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Word - Glad to please your inner sap! Hopefully this chapter will make people chuckle.
Just - Wicked Slayers, aren't they? How they're coming along so quickly will be explained in future chapters. (Of course the story ends around Chap 25 - but I am planning on doing a Sequel.)
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CHAPTER 19
"You can't be serious?" Tara asks aghast.
"Yes, we are." Buffy smirks making eye contact with Faith. "We discussed and decided. So it's going to happen."
Tara pales slightly. "But, but we're talking about me, here. Don't I get a say in the matter?" Tara looks from one woman to the next.
"Okay, you vote no. Buffy votes yes and I vote yes. It's gonna happen. Democracy in action." Faith smirks at Buffy. "Gotta love it."
"Definitely working in our favor." Buffy nods her head smiling hugely. "We'll let you pick." Buffy offers magnanimously.
"Why me?" Tara whispers. "Is it too late to decide to run away to Alaska or somewhere?"
"No can do. We'll follow you to the ends of the earth." Buffy states crossing her arms over her chest.
"Yep. No way you'll escape us. You're ours now. We plan on being there for you and spoilin' you until the ends of our days." Faith grins, crossing her arms in a mimic of Buffy's stance.
"Oh, all right. Like I have a choice in the matter." Tara mumbles.
"What colors do you like?" Buffy asks, reaching for a pair of white, black and tan pants. "I definitely believe a white pair would look great. Faith thinks black. I grabbed the tan pair for you to try on also."
Tara reaches for the leather pants shaking her head. "I can't believe I'm letting you two talk me into this."
Buffy grins at Faith. "Want to follow her in and check out how they fit? I don't want her trying to get ones too big. That would defeat the purpose."
"Okay, what are you gonna do?" Faith smirks heading towards the changing room Tara had went into.
"I'm heading to the shop across the way and look at shirts." Buffy wiggles her eyebrows. "Any requests?"
"Get blue to match her eyes." Faith smiles before lightly knocking on the changing room door. "It's me. I just wanna check up on how they fit." Watching Buffy walk away, Faith grins.
"Come on! Don't you trust me?" Tara whines slightly.
"Nope. You'll get pants three times too big and then you'll have two very upset slayers on your hands. You don't have a choice, Witch. So let me in." Faith states lowly with a hint of laughter in her voice. Seeing the sales person watching her with a questioning look, Faith smiles reassuringly.
"Oh, all right." Tara mumbles unlocking the door. "Come on in, Faith." Turning back to the mirror Tara shakes her head looking at the form-fitting black leather pants.
"Wow." Faith whispers at the blonde. Raking her eyes over the tight-fitting pants, hugging the blondes form in an absolute drool-worthy way. Highlighting her hips and ass so enticingly, that Faith can't help but reach out and run her hands over the blondes ass. "Oh, yeah. Gonna buy these."
"Faith, I can't wear underwear with these." Tara hisses out quietly.
"Definitely gotta buy them now." Faith unconsciously licks her lips. "Try on the other pants." Faith gets out huskily.
As Tara eases the pants down her body and carefully hangs them back up and sliding into another pair, Faith shoves her hands in her pockets to keep from reaching out for the blonde. Nodding in approval to the white leather pants, Faith can't decide what pair looks better on the blonde. When Tara tries on the tan ones, Faith grins hugely.
"Definitely gonna get all three." Faith growls out lowly. Reaching out and pulling the witch in for a rough, seeking kiss, Faith finally pulls away whispering "You are hot. Definitely not gonna let you hide that body of yours anymore, okay?"
As Tara starts to take the pants off, Faith shakes her head. "Wait a minute, let me talk to the manager."
Quickly heading out to find the manager, Faith asks him if it would be okay for Tara to wear one of the pairs of pants out.
Appraising the woman with a raised eyebrow, Faith rolls her eyes at the manager. Pulling out $500 in cash she hands it to him. "This will cover all three pairs, I just want to enjoy the view the rest of the afternoon." Looking over at another sales rack, Faith grins grabbing a top. "I want her to try this on, also. Do you have one of those things I can take the ink tags off with? I'll leave the price tags on them so you guys can remove 'em when we come back out, okay?"
The Manager looks at the woman and finally smiles slightly. "Okay, let me get the tag remover." The man hands the cash back to Faith. "You can pay when you're done."
Faith grins in appreciation. Reaching for the tag remover she looks at it briefly, realizing there shouldn't be any questions on using it before heading back to the changing room.
"It's me." Faith grins as she hears Tara's grumbling to come in. "Here, I want you to try this top on." Faith hands the top to Tara, smiling as Tara quickly changes.
"Yep, taking that too." Faith appraises the snug white top, hugging the witch's breasts tantalizingly. "Come here." Faith quietly states, reaching for the ink tags, removing them from the shirt and leather pants. Grabbing the witch's panties and shoving them in her pants pocket, Faith grins "Souvenir." Picking up the skirt and shirt, she throws them in the trash can before grabbing the other two pairs of leather pants.
Tara blushes at the dark slayer. "Faith!"
"Come on, Blondie." Faith smirks heading out of the dressing room with Tara following subconsciously tugging on the bottom of the shirt that ends just below her breasts.
Faith shakes her head and reaches out for the hand. "Stop that. You look gorgeous."
"Faith! I don't like showing my stomach." Tara whispers to the slayer in a low embarrassed voice.
"Tara, you have an absolutely gorgeous, sexy body. And Buffy and I are gonna make you believe that. This is how we're starting. I want you to watch other peoples reactions to you when we're out shopping in the mall. If we can't make you believe, then maybe other people will." With a serious look in her eyes, Faith smiles softly. "Trust me." Faith whispers quietly.
Sighing quietly Tara consciously straightens her back, throwing her shoulders back and walking proudly.
"Now, that's my lover." Faith states with an appreciative grin.
"Don't you mean our lover?" Buffy comes up to the women looking Tara up and down. "Oh, yeah. Absolutely edible." Buffy growls out, making Tara blush slightly.
The manager has quietly been standing there as the women talk and hearing them mentioning being lovers, he groans low in his throat, looking at the three beautiful women. When the blonde had come out of the changing room, he was surprised at how gorgeous the woman actually was. Feeling his body tightening in response to the women he moves to stand behind the service desk.
As the beauties bring the clothes to be rung up, the manager smiles. "Did you find everything you needed?"
"Yes, we did." Buffy smiles at the manager. "If you'll hand me a pair of scissors, I'll cut these tags off." Quickly cutting the tags off and hand them along with the scissors back to the manager, Buffy grins in appreciation at Tara. Wrapping her arm around the witch's waist, she watches as Faith pays for the clothes.
"Didn't you buy anything for yourself, Faith?" Buffy questions realizing the clothes were for Tara.
"Nah. Figured we would get Blondie here situated first. Later on I can get more clothes." Faith states shaking her head and smiling. Accepting her change she thanks the manager as he hands the bag of clothes to her.
"Here's a discount for the next time you visit our shop. We appreciate your business and hope to see you again." He smiles as the pretty brunette, Faith, wraps her arm around the blonde's shoulders.
"We'll be back." Buffy smiles as they leave the store.
"So, what did you get, B?" Faith asks looking pointedly at the bag in Buffy's hand.
Pulling her arm from around Tara's waist she smiles. "Come over here." Buffy leads them to an empty table in the food court. Pulling out five different tops in varying shades of blue she grins at Tara. "Your eyes change color so much, depending on the situation, I had to get all the different colors they had."
Tara looks at the varying shades of lycra tops up to Buffy's eyes and shakes her head. "Please tell me we aren't going to be spending all the extra money you have on clothes just for me."
"Oh, no. I picked something up for Faith while I was in there, also." Buffy grins as she pulls out a black t-shirt, handing it to Tara.
Tara unfolds the t-shirt and starts laughing. "This is great."
Faith leans over to see what the t-shirt has on it when Tara hands it to her. Seeing the Tasmanian Devil pictured on a black Harley, Faith rolls her eyes. "Great now you two are going to gang up on me."
"Personally, I think that's fair." Tara smirks slightly. "After all, you two have been ganging up on me frequently."
Throwing the t-shirt back in the bag Faith growls lightly. "I'm getting hungry. You two want anything?" Faith stands looking at the food court trying to decide on what to get.
Tara shakes her head "You think with your stomach, Faith."
Turning to look at Tara and letting her eyes roam over the blonde's body Faith smirks. "That's not entirely true." She murmurs before leaning down and placing a quick firm kiss on Tara's lips. "I do think with other body parts occasionally."
Giggling Tara quietly murmurs "That's a given." Shaking her head Tara glances down at the food court. "I wouldn't mind having one of those huge pretzels with nacho cheese and a soda."
"Jumbo pretzel for the beautiful witch. What do you want B?" Faith looks to Buffy questioningly.
"Whatever you're having will be good." Buffy looks up smiling at Faith. "Thanks Faith."
Waving at Buffy, Faith leaves to prowl around the food court deciding on what to eat, seeing the steak and cheese sub place Faith heads over.
"So, it looks like there's something else in that bag, there Buffy." Tara murmurs scooting her chair closer to the slayer, reaching out to run her hand over Buffy's arm.
Smiling and winking at Tara, Buffy pulls out another Taz shirt handing it to the witch.
Unfolding the shirt Tara busts out in laughter. "I didn't even realize that they made shirts like this."
Buffy smirks "They made it for me. I picked out the Taz iron-on and had them add the wording."
Looking down at the t-shirt with an absolutely mischievous looking Taz on the front, arms crossed pointing to the left and right, with the wording 'Sorry World' above him and the wording 'I'm with her and her.' underneath.
"Knowing Faith, this'll probably end up being one of her favorite shirts." Tara smirks at Buffy. "Even with Taz on it!"
Nodding in agreement Buffy looks to where Faith had disappeared and seeing her heading back towards them she starts laughing.
Looking up to see what Buffy was laughing at, Tara smirks. "Told you she thinks with her stomach." Looking at the tray with three large drinks and what looks like eight or more subs piled on it and her pretzel sitting atop the subs.
"And a hundred dollars later she comes back with lunch." Buffy smirks at Faith and the food. Taking the pretzel off the top and handing it to Tara, Buffy grasps the sodas setting one down in front of each woman. Smiling as Faith sits down, grabbing one of the sandwiches and attacking.
Tara tears off a piece of her pretzel, dipping it in the cheese and popping it in her mouth, chewing slowly, watching Faith chomping on the sandwich. Looking over at Buffy who was eating enthusiastically, but not as quickly as Faith, Tara smiles.
Resting her chin on her hand Tara looks from one woman to the other. "I love you, two." Tara whispers quietly, making both women look up at her. Faith smiles gently before leaning over and kissing Tara on the temple.
Buffy whispers "I love you, too," before reaching out and running her hand down Tara's arm.
"Should have figured you three would be at the food court. With Faith you can't help but eat every hour or so." Dawn smirks plopping her bag down by the table, before flopping in the empty chair. Looking at the pile of sandwiches Dawn grabs one quickly before sticking her tongue out at Faith.
"Well that's real grown up, Squirt." Faith looks at her with narrowed eyes before sticking her tongue out in retaliation at the teen.
"Way to show her how to be a grown-up, Faith." Buffy grins before grabbing another sandwich. "You have any money leftover? Or are you looking for some more?"
Dawn shakes her head. "I'm fine. Thought I'd see what you guys were up to." Dawn states around a mouth full of food. Actually looking at the three women she glances over at Tara and her eyes widen. "Whoa! Tara, stand up, let me see what you got on."
Blushing Tara looks to the other two women who grin at her. Sighing in resignation Tara stands up and slowly turns around and hears Dawn stating wow four or five times. Quickly sitting back down Tara starts eating the rest of her pretzel, blushing.
"You guys are doing well, I see." Dawn smiles at the two slayers before looking back at Tara. "And I must say, you look gorgeous in that outfit, Tara."
"Thanks Dawnie." Tara smiles softly at the teen. "What have you gotten?"
"I bought a couple pairs of jeans and a shirt I've been wanting." Dawn smiles happily at the witch before eating more of her sandwich.
"Yeah, that's where we're heading next. Jeans for the witch. Then we're going to visit the body piercing store and get that belly button done." Faith states matter-of-factly.
"We are not!" Tara hisses out.
"Vote." Faith smirks raising her hand. "Raise your hand for everyone that say's Tara gets her belly button pierced." Buffy quickly raises her hand grinning. "That's two Blondie."
"Dawn." Tara pleads looking at the teen. "You'll vote on my side, right?"
Dawn shakes her head. "Sorry, Tara. I love you, but I am NOT getting in the middle of this." Dawn finishes her sandwich and grabs her bag. "We still meeting here in…" She trails off looking at her watch "another two hours?" Dawn looks up and at the nods she grins. "See you guys then."
Watching the teen quickly head away from the table Tara shakes her head. "See if I make that girl any more pancakes." She mumbles, making the two slayer's laugh.
"Can we get your belly button pierced?" Faith asks quietly with a hopeful look on her face.
"I thought we already voted on it, and it was decided." Tara murmurs, sipping on her soda, looking questioningly at Faith.
"Nah. We wouldn't do that to ya." Faith mumbles into her sandwich. "I just think you're sexy and a belly button ring would look good on ya."
Buffy nods her head in agreement watching Tara curiously. "We wouldn't make you do something like that. The clothes thing is different, nothing that'll harm you. We just want you to realize you look good and should flaunt it."
Tara looks from Buffy to Faith thinking. "What about you two?" Tara asks grabbing the last of her pretzel dipping it in the cheese nibbling on it.
"What about us two?" Faith questions jerking her head up quickly.
"Well, I was just thinking." Tara sips at her soda before continuing. "Why don't we all get our belly buttons pierced?"
"You'd get yours done?" Faith whispers with a smile starting to ease onto her face.
"If you two get yours done, I'll get mine done. Maybe we can get matching ones or see if they have something that would mean something personal to each of us." Tara shrugs her shoulders before smiling hugely at the two women. "I don't have a problem with it, it wasn't the piercing I had a problem with, just showing my stomach. But it looks like my stomach is going to be on show, so I better get used to it."
Faith jumps up and grabs Tara up swinging her around, making the witch laugh. "Thank you!" Faith yells, burying her face in the witch's breasts while spinning her around.
"FAITH!" Tara loudly calls her name. "Put me down, you're causing a spectacle."
Easing Tara's body down hers, Faith smirks before kissing her firmly. "Well, then let's give them a spectacle worth watching." Wrapping her arms around the witch, holding her tight Faith leans in and gives her a long, languorous kiss, making both of them moan before pulling away, panting slightly.
Buffy watches the display, wondering if she should be embarrassed or turned on. Since she was definitely turned on she just smirks before grabbing her third sandwich and eating it. "Faith, there's one sandwich left if you want it, you better grab it."
"Go ahead, B. I got more important things to do." Faith murmurs before placing a quick kiss on Tara's lips.
"Faith, we're in a public place." Tara pants quietly between the quick kisses Faith keeps placing on her lips.
"Your point being?" Faith grumbles nibbling on the witch's ear.
"Meaning, there are kids around that most parents don't want them to see this kind of public display between two people of different sexes, let along the same sex." Tara groans slightly when Faith sucks her earlobe into her mouth. "Plus the fact that I'm wearing leather pants with no underwear and if you keep this up, they're going to need to be dropped off at the cleaners."
"Small price to pay." Faith mutters nibbling her way down Tara's neck.
Tara growls out and grabs Faith by the hair at the back of her head, firmly pulling her away. "Behave, Faith."
"Oh, that is NOT the way to get me to behave." Faith grins wickedly. "That'll just make me worse. Remember? I like Butch Tara."
"If you two don't behave the security guards are going to break you up." Buffy murmurs quietly reaching for the last sandwich. "They still give me dirty looks when I come in here from when I blew part of the mall up my Junior year."
Faith starts laughing, quickly followed by Tara. Both women sit down and Faith looks at Buffy frowning. "You ate it!"
"You told me to." Buffy defends herself.
"Yeah, I know I did. But I didn't think you'd eat it!" Faith pouts. Turning and looking longingly at the food stalls.
"Faith, you ate five subs! I had four and Dawn ate one. I think you can live on five large subs for a couple hours." Buffy grumbles.
Grabbing the bags and looking at the two women grumbling at each other Tara shakes her head muttering "I'm going to go look at jeans. Stay, eat or come with. Your decision."
As the two women look up Tara turns and heads in the direction of one of the clothing stores. Both slayer's jump up and quickly chase after Tara, each one grabbing a bag from her hand to carry, making her smirk.
"Anyone else going to be buying jeans?" Tara asks looking through the jeans, grabbing some dark blue, black and light blue low riders.
Faith hands her some button-fly hip huggers and smiles. "Try these on, while you're at it. Do I need to follow you in there and make sure you aren't getting loose fitting jeans?"
"No, Faith. You don't have to follow me into the dressing room." Tara rolls her eyes. "I'm done arguing with you two. Can we get me some button-down shirts, also? Maybe some camisoles or tank tops to go under them?"
Buffy's eyes widen and she grins "I'm on it! Crop tops, also?" At Tara's nod she takes off searching.
Faith watches as Buffy goes looking for the tops and chuckles. "She's easily pleased."
"I think she lives to shop." Tara murmurs before heading off to try on the jeans.
"No, Tara. I think she lives for us, making us happy." Faith softly states to herself before smiling and looking through more clothes.
After they pay for their purchases Tara shakes her head slightly. "Do we even have any money left over, now?"
"Oh, there's plenty of money left." Buffy grins at Tara, wrapping her arm around her waist and kissing her on the cheek before whispering in her ear. "Is there anything else your heart desires, love?"
"Besides you and Faith in bed naked?" Tara smirks slightly whispering in Buffy's ear. "No, I have everything."
Faith leans in asking "Are you going to be in bed naked also?" Making Tara giggle.
"No, I figured I'd just watch." Tara snorted out a laugh. "Yes, I was planning on being in there naked with you."
"That reminds me." Buffy starts as they walk down the mall heading to get the piercing. "Tara, if we re-did the bigger bedroom and bought a king size bed, would you be okay in Mom's old room? I mean, completely re-painted, wall papered, re-arranged, the whole thing." Looking down at the floor as they walked Buffy quietly states "I just thought it would be more comfortable and we'd have more room for all three of us."
Frowning slightly, thinking about what Buffy was saying, Tara realizes she has a valid point. While the three women were sleeping together okay in the bed they were in, it wasn't all that comfortable when they were all making love together. Purely from a logistical stand point it made a lot of sense. The only problem was hers. Her and Willow had lived in that room, made love in that room and she had been betrayed by Willow in that room.
Looking over at Buffy, Tara asks quietly. "Can I think about it?"
Stopping and looking at Tara, Buffy drops the bags and puts a hand on either side of the blonde's face. "You can take all the time you want. We're fine now. It was just a suggestion to give us more room, that's all. And it's only if you are completely comfortable with it. Otherwise we won't, okay?" As Tara nods looking at her with serious blue eyes, Buffy smiles softly. "I love you."
"I love you, too." Tara smiles back before leaning down and brushing her lips lightly over Buffy's. "Now, let's go get pierced together."
"Hey! Can I get a new tat?" Faith asks smiling, happy that the suggestion didn't seem to upset the witch too badly.
"Since when did you need our permission to get a tattoo?" Tara questions with a raised eyebrow before glancing questioningly at Buffy.
Buffy shrugs her shoulders looking inquiringly at Faith. "I would prefer you not get your face tattooed, but it's your body, Faith."
"No way in hell am I gonna tattoo my face, B!" Faith smirks at the thought. "I was just kinda thinking about a new tattoo, and wanted to make sure you two were okay with it."
"Do what you want, Faith. Just make sure either myself or Tara are with you. That's still in effect until we figure out something about Willow." Buffy states quietly, running her hand down the brunette's neck.
Closing her eyes briefly at the caress, Faith smiles murmuring "Feels good."
Chuckling at the two women Tara nudges Buffy into Faith. "Jeeze, go ahead and kiss already. You know you want to."
"Yeah, but when we kiss it isn't usually just a kiss, it's a tonsil hockey match." Buffy jokes.
"Oh, like what Faith and I were doing at the food court was just a kiss." Tara states with a roll of the eyes. "Damn, I had Faith's face buried between my breasts, a tonsil hockey match would be mild."
Faith waggles her eyebrows before grabbing Buffy in for a brief but passionate kiss. "Small hockey match." She whispers. "Gotta save the good stuff for later."
"What kind of good stuff you got planned?" Buffy whispers back smiling.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Faith smirks. "Come on, I want to get Blondie a cool belly button ring."
"What? I don't even get to choose my own?" Tara asks in mock outrage.
"Sure you can. We don't have to get just one kind - we can buy all different kinds you know." Faith states with a cocky grin. "And I can't wait to see what they have." Faith grabs the bags and heads toward the store grinning as she feels Tara hook her arm through her own.
"Women." Buffy mutters loudly following behind the two. Looking at the view, deciding this is definitely the place to be.
"She's ogling our asses." Tara stage whispers.
"Yep. She picks on my breast fetish, but I think she has an ass fetish." Faith smirks at the blonde.
"Actually I think we all have ass fetishes' to a certain degree." Buffy states watching how the leather showed off the blonde's ass and muscular thighs. Who knew Tara had such a great body hiding under those frumpy outfits? Willow had this wonderful, kind, gorgeous woman and screwed it up. Buffy shakes her head at the stupidity. Nothing was worth losing Tara. "You know, Faith, I was thinking."
"Yeah B?" Faith answers as they head into the shop.
"It may not have been a good idea to buy all these tight fitting clothes. I mean I enjoy the view. I mean I really, really enjoy the view." Buffy smirks. "But if she ends up getting all these people hitting on her all the time, which I know she will, I'm going to be knocking heads together."
Faith growls out. "They can look, they can want, but they will not have and they will not touch. Simple as that. I want everyone to know that we three are together and that we don't share."
"Sounding kind of possessive there, Faith." Tara states quietly, trying to keep a straight face.
"I-I didn't mean it like you belong to me, Tara. I meant it more like we belong to each other…I mean we ain't interested in anybody else and I wanted to make sure that other people know it kind of thing." Faith hurriedly tries to straighten up her mess. "I mean I care for you a lot and would do anything for ya! I didn't mean it in a possession kind a way you understand?" Faith almost begs. "I love ya to much for me to think of you as a possession, you mean the world to me…"
Tara slams her lips into Faith's, forcefully shoving her tongue into the slayer's mouth, stroking her tongue repeatedly over Faith's before battling her for dominance. Pulling Faith in hard against her body, Tara grabs her behind the head, deepening the angle of the kiss before nipping then sucking hard at the tongue invading her mouth.
"Whoa! Who ordered Hot Babes-R-Us to come to the store?"
Buffy had been trying not to laugh as Faith tried to extract her foot from her mouth, heard when she said she loved Tara, and saw how it affected the blonde. Watching Tara attack Faith made Buffy groan internally. Don't think there's going to be much sleeping the rest of this weekend. Buffy smirks as she hears the comment from the employee at the register. Glancing around she sees that Tara and Faith have pretty much garnered the interest of the whole store, and from the looks of it, none of them were going to complain. Seeing Faith's hands start to slide down to cup Tara's ass, Buffy closes in quickly, grabbing and pulling them and Faith away.
Growling in displeasure when she feels her hands being pulled away from the body she found literally plastered against hers, Faith whimpers as Buffy separates them. Opening her eyes, trying to make sense of what happened Faith looks at Buffy. "What the fuck, B! Why'd ya separate us for?"
Tara, finally regaining a little bit of control, looks around the store and blushes whispering "Oh, Goddess." Turning even a darker red as a scattering of applause came from customers and employees alike.
"I don't think you two wanted to give everyone in the store a free show. Hence my separating you." Buffy mutters quietly.
Faith's staring at the witch with not a small degree of lust in her eyes and growls out. "She attacked me. Not that I'm complainin' or anything but why?"
"Because of what you said." Tara whispers her eyes full of love for the dark slayer.
"What I said? I put my foot in my mouth. Why would you attack me like that when I was being stupid?" Faith shakes her head trying to figure out what was going on.
"Because you said you love her." Buffy whispers quietly in Faith's ear. "Amidst your backpedaling to apologize for putting your foot in your mouth, you said you love her too much to treat her like a possession." Buffy explains quietly.
Eyes widening, Faith replays the words she had stated earlier in her mind. "I did, didn't I?" She whispers quietly looking in stunned surprise at first Buffy and then Tara. "I said it." Looking at the smile coming from both women Faith grins. "I do, you know. Both of you." Faith looks down for a moment before looking back up. "I still don' think I'll ever be able to say it easily. It's just not something I think I can do." Giving first Buffy then Tara a firm kiss Faith grins.
"So, you're not really mad at me?" Faith asks hopefully. At Tara's shake of the head Faith smirks. "Damn, I was kinda hoping you being mad at me brought out your rough and tumble side. I was gonna make you mad as hell this evening!"
"Umm, Faith?" Tara states looking around seeing that most of the people were still paying attention to them. "Can we discuss this later?"
"What?" Faith looks around at the people watching them and smirks. "Blondie, from the looks of it, these guys don't care." At the narrowed eyes looking her way, Faith throws her hands up in defeat. "But you do, and we won't be havin' this convo here. This is a place for piercing, not talking about sex. Got it."
Snickering at her two lovers, before whispering "whipped" at Faith, Buffy heads over to look at the different body jewelry. Seeing the small Celtic Cross that was identical except for size to the one Tara had given her Buffy smiles. Looking up to the sales person Buffy points it out. "I want to get that one."
"You're looking at jewelry for pierced belly buttons, you are aware, right?" The sales person smiles encouragingly at the tiny blonde woman.
"Oh, yeah. Gonna get that done today!" Buffy grins up at the sales clerk. Looking back down, she smirks seeing a Tasmanian Devil. Pointing that one out to the clerk, Buffy continues perusing the rest of the items. Feeling a pair of arms wrap around her from behind and a chin resting on her shoulder Buffy smiles. "I found one for you and another one for Faith, already. I haven't found one that talks to me yet."
"Hmm. And what have you found?" Tara asks quietly in Buffy's ear, glancing over the jewelry. "Hey, look over there on the back row in the corner, is that a stake?"
Buffy looks over to the area that Tara is talking about, "Damn. Looks like it. Hey, do you have two of those?" Buffy asks looking up at the clerk.
The clerk looks at the item they are pointing at, frowning slightly he opens the section below to look for another one. "It looks like we have a silver one identical to that one, but not another gold one." He states pulling it up and setting it on the counter.
Buffy partially turns in Tara's arms looking at her with a raised eyebrow. "Doesn't matter to me, what do you think?"
Tara grins, picking the item up and looking it over closely. "Get them both. One for you and one for Faith. You two can fight over who gets the silver and who gets the gold. I'll just watch."
"What are you two goin' on about?" Faith mutters coming up behind the two women. "You know they do tongue piercing here, too?"
"NO!" Tara almost yells out. "I will NOT get my tongue pierced. I'm drawing the line, there. I can just see me teaching class and my students saying 'Look at Old lady Maclay, she thinks she's young and sexy, with her tongue piercing.'"
"YO! I wasn't talking about you!" Faith smirks. "I was kind of thinking I could get it done, they have some real interesting jewelry for it." Faith waggles her eyebrows looking Tara up and down. "Could be interesting. Anyway, you ain't old. You're young and hot."
Rolling her eyes Tara leans in till she's nose to nose with Faith. "That's what you think. In another two years when I'm teaching the kids, they'll look at me like I'm a fossil. I'll be like six or more years older than most of them."
"If only I had a teacher that looked like you when I was in school, I wouldn't have dropped out." The clerk states with a grin, looking the blonde up and down.
Faith and Buffy both turn with frowns on their faces looking at the guy. "She's ours." Comes out of both of their mouths in a growl at the same time.
The guy pales suddenly, swallowing hard. "I-I didn't m-mean anything, honest."
"Leave the poor guy alone. You're scaring him." Tara states quietly, running her hand over both women's shoulders. "Sorry, they're kind of protective."
"She's calling us dogs, ain't she?" Faith growls out.
Laughing Buffy nods her head. "Listen to yourself growl, Faith. Figure it out."
"I'm not the only one she was talking about, B." Faith smirks as Buffy frowns slightly.
"Don't argue, you two. So we got the two stakes, the Taz and what was the other one you got, Buffy?" Tara asks turning her head smiling at Buffy.
"I got a Celtic Cross that looks just like the one you gave me." Buffy smiles almost shyly. "I thought if I was wearing the one your mother gave you, it would be nice for you to have one yourself."
"Thank you." Tara whispers placing a kiss on her forehead. "Now, were there any other ones that piqued your guys' interest?"
Faith shrugs her shoulders. "Haven't actually looked at them, was looking at other items. You know besides tongue and belly button piercing they also pierce cli…."
Buffy quickly covers Faith's mouth, knowing exactly what the other slayer was going to say and only slayer speed stopped it. "We know, Faith. And no, I'm not going to have that pierced."
Tara smirks "Why not? It would heal quickly on you and it wouldn't be like you'd have to wait THAT long before…" Trailing off Tara laughs at the look she's getting from Buffy. "Okay, we won't discuss other body piercing. With you two, it is kind of a mute point. I would be the one it would take forever to heal."
"How about getting your nipples pierced? Wanna, huh, huh?" Faith smirks looking down at Tara's breasts before looking back up grinning.
"I think my letting you two talk me into the belly button piercing is all the piercing we're going to do today." Tara states in a no nonsense tone before walking over to look at the other jewelry.
Faith leans over to whisper in Buffy's ear. "She said today. She didn't say a flat out no. Nipples might be a possibility."
"And what if she wants us to have ours done at the same time?" Buffy asks grinning, already knowing the answer to the question.
"Hell, yeah I'd do it." Faith grins as she whispers back.
"If she asked you to put a nose ring in so she could lead you around by it, you'd do it!" Buffy whispers exasperatedly.
"And you wouldn't?" Faith smirks at Buffy when she didn't come back with an answer. "She has got us both so whipped. What the hell happened to us?"
Buffy shakes her head watching Tara. "We fell completely and irrevocably in love. That's what happened. And, I don't know about you, but I'm happier than I have ever been before."
"You and me both, B. You and me both." Faith states sincerely, with all her heart. Watching as Tara looks at other items. "If we don't get the piercing done here soon, we're going to be late meeting Squirt." Faith states looking up at the clock on the wall.
"I'll go get her if it gets to be close time-wise." Buffy states smiling as Tara leans over looking in another case. "The view is too nice to hurry along."
"Are you two ogling my ass again?" Tara whispers so only they can hear.
Grinning at each other they both state "Busted." loudly before looking back at Tara.
"Let's get this done." Tara states shaking her head at the two women. "You two are going to drive me crazy. That's all I have to say."
"Okay, who goes first?" Faith asks walking up to the counter looking from Buffy to Tara.
"Or do we want to draw straws?"
"Well, we need to see if they can get us in now or if it might be a while." Tara looks askance at the clerk.
"We actually have two different people here working right now that do the piercing and they're both free. So?" He looks at the women.
"How about you two go ahead and I'll run down to see if Dawn's waiting for us. If she is I'll have her come back with me." Buffy suggests.
"'kay." Faith smirks slightly. "You gonna let her get her belly-button done also?"
Buffy's eyes widen slightly. "I don't…she's only 15 years old…She's too young, isn't she?" Buffy trails off looking to Tara for help and guidance.
"Buffy, I can't make this decision for you. It's something you and Dawn would need to discuss." Tara states softly looking into the slayer's hazel eyes. "Has she ever asked?"
"No." Buffy looks down and then back up again. "Tara, she considers you like a surrogate mother. I love you and trust your judgment. Can't you help me out a little?"
"Buffy, you're wanting me to tell you yes or no. I can't do that. Just wait and see if Dawnie asks. If she doesn't ask, don't worry about it. If she does, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it." Tara states quietly running her hand down the slayer's neck. "I love you too. Now go get Dawnie while Faith and I get pierced. Do you prefer the gold or silver stake, in case Faith decides to have it put in?"
"I don't really mind either way." Buffy half smiles. "I'll be back in a little while." Giving the blonde a quick kiss on the cheek before turning to Faith who was looking at the jewelry, pulling her around and placing a quick, hard kiss on her lips before heading out of the store.
"Do you see anything you like?" Tara asks quietly placing her hand on the slayer's hip as she was leaning back over the glass case.
"I think you two already picked the ones I would have." Faith looks up grinning, showing her dimples to the fullest. "What about you?"
Reaching down with her other hand, Tara lightly runs a fingertip over the slayer's dimple. "Hmmm. I think I got everything I need."
Looking questioningly at the witch, it takes Faith a moment to realize she isn't talking about body jewelry. Quickly bringing her body up straight, Faith turns to face Tara. "Do you?" Faith whispers quietly and as Tara nods, she smiles leaning in and placing a gentle kiss on the witch's lips.
Faith grabs the Taz jewelry piece, handing it to the clerk behind the counter. "I'd like this one put in."
Tara grins slightly before picking up the Celtic Cross for herself. "This one for me, please."
Faith looks confused for a moment. "Am I the only one that has two?"
"Yes, for now." Tara grins. "We'll keep looking and checking them out for future reference. I wouldn't mind getting a Pentagram if they make one. I would still kind of like to get matching ones eventually."
"This way, ladies." One of the ladies doing the piercing states looking at the two women.
Sitting down in chairs across from each other, Faith grins at Tara. When the person adjusted the chair raising it up slightly, Faith starts laughing. "Hey, Tara. You know these could be…"
"Faith." Tara states her name in a warning tone.
"You don't let me have any fun at all." Faith mutters quietly.
"I'll remind you of that later tonight." Tara smirks, then blushes realizing the two employees were silently laughing. "Great. The people that work here in this store aren't ever going to forget us." Tara groans out, closing her eyes.
"I hate to tell you, but even without the displays and the comments, we probably still would remember you." The lady rubbing the solution on Tara's stomach states grinning.
"Why is that?" Faith asks watching the woman intently.
"No growling." Tara whispers quietly.
"Excuse me. What did you say? I didn't quite hear you." The lady asks Tara questioningly.
"Nothing, just making a comment to myself more or less." Tara states looking over at Faith with a raised eyebrow. "So, why would you remember us?"
"Well, it isn't that often we get three beautiful women coming in here at the same time to get pierced." The guy getting ready to put Faith's piercing in, smirks.
"There all done." The lady smiles as she pulls off her surgical gloves looking at the piercing. "I don't want to piss off the other lady or anything, but I do have to say that you definitely have the figure for this."
Faith rolls her eyes. "I don't wanna piss off my girlfriend again. So, I'm just gonna state thank you for confirming what we've been trying to tell her. You wouldn't believe what she usually wears, long flowing skirts, baggy tops. You would never know what kind of body she has. Of course, we're changing that! Damn shame it was too, covering it up."
Tara's eyes widen as she blushes. "Faith, that's enough!" Tara hisses out.
"Sorry, I gotta agree with the woman, you got it. Might as well flaunt it." The guy smirks as he finishes Faith's piercing. "And you are done. Here's the instructions on keeping them clean and taking care of the piercing. It'll be tender for a couple weeks and will take up to six or eight weeks to heal completely."
"At least for some of us, it'll take that long." Tara mutters looking down at the piercing before smiling slightly.
"Here, we got a mirror over here, if you'd like to look?" The woman smiles at Tara pointing towards the mirror.
Hopping off the chair Tara walks over to the mirror and grins hugely. "It actually does look good, doesn't it?"
"Told you." Faith murmurs wrapping her arms low around Tara's abdomen from behind, looking in the mirror with her. Lightly running a finger around the outside of the piercing.
"No fondling in public, Faith." Buffy reprimands as she comes in the back with the gold stake. "I'm taking the gold one. If you wanted it, too bad."
"Where's Dawnie?" Tara asks turning around kissing Faith lightly on the cheek before going to Buffy.
"She's outside looking at everything." Buffy smirks slightly.
"And?" Tara asks with a quirked eyebrow.
"She didn't ask." Buffy shrugs. "I guess I might have been freaking out for nothing, huh?"
"Maybe." Tara smirks slightly. "But I figure it's only a matter of time. It's kind of the thing for kids to do. I saw one with a tiny key dangling from it." Tara wiggles her eyebrows before heading out the door, laughing.
"Don't even!" Buffy yells after her, with Faith chuckling behind Tara.
"Don't worry B. I'll make sure to keep Squirt outta the wicked witch's hands." Faith smirks before leaving the back room.
"Oh, yeah. That makes me feel relieved. NOT!" Buffy shakes her head before smiling as the woman shifts her shirt up, rubbing the antiseptic around her stomach. "Do you guys do a lot of piercing in this store?"
"Oh, yeah. We probably do a couple hundred a week. We get a lot of repeat customers. They start off with a belly button piercing, graduate up to tongue piercing, eyebrow, nose, nipples, genitalia. You wouldn't believe some of the places people want to be pierced." The woman shakes her head smiling. "You two like picking on the blonde, don't you?"
"Tara? Yeah, we do. She's such an easy going, even tempered woman, that we like to see how far we can push her before she pushes back." Stopping and thinking for a moment, Buffy smiles. "She used to not stand up for herself. She's getting better. She picks on us about being protective, I'm sure you heard her?" Buffy asks it almost questioningly and at the woman's grin and nod Buffy chuckles. "She's even worse. Anything threatens us…" Buffy shakes her head frowning slightly.
"She obviously loves you both very much." The woman looks at Buffy consideringly. "It's not something you see every day. Grab onto it with both hands and hold on tightly. I'm finished."
Buffy smiles slightly. "Believe me, we are." Buffy stands up walking over to the mirror grinning.
"Thanks." Buffy smiles as she heads out to the front of the store. "So, what are you guys up to?" Buffy looks at Dawn who's grinning and holding an item in her hand. Walking towards Dawn, seeing what she's holding her eyes widen and she looks up at Tara, who's looking back innocently at her.
"I think this would be cool, don't you?" Dawn grins at Buffy holding up the dangling key. Seeing Buffy starting to pale, Dawn starts giggling. Quickly the rest of the group are laughing. "I'm just kidding, Buffy." Dawn finally gets out.
Turning with narrowed eyes and looking at Tara, Buffy starts to growl lowly, starting to hunt the witch.
Laughing as Buffy starts to chase her slowly around the store, Tara holds up her hands "Come on, Buffy." Tara tries cajoling the slayer. "All in good fun." Walking backwards around the shop. Giggling slightly, Tara smiles crookedly at the slayer. "Aren't you happy? I mean Dawnie doesn't want her belly button pierced."
"You put her up to it." Buffy mutters, prowling after the witch.
"Well, yes I did." Tara grins. "But, you should know she's in the back getting her tongue pierced while you're out here ready to pounce on me."
"DAWN!" Buffy yells before turning, ready to run into the back of the shop when she sees Faith and Dawn covering their mouths trying not to laugh. When she sees the employees behind them, laughing also, Buffy throws her hands up in the air exclaiming. "What is this? Pick on Buffy day?" Turning and looking at Tara who's biting her lip to keep from laughing, she walks up till she's standing toe to toe with the witch, hissing out quietly "You are so going to pay for this tonight. I mean, really, really pay. We are going to the Bronze, then we're coming back home to have hot and heavy sex all over the house. You aren't going to be able to sit without your body twitching in response for a week after."
"Oh, Goddess." Tara murmurs, her eyes widening at first before closing as her body tightens in response.
Smirking as she smells the arousal coming off the witch, Buffy turns, still smirking towards Faith and Dawn. "Are we done here? Did you pay, Faith?"
"Oh, yeah. We're all paid up." Faith smirks at Buffy, having caught the majority of what she said to Tara. "Hey, Squirt you still staying at your friends house tonight?"
Dawn looks from one woman to the next and shakes her head. "Yeah. I am most definitely not going to be in the house tonight. And hopefully the majority of tomorrow, also."
"That's probably a good thing." Faith murmurs quietly. "I say we head home, ladies."