Can't Fight the Moonlight 5?
Disclaimers in part 1
Giles looked at Faith; she in turn looked at Buffy. "Well, there is someone, but it isn't a guy." She looked everywhere but at him. Buffy saw her nervousness and walked up to her to hold her hand. Giles saw this act and it dawned on him. "Are you and Buffy seeing each other?" He asked dumbfounded. The two girls exchanged a smile before answering. "Yeah Giles, its true Faith and I are together, but before you say anything it's new to us. Mainly me, I was developing feelings for her and I just come to terms with them. She feels the same way about me." She looked at Faith lovingly a look she returned.
Giles took his glasses off and cleaned them. He had a suspicion that the two of them had an attraction to each other. "Am I the only one to know?" He asked sitting down on the couch and putting his glasses on. "You are like the second to know, mom figured it out this morning." Buffy added. "Are you okay with this G? I mean Buffy is like a surrogate daughter to you." she looked at him. "Yes, Buffy is like a daughter to me, and so are you. I wish you two nothing but the best." He gave them both a warm smile. "Now come on let's train." Both girls groaned, Buffy got up with Giles and assumed the position. "I am not your watcher I am a vampire treat me like one." Buffy rolled her eyes and lit into him five minutes later he called it to a halt. "You know on second thought you and Faith train together I'll critique." He got up off the floor and limped to the couch. Buffy gave Faith a secret grin. It was her that she really wanted to spar with.
Faith got up off the stool, "Are you ready to do this Twinkie?" Buffy raised an eyebrow at her. "Do you really have to ask?" Giles just rolled his eyes at their antics. "Okay enough of the witty banter get to sparring." Buffy didn't waste any time in taking Faith down. They were so enthralled in their battle that they didn't notice the rest of the Scoobies come in. Xander stood there with his mouth open, he never seen them train so intently it was like they knew how each other moved. Willow looked on in awe; she's never seen Buffy unleashed. Cordelia rolled her eyes at the two; she knew that there was some sexual tension between the two. Buffy took Faith down with a under leg kick and straddled her and out of nowhere she produced Mr. Pointy. "If you were a vampire you would be dust." Buffy got up and helped Faith up.
"You got me this time B." she smiled at the other girl. Buffy turned around and saw her friends standing there, "Hey guys! How long you been there?" Xander did his impression of a fish and Willow just stood there. "We just got here when you got to your climatic ending." Cordelia said teasingly. Both Buffy and Faith turned away from the group. "So Giles, how was it? Were we good enough by council standards?" Faith asked as Buffy was talking to Willow. "The two of you together are a force to be reckoned with." He gave her a smile. "Are we finished here, because I really need to take a shower." Buffy looked over at the other girl, "You do, you're not so fresh right now." she teased.
"You got jokes. I will get you later." She gave her a smile and walked upstairs.
Buffy walked over to her bag and pulled out a change of clothes. "You and Faith seem awfully close." Willow told the blonde. Buffy looked at her with innocence. "We've always been close Will. There is nothing different." She turned and walked to the bathroom downstairs. Willow sat down on the couch. "Giles is there something we need to know about our two slayers." Xander asked, finally finding his voice.
Giles went into the kitchen to prepare him and the girls some tea. "It's really not my place to say anything. If you want to know ask them." He went about putting water in the tea pot. Willow and Xander looked at each other with looks of confusion. Cordelia being the ever tactful one decided to put them in the loop.
"If you must know, it is obvious that they have a mutual attraction to each other. Either they acted on it or are about too. Come on you could cut the sexual tension with a knife."
Willow blushed and Xander's eyes glazed over. Sometimes she wondered how well they knew their friend.
"Buffy couldn't be that way because she likes the boys. How do you explain Angel, Owen, and Scott?" She babbled out.
Giles brought in the tea tray with some cookies. He really didn't understand how he could listen to such chit chat. Xander reached for a cookie and bit into it he could actually care less about Buffy's preference. To him anyone was better than Angel.
"Oh please, those were just diversions. I'm not saying that she is completely gay, but she isn't exactly straight either." Cordelia pointed out.
"What I don't understand is why didn't she say something about it before? I mean we would've understood." Xander pointed out.
By this time Buffy had already come out the shower and sat down next to Giles. He handed her a cup of tea and a cookie.
"That's because I didn't understand until recently. Besides it's all new to me." She smiled at the red head.
Faith came down stairs and sat in front of Buffy's feet, but not before getting a cup of tea. She came in on the last part of the conversation, but had a general idea of what they were talking about. As always someone pointed out the obvious and Willow and Xander couldn't grasp the concept.
"Buffy and I are together deal with it." Faith put it simply.
"What are you lot doing here anyway? It's Saturday I thought you would at least have plans." Giles asked.
The three teens shared a look and smiled. "Actually we don't have any plans until later." Willow stated. Cordelia rolled her eyes, "Whatever I have plans. I'm going to the spa with mother. I just came to see what you losers were up to?" She smiled.
"My girlfriend everyone the queen of mean." He said sarcastically which earned him a smack on the arm.
Buffy and Faith smiled at their antics. To them Xander and Cordelia were the poster children for disfunctional. Willow looked over at the two girls with envy; Buffy now had someone else to share everything with. It wasn't that she was jealous, but Faith knows what Buffy goes through and deals with. Without a word she got up and ran out the door leaving five stunned people behind. Faith looked up at Buffy and gave a nod of her head.
"Excuse me, I'll be back." She opened the door and took off after the red head.
"That was weirdness personified." Quipped Xander. This earned him a hit with a pillow from his girlfriend.
"Willow is a little jealous, because her best friend has someone she can relate to. From he slaying and everything that goes with it. She'll know what's going on in her life before she does. In a way it's like she's losing her best friend." Cordelia stated the obvious.
Xander still didn't understand, "She didn't act that way when we started dating. Yes she was a little miffed, but eventually she got over it."
Faith rolled his eyes and Giles got up. He had to get out of there before he was forced to knock some sense into that boy.
"You are her best guy friend it's normal for you to have a girlfriend. Buffy is her best friend that's a girl, she feels as if she's being replaced." Faith threw a pillow at him.
"It's a girl thing. I wouldn't understand." He grinned.
Buffy found Willow in the park sitting on the swings. She sat down next to her and began moving.
"Why did you run off?" She asked her friend.
Willow looked over at her friend. "You have someone who understands you better than I do. Who gets the slaying and all that other stuff." She said sadly.
Buffy let out a sigh. "Willow, she could never replace you. Faith understands the slaying and everything else that entails. But you help too, with the research and the spells, you and Xander, even Cordelia by default are a piece of normal in my life. Willow we've been friends since my first day at Sunnydale you're my go to girl. I talk to you about everything and that is not going to change. I'm happy for the first time, truly happy. I want you to be happy for me. I know you don't really like Faith, but once you get to know her beyond that tough exterior is a nice girl at heart. Can you do that for me?" She looked at her friend intently.
Willow thought about everything her friend said. In a way she wasn't being fair to Faith or Buffy. She looked back at her friend.
"For you I will try, but don't forget about me okay?" She gave her a smile.
"How could I forget my Willow shaped friend?" She teased. They spent a few minutes swinging on the swing.
"So how goes it with Oz? I usually don't see you without him."
"He had practice, we're getting together later though." She smiled.
They continued swinging and that's how Faith found them a little later.
"Trying to relive your childhood?" She teased.
"No we are just having a little chat time." Buffy smiled and gave Faith a kiss.
She pulled Buffy off of the swing and sat down pulling Buffy on her lap. Willow couldn't help but smile at the picture they created. Her friend was truly happy and there was no way she could step all over that. At least Faith is a lot better than Angel.
"You okay with us Red?" Faith asked the Wicca.
"It's going to take some getting used to. I am of the good, but if you hurt my friend, I will be forced to hunt you down and beat you to death with a shovel." She gave the brunette a sweet smile.
Faith looked at her in shock. "A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend." Buffy just laughed.
"Damn B, you didn't tell me she was a mean one." She looked at her girlfriend.
"Oh yeah she's bad. You should have heard the way she went off on Angel and Giles."
"I'm going to leave you two lovers at it. I'm going home to wait for Oz, we have a date tonight."
She got up and left the two girls alone. Everyone took the news pretty well the problem was now how was she going to tell Angel. He was in LA fighting the good fight, but he still loved her. She still loved him, but not as much as she does Faith.
"Deep thoughts." Faith brought Buffy out of her thoughts.
"Deep and meaningful, I was thinking about telling Angel."
She felt Faith tense a little. Angel was a sensitive subject for the raven haired girl. It was like she was living in his shadow.
"How do you think Mr-likes-to-brood is going to take it?"
"I really don't care. He was the one who left me before we could even have anything. I know he still loves me, but he has the right to know." She gave a shrug of her shoulders.
"So you are completely over him?"
"Oh yeah, I mean he will always be a part of me. Being my first love well infatuation. Lord knows nothing could ever become of us. Friends it the only way to be." She smiled.
"I just wanted to make sure. I've never oh hell, I've never felt this way about anyone. You came in and just broke through my walls."
"I can't promise that we will not hurt each other. But it would never be intentionally."
"What the hell, let's just go for it. Fuck all the bullshit and just give us a try." Faith put simply.
Buffy looked around at where they were and got up, pulling Faith along with her.
"B, where are we going?"
"Back to mine. I'm seizing the day." She took off in a run, with Faith following behind her.