A Slayer's Destiny
by Lia
Rating: NC-17
[Buffy]
This moment seems to last for hours, but it is not uncomfortable long, I like it. I want to be like this for a long time. She's just looking at me, and I'm looking at her; none of us says anything, but words are not needed for what we want to say this time.
I feel a weird sensation through all my body that makes me really want to hug her, and kiss her, I want to feel her. I squeeze her hand without noticing, she makes a funny face, at which I laugh. She lets go of my hand, but never breaks the stare. She smiles lovingly. It had been really long since I saw this girl smile, evil grins and sarcastic smirks do not count. It had been really long.
I take a deep breath and let it go slowly. "Faith?"
"Hm?"
"Close your eyes."
I blush, and she frowns, but a few seconds after, she obediently closes her eyes. I only stare at her for a moment. I have never done this, but I really, really want to, so I swallow, close my eyes as well, and lean in slowly.
My face is only an inch away from hers, I feel her warm breath tingling my lips. I start to breathe a little faster, I cup her face with both of my hands. She wants to open her eyes, but I stop her "Don't open them please."
She sticks her eyelids together again, and I finally lean in to kiss…
*Phone rings*
We both jump up together, I let go of her and she opens her eyes, the phone continues ringing.
She starts laughing like crazy "That little device of yours, B, has perfect timing."
I start laughing myself as well, and reach it to answer "Hello?"
[Faith]
Now I know why technology sucks sometimes. I laugh at her, she looks frustrated. I know she had been making such an effort to kiss me because knowing the fact that she freaks out about almost everything, she would have been making a big deal out of me being a girl, and how it would be different, or if she would do it right, and bla bla bla.
I eavesdrop on her conversation, there's some girl talking, and it is not Red this time.
"… so please, please, pretty please can I go?"
"Oh my God Dawn, are you calling long distance just for that?"
God I love her when she gets upset, there's something in her eyes and in her face that is so sexy. I swallow hard. This doesn't look that important, so I'll do it.
Really quick and by surprise, I lean in quickly and press my lips against hers, she doesn't push me away, that's a good sign. We move our lips a little and then I pull back, she looks a little disoriented now, but she doesn't get mad, she just smiles at me.
<…Buffy?>
"______"
<Buffy?!?!>
"Huh? Uh… yeah… I'm here Dawnie."
<What are you doing Buffy?>
"Nothing" she frowns.
<You're not sucking on your teeth again, are you? I've already told you how yucky that sounds.>
I laugh, and she just rolls her eyes and shakes her head slightly.
She sounds a little upset now "I wasn't sucking on my teeth, Dawn."
<Then, what was that soun…> she squeals <OH MY GOD, you were kissing someone.>
B blushes even more now and whines "I'm not kissing anybody."
<You're whining so…>
"You know what? Go to your damn party."
<Thank you Buffy, I love you. I won't be late, I swear. Thank you, thank you, thank you.>
"Geeze. Ok, don't come back home late."
<Ok, I won't, bye… and say hi to your new lover from me.>
"Jesus Dawn I'm not… HEY! Do you want to go or not?"
<Ok, ok… I didn't say anything, I didn't hear anything.>
"God, will you ever grow up Dawn."
<Uh… no! but thanks anyway. Bye!>
B hangs up the phone and laughs "GOD, what a sister I've gotten."
"I bet she says the same about you."
She rolls her eyes "But it's me the one who is right."
I frown, tying it all up in my mind "There's something I don't quite get though."
"What is it?"
"Cordelia told me you had a sister, and something about some key she used to play with. I honestly thought she was a baby, but she sounds kind of older. You never mentioned her before, is she your half sister."
There comes the puzzled face again, but she jokes "Uh no… she's more like my not-human sister."
I must be making a face right now, because she is looking at me weirdly "Huh?" I must have missed the funny part.
"It's a REALLY long story. I'll tell you about it later. Right now there's a little something I want to take care of."
I frown again "which is?"
"What we were about to do when we were interrupted."
I'm about to reply, but in the moment I open my mouth to talk, I feel her lips on mine, moving slowly. It's the most gentle kiss I've had in all my life, she's so soft and smooth. She rest her hands in my back, and I rest mine on her waist. We kiss without tongue at first because who knows it might get her uncomfortable, but eventually she alone shyly slides her tongue inside my mouth and plays with it. The kiss lasts quite long, and when we finally gasp for air, she breaks the embrace and looks away.
"You didn't like it?" I frown.
"Oh, I did, but did you like it?"
"Of course I did B, why wouldn't I?"
"I don't know, I had never kissed a girl before, and maybe I just sucked at it so muc.."
It's so typical of her, I know she was freaking out. I lean in and give her a quick kiss again. "I loved it B."
She smiles at me, and we stare at each other for a while, until I suddenly scream "OH GOD."
"What, what, what is it?"
"I haven't eaten in the whole day. God I can't believe it."
"You scared the hell out of me, Faith."
"Well, you SHOULD be scared. I could eat like a whole horse right now."
"Lucky the horses that don't leave near the train station then" she giggles.
"Wanna go eating?"
She looks as if she didn't know what to say. "Uh, actually Faith, I'm a little short of incomes right now."
"Come on, don't be silly. It's on me. I'm going to overload us with tons of food."
She makes a face "Uhm, actually…"
"I'm joking B."
"Oh" she looks relieved.
"So, where do you wan…"
*Phone rings*
[Buffy]
I reach for my phone mad and snap "Oh my God, Dawn, I'm not kissing anybody, weren't you supposed to be at your damn party, anyways?"
"Actually, Buffy, Dawn's at her party."
I open wide eyes. OH! I hurry back to apologize "I.. I'm sorry Wills, I thought it was Dawn again, I…"
"It's ok Buffy, but there's a bit of a situation here."
"What is it? Tell me."
"Remember about the demon I told you about earlier."
"Yeah, you found out anything about him??"
"Well, yes, Giles thinks he's after you."
"Don't they have other things to do?"
"I'm not joking Buffy. He's gathering other demons and vampires together, apparently he has some hypnotizing power, so they obey his orders, and well I think you'll have to come back before he starts to do something. We're already following his tracks silently."
"Oh.. I…"
"Tell Angel you'll help him some other time, or I don't know. This is serious."
"I.. I know Wills. Ok! I'll do something about it ok?"
"Are you going to come back?"
"Do I have any other choice?"
"Uh.. I.."
"It was rhetorical, Wills."
"Sorry."
"Talk to you soon ok?"
"Ok."
[Faith]
B's phone rings again. Will that machine just stop ringing? By the voice I think it is Red this time. Yeah! It is Red. They're talking about the demon again, how fun. I just open the door of the car and sit on top of the trunk for a while, resting my back on the glass.
A few moments later B comes back, but there's something weird in her expression, I look at her eyes "You ok?"
"Yeah…"
"What was it?"
"Have to go back to Sunnydale."
YOU WHAT?!?!?! My face shows my disappointment, but I try to hide it "Oh I.."
"No you silly. You're so coming with me" she holds my hand and pulls me off the car.
"What's going on in Sunny Hell that you have to go back, B?"
"Some stupid, cranky, I-don't-know-what-else-to-do-with-my-time demon who's after me."
"Oh, sounds like fun!"
"You coming with me, aren't you?"
My eyes wander around "I… " I exhale slowly "sure."
"You sound everything but sure, Faith" she looks down sheepishly.
Right! Let's analyze, English watcher, lesbian witches, new teenager annoying person. I grab my chin quizzically "Oh I'm sure" I say sarcastically.
"Good!" she smiles "But, I'm afraid that we have to get going about now."
"Well, I agree, but my belly folds its arms and says 'no way'."
"Huh?" she frowns.
"Well, someone's got to feed me B. I can't function well unless I eat properly."
"You want to go drink some coffee or something?" she asks smiling.
"I said eat properly."
"Sorry" she laughs "You want to go to some cheap food place and feed yourself like a bottomless stomached cow?"
"Now we're talking" I grin at her, while we go to the car to go to the restaurant. "And also, have in mind that no meal is complete until you eat whipped cream on top of someone."
B rolls her eyes "I see your nasty sense of humor is back."
Yeah, now that you mention it. "Now that you mention it B, I've been feeling overly sensitive today ever since I hit my head. I think it made me get in contact with my whining side."
"I'm sorry, that's quite a bruise I left you, huh?" she looks at me from the corner of her eye.
"Anything for a cat fight, pumpkin" I pat on her right thigh while she drives.
For the rest of the way she doesn't say anything, which would be totally unnoticed if the car at least had a radio, but it doesn't, so the silence gets kind of odd again. I want to ask her what's gotten to her, but I'll let her drive in peace.
We finally get to some decent place and she parks the car. We instinctively get out of the car and into the place. The waiter approaches us and we order what we want to eat. We still remain silence until she decides to break the ice.
"This totally reminds me of the Doublemeat Palace."
"You eat there? I never did, it sort of freaks me out I don't know why."
She laughs "it IS freaky, I used to work there."
"Really? Wow, there must be a lot of things that I don't know about you B."
"Not that many, my life has become utterly boring."
I swallow "B, you look weird. What's up, tell me. It was Red, wasn't it? You're weird ever since."
"Uh well… It is not Re.., I mean Willow… it is not Willow."
"Then?" I look at her with expecting eyes.
"You know when I answered the phone?"
"Whu ye yu thu its…"
"What?"
I swallow the food I have in my mouth "When your sister called?"
"Yeah."
"What's the problem with it?"
"She was all asking if I was kissing someone and stuff."
"Uh huh…" Oh God, am I ever going to get this girl? "So you're like that because she asked you and you denied it and you feel bad about lying to her?"
"No, not that."
"Then?"
"I'm not a kiss girl, I mean not for you."
"Excuse me?" My eyes get way bigger now.
"I had an affair with Spike."
I spit my soda and start laughing like crazy to the point where I am actually about to choke "I so knew that."
She gets a little upset "You really did, huh?"
"Well, based on the fact that you dig vampires…" She glares at me, so I hurry up to say "And who doesn't? But my statistics or well, my fantasies would expect that it was Druscilla instead of Spike…" She glares at me again "But ok, I'm digressing. What's so bad about it?"
"I don't know why I told you that, but what I tried to say is that I don't want you to be just an affair, I want you to be special Faith, because ever since I had that affair with him, I just don't want an affair anymore."
Uhm ok! "It is special."
"As long as we're kissing and fooling around it won't really feel special, I…" she sighs.
"You…"
"I want us to have a real relationship, I mean I want you to be my girlfriend, of course if you want because if you don't, or if you're not prepared or if you don't like commit… but no, I haven't expressed my self properly, I would like you to be my girlfriend and.."
I love it when she gets nervous and starts blabbing, so I hold her right hand, and tell her "I love it when you do that."
"Do what?"
"The whole blabbing thing" I smile at her "Yeah, I want you to be my girl too, B."
She looks relieved, and she is also about to speak when I interrupt her "Are you going to eat those fries?"
"Oh my God, you really are a bottomless stomached cow."
"Well, try to eat jail food, and those yummy earth worm spaghettis and I'm sure you'd be like this too. So, going to eat them?"
"Not really" she hands them to me. She plays with the napkin and then suddenly looks at me "If you're coming to Sunnydale there's something I have to tell you."
"Is Xander gay now? I knew it."
"Uh sorry to disappoint you, but that is not what I was going to tell you."
"I was just teasing you B."
"It's about my sister."
"Oh."
"She's really not human."
My eyes widen "She Demon?"
"No, she's a key made to open a portal which would release the hell on earth."
I start laughing and she glares at me as if telling me that I don't take it seriously "What's so funny?"
"Cordelia."
B frowns at my comment.
"She told me you killed yourself because your sister was playing with a key."
She tries to hide her laugh. "Well in that context it does sound pretty stupid."
"But why you telling me about her."
"Because she might remember you."
"You talked to her about me?"
"No, I mean REALLY remember you. We all remember her as if she had existed her whole seventeen years, but she came when she was thirteen and we all have been given fake memories about her and our lives together, she might also have been given fake memories about you."
"Who gives this fake memory stuff?"
"Some monks, it is really complicated to explain, but I told you just in case she remembers you so you don't freak out or anything."
"Oh, cool."
[Buffy]
… Fifteen minutes away from Sunnydale
"Great, two extra hours in the car just because of that accident in the road."
"You sound like a grandma B."
"I thought you were sleeping."
"I was until your whining woke me up."
"I'm not whining, but my ass starts to ache. We should have been here about ages ago."
"I said I didn't mind driving B, but you insisted in doing it yourself."
"Well if some cop sees you driving with such a head wound, well I would probably get a fine."
[Faith]
"Besides, now that I think about it, been stuck there didn't seem to bother you at all, when we were making out."
She blushes "Well…"
"You see?" I place a quick kiss on her neck.
She moans a little "But still being sitting for seven hours is a lot already, and two more" she sighs.
"But they're over already, so why complain."
She sighs while she turns around the corner, she continues a little more and there is her backyard, she parks and gets off the car, and I get off the car as well. I stop her on her tracks and push her slightly against the glass and place a kiss on her lips, then on her neck, and then pull away "B… what about your friends?"
"We'll worry about that tomorrow, they don't live here. Willow has her own apartment and so does Xander. Wills was babysitting Dawnie, but I supposed she went home now that she knows I'm coming back."
I hold her close and blink my left eye to her "so the only thing we have to worry about is not being too noisy."
She kisses me slowly in the lips while I caress her back, then I pull away and starts kissing her neck. She tilts her head back and moans a little. I pull back but don't break the embrace. "Yeah, we have to keep it low, because your little sis might hear us."
"EWWW. TOO LATE, ALREADY DID" says a voice from the window upstairs.
B's face turns really red in just a matter of seconds. She knows her sister has seen her, but she doesn't want to look up. She looks embarrassed, so I decide to break the ice with the kid. "What you doing up so late kiddo? Watching porn?"
"Ew, my ears!" she whines.
"Faith!" Buffy glares at me.
"That your sis B?"
"Yeah" she opens her eyes big and presses her lips together, and suddenly I remember I'm supposed to remember her or something like that.
I try to make it up "Uh… I…" But when I look up, the girl is not there anymore.
I turn to B to talk to her, but in the moment I open my mouth, there is a voice behind me. "Cool, so you're the one who's getting my sister laid?"
"Dawn" B glares at her sister for the comment.
The girl makes a face, shrugs, and looks at my direction "Uh, by the tension I can pretty much tell you're NOT getting my sister laid. But if anytime you feel like it, feel free to do it, she OBVIOUSLY needs to relax."
I laugh, B glares at me "what?"
"That's not funny" the blonde protests.
"I'm sorry" I say in between laughter "It is to me."
B folds her arms and shakes her head "Yeah, yeah. I'm laughing my ass off."
Then it hits me, and I frown. "Sorry about the intromission and all, but… aren't you even a little surprised to see your sister is with a girl?" B glares at me "I mean… it would shock me if I were you. It's just curiosity."
The younger Summers laughs. "Actually… I kinda knew it already."
"What do you mean you knew it already?" B freaks out.
"Let's say I got a theory…"
"Like a gay radar or something like that?" B rolls her eyes.
"Nah, not that" the brunette shuts her sister up, and continues "Well, I might not like you that much, but I have to accept that you're somewhat good looking. And you see… good looking people that are surrounded by gays all day, and who don't even have a date in a huge period of time…"
"What do you mean I haven't had a date in a huge period of time?" B squeals. "What abo.."
Dawn throws her arms in the air and shakes her head "Don't you even dare mentioning Spike, that thing doesn't qualify as a boyfriend or a date, he's just Spike."
"Well I gotta agree on that one, B."
"Now you too?"
"Now me what?"
B opens her mouth as if to say something. Her sister and I expect anxiously what is going to come next. "You know what?" she looks mad now. "That theory is so not true" she whines.
Her sister laughs "That's all you've got. It is so true, admit it."
"It's not, and I'll even tell you why."
"Oh really?" Her sister dares her.
"You're cute too, well not as cute as me, but you're cute. I haven't seen you with a guy, in fact no guy has even called you since… since… since… since pretty much 9th grade. And like me you're surrounded by gay people all day. And that doesn't make YOU gay, does it?"
"Oh well… that's different."
"Really? How?"
"Uh… " she stops, looks at her watch, and then yawns "Kinda late, isn't it? I'd better go to sleep."
"Whatever" B rolls her eyes once again.
Her sister walks in, but stops half way and comes back. She comes to me and whispers in my ear "And yes, I'm gay too."
I open my eyes very big, but I don't know what to say, so the girl walks in again and mutters a goodnight to us. "Well, it went better than I thought."
"Yeah. Let's go inside" she walks in as well.
We're sitting on the couch now, Buffy has fed me again with a bowl of pop corn, and we're watching TV.
"Hey!"
"What? What did I do now?"
"What did she tell you?"
"She? Who?" I frown.
"Dawn. What did she tell you when we were out in the backyard."
I laugh. "Nothing."
"You laughed, that can't be nothing."
"You're so naïve B" I don't want to freak her out though, so I trade the subject. "She doesn't remember me, does she?"
"Trust me, there's absolutely no doubt that she doesn't remember you. That is so not the Dawn you get when you're someone she happens to dislike."
"Uhm…"
"It's weird though, she should remember you, and you should remember her."
"I don't know. It is confusing, and my brain doesn't really feel like working right now, let's just watch the TV."
"Okay" she rests her head on my shoulder.
[Willow]
"Oh gosh, this is so stressful. We're never going to find out about this demon" I smash the book against the table.
"She's right Tara." Xander complains as well "Besides, we're tired from slaying. I can't read anymore."
"Yeah baby" she looks at me "I felt the same way, but I thought you guys were enthusiastic about it, so I decided just to push myself the reading."
"Well I should be exhausted too, but here you have me, with the same energy I woke up, still reading." Anya complains.
"Honey, I wouldn't be tired if I were you either. You stayed in the car while we were out running and slaying, and you're not reading right now either, you're just looking at us."
"I stayed in the car because that was my favorite song."
"My heart will go on?!?!?!" Tara tries not to burst up in laughter.
Anya glares at my girlfriend and tells her "What's wrong with the song?"
Still gasping for air, she tries her best to answer "No.. nothing, it is just you don't exactly look like a person who listens to that kind of music. But I'm sorry if I offended you."
"Oh, no you didn't" she says probably even forgetting what they were talking about.
"I miss Buffy. It is all so tiring without her" Xander collapses on the table.
"Buffy, Buffy, Buffy. Sometimes I wonder what you're doing with me."
"Well, at least I don't go around mentioning certain troll's name while we're having sex."
"Well.. that was…"
"EW!" Tara and I say in unison.
"It's not like you guys don't do it" Anya protests as if we were talking about going to school.
"Well, whatever. It's late, we'd better close and get going. Besides I have to check on Dawnie to see if everything's alright at Buffy's."
"OH MY GOD" Anya squeals. "You guys don't do it, do you?"
"Baby…" Xander tries to control his girlfriend.
Tara's face gains a very beautiful shade of red, and she looks away to give the impression she is not too embarrassed.
I stand up and grab my bag. "Ok, see you tomorrow then guys. Let's go baby" I grab Tara's hand.
"Bye guys" Tara waves at our friends.
"See you" Xander replies, while Anya waves back.
We're walking away already, but I turn around. "And, Anya?"
"Yes?" she raises her head.
"We so do it. We fuck like bunnies."
"Baby…" Tara squeezes my hand.
I turn around again to face my girl "I just wanted her to freak out, you know how much she loves bunnies."
Tara is going to spend the night with me at Buffy's. In our way there we bought some Chinese food to eat over there. Gosh, I'm so tired.
I yawn while I search in my pocket for the keys, and give them to Tara. "I'm glad Buffy comes back tomorrow. My back doesn't stand anymore sleeping in that assembling bed."
I listen to my girlfriend go "awww" in the moment she steps into the house.
"Baby, look. Buffy's back, she and Dawn fell asleep in the couch while watching TV."
I walk in to get a better sight, but… I could recognize that hair anywhere. "Sweetie, that's not Dawn."
...to be continued...