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10 years later
Crawling through the air vent was the one of the things Buffy and Kendra was better at then Faith was. Small frame, and most importantly small hips, to go through the small air vent. Perfect, if your about to steal something.
"You know guys, I'm starting to feel real cramp here" Buffy whispered to her earphone "How far do I have to go?"
"Not far" Willow said back to her.
After they escaped the Iniative Buffy stole food and money to help 'sisters' to rest and heal. Life was hard as a thief then until Buffy stole from another thief and a pretty good one too. His name was Rupert Giles and he had been watching Buffy stealing for a while, after all she was on his territory why shouldn't he watch her?
When she stole from him he in turn took back what she stole when he 'accidentally' bumped into her. Realising what happened went back to re-steal from him and he in turn took it back. After a while he laughed at her sheer determination and poutiness and gave her food and money for days to come. Soon they developed a bound of trust between them, strong enough for him to actually help Faith and Kendra and take them all to his home to live with his wife Joyce and his only child Willow and adopt them.
Willow and Buffy hit off instantly, the young red was a complete computer/science genius but her brain couldn't compare to Willow's big sweet heart. Though it took Kendra a little while to adjust and open up, Faith just let her wild side out and kept it that way, which was how Giles and Joyce knew there was something completely different about these ten year olds. Giles and Joyce never pushed them to open up but just guided them into the direction, it was Kendra who told them about their past and with Faith and Buffy begged him not to tell anyone, well Willow overheard so that didn't count.
Giles wanted to retire his thieving days, believing that he had enough money to retire and keep his family safe. That was until eight years later an economic failure accord in the world. He was too old for the priceless items that would support his family and so Buffy, Kendra and Faith stepped in with a little aid from Willow.
"You sure? I really don't like to see Buffy's butt in my face" Kendra said, crawling behind Buffy.
"Don't worry sugar" Faith said very sweetly "I'm sure its a firm one"
Buffy shook her head as she rolled her eyes at them.
"You seriously need to be neutered" Kendra growled.
"And were would the fun be in that?" Faith purred.
"Just do your job!" Buffy snapped.
"Damn B, your starting to sound like baby sis" Faith chuckled.
"We found the opening" Buffy reported as she stepped over it making Kendra an herself on either side.
"Good" Willow said
After a few screws removed by Buffy and Kendra and one latch removed Buffy "Faith?"
"Security cameras have been frozen" Faith said "Your playing invisible, honey"
"Willow?" Buffy asked.
"Beams are frozen too" Willow said "But target beams can't be shut down, guess Kendra has to do something.
"But I was the one that learnt over those damn things" Buffy grumbled.
"Shall we abort?" Faith said, the old soldier in her didn't seem to want to leave.
"No, we worked to damn hard at this point, we haven't screwed up with this job and we're not going to screw this one up either" Buffy said.
"I think I can move the beams from here" Kendra said.
"Electric eel DNA always a saver" Faith said "Its show time people"
Hocking up the rope to her harness Buffy went feet first as she was slowly lowered to the ground by Kendra. Buffy slowly breathed in and out to calm her nerves, one little slip and the entire thing would collaps. Relaxing herself while Kendra tensed her body for control, making absolutely sure Buffy wouldn't swing like Tarzan. Although it would have been very funny.
Buffy un-hocked the harness and began a series of flips, rolls, slides, turns and handstands till she was near the target.
A ten thousand dollar golden Chinese mask.
"Buffy, not to add pressure but you need to hurry. One of the security guards is heading your way" Willow warned.
"Thanks Will" Buffy said sarcastically.
"Hey, don't shoot the messenger" Willow protested.
Buffy pulled out her equipment, placed a sucker on the glass and began to cut the glass around the sucker with the glass cutter. She pulled the sucker with the attached glass, she delicately removed the glass from the sucker and placed it on top of the glass container.
"Kendra your up" Buffy said.
She felt a slight static shock in the air then Kendra said "Go for it
Buffy carefully pulled the mask out then place it into her equipment bag then took out an exact replica but fake one to its place and packed up the rest of her equipment. Then swiftly go backwards of her series of moves as soon as she zipped up.
"One minute" Willow said as Buffy was half way to the her escape route "thirty seconds" as Buffy hocked up her harness back to the rope and began to be reeled in "fifteen seconds" as Buffy and Kendra began to screw up the latch "Stop" Willow said just as they finished screwing the latch up the security guard came in.
The security guard had punched in the code and turned on the lights. He scanned the area. Buffy and Kendra heart raced as the security man looked around. She closed her eyes and begged who ever that was up there to help them. It felt as if the world had slowed down painfully.
"Alls clear" The security man said through his radio, he turned around, turned the security system on and left.
Kendra and Buffy crawled back as quickly and quietly as possible. Buffy smiled at their Tenth successful job in the last two years. It was pretty stupid for the curator of this particular musuem to challenge them to steal from them since they were good. They were very good, so good in fact that they were called the slayers. No museums, mansions or buildings were safe.
"Guess I get to see your ass now" Buffy said making them giggle silently.
TBC
I promis there is BA on the way people just hang in there!