Chase Mansion, TV-room

Things started to spiral out of control, Buffy's breathing was coming in ragged moans as she raised her hips against Cordelia's leg. Cordy on the other hand, roamed over Buffy's exposed flesh leaving marks, teasing, retreating only to return with renewed vigor. To the blond it was exquisite like nothing she had ever experienced, for Cordelia it was all she could do before crossing any more lines. She wanted to bite this flesh before her, scratch her nails across the other girls back, draw blood only to kiss it all away again. 'Ugh.. I have to stop this, she certainly is not going to.' At this Cordelia gazed down at the blond beneath her, eyes glazed over moaning Cordy's name. 'God that's so damn sexy.'

"P-please Cordy." The slayer pleaded, looking up at the brunette while clawing at her shirt. 'Shit shit shit.' was all Cordelia could think 'We have to stop, and fast!' That's when a slim hand made its way beneath Cordys shirt, cupping her breast. "Fuck.." Arching her back, pressing against Buffy's hand she started to lose her train of thoughts again. Only when Buffy's other hand started to wander beneath the waistband did Cordy snap back to reality. "W-wait." Was all she could get out and Buffy's hands stopped immediately.

"Oh god! I'm sorry Cordy .. I didn't.. I wanted .."

"Shh shh it's ok, it's ok, let's just .. take it slow alright?" Cordelia said with a reassuring smile and Buffy replied in kind, smiling sheepishly. "Easy for you to say." Mumbled the blond.

"It isn't believe me." Came the reply and Buffy believed her, seeing the sparks in her eyes she knew that this was something real, not some act of twisted pity of derailed friendship. Cordelia wanted this as much as she did. 'Maybe not for the exact same reasons, but that's something we will have to find out.'

"K-kissing is fine tho.. right?" Buffy asked batting her eyelashes.

"Kissing is superfine." Cordelia planted a feathery light kiss on Buffy's most prominent bruise.

"And touching?" The blond started to draw lazy circles on Cordy's leg.

"Very much so, whatever you want to do is, just .. you know ..we shouldn't overdo it alright? I don't want you to regret anything we do." She added in a way that made Buffy cup her face and kiss her slowly but insistingly before breaking the contact again. "Sounds like good ground rules to me." Laughing Cordelia agreed and wrapped her arms around the blond, resuming the position they were in before they started to make out. They stayed like this for a few minutes, calming down, enjoying the warmth of the other when Buffy started to talk again. "So... about Daria, what exactly.." Was all she could get out before a giant Pillow descended down on her, muffling any further inquisitions.

"Ok ok! I yield." Croaked the slayer as she held up her hands. "I won't ask about her again.. at least for today."

"Fair enough." Cordelia glanced up at the clock. "It's getting kinda late, we should head back upstairs unless you want to crash here and give Maria a heart attack in the morning." She said with a grin which was met with a serious face from Buffy. "That's not funny, she seemed genuinely concerned yesterday about the drug thing. Is there something you want to tell me Cordy?"

"Hey do you even notice you keep calling me Cordy? I like it."

"Oh.. well .. yes me too, hey! No changing the subject." But the brunette had already gotten up and made her way over to the door, swaying her hips as she went. "Make me." And off she went, running out of the room and up the stairs, a blond whirlwind right on her heels. They made it to Cordy's door without toppling to many things and Buffy almost bashed the door in as she pinned the other girl against it. "Got you!"

They all but toppled inside, kicking the door shut again before stumbling over to the bed, lips already locked again, hands trailing.

There was a rather loud ring and then another. Cordelia groaned and tried to untangle Buffy from her body. Lazily her arm slapped around trying to hit the accursed thing that was blaring for all it was worth. She hit quite a few things but the sound kept going, finally she grabbed a mobile that seemed to be the culprit and held it to her ear. "What?" She grumbled into the receiver.

"C-cordelia?" Came the tentative reply from Willow.

"Shit!" Cordelia almost dropped the phone as she shook the slayer awake and all but pushed the phone into Buffy's hand.

"Huh... What? Who's this?" Buffy mumbled as she tried to open one eye after the other.

"H-hi Buffy.. I-i was getting worried since you didn't show up for first class a-and thought I'd call to make sure you are a-alright. Sorry! I-i'll call again later after the next class." CLICK Groaning Buffy let the phone drop and turned back around to resume sleeping. "Umm.. Buffy Sweetie? You may have missed a tiny little detail there .."

"I don't care about class, give me another half an hour or so and we should make it to 4th." Came a grumbling reply as the blond buried her head in the pillows.

"Well yes that .. a-and you kinda .. didn't have to push any button.. to talk with Willow .. did you?" Cordelia tried to explain as calming as she could.

"Cordy please let me sleep, I'm .. I'm wait what?" Buffy turned back around facing Cordelia and upon seeing the guilt riddled face it made click. "YOU! Y-you answered my phone?"

"Well kinda.. I thought it was the alarm! And then I thought it was my phone, I was pretty groggy too you know?!"

All Buffy did was groan and pull the pillow over her head.

"But that doesn't have to mean anything! You simply stayed over to calm down, she won't suspect a thing!"

"Wrofff." Came the muffled reply.

The Cafeteria

As Cordelia and Buffy walked in they immediately saw their friends.. and other people. Xander was grinning wildly, waving them over. The strawberry did her best not to look up. Tara scrunched her eyebrows together as if trying to understand something and Daria glared in open hostility at the slayer.

"I think I'd like to go back to the mansion right about now." The slayer mumbled as they made their way over.

"The Queen has arrived! And she is dining with the lower classes." Xander exclaimed overly exuberant. "Seriously tho, this is great." He looked around the desk, the smile still plastered all over his face. "Oh.. and hey Buffster interesting scarf you got there." He added.

"Hey.." Buffy replied and sat down in front of the strawberry. Cordelia greeted the group as well and was about to sit down when Daria grabbed her by the arm. "We have to talk." She hissed at the brunette and dragged her off.

"Ok.. maybe the queen doesn't dine with lower classes today.." Xander grumbled. "And here I thought this was going to be a good day, however.. anyone else notice the amounts of girls at this table? This will boost my popularity ratings through the roof."

"O-or you might get a d-different kind of reputation." Tara added shyly.

"Ugh what? No no no, I'm the manly man that attracts all the women that's what and if anyone says otherwise ill have Willow punch them in the arm, right Willster?"

"Sure Xander, sure." Mumbled the strawberry.

"Geez what's up with you today Willow?" Xander turned his attention fully to the redhead.

"S-she had a hard day yesterday, w-we all had." Tara defended the girl. "W-which is why I'm here b-by the way." She looked at Buffy. "To talk about the .. uh .. vandals yesterday? I-i hope you don't mind." She glanced at Cordelia who was arguing with Daria in a secluded corner of the cafeteria. "E-everything alright over there? That g-girl.. Daria? She seemed p-pretty upset about something."

"I can't deal with this without some food in me." Buffy stated and stood up, heading over to the counter leaving a confused Tara and a mumbling witch behind. Xander meanwhile said something about catfights and watched Cordelia and Daria arguing.

Despite her earlier protest that she hat to eat something Buffy only picked at her food once she sat back down on their table. Xander had moved off to join the gathering crowd around Daria and Cordelia, who in turn, noticing the scene they were causing made a hasty exit. Tara had spoken with Willow, to Buffy it sounded like an excuse for being rude yesterday but the slayer didn't really have the patience nor curiosity to listen to them.

"Looks like the show is over." Xander flopped back down and resumed his meal before noticing three sets of eyes glaring at him. "What?!"

"I-i don't think that was p-part of their usual routine." Tara said and Willow nodded before she added something. "It's all my fault, it always is..."

"Huh? I got the feeling I'm left out of the loop, com on guys what's the matter, talk to uncle Xander." But Willow vehemently shook her head and Tara shrugged her shoulder.

"Buffster? Ever since Jesse left town you are pretty much my number two buddy you know that right?"

"Ugh.. there was a misunderstanding and somehow.." Buffy glared at Willow at this point. "..Daria must have overheard Willow talking about it."

"I'm sorry! She must've heard that I wanted to call you in the break and w-when.. you know .. she heard.. a-and then .. the thing .. and s-she simply came over here during lunch and waited. W-we were bait I guess since either you or Cordelia would have showed up here." Willow explained, trying to be as vague as possible.

"We need more guys in this group I swear, no dude would ever have the patience to talk like that." Xander threw up his hands. "Fine, whatever, I'll let you girls talk about whatever you want to talk about. See you later."

Watching Xander wander off, Willow kept apologizing to Buffy. "I'm really really sorry! About everything! I keep making these dumb mistakes .. i don't know why."

"Hey it's ok, you couldn't have known and it's not your fault Daria misunderstood the whole thing. It'll work out don't worry but let's talk about the vandals now ok? Tara is about to feel as frustrated as Xander here with all the vagueness."

Tara smiled shyly at this. "Y-yeah a l-little bit, but m-more out of curiosity t-then anything else. I-it's certainly never boring with you a-around is it?" That brought a laugh out of the slayer. "That's for sure."

They sat closer together and talked about what had happened yesterday. Buffy had to keep Willow from apologizing, which was harder then it sounds and Tara did her best to help. She felt guilty for the way she treated Willow. The redhead in return claimed she deserved every bit of it due to what she did to Buffy. This went on for quite a bit until they moved on to Giles and the library. They knew that the police had questioned him about the vandals that smashed up his office and he gave them a rather generic description, but other then that they didn't know what was going on. "We should head over there later, he wanted to talk with us anyway." Willow said and Tara nodded. "S-sure I still need my payment." That raised an eyebrow or two. "W-what?"

"Well you two do that, i don't think we should crowd him, he seemed pretty stressed yesterday. You can tell me later what's going on ok?" Buffy said. "Meanwhile i better check out if Cordy is ok, bye."

As Buffy left Tara leaned close to Willow before asking. "Have you noticed that this Daria girl kinda looks like.." POW "H-hey! What was that for?" Willow mumbled an excuse, claiming it was all Xander's fault.