"So how's my favorite slayer?"
"Great! Just staked two vampires... so less evil = goodness. How's MY favorite new watcher?"
"Good. The SITs were getting with the fighting, which would have been good if it wasn't with each other, then I laid down the law. Me. Xander Harris, the king of goofing-off-when-we-should-be-researching told them to pay attention in my big watcher-knows-best-voice."
"I like it when you lay down...."
Buffy leaned in and kissed him deeply, just glad that they were both happy. Xander broke off the kiss abruptly. (Hey, I was enjoying that, get that tongue back here....)
"Evil thing."
"Not the response I was going for... I would have liked something like 'you little devil'-"
"Honey, I meant evil thing as in evil thing behind you."
"Oh."
Buffy turned to fight the 4-foot demon. Xander, without hesitation took out an axe and camcorder. The axe was for Buffy... If she needed help, and the camcorder was for the SITs. He was nervous with letting some of them near vampires, since two of them were 12, so he would show what real danger was at a safe distance... Kinda like those tapes of car wrecks they make you watch at traffic school. It also helped research so they wouldn't go by his description of some where in between 'gfwrl and 'hmlei'. The demon was killed quickly; apparently when you are a slayer size does matter.
"You wanna get home?"
"Sure." Buffy said a little out of breath. "I've done enough of the good slayer thing for one night."
"I'll give the tape to Giles in the morning. He enjoys making the SITs research things even when they probably don't need researching. I think it gives him a sense of power over them. Which reminds me, Dawn loves her new job. She gets to drive her car there, so added fun points, and she gives out assignments to the girls... making her management. She doesn't get to give them orders directly but its gotta be a buzz. All those years of taking orders from slayers... to be able to boss them around, even if its just a little has gotta be a good feeling."
"Ok I am convinced that only half of that is Dawn and the rest is Xander blowing off steam."
"'I'm the only one', 'I am destined to fight evil'. Wears a little thin. Always good to answer a destined girl with a 'you are destined.... to do 30 more laps', or 'Yeah, well there have been only one's since the beginning of time, I am unimpressed. Do more mind numbing research for no reason at all.'"
"Wow Xand. I never knew you could be that mean."
"Wanna talk about mean? 'No Xander, I can't go with you to the Spring Fling, you have a pulse and haven't made brooding an Olympic sport.'"
"To which I whole heartedly accept that I was in fact wrong. But I did love Angel... Always will."
"I'll always love Anya."
"I'll always love Riley."
"I'll always love Willow."
"Are we going to do this all night?"
"You're the one who brought up undead and brooding."
"So I'm never going to be able to even say his name?"
"In a perfect world."
Buffy stopped Xander and turned him to face her. "Why do you hate him so much?"
"Because he loved his own life more than you. He stayed in his apartment Buff as you were about to be killed by a seriously freakish vampire. Haven't you ever wondered why I never hated Riley? He never held back... Angel did."
"Here I thought it was because he was a vampire."
"That is only one of many factors. How did we get to Seriousville?"
"I dunno. I am in a mood for a lets go to bed and make Buffy tired time though.... You do know, don't you?"
"Know what?" She stopped him again, this time looking at the ground, then looking in his eyes, hers never faltering.
"That I am in love with you. Deeply... undeniably... in love. The kind that scares the hell out of me... but at the same time... I don't want to think of my life being any other way."
He took her in his arms.
"I know the feeling."
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Author's Note: Ok, this is it for now... I may do some thing to add to this, but right now some plot bunnies are hopping way too much to be ignored. This is my first Buffy fanfic so tell me what you think of it. I'm not used to writing sexy scenes or fighting scenes so they kinda lacked in the fic, the ones I tried to write ended up on the cutting room floor. Hopefully I can write some half decent fight scenes for the next Buffy fic I write.
Laurie
"Great! Just staked two vampires... so less evil = goodness. How's MY favorite new watcher?"
"Good. The SITs were getting with the fighting, which would have been good if it wasn't with each other, then I laid down the law. Me. Xander Harris, the king of goofing-off-when-we-should-be-researching told them to pay attention in my big watcher-knows-best-voice."
"I like it when you lay down...."
Buffy leaned in and kissed him deeply, just glad that they were both happy. Xander broke off the kiss abruptly. (Hey, I was enjoying that, get that tongue back here....)
"Evil thing."
"Not the response I was going for... I would have liked something like 'you little devil'-"
"Honey, I meant evil thing as in evil thing behind you."
"Oh."
Buffy turned to fight the 4-foot demon. Xander, without hesitation took out an axe and camcorder. The axe was for Buffy... If she needed help, and the camcorder was for the SITs. He was nervous with letting some of them near vampires, since two of them were 12, so he would show what real danger was at a safe distance... Kinda like those tapes of car wrecks they make you watch at traffic school. It also helped research so they wouldn't go by his description of some where in between 'gfwrl and 'hmlei'. The demon was killed quickly; apparently when you are a slayer size does matter.
"You wanna get home?"
"Sure." Buffy said a little out of breath. "I've done enough of the good slayer thing for one night."
"I'll give the tape to Giles in the morning. He enjoys making the SITs research things even when they probably don't need researching. I think it gives him a sense of power over them. Which reminds me, Dawn loves her new job. She gets to drive her car there, so added fun points, and she gives out assignments to the girls... making her management. She doesn't get to give them orders directly but its gotta be a buzz. All those years of taking orders from slayers... to be able to boss them around, even if its just a little has gotta be a good feeling."
"Ok I am convinced that only half of that is Dawn and the rest is Xander blowing off steam."
"'I'm the only one', 'I am destined to fight evil'. Wears a little thin. Always good to answer a destined girl with a 'you are destined.... to do 30 more laps', or 'Yeah, well there have been only one's since the beginning of time, I am unimpressed. Do more mind numbing research for no reason at all.'"
"Wow Xand. I never knew you could be that mean."
"Wanna talk about mean? 'No Xander, I can't go with you to the Spring Fling, you have a pulse and haven't made brooding an Olympic sport.'"
"To which I whole heartedly accept that I was in fact wrong. But I did love Angel... Always will."
"I'll always love Anya."
"I'll always love Riley."
"I'll always love Willow."
"Are we going to do this all night?"
"You're the one who brought up undead and brooding."
"So I'm never going to be able to even say his name?"
"In a perfect world."
Buffy stopped Xander and turned him to face her. "Why do you hate him so much?"
"Because he loved his own life more than you. He stayed in his apartment Buff as you were about to be killed by a seriously freakish vampire. Haven't you ever wondered why I never hated Riley? He never held back... Angel did."
"Here I thought it was because he was a vampire."
"That is only one of many factors. How did we get to Seriousville?"
"I dunno. I am in a mood for a lets go to bed and make Buffy tired time though.... You do know, don't you?"
"Know what?" She stopped him again, this time looking at the ground, then looking in his eyes, hers never faltering.
"That I am in love with you. Deeply... undeniably... in love. The kind that scares the hell out of me... but at the same time... I don't want to think of my life being any other way."
He took her in his arms.
"I know the feeling."
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Author's Note: Ok, this is it for now... I may do some thing to add to this, but right now some plot bunnies are hopping way too much to be ignored. This is my first Buffy fanfic so tell me what you think of it. I'm not used to writing sexy scenes or fighting scenes so they kinda lacked in the fic, the ones I tried to write ended up on the cutting room floor. Hopefully I can write some half decent fight scenes for the next Buffy fic I write.
Laurie