Fic: RR&R Book III (7a/7) NC17 see header for pairings

Title: Repercussions, Reactions and Retaliation Book III

Author: The Bear!

Spoilers: None really, this is in the Triadverse AU and follows Reflections, which followed RR&R Book II

Pairing: Willow/Buffy/Tara Joyce/Giles Dawn/Xander Faith/Non-BtVS Characters

Summary: It’s the beginning of summer and things are heating up, in more ways than one!

Warnings: NC17 (People will be having hot, sweaty, sticky, kinky, yummy sex in this story! If that offends you, feel free to PISS OFF)

(Back after another long delay, Chapter 7 is smutty, but not as much, or within as many ships as some of my fans will want. Sorry about that! Don’t hate me!)

Disclaimer: If I owned ‘em, they’d have to show it on the Xstasy Network.

Author’s Note: Back after an unfortunately long hiatus.

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Chapter 7

“Tell me this isn’t a dream.”

Xander blinked his eyes, making the final transition from sleep to wakefulness. The sight that greeted him was his lover’s tear streaked face, inches from his own as they lay on their sides facing each other.

Instantly he reached out to cup her cheek. “Dawn, what? What’s the...?”

“Just tell me,” she interrupted. “This is real, right? I’m not dreaming?”

Her voice had a noticeable tone of desperation.

A chill shiver ran through his flesh. “This is real,” he said as reassuringly as he could. “You’re not dreaming. Now, tell me what happened.”

Her eyes slipped shut and she let out a shaky sigh.

He felt a painful tightness in his chest as her eyes drew even more tightly shut, squeezing new teardrops out onto her cheeks.

“Oh, Xander!” she cried softly, immediately closing what little distance there was between them, hugging him tightly. “It was awful!”

“Shh, it’s ok, I’m right here,” he reassured her again, returning her tight embrace.

“I woke up....” she whispered. “I...I was dreaming. All of this—my whole life was the dream. I woke up and I was nowhere. I didn’t have a body, and there was nothing...just me—the Key.”

‘Oh, Kitten!’ Xander’s own eyes began to tear as Dawn choked back a sob.

“I screamed and screamed, but there was no sound! No one anywhere to hear it even if there was....”

“That’s horrible!” he gasped as the despondency in her voice sent an icy sensation racing through his bloodstream. He gripped her a little tighter as if trying to reassure himself that her nightmare wasn’t real, that she was truly in his arms. “But, you’re here with me-it was just a dream. You’re right here, with me and I love you!”

He shuddered again, this time at the warm sensation of her lips kissing his neck. “Love me, Xander,” she pleaded softly.

“I do,” he began, though he didn’t misunderstand her meaning. Rolling them both over so that he was on top of her, he continued in an intensely emotional voice, “Whatever was in your past—I don’t care. You’re here now with me, and I love you!”

“Show me?” she asked almost tentatively.

‘Silly girl, like I’d ever say no to that!’ he thought with a smile. Aloud, he simply replied, “Absolutely!”

He never broke eye contact as he shifted up, aligning himself. No guidance was needed as he slid home inside of her with a groan of pleasure.

“Oh God! Xander...so good!” she moaned in response, her body arching against his.

Forcing his eyes to stay open and locked on hers, Xander rasped, “Feel that? That’s me inside of you, you wrapped around me...that’s real...you’re real!”

“Yours, Xander!” she gasped out, clearly having to struggle to keep her eyes open as well.

“S’right, you’re mine!” he grunted in agreement, his mind awash in pleasure as he moved inside his lover.

‘Good...warm...love...Dawn....’ Xander’s thoughts were a chant, centered on the physical sensations of making love to Dawn, and the emotion that overflowed from his heart. All that he could see was the love and heat in Dawn’s gaze—everything else around them could have disappeared and he wouldn’t have even noticed.

Dawn’s mewling cries of pleasure incited Xander, increasing the speed and power of his movements until his teeth were clenched to keep from rattling and he had to hold Dawn’s shoulders to keep from pushing her up into the headboard.

“Yes! Yes! Oh God, Xander!” Dawn screamed, her internal muscles clenching down on Xander almost painfully as she came.

“Dawn!” Xander shouted almost in surprise at her vice-like grip. His own orgasm ripped powerfully through his body leaving him twitching and spent.

Dawn grabbed his head and pulled his face to her own, panting through several sloppy kisses.

He rolled them over so that she lay draped atop him. “Love you...so much!” he panted.

“Thank you, thank you, thank you!” she chanted, kissing him all over his face.

“Hey, hey” Xander whispered, cupping her face in his hands so he could look her in the eyes. “You’re more than welcome, Dawn. You don’t need to thank me for that, it’s just as much for me as you.”

Shaking her head, Dawn said, “Thank you for making the dream go away, Xander. Thank you for making me feel real again.”

“You are real!” he said intently. When she didn’t look completely reassured, he added, “It was just a dream—a horrible dream—but still...”

“Was it?” She asked in an unsure voice. “I mean, first there’s the whole weird green fire thing, and then that dream...”

“Look,” Xander interrupted gently. “First off, the green fire thing—ok, not completely normal—but it was amazing. As for the dream, if you’re really worried about that...we can ask Tara and Willow to—I don’t know—do a spell or something. We’ll figure it out, ok?”

Dawn dropped her eyes, nodding sheepishly. “Ok...I’m sorry I freaked out.”

He kissed her forehead and said, “Shh, no apology necessary. We both know how nightmares can mess up things, don’t we?”

He smiled as she nodded. “Besides, I think we’ve discovered a pretty good cure...” he added, waggling his eyebrow’s suggestively.

She giggled. “If it’s ok with you, I’d rather have the cure without having to have the illness first.”

“Mmm, no problem there, Honey Kitten,” he said in a low, lascivious tone. “How about I go run the bathwater, and then I can give you another shot?”

Her smile was wide as she responded, “I dunno, Sugar Bear, I may need more than one...”

He groaned as she licked her lips, envisioning just how she might use them to ‘take her medicine’. “Several, probably...” he said hoarsely.

“I probably need a daily prescription...you know—preventative maintenance.” Dawn said as she slid off of him, moving to stand beside the bed. She held out her hand to him and added, “Come on, I’ll start with an oral dose while the tub fills...”

‘God, now I’m the one hoping this isn’t just a dream!’ Xander thought in wonder as he quickly scrambled out of the bed to join his lover.

“I hate that we have to leave today, I’m really going to miss this place,” Dawn commented as they moved toward the bathroom. “Monday we need to start looking for a place with a tub like this one.”

“Uh huh!” Xander grunted in agreement.

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“We’ll go back again someday, Dawn,” Xander said gently as Dawn stared out across the water towards Catalina and Avalon.

The look of melancholy on Dawn’s face was replaced with a bright smile as she turned toward him. “I know. It’s just...these have been the happiest two days of my whole life. It feels like a dream, a fantasy. I don’t want it to be over.”

‘I get it,’ Xander thought with an answering smile. “Happy memories,” he said, pulling the brunette into an embrace. “I know I’ll never forget this trip, as long as I live—Catalina’s gonna be one of my favorite places on the planet.”

“Absolutely!” Dawn agreed happily.

“Well, I guess we’ll just have to make sure we make some happy memories in other places so we don’t miss this place too much,” he said, grinning lasciviously.”

“Oh yeah!” Dawn agreed with a laugh.

“Sir, Ma’am?” a voice interrupted their reverie. “Your luggage is stowed.”

Xander looked up to see their limo-driver holding the back door of the stretch Lincoln open for them. ‘Hmm, time for one more birthday surprise!’ he thought excitedly.

Dawn broke away from their embrace and walked over toward the car.

Xander was startled out of his visual enjoyment of a retreating Dawn when she asked, “So...is that privacy divider soundproof?”

The driver didn’t even seem phased as he answered, “Yes ma’am, it’s very well insulated.”

Dawn looked over her shoulder at Xander as she climbed into the car. “Come on, Sugar Bear. We’ve got some memories to make!” she said in an unapologetically sultry tone.

‘Great googly moogly!’ Xander thought, feeling heat rising in his face, along with uncomfortable stiffening in his pants. He hastened to follow Dawn into the car- deliberately ignoring the smirk on the driver’s face.

“Lucky stiff!” he heard the driver mutter as he closed the door.

‘You got that right!’ Xander thought, seeing the predatory smile on Dawn’s face as she closed the privacy barrier. ‘Looks like I’m not the only one planning a surprise!’

Her smile only grew as she spun around to kneel on the floor in front of him. She put her hands on his knees and gently pushed them apart. “Lie back, Sugar,” she crooned as she moved between his legs.

“G-God, Dawn!” Xander stammered. ‘I think I’ve created a monster!’ he thought in amazement.

“Mmm, more like unleashed!” she whispered, her hands moving up to stroke his length through his pants.

“Nughh!” he grunted, struggling to keep his eyes open at the overwhelming lust that flowed through his whole body.

“We did slow,” she continued in a husky voice as she teased him, slowly unzipping his pants, one agonizing click at a time. “As painful as it was, I totally respected the whole go-slow program. But now...”

She paused and licked lips, extracting a whimper from him.

“I plan to enjoy you any time, any place I can...” She reached in the open fly of his pants and grasped him through his underwear. Another pause as she looked coyly up at him though her lashes. “You don’t mind do you?” she asked sweetly.

“No! God no!” he replied in a strangled yelp.

“Good!” she said, reaching into his boxer-briefs and pulling out his stiff cock.

He groaned loudly as she slowly licked up the underside. His eyes slipped shut and he arched against the seat as she blew a cool stream of air against the wet line she’d drawn. “Dawn!” he cried as she enveloped his chilled flesh in her warm mouth, setting a slow, deliberate rhythm.

“So good! God in Heaven! That feels so good Kitten!” he growled between clenched teeth.

“Mmm, mmm, mmm!” she hummed in what sounded like agreement.

He forced his eyes open and found her looking up at him as she moved up and down his hard length. ‘So beautiful!’ he thought with a groan.

She smiled at him—as well as she could with her mouth full anyway—and began to shorten her movements, nursing on just the head of his cock while stroking the shaft with her hand.

It only took about a minute of that before Xander felt his loins tighten. “Honey, I...I’m gonna cum!” he gasped out seconds before doing just that.

As his body was flushed with pleasure, he saw her eyes widen in surprise, and then slip shut as she moaned in apparent relish. ‘I gotta be the luckiest guy on the whole friggen planet!’ he thought fervently.

Her cheeks hollowed with suction as she ran her thumb up his cock, squeezing the last bit out of him. She released his head with a loud pop, then licked her lips and said, “Mmm! Sugar, you taste so good!”

“Dawn...” Xander whispered in amazement, still breathing hard from his orgasm. “God, I Love you, so much!”

Her answering smile lit up her face. She carefully tucked him back into his pants and zipped him up before climbing up into his lap and whispering, “I’m the lucky one, Xander. I’m so in love with you, and sometimes I feel like I have to pinch myself just to make sure I’m not dreaming. You really love me, we’re really together!”

‘She’s the lucky one?’ Xander thought with a moment of confusion. However, the rest of her statement distracted him from the thought and he responded, “You’re darn right I really love you, and I couldn’t be happier that we’re together...*really* together now!”

Dawn giggled and squirmed on his lap as his hands began to wander down to squeeze her tight butt.

“We’re here, sir,” the driver’s voice came across the intercom, interrupting Xander’s thoughts of how he might repay Dawn’s actions.

Dawn frowned. “We’re here? We can’t be home yet...” she looked out the windows on both sides of the limo before turning back to him with a confused look.

“I’m going to have to owe you one, Honey,” Xander said with real regret in his voice. “Thank you, Brad,” he said back into the intercom.

“What’s going on, Xander?” she asked her eyes narrowed with apparent suspicion.

“Hmm,” Xander hummed as a smile grew on his face. “One more birthday surprise for my girl...”

He could see that she was fighting it, but a delighted smile nevertheless grew on her face as she protested, “Xander!”

“We’re here to pick up your birthday present, Kitten!” he said. ‘Man, I can’t wait to see her face!!’ he thought excitedly.

“Present? But...the trip?” Dawn sputtered.

“We went on the trip to celebrate your birthday, but I still have to give you your gift,” he explained with a Cheshire-like grin on his face.

The door opened and Xander lifted her off of his lap. “Come on! Let’s go see your present!” he said merrily.

Dawn stepped out onto the sidewalk and looked up at the building as Xander climbed out behind her. “West Coast Customs...what kind of store is this?” she asked hesitantly.

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“So, is Faith coming to Dawn’s party tonight?” Tara asked as she leaned against the bedpost watching her lovers get dressed.

“Um, I think?” Buffy said, sounding unsure. “I made sure she knew she was invited last night... she sounded kinda like she wanted to, but like maybe she wasn’t sure.”

“Going commando again?” Tara asked with a smile and a shake of her head as she watched Buffy shimmy into a pair of tight leather hip-huggers.

“I can’t wear panties with these,” Buffy said, sounding not at all upset by that fact.

“Panties?” Willow asked in a teasing tone. “Heck, you couldn’t wear pubic hair without showing it in those pants!”

“Good thing I don’t have to worry about that, then; isn’t it?” Buffy said, smiling broadly.

“My little exhibitionist!” Tara sighed, only pretending the need for tolerance. ‘I definitely unleashed a monster!’ she thought not unhappily. ‘Ever since I made her show off my scratches on her tummy, she finds ways to show more and more skin...’

“I love these pants,” Buffy said with a mock pout, as though she didn’t know exactly how much they turned on her two lovers.

“I love you in those pants!” Willow breathed, her hand reaching out to trace a line of flesh just above the top of said pants.

Custom made just for Buffy, the skin-tight, tissue-thin brown leather pants came up to just above the crack of her ass in the back, and then dived down into a deep ‘V’ ending in a very short, lace-up fly that also served as the only closure the garment had. Had she even the tiniest tuft of pubic hair, it would have shown through the opening behind the laces. The extra thickness of leather at the bottom of the fly was directly over her clitoral hood, which—in addition to the way Tara and Willow reacted to the garment—was the real reason Buffy loved those pants.

Tara shook her head, thinking, ‘How easily I get distracted by a little Buffy-skin...well actually that’s more than just a little...’

“Um...Dawn’s party—did you tell Faith to invite her new ‘friends’?” Tara asked, dragging her eyes up the vast expanse of exposed Buffy-torso to meet Buffy's knowing gaze. It didn’t help that the Slayer had yet to put on anything except her pants.

“Uh huh, I even tried to, you know, encourage her and stuff,” Buffy answered cheerily. “I said it’d be nice if she brought them, ‘cause everybody wants to meet them!”

“Did it seem like she didn’t want us to meet them?” Willow asked. “I mean, it’s not like anyone’s gonna be weirded out by a triad-relationship...” a teasing smile grew on her face as she added, “even if it does have a guy in it for some reason...”

Tara laughed. “You’re incorrigible, Willow!”

“Very,” Willow agreed, still with a wicked smile gracing her pink lips. “And you two are welcome to incorrige me any time you want!”

“Is incorrige even a word?” Buffy asked with a thoughtful frown, inciting Tara to even greater laughter.

Willow laughed too, knocking back a bit the ever-present sexual tension amongst the three.

“I hope she does bring them,” Tara said—once again returning to the original subject. “I’d like to see what kind of people were able to tame the wild-child.”

“Tame?” Buffy interjected disbelievingly.

“Well,” Tara temporized. “Tame for Faith, anyway...”

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Faith looked up from her plate, shooting a surreptitious glance at her two lovers. ‘Alex really does make a wicked good French toast,’ she thought—agreeing with the look of pleasure on Beth’s face as she chewed a forkful of the breakfast treat.

‘Man this is weird...’ Faith thought, her eyes returning to her breakfast—more like brunch really, given their late morning wakeup. ‘I mean, it’s good though—I think—just hanging out and stuff...I’m just not really used to it yet.’

‘It’s been, like, over a week since I spent the night at my own place...or even really any time at my place—except to get more clothes and stuff...’

“Do we have any plans today?” Alex asked, interrupting her musing.

“Hmm, totally open,” Beth said after a moment’s consideration. “Faith?” she asked.

“Well, um...I’m kinda supposed to go to Dawn’s birthday party tonight....” she answered hesitantly, feeling somewhat awkward.

“And Dawn is Buffy's sister, right?” Alex asked.

“Yeah...” Faith answered. ‘Kinda, sorta, but not really, except I can’t talk about that I guess...’ her thoughts rambled nervously.

“Ok,” Alex with a non-commital shrug. The look on his face was questioning.

“Ok, so I thought...um, I mean....” Faith trailed off again, ducking her head. ‘Damn it, I sound like Red...crap, even Red don’t talk like this anymore!’ she berated herself.

“What are you trying to say, Faithy?” Beth’s hand was warm against her own as the lithe beauty coaxed her to speak.

‘Spit it out, Faith! Don’t be a freakin wuss!’ she chastised herself. “I thought maybe...if you wanted to go with...?”

“Faith are you inviting us to go with you?” Alex asked with just a bit of humor in his voice.

“It’s no big, I mean, if you don’t want...” Faith immediately began to backpedal.

“Faith!” Beth interrupted. “Do you want us to go with you?”

Faith looked up into her lover’s eyes still half expecting to find derision and rejection. She felt slightly ashamed when all she saw was warmth and caring. ‘Trust, trust, trust...damn this crap is hard!’ she thought, having to steel herself just to get her head to nod in agreement.

She turned her attention to her other lover as he grasped her free hand. “Why?” he asked in an openly curious voice.

‘Damnit, he knows why—he just wants me to say it,’ she thought, annoyed. The irritation turned on herself as she added ‘Why is it so hard to say it?’

“That’s, uh...that’s what people do right?” Faith said, forcing her voice out. “They do stuff together when they’re...um...when they’re in a...” she had to pause to gulp past the lump in her throat before finishing with a whisper, “a relationship?”

‘God I feel stupid!’ she thought at the radiant smiles that lit up her lovers’ faces ‘Why is this so hard to do?’

‘Cause you’re being a sucker! They’re playing you!’ came a quick shot from her insecurities.

‘Shut up, bitch!’ Faith thought, mentally flipping off that dark voice.

“We’d love to go with you Faith,” Alex said warmly, once again reassuring her.

“Oh, you know what this means, don’t you?” Beth suddenly interjected.

“What?” Faith asked, stiffening slightly.

“We have to go shopping!” Beth said excitedly.

“Huh?” Faith asked, taken aback at the non-sequitor. She turned to Alex to see him rolling his eyes, an amused smirk on his face.

“Well, duh! Silly girl, if we’re going to a birthday party, we have to get a birthday present, don’t we?” Beth explained.

“Oh,” Faith nodded. Suddenly her eyes widened, “Oh crap! I totally spaced that!”

“Don’t worry Faith,” Beth said reassuringly. “That just gives us even more reason to go shopping! Go start the car, Alex. I’ll go get my purse!”

“Come on, Faith,” Alex said, guiding her towards the garage. “You’re gonna have to get used to spending weekends at the mall.”

Faith shook her head and smiled at the way Alex rolled his eyes, yet failed to look even a little bit displeased.

‘I’m actually looking forward to this,’ she realized as felt a growing sense of anticipation. ‘Damn, I am so whipped!’

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To be continued...