Chapter 10

"You have got to be kidding me! What a mind fuck!" Kelly states in shock when Buffy finishes telling her the story of her and Angel including how he lost his soul, killed Jenny, sending him to hell, his coming back from hell and his leaving. "Leave it to gypsies to put a happiness clause in a curse. Like being completely evil after losing his soul and doing all kinds of sick and deprived stuff to people is a good thing." Kelly sarcastically states with a shake of her head. "That had to have screwed you up royally. Your birthday, your first time, then your boyfriend turns evil." Kelly stops and starts to grin widely. "See, maybe fate was trying to tell you something! Maybe you were looking in all the wrong places for love! Let's test my theory. What's the rest of your relationships been like?"

Buffy starts laughing and shakes her head. "Nope. I'm not expanding on my past love stories until I hear some about yours. So come on, tell me about your first time. It couldn't be any worse than mine!"

Buffy watches as Kelly's eyes darken and she starts frowning and looks down at the ground. "I just said the wrong thing, didn't I? God, Kelly. I am so sorry." Buffy reaches over gently putting her hand on Kelly's arm to bring them to a stop. Buffy points to a tombstone "why don't you go ahead and sit down and I can try and dislodge my shoe from my mouth."

Kelly glances up at Buffy and shakes her head. "Buffy, no. It's okay. There's no way you can know what I've been through. It isn't your fault. Short story is, I was sexually and physically abused starting when I was 12. Tara and I already hashed it out earlier today, so might as well get it all out now, huh?"

Buffy's eyes fill with tears realizing it must be 'dad' that put Kelly through all that and she nods her head in agreement. "Whatever you want. If you want to talk about it, if not you don't have to."

"No, Buffy. If there is any chance of us having a serious relationship, I want you to know everything about me. Or at least the big stuff." Kelly quietly states.

"Whenever you're ready to talk, I'll be there. Oops. Looks like we have company." Buffy looks behind Kelly and sees three vampires coming their way.

Kelly looks up and glances around. "Yep. So, tiger. What'cha gonna use first?" Kelly smirks slightly at Buffy trying to get the night back on a lighter footing.

"Hmm. Decisions, decisions. I always like a good brawl to start with." Buffy grins, thankful that Kelly seems to be shaking off the desolate air that briefly showed. "Here we go."

Kelly watches as Buffy jumps up and does a spinning kick, knocking two of the three vampires to the ground. As they hit the ground she throws a roundhouse punch at the third vampire, which he ducks. Buffy grins as she watches him duck and rams her knee up into his face before he realizes he made a bad move. Buffy grins as she watches him grab his bloody nose after she rams her knee up into his face. "You know what, you guys aren't even any fun anymore. You're just too easy to knock around."

"I'm gonna kill you Slayer!" The vampire that Buffy kneed yells as he wipes the blood from his face as the other two vampires attack Buffy. Buffy just grins and wades in throwing punches and kicks left and right.

Kelly watches, entranced at how powerful and quick Buffy is. Watching Buffy fight is like watching a dancer. Kelly catches something moving out of the corner of her eye. Shit. "Buffy we've got more company." Kelly yells as she hops off the tombstone as five more vampires heading their way. "You might want to finish with those play toys. Looks like we've got new ones to play with." Kelly pulls her sword out keeping her eye on the approaching vampires.

"What's going on? A convention?" Buffy yells as she stakes a vampire backhanding another one onto the ground and staking it. "Kelly, looks like there's even more coming. Damn, that makes over 15 vampires!"

Kelly runs over to Buffy and dusts the last one of the original three as the other vampires close in. "Buffy, I'm gonna freeze the vampires it only lasts 30 seconds, so be prepared to take them out. You get the big group, I'll grab the small group. I have to touch you to keep you from freezing with them" Kelly states quickly, reaching out to grab Buffy's arm while quickly doing the spell when the vampires were close enough. "Go!"

Buffy makes short work of her eight vampires then turns around and dusts the last one from Kelly's group. "What the hell?" Buffy asks looking around to make sure there aren't any other vampires around. Not seeing any she looks at Kelly and grins. "Neat trick!"

Kelly shrugs "for something that doesn't last very long, it can be extremely effective. The drawbacks are, it only lasts 30 seconds and what you need to freeze needs to be within 15 yards. Then there's the pesky having to be in contact with the people you don't want to freeze!"

Buffy shakes her head smiling. "If you hadn't been here…Thank you."

"You would have handled it, Buffy. You're too good of a fighter. So, do we continue this patrol? I think you wiped out all the bad guys around here!" Kelly grins, looking at Buffy.

"Yeah, let's head downtown around the Bronze. And then head over to the college, we'll hit a few cemeteries that are on the way. Hopefully we won't hit anything like we did here." Buffy smiles while putting away her sword, watching Kelly.

"Lead the way, Mighty Mouse!" grins Kelly and then busts out laughing as Buffy bumps her in the side. "If you keep bumping into me, I might just cross that line we were talking about earlier" Kelly states wiggling her eyebrows at Buffy as they walk down the street.

Buffy stops turning and looking at Kelly with a considering look then smiles an absolutely devilish smile. 'I bet Kelly doesn't know about the two H's! She keeps this up, she might find out quicker than she would think possible!'

'Oh, shit. I think I might have bitten off more than I can chew, going by that look!' Kelly thinks to herself swallowing hard.

Buffy decides to throw caution to the wind as she closes the gap between herself and Kelly. Reaching up with her hand she cups the side of Kelly's face and with her other hand, clasps the back of Kelly neck, gently tugging Kelly down to where their lips are a hairs breathe away from each other with a little grin saying "I think there's been enough teasing for right now."

Kelly smiles gently and reaches down, lightly grabbing Buffy's waist, pulling their bodies closer together. "I agree completely" as she closes the slight distance between them, groaning as their lips brush lightly against each other.

Buffy presses herself closer into Kelly and reaches up wrapping both arms around the taller woman's neck, pressing her lips harder against Kelly's. Kelly opens her lips to lightly capture Buffy's bottom lip and sucks gently on it. Buffy groans opening her lips in response and almost melts when Kelly releases her lip and runs her tongue lightly between Buffy's lips not invading just wanting to see how far Buffy is wanting to take this kiss.

Buffy's tongue eagerly reaches out to tangle with Kelly's for a few moments. Both of them gently pull away at the same time, breathing heavily.

"Wow." Kelly states, closing her eyes and smiling. Gently running her hands up and down Buffy's sides.

Buffy nods her agreement to the sentiment, not quite able to say anything just yet. Leaning in, she rests her forehead against Kelly's collar bone, inhaling deeply trying to get her breathing under control. 'Oh, god. Maybe I shouldn't have breathed in quite so deeply. She smells so good.' Buffy can't quite resist and lifts her head placing a light kiss on Kelly's pulse point smiling when Kelly's heartbeat speeds back up.

Pulling back Buffy grins up at Kelly. "Yep, I think you just might like me."

Kelly looks at Buffy in shock and then busts out laughing. "Like would be a mild word for what I feel in regards to you, Buffy. Come on, let's finish up this patrol. So we can head back to the house to watch movies and maybe have some more kissing?" Kelly asks hopefully.

"Oh, yeah. Definitely have to have some more smoochie research." Buffy teases.

"Lots more" Kelly smiles in agreement.