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Delauro - Faith will have a decent part in this story! As I've mentioned before - she is one of my favorite Characters.
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CHAPTER 31
Looking at the remains of the dinner Tara starts to giggle and the giggles turn to full-fledged laughter.
"What is it, honey?" Willow asks wondering what set Tara off.
Waving her hand at the decimated food she grins. "I think we might need to get some more food! There's nothing left!"
"There's dessert." Kelly mumbles, playing with Buffy's thigh. Slowly inching her hand up, grinning.
Buffy turns and raises an eyebrow at Kelly, grasping her hand, she whispers. "Behave."
Growling low in her throat, Kelly stands up to gather up the dishes before heading into the kitchen.
Tara followed with more dishes frowning slightly. "Is there something wrong?"
"Hmm?" Kelly was only paying half attention as she scrapes the plates and was placing them in the dishwasher.
"I was just wondering if there was something wrong?" Tara asks again, coming to stand and watch Kelly.
"No, nothings wrong. Just a little horny." Kelly mumbles under her breath.
Hearing Kelly's answer, Tara can't help but grin. "Yes, Goddess forbid, you've been here for, what? Four hours? You must be going through withdrawals!"
"Oh, hush! And, actually it is sort of like withdrawals." Kelly states, frowning slightly. "I need to talk to you about what's going on between Buffy and myself." Stopping and looking towards the dining room, Kelly shakes her head grinning. "But it can wait. Let's get the pies out there, so the poor food deprived children have something else to eat."
Grabbing up the pies, they carry them to the dining room.
As everyone gets a piece of pie, or in some cases two and three pieces, Xander stands up, gently placing his hand on Anya's shoulder. "I would like to make an announcement." Smiling gently at Anya he looks up, catching the eye of his closest friends, before grinning goofily. "I just wanted to let everyone know that we're having a baby."
A huge chorus of congratulations and when are you due's bombarded the couple. Anya smiles proudly. "I'm due on June 6th. Xander and I have decided to buy a house, so we are going to look for one next week.
Buffy turns and gives Kelly a hard stare, when all she gets is a look of innocence back from her lover, she sends out You knew, didn't you?
Possibly? Kelly sends back apologetically.
Bitch! Buffy smirks slightly.
Your Bitch! Hey, an idea for a new tattoo! Kelly smiles hugely.
Buffy smacks her upside the head. "I get to decide the next tattoo you get."
Everyone demolishes the pies and thanks Kelly for the delicious desserts.
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As people where cleaning up from the open fest, Kelly winks at Buffy before whispering. "I'm gonna talk to Xander and Anya. If we disappear, don't worry, okay?"
Buffy grins and shakes her head at her lover. "You better behave. I don't want to hear about any threesomes you got up to while I wasn't there!" She jokes before kissing Kelly.
"Nope, no threesomes. I love you." Kelly quickly heads off to talk quietly to Xander and Anya.
"Hey, you two. Congratulations." Kelly smiles, quickly hugging Xander and gently hugging Anya.
"Hi, Kelly." Xander grins at the tall woman. "I wanted to thank you personally for the gift card, but, and I don't mean to sound wrong or anything, but it didn't say how much was on it anywhere."
"Xander is trying to ask you how much money do we have to spend?" Anya bluntly asks.
Laughing Kelly smiles hugely. "Well, see that's part of what I want to talk with you two about. Would you mind going on a little drive with me?"
Anya and Xander look at each other confused before Anya asks. "Why?"
"Well, I sort of have something I wanted to show you, and I figured we could talk a little. I haven't gotten a chance to know either of you very well, and I felt kind of bad about not knowing what to get you for Christmas, so…" Kelly trails off looking at them hopefully.
"Okay, let's go with, Ahn." Xander smiles down at his fiancée. "She wants to get to know us better. And that is a scary thought all of it's own!" Xander smirks at Kelly.
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Tara looks confused as she sees Kelly, Anya and Xander leave together and looks over at Buffy, who is working her way through the gifts Kelly had given smiling to herself with Faith sitting beside her, checking out her new 'toys'.
"Hey, Buffy. Where did Kelly disappear to?" Tara asks.
Buffy looks up smirking slightly. "She sort of has a Christmas present for those two, but it wasn't something she could wrap and put under the tree. So, I would assume she's taking them to it."
Shaking her head in confusion she smirks slightly. "Okay, but why didn't you go with? You two have been practically joined at the hip since she came here. I'm surprised you let her go off with Anya and Xander after that comment Anya made the other night!"
Smirking at Tara, Buffy shakes her head. "I trust her completely." Looking to Faith who has a confused look on her face Buffy grins. "All her hungries and hornies are mine."
Faith's confusion cleared up and she looks at Buffy, her jaw partially open. "You mean to tell me Anya was hitting on Kelly?"
"Actually she wasn't so much hitting on Kelly, as she was offering to have a threesome with her, Xander and Kelly." Tara states, laughing slightly. "Personally, I was more worried about you three earlier, the way Faith pounced on you!" Tara grins at Buffy, who blushes slightly.
"Yeah, I made this stupid comment, and you know Faith! Never one to turn down a free opening. I guess I should be thankful she just kissed me and didn't try anything else!" Frowning slightly she turns and eyes Faith. "You didn't slip Kelly anything extra in the kiss, did you?"
Faith's eyes widen slightly. "What exactly are you asking, B? You two are giving off enough sex charged vibrations to light up the whole city of Sunnydale. And no, she got the same kiss I gave you. Nothing 'extra!" Faith smirks slightly. "But don't think it didn't occur to me. I mean a chance to lay a real good one on you and her? Hard not to!"
"What is going on? Is everyone turning into sex crazed nymphomaniacs?" Tara asks exasperatedly.
"Unfortunately, my dear, that is probably closer to the truth than you realize." Giles walks up, tapping his chin with his glasses. "Has anyone explained to her yet, what's going on?" He asks Buffy.
"We really haven't had a chance, Giles. With Christmas and us just finding out a couple days ago." Buffy shrugs. "Kelly I think was planning on telling her as soon as all the craziness died down, and she had a chance to read up on it, also."
"Yes, well. Where is your other half, Buffy?" Giles looks around, surprised to not see Kelly in the immediate vicinity.
"She took Xander and Anya to look at something, why?" Buffy asks.
"This might be something we should discuss rather quickly. And I would prefer to discuss it when we're all together." Giles states ominously, then grins hugely. "It's not bad. At least not necessarily, but we just need to be careful…Especially when we're around you two together." Giles mumbles the last part.
"Yo! G-Man. What do you mean to be careful around Buffy and Kelly when they're together?" Faith, of course heard him.
Rolling his eyes at the Dark Slayer he looks to Buffy. "Can you please contact her and ask her to hurry up?"
Buffy nods her head. Kelly, babe?
Yes. Kelly smirks watching Anya and Xander.
How much longer do you think you'll be? Tweed boy has come across something in the book and insists its important that you get back here so we can discuss it. Buffy sends her lover her 'feelings' on the discussion part.
We've actually walked through the inside of the house, Xander is checking out the garage and Anya is looking at the back yard now. We'll probably only be another few minutes. Kelly chuckles at her lover's frustration with Giles.
Do they like the house? Buffy giggles when she can actually feel Kelly rolling her eyes.
You have no idea. Anya practically jumped in my arms when I told her what I was planning on doing for them. Then after she and Xander looked the house over? I became the meat in an Anya Xander sandwich. I should have brought you with me. You could have run interference! Kelly laughs quietly to herself.
I love you, babe. Buffy sends a wave of love down the connection. Smiling when she feels it returned.
I love you, too. Looks like they're done, we'll be heading back now. Kelly sends back.
Buffy smiles and looks at Giles. "They're on their way back now." Then she happens to glance to a stunned looking Tara.
"Umm, Buffy. Did you just talk with Kelly mentally?" Tara looks stunned and a little shaky on her legs.
"Yeah, Tara. That's part of what we wanted to talk to you about." Buffy states quickly standing beside the blonde, putting her hand on her arm to steady her. "Trust me, it isn't anything bad, Tara. Just a little extra something we've got going on."
Giles rolls his eyes at that but wisely keeps his mouth shut until Kelly gets back. "Yes, well. How long will it take them to get back here? I mean, where exactly did they go?"
"We were just a couple blocks away looking at this wonderful house that Kelly has graciously offered to buy us as a Christmas present." Anya says practically floating on air as she walks into the living room, quickly followed by Xander then Kelly.
"Hey! You didn't offer to buy us a house!" Willow pipes up.
"No, but she paid your house off!" Buffy slips in, before realizing what she said and covered her mouth, looking at Kelly with a big 'I'm sorry' look on her face.
Shrugging slightly Kelly smiles at her lover before hugging her and whispering. "They would find out by Tuesday at the latest anyway." Pulling back she leans in and kisses her lightly on the lips.
Tara looks at Kelly and finally just decides to give up on being surprised at anything her sister does. "Is there anything else I need to know about?" She asks smiling.
"Not mad at me?" Kelly asks questioningly.
"Would it do any good if I was?" Tara tilts her head slightly.
"Nope. It would just hurt my feelings and make me pout. And a pouting Kelly is not a pretty sight." Kelly smiles engagingly at her sister.
Rolling her eyes at her sister, Tara just grins lopsidedly at her and smiles even bigger as she feels Willow wrap her arms around her from behind.
Giles sighs loudly. "Okay, everyone, if I can have your attention, there is something I would like to discuss with you. Since in a round about way, it could possibly affect you all."
Everyone sits down and gets comfortable, Buffy sitting on Kelly's lap again with Faith making up a sort of permanent residence, sitting beside them. Buffy believes Faith might actually stick around for a while this time, especially if she and Kelly have anything to say about it. Feeling Kelly lean towards Faith, she hears her lover whisper. "There's something else I want to get you for Christmas. Go shopping on Monday, with me?"
Buffy watches out of the corner of her eye and sees Faith shaking her head slightly, before quietly stating. "Faith, just say yes. We'll all be shopping Monday from the looks of it."
"Okay." Faith states in defeat before smirking slightly. "I do need some new leathers!"
"As you all know. Kelly and Buffy are together." Raising his hand to some of the sarcastic comments that started to come at him from different areas of the room. "Let me finish, please. Well, most of you are aware of the fabled 'soul mate' thing, and," Smiling gently at Willow and Tara before continuing "are possibly even with that soul mate. However, there is something else that it is very similar. However, depending on the two people involved, is a thousand times more." Stopping to collect his thoughts, he squeezes the bridge of his nose.
"G-Man, just spit it out already!" Faith jumps in, never known for her patience.
"Yes, yes. Alright then. They are each others hearts. Neither one of them were complete without the other one. Hence, the similarity to soul mates. However, because Buffy is the Slayer, a mystical being and Kelly is an extremely powerful witch, another mystical being, they are much, much more. When they met, their hearts reached out for each other. They are drawn inexorably towards each other like two magnets. As their hearts become one, so are their powers becoming one."
Faith interrupts. "Fuck! That's why she was able to almost crush my hand. Girl's got a wicked grip on her." At Giles glare Faith mumbles. "Sorry!"
Everyone looks at Kelly and Buffy in varying degrees of disbelief and surprise.
"Well, needless to say, every time they have an…" Giles trails off not knowing exactly how to phrase it.
Kelly sighs and shakes her head. "Giles, we're more or less all grown ups. You can just say it. Every time we have sex…well, not every time, but when we let things build up we exchange powers. And each time we exchange powers we both get stronger. Both with the new powers and our own powers." Kelly states quickly.
"Yes, quite right. But there are side effects to this. I don't know if any of you have noticed having sudden urges after being around those two, but, they are literally giving off pheromones." Giles states.
"Yo! B! You two are making everybody horny!" Faith grins widely as Buffy blushes slightly and Kelly just smirks.
"Yes, well…Anyway, if we are in the same vicinity as those two, when they feel the urge, we will be affected, also." States Giles while quickly looking through the book.
"So, that means when you're out in public or when anybody else is around, you need to keep your hands to yourselves." Dawn states grinning, looking at Buffy sitting in Kelly's lap with Kelly's arms wrapped around her. "So, you two need to get to separate corners of the room, now."
Buffy narrows her eyes and literally growls at Dawn. "Not funny!"
"Well, that's sort of a problem also." Giles speaks up. "They can't help themselves. To be honest." He stops and rubs his eyes for a moment. "I'm actually surprised they've gone this long without…" He waves his arms around.
"Jumping each others bones." Kelly states for him. "Damn Mr. G - just say it like it is!"
Everybody in the room snickers and laughs. "So, does this mean that Kelly and Buffy are going to make everyone horny for the rest of their lives, if they become stimulated?" Tara asks quietly.
"Well, the information I have here doesn't let us know for certain. Some of this is conjecture. Unfortunately the couple cases cited in here, one or the other person died before it made it too far. It states if they actually complete the power sharing they will become invincible and they are now actually incorruptible. They cannot be influenced by any outside means." Giles smiles at this. "Which means they are on the side of good and evil won't be able to take advantage of that. However, there is a very real possibility that anything and everything will be gunning for them. Which I believe you have already had problems with in the past, Kelly, because of your magical powers. And, of course, Buffy has had some experience with also." At this Buffy rolls her eyes.
"So, if evil demons, vampires, whatever, find out about them, they'll try to kill them both?" Tara asks worriedly.
"That will be hard for them to do, Tare." Kelly speaks up quickly, hearing the worry in her sister's voice. "First off, they will have an extremely hard time getting a read on me. The only reason you can get a partial read is because we're sisters, even then, you aren't getting anything close to the real power I have. Secondly, as long as I don't open myself anymore, like I did for Buffy and Giles to give them an idea of what I was capable of, nothing should be able to get a fix on me. Thirdly, I'm going to have Buffy's magical signature taken care of next week. I've already made a charm to mute it, but we will be making it a permanent fix. Then of course, I now have the powers of a slayer, and Buffy has my powers, or at least we have a portion of them. So we can hurt pretty much anything that comes after us."
Giles gives a snort. "A portion of powers, she says!" Quickly looking at the group he states quietly. "They both are much more powerful. Kelly right now is probably twice as strong as Buffy was, when I was here two years ago. I haven't a clue exactly how strong Buffy is. With your two's permission, I would really like to take you somewhere, where I can put you through some tests and have you spar."
Buffy sighsstating. "Okay, Giles. But just remember, if things start getting heated between us, you better turn your back. I won't be responsible for you dying of a heart attack!" Buffy smirks slightly.
Kelly whispers in Buffy's ear. "Does this mean we have an excuse if we decide to run home, now?"
Buffy growls slightly, turning and grinning at her lover. "Want to? Do you think they might leave us alone in the house for a good five or six hours, so we can have some serious fun?"
Giles coughs loudly. "Please you two. Just a little longer. Now, what would probably help, is if we actually stayed away from these two, so we won't be influenced by them. Unfortunately, I have already called the hotels and they are pretty much booked solid with people here for Christmas, and I know there isn't enough room at Xander and Anya's place, or here, to house the rest of us."
"Mr. G. I can put up a barrier around our bedroom, so the magic and noise doesn't leak out. So that shouldn't be a problem. There just might be a problem if we decide to get hot and heavy, say in the kitchen, back yard, cemetery, the basement, or…"
Buffy quickly places her hands over Kelly's mouth. "I think they got the idea, Kel." Feeling Kelly lick the hand covering her mouth, Buffy grins.
"So, how long before they possibly complete this power sharing?" Tara asks. "I mean, will it just stop? Will they know when it stops? How do they know when they're exchanging it?"
Kelly starts laughing and buries her head in Buffy's neck, holding her tight with one arm, while one hand starts to play with her knee.
Buffy's eyes widen slightly. "I think we'll know when it stops. And yes, we do know when it's being exchanged." Feeling Kelly shaking under her, she smacks her in the leg.
"And the longer we put it off, letting it build up, the stronger the exchange is." Kelly looks up grinning slightly at her sister before hooking her chin over Buffy's shoulder, glancing down, watching Buffy unconsciously running her fingers over her forearm. Slowly raising her hand, edging it under the slit on the side of Buffy's dress, Kelly stops, and continues her circular motion for a while, waiting to see how far she can get up the leg, before Buffy realizes and stops her.
Buffy nods her head in agreement. "Hey, Giles? Did it say anything about eye color changing? The other night…morning…whatever, in the middle…"
"You're starting to sound like Mr. G, babe." Kelly murmurs.
"Alright! In the middle of screwing each others brains out, her eyes changed to a golden amber color with sparks, and didn't change back until we were done a couple hours later. Does it say anything in the book about that?" Buffy spouts out, making Kelly laugh and everyone else in the room's mouth drop open slightly.
Dawn looks at Sam. "And you gave her up for Riley?" Making everyone bust out laughing. With a few people turning to look at Sam in confusion.
Tara asks the question on everyone's mind. "You and Kelly were a couple?"
Sam blushes. "Yes. Kelly and I lived together for roughly a year, until I met Riley and fell in love with him, okay! Kelly and I are just friends and have just been friends since!"
Tara looks over to Buffy, who's just giggling quietly. "You knew?"
Buffy nods her head. "Yep, found out Saturday."
Kelly grins and kisses Buffy on the shoulder, where she had managed to push the dress out of the way after a few minutes of maneuvering. Easing her hand a little further up Buffy's thigh, continuing the circular motion. Kelly smiles since Buffy hasn't realized that her hand was mere inches away from the apex of her thighs, and gradually working its way closer. Unconsciously the slayer was even wiggling slightly in her lap, making Kelly want to groan at the pressure, but trying to keep quiet.
Faith, sitting beside the couple hadn't been paying much attention, but all of a sudden, she felt a stronger urge working it's way through her body. Finally paying attention, she realizes she has that deep down low buzz she usually gets after slaying, where she needs to go and relieve it by either dancing, or finding someone to ride into a mattress. Turning to look at Buffy and Kelly, she realizes Kelly's hand is nowhere to be seen, and Buffy is squirming around.
"Guys, I think now might be a good time for them to leave." Faith states as she quickly hops up and moves away from the couple, wiping her palms down her thighs. Looking at the two witches, Faith asks. "Do you mind if our little group stays here for a while longer today?"
Everyone looks over at Buffy and Kelly. "What?" Buffy questions wondering what was going on. Then her eyes widen, as she feels a fingertip lightly running over her outer lips, realizing she is extremely wet and her body has a serious buzz going on. Swallowing a groan, Buffy tries to smile and play it off. "It isn't that bad."
Kelly bites down gently on the area she had been kissing and nibbling, before looking up with passion filled eyes. "Yeah it is. If you don't mind, we are going to head back to the house. Please call before anyone comes home." Kelly states while easing her hand out from under Buffy's dress, hopefully, so no one noticed anything. Looking at Tara she grins self consciously. "Do you mind if we come and get the gifts tomorrow?"
"Of course not. You two go home, and have some hot monkey lovin'!" Tara grins hugely, mischief sparkling in her eyes. "I'm sure you two won't be the only ones."
Everyone starts laughing, until Faith grumbles out. "Except those of us without someone to get down and dirty with!" That garnered a few groans and damns out of the bunch.
"There's always other things to do ladies and gentlemen! And on that note, we are going home." Kelly states heading towards the door, quickly following Buffy.
"I'll take patrol for you guys tonight." Faith pipes up quickly.
"I'll go with her, if she doesn't mind." Sam states, looking to Faith in question.
Faith shrugs. "Whatever floats your boat."
"I'll leave your stuff on the back porch. No one should bother it there." Kelly states before grinning and closing the front door behind her.
"She took us up on that offer pretty damn quick, didn't she?" Faith growls out slightly before smirking at Sam.
"Yes, she did. You would think they were planning on spending all night…" Trailing off, realizing that's probably exactly what they would be doing from the moment they hit the door until the early morning hours, Sam blushes slightly.
"Truer words were probably never spoken." Giles murmurs before sitting back down to continue reading the book.
Xander smiles at Anya. "Want to go back and check out the house, again? Maybe start working on a list of what we want to change and what we'll need?"
"Would anyone like to come with us, and look at our new house?" Xander asks to the group. "It's literally only a few blocks away, so we can walk over."
"So you're taking the house?" Tara asks grinning.
"Yes, it's perfect. It already has a nursery in one room, it has a huge garage, that Xander can set up all his tools and machine thingy's in. It's actually quite perfect. I would think Kelly knew I was pregnant." Anya states.
Tara smiles slightly. "Anya, she very well could have."
"What?" Thinking for a second, Anya nods her head in realization. "You are probably right. With her powers, it probably jumped right out at her."
Everyone but Giles, left to check out Anya and Xander's new house, while Giles continued researching.