"Season 6"
Disclaimer: I don't own it!
Pairings: B/C, A/K, W/F, X/A
Summary: re-writeAN: The songs used on here are NOT the ones from the show. I used other ones to go along with the story.
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Chapter 42: Once more with feeling
Buffy's room
Buffy woke up to an extremely annoying alarm clock. She just rolled her head over to look at it. As she went to shut it off Cordelia came flying into the bedroom with the toothbrush in her mouth. She shut off the alarm and then went back into the bathroom. Buffy just lay there wondering what the hell was happing that had Cordelia so full of energy.
"Morning Buffy," Cordelia said as she walked back into the bedroom with a smile on her face. "Have a nice night sleep?" she asked as she looked through the closet for something to wear.
"I guess," Buffy said getting out of bed and looking at her weird. "Are you feeling okay?" Buffy asked her as she walked closer and felt her girlfriend's forehead. "Because you are in a really good mood," she said with a sigh.
"I feel fine, what I'm not aloud to be in a good mood? I have to be and ice queen and Cordelia the bitch twenty four seven?" she asked as she stepped away from Buffy.
"That's not what I meant," Buffy said going over and sitting on the bed. But before Buffy could say anything else Cordelia burst into song.
"Cause everytime we touch, I get this feeling. And everytime we kiss I swear I could fly. Can't you feel my heart beat fast, I want this to last. I need you by my side. Cause everytime we touch, I feel the static. And everytime we kiss, I reach for the sky. Can't you hear my heart beat so. I can't let you go. I want you in my life." Cordelia finished when she sat down next to Buffy. "I have no idea where that came from," she said.
"I think we need to talk to Giles." Buffy said.
"I think that's a great idea because if I break out into song again I'm going to kill someone." Cordelia said as she got up and went back into the bathroom.
"You and me both," Buffy mumbled to herself. As much as she loved Cordelia she didn't have the heart to tell her that she had a horrible voice. When Cordelia was singing horrors for the High School talent show came back to her. Just remembering that night shivers were sent down her spin. She couldn't believe that Principal Snyder made them do the talent show.
Buffy got up off the bed and walked over to the closet. She picked out her outfit for the day and then went into the bathroom where Cordelia was applying her make-up. "I'm gonna grab a shower so please don't turn on the water," Buffy said. Last time she showered when Cordelia was in the bathroom with her Cordelia let the water run for five minutes.
"Me?" Cordelia asked with an innocent looked.
Buffy just laughed as she climbed into the shower. Cordelia got an evil look in her eye as she looked in the mirror. "I going to head downstairs and make breakfast," she said and she heard Buffy say okay.
Before she walked out of the bathroom she turned the handle on the facet and then walked out. "Cordelia!" she heard Buffy scream, as she made her way downstairs. Buffy quickly got out of the shower and turned off the water before jumping back in.
Magic Shop
Buffy was sitting in the Magic Box pretending to look at some demon book, while she was really daydreaming about Cordelia. She tended to do that more and more often because they haven't been able to see each other that much anymore.
Sure they would always travel back and forth to L.A. and back to Sunnydale but as soon as they got off the bus their friends were waiting to tell them about the latest big bad that they had to stop. It was exhausting.
They did spend time alone but that was only at night when they were sleeping. And as much as Buffy loved sleeping with Cordelia she missed the way they could always talk about the stupid things that their friends had done that day.
"Buffy?" Buffy looked up to see Giles standing in front of her. "You ready?" he asked. It was time, for her daily training session with Giles. They had been having weekly training session every since Willow brought her back to life. He thought it might get her skill back up to where it was before she died, he never believed her when she said that her skill was the same. She didn't lose any skill when she died.
Buffy followed him into the back room. She placed her jacket on the chair and then she put on her work out shoes instead of the hells she came in. Then she went into the back room further to change into her work out clothes. She couldn't wait for Cordelia to get her because when she did than that meant she could leave.
"You ready Buffy?" He asked as he grabbed some knife off the bulletin bored that he happened to be standing in front of.
"Ready as I'll ever be," she said as she took her stance. They hade been doing the same exercises for the past month and she was beginning to get tired of them. They never changed, it was the same everyday, and it made Buffy wonder how Giles thought she was getting better if she kept doing the same thing over and over again.
As Buffy was stretching Giles was looking at the knifes and thinking to himself. "I've dealt with my ghosts and faced all my demons. Finally content with a past I regret. I've found you find strength in your moments of weakness. For once I'm at peace with myself. I've been burdened with blame, trapped in the past for too long. I'm movin' on," he looked at Buffy. He began to remember what it felt like when she asked him to deal with Dawn after the Halloween incident. How it had felt when she would always ask him to deal with the hard things in life.
"I've lived in this place and I know all the faces. Each one is different but they're always the same. They mean no harm but it's time that I face it. They'll never allow me to change. But I never dreamed home would end up where I don't belong. I'm movin' on," Even though she was his slayer he still had to teach her that she needed to take responsibility in her life, and that he wouldn't always be there for her.
He began throwing the knifes and watched as she dodged them perfectly. "I'm movin' on. At last I can see life has been patiently waiting for me. And I know there's no guarentee's, but I'm not alone. There comes a time in everyone's life. When all you can see are the years passing by. And I have made up my mind that those days are gone. I sold what I could and packed what I couldn't. Stopped to fill up on my way out of town. I've loved like I should but lived like. I shouldn't, I had to lose everything to find out. Maybe forgiveness will find me somewhere down this road. I'm movin' on."
After he threw the last knife she started doing a bunch of back flips and front flips as she made her toward him. When she reached him he reached out his hand to touch her but he pulled back realizing that if he didn't cut her off soon than he would never be able to let go.
Buffy looked at him funny. "Did you say something?" she asked him.
"No," he said as he watched her.
"Buffy, I'm here," Cordelia said from the main room. He knew that Cordelia agreed with him on this because he had already talked to her about it. She told him that it would be a very good idea.
"See ya after patrol Giles," Buffy said as she grabbed her stuff and ran out into the main room and left with her girlfriend. On some levels she still acted like the teenage girl he met back in High School and that was not good.
Buffy house
Cordelia was sitting on the couch looked at nothing while she waited for Buffy to get ready to go out on patrol. Even though she was just going to kill some undead things she still had to look good and that was one thing that Cordelia would never understand about her.
"Buffy you almost ready?" Cordelia screamed up the stairs. "By the time you get there they are going to be killing everyone already." She said to herself.
Buffy came running down the stairs and Cordelia had to admit that she did look good. "I'm ready," she said as she grabbed her black leather jacket.
"Finally." Cordelia said as she got up off the couch and made her way to the door. "By the way did you talk to Giles about the whole bursting into song thing?" she asked as she closed the door behind her.
"No he made me do some research and then we trained, which you showed up afterwards so I ran out of time." Buffy explained and she clasped her hand around Cordelia's as they made there way down the street. "Why have you had anymore incidents?" Buffy asked concerned.
"Not since this morning," Cordelia said. "You?" she looked over at Buffy and she shuck her head. "There is defiantly something weird going on," Cordelia said. "Because I got a call from a friend today and they said that they suddenly burst into a song telling their boyfriend how much they loved him," she said.
"You get calls from people telling you weird things like that?" Buffy asked.
"They know I deal with that kind of thing," she said as she looked at her wife. "Anyways, what do you thinks going on?" she asked.
"Honestly I have no idea." Buffy said. There was silence for a little while until suddenly Cordelia looked over at Buffy and she was singing. "I set out on a. narrow way many years ago. Hoping I would find true love along the broken road. But I got lost a time or two. Wiped my brow and kept pushing through. I couldn't see how every sign pointed straight to you. Every long lost dream led me to where you are. Others who broke my heart they were like northern stars. Pointing me on my way into your loving arms. This much I know is true. That God blessed the broken road. That led me straight to you. I think about the years I spent just passing through. I'd like to have the time I lost and give it back to you. But you just smile and take my hand. You've been there you understand. It's all part of a grander plan that is coming true. Every long lost dream led me to where you are. Others who broke my heart they were like northern stars. Pointing me on my way into your loving arms. This much I know is true. That God blessed the broken road. That led me straight to you. Now I'm just rollin' home into my lover's arms. This much I know is true. That God blessed the broken road that led me straight to you."
Cordelia was looking down at Buffy as Buffy had her wrapped in her arms. "Buffy, honey, we need to talk to Giles first thing in the morning," she said. "Because even as much as I love you, this is way creepy." Cordelia said as she continued through the cemetery, with Buffy following behind.
"Try being the one singing," Buffy said as she followed close behind her wife. For some reason when she was around Cordelia she couldn't help but want to sing, it was something that Cordelia brought out in her. "Talk with Giles, first thing in the morning…check." Buffy said.
Buffy's house
It was just them, Willow and Faith; no one else was in the house. Buffy and Cordelia had decided to go out on patrol together and only god knew when they would be back. So Faith decided to do something special for Willow. Know she wasn't going to get romantic or anything, she was going to do something that was purely Faith.
Willow was downstairs getting dinner ready, while Faith was upstairs getting everything ready for a perfect night. A night that Willow will always remember even if their relationship doesn't make it. Yet Faith has no doubt that they will outlast everyone expectations, because she has never felt for Willow for anyone else. And the weird thing is that they started of hating each other.
When she finished with the room she looked around as she sat on the bed. All the years she hated Willow, were a waste of time, because she could have easily had this before. Now that she thought about it though she couldn't understand why she hated her. She was so jealous that Willow was, is, Buffy's best friend. That Buffy would rather be with Willow than slaying with her. And then when she found out that Buffy sorta like Cordelia and Cordelia sorta liked Buffy she grew even angrier because she thought that Willow liked Buffy too.
Even though she knew that Buffy and Cordelia liked each other the two girls were oblivious to it, so she wasn't going to tell them. The more Buffy hung out with Willow the more angrier she became and then she snapped. As she looked around the room know she realized it was all for nothing, all her jealousy, because in the end Buffy ended up with Cordelia and Willow ended up with her, she could have saved herself a lot of trouble if she would have just admitted it to herself that she was in love with Willow even back in high school.
"Faith what are you doing?" Faith turned toward the door and saw Willow leaning against the frame. "Dinner has been ready for like five minutes, I've been waiting for you to come down," she said as she looked around the room and saw what Faith had done for her. She saw the read rose petals on the bed and the soft music playing. "You know seeing this makes me not want to have dinner," Willow said as she moved closer to where Faith was sitting,
Faith looked at her and then she brought her hands up to Willow's shoulder and softly trailed her fingertips along her body. "We've got the afternoon, you've got this room for two. One thing I've left to do discover, me discovering you. One mile to every inch of your skin like porcelain, one pair of candy lips, and your bubblegum tongue. Cause if you want love we'll make it, swim in a deep sea of blankets, take all your big plans and break 'em, this is bound to be awhile. Your body is a wonderland. Your body is a wonder I'll use my hands. Your body is a wonderland. Something about the way the hair falls in your face, I love the shape you take when crawling towards the pillow case, you tell me where to go though I might leave to find it'll never let your head hit the bed without my hand behind it."
Faith stood up and kissed Willow as if it were the last time she would ever kiss her. Then she turned and laid Willow softly on the bed. "If you want love we'll make it, swim in a deep sea of blankets, take all your big plans and break 'em this is bound to be awhile. Your body is a wonderland. Your body is a wonder I'll use my hands. Damn, baby, you frustrate me. I know you're mine all mine all mine but you look so good it hurts sometimes," Faith ended with a kiss. When she pulled away she looked at Willow lying on the bed with her hair all over the pillows. "I love you," Faith said eyes never leaving Willow's.
Willow didn't know what to say instead she just brought Faith in for a kiss and then together they explored each other, memorizing every inch of each other's bodies.
Magic Box (Morning)
There was defiantly something going on and both Buffy and Cordelia were sure of that now. Considering that when they came home last night they heard Faith singing to Willow, which was something they never thought would happen. As soon as they heard Faith they decided that they would go stay at Xander, so they didn't disturb them, yet when they got to Xander's him and Anya were singing to each other.
It seemed that it was happening more and more, people singing for no reason. And for Cordelia and Buffy it was starting to creep them out. Buffy and Cordelia entered the Magic Box to see Giles sitting at the research table with Xander, Anya, Willow, and Faith.
They all looked toward the couple. "It's about time you guys got here," Faith said. "We have been researching this bursting into song thing for a straight hour. And I personally need a brake. B, you wanna train?" Faith asked.
"Sure," Buffy said as she looked toward Cordelia who was pleading with her to stay. "Sorry baby but you know I'm not good with the research." She said as she placed a kiss on her cheek. "See ya in a few," Buffy said.
Cordelia took a seat next to Willow as she watched Buffy and Faith walk into the back room.
Back room
After Faith had gone into the back room to change Buffy went back there and changed as well. When she walked out she was pulling up her hair and she noticed that Faith was already. That's one thing that she admired about her fellow slayer, she was always ready for a good slay, whereas she always had to get in the mood, and sometimes the mood just wasn't there. Buffy was kind of scared that one of these time she would get herself killed because she really didn't want to be slaying that night.
As Faith waited for Buffy to finish her stretches she looked at her fellow slayer, in a way she admired her. When you looked at Buffy you saw friends and family, and you had happy thoughts. Yet when you looked at Faith you saw emptiness and loneliness, and you had bad thoughts of all the trouble she made in the past. Yet she hoped Willow would change that. As she thought about Willow a song came to mind.
And as much as she tried to resist she sang, "I set out on a narrow way many years ago. Hoping I would find true love along the broken road, but I got lost a time or two. Wiped my brow and kept pushing through. I couldn't see how every sign pointed straight to you. Every long lost dream led me to where you are
Others who broke my heart they were like northern stars. Pointing me on my way into your loving arms. This much I know is true. That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you. I think about the years I spent just passing through. I'd like to have the time I lost and give it back to you. But you just smile and take my hand. You've been there you understand. It's all part of a grander plan that is coming true."
Faith turned away from her fellow slayer and looked out the training room door at the redhead. "Every long lost dream led me to where you are. Others who broke my heart they were like northern stars. Pointing me on my way into your loving arms. This much I know is true. That God blessed the broken road. That led me straight to you. Now I'm just rollin' home into my lover's arms. This much I know is true, that God blessed the broken road that led me straight to you."
"Faith are you ready or are we just going to slack off all day?" Buffy asked as she looked at her partner in crime.
Main room
"God I am so bored," Cordelia said as she put the book on the table. "I doubt were going to find anything about a singing demon in books," she said as she looked at Giles. "I mean seriously what's the point?" she asked to everyone but no one answered. "Thanks for the help guys," she said as she grabbed another book.
"Of course!" Giles said as he stood up and walked over to the counter and picked up a gem that he had gotten earlier that week. It was blue with a gold band around it. "It isn't a sinning demon, but it is a wishing demon." He said and all he received were blank stars. "Also called a truth demon, he seeks the truth in wishes. For example if someone wishes to know what happened to a friend in the past to explain there actions…" he stopped as realization hit him. "Oh my god," he said.
"What is it?" Cordelia asked as Willow and her rushed to look at the gem. "Aw it's beautiful," she said.
"No it's dangerous…and I know who cast the spell," Giles said to her.
"Who?" Willow asked.
"Dawn," he said. "She wanted to find out what happen to Buffy to be making her act the way she does."
"Buffy hasn't been acting that differently," Cordelia said.
"Not towards you because she didn't kill herself so you could live. She sacrificed her life for her sister's so she is acting distant…Dawn explained it all to me. I am so stupid for no noticing it before," he scolded himself.
"Here is a question that you might no want to answer…what happens if we keep sinning?" Xander asked walking toward them.
"We die." He said simply.
"Were do we find this demon?" Willow asked.
"The Bronze," they all looked to find Faith and Buffy in the doorway.
"How do you know that?" Giles asked.
"Because I do," she said matter of factly. "Let's go," she said.
"No, you and Faith are going by yourselves," Giles said. "It's time for you guys to do this on your own, without our help," he said.
"This is not the time to be acting all high and mighty," Cordelia said.
"No they are the slayers, they don't need our help, we'll only be in the way," he said. And without another word Buffy and Faith left, each giving there girlfriends a kiss before they left, and evil glances at Giles.
The Bronze
Faith and Buffy walked into the Bronze and saw Dawn chained to a chair and an ugly look red demon thing. That nether one of them had ever seen before. Buffy went to one side of the stage and Faith went to the other.
"You can't defeat me," the demon said.
"If we stopped trying all the times we heard that the world would be no longer," Faith said.
"The only way you can defeat me is to set right what is wrong," he said.
"And what the hell does that mean?" Faith asked.
"You need to fix what was broken," Buffy said. Faith looked at her funny. "Dawn didn't cast the spell," she said as she looked at her sister and then at Faith, but she wasn't looking at Faith she was looking past her. When Faith turned around who she saw shocked her. "Hello Tara."
The Magic Box
"Why are we standing around here?" Cordelia asked. "We should be out there helping Buffy and Faith," she added.
"No they need to do it on their own," Giles said.
"Why?" Anya asked and everyone looked at her. "Buffy has been getting help from you and her friends since she moved to Sunnydale, and when Faith came we all helped her too. It's that how they have survived for so long?" Anya asked.
Giles looked around and then his glance ended on Anya. "You won't here me say this ever again but she's right, let's go." He said.
"It's about damn time," Cordelia said.
The Bronze
Faith looked at Tara with a look the showed respect, shock and amazement. Respect because she had the balls to come in front of a slayer to win her girlfriend back. Shock and amazement for the same reason. "So you cast the spell?" Faith asked.
"Yeah, because I want to know what happened between me and Willow that made her turn to you," Tara said.
"Are you trying to say that I'm not good enough for her?" Faith asked.
"I didn't say it you did," Tara said as her eyes began to turn black. "I loved her and to you she is nothing but a sex toy." Tara said. "Because you don't have a single emotional bone in your body," she said as the hands at her side began to sparkle.
Xander was the first to walk in and he went to confront the slayer before she went all postal on Tara. Anya did the same thing when she entered the room.
"Your so lucky they are holding me back or you'd be dead," Faith said as she tried to get out of Xander's grasp. Which was surprisingly strong, but when she turned around Buffy had her by the shoulders too.
Willow walked in last and as soon as Tara saw her the sparkles went away and so did the black eyes. Anya let her go and she walked over to the red head, while Cordelia walked over to Buffy.
"Tara…" Willow said but was interrupted.
"Tell me what's been going on. How did our love go so wrong. 'Cause I know that I made some mistakes, oh, baby. And, girl, it's written on your face. That you wanna walk away. And just say that your feelings have changed, oh, yeah. I know you still need me. I can see it in your eyes. You're afraid of your feelings, but, girl, you can't deny." She took a hold of Willow's hands. "You know that I tried a thousand times. To win your love, but it's never enough. It's been a dream for you and me. And, girl, can't you see. That I'm not giving up. I'm never giving up," she said as she walked away from Willow and on to the stage and started dancing.
"All I need is one more chance. Don't give up on this romance. I'm the one that's got just what it takes. Oh, yeah. So, don't go wasting all your time. A love like this is hard to find .I'm right here and I swear I'll be waiting. And deep down, you're hurting. I can see it in your eyes. I know you still want me, but, you have to realize," she was back by Willow side in and instant. "You know that I tried a thousand times. To win your love, but it's never enough. It's been a dream for you and me. And, girl, can't you see. That I'm not giving up. I'm never giving upppp," she ended with a kneel in front of Willow. "I still love you," she said as she stood back up.
Willow looked at Tara as she began to walk over toward Faith. Xander let her go and so did Buffy knowing that only Willow could control her. "Tara as much as I still love and I will forever, I no longer love you that way anymore," she said. "I love Faith, and for some odd reason I think I always have," she said. "I'm sorry," she said.
"And so the spell is broken," the demon said as he disappeared.
"That's it, no more sinning?" Buffy asked. "Thank God," she added and she grabbed Cordelia's hand and left knowing that the three of them needed to be alone. The rest of the gang soon followed. Leaving Willow, Faith and Tara to talk alone, and hopefully solve this problem that cause there musical.
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AN: I know it's been a long time. I was on vacation and the computer was dead slow. But it's here now and I hope I did a good enough job because this one was difficult to write. And I do hope to update more often…sorry about the spaceiness between updates.
1st song: Everytime we touch-Cascada
2nd song: I'm movin on-Rasscal Flatts
3rd song, 5th song: Blessed the Broken road-Rasscal Flatts
4th song: Your body is a wonderland-John Mayor
6th song: Never giving up-98 degrees