Love Through Touch

Disclaimer: See Part 1
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Tara sat staring out the window at the coming night.

Willow lay back on her bed serfing the net.

"Buffy should be slaying soon" Tara said to no one inparticular.

"Yeah" Willow closed one web page only to open three more.

"I don't think she should go alone" turning fully to face her girlfriend Tara looked at her steadily til the redhead acknowledged her.

"You want me to go with her?" Willows brows rose in surprise.

"You don't have to. I just think" Tara sighed and joined Willow on the bed. Placing her head in the wiccans lap she wrapped her arms around her waist "I just think she shouldn't go alone. You know, she distracted"

"Faith can go with her. They did good the other night" Willow moved her laptop and began to stroke Tara's hair gently.

"They came back... rowdy, the other night" Tara chuckled.

"Yes they did. I could hear them..." Willow paused thinking "Oh. Yeah. That might not be so good"

"Maybe Mycah will go" Tara sat up and began to dress.

Willow's lap felt cold after the loss of her lovers direct presence "Oh. Uh won't she remind her of her body double?"

"Does Mycah 'ever' remind you of Hyatt?" Tara glanced over her shoulder as she pulled on her favorite peasant blouse.

"Aside from the uncanny identical looks? No" Willow grabbed a t-shirt and shorts, foregoing undies. She didn't expect to stay dressed for long.

"Smart ass" Tara chuckled.

"And cute to boot" Willow blew her a kiss.
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"Hey B wake up slay time" Faith shook the smaller slayer.

Buffy came awake swinging.

Faith ducked the first blow but caught the second directly in the gut.

"Oh my god Faith" Buffy sat up quickly pushing her tangled hair from her eyes "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to"

"It's ok B" Faith ground out holding her belly "I just need to catch my breath" stumbling to the opposite side of the bed Faith sat down gingerly trying to breath as if her stomach didn't hurt like hell.

"I'm sorry I really didn't mean to" Buffy came around to stand infront of her fellow slayer.

"What did you do to her?" Mycah stood in the door of Buffy's room with a strange look in her eye.

"She startled me awake and I kinda... hit her" Buffy blushed backing away as Mycah entered the room.

Moving to the younger slayer Mycah pressed her hand over Faith's "Where does it hurt?"

"She's got these tiny ass little fists" Faith took deep breaths. Spreading her fingers she allowed Mycah to touch her tender belly "Kinda starts little and spreads ya know"

Slipping her hands under Faith's completely Mycah pressed down.

Faith hissed as the pressure increased, she began to move away until she realized the pain was lessening. Looking down her jaw dropped.

Mycah's hand on her belly were glowing blue and pulsing.

Faith's breaths came easier and her pain shortly became nothing more than a memory.

"Next time, use an alarm clock ok?" Mycah smirked down at Faith before shooting Buffy another odd look and walking out.

"Can Hyatt do that?" Faith watching the doorway even a Myc Mycah had vanished from it.

"Notta clue" Buffy frowned "It's slay time. You game?"

"Always" Faith stood "Hey just like new"
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Willow and Tara made it downstairs just as the two slayers were walking out.

"Hey Buffy" Willow grabbed her friend quickly pulling her back into the house.

"Yeah Will? Can you make it short I gotta..." Buffy didn't get a chance to finish.

"I think you shouldn't go alone" Willow rushed to say.

Tara stood back and watched the reactions. She also noticed the looks Faith and Mycah exchanged.

"I'm not. Faith's coming with" Buffy thumbed towards the other slayer.

"Oh. Well... why don't you take Mycah too?" Willow tried not really knowing what to do.

"Are you trying to get rid of me?" Mycah crossed her arms and gave Willow a speculative look "Are you guys trying to have loud sex without anyone hearing you?"

Faith and Buffy bit there lips to keep from laughing aloud while the two Wiccan's blushed furiously.

"No. We want to spend some quality time with the kids. I mean Star does magic. Kolby can kick Dawn's butt, and well Dawn's uh she's Dawnie"

"And we want to spend some alone time with them" Tara cut in "You know. Getting to know you now that's your"

"Family!" Willow finished.

"Dawn's been family" Mycah pointed out re-crossing her arms.

"Well she's a whole new Dawnie now that there's smaller people here" Willow frowned and gave Mycah her resolve face.

Leaning to whisper Mycah eyed Willow "Is that the resolve face?" she whispered to Faith.

"Yep" the younger slayer laughed "There's no getting around the resolve face"

"I'll take your word for it" Mycah grabbed a stake "Later"

The three practically ran out the door.

Willow turned to Tara who was still blushing.

"Are we really 'that' loud?" Tara held her palms to her cheeks.

Willow laughed hysterically.
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"One little, two little, three little champions" Drusilla sang to herself.

"Ahh what are you mumbling about now?" Spike yelled as he was once again awakened by the insane vampires rhymes.

"Three little champions are slaying" Drusilla danced a merry waltz with a faceless doll "There should be four. Three legs will only hold for so long. One will always become week you know"

"What? You stupid bint, shut your trap" Spike placed another pillow over his face.

Suddenly angered Drusilla grabbed hold of his left hand. Squeezing as hard as she could, she awaited the reaction she knew was coming.

"Gah. Bloody hell woman!" leaping to his feet and pulling away Spike cradled his badly burned hand.

Drusilla took in the sight of his flame disfigured visage and began to laugh.

"Are you mad because your not pretty now?" she asked twirling around the vampire like a Maypole.

"Shut your bleeding mouth" Spike growled "If you had a real brain in your head you'd understand a man's pain"

"Pain?" Drusilla stopped and looked down at her doll "or Vanity? Did the fire burn his vanity?"

Screaming in anger Spike fled lower into the crypt.

"Tsk tsk tsk" Drusilla clicked her tongue "They should really keep up with their Prophecies"

"Which prophecy?"

Drusilla turned, her fear plain on her face.

Naida stood in the doorway to the crypt. In her hand a thin golden n.
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"Am I your pet?" Drusilla asked "The stars sing of being owned" stepping gracefully over the the Seer, Drusilla held the doll in one hand and extended her wrist.

"Yes my dear. Your my wonderful little kitten" Kalindi came from behind her Seer as the manacle at the end of the chain was attached to the slender wrist.

"Oh. Does kitten get a pretty collar with a bell?" Drusilla caressed the manacle and gazed up at her 'mistress' with hope in her eyes.

"I hadn't thought of that" Kalindi said to herself "But since you asked so nicely"
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"Go fish"

Willow playfully slammed down her cards "Come on you gotta have a two!"

"I ain't got no two's!" Star's slammed down her cards as well. Standing on the chair she balled up her fists "You wanna take this outside?" she managed not to crack a smile.

"After you" Willow stood straigtening her clothes.

Dawn chuckled and placed a dollar on the table "My money's on the kid. Any takers?"

"Dawnie!" Willow placed her hands on her hips and stared the younger girl down.

"Hey. If she can beat me. Your game, hands down" Dawn smirked at Willow.

"I plead the fifth" Tara closed an imaginary zipper over her lips and refused to look at her girlfriend.

"Well" Willow pouted at them all.

"You coming ya wimp!" Star called from outside the kitchen.

"Ok. Them's fightin' words" Willow stormed from the room with the girls hot on her heels.

"TICKLE FIGHT!" Star screamed tackling the redhead to the ground.
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"Willow was right" Mycah ground out tossing the vampire off her back.

"Yeah" Faith flipped her vamp over her shoulder and staked him. Choking on the dust the caught a vamp that flew over Mycah's back when she ducked it.

Landing directly on her stake he dusten himse
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Something cold landed on her wrists. Switching the hand she held her stake in she held her wrist up and thrust her opposite hand back dusting the vamp that was coming up behind her.

"Fuching shit!"

Buffy and Mycah stared in astonishment as Faith took off running leaving them.

Not many vamps were left kicking, and the two girls made short work of them before meeting in what once was the 'mix' of it all.

"What's gotten into her?" Mycah dusted herself off.

"No clue" Buffy did the same.

"Vamp!" they both squealed at the same time. Linking arms they both swung to the opposite side, kicking the other's oncoming back back.

Releasing each other they staked them.

"Well.." Buffy looked around.

"That was.." Mycah did the same.

"Refresing" they said in unison.
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Faith ran. She didn't look behind her, hardly looked in front of her. Just ran on instinct.

Before long she recognized where she was heading.

Coming off into the main street of Sunnydale, she took a sharp right and headed straight for the Magic Box.

Rushing in through the door she headed straight for the shelves.

"Hey?" Anya called to her. Following the slayer up into the book stacks her stopped when she saw Faith comparing the charm in her hand to something in the text.

"No" Faith whined dropping the book and stepping back from it.

"No. No, no, no, no, no" clutching the charm to her she ran from the Magic Box.

Anya licked up the book. It remained open to the page Faith had been looking at.

Realizing exactly what it was, and what it meant she rushed to the phone.

Dialing the number she'd memorized Anya tried to keep herself from crying.

"Tara? Is Buffy home?" Anya forced herself to calm down when Tara asked her if something was wrong "So she's out slaying?" placing the book down and ripping out a single page "I'll close the store and be there in 20 minutes"

"I think I just found out exactly what we're up against"
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