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The Calm before the Storm

Episode XXIV

Heroes Fight!

She's blonde, her hair tied up into a short ponytail at the back of her head, and she wore a white top, and blue jeans with white trainers. She's short, and if she tried could probably pull of pretending to be in high school still even though she is now twenty years old.

The blonde woman has some cuts forming around her mouth and her right eye has a slowly forming bruise forming as her blue eyes both glared and begged the young woman before her to stop.

Her heart felt like it had been ripped out watching that sickening smile on those blood red lips. Her friends smile, her best friend and yet she could do nothing to get through to her and that just hurt even more.

The blonde woman's friend's eyes had turned from a vivid and loving green to a dark and deep solid cold black full of rage, but deep down the blonde can feel her friends despair. She felt it herself, as she hasn't just lost one person, but now two.

The other woman's once bright red hair (she had secretly envied) is now pitch black, and her already pale cheeks had just gotten whiter with veins showing on her forehead and checks.

She wore black shoes, black trousers, and a black denim shirt don up but leaving the top few buttons undone along with the cuffs. Well… she was going for the whole black evil wearing thing, though the blonde believed she caught a glimpse of a white tee shirt under her shirt.

"Isn't this so much more fun than being your little sidekick," the dark chick spoke laughingly causing the blonde to grimace. "After I've put you down, I'll have to have some fun with Jonathan, and Andrew," she laughed as her eyes tracked round and found the small 'men' Andrew the 'taller' of the two with blonde highlights in his hair.

"Or maybe," she continued laughingly as they both whimpered cowering together on the floor a little way off, but she held no humour but made the blonde have to repress a shudder and her black eyes swept the shop and finally landed on a young brunette girl.

"I could…" she trailed off as the brunette sat cowering up against the wall, horror on her beautiful face. "Turn our sweet little Dawnie here…" she trailed off and turned to the door. "I wonder how long they've been there, or who they are for that matter!"

She turned back to the blonde her teeth showing as she grinned widely, a smile that would normally have been adorable.

"I didn't know you had other friends Buffy!" she said in amusement as the blonde, Buffy had looked to the door too, a look of curiosity before looking back at the witch.

"No playing games Willow," she spoke harshly. "I the Slayer, and I can't let this go, you killed a human!"

"I killed a murderer!" she hissed out loud and gestured with her right hand. The blonde slayer was picked up by an invisible force and thrown a cross the room painfully hitting the wall and almost landing on another blonde woman and a young brown haired man, and would have if they hadn't quickly moved.

"It's always the case!" Willow spoke quietly as Buffy climbed to her feet with a little trickle of blood on her lips. "Not all humans deserve the Slayers protection, why can't you understand that!"

"Willow… what happen to Tara was…!" Buffy began but was slammed into the counter a moment later before sliding across the floor near the door.

"Don't say it!" Willow demanded but let her eyes rise to see three girls, an Asian, a blond and a black girl standing inside where the door lay on the floor near the entrance. She noted the Asian's claw thingy and the blond girls' gun, but her eyebrow really rose at the third girl's weapon. "A trident… that seems a little out there as weapons go…!"

"Alright girls, she's an evil witch right now," the Asian girl suddenly spoke as she moved with a giant happy grin on her lips before sparingly pulling Buffy to her feet and helping her stand. "I'm Nanoha," she said before gesturing the blonde. "She Cassy, and that's Evee," she finished gesturing the trident holding girl.

Nanoha moved Buffy to help her lean up against the countertop before looking at the device around her neck. "Let's see… okay… the red bleep is the evil witch… the… wow, I think the blue bleep is that girl over there," she said pointing out Dawn. "And… oh, wow that guy over there has the… yellow bleep," she said pointing to the young brown haired man.

"Err, Xander," he muttered but everyone seemed to ignore him.

"And… then," Nanoha continued and Willow just waited as even now her mind has that… curiosity. "The faded white bleep is this blonde girl here, but… it seems she's way too week," she shrugged and the Slayer glared while Willow snorted in humour but the Asian girl just continued before taking a few steps towards the witch.

Willow took an uncertain step back keeping the strange girl in view as she can sense the girl's power so feels weary. "And the black bleep on Rei-chan, is…" she didn't look up from her radar as her right foot snapped up and hit something that obviously sailed through the air and crashed into some shelves.

The dark witch's eyes narrowed in anger as she turned her attention to some scuffling around the books that fell from those shelves. "Who are you!" she screamed out as she flung her left hand at the books with electricity flowing from her to that spot.

Screaming, agonizing screaming as someone flashed into sight and out again before she finally stayed a beautiful supermodel class woman with wavy blonde hair.

"Glory…!" Buffy muttered in shock as Willow let up her attack and got into a ready fighting stance beside the odd Asian girl, the girl not smiling so much and also readying for a fight.

"Buffy, so how's my favourite Vampire Slayer doing huh?" she asked as she breathlessly climbed to her feet before turning a smile to the witch. "And Willow, how you have grown strong… strong enough to even hurt a hell goddess such as myself…!"

Her eyes then flickered to Dawn, amusement and want shining in them, not the want of say… a relationship, but something else. "If it isn't my little Key… feel free to let me use you to finally get home, as you see… everything went wrong, but… it… offered me this chance… this last chance to get home… destroy all of you and it would open the gate back home… I couldn't use the Key… but it is powerful enough to send me back!

"But that doesn't mean I can't destroy the Key for daring to defy me!" she hissed out and flittered at impressive speed that even startled Nanoha and she knew she could never get there in time.

"No, Dawn," Xander suddenly said from next to her. He wrapped his arms around her in protection waiting for the hell goddesses attack when he heard her yelp and a crash.

Xander looked up and round to see some kind of rippling barrier of light around him and Dawn, and Glory pulling herself painfully from the floor with blood dripping down her left hand. She held a look of shock and fear in her eyes as she looked at him, or more importantly the white pendant glowing around his neck on a platinum chain.

He held the gem in reverence as the shield and glowing finally faded away. "You bastard boy!" she hissed as she moved at him, but Nanoha was fast enough this time intercepting the blonde with a kick sending her staggering into a set of empty shelves.

Buffy capitalised with her knee crushing into her ribs before dodging a retaliationary strike, and Glory got Nanoha's foot to her face with booming force spilling blood as her head was crushed into the wall.

"Whoa," Xander mutter. "That's another girl I would rather not piss off!"

"Precision Lights!" Cassy suddenly called out and seven blasts cut through Glory causing her more pain and agony.

Xander watched, but it wasn't killing the hell goddess, and stood too and held the pendant. "I only bought this thing because… well, hell if I know but please, do something!" he begged pleadingly.

Nothing happed for a moment when a white and gold light erupted around him with a golden pentagram, his eyes alight with power.

He said the first thing to come to mind, his right hand out stretched. "Swords of Revealing Light…!" he commanded powerfully.

It happened as the hell goddess was angrily pulling herself from the ground, light imploded around her fading to show her trapped within several large glowing yellow white swords.

She touched one and cried out as if burnt and the light disappeared from Xander his breathing ragged from all of the strength it was draining from him.

"Xander," Dawn and the other blonde Anya called out as he dropped to his knees and the swords flickered. "He… he's not strong enough to hold it," dawn finished off as she realised the pendent is continuously draining his strength.

"How true you are Dawn," said Glory as her wounds were slowly healing up, though it was noticeable that the guns wounds were taking longer to heal. "This pathetic man can't hold me for long… and you… none of you can stop me from killing you all. You couldn't even stop me when I saw to it that the recently flayed Warren tried to kill the little Slayer, but I guess the Wicca… sorry, witch's defection was more than I could have hoped when that useless human killed her little girlfriend."

"You're responsible for Tara's death!" Willow suddenly muttered, her cold black eyes on the goddess, everybody had near forgotten she was there as she waited, watching, and for that lapse the hell goddess made her mistake.

"You bitch!" she roared out thunder exploded outside with her rage as she shot forward barely touching the ground, she tore through the barrier causing Xander to collapse.

Willow grabbed Glory by her throat squeezing tight, stream from the grip coming from her hands as the hell goddess struggled. The witch smashed the blondes head into the wall repeatedly.

Her knees kept crushing into the hell goddess's ribs causing them to crack before she grabbed her by the hair and threw her across the room where she held her pinned to the wall with her magic.

"Y-you tried to murder my best friend," she muttered in grief as she held the ancient evil against the wall barely able to breathe with the feeling of fire crawling along her skin. "T-then you take my girlfriend from me… we had barely… we had barely, made up from what I did. I-I never got to teach her how much…

"I love her… so much…" she whispered as her outstretched right hand slowly closed crushing the hell goddess more. It was like she had lost her strength, or maybe Willow was now just so much more. "And-and she loved me even though she knew I was still in love with… die!"

She hissed the last word with pure venom as her hand snapped closed and the goddess just squeaked as she squelched, her body caving in with bone splitting through skin, blood leaking out, and her skull caving in. they could just see the look in her eyes, the look of horror, of finally not being the biggest bad around.

Willow let the body full down the wall smudging blood as it crashed to the floor. Nobody seemed to move or even breath for a moment as they all looked to the dead goddess's broken and lifeless body.

"Now what Willow," Buffy suddenly spoke up with a tied tone. "Can… can we have our Willow back now…?" she asked, her voice wavering, and sounding broken.

Willow turned too looked at them all, her eyes shining with tears she refuses to let fall, shadowing over her anger. "Willow's dead Buffy," she spoke harshly.

"No… no she's not… you're Willow," the Slayer spoke calmly and without doubt. "We all have darkness to us… I've been too self-obsessed with my own poor excuse of a life that I didn't see it… even when it was right in front of me. I should have been here for you. I screwed up, Willow, I saw the magic addition and I just thought you could cope alone. No matter what Will… you can't do anything, or be anyone that I would ever hate.

"I love you Willow," she spoke with affection and took a few attentive steps closer. "Please… whatever you do Will… I love you. You were my first ever friend here, and you, and Xander too. Instead of running and keeping away as you probably should have, you wanted to stay.

"You wanted to learn more, and you did girl. You did that and became so much more. Look at you Will, you're more powerful than me… the Slayer, and I'll admit I'm a little jealous, but nothing will stop me loving you… let it go Willow, let it go, please. I… think it's time you grieve."

Willow shook her head as tears had started falling from her eyes in mirror of Buffy's. She couldn't remember seeing Buffy ever cry and it broke her. Buffy didn't even hesitate and moved swiftly forward catching her friend as she fell to her knees sobbing.

Buffy held her friend tightly and comfortingly as she continuously sobbed, almost clawing at Buffy trying to pull herself in tighter, for more comfort. Willow's hair slowly shifted from black to red as her crying came out breathless, and Buffy herself was shaking with her own sobs though she was keeping herself quite she kept speaking soft reassuring words into her ear.

"Oh my," a distinctive English accent interrupted, but neither Buffy or Willow moved or looked up to see the English man wiping his glasses before placing them back on his face.

He looked at the shop with a grimace, his eyes traveling to the crushed body before looking away to his friends before his eyes took in the three new girls, eyes widening as he took check of the weapons they're putting away.

"More like oh shit, crap, fuck, and insert extras here G-man," said Xander without his usual vigour. He looked exhausted, and barely able to stay awake.

"I'm… I'm late," he said looking confused. "I was informed that… well, let's just say they were right to say I might not be needed."

"Hi, umm… I'm Nanoha," the Asian girl suddenly said in absolute happiness. "It was fun getting to meet you all but we have to go now before the Evil Magical Army Guys turn up or something," she said brightly even starting Willow and Buffy.

She then grabbed Xander by the collar of his top and started pulling him along with her.

"Hey, what are you doing with him?" Anya interrupted the strange girl.

"Umm… well he's a Celestial Knight now see," she said pointing to his pendent. "So he has to come with us and save the world and stuff!" she declared as if that was the most obvious answer anyone could give.

"K-Knight of the Heavens, but-but…" Giles tried to formulate thought. "I-I think I've read something about this before, but I can't think where."

"Nano-chan," Cassy interrupted pointing at the witch, she looked a mess as she looked round at them. "Buffy said she has magic ADICTION!" she said in annoyance. "You're a mage, and you can't be a hero if you just leave her like this can you?"

Nanoha nodded in agreement as she let Xander go. "I guess that's the right thing to do," she said looking thoughtful. "Yeah, okay, we don't want her going off the deep-end again, and we don't want her to lose her confidence and stop using magic!"

"Umm… but isn't this like vampire town USA," Cassy said worriedly. "You know with all the graveyards and all, we haven't any money left for get a place to say."

"You can stay with us," Buffy was quick to say. "If-if you can help Willow, please!" she begged with hope and desperation shining in her eyes.

"We'll be happy too, thanks!" Nanoha agreed readily as she pulled off the staff from her back, it extended out smashing the two boys trying to sneak away into a shelf unconscious. "They were bad guys right?" she asked as her staff shrink back to normal as they were all staring at her in surprise.

"Err, yeah, they the bad guy," Xander said weakly as he looked up at the weird girl. "Well, until recently really bad-bad guys, but still bad guys!"

0oo00oo0

Taloph staggered back as his saviour had gotten a pretty major beating by the two demon bikers. His 'pet' ferret hissing as one creature turned from the back man to Taloph with a wicked sharp toothed grin.

He moved closer and Taloph felt nearly ready to lose bladder control when the demon froze with wide eyes suddenly as a large knife stuck out of his chest before sliding off and collapsing to the floor dead.

Taloph looked up from him to see a young woman with her long black hair loose down her shoulder blades wearing a black tee shirt and black combats with boots, and a smirk on her lips, and amusement shining in her cool blue eyes.

She walked passed him and just ruffled his hair before pulling the demon off the black guy and throwing it into a wall where it fell down with a growl of pain before it froze and coughed up blood as the knife the woman had been holding flung from her hand and slid through his chest ending him.

"Hey, Gunn, right…? I always forget," she spoke to the black man as he struggled to his feet.

"Faith," he replied glaring at her. "Aren't you supposed to be in jail?" he demanded angrily.

"Yeah, pretty much," she agreed shrugging. "This is a whole break out of jail bull crap because something big is coming. I got some help from your little gang, so who's the pretty little boy?"

"His name's Taloph… how'd you know he's a boy… never mind," he added shaking his head. "Some bitch ass…"

"Army guys with magical powers?" she interrupted laughingly. "Yeah, I came across a few of them while we were looking for you. Miss. Prissy just got a new vision… well after the whole breaking me out one. Looks like the worlds heading towards a huge ass war!"

"A war?" he asked in confusion. "But… I've not heard of anything…"

"More along demonic war than human," she interrupted him again. "Let's get the kid out of here before any of those arm guys come."

"Sure, Taloph, let's get out of her," he said leading, limping out of the alley.

Taloph followed the two to the letter as his pet seems to trust them to get him to safety. They had actually run across some more magical army guys, but they didn't seem too bright and it was easy to hide from them and sneak passed.

He discovered that this woman is a Vampire Slayer, and she kind of went bad, but now she's been following the path of redemption. Taloph kind of felt a little sorry for her, and wondered why she really went bad, maybe if she had a nicer beginning she wouldn't have been in jail, but then by the sound of it the Slayers all get pretty messed up.

During their long trek to… well wherever, Faith had called in to someone to tell them she's found Gunn and that they are on their way back to… base.

It took surprisingly over two hours to reach a large building where they were quick to enter.

Inside Taloph was introduced to Angel, an apparent vampire with a soul, (he decided to keep out of his way), a brunette young woman, Cordelia who is apparently an ex-human, now half demon, another young woman, all human, Fred, (weird name), and a stuffy looking 'librarian' type British man Wesley, along with Lorne some demon guy, (who he felt more content to be around than Angel, and finally Connor, a guy just a year or so older than him, and apparently the souled vampires son.

"So what we going to do with the kid and… whatever that thing is?" Wesley said first. "We have enough to deal with as it is; we don't have the man power to deal with protecting him too, especially since we'll be down one Slayer in Faith."

"He'll come with me," she answered. "It will be safer from those mage outside of such a large city," she told him with no option for argument.

Connor had been staring at Taloph until that moment when he suddenly looked uncomfortable. "You're a guy?" he was quick to interrupt looking shocked.

He sighed as he looked down at his skirt blushing. "Yea…" he answered quietly. "My… orphanage workers find it makes their lives feel better to put me down. There are some others that are tormented too because of one thing or another, but," he shrugged in embarrassment.

"Connor, why don't you take Taloph and see whether you can find him something," Angel said looking uncomfortable too. "Well, something warmer if he's going to be leaving with Faith. She's right, it's so much easier for them to find him here, and we can't protect him as well as she can."

Connor sighed and shrugged. "Sure, come on, I guess I can find you something," he said leading Taloph out and up some stairs.

Once out of earshot Angel turned to Faith. "I want you to take Connor with you as well," he spoke quickly shocking them.

"Say what?" she asked in surprise but didn't await an answer. "I can't protect them both you know. Anything could happen between now and then, and I'm not a babysitter. The only reason I'm taking the boy is because I have a strange feeling that it's what I need to do. Gunn told me what that kids pet did."

"That's one reason I want you to take Connor with you," he retorted. "He doesn't need a babysitter… he can take care of himself, and help protect that boy and his… familiar. I think the ferret is connected to him. It's not normal, and I think it needs to be protected too. Connor can help you fight, plus, I honestly think he needs to make friends… well in his own age bracket."

"Alright whatever," she answered shrugging. "But don't expect me to save his ass when he gets it into trouble!"

0oo00oo0

Connor turned back around in his room after Taloph had changed into some of his clothes that someone got him that were bought too small. They were still a little baggy on the boy but with a belt the trousers were kept up.

He was now wearing a blue shirt with the top few buttons undone, and a grey pair of cargo trousers as they were all he had that would fit him.

"So, that little ferret can fire leasers or something?" he asked gesturing the creature curled up on the bed.

"I-I guess," he replied nervously. "But all it did was teleport them away… I think… well that's what Gunn said."

"Cool, I guess…" Connor replied. "I'm half vampire half human," he said pulling at something to say.

"That's pretty neat, you're like a boy Slayer or something," Taloph replied with a small smile. "I mean, Faith said only girls become Slayers, but you have the whole vampire strength thing without being not-alive."

Connor frowned in thought about that before slowly nodding his head. "Yeah… I guess, I never thought about it like that. I've just been… well, a lot of fucked up shit has happened in my life."

0oo00oo0

"Well, umm…" Buffy said in thought as she looked around her living room as she and the gang, plus three and two tied up and gagged 'super villain's' (in other words idiots that she has to keep Willow away from or she might kill them).

"Willow can share the spare room with Nanoha," she said in thought. "I figure you don't want to stay in…"

"Thank you," she whispered still feeling shameful over what she has done.

"Hey, I'll stay with them too," Cassy was quick to interrupt, and looked nervous when everyone just gave her a look.

"Okay," Buffy said shaking her head. "Then Evee can share with Dawn…" she paused half expecting her younger sister to comment but she only shrugged. "Ok then, we can keep Jonathan and Andrew tied up in the basement until we figure out what we can do with them."

The two boys in question, having been dumped on the floor struggled and made noise against their binds but nobody paid them attention and Buffy continued.

"So I think that's everything right now," she said sighing tiredly. "Since everyone else has somewhere else to go," she shrugged. "I think it's time we all get some rest, especially you Will."

"Well, actually, I can't stay," Giles said startling them. "I mean, there have been some incidents that I've been investigating for the Watchers Council. I'll be back though, in a month or so."

"Promise G-man…?" Xander asked. "Umm… I mean it's been pretty crappie around here without your… insightful knowledge and all that!"

He chuckled a little shaking his head. "Sure, why not… I kind of missed you too," he said with a smirk causing laughter.

"And what are you investigating?" Buffy asked seriously.

He just shook his head. "I'm not too sure what it is right now, but I assure you if it turns out to be something important I will call. The next plane leaves in just," he looked at his watch. "Two hours, so I should get going or I won't get on it."

It took a few minutes for all of the farewells, and then he was gone in a taxi to the airport.

"Well I say its nap-time!" Nanoha called out yawning as Buffy with Xander's help dragged their captives to the basement where they'll be locked in.

"Will, I be safe…?" Willow asked the girl as she followed her and Cassy up the stairs with Dawn and Evee bringing up the rear while Anya waited for Xander to drive her home.

"Sure you will, Willow-chan," she said overly happy. "You'll be just fine, it's not about controlling your inner-naughty-Dark Willow-chan, but about understanding and accepting that you're just like the rest of us," she said stopping at the top of the stairs and smiling at her before continuing.

"Just like you have a great capacity for love… to do good in the world, you have the same capacity to do bad things, and evil, but it is our choices Willow-chan that make us who we are. Sometimes even good people can lose it and slip into the dark, and even evil can slip up and fall into the light. As long as you remember yourself Willow-chan… then…"

She shrugged with her smile widening. "Don't give up on yourself, and tomorrow you will feel so much better embracing yourself. You are beyond powerful, and I can see you doing a lot for the Earth in the coming Storm. So don't worry about it, worrying can make you slip, but even then, don't worry, you have so many people who love you who will catch you before you scrap your knee…"

She giggled with an infectious grin that brought a small smile of hope to the witch's lips. "So, where's this room?" she asked looking around, at least causing Dawn to laugh a little.

"Down the hall second left," Dawn said and she watched the girl lead her blonde friend and Willow off before showing Evee to her room. "You don't hog the covers do you?" she asked as she figured it will be okay sharing.

"I-I don't think so," she replied nervously.

"Cool… then I don't need to find a spare blanket," she replied. "You aren't going to try molesting me either right?" she asked biting her lower lip to stop from laughing as the dark girl's checks tinted with red as she frantically shook her head.

Willow and Cassy were both looking uncomfortable as after they entered the spare room, which contains one huge bed, a wardrobe, and chest of draws Nanoha had just stripped down to just her white panties and bra showing off her hot, tone and smooth body.

"She doesn't have a clue," Cassy muttered as Nanoha started her before bed stretching and kata routine, Cassy's heart rate speeding up. "I'm too young to be thinking such naughty thoughts about my best friend," she admitted blushing, only having spoken so openly as she knows Willow's gay so won't judge her like others might.

"She's not exactly making it easy is she," Willow replied with bright red checks.

"Cassy-chan…!" Nanoha suddenly stopped, reprimanding with a cute glare-pout. "I told you to not be lazy; you have your kata to get through and your stretches. I told you at least fifteen minutes in the morning and evening until we have more time to properly train you up to be stronger."

"B-but, come on Nano-chan, I'm tired," she complained sulkily. "Willow doesn't have to do them…"

Cassy trailed off as Nanoha suddenly grinned too bright while looking Willow over, she moved closer and poked the red head in the gut, which caused her to bend over slightly and move back.

"Well, she might be able to argument her strength with magic, but…" she shook her head disapprovingly. "She needs some exercise too… we'll be here for a while so I guess I can get you both into proper shape and give Willow-chan the much needed magic training. Now strip down and get on with your kata's while I teach Willow-chan a few simple movements."

Willow gave Cassy a look of betrayal as Nanoha practically stripped them down to their underwear and forced them to do some exercise.

After the tiring but short exercise Nanoha just hopped into bed and waited for them. Cassy just sighed resigned to fight her hormones, and Willow nervously climbed in to, so tired she didn't really care to argue.

However, as she lay awake, her mind wondering she couldn't help but smile a little as she watched as Nanoha and Cassy had fallen asleep and were soon snuggled up tightly in each other's arms.

It didn't take long for her to slip out of bed and pull on a spare dressing gown that hung on the door for visitors and quietly slide out of the room with one last look back she smiled at how cute the two girls looked together before quietly snapping the door closed.

She made her way down stairs where she saw the lounge light on and Buffy staring off into space staring at nothing as she curled o=up on the sofa.

Willow slipped into the kitchen and was fast in making two cups of hot chocolate and brought them into the lounge she set them on the coffee table, one in front of her, and the other in front of Buffy before she took a seat next to her friend.

Buffy looked down at the drink with a momentary smile. "Something big is coming… big and powerful enough to do something that a hell-goddess couldn't. Heck, strong enough to not only save her life the first time, but powerful enough to give her a proper body this time around."

"Yea… I figured that," Willow agreed sadly. "I mean… The whole Heavenly Knight things a bit of a giveaway; that all is not right with the world. I'm… I'm sorry I tried to kill you."

"Hey… it's okay," Buffy answered. "I mean… who hasn't tried. I really meant it when I said I love you. And if I were gay, I would have so had you, and given a whole new meaning to the words 'oh fuck'," she said with all seriousness on her face that caused Willow to laugh, which in turn made Buffy laugh too.

"Thanks," she replied as they calmed a little. "I had always wondered about… you know the whole super-strength thing."

"Oh, been fantasising about me now, huh?" she replied jokingly as she wrapped her friend in a hug and they snuggled up together on the sofa. "Actually… there was a time… when you first admitted about Tara… that I was really jealous of her. I got to know her and see how happy she made you. I'm still not quite sure whether that was me just being overly protective like I was with Oz or whether I was jealous that you come out and didn't want me…

"I know that seems conceited but hey," she shrugged and Willow just let her tears run as she snuggled tighter. "Faith kissed me once," she suddenly said shocking her friend to turn looking at her. "Well, more than once, and I kind of kissed back. She tried to take it further but… I pushed her away. I kind of regret that. I wonder whether if I had done it she might still be here on the side of good rather than in jail."

"Buffy…!" Willow quietly reprimanded, and surprising the Slayer with a soft kiss to the check. "You shouldn't regret not doing something just because you feel everything would be better if you had…"

"That isn't why I regret it," she answered rolling her watery eyes. "I regret it for many reasons… one being I wouldn't have been doing Spike," she said trying to shake those memories. "Well I hope I wouldn't have been… but more importantly I might have made Faith happy… I'm not stupid I know how she felt about me… and… maybe I might have been happy with her too…"

Willow sighed as she held her friend. "I guess we're both fucked up, and regret not trying for different paths. I loved Tara… I really and truly did… do, but I probably wouldn't have tried so hard to have her back if you paid me even half the attention she gave me. Does that make me a horrible person?"

"No Willow… that just makes you human, and humans can be so stupid," she replied as tears ran from her eyes, tears just like those rolling down Willow's checks as they looked to each other seeming to tighten their grips basking in the comfort of each other from both of their self-imposed stupidity and misery.

"I-I just want to feel… feel something that is… that is real, something that takes away the pain," she replied quivering as her heart pounded painfully in her chest, her lips finally touching Buffy's.

Both young women's eyes drifted closed with tears still leaking down, their lips worked together perfectly as they finally tasted each other. Their movements getting faster as their tongues touched and they truly tasted the other, their movements becoming more frantic, more desperate, more needed, like oxygen.

Deep down they both knew they should stop, but in the here and now both knew they wouldn't as their hands roamed over each other's bodies in a frantic need.

Buffy's hands parted Willow's robe sliding in and groping both roughly and gently at her friend's bra covered breasts. Willow groaned into her mouth, and Buffy capitalised and nibbled on her friends lower lips hungrily.

Then in one fluid motion Buffy moved with Willow in her arms, laying Willow on her back, their lips parted causing them to whimper at the lost contact for only a moment before the blonde Slayer was on top of the red haired Witch, their lips connected again, but Willow's robe was now fully open to expose her underwear.

Buffy's lips travelled from lips to jaw to throat, finding her pulse point she could feel Willow's life blood powerfully flowing as she suckled a little causing her friend to buck a little and groan loudly.

The Slayer's hands moved lower, finding Willow's breasts with ease, she didn't even attempt to find the clasp as she straddled her witch's lap and tore the bra free causing Willow to gasp a little but also smile.

Willow's breast weren't very big, a size bigger than hers though, with pale skin and lovely little hard pink nipples. Buffy hungrily worked her kisses lower as Willow groaned out trying to grind herself on Buffy somehow.

Buffy soon reached her destination, her hot mouth quick to capture the right, then left nipple in a powerful suck causing gasping moans with lots of hip thrusts.

The Slayer smirked at such reaction and sat up pinning Willow down she pulled off her shirt and bra in just a moment and Willow smiled, Buffy's weren't as pale as hers, and her nipples were darker, just as she would have thought.

Willow was quick to sit up, grabbing at each of Buffy's breasts, her lips taking each nipple one at a time. It caused her great pleasure just to hear Buffy cry out in pleasure from such a simple action from her.

Soon Buffy and Willow were attacking each other again, Willow in a hurry to get Buffy out of her trousers and panties, and Buffy in a hurry to get Willow out of her panties.

Both girls were naked as they fell to the floor kissing and loving, and teasing, and sucking. Buffy had two fingers buried inside Willow, sliming up her fingers and using her thumb on her bud while Willow was in a similar position with Buffy, their friendship have now changed, but they knew, nothing can pull them apart, best friends forever, no matter what happens.

Willow was on top, both girls had been frantically grinding at each other and kissing when Willow pulled back, smirking at Buffy as she also pulled out her slime covered fingers and brought them straight to her lips, and Buffy watched as Willow licked her fingers clean, and it drove her wild with lust.

Buffy, not one to be out done pulled her fingers from Willow, and for the first time she tasted a girl's juices, and was surprised at how much better they tasted to anything a guy could produce as she cleaned her fingers.

As soon as Buffy had finished Willow's lips attacked hers, tasting each other in each other's mouths. It was sexy, and dirty, but showed their love and lust, and friendship.

Willow pulled back her lips and spoke a husky whisper. "How about w-we try it this way," she whispered as she pulled back from her friend and while staying on top she turned around so her sopping wet gasp was inches from Buffy's mouth giving the blonde a good close up look at the sweet area with red runway of hair.

The witch cried out in shock, pleasure and surprise as Buffy grabbed her butt, pulled her down and buried her face, suckling at her cream. Willow's breathing was uneven as she looked down at the blondes dripping and neatly shaved slit before diving in.

Both Slayer and Witch were a mass of moans and slurps, their bodies shuddering with pleasure as they squeezed tightly at each other's asses, pulling each other tighter into each other's faces, as tongues dipped, and lips suckled swollen buds.

Their bodies withered and twisted on the floor, their moths hungry as pussy's bucked needing more they both were lacking breath, both feeling it… it rising up through their bodies, their souls.

It was like a euphoric explosion throughout their beings as gushed came out into each other's hungry willing mouths, sliding triumphantly down each other's throats.

After a few minutes of quiet coming down, just gently licking each other to enjoy some more Willow tiredly rolled off of her friend and they lay still for a while, their breathing slowly calming.

Buffy soon sat up; sweat greased her whole body just like Willow's as she spoke. "Whoa… now… wow… just… wow…"

"Willow smiled a little as she too sat up. "Yea… just wow…" she agreed with a yawn. "C-can I stay in with you tonight… I feel… dirty, and Cassy and Nanoha… well."

Buffy nodded in agreement. "Sure… I mean of course, I was going to insist on it… well for tonight Will! Well, you know, you can stay in with me whenever you want, you know that right, because I love you and you're my best friend, and… umm…"

Willow smiled a little more. "I love when you babble. It should be me not you, babblings my thing."

The Slayer smiled a little and stood up offering her hand, and Willow took it being helped stand Buffy was quick to lead them to her room.

0oo00oo0

Connor paused as he led Taloph down back into the main foyer of his home to find the others all acting suspicious. Though, to be honest they're always acting this way, half the time trying to keep something from him.

"Alright Connor, go get some stuff we're leaving in ten, Angel's going to drive us to the bus station," Faith suddenly said startling him. "Well, it was decided that you could be helpful in protecting Tally if any of those Magical Army guys show up."

Connor looked to his side where Taloph stood with his ferret riding around his neck before shrugging. "Well, it beats getting to do nothing hanging around here," he answered shrugging his shoulders. "I'll just go grab a few things. You know it might be cool getting to see outside of this cesspool city, it's almost worse than hell."

"Hell…?" Taloph questioned looking worried.

Connor shrugged rolling his eyes. "Yeah, grew up there… well in a hell dimension, long story, you probably don't want to know," he said shrugging again as he headed off to go and pack his stuff.

"There isn't anything you want back from the orphanage is there?" Gunn suddenly asked. "Because if there is tell me, I'll go get it and mail it on…"

"N-no, but thank you," he answered. "Thank you all for helping me and Artillery."

"I believe I speak for everyone when I say that it is quite alright," said Lorne out of nowhere. "It has been a pleasure getting to meet you and such an exquisite creature such as your familiar."

"T-thank you," he replied blushing in embarrassment.

"Enough with all the sappy stuff," Connor interrupted. "I'm ready to go, so let's go already," he said as he gestured a small backpack on his back that looked to have just gotten random stuff shoved in it."

"Yeah, 'k lets ditch this hole," Faith agreed as the two boys just followed her out with Angel sighing and bringing up the rear.

The two boys climbed into the back of the large black car while Faith took the passenger side and Angel the driver's side.

"Do you even have a licence to drive?" Faith suddenly asked startling everyone as the car pulled away towards the bus station. "I would think it impossible to get the photo with you having no reflection and all."

Angel just looked over at her and groaned. "This is going to be the longest eight block drive of my life… afterlife," he muttered quietly to himself but everyone heard.

Faith laughed. "Afraid so…" she agreed laughingly.

"Karmas a bitch right, 'dad'?" Connor asked smirking from the back seat.

Angel sighed with a sad tone. "Yea… yea it really is…"

To Be Continued…