy had spaced out, "I wrapped my arms around her stomach and pulled her to me. She feels so good against me . . . Mmm . . . She smells like Cinnamon gum and Cherry Cokes . . ." Buffy was doing a good job of sticking her foot in her mouth.
"YOU'VE GOT IT BAD!" Willow laughed over the phone. Buffy crash-landed back to earth.
"Hey!" Buffy laughed . . . then she felt it. Her Slayer Senses jumped into hyper drive, Faith was coming down stairs. "I gotta go, okay Will?" Buffy had an edge to her voice and the Witch got the message.
"Okay, I'll see you at school tomorrow?"
"Yeah, see ya there. Bye!"
"Bye Buffy!" she hung up her phone. Buffy had just hung up the receiver when the door to the kitchen swung open. Faith looked at the floor as she walked into the room.
"I just wanted to see where you went." Faith whispered, "You were gone a while." she glanced at Buffy then back to the floor.
"Yeah, we got kind of side tracked." Buffy smiled and took Faith's hand. Faith still didn't look at her.
"I'm sorr-" the brunette started, but Buffy wasn't going to let her finish that statement.
"No, Faith, I'm sorry." Buffy put a crooked finger under the younger girl's chin, "That was really dumb of me, and I shouldn't have done it. I won't do it again I promise." Faith looked a little confused for a second, then she realized that Buffy was talking about her Diary.
"Oh, no B, I wasn't talking about that . . ." Faith paused, trying to figure out what she wanted to say.
"You meant about this afternoon?" Buffy stated slowly.
"Yeah, about that . . . B?"
"Faith, please don't be sorry." Buffy voice sounded hurt, "Please, be anything but sorry?" Faith was taken aback. This was NOT what she had expected at all. She gave the Blonde's hand a gentle squeeze and answered. "I'm not sorry." Faith smiled and led Buffy upstairs.
{Author's Note(2): SO! I know that there was a lot of repeated information, but I REALLY didn't want this to be an entirely one sided FanFic . . . So! Had to have some Buffy-persective in there too. Also! Gotta love Willow in all her wisdom! TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK! (REMEMBER TO VOTE ON WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN!!)}
{Author's Note: THANK YOU PEOPLE! I wanted to thank all the wonderful people that left notes for the last entry of "Hope's Drowning". I loved the suggestion! I wish more people would leave notes like that! Don't like what I'm doing: ASK ME TO CHANGE IT!! Thanx Yall! ~Vix}
Buffy walked down stairs and down to the Kitchen. Her mom had gone to bed a while ago, and she wanted privacy for this phone call. The last thing she wanted was to hear all about her Love life, especially since it was all about a love for Faith. She picked up the receiver and typed the 7 familiar numbers.
"Hello?" Came the familiar voice of Willow through the phone.
"Hey Will, it's me."
"Oh, Hey Buffy! Need some more help?" Willow sounded almost eager to give the blond some advice.
"No that's Okay, I finished about a half hour ago." A 'Bing' came through the phone.
"Really Buff? That's great! I just finished, I'm shutting my computer down now."
"Wow! I can't believe I finished before you . . . Yay me!"
"Ha-Ha Buffy. I got caught up doing my bibliography; I had a bunch of Internet sources that I had to find Page Masters for. How'd you do?"
"I think I did okay. Almost 7,000 words! My hands were killing me after that . . ."
"I bet! I'm used to it, but then I again I spend about half my free time on the computer . . . and the other half fighting demons." Both girls laughed.
"And some times you battle demons by going on the computer!" Buffy laughed.
"So, Buffy," Willow said, her laugher calming down. "What's up? What couldn't wait until tomorrow?"
"I just wanted to see how your essay went. That and . . . other things . . ."
"Ooh! Buffy! Spill!"
"Guess what I did today?"
"BUFFY!" Willow yelled into the phone excitedly, "You told her?! I am SO proud of you!"
"Wait, Will." Buffy said sadly, "Don't get your hopes up just yet."
"Why not?"
"Because there's both good . . . and bad" Buffy said delicately.
"Well tell me the bad first, then tell me the good to cheer me up."
"But what if the bad was the result of the good, so I'd have to tell you the good first anyway?"
" . . . Huh?" Willow was a little lost.
"Why don't I just tell you in the order it happened in?"
"That makes sense."
"Okay, here goes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ."
"Buffy? You still there?"
"Yeah Will, I'm here. I just need to think of how to explain it."
"Take your time." Willow said encouragingly.
"Okay well, I guess it started with Faith and I training."
"Okay, what happened after that?"
"Well., we were sparring, and then all of a sudden, I was on top of her. We had been trying to pin and disarm each other, and I had done both to Faith. But she was supposed to trying and escape . . ."
"But she didn't?" Willow guessed.
"Yeah. All of a sudden she just stopped, and she was just looking at me. So I looked back, and it was weird -a good weird- . . . . . I just got totally sucked in. Here eyes were magnetic, and I couldn't look away. The entire world just melted until all that was left was Faith underneath me."
" . . . wow . . ."
"And then I stopped too. I let go and she still didn't move. We were there. That place between Overwhelmed and Underwhelmed . . . it was bliss. Then she whispered to me, and . . . and she kissed me."
"Oh, that sounds amazing" Willow whispered dreamily.
"It was. It stopped."
"What stopped?"
"My heart, the world, LIFE! It was like it all froze, and those few seconds went on for hours and yet it was all over so quickly . . . . . . . . . and that's when things got bad."
"What happened?" Willow was worried.
"She shoved me off her and ran off."
"Uh oh."
"Yeah, that's what I thought, so I chased after her."
"did you catch up to her?"
"Yeah, and I had to shove her against some lockers just to get her to stop running! Then she broke down crying . . . just repeating 'I'm Sorry' over and over again."
"Maybe she was worried about you getting mad?" Willow asked delicately.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, you said that SHE kissed YOU right?"
"Yeah?" Buffy said slowly.
"Well she'd a girl . . ." no response, "Kissing another girl . . ." still nothing, "Who owns the house that she lives in, and is the driving force behind her group of friends. NOT TO MENTION HER BUSINESS ASSOCIATE!" Short pause.
"Oh!" Buffy said slowly, "I thought I had been a bad kisser or something!"
"Yeah, right . . ." Willow said skeptically, "What happened after she started crying?"
"I comforted her! I wrapped my arms around her and told her that she didn't do anything wrong. That I didn't mind. She just kept apologizing and asking me why I wasn't freaking out."
"What did you say to that?"
"I told her . . . I told her it wasn't her fault!" Buffy groaned, she had just realized it had been the PERFECT time to tell Faith how she'd felt! "Ugh! Why am I so stupid?! I told her that it was the Slaying Lust, and that I didn't blame her . . ."
"Buffy?" Willow asked kindly.
"Yeah Will?"
"You can be really stupid sometimes." She said in just as sweet a voice. Luckily Buffy knew it was said to emphasize the point that Buffy was going to have to tell her sometime, and that she had missed an ideal opportunity to do it.
"And it's getting to the point where I can't hide it any more."
"You're not that stupid Buffy-" Willow started
"Not that!" Buffy interrupted, "The way I feel about her! I don't think I can take much more of this! She came home tonight and she took a shower. I could hear the water running through the walls . . . Angel was over helping me with my paper, but I couldn't concentrate!" Buffy gave an exasperated groan.
"Why not?"
"All I could think about was Faith in the shower! I think I'm going INSANE! I was never this Crazy off Angel . . . I think you were right when I said I had it bad."
"See? A Witch is ALWAYS right!" both girls laughed.
"I don't know about all Witches, or even about the 'Always' thing, but you were right about this . . ."
"Have the two of you spoken since she got home?"
"Yeah, we talked about Snyder and my paper." Willow heard Buffy voice drop over the phone as she continued, "Then, when I told her my hands had cramped because of all the typing I did, she soaked them in warm water for me."
"Ooh!" Willow said excitedly.
"Yeah, and then she started doing this AMAZING thing with her hands . . ." Buffy trailed off.
"Uh Buffy? I'm not sure I want the details about that."
"WILLOW!" Buffy laughed, "You have been spending too much time around Xander!"
"Why?"
"It wasn't like that!" she laughed, "She just started massaging them . . . Mmm . . ."
"That 'Yummy Sound' sounds promising!"
"You have NO idea!"
"Sounds like a busy night."
"Yeah, it was. But then I did something stupid."
"What?"
"Well, we were sitting on my bad, doing some Slayer Journal entries . . . and as a joke -It really was only a joke!- I leaned over to tease her. You know, to make it look like I was trying to see what she was writing."
"Uh Oh . . .What happened?" Willow's tone was accusing.
"She slammed the book shut and asked 'What the hell I thought I was doing' . . . I think she was writing about me. I don't think it was Slayer stuff, otherwise she wouldn't have minded . . . I don't think."
"And?" Willow prompted, tone unchanged.
"Well, she moved to the other end of the bed . . . I don't think she believed me about the joke thing."
"Would you have?"
"Well . . . I would have if it had been you!"
"Yeah, but what if you were Faith and it wasn't me?"
"Good point."
"Buffy, you have to be careful with Faith. I know she tried to act all THOUGH GIRL, but that's not what she's like all the time. She can't keep that up 24/7 and now that you two are living together she needs to be able to be herself around you." Willow was trying to be both supportive and reprimanding.
"I know. I want her to trust me! I want her to be able to be herself around me . . ."
"Did you at least tell her you were sorry?"
"Yeah," Buffy said laughing a little. "And I gave her a hug . . ." Buffy's voice was dreamy.
"Oh really?"
"Yeah . . ." Buffy had spaced out, "I wrapped my arms around her stomach and pulled her to me. She feels so good against me . . . Mmm . . . She smells like Cinnamon gum and Cherry Cokes . . ." Buffy was doing a good job of sticking her foot in her mouth.
"YOU'VE GOT IT BAD!" Willow laughed over the phone. Buffy crash-landed back to earth.
"Hey!" Buffy laughed . . . then she felt it. Her Slayer Senses jumped into hyper drive, Faith was coming down stairs. "I gotta go, okay Will?" Buffy had an edge to her voice and the Witch got the message.
"Okay, I'll see you at school tomorrow?"
"Yeah, see ya there. Bye!"
"Bye Buffy!" she hung up her phone. Buffy had just hung up the receiver when the door to the kitchen swung open. Faith looked at the floor as she walked into the room.
"I just wanted to see where you went." Faith whispered, "You were gone a while." she glanced at Buffy then back to the floor.
"Yeah, we got kind of side tracked." Buffy smiled and took Faith's hand. Faith still didn't look at her.
"I'm sorr-" the brunette started, but Buffy wasn't going to let her finish that statement.
"No, Faith, I'm sorry." Buffy put a crooked finger under the younger girl's chin, "That was really dumb of me, and I shouldn't have done it. I won't do it again I promise." Faith looked a little confused for a second, then she realized that Buffy was talking about her Diary.
"Oh, no B, I wasn't talking about that . . ." Faith paused, trying to figure out what she wanted to say.
"You meant about this afternoon?" Buffy stated slowly.
"Yeah, about that . . . B?"
"Faith, please don't be sorry." Buffy voice sounded hurt, "Please, be anything but sorry?" Faith was taken aback. This was NOT what she had expected at all. She gave the Blonde's hand a gentle squeeze and answered. "I'm not sorry." Faith smiled and led Buffy upstairs.
{Author's Note(2): SO! I know that there was a lot of repeated information, but I REALLY didn't want this to be an entirely one sided FanFic . . . So! Had to have some Buffy-persective in there too. Also! Gotta love Willow in all her wisdom! TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK! (REMEMBER TO VOTE ON WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN!!)}