Love Through Touch

Disclaimer: See Part 1

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'Subjects leaving the building. Woman and child alone. The male left the premises at 8am this morning. We plan on following the two females in hope of collecting data that will prove them suitable for capture and testing.'

The hunter tucked her tape recorded back into the pocket of her business suit.

As normal as someone who did it everyday, she stepped out onto the sidewalk and got into her car.

She followed at a discreet distance.
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"Where's Star?" Buffy asked and cringed when she realized how much like Dawn she sounded.

"I dropped her off at school" Anya tucked her purse behind the counter of the Magic Box "Thanks for opening for me Buffy" she smiled at the slayer.

Buffy nodded "It wasn't a problem. The whole up with the rising sun thing comes natural" she shrugged "That and my new favorite alarm clock"

"Your girl toy?" Anya hoped to get some inside snuff on what the Slayer and the Empath's relationship was.

"She's not my girl toy she's my" Buffy frowned "I don't quite know what she is. But she isn't my girl toy" facing Anya with a serious look "Got it?"

"Loud and clear" Anya mock saluted "But I'm guessing she is your new favorite alarm clock"

"Yeah" Buffy sighed remembering her awakening just hours before "She wanted to thank you for keeping Star last night"

"It was my pleasure" Anya said honestly "She teased Xander just like I do. Calling him a girly-man and everything"

"Ah motherhood" Buffy deadpanned.

"Speaking of which" Anya wandered around the shop checking this and that, making sure it was perfect "What are you guys planning on doing for the Holiday?"

"You mean like Thanksgiving and stuff?" Buffy shrugged "I haven't thought about it\ "I "I think we should spend it together" Anya's eyes were wide with hope "With Dawnie and Star now. We should do more family things. You know make them feel stable" Anya grabbed a Memo pad "Starting with Thanksgiving. We should have it at your house, it's bigger"

Buffy grabbed the pad from Anya bringing a halt to the woman's ramble "Shouldn't we discuss this with the 'whole' family here?"

"Oh. Yeah. Just got a little excited" Anya blushed.

It had to be a first for the ex-demon. Buffy had never seen her blush before.
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"So your saying that all this falls in time for Christmas?" Willow flopped back into her chair "Wow talk about the gift you never wished for"

Fatima smiled at the witch. She had a dry sense of humor, something Fatima appreciated. Especially from someone other than her wife.

Hyatt had brought Willow and Tara with her to Fatima's library.

They'd been introduced to Fatima's wife Lucita, a dark beauty who kept Fatima on her toes.

"Evil knows no Holidays" Lucita sighed.

"Honestly Cita, do not upset the child" Fatima pressed a kiss into Lucita dark straight hair.

"Just being honest" Lucita pouted, lifting her face to be kissed. Fatima obliged.

Tara was still surprised by this. These two vampiric women were as loving and affectionate as Willow and herself.

"These are all the texts I know of that have the Vivione in them. Well that's detailed atleast" Lucita placed a particularly large text before Tara.

"Th-thank you" Tara choked out nervously.

Hyatt had long since disappeared into the stacks leaving Tara and Willow alone with her 'Aunts'.

"There's a prophecy for the Vivione Kadesh?" Willow asked not quite looking up from her reading.

"Several actually" Fatima sat down and opened a thick text "We don't know which is for which rising though"

"You mean they rise more than once?" Willow squeaked.

"Yes. They try again even few hundred years. Usually they get defeated before many of them actually 'rise'." Lucita smirked "I remember helping Greta destroy that annoying little new master of their's. What was her name again?" she turned to Fatima.

"Ariane" Fatima provided "She gave you that scar on your back"

Lucita pouted "You would bring that up"

"Who was Greta?" Willow asked watching the playing banter between the two vamps.

"She was a Slayer" they said in unison.

"Oh" Willow smiled "You've known many Slayers?"

"Lucita here is the mysterious shadow that has saved many a Slayer on an off night" Fatima stroked Lucita's hair "She hasn't done so for Buffy. She's a different type of Slayer"

Lucita smirked "She has two witches, a brave soul, and an ex-demon to watch her back" she kissed Fatima's lips "She doesn't need me"

"But I do" Fatima whisper low enough that Willow and Tara couldn't hear. Hyatt who had come up behind them, however, did.

"Eww. Old women mating" she joked taking a seat next to Tara.

"You're heading the right way for a bruised ass little girl" Lucita teased.

"Are you gonna spank me? You know how very much I like that" Hyatt mock pouted "Don't tease"

Willow and Tara's jaws dropped when they saw Lucita flush and Fatima burst into laughter.

"Stop teasing my woman. You have a Slayer to worry about" Fatima admonished pushing Hyatt's loose hair from her face.

Lucita looked at them both oddly "So that's who I smell all over you"

Tara looked away and Willow smirked "You can hear them too. If your on the same 'block' anyway"

"The same could be said for you Ms. Rosenberg" Hyatt shot back "If your on the same planet"

Tara began to giggle behind her hand. Dawn often teased them about their volume while having sex. Now it seemed Hyatt was too.

Willow pouted "Isn't it time to pick up Star already?" she wanted the subject away from her sex life.

"Oh shit it is" Hyatt leapt up "We've been here all day!"

"Watch your mouth little one" Fatima admonished.

"It's 3:30. We were supposed to pick her up at 3" Tara said without studdering "Her second day and we already forget to pick her up"

"We're terrible aunts" Willow sighed sadly "Tara honey we're terrible aunts"

"No we're not Willow" Tara assured her "We were just so caught up and protecting the world so she'll have a chance to grow up in it, that we forgot she's out in it right now"

Hyatt stood and packed away a few books Fatima had deemed important "And your not terrible aunts"

Willow and Tara looked at her as they left through the underground of Fatima's lair.

"We're not?" they asked in unison out of breath from rushing.

"No" they reached Hyatt's care and piled in quickly "Your terrible godmothers"
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"Your late" Star frowned with her hands on her hips "Your very very late"

"It's all her fault" Willow pointed to Hyatt "She has the car and the watch"

"Hey" Hyatt protested as she helped Star into the back seat next to Willow.

"Well, you disappeared for a long time. And when you came back we left like a few minutes later" Willow supported herself.

"Yeah what were you looking at?" Tara asked. She'd been getting a sad and uneasy feeling from Hyatt since they left the compound.

"Oh nothing, just some sad thoughts" Hyatt lied.

Tara knew she was lying but said nothing.

"To the Magic Box right Wills?" Hyatt said glancing into the mirror avoiding Tara's knowing eyes.

"Yup. Buffy and Anya are there. Xander had to go somewhere with his job today" Willow settle back and played with Star's silky hair.

"Nice. What about Giles?" Hyatt asked.

"He's gone looking for some more text about the Vivione Fatima might not have" Tara offered.

"So it's just us girls?" Hyatt asked, smiling.

"Yup" Willow smiled too "Imagine the possibilities"
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"You brought Ice Cream!" Anya bounded up to them before they's all gotten themselves fully into the store "I love you"

Willow blinked, Tara blushed, and Hyatt hid her carton of Wild Cherry.

"Geez An let them in first" Buffy said pushing the ex-demon out of the way.

She took Hyatt immediately into her arms and kissed her lovingly.

"Hi" she smiled at the stunned look on the girls face.

"I...........wow" Hyatt sighed "You, all day. Oh Buffy" Hyatt kissed the slayer back and wrapped her arms around her neck.

"I think they missed each other" Anya said as they all stared at the lip locked couple.

"You would think so" Tara whispered. Star gave her an odd look.

"Where's Dawnie?" Star asked suddenly looking like a little girl. Not the half grown midget she sometimes acted like.

"She's on her way. Coming from school" Buffy breathed when she broke off the kiss.

Tara and Willow confiscated the Ice Cream, placing it all in the freezer hidden behind the counter for Anya's snacks.

Buffy didn't let Hyatt go and Hyatt clutched at the slayer, unwilling to.

"Baby what's wrong?" Buffy whispered into the clingng girls hair.

"Just want to be near you" Hyatt whispered back. /For as long as I can/
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