re: [buffywantswillow] There Once Was A Demon...

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> Title: There Once Was A Demon...
> Author: Shehulk
> Rating: NC-17? 
> Spoilers: Hmm. Maybe for This Year's Girl 
> Disclaimer: Joss Whedon owns everything but Kellem Duivel.
> 
> Buffy/Willow/Other
> 
> I wrote this right after This Year's Girl, but never got around to posting
> it. It's my first attempt at a Buffy fanfic and I'm a little nervous. Be
> gentle. 
> Anya glanced up as she spotted someone she recognized. Or rather
> something. "Wow. A Jauda demon. You don't see many of those running around
> unbound." She nodded at the tall black haired woman who had just sat down
> at the table next to theirs. 
> 
> Willow put her book down and took a quick peek out of the corner of her
> eye. "She's a demon?" Anya nodded and resumed eating her lunch. Buffy was
> always on the look out for things that she might have to slay and wanted to
> know more. "So what's the sitch? She looks pretty non-threatening at the
> moment. Does she turn all green skinned and horny at night?" Everyone
> turned and looked at her strangely and Buffy clarified. She waved a hand
> over her head. "You know, horns?" They turned to Anya who was shaking her
> head. 
> 
> "Just a little. Jauda are one of the more human-looking demons, but
> they're pretty rare. I'm amazed to see an unbound one, but boy did she pick
> the wrong place to be. Being in Sunnydale is like being a virgin on an
> island of volcanoes." Anya tossed her burger wrapper back into the bag and
> glanced up to find everyone watching her expectantly. "Oh, well I just mean
> that other demons will want to bind her to them."
> 
> Willow risked another quick look at the woman and the shrugged. "She's
> pretty I guess, but why would they-." Anya's laugh cut her off.
> 
> "No. I don't mean in a bed bouncing way," she paused and frowned slightly.
> "Well actually I guess I do meant that. But that's not the main reason.
> She's a kind of power booster."
> 
> Buffy rolled her eyes as Anya stopped again and began to pester Xander for
> ice cream. She tapped the table sharply. "Before you get ice cream you have
> to finish your report. And trust me, I'm way harsh in the grade
> department. Now talk."
> 
> Anya sighed. "Okay. Jauda demons can be bound to other demons," She paused
> again to consider and Buffy imagined reaching over and knocking on her
> forehead to see if anyone was home, which she was seriously beginning to
> doubt. Anya was nodding slowly. "Though you know, I don't see why they
> couldn't be bound to humans. I guess none could ever catch them though."
> 
> "Anya!"
> 
> "Okay, okay! Don't be so grouchy. Once bound to a demon they enhance the
> demon's powers and make it way much harder to kill. Almost impossible in
> fact, because you'd have to kill them both at the same time." She knew what
> Buffy was going to ask. "No, I don't know how to kill one. Though I can
> tell you that they are an absolute bitch to catch. I spent three months
> trying to catch one in Greece a couple of centuries back. All that effort
> and I lost her to a slime demon. Why in the world would a slime demon want
> to boost his powers?" Disgusted, but still hoping for ice cream, Anya
> turned to Xander with pleading eyes. "That's all I know, really. Can we get
> ice cream now?" Xander patted her arm stood up to leave. "Call me the Good
> Humor man. See you later guys." They could hear Anya asking him why he
> wanted to be called Good Humor and was this like when he had her call him
> master.
> 
> Buffy shook her head. "Way too much information."
> 
> Willow nodded slowly. "Way." She spoke softly. "I'm kind of wondering why
> you went third degree on Anya."
> 
> Buffy shrugged. "No reason. Always good to know what you might be staking
> the next day." Buffy watched the woman set her lunch aside and pull several
> text books from her backpack. The titles were eye-catching. "Quantum
> Physics? Advanced Calculus? I may have to slay this girl just to save her
> from herself." She was only kidding , but Willow wasn't amused. "That's not
> funny, Buffy. She must have to live in constant fear of being caught and
> bound to whatever creepy, icky demon that finds her."
> 
> "Easy Will. I wasn't serious, but you know that it's probably only a
> matter of time before I have to face down a demon that's got it's own
> energizer Jauda. I can't let myself feel sorry for her if I'm going to have
> to do the slaything." Buffy wondered what kind of masochistic tendencies
> had led her to Sunnydale. "She's definitely in the wrong town." Buffy stood
> up and crumpled their lunch remains into a tight ball. She tossed it high
> and watched it sink into the trash can several feet away with a satisfying
> smirk. "And she scores, of course. Some days its good to be the Slayer."
> 
> Willow handed Buffy her books and glanced at her watch. "And some days
> it's bad to be the Slayer, especially when the Slayer is late for her last
> class." Buffy groaned took off running, calling over her shoulder. "See you
> later, Will." Willow waved absently and turned back to the demon. She was gone.
> 
> 
> ?????
> 
> 
> Willow looked up absently as the library door opened, tensing as she
> realized who had just entered. The Jauda demon smiled at Willow in greeting
> and then moved to an empty table beside her. She stacked her books on the
> table and pulled out a sheet of paper. Willow watched her head down one of
> the isles and felt a weird urge to follow her. Wondering why she was doing
> it, she got up and went after her. Not seeing her in the first few isles,
> she increased her pace, fearing that the demon had given her the slip.
> Willow turned the corner to the next section at a fast clip, making it
> impossible to avoid colliding with the person who was coming the other way.
> "Umph!" Books scattered across the floor and Willow felt herself falling
> backwards. Strong hands caught her around the waist and steadied her as she
> looked up a few inches into moss-green eyes. She stammered a thank you and
> pulled out of the demon's arms.
> 
> Kellem Duivel smiled at the faint blush that spread across the witch's
> cheeks and nodded her head in acknowledgement as she bent to retrieve her
> scattered books. She supposed that she could put her interest down to
> curiosity and that's all Kellem hoped it was.
> 
> Willow immediately dropped to her knees and helped her, though she really
> felt like running in the other direction. Her heart was thudding so loudly
> in her ears that she didn't hear the demon when she spoke the first time. A
> faint touch on her arm had her head whipping around in surprise and not a
> little fear. "W-what?"
> 
> Kellem saw the fear and realized that the witch knew what she was. Or at
> least part of it. "Easy. I said, my name is Kellem." She held out her hand
> and watched the quick war that waged in the other girl's eyes. She
> apparently decided that a handshake couldn't hurt and Kellem felt the warm
> clasp of her hand. 
> 
> "I'm Willow." 
> 
> A revelation that made her blush again for some reason, Kellem noted and
> refused to release her hand when Willow tried to pull away. Instead she
> used her grip to pull her close and whispered softly. "I don't bite." Which
> wasn't strictly true, but this was no time to go into details.
> 
> Willow frowned at her and whispered back, "What are you doing here?"
> 
> Kellem quirked an eyebrow at that and smiled slightly. "Improving my mind?"
> 
> That startled a grin from Willow. "Good answer. But I mean besides that."
> 
> Kellem felt something twist inside of her at the sight of Willow's smile
> and spoke impulsively, "Trying to get a date for Saturday night. Are you
> busy?" Kellem watched the faint blush turn in to a deep rose and spread
> down the witch's neck. There was a stunned look of surprise in her eyes and
> Kellem knew she'd struck out. Well that answered her question she supposed,
> not a little disappointed. "Oh well, can't blame a girl for trying. See you
> around, Willow." She gathered up the rest of her books and left the stunned
> witch speechless. Funny though, she would have sworn...
> 
> Willow drew a shaky breath and slowly got to her feet. She retrieved own
> books and left the library, trying to ignore what she feared was a tingle
> of regret. 
> 
> 
> ?????
> 
> 
> Buffy leaned back against the tree and studied Willow. She had been
> chattering on for several minutes now about her run in with the Jauda demon
> in the library and Buffy was beginning to suspect that something more was
> going on. It wasn't what she was saying so much as it was what she wasn't
> saying. That and the tinge of color that would periodically fill her face.
> Unless Buffy was very much mistaken Willow was trying to hide something
> from her. Knowing from past experience that that was a bad thing, Buffy
> reached over and took her hand. "Will? Take a deep breath." The witch did
> as she asked and Buffy nodded. "Now let it out." The whooshing sound made
> Buffy smile and she squeezed the hand she held. "Now tell me what happened
> to make you so scrambled. Did she threaten you?"
> 
> Willow wondered if making a pass could be considered a threat. She felt
> her face heat again. 'N-no, not... exactly." Knowing that Buffy wasn't
> going to let this go, she blurted it out quickly. "Sheaskedmeoutonadate."
> 
> Buffy blinked and mentally slowed the sentence down. A date? She asked
> Will... The feeling that swept over Buffy in that instant surprised her
> more than what had happened. She felt herself tense as if about to do
> battle and had to remind herself not to crush Willow's hand as her other
> curled into a fist. 
> Jealousy, she realized that she was feeling jealousy. Over Willow. In the
> back of her mind she knew that it probably made sense, in a weird, not
> quite sane way. 
> 
> Willow peered at her anxiously wondering why she looked so angry. "I-I
> said no," she offered, fearing that Buffy might have thought that she'd
> accepted. Which she wouldn't have, because she wasn't like that. Nope she
> was Willow Rosenberg and she was as straight as a board. Really. Except
> maybe she had a little bitty, teeny tiny crush on a certain blonde slayer,
> but that didn't count. Truly.
> 
> Buffy shook her head slightly to clear it and focused on her best friend
> in the whole world who she was not being jealous over, but merely
> protective. <Yeah right.> Buffy ignored the snide little voice inside of
> her. "Oh I know. I mean I know you wouldn't, cause you're not... like
> that," she finished lamely and ignored the voice as it pointed out how much
> Buffy wished Willow was... like that. <Shut up!> "So I guess I better see
> what this demon is doing here. I'll meet you later at Giles', okay?" She
> was gone before Willow could respond. 
> 
> Willow sat under the tree and stared morosely at the grass beneath her.
> She had an uneasy feeling that she may have upset Buffy in some way, but
> she could not even begin to guess how. It's not like she was hanging around
> the library trying to get a date... with a girl.... 
> 
> Two black and white running shoes appeared in front of her and she raised
> her eyes, following the legs encased in worn blue jeans as they turned into
> surprisingly well-shaped thighs and swelled into the curve of hips. A blue
> t-shirt was tucked into the jeans and Willow swallowed as her gaze slide
> past a respectable bust line and rose to connect with laughing familiar
> green eyes. 
> 
> Kellem crossed her ankles and sank gracefully into an Indian-style sitting
> position, much like Willow's own. "Hi. I'm sorry about if I embarrassed you
> before. I didn't realize that you were seeing someone."
> 
> "W-what?"
> 
> "The blonde."
> 
> Willow suddenly understood. Kellem thought that she and Buffy were... Heat
> suffused her features and Kellem tilted her head to one side as she
> contemplated the young witch.
> 
> "You do that a lot, don't' you?" At Willow's baffled look she elaborated.
> "Blush, I mean. There's nothing to be embarrassed about. This is year 2000
> for pity's sake! You shouldn't be ashamed to be yourself, even if that self
> is a lesbian witch."
> 
> Willow thought she'd swallowed her tongue. But the cheerful demon sitting
> across from her was not finished.
> 
> "I mean, look at me! I'm a demon for pity's sake! You can bet that once I
> faced that fact, accepting that I was gay was a breeze!" Silently Kellem
> admonished herself for teasing the younger girl, but she just loved
> watching the color drain from her face then rush back again. 
> 
> "I-I-I-I'm not gay!" Willow was flabbergasted and she kept shaking her
> head as she spoke. "I date a musician, uh, well, actually he left me, but
> I'm not gay!" The last was a rather desperate wail and Kellem felt sorry
> that she had teased her.
> 
> She patted her knee in sympathy. "Hey, calm dawn. It's okay. I didn't mean
> to upset you. I'm sorry."
> 
> Willow was still ruffled, but she accepted the apology. "As long as you
> realize that you were wrong, really, really wrong. Totally way off base."
> She mumbled a little more about how wrong Kellem had been until she seemed
> to run down.
> 
> "I'm sorry Willow. I just saw how that girl was looking at you and thought
> that it was mutual." Kellem casually plucked at the grass and waited for
> Willow to go off again. She really should try to behave herself better, but
> it was so much fun! To her surprise Willow didn't go off. Instead she
> blushed again and bent her head to stare at the ground.
> 
> "H-how was she looking at me?" As soon as the words left her lips, Willow
> wished she could call them back. But Kellem was already answering.
> 
> "Like the sun rises and sets in your eyes." Kellem suddenly understood the
> situation and she felt terrible about her earlier teasing. "The same way
> you look at her."
> 
> "R-really?" That hesitant, not-daring-to-hope question made Kellem's heart
> ache. To love somebody like that... 
> 
> "Yes, really. If you don't believe me then look for yourself. Its pretty
> obvious that she's gone over you." A shrill beep made them jump and Kellem
> pressed the button on the side of her watch to silence the alarm. "Damn. I
> have to go or I'll be late for work." She tore a piece of paper out of her
> notebook and scribbled a number. "Here. If you need to talk, give me a
> call. I usually get off at nine." Kellem paused and took Willow's hand. "I
> don't want to leave until I know you're going to be okay."
> 
> Willow forced a smile and shrugged. "I'll be fine. I'm meeting Buffy
> later. I'm okay."
> 
> Kellem nodded and stood up. "The eyes Willow. Watch her eyes." She raised
> a hand and turned to leave, still troubled that she had inadvertently
> caused Willow pain.
> 
> Willow picked up her backpack and rose, mumbling to herself as she left.
> "The eyes, huh? Okay, eyes it is."
> 
> From her position behind the tree, Buffy heard her words and felt a shiver
> of... anticipation. She had seen the demon heading for Willow and had
> gotten as close as she could, which for her was pretty close. She told
> herself that she was guarding Willow, but she knew that the chances of the
> demon being stupid enough to try something on a crowded campus in full
> daylight were slim and none. In truth she had been more worried about the
> woman asking her out again and Buffy knew that she was developing major
> Willow issues.
> 
> 
> ?????
> 
> 
> Buffy heard the most amazing thing as she neared Giles front door. The
> sound of Willow yelling. At Giles. Not quite sure that had ever happened
> before, Buffy hurried inside, eager to see the show. She was disappointed
> to find that argument had returned to a lower decibel level. Oh well, maybe
> a yelling Willow was like a unicorn, existing in myth alone. Actually she
> wasn't too sure about unicorns. She'd been meaning to ask Giles. Buffy was
> jerked from her mental wandering by one word: murder.
> 
> Giles was polishing his glasses with furious motions and shaking his head
> as Willow glared at him. "I'm sorry Willow, but there is no other choice.
> Believe me, I-I wish there was, but a Jauda demon on the Hellmouth is like
> a-a time bomb waiting to go off. We must take steps to ensure that she
> isn't bound to a more powerful demon."
> 
> Buffy suddenly understood what steps Giles was talking about. "You mean I
> must take steps." Giles turned to her in relief. She would understand. "Ah
> Buffy I'm so glad you're, ah," he picked up a large book and opened it to a
> marked page. " here. I've been trying to explain to Willow why-." 
> 
> Buffy interrupted him. "Why I have to murder this girl." 
> 
> Giles blinked rapidly at her flat tone. "R-Really I hardly think you could
> call it murder."
> 
> Willow was glad to see that Buffy wasn't anxious to kill her either. "You
> see, even Buffy thinks it's wrong!"
> 
> Giles closed the book with a snap and tucked it under his arm as he began
> to polish his glasses again. "You've slain demons before, why would-."
> 
> Buffy crossed her arms in front of her defensively. "Why would I have a
> problem with this one?" Giles nodded. "Maybe because all of the other
> demons I killed have been trying to kill me or someone else or take over
> the world and any other number of demony type things! You know what this
> girl has been doing today? Going to classes. Going to work." She looked at
> Willow. "She works in that bookstore down town, you know the one?" Willow
> nodded, of course she did. It was her favorite. "She gets the same look on
> her face around books that you two do." Buffy couldn't find the words to
> express the sense of wrongness she got when she thought about killing this
> demon. "It's not right Giles. She hasn't done anything!"
> 
> "She is a weapon, Buffy! If she falls into the wrong hands then it could
> have terrible consequences for everyone. She has to be neutralized."
> 
> Willow spoke softly. "What a nice, clean way of saying murdered." She ran
> out the front door, slamming it behind her. 
> 
> Buffy looked at Giles. "Can you at least try to find another way to
> 'neutralize' her?"
> 
> Giles reluctantly agreed. "I promise that I will try to find another way,
> but if I don't..."
> 
> "Then I'll slay her."
> 
> Buffy caught up with Willow outside the cemetery near the collage. "Hey
> Will!" She matched her stride to Willow's and threw a companionable arm
> around her shoulders. "So what book did you make off with?" 
> 
> "Wha-what makes you think I-." She stumbled to a halt and turned to Buffy.
> That obvious, huh?"
> 
> "Not at all. I saw your reflection in the bookcase as you slipped it into
> your bag. So what was the book?"
> 
> "Torvin's Demonology. It's about binding demons." 
> 
> "Cool." She pulled a book out from under her sweat shirt. I tagged this
> one on the way out. The Illustrated Guide to Demons." Willow looked at her
> in amazement and Buffy shrugged. "Well, you can't have a research party
> with only one book."
> 
> 
> 
> ?????
> 
> 
> Buffy closed the door of the small refrigerator and turned around to see
> one of her most deeply hidden fantasies before her. Willow had stretched
> out on the slayer's bed, her hair fanning around her face and spreading
> over Buffy's pillow. Maybe it was the conversation she had overheard and
> the fact that 
> Buffy now knew how she felt about her, but the slayer was having serious
> problems focusing on anything but Willow. Willow flipped a page of the book
> resting on her chest and raised one knee, and the unconscious pose made
> Buffy's mouth go dry. The cans of soda she had been holding slipped free
> and only her incredible reflexes saved them before they hit the floor. She
> cursed silently and reminded herself that she was going to let Willow take
> her time. After the mess with Oz, Buffy didn't want to take advantage of
> her friend's possibly fragile emotional state. 
> 
> "Here you go." Willow smiled up at her, held out her hand and Buffy
> thought she might melt as her over active imagination put other meanings to
> her actions. She quickly handed the drink to her and marched herself over
> to sit on Willow's bed. Willow's bed. <I have got to control this! Just
> because she admitted that she wants you is no excuse to... what I am I
> saying? Of course it is! > Buffy looked at 
> Willow again and sighed.
> 
> Willow read the page in front of her for about the fifteenth time and
> wondered how it had gotten so hot in here. She had seen the heated look
> that Buffy had given her from the fridge and had immediately hidden back
> between its pages. Her heart was racing and as she watched Buffy come
> towards her she could 
> actually hear each thud as it careened off her chest. She popped the top
> and watched the slayer sit down on her bed with regret. <Why don't you sit
> here? > She mentally whapped herself in the head and took a long drink from
> the can, hoping to cool down a little.
> 
> The can Buffy was holding halted halfway to her lips as she watched Willow
> put her lips to the cold metal. The muscles of her throat rippled as she
> drank and Buffy bit her lip to keep a small sound in check. Willow lowered
> the can and Buffy saw the pink tip of her tongue sweep out to catch a stray
> drop. 
> 
> Willow saw the slayer watching her as she drank and she would never know
> what imp of mischief made her lick her lips. The sound of Buffy's drink can
> exploding made her jerk and Willow saw the mangled remains clenched in her
> fist. Drink dripped from her hand and the small puddle on the carpet should
> probably be cleaned up, but as Willow met Buffy's eyes she saw what Kellem
> had seen. Without giving herself a chance to think, Willow set her own
> drink down and crossed to Buffy. The hiss of Buffy's sharply drawn breath
> was ignored as Willow knelt in front of her. She carefully pried the
> slayer's fingers from the metal and tossed the can aside.
> 
> Buffy couldn't speak, she couldn't breath. All she could do was wait and
> see where this beautiful witch wanted to take her.
> 
> Willow cupped her hand and brought it to her mouth. Buffy couldn't stop
> the low moan that escaped when she felt the first touch of Willow's tongue.
> The sudden heat against her cooler flesh was indescribable and when Willow
> took the first finger into her mouth to suck away the sweet liquid, Buffy
> thought she would faint. Willow couldn't believe what she was doing but it
> felt so right that she just had to continue and hope that Buffy wouldn't
> hate her. Wouldn't stop her. All of the signals she was getting pointed to
> the exact opposite.
> 
> The faint scrape of her teeth across the pad of her thumb made Buffy gasp
> and she automatically gripped Willow's shoulder in an attempt to steady
> herself. Once there, her hand slid up and tangled in the scarlet strands of
> Willow's hair. Willow dipped her tongue into the space between Buffy's
> middle and index fingers and suddenly it was too much. 
> 
> Buffy used her hold on Willow's hair to raise her face and fell to her
> knees as she captured her mouth with her own. Willow felt the aggressive
> thrust of Buffy's tongue and welcomed it, dragging her hands up the
> slayer's sides and pushing her shirt out of the way. Buffy felt Willow's
> hands roaming over her bare skin and a small whimper escaped her at the
> quivering flesh she left behind. Willow broke their kiss long enough to tug
> the shirt up and off of Buffy and then she took her face between her hands
> and brought her back. Buffy was struggling with the buttons on the front of
> Willow's blouse, but as Willow began to suck on her earlobe she lost
> control and the thin fabric ripped. Willow heard the sound dimly but she
> was more interested in the fact that Buffy was now cupping her breasts and
> kneading them with agile fingers. The light tugs on her nipples made Willow
> tremble and she laved the hollow at the base of Buffy's throat, which made
> the slayer tremble. When her mouth closed over the tip of Buffy's breast,
> Willow heard an almost inhuman sound escape the slayer. Buffy shot to her
> feet swept Willow into her arms and was across the room in an instant.
> Willow felt the soft press of the mattress below her and the firm body of
> the slayer above her, as Buffy lay on top of her, tossing the books to the
> floor. "Oh God, Will! Are you sure about this?" Buffy hated to ask, hated
> to give her a chance to stop this, but Willow was her best friend and she
> valued that above all else.
> 
> Willow saw the fierce struggle Buffy was going through and smiled softly.
> She raised her hands and brushed the hair back away from the slayer's face.
> "I'm sure, Buffy. I-I love you, you know?" In that moment Buffy thought her
> heart might burst from pure happiness. "God. Willow. I love you." She
> settled herself against the sweet witch that had enchanted her and buried
> her face iin her neck. Willow smiled as Buffy kissed her way down her body
> and gasped as she began to kiss her breasts with the utmost attention. 
> Buffy's hands gripping her waist was the only thing keeping Willow from
> bucking under the tender onslaught and she grinned around the breast that
> filled her mouth. She let her teeth close around one sensitive peak and was
> rewarded by Willow's abrupt, "Buffy!"
> 
> Willow felt Buffy's hand glide down her stomach and under the edge of her
> jeans. Her breath caught and she opened her eyes to find Buffy staring at
> her. Willow met her steady gaze and held it as the slayer's hand moved
> lower. The button and zipper were undone and Willow vaguely wondered how
> she had managed that without her noticing. All thoughts fled however, when
> Buffy's fingers breached the tangled curls that covered Willow. Buffy saw
> her eyes darken as she let her fingertips trace the wet folds and Willow's
> gasps of pleasure made her own body respond in kind. Willow pushed at the
> material of her jeans. Wanting it gone and then suddenly it was. Buffy
> tossed them aside feeling her throat tighten as Willow raised her knee,
> unknowingly mimicking her earlier pose and sending the slayer's control out
> the window.
> 
> Willow saw the stark desire on Buffy's face an instant before she fell on
> her and began an unrelenting assault. Willow clenched the pillow under her
> head and tried not to scream as Buffy's mouth moved over her and in her,
> making the young witch writhe in pleasure. Just when Willow thought she
> wouldn't be able to stand another instant of the intense sensations
> coursing through her, Buffy let her fall. As her entire body convulsed,
> Willow could hear Buffy urging her on and felt the firm press of her lips
> against her forehead. Grounded by her touch, Willow sank back into her body
> and found Buffy waiting for her with such an arrogant look of smugness that
> she had to laugh. "Pleased with yourself, are you?"
> 
> Buffy grinned and nodded happily. "Oh yeah. It's not everyday I get to wow
> a witch with a little magic of my own." Willow returned the grin and sat
> up, pushing the slayer onto her back. Buffy felt her mouth go dry again as
> a naked Willow straddled her hips and leered down at her. "My turn, Slayer.
> Can't have you claiming to be a better spell caster than me." Buffy moaned
> involuntarily as the redheaded witch bent to attack her breasts and she
> managed to reply, "No, we, ah! Wouldn't want that."
> 
> 
> 
> ?????
> 
> 
> Buffy stretched mightily and rolled over to wrap her arm around...no one.
> Buffy blinked at the empty space beside her and then turned to see that
> Willow wasn't in her own bed either. Morning sunlight streamed in through
> the windows, bathing the room in a warm glow, but all Buffy felt was cold.
> She wrapped the sheet around her and wondered if she was doomed to this
> kind of thing.
> 
> At that moment Willow's head popped up beside the bed and Buffy jerked
> back in surprise. 
> 
> She knew her hair was a little tangled and she was pretty sure there was a
> foolish grin permanently stuck on her face, but Willow didn't care. She
> loved Buffy and Buffy loved her back and Buffy was looking a little too
> relieved about something. Willow climbed back into the bed, leaving the
> books she had been reading on the floor. "What's wrong?" Buffy just shook
> her head and buried her face in Willow's neck. "Nothing. Just happy you're
> here." Willow hugged the slayer tightly and wondered if there was a really
> nasty spell she could cast on some of the guys in Buffy's past. Especially
> Riley. Sleeping with the evil slayer was a major no-no, even if she had
> been in the body of the good slayer at the time. An unreasonable argument,
> but Willow had decided to forgo reasonable in favor of being in love. "Of
> course I'm here. You're here. Where else would I be?"
> 
> Buffy had to smile at Willow's perfect logic. "You're right, Will. What
> was I thinking?" Willow planted a quick kiss on her lips and started to
> retrieve the books, but then she paused and turned back to repeat the
> caress. A little slower this time and a little longer. Buffy sighed in
> pleasure and deepened the 
> kiss. The books lay forgotten in the morning light as they found better
> things to study.
> 
> 
> 
> ?????
> 
> 
> Buffy scowled at the t-shirt and shorts that Willow now wore and grumbled
> as she dressed. "I still say why get dressed when we can research perfectly
> well naked." Willow's smirk was not lost on the slayer and she pulled her
> sweatshirt down over her head before sticking her tongue out at her in
> response. The smirk turned into a grin and Willow patted the floor next to
> her. "Come on. We can play naughty later, right now we have to play study."
> 
> Buffy obediently seated herself next to her lover and muttered, "I'd
> rather play naughty."
> 
> Willow handed her a book and tapped her knee. "I know you would. But we
> need to find a way to neutralize a Jauda demon. I'm afraid that what I read
> this morning wasn't very promising."
> 
> An hour later they were still no closer to an answer and Buffy was
> beginning to think that she might have to slay Kellem in order to save her.
> "Maybe there's another book at Giles'?"
> 
> Willow shook her head. "These are the best he has since MOO destroyed most
> of his collection. He's been slowly rebuilding but you can't just order a
> nine hundred year old book from anywhere." Buffy nodded and read the
> passage about Jauda demons again. She wished that they had some kind of
> fault, a bad habit maybe, like eating small children or picking their teeth
> with the bones of their prey or anything to make this easier. "Well there's
> no way she'll be safe here. According to this, once bound, Jauda make the
> master they're bound to stronger in everyway and much more difficult to
> kill, to the point of almost immortality."
> 
> Willow froze as a wild thought entered her mind. She tried to shoo it out
> again, but it had decided that it liked its new surroundings and made every
> indication that it was going to be staying for a while. Willow sighed and
> gave in, looking at the idea more closely. Considering the amount of danger
> that the slayer was exposed to and considering the fact that a harder to
> kill slayer meant a longer-lived slayer, Willow wondered if it would be
> possible to bind the demon to Buffy.
> 
> Buffy saw the faint twitch in Willow's eye start, which usually meant she
> was thinking of something that could be bad. "Out with it, Willow. What are
> you thinking?"
> 
> Willow drew a deep breath and exhaled. "Let's bind her to you."
> 
> Buffy blinked several times and tried figure out just exactly when Willow
> had lost her mind. "Uh, Will? Are you sure that you wanted to say what you
> just said?"
> 
> Willow nodded impatient