Time Spin

Lonnie rolled over and looked at Buffy as the slayer slept peacefully, she smiled at the way Buffy’s eyelids flickered and her nose crinkled every so often. Leaning over she kissed the slayer softly, gently moving down and kissing Buffy’s neck, sucking on the woman’s pusle point. Smiling when Buffy sleepily swatted at her.



“Since when do you not like my kisses?” Lonnie teased softly, pleased when Buffy softly smiled.



“I always do baby doll.” Rolling over she looked up at Lonnie, sighing she traced a small imprint on Lonnie’s face left by the pillow.”Whats wrong Lon?”



“What do you mean?” Lonnie was genuinely confused.



“Well. Maybe it’s just me being a nervous Nancy but you don’t seem like yourself. Is everything okay?” Buffy tried not to be too worried but it had taken her days to even work up the courage to admit she was worried.



“I’m okay Buffy. I just miss the village. Hunting…it was my life for so long and this place…its. Scary sometimes. And it’s almost like I don’t have a place.” Lonnie looked down. She looked up when Buffy softly urged her chin up.



“You do. It’s with me. Its here in this place. I know its scary, trust me I do. And there will be times you will wonder ‘what the hell was I thinking’ but in the end. You will know that as long as were together…we have a place. Together. We can give the children good lives here. You can have a good life.”



“No…I can have a great life with you Buffy. I know that and im not sorry we came. I just miss it sometimes. I feel like an idiot sometimes. I mean I don’t know what the hell Giles or Willow are talking about half the time.”



Buffy laughed softly. “Baby, no one knows what those two are talking bout half the time. And I get it, im not making light of this. I promise”



“I know.” Leaning down she kissed her mate. Switching to English “Lets feed the kids”



Buffy smiled at Lonnie’s thick accent and stood and followed her mate down into the kitchen, each pulling out the ingredients to make pancakes and bacon. Lonnie scratched Todd’s ears with one hand and pulled out plates and glasses with the other.



“I’m going to let him out Buffy.” Buffy nodded and listened as Lonnie encouraged the dog out the door.



Turning when she saw Jaeger tear down the stairs with tears in her eyes and she flung her arms around Buffy’s legs, crying into them. Bending down Buffy brushed the girl’s dreads out of her eyes. “Jaeger what’s wrong? Honey?” Jaeger just crawled into Buffy’s lap and cried loudly.



Looking up she saw Lonnie walk into the kitchen with worry written on her face, crouching down Jaeger immeadietly crawled onto Lon’s lap. In Lonnie’s native tongue “What’s wrong little one?”



“I…I don’t want her to die.” Jaeger leaned in and sobbed into Lonnie’s neck. “The bad mans going to get her. I don’t want her to…” Everything else came out in choking sobs.



Buffy stood, she had had suspicions that Jaeger was physic but she hadn’t seemed to have anymore ‘visions’ since they’d gotten here so she had thought maybe shed been wrong. But when they had been traveling to the stones before they jumped time Jaeger had given Buffy’s carving knife back saying that she knew she would need it because she had seen Sharja take her and Axel to the caves in her dreams.



“I’m going to get Willow.” Buffy get helpless but she knew she needed Will on this one. She would know what to do.



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~An Hour Later~



Willow sat at the table across from Jaeger; it was almost comical how even with the girl boosted up on a telephone book the table still swamped her petite frame. Willow carefully studied the girls red rimmed eyes.



Jaeger simply stared back at the witch, unblinking and unwavering in her gaze. Willow smiled reassuringly and held out her hands palms up. “Jaeger, honeys take my hands please.”



Hesitantly the little girl reached out and slipped her hands into Willows. Willow smiled and gently held Jaegers little hands. “Close your eyes, I want you to think about the dream you had okay? It’ll be okay I promise”



Jaeger closed her eyes and Willow did the same, taking a deep breathe she cleared her head and gently probed the little girls mind. Careful to be as gentle as she could be about it. The mind was a dangerous thing to mess with, if she slipped up she could seriously do some damage but Buffy had pleaded so reverently that Willow had agreed to do a basic scan.



When there minds connected Willow let out a small gasp, she could see Jaegers memories, she saw a woman that looked exactly like Jaeger smiling and playing with her, the same woman resting Jaegers tiny hands on her pregnant belly. Then a flash she saw Jaeger and Axel in the back of some sort of wagon pulling into a village where she saw Buffy standing with Lonnie, they were dressed in animal skins. She could feel everything…the nervousness and fear when Jaeger first looked into Buffy’s eyes right before something told the child that she could trust the tall fair haired woman.



The happiness that grew into love for her adopted parents who took care of Jaeger and her brother, she could see the link between the two siblings. She could see…that’s it right here. Willow could see Jaeger dreaming, dreaming of a tall woman with a cruel smile that looked startlingly like Lonnie.



The same woman stabbing Lonnie over and over in her dream, she could see the dream showing Jaeger the men taking her and Axel to a cave and tying her up. Then another flash, she gently probed for the next vision. What she saw made her skin crawl.



There was a girl with dark hair, she looked about twenty, long wavy dark hair, but she couldn’t see her face everything about the young woman was obscured…but she saw a large demon fighting her, they were all there fighting. A slayer maybe? Willow felt her gut clench when the man drove a large curved sword into the girl and the woman slumped to the ground gasping and choking.



Suddenly she felt Jaeger pushing her out, choking from the force of the girl’s rejection Willow pulled her hands back. Coughing she blinked until her vision cleared and she saw Jaeger studying her hands.



“Its real…isn’t it?” Jaeger asked Willow softly. Willow nodded.



“Yeah sweetie. You’re a physic.” Willow tried to smile but what she had seen made her stomach churn.



“Can you stop it?” Jaeger asked the taller redheaded woman. Willow shook her head.



“I don’t know. But if you have anymore dreams like that I want you to tell mommy okay?” Jaeger nodded.



“Can I go play now?” Willow nodded and watched the tiny girl climb off the chair and run outside towards Faiths house. Sighing she looked up when Buffy walked in and handed her a mug of tea.



“So? Was it real? Or just a nightmare?”



“It was real all right. They were way to detailed to be dreams. Just…keep an eye on her and ill see what I can find in the watchers archives on dreams.” Willow took a sip and looked up to Lonnie who stood quietly in the doorway. When the cavewoman saw Willow look at her she turned and walked out the back door.



“Is she going to be okay?” Willow asked. Buffy nodded. “She’s my baby Will; I know I wasn’t the one who gave birth to her and all that shit but she’s my little girl. If you can help her…”



Willow reached over and covered Buffy’s hands with her own and smiled. “Of course I will Buffster. Were a team, a family. But I do need to go, I promised Vikki lunch.” Standing she bent and kissed her best friend on the forehead and waived goodbye as she walked out of the house.



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Andrew sat between Faith and Lonnie, balancing a bowl of popcorn on his pregnant belly. Yeah it still freaked him out a lot…he had been ordered to best rest last week by Vikki and was going stir-crazy so he had called Faith and she had come over followed closely by the cavewoman.



He thought it was the coolest thing that this woman was from the age of mammoths and sabertooths. He had tried in vain to get the redheaded woman to talk about it but while she was fluent in English there were still words and phrases that she didn’t understand yet.



So now instead they were sitting on the large king sized bed in his room watching daytime TV, eating popcorn and bonbons. Yeah so Asher had been strict on the whole no sugary food deal but what the hell. Wasn’t like HE had to sit through labor.



Slyly Andrew slipped his hand around the remote and flipped the channel from Gladiator to Star Trek. Putting up his hands when Faith swung her pillow and hit him n the head, “Damn Andrew were not watching this stupid shit.”



“HEY when your pregnant and were at YORU house you can call the shots.” Andrew glare wavered slightly at the intimidating glare form the formerly ‘dark slayer’ it was truly sad that after all these years she could still scare the bejesus out of him.



They both turned back to the TV when the channel changed to the Disney channel. They both glared at Lonnie who didn’t even acknowledge them while she ate bonbons and watched ‘That’s So Raven’



“What the hell Lon, Gladiator is better than this shit.” Faith said, even Andrew would rather watch that than this. He got enough of the Disney channel from his daughters.



“Well you two weren’t going to agree so I made a…final decision.” Lonnie smirked and when Faith made a grab for the remote she lifted her waist band of her sweats and quickly shoved the remote down her pants.



Faith froze, torn…”Do you have underwear on by chance” Blushing lightly she looked over at Andrew who was watching the exchange with amusement.



“What’s underwear?” Lonnie asked confusingly. Of course she knew but she didn’t like listening to those two gripe like children and she wanted some peace and quiet and if this was the only way…so be it.



“Go ahead Andre…get your remote.” Faith urged. She wasn’t going to touch the cavewoman because she didn’t even want to know what kind of reaction that would get. She still remembered that cultural mishap in Germany when Red had pulled on her shirt and Lonnie took it totally out of left field.



“WHAT…no way. Hello gay man here. Besides Buffy will kill me...this is fine.” Andrew leaned back and watched the television, apparently Raven had just had a vision and that little friend of hers was spraying what looked like whip cream everywhere.



“Damn you’re a pussy.” Faith growled and leaned back against the headboard. Sighing she had to smile, Lonnie was starting to fit in perfectly with the group.



TBC



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A/N: well thanks for the reviews yet again and I guess my writers block ended.