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Chapter 17
 

Tara quirks her eyebrow as Buffy punches the vampire in the face for about the twentieth time.  “Honey, I think he’s unconscious.”

 

“He poked a hole in my shirt.”  Buffy growls, slamming her fist into the vampires face again before finally staking him.  “Damn.”  Buffy looks down at the small hole over her left breast where the vampire’s sharp fingernail had caught the cloth. 

 

“It’s barely noticeable, Buffy.”  Tara tries to placate the slayer as she trails her fingers over the hole. 

 

“I know, but I like looking nice for you when we go out.”  Buffy admits, pouting slightly. 

 

“Hmm.  Then we probably shouldn’t combine patrolling with going out.”  Tara admits, grinning crookedly at her lover.  “Either that or do a patrol, then come back home to change and go out.”

 

“But going out to dinner would get screwed up, if we do that.”  Buffy points out, unconsciously leaning into Tara making the Wiccan’s hand press against her chest. 

 

“It does make it a little hard to have a normal dating life.”  Tara agrees, fighting the smirk wanting to cross her face as she lets her hand caress over Buffy’s breast. 

 

Buffy leans in and captures Tara's bottom lip between her teeth and nips gently on the flesh.  “Normal dating life?  Our dating life pretty much consists of patrolling and the occasional dinner or movie.  Of course, we’re not exactly in the dating capital of the US or anything.”

 

Tara clasps Buffy’s hand in hers as they make their way back to the Jeep sitting at the entrance to the cemetery.  “I’m not high maintenance, honey.  Just being with you makes me happy.”

 

“I know.  I just wish that I could take you away for a week to somewhere nice where we don’t have to think about anything but making love, eating, making love, sleeping, making love, relaxing by the pool, making love…”  Buffy grins as Tara laughs.

 

“I am hearing a little repetition in there.”  Tara smacks Buffy gently on the butt as her lover climbs in the Jeep. 

 

“You think?”  Buffy pretends to act confused as she watches Tara walk around the Jeep and climb in beside her. 

 

Tara snorts softly before starting the Jeep and putting it into drive as they work their way towards the next cemetery, knowing if Buffy feels or notices anything out of the ordinary she’ll let her know to stop the Jeep.  “And here I always thought it was guys that had a one-track mind…”

 

“HEY!  It isn’t one-track.  I think about food and sleeping occasionally, also!”  Buffy pouts glancing at Tara, chuckling at the huge grin on her face.  “Keep going, I don’t feel anything, and no one’s been buried here recently.”  Buffy looks around to do a visual check as they slowly drive by the cemetery. 

 

“I figure you would have mentioned it if you had, but have you run into Spike again?”  Tara questions curiously, as she thinks about the vampire and in turn her ex, Willow.  Having seen the woman across the quad a week ago, but the redhead had practically snarled at her before spinning around and jogging off in the opposite direction.  Having told Buffy about the streak of fear she’d felt shooting through her at the sight, thankful for the necklace to protect her from Willow’s magic. 

 

“No.  I thought I caught a glimpse of him ahead of me earlier this week, but if it was him, he disappeared.”  Buffy admits pursing her lip slightly.

 

“I want you to be extra careful, honey.”  Tara reaches over and grasps Buffy’s hand, threading their fingers together and stroking her thumb over the back of the soft flesh.  “I’m also going to visit the Magic Box and get the ingredients to do a protection charm for you against Willow’s magic, also.”

 

“Do you think I’ll need it?”  Buffy blinks in surprise, it not having occurred to her that Willow might try and do a spell on her.

 

“I don’t know.”  Tara admits sadly.  “I’d rather be safe than sorry at this stage of the game.  I just wish I would have thought of it before now.”

 

“Easy, Tara.  Thankfully nothing’s happened, and we’ll do what we have to, to keep anything from happening.”  Buffy strokes a finger gently down Tara’s cheek. 

 

Tara tilts her head towards the caress as she slows down as they come to another cemetery. 

 

“Pull over.”  Buffy growls softly as she feels a vampire.  “Damn demons are cutting into our dancing time.” 

 

Tara chuckles as Buffy hops out of the Jeep and strides into the cemetery.  Looking around to make sure there’s nothing else around, she watches as her lover obviously talks to herself as her hands fly around her head.  Hooking her arm over the headrest, Tara smiles as Buffy stops talking to herself and crosses her arms over chest staring down at the grave.  “Uh, oh.  He’s going to be gone in short order.”  Tara nibbles on her bottom lip as the vampire finally climbs his way out of the grave and her lover literally grabs him around the neck and flips him over, slamming him hard into the ground before she kneels slamming the stake home and dusting him.

 

Buffy brushes off her skirt as she stands.  She looks around the cemetery, the hairs on the back of her neck standing on end, as she has that feeling that someone is watching her.  Not seeing anything, she shakes it off and strides back towards the Jeep, a slow smile crossing her face at the sight of Tara watching her.  The sensuous smile on her lover’s lips having her re-think them going out dancing, wondering if she might be able to talk Tara into some private dancing instead. 

 

“You are extremely sexy when you’re irritated.”  Tara grins crookedly at Buffy, groaning deeply when Buffy leans in and kisses her hungrily.

 

“And you’re extremely sexy all the time.”  Buffy growls after releasing Tara’s lips, smirking at the blush that comes across Tara’s face.  “You are, Tara.”

 

“I’ll accept that I am to you.”  Tara strokes her knuckles down Buffy’s cheek.  “Patrol.  If not, we’ll be trying out the Jeep and see how it works for a serious bout of hot and heavy’s.”

 

“The back seat folds down…”  Buffy’s eyes light up as her eyes dart to the back.

 

“Feel like a little carpet burn, slayer?”  Tara growls playfully.

 

“For you?  Anytime.”  Buffy laughs at Tara’s sparkling eyes.  “Better put this thing in drive, before I drag you in the back.  You know it won’t take much with me.”

 

“Oooh, you sweet talker you. Knock me over the head with your big stick and drag me by my hair back to your cave…”  Tara nips on Buffy’s bottom lip.

 

Buffy growls softly as Tara turns and puts the vehicle in gear.  “Did you ever hear about my becoming the ‘Cave Slayer’?”  When Tara darts a surprised look at her, Buffy starts to laugh.  “Oh, yes.  It really happened, something about some kind of spell on the beer I drank that kind of de-evolved me.  I did have a stick and I did knock one particular person out.  But I didn’t drag him back to my place…” 

 

Tara starts to laugh.  “Is there anything that hasn’t happened to you guys?”

 

“Hmm…  You know, that’s a good question.  I’m sure there are some things that haven’t happened, but I’m not going to think about it, because if I do, it’ll happen.”  Buffy smiles as Tara laughs delightedly. 

 

“Well, how about you tell me about the whole cave slayer thing tonight, and maybe in the future we can play a little cave slayer and the Wiccan?”  Tara wiggles her eyebrows as she looks at Buffy. 

 

Buffy grunts softly at the thought.

 

“Then again, it might not be that different than the nights you come home from some serious slayage…”  Tara busts out laughing at the loud grunt she gets in response to that comment.  “Yep.  That’s about what you sound like… Grunt… want… grunt… mine… grunt… sex… grunt… slurp, slurp…”

 

“Stop picking on me!”  Buffy laughs, gently poking Tara in the arm.  “I haven’t heard you complain.”

 

“And you won’t.”  Tara laughs with her lover as she slows down at the last cemetery, watching the smile cross her lover’s face.

 

Buffy concentrates while searching the area with her eyes.  “Nothing, go ahead.” 

 

“Do you really want to go dancing, honey?”  Tara questions softly as she drives slowly through town, giving Buffy the chance to see if there are any demons that she needs to take care of.

 

“Would you be upset if I said no?”  Buffy whispers as she looks back at Tara. 

 

“Goddess!  No, honey.  I’d be happy just to spend all our time at home.  As long as I’m with you that makes me happy.”  Tara reaches over and grasps Buffy’s hand, squeezing it gently. 

 

Buffy lifts Tara’s hand and presses a firm kiss on the back of the soft skin.  “I feel guilty that we don’t spend a lot of time doing couple-y things, Tara.  Going out to eat, the movies, putt-putt, dancing…  I feel like I’m short-changing you because of my calling.  We can’t really have a normal life, and it bugs me because you deserve more.”

 

Tara groans quietly as she quickly pulls over to the curb and puts the Jeep in park somewhat awkwardly with her left hand.  Unhooking her seat belt, she turns to face Buffy, cupping the slayer’s cheek in her free hand as her lover keeps a tight grip on her other hand.  “I’m completely happy with you and our life together.  Short of having happily ever after with you for the next thousand or so years, I don’t think it could be any better.”  Tara tries not to think about the fact that she would also like to not have the whole angst with Willow and Spike, but there isn’t a lot she can do about that.

 

Buffy searches Tara’s eyes, the love and happiness obvious in the blue depths looking back at her.  “You really don’t mind not having all the extras?”

 

“I don’t, honey.  I really, truly don’t.  I’m a simple girl that likes simple things.”  Tara grins crookedly at her lover. 

 

Buffy snorts softly.  “Simple?  You’re anything but simple, and the things you like to do can get downright complicated.”

 

“Me?”  Tara laughs at the glimmer in Buffy’s eyes.  “Who tried to get me into a pretzel shape while doing all kinds of extremely wicked, naughty things to me?”

 

“Wicked naughty things that you enjoyed completely.”  Buffy wiggles her eyebrows.  “As a matter of fact, I haven’t found anything that you haven’t enjoyed…”

 

“You complaining, slayer?”  Tara growls playfully, leaning in to nip firmly on Buffy’s bottom lip. 

 

“Hell no!  I’m just going to keep trying different things to see if I can find something.”  Buffy mumbles against Tara’s lips before kissing her lover deeply. 

 

Tara laughs into the kiss, laughing even harder as Buffy growls and captures her tongue, sucking on it.

 

Finally releasing Tara’s tongue, Buffy taps her lover on the forehead.  “Not supposed to be funny.  I’m curious as to whether or not there’s anything you don’t like.”

 

“Well, if you find something I don’t like, you realize we have to do it at least two more times to make sure I really don’t like it.  You know, it might grow on me.”  Tara smirks as she slowly slides her hand up Buffy’s leg.  “Tell me something… are you wearing any underwear, Buffy?”

 

Buffy groans as Tara’s hand slips further up her thigh, slowly shifting to slide between her legs.  “What do you think?”

 

“I think you would go without just to tease me, is what I think.”  Tara leans closer to Buffy nuzzling at her neck as she lets her hand slide further towards Buffy’s center, the heat coming off her lover making her pant.  “Are you wet?”

 

“Soaked.”  Buffy shifts down in the seat, effectively pressing Tara’s hand against her soaked outer lips while spreading her legs and scooting the skirt further up for better maneuverability. 

 

“Goddess…”  Tara groans, burying her face in the crook of Buffy’s neck as she trails her fingers firmly up and down Buffy’s slit.  “Please tell me there’s no one around.”  Tara growls as she bites firmly on her lover’s neck even as she slips two fingers easily inside her.

 

“Ohhh…”  Buffy arches, pressing her head back against the seat while lifting her hips as Tara’s fingers bury themselves in her.  Panting softly at first, slowly breathing faster as Tara starts a fast paced rhythm in her body while her thumb starts to tease over her clit, Buffy tries to remember what the comment or question was that Tara had asked. 

 

“Goddess, you feel so good.”  Tara moans as she releases the flesh she’d been nibbling and sucking on as she works her way up the strong column of Buffy’s throat.  “So hot and wet, your body wrapped around my fingers is addictive… almost as addictive as when I have my tongue buried inside you and you try to pull it even deeper inside your body as your velvety walls pulse and clench around it, your desire and cum coating my lips, tongue and throat as you climax, drenching me…”  Tara growls deeply as Buffy cries out loudly with her release.

 

Reaching down to keep Tara’s fingers buried inside her, as her body continues to clench rapidly on the digits, Buffy whimpers continuously deep in her throat after she screamed out Tara’s name with her climax. 

 

“I bet you would love for me to stay inside you to stroke and tease you for hours on end, wouldn’t you?”  Tara nips playfully on Buffy’s earlobe, chuckling and trailing her tongue up the outer shell of her lover’s ear as Buffy’s head nods in answer.  “But it’s soooo difficult to do certain naughty things to you in the Jeep.  It would be so much easier to do at home, especially since we have so many little play toys to work with at home.”

 

“Little?”  Buffy squeaks out the word, finally getting her breathing somewhat under control, though knowing if Tara keeps talking like this, she’d say fuck it and toss the witch in the back and attack her until the sun rose.  Jumping uncontrollably as Tara presses and rubs hard over her clit, causing her to have another orgasm with Tara laughing huskily in her ear. 

 

“I’m taking you home slayer, to have my wicked Wiccan way with you.”  Tara slowly pulls her hand away and turns back facing forward, slowly running her tongue over her hand to gather the juices coating it as she replaces the seatbelt with her other hand and puts the vehicle in gear.

 

Buffy whimpers softly, her hand sneaking down to cup her throbbing sex, groaning at the heat and wetness she finds, knowing Tara’s probably going to make her steam clean the seat tomorrow, but knowing it’ll be worth having to steam clean the whole interior of the Jeep along with washing and waxing the outside of it for whatever her lover has planned for her once they get home.

 

***

 

“Sooo…”  Spike drawls out the word as he shakes loose a cigarette and sticks it in his mouth, lighting it to look back at Red… though he’s thinking about calling her veiny, if she wouldn’t dust him in some extremely painful way.  “Your mojo don’t work on Glenda, I can’t hurt neither one of ‘em with this bloody chip in my head, how are you plannin’ on us getting’ them back in our control?”

 

Willow snarls, her eyes watching the Jeep pull away from the curb, having used a cloaking spell for her and Spike to keep from being seen or felt.  Releasing the spell after the vehicle turns the corner she turns to stare at the vampire.

 

Spike fights the shiver wanting to work through him at the black, dead eyes staring at him.  “This is your call, Red.  I can only gather the occasional demon to fight the slayer, and you know she’ll rip right through ‘em.  I can’t gather enough of a fightin’ force to get her subdued, she’ll make mince meat of ‘em.  She has the two times I’ve done it.”  Spike explains, watching Willow intently. 

 

Willow furrows her brows as she thinks, having not done any spells on Buffy or tried to do any spells on the slayer, knowing that Tara would feel the spell around her and would probably work on reversing the spell.  She couldn’t chance it until she and Spike had made a decision as to exactly what they were going to do.  The two having more or less decided it would be best to take both women at the same time, but with him being crippled by the chip and her magic not working against Tara, it was making it impossible.  “Hold still.”  Willow places her hands on either side of Spike’s head, closing her eyes she concentrates as she searches within the vampire’s brain.  Finding the chip and seeing all the little tendrils leading from it to the different areas of Spike’s brain to cause him major, even crippling pain.  Knowing a well placed surge of energy would fry the chip in seconds and make it useless.  Releasing her grip on the vampire’s head, she steps back.  “I have some thinking to do.”

 

Spike frowns as he watches Willow stride away, wondering what that was about, before smirking at the thought that maybe, just maybe, Willow was finally ready to get her hands dirty.



Chapter 18
 

“Do you trust me?”  Tara questions softly to her lover that’s lying on the bed watching her.

 

“Completely.”  Buffy looks curiously at Tara as her lover looks down into the toy drawer.  Her lover unconsciously rubbing her lower stomach with one hand while looking through the items in the drawer.  “I didn’t get too carried away, did I?”  Buffy questions worriedly as she watches Tara’s hand. 

 

“Hmmm?”  Tara turns and blinks as she looks at Buffy, rerunning what her lover said through her mind, chuckling and grinning at her lover.  “No, not too carried away.  There’s just the low down thrumming still going on from multiple orgasms.”  Tara explains shifting to lean down and kiss Buffy.  “One more and you would have had to wait till the morning for your fun.” 

 

Buffy chuckles softly as Tara tweaks her nipple as she shifts back.  “One more, huh?”  Buffy reaches out, grasping Tara’s wrist and tugging her back to the bed, urging her to sit before leaning down to nip on Tara’s knee. 

 

“Oh, no you don’t.”  Tara grasps the wiggling hand that was already halfway up the inside of her thigh.  “It’s your turn for unbelievable pleasure.” 

 

“Hmmm…”  Buffy hums softly as she shifts her body and starts to trail her tongue from Tara’s knee slowly up her thigh, growling as Tara’s other hand presses against her forehead.  “Want.” 

 

“No.”  Tara fights the grin wanting to cross her face as narrowed, angry eyes glare up at her.

 

“Want…”  Buffy growls a little longer and deeper.  Dropping her head down, she nips and suckles on Tara’s flesh while watching her lover intently. 

 

“I thought you wanted toys and hot, sweaty sex?”  Tara squeezes the hand that tries to wiggle free from her grasp, before squeaking as Buffy’s other hand decides to get into the action and is wiggling its way under her ass. 

 

Slowly licking up Tara’s still damp thigh, Buffy smirks.  “I thought we already had hot, sweaty sex?” 

 

“We did, but I was the one on the receiving end for most of it.”  Tara releases her lover’s hand and slowly reaches up to run her fingers through the slightly damp hair.  “I want…”  Groaning low as she feels her lover’s finger slipping between her butt cheeks to stroke softly and tenderly over her rosebud.  “Not fair.”  Tara wiggles at the slow circling finger that is just caressing lovingly over her.

 

“I want to make love to you, over and over again.”  Buffy gently shifts Tara around and maneuvers her own body between her lover’s legs as she kisses her way slowly and inexorably up one silky leg. 

 

“What happened to Tara and Toy Time?”  Tara falls back on the bed as Buffy gently pushes on her chest. 

 

“Tomorrow, Tara and Toy Time.”  Buffy whispers as she lifts herself up to hover above Tara, looking down into smiling blue eyes.  “You can do anything you want tomorrow, I want tonight to touch, kiss, stroke, nip…”  Buffy growls and nuzzles into Tara’s neck, nipping playfully, smiling at the giggle she gets in response. 

 

“You’re spoiled.”  Tara laughs at the nod and grunt she gets in response even as Buffy nibbles her way up her neck and growls in her ear. 

 

“Your fault.”  Buffy gently nips on the end of Tara’s nose as she smiles lovingly down at the witch. 

 

“How is that my fault?”  Tara smirks as she strokes her hands firmly over Buffy’s back. 

 

“Because you let me do anything and everything my twisted little mind can come up with.  We make love almost nightly, and when we can get rid of Dawn we get to have wild, kinky, hot, monkey sex.”  Buffy starts grunting softly like one of the small hairy species. 

 

“And your twisted little mind does like to work overtime.”  Tara laughs delightedly as Buffy grunts even louder. 

 

“How else would we have found out that you enjoy having honey drizzled over your toes and then me sucking and licking those delightful little digits for hours?”  Buffy grins hugely at the remembrance. “Though I have to admit, it was a bit messy.”

 

“A bit?”  Tara digs her nails lightly into Buffy’s butt cheeks, pulling Buffy down against her lower body.  “That set of bedding had to be washed five different times at the Laundromat to get all of the honey out of it.”

 

“And three washings to get it out of our hair.”  Buffy groans deeply as Tara shifts and rocks their centers against each other. 

 

“We did get carried away.”  Tara hooks her leg around Buffy’s arching as Buffy starts to grind slowly against her. 

 

“Using the whole bear probably wasn’t a smart thing to do.”  Buffy whimpers and buries her face against Tara’s neck as she starts to gradually rock faster and harder against her lover. 

 

“It was…”  Tara digs her nails in harder as she counters her lover’s movements.  “Worth it.”  Tara finishes. 

 

“Next time I’ll plan better…”  Buffy shifts her body up to put more pressure on their clit’s as she slides her hands down Tara’s body and urges Tara to wrap her legs around her waist.  “Ohhh, right there.”  Buffy whispers as she gets the desired contact.

 

Gently scraping her nails up and down Buffy’s back, since she had to move her hands, Tara takes one hand and threads her fingers through Buffy’s hair, pulling her lover down for a rough, sloppy kiss as she feels her body clenching as she gets ready to climax.

 

Buffy cries out Tara’s name as her lover captures her bottom lip between her teeth firmly, the minor pain shooting straight through her body and tipping her over the edge as she partially collapses on top of Tara as she feels and hears Tara following her.

 

Hugging Buffy tightly, Tara buries her face in damp blonde hair, pressing her lips against Buffy’s head as she keeps her eyes closed taking in the delightful feel of the slayer’s body against hers.

 

“I love the way you feel against me.”  Buffy whispers against Tara’s neck, listening to the quick heartbeat and feeling the rapid rise and fall of Tara’s chest. 

 

Tara chuckles softly at the slayer’s words.  When Buffy grunts questioningly, she presses her lips again to the top of Buffy’s head.  “I was just enjoying the feel of your body against mine.”

 

Buffy laughs softly and brushes her lips over Tara’s neck.  “We have a tendency to sort of think along the same lines.”

 

“Uh, huh.”  Tara fights the wave of sleepiness working its way through her body.  Between the laxness of her body after the lovemaking and the warm contentment she feels with Buffy on top of her, she slowly falls asleep.

 

Buffy slowly lifts her head and smiles softly down at Tara.  “You weren’t joking.”  Pressing a soft kiss across Tara’s slightly parted lips, Buffy shifts carefully and turns off the light before reaching down for the covers, pulling them over her and Tara.  Wiggling slightly to get more comfortable, Buffy buries her face against Tara’s neck.  “I love you.”  Buffy whispers as she relaxes and slowly falls asleep.

 

***

 

“Aren’t you supposed to be in class?”  Doug questions curiously as he steps up to the window beside Tara. 

 

“Uh, huh.”  Tara grins crookedly at her boss.  “Do you think I would miss seeing at least part of her first class?”

 

“You see where I am, don’t you?”  Doug grins at Tara and looks in at Buffy as she stands relaxed in front of the full class of twelve students.  “Is twelve going to be too big?”  Just now starting to talk, wishing he could hear what’s being said.

 

“No.  She’s hoping to end up with a good mix of people, men, women, tall and short to pair up against each other.  She’s planning on giving them instruction with occasionally stepping in, but mostly letting them work against each other.”  Not wanting to say that her lover would have a super unfair advantage against everyone else because of her slayer status, and though her lover always is careful with her strength she still worries that she might accidentally use too much power against a regular human.  “Of course, she will probably give a few demonstrations.”

 

Doug chuckles and leans against the glass as he watches Buffy.

 

***

 

Buffy places some protective gear to the side before standing and running her hands down her sweat pants as she watches the people start to trickle into her room, silently taking in each new arrival.  A small smile crossing her face at one tall, heavyset man that sneered at the sight of her, already telling he’s going to be a problem child.

 

After double-checking that everyone is there, she shuts the door and walks slowly around the group and comes to stand in front of them in a relaxed stance and smiles softly.  “My name is Buffy Summers and I’m your teacher for this six week course in self defense.  One thing I want to make clear up front.  This is strictly a class in self defense.  I’m not teaching you how to fight an attacker or someone else.  I am strictly here to teach you how to get away from someone that is attacking you.  So for those that are aware of Judo, Karate or any other type of fighting form and thought that is what I was going to teach, you’re in the wrong place.  But if you’re looking for help to get away from someone trying to attack you or hurt you, I’m your woman.”

 

“Yeah, right.  You couldn’t fight your way out of a wet paper bag.”  Bob mutters loud enough to be heard by everyone. 

 

Buffy quirks her eyebrow at the tall man, quickly figuring that he has to be roughly 6’3” and about 255 pounds.  “Like I just said, I’m not here to teach you to fight, but how to get away.  Your name, sir?”

 

“Bob.”  Bob sneers at the small blonde woman.

 

Buffy sighs quietly at his attitude before she slowly takes in the rest of the group, happy to see that the rest of them seem uncomfortable with the way Bob’s acting with a few that are obviously leaning towards the fact that she probably wouldn’t have a chance at the man that was over a foot taller than her and weighed 150 pounds more than her.  “Bob, I’ll make a deal with you.”

 

“What kinda deal?”  Bob narrows his gaze on the instructor.

 

“I take you down, you stop with the attitude, and learn since that’s what you should be here for.”  Buffy spreads her hands out and smiles engagingly at the tall man. 

 

***

 

“Uh oh.”  Tara leans her forehead against the glass, seeing the gleam in her lover’s eyes.  Knowing that the tall man she was conversing with is about to learn a slight lesson.

 

“What?”  Doug turns a curious gaze towards Tara.

 

“Problem child is about to get his comeuppance.  I knew Buffy would have problems with a few people here and there because of her size.  He’s obviously already said something that Buffy doesn’t much like.”  Tara points out, grinning crookedly as her eyes go from Doug back to her lover.

 

“Size and the fact she’s female.”  Doug adds, sighing quietly.  Though he is very interested on seeing what Buffy can do, though he’d heard about the workout Craig and Freddie had watched. 

 

“Unfortunately people still have a hang-up about women.”  Tara sighs quietly at the thought.

 

“And gays and lesbians, too.”  Doug points out sadly. 

 

“It’ll probably be after we’re long gone before the world can accept people for who they are, Doug.  If ever.”  Tara presses her hand against the window as she watches her lover wave the rest of the class back against the wall and stands in a relaxed pose with her back to the tall man.

 

Doug silently agrees as he watches enraptured as Buffy quickly and easily flips the man twice her size onto the ground.  Smiling at the quiet giggle coming from Tara at the move.

 

***

 

“Just because someone is twice your size, doesn’t mean that you can’t outmaneuver him or her and get away.”  Buffy looks at the group of people, smiling at the sight of a couple of them laughing quietly before jumping over the quick leg sweep Bob had tried to do to knock her off her feet.  “Of course you actually want to get away when you take down your assailant.”  Buffy growls softly down at the man.  “Try something like that again, and you’ll be kicked out of the class.”

 

“You tricked me!”  Bob snarls at the small woman.

 

“How did I trick you?  You attacked and I put you on your ass.  Then you tried a sneak attack and obviously that didn’t get you any further.”  Buffy rests her fists on her hips and tilts her head as she looks down at the man.  “I’m here to show you how to get away from someone else, not kick the person’s butt.  If you keep pushing me, you’ll see what I’m capable of doing.”  Buffy warns softly.  “Now, I want everyone to line up as I work through some basic defensive maneuvers, showing you a couple spots on a person’s body that will give you the edge to get away.”  Turning her gaze on the tall man as he stands, she shakes her head.  “You’ll behave or you’ll be shown the door, everyone else is here to learn not to cause problems and I’m hoping that you got whatever it is out of your system.”

 

***

 

Tara unconsciously growls and starts to step towards the door with Bob’s maneuver before stopping herself, knowing her lover can take care of herself. 

 

Doug hisses softly at the sight before grinning as the man finally stands and shuffles to the side listening intently to whatever it is Buffy is telling them.  “Well, she must have put him in his place.”

 

“Or threatened him that she could lay him out on his ass.”  Tara murmurs, knowing the man wouldn’t last a second against her lover, if Buffy took it into her head to straighten out his attitude.

 

“She might have to before it’s over with, but I hope it doesn’t come to that.”  Doug admits.  “I’ll have a talk with her later as to how to deal with any problem people.  I didn’t think about it before, because I honestly believed that people would want to learn that signed up for these classes instead of causing problems.”

 

“Thank you, Doug.”  Tara smiles before looking at her watch.  “I guess I should head to class.  I’ll see you later.”

 

“Be careful.”  Doug chuckles as Tara waves at him as she quickly trots down the hallway, his eyes going back to the room as Buffy points at different spots on her own body as she works with the group of people.



Chapter 19
 

“There’s going to be some ground rules, here.”  Willow stares hard at the bleached blonde vampire.  Having thought long and hard about what she’s planning on doing over the last few weeks. 

 

“Don’t play well with rules, witch.”  Spike snarks as he lights a cigarette and relaxes back into his broken down couch as he watches Willow pacing back and forth in him, suddenly coughing and grabbing his chest as it feels like he’s being crushed.

 

“You will if you want to continue being one of the undead.”  Willow warns softly, her eyes coal black as she glares at the vampire.

 

“’Kay, ‘kay… fuck me.”  Spike finally groans as the unbearable pain lessens, rubbing his chest as he stares at the witch.  “What’cha want?”

 

“You’re a vampire and evil, I know this.”  Willow starts, narrowing her gaze on him as he snorts softly.  “I don’t expect you to not feed, but I do want you to keep to murderers, rapists and the like.  Only eat bad people, understood?”

 

Spike starts to snarl at her until he sees the energy literally crackling around the witch almost as if she’s waiting for him to screw up to cause him pain.  Deciding for once to keep his mouth shut and not push at this moment, he plans for the future, realizing that Willow can’t always be prepared and ready for him, and one day the worm will turn.  Smirking at the thought, Spike relaxes back into the couch and takes a deep drag on his cigarette.  “I’m listenin’ pet.”

 

“If you make a batch of follower’s, don’t you have some kind of control over your children?”  Willow questions curiously.

 

“I’d have some, but they all ultimately decide themselves what they want ta’ do.”  Spike furrows his brows as he looks at Willow.

 

“I can make it so that they have to listen to you.  A compulsion spell placed over you, and in turn when they drink your blood they’ll do as you say.”  Willow tosses the spell down onto Spike’s lap, watching as he barely glances at it.  “The question is, how quickly and how fast can you get together a large enough group of vampires to help us in overtaking Buffy and Tara?”

 

Spike stares down at the paper, surprised at the thoughts of the witch.  “I thought it was just gonna be me and you, pet.”

 

Willow snorts at the vampire.  “You can’t take Buffy!  How many times have you tried already?  And Buffy and Tara together would rip you to shreds.  I want those two split up and you can do whatever the hell you want to with the slayer, but Tara is mine.”  Willow snarls as she leans into the vampire’s personal space, glaring into his blue eyes shading towards yellow.  “YOU will NOT harm Tara.  You will help me subdue her until I find whatever charm she’s using to block my magic and after that you’re free.  And I mean that in a get the hell out of Sunnydale and away from me, I never want to see you again way.” 

 

Spike’s lip snarls up at the witch before taking another drag of his cigarette before flipping it into the corner of the room as he exhales the smoke loudly.  “If you’re limiting me to the eating of evil people, pet, it’ll take me a bit longer around here.  I’d find better hunting grounds in LaLa land.”

 

“How long?”  Willow questions again, her voice low and dangerous.

 

“I’d want to get a minimum of probably thirty to forty vamps.  Say I’m able to come across two a night, and waiting for ‘em to rise afterwards… a month at the earliest, probably.”  Spike does the math, knowing he’ll need to find food for his offspring, but having no compunction about eating the goody two shoes and what Willow doesn’t know, won’t hurt him.  Smirking at the thought he quirks his eyebrow at the witch.

 

“Don’t cross me, Spike.”  Willow warns as she steps up to the vampire, pinning him with a spell so he can’t move his body. 

 

“What the bloody ‘ell?”  Spike snarls, darting his eyes down to his hands and legs as he tries to shift to get another cigarette. 

 

“Shut up.  You aren’t going to make a snack of me, Spike.  I’ll always be prepared for you and whatever you might try.”  Willow gloats as she places her hands on either side of the vampire’s head.  “This might hurt… a lot…” 

 

Spike screams as the pain shoots through his head as Willow sends a bolt of electricity into his brain where the pain always originates from when he hurts a human, his eyesight going dim as he passes out.

 

Willow steps back, releasing the spell holding Spike up while grinning at the trickles of blood coming from his ears and nostrils.  Stepping over to her bag, she tosses the blood in his lap for when he comes around, figuring it might take a day or two from the pain that she’d just inflicted by shorting out his chip, the compulsion spell already in place.  Writing a quick note on a piece of paper, she places it beside him on the couch.  “See you in a month or so, Spike.  Don’t cross me, because that little bit of pain you just felt is nothing compared to what I’ll make you feel.”

 

Willow looks around the crypt once more, debating on whether or not to use it for her hide-a-way, but since Buffy knows about it, decides that might not be the best idea.  Knowing she has a while, she’ll start looking for somewhere that all the vampires Spike will be bringing back with him and some place for her to try different spells to get control of Tara once and for all.

 

“And if he actually thinks I’ll let him have Buffy for his play thing…”  Willow snorts, laughing maniacally as she steps out into the black night, already having other plans for the slayer and it doesn’t include the bleached blonde vampire.  As soon as his usefulness is over with, he’ll be so much dust floating in the wind.

 

***

 

“Tell me again why we’re doing this?”  Buffy grumbles as she fixes the large salad. 

 

“Because they’re our friends, we like them, and they don’t get really good home cooked meals that often.  Their idea of a home cooked meal is grilled hot dogs and hamburgers.”  Tara exasperatedly smacks Buffy on the ass with her wooden spoon as she walks to the pot on the stove.

 

“Don’t tease.”  Buffy growls softly.  “We have the house to ourselves for a whole week during Spring Break, and you have to invite Hekyll and Jekyll to visit?”

 

“Just one night, Buffy.  Behave!”  Tara grins crookedly at her lover as she looks over her shoulder and sees the pout on Buffy’s lips.

 

“Why should I?  Those two numb skulls are always flirting with you.  Then you have to invite them to our little love nest.”  Buffy glares playfully at Tara as she tosses the last grape tomato on the salad and darts around the island to pick Tara up in her arms.  “We could be naked right now… and you could be the main course.”

 

Tara laughs as Buffy sets her on the counter and burrows between her legs while nipping at her neck while growling loudly.  “I’m not a main course.”

 

Buffy gently grabs some skin between her teeth and nibbles.  “Could be.  You’re usually dessert, though.”  Buffy presses her body firmly against Tara’s center, wiggling around.  “Absolutely tasty, tantalizing, delicious…”

 

“You’re rotten.”  Tara urges Buffy up to kiss her firmly, the kiss becoming a deep exploration as they battle against each other.  Jumping slightly as somebody taps loudly on the kitchen window, Tara smacks Buffy at the smirk on her lover’s face.

 

“Guess I should let them in.”  Buffy sticks her tongue out at Freddie as he makes a face at her.  “Beat that damn muscle-headed, blonde, beach bums ass…”

 

Tara laughs as Buffy keeps mumbling on her way to the front door.  Shaking her head, she slips down to the floor and turns to double-check the food.

 

“We didn’t know what you were fixing, so we brought a variation.”  Craig grins at Tara as he sets the bottle of red wine down, followed by a bottle of white and chuckles as Freddie sets down the case of Corona’s.

 

Buffy groans quietly.  “I’m not much of a drinker.  Last time was not a pretty sight, so I try to stay away from it.”

 

“What about you, my beautiful blonde love?”  Craig questions as he grabs her in his arm and dances around the island and