*********************UPDATE******************
“Right Buffy be careful, Faith watch you’re back im sure these guards are sneaky little buggers at the best of times.” Giles instructed the two slayers. “Willow you and I will wait for them to leave a space and we’ll sneak past although I do hope we don’t bump into the robed idiot on the way.”
“Got it!” the slayers declared in unison as they jumped out of the car and headed towards two dark figures stood in front of the entrance of an old building.
“Hey you” Faith shouted at one of them “don’t you want a piece of this nice teenage ass?”she turned around and waggled her backside at him. He simply stared at her, then began walking slowly forwards.
“Hey stupid guy, that nice teenage ass is mine” Buffy exclaimed as her foot collided with his head effectively rendering him unconscious.
Faith snickered at her girlfriend then ducked as she sensed someone behind her, sweeping her foot around she knocked a guy over then gained her balance and elbowed him in the face. Alerted by the commotion outside a mass of dark figures came running out of the building towards Faith and Buffy, the two slayers gave each other a quick kiss then readied themselves for a fight.
“PARTY” Faith screamed charging into the mass of men, glad to be doing what she does best.
Willow and Giles sneaked around the corner of the building after parking the car in an inconspicuous place, both making sure they stayed as close to the wall as possible. Successfully sneaking past the guarding men who were currently getting their guarding asses kicked, they made it into the building without being noticed and breathed a sigh of relief which was quickly replaced by a gasp of fright as an axe passed them both centimetres away from their bodies and embedded itself into the wall, both heads turned to the culprit of the thrown axe and saw a tiny Chinese man smiling at them.
“There will be no passing, thank you, please” was all the Chinese man said and bowed his head after the sentence.
Willow looked to Giles with a confused frown on her face and was shocked to see the Englishman fighting off a fit of giggles.
He saw the redhead’s look of disapproval and straightened himself. Pulling the axe from the wall Giles proceeded forward and stood waiting for the Chinese man to make his move, a few minutes went past, but the Chinese man was still stood staring at them.
“Oh, my apologies, we’re going to pass so that means you and I have to fight” Giles informed. “It’s nothing personal, but you are kind of in our way”
the Chinese man bowed his head again and started throwing his hands and feet in the air gesturing various martial arts movements that were quite impressive although not threatening.
The Englishman stood for a few moments until he had got sick of the display of ‘machoness’ and lunged his fist forward knocking the man out quite easily then winced as a wave of pain passed through his knuckles.
“Giles why didn’t you just do that in the first place” Willow exclaimed.
“Well I didn’t think it would be that easy.” he answered honestly.
Willow just rolled her eyes and followed Giles through the maze of the building. It seemed they were just going round and round in circles and after 5 minutes Willow noticed that they actually were going round in circles. Stopping dead in her tracks she closed her eyes and focussed her energy, hopefully she would be able to feel her girlfriend’s essence. Willow wasn’t sure how she knew she could do this, but she did non the less. She noticed the dark magic surrounding her and realised what Tara had had to do to be able to speak to her, with her extra energy Willow pushed passed the darkness and felt a glimmer of light, knowing instinctively this was her girlfriend she uttered a word and a little ball of light appeared. The light rushed forward and through a couple of rooms, but stopped in front of an old rug, she looked at it for a moment before bending down and pulling it to one side.
Giles followed bewildered by what Willow was doing, he was about to ask when the redhead pulled the rug out of the way and revealed a trapdoor.
“Impressive” he said simply, as the light faded then disappeared
Giles stepped forward and put his index finger in a little whole no bigger than a coin and pulled, the door opened to reveal a concrete staircase the light of the room only illuminated 3 steps. Beyond that it was pitch black, Giles took a torch out of a little bag he was carrying and shone it down the steps, but this didn’t help them figure out what was down there.
“You first” Willow nudged the watcher.
“Right.. Yes” he thought for a moment “why me?.. you’re the one with the magical abilities”
“True.. But you’re the one with the axe” she reasoned.
“Oh.... Well if it means that much to you, you may have it” he stated thrusting it towards her.
“Giles, im not arguing with you about who goes first, I’m a 17 year old girl.. You’re a...a.... um..middle aged man, so get down those stairs and do the man thing” she said rolling her eyes.
“Right.. Yes.. Man thing” the watcher looked down the staircase wishing he too was a 17 year old girl.
Willow followed the Englishman closely, keeping her eyes open for any robed men who weren’t currently getting pummled by the two slayers. Getting into this place was just to easy she thought to herself, you’d think a man with so many enemies would have tighter security.
Giles lead them through the underground of the old building, searching for any sign of where Tara might be.
“Willow this is useless,” he declared impatiently “do that light thingy you did that lead us to the trapdoor” he instructed.
Willow sighed, but did as the man requested. She focussed again and felt her girlfriend’s essence smiling as the warmth of it filled her heart. Uttering the word she waited for the little light to appear........but nothing. Giles looked at her expectantly so she tried again, but still nothing.
“Uh....Giles....I think I’m broken.” she said, her face a mask of confusion.
The watcher looked at her bewildered, but he was saved from having to speak by a low humming sound.
Looking around feverishly for somewhere to hide the Englishman grabbed Willow by her arm and dragged her towards a nearby archway. The redhead jumped at the contact and slapped the man’s hand away
“I can walk” she whispered loudly.
He glared at her, then became wide eyed as the light emanating from his torch illuminated the edges of a body hanging loosely from chains against the far wall.
Willow was about to argue her point further, but her eyes travelled to were the watcher was looking.
“Oh my god!” Willow cried when saw what had caught his eye. She ran towards the dangling form of her girlfriend, but was stopped half way by a firm hand on her shoulder.
“This could be a trap” Giles warned.
The redhead wanted to protest, to run to her girlfriend and swoop her up in he arms, to whisper words of reassurance and kiss away the past 6 hours, but she couldn’t risk it.
“It’s not a trap.”
Giles and Willow spun their heads around to were a voice had come from.... A figure came out from the corner of the room hidden by the shadows. The voice sounded familiar.
Giles shone the torch in the man’s face and gasped.
“You!” Willow hissed.
“All this time.. Right under our noses.... How could you?” Giles asked.
“Oh my god.. Why didn’t I see this before?... this makes perfect sense.... what other reason would there be for you to be so mean?” Willow reasoned for her own benefit more than anyone elses.
Suddenly the archway Giles and Willow had entered the room from was sealed with a loud thud, by a large wooden door. The redhead looked at the watcher worriedly.
“That’s not good!” she stated.
“What do you want?” Giles got straight to the point.
“Power,” the man stated simply “they have it, and I want it” he said looking pointedly at Willow and then Tara. “I did want it from the blonde girl’s mother, but she wasn’t willing to co-operate, so Im going to take it from her daughter and her daughter’s sweetheart, I’m aware the redhead overdosed on mystical energy before coming to rescue her beau.... which means I don’t need ‘oh mighty mother’ after all” he said with a grin.
Willow filled the distance between her and Tara gently cupping the girl’s face in her hands.
“Tara..sweetie now would be a good time to wake up” the redhead stroked the blondes face softly.
Tara stirred lightly, but it was clear she was dazed.
“What did you do to her?” Willow swung around and furiously demanded the man to give her an answer.
The man simply smirked and walked over to the dark corner he had been hiding in.
“I just gave her something to keep her quiet, she had quite a resolve.” he stated whilst putting his hand in his pocket, he pulled something out and threw it at the redhead. “Unchain her.” he ordered.
Willow didn’t hesitate to unchain her girlfriend and Giles rushed over and caught the blonde as she fell limply from the restraints. The man went to the dark corner he had been hidden in and retrieved what looked like a scroll. He turned back around to face the two witches and instructed the watcher to get out of the way. Giles was hesitant, but did as he was instructed, his mind desperately trying to come up with a plan.
* * * * * * * * * *
“Hell yeah” Faith shouted as she layed one last punch to a man who was spread out across the floor.
Buffy panted heavily with a satisfied smile on her face and made her way over to her girlfriend.
The dark haired slayer smirked and grabbed her girlfriend, pulling her close, she planted a forceful kiss on her lips. Buffy responded by grabbing the back of Faiths head, pulling her closer to her, their bodies came together, their movements rough and needy.
“Uuuurgh” Faith growled, when the blonde slayer pulled their lips and bodies apart.
“Willow, Giles.... need to help them” she explained, breathlessly.
The dark haired slayer just nodded and kissed Buffy one last time, biting her lip, making sure to leave teeth marks as a reminder of what she was owed later.
both slayers hurried hand in hand towards the house stepping over the unconscious bodies of men they had previously been trading blows with. They went through the entrance of the house immediately noticing the Chinese man on the floor as he was coming into consciousness. Faith carried on walking passed, but made sure to kick him in the face effectively knocking him out again before walking past. Buffy gave her a disapproving glare.
“What?....” the dark haired slayer asked innocently.
Buffy chose to ignore the question knowing her girlfriend was fully aware of ‘what’. They followed the trail through the building not really knowing where they were going, until Buffy noticed the over turned rug.
“Down there!” she instructed.
Faith just nodded and waited for Buffy to go down the stairs of the trapdoor first, but when Buffy didn’t move she asked.
“Well?...”
“Well what?” the blonde slayer asked in annoyance.
“Well....go on.” Faith answered, motioning to the stairs with her hand.
“Why me?.... it’s dark in there you go first.” Buffy informed.
“You love me so you should go first!” Faith tried to urge her girlfriend.
“I do love you...but you love me too.. So you should go first.”
Faith rolled her eyes. “Flip for it?” she asked pulling a coin out of the top pocket of Buffy’s jacket. Buffy nodded and watched as her girlfriend flipped the coin.
“Heads you go first!” she called Willing the coin to be heads.
“Ha! it’s tails you go first” Buffy gloated, grabbing the coin and flashing it in her girlfriend’s face.
“Fine” Faith mumbled before heading down the dark stairwell.
Buffy followed the dark haired slayer and made sure to snap a small burning lantern off the wall to light their way. Both girls stopped dead when they heard a scream.
“Oh god where did that come from?” Buffy asked in a panic.
“Ok, calm down....”Faith soothed, giving the blonde slayer’s hand a gentle squeeze.
Faith focussed and turned her head to were she thought the scream had come from, looking at a wooden door that had no handle she presumed this was it. both girls could hear what sounded like Willow shouted and tried to figure out a way to get inside.
“Stand back” the dark haired slayer ordered.
Buffy did as she was told and watched as her girlfriend drove her fist into the wood with brute force. The blonde slayer took the lead from her girlfriend and drove her foot into the wood as hard as she could. The wood started to give way to their repeated thrusts and cracked allowing Faith to pull at the shattered wood and move it to a side until they had made a hole big enough for them to get through. Climbing through the hole they stopped at what they saw.
To Be Continued....
Edited by: Auburn at: 6/26/03 7:12 pm
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Woo Hoo! 
Finally caught up and I'm loving this fic. 
More please!!! 
or kiss the moo! lol..
heeheej/k. Anyways, please update soon!
Allison 
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and the rest.
Now that's a cliffhanger!!
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