FIC : "Of Stakes & Spells" 4/? [W/B]

["satanslilangl" <satanslilangl@xxxxxxxxx>]

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(Author's note: I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while, but I had a 
lot of School work I had to catch-up on because I spent WAY TOO much 
time writing FanFiction . . . needless to say my professors are 
pissed at me . . . hope you like this next chapter! WARNING: it 
makes little if any sense, and that's because I dreamt it up after I 
wrote the last chapter. Hope you don't hate it TOO much . . .)

===(*Telling The Truth*)===

Buffy awoke slowly, surprised by the warmth she felt. She knew she 
was sleeping on top of the covers, and yet she was surrounded by 
heat. Then, another realization came to her: she wasn't alone. 
Her initial reaction was to throw off who ever was on top of her, but 
something stopped her.

{Why does this feel so good?} She wondered. {It was never like this 
with Angel, he was always so cold and hard. He never held me like 
this}. The small blond sighed, thinking about how amazing it was to 
wake up that way. {I could never leave this bed again, and I think 
I'd be happy for the rest of my life} Buffy thought. 

Buffy was still half asleep, so her brain didn't even have the 
presents-of-mind to lie to her self. {It feels so good . . . why 
haven't I felt like this before?} The Slayer wondered. Then a 
familiar smell came to her. {Umm! Cherry-Cranberry Sham-} her eyes 
shot open, and she was suddenly awake. {WILLOW!} She closed here 
eyes quickly; hoping that she was still asleep and when she woke it'd 
all be a dream. 

{Oh. My. GOD!} Buffy was in code blue Panic-Mode, ready to jump 
out of bed and run off down the hall. She felt her friend stir 
slightly on her, but she was too afraid to see if the redhead was 
awake. Buffy had to calm down. {I didn't do anything wrong!} She 
yelled inside her head {I fell asleep on my bed next to my best 
friend, and we must have just . . . latched on to each other during 
the night. You know, mistaken each other for other people . . .} 
but then, as though in answer to her own thought, another voice, from 
the back of Buffy's mind said { . . . Oh come one Buffy! How lame is 
that! I know you enjoyed it, and probably still are enjoying it. No 
use lying, I'm you and I know what you feel}

{Okay . . .} the first voice answered, {So what if I did? I didn't 
know it was HER!}

{Would it matter if you did?}

{OF COURSE IT WOULD!!}

{ . . . Why?}

{BECAUSE . . . !} Buffy didn't have an answer to that, {BECAUSE! I 
DON'T LIKE WILLOW LIKE THAT!!}

{You sure about that . . . ?} That made the Slayer pause, {Because 
from what I've seen, you like her A LOT! It's all there, you just 
don't see it. It's become subconscious for you.}

{What do you mean?!} Buffy was becoming very confused, and she was 
going to have to talk to Giles about the possibility of her having 
schizophrenia.

{Buffy, mistake me if I'm wrong, but didn't you walk willingly to 
your death when you were only 16?}

{Yeah, so? What does that have to do with Willow?}

{She was there, remember? You said 'NO', you said you quit, and 
even your beloved Angel couldn't talk some sense into you . . . but 
after spending just a few minutes talking to a scared Willow, you 
marched down to that cave and died.} Buffy remembered that day, it 
still gave her shivers.

{What does that have to do with anything? It's my destiny to die, 
so what if I finally embraced it?}

{Yeah, but the other night you did something you haven't let yourself 
do in a long time: TAKE THE NIGHT OFF! I know you think: 'If I 
don't go out tonight, then that's at least one vamp that got away and 
had a meal. And there's another life I let slip through my fingers'}

{BUT WILLOW WAS GRIEVING!} she rationalized, {I had to do something! 
She needed to be taken care of!}

{Trust me, you just made it worse.} The second voice said darkly.

{What? What did I do?}

{You see, that's just it: YOU DON'T REMEMBER! I know that a part of 
you remembers, deep inside your skull. You see flashes of the 
memories in your dreams, and you know they're real.}

{What? What don't I remember?! TELL ME!} The second voice didn't 
answer her question, ignoring it as though the words had gone unsaid.

{Just let go, Buffy. You have been so alone for so long, even LONG 
before Angel left you were alone. Just look at her, and you'll see 
it. Do you feel the way she's clinging to you? The disparity in 
the way she holds you, compared to how everyone else has? She needs 
you, not the other way around. I know you love her, and don't pass-
up the chance to let her love you back.} There was a silence in the 
Blond slayer's head, absorbing the facts and trying to figure them 
out. 

{You feel it, don't you?} The voice continued, {that heat. There's 
chemistry between you of prophetic proportions . . . don't ignore it 
Buffy. I know you don't want to . . .} the voice faded, leaving the 
slayer nothing to distract her from the heat of her and the Witch's 
body. 

Buffy slowly wrapped her arms around the Copper-top's body, trying to 
slow her thoughts to a point where she could at least jog along side 
them in order to keep up. 

"Buffy?" came the quiet and sleepy voice of the Witch, "Are you 
awake?"

"Mmm . . ." Buffy said smiling, trying to enjoy the last moments of 
her and Willow's time together.

"Buffy?" Willow whispered, even more quietly. The blond gave her a 
tight hug, realizing she didn't want to let go quite yet. "Who are 
you dreaming about?" Willow obviously thought she was sleeping, and 
was trying to trick her into talking in her sleep again. Buffy 
fished around for the name that would freak Willow out the most, she 
settled on one that was sure to have the witch wigged.

"Mmm . . ." Buffy moaned sleepily, "Faithy you sexy devil . . ." She 
felt Willow shoot up into a sitting position. 

"FAITH!?!" Willow practically screeched. Buffy couldn't hold it in 
any longer, and burst out laughing. She eyes opened to see the 
horrified look on the red-head's face.

"Willow!" Buffy laughed hysterically, "You should see the look on 
your face!"