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Chapter 38
"Oooh, this one looks promising." Kelly grins as she pulls her helmet off setting it on the seat of the bike.
Buffy smiles looking towards the mansion. "Figures." She chuckles quietly, looking at the huge gated yard with what looks like a three story mansion.
"I wonder…" Kelly walks up to the gate. Pressing the talk button, she waits patiently.
"Yes?" The disembodied voice asks the single-worded question.
"I'm sorry to bother you." Kelly looks up and backs up, smiling at the camera. "But I saw in the real estate ads that this is up for sale. I was wondering if maybe we could make an appointment to see the place?" Kelly waits quietly, knowing that the person on the other end was appraising her.
"Who's with you?" The voice asks, the camera panning over Buffy standing by the bike.
Buffy raises an eyebrow and walks up to stand by Kelly.
Kelly smiles down at Buffy and wraps her arm around her. "My life." Kelly simply states.
Slowly the gate starts to open. Kelly looks back up to the camera. "Is it okay if we bring the bike up?"
"Sure."
Buffy and Kelly look at each other and grin. Pulling on helmets and hopping on the bike, Kelly quickly rides up to the front of the mansion. Turning the bike off, Kelly swings her leg over and taking off her helmet, she runs her hands through her hair and grins at Buffy who's grumbling under her breath. "You look beautiful."
"You're biased." Buffy grunts, before smiling. Leaning up, she gives Kelly a quick kiss. "But I'm not complaining."
"I hope not." Kelly whispers before winking at her. Turning towards the front of the mansion, she sees an older man leaning against the door watching them quietly. Sensing that he was no threat, Kelly smiles, reaching down and lacing her fingers with Buffy's as they walk to the door.
"Thanks for allowing us to come up and see the place." Kelly holds her hand out to the gentleman. "My name's Kelly and this is Buffy."
"Brad." Brad shakes the woman's hand. "Normally I would make people go through the real estate agency. Got to many people that just want to look at the house that aren't qualified to buy it."
Kelly and Buffy follow the man in. "May I ask why you deviated from the usual?" Kelly queries, while looking around the house, smiling at the obviously expensive, but homey mansion.
"You and your girlfriend." Brad states quietly. "Jase, I want you to meet Buffy and Kelly."
A red headed man comes out from the kitchen smiling. "Which is which?" He asks looking at Brad as he wraps his arm around his boyfriend.
Kelly chuckles quietly. "I'm Kelly. Midget over here is Buffy." Kelly grunts as Buffy smacks her in the stomach. "What is it with you liking to hit me here?" Kelly grumbles as she rubs her stomach.
"It's handy." Buffy giggles. "It's nice to meet you. I have to say, so far your house is absolutely gorgeous."
"Thank you." Brad smiles. "Come on, I'll give you the nickel tour."
As they walk through the house, Kelly falls in love. The beautiful workmanship, the huge open rooms. The second floor was all bedrooms with their own bathrooms. Kelly turns and smiles at Buffy. "Seven bedrooms with their own bathrooms? This is absolutely perfect."
"Wait till you see the master bedroom." Jason grins, laughing as the two women keep up a running commentary while picking on each other. "Are you two like that all the time?"
"What?" Buffy, confused looks at the redhead. "Like what?"
"He's talking about us pushing each others buttons, Mighty Mouse." Kelly grins.
"Oh, that." Buffy smiles apologetically. "Yeah, pretty much."
Brad chuckles looking at Jason. "Remind you of anyone?" Jason grins and winks.
"Fuck me." Kelly whispers as they walk into the master bedroom which takes up the whole third floor. Looking at the windows going down the sides. It reminds her of a studio apartment. Wide open spaces with areas sectioned off by use of furniture. Seeing the small kitchen area set off to the side, Kelly nods her head in appreciation. "I would have preferred a bigger area for the kitchen, but it isn't like I can't have that changed if I want." Kelly whispers to herself.
"We had that set up more for when we wanted something to munch on and didn't want to go all the way downstairs." Brad chuckles quietly.
"Can I ask you a question? Or actually probably more like a few." Kelly looks around the room, slowly walking to the windows looking out over the garden and seeing the wall that looks like it surrounds the whole property.
"Shoot." Jason grins sitting down on the couch with Brad sitting beside him.
"You had this house built, obviously." At their nods Kelly glances around. "Why such a huge place?"
Brad tilts his head thinking, for a moment. "I have five younger brothers and sisters. Our parents died when I was 19 years old, in a car accident. Between the money our parents had, insurance and the huge payoff, I had this house built for all of us to live in comfortably. Since then, they've all married and moved away. Jase and I have been together fifteen years and this place is just getting to big for us."
Nodding her understanding Kelly looks intently at the man. "Are you thinking about staying in Sunnydale or moving elsewhere?"
Jason chuckles quietly, looking at his lover. "I want to spend the rest of my life in Hawaii, or one of the surrounding islands."
Kelly grins at the man. "Can we check out the garden and yard?"
"Sure. Come on, we have a separate staircase that goes down the back here." Brad stands up walking to previously unnoticed door. They all quickly head downstairs and out the back door, onto a concrete patio surrounding an Olympic size pool. "The pool has a heater for the few months it gets chilly."
"Do you swim, babe?" Kelly wiggles her eyebrows at Buffy. "A little midnight skinny dip, maybe?"
Buffy giggles and nods. "I swim."
"Hmmmm. Good." Kelly whispers quietly in her ear before nipping at it quickly before following Brad and Jason.
"Tease." Buffy grumbles before quickly catching up with Kelly and smacking her lightly on the ass.
"How many acres are here?" Kelly questions looking out over the property.
"A little over ten acres." Jason sits down on one of the bench's they have set up in the garden. "I've spent quite a few years working this garden. Unfortunately, I'm getting to old to keep it up myself and I never much cared for the idea of having a service do it."
Brad rolls his eyes at his lover. "He's afraid his precious roses will be harmed."
"Those places never feed them properly." Jason grumbles under his breath.
Buffy watches Kelly turn around looking back up at the house and smiles. Looking back over the yard Buffy nods her head. Plenty of bedrooms, their own private apartment built in. Looking over at what she assumes is the garage she turns to Jason who's watching Brad and Kelly talk. "Jason, is that the garage?"
Jason looks up to where Buffy is pointing. "Yes, it is. Want to look?" At Buffy's smile he gets up walking towards the garage. "We have it portioned off, part of it's a play room." Opening the door, they walk in where two bays were obviously being used for vehicle storage and the other four was sectioned off with pinball machines, a juke box, dart boards and skeet ball machines.
Buffy starts chuckling. "I have a feeling Kelly will love this. Are you planning on taking all this with you when you move?"
Jason shakes his head. "It will either go with the house or we'll have an auction house come in and clean the place out to sell the items. We're planning on moving into maybe a small two bedroom house. We won't have any room for any of this stuff, or the stuff in the house."
"Let's go see what they're up to." Buffy grins at the realization that they could basically move right in without needing anything.
Jason looks sideways at Buffy before smiles. "Who's decision is it?"
Buffy tries to hold back a smile but can't and laughs lightly. "That's a loaded question. She told me I could pick out the place. Then she started making all these comments about needing a minimum of six bedrooms so we have somewhere for my sister, our friends Faith and Sam and my sort of adopted father Giles. How she wanted a place where she could fix breakfast without having to get dressed because she has to walk through the house…" Buffy trails off shaking her head.
Jason starts laughing quietly. "Sounding kind of particular there, huh?"
"You have no idea." Buffy shakes her head as they walk toward their respective lovers. Seeing the two dark heads leaning towards each other as they talk quietly, with Kelly occasionally making hand movements, Buffy groans quietly.
"So, did you like the place, babe?" Kelly asks without even looking around to see that Buffy was behind her.
Jason and Brad look towards Buffy with surprised looks.
Buffy rolls her eyes before raising an eyebrow at her lover. "Would it matter?"
"Of course it would." Kelly turns watching Buffy, tilting her head inquisitively. "You know I wouldn't buy anything you didn't want or like."
Buffy smirks. "I guess you have a point. The only thing is, that you usually do things without my knowing about it." She looks pointedly at her chest before glancing back up. "But you have this uncanny ability to do what I like." Walking closer to her she wraps her arms around her waist, leaning her head against her chest.
I love it. Buffy sends mentally to Kelly. As if you didn't already know.
Kelly chuckles quietly, looping her arms around Buffy. "I know, love. If you want, everything in the house except their personal items will stay. We could move almost immediately after closing."
Buffy smiles gently, shifting her face around to shove the shirt further out of her way so she can lay her cheek against her lover's skin. "How soon can we move in?"
"As soon as the paperwork can be drawn up, and Brad and Jason want to leave." Kelly smiles as Buffy places a kiss on her chest.
Brad smiles gently at the two women wrapping his arm around Jason. "We can be packed up and out of here in a week. The paperwork may take longer than that, however."
Buffy giggles slightly. "I somehow doubt that." She comments rather loudly.
Brad looks questioningly at the two women.
"She has a tendency to get things done in hours that would take most people days, if not weeks." Buffy explains.
Kelly shrugs, a small grin on her face. "What real estate agent do you have this listed through?"
"Sunnydale Real Estate." Brad watches as Kelly glances at her watch and pulls a cell phone out of her pocket.
"Do you have their number handy?" Kelly looks up making eye contact with Brad. As
Brad rattles off the number, Kelly programs it in her phone. Looking back up she smiles.. "What are you asking with everything but your personal effects included?"
Brad and Jason look at each other questioningly.
"Buffy and I will walk around the yard, if you want to discuss it." Kelly offers and at their nods, Kelly looks down at Buffy. "Walk or ride?" And laughs as Buffy jumps up in her arms, wrapping her legs around her waist. "Needy little thing, aren't you?" Kelly chuckles quietly at Buffy's nod.
"It has a full basement, also. Brad mentioned they only have a small section being used as a wine cellar and the rest of its empty, and unfinished. That's why they didn't bother showing it to us. I do want to see it before I make the phone call. If it's like the rest of the house, it would be perfect to make into a work out/sparring room." Kelly unconsciously runs her hands down Buffy's back and butt as she walks past the garden out to the yard.
"The garage has a play room with all kinds of pinball machines and stuff in it." Buffy smiles as she hears Kelly chuckle at that. "I figured you would like that."
"Well I can't spend all my time cleaning house, shopping or cooking while you're working, now can I?" Kelly asks ingeniously.
"Good answer." Buffy smirks at her lover as she pulls her upper body back to look her in the eyes. "I love you."
"I love you, too." Kelly whispers kissing Buffy deeply while wrapping her arms around her tighter. Delving gently into her mouth to languorously wrap her tongue around Buffy's. Groaning, Kelly gently ends the kiss.
Buffy hums quietly in pleasure as Kelly ends the kiss. "I think I could let you kiss me for hours."
"We'll have to try it." Kelly's eyes twinkle at Buffy. "You know Brad asked me about our eyes, wondering what kind of contacts we used. He thought they were very distinctive."
"What did you tell him?" Buffy snuggles back against Kelly.
"That it was some company out of Japan, that I couldn't remember the name." Kelly chuckles quietly. "See. Everyone will think we're wearing contacts." Kelly turns around heading back in the general direction of the house when she sees Brad heading towards them. Walking quicker, Kelly's long legs eat up the distance back towards the house.
"Jase and I discussed the amount. I'm sure you know that a lot of the items in the house are antiques and add up to quite a lot. Not counting the house itself." Brad watches as Kelly nods her head that she understands. "But we are also aware of the extremely low resale on property."
Buffy chuckles quietly. Then frowns as Kelly lowers her to the ground. "I was comfortable."
"Well, I didn't think it was fitting to have this discussion with you wrapped around me." Kelly narrows her eyes slightly at her lover. "So stop pouting."
Buffy snarls her nose up slightly before walking over and smelling the winter roses that are blooming.
Brad chuckles quietly. "Honestly we don't really need the money, but I don't want to give it away, either."
"I understand. By the way, I would like to look at the basement." Kelly quirks her lip as she watches Buffy bounce on her heels as she listens to them talking.
"Let me show you the basement." Brad smiles slightly as Jason heads back out, carrying bottled waters for everyone. "Thanks." Brad winks at Jason.
"You're welcome." Jason offers a water to the two women, who gratefully accept.
As they walk down the stairs from the kitchen into the basement, Jason flicks on the additional lights to the open basement.
Kelly looks at the basement, with just the support pillars and grins slightly. The ceiling is roughly fifteen feet high. Walking around the walls, she doesn't notice any cracks or seams in the concrete and nods her head. Looking at the wines with a cursory glance, she moves on. Looking up at the other two stair cases. "Where do these staircases come out at?"
"One off the main hallway and the other one from the library." Jason answers wondering if this woman is for real, or just being nosey as hell. Even though Brad seems to trust her completely, and he is usually an extremely good judge of character.
Kelly nods her head and looks back towards Jason. "How much?"
Jason mentions the figure, expecting her to choke or pale. When there was no reaction except for her to pick up her phone, he frowns in disbelief.
"Yes, my name is Brigadier General Kelly Maclay, I'm looking at a house you have listed on Magnolia Street…Yes that house. I would like you to draw up papers selling the house…Yes, this is on the up and up." Kelly sighs and rolls her eyes. "Call the First Bank of Sunnydale, I'm sure you can get all three of us on a three way. Yes, ask for the Bank Manager Ms. Benson." Kelly taps her fingers on her thighs while pacing back and forth at the delay.
"She's a Brigadier General?" Brad whispers to Buffy.
"Yeah. She's actually still in the Marine Corps. Something like two and a half years left." Buffy answers quietly. Buffy tilts her head slightly watching her lover pace, not ever really seeing her irritated like this.
"About fuckin' time." Kelly mutters into the phone as the real estate agent comes back on with the bank manager. "Ms. Benson this is Kelly Maclay, can you tell this person that I am more than able to buy any house in Sunnydale or even in Malibu if I want?" Kelly chuckles quietly listening as the woman explains to the dense real estate agent that Kelly was more than capable of buying anything. "They're asking $10 mil I want the papers drawn up and the house put under Kelly Maclay and Elizabeth Anne Summers. Everything but personal items is being included in the sale. We'll be there tomorrow. Ms Benson, I'll be by to pick up a cashier's check tomorrow morning by 11:00. Thank you." Kelly rolls her eyes as she hangs up, before growling lowly. "Fuckin' idiots."
"Hope you don't mind doing the signing tomorrow. You can take however long you want to get your stuff together and move out. A week, two weeks a month, whatever." Kelly looks from Brad to Jason, who are staring at her in shock. "If there's anything else you decide you want, just let me know. I won't have a problem with it."
Brad looks at Jason and giggles as he pulls him into a quick embrace, kissing him lightly. "I didn't actually think we would ever be able to sell this place. Sunnydale isn't exactly the easiest town to sell a house in, let alone one like this."
"No it isn't." Buffy agrees looking towards Kelly.
Kelly prowls towards Buffy, feeling antsy. "Babe, let's head out." Shaking Brad and Jason's hands she smiles quickly. "I guess we'll see you tomorrow. What time would be a good to meet at the Real Estate agency?"
"I guess any time after 11:00." Brad chuckles slightly. "How about around 1:00? That way it's after lunch."
"Works for me." Kelly reaches for Buffy's hand, tugging her tightly to her. "Don't feel rushed to move out. I'm serious about taking all the time you need."
Brad leads the group up the stairs to the front door. "Actually, this might work in our favor." Brad smiles at Jason. "Jason wanted to go ahead and leave out in a couple days on vacation. If we can get everything packed up, maybe we'll head to the islands and start looking."
"If you decide to, and want me to ship your stuff to you later, just pack it up and put it down in the basement. I'll take care of having it shipped to wherever you need it." Kelly offers quietly.
"Are you for real?" Jason shakes his head unbelieving.
"She's very much for real." Buffy nods her head seriously.
Brad smiles. "Maybe after the signing you can come back here and we'll show you the security system, explain it to you."
"That'll be great. We'll see you tomorrow." Kelly smiles heading out the door, with Buffy quickly following her.
"Babe, what's wrong?" Buffy questions as Kelly quickly hops on the bike starting it up.
"Get on." Kelly waits until Buffy straddles the bike behind her and wraps her arms around her waist. Quickly gunning it, Kelly heads down the driveway and out the gates that just opened, kicking it quickly through the gears, Kelly speeds to the Magic Box.
Kelly, what's wrong? Buffy sends mentally, since there was no way to talk on the motorcycle
Open your senses, babe. Kelly sends back, slowing down before making a turn.
Buffy opens her senses and opens her eyes wide, never having felt such an evil presence before. Not even when the First was there in Sunnydale. What the hell is that?
That's what we need to find out. Kelly sends back as she speeds quickly down the street and pulls up in front of the Magic Box. After Buffy hops off the back of the bike, Kelly quickly swings her leg over after putting down the kickstand and rips her helmet off as she strides into the shop, with a worried Buffy quickly following her.
"G - I need eye of newt, tournet weed, dragon blood, Essence of Draynar, a mortar, pestle and a pinch of gun powder." Kelly paces the floor of the Magic Box before stopping in front of one of the displays, pulling a copper bowl down, the pestle and mortar. Quickly placing the items by the cash register, Kelly paces back and forth, deep in thought.
Giles starts to open his mouth and when he gets a look from Buffy shaking her head, he sighs and quickly gathers the items requested.
Buffy watches Kelly pacing. Finally after the thirtieth trip, Buffy steps in front of her, making her come to a stop. Looking up into her tall lover's worried gaze, she gently cups her hand around her cheek. "What's wrong, love?"
Kelly closes her eyes, pressing her cheek against the caress. "I may have fucked up." She whispers quietly.
"How?" Buffy questions, watching as Kelly just stands there quietly, not opening her eyes, but keeping the contact with her hand.
"Opening myself up to you and Giles." Kelly murmurs, before sighing quietly. "If anyone was trying to get a fix on me, that would have narrowed things down for them."
"But wouldn't they have to be looking for it?" Buffy slides her hand down, wrapping it around the back of her lovers neck as she eases her body in tight against Kelly.
"Yes. But if they're watching, they could have narrowed it down immensely. Then last night, it would be like a beacon." Wrapping her arms around Buffy, she leans her cheek on top of Buffy's head, squeezing her tightly. "Let's do this."
Giles rings up the items frowning as he listens to Kelly. "Why would last night have been a beacon?"
"Because it opened up our powers completely as far as either one of us can tell." Buffy explains quietly and helps Kelly gather the items. "We're going in the back. Are you coming?"
Giles looks at his watch, "Yes, I'll close the shop early. I'll be back there in a few minutes after I lock the door." Opened their powers completely? Sweet mother. Giles thinks to himself.
"Come on." Buffy leads the way to the training room, working back to the section that was still clear of boxes. "Is this good enough? Do I need to move the boxes to make it bigger?"
"It's fine, babe." Kelly whispers sitting down roughly in the middle of the open space placing the items about her as she slowly adds ingredients to the mortar, grinding them together almost automatically.
"What do you think it is?" Buffy sits down facing Kelly.
Looking up, Kelly shakes her head, frowning. "If it's what I think it is, it's not good." Finishing preparing the ingredients. Kelly smiles leaning in to kiss Buffy. "Whatever it is I'm sure together we'll take care of it."
Looking up Kelly smirks at the watcher. "Come on over and have a seat, Mr. G." Kelly watches as he sits down before quickly performing the spell, the incantation in an tongue Giles doesn't recognize. As she finishes the spell and throws the last ingredient in the bowl, a plume of black smoke coalesces above the bowl, slowly taking form.
Buffy, Giles and Kelly look at each other briefly as the smoke turns to three separate forms, the smoke taking on more details. Oversized head with pointed ears and fangs, slightly extended jaw, overly muscular body leading to hands with fingers twice the length of a normal humans ending in claws. Slowly color bleeds into the gray smoke, pale red eyes look back at them, and they notice what looks like scales covering the bodies and tails on the creatures.
Buffy glances over at Kelly briefly and sees a hardness in her lovers eyes that she had never previously seen.
"Fuck." Kelly growls, jumping up and kicking the bowl clear across the room, burying it in the wall before striding out.
Buffy jumps up in surprise "What the hell?"
Giles swallows in disbelief before stopping Buffy from following Kelly. "It's a demon, Buffy."
"We deal with demons every day, Giles. What's so different about these?" Buffy growls, wanting to follow Kelly.
"No, Buffy. You're used to the watered down versions of demons that are normal on earth. This is a demon as in from the depths of hell, demon. A pure demon. It's like comparing the Turok Han to today's vampire." Giles shakes his head. "If they are looking for you two, that means one of the Lieutenants of Hades if not Hades himself is looking for you."
"Us. Looking for us. But why?" Buffy watches the door waiting for Kelly to come back.
As she sees Kelly come striding through the door carrying some items, she breathes a sigh of relief.
"Because they're afraid we'll seal the Hellmouth permanently and they will never be able to walk the earth again." Kelly growls, setting the items down on the floor.
"What?" Buffy looks at her lover with confusion written on her face.
"Tell her Mr. G." Kelly quickly walks over to the wall, pulling the disfigured bowl out and frowns at the chunk of plaster that falls to the ground. "Fuck, I'll pay to get this fixed. Sorry." Kelly mutters quietly. Walking back over and starting another spell.
"Well, its conjecture mostly." As Buffy rolls her eyes at Giles, he coughs and mutters "Quite right. Anyway, since you have pure demons after you maybe there's more truth to it. Supposedly if the two hearts reach their full potential they can close the Hellmouth's forever. If they can find one very important artifact."
"What artifact is that?" Buffy questions watching Kelly intently as she suddenly sees three lights take off in different directions and Kelly smirking wickedly.
"The Golden Cup of Jesatta." Kelly answers, gathering up the items and handing them to Giles. "I made a list of the items I took for this spell and left the money on the counter."
"What exactly was this spell?" Giles questions, frowning.
"A little confusion spell for the trackers." Kelly smirks before leaning down and grabbing Buffy up in her arms. "We need to go get the ink and see if Clem can do your tattoo today. That will help, but when either one of us does magic, they will be able to zero in on it eventually now that they've got our signatures and know where we are. The confusion spell will buy us some time."
"That's what pissed you off." Buffy murmurs quietly.
"Yeah. I did the spell to find out who it was and that in turn screwed us again." Smiling as Buffy wraps her arms around her neck and her legs around her waist, Kelly wraps an arm under her butt as support. Looking at Giles, she grins and pulls the knife out of her pocket with her other hand, flipping it to the watcher. "Open it." Kelly watches as Giles opens it with a confused look on his face. Walking over to him, Kelly holds out her arm.
"Now cut." Kelly looks pointedly at her arm.
"I will NOT cut you." Giles growls out in disbelief.
"Do it Giles." Buffy mutters.
"Trust me, Mr. G." Kelly looks pointedly at her arm. "No sissy cut, either. Cut like you're cutting into a nice thick juicy steak."
"Oh, well isn't this bloody marvelous. I'll never be able to eat a steak again." Giles looks up into the witch's eyes and takes a steadying breath before grasping her arm, cutting a firm deep cut, he drops the knife as it heals right in front of his eyes. "Bloody hell!"
"My thoughts exactly." Kelly chuckles. "It still fucking hurts, but it's already healing by the time the pain registers."
"How sure are you that you've reached your full potential?" Giles questions, rubbing his glasses furiously.
"Almost 100 percentpositive." Buffy chuckles quietly. "Let's go get the ink and see if we can find Clem. The only way these demons will be able to find us after I get the tat done is if we actually do magic, right?"
"Technically. If we get within roughly a twenty yard radius of them they'll know it's us. Or if we happen to be with other people it will be someone within the group." Kelly answers running her hand down Buffy's back.
"So if we are with, say Faith and Sam, they'll think that either one of them could be the ones?" Buffy questions frowning.
"Yes." Kelly quietly answers. "I hate to say it babe, but it'll probably be best for us to keep our distance for a while from the rest of the group except for being surrounded by a large group of people. I don't want to chance someone else getting hurt because of me."
"Us." Buffy corrects. "We need to stay somewhere else for now."
"I'll rent a place." Kelly answers digging her phone out and calling Anya and Xander. "Hey, Anya - I was wondering if there were any openings in your apartment building." Kelly chuckles sadly at the answer. "Unfortunately in Sunnydale, I assume that happens a lot. Do you have the number of the management company?" Kelly presses a kiss on Buffy's temple waiting for the number. "Thanks Anya. Yeah, we'll talk later." Kelly disconnects and quickly punches in the number Anya gave her. "Yes, I was wondering if you have any apartments open? Immediately, as in the next few hours….Any number of bedrooms will be fine. We'll meet you there in an hour. Thanks." Kelly disconnects and shoves the phone in her pocket. "I need to get some ingredients to do a cleansing at the house to erase our signature while we're picking up some clothes and the ink."
Giles interrupts. "I can do the cleansing. Would you like me to go pick some items up and bring them here to the store?"
Kelly shakes her head. "No, Buffy and I'll run quickly by there and throw some clothes in a bag for now. We have the ink under a magical lock, so one of us will have to get it. I'll leave the Hummer for you guys to use and we'll take the bike. I guess I might be buying one for myself because I don't think mine will get here that quickly." Kelly thinks quietly for a moment wondering if there's anything she's forgetting.
"You have motorcycles? I was wondering why you knew how to ride them but didn't buy one." Buffy looks inquiringly at her lover.
"Yeah, I have three." Kelly quirks her lip at Buffy. "I'll teach you to ride yours. Then if we have time to get by the dealership I'll buy another one." Kelly frowns, looking intently at Giles. "Can you do a tracking spell?"
"What kind of tracking spell?" Giles questions watching the woman.
"I want to get a map of Sunnydale and have a simple tracking spell done to keep track of where the demons are. It shouldn't be hard, that way we can avoid being anywhere near them until I have a plan ready." Kelly explains quickly.
"I can probably do it. If not, Tara or Willow should be able too." Giles watches as Kelly shakes her head negatively.
"Sorry, but I know you're planning on leaving to head back to England not too far into the future. You'll be off their radar. I don't want to chance that they'll become aware of the spell and trace it back to someone still in Sunnydale and decide to go after them. The simpleness of the spell actually makes it harder for them to trace and will take a while. Especially with someone that doesn't do any more spells." Kelly slides Buffy down her body, before starting to pace as she thinks quickly. "Us being here with this being a magic shop will be believable. I wouldn't think they would link us to anyone here because of that. But I don't want to spend too much time here. Meeting at other places like the grocery store, the movie theater, restaurants, the Bronze, the mall would be good places. "
"So most important thing is get a map done up so we know where they're at." Buffy watches Kelly nod, Buffy grins. "I'll go down the street at the rental agency, they have maps of Sunnydale."
Kelly smiles as her lover runs out the door before clasping her hands behind her back and rocking back and forth on her feet. "You'll need to get the cleansing done at the house to negate our magical signature quickly."
Giles smiles as the woman runs down everything quickly and clinically. "I see now why you've made it as far in the US Military as you have."
Kelly stops for a second and smirks. "I'm planning on taking out two of the bastards completely and letting the third one go, albeit hurt. I want to make it believable that we haven't reached the max yet. I'm going to contact a couple people in the government to send a couple pints of my blood. Be it a lieutenant or the fucking devil himself that sent them out to look for us, they are probably under orders to verify who it is and not engage. I don't want them to know that Buffy is the other partner in this. I'm going to do this myself."
"Like fucking hell you are." Buffy growls loudly, as she heads back in the room.
"Yes, I am." Kelly turns looking her lover up and down. Knowing she had been listening at the door. "We need an ace in the hole. They will have no clue who the other half is to figure out how to fight. For all they know it may be a werewolf. If I don't use much of the powers available to me, they won't have a clue how powerful I actually am." Seeing Buffy about ready to argue more, Kelly holds up her hand. "Trust me. I'll get them taken care of, but I'm going to do it alone. When it comes down to fighting whatever forces they actually send after us, I don't want them to have any inkling whatsoever who my other half is and how powerful we actually are. I'm going to start putting out feelers for the Cup of Jesatta with a few…" Kelly hesitates for a moment before smirking. "Friends of mine."
Buffy walks up to stand right in front of Kelly and looks deeply into the green flecked golden gaze. "If you get hurt, I'm going to fucking kick your ass from here to hell and back. You won't have to worry about the Devil, you're going to have to worry about me, understood?"
"Understood." Kelly places a hand on Buffy's cheek and runs her thumb over her lips gently. "I haven't gotten my fill of Parcheesi yet." Kelly's lips twitch as she watches Buffy try not to laugh.
"You are a pain." Buffy growls quietly, before giggling and leaning up on her toes to kiss Kelly. "But I love you anyway."
"What the hell is it with Parcheesi?" Giles questions with a confused look on his face.
Kelly starts laughing raising an eyebrow at Buffy, not even daring to open her mouth.
"Forget it, Giles. You really don't want to know." Buffy shakes her head before handing him the map. "Here's the map. Let's get this done."
Kelly nods her head. "I'll get the ingredients you'll need and write down the spell for you." Kelly quickly strides back out to the shop.
"Just how dangerous is what she's planning? And I don't want you hemming and hawing, I want a straight up answer." Buffy turns from where she watched Kelly stride out of the back to pin her watcher with her piercing gaze.
Giles starts to answer when she turns her gaze on him and he sighs deeply. "Extremely dangerous, Buffy. But I honestly have no doubts that she will succeed. Especially if she takes them out one at a time as I believe she's planning. You just need to trust her."
Buffy shakes her head. "I trust her implicitly, Giles. The thing is I know how she has a tendency to downplay her role in things. If she says something is a tad bit dangerous it means it's extremely dangerous." Buffy stops realizing Kelly's coming back into the room.
"That's why I can always call you if I need you." Kelly quietly murmurs as she walks in the room, handing Giles the slip of paper before spreading out the map and getting the ingredients ready.
"Damn it! What if I can't get there quick enough?" Buffy growls pacing back and forth angrily.
"You can run a mile in less than thirty seconds, Buffy. While I'm hunting them, I'll have you keep the map on you so you'll know where the demons are at any given moment. I'll stay in mental contact with you the whole time. It needs to be this way if we want a chance at defeating whatever army they send after us, until we can close this Hellmouth permanently." Kelly glances up watching her lover pace back and forth after she finishes with the ingredients. Standing up she motions to Giles. "Go ahead."
Buffy stops and turns to watch Kelly walk towards her. "What do you mean this Hellmouth?"
"There are a dozen Hellmouth's. This is the active one. After we close it, another one will start drawing additional energy and bring evil towards it." Kelly explains quietly. "The ideal way to do this would be to permanently close the other non-active Hellmouth's first then close this one. But I only got general ideas on where a couple are, but not exact locations. I've never been able to come across a spell that works to locate the damn things when they're not active."
"So you're basically telling me IF we get the Cup of Geriatric we can seal the Hellmouth, but another one will activate in a never ending cycle till we find all of them to close? And in between time we'll need to fight whatever regular demons, vampires and real demons?" Buffy places her hands on her hips and takes a defensive posture.
"Jesatta. Pretty much." Kelly smiles half-heartedly at her lover. "But look at it this way, if we can close all the Hellmouth's, then we can work on exterminating all evil demons without any more coming here."
"Great, that means we'll be spending all our time traveling to kill demons?" Buffy growls, before frowning. As she thinks about it she starts smiling. "Traveling? Out of country?"
Kelly chuckles quietly. "Yes, we can travel. But, Buffy, there's one thing you're forgetting here. We won't have to be the only ones searching out the demons. We've got the government to do this also."
"And my big Mojo girlfriend can probably do a spell to locate where these demons are to wipe them out." Buffy grins as she thinks about it.
"Yes, I can. But the thing is it will literally take years to get to that point. But if we can get to the new Hellmouth's quickly we probably won't have to deal with the pure-blood demons or at least not many." Kelly continues thinking about it, knowing it takes time to open the Hellmouth enough to send a big enough force through to fight them.
"Years? I can deal with years." Buffy grins slightly. "Retired by thirty? Sounds like a winner to me."
Kelly chuckles and smiles softly. "I hate to be a party pooper, babe, but that's only if everything goes well."
"No negativity on this. I'm basking in the glow of thinking I can retire." Buffy growls out before smiling slightly.
Giles shakes his head standing up and handing Kelly the map. "That was an extremely easy spell. I've never seen one like it before."
Kelly smirks. "I play with spells to make it something easier to do for other witches and wizards in the forces, that way they don't necessarily need a powerhouse to get the job done. I've only done it with non-lethal spells. I'd hate to do something like that and then the person turn evil."
Buffy grabs the map out of Kelly's hands while she and Giles talk and watches as three different red lights slowly move across the map. Seeing they all seem to be outside the Sunnydale City limits, she breathes a sigh of relief. "We have time to get everything situated if they keep moving like this. Do these Demons have any magical ability?"
Kelly shakes her head. "They're just tracker demons. Whoever sent them didn't need to send them through the Hellmouth, they pick up on magic but aren't capable of magic. They probably have a sorcerer or sorceress helping them, because they needed someone on this side to get them here without using the Hellmouth. But they are strong and dangerous."
"How long will it take them to get a force through the Hellmouth big enough to take us on?" Buffy looks up at Kelly.
"Depends. I want to check out the Hellmouth after we grab our stuff and throw it in the apartment and get you inked up. First things first. Most important is getting your tattoo done. And finding somewhere to live for the time being." Looking down at her watch Kelly grumbles. "And we've got like 15 minutes before we need to meet for the apartment."
"Yeah, I can't believe you're renting a damn apartment when we're going to be having a house to move into in a few days." Buffy shakes her head frowning.
"Shit happens." Kelly smirks slightly. "Maybe we'll luck out and be able to sign a six month lease instead of a year."
"You bought a new house?" Giles looks confused from one woman to another.
"Signing tomorrow." Buffy smirks looking at the confused watcher. "Kelly's one of these people that when she sees something she wants, she goes after it."
"Worked with you, didn't it?" Kelly grins and winks at the slayer. "And I even waited with you."
"You waited?" Buffy growls, opening her eyes wide. "It was two days after we met when you jumped my bones!"
"You weren't complaining. And to tell the truth, I think you did the initial jumping." Kelly smirks as Buffy smacks her in the stomach. "Ow." Kelly replies on automatic, rubbing the spot.
"Dear Lord." Giles groans out shaking his head. "You two better get going. I'll call a taxi and head to the house to get the cleansing done."
"Thanks, Giles." Buffy smiles thankfully at the watcher. "We'll be there as soon as we can to gather up our stuff. If you need us, everyone should have Kelly's cell phone number."
"Come on, baby, let's get the apartment taken care of." Kelly grasps Buffy's hand and tugs on it gently.
Giles rubs his chin watching as the two women leave the shop. Walking over to the phone he dials a number in England. "Darby, old chap. Unfortunately this isn't a pleasure call. You know the Golden Cup of Jesatta? It needs to be found and sent to Sunnydale as soon as possible. I want every one of our sources looking for it and call in any and all favors….I am very serious…I know Darby, but it looks like it might be happening right now. So please, get everyone on it…Thanks, dear boy." Giles sighs before smiling. "At least I can help you look for the Cup. If I can't do much of anything else." He mentions to the empty room.