FIC: The Spell Unspoken/ Stand Off 12/?

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The Spell Unspoken/ Stand Off 12/?
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They'd been sitting in the same spots for over 2 hours before Kida 
broke the silence.

"Damn, I've been sitting here too long, my ass is like terminally 
ouched"

"Want me to kiss it and make it better?" Faith offered with a leer.

"You wanna kiss my ass?" Kida laughed "Maybe you should stick to 
kissing Dawn"

"What? You kissed Dawn" Buffy rose to her feet and stood over Faith 
menacingly "Dawn go upstairs"

"Buffy" Dawn squealed.

"Now" Buffy growled.

"Kida slept with her, but you send me away for a kiss?" Dawn 
screamed.

"Kida isn't my little sister" Buffy pointed out.

"I'm not either" Dawn growled "I'm the freaking KEY!"

Everything was silent after that.

"The Key to what?'' Faith asked.

They all stared at her as if she lost her mind.

"They gave me that look when I asked what kind of demon Tara was" 
Anya related from the stairs.

"I thought I told you to keep her upstairs" Willow came out of the 
kitchen still holding the knife.

"Are you gonna kill me?" Anya asked backing up.

Rowen looked at Faith from behind Anya's legs.

Faith waved at the little girl.

"Don't acknowledge her she's a stranger" Willow said softly. She 
mystically send the knife back into the kitchen and opened her arms 
for the little girl.

"She wanted you" Anya used the excuse pointing to Rowen when the 
little girl threw herself into Willow's arms.

"You let a 5 year old tell you what to do?" Willow smirked at the ex-
demon.

"She's 527 on the Mystical plane. She's been waiting to be free for 
centuries" Kida rubbed her sore backside.

"That's less than half your age Anya" Buffy pointed out.

"She's stong" Anya pouted "Where's Xander"

"Willow scared her, I mean him away" Faith joked innocently.

She recieved two blatant looks of hatred from Buffy and Willow, and 
two amused glances from Kida and Anya.

"Spiders or clowns?" Anya asked.

"Does it matter?" Buffy asked,

"Yeah" Anya shrugged "he hides from spiders in the bathtub and from 
clowns in the closet"

"He's in the bath tub" Faith told her.

"Thank you" Anya turned to go back upstairs. She stopped on the 
first step and turned back to Faith "You can't have him back. He 
gives me orgasms now"

Anya disappeared up the stairs.

Faith cocked her hip "She's-"

"Weird. We know" Willow cut in.

"You should make friends with her" Buffy patted Faith on the 
shoulder. If Anya liked her Buffy would let her off a bit easy. But 
she'd pay for the kissing Dawn thing later.

"Yeah" Kida agreed with Buffy "You should get her a bunny"
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"Okay so your telling me your little sister is the key to hell" 
Faith looked unbelieving.

"Yep. She opens the burning gates of purgatory alright" 
Buffy 'schooched' oh her chair. It was almost dark. She hoped this 
girl Dario spoke of would show up soon. That and her butt was almost 
as numba s Kida's.

Everyone had long since gone on to other things.

Xander and Anya were gone, Willow was upstairs playing with Rowen, 
Buffy and Kida were dowstairs with Faith.

"Ok but when did Willow have a kid?" Faith rubbed her temple. She 
was builing one hell of a migraine.

"She didn't. Rowen was a gift" Buffy smiled. All the love she had 
for Willow showed on her face.

"She looks just like Willow" Faith pointed out.

"You noticed that to?" Buffy said sarcastically.

"She's like a short mirror image" Faith equaled Buffy's sarcasm.

"Well I see everyone's all buddy, buddy now" Dario's voice preceded 
her into the room.

Faith looked around but couldn't fine who the angry voice was coming 
from.

Dario walked through the wall behind the dark slayer, just to 
unsettle her "Do you still want the soul decerning?" she asked Buffy.

"Yeah I do. This is so not the time to have a loose canon" Buffy 
stood all business.

Dario turned and spoke directly to the wall. Her lips formed the 
words, but only the humming was heard.

Faith looked to Buffy in astonishment, but the other slayer had the 
same look on her face. Faith turned to Kida but she only looked hurt.

Dario had yet to acknowledge her presence.

Moments later the humming ended, and another girl stepped through 
the wall. She clothes similar to Buffy's, jeans and a tank top. It 
wasn't like California got that cold anytime of year.

"This is Spiri. Spiri this is Buffy, she's a slayer, and Faith she's 
a........well I don't know what she is but she's here" Dario cast a 
rather nasty look at the dark slayer.

"Kida" Spiri nodded.

"Spiri" Kida acknowledged.

"What do you think of this 'dark' child?" Spiri asked outright. Both 
of them possessed powers that were strong in that area.

"I'm biased. I can't trust my judgement" Kida admited "Faith is an 
old friend"

"An old lover you mean" Dario said spitefully.

"Oh" Spiri eyed them both. She wondered why Dario had ignored her 
lover. Now she knew. She moved closer to Faith having walked past 
her when she came through the wall "If you'd permit to touch you-" 
she left the rest of the sentence blank. She had a feeling this one 
didn't like to be touched.

"Will it hurt?" Faith frowned. She didn't know if this was good or 
bad.

"Do you want it to?" Spiri frowned, this girl just might prove a 
problem.

"No. But go ahead" Faith cockily spread her arms and took a deep 
breath "Grab me"

Kida huffed and left the room.

Dario rolled her eyes and supressed the urge to knock the shit out 
of Faith.

Spiri touched her. And screamed.
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