ff: Guided by Voices 3/?

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Title: Guided by Voices 
Chapter Three: Forge Mistress
Rating NC-17
Disclaimer: All BTVS characters belong to Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy.
Summary: Someone comes to the door of 1630 Revello drive looking for the
slayers help and starting a prophecy that may lead to the end of days.
Again. 
Pairing Buffy/ Other (female) Tara/ Willow. 
Thanks: To AnneBar for the help and guidance. Cheryl Hill who just rocks. 

Guided by Voices
Forge Mistress

Galahad was working hard at the forge, learning how to make swords from the
forge mistress. Ok, the forge mistress was two years younger than her and
not really a goddess but at least Galahad was still learning. Besides she
liked Brighad, or "Gad" as her friends called. 

Galahad was never sure if she should call Brighad by her nickname or not.
She hated her own nickname, Sir Lancelot. It was hard enough being the only
female squire in an all male army. Did she really need them to make fun of
the weapon she was best at? She liked the lance, on horseback it gave her
the advantage. Physics is what Merlin called it. 

Merlin had been the reason she had come to study at Camelot. Her father,
King Benoic, had been told by his seer to raise her as a knight. At first he
had refused until he saw his young daughter studying war maps in his tent
before he joined Uther on the field against Bors at Camlann. The redheaded
girl was 6 at the time, and she had found the fatal flaw in the enemies'
plans that his generals had missed.

Now Galahad was squire to the king himself and Arthur was planning on
knighting her on her eighteenth Birthday. 

"Lance, you have to keep it hot" Brighad whispered in her ear before licking
her neck.

"Why do you always do that?" Galahad asked while heating up the half-formed
sword. 

"Because I can?" Gad answered with a laugh.

"Great, now that you're done do you think you can get back to the lesson."
The redhead replied wiping her neck. She wasn't really angry with Gad. In
fact she found it kinda flattering. 

"Sure, just get it really hot, when it glows white I'll show you the next
step. And keep turning it, it has to get hot evenly before we fold the
metal." 

Galahad continued to turn and heat the sword while she asked, "Gad, why do
you lick my neck really." The redhead squire had two major traits, the first
was curiosity, the second was babbling. Gad loved both of them.

"It's a fairy thing. You know, a 'me not human' thing. That and you really
do taste great." Brighad said before blushing. "Actually Galahad, I wish you
would let me taste more than your neck often.

"I have never let you taste my neck, you just do it without asking." Galahad
said while turning the sword.

"Oh is the soldier girl so helpless she can't fend off a harmless little
half fairy." Moria said while she pulled Gad into her arms. Holding the girl
close she began to lick Gad's neck.

"Hi Moria" Galahad said sarcastically before returning her attention back to
the fire. After hearing interesting sounds behind her, she turned back
around to see the two of them licking each other's necks. She also saw her
favorite sight of all. She saw Gwen walking up the path toward them. 

Gwen smiled seeing Galahad, then shyly waved at her. They were obviously in
love. When Gwen reached the side of Galahad she squeezed her hand. 

"So can you tell me what is up with the licking thing?" The squire asked
pointing at the other two girls. 

"Not really sure, I think it is a custom among the fairy people. They are
both half human and half fairy folk. That and I believe it feels good." Gwen
whispered then touched Galahad's neck lightly. "Doesn't it?"

Galahad just blushed and stared at the heating sword, before realizing it
was white-hot. "Gad, what do I do now? It's turned white." 

Brighad pulled away from Moria and went to help Galahad. Gwen moved away
from the fire to stand by Moria. "I need to heal your back before you go off
to see your mother for a few days." Gwen gently touched the slayer's
shoulder before moving behind her. Gwen pulled up at the shirt to look at
her daily lash marks and frowned.

"Moria this is far more than ten." The queen said quietly.

"Vivian, ordered Percy to give me twenty since I "violated" Anna last
night." Moria angrily answered.

"Yeah, like Viv has never "violated" Anna" Galahad retorted.

Gwen began casting a healing spell on the slayer's back.

"Viv still hasn't gotten over me being called and not her. Like anybody
really wants to be the Mordred, Slayer of the Undead. I mean I like wearing
dresses and going to balls. I have way better fashion sense then most of the
ladies in the court." Moria whined, as Gwen finished up the last of the
spell, taking away the pain from her back if nothing else. 

"Moria, you do realize you just gave your dress speech to the only other
women in the kingdom allowed to wear pants." Galahad pointed out. 

"Sorry, I forgot I was speaking to the great Bodica and the Forge Mistress.
Yes the Tribal Warrior Queen and the daughter of the Forge." Moria said
laughing as she spoke.

"I'm not a Queen ...yet, I am a Princess." Galahad said trying to look every
bit the butch warrior and failing miserably. 

"Does your back feel better, Moria?" Gwen asked pulling the girl's shirt
down.

"Thanks, but you need to be careful, Dad isn't really happy with witches in
general and he has rules about casting spells inside the walls of Camelot,
not even Merlin will break that rule." Moria said seriously.

"I know but we are outside the walls now so I didn't break your fathers
rules." Gwen pointed out. 
"Moria, your Aunts Morg and Mog are ready to leave for Avolan." The queen
added.

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Willow didn't know how long she had been staring at her computer. Actually
she was trying really hard to remember exactly what century she was now
living in. The redheaded witch looked around the Summer's kitchen then back
to her laptop focusing her mind on the here and now. 

"You ok Will?" Buffy asked her best friend.

"Fine Moria, just Daydreaming" Willow answered as she began hitting the keys
of her computer.

"Since when do you call me Moria" The slayer said as she knelt down beside
Willow at the table. Buffy took her friends face in her hands and looked
deep into her green eyes. "Lance?"

"I hate it when you call me that." Willow said returning to typing on the
computer. 

"Sorry, Galahad ...I mean Will." Buffy said carefully still staring at her
friend, "You remember your part in the past?" 

"Yes, but I still don't get the neck thing and don't tell me it's a fairy
thing. The only difference between humans and fairies was the magic stuff."
Willow stated looking down at Buffy.

Buffy stood and then kissed Willow on the forehead. "Glad to see you're
still the scientist, I am taking Nikki outside for a walk and a little
patrolling you going to be ok?"

"Buffy I am fine." Willow said with resolve face.

"Well I was going to call Tara to come over and keep you company, but since
you're..." Buffy didn't really get a chance to finish as the phone was
shoved into her face. 

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Buffy had waited for Tara to arrive at the house before she and Riley
unchained Nikki. Riley wasn't happy about unchaining a dangerous animal
without a chip in her head but Buffy wanted it done. And Buffy generally got
what she wanted. 

Still Riley was having a great deal of trouble with this. On one hand he and
Buffy were living with her mother in Buffy's bedroom. They slept and
showered together. They even made love at least once every day sometimes
more. He honestly had nothing to complain about. She didn't lie to him and
they seemed happy.

Then on the other there was Nikki, or Usha, or Gad, or Brighad, or whatever
the hell name Buffy called her that day. There was also the touching. It was
driving him crazy. They touched like two people who had been lovers for
years. Even the kissing was full of passion yet still said I love you
forever. Buffy and the girl touched acted like long time lovers. Mostly it
was their little touches, the sweet caress as Buffy spoke to the girl. The
gentle glances. The touching for just a second too long. He could blow this
off a dozen ways except, Buffy was honest with him. She told him frankly
that she kissed the girl but it had not progressed beyond that point. She
also told him that they would do more soon, that she and the girl would in
time be lovers. His Iowa farm boy screamed that he should put his foot down.
His graduate student head told him to wait it out, something hellmouthish
was going on.

Then there was the girl herself. Buffy left Nikki with him a lot. It was her
way of saying, "I trust you." And when he was left alone with the girl he
always started off hating her. It didn't last. He liked the girl. He was
impressed by her fear of hurting others. How hard she fought the demon voice
inside her head. 

At first she hid from them afraid of hurting them. Crawling under the bed or
in to the small spaces under the stairs. She was the one locking herself up.
He had hundreds of talks with the girl hiding under the stairs when Xander
and he had put in the cage. They talked about music and TV, the art of tarot
reading. They had compared their up bringing and their families. His parents
and the girls in many ways were much alike. 

He had tried to hate her, to see her as the enemy. A vampire. But the little
things she did changed his opinion. When Xander had fallen off the ladder
she had run out to help him, scared he was hurt. She didn't act like any
vampire he had ever met. She read the bible and seemed to enjoy the
activity, crosses in the room made her feel safe even though they jumped out
of her hands, and she loved the sun. Both Riley and Buffy took her for walks
in the sunlight once or twice a day. 

It was also easy to tell Nikki apart from her demon Morg. That is what Buffy
called the demon soul that was inside the girl. Morg was obsessed with sex
and human weakness. Morg tried to play devils advocate, getting them to
argue among themselves. Picking out little things and making them into
something they're not. Playing them against each other. 

Morg tried to get him to hit the girl by making reference to Buffy's
sexuality. Riley still felt like he had to defend her honor. He was still in
shock over learning his girlfriend was bisexual. He knew why Buffy made a
point of telling him everything. Morg lost a little power that way. Still he
was an Iowa farm boy, how was he going to explain it all to his parents when
he took Buffy home to meet them?

Most of the Scooby's had learned to deal with Morg in their own way. Xander
got in shouting matches with the demon. Tara just listened to Morg without
comment. Willow used a sleeping spell on the demon. Joyce drank scotch and
turned up the TV loud. Anya would start comparing demon notes and painting
her nails. Buffy just growled and Morg left. All of the Scooby's understood
Morg and Nikki were not the same person, they also understood that Nikki
could not completely control the demon all of the time. 

Not that Morg was let out of Nikki that often. Nikki worked really hard to
keep her under control, only she was a newborn and was still in the early
stages of turning into a vampire. In fact at times Nikki was human with warm
blood and a heart beat. Which was why she had to sleep from time to time.
When Nikki slept the demon was set free. 

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Giles had managed to keep Angel and Cordillia a secret from the others.
Angel was easy, but keeping Cordillia out of sight in a small town was
nearly impossible. 

Cordillia's daily visions were another problem. To the young seer the
visions made little sense, always about four lesbians with bad fashion
sense. And neck licking. "Gross", was the brunettes usual comment. 

But even worse than the visions were her dreams, she was making love with
Faith some nights and Buffy on other nights and she was a boy. Tor, she was
a knight named Tor. Like she was some kind of character from a Edgar Rice
Burroughs novel.

"I can not be someone named Tor." The ex-cheerleader kept repeating over and
over constantly. 

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It hadn't taken long for the three of them to run into trouble. Five
vampires, all mean, big and ugly. Buffy hadn't meant for Nikki to fight just
come along for the ride. To get out of her cage. She really didn't need to
worry. Nikki was a great fighter. Together they dusted four of them while
Riley worked on the last one. He had just been kicked to the ground when he
felt Buffy pull him up. He was more surprised when he saw Nikki holding the
male vampire, who was easily four times her size. Buffy handed him a stake
and the little souled vampire held the giant soulless creature tight waiting
for the stake to go through his heart.

Riley pushed the stake into the giant vampires heart pulling it back out
before the creature turned to dust. 

"You ok honey?' Buffy asked the tired soldier. 

"Fine, only..." he had meant to add more but the faces of the two women
said, trouble is coming.

"Angel do you always have to stand around in the shadows?" Buffy asked
staring at a spot in the trees.

"Sorry old habit" Angel said walking out of the trees.

"So I take it, the end of the world is coming ... again?" Buffy said
sarcastically. 

"From what Giles says you would know better than anyone else." Angel said
moving closer.

"Giles sent for you, I guess he is more freaked than I thought. He
hasn't..." Buffy couldn't finish the thought.

"He wanted to call the counsel but he called me instead. Buffy I know it is
hard to believe but I am here to help. I still care about you." Angel
replied as he continued to move toward the slayer.

"I still care about you, only..." Buffy just pointed to Riley and Nikki.

"Giles said something about you finding Moria and Brighad. Are they..."
Angel couldn't even fathom the implications of a slayer finding the two
doomed lovers.

"Angel I think you have met Riley before, he's my boyfriend." Buffy stated
not really knowing how Riley fitted into things. He was her boyfriend before
her memories returned so why shouldn't he still be her boyfriend now. The
blond didn't really know how to handle the whole situation.

"And this is Usha Nicole Jacarr, or Nikki for short, at least in this world
and in my father's kingdom of Camelot she is the Forge Mistress, Brighad or
Gad to her friends." The slayer explained trying far harder than anyone
could have guessed to stay in the here and now. Her mind was swirling in her
past memories of many lifetimes. 

Angel shook both Riley and the girls' hands then asked, "Ok, so who is
Moria?" 

"I am, Angel don't act so surprised, I am still a slayer even in this life,
why not in the past?" Buffy said laughing. Then added, " I know who
Guinevere and Lancalot are, would you believe Tara and Willow. Oh and Xander
is Percival"

"The knight that found the Holy Grail?" Angel asked trying to picture Xander
as the religious character of myth. 

"Actually he was granted a glimpse of the Cauldron of Life but you know how
folk lore works. For the most part he was the purest knight of the round
table. Ok he was the only virgin without a grudge." Buffy said happily
laughing at the inside joke. Riley and Angel just stared at her while Nikki
smirked. Seeing her lover and ex lovers brooding expressions she stopped
laughing and turned toward home. 

They all walked back to the Summer's house in silences. "Buffy you know how
crazy that sounded right?" Angel asked breaking the silence at the steps of
Buffy's house. 

"You still believed me." Buffy stated knowing the souled vampire did believe
her. "Angel come by tomorrow and we will all go into research mode." She
then gave her first love a goodbye kiss on the cheek.

The three returning warriors had a quick bite to eat, Nikki finishing some
fresh blood Tara had picked up for her. Riley and Buffy had peanut butter
sandwiches. Buffy ate her sandwich watching Riley and Nikki carefully. She
was torn between both of them. She had strong feelings of love and lust for
both of them. She was also horny from the visions of her past and that
night's slaying. Her hormones were in overdrive. 

"Riley, can I talk to you for a minute?" Buffy asked as she made her
decision. 

They walked into the hall where she could still watch Nikki. The girl had
the strangest effect on her. "Riley, I don't ever want to lie to you, so
here it goes. I want to sleep with her tonight, and since it is the first
time, I ah." Buffy said rushing her words together, she was surprised she
even got that much out of her mouth as she stalled in the statement. 

"I am not happy about this, just so you know, ok. We'll talk about it in the
morning." With that Riley stormed off to go to bed, alone. He didn't want to
hear anything else tonight. 

Buffy returned to the kitchen. "You heard every word didn't you?"

"Vampire hearing, it was hard to miss, sorry." 

"Don't be, so what is your opinion on the subject?" Buffy asked while she
sat down on the table.
"Depends on who is asking me, is it the great Mordred, slayer of the undead
or is it Buffy the vampire slayer?"

"Who do you want it to be?"

"I asked you first." Nikki replied as she cleaned up the kitchen. 

"Both, one and the same. At this point we are merging, not like you and Morg
are merging but merging. Nikki, I never knew you, but I did know Gad. You
were the other half of my soul, I know you - I don't remember much about it,
but I do love you. I have always loved you." Buffy had taken the girl's hand
and kissed it.

"See that is where the problem is, I know you love me, you also loved half
the kingdom. What was it, Anna at least once or twice a week, Tor, you never
stopped trying with Percy, Cam, Kay, Gowain, Lance, you even slept with Viv.
You were never big on monogamy. Nikki said after her eyes turned a glowing
blue and stared down at the present slayer.

"You slept with Lance too if I remember." Buffy said crossing and uncrossing
her arms.

"Come on once Galahad fell in love with Gwen I never had a chance." Nikki
quickly replied. 

"Ok then, Anna" Buffy said leaning back and crossing her arms again.

"Yeah well you made Tor spank you all the time. Remember the time we had a
threesome and you made Tor watch and wouldn't let him get off." Nikki said
shaking her finger in Buffy's face while she blushed. 

"Viv got him off that night while you and Anna slept off my dad's new wine
and I patrolled.... alone. By myself. All alone." Buffy said trying to sound
hurt, but in the end she just smiled.

"We were bad." Nikki said.

"So want to fool around?" Buffy said pinning the girl to the counter and
kissing her hard on the lips. 

"Moria in a hundred life times have I ever turned you down?" Nikki replied. 

"Not that I remember, then my memory is still a little fuzzy."

"Do you think I would turn you down now?" Nikki said returning Buffy's kiss
slowly and gently. 

"The answer better be no." Buffy said picking Nikki up into her arms.

"Who wants to be a virgin forever." The vampire said before kissing the
slayer back and wrapping her arms around her neck. 

Pulling out of the kiss and taking a series tone, Buffy said, "I don't have
to, ...I can..." all the while fumbling for words.

"Bed now, slayer." The girl said slide out of Buffy's arms and began pulling
the slayer into the basement before locking the door. 



"I wear the cheese it does not wear me." Bald Man, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.