Love Through Touch

Disclaimer: See Part 1

This one is for someone special, you know who you are.

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"Fucking like what?" Anya screamed.

"Like bunnies" Buffy reiterated.

"Bunny's fuck?" Anya's face took on a disenchanted look "Xander? Bunnies reproduce?"

"Yeah Anya, they have almost as many orgasms as you" Xander said not looking up from the broing text.

"Uh Hyatt" Giles cleaned his glasses nervously "I'm aware your having a bit of family trouble"

Everyone grimaced at the reminder. Though she was up and about Hyatt sported quite a few bruises from her fathers unkind hands.

"But do you have access to Fatima's library" Giles finished quickly.

"Her library is in her lair beneath the house. My father never goes down there" Hyatt shut the codex "I'm pretty sure she'll let me in"

"Well what I really want to talk about is what's gonna happen when Buffy finds Spike" Willow said testily.

"I'll stake him" buffy said rising from her seat "That simple"

"But Buffy" Dawn was quick to object.

"No but's Dawn" Buffy turned away from her sister.

"Bunnies have sex?" Anya asked no one in particular.

"More than Willow and Tara" Hyatt offered.

Anya blinked "Wow"

Tara blushed, Willow fumed "That was-"

The entire room began to shake. The biesbies panicked, all except Willow.

The floor was groaning and the walls shook but nothing fell or broke.

"Earthquake" Buffy said shaking with the room.

It stopped as suddenly as it began.

"That wasn't an Earthquake" Anya shook her blonde head casing her hair to fly in her eyes.

"I-it was Willow" Tara said softly.

"Willow did that?" Buffy's voice held disbelief.

"I made her angry" Hyatt stated.

Willow shook of the daze she was wrapped in "Sorry emotion thing"

"Passion can make magick twice as strong" Tara said not studdering a single word. Something she rarely did.

"Which makes it four times as dangerous" Anya whined.
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"I'm gonna patrol" Buffy was the first to speak.

"Can i come?" Hyatt stood as the slayer moved to leave.

"No your hurt" Buffy said gently but in a stern voice.

"I"m fine. Besides I want a piece of William the Bloody" Hyatt ground her fist into her palm "I owe him"

"No I owe him" Buffy argued "Your not leaving this store tonight. Not unless I'm taking you home" she stared the other girl down.

"I owe him for hurting me" Hyatt said meeting Buffy's eyes. She saw concern inn their depths, as well as love.

"If anyone owe him I do" A feminine voice said from behind them all.

They turned to find a woman who looked amazing like Hyatt. Or maybe it was the other way around.

"He should know better than to attack a higher blood" the woman frowned "Then again men are rather dense"

Hyatt chuckled, Tara stared in fascination "Your Fatima" she breathed.

"Yes, and you little one, fairly reek of natural magicks. Strong natural magicks. A friend of your's aziza?" Fatima asked Hyatt.

"Yes. Tara's a very good friend" Hyatt smiled at the witch who blushed.

"Oh my, your Anyanka aren't you" Fatima's eyes fell upon the ex-demon "You were quite popular among teh scorned female demons"

"Oh yes those were the days" Anya sighed "now all I have to look forward to is Xander giving me orgasms"

"I heard you were with a man" Fatima shook her head "You'd think you would of chosen a woman. After all the men you eviscerated"

"Well I would have, but the slayer has a thing for your miny me" Anya waved in Hyatt's direction.

Buffy spoke for the first time since Fatima enterd "I....she...we...vampire" she immediately realized she sounded like Xander and shook it off "Hello"

Fatima stared at Buffy for long moments. She noticed the Watcher in the side of her vision but dismissed him. The slayer wasn't at all what she expected "I thought you'd be taller" she voiced.

"Okay this whole height thing has to run in your family" Buffy complained to Hyatt.

"Well you are a little on the short side" Anya shrugged.

"Anya, you are so not helping" Giles said sounding frightening like Dawn "My god I just talked like you" he muttered something to himself as he walked away from everyone.
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"Fatima I need a book" Hyatt said once they were alone.

Buffy had gone out to patrol by herself. Willow and Tara had taken Dawn home and Xander was helping Anya bring not so heavy things up from downstairs.

"The Vivione are rising" Fatima nodded "I can feel a strong one. Lucita felt her to. We came to ask you but found out that you weren't there anymore" Fatima's face hardened "Your mother thought you deserved it"

"It doesn't matter, I'm okay now" Hyatt took the cold hand in her warm one "Can you feel it?" she focused her mind on one single thing. Buffy's love.

"I can smell her all over you" Fatima smiled when she blushed "I can also feel the bonds that have formed. I take it they accepted you as you are?"

"Yes. I brought the watcher a book and he told me I was the newest Scooby" Hyatt smiled to her at the memory.

"Scooby? Like the cartoon with the dog?" Fatima's eyes sparkled "They do partly remind me of them" she slid her hands to the bare skin of Hyatt's arms "I couldn't sense you for a time ast night"

"William got close, to close. My gaurd was down. It won't happen again" Hyatt's eyes took a an angry glow.

"I doubt you'll have to see him again if the Slayer find him tonight" Fatima smirked.

"What books do you need little one? My library is your library" Fatima pulled out a short knife "There's something outside"

"I feel it. It's Buffy" Hyatt rubbed the skin that had been beneath Fatima's hand before she grabbed her knife.

"Did I hurt you?" the Assamite leveled her eyes on the many bruises that covered Hyatt's arms "Oh my I didn't see those. Your father should be taught that you don't hit girls"

"No one hits my girl" Buffy remarked.

"Did you find him?" Hyatt didn't know if she hoped she had, or hadn't.

"No. But not for lack of trying" Buffy took off her new jacket, vampire dust fell off when she shook it out "Ready"

"Yeah"
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Tara brushed her hair out in the mirror, staring at herself through the steam from the shower. Chanting she drew several characters on the mirror. Her reflection morphed and disappeared. Willow was sitting at the table downstairs, speaking quietly to Dawn. Tara tenderly touched the image. After a moment she changed it. Buffy appeared with Hyatt. They were in Buffy's car kissing. Tara smirked and shook her head, they were almost as affectionate as Willow and herself.

She left the bathroom minutes later.

Willow and Dawn were discussing their plan.

"I can't believe it worked so fast" Dawn's voice held excitement.

"Yeah. I think it might have bec because she needed Buffy. Buffy's quick with things that need her" Willow pushed her hair behind her ear.

"I think their cute together" Dawn remakred "Hyatt's always teasing Buffy. She gets under her skin"

"Yeah she does. Buffy needs that" Willow agreed.

"But what about Spike?" Dawn mumbled "I can't believe he'd do something like that. I thought the chip that he has wouldn't let him hurt her"

"Wait Dawnie, I didn't hear him scream" Willow's eyes widened "When he grabbed Hyatt he hurt her. She has bruises from his hands. But she was the only one screaming""Sp"Spike can't hurt humans. But she's human" Dawn tried to understand "He should have been hurt to"

"Maybe it's because she has Vampire blood in her" Willow thought aloud "Maybe it negates the chip"

"Hey, what's up guys" Buffy came through the front door with Hyatt a few steps behind her.

They were holding hands when the enterd and didn't let them go when they saw Willow and Dawn.

"Why could he hurt you?" Willow stood up wit her eyes narrowed "Why could Spike hurt you? He has a chip in his head, so he can't hurt humans"

"I don't wanna hear anything about Spike right now" Buffy said angrily.

"Spike can hurt her Buffy. She might not be human. She might be lying to us" Willow began to panick when she saw the look on Buffy's face "Listen to me Buffy! I'm telling you the truth and you know it"

"I'm human Willow. I'm as human as you" Hyatt tried to assure her "Look at my aura, is it anything different than it should be?"

Willow refused to acknowledge that Hyat had spoken.

"You aura looks alot like Buffy's actually" Tara said entering the room. She'd felt Willow's desperation from upstairs and hurried down to see what was bothering her "Her aura is human Willow, with something extra there. A destiny. She's no different than Buffy"

"I.." Willow was breathing deeply.

Dawn was standing staring at them all, she didn't know what to do. It seemed that latelly she felt that way alot. She was tired of feeling that way, tired of living with such insecurity. She fled upstairs.

"I don't...." Willow cut herself off "I just... Buffy just look into it please?" she ran upstairs and slammed the door to the bedroom.

"She doesn't know does she?" Buffya sked Tara.

"I didn't tell her. I thought you just wanted it between us" Tara said meeting Buffytiretired eyes.

"I do" Buffy sighed tiredly "I'm gonna go to bed. Night Tara" Buffy slowly walked up the steps. It seemed life was one big drama after another. She'd give anything just to have one day of peace.
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"I don't think she likes me" Hyatt remarked to Tara once they'd sat down.

"She doesn't see you how I see you" Tara sighed "I think, since I know what's you've been through, I understand"

"I like Willow. And she's really str The The power I sense in her is amazing" Hyatt closed her eyes and 'f'elt' the house around her "It's essence permeates eveything here"

"Willow is a force to be reckoned with isn't she" Tara smiled.

"Yeah. But when the force comes to be reckoned, I hope I'm on her side" Hyatt said sincerly.
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