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Buffy and Faith joined everyone in the living room.

"Hey guys. What's going on?'' Buffy looked around. "Where's Xander and Anya?"

"Yeah, I didn't see them at breakfast this morning.'' Dawn added.

"They are shopping for clothes for Anya at the mall.'' Giles said.

"Why is Xander with her?'' Willow said.

"I honestly have no idea.'' Giles replied.

"Remind me again why I have to be here.'' Xander asked, bored out of his mind. They were in one of the women's clothing stores at the Sunnydale mall.

"Oh, stop whining and get this shirt in a smaller size.'' Anya called from the dressing room.

"Yes dear.'' Xander sighed.

Giles cleaned his glasses and then continued. "Now then, I called you all here because I just received a call from the Watchers council.'' Everyone groaned. "They have reason to believe that Loki and his children are going to try to gain access to the Hellmouth.''

"Loki as in the Norse god of mischief?'' Tara asked hesitantly.

"And his children Fenrir the wolf, Hel, the ruler of Niflheim, and Jormundand, also known as the Midgard Serpent.'' Willow added.

Giles said exasperatedly. "I don't know why I even bother to do research anymore. Nevertheless, we need to find out more about Loki and his family. We need to find out why they want to come through the Hellmouth and how they are going to do it.''

"Yeah, and how to kill them.'' Faith smiled at Buffy. "Come on B, lets go. You know I don't do the research thing.''

"Where are we going to go? It's eleven o'clock on the morning. I doubt vampires are going to be much of a problem right now.'' Buffy replied.

"So. We can train at the magic box. That's where everyone is going to be anyway right?'' Faith said.

"Giles, is that ok with you?' Buffy asked.

"I don't see why not. If there is another apocalypse then you girls need to be at your strongest. We'll meet up with you there in about an hour. There is something I need to discuss with Willow and Tara first.'' Giles looked up at them. ''You go train.''

Spike stood up. "What about me?''

Angel stood up as well. "Yeah. We can train with Buffy too.''

Faith smirked. "And how are you gonna get there? Its daylight.'' She pulled Buffy to her. "Well it looks like I've got B all to myself now.''

"C'mon, you can do better then that!'' Faith yelled as she ducked Buffy's punch. Buffy responded with a roundhouse kick that nearly caught Faith in the head. Instead, Faith ducked under and rammed Buffy into the ground, pinning her there. She pulled her knife from its sheath and held it to Buffy's throat.

"You're dead.''

Buffy smiled. "So are you.'' Faith looked down. Buffy had a knife at the other slayers heart. Faith rolled off of her and went to go get a bottle of water.

"What do you want to do next?'' Buffy asked. "We've trained with swords, axes, knifes, stakes, and crossbows. I think we can take a break.''

"I guess so.'' Faith tossed Buffy the water bottle. "I can think of a few other things I would like to be doing though.''

Buffy grinned mischievously. "Really. Now what would those be?''

"I think you already know.''

"I think you need to remind me.'' Buffy said as she lay on the floor.

Faith walked over to Buffy and sat down next to her.

"Are you sure you want me to?'' she asked, suddenly serious.

Buffy sat up. "Faith, what's wrong?''

"B we joke around a lot, but…" She paused.

"But what?"

"What would you think if it wasn't just a joke. If I did something like this." Faith leaned over and kissed Buffy. "Well?"

"I think that I would do this." Buffy leaned in and put her lips to Faith's. She felt Faiths hand rise and grab the back of her head as she kissed back. As they pulled away Faith started laughing.

Buffy sat up. "What?"

"Angel and Spike are gonna kill me."

"Well, we'll just have to not tell them won't we? "

"What did you want to talk to us about?" Willow wanted to know as Buffy and Faith left.

"I wanted to ask you two a favor. If Loki and his family are trying to come through the Hellmouth then I think that it might help if we try to contact Loki." Giles sighed.

"Wait, what?" Tara looked at Willow. "You can't be serious. Contact Loki? Are you sure that's a good idea?"

"Yeah, I mean, that's pretty deep stuff. That could get us in some deep trouble if we mess up." Willow turned to Giles.

"I'm sure. I've dealt with Loki in the past."

"Alright." Willow said. "How do we do it?"


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