FIC: REPOST: Militat omnis amans (Every lover is a warrior) Part 2b/?

["Beckett, Kevin" <kevin.beckett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Militat omnis amans (Every lover is a warrior) Part 2b/?
K. Beckett (c) 2000 

Disclaimers:
Buffy, Willow and all of the other characters and places from the show
belong to Joss Whedon, WB and Mutant Enemy etal. Everyone and everything
else is mine. None of my characters are meant to resemble anyone living,
dead or un-dead, if you see yourself you are looking way too hard.

Rating: 
PG-13+ - heading to the R level

Other:
The Latin and Gaelic are mine; I take the responsibility for any
translations of them. In addition, the descriptions of the rituals, spells
and other craft work come from my traditions, so please don't take offence
if something described here does not match your traditions or what you think
it should.

Archiving etc.: 
Ask and I'll say yes. 

Spoilers:
Everything up to the middle of season four - I diverge then.


"To continue," said Grael, "in our investigations of your world, we
determined that your reality had very few weak points at which demons and
other evil characters appeared." 

Buffy turned to Willow and said quietly, "the hell-mouth."

"We also sensed the great power that resided near one of these 'hell-mouths'
as you call them and hopped that that person would be able to come to our
assistance, even though they were very poorly trained." Grael finished,
looking at Willow optimistically.

"Well, you have answered a number of questions, and raised a few more,"
Willow said, "however, you still haven't answered why me?"

"That is a bit easier to answer," Amana said. "For our world has a very
large number of these hell-mouths, so many in fact that we are in danger of
being over-run by demons from the other realities."

"These weaknesses have occurred relatively recently," added Grael, "what we
think is happening is that the demons who are attacking us are able to
create the weaknesses, or at least expand upon them, and that they have been
slowly moving from one reality to the next, devastating each in turn. Since
our world is between them and you, they have not reached your reality in any
great numbers yet. However, we believe that once they dispose of us, you
will eventually be in the line of fire, since there are only about fifteen
or so worlds between ours and yours."

"And as to why specifically you, Willow," continued Amana, "quite frankly,
for all of the power that Grael and I have, we are nothing compared to the
potential power that you will be able to wield."

"But, I'm new at this, I can barely do anything, I don't know very much and
most of the time I fail." Willow said plaintively.
"We know this dear," Amana replied, "however, we are excellent teachers and
we will ensure that you reach your full potential."
"But, what do you want me to do?"
"Simply, to seal all of the weaknesses between our world and theirs,"
answered Grael.
"Oh."

"I'm beginning to think that details can wait till tomorrow," Amana said.
"Lets let them finish eating and then we will see about accommodations for
Willow and her soul-mate."

"Soul-mate." Buffy exclaimed, "How did you know Willow and I were
soul-mates?"
"For one that knows how, its easy to see the psychic link between you."
Amana answered. "Soon you to will be able to see these things," she added
cryptically.

"Now, we know your name, but who are you and why did Willow bring you?"
Amana continued as she quickly changed the subject.

"I'm the slayer." Replied Buffy, and seeing questioning looks from the
others continued, "don't tell me that you don't have slayers? The counsel?
General medieval stuffiness' and prophecies?"
"No," answered Grael, "but why don't you fill us in."

"Well, in our reality we have a Watchers Counsel whose job it is to train
slayers and to provide guidance to them. In addition, they maintain records
of various prophecies and other files with respect to demons and other evil
things." Buffy continued.
"And," prompted Grael.
"I'm a slayer," answered Buffy. "I was a chosen one and trained to fight
demons, particularly vampires. I have special talents and abilities - for
example I am able to sense demons, I heal very quickly and I'm very strong
and fast."

"Excellent!" Responded Frankel becoming very animated, "I've read about
so-called slayers in our past, however, the last of them was eliminated
years ago, we must talk about this further."

"Oh, boy," thought Buffy, "not another professor Walsh, worse, another
Giles."

Willow meanwhile was beginning to yawn, and drowse off. Amana caught sight
of this and said. "Enough for tonight. Lets get these two off to their
baths and to bed. We can finish up our discussions in the morning."

Amana led Buffy and Willow out of the room and down the hallway. The
climbed a flight of stairs to another hall, which had a number of doors off
of it.
"This is where we have our accommodations while we are in the capital."
Amana said. "Most of us spend the majority of our time in other locations,
however, we were all brought together for this project."

"In anticipation of your agreeing to come, we have arranged for you to have
a room, I trust that you won't mind sharing, since we weren't really
expecting Buffy?" She asked with a smile in her eyes.

She opened one of the doors into a fairly large room. In fact, it was a
suite of rooms. The rooms were all very well lit with several lanterns in
addition to fireplaces. The wooden floors were covered in thick carpets and
thick tapestries covered most of the walls. Several large windows were set
into the thick stonewalls and were covered with heavy embroidered curtains.

"This is your sitting room," stated Amana, "the room to the right is your
bed-chamber, and the one to the left is the bath." 

She continued leading the way to the bathroom that was very well appointed
with sinks, a toilet and with a very large bathtub. This bathtub was easily
the largest that either Buffy or Willow had ever seen. It was at a minimum
a metre deep and could easily sit four. It was set directly into the floor,
with only the top thirty centimetres or so above the floor line. Buffy
could see that tilled benches were lining the inside of the tub, which
raised the possibility of serious lounging time in the tub. Steam was
rising from the water.

Amana continued, "the water is very hot, fed by springs deep beneath the
building, we have lots of it, so we constantly have it circulating though
the baths so that dirt and grime is carried away and fresh water brought in.
There is soap, towels and necessities, over here," she said pointing out a
dressing table and cupboards. 

"We will arrange to have clothing sent up to you in the morning, and there
is plenty of bed linen and warm blankets for tonight already in your
bedchamber." 
"Okay then?" she asked, receiving nods in return. "We will let you sleep a
bit late, since there is only about five hours till dawn. I'll come up to
get you and we will continue with our discussions. 

At this point a very satisfied looking grey and white feline walked into the
room and proceeded to jump up on the table and began to groom her-self.
"Shadow-Cat," exclaimed Willow. "Where have you been?"
"Meooww!" answered the cat.
"Out exploring I guess," replied Buffy.
"Checking out the resident pest problem probably," Willow agreed.

"Good-night then" replied Amana "I'll see you in the morning." She turned
and left the suite, closing the door behind her.

As soon as Amana had left, Buffy turned to her friend and lover saying.
"Witch girl, you've got some serious explaining to do."
"Buffy, I know, but please can it wait till later?" Willow said as she went
over to the bath and began to undress in preparation for getting in.
"Okay," the slayer replied, "I'm too tired to worry about it now. Lets
bathe and get to bed," she continued, removing the blankets that were
wrapped around her body and sitting down to take off the boots.

Soon both women were undressed and in the water sitting on the benches at
opposite ends of the huge tub. Buffy looked over at Willow and was once
again stunned by her beauty, grateful that they had found each other and
that they had acknowledged their love. She moved over to the other woman
and slowly began to caress her neck and shoulders.
"Mmm, that feels nice." Willow said, sighing and relaxing into the others
touch.
"Shush don't say anything, just go with the flow." The slayer responded as
she began to stimulate Willow's breasts and nipples with the tips of her
fingers, which immediately began to harden from the slayer's activities.
Buffy continued performing her special magic on Willow's nipples as she also
began to kiss the neck and shoulders of her lover.

Willow was beginning to feel the effects of Buffy's touch, and kisses, deep
inside of her body. She raised Buffy's head up from her neck and kissed
her, surrendering her mind and body into the kiss by focusing all of her
attention to it. Their tongues duelled together as each women tried her
hardest to explore the others mouth.

"Bath, soap, wash, we've got to wash." Willow babbled after a few minutes of
deep kissing.
"Good idea," the other replied, "rubbing soap on soft body parts sounds like
fun to me."

Willow picked up the bar of soap and quickly created lather, she then
proceeded to gently wash Buffy, making slow gentle motions over her body,
focusing particular attention to her chest and belly. Soon she moved her
hands and the soap lower on Buffy's body, making tentative, darting, even
teasing moves towards her sex. 

"Stop that," Buffy exclaimed, "You are getting me too wet."
"You're in the bath," Willow said quietly as she continued her assault,
"you're supposed to be wet."
"Then stop teasing me and finish the job." Buffy demanded.
"Your wish is my command," Willow responded and proceeded to move her hand
between Buffy's legs and began a direct assault on her lover's sex.

Buffy was beginning to break out into a sweat, as she was beginning to peak
to orgasm and she wanted it to be mutual with Willow. She therefore
proceeded to caress Willow's pubic mound, and tentatively massaged her clit
while inserting a finger deep inside of her. Buffy was pleased to discover
that Willow's skin was glowing, more that the hot water alone would explain
and that her breath was beginning to come in short shallow gasps. 

Willow moaned deeply into Buffy's neck. She had already been at a high
level of excitement and Buffy's probing fingers deep inside of her were
beginning to push her over the edge. Both women continued their respective
assaults, and within moments, both had powerful simultaneous orgasms.

"Goddess, that is exactly what I needed," panted Willow. "I trust you feel
the same lover?" As she proceeded to embraced her friend in a hug.
"Oh, yeah. Quite a fine way to relax." Buffy said near breathlessly, as she
reciprocated the hug, while searching out and finding Willow's mouth for
another deep passionate kiss.

After a few minutes, the women moved apart. "Come on love, its been one
hell of a day," Willow said as she began to wash her hair. "Let's finish up
here and get some sleep."
"No problemo," Buffy added as she to began to wash her hair, "I think
tomorrow is going to be even more strange than tonight was."

Within the hour there were two women intertwined on their bed in a deep
sleep. Leaping up on the pile of heavy blankets that covered the two women,
and taking up residence on the pillow behind Willow's head, was a very
contented cat.

"Purrrrr," came deep from the cat as she thought, "my tummy is full, this is
not my normal territory, however, my human is here so I am happy."

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