FIC: REPOST: Militat omnis amans (Every lover is a warrior) Part 5c/?

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

Militat omnis amans (Every lover is a warrior) Part 5c/?
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: 
R 

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 will say yes.

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

Please note that things perceived by characters other than by the five
acknowledge senses have been enclosed in < >, kpb.

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Grael and Amana had watched the four women very carefully, and when the
breathing of all four had become synchronized they knew that they had been
successful in inserting Aiofe and Bridie into the dream state of Willow and
Buffy. Once it had become apparent that the four women had left REM sleep
and had fallen back to normal deep sleep the turned away and left the
bedroom.

"We'll have to wait until morning now," commented Amana as they knocked
softly on the suit's door to signal to the guardsmen to let them leave, "we
will check with Aiofe and Bridie once they have awakened."
"That should not be too long now," answered Grael yawning as he did so, "its
almost dawn now, and Buffy will probably wake just at dawn as is her usual
practice."
"We still have to meet with Daithi and the other military commanders before
breakfast and get an update on that urgent dispatch they received just as
the counsel meeting adjourned," continued a very tired Amana, "I will be
very thankful once we get going, at least you and I will have a chance for a
decent nights sleep then."

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Buffy, as was her practice, woke up with the sun, yawning and thinking that
she was still not getting a good nights sleep, what with all the strange
dreams she had been having. As she woke, she realised that she and Willow
were not alone in bed, and that maybe the bizarre dream she had had with
Aiofe and Bridie in it was not so odd after all. She carefully disentangled
herself from Aiofe and Willow, who had both wrapped themselves around her,
and sat up in bed.

"Strange," she thought, "maybe the dream wasn't just Willow's and my
subconscious performing tricks again, and they actually did come to visit
last night."
Buffy then sent a mental inquiry to her lover, <Will, wake up sleepy head,
we have company.>
"This telepathy stuff can be useful," she thought, "If we weren't so
principled, it could be really useful in tests."
<Bad Buffy,> interjected Willow still semi-sleeping with her eyes closed and
snuggled into Bridie, <you know that isn't even something we should even be
thinking about. What guests?>
<If you would open you eyes, sleepy, you would see.>
<I see just fine through your eyes love. Ooh, warm bodies, I like warm
bodies. I guess they did visit us in the dream then.>
<Looks like. Best get the day going, red.>
<Aw, some times love you are a party pooper.>
<We don't know if they are into that, you unquenchable you,> Buffy commented
dryly.

With that, the two travellers separated themselves both physically and
mentally and started to get out of bed. Fortunately, or unfortunately, they
made enough sound to rouse the other two women.
"Good morning ladies," Aiofe said as she sat up in bed rubbing the sleep
from her eyes, "did you sleep well?"
"Yes, we did," replied Willow, "I take it then that you two have been
keeping secrets from us?"
"Huh," cut in the now confused slayer, <Willow, love, what are you talking
about?>
<Later, besides its not polite to talk, even this way, behind other's
backs,> 
"It's just that in order for the two of them to enter our minds Buffy, even
if we were asleep at the time, they have to be mages."
"Oh," replied Buffy, "I guess that makes a certain amount of sense."
"Yes, we have been a wee bit reticent," answered Bridie, who had just woken
up, "and we beg you apology for not revealing this to you earlier."
"Ok, what gives," asked Buffy?
"When you came over, it was felt by the mage's counsel that since you were a
totally unknown quantity," answered Bridie, "it was decided, by them, to
have a couple of mages assigned to you as your servants."
"It was felt," continued Aiofe, "that since you were going to require
servants, and most likely bodyguards, anyways, that two mages, albeit
apprentice ones, would be better than two normals."
"We just began our instruction a year ago," added Bridie, "and we are not
even half as talented as even Buffy is."
"So," asked a more than slightly irate Willow, not that mollified by knowing
she was dealing with very junior mages, "just what have you been reporting
back to the counsel?"
"Nothing that you weren't already telling Amana and Grael," responded Aiofe,
"in fact, it was your complete lack of guile about what you were doing that
led us to our little adventure last night." 
"The counsel needed to have one last affirmation of your intentions,"
continued Bridie, "before today's briefing."
"Ok," replied Willow, "I guess," she was still not totally happy with the
news they had received. However, she reasoned that she would have probably
done the same thing if she had been on the mage's counsel.
"Briefing," asked Buffy, "what briefing?"
"After your morning routine, and breakfast," replied Bridie, "we will be
given a briefing in Amana's workroom. To begin to get us up to speed on
what we will need to know in order to get ready for the mission you came
here to do. Before we head out in three days or so."
"Head out," squeaked Willow, "I thought we had at least a week or so, we
aren't ready, I'm not ready."
"Easy, love," said Buffy as she wrapped her friend and lover in a warm and
supportive hug, "lets get the day going, we will talk about all of this
later with Amana and Grael."
"May we join you," asked Aiofe.
"Fine with me," replied Buffy as she headed out to the sitting room to begin
the day with the usual exercise routines.

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Later that morning four young women were relaxing in a hot bath having just
finished a demanding morning workout. The shared exercise had allowed them
to start to bond with each other. Buffy and Willow had also realised that
the other two women were very fit, they had learned that before they had
become mages, Aiofe and Bridie had first trained as guardsmen, a practice
that most of the mages had followed. The four women had passed the time
while doing the various exercises discussing their lives and various
experiences. They were all keyed up, by both the morning's activities, and
by their shared realization of the future. They all knew that in at most a
few days they would be leaving the security of the castle and be heading out
to face battle with untold numbers of foes. They were joking and laughing,
and indulging in a little harmless horseplay, resulting in a rapidly
flooding bathroom.

"Aiofe, you witch," yelled Buffy as she was splashed with soapy water, "I'll
get you for that!" Buffy moved over to where Aiofe was sitting and tried to
dunk her underwater.
"Bridie, help," Aiofe called as she tried, mostly unsuccessfully to avoid
being dunked, "I'm losing."
"Coming," the other dark-haired women said as she moved across the bath to
help her comrade.
With that a general free for all play battle was underway in the bath.
Within a few minutes it became apparent to all of them that they were
getting more than a little excited by the play. In fact, the atmosphere in
the room was becoming charged with sexual excitement and tension. Willow
paused for a moment then, suddenly kissed a startled Aiofe. She broke the
kiss with a soft, "you ok," and moved a short distance away.
"Yes," Aiofe said slightly confused, unknown to Willow and Buffy she and
Bridie had been lovers for years, but she was now feeling an unbelievable
attraction to the red-haired woman before her, "confused, but I'm ok."
"Confused," Willow continued, "I can deal with confused." Willow proceeded
to softly caress the silky-smooth cheek of the other woman, "I guessed that
you had done that before."
"Yes, I... I mean we, have, but why?"
<Yes lover, why,> Buffy sent as she was suddenly confronted with Bridie
moving towards her, arousal in her eyes.
<Later,> Willow cautioned as she embraced Aiofe, "Instinct," she answered
Aiofe, "I mean that, well, I guess what I want to say is that you two will
be coming with us, you are supposed to help, and I guess, look out for us,
and I needed to trust my instincts about you," Willow looked questioningly
into the other woman's jade eyes, hoping to find the needed understanding.

Bridie had taken the opportunity to take an unresisting Buffy into her arms
and continued with a passionate tongue-entangling kiss. Buffy decided to
throw caution to the winds and started to stroke the other woman, working
her fingers down from her neck to the soft sides of her breasts. She cupped
a breast in each hand and then began to kiss and lick the aureoles, gently
teasing the nipples erect. Bridie was not stopping her attentions towards
the slayer, she moved her fingers down the blond woman's body and continued
around her sides to reach underneath and grasp her firm, muscular buttocks.
She proceeded to gently squeeze each in turn while she reached down with her
mouth to find once again the soft lips of the slayer. 

Willow had proceeded to tenderly attack Aiofe, she had sat the other woman
on the edge of the bath and was proceeding to kiss her way up the inside of
her thighs, alternating from one leg to the other. She reached Aiofe's
cleft, and began to tease her, by tenderly kissing and licking each of her
labia in turn, being cautious to stay away from her rapidly engorging
clitoris. Aiofe began to quietly whimper from Willow's actions, and tried
repeatedly to manoeuvre her clit into the others mouth, however, the
arch-mage was able to anticipate her every move and stay away from the
sensitive spot, in order to delay her climax. Finally Aiofe could take no
more and begged, "Willow please, please, I have to come, please let me
finish." With that soft pleading, Willow relented and sucked the enlarged
clit into her soft mouth, gently scraping it with her teeth while
stimulating its tip with her tongue. Aiofe exploded with a series of body
pulsating orgasms, wave after wave of vibrations surged through her body as
she nearly passed out from the experience. 
Willow looked up at Aiofe, licking juices off her face, "happy," she asked
with a little smile on her face.
"Ecstatic," the other woman replied, "here, let me help you," she continued
as she bent over and began to lick Willow's face clean, "now its my turn,"
she said as she gently forced the red-haired woman onto her back on the
bathroom floor.
"Oh, goody!"