Genesis

A/N: Well sorry it's taken so long to update, I've been away for a while, but I do have some news. I MET ALYSON HANNIGAN, yep that's right I was lucky enough to be in London when she was playing Sally in the stage production of When HArry Met Sally, well I have to say, she is FUCKING FANTASTIC, and the orgasm scene, WOW, I mean HOT, WOW, anyway I got 'round back in time for her to come out and got autographs and pictures. She's wonderful amazing and so lovely and sweet and .... I know I'm babbling but I'm star struck here Okay.

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Chapter 20

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About another hour later they emerged from the apartment, Faith had a really goofy grin plastered on her face, she couldn’t get the picture of soapy wet Buffy out of her head. They had needed to shower a second time, as the first was wasted as soon as they stepped out and had ended up rolling around the bathroom floor, Buffy had fucked Faith senseless and promised to continue as soon as they had chance.

They bounded into the kitchen where some SIT’s and Scoobies were fighting over what to have for lunch.

“Hi guys.” Willow called to the two slayers as they entered, she looked at Buffy and then at Faith and then back to Buffy. She caught the blonds gaze and mouthed ‘tell me later’ as a smile beamed across her face. Anyone who wasn’t blind could see that the relationship had moved on since they last saw the two. Buffy blushed a little but returned the smile to her best friend.

“Hey Faith, you gonna show me this Harley o yours?” Kennedy asked dragging the brunette towards the door.

“Don’t look like I gotta choice.” Faith replied but quickly pecked Buffy on the lips as she was frogmarched toward the garage. Some of the SIT’s followed the brunettes as they made their way to the fascination that was Harley Davidson.

Soon the kitchen had emptied and only Willow and Buffy remained. “Well?” the red head turned to her friend.

“Well what?” Buffy asked feigning innocence.

“You know what, what happened last night?” Willow asked wanting to know all the gossip.

“The same thing that happened this morning.” Buffy replied knowing she was driving her friend insane.

“Oh come on Buff, give me details.” Willow pleaded.

“All I’m saying is WOW!” Buffy blushed almost the same colour as the red heads hair.

“Oh yes!” Willow whooped.

Xander entered the kitchen and looked at his two friends, both had silly school girl grins plastered on their faces.

“I’m guessing the bike paid off, seeing as Buffy has this silly grin on her face and I assume she just told you some juicy gossip?” He enquired.

“Yep!” Willow jumped up and down excitedly as she answered for the blond.

“So Buffster what’s the gossip, come on ya gotta tell me.” Xander sidled over to her.

“No Xander I am not telling you anything that you could possibly use in a fantasy, I mean eww.” Buffy replied wrinkling up her nose at the thought of Xander fantasising about her and Faith.

“Buff trust me, I’m a man, they’re already there, just need some new material to work with, Willow is keeping quiet about her and Kennedy, a guys gotta try somehow.” He stated trying to sound innocent.

“NO!” Buffy replied. “But will WOW help you.” She giggled as Xander’s mouth fell open. He quickly stood and moved to the door trying to hide his arousal at the explicit thoughts that his mind had begun to process.

Willow and Buffy laughed as the red-faced Xander quickly exited the kitchen and could be heard running up the stairs two at a time. “Men.” Willow laughed.

Faith and Kennedy had been left alone in the garage and they were still inspecting every inch of Faith’s new toy.

“So.” Kennedy broke the silence between them.

“So.” Faith shrugged her shoulders at the younger brunette.

“How’d last night go?” Kennedy asked quickly trying not to pry, but she wanted to know what had happened between the slayers.

“It went well.” Faith replied smiling at her.

“And.” Kennedy pushed a little.

Faith smiled at her again, she had begun to like Kennedy, at first she thought she was way to cocky and thought that she knew best, but Faith had seen past that as it had reminded her so much of herself. She had begun to class the younger brunette as a friend even maybe a best friend, they had become quite close over the last few months, and now that they were both ‘involved’ with one of the Scoobies they had become closer. Faith knew that Kennedy respected her for confessing about her past time in Sunnydale and how much she had fought and won, not only demons but with personal battles and most of them were with herself.

“It was amazing, I have never in my life felt like that, like this.” Faith replied smiling widely.

“So is it the big L?” Kennedy enquired.

“Yep!” Faith smiled, she couldn’t believe that she had fallen in love with someone and they had fallen in love with her. She blushed slightly as she remembered their synchronised admission to each other the night before.

“Cool!” Kennedy yelled and grabbed Faith into a huge bear hug, Faith was a little taken aback by Kennedy pouncing on her but soon returned the gesture holding the younger girl.

“Hey you stealing my girl?” Buffy called as she entered the garage.

“Nope, I prefer red heads.” Kennedy returned Buffy’s smile.

“Good.” Willow stated as she walked in behind her friend.

“Hey baby.” Kennedy greeted as she saw her girlfriend.

Buffy made her way past Kennedy and grabbed Faith into a passionate embrace. “I missed you.” She said as they broke apart.

“Awww.” Both Willow and Kennedy said at the same time staring at how cute the two slayers were.

“Fuck off.” Faith mock growled at the pair and returned to kissing the blond.

Willow and Kennedy laughed at them as they continued to kiss. “Get a room.” Willow called as the slayers had not yet broken apart.

“Sorry Will, I get carried away.” Buffy blushed as she had completely forgotten about the other two in the garage with them.

“It’s ok, I know how it is.” Willow replied smiling back at her girlfriend. Kennedy leaned in and caught Willow lips with her own. Soon all four of them were playing their own game of tonsil tennis when Dawn walked in.

“Oh gross.” She squealed.

“Thanks D.” Faith replied dryly.

“No I didn’t mean it like that, it’s just walking in on the four of you is like some kinda orgy going on or something.” Dawn replied.

“Dawn!” Buffy chastised.

“What it’s true.” Dawn’s voice raised a little.

“Maybe but where’d you learn about orgies?” Buffy asked bemused.

“Buff I’m not a kid anymore remember, I do read and well I got cable now.” Dawn giggled.

“That’s it, we cut the cable to your apartment, no more adult channels for you young lady.” Buffy began her tirade.

“Oh come on B, better she’s alone in her apartment watching it, than in some dark alley doing it.” Faith came to the younger Summers’ defence.

“Yep see Faith agrees.” Dawn offered hoping that her sister wouldn’t cut the cable to her apartment.

Buffy looked at Faith who gave heer ber best puppy dog eyes she knew the blond couldn’t resist. “No fair, you’re using the eyes.” Buffy pouted.

“And you’re using the pout.” Willow laughed once again at the pair.

“Ok, I’ll leave the cable.” Buffy agreed.

Dawn whooped and ran to hug her sister and Faith. They both accepted the hug and returned it just as eagerly. “Breathe, I can’t breathe.” Dawn whined as the slayers had begun to crush her a little.

“Sorry D, forget sometimes.” Faith said as she released her hold on the younger girl but remained with her arm around Buffy.

“S’ok.” Dawn replied as she backed up trying to draw breath.

“So Dawnie, you wanna go for that ride now?” Buffy asked taking the keys to her SUV out of her pocket.

“Yeah, but can Faith drive?” Dawn asked hopefully.

“Why, I drive just fine.” Buffy exclaimed.

Dawn and Faith both turned to look at the blond with shocked expressions. “B if I remember right you do not drive fine.” Faith stated.

“Hey, I’m not that bad.” Buffy began to pout.

“Maybe not but I’d like to live past today.” Faith teased.

“Um you two wanna stop before ya have your first lover’s tiff.” Kennedy giggled.

“Oh but the making up is sooo much fun.” Buffy replied leaning in and kissing the brunette.

“Mmmm, let’s argue more.” Faith offered wiggling her eyebrows at her girlfriend.

“Definitely.” Buffy agreed kissing the brunette once more.

“Ah when you pair have finished can we go for this ride or what?” Dawn whined.

“Ok, ok, lets go.” Buffy answered handing Faith the keys.

“You sure B?” Faith asked quietly.

“Yeah I trust you.” Buffy smiled. Faith leaned in and kissed the blond tenderly.

“Thanks, I love you.” Faith grinned as she looked into hazel eyes.

“Love you more.” Buffy replied giggling.

“Uh ah, I love you more.” Faith giggled back.

“Oh for fuck sake, will you two please stay focused for at least five minutes.” Dawn huffed.

Buffy and Faith both blushed a little as once again they had forgotten about the others in the room with them. “Um, sorry.” Buffy said shyly.

“Don’t worry ‘bout it now lets go.” Dawn paced to the car and crossed her arms waiting for the other two to join her.

“You wanna come, there’s room.” Faith asked turning to Willow and Kennedy who were still smirking at her and Buffy.

“Yeah why not.” Willow replied.

Soon they were all settled in the car, Buffy and Faith were in the front while Willow, Kennedy and Dawn got themselves comfortable in the back. Starting the engine and waiting for the garage door to open fully Faith turned to the others.

“Everyone ready?” To everyone’s agreement she started to pull forward. “Ok, lets go.”

They had been gone for about two hours when they finally arrived back home, they had stopped for coffee half way through their journey, and both Faith and Kennedy had snuck off to buy their respective partners roses.

Buffy and Willow had beamed when the brunettes re-appeared carrying the wonderful bouquets, Faith had given Buffy a white rose for everyday they had been together while Kennedy had settled for two dozen pink roses for Willow. Dawn spent the rest of the time blushing at the two couples she was with. Finally they had decided to head back home, and so here they were.

“Hey guys.” Xander called as they stepped out of Buffy’s car.

“Hi Xander, what you doing?” Dawn asked.

“Just making sure everything I need’ll fit in the Humma.” He replied waving his measuring tape at them.

“Xan, you could fit an army in there, what do you need space for?” Willow asked smirking at her friend.

“Exactly Will, it would fit an army, but I was thinking more like ‘Slayer backup’ ya know a couple of extra fighters and maybe a weapon or two.” He beamed.

“Cool so you’d be like all, Xander to the rescue.” The red head smiled at him.

“Yeah, I thought ya know what with having all these girls, we can have like teams or something and we might need to get one team to the other side of town to help another. There’s plenty of room to carry a decent arsenal in here and I was gonna modify the back a little to store some ammo like stakes and holy water and yunno.” He started to blush.

“That’s a great idea Xander, we need more forward thinking at the moment, we haven’t really been doing anything about what could be the next big bad, I think we’ve gotten a little lazy.” Buffy turned to the man.

“Yeah I agree, we really need to step up the training with the stronger girls and then maybe they can start patrolling as a unit and then maybe we can try and get more information from the local demons and stuff.” Willow agreed.

“Slow down guys, I think we need to call a Scooby meeting or something and get all these suggestions out, Andrew and Giles might have something they wanna do, and then there’s Dawn, she’s been working on some new training schedules and stuff.” Faith interrupted the three.

“You’re right, so what d’ya say to a meeting tomorrow morning, we can set the SIT’s some tasks and have a meeting around eleven.” Buffy offered.

“Yep, I’ll go tell Giles and Andrew, we might here from Wood by then to.” Xander agreed.

With everyone agreed they all dispersed to do their own thing, Dawn went to find some of the SIT’s she had become friends with, while Xander finished what he was doing and then went to speak to Giles and Andrew.

Buffy, Faith, Willow and Kennedy made their way back up to Willow’s apartment. Kennedy and Faith had decided to cook some food so Buffy and Willow had retired to the couch with a freshly opened bottle of wine.

“I’m glad to see that Xander is starting to cheer up a little now.” Willow stated as she poured herself a glass of wine.

“Yeah, me too. I hope it’s not just a front though, he really loved Anya even though he wont admit how much.” Buffy replied.

“Well if it’s anything like I went through with Tara I s’pose we have to be grateful that he ain’t a warlock or something.” Willow looked at her friend with sad eyes.

“Hey you, no getting down on me now, things are looking up, I know you still miss Tara and that she’ll always hold a piece of your heart, but you got a good woman in that kitchen who loves you Will, you gotta hold on to that.” Buffy smiled gently at her best friend.

“I know, it’s just when I think of what we left behind in Sunnydal lef left her there Buffy and sometimes I feel really bad.”

“Look Will, we lost a lot back there, I’ve left my Mom I have no-where to go to talk to her anymore, but I know that it doesn’t matter where I am if I talk I know she’s listening I don’t need a headstone to tell me where she is anymore, and that’s because she’s in here Will she always will be.” Buffy replied pointing at her heart.

“I never really looked at it that way, I know I talk to Tara I suppose I always will, but you’re right she probably can hear me no matter where I am or where she is.” Willow smiled a little with the realisation.

Faith and Kennedy were in the kitchen preparing the food, Kennedy was about to enter the sitting room when she overheard Willows pained story, she felt a strong sense of jealousy that she was competing with a ghost for Willows love.

“Hey, Ken what’s up?” Faith asked noticing the anguished expression that was playing on the young woman’s face.

“Nothing.” Was Kennedy’s short reply as she made her way back to the counter to help with the rest of dinner.

“Don’t bullshit a bullshitter Ken, you heard something then didn’t you?” Faith stated sternly.

“How the hell could I hear something, I’m in here and they’re out there.” Kennedy replied flippantly.

“Talking to a slayer remember, advanced everything including hearing, Ken come on talk to me.” Faith pleaded.

“I, I, I just heard Willow saying about how she still talks to Tara.” Kennedy replied lowering her head to the floor.

“And lemme guess, the little green eyed monster has shown an appearance.” Faith smirked.

“Well d’you blame me, I love Willow more than I’ve ever loved anything, yet she doesn’t love me, she’s in love with Tara and always will be, I’ll never have all of her, she’ll never love me like that.” Kennedy replied a tone of desperation sneaking into her voice.

“You’re right, she’ll never love you like she loved Tara, you have to understand how much Tara meant to Willow, and not just her, the whole gang loved her, she was part of them.” Kennedy looked at Faith disbelieving that she was defending the way her girlfriend was acting.

“I can’t believe you’re defending this.” That younger brunette stated.

“I’m not defending anything, look I know that Buffy still loves Angel, but she is in love with me, sure she was in love with Angel at one point too but that was a different kind of love. It’s the same for Willow, it’s easy for Buffy to pick up the phone and speak to Angel he’s a bit like a comfort blanket for her, but Willow can’t do that, so I suppose she talks to Tara’s spirit or what-ever, you have to remember that the difference for both of them in there is that one was able to say goodbye face to face, the other had no choice.” Faith offered softly hoping that Kennedy would understand.

“I’m being paranoid is what your saying right?” Kennedy stated sheepishly.

“Well that’s one way of putting it.” Faith replied with a grin, happy that she had averted a possible personal apocolypse.

“Hey where’s dinner we’re starved.” Came a loud voice from the other room.

“Just coming.” Called Faith. “You ready to go in there and not say anything.” She asked Kennedy.

“Yep. Let’s go.” Kennedy replied taking a deep breath while following Faith into the other room to join their respective partners.

The rest of the evening went without a hitch and Kennedy did well not to upset anyone even though Faith could see she was still struggling with what she had heard.

Soon enough it was time to leave so Faith cornered Kennedy before she left, she reminded her that even though Willow still loved Tara and she probably always would that she was now in love with Kennedy. Kennedy had thanked Faith for her understanding and promised to try to be more open to things where Tara may be concerned.

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Everyone had gathered in the library for the first official Scooby meeting for some time. Buffy stood and got everyone’s attention before she started to speak.

“Well as Faith called this meeting, I think she should start.” Buffy smiled and winked at her girlfriend who’s mouth was hanging open at the suggestiont sht she should start the proceedings.

“Um well I uh,” Faith stumbled as she was a little shocked that Buffy would ask her to start the meeting.

“Take your time Faith.” Giles offered with a reassuring smile, he knew what this opportunity meant to Faith and he wanted to show her his support.

Faith stood and walked to the front of the desk so she could see everyone and they could all see her. She took a deep breath and looked around the room at all the Scoobies sat waiting patiently for her to begin. “Well firstly, thank you all for coming” She started. “I suppose this meeting is to try and work out where we go from here, I know we’ve been training the girls but have we done anything else, I mean we don’t really know that much about this new Hellmouth or the demon activity in the neighbourhood, it’s as if we’ve retired or something.”

“What do you suggest Fai?” Buffy asked her girlfriend hopefully giving her the opportunity to lead for a change and maybe this time do the right thing.

“Well, I was thinking, we haven’t heard much from Robin since he left, he must have real trouble in locating tew sew slayers, so I was wondering if maybe, nah it’s a stupid idea I doubt it would work.” She trailed off slightly embarra tha that she had thought of such a stupid plan.

“What were you thinking, if it’s anything to help find the new slayers faster then please any suggestion would be welcome, our normal sources are not very forthcoming as well most of them are dead.” Giles asked removing his glasses and wiping them, he was intrigued to know what suggestion the once rogue slayer had.

“Well, you know the scythe has like this connection with the slayer.” Faith waited for everyone to nod. “I was wondering if like Red could try and use the scythe with say a little location spell type thing to try to locate the slayers, I know it’s a long shot but if the power in that scythe is able to make slayers why not find em.” She finished looking down.

“Wow, I never thought of that, I mean it may need some work but yeah I’m sure I could do something like that, I’d have to research a little, but there’s hardly any data on the scythe itself so it may prove a little difficult.” Willow began to babble.

“So why not contact Wesley and ask him to see if the library at Wolfram and Hart can shed any light, I mean he was telling me about the extensive prophecy library that they have, there must be something.” Gileseredered excited about the new development, and loving the thought of having a goal with his research instead of just his mundane reading of Demon Digest.

Buffy was beaming at her girlfriend, she was so proud that Faith had made this suggestion and that it had been a good one, she knew how much Faith wanted to prove that she was capable of doing good and she seemed to be fully focused on doing so.

“I also have a thought.” Buffy spoke up. When she had everyone’s attention she began. “ Well I don’t know if you guys would agree with this but let me explain before we decide.” She smiled at her friends.

“Remember all those years back Giles, I came into the library my first day.” She watched as he smiled at her remembering the first time they met. “Well my first reaction was to run, I didn’t want to be a slayer, I had just moved from LA where my parents had divorced and I had watched as Merrick my first watcher died because of the vampires. I wanted to run, but I didn’t have a choice so I had to fight. Looking back now I know I made the right decision, but what if the right decision had been to run, I suppose what I’m saying is that we should give these girls a choice, there’s no longer ‘one girl’ in all the world there are hundreds or even thousand so the fight or the world ends option is no longer the only option.” Buffy looked at her watcher hoping he understood what she was suggesting.

It was however the newest and youngest member of the “New Watchers” council that actually spoke up. “I agree Buffy, I remember how depressed you would get knowing that you could never have a normal life, but if we give the option to come and be trained and fight or not, how are we gonna be sure that some girls would actually say yes to putting their lives in danger.” Dawn asked her sister.

“Well I thought we could give them a couple of options, one, we could ask them to come and train if not go on with their lives as normal. Two, if they do come and train then when they have completed a certain training programme then they have the option to stay and work for us or to go home and live a relatively normal life but say, be on call if we need them.” Buffy offered as ways of keeping the flow of slayers.

“Yeah, that’s cool Buff, I mean the slayers can like train and then go home and like be part of the secret slayers or something, they can deal with any disturbances that happen in their area. Then those who don’t wanna train Willow can like do her hocus pocuss to say reduce their power and like forget what we tell em.” Xander tried to clarify in own own way.

“X that’s a great idea, d’you think you could do that Red, I mean reduce slayer powers so that like no-one gets a power trip or even worse ends up in a nut house cause they start explaining about the things that go bump in the night.” Faith turned to the once shy red head.

“I’m not sure I’d want to do that, I mean, playing with someone’s mind is not something I relish doing but I understand what your saying, but regarding their powers, I don’t really know.” Willow looked concerned.

“Why not try the scythe again, maybe it can like delay the powers or something, what we did in SunnyD may well be reversible, but only individuals rather than the whole world should be affected.” Faith offered as a suggestion to Willow who seemed to relate to the idea.

“Oh yeah talking of reducing power, I understand that the “New Watchers” will want to set guidelines for the slayers to ensure that they are able to handle situations but I will not stand for the Cruciementum any more.” Buffy said sternly looking directly at Giles, even though it was years ago Buffy was still hurt by the betrayal of her watcher.

“I agree with you Buffy, if I had my chance again I would never administer such a barbaric way of testing a slayer. I will do my utmost along with Dawn to ensure that all guidelines are realistic and fair, and I will also ensure that where need be no “Rules” are made other than one.” Giles replied emphatically.

“And that rule would be?” Kennedy asked not liking the way this could go.

“Rule number one and only rule of slaying,” Giles began “Don’t die.” He said as Buffy and Faith joined him with a grin.

“I like that rule.” Kennedy stated a little relieved that it was nothing like always put your washing in the laundry basket, staying alive she could handle, keeping her room tidy, never.

“Right then so that means that Willow is researching the scythe to see what it can do, Giles and Me will start the research on this Hellmouth, Xander you still gonna do that weapons thing with the Hummer right?” Dawn asked Xander. “Ok then but can you also be in charge of the full arsenal, I mean gotta keep track of the weapons we have and we gotta make sure we’ve got the right ones when we need them. Andrew you’re gonna have to up the stakes on the money investing cos we’re gonna need a lot more. That leaves Buffy, Faith and Kennedy to continue training the new girls and get them ready for life outside this property and even this town.” She added.

“Wow Dawnie, when’d you get all in charge type.” Buffy smirked at her sister.

“Sorry just sorta,” She was cut off by Giles.

“No Dawn, you’ve really got something there you’ll make a great watcher.” Giles stated to his new prodigy.

“Well, I have another suggestion.” Faith said looking directly at Dawn. “I’d like you to be my new watcher, I know we still have Giles but I think I’d like my own, and well someone new would like you know be easier to handle.”

Dawn gasped at the suggestion, not only was she not a watcher yet but Faith was asking her to be her watcher. “I’d love to.” She replied bounding over to give Faith a huge hug. “But I’m not gonna be that easy.” Faith giggled at the mock seriousness in Dawn’s voice.

“Well is everyone agreed?” Buffy asked.

With a chorus of yeah’s they all dispersed to start their new objectives. Buffy, Faith and Kennedy stayed behind to discuss training strategies with the watchers. Willow had left to go to the office to call Wesley to ask for his help with the scythe.

Andrew went back to his room to look over the financial papers he had there, he had to come up with the best and safest way to make money to be able to support the growing family.

Xander had returned to the garage where he was busy modifying the hummer to take all the relevant weapons etc.


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A/N: Well like I said I still have more to post, but no reviews no update, I know I'm being harsh, but I need the power trip ok.LOL.