Buffy and Cordelia

"Season 6"

Disclaimer: I don't own it!

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Chapter 35: Life Serial

Summers house

When Buffy walked in the house she was carrying a bucket of chicken, she thought that she'd be nice and pick something up on her way home. But when she entered the house she saw that they had already had a whole mean planned and cooked and laid out on the table.

They all looked up at her when the door closed behind her. She could see some of them with quality looks on their faces for having such a good supper. She walked over and sat at the table.

"It's okay guys," she said as she tried to calm there nerves down, she wanted them to know that she really didn't care that they were having a big nice meal without her. "I really don't mind," she said as she rested her arms on the table.

"It's just that we didn't expect you back until...well for a while," Faith said.

Buffy couldn't help but notice that Faith sat beside Willow and the only one missing from this big dinner was Tara. Tara had taken it hard when she found out that Faith and Willow had slept together, and Buffy feel responsible since it was at her wedding. Everything seemed to have fall apart after that night. I mean her and Cordelia were fighting more, Tara and Willow split up, Buffy just could figure out what was happening to them but whatever it was it needed to be solved quickly or it would tear everyone apart.

Buffy was pretty sure that it had something to do with Tara and that spell. Ever since Willow started acting weird after the wedding people became concerned and all Tara wanted to know was why was she acting so weird? But the spell she cast was a truth spell for you beloved. And the truth only came out when you were around that person. She thought she only cast it on her and Willow were in fact she cast it on everyone, Buffy just didn't show up until she went to L.A. and saw Cordelia.

"Buffy is something wrong?" Dawn asks concerned as she looks at her sister. "You have been sitting there in silence way too long…so what's up?" Dawn asked knowing that out of anyone in the room she and Willow were the only ones that could get information out of Buffy…and maybe Faith if she tried real hard.

"Yeah Buff spill the beans you know you can't hid anything from us." Willow commented.

"You really want to know?" Buffy asked in a fearful voice and everyone shuck their heads. "You when I was in L.A. I came to and exciting realization." She paused and she could almost see them inching closer, that is all but Faith, she was too cool. "You see they were having trouble with this guys who was able to dismember himself at will, which by the way is just beyond gross." She said. "But than they best part of all is when my and Cordelia got back home, it seems that Tara's truth spell was only meant for when you around the person you love, so when Cordy and I were alone we went off on each other. We said things that we had been feeling for a long, long time." She commented.

"Oh God Buffy…are you guys okay?" Willow asked.

Buffy lowered her head. "Honestly…I have no idea," she said as she looked at them all. "Okay enough about me what happen while I was gone…anything I should know about?" she asked with a smile. When no one answer her smile faded away. "Are you guys telling that the highlight of last week was me and my wife having a fight?" she asked and they nodded. "Damn…we seriously need to get some lives, what you say Bronze tonight?" she asked.

"Sorry Buffy big final tomorrow," Willow said.

"Yeah I have a project do in history," Dawn said.

"Anya and I are going to look at wedding dress for the bride maids and stuff," Xander said though he didn't seem so happy about it. "Sorry Buff," he said with a smile.

"Sorry B…got things to do," Faith said with way of an explanation.

Buffy last resort was to ask Giles but she fingered that he just had some research thing so she didn't even bother. "Okay I guess I might be Bronzing by myself then," she said. Buffy let a small smile come to her face as she got up from the table and went upstairs to get ready to go out by herself.

Somewhere is Sunnydale (morning)

Jonathon walked up to Warren's house and when no one answered the door he just figured that they where in the back working on the evil scheme. Which by the way he did not believe was that evil at all, at first they just wanted to take over Sunnydale but now Warren is all concerned about killing the slayer, which just happens to be Buffy Summers.

As much as Jonathon wanted to be apart of something he always figured he would be apart of something that didn't involved killing someone. Especially not someone that on many occasions saved his life. Buffy saved him from killing himself, and how is he going to repay her by trying to kill her.

"Hey guys," Jonathon said as he walked into that back yard and saw Andrew working on a painting on the said of the van. Just then, as he was walking over Andrew, Warren came out form underneath the van with a pair of orange glasses on. "What's going on?" he asked.

"Well you see we finally have something to help us track the slayer," Warren said.

"Why don't you just call her Buffy?" Jonathon wondered.

"Because it sound more evil when you say 'the slayer' compared to 'Buffy." Andrew said. "I mean did her hear Lex Luther say 'Clark'? No he always said 'Superman' see sounds more evil." He reasoned.

"Okay whatever," Jonathon said.

"Anyways this van is hooked up with the works," he said walking over to the side doors and opening them up. "Surveillance, motion monitors, and even something to tell us were she is at all times," he said with a smile. "Cool huh?" he asked.

"Marjory cool," Jonathon said.

"And she won't even know it's us," he added.

"Except for the fact that there is a picture of Star Wars on the side," Jonathon said.

"What?" Warren asked as he walked to the side of the van and saw Andrew indeed painting a Star Wars symbol on the side of the van. "It's okay she still won't know it us." He said a little pissed.

"Sure…so who are the other nerds trying to kill her?" he asked but didn't expect an answer. Jonathon just shrugged his shoulders and walked away from his two other friends and went back through the house and left. For as smart as the three of the were they were not very go super villains…maybe because they always try using logic and a evil villain just goes on instinct. Jonathon shuck his head as he walked down the street because he was just now realizing that Buffy was serious going to kick there asses for this.

UC Sunnydale

Buffy was sitting next to Willow in one of her classes. The red headed witch had convinced her that it might be a good idea to take up schooling again since she just came back from the dead and Faith would be able to handle occasional nights of slaying alone. She put the in because she knew how much Buffy was against making Faith do it al by herself.

Willow couldn't help but notice that in the time that Buffy sat down at least three or four guys had surrounded them and she knew it wasn't because of her because they all knew she was gay. They have seen her with Tara in the hall before. That also meant that they wanted Buffy and she felt kind of sorry for them because not only was Buffy married she was also gay.

Buffy smiled at Willow as she took her hand, the one with the ring on it, and started to smooth out her hair making sure that they all saw it. Willow laughed at herself at the subtle way Buffy just showed everyone that she was off the market.

Buffy AND Willow were both brought back to the present when they heard the teacher ask a question. Buffy noticed that everyone's hand in the room but hers and it made her feel a little out of place. She turned to look at Willow and she couldn't help but smile because Willow had the biggest smile of her life on her face at that very moment. Buffy guessed that this was Willows dream, her and Buffy college students. Going through their college careers together, that also made Buffy realize that the reason Willow wanted her to come was as much her and it was for Willow.

"Will I don't think this is such a good idea," Buffy said. "I mean I am kind of behind everyone," she reasoned.

"What? No your not Buffy," Willow said and just then the teacher asked another questioned and Willow and everyone else raised their hands. Buffy sighed as she sat back and watched on and left the words go in one ear and out the other. At the moment she realized that college was no longer her place.

Just as she was about to get up and walk out the door and walk home Cordelia came running through the door. All eyes went on her and all Buffy could do was lower her head. "Well, well, well if it isn't Cordelia Chase, you know I heard once that you slept with the entire swim team and that is why they almost one that year," one guys said behind Buffy. Buffy had to hold in all her strength not to turn around and punch the guy. "It is true?" he asked.

"No," Cordelia said looking at Buffy a little upset that she wasn't standing up for her.

"I heard that she wasn't into guys anymore," Another person said. "I heard she is into girls," they added.

"That would explain why the cheerleaders were always so cheery," another person said.

That was it Buffy couldn't take it anymore she turned around and punched the one guy in the face knowing that she probably gave him a bloody nose, but the thing was, she didn't really care. She walked over to the other person who was saying stuff and picked him clear out of his seat, she gave him a sweet smile and then threw him onto the teacher's desk. She turned to Willow and shrugged and mouthed sorry before walking over to Cordelia.

"What do you say we get out of her so we can talk," Buffy asked and Cordelia nodded. As they walked out of the class room Buffy reached over and grabbed Cordelia's hand while bumping into some blonde haired kid. "Watch it," Buffy said.

"Sorry," he said as he hurried down the hall.

"Weird much," Cordelia commented as they made there way out into the sun.

When they sat at a picnic table Buffy looked at Cordelia. "So what are you doing here?" she asked.

"I came to see you," she said. "Why…you didn't want me to come?" Cordelia asked.

"No, no it's not that it just that I didn't think you were coming until later," Buffy said. "I had a surprise and everything planned for when you got to the house, everyone was going to be gone and it was just going to be you and me," she said with a smile as she leaned over to give Cordelia a kiss but when Cordelia didn't return it Buffy opened her eyes feeling a little stupid. "What?"

"You had a romantic thingy planned?" Cordelia asked almost shocked. "Even after what happened last time we saw each other?" Cordelia asked remembering the little fight they had, which when she thought about it, was about nothing at all.

"Cordelia I love you, and what happen between us last time was nothing more than a spell that was cast by a scorned witch," Buffy said as she leaned forward again. "What was said was stuff that needed to be said but that doesn't mean any of it was true," she explained and then she leaned forward even more until her lips came into contact with Cordelia's. "Speaking of the part about no seeing each other that much I have an idea," Buffy said.

"And what's this idea?" Cordelia asked curious.

"Giles and everyone keeps telling me that I need a vacation so I talked it over with Faith and she's cool with it," she paused. "You and me go on a vacation…like out honeymoon that we never got," Buffy said with a smile. "What do you say?" she asked.

"Are you serious?" Cordelia asked and Buffy nodded. "Hell yeah I think we need a vacation, to spend some time together that never ever happens anymore," she said. "When we leave?" she asked.

"In a week, which give you plenty of time to tell Angel you need that day off." Buffy explained. Cordelia jumping into her arms and kissing her all over that face unexpectedly knocked Buffy off her feet. Buffy just accepted it happily; her and Cordelia really needed this vacation to get to know one another again. This was something that everyone could gain from.

Just then as they were sitting there everyone around them started to move at super speed and Buffy and Cordelia just looked at them. "Um…Buffy what's going on?" Cordelia asked.

"I have no idea just then Buffy felt something on her sweater that she had recently took off, it was some sort of pin so Buffy took it off. "Ew, I would so never wear this," she said and it suddenly poofed into thin air. "I think we better show this to Giles," Buffy said as she got up and her and Cordelia started to walk away as everyone returned to normal daily speed.

Magic Box

Buffy and Cordelia walked into the Magic Box briskly looking for Giles, they had no idea what the hell was going on but whatever it was they knew it wasn't good. They checked his office but he wasn't there, they checked the basement but again nothing, finally they checked the training room and again they came up short. When they walked back into the main room they saw Anya walking through the front door.

"Anya do you know where Giles is?" Cordelia asked.

"Sorry he left awhile ago, said he had some important business to take care of," she said with a shrug of her shoulders.

Buffy looked at Cordelia with a frown. "I have to go met Xander at the construction place, I'm trying to find a job and so far it isn't working, so I guess I'll see you later," she said as she gave Cordelia a kiss and headed for the door. Cordelia just stood there unsure of what she should do.

Construction place

Buffy arrived at the construction site ahead of schedule. When she got there Xander was waiting for her in order to show her around the place and introduce her to the guys. But so far every group of guys they passed looked at her funny, almost like she wasn't man enough to do the job. Wait until she showed them that she may be smaller but she had twice their strength.

Xander walked her over to the last group of guys that she would met and they would also be the guys she would be working with, if this whole thing worked out. "Hey guys," Xander said as he approached them. "I have someone here that I would like you to met," he said as Buffy came walking up beside him.

"Who is this Xander, the lil misses?" they asked.

"Um…no," he said. "This is Buffy and I have assigned her to work with your group." She said with a smile. "So play nice," he said and then walked away.

"Hi, I'm Buffy," she said with a smile.

"Tony," one guys said. "That's Frank, Leo, Travis, and Mike," he said pointing to each one of them. "And we don't need no women in our group," he said. "I wouldn't want you to break a nail." He added and everyone else started laughing.

Buffy walked over to an iron bar that was estimated to way well over three hundred pounds and picked it up as if it weighed a messily ten pounds. "Where does this go?" she asked as she looked at the gyms before her.

"Over there," he stuttered out. As she walked away they all looked her way in awe. It took them two guys to lift the iron bar where she picked it up without any effort.

The rest of the day went sorta like that except eventually they told her that the long she takes the more she gets paid, because they get paid by the hour. She just shrugged it off and continued to do what she was doing because she really didn't feel like being there all day, she had someone she needed to get home to. When Buffy entered one of the rooms of the house or building they were currently building she took a seat to relax.

Just as she sat down she heard a noise behind her and when she turned around she saw a green slimy looking demon that was ready to chop her head off. She ducked as the demon swung the axe at her neck and as she ducked she rolled so she was on the other side of him. He may very well be stronger than her but there is no way that he's faster than her. So she used that to her advantage.

Just as she was about to strike the demon now in front of her she was hit from behind by another one of the same demon that seemed to come out of nowhere. She quickly got to her feet and started running until she saw a pole ahead of her so she jumped and grabbed the pull, in the process she swung herself around on it and propelled herself forward as she came into contact with the other demon sending him to the ground. She grabbed his sward just in time to turn and cut the other demons head off and the stuffed the sward in the other demons heart.

"What the hell is going on here?" Buffy turned to the sound of a voice and she saw Tony standing there. "Answer me…Buffy," he said as he looked at her and then all around the place and when Buffy looked around to she saw that she did a number on the place. "This is going to take a long time to fix…um yeah your fired," he said to Buffy as he walked away from her.

Buffy hung her head as she walked past Xander making sure to give him her heard hat on the way out.

Magic Box

When Buffy walked into the Magic Box she saw Cordelia sitting with Anya at the round research table. She walked over to where her girlfriend was sitting and wrapped her arms around Cordelia. Cordelia just leaned back into the embrace with a warm smile on her face. Throughout the years of high school Cordelia hated Buffy, but then in college when she decided to stay in Sunnydale they grew closer, which meant that they became more comfortable around each other. Thus the reason they have such a good relationship, well most of the time, before they let their egos get the better of them.

"How is your job hunting going?" Cordelia asked as she turned around so she was facing Buffy. "Do I see Buffy the construction worker before me?" she asked with a little smirk.

"Sorry but no," Buffy said with a smile. "You see these demon's attacked and screwed it all up for me because I ended up wrecking the site…they weren't to happy about that," she said with a shrug.

"So when is you next job interview thingy?" Cordelia asked.

"Here actually," Buffy said with a smile. "I better get to work." She said as she walked over to where Anya was standing.

Just as Buffy made it toward Anya someone came walking through the door. "Buffy," Anya called out to her. "Go…help the customer." She said as she continued to cash someone out.

Buffy walked toward the person that just came into the store when another customer stopped her. "Excuse me?" he asked and Buffy turned around to look at him. "I was curious if you could help me pick out a candle for my and my girlfriends date tonight, you see it is our one year anniversary and I just want to do something nice," he said.

Buffy smiled and she looked through the candles and making sure to smell each one and then she decided. "Take the vanilla, no woman can resist the vanilla trust me I know," Buffy said as she remember when she had some serious groveling to do with Cordelia and she made sure to line their room with vanilla candles so she could make it up to her…and it worked.

"Thanks," the man said as he went to pay.

Buffy just nodded and walked over to the next customer. As she approached the next customer they started walking over to her. "May I help you?" Buffy asked in a nice polite voice.

"Yes I called a few days ago and pre ordered a mummy hand, the guy said that it would be in by today," she explained.

"Oh okay I'll go down into storage and see if it's there, I'll be back in a minute." Buffy said as she walked into the basement.

Cordelia sat at the table and looked at the guy Buffy had just helped out. He must have thought she was checking him out because he walked over to her with a sly look on his face. "Hi there," he said in what she thought he guessed to be his sexy voice.

""Don't even go there, I'm married," she said showing him her ring and he just shrugged as if it was no big deal. "To a girl," she added and his eye suddenly grew wider in realization. "Yeah, move along before she sees you," Cordelia said as the guys walked toward the front door.

Meanwhile Buffy was downstairs looking through all the boxes that Giles had down there, which lets face it was a lot. Finally she saw a box that was labeled mummy hand so she opened it thinking that it would be okay…big mistake. The mummy hand flung up and wrapped itself around her neck and began to strangle her. At first Buffy didn't know what to do, it was just a hand, so she didn't exactly know how to fight back. But she ended up grabbing it, throwing it down and then running a knife through it.

"Well I hope she doesn't mind a dead mummy hand," Buffy said as she grabbed the knife and took it upstairs to where the lady was waiting for her. "Look you get a free knife in the deal," Buffy said with a smile when she tried to hand her the knife.

"I'm sorry but I was told that I would have a real live mummy hand," The lady said before she walked out the door.

"How is your job hunting going?" Cordelia asked as she turned around so she was facing Buffy. "Do I see Buffy the construction worker before me?" she asked with a little smirk. Buffy looked at Cordelia as if she were crazy. "What?" she asked.

"Do you not remember having this conversation?" Buffy asked and it was her turn to get looked at as if she were crazy.

"Buffy you just got her…how did the construction thingy go?" she asked with a smile.

"I lost the job," Buffy said as she got up and walked toward Anya. "I know help the customers." Buffy said as she walked past a male customer and gave him a vanilla candle just as the lady was walking through the door. "Mummy hand right?" Buffy asked and the lady nodded with a smile. Buffy walked into the basement where Gils told her that he kept all the phone ordered items. On her way down she grabbed a pair of tongs. She saw the mummy hand this time just sitting there on the crate so she walked over to it slowly with tongs in hand. "Come on be a good mummy hand," she said as she walked closer to it. She got it with the tongs and held it down. Suddenly the hand started shaking and it eventually went limp. "Great what are the odds that silver kills mummy hands,' Buffy said as she put the hand in a nice neat little bag and brought it up to the lady.

The lady looked at Buffy oddly when she looked in the bag and Buffy just gave her a nice smile.

"How is your job hunting going?" Cordelia asked as she turned around so she was facing Buffy. "Do I see Buffy the construction worker before me?" she asked with a little smirk. Buffy didn't say anything instead she looked toward the door and saw the lady entering so she walked over to her once again just giving the man the vanilla candle and walking right past the lady and headed downstairs.

This time Buffy managed to get a hold of the mummy hand but when she brought it up to the lady it began to strangle her. And Buffy stood there trying to get the hand off but it wasn't working.

"How is your job hunting going?" Cordelia asked as she turned around so she was facing Buffy. "Do I see Buffy the construction worker before me?" she asked with a little smirk. Buffy ignored her and went right past the man and the lady to walk out the front door. Giles and everyone watched her walk out but then they watched her walk back in when she came through the training room area. "Buffy?"

"You have got to be kidding me," Buffy said as she looked at the scene before her. When the bell rang above the door Buffy walked over to it and ripped it off the wall and everyone looked at her funny.

"How is your job hunting going?" Cordelia asked as she turned around so she was facing Buffy. "Do I see Buffy the construction worker before me?" she asked with a little smirk.

"I didn't get it," Buffy said as she finally realized what she had to do. Buffy walked over and gave the man the vanilla candle and then walked over to the lady. "A mummy hand right…I was told you were coming," she said and the lady nodded with a smile. "Buffy went into the basement grabbed the mummy hand and put it in a box and then brought it up to the lady. "Please be careful because you never know what that's capable of," Buffy said as she watched that man and the women walk out the store.

"I have to say I'm impressed," Anya said as she looked at Buffy. "I didn't think you could do it," she added.

"Same here," Giles said. "Bravo." He added.

"I don't know what there talking about, I know you could do it," Cordelia said as she walked over to where they were all standing.

"That's why you said 'I hope she doesn't fall flat on her face'" Anya said as she looked back and forth between Cordelia and Buffy.

"I never said that," Cordelia said as Buffy said her and accusing stair.

"You know what, it's okay," Buffy said and she slipped her nametag off and placed it on the countertop in front of her. "I think my days in retail are done," she said with a smile as she walked past them all.

"Are you mad?" Cordelia asked.

"No," Buffy said as she opened the front door and walked out of the Magic Box. Leave the other three there to think about things.

"Hey…she undercharged them for the mummy hand," Anya commented.

Summers house

Buffy walked into her house and it bright and nice and that was something that she really didn't want right now. So she headed to the only place where she knew that she could get some darkness and not have to worry about anything. She headed toward the basement.

She walked down the stairs in the basement and instantly she was insulted with the smell of leather. Buffy knew that this was a place that Faith sometimes came when she needed time to herself and that was what she was hoping to do, but she couldn't get that lucky. Buffy looked over at the washing machine and saw Faith sitting on top of it.

"What are you doing down here?" Buffy asked as she walked over to where Faith was sitting and hopped up on the drying machine to sit beside her slaying partner. "And where is Spike, I thought I told him he could stay here," she saw as she looked in the corner and saw a bed and a bag of some clothes.

"I guess he took off," Faith said. "Said he needed to get out of here," she added. "I heard that he was still trying to get back with me and when he heard about me and Red he was hurt," she finished.

"I could imagine," Faith looked at Buffy with a curious stair. "I mean before you came back he had it bad for me," she said. "And then he found out that Cordelia and I were together," she paused. "And then you come and he falls for you and then it turns out that you don't drive stick anymore either," Buffy said with a shrugged of her shoulder.

"Hey! I go both ways thank you very much," Faith said. "And I never turned him down, what happened between me and Red was a mistake, I never wanted it to happen. But even a slayer can get drunk once in a while and that's what happen, we were both drunk, unfortunately mine didn't last that long and I knew what happened before she did," Faith said. "I feel like shit about so don't say anything," Faith added.

Just then Buffy looked at Faith. "Do you ever wonder 'what if'?" Buffy asked.

"'What if' what?" Faith asked confused.

"What if I never ended up with Cordelia and you came back to Sunnydale a little sooner, what would have happened between us?" she asked.

"Everyday B, everyday," Faith said with a smile. "But as much as I love you and am terrified of Queenie," Faith added and was rewarded with a slight laugh from Buffy.

They continued to sit there in silence just thinking about the conversation that just happened between them. They didn't know where this would take them because they were so used to fighting with each other any chance they got but now they had a civil conversation and they were going to walk away with no bruises. As they sat there in silence neither one of them noticed Cordelia sitting on the staircase with a pissed off look in her eyes.

"Well I have to go and pack…me and Cordy have a big weekend planned," she said and she started to walk away.

"Have fun B…you deserve it," Faith said as she Buffy left her alone in the basement. Cordelia made sure to make it out of the basement before Buffy realized she was there.

When Buffy existed the basement Cordelia was sitting in one of the stools. "Hey, why didn't you tell me you were here?" Buffy asked.

"I didn't want to brake the moment between slayers," Cordelia said coldly.

"You heard?"

"Every word," she paused. "You ready to go because we need this vacation to save this relationship." She said coldly.

"Save it all we did was talk," Buffy said. "It wasn't like I slept with her," she said. "Or even kissed her for hat matter."

"Yeah I know but you talked…about what it would be like if I wasn't around and if this vacation doesn't go as planned you are going to know who it feels for me to not be around." She said.

"You can't be serious," Buffy said. "They were only words."

Cordelia didn't say anything instead she just started at her. "Give me ten minutes to pack," Buffy said and she headed up stairs to pack and when she entered her room she saw a lone vanilla candle. S he walked over to it and picked up the note.

I'm sorry about what happened at the Magic Box

Love Cordelia

Buffy grabbed the candle and the note and stuck them in her bag. She put some clothes in there and then walked out of her room to hopefully go on the vacation that would save her marriage.

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AN: I hope you liked it. I know it took me a long time to write this one and I'm sorry for that. But I need to tell you that I am going to take a break from this story so a little while, but I'll be back so don't worry. Maybe only a week or two break so I can get my idea's and stories back on track.