"Wait what?!" Diggle exclaims into the phone as he speaks with Xander while Willow continues to try and hack into the phone.
"I think it's gonna happen tonight. Look you need to talk to Buffy. She has an invite to that party, I'm getting ready now, she's on her date with Dean call her and tell her to get her ass ready. And get the damn Hood. Just remind me of his name again..."
Diggle rolls his eyes, every single time "Thanks Harris." He says before closing the phone ignoring Xander's pleas and begging.
"What's wrong?" Willows asks, as she finally turns away from another failed attempt at getting through the phone.
"We need to call Buffy. Someone's gonna try and take out Merlyn...tonight."
"I think Diggle wants me dead." Dean says flatly once the movie him and Buffy had been watching at his apartment comes to an end.
Buffy chuckles slightly at the abrupt subject before tucking her legs under her as she turns to face him leaning her head on her hand as she tilts her head at him.
Dean glares at her slightly noticing the amusement on her face "He questioned me a lot Buff."
Buffy shakes her head before moving closer and placing her chin on his shoulder so she could look up into his eyes "He's protective. He's like Big Brother always watching." She laughs slightly before sitting up and swinging her leg around so she could sit herself in his lap "Always watching" She taunts laughing again as she does.
Dean rolls his eyes as he places his hands on her hips "Comforting blondie."
Buffy smiles teasingly she was enjoying this "You're scared of my brother." She points out as she leans closer smirking down at him.
Dean suddenly grins wickedly as he begins rubbing circles on her hips "Really don't wanna talk about your brother right now." He mumbles before yanking her head forward slamming her lips to his.
Buffy moans at the contact and runs her hands down his chest quickly reaching for the hem of his shirt as he attempts to deepen the kiss.
Before he can though she pulls back just enough to yank his shirt over his head while he continues grinning at her, she grins back before grabbing the back of his head and pulling him back to her.
He loops his hands under her ass lifting her slightly trying to get her closer if that was even possible and as she gasps slightly his deepens the kiss causing her to moan again.
Buffy's eyes roll back into her head as Dean begins trailing wet kisses down the line of her neck towards her collar bones all while unbuttoning her shirt.
She chuckles when he fumbles with one of the buttons and quickly pulls back to yank it over her head.
Dean grins at the sight of the shirtless Slayer before grabbing the back of her thighs wrapping them around his waist as he
stands.
Buffy clutches onto him as their tongues continue to battle for domination, however as he leads her to the bedroom she couldn't help but let out a small giggle as she reaches for his belt only making him inhale sharply.
Dean smirks before tossing her on the bed and climbing on top of her only making her giggle louder.
As Dean and her continue to lose themselves in each other not once does Buffy notice her phone going crazy with calls from Xander and Diggle.
Diggle walks into the empty building where he knew Oliver was having his date with McKenna and groans slightly, he didn't want to do this but neither Oliver nor Buffy had been answering their phones.
And as Diggle really didn't want to have to beat Dean to a pulp if he found him and Buffy together he had chosen to go get Oliver while Willow continued to try and get a hold of Buffy while still working on the phone.
"Excuse me, Mr. Queen. The IT department has that item that you requested."
Oliver's head shoots up and he looks over at McKenna with a guilty smile "one sec."
The stunning detective merely smiles "Ok."
Oliver stands and quickly makes his way over to Diggle "You find the target?"
"Oliver, the target is Tommy's father."
Oliver's eyes widen "At the awards ceremony? Tommy's there."
Oliver instantly panics, this was his best friend, his brother, he couldn't let him get hurt, turning to the woman that was waiting for him he sighs "Um, McKenna, Mr. Diggle is going to take you home. I have some unexpected business." He quickly crouches down and gives her a chaste kiss but she merely smiles back in understanding "It's ok."
Oliver smiles before quickly walking back over to Dig who tosses him a phone "Call Buffy."
"What?" Oliver asks in confusion, being careful to keep his voice down as he does.
"She is going tonight Oliver, Malcolm invited her himself. You're gonna need someone on the ground."
Buffy stretches slightly in the bed before glancing over at the now fast asleep doctor Dean. She smiles slightly even though she knew she shouldn't be. She was letting him in and that was dangerous for him, for them both.
Sighing she quickly grabs his shirt and slips it on covering herself before she heads into the living room gathering the rest of her clothes.
As she picks up her jeans she spots her phone on the floor vibrating, grabbing it she tucks the phone in-between her shoulder as she pulls on her pants "Hey Will..."
"It's Oliver."
Buffy frowns in confusion before glancing back at the caller idea, it still said Will, she sighs "Well your using Will's phone so for now you are Will. So sup Willow?"
"Buffy." Oliver hisses urgently but she could hear the vulnerability hidden underneath the surface "Malcolm Merlyn is going to be assassinated tonight. At the benefit."
"Oh God." She breaths as she glances down at her watch only to curse as she realises she was running behind schedule, she stumbles across the room pulling on one boot after the other as she attempts to grab the garment bag she had brought over with her with her dress for the event.
"I have an invite I'm just running late, I'm leaving now." She whispers so Dean wouldn't wake as she slowly makes her way to the front door closing it behind her before walking down the hall towards the stairs out of the building.
"You see anything let me know. I'll be above ground."
Buffy nods as she runs over to her car tossing her things inside "Got it Hawkeye."
"I'm not Hawkeye." He grumbles but she merely rolls her eyes.
"That's debatable."
"We are not having this argument right now."
"Buzzkill."
"Buffy!"
"Fine!"
Buffy adjusts the strap on her heels as she quickly makes her way towards the party, adjusting her dress slightly ( /images/hp5Xid) she makes her way through the crowd towards where they all seemed to be gathered watching as Merlyn accepted his award.
"Over Sparrow?" She whispers as she taps her comms making sure they were working.
"Quit it with the nicknames Buffy!" Oliver hisses over the line merely making the blonde roll her eyes as she grabs a glass of champagne "Geez Katniss sorry."
"You do realise I don't understand these pop culture references right?"
Buffy couldn't help the small smirk that crossed her lips "That's half the fun...you have no idea when I'm making fun of you."
"I've got a pretty good idea."
Buffy sighs before shaking her head and continuing through the crowd trying to get as close to the stage as she could so that at any sudden movement she could get to Merlyn.
"Stop distracting me." She hisses into the comms earning an odd look from the person next to her, she quickly rubs her throat and smiles sweetly at the man next to her before turning back to Merlyn.
"Me?! Do you not have any sense of focus!"
Buffy ignores the Hood and focuses on Merlyn as he begins speaking about his deceased wife which only made Buffy clutch onto her glass tightly as old memories threatened to surface but she pushed them down.
"I like to think that if the man who murdered her knew her, knew the work that she did, knew the person that she was, he would have helped her to her car, made sure she was safe instead of stealing her purse and shooting her."
Merlyn says bluntly as photographers continue to snap photos "The truth is I haven't done enough for this city, my city. I failed it. But I promise you, I am not finished yet."
As he speaks Buffy glances around the room looking for any suspicious, as she does something catches her eye, or more specifically as woman.
Her eyes widen and slowly Buffy reaches for the Riddick dagger tucked into her dress as she spots the woman who had been behind so much death "China."
Oliver watches from the top floor as people begin surrounding the stage for Merlyn's acceptance speech, he groans slightly as he glances down at his watch, Buffy was running late. Why he was continuing to allow Willow to convince him to involve Buffy in the missions when the blonde had flat out said no to helping him still confused him.
What confused him more was how she was so good, yes she was in the military but she was a better fighter than anyone he had ever scene and the constant vague talks about her past drew a curious wire in him.
Suddenly all thoughts and suspicions about who Buffy Summers really was came to a screeching halt as he spots her in the crowd. He inhales sharply not sure as to why but for some reason he needed to catch his breath at the sight of her, she was breathtaking in the grey lace gown.
Her blond hair was flowing in soft waves down her back and he almost chuckled at the sight of the knife she was shielding, if he hadn't known that she had it on her he wouldn't have spotted it, but honestly how she kept sneaking them into these high class events was beyond him.
He freezes however as he spots her reaching for the blade an angry look crossing her face, she was about to go off mission he could see it in her eyes but he couldn't tell why "Buffy what's going on?"
Before he could get a response off of her his comms screech violently causing him to tear them from his ears just as the lights in building all switch off.
Buffy freezes on her way to China as the sound of an alarm fills the hall, she groans in annoyance and quickly hides the knife again as she spots guards moving around the room.
"Ladies and gentleman, please exit calmly and quietly to the glass sliding doors."
Buffy sighs before searching around for China only to spot her gone, she spins around the room in a mad search only to freeze as she spots several of the guards hit the ground.
"Oh no." She mumbles before spotting Malcolm walking off, groaning she glances back at China before growling slightly and heading after Merlyn.
"Tommy!" Buffy hears Merlyn scream as he reaches his son before yanking him towards the staircase instead of outside where everyone else was being led.
Buffy frowns in confusion before glancing up to where Oliver was...or was supposed to be.
"Dammit Legolas!" She hisses before heading after Malcolm.
The minute her heels hit the second floor Buffy hears the sound of guns being clocked, her eyes widen in panic, running forward she manages to tackle Tommy and Merlyn to the ground just before any bullets could hit them.
"Stay down!" Buffy screams as she pushes them both behind the wall.
"Miss Summers?!" Malcolm yells in shock as she grabs her blade and quickly peaks behind the wall launching it towards the gunman catching on in the hand.
As his gun drops to the ground Buffy runs and slides along the floor picking up the gun as she goes and immediately she fires on both gunman killing them.
Buffy takes a shaky breath and glances back at Tommy and Merlyn "I was in the army." She says simply when she spots the confused look on Tommy's face.
She sighs before gesturing to Merlyn "Get him out of here! There will be more."
Merlyn hesitates causing Buffy to roll her eyes as she ducks behind another wall as more gunman appear "Unless you wanna be a flying shiskabab I suggest you move!"
As Buffy quickly takes a shot at the gunman before hiding behind the wall again she glances back at the two men just as Malcolm yanks his son down the hall "We can't just leave her!" She hears Tommy yell before him and his father disappear from sight, Buffy sighs before preparing the take down the next two men only for the glass window opposite hers to shatter as Oliver all dressed up in his green Hawkeye costume came tumbling through it.
Buffy sighs slightly as she watches him take out one of the guards "I had that."
"You're complaining now!" He hisses as she steps out of her hiding spot and unloads the gun.
When he frowns at her she rolls her eyes "I don't like guns." She tells him as she grabs her knife out of one of the dead gunman.
"You were in the army!" He points out as he turns to her not noticing the guard coming up behind him, Buffy smirks before tossing the knife with perfect accuracy right by his face causing it to embed itself in the guards neck "I'm better with blades."
Oliver shakes his head in amusement he couldn't help but smirk at that however that smirk quickly fell as more guards begin surrounding the two of them.
Buffy spins the blade in her grasp before walking over to Oliver so they were standing back to back "This is gonna be fun." She says with a small smirk making him glare at her "Not liking your definition of fun."
Buffy rolls her eyes before side stepping as one of the guards attacks her she spins around kicking him in the face before forcing her leg into the gut of another guard.
As he stumbles Buffy rolls over his back grasping the back of his neck as she does, as she lands on her feet she yanks him violently over her shoulder causing him to tumble to the ground before she kicked him in the face.
"Duck!" Oliver yells as her, she quickly drops to the ground just as Oliver spins around knocking out the remaining guards with the butt of his bow.
Buffy stands only to freeze as she hears footsteps behind her "Don't turn around." Oliver whispers harshly at her as he moves to stand in front of her blocking her from view.
Buffy groans in annoyance but doesn't argue she knew exactly who was stood there and if China saw her face she was screwed. Suddenly an idea occurs to her she glances down at her dress and groans. She really liked this one.
"Why do you want Malcolm Merlyn dead?" Oliver yells at China only to hear the tearing of fabric.
"I'll settle for the two of you." China says as she drops her brunette wig to the ground before glaring at Oliver who clenches his fist.
"Hood go!" Buffy hisses as she ties the ripped piece of grey fabric around her face covering her mouth and nose.
"What!?" He hisses in confusion.
Buffy sighs before pushing him out of the way making sure her hair was covering her face blocking him from seeing her "Tommy." She reminds him "She sent guards after him."
Oliver stares at the blonde for a long moment, he couldn't just leave her here "I'm not gonna—"
"Go!" She yells once more before sighing "He's your best friend." She reminds him.
Oliver continues to stare at her worry filling his expression before he clenches his jaw and takes off running towards where Tommy and Malcolm went.
Buffy sighs before turning to China who smirks at her "The woman in red." She breathes smirking slightly "I take it you didn't listen to Marcus."
Buffy tilts her head and rolls her eyes, this woman really did get on her nerves plus she had tried to shoot her which just ticked her off "You shot at me so I think I owe you a black eye. Tip for tap."
China smirks before twirling her own blades in her hands running at Buffy, Buffy quickly steps out of the way and twirls around coming out behind China, she swings her own blade but China blocks her.
Buffy growls slightly before grabbing China's arms and yanking her arm over her shoulder yanking on it violently causing China to gasp in pain as she dropped her own blade which Buffy swiftly catches before she kicks China in the stomach sending her flying down the hall.
Buffy runs at China and lifts her up by the throat slamming her into the glass trophy case, as the white haired woman cries out in pain Buffy smirks "Where is Marcus!?"
China scoffs at the blonde the strength the Slayer possessed not scaring her for even a second, she glares at Buffy before using the only blade she had left and stabbed it into Buffy's arm causing Buffy to cry out and release her hold.
Buffy glares at the woman more furious than before now, she swings her leg out but China grasps it using it to knock Buffy to the ground but the blonde was two quick she quickly flips back up kicking China in the face as she does.
Buffy runs at the woman and leaps up wrapping her legs around China's neck before forcing them both to the ground.
As Buffy stands she smirks at China "I've indulged this long enough." She says before kicking China across the floor as twirling the blade in her hands.
Buffy freezes as she hears boots coming towards them.
Cops.
She curses and ends up distracted allowing China to grab one of the guns off the ground and hit the fire extinguisher to Buffy's right causing the whole room to fill with a white cloud.
Buffy's eyes widen and she turns to China only to have the woman shoot at her Buffy ducks out of the way but winces in pain as she spots the bullet in her shoulder. She quickly rips the mask from her face and wraps it around her shoulder before standing only to realise that China was gone.
"Shit."