"I can't believe I'm being invited into the girl's locker room," Xander joked, "the holy of holies!"
"Actually, you're being invited into the girl's shower room," Buffy replied, "the inner sanctum. Many a boy have tried to gain entrance, and many have failed."
"Not all the disappearances are because of gang members on PCP," Willow said dramatically, and then ruined it by laughing, which Buffy quickly joined her in.
"Thankfully, it's Saturday, so we should have it all to ourselves," Xander said.
"Which is good, cause I can't see the cheerleading squad being all that happy to find you here," Willow said cheerfully.
"Maybe one or two, but not the whole team," Buffy said as she pushed open the door to the girl's locker room.
"Cordelia wouldn't mind," Willow agreed. "Not sure how the others would respond."
"Well, let's not find out," Xander said as he followed them to the lockers and got undressed. "Our clothes are still going to have soda on them," he pointed out.
"Just a drop or two," Buffy waved it off. "We get worse on patrol."
"In that light, soda isn't so bad," Willow agreed.
"Feels kinda different to be here and doing this," Buffy said as Willow finished folding her clothes.
"Reality?" Xander suggested cautiously.
"No," Buffy said, "I mean in the girl's shower room, it's kinda a common female fantasy."
"Huh," Willow said thoughtfully. "I kinda favor the library myself, but yeah… I have had a thought or two."
"Amateurs," Xander said haughtily. "Principal Snyder's desk while he's trying to put out the flaming wreckage of his house!"
"Arson and sex," Buffy said with a grin as she turned on the shower and cold water sprayed over them. "Yeah, I can see it."
"Arson's a bit much," Willow said, "and that desk can not be comfortable."
"Point," Xander said, "that's why it's a fantasy and not our plans for Saturday night."
"Not because it's a felony?" Willow asked, arching an eyebrow as she grabbed the soap and shampoo from her shower bag she'd snagged from her locker.
Buffy accepted the shampoo and put some in her hair before passing the bottle to Xander. "We commit felonies all the time," the slayer pointed out, "just not for fun."
"Doing the right thing shouldn't be illegal," Willow said firmly as she soaped up Buffy.
"Tell that to my last high school," Buffy said with a huff, that turned into a moan as Willow began to play with her breasts.
Xander grinned and started massaging shampoo into Willow's hair. "I think you'll find here at Sunnydale high we offer personal services that more than make up for any difficulties you might suffer."
"I-I'm beginning to see th-that," Buffy agreed as Willow's hands drifted lower.
Xander pressed into Willow from behind as he rinsed her hair, enjoying the way she ground back against him.
"Umm," Buffy said distractedly as the shower next to theirs turned on, drawing their attention.
Xander and Willow turned their attention to the next shower and saw a naked Harmony Kendall soaping herself up with a lascivious smile as she watched the three.
"Afternoon Harmony," Xander said before returning his attention to making Willow moan.
"Hi," Willow breathed out, before forgetting she was there as she needed all her mental fortitude to concentrate on turning Buffy into a quivering mass of naked flesh, while Xander did the same to her.
Realizing Harmony had already seen everything there was to see, she dismissed her from conscious thought and turned to focus on Willow.
Between the two of them Willow was quickly overwhelmed and only Buffy's mouth kept her orgasmic cries from echoing through the shower room.
"I think we broke her," Xander joked as he held Willow up with his arms around her waist as she slumped against him.
"Time out," Willow said weakly. "I think… I need to be benched."
Xander swept Willow up in a princess carry and walked her over to the bench, setting her down with a kiss before rejoining Buffy underneath the cool spray of the shower. "Now, where were we?"
"Right about… here!" Buffy said leaping up on Xander and wrapping her legs around his waist as her hips met his own.
Harmony moaned, her fingers hard at work as she watched the two grind against each other while making out, Xander pressing Buffy against the wall to get more leverage. She was tempted to join them but a questing hand found their shower was almost freezing so she stayed under her own.
"Right there!" Buffy moaned out as they found the perfect position for her and she soon tightened her legs as she reached climax, her unrestrained moan filling the shower before Xander joined her covering her stomach in sticky white splooge.
Harmony shuddered and bit her lips, used to suppressing her own moans. "Better than watching porn," she said breathlessly.
"We aim to please," Xander joked as he rested his head against Buffy's, waiting for her to regain the use of her legs so he could set her down.
"I don't suppose you have another shot in the tank?" Harmony asked hopefully.
"Sorry, I'm seeing someone, two someones," Xander said, as Buffy let her legs slide down and regained her footing.
"Had to ask," Harmony said cheerfully. "Great show, by the way. I give it two fingers up!"
"Thanks," Buffy said, rolling her eyes and rinsing off her stomach as Xander leaned down to steal another kiss.
"So, what brings you here?" Willow asked as she rejoined her lovers under the shower so they could finish washing up.
"Extra practice," Harmony said with a shrug, deliberately exaggerating her shrug to make her breasts jiggle and hiding her smirk at the way the three's eyes followed her movements. "Cordelia said we were getting too complacent and needed it. The other girls should be in here in a little while," she warned them, "they just let me go first so I don't molest anyone, the bunch of prudes."
Xander laughed. "Thanks for the heads up."
"No problem," Harmony replied. "Any chance of a repeat?"
The three exchanged questioning glances before Buffy spoke up, "if the shower room is free tomorrow afternoon we'll be here, provided you don't mention you saw us three together of course."
"I can keep a secret," Harmony promised. "Now, would you guys mind watching me? It's a real turn on."
Sure, they may have turned her down for the moment, but Harmony was sure with a little effort she could convince them to let her join in a time or four…
0o0o0o0o0o
Giles looked up from the notes he'd been taking as the three teens returned to the library. "Now that you're back, let's begin again. Xander, you just have runes around your wrists that prevent discomfort in the cold and have physically matured a bit, yes?"
Xander nodded as he took a seat at the table across from Giles with the girls bracketing him. "Yeah, a little more manly, but I haven't noticed anything else."
Giles nodded and wrote that down. "Buffy?"
"Physically unchanged other than hair, a little of the cold mojo as you've seen, but nothing like Elsa's," she replied. "She could have started another ice age or at least have turned the US into the arctic."
"Are you sure you can't?" Giles asked cautiously.
Buffy nodded. "Trust me, the difference in strength is like night and day. If Elsa had put as much effort as I did into freezing that can it'd be snowing in Sunnydale."
"That is a relief," Giles said smiling and making a few notes.
"So… nothing to worry about?" Buffy asked hopefully. "It's not going to get stronger and require me to move to Alaska or anything?"
"No," Giles said confidently, "elemental talents require a great deal of effort to strengthen and your's are right in line with a novice practitioner. If you were willing to spend the next decade dedicating yourself to cryomancy you might be able to make it snow over a single block, but as is you are simply a gifted novice."
"Works for me," Buffy said.
"Willow, any changes?" Giles asked.
"Not that I've noticed," Willow replied with a shrug.
"I think your reflexes are faster," Xander told her, "you dropped and rolled beneath the table before we even realized the can was going to explode."
"Yeah, you aren't exactly the sporty type, but you've shaped up a bit," Buffy agreed.
"Was the character you dressed as particularly athletic?" Giles asked curiously.
"She was a Disney princess," Xander said, "they could sweep the Olympics."
Buffy looked over at Willow. "Anna was pretty impressive; she was like a medieval action hero."
"Running around a castle before elevators were invented does really work the glutes," Willow said with a shrug.
"You've also got a huge sweet tooth now," Xander added. "You only had a small one before."
"I just appreciate them more," Willow disagreed. "Candy wasn't as common in Arendelle. Medieval times and all."
"I'd say I like chocolate more, but that's not possible," Buffy offered.
"Alright," Giles said, making more notes. "Any other mental effects?"
"Not that we've noticed," Buffy said, "but then it's only been a couple of days."
"A couple of… Narnia," Giles realized. "Yes, well, keep me apprised of any changes you notice."
"So, we've got a clean bill of health?" Xander asked.
"The ritual performed is called The Night of Masks," Giles explained, "as rituals go it's remarkably benign."
"It was really chaotic," Buffy argued, "not sure benign really fits the bill."
"The effect on the participants is benign," Giles said, "it's what they do that may be harmful. Regardless I'd have to say we were all extremely lucky that those you dressed as saw fit to end it before anyone was seriously injured and trust me, I'll be having a few words with the caster for his decision to do so."
"Alas poor Ethan, I knew him well," Xander said grandly.
"Sadly, so did I," Giles said sourly.
"Yeah, he mentioned you two were friends shortly before revealing his evil plot and laughing maniacally," Xander said. "I remember it like it was yesterday…"
"It was yesterday," Giles said dryly.
"Closer to a week ago for us," Xander said with a grin, making Giles roll his eyes.
Buffy groaned. "Xander pointed him out to us and said he was a villain, then he did the James Bond tell the good guys your plot thing, which none of us took seriously."
"Ethan and Xander really hit it off," Willow said thoughtfully.
"Apparently we have similar senses of humor," Xander said with a shrug. "So, what's the what on him?"
Giles took off his glasses and cleaned them. "When I was around your age, we were in a band together."
"What?" the three teens chorused in shock.
"Don't act so surprised, everyone goes through a rebellious stage," Giles chided them, "and I was once a child as well."
"Yes, but that was a generation ago, before recorded time," Xander argued. "Obviously the world only really began when our generation was born."
Giles opened his mouth, paused and considered what Xander had said.
"Ignore him," Buffy said, "we do know that the world wasn't created when we were born."
"Was it?" Xander asked absently, head tilted in contemplation.
"I can't tell if he's making a joke or being really deep," Willow admitted with a frown.
"They aren't mutually exclusive," Xander said. "Anyway, what I mean is each generation kinda starts from scratch. Well… more than kinda, we do start from scratch, learn to walk, talk, use the bathroom. It's an endless cycle and while technology and society advance… humans don't, not really."
"Surprisingly deep, accurate, and completely off topic," Giles said with a respectful nod, acknowledging that Xander was correct.
"Does that mean there is a limit on how far we can develop?" Willow asked. "As a whole I mean, are we going to reach a point where we can only learn so much in our lifetime so we can no longer advance?"
"Guys, if we get any deeper, I'm going to drown," Buffy said seriously.
"We're still evolving," Xander told Willow, "mother nature hasn't finished any of her works yet."
"Yeah," Willow said, perking up. She leaned over and kissed Xander on the cheek. "That's exactly what I needed to hear."
"Existential crises over with?" Giles asked.
Xander grinned. "Just because you already went through it is no reason to rag on us when we do it."
"Yes, but I had the good taste to be hi- I mean, never mind that," Giles said quickly correcting himself. "Ethan was a close friend when I was a gutter punk, and unfortunately he never grew out of it."
"Was he the drummer?" Xander asked. "I bet he was the drummer."
"Bass guitar actually," Giles said, visibly amused.
"Is there really a difference?" Buffy asked.
"Not really, at least not the way we played," Giles replied.
"So, to sum it up… Ethan is a bit of a scumbag with a great sense of humor who we should avoid," Xander said.
"All but the great sense of humor," Giles replied dryly.
"Everybody's a critic," Xander snarked back, "though I will admit he takes his pranks a lot further than I would."
"How far would you have pushed a spell like the one last night, if you could have cast it?" Buffy asked curiously.
"Let me see," Xander said thoughtfully, "I'd limit it to mental effects for one, calling up gods and spirits without restraint is just asking for trouble."
"Never call up what you can't put down," Giles agreed.
"Something from the book of the slayer?" Buffy asked, making a mental note to actually read the damn handbook now that she had time.
"H.P. Lovecraft actually," Giles said, "but sound advice regardless."
"I'd have a suggestion implanted in everyone's head that they were just acting the part, so there wouldn't be a weird disconnect," Xander said. "People tend to go along with the crowd, so no one would have even realized they'd been enspelled."
"That is a frighteningly effective idea," Giles said, "it plays into basic human psychology and even experienced casters may fall prey to it."
"And finally, I'd have added a limit to how far they'd go based on their own morals," Xander decided. "Sure one or two nuts may take things too far, but those are the ones who would have acted like that without a spell being involved anyways. Simple, chaotic, fun and no one gets hurt."
"Probably a lot easier to cast too," Willow said.
"Xander?" Giles asked.
"Yes, Giles?"
"Please never have a frank discussion with Ethan about what he should be doing," Giles said, "he'd learn all the wrong lessons from it."
"Never educate your enemy," Xander said cheerfully.
"Sun Tzu," Giles guessed.
"The Evil Overlord list," Xander said with a grin. "It's something all the geeks got together and wrote to post on the net."
"Of course," Giles said with a put upon sigh.
"Well enough of all this," Buffy said, "let's go to the Bronze and dance it up, then a patrol, then a quick twenty hour nap and cuddle."
"I will gladly flail my arms randomly for you, Princess Buffy," Xander said, giving her a courtly bow.
Buffy slid her arm through his. "Time's wasting! We could be injuring innocent bystanders rather than standing around here."
"Bah!" Xander dismissed with a wave, "if they are that close to me when I'm dancing, they aren't bystanders and very few people around here count as innocent anyway."
Willow paused and turned to Giles. "Want me to print you out a copy of the list?"
"If you don't mind," Giles said quietly, before Willow gave him a quick nod and chased after her two enthusiastic partners.
Typing by: fyrewolf5
TN: Harmony, I think you're going to be waiting a bit longer than you're hoping for, but who knows what the future may hold.
