Another version of Cave Slayer & The Wiccan (The winning version!!) Happy Little Minion J   Disclaimer:        I don’t own ‘em, I’m just borrowing ‘em!!  They belong to Joss, ME, and anyone else (not me) who gets a cut!!  I promise to return them after I’m done playing… they’ll even be in somewhat of the same shape as when I got my grubby little paws on ‘em!!  Honest!!  Non BtVS characters do belong to me!  J    Rating:                NC-17  (Is there any thing else besides that???)    Pairing:              Buffy/Tara (Is there any thing else besides that??? J)    Summary:          Cave Slayer sees a pretty blonde and follows her home.    A/N:                    This started out as an author’s war… but soon grew to much more!!  Needless to say, the war was called on account of my never ending PWP!!  As MOT said, it grew legs and took off on a loooong walk!!  (And it will carry on with MOT’s help!!)    The premise for the story was the Cave Slayer sees a pretty blonde and follows her to her room.  A few other little tidbits were tossed into the idea bin, and that was supposed to be it!!  NOT!!  More ideas and remarks were added, and added, and added… you get the picture!!  This is the result, and there will be a continuation of this story with more people brought into the story.    So to MOT… Thanks for the war, but we’re calling a truce, and we both won!!  (We’ll duke it out another time, I’m sure!!)  ; )    Now that the Minion is done babbling… Enjoy!!  (I hope!!)    ~HLM~   Buffy tilted her head as she looked at the strange boy making mouth sounds at her.  Smiling sweetly she raises the branch and hits him over the head, knocking Parker out for the second time that night.    Xander starts to laugh, Willow sighs, and Giles pulls off his glasses cleaning them furiously.    “Umm… Yes, well…”  Giles sputters out.    Willow rolls her eyes at his attempt to take control of the situation, before she heads over to Buffy.  “No more hitting!  Bad Buffy!”  Hands on her hips, Willow gives Buffy a stern look.    Buffy grunts at her and kicks at Parker on the ground.    Xander laughs again earning a glare from Willow, he just shrugs and continues to laugh, a goofy grin on his face.    Willow smacks him on the arm.  “It’s not funny, Xander!”    “Yeah, it is.”  Xander rubs his arm where Willow smacked him.    While those two are bickering, Buffy’s head lifts and tilts as she watches a girl with blonde hair off in the distance hurrying towards campus.  Grunting, she takes off after her.    “BUFFY!”  Willow calls after the fleeing Slayer.    “I don’t think she should be left alone in her condition.”  Giles quickly puts his glasses back on.    “Really?”  Willow asks sarcastically as she turns her head to roll her eyes at the Watcher.    Giles coughs embarrassedly, as Xander laughs all the harder.    “We’ll watch her, you take care of them.”  Willow points at the van with the other three Neanderthals held within.  “Come on, Xan.”  Willow takes off after Buffy with a still laughing Xander following behind.  “BUFFY!  GET BACK HERE!!  OH, AND NO HITTING!!”  She tacks on as an afterthought.    Well ahead of them, Buffy grunts back over her shoulder at Willow, never slowing her lope towards the blonde and campus.    Tara unaware of being stalked enters her dorm building, and hurries up the stairs to her floor.    Buffy slips through the door as its closing, being brought up short when her branch gets stuck in the door.  Grunting, she quickly looks towards the door, then back again to see a fleeting glimpse of the blonde as she turns the corner of the stairs and goes out of sight.  Sniffing the air and grunting again, she quickly turns back and yanks on the branch, falling backwards to roll completely back onto her feet.  Buffy shakes her head and grunts, sneering at the offending door before quickly turning and heading up the stairs the blonde had climbed.    Sniffing the air, Buffy hesitates as she comes to the first floor up.  Not seeing the blonde, she grunts in frustration as her brows furrow and she sniffs again.  Continuing up to the next floor, Buffy spots the blonde and hurries down the hall after her.    Tara not seeing or hearing the Slayer coming up behind her opens her door and steps into her room.  Squeaking out in surprise, she jumps back against her door as a blur rushes past her.  Tara holds onto the door for balance as she follows the blur with her eyes.    Buffy rushes past Tara into her room and goes over near the far wall.  Squatting down on her haunches, she sniffs the air and grunts softly.    Tara just stares wide eyed at the… girl across the room.    Buffy tilts her head, seemingly studying the blonde’s face before grunting softly.  “Girl, pretty.”    Tara blinks in surprise, not so much at the words, but at the Slayer in general.  She quickly turns her head as she hears someone running down the hall and sliding to a stop outside her door.    “BUFFY!”  Willow pants out as she grabs the opening to stop her momentum before collapsing against the doorframe.  “Sorry!”  Willow briefly looks at the blonde before turning back to Buffy.  “Bad Buffy!”  Willow shakes a finger at the Slayer, stern look once again in place.    Buffy grunts and snarls up one side of her mouth at Willow before grunting again.    Tara, who had a quick flash of recognition when she’d turned to the redhead in her doorway, quickly turned back to stare wide eyed at Buffy.    “Come on, Buffy.  Let’s leave the nice girl alone and go back to our room.”  Willow waved Buffy towards the door.    Buffy grunted and looked back at the blonde.  “Girl, pretty.”  She grunted again but didn’t move as she and Tara stared at each other.    Willow finally looked at the blonde, tilting her head as she tried to place her.  “Don’t I know you?”    Tara turned her head towards Willow and nodded once.    Willow’s brow furrowed for a moment before she placed the girl.  “OH!  The Wicca meeting.”  She smiled at her.  “I’m Willow, by the way.”  She started to hold her hand out to the blonde.    Buffy grunted loudly and moved swiftly to slap Willow’s hand away.    “HEY!”  Willow looked down in surprise at Buffy.  “That wasn’t nice!”  She glared at the Slayer as she rubbed her hand.    Buffy grunted loudly again, sneering at Willow as she moved between the two women.    Just then Xander came running down the hall doing the same thing Willow had done to stop, quickly stepping into the doorway.    Tara squeaked again surprised by the sudden movement, and jumped back another step as she looked wide eyed at the newcomer.    Buffy growled loudly baring her teeth as she swung the branch at Xander, it landing harmlessly against the floor as he jumped back in surprise.    “HEY!  Willow said no hitting!  Bad Buffy!”  Xander glared down at the squatting Slayer, shaking a finger at her.    Buffy grunted and swung at his feet again.    “HEY!”  Xander backed up a bit more.    Buffy grunted easing backward toward the blonde behind her as she glared at the two standing in the doorway.    Willow shook her head and stepped forward a step.  “Come on, Buffy.”   Only to stop when Buffy growled and swung at her feet with the branch.    Buffy grunted as Willow stopped, she continued to back towards the blonde.    Tara stepped back as Buffy backed towards her.    Xander chuckled as he watched only to be smacked by Willow again.  “Hey!”  He rubbed his arm.  “Why’s everyone keep hitting me?”  He looked down at Buffy.  “Or trying to?”    Buffy grunted at him.    Willow just rolled her eyes as she looked up at the blonde.  “I don’t think she’ll hurt you.”    Tara looked up with a raised brow at Willow.    Willow shrugged and smiled at her.  “She seems to be protecting you, umm…”  Willow searched her memory for a name.    “T-tara.”  The blonde supplied the name for her.  Looking back down, slightly scared as Buffy bumped into her legs.    Buffy tilted her head back to look up at Tara when she finally reached her.  “Girl, pretty.”  She grunted softly and smiled as she fell over backwards.  Landing with a grunt she kept rolling until she was back on her feet.  Shaking her head and grunting, she looked up at Tara and smiled.    Tara couldn’t help the chuckle that came from her at the comical display.    Buffy tilted her head as she listened to the sound from the blonde, grunting softly as she stared.    Xander lightly smacked Willow’s arm.  “How come you aren’t hitting her for laughing?”    Willow just reached over and smacked him for the question, smiling at Tara as she turned their way.    “You’ll have to forgive Xander, his manners are worse than hers.”  She pointed towards Buffy.    Tara gave them a small smile before looking back down as Buffy bumped into her leg.    Buffy sniffed the side of Tara’s hip and grunted.  “Girl, smell nice.”  She sniffed again and then leaned against Tara’s leg.    “Buffy!”  Willow blushed as her eyes opened wide in shock at the Slayer.    Xander just chuckled and stepped out of Willow’s reach as her hand came at him.  “Na-na!”  He smirked at Willow as he continued to chuckle.  “You have to admit, it’s funny, Wil.  How often do we get to see Cave Sla… OWW!!”    Willow smacked him as she turned a partial shocked, partial nervous ‘watch what you say’ look at him.    Xander glared at her for a moment before he realized what he’d almost said, looking quickly towards Tara with wide eyes.  “I mean… umm… Cave Buffy.  Yeah, Cave Buffy.”  He nodded to himself.  “Don’t ever see that.”  He looked hopefully back at Willow.    Tara’s brows furrowed as she tried to figure out what was going on.  She looked back down at Buffy when the Slayer started rubbing her cheek against her hip.    Buffy smiled up at Tara, holding the branch up to her and grunting softly.    Tara raised a brow and slowly took the branch from Buffy.    Buffy sniffed at Tara one more time before she turned and looked around the room.  Making her way over to Tara’s bed, Buffy climbed up on it and sniffed the pillow then grunted softly.  “Girl, smell nice.”  She buried her face in the pillow for a moment before sniffing at the bedspread.  Grunting, she grabbed the side of the bedspread and rolled herself up in it.    Xander started laughing again, Tara joining him.    Buffy grunted poking her head out of the covers as she heard the blonde laughing.  She watched in fascination the look of amusement on Tara’s face and in her eyes, cocking her head to the side as she spoke.    “S-someone care to t-tell me what’s g-going on?”  Tara quickly looked towards Willow and Xander as she spoke before turning back to smile at Buffy.    “We-we’ll just be taking her out of your room, Tara.”  Willow headed towards the bed and Buffy.    Buffy growled and slipped out of the covers, quickly avoiding Willow as she headed back over to Tara.    Xander started laughing again.    Willow twirled around to glare at him.  “You could help, you know?”    Xander shrugged and grinned at Willow as he continued to laugh.  Seeing the look on her face he laughed harder and took a step towards Buffy.    Buffy growled and hid behind Tara, wrapping her arms around her thighs and grunting softly as she peeked around her hip.    Tara chuckled and looked down at Buffy.  “You will, huh?”  She smirked as she looked amusedly back up at Willow.    Willow sighed.  “Come on, Buffy.”  She took another step towards them.    Buffy grunted loudly and hid her head back behind Tara as she held on a little tighter.    Tara started laughing again, causing the Slayer to peek around her as she looked up at her.  Tara grinned down at Buffy.  “I don’t think she wants to go.”  She turned to smile at Willow.  “W-what’s g-going on?”  She asked again, not having noticed her stutter disappeared as she was looking at Buffy.    Willow sighed and looked to a shrugging Xander.    “She may be the only way to get Buffy out of here, Wil.”  He shrugged again.    Willow sighed and stepped back to plop down on the bed.    Buffy grunted loudly, growling as she started towards Willow.    “WHOA!”  Tara reached out and grabbed Buffy’s shoulder, looking towards Willow.    Buffy looked up at Tara and grunted softly as she was stopped.  Then she turned and grunted loudly, growling at Willow again.    Willow quickly stood back up, eyes wide as she looked at the Slayer.    Buffy grunted as she moved back beside Tara, still watching Willow closely.    Xander chuckled softly, stopping as Willow glared at him.    Buffy leaned against Tara’s side, rubbing her cheek against her hip.    Tara chuckled and rubbed the Slayer’s shoulder.    Buffy pressed more heavily into Tara’s side, grunting softly.    Willow threw her hands up in the air in exasperation.  “Fine!”  She stepped over beside Xander again, smacking him as he laughed.  “You’re a big help!”    Xander growled at her as he rubbed his arm.    “Don’t you start, too!”  Willow rolled her eyes before looking over at Tara and Buffy.    Tara chuckled softly and continued to rub Buffy’s shoulder.    Buffy looked up at Tara and grunted softly as she reached up and took her hand, slowly leading her over to the bed.     Tara raised a brow and smiled down at the Slayer, setting the branch against the nightstand, and letting her backpack fall off her shoulder to place on the floor.    Buffy watched with a tilted head before climbing back on the bed pulling Tara behind her, grunting softly.    Tara chuckled and sat down on the bed.    Buffy moved up close behind her, sniffing her hair and grunting softly as she continued to hold Tara’s hand.  “Girl, smell nice.”  Buffy buried her face in Tara’s hair.    Tara started laughing softly as she looked over to a grinning Xander and a shocked Willow.    Xander started to chuckle softly, holding up a hand to ward off the hand he knew would be coming at him.    Willow absently swung at Xander, turning to frown when he stopped her hand.    He shrugged and grinned at her.    Willow sighed and turned back towards the bed.  “Long story, short.  She drank enchanted beer, turned into a Neanderthal, but seems to be harmless.”  She glared at Buffy, who had her chin resting on Tara’s shoulder.    Buffy grunted when Willow glared at her and moved closer against Tara’s back.    Tara smiled and turned her head to look at Buffy as she spoke softly.  “Behave, you.”    Buffy turned her head as Tara did, grunting softly at her she leaned her forehead against Tara’s.    Tara chuckled and nudged Buffy’s head away gently.    Buffy grunted softly and laid her head on Tara’s shoulder, sniffing her hair and neck before bringing her other hand up to play with the blonde locks.     Tara wrinkled her nose slightly at the smell of smoke on the Slayer, before looking back at Willow.  “She s-smells like smoke?”  She raised a brow in question.    Willow nodded.  “There was a fire at one of the coffee shops.  She kinda saved me and a couple other people.”  Willow shrugged.    Tara’s eyes opened wide in surprise as she turned her head to look at Buffy again.  “Did anyone get hurt?”  She looked into Buffy’s hazel eyes in wonder.  “And was this before, or after the beer?”    Buffy grunted and smiled at Tara.  “Want beer!”  She grunted again.    Tara smiled and shook her head.  “No more beer for you, Sweetie.”    Buffy grunted again.  “Want!”    Tara shook her head.  “No.  You can have water, no beer.”    Buffy growled softly and poked her lower lip out.  “Want.”  She repeated softly.    “No.”  Tara smiled at her before turning back to Willow with a raised brow again.    Willow shook her head.  “You might not want to mention that word.”  She smiled at Tara.  “No one got hurt.”  She jerked her head around when Xander snorted.    Xander grinned and shrugged.  “Parker’s a no one.”    Willow turned back to Tara and rolled her eyes.  “No one got hurt by the fire.”  She looked towards the branch against the nightstand.  “And you might want to keep that away from her.”    Tara looked at the branch and back to a widely grinning Xander, who nodded his head.    Tara’s eyes opened a bit wider in surprise.    “Twice.”  Xander started to laugh.  “Guy was a jerk, and deserved to be knocked out.”    Willow sighed and dropped her head.    Tara chuckled softly.  “S-she knocked him out… t-twice?”    Xander nodded happily as he laughed.  “It was great.  OWW!”  He rubbed his arm but kept laughing.    Tara grinned at him.  “You should be g-grateful she doesn’t have the b-branch.”  She chuckled and nodded towards Willow.    Xander’s eyes opened wide, looking at Willow as she slowly lifted her head to smile sweetly at him.  “Love you, Wils.”  Xander smiled hopefully at her.    Tara chuckled and turned her head to a grunting Slayer.  “You won’t hurt me, will you?”  She smiled a lopsided smile at Buffy.    Buffy grunted and watched Tara’s mouth in fascination.  “No hurt.  Girl, pretty.  Girl, smell nice.”  Buffy grunted softly as she smiled when Tara chuckled.    “Thank you.”  She brought a hand up to brush the hair off Buffy’s face.    Buffy lifted Tara’s hair and put it over her own face as she sniffed and grunted.  “Smell nice.”    Tara chuckled and turned amused eyes back to Xander and Willow.  “She can s-stay here until she s-sobers up.  I-if you w-want?”  Tara blushed slightly.  “I d-don’t think she’ll h-hurt me.”    Xander put a hand on Willow’s shoulder.  “Saves getting smacked, or having to chase after her, again, Wil.”    Willow looked at Xander before looking questioningly back at Tara.  “Are you sure, Tara?”    Tara nodded.  “She’s f-fine.”  She smiled at them.    Willow nodded slightly.  “It will save a fight, I’m sure.  She’s basically harmless.  She’ll pick through your hair and smell you, but you already know that.”  Willow smiled at Tara.  “And unless someone goes near you apparently, she’s pretty docile.”  Willow tilted her head as she watched Buffy play with Tara’s hair.  Shaking her head after a moment she looked back at Tara.  “It’s up to you?”    Tara smiled and turned to look at Buffy.  “She can stay.”  She looked back at Willow.  “She’ll p-probably pass out soon, anyway.”  She chuckled softly as the Slayer grunted and pressed against her more heavily.    Willow rolled her eyes and smiled at Tara.  “You and your hair hope she does.”  She chuckled softly.  “Thanks, Tara.  I’ll leave my number.”  She turned towards Tara’s desk and grabbed a pen.  “I’m just over in Stevenson Hall if there’s a problem.”  She turned back to smile at Tara.  “I can be here in a couple of minutes if there is.”     Tara nodded.  “I don’t t-think there will be.”  She smiled at them before turning to Buffy.  “Right, Buffy?”    Buffy smiled and grunted as she covered her face with Tara’s hair again.    Tara chuckled and turned to wink at the two by the door.  “We’ll be f-fine.”    Xander grinned and shook his head.  “Wish we had a camera with us tonight.”    Willow smacked him on the stomach.  “She’d kick your ass if you took pictures of her.”  She shook her head and pushed him out the door.  “Thanks, Tara.  Call if you need anything.”    Xander snorted.  “Yeah, like ropes or chains to tie her down.”  He started laughing again when Willow smacked him.    Willow shook her head and turned to Tara.  “You’ll have to forgive him.  Sometimes his brain stays home where the rest of him should have stayed, also.”  She smiled at Tara.    “HEY!  I resemble that remark.”  Xander chuckled out in the hallway.    Willow rolled her eyes.  “Be good, Buffy!”  Willow narrowed her eyes at the Slayer.    Buffy grunted and went back to playing with Tara’s hair.    Tara chuckled.  “She’ll be good.  G-goodnight, Willow.”  She smiled at Willow and called a bit louder.  “’N-night, Xander!”    “’Night, Tara.  It was nice meeting you!”  Xander called back and then stepped up to grin over Willow’s shoulder.  “’Night, Buffster!”    Buffy grunted and continued what she was doing.    Willow shook her head.  “Good luck.  ‘Night, Tara.”  She pushed back into Xander behind her and shut the door.    Tara chuckled and looked toward Buffy, smiling softly.  “What have I gotten myself into, huh?”  She chuckled again when Buffy grunted softly and looked up at her.    ~HLM~   Buffy and Tara stared at each other for a few minutes.  Tara finally blinked, chuckling softly.    Buffy grunted softly in reply.    Tara smiled at her.  “You’re a woman of very few words…”  Tara’s brow furrowed slightly.  “Or sounds for that matter, aren’t you?”  She chuckled softly again.    Buffy’s eyes traveled down to Tara’s lips every time she spoke or laughed.  Grunting softly Buffy looked back up into Tara’s eyes.  “Girl, pretty.”  She grunted again.    Tara blushed slightly.  “You think so, huh?    Buffy grunted.    Tara smiled and chuckled.  “So I’m Miss America material, huh?”    Buffy grunted softly again.    Tara grinned.  “You’re good for a girl’s ego, you know that Cave Buffy?”    Buffy grunted.  “Buffy good.”    Tara nodded slightly.  “Buffy is good.”  Tara reached up brushing some hair back off the Slayer’s cheek.    Buffy grunted and moved some of Tara’s hair over her face.    Tara grinned.  “Is this going to be our new game?  I move the hair away, and you put it back.”  She brushed the hair aside again.    Buffy grunted and put it back.    Tara grunted and moved it, smiling at her.    Buffy raised a brow and grunted.    Tara grunted back.    Buffy grunted again.    Before Tara had a chance to grunt, Buffy’s head snapped towards the door.  Before Tara knew what was happening, Buffy was gone.    Buffy released Tara’s hand and was off the bed and by the door.    Tara blinked and looked again, but sure enough, Buffy wasn’t beside her anymore.  Quickly turning towards the door she saw Buffy squatting down and sniffing towards the door.  Both of Tara’s brows rose, eyes opening wide as knock came from the other side.    Buffy grunted and growled softly at the door, looking it up and down as if trying to figure out how to get at whatever was on the other side.    Tara finally shook her head slightly and stood, walking to the door.    Buffy grunted and moved in front of Tara.    Tara chuckled as she watched the Slayer.  “You’re my own personal guard… cavewoman, huh?”    Buffy looked up and grunted before growling at the door again.    “Easy, Cavewoman.”  Tara placed a hand on Buffy’s shoulder and backed her up a bit, though Buffy didn’t want to budge at first.    Buffy looked up at Tara when she felt her urge her away, grunting softly.    Tara smiled at her.  “Its okay, Buffy, just someone returning my notes.”  Tara smiled down at her.  “I think.”  She whispered as she reached for the door just as another knock came.    “Tara?”  Someone softly called from the other side.    Buffy growled again.    Tara smiled and pushed Buffy further back.  “It’s okay, she’s a friend.”  Tara watched Buffy tilt her head slightly as she looked at her, she sighed and tacked on softly.  “Don’t hurt her, please.”  She squeezed Buffy’s shoulder and stepped partially in front of her.    Buffy grunted at the move and moved off to Tara’s side.    Tara shook her head.  “No hitting.”  She narrowed her eyes at the Slayer.     Buffy growled and then grunted softly.    Tara kept her hand on Buffy’s shoulder as she turned and opened the door.  “Hi, Kelly.”  She squeezed Buffy’s shoulder a bit and slid a leg in front of her as she felt the Slayer start to move forward.    “Hi, T.  Notes, as promised.”  Kelly smiled and held out the notebook.    Faster than Tara could put her hand out, a growling Buffy reached up and snatched the notebook.    Kelly jumped back in surprise as it was snatched out of her hand.  “JESUS!”  Her eyes finally traveled down to Buffy not having noticed her.