Tuesday 2:47 P.M (25 hours until ascension).

Buffy should not be here. Of all the horrors she had faced as a slayer, as human with a soul. Nothing, NOTHING, was as scary as being here. The woman's locker room at Sunnydale high. As Buffy stood by her locker, frozen in the process of changing, it occurred to her for the first time, just how much nudity there was here. It would be fine if she was straight, if she was freshly sexed up by her lover, Faith, it would be fine if she hadn't slayed a vampire last night. But she wasn't, she wasn't recently enough, and she had. As Faith would say, she had the whole H & H thing going on. The vampires that the two of them had slayed last night, after wonderful, hot sex, had got her urges going again. Then from there, straight to the library, to talk with the scoobies. It had never occurred to her, she should probably skip 7th period gym. Also, a little interesting fact, with the enhanced slayer senses, Buffy could smell sweat, freshly clean delicious skin, and sex everywhere. Most probably weren't consciously thinking about sex, but Buffy could smell it. In fact, the only thing that was keeping her from losing her mind was the fact that Buffy didn't find any of her fellow students attractive. Buffy never thought she'd ever be quite so glad that she was A) shallow, and B) that beauty really was over glamorized in the magazines and on the porn videos.

The only real problem, were the cheerleaders. Those whose interests naturally led themselves to being nubile, flexible, with long legs and athletic bodies. Another bad thing was that Cordelia Chase, chose today of all days, to stand around in her underwear and a sports bra, and engage Buffy in conversation about exercise and fitness. "You see Buffy; I've been working this new routine where I run everywhere even though I own a car. I think it's really helping my stomach. What do you think?" Cordelia showed off her stomach to Buffy, who was nervous to see it looked very well sculpted indeed. "Oh yea Cordy, your stomach looks fantastic!" Buffy had a sudden image of herself licking Cordelia's stomach up and down slowly, to check out how firm it really was. Cordelia was fortunately, as usual, completely oblivious to Buffy's almost little mini meltdown, and just kept on talking. "So I've been thinking your muscles in your arms and legs look pretty well defined. Is that a slayer trait, or do you do something special?" Buffy froze completely, as Cordelia innocently slid her fingers over Buffy's arm. "Uh, I do mixed martial arts training in my spare time, to you know keep in shape." Buffy said, suddenly distracted. Harmony was standing just behind Cordelia, appraising her backside with her eyes. As Buffy watched, and Cordelia ranted something about gym prices, Harmony slid her fingers over Cordelia's shoulder, and licked her lips as she sighed sadly. Buffy didn't need her hyped up senses to be able to see Harmony was overflowing with the sex chi. "Um, excuse me Cordelia; I need to have a talk with Harmony here." Buffy said suddenly. Cordelia was in the middle of talking about boys, and Harmony looked up, startled at her name suddenly being called. "Okay. Talk to you later Buffy." Cordelia said happily and went over to take her shower. Fortunately, the showers were all private, unlike what teenage boys probably believed. They didn't have to shower together, Buffy was thankful of this, as she pulled Harmony by the hand into an unused stall. Harmony puled free and stood in the private shower with Buffy, her arms crossed over her breast, looking mildly annoyed. "Good God!" Buffy suddenly thought. Why hadn't she ever noticed before that Harmony was totally stacked? Yet her stomach was tight… Buffy shook herself out of her reverie and puled Harmony back in just as she was sneaking back out. "Look Buffy," Harmony said in a whisper to her. "I get it okay? I recognize the look on your face, but I'm not interested in having sex with you right now." Harmony said all of this very matter of fact like, and Buffy was lost, "Uh, what?" Harmony made a face, like she was going to have to speak slowly to her. "Look, I know you saw me with Cordy, and I recognize your face as you came in here. Is this your first time around half naked women after coming out to your friends, hopefully?" Buffy realized Harmony was trying to be nice. She thought she was the problem!

"No, no Harmony. Well yes actually, how do you do it? And how long have you been a, been a…" Buffy was still having trouble saying that word out loud. "A lesbian? About since I was five and was watching kid shows on TV. Then we had this French maid, who never wore underwear, and bent over a lot and I was all like, "Hell yea!"" She said all this with her usual happy smile. Buffy couldn't help but wonder how long she had harbored a crush for Cordelia. "But why the sneaking around?" Buffy asked. "I mean, come on! Look at yourself, you're gorgeous!" She hadn't meant to say it quite that forwardly, but it was true. The girl was rocking a blue sports bra, and all Buffy could think about at that moment was tearing it off her. Harmony flushed with embarrassment from Buffy's compliment. "Oh! W well in that case, I guess we could make out, if you feel that strongly I mean." She gave Buffy a nervous smile. "No! I mean, yes, I'd find it really great to kiss you Harmony, but why not just tell Cordy? I mean the worst she could do is say no. There are plenty of other women who would say yes at the drop of a hat for someone that looks like you." "Yea, but none at this school. Trust me, I've looked." Harmony looked really sad, Buffy extended a hand out.

"I do have a girlfriend Harmony, but maybe just a kiss?" Buffy leaned in and slid her tongue into Harmony's mouth. She tasted nice and sweet. After a few moments, Harmony pushed her away. "I won't let you ruin it if you really do have a girlfriend Buffy," Harmony said all serious. "But, I could give you some info, you know?" Buffy was happy that Harmony had pulled away. She wasn't sure she could have. "Sure what's up?" Harmony leaned in and whispered in her ear, "There's this place. Larry's place. Best Italian cuisine in town," Buffy thought this was an odd thing to whisper, but it was Harmony. But unfortunately, she wasn't done yet. "It's also a sex shop." She backed up and let that sink in. She couldn't believe it, but Buffy had to ask. "Harmony, why does a sex shop sell the best Italian cuisine in town?" Harmony looked puzzled for a moment. "I'm not sure, no surprise or whatever, but I just don't get finance. Larry told me the place used to be a subway or something. Anyway, he kept the meat slicer's and stuff, and sells the subs to supplement his income he said. Like I said, there's not many of us in Sunnydale. Most people just go in for the subs, so you can use that as code, you know if anyone asks. But if you come out with a large bag, they're gonna stare. So keep your purchases small." She said this last piece of advice with a smile, and Buffy couldn't help smiling too. Harmony was far more interesting than she had ever previously believed.

Tuesday 4:35 P.M (23 hours until ascension).

As Rupert Giles and Xander Harris walked into the library for their meeting, Buffy, Faith, and Willow were already there, feet propped up and eating subs. Faith reached into a little black plastic bag on the table, and lobbed a plastic wrapped sub at Giles and Xander. "Head's up dude! Both of them caught them and unwrapped the Italian subs as they sat down. "Bloody marvelous! Buffy, where on Earth did you buy these? They're fantastic!" Giles said after a moment. "Yea B, where yo?" Faith asked. Buffy turned towards Faith, a guilty, yet satisfied expression on her face. "I'll give you the address later okay? Later!" she pretended to cough as she spoke. More importantly, she confessed about the kiss, and her involvement with Harmony. "Really, Harmony's a lesbian?" Xander asked curious. Everyone was also curious. "Yea guys," Buffy replied. "I think she really needs to keep her secret. I got the feeling from the way she talked, that her parents would do something if they found out. Something not of the good." "It's okay B," Faith said after a moment. "With this entire new thing between us, and the whole ascension thing, I think we're kinda in forgiving mode at the moment. But it was just a kiss right? No lasting emotions or hand massages or anything?" "No," Buffy shook her head quickly, wanting to make that clear, so clear, that she gave herself a mini headache for a moment. "Just a kiss, I felt so bad about her having to go through with this all alone. But it was just a kiss." Buffy smiled, glad that was cleared up. "Good." Giles said with finality. "The last thing we need is mixed emotions to divide us at so close a point to the zero hour." Buffy stood up. "I believe Faith and I should patrol tonight. With any luck, we'll kill of some of the mayor's vampire soldiers before tomorrow." "Excellent. We'll meet tomorrow morning, first thing, to go over final preparations." They all got up and left.

Wednesday 6:18 A.M (07 hours until ascension).

"And that's my plan guys. What do you think?" Buffy sat at the usual table in the library. "That depends, is there a crazier plan?" Xander asked. "You think it's impossible?" Buffy asked. "We didn't say that. I might. But not yet." Giles replied while cleaning his glasses. "That's the craziest plan I've ever heard." Cordelia said. "We attack the mayor with humus." Oz threw in. "I stand corrected." "Just trying to keep things in perspective." "I appreciate that." Cordelia answered. "I do however; believe it's the only plan that can work." She went on to add. "Hey Cordelia, how's Harmony?" Buffy asked. "Oh, I don't know. I haven't seen her since you took her aside yesterday. What was that about anyhow?" Everyone looked at Buffy. "She just looked troubled. I found out recently, that her dad may be in trouble. She's been worried. You're taking off after graduation right? You should go find her, don't want to miss her." Buffy replied as truthfully as possible. (Her father actually was in trouble. He was a drug smuggler for the Irish mafia, but more on that later). As Cordelia left to find Harmony, Buffy turned to the group. "I'm gonna need all of your help here guys, especially you Xander. You're kinda my point man in this. "Okay," Xander said. "What's up?" "Soldier training, you still remember it?" "Ooh. Rocket launcher?" "Rocket Launcher's not gonna get it done. It took a volcano to kill one of these things last time." "Buffy, all this is going to depend on your ability to control the mayor, how do you plan to do it?" Everyone looked at Buffy again. Except Faith, she smiled. "Faith and I took care of it last night." She said, looking a little embarrassed. "All night long B and I took care of it!" Faith said with a smile.

Wednesday 3:28 P.M Ascension. (Give or take a few minutes).

It was nice weather outside. Everyone was sitting in neat orderly rows, dressed in red. Then the mayor got up to the podium and did the most evil thing imaginable, he planned to give his entire speech prior to ascending. He failed! As he apologized, showing off his twenty-two flash cards worth of speech he wouldn't be giving, he got ready. The mayor changed into a giant serpent, easily indistinguishable from some ancient prehistoric dinosaur. The parents and staff ran, but at all the students rose and threw off their robes to reveal children ready to become adults, adults wielding weapons as Buffy screamed, "NOW!"

Xander stood up and called out squadrons of flame units, first wave, and bowmen, respectively. Principal Snyder found this simply unacceptable, but he was soon eaten, so no one gave a shit. As the vampire pincher army retreated from the fire arrow firing bowmen, who were also retreating, they ran into Faith and Wesley, leading an army of soldiers and demon hunters, all armed to the teeth. All the remaining students ran towards the vampires, but Buffy stayed behind. "Hey!" she called, and got Richard's attention. The serpent turned. She looked up into his creepy scaly face without fear. "Hey it's me, the lesbian whore that stole your precious Faith! Want to know what we did last night? We fucked all night long! Man, is her tongue flexible, or what?" Buffy threw off her graduate robe to reveal absolutely nothing. She was completely nude, and smelly. (Faith made sure to give her an oil change all over, as she called it, just twenty minutes beforehand). Smelling the sin, and hating the bitch that stole his would be daughter from him, He chased, and Buffy ran like a greased pig. Richard chased, smashing right through walls, as Buffy ran nude, her body bouncing uncomfortably as she ran, careful not to slide or fall as the sweat and adrenaline was making her feet wet. On the upside, Buffy's sweating made the aroma of fresh sex, violence, sweat and lust unmistakable, driving the serpent into a foaming frenzy. This is why he never questioned it as she led him to the library. Like her many speed exercise trials for training before, Buffy flipped over the railings separating the different levels of the library, ultimately covering her head as she jumped through the window, which had no glass. (Removed earlier. She's naked remember? Giles isn't a sadist you know!) As she ducked, rolled, spun and crouched beside Giles, he pushed the plunger, and all Hell broke loose.

Once properly clothed again, Buffy and Xander walked along, Xander making small talk, Buffy looking for Faith. "She made it through the fight, she's just probably also lost, looking for you in this smoke. Heh heh." He laughed without any real joy. Having so many people die or almost die can take that from you. Giles stopped by to hand Buffy a scroll he'd saved. He wanted to make observations, but Buffy could only process, "Fire bad, tree pretty". So he went off to see about Wesley. As she turned to walk somewhere else, she froze. There was Faith, standing between two fire trucks. They just stood and looked at each other for a moment, Buffy unsure of how Faith still felt about her, all things considered. Then she ran. Faith's Brunet waves bouncing as she ran towards Buffy, sweeping her up in her arms, and spinning her around like the end of an old black and white romance movie. She swept Buffy backwards off her feet and they kissed. Pulling Buffy back up, all Faith could do was stare and smile. In her own way, she felt like Buffy was her prize for surviving. She got to spend more time with the love of her life.

Everyone was gathered at one street corner. They said their parts, Oz pointed that they had survived high school. Then they all went separate ways to get sleep and whatever.

However, over at pier 39, vampires were gathering around an industrial super oil tanker. This one was empty, it's cargo yet to arrive. Trick walked out from one of the storage containers being used as protection from the sun. "Damn it, he's late. Sun's going to come back soon." There was a huge slithering sound. "Ahh. Mr. Trick, how nice to see you again." Came a hokey like voice from the giant serpent. "Mr. Mayor. Good to see you. Heard some mighty huge explosions from over in the high school area." "Please Mr. Trick, call me Richard. Hehahahaha. No, I told you I'd survive." "How? If you don't mind me asking. I mean, I'd expect the slayers to notice if their enemy's body wasn't in the wreckage." The serpent nodded its head at Trick's logic. "That's very true. This is why I hired a sorcerer. Works for this funky law firm, Wolfram & Heart. Just good people over there I tell you. No everything that Miss Summers saw was absolutely real. Up until she streaked naked through the school. I'll admit the smell of Lust and sin, the fact that she flaunted her defiling my Faith, hoo boy! That got me pretty steamed under the collar to be sure. But about halfway through the halls, she went straight and I turned left. What she smelled burning were the freshly skinned hides of about thirty thousand snakes, compliments of Wolfram & Heart. And what she saw following her was a mighty fine collection of modern smoke and mirrors." The serpent laughed at his own humor. Mr. Trick nervously looked up at the sky again. Still dark. "Look, all your possessions you can still use are in the cargo bay. With all due respect, let's move it, before the sun comes back. Shall we?" "Truer words Mr. Trick. Truer words." With that, the giant serpent moved up the ramp and into the cargo area.

Now we get to some of the other characters, what happened to Harmony? Cordelia? Angel? Snyder?

So sit back and enjoy.

SNYDER- He's dead. Suck it!

CORDELIA & HARMONY- After her talk with Buffy, Harmony went straight home. All the way, she thought about Buffy's words, how she should tell Cordelia about her crush. How she knew Cordelia was straight. How she used to tongue fuck Cordelia in her sleep during sleep overs in junior high. Well, maybe not that part. But definitely the rest! When she got home, she went all over the house looking for what she needed, a simple pencil and paper. Like most rich families, this was harder to find than you might think. Once finally found, she started to write. Not type, not make a phone call. She wrote longhand. She figured her longtime best friend deserved that much. After an entire day's worth of writing, starting over, many times, and finally finishing it, she delivered it too Cordelia's parent's house. To her father, telling him it was, "Super important she reads this." Her father swore he would personally give it to her. He meant it too. As he was about to go to jail for tax evasion and he wanted his daughter to love him so she'd visit him in jail. She never would. But he delivered it later that evening, about halfway through the fight. (Cordelia wasn't there because she was looking for Harmony at the mall). Seconds after reading what Harmony had wrote, first shocked! Then sympathetic, she stormed off for the airport. Harmony had left for the airport earlier, as she said she would in her letter. Only after swiping her father's gold card of course though. Her father was really rich. This was because he smuggled drugs for the Irish mafia in New York. The only reason Harmony even lived in Sunnydale, was to keep her as far from the mafia in New York as possible, because he loved her so very much. He didn't want her to turn out anything like him. He needn't have worried. Cordelia managed to find Harmony just as she was about to board a flight to Europe, and they ran to each other just like in an old movie, then Cordelia slapped Harmony. It was creepy to know her best friend had been thinking about her that way. (Thankfully, she would never learn about the real reason why Cordelia had thought she had a case of hyper sexual dream syndrome in Junior high. She had thought it was too many hours staring at cute guys in commercials before bed! Ohhh Harmony. Tisk tisk tisk). After having a deep talk about the meaning of friendship, they agreed to run away together for the summer, and Harmony pulling out her father's gold card, bought Cordelia a first class ticket to Europe with her. The spent the whole summer backpacking, visiting the scenic towns and shops, running away from vicious squirrels in the forest, laughing and making a travel video with a camcorder.

At the end of the summer, each took a copy of their travel video, and went their separate ways. Harmony continued traveling through Europe on her father's gold card, until she met Abby. Abby's father was a pilot and therefore Abby could fly anywhere for free. Thus began a six month journey of having crazy awesome lesbian sex on just about every continent, under waterfalls, inside caves and swanky hotels, and even under the full moon outside in the grass one night. (She woke up the next morning lying outside nude with a cricket in her hair, but otherwise thoroughly satisfied). In the end, the pilot talked his daughter out of dating Harmony by bribing her with a shiny new caaaarrrr! Oh well, she continued traveling, through France now, until one day two years later when in America again, she took a job as a camp counselor at a wilderness high school for disobedient youths of snobby rich parents. After just three months, she fell in love and ran away with one of her charges. A young woman named Laura. A lesbian hippy chick with dark hair with green highlights and a talent for magic. They traveled the world, Harmony burned her father's gold card at long last, (she didn't need it anymore) and eventually bought a permanent room in a three hundred year old cabin / ski resort in the frosty mountains of Canada. They eventually moved back to England where Laura's parents were members of a powerful clan of witches. This is how she would be reintroduced to Willow and then Buffy several years later. But that's another story.

As for Cordy, she went off to L.A. and tried to be a TV star. It didn't go well. The only thing that kept her smiling, were the hand written letters she kept getting from Harmony as she traveled. Eventually she ended up at a vampire's private home, where she was rescued by Angel. The first in a long set of events that eventually would lead her to become a high priestess serving in the higher realms under the Gods that made up the "Powers that Be" themselves. And speaking of Angel…

ANGEL- In a random abandoned building in L.A. It was quiet. Then the walls lit up white, the room shook and for the second time in a year, a large naked man fell from the ceiling. This time he wasn't crazy, so he felt it when he landed. It hurt a lot. As he got dressed with clothes that were strangely provided, a man approached. "Hey there Angel. That looked like it hurt. Name's Doyle. How are you doing today?" The Irish demon hybrid walked over to greet him, but Angel grabbed him. "Where am I? "Where's Buffy?" "Outside of your reach boy." Doyle said with a sad smile and a shake of his head. "She's with her other half right now. You no longer fit her world. If you try to go back, they'll kill you man." Angel shook his head again. "No. She's just under this Twin Flame thing. I can break it. It's why she, killed me. I'll save her." "I hate to tell you this Angel. But I was actually talking about the PTB. They're the ones that brought you back, and they can take you away too. As for the Twin Flame scenario. It doesn't exist man." "What? But the counsel! The records?" Angel screamed. Nothing made sense. "All lies Angel." Doyle said as he grabbed a beer from the fridge. "Think about it man, four hundred years ago, two slayers fall in love. Shouldn't be alive together but something happens, something like what happened to Buffy, and two meet at a crossroads. Fall in love. The hardest part is opening up and admitting to something as strange as same sex love back then right? So the PTB makes up a legend, "Oh the Twin Flame! We're destined for each other! Let's just go with it!"" Doyle drinks his beer while Angel ponders this. "So if there's no curse, then I can win her back!" Doyle puts down his beer angrily. "No moron! Look damn it, there was no curse, no not really. But it did exist on the level that it made both Buffy and Faith admit to their feelings. After that, it's all sex, and dates and roses and candy, ain't it? There's nothing to win at all! Look, the Chinese have this saying about finding your other half. Buffy's found hers. A perfect circle reflects everything, including a delusional ex that's too thick for his own good!" Angel glares at Doyle. "Hey, don't blame me man! I'm just the messenger. Speaking of messages, here you go. You have two choices, you can make a difference here and save some lives, or you can try and run back, and I guarantee you won't even make it thirty feet, before being struck down by Devine lightening. Make a choice." "Seems like I don't really have one. I'll follow you." "Good man! This way." Doyle walks off around the corner to the main room. Angel looks back just once. He stares in the direction of Sunnydale as hard as he can. He knows she can feel his presence. He tells her, he'll be back. Just wait.

BUFFY & FAITH- Buffy stared ahead. She could feel it. She needed…..Popcorn. Light butter to be specific. It was all that was missing. Faith was staying here overnight, her mom was cool with it, and they were about to sit down and watch old romance movies. So with any luck, by halfway through, she'd be eating her lesbian lover's juicy pussy. She paused for a moment. Lesbian lover. She smiled; she was finally thinking and getting ready to say it out loud. "Score!" She punched the air as she pulled out a bag of the right type and tossed it in the microwave. "B, are you coming in or what?" Faith called from the living room. "Oh, I'm cuming all right!" she called back. As she pulled out the hot popcorn bag, she sang, "All night long, all night, all night long, all, err?" She stopped shimming her hips and singing as she came into the living room. Her mother was sitting in one of the chairs. Faith looked both mortified, and also was smiling and showing off her dimples. "Umm, I'm sorry mom?" Buffy said hesitantly with a little sheepish grin. Her mother just smirked. "It's alright Buffy. You make a cute couple. I was young too once. Just behave or I'll have to rethink letting Faith stay here alright?" Buffy nodded and asked, "Any popcorn mom?" Another sheepish grin. "Sure, bring it over here. You guys can share the couch." Buffy did as her mother asked, then walked over, and climbed into Faith's embrace on the couch. Joyce pressed play, and "Gone with the Wind" came on the TV. Buffy wasted no time in turning her head into the crevice between Faith's shoulder and her head, and gently began licking her neck. Slowly, stroke, stroke, stroke. Faith smiled and pulled her arms tighter around Buffy until they were cupping her breast firmly. Buffy breathed out slowly, and just enjoyed the evening immensely.

So that concludes this story. Buffy and Faith would have quite a long time before any more horrible things happened, spending the long hot summer nights, having wild sex, in and out of Buffy's bed…OH SHIT! I, THE NARRATOR DIDN'T JUST JINX THEM DID I? (A loud click can be heard echoing across the universe as if the roller number dials of a giant clock just flipped over).

(T minus 6 months, 22 days, 17 hours, 52 minutes, and 42 seconds till Adam wakes up).

AWW DAMN IT !