Title: Repercussions, Reactions and Retaliation Book II
Author: The Bear!
Spoilers: None really, this is in the Triadverse AU and follows The Please Trilogy and The Triad Trilogy
Pairing: Willow/Buffy/Tara primarily, but other Scoobies are hooked up as well.
Summary: With Glory defeated, things should quiet down for a while... shouldn’t they?
Warnings: NC17 overall (the Prologue is relatively tame. PG13)
Disclaimer: If I owned ‘em, they’d have to show it on the Xstasy Network.
========== BtVS ==========
Prologue
“Ok, all the words are starting to blur together...” Xander announced tiredly, closing the tome he’d been reading from and setting it aside. “I’m wiped.”
The whole Scooby Gang, including the two parental figures, and the newest junior member, were sitting in Giles’ living room researching, as they had been for several hours now.
“I take it you haven’t been able to find anything helpful?” Giles asked, looking up from his own book just a just a little bleary-eyed himself.
“Actually, I did,” Xander replied offhand.
Everyone’s eyes moved quickly to the young man as he stood. “Yeah, I found out all about it, there was a whole chapter on how to gain absolute power through repetitious three-way girl-lovin’. I was just keeping it to myself because I felt it would be more dramatic if I waited until we’d spent a few more days wading through the book dust before I said anything.”
All the girls smiled, even Joyce, though she turned away so Giles wouldn’t see it if he looked.
“Yes, well... it’s unfortunate that the exhaustion hasn’t spread so far as to render your sense of humor dormant,” Giles said with resigned annoyance.
“Oh, that’ll be the last thing that goes...” Willow snarked, causing more smiles and a few chuckles.
“You know it,” Xander agreed, stretching and yawning mightily. He smiled when he ended the stretch and noticed Buffy, Willow, Faith and Joyce all with answering yawns on their faces. Tara was grinning at him with a raised eyebrow.
‘I wish I knew why she kept doing that!’ Xander thought. ‘It’s like she knows something I don’t... I don’t know if I’m in trouble, or what!’
He glanced toward his ‘roommate’ as he asked, “Ready to go Dawn?”
As soon as his eye’s met her face and saw her staring intently back at him, he dropped his gaze to the floor, avoiding her eyes. ‘I’m like some kind of freak or something... ‘ he thought, feeling the now customary desire and guilt rose up inside him whenever looking at the youngest Summers.
“Yeah, I’m tired too,” Dawn said, her tone of voice substantiating her words.
“Ok, then we’re gonna take off,” Xander said, heading towards the door.
“Hey, you two!” Buffy spoke up.
Xander felt a dart of panic and adrenaline at Buffy’s interjection. ‘It’s like I keep expecting her to smack the crap out of me!’ he thought with annoyance at his body’s response. ‘I haven’t done anything!’
‘Unless you count incessantly ogling and fantasizing about her little sister...’ his conscience reminded him, making him cringe.
“You guys are coming over tomorrow for dinner, right?” Buffy asked expectantly.
“Dinner?” Xander asked.
“I... I didn’t get around to mentioning it to him yet,” Dawn explained in the face of her sister’s directed glance.
“How come?” Willow asked, sounding surprised. “I thought you went right over to Xander’s after our ‘lesson’ this afternoon...”
“I did, he didn’t get back from work until it was time to come over here,” Dawn explained with just a hint of defensiveness in her voice.
“Long day at work, Xander?” Buffy asked casually.
Again Xander cringed in guilt. ‘No, I just couldn’t trust myself to be alone in my apartment with your little sister for two hours without doing something stupid.’
“It’s, ah... it’s been a long week...” he mumbled, unwilling to discuss his job at the moment.
“Exactly!” Buffy said, blithely unaware of Xander’s emotional state. “A surreally normal week of school and work after the battle to save the world from utter destruction.”
“And subsequent weekend of kidnapping and attempted assassinations,” Willow added.
“Right,” Buffy agreed. “I think that deserves a celebratory dinner and night at the Bronze, don’t you guys?”
“Food and dancing; good with me!” Faith spoke up.
“Yeah, I could go for that,” Xander said, putting a smile on his face.
“How about you guys?” Buffy asked, turning toward her mom and Giles.
“Certainly we would love to come for dinner,” Giles said, looking at Joyce for confirmation.
“Of course,” Joyce said with a smile. “I’m not sure about the Bronze, but dinner sounds lovely.”
“Ok then, everybody’s in. We’ll eat around six, but feel free to show up anytime after five or so...” Buffy said.
“We get a free show if we’re there before that?” Faith asked with a smirk.
“And on that note!” Xander said loudly, interrupting any response from the blonde Slayer. “Casa del Tara, after five, before six. We’ll be there.” Looking over toward the dark Slayer, he added, “You need a ride, Faith?”
‘Doh!’ as soon as he said it Xander winced at his stupidity.
“Like you wouldn’t believe,” Faith said in a voice that promised filthy, obscene, wonderful things for the recipient, if only they’d give in.
“Faith? Can Dawn and I take you home... and leave you there... by yourself?” Xander asked, pretending he hadn’t been dumb enough to ask that question in a way that left such an obvious opening.
Faith laughed while Dawn shot her a glare before rolling her eyes. “Nah, I’m too antsy to get any sleep right now. I think I’m gonna go see if I can find something to kill. Thanks though,” she said, brushing past him and opening the door. “See you guys tomorrow,” she called back over her shoulder to the room as she exited.
Various calls of “Goodnight Faith,” echoed out from the other Scoobies.
‘I’m glad she’s getting along with everyone so well,’ Xander thought hopefully. ‘I just hope it lasts... I vividly remember how painful a crush on Buffy can be...’
He returned his focus to the present as Dawn stopped before him.
“You ready?” she asked, looking up at him through her lashes.
‘Oh dear God, yes!’ Xander’s libido shouted out in his head.
“Yeah,” Xander nodded, forcing a smile at the same time he tried to ignore the painful stiffening in the leg of his jeans. “Ok, night everyone,” he said, his eyes traveling the group.
‘Why do I feel like everyone in the room is staring at my crotch?’ he asked himself as he turned and walked out the door, following Dawn and trying with little success to stop himself from watching her hips sway.
“So, how are the magic lessons going Dawn?” he asked as they headed for the car, hoping to distract himself enough to walk comfortably.
‘This is why I can’t tuck my shirts in anymore... I’m a walking hard-on,’ he lamented.
TheBear!
Willow: "It's a good fight, Buffy, and I want in."
Buffy: "I kinda love you."
—'Choices'
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