Revealing
London, England
"Heh, heh, heh…bloody brilliant," mumbled the guy in the front seat driving. The blonde haired woman to the left of him just glared at him. He turned to talk to her and then noticed the death glare. He gulped, and turned back to stare at the traffic. She caught him watching her again and then saw him begin to snicker.
"It's not funny, G!" she said watching the scenery. This of course caused Giles to begin laughing again.
Giles watched the young woman, Faith, all dressed in her finery, a flowery dress thigh high, a pair of white sandals and a big floppy bonnet, like an Easter bonnet but not quite so Eastery. He couldn't help but grin as to how this happened.
"Well, it wasn't Willow's fault," he said.
"Okay, then who's fault was it? Your's?"
"Hey, you came up with the bloody idea. I just got caught up in it."
"Yeah, I know it wasn't your fault the kid,…Dudley Dursley, showed up in a fetal position in the middle of calisthenics class. I understand that. I can also understand he was in a deep shock and wouldn't talk. What I don't understand is why my mouth opened and I said maybe we should investigate!"
"Yes…yes, I quite agree." She glared at him. "And then I put my two cents in and said that we should investigate, so much for being in charge. Now here we are stuck together, because we opened our bloody mouths! I still don't see how washing you're hair is a good excuse for not going on a mission."
They both looked away and then back again. Glanced at each other and then started laughing. He was wearing a dark suit with cowboy boots and a Stetson that he received from Xander last Christmas. "G, I have to admit you look pretty good in the cowboy tycoon outfit."
"Really…I wanted to make sure they wouldn't know that I'm British," he said with a BAD Texas drawl.
Grimacing at the Texas accent, Faith hoped that he wouldn't have to use it.
"I…I really do like the…ummm…hair you know." Giles said.
"Oh you like it? Hmmm…maybe I should thank Red for that? I mean SHE IS the one that suggested it."
"Err…ummm…yes, but you didn't let her finish. She didn't tell you to dye it, she…"
"Don't give me that, Tweed Man. I was there twenty minutes after she said it and she never said that Sarah could just change her hair color with the brush of her hand. Even though it was an illusion, it would have worked fine. Thenwhatdoyouknow, here comes good old brunet haired Faith the next day, now dyed a blonde!"
"You're still not holding a grudge are you? Tha…that happened just… yester… never mind." As Faith glared daggers at him.
After a moment, she looked away and then grinned evilly, "besides, paybacks a bit$@."
"What did you do? Faith! Faith! Tell me now!" he growled in his Ripper voice.
"Take it easy G," ignoring Ripper totally. "You know those Watchers in Training that showed up yesterday morning from London. Yeah…those, anyway Red has been traveling a lot lately so I thought she'd like an evening with Kennedy alone. So, I left a message for her to meet Kennedy in the hot tub room."
"But…but we changed the schedule. Tha…that's the men's time in the …Ohh, ho, ho, hee, hee that was grea… I, er mean, that was very immature of you, Faith." She just smiled at him in that Cheshire cat type way.
Cleveland, Ohio
Slayer Central
Willow had just entered the hot tub room with the bucket of ice and bottle of Champaign. She quickly scented the water and dropped her robe. Naked she stepped down into the bubbling water to relax, until Kennedy arrived. She wanted everything to be perfect. Relaxing, she leaned back with her eyes closed to let the warmth soothe her cramped muscles. It was a good five minutes later when she heard the door open and sounds of footsteps enter the room. She sighed and snickered as she remembered the trick that she pulled on Faith, getting her to dye her hair blonde for Faith and Giles visit to England. She felt the waves lap at her as her lover entered the pool. In fact…she felt several waves…and several bodies…two on either side of her…WHAT??!!
Opening her eyes in panic, she noticed the five British Watchers in Training looking up as she suddenly exhaled to remove any buoyancy that might develop in her chest area, and then crossed her arms and legs.
"Good day Ms. Rosenburg, it's nice to see you, but I thought Faith said it was the men's time in the hot tub?" They all cheerfully smiled at her taking their places in the tub, while Willow just looked at them in an open eyed and open mouthed stare, trying to preserve her dignity.
London, England
"Ha, ha, hee, hee…that wasn't...hee, hee…very nice…" Giles said while laughing. Faith just smirked at him dangerously close to losing it also.
"Yah' liked it, huh?"
"No! Heh, heh it was very…heh, heh…Oh bloody hell it was brilliant! Heh, heh Just as funny as when Xander pissed me off, so I changed the bloody schedule on the shower room door after Xander went in."
"That was you, G!" Faith said smiling. "Here I thought it was Kennedy! God! I still remember that day, B, Red, Baby D and I along with about twenty five slayers of various ages staring at him in the shower as he turned around to find out who was making all the noise. Wow, I mean, WOW!"
"Errr…I thought you were with Robin at the time?"
"Hey! I'm not blind G, I can appreciate good male flesh when I see it, and oh did I see it!" she said still smirking with that far off look in her eyes.
"Ummm, how is Xander anyway?"
"Really good! He really likes the Cowboy and Indian Maiden thing we dooo…
That's so not what you were askin' about was it?" As she watched Rupert's eyes widen. "Well, he still doesn't talk about it. Says its over, lets move on and he has Giles. I think he's okay." Giles smiling didn't want to tell her that it was the first time she ever called him by his real name.
"If he wishes to talk…"
"Yeah… thanks G-man, you know he loves you a lot?" Rupert just smiled and laid his arm around the back of Faith squeezing her shoulder.
Cleveland, Ohio
Slayer Central
Willow still sat in the Hot tub arms wrapped around her, while the Watchers in Training donned their robes over their swimsuits they wore and left the room. She sighed in relief when the door finally swung shut. Slowly starting to get up she moved towards the steps only to have the door open and Xander, DeOgan, Buffy and Dawn enter. She was caught in all her glory naked, dripping wet as she exited the hot tub. Looking on in shock the four yelled out "Willow!" and then Xander and DeO turned around.
For her part Willow, just stood there until Buffy and Dawn grabbed her robe and helped her put it on. All the while Willow was plotting her revenge against a certain bru… blonde, she snickered. Well okay, she thought, we're even, better embarrassed by Xander than five strangers from London.
After she was dressed in her robe Xander turned around and said, "Wow Will, you have nothing to be ashamed of…I mean your beautiful…you have a great pa… they're in great shape…at least from what I saw…ummm…no, no I didn't see anything and neither did DeOgan…did you?"
DeOgan for his part said, "No, no I didn't see the rose tattoo on your right bre…Hey! What about those Cleveland Tigers?" The two guys just looked at each other as a very blushing, but smiling, Willow departed in quite a hurry. The two guys looked at Buffy and Dawn and just smiled. The two girls frowned, shook their heads as they left to follow Willow.
"Ummm, DeO, that was the Cleveland Indians."
"Oh."
Xander mused, "How come it's okay to see me naked, but not okay for anyone else." DeOgan just patted his friend on the back as they sat in the tub and enjoyed a nice cool glass of Champaign that they found left near the tub.
Privett Drive
They finally had arrived at Privett Drive. They exited a couple of streets down and slowly walked down the road to where all the cop cars were parked. Several cops loitered around as they perused through the crime scene. Giles looked at Faith sashaying around in her skirt and shook his head. She returned his signal by a faint nodding of her head. Obviously, the mother did not survive the incident.
Hips swaying, bubblegum snapping, Faith walked up to the nearest policeman saying in a high squeaky voice, "Excuse me, mister Policeperson, can I ask you what has happened here?"
Turning the man looked at the girl once and then looked at her again, smiling and sucking in his stomach saying in a deep British voice, "Hello miss, I'm sorry but we can't give that information out."
"That's okay can I take pictures then?" Faith smiled in that dumb blonde type way. Giles just smiled thinking she does a good impression of a dumb blonde, but then pictured what would happen if he ever told her that. He grimaced at the thought of twenty slayers watching him as he swam naked in the pool. Walking around he noted that the red ruby flashed when a dull red, Wizard Magic, when he got within fifty feet of the house. Turning back to Faith's bad impression of a gangster's moll, touched the blue gem bringing all motion to a stop. Faith for her part waved her hand in front of his eyes and stepped past him while patting him on the butt.
"So you ready, G?" she asked Giles.
"Let's go," he said as they walked into the house. When they entered the front door, they walked around several cops frozen in place and looked at the scene of the crime. Giles in the meantime watched the gems at work and realized that the red gem had started to glow, but the gem that interested him the most was the purple one, it glowed like the sun.
"We have big trouble Faith. Wiccan magic."
"What about Wizard magic?"
"Yeah, it's here, but what bothers me is the Wiccan magic."
"Everybody's wondering how the kid ended up with the green rock that Willow gave Harry?" She asked as she wandered upstairs. Giles couldn't answer as he moved around the house looking for clues as to why a witch would attack an innocent family.
"Giles!" He turned around to find Faith running down the stairs and stopping in front of him. "I found a picture of Harry Potter in a room upstairs. I think that this was his Aunt and Uncle's house." They looked at each other and hurried out of the house. "Somebody just upped the ante."
Place Unknown
Catherine stood at the door smiling at her daughter as she practiced her magic. She knew she had to keep an eye on her, because if she became addicted again she would be no use to her cause. Watching the younger woman reminded her of herself when she was young. It took a long time to become top cheerleader for the average girl, but Catherine was top cheerleader as a sophomore. Now though, she had more important things to do, like take over the wizarding world!
Snapping out of her daydream she watched as Amy tried to summon the flower that she wanted by saying a few words of power and writing the name of the item she wanted. That's when Mrs. Madison's eyes flew open and she ran towards Amy before she could…too late. The flour rained down upon both of them turning them both white, while Amy just looked sheepishly at her mother.
"It's okay Amy you tried, but first you need to learn how to spell."
Cleveland, Ohio
Slayer Central
"So Valdemorte's on the move," Willow said as a Blonde haired Faith smirked at her. Trying to ignore her, Willow fell into thought as she tried to figure who was using Wiccan magic?
Amanda Shelton looking from one person to the next, she still couldn't understand why she was in the meeting though. Her magic wasn't earth shattering. She was lucky to change clothes in the morning than figure out how to change paper into American currency.
She secretly glanced over at Xander Harris, watching everything the guy did. Wow, she sighed, if I was just about two weeks earlier, maybe things could have been different. Yeah, he was nice to her and helped her out a few times, but he was nice to everyone. Again she glanced over only to have a pair of eyes glare at her. She swiftly lowered her head as Faith watched her.
Buffy watched the transaction between Faith and Amanda with humor. She knew that Faith had no worries, but Faith being Faith…wellll… As for Amanda it was pretty hilarious when she had met her. It was almost like the Buffy-bot revisited, she grinned. Looking to the right of Xander was Spike, he looked deep in thought. Except she didn't think he ever had a thought in his head. They did find out why Gunn reacted the way he did though. He sold his soul to help himself and that was what Giles and the rest were worried about. Now he lay in bed from a stab wound from Wesley.
Harmony looked at the group that was pulled together and realized one thing… where did Willow get those shoes?
Lorne was still concerned about Fred, so he thought about informing them that he would be leaving Cleveland soon.
Lana Giles rushed in through the door only to be quieted by the group, but you could tell there was something she wanted to say.
Sarah watched DeOgan through slitted eyes hoping that nobody noticed, only to have Buffy glare at her. Lowering her head she couldn't understand what her fascination was about the tall, muscular, good looking elf.
Faith for her part watched the interaction between B and Sarah. She wondered if she now understood what was going on between Amanda and her. Again she noticed Lana trying to get a word in, but nobody paid any attention to her.
Doing her nails Harmony wondered…if Faith would mind if she borrowed her black leather pants.
Giles explained to everyone what had occurred the last time they were in the Wizarding World and how the five defeated the deatheaters. He went through the whole way in which Willow had thrown a spell to overcome Wizarding Magic and then proceeded to decimate the Deatheater forces. They discussed this for over an hour arguing back and forth as to how Valdemorte could overcome the Professor Dumbledor and the Wizarding World, when in a small voice…
"If I was them, I would just copy what you did in that fight and remove all the magic," Harmony said while filing her nails. Everybody just stopped and stared at her.
"What!" She said. She did it again she thought, said something stupid, but Xander jumped up and picked her up and swung her around.
Smiling shyly she said, "Okay I said something smart for once. Wow. OH yeah, next time you do that, warn me, these nails are still wet." Everybody congratulated her and all she did was glow in the spotlight, and ignored her other remark. She wasn't used to that many people giving her praise and actually thanking her for her input.
She was still smiling when Buffy asked how they would find out where they're going to strike first. Lana said, "How about the Magic Box Too, they already attacked it and it's now sitting in the field in the back of the our school amongst the horses." She responded angrily, turning about and leaving.