Something Wicked 2/?

["jillbone" <jillbone@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A/N:  Thank you everyone for the wonderful feedback. To avoid 
confusion thoughts will be in () and everything else stays the same.




Chapter 2: I'm a Slayer...Ask Me How

	Waking up, Buffy looked around her trying to figure out where 
she was.  (Yup, floor of the library.)  Spotting Giles sitting at a 
nearby table, she groaned.  "Do you have to do that every time we 
fight?"

	"Yes," he replied calmly sipping his cup of tea.  "Now,
do you want to tell me what that was all about?"

	Buffy stood, thinking about the redhead who was long gone by 
now.  (Willow) she corrected herself.  (Mine) the demon growled, 
feeding her images of all the ways she could claim the redhead.  Most 
of them involving nudity and dessert toppings.  Shaking her head, she 
turned to Giles.  "She touched something of mine."

	Giles just nodded knowing how possessive slayers could be.  
Buffy once knocked Faith unconscious for stealing Mr. Gordo, her 
stuffed pig.  "Please wake up your sister so we can be on our way 
home," he said making his way into his office to gather his
things.

	Buffy leaned over and gently shook her sister's shoulder.  
The brunette rolled over and mumbled, "Go away.  `M not going
to school today."

	Smiling, Buffy shook Faith harder.  "We're already at
school, dipshit."  

	Faith bolted straight up, sure she had fallen asleep in class 
again.  Wincing at the pain in her jaw, she started whining. 
"What the hell did you hit me for, B?"

	Buffy offered a hand up, then growled at her sister and 
simply stated, "Touch her again and I'll rip off your arm and
beat you to death with it."

	Looking at the blonde's yellow eyes, she knew Buffy was 
claiming the redhead for her own.  "God, you couldn't have
just said that to begin with?"

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	Giving up after an unsuccessful night of slaying, Buffy and 
Faith decided to head to the Bronze and try their luck hunting for a 
different prey.  When they walked into the club, the slayers took a 
deep breath and let their demons scan the building for trouble.  Not 
sensing anything, they slung their stake-laden jackets over a nearby 
table.  While Buffy looked for Willow, her sister checked out the 
crowd for a suitable dance partner.  Faith spotted a leggy blonde 
across the room and immediately made her way over.

	Unable to find the redhead anywhere, Buffy sat back to watch 
Faith do an enthusiastic grind into her more than willing partner.  
Resigning herself to a long and frustrating evening, the blonde tried 
to signal a waitress to bring her a water and saw a flash of red by 
the entrance.  She sniffed the air and caught Willow's unique
scent.  She stood up to head over when she spotted Xander with her 
Willow.

	Growling low in her throat, Buffy watched Xander pt his hand 
on the small of Willow's back and guide her towards a sofa near
the dance floor.  The demon was pissed.  (Who does he think he is?  
And why aren't we hurting him?)  Shaking off the possessive demon,
Buffy watched the couple settle into the sofa.  (He's probably
her boyfriend...Who am I kidding?  She wouldn't want to go out
with someone like me anyway.)  Caught up in her thoughts, she almost 
missed the two vamps walking out the exit with their soon-to-be meals.

	Buffy headed for Faith hearing Willow's gasp and Xander's
low whistle when they saw the two slayers again.  The blonde leaned 
into her sister and whispered, "Hate to break up your little floor
show, but we've got two newbies with takeout right outside." 
Her eyes briefly locked with Willow's as she and Faith grabbed
their jackets and left the club.

	Hearing a commotion in the alley next to the club, Faith 
smiled at Buffy.  "Ok, B.  On the count of three."

	"Faith..."

	"One...two...three!"  the slayers stepped around the corner 
and saw the vamps with their prey pinned to the wall.  Faith called 
out, "Hey!  You boys looking for a good time?"

	Hoping this was an opportunity to double their meal, the 
newbies turned towards the slayers and smiled.  "We're always
looking for a bit of fun."  Then, they finally noticed the stakes
in the intruders' hands and knew the game was over.  Slipping into
game face, the vamps snarled and attacked.

	At this, the slayers charged the newbies -- Faith with a 
roundhouse kick and Buffy with a punch that threw her vamp into the 
side of a dumpster.  Seeing their chance to escape, the two would-be-
meals cowering against the wall ran off into the night vowing never 
to talk to strangers again.  Flipping her vamp over, Buffy staked him 
and stood back to watch her sister.  Faith was beating her attacker 
in the face with the blunt end of a stake.  Somebody's
frustrated, Buffy chuckled to herself remembering the dance she 
interrupted earlier.

	Distracted, she never noticed the third vampire sneaking up 
behind her.  He had his hands wrapped around her throat before she 
could call out to Faith.  The blonde could feel herself getting 
lightheaded from lack of oxygen and rammed her head back startling 
the vamp into dropping her.  She thrust her stake up and into his 
heart before he had time to regroup.  Gasping for air, she looked 
over at Faith just in time to see her vamp explode into dust.

	"What the hell was that, Faith?"

	Faith turned, trying to get the dust off her clothes.  "Aw, 
c'mon.  I was just having some fun.  By the way, nicely diverted,
B."

	"That wasn't `diverting.'  That was fighting for my
life, Miss Attention Span."

	"Hey, this isn't a tupperware party.  It's a little bit 
harder to plan."

	"'The count of three' isn't a plan.  It's Sesame
Street."  Buffy turned to leave and spotted trouble -- Willow and 
Xander.  Unsure of how much they had seen, she nudged Faith and said,
"Hey, didn't see you guys standing there.  Faith and I just
came outside to, uh...to..."

	Seeing the lost and desperate look on her sister's face, 
Faith jumped in.  "...To get some fresh air.  Boy, you really
work up a sweat dancing in there."

	Willow and Xander couldn't meet the slayers' eyes.  Their 
attention was riveted on the spot the vampire was last at.  "Did
he just go `poof'?" Willow asked making a little gesture
with her hands.

	Buffy chuckled weakly.  "Maybe he was a magician?"

	Willow locked eyes with Buffy and raised an eyebrow.  Xander 
looked up, stammering, "No, no.  I definitely saw a
`grrr' and then a `poof'...and then with the
dust."  He cocked his head at the slayers.  "Not very
Siegfried and 
Roy."

	Buffy just stared at Willow unsure of what to say to make the 
situation better.  Seeing the dejected look on the blonde's face, 
Faith decided to take matters into her own hands.  As 
usual.  "Vampires are real.  We're slayers.  We kill
vampires.  Any questions?  No?  Good."

	Buffy's head snapped to look at her sister so fast she 
thought she might have whiplash at first.  "Faith!  Do you even
know the meaning of the word tact?"  The dark haired slayer gave
her an innocent look and Buffy turned back to Xander and Willow. 
"Look, I know this is kinda hard to believe..."

	"Actually, it explains a lot, "  Xander cut her off still 
staring at the two slayers.

	Willow simply shrugged.  "Well, Sunnydale does have a higher 
mortality rate than most third world countries."

	Buffy's demon was dancing around, pleased that her Willow was 
taking this so well.  (What are you waiting for?  Go get her.)  The 
blonde mentally shoved the little demon back into his cage and said 
to the group as a whole, "We should probably head home to Giles
and he can explain this in more detail."

	Willow looked puzzled.  "Why would the school librarian know 
anything about this?"

	Xander gasped, a little dismayed at the thought that the two 
gorgeous girls were taken.  "You live with the school librarian?  
Isn't he a little old for you?"

	Buffy looked at Faith and sighed.  "It's a long story. 
We'll tell you on the way."








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