Family

Tara's sitting in the Magic Box grading test papers. For some reason she's been feeling a bit 'off' lately. She's feeling a little on edge and she can't figure out quite why yet. Willow is worried about it – afraid that another BIG BAD is coming to town, but Tara explained to her that it wasn't that type of feeling – just that something was going to happen – but not in a bad way…

"Xander, I want to go home and have orgasms!!" Anya states in her characteristic blunt tones.

"Ahn, it's the middle of the afternoon and I need to finish making these additional shelves for the new shipment of books Giles sent." Xander states calmly, after all these years he has finally come to the realization that no matter what he says – Anya was Anya and she wasn't going to change. He's just happy that she took him back after him being a complete idiot.

Tara just smirks to herself – she can sympathize with Anya, she wouldn't mind for her red headed love to show up so they could make up some 'excuse' to head home for some quality alone time. Even after being together for over five years, their love hasn't diminished. If anything it's grown stronger.

The bell over the door into the shop jangles and Anya says "Welcome to the Magic Box, please come in and spend your hard earned cash. It would be greatly appreciated!!"

Tara looks up and sees a tall, dark haired woman standing at the door wearing camouflage pants and a tight black t-shirt with the Marines logo on it. The woman has a duffel bag thrown over her shoulder and that's when Tara realizes that the woman is staring at her intently.

The woman glances at Anya but turns back to Tara saying, "Thanks, I probably will be spending a lot of cash here, especially since you have such beautiful women gracing your shop, especially ones of such light – right LITTLE LIGHT?" She emphasizes Little Light strongly, hoping that Tara will remember – but it's been so many years…

"K-Kelly???" Tara stutters slightly, not believing that it's her, after all this time.

Just as Tara is slowly getting out of her chair, Buffy walks in from the training room to get a bottle of water. Buffy watches as Tara all of a sudden runs up to the strange woman standing at the bottom of the steps by the door, and throws herself on her crying and literally wraps her arms and legs around the tall woman. 'Whoa, Wills is going to be seriously pissed about this', Buffy thinks to herself. Who the hell is this woman, anyway??

Buffy watches as the tall woman just wraps her arms around Tara and holds her and starts crying with her.

"I didn't know if you would remember me, Tar. It's been almost 17 years since you've seen me. Actually, I didn't even know if you wanted to see me again after all this time" Kelly softly states.

"What? Why wouldn't I want to see you? I love you, Kelly. Just because you've been gone for so long, doesn't mean I love you any less" Tara says in between sniffs clinging all the tighter to Kelly while she's talking.

The bell rings over the door again, and in walks Willow. Uh, Oh. Buffy thinks to herself – this is going to get ugly, quick.

"Umm, Tara?" squeaks Willow when she realizes it's her girlfriend wrapped around some Amazon looking warrior woman. That she is seriously thinking about turning into a toad!!

"Sweetie, come here, I want you to meet someone." Tara slowly releases her legs from around Kelly's waist and smiles brightly at Willow while she reaches to hold Kelly's hand. "Willow, I want you to meet my sister, Kelly. Kelly, this is my…"

Kelly interrupts her at this point and says "Little Light, I think I can see for myself who this lovely young woman is. Willow, welcome to the family. I would say you better be taking good care of my baby sister, but looking at her and seeing you two together for myself that would seem a little redundant!!" Kelly gives a low chuckle then snatches the red head up into a quick embrace.

Willow realizes that she's probably about a foot off the ground, being held in the arms of her love's sister?? Sister?? Finally the Amazon woman sets her back on the floor and Willow looks at Tara and says "SISTER??? Since when do you have a sister, and why am I just finding out you have a sister, and is she like the rest of your family, because if she is I am going to have a serious talking to her about the way they treated you---" at this point Tara gives her lover a quick kiss on the lips to stop the Willow-babble.

"Sweetie, I'll explain everything to you, I promise. It's a long story and honestly, I didn't think I would ever see her again." Tara gives her lop-sided grin at her lover and then looks at Kelly and just grabs Kelly into another hug. "But, boy am I glad that you're here Kel. I've missed you so much. We have a lot of catching up to do."

"Uh, hmmm." Buffy interrupts trying to hint that the rest of the group would like to know what the hell is going on.

"Oh, sorry, Buffy. Umm, everyone, this is my sister Kelly. Kelly – the impatient one is Buffy, Anya is the lady behind the cash register and the man standing beside her is her boyfriend Xander" Tara introduces everyone.

"Hi Buffy, Anya and Xander" Kelly says with a slight grin. Looks like her baby sister did good for herself. That cute little blonde, Buffy, was shooting major daggers at her like she will be more than happy to do some serious damage to her for daring to touch Tara.

"Hiya, it's good to meet you" Xander says with his best 'pretty girl in the house' smile.

"Hello, Xander is my boyfriend, you can't have him" stated Anya in clear, precise tones.

"OOOOkay" Kelly says with a slight question in her tone. "I'll remember that – don't worry."

"Don't worry about Anya, she's like that to everyone she perceives as a possible threat to taking her Xander away" laughs Buffy as she comes over to shake Kelly's hand. "It's good to meet you. If I do say so, you seem quite different from the rest of Tara's family."

Buffy watches as Kelly seems to close off and stiffen when she made the comment. Uh, oh. Something's definitely up here.

"Umm, Buffy. Kelly is actually my half sister. We share – shared the same mother." Tara states quietly.

"I'm sorry, I didn't realize…" Buffy kind of shakes her head in apology for putting her foot in her mouth, as usual.

"That's okay, Buffy. There will be a lot of talking and explaining to do, I'm sure." Kelly states with a slightly tense smile. "Well, can anyone point me in the direction of a decent motel so that I can get a shower and get some clean clothes on? I've been traveling for the last 28 hours straight and am feeling a little less than fresh." Kelly jokes lightly.

"Kelly, if you think I'm going to let you stay at some flea-bag motel, you have another thing coming!!" Tara frowns. "Now, first things first, it's starting to get dark out and…" Tara looks at Buffy with a slight lift to her eyebrow before getting ready to warn Kelly about the dangers of the town of Sunnydale.

Before Buffy and Tara can say anything, however, Kelly speaks up "Sis, I can't believe you settled on a Hellmouth of all places!! What in the hell were you thinking about when you moved here? Or didn't you realize it? I know our talents run along different lines and I wasn't home long enough to know your strengths and weaknesses…" All of a sudden she realized that everyone was looking at her with their mouths slightly open "I guess you all know this already, huh? I suppose I don't need to explain to you that there are evil beings in this world and they're all not human, either? Bogeymen do exist, so do Vampires and Demons, Hell Gods, etc.."

"Uh, nope, you don't have to explain about those types of things to us, no sirree bob. We know all about the things that go bump in the night. The question is, how do you know all about those things that go bump in the night and the Hellmouth and Hell Gods and Vampires, Demons, and all the other craziness that is in this world?" Willow babbles with a very serious note in her voice.

"Well, let's just say that while I was in the Marine's we didn't just fight other countries!" laughs Kelly lightly. "I was sort of in this special ops group that got called in to take out nests of demons, vampires and whatever other nasties that we came across."

"Oh, God not the Initiative" whines Buffy. "I thought they were finally gone."

"No, Buffy, I don't work for the Initiative. That was a major fuck-up if there ever was one. Wait a minute – how… ooohh Buffy – Vampire Slayer?? Got it." Grinning at the shocked look on her face, Kelly continues "Anyhow, the group I was with was in effect long before the Initiative came to be and we didn't play the games those sick bastards like to play. My group was/is strictly a seek and destroy group. We went after the bad guys and wiped them out. We actually had a couple of demons that worked with us. You're probably aware that there are good demons as well as bad demons, right?" Kelly asks quietly.

"Oh, yeah. We know there are good demons; we pretty much take each demon on their own merits. If they don't bother humans, we don't bother them. It actually works out quite well. Some of the demons that are good guys actually help out quite frequently." Buffy says with a grin on her face. "Your group is definitely different from the Initiative if you actually worked with demons!"

"Hey, guys. We can all do this later. How about we head out and get Kelly situated at the house. Oh, Goddess, where is she going to sleep, we haven't finished with the house yet, we only have our bedroom and Willow's office situated so far." Tara states with a slight hint of worry in her voice.

"Don't worry about it Tara. I have your old room at the house that Kelly is more than welcome to stay in, that is if you don't mind?" Buffy asks Tara's sister. Thinking to herself she would like to get a little more information from her while she's staying at her house. After all Dawn wouldn't be home for Christmas break for another week and that will give her a little time to pump Kelly for information about exactly what she knows.

Kelly looks from Tara to Buffy and shrugs her shoulders "I don't mind, if you don't. I can sleep about anywhere – part of being in the Marines. You don't get to be picky about sleeping accommodations!! Just give me a corner somewhere and I'll be happy."

"Well, I think we can do better than a corner. Come on, I'll take you to the house. Pizza at Casa De Summers tonight guys? My treat." Buffy says looking at everyone questioningly.

"Of course, me and Tara will definitely be there – How about you two Anya?" Willow asks Anya and Xander.

"Actually, Anya and I have plans for tonight. We'll definitely get together again later and get all the gossip!!" Xander grins goofily.

"Okay, the rest of us will meet at my house in say, two hours? That will give Kelly time to get cleaned up and settled in a little bit and give me time to order pizzas. Will, Tara, do you have your vehicle or do we need to walk you home to be on the safe side?" Buffy questions.

"We're okay Buffy. I brought the vehicle with me since it was getting so late. I don't like chancing anything happening to my baby." Willow says as she lightly kisses Tara's cheek.

Tara smiles at her lover and looks at Kelly. "Buffy will take good care of you Kel. We'll see you in a couple hours, I love you." Tara gives Kelly another quick hug and kiss on her chin.

Kelly gives her a quick grin while hugging her back and a quick peck on the tip of her nose. "I've missed you Little Light. We have a lot of catching up to do. I'll see you later."

Buffy and Kelly are walking towards Buffy's house and Kelly notices Buffy giving her sideways glances like she really wants to ask her something.

Finally Kelly says "Buffy, if you have something to say or ask, just spit it out. It's a lot easier that way and I promise I won't bite…" Unless you want me too!! she continues in her own mind. Thinking to herself that Buffy would most definitely freak out if she continued that thought out loud. Buffy seems a little on the tense side. Maybe if I'm around long enough I can help loosen her up some. Life's too short not to live it to the fullest.

"Okay, just to let you know, I don't usually pull any punches. What are you doing here? How did you find Tara? And what the hell are you up to?" Buffy asks in a stern voice.

"Buffy, I'm not here to hurt Tara or anyone else. I came here because I found out that this is where Tara was. I wanted to see my sister again and find out how she was doing and if there was anything I could do to help her. I haven't seen her in 17 years and I just wanted to see the last family member I have." Kelly states quietly. "Can I ask you something Buffy? Something about the comment Willow said to me in the Magic box?"

Buffy just nods her head waiting patiently while she thinks about what Kelly just said.

"Did- did her father hurt her?" Kelly asks with a slight tremor in her voice.

Buffy looks at her and sighs. "Tara really doesn't talk about her family much. Obviously, since we didn't even know you existed before today. But when her father, brother and cousin showed up here a few years back I had the distinct impression that there was abuse. I don't know if it was mental or physical, but I know it probably was one if not both."

"Damn, that bastard" Kelly snarls. 'I hoped when I left that son of a bitch would be done with the abuse. He never yelled at Donnie or Tara when I was there. I hoped it was just me he went after since I wasn't his,' she continues thinking to herself.

"Kelly, whatever happened, happened a long time ago. Tara is so different now compared to when she first came here. She would hardly say hi to anyone. Now she's an English teacher at the high school." It was still hard for Buffy to sometimes think about the shy, introverted witch Tara used to be. Compared to the confident young woman she is now. "I think… no, I know that a lot of Tara's self confidence was brought about by her love for Willow. I hope that the rest of us helped her out somewhat along the way, also." Buffy states grinning to herself thinking about the past couple years.

"Buffy, when I walked into the Magic Shop and saw Tara again, I could see that she was happy and well loved. It was in her aura and I can't describe how that makes me feel. I only ever wanted her to be happy with her life. I hoped that my leaving the Maclay household would make things easier for everyone involved. But, with what you just said and the comments from Willow, my leaving may have made it harder on Tara. I just hope that maybe she can forgive me for leaving her." Kelly looks down at her feet as they continue walking.

Buffy reaches over and lays her hand lightly on Kelly's forearm, "Kelly, I can honestly tell you that Tara is one of the most forgiving and loving people I have ever met. I consider her family and would do anything for her. I know she doesn't blame you for whatever happened, she just isn't like that. Talk to her and you'll see. Hell, just think about the way she threw herself at you in the Magic Box – does that say she 'hates you, and doesn't ever want to see you again?' to me it screams that she loves you and wants you here. As a matter of fact, I was afraid you might be an old flame coming to stir up trouble!" Buffy states laughing slightly to herself.

"I can definitely say that I'm not an old flame – I think Willow would take care of any problems on that front. She looked like she would have been willing to turn me into a frog or something when she came into the shop" Kelly laughingly replies. More seriously she says "Thanks, Buffy for letting me know a little bit about what's going on. I have so much catching up to do and I'm glad you got my initial burst of anger and not Tara. I can go into talking to her with a better idea of what has happened and maybe I will be better able to control my feelings. I just hope he didn't hurt her badly. I don't think I will ever be able to forgive myself if he did." Kelly continues thinking to herself 'And I definitely will never forgive that bastard if he did, I'll be making a trip to the old homestead to right a few wrongs, if that's the case.'

"Well, here we are. Come on, let's get you situated. I'll show you where everything is and you can make yourself at home. Since Tara and Willow moved out, I've been kind of lonely. Maybe you wouldn't mind sticking around to help keep me company?" Buffy asks with a hopeful grin on her face – deciding to trust her instincts that Kelly's a good person. What she had said so far seemed to further cement that thought in her head. Maybe she's a good cook – hopefully that part was genetic. Slayer tummy growls at the thought of a home cooked meal. Definitely need to talk to Kelly some more!!

Kelly laughs, "we'll see how things go after I talk with Tara. Buffy, I just want to say thank you for taking care of my sister and letting me stay here, I'll try not to get underfoot. If there's anything I can help you with, just let me know."

"Wellllll, no, we'll talk about that later." Buffy says laughingly, "Let's get you situated, by the way, how tall are you?"

Willow doesn't even wait until they are in the vehicle before starting the Spanish Inquisition. "Tara, who exactly is Kelly? I mean, I know she's your sister, but why haven't you ever mentioned her? Where has she been all this time? Why is she showing up here, now? How did she find you? Is she like the rest of your family? Am I gonna have to kick her extremely tall ass back to wherever she came from? By the way, what is up with that? How tall is she? Where did her tallness come from? I guess that would be a stupid question, they probably came from the same place her dark hair, eyes and everything else came from. How is it that you look nothing alike? I mean I understand that you are half-sisters, but usually there is some kind of similarities between family members somewhere." Willow finally has to stop and take a breath of air.

Tara jumps in before her sweetie starts on the next round of questions, "Willow, honey, half of these questions I can't answer. We'll find them out when we talk to Kelly. As for the rest, let me try and give you a quick rundown and see if that might help some. Kelly is my half sister. Her father, from what mom told me was an ex-basketball player that died in a car crash. Kelly gets her height, dark hair and eyes from him. Kelly is nothing like my father or our brother. She left home when I was just 8 years old. From what I remember, she was always a loving, caring person that always had time for me, even if I was so much younger than her. Before you ask – she's 10 years older than me, sweetie. She left home when she turned 18 – th-there were problems between her and my father. I think she left because of that. I don't really know what happened then, I just remember vague things. I have a feeling that what happened between me and my family was minor compared to whatever they did to Kelly."

They pull up to there house and slowly walk inside, holding hands.

"Oh, worse than what they did to you? But honey, they beat you and hurt you, what could be worse?" Willow says with a slight catch in her voice. Whenever she thinks about her love's father and brother she gets upset at how they treated her.

"Sweetie, they may have smacked me a few times and hurt me a little, but I remember Kelly coming in from the barn one night late after my father took her out there and she could hardly move. I was hiding behind the staircase when she finally came in. Mom went to her room later and all I heard was Mom crying. I never heard anything from Kelly. It was a few days later that Kelly turned 18 and left. I haven't heard from her since. But you heard the same things I did; it seems she made a life for herself in the Marine Core. Obviously she is a more powerful witch than I remember. Her aura is as strong as yours if not stronger, so please don't try to kick her butt honey." Tara laughingly says with a hint of sadness in her smile.

"Honey, I'm sorry. I'll try and tone it down a little. I just love you so much and want to make sure there is nothing bad going to happen to you. I was just afraid that she might be here to try and take you back to your family. I didn't realize that she may have had even more of a reason to leave that hell hole behind than you did. Let's get ready to head over to Buffy's. That way maybe we can get some more answers. Even though, she did look tired. Do you think we should give her some time to relax before getting the low down on her?" asks Willow with an understanding smile.

"That would probably be best, let's talk about us. Kelly obviously knows something is up. She was always able to read people. She was way better at it than I ever was. Hopefully Buffy will trust her. If Kelly is as strong as I think she is, she could be a great help to us here on the Hellmouth. Plus, with her experience fighting demons in the Core, that couldn't hurt." Tara says, thinking about it. She pulls Willow to her and gives her a light kiss on the lips. Unfortunately there wouldn't be enough time for much else but a few smoochies before heading over to Buffy's. Damn that Anya and putting ideas in her head. Oh, well there was always tonight when they get back home.

Willow wraps her arms around Tara's waist and gives Tara a lingering kiss. "I love you." she says as she starts to deepen the kiss slightly by running her tongue lightly over Tara's full lips. As Tara opens her mouth welcoming in Willows tongue to suck on it lightly.

Tara slowly pulls away and gives her lover her lop-sided grin "we will definitely be continuing this particular conversation later after we get home from Buffy's."

"Vixen!" Willow growls with a grin. "Can't we…"

"Sweetie, we don't have time. And I definitely am in the mood to take my sweet time driving you crazy tonight." Tara huskily whispers into Willow's ear. She gives her lover a quick peck on the lips as she heads up to the bedroom for a quick change of clothes before they head over to Buffy's house.

"That is so not fair!!" Willow says to herself in the living room. But, boy, oh boy. Fun to be had tonight!

As everyone finishes eating the pizza while they were talking about nothing in particular. Just getting to know each other. Tara realizes that Kelly has a very wicked sense of humor and seems to be sliding quite a few glances towards Buffy during the meal. As usual, when it came to herself and anyone paying attention to her, Buffy doesn't seem to notice that she was the focal point of Kelly's attention.

Tara glances towards Willow and sees that she's noticed also. Willow looks at Tara with a questioning eyebrow. Tara just shrugs her shoulders and grins.

"Well, I guess I can get this ball rolling" Buffy says. "Since I don't have much to say, and will probably be doing more listening than anything. Kelly, I don't know how much you know about the supernatural. Obviously, you know more than a lot of people with you knowing about vampires, demons and all. Obviously you have heard something about the Slayer. I'm sure the Initiative's files weren't very flattering about me, so if you have any questions, please ask."

"You don't have to explain what a Slayer is to me, Buffy. I already have quite a bit of information. And personally, I pretty much took most of the information that came from the Initiative with a grain of salt. My boss' tried to make sure I was supplied with any and all information I might have needed in my job. I learned about the Chosen One in some of the reports and books I was giving to study while in the Service" Kelly starts grinning and laughing stating "I was wondering, I like to keep in shape and exercise quite a bit, do you need a work-out partner? I promise I'll try to keep up with you, I need to keep sharp and need someone to push me – you would fit the bill perfectly. I bet you might even be able to give me a few pointers. I definitely will need a sparring partner. And who better than the Chosen One? Oh, that is if you don't mind. If you do, that's okay; I'll see if I can find a Dojo or something else here in town." Kelly starts to backtrack a little not wanting to seem like she's trying to push herself on Buffy.

"No, no. That would be great – with what little you've said already, you would probably be a good person to work out with. Unfortunately, I don't have anyone to spar with, with Giles back in England, not that he could keep up anyway." laughs Buffy.

Tara looks over at Willow and they grin at each other. Wonder if we can help swing Buffy to our side of the fence she thinks to herself. I can already tell by the glint in Kelly's eyes that she is definitely interested in Buffy.

"Hey, guys. I know it's getting late. Kel you're probably tired since you spent so long traveling, and I figure you probably aren't up for a question and answer session tonight. Plus I have school tomorrow and still haven't finished grading the tests that I gave to my classes today, since I was so pleasantly interrupted at the shop. Since tomorrow is Friday, we can spend this weekend getting to know each other and have a serious sit down chat, if that's okay?" Tara says hopefully.

"Little Light, damn, I guess I'll have to stop calling you that now. You're not my little baby sister anymore. You've grown into a very beautiful young woman Tar. You take after Mom so much. I guess I definitely am the ugly duckling in our family" Kelly states with a slight self depreciating grin.

"Kelly, you most definitely are not an ugly duckling. Growing up I always thought you were the most beautiful person I had ever seen. I still believe that. Just too damn tall!" Tara laughingly jokes.

"Nah, I know I'm definitely not beautiful. Old and maybe I'll give you cute – too tall, that is a given. You should have seen the Services trying to find pants to fit me. I had to wear men's pants, they didn't have any women's long enough. I can never tell you how much I wanted to be a normal person. Do you know how hard it is to find a date when you are pretty much taller than everyone else? I'm almost 6'2" and finding someone that is willing to date an Amazon, is extremely hard. Men feel inferior. Which isn't that big of a loss" Kelly sort of mumbles the last bit to herself. However Buffy hears the comment and raises her eyebrow slightly.

Kelly continues "Women are definitely the way to go; height only seems to matter to a few of them. Most women enjoy a taller partner. Which is a definite plus when it comes to me." Well, that lets everyone know where my sexual preferences lie. "I always wanted to be more like you, medium height, with beautiful blonde hair and blue eyes. Instead I'm 6'2" dark brown hair and normal brown eyes. Go figure. Nothing I can do about that – short of bleaching my hair and getting colored contacts – but that's just a bit much" Kelly laughingly states.

"Kelly, this will be the only time I will let you get by with this. So listen up good. From now on, there will be no more putting down of yourself. In this group, we do NOT allow that kind of thing. All of us have been through so much, good and bad, that we don't let each other put ourselves down. Isn't that right, Willow and Tara?" Buffy states unequivocally.

"Yep, Buff is right. No more talk like that – even if you are definitely on the tall side. I have to agree with Tara, you are beautiful. Normal brown eyes – where did that come from, anyway? I've been studying your eyes and they are gorgeous. Of course, not as gorgeous as my baby's blue eyes, but still gorgeous. They have flecks of green and gold in them…shutting up now." Willow turns to look at Tara and says "You're supposed to stop me when I start that – why didn't you?"

Kelly starts laughing. "I think I know why, which after all this time, I'm sure you know also, Willow. Just look in her eyes – she loves you completely and that includes or is because of the babbling! Okay, guys I'll try to make more of an effort not to put myself down. I love you Tar – see you tomorrow night. Come over and I'll cook. Have a good night Willow; take care of my baby sis for me, okay?"

"I love you, too Kelly. Willow always takes care of me, don't you sweetie?" Tara grins at her lover and winks.

"Oh, yeah, I definitely take care of her. But it's more of a mutual taking care of… and I think it's time to go home now. Good night everyone. See you tomorrow." Willow starts dragging Tara out of the house to the car.

"Well, looks like someone's going to be having some fun tonight. I have this funny feeling that the test papers are SO not going to get graded." Kelly laughs to Buffy as they head back towards the dining room. "Here, let me get this. It's the least I can do after you letting me stay here."

"Hey, you don't have to clean up, I can do it" Buffy states while Kelly quickly grabs the plates and glasses to take into the kitchen.

"Buffy, please let me feel useful. It's the least I can do." Kelly states quietly as she starts rinsing off the dishes and putting them in the dishwasher. Buffy watches her as she quietly wipes down the table and breaks down the pizza boxes to put them in the trash can. Kelly opens the refrigerator and grabs a water to drink and turns to look questioningly at Buffy, silently asking her if she wants a water and Buffy grins and nods her head. Kelly flips her the water and grabs another one out for herself.

"So, before I get ready to head up for bed, I'd like to talk to you for a few minutes, if that's okay?" Kelly asks questioningly.

"Sure. I'll probably be heading out in a little while and do a quick patrol to make sure there are no problems. It's been kind of quiet lately. Which usually means something big is going to be going down soon." Buffy says while sitting down at the end of the couch.

Kelly sits down at the other end turning towards Buffy so she can watch her while she talks.

"Buffy, I know you don't exactly trust me. After I left home, I joined the Marine Core and didn't look back. The only regret I have is that I wasn't there for Tara growing up. I love her more than anything in this world and would do anything for her. I honestly believed when I left home that she would be okay. I thought her dad just had something against me since I wasn't his child. He always thought the sun rose and set on Donnie. And he always treated Tara okay. I never heard him raise his voice or hand to her while I lived there." Kelly smiles sadly.

"Kelly, you don't have to tell me this, if you don't want to" Buffy starts to say when Kelly interrupts her.

"No, Buffy. I want you to know the basics of what happened. I won't go into details right now. But I do want you to get a better handle on the person you are letting live in your house." Kelly slowly took a deep breath to steel herself for what she was going to tell Buffy. "He used to beat me and right before my 18th birthday he took a whip to me out in the barn. I never have understood why he did the things he did, I just kind of hoped it was because I wasn't his blood and he hated me because of that. I don't know how, but some way I made it back into the house and went to my room. Mom came in as I was taking off my clothes and she freaked. Needless to say all she could do was cry as she tended my back. I didn't leave the room again until three days later. I turned 18 on that day. I packed one change of clothes and left the house and didn't look back. I joined the military. A few years later we were out on a secret ops mission when some kind of demon let into my platoon. I didn't even stop to think, I saw all my mates being torn apart and I went a little crazy. I called down some kind of magic spell; to this day I don't even know what it was and killed the demon. One of my leaders saw what happened and from then on I was sent to a specialist training outfit to work on my powers. At the time I didn't realize that they even had a separate training facility for the magically inclined." Kelly stops for a moment taking a sip of her water and looks up at Buffy to see what she's doing.

Buffy was looking at her with a look that was hard to define. It almost looked like pity, but not quite. Kelly just shakes her head and looks back down again as she continues her story.

"From then on I was put in some of the most dangerous areas and hot spots around the world. I've done everything I can humanly do to help the human race. And even in some instances, when certain demons were the ones being persecuted, I helped them. That's how we ended up having some demons in the specialized platoon I belong to. Well, needless to say I've spent the better part of the last 20 years in the service of the US of A. I was getting burnt out on all the traveling and fighting, so I decided to retire. The day I got my dismissal papers, I used a locator spell to find out where Tara was and here I am. As far as I'm concerned, Tara is the only family I have left. I just want to get to know her again. Find out what kind of person she has become and hopefully, maybe, make up for any hard feelings she may harbor towards me about the way I left home." Kelly slowly smiles a little bit as she looks back up at Buffy and then says "Plus, you can always kick my ass across the United States to the Eastern seaboard if you think I need it or deserve it."

Buffy grins at her attempt at lightening the mood. "Kelly, Tara will say there is absolutely nothing to forgive. And, I believe you. Maybe tomorrow I'll take you to the Magic Box's training room and see what you can do. If you're as good as I think you are and if you want to help me with patrols, I'd appreciate it. I'm sorry for what happened to you. I believe I can say that it wasn't nearly that bad for Tara. But I don't know for sure. You two really need to have a quiet sit down and discuss everything."

"Thanks Buffy. I'm gonna go head upstairs. If you need me, wake me up. I'm a light sleeper, at least most of the time." Kelly grins then heads up the stairs to bed. Tomorrow's another day. Tara and I will talk this weekend and hopefully all will be right in my world again. Just having my sister back in my life will make me happy. Kelly thinks to herself as she strips and gets into bed. She smiles as she slowly drifts off to sleep thinking about a certain little blonde.

"Honey, I think your sister is crushing on Buffy!" Willow starts off as soon as they are in the vehicle heading home.

"I know, poor Kelly. Being in the Marines she probably didn't have many chances for any kind of relationship. I guess I'll talk to her this weekend and maybe put a bug in her ear about Buffy not being interested in the home team." Tara says with a little grin at Willow.

"Maybe you shouldn't say anything to her. We could take bets on how long it takes Buffy to realize that Kelly is hitting on her, what do you think?" Willow smirks slightly.

"Ohh, my baby is feeling a little wicked tonight, hmm? I guess I will have to put that wickedness to use when we get home!"

"Well, honey, you did promise me I would be driven crazy tonight. That's still is the plans for this evening, right?" Willow asks Tara in her most innocent voice as they pull up outside their house.

"Sweetie, you have no idea" Tara states with a low growl.

OOOHHH!! I am definitely in for it tonight. I can't wait – Willow thinks to herself doing a small little dance on their way into the house.

As soon as they're in the door, Tara grabs Willow in her arms and gives her a smoldering kiss on the lips and lightly smacks Willow on the butt and says "Will, get up to the bedroom. I'll just check and make sure everything is locked up tight and be right behind you."

"Okay honey. I love you" Willow says sweetly to her love as she gives her a light kiss on the lips and proceeds to head upstairs to their bedroom.

Tara checks the doors and windows to make sure everything is locked up tight and grabs a glass of ice water to take upstairs with her to bed.

As Tara walks into the bedroom she has to laugh – Willow has already stripped and is lying in the middle of the bed on her side with a 'come hither' look on her face. "Is my baby in a little bit of a hurry tonight, hmm?"

Willow gives a little grin saying "you told me to get up to the bedroom. I figured you wanted me waiting and ready for you!!"

Tara gives a small smile as she sets her glass down on the nightstand. She slowly starts unbuttoning her blouse when Willow starts to get up to help her undress. "Uh Uh. Lay back down. No touching allowed until I say so."

Willow pouts but does as Tara says and lies down and proceeds to watch Tara slowly takes off her clothes piece by piece. By the time Tara is taking off her silk bra and panties, Willow has a glazed look in her eye. "Honey, you still with me? Sweetie?"

Willow finally becomes a little coherent and realizes that Tara was talking to her and says "Huh? What?" Higher brain functions are definitely gone for the night. Willow is gazing with rapt attention on Tara's bountiful breasts.

Tara just smirks – her sweetie is definitely a breast gal – through and through. Slowly Tara kneels on the side of the bed and gently pushes Willow onto her back. Tara grabs Willow's hands and put them on the headboard and murmurs "Keep them there until I say otherwise."

Willow grasps the headboard and nods and moans incoherently.

Tara slowly runs her hands down Willows arms and up the side of her neck to run her fingers through Willows hair. She leans down and starts to press light kisses on the side of Willows neck nibbling downwards to her collarbone then back up the other side until she slowly reaches Willows mouth and gives her love a slight lick across her bottom lip with her tongue. Willow moans quietly and opens her mouth slightly to lick the taste of Tara from her lips. Tara smiles and straddles Willows hips and proceeds to slowly work her way down Willows neck kissing, nibbling and sucking as she reaches Willow's breasts. Willow moans loudly as Tara slowly brushes the bottom of Willows breasts with her fingertips and kisses her way around both breasts without touching Willow's nipples.

"Please baby, pleeeaaasssse!" Willow groans as she squirms under her lover, feeling the pressure building up unbearably.

"What do you want Will? Would you like me to kiss your nipples? Lick them? Maybe suck on them? How about I do all of that and then bite them? Would you like that?" Tara grins wickedly.

Willow's eyes get bigger and bigger with each question and all she can do is nod enthusiastically.

Tara proceeds to lightly kiss, lick and suck Willow's breasts as she makes her way back to Willow's nipple and then she bites down gently on Willow's left nipple while her fingertips gently squeeze her right nipple. Willow's reaction was instantaneous – she screams Tara's name as she comes shuddering. Willow releases the headboard and starts to reach for Tara when Tara looks at her "Did I say you could let go of the headboard yet? I'm nowhere near finished with you, love."

"Sweet Goddess, I think you are going to kill me tonight."

"Maybe La Petit Morte, but nothing you won't recover from" Tara laughs as she slowly starts kissing her way down Willows ribs and stomach, stopping to pay special attention to her lovers belly button. She lightly nibbles around the outer edges and then quickly dips her tongue in to swirl around and press firmly in. Willow raises her hips groaning as her desire grows ever stronger at her lovers ministrations.

"Tar-raaaa" Willow groans loudly. Willow is panting and her hips are dancing trying to find much needed friction.

Tara smiles to herself. I don't think I'll be able to keep this up much longer. I want her just as desperately as she wants me!!

Tara continues her trek down across Willow's lower abdomen to her trimmed mound. She lightly kisses and nibbles her way down to her lover's outer lips that are dewy with her excitement. Tara greedily sucks first one outer lip in her mouth and then the other, cleaning all wetness from them as Willow pleads for more.

Tara gently separates her lovers outer lips with her fingers and flattens her tongue out and slowly brings it up her lovers slit bottom to top and stops just short of Willow's clit and repeats this process four or five more times as Willow starts growling and trying to push her clit into her lovers mouth. By this time the juices are flowing out of Willow so fast that Tara can't keep up.

"Please Tara, please!!" Willow cries. "I-Inside. Now." Willow pants.

Tara glances up seeing Willow's eyes are glazed looking down at her lover. Tara gives Willow a loving smile and inserts three fingers in her lovers well and latches onto her lover's clit with her lips at the same time. Willow's body bows off the bed to where the only body parts touching were the heels of her feet and her shoulders and head as she comes over and over again. Tara gently rubs against her lovers g-spot to help prolong her orgasm while gently sucking on her lover's swollen bundle of nerves.

Finally Willow collapses back onto the bed panting looking with unfocused eyes at the ceiling of their bedroom.

Tara slowly removes her fingers and licks them clean as she climbs up besides her love and lies down to gently hold Willow while she comes back to earth. "I love you sweetie. Go to sleep," Tara gently says while she reaches down to pull the covers over both of them and turns out the light.

"Uv U, Tar" is all Willow is able to say back to Tara as she drifts off into a deep restful sleep.

Kelly wakes up, getting dressed and goes downstairs to make coffee. 'Damn, where's the coffee at? Hell, maybe I should ask where the foods at – all that's here seems to be leftovers in the refrigerator and milk. Doesn't Buffy eat anything besides take-out? Well, I can definitely pick up some groceries while I'm out. Guess it's time to get the trainers on and go for my morning run.'

Buffy wakes up to the smell of coffee. 'Coffee, mmm. Wait, I don't have any coffee. Actually, I smell food. What?'

Buffy trots downstairs to the kitchen and stops dead in the doorway.

"Good morning. Do you want some coffee? What do you take in it? I'm making you some breakfast. Sausage links, hash browns and eggs. How do you like your eggs?" Kelly asks over her shoulder.

"Uh, two sugars in the coffee and I'll take the eggs any way you feel like fixing them. I'm not too picky. Umm, not that I'm complaining or anything, but the last time I checked I didn't have any coffee or food in the house?" Buffy questions.

Kelly smirks at Buffy "Buffy, that's putting it mildly. No coffee, no food whatsoever. Unless you want to count the milk and leftovers in the fridge. Which, I threw all of it out – it all pretty much looked questionable on the good side and fuzzy on the bad side! I went out for a run this morning, stopped at the corner store and picked up a few things on the way back. I grabbed the extra set of keys to let myself back in, I hope you don't mind." Kelly placed a plate in front of Buffy with the eggs done over easy along with the links hash browns and a couple slices of toast. Turning around and grabbing a coffee cup putting the requested two sugars in, filling it and topping her own coffee off before sitting down across from Buffy.

"Aren't you going to eat? By the way, this is great. I'm not much with the cooking. Pretty much, Tara is the only one out of all of us that can cook. Since her and Will moved out, I haven't been having too many home-cooked meals except when they have me over a couple times a week." Buffy states easily around a mouth full of food. "Go ahead and keep the keys on you for future use, you'll need it with staying here."

"Thanks. I had a couple pieces of toast while I was fixing you breakfast. I'm not a big breakfast eater. More of a coffee drinker. We probably need to discuss a few things. While I'm staying here, I'll be more than happy to take care of buying the groceries and fixing the food. One thing I can do is cook. Let me know what you like to eat, besides take out" Kelly grins at Buffy with that comment "and I'll get to fixing anything you like. Are you allergic to any foods? I always ask, with Tara being allergic to shrimp it kind of got me in that habit when I was younger."

"Kelly, you don't have to earn your keep. Not that I'll complain with you fixing the occasional home-cooked meal" Buffy laughs. "I'm not allergic to anything and I like pretty much everything."

"I won't stay here unless I can help you out. I'm gonna go hop in the shower and get dressed. Would you mind telling me where the local bank is? I need to open up an account and take care of some other business around town today, if possible."

"No problem, I don't have anywhere to be today and I'd be happy to show you around town." Buffy grins. "Hope you don't mind hoofing it – I don't have a vehicle. Me and vehicles…. Let's just say, bad news!" Buffy laughingly states.

"No problem, that's one of the things I hope to get taken care of today. Finish your breakfast – there's some more links and hash browns in the skillets, if you want them. I'll be back after I take a shower and get ready." Kelly rinses her coffee cup out in the sink and heads out of the kitchen.

'Damn, she cooks, seems extremely nice, she's gorgeous--whoa where did that thought come from? Hetro Gal here – remember? I think Willow and Tara may be rubbing off on me.' Buffy shakes her head to herself and pours herself another cup of coffee and eats the rest of the food left from breakfast. 'Mmmm hash browns, sausage links, eggs and coffee for breakfast. I can definitely get used to this!'

"So, where all do you need to hit today besides the bank?" Buffy asks as they walk.

"Well, the bank is the first and most important. After that, I definitely need to hit the mall. Pretty much all I have is my t-shirts and military garb. I need to pick up some regular clothes. I'd like to buy either a truck or an SUV. Maybe we could stop in and see Tara, if that's okay?"

"Well, Tara has a free period combined with lunch on Fridays – so she's free from 11:30 to 1:00 so we can probably hit there after the bank. There are a couple car dealerships down the road from the high school. We have a mall on the outskirts of town that we can hit for clothes. I'm always up for a shopping trip" Buffy grins.

"I appreciate your help, Buffy. You don't mind being a guide do you? If you do, I could always call a cab and tell the driver where to take me?" Kelly asks in a questioning tone.

"No problem. Plus the fact that Tara would probably have my butt in a sling if I didn't show you around! She seems really happy to have you here. I'm glad you're not like the rest of her family." Buffy states quietly.

"That's something you don't have to worry about Buffy. I just wish I could have been there for her. Maybe made things easier. Unfortunately, we can't change the past. No matter how much I wish I could. I'm just glad she found such caring people to have in her life. Speaking of which, you were ready to kick my ass back in the Magic Shop, weren't you?" Kelly laughingly asks, trying to lighten the mood back up.

"You have no idea! I thought for sure you were Tara's old girlfriend and the way she acted…let's just say it made my heart stop for a moment. Willow and Tara have been together for what seems forever. And I have never seen two people more meant for each other. Then you, this tall, buff, great looking Amazon-type woman comes in the store and Tara is literally hanging off you in the next instant!" Buffy states without even thinking about what she is saying. "I couldn't believe it. Luckily everything got cleared up quickly, or you would have had me and Willow kicking your ass" Buffy shakes her head with a smile on her face.

"You have no idea how happy that makes me." Kelly smiles down at Buffy.

"What, that I was going to kick your ass? You definitely need to have your head examined if that makes you happy" Buffy states unbelievingly, looking at Kelly.

Laughing loudly, Kelly grins "The fact that Tara has 'family' that loves her and will protect her makes me extremely happy, Buffy. And that's what you are, her family. Just from being around you this short period of time, I can tell you love her. You have that Mama Bear attitude when you talk about her and Willow. That makes me happy beyond words." Kelly teasingly adds, "so, you think I'm good looking, huh?"

"Wha-" Buffy starts then blushes lightly looking down at the ground. "I did say that, didn't I? Sorry."

"Don't be sorry. You won't hear me complaining! Even though, I might suggest you get your eyes examined while my head is being examined!" Kelly laughs to let her know that everything was okay. "Looks like we're at the bank. This will probably take a little while. Do you want to wait?"

"I'll head over to the Espresso Pump across the street. You can meet me over there when you're done." Buffy while pointing to the coffee shop

"I'll be done as quickly as I can. Thanks again." Kelly smiles.

"No problem. See you in a little bit" Buffy waves as she crosses the street.

'Buffy definitely is gorgeous. I wonder if I have any chance whatsoever?' Kelly thinks to herself as she heads into the bank.

Kelly walks into the Espresso Pump 45 minutes later as Buffy is finishing her second mocha. "Do you want another one? My treat." Kelly asks Buffy, glancing at her drink.

"Sure, even though I'll probably spend the rest of the afternoon hitting the bathroom!" Buffy grins.

"It's a little after 11:00 – do we want to walk and drink at the same time? I don't know how long it will take to get to the high school" Kelly asks questioningly.

"Sure, we can start heading towards the high school. It will probably take around 15 minutes to walk there. So, I take it, you got everything taken care of at the bank?"

"Yeah, took a little longer than I had hoped. But after a few phone calls I got everything situated. I'm afraid I may have broken the bank – figuratively speaking." Kelly laughs. "I don't think they were ready for me to take out a big chunk of their cash today – but with the amount I transferred into their bank they didn't complain too much."

"Damn, you must have pulled out a lot of cash to make a bank want to complain." Buffy states. "If I can ask, how did you get that kind of cash? Oh, God, I'm sorry. Forget I asked that. It's none of my business."

"Yeah, well since I need to buy a vehicle and clothes, among other things I figured the quickest route for the majority of that is cash. Plus when you've spent basically 20 years in the service and don't spend hardly any of the money and just sock it away and invest it, it adds up." Kelly looks at Buffy with a serious look in her eye. "Buffy, feel free to ask me anything. If I don't want to answer, I'll let you know. But other than a few things in my past, I'm pretty much an open book. So, please, feel free to ask anything. Of course, I may decide to ask questions back," Kelly sort of asks with a questioning lift of her eyebrow and a smirk.

'Oh boy, I think I see a little bit of resemblance with Tara with that eyebrow lift. She also has a wicked looking smirk.' Buffy shakes her head to herself, 'Why am I noticing things like this. I don't usually pay attention to other women.'

"Well, I guess it's only fair that you're able to ask questions back. So, feel free to ask away." Buffy said smiling slightly. "I probably owe you a couple dozen by now."

"Nah, start fresh starting right now. So, first question. Hmmm, personal or general? Decisions, decisions." Kelly grins wickedly looking at Buffy from the corner of her eye. Oh, Buffy looks slightly scared. Maybe I shouldn't start off with anything too hard. "Okay, easy question first off. I would really like to join you for patrols. I want to make myself useful. Plus that will give me a chance to keep in shape." Kelly started laughing at the look on Buffy's face. "You thought I was going to ask something else, didn't you? Just what did you think I was going to ask?"

Buffy shakes her head then grins at Kelly "Well, it wasn't that. Actually I don't know what I thought you were going to ask. You can go out on patrol with me. But I withhold the right to say yeah or nay after seeing you in action."

Oh, I really shouldn't but I just can't help myself, "See me in action, huh? Anytime, anyplace girlfriend. Even though I got the feeling you don't swing my way. If you decide to, please let me know," Kelly starts laughing so hard at the look on Buffy's face that she has to stop, leaning down to grab her knees. "Oh, God Buffy. I don't think I've laughed that hard in years. The look on your face is priceless."

"Ohh, you," Buffy growls as she smacks Kelly on the arm. "I'm gonna tell Tara on you."

"Oww. Now that's just downright mean. Telling on me to my sister. She'll kick my ass from here to the next millennium. And that just isn't right! I don't know if it's a plus that we're here at the high school now or not" Kelly grins at Buffy.

"It might be a good thing, Or I might have had time to kick your butt. Then I would have to explain to your sister why you are all broken and bruised" Buffy grins back at Kelly to let her know she's kidding.

Kelly and Buffy proceeds into the high school about 11:20. They stop outside Tara's classroom door watching Tara give the homework assignments for the weekend amidst groans. Tara catches movement from the corner of her eye and turns to smile lovingly at Kelly.

"Okay class. You have about five minutes left, so you can either start your assignment or talk quietly amongst yourselves until the bell." Tara states while walking towards the class room door. "Buffy, Kelly come on in. I didn't realize you were going to come by today."

"Well, I thought we could come by and take my favorite sister out for lunch. Buffy decided to come along for the free meal," Kelly laughs at the look Buffy gives her for that comment.

"Buffy is always up for a meal. I swear, I don't know how that girl stays so skinny." Tara gives her a lopsided grin. "To have her metabolism, boy, wouldn't that be something."

The bell rings and the students grab their stuff as they head out. Quite a few students wishing Tara a good weekend.

"Wow, when I went to school we didn't wish a teacher a good weekend, especially after giving us a homework assignment for the weekend!" Kelly points out to Tara with a grin, "They must have a crush on their beautiful English teacher."

Tara blushes and lightly smacks Kelly on her arm. "Stop that. Let me get my purse and then we can head out for lunch. Where are we going, anyway?"

"Damn, I've been smacked twice on the arm today. I must be doing something wrong. Or is it that I'm doing something right??? Hmmm. Have to think on this some more!" Kelly grins first at Buffy then Tara.

"Buffy, are you smacking around my big sister? Kelly, is she picking on you? Do I need to straighten her out?" Tara smiles and winks at Buffy.

"Hmmff, straighten me out? Kelly's been the rotten one this morning. Taking everything I say the wrong way. Making me make comments that I wouldn't usually make. I think your sister is a very bad influence Tara. You need to have a serious chat with her about how things are done around here. How there is no picking on the mighty Slayer." Buffy states trying to look serious but not able to keep the smile off her face.

'Hmm, I haven't seen Buffy smiling this much in forever.' Tara thinks to herself. "So, Kelly. You're picking on the mighty Slayer, huh? Like living life dangerously? You may be taller than her and look stronger, but physically I believe she can still kick your butt. As long as you don't bring magic into play!" Tara smirks up at Kelly.

Kelly gets a mischievous glint in her eye and states, "I don't know what you two are talking about. I have been the absolute picture of innocence today. I have even fixed breakfast for Mighty Mouse here…"

"Hey! Mighty Mouse? Who are you calling Mighty Mouse, you overgrown Amazon! I'll have you know that I am much taller than Mighty Mouse! Oh, hell." Buffy starts muttering to herself at this point. "I have this feeling I'm gonna have a hard time keeping up with you in the quip department."

By this time Tara and Kelly are both laughing at Buffy, catching Buffy's comment about the quips.

"Oh, poor Buffy. She's so used to only having to outwit the vampires that she's going to have to come up with all new comments to combat my sister." Tara grinningly states while deciding to watch how Buffy acts around Kelly.

While they are picking on each other they make it to a diner down the street from the school. Kelly opens the door and lets Buffy and Tara precede her in.

As they sit down, a pretty blonde waitress brings over three menus and three glasses of water. "What can I get you three to drink while you look over the menu?"

"I'll have a diet coke, please." Kelly smiles up at the waitress.

Buffy and Tara both state that just the water is fine.

The waitress grins at Kelly and says "I'll get your Diet Coke sweets. Then I'll get ya'll's order," as she heads over to get the soda.

Tara elbows Kelly in the side and looks at the waitress with a grin on her face. "Already making friends?"

Kelly glances to where Tara is looking. "What? Her? Nah, she's just being friendly is all. I'm too old for her, anyway."

"Kelly." Tara warns.

"What?" Kelly looks toward Tara with a confused look on her face. "What did I say to get that tone?"

"You are NOT old. So get that thought out of your head. Plus you are absolutely gorgeous and can have anyone you want." Tara grins.

"You have to say that – you're my sister. I think it's obligatory or something." Kelly smiles at Tara.

"Oh, you think so. Okay, we need to get another opinion here. Buffy, what do you think? Do you agree with me that Kelly is gorgeous?" Tara glances at Buffy, curious what she might say. Unfortunately, the waitress comes back with the Diet Coke for Kelly at that moment.

"Here you go sweets. And just to put my opinion in there, I'll agree she's gorgeous." Sherry, the waitress smiles with what could only be considered a 'come hither' look at Kelly. "So, what can I get ya'll to eat?" Tara glances at Buffy while the waitress is making her comments. Buffy looks as if she swallowed something sour.

They place their orders and the waitress leaves to put their orders in.

"So. I don't think the waitress thinks you're too old for her." Tara smirks.

"Aaargghh! Tara, I just got into town and found you. I want to take my time getting to know you and the people you consider a family before I even think about myself, okay?" Kelly states with enough seriousness for Tara to know she's not kidding, even with the smile.

"Fair enough. Subject change. Willow and I were talking this morning and, if it's okay with you Buffy, Willow and you can have a best friend's day all day tomorrow. That way Kelly and I can get caught up on what's happened with both of us." Tara states looking from Buffy to Kelly. "I figure we can work out the particulars over dinner tonight?"

"Works for me. If you want, and if everyone likes, I can fix spaghetti for dinner tonight? Maybe invite Xander and Anya?" Kelly asks questioningly to both Tara and Buffy.

"I know everyone likes spaghetti. It sounds good to me, how about you Tara? You and Will feel like spaghetti at my house tonight? I'm sure Xander and Anya are up for it, if they don't have any other plans" Buffy states.

"Okay. Dinner a la Kelly tonight at the Summers' residence" Tara smiles. Then almost laughs out loud when the waitress sets their lunch down flirting with Kelly the whole time. She glances over at Buffy and grins even wider. She could swear that she had one of her 'I'm gonna stake your ass' looks on her face.

"Don't. Just, don't…" Kelly smiles while shaking her head at Tara after the waitress leaves.

They proceed to eat their lunch while talking about what Kelly and Buffy have planned for the rest of the afternoon.

The waitress comes back to ask if the want desert. Which no one did. Then proceeds to lay their check down along with another slip of paper and a wink at Kelly. "Hope to see you again, sweets."

"Thanks." Kelly smiles as she grabs the check and slip of paper. "My treat guys." she says as she lays the money on the table for their lunch.

As they walk out of the restaurant and get a few steps down the street Tara bumps and says "So, what did the other slip of paper say, huh??"

"Here, you can have it. I was planning on throwing it away when we came across a trash can." Kelly hands it over to Tara.

Tara looks at it and starts laughing. She notices Buffy is trying to look at it without being to obvious. Tara just hands it to Buffy.

"God, could she get anymore forward?" Buffy states with a grimace as she hands the note back to Kelly. Kelly just shrugs while she crumbles up the note and throws it in a trash can that they are walking by. "What, you were serious about throwing it away? She was cute." Buffy states with a surprised note in her voice.

"Buffy, if you want to call her, I can get the note back out of the trash can, if you would really like me too?" Kelly smirks at Buffy. "I mean, since you think she's cute and all."

Tara giggles and then stops quickly when Buffy turns her gaze on Tara. "She's your sister – can't you do something about her? Plus, you don't need to encourage her by laughing or thinking she's funny – it's just not right that me, the Slayer, has to put up with this" Buffy says pouting by the end of her dialogue.

"Oh, don't blame Tara. You put yourself in that position, so buck up and take it like a man, ooops, Slayer." Kelly says laughing while wrapping her arm around Tara's shoulder. "Sis, I'll protect you from the mean, evil Slayer. I won't let her pick on you, promise. You can laugh and egg me on all you want."

"Please, please don't put me between you two. If you guys are already acting like this, with not even knowing each other 24 hours, I'll hate to be around you in a weeks time….ooh, are we still having Christmas at my place?" Tara asks getting sidetracked thinking about next week.

Buffy just sighs shaking her head. 'what have I gotten myself into.' she thinks to herself. "Yes, if that's okay. Will you have furniture by then?"

"Yep. They are delivering the living room and dining room sets next week. I've already bought a turkey and ham for dinner. Anya is making some vegetable dishes. I've picked up some other odds and ends. Are you still picking up a couple pies from the bakery Buffy?"

"Can I interrupt for a sec? I can make or bring some items too. Actually, I can bake a couple pies along with make some homemade yeast rolls for dinner, if you want?" Kelly interjects.

"That would be great. I'll double-check with Anya to see what she's bringing and get together to see if there's anything else we need. Dawnie is still coming home for Christmas break, right Buffy?" Tara asks.

"Yep. She should be getting in sometime Friday. I should probably call her and let her know that there's a strange person in the house, that way if I'm not home when she gets in, she'll know who you are." Buffy smirks up at Kelly, getting a dig in.

"Weak, slayer. Very, very weak. You are definitely going to have to do better than that." Kelly smiles down at Buffy as they get back to the high school. Kelly gives Tara a hug and says "Buffy's around 7:00 tonight? That should give us plenty of time for us to do some more shopping and still leave me time to make dinner."

Tara smiles and nods her head. "You two try and stay out of trouble this afternoon, okay?" Tara shakes her head to herself. 'These two together seem like they could cause some serious havoc.'

"No promises. Mighty Mouse here likes to start all kinds of things, and I just can't help but finish them!" laughs Kelly. "Love you. See you tonight."

Buffy pouts and stomps her foot. "I am NOT Mighty Mouse. Just wait, when you least expect it, I'm gonna take you down." Buffy groans to herself as she realizes what she said.

"See, Sis. She just gives me all kinds of openings to make all kinds of comments. But she thinks it's my fault!" Kelly looks at Tara and winks.

Tara just laughs and shakes her head. "Please try and behave. See you guys tonight." She waves and heads into the high school.

"Okay MM. Let's go to the shopping and see what kind of havoc we can cause at the dealership and the stores." Kelly grins as she pokes Buffy in the ribs.

"What have I gotten myself into." Buffy moans and they head out to continue their day.

"You've got company, MM!" Kelly grins as they pull into Buffy's driveway.

"Not just me – you too! That'll be Tara and Willow here early – go figure" Buffy grins while looking at Kelly. "I wonder how long they've been here. And stop calling me that!"

Kelly mumbles "If the shoe fits…"

"As soon as I figure out a good nick-name for you, you are so in for it" Buffy says with a light growl.

"Promises, promises" Kelly laughs when Buffy backhands her on the shoulder. "If I tell you I realllllly like that, will you keep doing it?" Kelly says in a low timbered husky voice. Then waits for a second to watch Buffy's face turn red and busts out laughing. "Come on, let's get all this stuff in. It's probably a good thing Tara and Willow are here, they can help us."

"I can't believe you bought a Hummer! I thought the salesman was going to shit his pants when you told him if he had the paperwork done and us out of there in less than 30 minutes you would pay cash" Buffy just shakes her head.

"I didn't want to waste time at the dealership, we had some serious shopping to do before we needed to get back here" Kelly says while grabbing a couple bags of groceries and heading towards the house.

Buffy grabs a couple bags and follows her to the front door 'Serious shopping. She says serious shopping. We filled up the Hummer – that is something more than serious. I don't know what to call it, but something more than serious.' Buffy thinks to herself.

"Hey guys get your clothes back on and get out to the vehicle and help us bring the stuff in" Kelly yells as she comes in the front door and heads straight to the kitchen.

"Kelly, I'm sure they aren't making out in the…" Buffy trails off as she glances into the living room. "Oops, guess so." Buffy quickly follows after Kelly into the kitchen.

Kelly looks at Buffy's blushing face and starts laughing. "How long did those two live with you, Buffy? You can't mean to tell me you haven't caught them in 'compromising' positions before? Hell, I figured they were up to something, since when we left the house this morning the drapes were open in the living room and now they're closed!"

"I haven't caught them doing anything before. And why didn't you give me some kind of warning" Buffy questions Kelly with her hands on her hips after she sets the bags she's carrying down.

"I don't know how much more of a warning I could give you. After all, I yelled out for them to get there clothes on – you were the one that had to go and peek into the living room" Kelly hesitates and gets a devilish glint in her eye as she looks at Buffy. "Oh, I get it now. Voyeur, huh?"

"Wha? No no no no. Not enough world of no" Buffy is almost hyperventilating by this time. Then she actually looks at Kelly and sees her smirking at her with her arms crossing her chest. "Enough. Enough. Enough. No more picking on me for the rest of the night – I want you to promise me."

Kelly slowly grins at Buffy and shakes her head as she heads out of the kitchen to get more bags from the Hummer.

As Buffy follows her whining for her to promise to stop picking on her, Tara and Willow come out of the living room blushing lightly and following Buffy and Kelly to the vehicle. When they see what Kelly's bought they stop in the middle of the yard just looking at it. It's a Metallic Red H2 with the complete package.

"When you two stop staring, we got quite a bit of stuff you can help us bring in" Kelly smirks at Tara and Willow.

"You bought a Hummer?" Tara turns and looks at Willow and starts to grin. She leans over to Willow and whispers in her ear "Maybe she'll let us borrow it and we can break it in for her properly" Tara smirks as Willows eyes get big and she gulps.

"Vixen" is all Willow says back and proceeds to the vehicle to help take some of the bags into the house.

"You can borrow the vehicle, just make sure you clean up any… messes you may make" Kelly smirks looking from Tara to Willow and back.

Willow turns the same color as her hair and Tara turns bright red. "I can't believe you are insinuating we would even contemplate doing anything---"

"Oh, save it for Buffy. She'll believe you. I know better. Look me in the eye and tell me you weren't thinking about it" Kelly grins looking at Tara who just gives in and smirks at her.

"Hey, I resemble that remark" Buffy states coming from the back of the H2 with some more bags and heads towards the house. "It would go quicker if you guys would actually grab the items and bring them in the house."

"Goddess, did you buy out the stores? You have to have 50 bags in here" Willow groans looking into the H2.

"Well, I'll let you in on a little secret. I needed to buy everything clothes wise, since all I have is my military gear along with a few t-shirts. Also I bought you two some housewarming gifts, so stop your whining or I'll be mean and take them all back" Kelly states with a straight face then starts to break into a grin as she grabs bags and runs with them towards the house.

"Evil. YOU ARE EVIL" Willow yells after Kelly who just laughs as she heads into the house. "Love, I really like your sister. She's going to be good for us, isn't she?"

"Yeah, I believe so. Make sure you keep an eye on how Buffy acts around her – see if I'm imaging things, okay sweetie" Tara says while leaning towards Willow and giving her loving kiss. "If we don't help get these things in, I wouldn't put it past her to take them back out of pure meanness. So let's grab some and get them inside."

The rest of the bags are brought in while Kelly is in the kitchen putting the groceries away and getting dinner started. "Hey, Buffy. Can you do me a favor and see if you can find one of those food mixers for me? And be sure to keep those two out of the rest of the bags until I can get in there to see their faces, okay? I might even try to be nice to you for a while" Kelly winks and grins at Buffy.

Willow and Tara walk to the kitchen doorway unobserved while Buffy and Kelly are talking and just watch them for a few minutes.

Buffy grins back at Kelly and tries to say with a straight face, "I don't know if you know how to be nice. You've done your absolute best to embarrass me at every store we went into today. I mean, God. Did you have to drag me into Victoria's Secrets? I think they would have banned you from going back in there if you hadn't dropped almost $500 with them!" By then Buffy is giggling and shaking her head.

"Oh, like you were complaining. Once you realized I was serious about taking you shopping for whatever you wanted, you were more than willing to add quite a few items to that pile, weren't you MM? Of course, you weren't willing to model any of those items. I think that I shouldn't have given in to that. I bet if I had pushed a little more I could have talked you into it" Kelly smirks at Buffy. "Of course, the store manager by that time was ready to throw us out. I think she thought I wasn't serious! Or maybe she was more upset because you wouldn't model the underwear, either. I bet that's it!" By then Kelly's trying not to laugh. "You ticked her off by not modeling and then I pissed her off royally when I gave the sales commission to that young lady that was helping us and running interference for us with the old bag. Oh God, the look on her face" By then Kelly and Buffy are both laughing so hard they are leaning against each other and the island in the middle of the kitchen.

Willow grins at Tara and nods her head towards the living room. "Definitely something there. Let's keep an eye open."

"Meatballs are in the oven and the sauce is a bubblin'. Time to sort the goodies in the bags?" Kelly asked as she came into the living room looking at the group.

"Please before Willow bounces herself right out the front window" Buffy laughs looking at the hacker practically bouncing out of her seat on the couch besides Tara.

"Willow, if you're this excited over housewarming gifts, what are you like on Christmas morning?" Kelly smirks at Willow.

"Oh, Goddess. Kelly don't even ask that. For a Jewish Wicca witch, she gets extremely hyped at Christmas." Tara just shakes her head reaching over to give Willow a kiss on the cheek. "My Jewish Wicca Witch." Willow smiles and kisses Tara back.

"Ok, do you two want to continue the smooch fest? Or do you want to look at your gifts…. Oh, please forget I asked that extremely stupid question. Here, let me start passing you the items. I just got generic white on the appliances – I have all the receipts, so if you want to take anything back and switch it out for different colors or something else please do so." Kelly grins to herself as she grabs a couple bags and looks inside quickly then hands them to Willow and Tara and heads back to the other bags sorting through them for the gifts.

As Willow and Tara start pulling out item after item Tara stops and looks at Kelly. "Kelly, we can't accept all this. This is just way, way too much."

"No arguing allowed." Kelly smiles softly at Tara.

Buffy starts laughing "Tara, forget it. She definitely has a stubborn streak a mile wide. Just from our little shopping spree today I got that figured out."

"Time to a check on the meat-a-balls" Kelly laughingly states in a cheesy Italian accent.

"They're done, anyone want to be the guinea pig?" Kelly says sticking her head out from the kitchen and starts laughing as Buffy jumps up and comes running into the kitchen. "Hey, guinea pig, only one!!"

"Oh, Gods…." Buffy is literally drooling at the mouth when she comes back in the living room. "I don't ever remember tasting something that good."

"I'm gonna head upstairs and change for dinner. Someone, please keep an eye on Mighty Mouse here, before she eats all the meatballs and there aren't any left for dinner, okay?" Kelly laughs as she grabs a couple bags with clothes she bought and heads upstairs. At the top of the stairs, she yells down "Would someone check the spaghetti noodles, I think I'm gonna take a quick shower and they'll probably be done before I get out."

"Got it covered" Buffy yelled back up to her and runs back into the kitchen grinning 'meatballs here I come'!

Tara and Willow look at each other and start laughing as they follow Buffy into the kitchen knowing what Buffy is up too. "Buffy, stop that. Kelly specifically said to keep you away from the meatballs." Willow grins as Buffy turns with a guilty look on her face with chipmunk cheeks.

"But, but, Willowwww" Buffy whines when she finishes her mouthful. "Here, you try one. See if you can resist them." Buffy grabs a fork and spears one and hands it to Willow.

"I guess one won't hurt" Willow mumbles as she grabs the fork that the slayer is waving in front of her face. "Oh, Goddess. What did she put in these? They're absolutely delicious. Give me another one."

Buffy starts grinning madly and starts to reach for some more meatballs when Tara steps between her and the food. Tara crosses her arms over her chest and puts her best 'Mom' face on looking from Buffy to Willow and back again.

"Living room, now!" Tara states then points to the living room. "I'll watch the sauce and the noodles, while you two try and behave yourself."

"Tara! But look at all the meatballs, there's plenty for us to have a few of them. Kelly's a vegetarian and won't even be having any." Buffy stops and then thinks about what she's saying and looks from Tara to Willow and back again. "Speaking of which, how weird is that? She fixes these delicious meatballs and she doesn't eat meat?" Buffy gets an absolutely mischievous grin on her face as she states "She's evil, I say, E-V-I-L. I'm just gonna have to keep her chained up here in the kitchen. Make sure she doesn't terrorize anyone else with her evilness, yep, that's what I have to do. Where are the chains? Still down in the basement?" Buffy starts mumbling to herself as she heads back to the living room.

Tara reaches over and pulls Willow into a hug. "It's been way too long since I've seen Buffy smiling and carrying on like this. Actually, I don't remember the last time she was like this, if she ever was." Tara gives Willow a questioning look.

"Honey, to be honest, I haven't ever seen Buffy acting this happy. She's been the 'Slayer' for so long now, that I think she's forgotten what it's like to just let loose and have fun. She's had moments, but you could always see in her eyes that she was worrying about the next 'Big Bad' that would be coming to town. I can actually see a happy light in her eyes without the worry or sorrow. She needs this so much. I just hope she doesn't shut Kelly out like she has other people in the past." Willow whispers softly into Tara's ear. Then lightly kissing the blondes earlobe she grabs a meatball as she pulls away from Tara grinning to. "These really are delicious!" she waves the meatball around as she runs into the living room.

"Oh, God. Kelly, you are gonna have to fix this again soon." Xander groans as he leans back in his chair at the dinner table rubbing his stomach. "This was absolutely delicious and I can't believe I am actually going to say this, but I am stuffed!"

Everybody at the table starts laughing. After all Xander had five platefuls of spaghetti and meatballs, not counting the salad and bread.

"Thanks Xander. After the holidays, maybe we can set up a weekly dinner get together. I enjoy cooking, and I can tell it probably won't go to waste" Kelly states looking at the food crumbs that was all that was left. "I guess next time I need to make more? I would have thought five pounds of meat for meatballs with everything else would have been plenty for six people. My bad. I'll plan a little better next time" Kelly laughingly states while shaking her head.

"Who wants ice cream?" Buffy asks to the room as she helps gather up the dishes to take to the kitchen.

"What kind of ice cream do you have?" Xander asks, his interest piqued.

"The bottomless pit has spoken. So much for him being stuffed." Willow grins at her long-time friend.

"There is always room for ice creamy goodness" Xander defends himself.

"How about I grab bowls and spoons and you grab the different containers of ice cream. The way the dinner was demolished, I hold out no hope that the ice cream will make it out alive." Kelly laughingly states to Buffy.

As Buffy grabs the ice cream she grins at Kelly "I guess I should have warned you. Xander can definitely put a hurting on the food." She leans in closer to Kelly whispering "I don't think Anya can cook. And the one time I looked in the refrigerator at their apartment…Ugh. Let's just say that it isn't anything that a normal human would eat. But then again, we are talking about Anya and Xander…" Buffy smirks as she heads back to the dining room, leaving Kelly laughing and following her back in.

"Thanks for dinner you guys. It was great. See you later." Xander says as he and Anya leaves with Anya smiling and waving at them as they walk out the door.

"I need to go get changed and ready to go out on patrol. Are you still wanting to go with me, Kelly?" Buffy asks Kelly as she gets ready to head upstairs.

"Yeah, if you don't mind me tagging along. I'll see Tara and Willow out and get the particulars for what's gonna be the plan for tomorrow. Then I'll get myself changed and my gear together." Kelly states smiling at Buffy.

Buffy nods her head and goes upstairs.

Tara grins at Willow and Willow just smirks and shakes her head. "We figured would come over tomorrow morning around 9 o'clock and bring bagels and mochas for breakfast. Then Willow and Buffy can go out and do their thing while we can sit here in the comfort of Buffy's house, since we don't have any furniture yet, and have a serious discussion about everything. Is that okay with you?" Tara looks up at Kelly with a serious look in her eyes.

Kelly looks into Tara's eyes and knows in her heart that she will have to tell her pretty much everything about the past. She nods her head with a sad look in her eyes. "Yeah, sis. We'll discuss everything." Kelly gives her a hug and a kiss on the top of her head before Tara got into the vehicle. "You two be careful. Love you."

"Love you, too Kelly. We'll see you tomorrow." Tara says with a sad smile after giving Kelly an affectionate kiss on the cheek. Willow looks from Tara to Kelly and just says goodnight.

"What was going on between you and Kelly as we were getting ready to leave" Willow questions Tara as they head home.

Tara sighs and looks over at Willow. "You know my home life wasn't great. After my, our, mother fell ill, Father had me convinced that I was a demon. He mentally abused me and Donnie mentally and physically abused me. Fortunately, the physical abuse wasn't real bad. Mostly just being smacked around occasionally. I know it was worse for Kelly. I don't know to what extreme, but I was basically giving Kelly a heads up tonight that I would want the full story tomorrow. E-e-everything. She understood what I was saying and from the reaction I got from her and the fact that I read her aura while I was talking to her, I believe it was bad. Extremely bad." Tara states with a tear running down her cheek as they pull into their driveway.

Willow parks the car and leans over and gently wipes away the tear looking into her lovers sad eyes. "Honey, it'll be okay. I know this is going to bring up bad memories for both of you. But just remember, that they are memories now. That what happened is in the past and all that matters is the fact that you are both here, together at last. That is the most important thing to remember. You have each other now and those…" Willow growls out the next word "bastards, can't harm either of you now."

"How did I get so lucky to have you in my life?" Tara whispers.

Willow smiles gently at her as they head into the house. "Love, you aren't the lucky one. I'm the lucky one. I almost screwed it up royally and I thank the Goddess every day that you gave me another chance. I don't know what would have happened without you in my life. I just know that it would have been meaningless and I will never, ever take you for granted."

Tara smiles lovingly at Willow with tears running down her cheeks as they get ready for bed and asks "Hold me tight in your arms tonight?"

"Always." Willow states while turning out the lights and climbing into bed besides Tara pulling her close and kissing her gently. "I will always hold you tight and love you forever."

Tara snuggles in against Willow with her head on her chest and her arm wrapped around her waist and smiles as she feels Willow gently running her hands through her hair. "I will always love you, too" she states softly as they both slowly fall asleep in each others arms.

"Hey, are you just gonna watch, or are you gonna join in?" Buffy laughingly yells over at Kelly who is sitting on top of a tombstone watching Buffy fight three vampires.

"You're the slayer, your destiny, one girl in all the world, yada yada yada." Kelly laughs while hopping off the tombstone. She goes after one that was just getting back up off the ground from where Buffy had knocked him down. "You know, I think I like vampires the best out of the majority of the evil demons I have run across in my travels." She says while ducking the punch the vampire throws at her.

"Why is that?" Buffy says while she stakes one of the two vampires she's fighting while keeping an eye on Kelly to make sure she doesn't need any help.

"Because…" Kelly stops talking as she drops to the ground rolling away from the vampire that tried to tackle her. As she pops back up into a low crouch holding both hands to the side almost like she's holding something, she lets the vampire get within three feet of her and swings. The vampire suddenly dusts and Kelly grins watching Buffy finish the last vampire. "There's no clean-up."

Buffy stands there with a stunned look on her face and points to where the vampire was standing a moment ago "What the hell happened to him?"

"Liked that, did you?" Kelly smirks while Buffy is looking at her first in disbelief and then with an expression that said it was explanation time. "It's actually very simple. No magic involved, at least not now there wasn't. Other then myself, no one can see it. Also it's completely undetectable except for when I'm using it, of course. Wouldn't do a bit of good if you couldn't feel it when I needed it, huh?" Kelly says with a quirk of an eyebrow and a half smile.

Buffy looks at her with an unbelieving look in her eyes as she slowly walks towards Kelly. "Well I would say seeing is believing, but considering I can't see the sword, can I feel it?"

"Here, let me show you" Kelly states while reaching for Buffy's hand and slowly running it along the handle and the back of the blade. "I have actually done this to all my weapons so I don't have to worry about them being found by accident." Kelly says while letting go of Buffy's hand.

"You have got to be kidding me" Buffy shakes her head slightly in disbelief.

"Nope, no kidding. Here, watch this" Kelly says smiling at Buffy as she puts the sword back up in her jacket. "Now, feel along the jacket."

Buffy reaches over to where she just watched Kelly put the sword away. She carefully feels along the jacket trying to find the sword.

"I'll be." Buffy says with a disbelieving shake of her head.

"If you're a good little Slayer. Maybe Santa Claus will bring you your own little play pretties for Christmas." Kelly states with a smirk as they continue on patrol.

Buffy's eyes light up and she looks over at Kelly. "You can do that for other people?" Buffy asks with an unbelievably bright smile on her face.

'God, she is absolutely stunning.' Kelly thinks to herself looking at the smile on Buffy's face. She mentally shakes her head and smiles back at Buffy. "Yes, I can do it. But, uhh, I need blood so I can 'key' the items into your essence so that you will be the only one that can see or use them. Well, that's not entirely true, unfortunately because I do the spell, I can always see them and use the items. I haven't figured out a way around that, yet." Kelly states that last part, as if she is still trying to puzzle it out.

"How much blood would you need?" Buffy hesitantly asks Kelly.

"Depends on how many items I will be doing the spell on. A couple drops will let me do roughly ten items." Kelly states calmly. "If you're not comfortable with giving me the blood, I can use your hair, the only thing is I have to work it into the items that the spells will be done on which isn't permanent. The hair will usually be dislodged sometime or another. Where as the spell will let the blood soak into the items and be permanent."

Buffy thinks about it for a few moments while they finish patrolling and start to head back to her house. "I don't see a problem with giving you some of my blood. Do you need any other supplies to do the spell? Wills and I can pick up what you need tomorrow at the Magic Box if you do need anything else."

"I believe I have everything else I need. But I'll double check my supplies" Kelly smiles as they walk up to the front door. "For the Hellmouth, I expected it to be a lot busier. We fought those three vampires and that…orange demon with two heads? What the heck was that thing?"

Buff laughs and shakes her head. "Your guess is as good as mine. I'll see if Willow can research it for me later on this weekend. Maybe she can find out what it was. At least you had your sword and was able to take the heads off. The hidey spell on stuff would be great. It's kind of hard to carry a sword around with me – not exactly easy to explain." Buffy laughs as she takes off her jacket and hangs it up heading into the kitchen to grab a water.

"That's the main reason I created that spell. Makes life a lot simpler. Thanks." Kelly says smiling at Buffy when she throws her a water. They both sit down at the island in the kitchen drinking their waters.

"Well, I can honestly say that I would be more than happy to have you patrol with me whenever you want. You can hold your own and you would keep me company. Makes for a happier slayer." Buffy smirks.

"I'll do my best, Mighty Mouse." Kelly laughs as she gets up and throws her empty water bottle in the trash. "I'm gonna go and check my supplies to make sure I don't need anything. I probably need to see Anya and give her some money to go towards future supplies and orders. After I'm done I'll probably hop in the shower."

Buffy follows her up the stairs. "I'm going to take a quick shower while you're checking your stuff and get some of the cemetery filth off me. See you in the morning."

"Night, Buffy. Sweet dreams" Kelly says with a slight smile heading into her bedroom as Buffy heads into the bathroom.

Willow is lying in bed looking lovingly at Tara sleeping in her arms. 'Goddess, she is so beautiful. I don't know what I ever did to deserve her. Hmmm, I still owe her for the other night.' Willow grins mischievously as she slowly eases Tara over onto her back and starts to gently kiss along Tara's neck down to her collar bone where she gently licks and then sucks on her pulse point. 'Oh, my. She tastes so good. Oooh, I think she's waking up.'

Tara groans and slowly eases one of her blue eyes open and looks at certain hackers red head that is slowly working its way down her neck towards her chest.

"Mmm. Sweetie? What'cha' doin'?" Tara smirks looking into the green eyes that look up and wink at her.

"If you don't know what I'm doing, I must not be doing it right." Willow grins at her lover and leans up to give her a long loving kiss. "I still owe you for the other night. And since I woke up early this morning…"

Willow gently moves to hover over Tara while gently spreading Tara's thighs with her knees and proceeds to nibble her way back down Tara's neck while lightly running her hand down Tara's side to her hip, grasping it firmly. "Do you have any idea how much I love you? How happy it makes me to be able to touch you? Kiss You? Just be with you?" Willow slowly kisses her way across her lover's breasts. "Mmmm luscious breasts. I could spend all day worshipping your breasts."

"Ooohh, honey. I would love for you to spend all day…" Tara stops, grabbing the back of Willow's head and groans as Willow gently bites down on the nipple she had been kissing. "Yesssss." Tara hisses.

Willow grins around the nipple and kisses her way over to the other nipple and proceeds to give it the same treatment. Slowly running her hand down the outside of Tara's thigh and then back up the inside of her lover's thigh to gently cup her sex.

"Oooh, someone seems to be extremely aroused right now. Would you happen to know who that person is?" Willow asks naughtily while lightly stroking between her lovers lips and the dampness therein.

Tara flips Willow over onto her back and attacks the hacker's neck with lips, tongue and teeth. "Do you know how much you turn me on, baby? Do you know with just a word from you I melt inside? I believe you've done enough teasing this morning. I want you. And I want you now." Tara growls at Willow.

Willow smirks and says "Why didn't you say so, honey? All you had to do was ask." She grins as she reaches inside Tara with two fingers and flicks her thumb over Tara's clit. "Oh, Goddess. You are so wet."

"More." Tara moans loudly into Willow's neck. And groans as Willow adds a third finger to her stroking. Tara is rocking against Willow's hand almost roughly now. As Willow curls her middle finger inside Tara rubbing over her g-spot over and over again Tara finally screams out as her orgasm takes over.

Willow continues stroking Tara gently. Slowing down her movements as Tara collapses half on her, prolonging her pleasure as long as possible.

"Oh, Goddess, what you do to me Willow." Tara pants as she finally is able to speak while gently kissing Willows shoulder as she gently shifts to lie beside Willow.

Willow smiles and wraps both her arms around Tara. "I would gladly do that to you every morning for the rest of both our lives, love."

Tara grins "Only in the morning, huh? What about afternoon, evening, nighttime, midnight…"

Willow laughs as she rolls over to half lie on top of Tara while tickling her ribs. "Well, there are so many other things I can do to you during the afternoon, evening, nighttime, midnight hours. I don't want to do the same thing all the time, now do I?"

Tara laughs at Willow and wraps her arms around her tightly. "I love you, sweetie. You're my always." And gently kisses Willows lips while running one hand through the red hair that she loves so much. "Mmm, I would love to stay with you like this all day. However, I believe we should probably get showered, pick up breakfast and head on over to Buffy's." Willow huffs at that comment. "If we head for the shower now, I'll be more than happy to…" Tara proceeds to whisper the rest in Willows ear.

Willow's eyes get rounder and rounder as Tara tells her all the naughty things she's going to do to her in the shower and jumps up, grabbing Tara's hand saying "come on, times a wasting. We need to get showered and all cleaned up. Yep, come on slow poke."

Tara laughs as Willow literally pulls her out of the bed towards the bathroom. If they're lucky they won't be too terribly late to Buffy's house.

"Oh! Look at who finally decides to show up" Kelly smirks at Tara and Willow walking into the house at 9:45.

"But we come bringing food and mochas" Willow smiles swinging bags from her hands and looks at Tara who's carrying the mocha's.

"Always of the good" Buffy laughs coming down the stairs. "Especially since you said you were bringing it!!"

"Hmm, Donuts and… Oooh, bagels and cream cheese. I know what I'm gonna be having" Kelly says grabbing the bags and heading to the kitchen and the toaster. "Who else wants toasted bagels? YUMMY – you got some of the ones with everything. Dibs!"

Willow makes a point of looking at her fingers and counting them. "Whew, I was worried there for a minute that I might be short a finger or two."

Tara leans in close and whispers in Willow's ear "That would be very, very bad. I love Willowhand and Willowfingers."

Buffy was standing right behind Willow and Tara shaking her head. "You know what? I'm starting to realize I must have really been in my own world all these years. You two are horn dogs, aren't you?" Buffy smirks and heads into the kitchen yelling at Kelly "You better leave me some of that food!"

Willow blushes lightly looking to Tara and Tara just grins and kisses her lightly on the lips, "Can't argue with that." She says smirking lightly and smacking Willow on the butt before following Buffy and Kelly into the kitchen.

"We'll call you to meet up later for dinner and a movie. Don't you two do anything we wouldn't" Tara says to Willow and Buffy as they're heading out the door to go shopping.

"You sure this is all you need from the Magic shop?" Buffy asks Kelly waving the list of items along with the money in her hand.

"Yep, that's all I need for your stuff. I'll visit the shop later on in the week to talk to Anya and get other items I may need for future use. Thanks for getting the ingredients." Kelly quirks a small smile at Buffy in thanks.

"No problem, especially since these are being used to help me out, just wish you would let me pay for them" Buffy shakes her head thinking about the argument they had that morning and just laughs and waves goodbye as they head out.

Tara looks at Kelly watching Buffy walk away with a look that could only be considered infatuated on her face. She bumps Kelly on the shoulder and says with a small grin "You've got it bad, don't you?"

"Wha? Huh?" Kelly says still watching Buffy until she walks out of sight and shakes her head looking at Tara. "What did you say?"

As they walk back into the house shutting the door behind them Tara laughs loudly and says "I said, you've got it bad, don't you?"

Kelly looks at Tara with an embarrassed grin on her face. "You have no idea." She flops down heavily into the corner of the couch with a loud sigh. "Probably completely hopeless anyway. Oh, well. Onto the shitty conversation. You sure you really want to have this conversation?" Kelly asks Tara with a half hearted grin and sad look in her eyes.

Tara looks into Kelly eyes and nods that the conversation does need to take place. "You or me first?"

"You?" Kelly asks with a pleading note in her voice.

Tara nods and gets this slight far away look in her eyes and proceeds to tell Kelly about her life after Kelly had left. How their mom had gotten sick. Dad had convinced her that she was a demon. How her father and brother had mentally abused her and Donnie had smacked her around some, thankfully not really bad. How their mother died when she was seventeen and she escaped home to come to Sunnydale to college when she was eighteen. Meeting Willow, Buffy and the rest of the gang. How Dad, Donnie and Beth had come and tried to take her back home before her twentieth birthday and how Buffy had stood up for her and said she was family, with the rest of the group backing her up. How much she loves Willow. The problems they had and how they overcame those problems and have been together ever since.

Somewhere in the midst of telling Kelly about the past she had ended up lying down on the couch with her head in Kelly's lap with her sister running her fingers soothingly through her hair while they both cried and laughed through the telling. Tara thinks to herself how this seems so familiar, except with herself running her fingers through Dawn's hair when she was upset and hurting.

Taking a deep breath she pushes up and gives Kelly a tight hug. "Want something to drink while we take a break?"

"Can I ask you something?" Kelly asks looking at Tara. Tara nods her head in acquiesce while they walk into the kitchen. "You aren't holding anything back about the time at home, were you? Nothing else happened?"

Tara stops and looks deeply into Kelly's worried eyes wondering to herself exactly what Kelly is trying to say without saying it. She shakes her head and says "no, nothing else happened. I'm not holding anything back. Why?"

Kelly looks away and her shoulders relax. She reaches over to the refrigerator and grabs a diet for herself and glances back at Tara asking her what she wants to drink and grabs a water out for her when she answers.

"Let's take this back into the living room." Kelly quietly states as she heads into the living room and moves to sit in a chair kind of isolating herself from Tara.

"That's not going to work, Kelly." Tara states with a frown on her face.

"What?" Kelly asks looking up at Tara and seeing the frown on her face she takes a deep breath and moves back over to the couch, to her previous position. "You aren't going to let me distance myself, are you?"

"No. Whatever it is, we will get through it together. We're together now, family. I want it to stay that way, okay?" Tara makes it more a statement than a question while reaching over and taking Kelly's hand in hers.

"I…" Kelly hesitates and looks into Tara's blue eyes and shakes her head looking up as if for help. "I haven't ever really talked to anyone about it before, Tara. I've kept it pretty much locked up inside me for a long time and I don't really know how to even begin talking about it. Especially to you. You're my baby sister and I have this urge to protect you from the seedier side of this world. I know, I know. Even with everything you've been through I still have this uncontrollable urge to keep this from you."

Tara almost seems to hesitate and looks down for a moment before looking back up into Kelly's eyes. "I don't know if this will make it easier or harder. But I was downstairs the night you came back in from the barn after Dad made you go out there. I saw that you were moving slowly and I could see the pain in your aura." Tara stops, biting her lip and looks away for a moment before whispering "I saw your clothes soaked with blood."

Kelly looks at her in shock and then closes her eyes for a moment taking in a deep shuddering breath. "I never wanted you to know anything about what happened. Ever. You're a gentle soul that should only know love and happiness. Not heartache and pain." Kelly opens her tear-filled eyes and gently pushes some hair behind Tara's ear.

"I guess I should start at the beginning. It started when I was 12, I guess he realized I was maturing. He never said or did anything around the rest of the family, but he would always find some excuse to follow me out to the barn when I fed the animals or cleaned out the stalls. He made me believe that it was my fault, that somehow I was to blame for what he did. The … sexual abuse became more physical abuse the older I got. It was bad, but not so bad as to break my skin or leave any kind of marks that couldn't be covered by clothes. Until right before my birthday. Maybe he realized that I was planning on leaving and it infuriated him so much he didn't have any control. That night he took the whip to me." Kelly stops and looks at Tara and sees the horror on her face and the tears running down her cheeks. Kelly gently reaches out and wipes some of the tears off her face. "Don't cry, Sis. It was a long time ago. That bastard just needs to be thankful he never hurt you. If he had he would be counting down his last minutes on this earth before I sent him to hell." Kelly cocks her mouth in a semblance of a smile at the thought of beating the old man into a pulp. "That night mom knew something was wrong and was waiting in my room for me. She cleaned me up and started the healing process as much as she could. She was so distraught she couldn't do much, but she stopped the worst of the bleeding. I don't think I would have made it if it wasn't for her. Then I took off on my birthday and joined the Marines. I've been fighting for our country and fighting demons since. Even had a few love interests in my spare time," Kelly smirks at that, thinking in particular about Sam.

"Show me, please" Tara whispers looking at Kelly with sorrow filled eyes.

"Tara…" Kelly looks and sees the determined look coming over Tara's face and just shakes her head as she stands up glancing out the front window and reaches over closing the drapes and turns on the lights in the living room. "Are you sure?" Kelly asks hesitating until she receives the nod from Tara and then untucks and pulls her t-shirt off.

Tara slowly gets up from the couch and walks around Kelly to look at her back. "Oh, Goddess" she exclaims in a broken hearted whimper looking at Kelly's scarred back. The criss crossing of the scars that completely covers her sisters back. Tara gently reaches out and runs her shaking fingers over one of the worse ones that is raised higher than the other ones.

Kelly turns around after Tara pulled her hand away and puts her shirt back on before reaching out for Tara and pulling her into a gentle hug. Tara just cries broken heartedly holding onto Kelly for dear life. Kelly gently rocks her back and forth. "It's okay. It's okay, Tare. It was a long time ago. I'm all right, you're all right. That's what matters most." Kelly pulls back a little with Tara still in her arms as Tara finally starts to calm down. "Here, sit down. I'll be right back."

Kelly runs to the bathroom and grabs a washcloth and wets it with cold water, bringing it back so Tara can wash her face and cool her swollen red eyes.

"Thanks." Tara gratefully takes the wash rag and gently wipes her face and holds it for a few minutes against her eyes.

"Can't have you going out all red faced and puffy-eyed to meet that firebrand girlfriend of yours. She would probably think I was being mean to you and then she would want to kick my ass. Or maybe she would have Buffy…" Kelly trails off on that note thinking about having Buffy kick her ass. 'Hmmm, may not be such a bad thing having her kick my ass.' Kelly smirks to herself picturing that.

Tara can't help it and busts out laughing, watching the different emotions crossing Kelly's face. 'She is definitely smitten with Buffy. Probably time to lighten things up anyway.'

"What are you laughing at little girl?" Kelly asks in a mock stern voice. "It isn't nice to laugh at your elders, you know that right?"

Tara shakes her head smiling from ear to ear. "You are completely taken with Buffy, aren't you?"

Kelly tilts her head to the side and a genuine happy smile comes across her face as she thinks about it. "Taken isn't the word for it, sis. I know it probably seems impossible with the short period of time that I've known her, but I have completely fallen head over heels. I probably don't have a snowballs chance in hell of her ever returning the feelings, but what the hell. Maybe I'll luck out and she'll decide she wants to bat for the home team and want to do it with an 'older' woman; that older woman being myself, of course." Kelly grins and just shakes her head like yeah, like that will ever happen.

Tara smiles at Kelly and shakes her head. "Honestly, I have to say that I have only seen Buffy interested in guys before. But I also have to state the fact that I have never seen her smile, laugh or joke as much as I have in the last few days since you've been here. As for falling in love in a short period of time…" Tara hesitates, thinking about Willow and her first meeting at the Wicca group. "I fell in love with Willow within 15 minutes of meeting her. Willow was never interested in women before me, either. So maybe, just maybe Buffy just never met the woman that would make her consider jumping the fence before now. Hell, as Willow said last night, if Buffy can date a vampire, it should be easy to get her to date a woman." Tara laughingly states watching the hope spring up in Kelly's eyes.

"Wait a minute, she dated a vampire? A vampire slayer and a vampire. That just seems wrong. Talk about mixing oil and water." Kelly shakes her head wonderingly.

"Well, Angel actually had a soul, if that helps at all. I don't believe any of Buffy's relationships have been exactly good for her. But, I don't really feel comfortable talking about that. It would probably be best for you to discuss it with Buffy. If you two ever get to that point." Tara states with a small frown, hoping that Kelly understands what she is trying to say.

"Tare, no problem. I don't want to cause any friction with you telling stories out of school, per se. Actually, Buffy and I have been having this question and answer thing going on for whenever anything comes up that we want to talk about. Maybe I can work up to it somehow or another." Kelly says with a little smile and a glint in her eyes thinking about how she can get that conversation going.

Tara just grins and shakes her head. "You are rotten to the core, aren't you?" Tara looks at the clock and realizes it's after 3 o'clock in the afternoon. "My goodness, we've been talking for almost five hours straight. Why don't I go and straighten up my make-up and make sure I look okay and then we can go do a little shopping before we decide to meet Buffy and Willow later. I want to pick out something for Willow that she doesn't know about for Christmas and this would be the perfect time to do it, what do you say?"

"I'm there. I'm always up for some shopping. Anyway, I need you to point me in the right direction for gifts for everyone. And before you say it, I'm gonna buy stuff with or without your help. So, I would suggest you help me that way I'm not buying inappropriate gifts for everyone. You never know what I might put in peoples stockings as stocking stuffers for Christmas" Kelly states wiggling her eyebrows at Tara.

Tara can't help but laugh at Kelly. "With you I probably wouldn't be too shocked. And if you decided to buy anything naughty for Anya and Xander, you would probably make Anya's day." Tara hesitates thinking about it for a moment. "Then again, you would probably have a hard time finding something she didn't already have." Tara stops shaking her head thinking to herself 'scary visual place, need to stop thinking about this now.'

Kelly gets an evil grin on her face. "What about you, sis? Anything special I should put in Willow's stocking this year from Santa?"

Tara stops halfway up the stairs and turns around looking at Kelly with a slightly horrified look on her face and shakes her finger at Kelly. "You wouldn't dare."

Kelly just smiles from ear to ear with a mischievous look in her eyes. "Well, maybe I would and maybe I wouldn't. I guess it all depends on what kind of mood I'm in at the time."

Tara shakes her head and looks upwards toward the heavens. "Why me? What did I ever do to deserve this? Goddess, I have a feeling that you have sent your own little mischief maker here to drive us all crazy."

Kelly laughs heartily at Tara and gently turns her around to give her the hint to continue walking up the stairs. "Get your butt in gear sis, if you want to do some shopping. I want to put on a different shirt and grab those new boots I bought and wear them today."

"Yeah, just what you need. Something to make you taller." Tara laughingly states, heading into the bathroom.

"Hey, they make my ass look good!!" Kelly yells as she enters the bedroom. 'I can definitely use all the help I can get, if I want a certain little blonde to take notice.'

"So, how is the new roomie and you getting along?" Willow asks looking out of the corner of her eye to watch Buffy. They were walking into the Espresso Pump to have another mocha before heading to the Magic Box and then spend the day shopping the other little stores around town.

Buffy grins as she opens the door to let Willow in ahead of her. "She can cook, she's funny, very outspoken, in a good way, not in an Anya way. Even though she does like to say stuff occasionally for the shock value. I think, no I know things were very rough on her at home before she left." Buffy stops and frowns thinking about that for a moment hoping that one day Kelly may want to talk more in depth about that time. "And…" Buffy hesitates looking at Willow for a moment.

"And… What Buffy?" Willow asks wondering what else Buffy was going to say since Buffy had this worried look on her face. "You know I love you, right?"

They stop and place their orders for mochas and grab them to take them to a table in the back to sit down and continue their conversation.

"Damn it, Willow. I like her." Buffy blurts out, looking down at her coffee.

Willow grins from ear to ear, with her tongue slightly poking out from between her teeth. Buffy glances up and sees that grin on her face and shakes her head. "Why are you grinning like that for? You would think you won the lottery from the look on your face."

"As far as I'm concerned, I have." Willow laughs looking at Buffy.

"But…I've never liked another woman before. What am I supposed to do? What if she doesn't like me? She's gorgeous, tall, her eyes are that deep brown, but they have green circles in them that distract me when we're talking. God, when we talk, having a serious conversation, she seems so…intent. And my God, she's built. Did you notice her…" Buffy stops and realizes she has her hands out in front of her like she's gripping and releasing something in front of her and quickly puts her hands down beneath the table with a blush on her face.

By then Willow is laughing so hard she can't speak. She holds up her hand to keep Buffy from saying anything while she gets control of herself. "That was Willowbabble worthy." Willow says with a soft smile on her face, finally having gotten control of her laughter. "Buffy, let me see if I can remember all your questions, statements and whatever you said. Let's see, something about not ever liking a woman before – I never liked a woman before Tara, either. But I love Tara with all my heart and can't see myself with anyone else. Personally, Buffy, I don't think it's the sex of the person, but the person themselves. Give it a chance, if it doesn't wig you out too much, and I would assume with the grasping motions, that it doesn't….." Willow grins at Buffy.

"Ugghh." Buffy states blushing even redder and looks down, grabbing her mocha to have a sip to keep from having to say anything.

Willow just grins some more at the slayer. "Let's see, what else did you say? Something about does she even like you? I would say that is a definite yes. She likes you, my goodness, she's flirting with you almost non-stop Buffy! Anybody can tell that she likes you. Yes, she is gorgeous and has an extremely nice rack. And if you even think about telling Tara that I've noticed her sister's rack, I will disown you for the rest of my life and never talk to you again! Do you understand me?" Willow states with mock seriousness.

Buffy looks up at that and grins. "Well, if nothing else, it might be bribe worthy at a later date." Buffy laughs heartily and Willow's eyes getting big and round.

"You wouldn't dare! Would you?" Willow almost whines with a pleading look in her eyes.

"Don't worry Willow. I'm probably going to be coming to you for all kinds of help with questions on what to do, how to act and God only knows what else." Buffy states with an almost terrified look in her eyes. "How am I supposed to act around her? What am I supposed to say? Willow!"

Willow reaches over and grabs Buffy's hand and holds it, trying to calm her down. "Buffy, just act normally. If she likes you, which I'm sure she does, she likes you being yourself. Say what comes naturally. You know how to flirt, Buffy. You flirt all the time with guys. This time it just happens to be a woman. There's nothing different."

Buffy raises an eyebrow at that last statement. "Uh, Willow. I hate to tell you this, but there are definitely some things that are different between women and men. If you don't know that by now, we need to have a serious talk." Buffy smirks at Willow.

"Buffy!" Willow whines. "You know what I meant. Flirting, flirting. There is no difference in how you flirt with a woman from how you flirt with a man. Why do I even bother? You're hopeless." By then Willow is lightly banging her forehead with the heel of her hand and shaking her head.

Buffy just laughs, feeling much better having talked with Willow about the feelings that Kelly's stirring up inside her. So glad that Willow doesn't seem to have any problems with her possibly dating a woman… 'Me, dating a woman. Not something I ever really thought about before. But maybe, just maybe I should give it a chance.' By the end of her inner monologue she has a heart-stopping smile on her face and is gazing off in the distance.

Willow shakes her head watching the emotions cross Buffy's face. 'Whether Buffy realizes it yet or not, I think she's already fallen a little in love with Kelly. Goddess knows she needs someone that will be there for her. Not someone that's bad for her, like Angel and Spike. Or someone that feels like they always have to be in competition with her, like Riley. Ooh, that reminds me.'

"Buffy, not to get off track here, but how did patrol go last night?" Willow asks wondering if Kelly might be all 'macho woman' in a Riley sort of way.

"You wouldn't believe it. Kelly has this spell that makes all her weapons invisible. You can't even feel it unless she actually has hold of it. I was fighting three vampires in the cemetery and she was sitting on top of a tombstone watching me when I yelled over to her to ask if she was going to help. Of course, I didn't really need any help, they were all relatively newly risen. You won't believe it, but she basically said that she knew I was the slayer, with all the powers and strength to fight demons, that she could never compete with something like that. But since I asked, she hopped down and proceeded to fight one of the vampires and took its head off with the invisible sword. It was so cool. While she was holding the sword I could feel it, but once she put it away, I couldn't even detect it in her jacket. You know, she's not like anyone else I know. It isn't a competition with her or testosterone. It's just seems to be something she does. Like she likes to help out but doesn't want to be in the way. Then we came across this demon that I was fighting and I stabbed it with my stake like 10 times, but it didn't seem to phase it, then she took it's head off with her sword, thank God it decided to actually die then." Buffy shakes her head thinking about the night before and how unpretentious Kelly seemed.

"Thank the Goddess. That was something I was wondering. You didn't need someone that would think they had to be in competition with you, like past boyfriends." Willow gets a glint in her eye looking at Buffy. "She sounds perfect, she has to be evil. Run away as fast as you can, Buffy. She's human, she doesn't seem to want to be in competition with you, she's gorgeous, has a great sense of humor, and guess what else?" Willow asks while Buffy just grins shaking her head at the hacker.

"What else, Will?" Buffy asks wondering what else the red head could say.

"She's knows about the things that goes bump in the night, is an asset and she's family. After all, she's Tara's sister. You would have your own Maclay to love and hold and have unlimited smoochies with. I mean, I know how much I enjoy having my smoochies with Tara, and if Kelly is even half as good a kisser as her, watch out! It's been years since you've had anyone to have a smooch fest with. It's about time you got on with it, girl!" Willow laughs as Buffy wads up her napkin and throws it at her.

"Let's go do some shopping. If we keep talking about smooch fests, you'll want to head back to the house and grab Tara and disappear for the rest of the day. And I need to go get these ingredients for the spell at the Magic Box, since Kelly is going to make some of my weapons invisible for me. Then we need to finish shopping for the rest of the group. I need to figure out what to get Kelly for Christmas. Maybe I'll ask Anya to keep an eye on her to see if there's anything she notices her looking at when she gets to the shop." Buffy states more to herself than Willow.

Willow just grins and grabs her jacket to head out and continue their day.

"So, you want me to hide the stuff you bought Willow for Christmas at Buffy's? You know she will find them if you keep them at your house!" Kelly laughs at Tara thinking about Willow sneaking around the house looking for her gifts.

"You have no idea! Last year I had to keep the presents at the Magic Box till the night before. I've learned over the years that she is relentless. She can't stand to have someone keep a secret from her." Tara stops looking ahead of her and grins. She turns at looks at Kelly "Can you take these bags and put them with yours? I see a certain redhead and blonde coming this way and I don't really want her to know that I've gotten something."

Kelly looks up and sees Buffy and Willow heading their way. It doesn't look like they've seen them yet, since they stopped and were looking in a window. "Here, give them to me real quick – they have lockers right down the side here. I'll put them in there and come back later to get them."

Tara grins and hands her bags over. "Thanks Sis."

Kelly nods and runs off with the bags, depositing in the lockers and pocketing the keys to the lockers.

Tara hooks her arm through Kelly's as they head towards Buffy and Willow.

"Oh. My. GOD." Buffy exclaims with her eyes going wide and her jaw dropping.

Willow turns and looks at Buffy "What is wrong with you?" She turns to look in the same direction that Buffy is looking and starts laughing after her eyes about pop out of her head, too.

Tara and Kelly are walking towards them and Kelly is wearing skin-tight black hip-hugger jeans, a short black leather jacket with a red silk shirt unbuttoned halfway down showing off cleavage and the black lace bra that she's wearing underneath it. Willow quickly closes her eyes and shakes her head to get the image out of her mind. Can't have Tara getting upset with her, nope, can't have that.

Tara sees the way Willow and Buffy are looking at Kelly and bumps into Kelly's side grinning. "I think you've broken both of them."

Kelly smirks and looks down at Tara "You think so? I don't know what might have caused it."

Tara laughs out loud, "Oh, the extreme showing of the cleavage, the tight jeans, the boots, the leather jacket, lipstick that matches your shirt? Beautiful woman walking towards Willow with breasts will usually make her look. My baby is a definite breast gal!"

Kelly looks at Tara with a little grin and says. "Oops? I'm not going to get her in trouble, am I?"

"Goddess, no. It will just give me something to tease her about and…" Tara hesitates and gets a devilish grin on her face. "I'll also get some major hot loving out of it too, if I know my redhead."

"Oooh, Tara's gonna get some hot monkey sex tonight!" Kelly teases.

"Damn straight." Tara replies with an unrepetenant grin.

By this time Tara and Kelly have reached the other two and Willow is making sure to keep her eyes on Tara, while Buffy just has a glazed look in her eyes while looking chest level at Kelly.

Willow glances to Buffy and sees she's still out of it, so she bumps her hard and whispers in her ear "Buffy, wipe the drool off your chin and say something!"

Buffy shakes her head quickly reaching up with her hand to wipe her chin and is embarrassed to see there actually was drool on it. "Uhh, fancy running into you two here?!"

Willow eases over to Tara and leans in to give her a loving kiss as Tara pulls back slightly and looks Willow in the eye stating "Don't think I didn't notice where your eyes were young woman."

Willow's eyes get real big and round "But, but…I didn't….Honey….But…were there…and…I love you!" She stutters out with a slight whimper.

Tara let's her lover stew for a few moments before leaning in and giving her the loving kiss she was looking for before and then pulls back with a big grin on her face. "I know you do honey. And I knew the first place you would be looking when I saw Kelly walk out of her bedroom wearing that outfit!" Tara pulls Willow slightly away from Kelly and Buffy and quietly asks "What surprises me is Buffy, what's up there?"

Willow gets a huge grin on her face and leans in whispering in her ear "Buffy likes Kelly. I'll tell you all about that conversation later. There were hand motions and everything!" Willow is almost bouncing as she's talking about it.

Tara grins and nods her head. "This should be good. Come on, let's see if we can't help it along a little. And also help ourselves out a little." Tara states with a wiggle of her eyebrow.

"Anything you want, baby." Willow reaches in giving Tara a quick peck on the cheek while holding her hand.

"Uh, oh. I have a feeling those two aren't going to be with us for much longer." Kelly states looking over to where Willow and Tara are whispering and giggling to themselves, a short distance away.

Buffy glances quickly at the two witches and then brings her gaze back on Kelly. 'My God. I thought she looked good before. Who knew she would look so good in tight jeans, look at those long, muscular legs…mmm….firm looking stomach, great looking set of breasts spilling out, showing off one of the bras she bought yesterday….' Buffy's mind turns to complete mush by this point.

Kelly grins as she glances back towards Buffy and realizes that Buffy is off in her own little world again. "Buffy…Buffy… Yo Buffy!" Kelly finally snaps her fingers in front of Buffy's face to get the slayer's attention. "Are you okay?"

"What? Huh?" Buffy shakes her head realizing that she's spaced out. "Yeah, yeah. I'm okay. Just went away for a minute. Sorry. Did you say anything?"

Willow and Tara come up to Kelly and Buffy giggling and whispering in each others ears. "Hey, guys. Hope you two don't mind, but we were thinking about heading home. There's no good movies on at the theater tonight, anyway." Willow says with a big smile on her face.

Kelly looks at Tara, finally catching her eye and grins going "whoo, whoo, whoo, whooooo." Like a chimpanzee.

Tara blushes a deep red and then shrugs her shoulders "Gotta do what you gotta do. Come on honey, let's go. Did you drive?"

"Yep. Let's head out. See you two later?" Willow questions as she and Tara starts walking away.

"Sure, we will. Maybe we can get together next week for dinner when you two are free?" Buffy states smiling slightly, finally coming completely out of her fugue state.

Willow and Tara grin and wave as they walk off arm in arm.

"God, that's beautiful." Kelly smiles wistfully after the two witches. She glances over at Buffy and states "Well, what are we gonna do now? I've got some packages I need to get out of the lockers over there to take back to the house. And to tell you the truth, the movies that are showing at the Cineplex really don't look that hot. So…" Kelly trails off, hoping Buffy might come up with something.

Buffy stops tilting her head to the side for a moment thinking. "Well, we could pick up a couple movies to watch tonight after we get back from patrol. We could also pick up something to eat on the way home or while we're out on patrol. What do you think?"

"Well, let's go get the bags first" Kelly smiles nodding her head in the direction they need to go and as they are walking over to the lockers she states "Picking up a couple movies would be good. I'm getting hungry, I haven't had anything since breakfast this morning, so I would say let's either eat out or grab something to take back to the house."

Buffy grins "Sounds like a plan to me!"

"So, tell me about the conversation you and Buffy had today!" Tara asks Willow with a huge grin on her face as they walk in their house. "I'm so excited that Buffy likes Kelly!!"

Willow grins wickedly. "Well she hemmed and hawed around for a while before finally blurting out that she liked her. When she was describing how nice, funny, good looking Kelly was…." Willow hesitates here looking at Tara's breasts she grins even bigger and reaches forward grasping her lover's breasts with the same motions Buffy had used. "She made these type grabbing motions in the air before she realized what she was doing and embarrassed herself!"

Tara glances down at the hands on her breasts and back up at Willow, her eyes heavily lidded. "Hmmm. Honey. I thought we were going to talk about what happened today."

Willow grins and runs her hands down to the bottom of Tara's top gently grabbing it and pulling it off her lover. "Talked enough, want action!" Willow growls unhooking Tara's bra and attacking Tara's breasts with her lips and teeth.

Tara groans and then laughs. 'Oh, yeah. Hot monkey loving is about right.'

Kelly leans back away from the kitchen island patting her stomach. "That was excellent. When you said that Chinese place had good food, you weren't kidding."

Buffy grins as she finishes eating her Hunan Beef. "One of my staples. I stop there quite frequently on my way home from patrol. They've got good food and they're open late."

"Oh, but that was before. Now you're going to start eating more balanced meals. I have a feeling you probably only eat one meal a day and live off caffeine and the occasional candy bar, right?" Kelly asks with a raised eyebrow shaking her finger chidingly at Buffy, daring Buffy to disagree.

"Not entirely true" Buffy states straightening up and pouting. "Occasionally I have a bag of chips too."

They both break down laughing at that comment. Kelly shakes her head grinning to herself thinking gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous.

"So…" Buffy hesitates looking from her plate up to Kelly and back down again. 'Should I ask how things went today. I mean it seems that Kelly and Tara were laughing and having a good time. Maybe things weren't as bad as I thought they were.'

Kelly patiently waits to see what Buffy was going to say. And waits, and waits. "Buffy, you actually have to state your question out loud for me to hear it." Kelly smirks.

Buffy throws her napkin at Kelly and groans. "I'm afraid I'll say the wrong thing."

"Wrong thing, right thing. How do you know which is which if you never say it?" Kelly states with a shrug of her shoulder. "How about this, I'll say something and that way I can put my foot in my mouth first, how's that?"

Buffy nods her head enthusiastically. "Works for me. I usually put my foot in my mouth all the time. I would gladly let you do it this time."

Kelly grins shaking her head at Buffy. "Well…Tara made a comment earlier but wouldn't go into details. I don't think she actually meant to say anything to me, it kind of slipped out when we were talking…" Kelly hesitates looking at Buffy, wondering if she should continue, or not.

"Go ahead." Encourages Buffy.

"Well, how exactly does a Vampire Slayer fall in love with a vampire?" Kelly asks bluntly.

Buffy's eyes open wide and then she thinks about it and starts too laugh. "You know what? After all these years, I've started wondering that myself. All I can figure out is that it had something to do with it being unattainable. Romeo and Juliet type romance. Don't get me wrong, I loved Angel, but it was doomed from the beginning. I can actually see that now. Even without the whole losing his soul thing."

"Losing his soul?" Kelly asks questioningly.

Buffy shakes her head. "This is going to be a long conversation. How about we have it while we patrol?"

"I'm easy. Oh, do you have the ingredients for the spell? If you want we can do it to whatever items you want done before we go out on patrol?" Kelly asks thinking that it would be a good thing for Buffy to be able to take something else besides a stake with her in case she needs it.

"Ooh, yeah. The ingredients are on the coffee table and I can grab the items I want all spelled up first." Buffy bounces up out of the seat heading out of the kitchen.

Kelly laughs as she grabs up the trash and puts it in the bin. As she heads out of the kitchen to head upstairs to change and get the other items that she needs she looks at Buffy bending over her weapons chest in the living room and grins. 'That girl has an entirely scrumptious ass.' Shaking her head to herself she runs upstairs.

"Buffy, do you think you got enough of the ingredients?" Kelly laughs while questioning Buffy.

"Well, you said something about ten items, and I have a lot of weapons that I will eventually like to have you do the spell on, that is if you don't mind?" Buffy shyly grins at the tall woman.

"Buffy, I don't mind doing the spell. But if you ever need someone else to use any of the items, you won't want to have them done." Kelly states reasonably.

"But you see, that's the great thing. I have something like fifteen swords, four or five cross bows, thousands of bolts for them, so many knives that I can't even count, not to mention stakes and other stuff. The rest of the gang have some of that stuff to varying degrees of quantity at their house, too. So we can spell up all kinds of weapons!" Buffy states with a huge grin on her face.

Kelly just laughs and shakes her head. "Okay, I have the ingredients ready to do ten items to begin with, all I need is a couple drops of your blood for me to do the spell. So grab the ten items you want to do the most first, okay? We can do more items later this week."

Buffy stops and looks at all her weapons and finally reaches in, grabbing her favorite crossbow. 'I don't really need to have the bolts be invisible just yet. I can have her do that at a later date.' Then Buffy grabs a sword and scabbard, a couple knives, a few stakes stopping to think 'I know what else, it would be great to have a bag to put all this stuff in, I'll go get my small duffle bag to carry some of the extra gear in that I won't be able to carry on me.'

"I'll be right back" Buffy grins as she runs upstairs and a few seconds later she comes down carrying her bag and another crossbow. "I decided it wouldn't hurt to have two crossbows be invisible. Keep one upstairs and one down here."

Kelly grins at her and just says "Whatever you want Buffy. It's your decision. Now, if you're sure that's all you want done?"

Buffy nods her head double-checking everything that she has gathered lying together across the coffee table. "Yep, I think that's it." She walks around to where she's standing besides Kelly. She puts her hand out to where it's over the bowl of ingredients.

"Want me to prick your finger, or do you want to do it yourself?" Kelly questions.

"You can do it. I get hurt enough, I don't want to inflict pain on myself if I don't have too!" Buffy jokes.

"Well, hopefully it won't hurt much." Kelly murmurs as she gently grasps Buffy's hand holding it directly over the bowl and picks up a sharp thin-bladed knife that she had sterilized earlier and gently pricks Buffy's finger and lets two drops of blood drop into the bowl and then gently presses her thumb over the prick to stop the flow of blood. "Want me to kiss it and make it better?" Kelly grins at Buffy looking from her finger to her hazel eyes.

Buffy's heart almost stops at that comment. "I-I, uhhh…" Buffy just trails off, looking from Kelly's dark brown eyes to her full lips.

"Sorry, I guess I should tone it down, huh?" Kelly says with a self-deprecating smile while releasing Buffy's hand. Kelly picks up the bowl, mixing the blood in with the other ingredients repeating the small incantation then taking the mixture and anointing all the items Buffy had laid out on the coffee table while Buffy watches in fascination.

"There you go. All done up. You should be able to take these items with you anywhere and only be detected by the two of us. Want to take them out and give them a test drive?" Kelly grins slightly while heading into the kitchen to clean the items she used for the spell.

Buffy is literally bouncing on the balls of her feet in excitement. "Yep. I'll get all my gear on and then see if anyone notices anything. This is so unbelievable. Kelly, I really appreciate you doing this for me."

Kelly walks out of the kitchen shaking her head. "It wasn't much Buffy. Just giving you a better chance at fighting evil. A stake just doesn't get it done all the time and a sword could mean the difference between you making it out of a fight alive. So, personally I would rather you be here, I enjoy embarrassing you too much for you not to be!"

Buffy hesitates for a moment debating, then figures what the hell "Damn, you do that just to embarrass me? I was kind of hoping you were flirting with me." She says half teasingly, half seriously.

Kelly snaps her head up looking at Buffy gauging how serious she is. 'Does she want me to flirt with her? She hasn't actually pulled away from me at any time now that I think about it. Hmm.' Kelly decides she'll push a little and see what happens. "Well…If I say I was flirting with you, would I get my head handed to me on a platter?"

Crossing her arms, looking menacingly at Kelly she can't keep the look up and starts to grin. "Actually, I kind of like you flirting with me. I didn't even realize it till I was talking with Willow earlier today. That you were flirting with me, not that I liked it. I mean… Ugggh!" Buffy trails off wondering if she's going to dig herself in a deeper hole if she continues.

Kelly slowly smiles watching Buffy. She eases closer in and leans down slightly, catching Buffy's eyes. "So, you like my flirting with you. Exactly how far am I allowed to go with this flirting before I cross any lines, hmm? Can I do this, without crossing a line?" Kelly asks as she gently reaches out with the back of her fingers and runs them lightly down the slayers cheek around the jaw line gently brushing her thumb across Buffy's bottom lip.

Buffy closes her eyes and melts on the inside at the tender touch. Taking a shaky breath she finally opens her eyes and softly smiles. "No line crossing yet. But, and I really do hate to say this, we should go out and do a quick patrol."

'Looks like I do have a chance, after all.' Kelly thinks to herself and smiles back at Buffy. "Yeah, let's head out. Go kill some evil demony things, continue the conversation about vampire slayers falling in love with vampires" Kelly wiggles her eyebrows at Buffy at that and Buffy just turns a light shade of pink as they head out on patrol.

"You have got to be kidding me?! What a mind fuck!" Kelly states in shock when Buffy finishes telling her the story of her and Angel including how he lost his soul, killed Jenny, sending him to hell, his coming back from hell and his leaving. "Leave it to gypsies to put a happiness clause in a curse. Like being completely evil after losing his soul and doing all kinds of sick and deprived stuff to people is a good thing." Kelly sarcastically states with a shake of her head. "That had to have screwed you up royally. Your birthday, your first time, then your boyfriend turns evil." Kelly stops and starts to grin widely. "See, maybe fate was trying to tell you something! Maybe you were looking in all the wrong places for love! Let's test my theory. What's the rest of your relationships been like?"

Buffy starts laughing and shakes her head. "Nope. I'm not expanding on my past love stories until I hear some about yours. So come on, tell me about your first time. It couldn't be any worse than mine!"

Buffy watches as Kelly's eyes darken and she starts frowning looking down at the ground. "I just said the wrong thing, didn't I? God, Kelly. I'm so sorry." Buffy reaches over gently putting her hand on Kelly's arm to bring them to a stop. Buffy points to a tombstone "why don't you go ahead and sit down and I can try and dislodge my shoe from my mouth."

Kelly glances up at Buffy and shakes her head. "Buffy, no. It's okay. There's no way you can know what I've been through. It isn't your fault. Short story is, I was sexually and physically abused starting when I was 12. Tara and I already hashed it out earlier today, so might as well get it all out now, huh?"

Buffy's eyes fill with tears realizing it must be 'dad' that put Kelly through all that and she nods her head in agreement. "Whatever you want. If you want to talk about it, if not you don't have to."

"No, Buffy. If there is any chance of us having a serious relationship, I want you to know everything about me. Or at least the big stuff." Kelly quietly states.

"Whenever you're ready to talk, I'll be there. Oops. Looks like we have company." Buffy looks behind Kelly and sees three vampires coming their way.

Kelly looks up and glances around. "Yep. So, tiger. What'cha gonna use first?" Kelly smirks slightly at Buffy trying to get the night back on a lighter footing.

"Hmm. Decisions, decisions. I always like a good brawl to start with." Buffy grins, thankful that Kelly seems to be shaking off the desolate air that briefly showed. "Here we go."

Kelly watches as Buffy jumps up and does a spinning kick, knocking two of the three vampires to the ground. As they hit the ground she throws a roundhouse punch at the third vampire, which he ducks. Buffy grins as she watches him duck and rams her knee up into his face before he realizes he made a bad move. Buffy grins as she watches him grab his bloody nose. "You know what, you guys aren't even any fun anymore. You're just too easy to knock around."

"I'm gonna kill you Slayer!" The vampire that Buffy kneed yells as he wipes the blood from his face as the other two vampires attack Buffy. Buffy just grins and wades in throwing punches and kicks left and right.

Kelly watches, entranced at how powerful and quick Buffy is. Watching Buffy fight is like watching a dancer. Kelly catches something moving out of the corner of her eye. Shit. "Buffy we've got more company." Kelly yells as she hops off the tombstone as five more vampires head their way. "You might want to finish with those play toys. Looks like we've got new ones to play with." Kelly pulls her sword out keeping her eye on the approaching vampires.

"What's going on? A convention?" Buffy yells as she stakes a vampire backhanding another one onto the ground and staking it. "Kelly, looks like there's even more coming. Damn, that makes over 15 vampires!"

Kelly runs over to Buffy and dusts the last one of the original three as the other vampires close in. "Buffy, I'm gonna freeze the vampires it only lasts 30 seconds, so be prepared to take them out. You get the big group, I'll grab the small group. I have to touch you to keep you from freezing with them" Kelly states quickly, reaching out to grab Buffy's arm while quickly doing the spell when the vampires were close enough. "Go!"

Buffy makes short work of her eight vampires then turns around and dusts the last one from Kelly's group. "What the hell?" Buffy asks looking around to make sure there aren't any other vampires around. Not seeing any she looks at Kelly and grins. "Neat trick!"

Kelly shrugs "for something that doesn't last very long, it can be extremely effective. The drawbacks are, it only lasts 30 seconds and what you need to freeze needs to be within 15 yards. Then there's the pesky having to be in contact with the people you don't want to freeze!"

Buffy shakes her head smiling. "If you hadn't been here…Thank you."

"You would have handled it, Buffy. You're too good of a fighter. So, do we continue this patrol? I think you wiped out all the bad guys around here!" Kelly grins, looking at Buffy.

"Yeah, let's head downtown around the Bronze. And then head over to the college, we'll hit a few cemeteries that are on the way. Hopefully we won't hit anything like we did here." Buffy smiles while putting away her sword, watching Kelly.

"Lead the way, Mighty Mouse!" grins Kelly and then busts out laughing as Buffy bumps her in the side. "If you keep bumping into me, I might just cross that line we were talking about earlier" Kelly states wiggling her eyebrows at Buffy as they walk down the street.

Buffy stops, turns and looking at Kelly with a considering look then smiles an absolutely devilish smile. 'I bet Kelly doesn't know about the two H's! She keeps this up, she might find out quicker than she would think possible!'

'Oh, shit. I think I might have bitten off more than I can chew, going by that look!' Kelly thinks to herself swallowing hard.

Buffy decides to throw caution to the wind as she closes the gap between herself and Kelly. Reaching up with her hand she cups the side of Kelly's face and with her other hand, clasps the back of Kelly neck, gently tugging Kelly down to where their lips are a hairs breathe away from each other with a little grin saying "I think there's been enough teasing for right now."

Kelly smiles gently and reaches down, lightly grabbing Buffy's waist, pulling their bodies closer together. "I agree completely" as she closes the slight distance between them, groaning as their lips brush lightly against each other.

Buffy presses herself closer into Kelly and reaches up wrapping both arms around the taller woman's neck, pressing her lips harder against Kelly's. Kelly opens her mouth to lightly capture Buffy's bottom lip and sucks gently on it. Buffy groans opening her lips in response and almost melts when Kelly releases her lip and runs her tongue lightly between Buffy's lips not invading just wanting to see how far Buffy is wanting to take this kiss.

Buffy's tongue eagerly reaches out to tangle with Kelly's for a few moments. Both of them gently pull away at the same time, breathing heavily.

"Wow." Kelly states, closing her eyes and smiling. Gently running her hands up and down Buffy's sides.

Buffy nods her agreement to the sentiment, not quite able to say anything just yet. Leaning in, she rests her forehead against Kelly's collar bone, inhaling deeply trying to get her breathing under control. 'Oh, god. Maybe I shouldn't have breathed in quite so deeply. She smells so good.' Buffy can't quite resist and lifts her head placing a light kiss on Kelly's pulse point smiling when Kelly's heartbeat speeds back up.

Pulling back Buffy grins up at Kelly. "Yep, I think you just might like me."

Kelly looks at Buffy in shock and then busts out laughing. "Like would be a mild word for what I feel in regards to you, Buffy. Come on, let's finish up this patrol. So we can head back to the house to watch movies and maybe have some more kissing?" Kelly asks hopefully.

"Oh, yeah. Definitely have to have some more smoochie research." Buffy teases.

"Lots more" Kelly smiles in agreement.

"Heck. The way the night started off, I thought we were going to be in for an extremely busy night. Only coming across one more vampire was kind of a let down." Buffy states with a slight frown, walking into the house. As she puts away her weapons she looks back at Kelly and smiles. 'That kiss sure wasn't a let down. My GOD can she kiss!' Shaking her head Buffy walks over to Kelly tapping her nose lightly. "I'm going to go upstairs and shower and get into comfy movie watching clothes."

Kelly grins at Buffy and shakes her head. "I'll see if I can't rustle up some munchies then I'll do the same." Watching Buffy walk up the stairs Kelly smiles to herself. 'That girl definitely has too good looking of an ass. Mind out of the gutter, get it on food instead.'

Buffy grabs the popcorn and sits down on the couch with the previews coming up on the DVD she just put in when she hears Kelly coming down the stairs. As she glances up the smile freezes on her face. 'She has great looking legs, very well-defined and never ending' Buffy thinks to herself as her eyes roam up Kelly's legs over the snug sweat shorts to the tight tank top stretched tight over a muscled abdomen and her well-endowed breasts. Buffy whimpers.

"So, what's first?" Kelly asks plopping down with a little distance between her and Buffy, as she reaches over and grabs a handful of popcorn. Kelly watches as Buffy slowly puts the bowl of popcorn on the coffee table and turns towards her. "Something wrong?"

Buffy nods her head looking up Kelly's length and closes her eyes. "There's this little known fact that after slaying, slayers get extremely hungry. And not just for food."

Kelly's eyes open wide for a moment and then they start to darken. "Don't think it's just Slayers that get hungry, Buffy. But, if what you're actually trying to say is that you want to take things slowly, I'll move over to the chair."

Buffy shakes her head. "I don't know what I'm saying. I know I feel things about you that I have never felt about anyone before. I like being around you, talking to you, looking at you. I'm just afraid…" Buffy trails off looking down.

"You're afraid that it's happening too fast? For some reason you're afraid to trust your instincts, the way you feel?" Kelly questions and Buffy nods her head in agreement. "Buffy, there are no guarantees in life. After what happened with Ronald Sr, I could have turned bitter and hateful. I don't think anyone would have blamed me if I had. But I didn't. I did kind of throw myself into my job, only having a couple dates, until I met this lovely woman that helped me to open myself to love. Without her even knowing why I had shut myself off. Sam and I were friends for a few months, and lovers for a year until she met Riley and married him. To this day, I still love Sam and I always will. I wasn't in love with her, but I did love her and I'm a better person because of it." Kelly stops talking looking from her lap up to Buffy when she hears a half laugh. "What?" Kelly questions quizzically.

Buffy shakes her head and starts laughing but grabs Kelly in a tight hug to let her know that she isn't laughing at her. Buffy asks in between fits of laughter "Riley and Sam Finn?"

Kelly nods her head wondering how… "The Initiative, Riley was stationed here. You knew ol' Missionary Man?"

Buffy starts laughing harder at the nickname Kelly gave Riley. Then Buffy all of a sudden stops laughing and frowns. "How do you know he's all with the missionary position?" She asks with almost a hint of jealousy in her voice. Not jealousy over Riley, but jealous over Kelly.

Kelly looks wonderingly at Buffy, trying to figure out what might be making her upset. "Sam told me. So, I guess that means you and Riley were…together? This is a small world, after all."

Buffy realizes that she was getting jealous over something that wasn't even anything to get jealous over. Shaking her head she smiles at Kelly and reaches out running her fingers through Kelly's short dark hair. "Yeah, Riley and I were a couple off and on for a couple years. And, sadly enough, he was the closest thing I had to a normal relationship."

Kelly leans into Buffy's touch smiling slightly with closed eyes. "That feels good. I'll be yours forever if you keep that up." Kelly groans deeply when Buffy scrapes her nails over her scalp. Kelly opens her eyes which have become almost black with desire. "I'm going to kiss you now."

Buffy didn't have a chance to say anything before Kelly's lips were pressed tightly against hers teeth lightly nipping at lips wanting them to open. This wasn't the gentle kiss of earlier. This was a kiss that wanted to ravage, to take everything offered and only then, give anything asked back in return. Buffy moans as her mouth is plundered with Kelly's inquisitive tongue. As tongues tangle over each other fighting for dominance and Buffy's tongue follows wanting to taste Kelly's mouth, Kelly captures her tongue sucking firmly before releasing and nibbling on the tip as it slowly retracts.

Buffy pulls back a short distance panting heavily, finally opening and looking with unbelieving eyes at the woman that literally has turned her world upside down in just a few days.

"What…have you…. done to me?" Buffy asks wonderingly between pants.

"I…I was going…to ask you…the same…thing" Kelly laughs not having any easier a time talking leaning her forehead against Buffy's. Closing her eyes Kelly takes deep breathes, getting control over her emotions. "I'm sorry if…"

Buffy pulls away and places a finger across Kelly's lips. "No. No sorrys. But if you kiss me like that again tonight, I won't be responsible for my actions."

As Buffy starts to pull her finger away Kelly reaches up, lightly grabbing her hand bringing the finger back to her lips. Watching Buffy's eyes to see her reaction, she gently kisses the tip of the finger before flicking her tongue out. As she watches Buffy's breath hitch, she slowly closes her lips over the end of the digit, lightly sucking and nibbling. Closing her eyes in pleasure, Kelly gently scrapes her bottom teeth over the pad of Buffy's finger then gently kisses it, releasing her hand.

"Maybe I should move to the chair." Kelly says shaking her head slightly opening her eyes, knowing if she stays near Buffy, she won't be able to behave.

Buffy pouts at the thought of Kelly moving away from her over to the chair. Then she thinks about it, planning ahead. 'This could work out nicely.'

"If you insist. But that's going to cut into my smoochie research." Buffy grins slightly.

Kelly inhales deeply and shakes her finger at Buffy. "This isn't exactly easy for me, you know!" Kelly slowly stands up, grabbing her soda and takes it over to the chair, setting it down on the floor beside her seat and walks into the kitchen to get another bowl to split the popcorn between the two of them, asking Buffy if she wants anything while she's in there.

"No. I think you have everything pretty well covered." Buffy grins.

Kelly comes back out and dumps some of the popcorn in her bowl glancing up at Buffy after she's done. "What?"

Buffy has a big grin on her face and just shakes her head. "You realize we've already missed 1/3 of the movie we put in, don't you?"

Kelly blinks and looks over at the television and shrugs her shoulders walking over to the chair, sitting down. "Oh, well. We had more interesting things going on. Want to restart it, or put another one in?"

Buffy considers for a moment and then reaches out for the remote and restarts the movie back at the beginning. "We can try this one again. After all, it's not the movies fault that it didn't hold our attention." Buffy smiling states with a glint in her eye.

Kelly has this feeling that Buffy is up to something but decides to let whatever happens, happen. "Okay. Time for some movie watching."

About halfway through the movie Buffy grabs her glass and the empty bowl to head to the kitchen. She stops by Kelly's chair smiling. "You need anything? I'm going to get something else to drink."

"No, thanks. I'm okay for now." Kelly smiles back at Buffy.

Buffy comes back into the living room setting down her drink.

Before Kelly realizes what's happening Buffy is sitting across her lap with her legs over one side of the chair, wrapping her arms around her neck and attacking her lips. As the shock wears off from the surprise attack Kelly runs one hand up Buffy's back to her shoulder blades to help support Buffy while the other hand runs up Buffy's arm to end tangled in Buffy's long blond hair. After a few moments of battling for dominance, Kelly pulls back slightly looking at Buffy with desire filled eyes.

"Buffy…" Kelly groans when Buffy starts nibbling her way down her neck. "Oh, God. Buffy…" Kelly gently pulls Buffy back for a moment. "Promise me something?" Buffy nods her head in agreement. "Let me know if you want to stop, at any time, okay? And…no regrets?"

Buffy smiles and shakes her head lightly, "No regrets. And you mean to tell me, if we are literally seconds away from consummating this relationship and I wanted to stop, you would?" Buffy asks impishly, somehow knowing Kelly would stop as soon as asked.

"Always," Kelly states simply.

Buffy's eyes light up and smiles an absolutely brilliant smile at Kelly. 'I have a feeling I can fall deeply in love with this woman.' Buffy thinks to herself. "More kissing, less talking" Buffy growls leaning in to kiss thes lips that she is already addicted to.

Kelly smiles at Buffy's comment before lightly running her tongue over the lips in front of her before alternating sucking on the bottom and top lip respectively. Buffy groans, opening her mouth flicking her tongue out to tempt Kelly's to come out and play. Kelly groans opening her mouth slightly, letting Buffy come in to explore and stroke her tongue over her own. Buffy twists her body trying for more contact.

Kelly pulls back slightly, realizing what Buffy was wanting she lifts Buffy lightly and turns her so that she's straddling her legs and then pulls her back into another deep kiss, their breasts lightly brushing against each other. Buffy groans at the contact and pushes in harder against Kelly, one hand grasping the soft short hair, the other running down the side of Kelly's neck, following the edge of the tank top across the top of Kelly's breasts, making Kelly push up into the touch, moaning deeply.

The moan sends a shock down to Buffy's center, which was already aching more than she could ever remember it aching before. Buffy pushes her lower body into Kelly, trying to find any kind of friction to help alleviate the ache. Kelly's hips buck up at the pressure Buffy is creating inside her. Grasping Buffy's hips, Kelly pushes up, grinding herself with a slight circular motion against Buffy, making both of them groan at the contact.

Kelly nibbles from Buffy's ear, down to her pulse point, lightly sucking and licking the saltiness from Buffy's skin while grasping Buffy's butt cheeks, lightly kneading the firm muscle making Buffy arch hard into her at the contact.

Buffy's left hand slides inside Kelly's top, brushing the backs of her fingers against Kelly's right breast, feeling the hardened nipple through her bra. Kelly's kneading making Buffy's body shake, wanting to feel more. Pulling slightly back, but still rubbing lightly against Kelly's breast with her hand, Buffy groans and looks the brunette in the eyes. "Can we, maybe, lose some clothes?"

Kelly smiles slightly leaning up, kissing Buffy lightly on the lips. "Anything, everything, whatever you want, just ask." Kelly grunts with pleasure when Buffy leans in and bites her shoulder just hard enough to leave teeth marks.

Buffy pulls back quickly. Shocked at herself. "Oh, God! I'm sorry. I didn't mean…"

"Do you hear me complaining?" Kelly growls just before she devours Buffy's mouth. As they both pull away panting heavily Kelly leans her head against Buffy's shoulder, trying to catch her breathe. "Just so you…know. My back is pretty…scarred." Kelly makes the statement between pants. No inflection in the tone. A statement of fact. Nothing more, nothing less.

Buffy pulls Kelly's chin up to look deeply in her eyes. No pain or hurt is showing , just desire and…love? Deciding to think about that later, Buffy smiles and gently kisses Kelly's lips. "So, less clothes?" She asks hopefully.

Kelly laughs quietly and raises her arms "Be my guest."

Buffy's cheeks turn pink at the thought of taking Kelly's top off, before grinning from ear to ear at the thought of soon seeing those breasts that have been haunting her almost from the moment of meeting the woman. Leaning her body back away from Kelly and reaching for the bottom of the tank top, she slowly pulls it up Kelly's torso, over her breasts and off her head, dropping it behind the chair. 'I was right. Well defined abs to go along with the rest.' Buffy hesitates looking at the bra clad breasts in front of her. Looking up at Kelly she sees the cocked eyebrow over Kelly's right eye daring her to continue. Never one to back down from a dare, Buffy reaches behind Kelly, feeling for the clasp and hesitates feeling the raised scars that Kelly mentioned. It takes a moment for Buffy to figure out how to unhook the bra then raises her eyebrow back at Kelly with a confident grin and slowly runs her fingers under the straps of Kelly's bra from the back over the shoulders to the front, pulling it off Kelly's chest and down her arms to drop it in a pile on top of the tank top.

Buffy finally looks from Kelly's eyes down to her breasts and her breath catches in her chest at the sight before her. Full, firm breasts with brown aureole and darker brown nipples were staring back at her. And, God help her, hard nipples, the left one pierced with a gold nipple ring contrasting so deliciously that Buffy has to close her eyes. Shaking with the desire coursing through her body. She can literally feel her juices running down the inside of her thighs, her panties no longer able to keep the flood back.

Kelly watches Buffy intently to see her reaction, knowing from the earlier discussions that she had never been intimate with a woman before. Seeing the emotions, the want, the desire cross Buffy's face eases her worries. Feeling the heat and dampness coming from the Slayer ratchets up her want even more. Taking Buffy's hands that are resting on top of her shoulders, she grasps them lightly by the wrist, dragging them down over her chest so the palms are covering her nipples. Pressing Buffy's palms hard against herself, before releasing them.

Buffy's eyes pop open, full of want, when she realizes what Kelly is doing. Watching her hands slide down over the breasts, hard nipples pressing into her palms. Taking note that the left nipple is harder than the right. After Kelly releases her hands Buffy rubs her palms side to side across the nipples, smiling in amazement at the sensation. Glancing up, hearing the guttural groan come from Kelly at the pressure and the slight gyrating of the hips under her, she cups the breasts, running her thumbs first lightly, then more firmly over the nipples, watching the pleasure cross Kelly's face.

Running her hands up and down Buffy's thighs, Kelly slowly reaches to the bottom of Buffy's shirt silently asking if she can remove it. Buffy smiles lifting her arms up, in a replay of Kelly's earlier movements. Grinning in appreciation, Kelly gently lifts the shirt up, gently running her palms up Buffy's sides and arms, pushing the shirt in front of her hands until she had the shirt completely off Buffy. Gently running her fingers around the lace of Buffy's bra, Kelly leans forward and licks Buffy's right nipple through the lace groaning as the nipple strains against the fabric. Fingers playing with the other nipple, while thoroughly wetting the lace with her tongue, and finally sucking the nipple into her mouth, lace and all.

Buffy whimpers with pleasure at the sensation. Wanting, no needing, to feel that sensation directly against her skin, Buffy reaches behind her back and releases the clasps. Pulling back away from Kelly's mouth and fingers, she smiles when Kelly tries to follow. Gently pushing Kelly away she finishes taking off her bra and then pulls Kelly back in.

Buffy groans at the pleasure of Kelly's sucking almost her whole breast into her mouth, her tongue flicking strongly over the nipple. Briefly, the thought of that mouth on other body parts makes Buffy rub herself hard against Kelly, moaning loudly at the friction.

Groaning, pushing her hips hard up against Buffy, Kelly switches breasts and starts nibbling from the outside of the breast, continuing round and round, the circles getting smaller until she's at the aureole, not proceeding any further. Just circling, nipping, licking, and teasing. Waiting to see how long it takes Buffy to either beg or push her head to take the nipple into her mouth.

It doesn't take long before Buffy realizes what Kelly's doing and grabs her by her hair and pulls it back from her breast, growling "stop teasing" before pushing Kelly back against her breast.

"YES!" Kelly hisses out as Buffy yanks her head back. As her head is pushed back against Buffy's breast she grins. Starting at the bottom of Buffy's breast she strongly licks up and over the slayers nipple, pulling away slightly before biting down gently and tugging. The reaction was instant, Buffy screamed Kelly's name while pushing against the tall woman's body, climaxing.

Buffy's hips rock hard against Kelly, wanting more. Not believing the pleasure she's experiencing with only being touched above the waist.

Kelly pulls away, looking into Buffy's eyes, seeing the pleasure, seeing the want for more. "Buffy, can I…" Kelly trails off with her hands running around the edge of Buffy's sweat pants, gently running a couple fingers underneath the waistband.

Buffy groans, nodding. "God, yes."

"Hold on" Kelly states in a low husky voice, wrapping her arms tightly around Buffy. Lifting both of them out of the chair to lay Buffy on her back on the couch. Running her hands down Buffy's waist to gently grasp the edge of the sweat pants, hesitating for a moment, searching Buffy's eyes once more to make sure.

Buffy smiles watching Kelly, seeing that even now, at this point, she's making sure that this is what Buffy wants. Buffy lifts her hips as a quiet affirmation.

Kelly smiles and gently eases the sweat pants and panties down off Buffy's toned legs. Inhaling deeply of the slayers muskiness, Kelly drops to her knees beside the couch, her head dropping to land heavily on Buffy's thigh. Taking deep breaths to try and calm down so that she doesn't literally attack Buffy right there. Swallowing hard, slowly bringing herself under some semblance of control she lifts her head looking up and into Buffy's eyes.

Buffy was starting to worry that there was something wrong until Kelly looks up into her eyes, showing the inner struggle within her. Buffy inhales quickly, seeing the passion that is barely restrained. Leaning up, she reaches for Kelly, pulling her into a passionate kiss. "Let go. I need this as much if not more than you do." Smiling slightly, Buffy says "No regrets."

Kelly's eyes flare, the passion no longer restrained. Leaning in, Kelly crushes her lips to Buffy's. Tongues stroking against each other, dueling, fighting. Kelly shifting her body, over Buffy's so her legs are widening the gap between Buffy's legs, to make room for her body as Buffy leans back until she's lying against the couch, once more.

Pulling away from Buffy's lips Kelly trails kisses down the side of her neck, stopping briefly at Buffy's pulse point, licking and sucking, leaving a mark before continuing down to the heavenly breasts, loving each rosy nipple in turn, making Buffy groan loudly.

Buffy pulls her legs up and wraps them around Kelly, pulling her down until her weight is against her lower body. Grinding herself against Kelly's abdomen, she doesn't even think about being embarrassed by the amount of wetness she's leaving on Kelly's skin, only wanting to feel the pleasure that Kelly seems to so easily give her.

Kelly reaches for Buffy's legs, gently unlocking them as she eases her body further down Buffy's torso, kissing and licking around the slayers belly button before dipping in repeatedly with her tongue, making Buffy groan loudly while gently running her hands up the outside of Buffy's legs. Smiling slightly, Kelly continues down nipping lightly at the Slayers lower abdomen, loving the way it clenches with each little nip, and the way Buffy whimpers, wanting more. Settling herself between the slayers thighs, she lifts Buffy's legs so that they are lying over her shoulders, making the slayer as comfortable as possible, since she was planning on staying in this position for a long, long time. Turning her head slightly, Kelly gently nibbles on the inside of Buffy's right thigh before turning and doing the same to her left thigh, making Buffy squirm.

Wrapping her left arm underneath the slayers thigh laying her hand on Buffy's curls, gently rubbing her mound while the other hand runs up the inside of her left thigh, to run long fingers over wet lips, separating, to lightly dip between, making Buffy arch up, trying for penetration. Inhaling deeply of the slayers musky aroma Kelly groans, not being able to hold off tasting the slayer any longer. Delving between the slayers lips with her tongue, Kelly quickly penetrates her center, reaching as deep as she can, curling her tongue and pulling the wetness out to swallow down the essence of the slayer. Buffy's hips shoot up off the couch at the sudden invasion, whimpering loudly as it all too quickly disappears.

"God, Buffy! You taste amazing!" Kelly growls before diving back in, licking and sucking at Buffy's lips, trying to gather up all the essence she can find, carefully working her way around the slayers clit, back to the slayers center where she enters the slayer again with her tongue, wiggling it around before straightening it out and curling, reaching deeply, searching, and yes, finding the elusive g-spot, making the slayer jump and shake with pleasure. Pressing down with the hand that is on Buffy's mound, to give the slayer some resistance, and to try and keep her somewhat in place, Kelly flicks the tip of her tongue repeatedly over the pleasure spot, as Buffy reaches down, grasping Kelly's head with one hand, holding her to herself as she comes harder than she has in her entire life, flooding Kelly's mouth and face with her juices.

Buffy screams out her pleasure as she slowly loosens her grip on Kelly's head, while Kelly continues to lick up the juices that have escaped before easing up, looking at the hard knot of Buffy's nerves that she can see is swollen and pulsing in excitement before inserting two long fingers inside Buffy stroking at a fast pace and at the same time latching onto her pearl, sucking hard, making Buffy buck and squeeze Kelly as she comes again and again until she finally passes out from the pleasure.

Kelly slowly eases out of the slayer's body. Gently licking up what juices she can, she laughs quietly to herself at the drenched couch. 'Either I'll pay to have it cleaned, or just buy a new one.' Her body humming from her own desire she takes a moment to center herself, looking down lovingly at Buffy. Glancing around she sees that it's after 3 a.m. Shaking her head at the fact that they've been making out, no making love, for hours, she reaches out turning off the DVD player and television. With an internal debate with herself, she gently reaches down, scooping the slayer up in her arms to carry her upstairs and gently laying her in bed. Hesitating for a moment wondering if she should, she climbs in the bed beside the slayer, still wearing her shorts, covering them both before gently pulling Buffy to her so that she's cuddled in her arms with her head resting on her breast.

Kelly smiles as Buffy snuggles in tight to her and throws one leg over hers. Kelly kisses the top of Buffy's head gently and whispers "I love you" as she falls asleep with one hand running through the slayers hair.

As Buffy slowly reaches consciousness, she realizes that there's something wrong. Knowing something was there, that's not there anymore. Easing one eye open, she sees the indention in the pillow beside her and gently reaches out for that side of the bed, that's still holding a slight residue of the warmth of the body that recently had been lying there. Buffy smiles, thinking about the previous night. 'What that woman does to me. I am completely and utterly smitten.' Slowly her smile turns to a frown. 'I remember her literally making me see stars, then nothing. Shit! I blacked out, fell asleep, whatever before having the chance to return the favor. God knows she had to have been going crazy.'

Buffy shakes her head disgusted with herself. Deciding to find her lover…lover. Smiling a sappy smile, Buffy decides she likes the sound of that. Her. Lover. Quickly throwing on a t-shirt and shorts she runs to the bathroom to take care of her morning needs before running downstairs to see where Kelly's at. Buffy stops, smiling slightly, seeing Kelly had put on the tank top she had been wearing the night before, without the bra, and that she was still wearing the same shorts as she sips what must be her third cup of coffee, if the coffee pot remains were anything to go by.

"I woke up this morning, realizing that I was missing something." Buffy states in a serious tone. Walking to the coffee pot, which already had a cup sitting there ready for her.

Kelly trying to ignore the thrumming in her body, that just won't go away, jerks her head up, not realizing that Buffy was awake. In a roughened voice, running her hand across her eyes, Kelly asks "What were you missing?"

Buffy smiles to herself, watching Kelly. 'Even with her hair sticking up in spikes around her head, she's gorgeous.' Buffy thinks to herself. Buffy slowly walks the short distance to Kelly, turning the stool so Kelly is facing her, Buffy gently wedges herself between Kelly's legs, looping her arms around Kelly's neck and simply states "You."

A slow breathtaking smile works its way across Kelly's face before Kelly reaches out, wrapping her arms around Buffy's waist and leans in, gently kissing her good morning.

Buffy smiles at the end of the kiss, looking into Kelly's eyes, she feels her legs start to turn to jell-o. Seeing the passion that is still there, burning in the background just waiting to be flamed back to life makes her heart beat faster. "I owe you a very big apology." She states, running one hand through Kelly's hair, loving the way it feels before gently scraping her nails against her scalp, making Kelly groan.

Closing her eyes at the pleasure she's feeling Kelly whispers, "Apology for what?"

Buffy grins at the groans coming from Kelly at the gentle scraping of her nails. Wonderingly, she increases the pressure, making Kelly groan even louder. 'Hmm, something else for me to do more research on later. Never thought I would be one for research.' Buffy giggles to herself at that thought.

"For leaving a gorgeous woman completely wanting and unsatisfied, while said gorgeous woman made me see the stars, the moon, hell the universe." Buffy whispers into Kelly's ear before gently nibbling on the lobe. Running one hand down the other side of Kelly's neck before gently cupping her breast with her hand, rubbing her right thumb over the hard nipple and nipple ring. Smiling to herself, Buffy reaches under the tank top, to run her hand up and grasp the nipple ring, tugging gently, making Kelly arch and moan loudly.

"Well, you can always make amends, now if you want" Kelly groans in a passion filled voice making Buffy smile widely.

Pulling the tank top up higher, over both breasts Buffy leans down sucking one nipple strongly into her mouth, just as the phone rings. "Shit!" Buffy growls looking at the offending item. Walking over to the phone, she grabs the receiver practically yelling in the phone "The world better be fucking ending." Making Kelly laugh out loud.

"Umm, sorry Tara. I… Uh… no nothings wrong… huh…I….telemarketers….sorry… didn't mean…" Buffy states with such an apologetic little girl voice that it makes Kelly laugh even harder, until she literally falls off her stool onto the floor. Buffy frowns hard at Kelly, lightly tapping her in the ribs with her foot. "No, she's watching a movie, uh…no I don't know what the title…yeah, I'll…sure, we'll be over in half an hour, bye."

Frowning down at Kelly who is at least sitting on the floor instead of rolling around on it, she grumbles, "It's your fault, not wearing a bra!! It just isn't fair!" Buffy pouts out the last bit with a little frown on her face.

"Poor baby. Come here and I'll kiss it all better." Kelly smirks up at Buffy, lightly running her hand up Buffy's leg, to wiggle her fingers under the bottom of Buffy's shorts, playing with her ass.

Seeing the hilarity of the situation Buffy shakes her head, grabbing Kelly's wandering hand, out from beneath her shorts. "We don't have time for that, thanks to your sister. We're going over there for breakfast. I think I would much prefer the breakfast I had planned" Buffy grumps to herself. "We have just enough time to take showers."

Kelly shakes her head and starts laughing even more. "You know, you could have just said no, don't you?"

"No, I couldn't! After yelling at her I felt guilty! And what could I say? Sorry, Tara, but we can't come over for breakfast, because I'm planning on having your sister for breakfast? Like that would go over so well." Buffy grouches heading out of the kitchen, to go upstairs and take a shower. Leaving a laughing and extremely horny, Kelly following behind her.

Walking down Willow and Tara's street Kelly grins at Buffy, who is still pouting. "Buffy?"

Buffy looks up with a scowl on her face. "What?"

"Are you going to keep that look on your face all morning? Because those two will bug you until you tell them what's wrong." Watching Buffy scowl even harder makes Kelly snort back a laugh. "By the way, um, are you planning on telling them, or should I keep a hands off policy?" Kelly asks looking down at her feet, knowing it's a big step admitting you're in a same-sex relationship, if this is even a relationship for Buffy.

"Kelly?" Buffy stops Kelly with her hand on her arm. "I'm not ashamed of you or our relationship."

Kelly's face lights up as she looks at Buffy. "So, this is a relationship?" At Buffy's nod Kelly yells, picking Buffy up and swings her around before gently setting her back down on the ground smiling. "So are you going to tell them, or just be all touchy-feely and see how long it takes them to say something?" Kelly asks with a wicked grin on her face.

Buffy pushes herself up against Kelly asking "Why? Do you have something planned in that devious mind of yours?"

"No. Well, I was thinking you could always have me pushed against the door frame, making out and let them answer the door…" Kelly quirks an eyebrow up at that thought. Shaking her head "No, that's too obvious. Need something a little less in the face. Hmm…"

Buffy smiles "Let's just play it by ear. I'm sure something will present itself." Grabbing Kelly by the back of the neck, pulling her down for a quick kiss. "Come on, we're going to be late."

"Oh, who cares? They were almost an hour late yesterday, they can wait a few minutes." Kelly smirks as she pulls Buffy in for a longer kiss. "Mmm. You know, you are an excellent kisser." Kelly groans when she pulls back, making Buffy smile.

"I don't know about that. But I know you make me melt when you kiss me. If you aren't making me melt, you're making me completely forget what I'm thinking." Buffy leans in for another kiss before pulling away completely, making Kelly frown. "Come on, stop frowning, we need to get going."

"We can still go back to the house and call them?" Kelly half asks half states hopefully.

"Nope. We're here." Buffy smiles as she walks up the steps to the front porch of Willow and Tara's house, knocking on the door.

"Good morning." Tara grins, opening the door looking from Buffy to Kelly, inviting them in. "I was just waiting for you to get here, to start the pancakes. Come on in, I'll have Willow give you the two-cent tour."

As Tara heads into the kitchen, followed by Buffy and Kelly, Kelly reaches out and pinches Buffy on the butt, making her yelp.

"Are you okay?" Tara asks in a worried voice.

"Oh, yeah. I'm just fine." Buffy states, giving Kelly an evil look, which Kelly ignores looking around the kitchen

"I like the kitchen, Sis." Looking at the cozy little table for two in the breakfast nook, Kelly looks around smiling. "I appreciate the invite, but where are we going to sit and eat?"

Tara smacks her on the arm. "We'll let you two sit at the table, Willow and I can eat standing up, right honey."

Willow smiles walking into the kitchen. "Yep. Not a problem." Willow leans in and gives Tara a peck on the cheek before looking at Kelly and Buffy. "Kelly, want to see the house? Buffy got the tour previously."

"Actually, multiple times, after all I helped move you two in here." Buffy states with a little huff. "Damn slayer strength."

After a quick tour of the house, Willow and Kelly come back in the kitchen as Tara is just finishing up with the pancakes.

"I got an idea. Instead of eating in here, it's beautiful outside. Why don't we eat on your front porch steps?" Kelly asks. Buffy nods in agreement, already grabbing a plate piled high with pancakes and a glass of juice, heading for the front door.

Willow and Tara grin, grabbing their plates and drinks and head to follow Buffy.

Kelly stands there for a minute looking around and shakes her head. "I guess that's a yes." Grabbing her plate and coffee, following the others.

Kelly sits down on the bottom most step, two steps below Buffy sitting catty-cornered so that way she can see the rest of the group, as she starts digging into the pancakes.

"So, what did you two get up to, last night?" Willow asks after taking a sip of her juice.

Kelly quickly looks at Buffy, snorts and looks back down at her plate, trying to keep a grin off her face. Buffy frowns at her and nudges her with her toe. "We ran into some vampires that seemed a little too organized. I'm going to go and see Willie tonight and see if anything's up." Buffy states worriedly. "You two be extra careful when you're out, okay? Actually, I would prefer you not to be out after dark unless Kelly or myself are with you. It may be nothing, but I want to be sure."

Willow and Tara look at each other nodding their heads. "Okay, Buffy. No running around after dark without bodyguards." Willow states, knowing Buffy doesn't ask something like that without a good reason.

As everyone finishes eating, Tara grabs the plates up to take them back in the kitchen.

"I'm going to get some more coffee, anyone need anything else while I'm up?" Kelly asks as she grabs some of the dishes to help Tara.

"More juice, please?" Buffy asks blinking her eyes and smiling at Kelly, making Kelly grin and wink.

"I'm okay, thanks." Willow smiles watching the kids play across the street.

Tara smiles as Kelly hands her the rest of the dirty dishes, to be put in the dishwasher, before reaching for more coffee and juice. "Buffy seems to be in a better mood now, than she was when I talked to her on the phone earlier."

"Yeah, she's not as grumpy now. Breakfast was great, sis. Thanks for inviting us over." Kelly states with a smirk grabbing the drinks, heading back outside.

"Uh huh." Tara just states, following Kelly with a calculating look.

As Kelly steps outside, she realizes that Buffy's moved down a step and shifted a little from the concrete sides. Grinning up at Kelly, with an eye motion to the step behind her and a raised eyebrow, she accepts the juice Kelly hands her. "Thanks."

Sitting down behind the slayer, and gingerly settling her legs on either side of Buffy, with her feet on the last step Kelly hopes this is what the slayer was hinting at.

After taking a sip of her juice, Buffy sets it down on the concrete step beside her, leaning back against Kelly and wrapping one arm around Kelly's leg, getting comfortable. And grins when Kelly groans quietly at Buffy's wiggling.

Willow and Tara exchange surprised looks, after watching the little interaction between the two and then they both start grinning.

"So… Buffy. Anything new with you?" Willow asks ingeniously.

"What would make you ask that Will?" Buffy looks over at Willow with a smirk on her face.

Kelly grins at the two best friends and then catches Tara's eye and smiles. Tara cocks an eyebrow questioningly. Kelly grins wickedly and starts her monkey impersonation again. Tara busts out laughing and Willow and Buffy look between the two women, trying to figure out what's going on.

Willow looks at Kelly, shaking her finger. "You did that yesterday, too. What the hell does it mean?"

"Well, yesterday I did it when you were staring…"

"KELLY!" Tara yells blushing profusely.

"What?" Kelly grins at Tara who's shaking her head. "At my breasts." Tara groans and covers her face with her hands.

Willow turns beet red, "Uh… ummm…no…I wasn't….I…didn't mean…" Before she gives up trying to say anything and looks away embarrassed.

Kelly can feel Buffy shaking, trying to hold the laughter in. Leaning into the slayer she whispers "It gets better."

"Anyhow, after you were caught staring at my breasts, Tara made the comment that she would be in for some hot monkey loving that night…" Tara groans loudly mumbling something about evil sisters.

Buffy can't hold it in any longer and busts out laughing, enjoying her two friends being embarrassed. Until Tara looks up with a glint in her eye. 'Uh, oh.' Buffy thinks to herself.

"That explains yesterday, Kelly. Would you like to explain why you were doing it just now?" Tara asks with a daring note to her voice.

At that Buffy's eyes get real big and she blushes turning around and looking at Kelly "Don't you dare! There is no way you are giving out any details about what we did last night…" Buffy smacks herself in the head, knowing she more or less definitely let the cat out of the bag.

Laughing Kelly reaches down, wrapping her arms around Buffy and lightly kisses her on the side of the neck. Once again whispering in Buffy's ear, "At least I didn't tell Tara about this morning!"

Groaning loudly Buffy literally turns and crawls in Kelly's lap burying her head in her chest hiding from Willow and Tara making the two witches laugh before they both make collective oohing and aahing noises.

"Isn't she just so cute?" Willow smiles at Tara. "She looks like a little doll that Kelly gets to play with."

"Hey! I like that idea, a bendable, pose…" Buffy literally shoves her hand over Kelly's mouth before she can finish that statement making Willow and Tara laugh even harder.

"Don't encourage her!" Buffy growls at them. "She's bad enough on her own. You two are just giving her more wood for the fire!"

As Buffy gives Kelly a warning look, she slowly pulls her hand away, keeping it hovering over Kelly's mouth, just in case. Kelly reaches out and places a gentle kiss in the heart of her palm smiling. "I'll try and behave." Kelly states quietly, grinning at the Slayer, before nipping one of the fingers that are still hovering in front of her.

"Yeah, right. Like that will ever happen." Buffy grumbles trying not to smile at the brunette. Looping her arm around Kelly's neck, leaning against Kelly's shoulder as she smiles at Willow and Tara. Deciding to scrape the top of Kelly's head with her nails, making Kelly groan lightly. Buffy states "I like this one. I think I'm gonna keep her."

Tara smiles at Buffy. Then starts to sniffle at the look of love in Kelly's eyes when she looks at the Slayer.

"Honey, what's wrong?" Willow asks when Tara starts crying, reaching down, pulling Tara into a tight hug looking from Buffy to Kelly silently asking them the same question.

"Tara?" Kelly asks with a note of concern in her voice. Tara just shakes her head and smiles through her tears.

"Nothings wrong. It's just been a very eventful few days and it just kind of caught up with me, is all." Tara states while rubbing the tears from her face.

Willow stands up, pointing at Kelly. "Shovel speech time… It basically goes like this, You hurt her, I'll beat you over the head with a shovel. A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend!" Willow states before smiling and hugging Buffy and Kelly at the same time and then laughs when she feels Tara joining in the group hug.

"I love you guys." Tara claims with a heartfelt tone.

A round of I love you too's came next with more hugs.

Buffy stands up after all the hugs were over and everyone has pulled away. Looking down at Kelly she smiles before looking at Willow and Tara. "Thank you two for breakfast. Kelly and I need to get going, we got some things to do…" Kelly gets out one monkey squeak before Buffy's covering her mouth. Making Willow and Tara laugh. "Incorrigible" Buffy states with a shake of her head, feeling Kelly grin under her hand. "What am I going to have to do? Keep my hand over your mouth all the time?" Kelly raises an eyebrow looking down cross-eyed at the hand covering her mouth, so Buffy pulls it away.

"Well, there are more pleasant ways…Ooomff." Buffy covers Kelly's mouth again.

"You two have a wonderful day. We'll call you later in the week to have dinner and to finalize Christmas plans." Buffy smiles, as she keeps her hand over Kelly's mouth. Kelly waves bye to the two laughing witches, as they walk away with Buffy's hand still keeping her quiet.

Kelly reaches up, pulling Buffy's hand from her mouth and grins. "We are a full block away from their house. Are you planning on keeping your hand on my mouth the whole way home?"

"I probably should! I can't believe you. You're rotten to the core. Embarrassing me in front of my friends." Buffy stops for a second and smiles looking at Kelly briefly. "Maybe I should be mean and not let you have any of that hot monkey loving that you keep bringing up!"

Kelly looks seriously at Buffy and asks "Does it bother you?"

Buffy looks up at Kelly shaking her head. "No. NO. It… actually I enjoy it. And it surprises me with the way Tara's been all making comments and acting up, herself. You seem to bring out a lighter, more playful side to everyone. Something that has been missing for roughly ten years. I want you to know that I'm grateful." Buffy leans up and kisses Kelly on the cheek. "Now, enough of the seriousness for now! Let's head back to the house."

"Actually, do you have any kind of upholstery cleaner?" Kelly asks Buffy, tongue in cheek.

Buffy frowns looking at Kelly. "Why do I need upholstery cleaner?"

Kelly snickers to herself looking at Buffy. 'God, she is such an innocent. She doesn't have a clue.' Shaking her head Kelly tries to wipe the smile off her face and just states "The couch needs a good cleaning."

Buffy turns bright red looking at Kelly for a moment as what Kelly is saying hits home. "I, umm…shit."

Kelly grabs her in a tight hug. "Personally, makes me feel good that you did!! Means I was doing something right!"

Buffy buries her head against Kelly's chest before giggling to herself. "More than doing it right. I've never…God!"

"Buffy, I don't know if you really want to hear this right now. I know things have moved extremely fast between the two of us, but I need to tell you" Kelly stops and gently lifts Buffy's chin up so that she's looking in her eyes. "You mean a lot to me. More than anyone else. It seems Tara and I have more in common than just being sisters." Here Kelly chuckles, thinking about Tara telling her about falling in love with Willow.

"What is it, Kelly?" Buffy asks worriedly. "Is something wrong?"

"No, no. Nothings wrong. It's just that…" Taking a deep breath already too far into the conversation to back out now, Kelly smiles gently and whispers "I've fallen in love with you Buffy."

Buffy stares at Kelly with an indefinable look on her face, slowly pulling away. Kelly closes her eyes, afraid she may have just screwed up what was happening between her and Buffy. Buffy tilts her head looking up at Kelly before grabbing her hand, continuing the walk home without saying anything.

'Shit Kelly. Why did you have to go and open your mouth. You've done screwed up whatever was happening between us. FUCK! Dumb bitch.' Kelly's inner monologue lasts until they get to Buffy's house. As they walk in Kelly looks at Buffy worriedly.

Buffy let's go of Kelly's hand, and heads into the kitchen. Kelly follows behind, stopping in the kitchen doorway watching Buffy grab a water out of the refrigerator and drinking it down. Finally turning to look at Kelly appraisingly. "Kelly… My love life has left a lot to be desired. Angel, which you know about. Riley, which we screwed like bunnies, but even if I added up all the times Riley and I were together, they wouldn't have felt as good as last night with you did. And, I really don't want to tell you about Spike…" Buffy trails off looking up at Kelly briefly before looking back down. "I'm afraid what I'm going to tell you is going to make you feel differently about me." Buffy swallows hard, actually scared that Kelly might not want to have anything else to do with her. This woman has literally knocked her world for a loop.

"Buffy, you don't have to tell me anything if you don't want too. I won't think any less of you." Kelly slowly reaches out to run her thumb down the side of the slayer's cheek.

Buffy presses into the caress before pulling back. "I have to tell you. I can't leave it hanging out there. I've learned the hard way that hiding things, holding things back just makes everything harder. It's taken me a lot of years to come to this conclusion and I've lost a lot of friends and family along the way. I used to hide stuff, not let anyone in. Tried to take care of everything myself, without any help. I made a lot of bad decisions over the years. One of the worse ones was Spike." Buffy goes on to explain about being brought back from the dead. Not feeling anything. Spike's part of it, even going back a little to explain about Spikes chip. Then explaining about the First and Spike's ultimate sacrifice.

Kelly listens to everything, taking it in. Letting Buffy explain until she finally finishes. "Come here." Kelly states, opening her arms. Buffy looks at Kelly wonderingly and smiles quietly before stepping into her arms. Wrapping Buffy up tightly Kelly just holds her. After a few minutes Kelly pulls back looking down at Buffy, still holding her loosely in her arms. "Sounds like you needed something that you couldn't or was afraid to get from your friends Buffy. Everybody does things they regret. It happens to the best of us." Smiling a crooked smile at Buffy, Kelly gives a little laugh "And you, my dear slayer, are definitely one of the best! It doesn't change anything. I love you."

"Oh, God. Kelly, you can't know how happy that makes me. I'd given up on love. With being the slayer, and my luck with men, I figured I was meant to be on my own. Then you, this tall, gorgeous, loving, understanding woman – a woman! shows up in my life and knocks it completely off kilter. I never really considered falling in love with a woman. Then there you are. Showing up out of nowhere. Thank God or whatever powers that sent you here." Buffy states half laughing, half crying.

"Come on. Let's go sit down in the living room." Kelly urged Buffy. Sitting down in the chair, pulling Buffy gently into her lap just holding her. Stroking her back, letting Buffy calm down.

Half an hour later, Buffy's still sitting in Kelly's arms, not moving. Kelly glances down and realizes the slayer's fallen asleep. Smiling to herself, Kelly tucks Buffy in a little tighter to her and leans her head against the back of the chair, thinking. 'This world hasn't been very nice or forgiving to you, has it? I promise to do my best to help you out as much as I possibly can. I've never been in love before. I've loved, but not been in love and my heart will always be yours. Whether you know it or not.' Kelly states to herself, a silent tear slipping down her cheek as she falls into an exhausted sleep.

Buffy slowly comes back to consciousness. Realizing that she fell asleep in Kelly's arms. 'I can't believe I fell asleep. She's going to think…' Buffy shifts and smiles looking at Kelly who is completely out of it. Slowly pulling away, trying not to wake Kelly up, she giggles when a still asleep Kelly wraps her up tighter in her arms mumbling quietly.

Kelly wakes at Buffy's giggling, slowly opening one eye to look at the slayer. "Are you laughing at me?"

Buffy smiles shaking her head. Leaning in she gives Kelly a light, gentle and loving kiss. Pulling back looking Kelly in the eyes she looks down at the chair they are both sitting in, in an almost identical replay of the night before. "Are we planning on doing a replay of last night?" Buffy asks coquettishly.

With a huge grin Kelly swoops in, kissing Buffy, making her toes curl. "It would be my pleasure." With a growl Kelly starts kissing down Buffy's neck, slowly working her hands under Buffy's shirt to rub the slayers stomach.

Buffy groans and then laughs, when Kelly gently tickles Buffy's ribs making her squirm around in her lap. "Actually I think it was more my pleasure than yours last night!" Buffy exclaims laughing louder as Kelly starts tickling Buffy with a vengeance.

"Do the bad guys know your weakness?" Kelly laughs at the squirming slayer. "Maybe I should let them know that all they have to do is tickle you into submission and they would get away with anything."

Buffy shakes her head, trying to catch her breath, looking at Kelly she grins wickedly, reaching up with both her hands, scraping them roughly through Kelly's hair. As Kelly groans loudly, closing her eyes she pushes her lower body hard up against the slayer, Buffy smiles a knowing grin. "You are so easy." Before scraping them over her scalp again, groaning herself at the reaction she is causing. Watching the pleasure crossing Kelly's face, at this simple touch.

Kelly swallows, every time Buffy touches her, it's like a direct link to her center. Opening her eyes she looks at the slayer and jokes "Are you trying to drive me insane? I mean, I could give you a few numbers of friends and they would tell you I have already been clinically verified as being insane."

Buffy shakes her head, shifting her body in a replay of the night before, straddling Kelly's hips. Reaching for the buttons on Kelly's shirt, she slowly unbuttons and gently runs her hands over her breasts. Looking Kelly in the eye she slowly leans in, kissing her tenderly. Running her hand gently through Kelly's hair, to cup the back of her neck Buffy leans in and whispers "Can we take this upstairs? I want to make love to you." Turning to look over at the couch, she smirks slightly looking back at Kelly. "And since the couch has already been initiated…" Buffy trails off looking at Kelly.

Reaching up and gently running her fingertips down the side of Buffy's face, Kelly leans in and kisses her so gently, so tenderly and with so much love that Buffy can't breathe. "Wow." Is all the slayer can say pulling back slowly, finally opening her eyes, to see love burning brilliantly in Kelly's brown orbs. "I love you." Buffy says from her heart.

Taking a deep breathe, her heart beating a mile a minute at the slayer's comment, Kelly looks searchingly in the slayers eyes, unbelieving in her luck. That this beautiful caring woman could love her.

Smiling, Buffy climbs from her lap, reaching down for Kelly's hand. Taking Buffy's hand, they walk up the stairs to Buffy's bedroom. Gently pushing Kelly to sit on the edge of her bed, Buffy finishes taking Kelly's shirt off and leans in kissing her lightly, running her hands over Kelly's shoulders, following the bra to cup Kelly's breasts in her hand. "I think I understand this whole breast fetish thing now. I could spend all day loving just your breasts." Buffy smiles and reaches around, unhooking Kelly's bra, gently pulling it off. "That went a lot better this time."

Kelly smiles, gently grasping the slayers hips. "Practice makes perfect."

Buffy grins "Well, I foresee a lot of practice in my future."

"All you want." Kelly pulls Buffy in for a long, intimate kiss, groaning in pleasure easing back onto the bed with the slayer laying on top of her. Running her hands from Buffy's hips to cup her ass. Gently kneading the firm flesh.

Buffy pulls away from the kiss to take a deep breath and smiles. "I think you have a thing for my ass."

"You have an absolutely amazing ass. I could spend as much time on that part of your anatomy as you could on my breasts" Kelly states with a groan as Buffy nibbles her way down her neck, sucking strongly on Kelly's pulse point.

"Yeah, well. It's my turn to ravish you. So you'll just have to wait your turn." Buffy groans as Kelly kneads firmly, lightly digging her fingers in and dragging them up under the slayers shirt to knead the muscles of Buffy's back.

"Sorry, but the shirt has got to go, Buffy." Kelly states.

Buffy levers her body up on her hands, pushing her upper body off Kelly, while sliding one thigh between Kelly's legs, unknowingly pressing against Kelly's clit.

Not prepared for the contact Kelly grabs the shirt in her hands, pressing hard into the slayers thigh arching her body and moaning loudly. Reaching down, grasping the back of Buffy's thigh, pressing it harder into her and pushing down, making the most out of the contact. She's been in a continuous state of arousal since the night before and is literally on the brink.

At first Buffy was afraid she'd unintentionally hurt Kelly, then realizing exactly where her leg was pressing she grins.

Relaxing her hold on Buffy and slowly lowering her body back onto the bed, Kelly opens her eyes and looks at Buffy with passion filled eyes. Swallowing hard, in a sex roughened voice she states "it probably won't take much. So, if you're wanting to explore, or drive me crazy, be careful where you're touching."

Buffy tilts her head to the side considering. "What if I want to make you come screaming, then drive you crazy to make you come again?"

Kelly's eyes widen and the sexiest grin the slayer has ever seen crosses the brunette's face. "Well then, I would have to say let the driving begin."

Laughing quietly, the slayer shifts her body down a little, so her leg isn't pressing against Kelly. Balancing herself carefully above the brunette, Buffy lifts her arms up so that her shirt can be pulled off.

Smiling Kelly pulls the shirt over Buffy's head then quickly divests the slayer of her bra, leaning up to suck a nipple in her mouth. Sucking strongly, then letting it pop when it emerges from her mouth, Kelly then nibbles on the other breast, gently teasing and licking before sucking it into her mouth and flicking it with her tongue.

Groaning at the exquisite torture, Buffy wraps an arm around Kelly's head to hold her to her breast, and then reaches with her right hand, finding the nipple ring and tugging on it insistently, making Kelly groan deeply, which reverberates into the slayer making her moan loudly at the sensation.

Gently pulling away, Buffy smiles and shakes her head at Kelly. "Remember, my turn. You. Need. To. Behave."

Kelly pouts up at Buffy. Seeing the adorable full bottom lip poking out, Buffy leans in, sucking it into her mouth. Then lightly nibbling on it, she releases it to push Kelly back onto the bed.

Looking down into Kelly's eyes, Buffy hesitates "Kelly, you know that I've…never been with a woman before. And, to tell the truth, the rest of my experience I 'm finding out" here Buffy grins ear to ear "was lacking? For a want of a better word." Stopping and tilting her head seeing the love in Kelly's eyes, she realizes that she has never seen that depth of love before. Not even with Angel. "Or maybe it's because it's you."

Leaning in and gently brushing her lips against the brunettes she pulls back smiling. "No, not maybe. It is you, it's your love coming through."

"That's what making love is, Buffy Just being guided by your love. Do what feels right. I love you" Kelly lightly brushes her fingers down the side of the slayers cheek, cupping it, to pull Buffy in for another loving kiss, just brushing her lips back and forth gently.

Buffy nods her head, some of the trepidation leaving but then she looks up and says "But, you will say something if I…"

Knowing Buffy needed more reassurance, Kelly makes a simple statement. "I promise to let you know."

Buffy searches Kelly's eyes, seeing the sincerity there. "Thanks. Now, Hmmm. Goodies to play with." Buffy glances back down at the breasts that she's barely had a chance to enjoy.

"Goodies?" Kelly snorts. Reaching up, pinching the slayer's nipples lightly. "Now, these are goodies." Scraping her thumb nails lightly across the nipple, watching it tighten and protrude even further, making the slayer groan.

Grinning wickedly, Kelly grasps Buffy by the hips and quickly flips her onto her back. Kissing her strongly, licking and sucking on the slayers lips. Kelly growls "My playtime." Kissing her way across Buffy's cheek to nibble on the slayer's ear lobe. Licking at the slayers pulse point Kelly gently presses her thigh tightly into the slayer, making her groan and close her eyes. Smiling to herself, Kelly nibbles across Buffy's shoulder, alternating strong licks with light bites.

Kissing her way down the slayer's chest, Kelly scrapes her teeth across the slayer's right nipple, while kneading the left breast.

Buffy arches up against Kelly moaning. Through the fog of desire, Buffy realizes that Kelly's turned the tables and smiles to herself before flipping Kelly back over.

"Do I have to tie you down, to keep you there for me to play with?" Buffy asks half seriously, while looking at Kelly.

"Hmmm. Something to play with in the future, I think. But I'll behave. For now." Kelly growls lightly.

"You are gorgeous" Buffy states appreciatively, looking at Kelly's eyes. The love shining from them making Buffy feel all warm inside. Leaning down, Buffy kisses Kelly hard. Smashing their lips together, before licking Kelly's bottom lip with her tongue. As Kelly opens her mouth slightly, groaning in response, Buffy delves her tongue into Kelly's mouth. Playing over Kelly's teeth, tickling the roof of her mouth and then tangling with Kelly's tongue, groaning herself at the pleasure that is shooting through her body from the kiss. Slowly pulling away Buffy smiles slightly, seeing the glazed look in Kelly's eyes.

Slowly kissing and nibbling her way down Kelly's neck to her oh, so luscious breasts, the slayer slowly rubs her cheek over the soft breasts. Before taking the hardened nipple, and nipple ring in her mouth to suckle. 'Oh, God! I don't know what it is, but this nipple ring does something to me!' Buffy thinks to herself as she laves the breast with her tongue. 'I better not spend too much time here, I know she's going crazy with want.' Feeling Kelly pushing up gently with her hips, wanting, no, needing contact.

Slowly working her way down further than she's been before, Buffy runs her fingers over Kelly's abdomen, playing with the firm muscles before gently nipping with her teeth, making Kelly arch up hard into the slayers mouth.

"Do you like that?" Buffy asks Kelly as she nibbles a little harder at the brunette's stomach. "Is there anything you want me to do?"

Groaning loudly Kelly says between pants "Yes, I like it. Anything you want to do, do. Slow and soft, fast and hard or somewhere in between. I'm game…Oh God!…" Kelly exclaims loudly as Buffy lightly presses against Kelly, through her jeans, pressing the seam directly into her center.

"Ummm. Pants need to go." Buffy growls lowly. Loving the way Kelly reacts to the light press, wanting to get more of a reaction and to actually see, and, yes, taste what has been driving her crazy.

Unbuttoning the button-fly jeans, the rich musky scent of arousal, unfettered by jeans reaches the slayers nose and literally makes her mouth water with want. Grasping the jeans on either side of Kelly's hips, Buffy tugs, while Kelly lifts her hips to help. Buffy almost collapses to the floor, when as she is grasping the jeans to tug them off Kelly, she realizes Kelly isn't wearing any underwear. Quickly divesting herself of the rest of her clothes, Buffy looks at the little strip of neatly trimmed hair and growls low in her throat.

Kelly looking at Buffy, hearing the growl and seeing the passion on Buffy's face, the breathe catches in her chest and the juices literally flow from her. 'God, she looks beautiful like that.' Kelly thinks in a brief moment of clarity before Buffy reaches down, spreading her legs to climb between them like the predator she is.

Running her hands up on either thigh as she settles herself between Kelly's legs Buffy inhales deeply, leaning in almost burying her nose into Kelly. Slowly Buffy tentatively reaches out with her tongue to run it over the swollen lips of Kelly's sex, collecting some of the escaped juices, making Kelly arch up into the touch. At the first taste, Buffy closes her eyes moaning loudly. 'Oh, yes. I think I could do this forever.' Buffy thinks to herself before leaning back in, sucking first one outer lip into her mouth then the other, catching all the fluid she can and greedily swallowing, making Kelly squirm under her attentions.

Reaching up, caressing the swollen sex in front of her with her fingers, Buffy slowly separates the lips, running a finger gently between them, up Kelly's slit to her clitoris. When Buffy runs her finger up exploring and hit's the harder flesh, making Kelly growl out her name and her hips jump, Buffy stops for a second actually looking up to see Kelly's glazed eyes looking back at her. Keeping eye contact, she gently runs her finger over the hardened flesh again, watching Kelly's reaction. Seeing Kelly arch into the contact, throwing her head back and closing her eyes while groaning was all the encouragement the slayer needed.

Leaning back down, pressing her tongue gently between Kelly's nether lips, to slide up, collecting all the juices she can, pulling her tongue away and swallowing before reaching Kelly's clit, making Kelly groan loudly with want. Grinning Buffy repeats the gesture, before circling her tongue around Kelly's sensitive clit, learning the feel, the texture, the taste of her. Deciding she's teased enough, Buffy gently runs her tongue over Kelly's hard clit making Kelly's hips jump off the bed in reaction.

Grasping the head board above her, trying to keep some semblance of control, Kelly looks down at Buffy through a haze. "Remember…" groaning loudly as Buffy slowly licks up her slit and over her clit, Kelly hooks one leg around Buffy and bracing her other foot, pushes up hard into the touch. Panting hard, Kelly tries to finish her statement "won't take…BUFFY!!"

Kelly screams out Buffy's name as Buffy latches onto her clit, sucking it into her mouth and flicking it with her tongue at the same time. Arching up high, literally lifting the slayer with her, Kelly explodes into the slayer's mouth. Shaking and quivering, collapsing back on the bed, as Buffy slowly nibbles on Kelly's lower abdomen, before laying her head against her stomach. Kelly slowly, reaches down, lightly running her fingers through the slayer's hair.

Feeling Buffy smile against her stomach, Kelly gently urges Buffy up so that she's laying on top of her, while she catches her breathe. Leaning down, kissing the top of Buffy's head Kelly whispers "I love you."

"I love you, too." Buffy states as she kisses the skin under her cheek. Arching her back that Kelly is lightly running her fingers up and down, she giggles.

Having caught her breath, Kelly looks down at Buffy as she giggles. "What's funny, young lady?"

Laughing lightly, Buffy leans up, crossing her arms under her chin, looking into Kelly's eyes, she smiles. "I was worried, then it was like…I just knew."

Smiling Kelly, reaches up, tucking the hair behind Buffy's hair, "Oh, yeah. You knew. Come up here." Kelly urges Buffy up and kisses her deeply.

Hovering over Kelly, Buffy whimpers into the kiss, rubbing her breasts lightly against Kelly's, enjoying the contact.

Pulling back, Kelly shifts her body down slightly, to take one of the slayer's breasts in her mouth, sucking on it gently. Reaching with both hands to lightly grasp the slayers hips, urging the slayer further up her body.

Buffy looks down at Kelly questioningly.

"Shift up and hold onto the headboard" Kelly says huskily.

Finally realizing what Kelly has in mind, Buffy's eyes widen, then doing as asked, she straddles Kelly's head, looking down seeing Kelly's dark eyes looking back up at her, realizing the vulnerable position Kelly is in, she asks "Are you sure? This position could be…" Buffy trails off as Kelly's hands run up her the inside of her thighs.

"I trust you." Kelly states with a glint in her eye feeling the juices slick on Buffy's upper inner thighs, running both hands around, to grasp Buffy's ass, pulling Buffy to her mouth, latching onto her clit sucking and licking alternately.

Tilting her head back, pushing her body into Kelly's mouth, Buffy growls "God! That feels….mmmm…. So good."

Kneading Buffy's butt cheek with one hand, Kelly strokes her hand down and up the slayer's thigh, reaching out to gently stroke her fingers through the slayer's wetness, teasing her opening with a fingertip. Buffy tries pushing against the teasing finger. Stroking her fingers lightly over the wetness of Buffy's lips, Kelly pulls her mouth away a short distance, blowing cool air across Buffy's clit, making the slayer groan.

Slowly easing two fingers gently into the slayer, Kelly moans at the unbelievable responses she's getting out of the slayer. As Buffy clasps her fingers with her inner muscles, Kelly reaches up, sucking the slayers clit into her mouth, sucking gently, while slowly stroking in and out.

Buffy groans, raising and lowering herself against Kelly's fingers and rotating her hips as Kelly sucks on her clit.

Feeling the tension slowly building up in the slayer's body, Kelly pulls her other hand down, to rub gently against the slayer's clit, while gently kissing and licking the inside of Buffy's thighs. Licking up all the juices escaping the slayers body.

Knowing Buffy is close, Kelly increases the speed of her fingers, pressing deeply into the slayers body, rubbing more strongly on the slayer's clit, Buffy raises her body up and down faster countering Kelly's thrusts as she feels herself tightening clenching Kelly's fingers before screaming out Kelly's name as she comes, collapsing against Kelly, leaning against the headboard of the bed.

Kelly reaches up, gently lifting the slayer and sliding her down her body, to hold her tight, kissing her forehead. "You are so beautiful."

Feeling the aftershocks running through Buffy's body, Kelly gently strokes her hands from Buffy's shoulders down to thighs, as far as she can reach before stroking back up.

After a few moments, as the aftershocks finally subside Buffy kisses Kelly between her breasts, pushing her upper body up a little so she can look at Kelly. "What do you do to me? How do you do this? Turning me into a rag doll."

Kelly snickers at that. "Going back to the bendable, poseable doll, huh?"

Buffy grins in appreciation then shifting to lay beside Kelly, lightly smacks her across the stomach.

Grunting at the smack Kelly grabs the offending hand, pulling it up and kissing each finger before tucking it against her chest. Stroking the back of the hand, and hugging Buffy tight against her side with the other arm Kelly smiles, looking up at the ceiling.

Kissing the side Kelly's breast that just so handily is right in front of her lips, Buffy asks "What are you smiling for?"

"Just thinking about the comment you made earlier today." Kelly leans down kissing the top of Buffy's head before laying back. Still running her fingers lightly back and forth over the hand resting on her chest.

"What comment is that?" Buffy asks, shifting to half lay across Kelly's chest, running her hand up, to gently trace Kelly's jaw and lips with her fingers. Smiling gently as Kelly kisses the fingers playing with her lips.

"The 'I'm keeping this one.' comment you made to Willow and Tara. Why don't you shift yourself completely on top of me? Make yourself comfortable." Kelly smiles down at Buffy.

"I weigh too much, plus the fact that it can't be comfortable being my pillow…" Buffy trails off as Kelly shifts herself under Buffy, tucking Buffy's head against her chest, while entangling their legs together.

"If you weigh 100 pounds soaking wet, I would be surprised. And trust me, I like being your pillow. I enjoy you being in my arms, being able to touch you. It makes my heart happy, you know?" Kelly states.

Knowing it's an argument that she'll lose, and not something she really wants to argue about, anyway. Buffy snuggles down into Kelly's body, loving the warmth coming off the brunette, enjoying the closeness as much as Kelly does. "You make my heart happy." Buffy says rubbing her cheek against the breast under her.

Gently stroking her hands over any part of the slayer's body Kelly can reach. Not inciting passion, just a relaxing, loving motion.

Buffy glances toward the window and notices its dark out. Shifting to look at the clock she sees it's after 8:00 pm. "What the hell?"

Kelly looks askance at Buffy.

"Where the hell did the time go?" Buffy asks seriously.

Kelly's shoulders start shaking, then deep chuckles work their way up and out of her mouth before she's laughing hysterically.

Buffy looks down at Kelly, as she's literally bouncing up and down off Kelly's shaking body.

"Buffy, you are absolutely adorable" Kelly kisses the tip of Buffy's nose as she stops laughing, just giving the occasional quiet chuckle.

"We could not have been making love for six hours!" Buffy states with a disbelieving look at Kelly, making her laugh loudly, again.

"Okay. We weren't making love for six hours. We were…hmmm… knitting? Reading? Oh, Oh, I know. We were playing Parcheesi! Yep, we spent hours and hours playing Parcheesi!" Kelly's laughing so hard she doesn't realize Buffy is poking her in the ribs at first. As she finally calms down, she yells out, "Hey, what's with the poking and prodding? You want to poke, I'll show you where to poke" Kelly jokes, starting to laugh again.

Buffy growls at the brunettes making fun of her and decides to even the score by leaning down biting her hard on the shoulder while slipping a hand down between Kelly's thighs to quickly press two fingers into the wetness, quickly setting up a fast, hard rhythm getting Kelly's attention.

"Oh. My. God. Buffy! Don't stop!" Kelly pants, instantly meeting each of the slayer's thrusts into her body. "More!" Kelly groans in pleasure as Buffy quickly adds a third finger.

Sliding down Kelly's body to get a better angle, Buffy nips Kelly's lower stomach, keeping up the hard fast stroking. Loving the feeling of the wet warmth wrapped around her fingers, the clenching and releasing . 'Unbelievable, the way her body is reacting.' Quickly bringing her other hand into play, she runs her finger over Kelly's clit, rubbing quickly, Kelly's hips bucking strongly against the pressure. Growling deep in her chest Kelly pushes back against the slayer's hand. Licking her way across Kelly's abdomen, she works to the little dip in Kelly's hip, for the first time seeing the tattoo there. Deciding to question that later, Buffy twists her fingers slightly inside Kelly making her back arch up high in the air, head, shoulders and heels the only contact on the bed, crying out Buffy's name loudly as she floods her hand with her essence.

Collapsing back hard into the bed, her body twitching, her hips still rocking slightly into the slayers hand. Slowing her hand motions down, Buffy gradually stops the stroking motion, gently pulling her fingers from the brunette. Kissing her way back up Kelly's body, to come to rest beside her, gently running her hand along Kelly's sides, as her breathing finally came back under control.

"Are you okay?" Buffy asks quietly, worried at the heavy thudding of Kelly's heartbeat against her hand that's resting on her chest.

Smiling, and breathing in deeply, Kelly finally opens her eyes. "Oh, yeah. Definitely okay. Better than okay."

Giggling, Buffy kisses Kelly lightly on the lips, pulling back she states "I think I know a sure fire way to get you to behave."

Laughing at Buffy, Kelly grins "Yeah, I can see you trying to use that technique out in public. How quickly would we be in jail?"

"Knowing the Hellmouth, nobody would probably notice!" Buffy laughs imagining the possibilities. "Damn, speaking of the Hellmouth, I need to go out on patrol" Buffy grumbles.

"You mean we need to go out on patrol." Kelly smiles watching Buffy. "Let me take a quick shower, wouldn't want to turn all the vampires on from the smell of sex, now do we?"

Buffy blushes looking down embarrassed, remembering how she had just literally taken Kelly. Worrying that she could have or possibly did hurt Kelly.

"Hey, hey. What's wrong?" Kelly leans up, pulling Buffy with her, leaning against the headboard, tucking Buffy's head to her chest. Stroking her back, and holding her tightly.

"I…I could have… hurt you." Buffy stutters out. "Oh, God! Did I hurt you? I was on the rough side…" Buffy starts looking at Kelly, checking the bite on her shoulder, thankfully no blood from that. Quickly running her hands down her body, Buffy tries to pull away to see if she might have hurt Kelly.

"Buffy. Buffy!" Kelly grabs Buffy's hands, pulling her up so she can look her in the eye. "You didn't hurt me. Are you listening? YOU. DID. NOT. HURT. ME. I enjoyed every second of our lovemaking. It was beautiful, awe inspiring, and made me completely zone! I love you. You wouldn't hurt me. You couldn't hurt me." Kelly states unequivocally. "There will be no worrying about this. Do you understand?" Kelly is completely serious. "You will not hurt me. If there is anything, I can absolutely state with any certainty is that." Kelly leans in and presses a hard firm kiss on the slayers mouth. Seeing the worry slowly easing from Buffy's eyes and the slight hesitant grin on her mouth Kelly grins. Leaning in and whispering quietly into the slayer's ear "When you're more comfortable, we can see just what I can take and enjoy, hmm?"

Pulling back, Buffy's eyes widen. "Are you saying what I think you're saying?" Buffy squeaks out, her mind suddenly whirling in a million different directions.

"Only if you're comfortable. I won't do anything you're not comfortable with. But there are things I wouldn't mind trying, or having tried on me. If you're interested we could discuss it in the future. No rush." Kelly grins when she notices Buffy's eyes glazing over slightly. "What's going through that wicked little mind, Buffy?"

Buffy blushes a deep red shaking her head. 'I can't tell her about my secret fantasies, not yet.' Buffy thinks to herself. "Can I plead the fifth for right now and maybe at some future time have this discussion?" Buffy pleads.

"Yes." Kelly grins and kisses Buffy on the forehead. Giving her a quick hug, Kelly climbs out of the bed, stretching her back out.

Buffy watches her tall lover stretch, smiling at the leg muscles moving slightly under the skin, over the firm ass to get her first look at Kelly's back. Frowning at the scars, Buffy scoots to the edge of the bed, slowly reaching out to run her fingers over Kelly's back.

Kelly turns her head to look over her shoulder at Buffy.

Still running her fingers lightly over Kelly's back she looks up into Kelly's eyes simply asking "What did he use?"

"A bull whip." Buffy shudders at the thought of the whip tearing into the soft tender flesh of Kelly's back.

With tears in her eyes she gets off the bed and wrapping her arms around Kelly's stomach, gently pressing kisses over the back in front of her. "I really wish I had beat that son of a bitch to a pulp when he came here."

Kelly smiles at the venomous note in the slayer's words. Shaking her head turning around so they are facing each other Kelly looks down, smiling. "I'll tell you what I told Tara. It was a long time ago, over and done with. Plus, I'm a firm believer in what goes around comes around. It might literally take lifetimes for it to happen, but it will. Let me get showered and ready for patrol." Kelly taps Buffy on the nose with her finger and winks as she grabs her clothes up off the floor and heads to her bedroom.

Buffy watches Kelly walk naked out of the room shaking her head. 'The inner strength this woman has is unbelievable. I can't believe she actually loves me. But I see it in her eyes every time she looks at me. I feel it in her touch. I hear it in her voice. God. How lucky am I? Is it true, what goes around comes around? Am I finally getting someone to love?' Shaking her head at her inner thoughts Buffy decides she better get ready for patrol, also.

An hour later, the two women are out patrolling, working their way to Willie's bar.

Buffy thinks about the strange looking tattoo on Kelly's hip. "Kelly, can I ask you something?"

Laughing quietly at the slayer, Kelly shakes her head. "Buffy, if you have something to ask, just ask."

Buffy blushes lightly then smiles up at the brunette. "What's the tattoo on your hip? I mean, I've never seen one like it before and it kind of made me curious."

Kelly grins "And you won't see it anywhere. It's my own design. Let me ask you something Buffy. Can you feel Willow and Tara when you are close?"

Buffy stops, thinking about it realizing that she just tunes out their signatures now. "I used to. I mean, I guess I probably still can, but I usually filter them out. Probably out of habit more than anything, so they don't set my slayer senses off. Why?"

"Well, my magic signature is quite a bit stronger than Willow's." At this statement Buffy's head snaps up looking at Kelly in disbelief. "Yes. I've been practicing all my life, I've trained with a couple different covens to open myself almost completely. However, my magic literally had every magic dealer, demon, black magic covens gunning for me. With the help of one of the covens, I developed the tattoo that mutes my magic signature. I can let someone feel my signature, but the only person that might get some idea of my powers is Tara. And that's because of the blood tie with being sisters." Tilting her head considering Kelly smiles slightly "Curious?"

Buffy's eyes wide, thinking about the power the two Wicca's have she nods her head "Yeah, I'm curious."

Grinning, Kelly closes her eyes, 'feeling' the area for any demon forces, before opening her magic channels a little to let it seep out. Hearing Buffy inhale sharply, Kelly closes the channels and opens her eyes to look at the slayer.

"My, God. I've never felt anything like that before." Buffy states slightly awed.

"And hopefully you won't ever feel anything like that again. That was just a sample, not the full amount, Buffy. I'm powerful. The covens that trained me were worried at first. The power in me, of what I could be capable of. They put me through so many tests" shaking her head smiling at the memories Kelly chuckles. "I don't know how, or maybe it's just because of mom, and God forbid, Father, that I turned out the way I did. They said they never knew someone as centered and balanced as I am. I have a feeling a lot has to do with what happened to me when I was a child. I spent a lot of time meditating and centering myself after Father…" trailing off, inhaling deeply to relax Kelly smiles when she feels Buffy gently run her hand over her arm.

"It still doesn't make it any easier, does it?" Buffy states with a frown. "I mean, part of the reason you are who you are now is because of that, but it doesn't make it right."

"Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you look at it Buffy. The reason I am who I am today is because of my experiences and life. If he hadn't done what he did, I could be dead by the fangs of some vampire. Or I could be married living in suburbia with 2.3 kids. It's a what-if game. No telling what would have happened." Shrugging her shoulders Kelly just smiles lightly.

Shaking her head, realizing that Kelly is right Buffy smiles and reaches up to run her hand lightly down the side of Kelly's face and cupping her cheek. "Whatever the reason, I'm glad you're here." Gently tugging on Kelly's jacket Buffy leans up to give Kelly a light kiss on the lips.

Grasping Kelly's hand in hers Buffy tugs on it, to continue walking.

"So, where is Willie's at, anyway?" Kelly asks, keeping an eye open. "And am I gonna have to kick somebody's ass when I'm in there?"

Buffy grins "Actually it's only a couple blocks away. Hopefully you won't have to kick anybody's ass. I know your ass fetish and I might get jealous."

Kelly laughs in appreciation of the teasing. "But it's just your ass that I have a thing for. And your eyes, mind, heart, lips, breasts, legs…"

Buffy smacks Kelly on the ass grinning. "Yeah, yeah. If I don't stop you now, God only knows what other body parts you might bring up and since we are here…"

"Serious time." Kelly states, all joking gone. "You lead, me cover?"

Buffy surprised at the seriousness takes a second to remember what Kelly does for a living. Nodding her head Buffy heads into Willies. Doing a quick look around the bar, Buffy doesn't see anyone that stands out as being different. Glancing behind her at Kelly she motions with her eyes for Kelly to stay by the door.

Nodding in understanding, Kelly leans against the wall beside the door, kind of fading into the background. Tuning into the surroundings, she realizes there's four vampires, a chaos demon, kind of hard to miss him even without the powers, looking up she looks around trying to pinpoint the source of happiness she feels coming from one of the demons. Seeing an extremely loose skinned demon, that vaguely reminded her of a Shar-pei Kelly stiffens watching him approach the slayer. As she is about ready to intercept, she realizes the happiness is coming from this demon and that Buffy was turning to greet him.

Buffy grins, seeing Clem approach her and then glances at Kelly, noticing the attention she is keeping on him and catches her eye, smiling. Kelly nods in acknowledgement, continuing her perusal of the bar. But keeping one eye on Buffy to make sure she's okay.

"Clem! It's good to see you." Buffy gives Clem a brief hug smiling at the friendly demon.

Clem smiles at Buffy then glances over at Kelly with a slight frown on his face. Tilting his head towards Kelly he looks at Buffy questioningly. "It's good to see you too, Buffy. New friend?"

Buffy smiles softly, looking at Kelly then back at Clem. "Yeah, you could say that. Well, I came here to beat some information out of Willie, but since you're here, can I buy you a drink and ask you some questions?"

"Of course." Nodding towards the table where he was sitting at he looks back at Kelly again, seeing her still standing against the wall, actually blending in. If he hadn't seen her come in with the slayer he might not have realized she didn't belong. "Does your friend want to come sit with us?"

Buffy looks at Kelly then glances around at the other occupants of the bar. Opening her senses completely, doesn't feel anything different than the usual demons that hang out at Willies and with a threatening glare at the vampires, daring them to do anything. She smiles in thanks at Clem "I'll be right back."

"Do you want to join us?" Buffy questions quietly.

Not feeling anything different in the bar and grinning as she watches the vampires quickly leaving after the look Buffy gave them the moment before, Kelly smiles down at Buffy. "If you want me too. As far as I can tell, other than the chaos demon in the corner, and your friend it's pretty quiet now."

Buffy nods her head towards the table "Come on." Following Buffy to the table, Kelly sits down across from the slayer, so she could keep watch behind Buffy, just to make sure. Appreciating the move, Buffy looks at Clem. "Clem, this is Kelly. Kelly, this is Clem."

Smiling at Kelly, Clem reaches out to shake her hand "It's a pleasure to meet you, Miss Kelly."

Nodding at Clem, shaking his hand "Just Kelly. Nice to meet you Clem." Opening her senses, feeling nothing but happiness and good intentions from the demon, Kelly relaxes a little more. Catching Buffy's eye and seeing the genuine smile on Buffy's face Kelly smiles back.

"So, what's the problem, Buffy?" Clem asks, taking a sip of his drink.

"It seems that last night I ran into 15 vampires, that seemed awfully organized. They seemed pretty intent on doing me some serious damage. Have you heard anything?" Buffy asks quietly.

Clem seems surprised at Buffy's statement. "Buffy, I haven't heard anything about someone coming after you. I haven't even heard about anybody new coming to town. But I just got back a week ago. If you want, I'll keep my eyes and ears open and let you know."

Buffy smiles in thanks at the demon. "I'd appreciate that Clem. You been doing okay?"

"Yeah, I've been doing fine. I went to visit mom and dad for a couple weeks. So, how's life been treating you?"

Buffy smiles looking at Kelly. "Actually, life's been treating me pretty good the last couple days." Buffy laughs out loud as Kelly actually blushes slightly. "Now that's something I never expected to see!"

Clem looks confused from the Slayer to Kelly and back again. "Am I missing something?"

Buffy smiles at Clem. "You remember Tara, right?"

Clem smiles, his eyes lighting up. "Miss Tara. Oh, yes. Beautiful white witch. She helped me when I was hurt that one time, insisted that I stay at your house until I healed. Very lovely young woman."

Kelly smiles ear to ear at hearing the appreciation and devotion in the demons voice for her sister.

Buffy nods to Kelly and states "Kelly is Tara's half sister."

Clem's eyes widen and he smiles, showing all his small sharp teeth. "Oh, I am doubly pleased to meet you now." As he reaching out and grasps Kelly's hand, shaking it enthusiastically, making Kelly laugh. "You need anything, please let me know."

"Thank you, Clem." Kelly smiles as Clem finally releases her hand.

After debating with herself briefly, Buffy decides to go ahead and let Clem know about her relationship with Kelly. Not wanting to hide it, but worried briefly about something wanting to hurt Kelly if it became common knowledge that she was seeing the Slayer. But realizing that Kelly could definitely take care of herself, and the fact that they haven't been exactly circumspect with their actions, Buffy leans in closer to Clem, whispering in his ear "And I love her." Grinning as she leans back into her chair.

Clem jumps up out of his chair in surprise, turning to the slayer grinning. "Really?" Excited to see Buffy have someone for herself. Knowing with their continued friendship over the years that she hadn't let anyone close since the debacle with Spike. Reaching down, pulling the slayer into a hug before turning to Kelly and pulling her up into a hug, also.

Surprised Kelly looks at Buffy with a confused look, while hesitantly returning Clem's hug.

Laughing, Buffy smiles at Kelly. "I just told him that I love you."

Kelly's eyes widen in surprise. Not expecting Buffy to let it be common knowledge about their relationship. Realizing that Buffy wasn't planning on hiding anything she grins in appreciation and hugs Clem back more firmly.

"I'm so happy for you!" Clem announces with a big smile, looking at Buffy then turning to Kelly with a shake of his finger. "You take care of her. She deserves to be happy."

Smiling at Clem and then looking Buffy in the eyes Kelly states "Yes, she does deserve to be happy. And I will gladly spend the rest of my life taking care of her, making her as happy as I possibly can, and loving her with my entire heart, mind and body."

It was Buffy's turn to blush at the seriousness of Kelly's statement.

"Well, Clem. I hate to have to go, but we need to continue patrolling. I appreciate your keeping an ear out for me." Looking over to the bar at Willie, who was ignoring the trio, Buffy speaks a little louder "Willie. Consider yourself lucky tonight. I'm in an extremely good mood, so you don't get an ass whippin'!"

Willie gulps and nods his head at the slayer. "Th-Thanks Buffy."

Following Buffy out of the bar, Kelly gently touches her lower back, letting her love flow into Buffy.

Buffy inhales deeply, feeling the love and smiling.

"I didn't expect you to announce your feelings like that." Kelly states quietly as they walk down the road, continuing on patrol.

"Why?" Buffy asks curiously.

"I know you are extremely possessive of the people you love. I figured you would want it kept from the demon community of our exact relationship."

Not able to keep from laughing, Buffy looks over at Kelly with a huge grin on her face. "And you don't think that someone will see us making out somewhere or holding hands or overhear some of our interesting conversations?"

Stopping in her tracks, Kelly realizes just how much someone would know if they were just following and listening to their conversations, seeing how they acted. "Damn."

Not realizing that Kelly had stopped, Buffy continues on a few more steps then turns upon the realization and walks back to Kelly. Standing in front of her, wrapping her arms around her waist and resting her head on Kelly's chest Buffy laughs quietly. "Then there's the fact that when we were talking to Clem that I realized you can take care of yourself. That you've probably faced just as much shit as I have and come out of it alive and kicking." Squeezing Kelly firmly before releasing her and stepping back to look up at her.

Smiling into the slayer's hazel eyes Kelly nods her head in appreciation. "You are one hell of a woman, Buffy. I feel honored to know you. And if we keep up the mutual admiration society we got going on, we'll make everybody sick listening to us!" Kelly laughs watching the sour look the slayer gets on her face at the last comment. "I love you, Buffy." Kelly quietly states before leaning down and gently brushing her lips over Buffy's forehead.

Continuing walking Buffy just smiles.

The rest of the patrol was pretty uneventful and as they headed back to Buffy's house, Kelly asks "What time do you have to be at work in the morning?"

Buffy groans at the reminder of work. "You would have to remind me, wouldn't you?" Kelly just grins at the slayer. "I have to be there at 10:00 am. I usually leave around 2:00 p.m. Unfortunately, because one of the other counselors is on vacation this week, I have to work all week. But, the good thing is, that Friday is the start of Christmas break and I'll have off a complete week with no work!" Buffy grins thinking about all the time they would be able to spend together.

Kelly starts laughing, seeing the wheels turning in the blondes head, she can't help but throw a wrench into the works. "Yep, Christmas break. Means your sister will be coming home for Christmas. Probably means a serious curtailing of the extracurricular affairs around the house. Being quiet, maybe no hot monkey lovin' at all!" Kelly grins evilly.

Buffy's eyes widen in realization. "No, no, no, no, no. I have got to talk to Willow and Tara tomorrow. Maybe they'll let Dawn spend some time over at their house. Wait a minute. You're the big witchy mojo person. Isn't there some kind of spell…damn, no that wouldn't be right using magic like that. Damn!" Pouting Buffy plops down on the end of the couch, shaking her head.

Laughing quietly to herself, Kelly takes her jacket off, hanging it up while divesting herself of the rest of the weapons. Heading into the kitchen when she realizes Buffy is still pouting and trying to figure out how they can have the house to themselves. Coming back out of the kitchen with a water for Buffy and one for herself, Kelly grins realizing Buffy didn't even realize she had left the room.

Squatting down in front of Buffy, handing her a water Kelly smiles and leans in to nibble on the bottom lip that is still stuck out. "You are absolutely beautiful." Pulling back and standing up, Kelly sits down in her chair, sipping on her water watching Buffy.

"What would you like for breakfast tomorrow?" Kelly asks quietly. "And, would you like a ride into work?"

Buffy glances up, realizing that she's drinking a water, she didn't remember receiving and that Kelly was sitting in the chair across from her. Frowning realizing how much she likes having the brunette touching her Buffy stands up and walks over to stand in front of Kelly. "You" Buffy states with a point of her finger at Kelly. "I want you to stay close to me whenever possible. I like having you touch me. Or at least being within touching distance." Buffy growls before plopping herself in Kelly's lap, making Kelly laugh lightly.

Kissing Buffy on the temple Kelly quietly mumbles "I figured I would let you have your space."

"My space?" Buffy asks incredulously. "I've had my space for years. I've just realized how much I despise having my space. I like it being filled with Kelly." Pulling Kelly in for a deep passionate kiss. Slowly pulling away to nibble lightly at Kelly's bottom lip before looking back up. "If, for some stupid asinine reason, I decide I need space, I'll let you know, okay? Otherwise please feel free to invade it any time."

"Anytime, huh?" Kelly growls low in her throat. Before running a hand up Buffy's leg and thigh, to gently cup between the slayer's thighs. "I'm still extremely horny. Even after the hours and hours of playing Parcheesi we did earlier!" Kelly laughs before leaning in and nibbling on Buffy's ear.

Pressing herself into Kelly's hand slightly, she turns her head to look into Kelly's eyes "Yeah, and do you remember what happened the last you mentioned Parcheesi?"

Pulling back from Buffy slightly, Kelly quickly pulls her t-shirt off and reaches behind her pulling her bra off.

Surprised at how quickly Kelly is taking off her clothes Buffy watches and as Kelly is reaching for Buffy's shirt, Buffy's eyes widen at the lust filling Kelly's eyes. 'My God. She looks like she wants to eat me alive. Or wants me to eat her alive!' Buffy thinks surprisingly to herself.

Standing slowly, clasping the slayers ass, Kelly shifts her to where Buffy's legs are wrapped around her waist and her arms around her neck. Leaning in and biting and sucking on the slayer's pulse point, Kelly growls deep and low in her throat. Turning to walk quickly up the stairs, she heads to her room.

Pressing the slayers body down into the bed, Kelly nips and licks her way down Buffy's throat to her collar bone. Running her tongue along the collar bone up the other side and nipping lightly on Buffy's ear lobe. Whispering "Parcheesi."

Laughing loudly at Kelly's antics Buffy pulls away, slowly unwrapping her legs from Kelly, while running her hands down her back. Lightly scraping her nails back up Kelly's back, looking in her eyes. "Do you feel that?" Knowing with the scarring on her back, that it probably isn't as sensitive as it should be.

Kelly nods her head, leaning in to kiss Buffy lightly on the lips. "A little. Dig in a little harder." Buffy does as asked watching the emotions flickering across Kelly's face. Smiling as Kelly groans lightly. "Harder." Using a hint of Slayer strength, Buffy scrapes her nails across Kelly's back and Kelly groans louder, pushing her body into the slayers. "Better."

Pulling her body back away, Kelly slowly starts taking Buffy's clothes off, kissing each new area as it's uncovered. Releasing the slayer's breasts from her bra Kelly nips lightly at her nipples, smiling when Buffy presses herself up into Kelly's mouth.

Buffy says with a groan, "My turn. Harder." Surprised, Kelly pulls away from the breast she is nipping at and looks at Buffy. "I said harder." Buffy growls, pulling Kelly back down to her breast. Biting down gently, Kelly flicks the nipple between her teeth with her tongue, loving the taste of the slayer.

Groaning, Buffy captures one of Kelly's thighs between her own and presses against it. Not liking the clothing that's still in the way, she pulls away from Kelly, making Kelly growl in frustration.

"I want the rest of the clothes gone." Buffy states after hearing the frustrated growl.

Standing up, Kelly quickly strips the rest of her clothes, looking at Buffy lying on the bed so enticingly. Reaching down to unbutton the slayer's pants, Kelly hesitates momentarily before quickly reaching down and taking the slayer's boots off first, then strips Buffy of her pants and panties. Climbing back above Buffy, Kelly insinuates a thigh between Buffy's legs, pressing firmly against the slayer's clit while sucking one of the slayer's breasts in her mouth, rolling her tongue around the nipple.

Feeling her juices flowing from her body and Kelly's thigh between her legs, Buffy quickly captures the thigh and presses herself against it, slowly rubbing her body up and down. Groaning at the friction, Buffy drags her nails across Kelly's back, making her arch harder into Buffy. "Yes!" Buffy groans loudly at the harder pressure, Rubbing harder and faster, Buffy pulls Kelly away from her breasts to kiss her hard, one tongue searching out the other, dueling, fighting for supremacy.

Nipping Kelly's tongue lightly, Buffy rocks her body harder and faster against Kelly's thigh, moaning loudly when Kelly pushes harder into her, as she orgasms, calling Kelly's name out loud. As Buffy slows the rocking motion, kissing Kelly lightly, she looks into Kelly's lusty brown eyes. Smiling up at the brunette, she quickly flips her onto her back before nipping her way roughly down Kelly's body.

"God, yes Buffy!" Kelly growls out at the rougher treatment. 'This is exactly what I need right now.' Kelly thinks to herself.

As Kelly is rocking her hips roughly wanting contact, Buffy runs two fingers through Kelly's wetness, Buffy can't believe the juices flowing from her lover. Quickly inserting two fingers, Buffy looks and realizes this isn't going to be enough, adding another finger, she smiles hearing the grunt of approval from Kelly. Quickly matching the pace Kelly has already set, Buffy nips around Kelly's belly button before tonguing it quickly, in close approximation to what her fingers are doing.

Reaching down to run her fingers through Buffy's hair, Kelly reaches for her chin, pulling it up slightly to look in Buffy's eyes and state one word. "More."

Eyes opening wide Buffy glances down at her hand pistoning quickly in and out of Kelly's body. Looking back up into Kelly's eyes she sees the need and adds the fourth finger, wondering if this will even be enough. Closely keeping an eye on Kelly's face, Buffy puts a little more strength behind her hand.

"YES! BUFFY! DON'T STOP!" Rocking harder against the slayer's hand, Kelly moans loudly. "So close. So…"

Buffy curls her fingers slightly inside Kelly, feeling Kelly jump hard, Buffy pumps quicker, keeping her fingers curled slightly, feeling Kelly start to clench against her fingers, Buffy pushes her thumb hard into Kelly's clit.

"Oh, GODDDD!" Kelly screams back arching, clenching down hard on the slayer's fingers, spasming and exploding over and over again. Soaking Buffy's arm. Finally passing out from the pleasure, Kelly collapses back onto the bed, her body shivering.

Feeling a strange sensation working over her body as Kelly climaxes, Buffy slowly eases her fingers out, quickly moving up the bed, pulling Kelly's head into her lap, running her hands through Kelly's hair calling Kelly's name quietly over and over again.

As Buffy was starting to get really worried after a few minutes, Kelly starts coming to. Moaning lightly, Buffy almost laughs, seeing Kelly's hips start a slight rocking motion. 'She's a glutton for punishment.' Buffy thinks lightly scraping her nails against Kelly's scalp.

Finally opening dazed eyes, Kelly looks up into the slightly worried eyes of the slayer. Blinking her eyes quickly, Kelly realizes her body is still acting on its own and slows her rocking motion to a stop. Pulling away slightly so she can pull Buffy down to lie beside her. Kelly takes a deep breath, getting complete control of her faculties before pulling the slayer in for a quick kiss and hug. "Wow. That's what I call a great game of Parcheesi!"

Buffy laughs heartily before pulling Kelly to her in a tight embrace. "You worried me there for a few minutes. I felt something strange when you, ummm…"

Kelly smiles "You gave me the absolute best orgasm of my entire life and you're worried? Damn girl. How strange? And you know what?" Kelly all of a sudden asks.

"I don't know, just a strange feeling, not bad just different. Probably nothing. What?"

"I believe you were batting for the wrong team all these years Buffy. These poor women around here have been missing out on some incredible loving. Not that I'm complaining. I mean if they were too stupid to realize what an absolutely fucking fantastic person you are, they don't deserve you!" Kelly states seriously before leaning in and laying her head on Buffy's chest, lightly running her fingers over Buffy's toned, muscular stomach. "If it wasn't a bad feeling, we won't worry about it. Finally tired now." Kelly whispers, reaching down and pulling the covers over them, snuggling into the slayer, laying her head back on the slayer's chest before realizing the light was still on in the bedroom. "Fuck." Slowing pulling away, she reaches over and turns the light off to the slayer's light laughter.

Throwing a leg over the slayer's lower legs and cupping the slayer's right breast with her left hand, Kelly wiggles her head against the slayer's left breast getting comfortable before mumbling a quiet good night.

Realizing that she's exhausted, Buffy leans down kissing the top of Kelly's head. Lightly running her hand over Kelly's back Buffy quietly whispers "I love you." Before letting sleep overtake her.

Slowly Buffy comes to consciousness, smelling eggs, bacon, potatoes and coffee. Opening one eye she looks up at a smiling Kelly, holding a tray filled with breakfast food. Rubbing her eyes to get rid of some of the sleep. She glances over at the clock, seeing it's 8 a.m. Shifting her body up to a sitting position she looks at Kelly's grinning face and just mumbles "Caffeine."

Setting the tray down on the bedside table, Kelly grabs a couple pillows shifting them behind the slayer to help prop her up. Sitting down beside Buffy, Kelly grabs the coffee cup and hands it to her. After downing half the coffee Buffy looks longingly at the food, making Kelly laugh loudly.

"Here." Kelly says, sitting the tray on her own lap, scooping up a fork full of scrambled eggs with cheese, and feeding it to Buffy.

Kelly smiles, watching Buffy chew and swallow. Grabbing a strip of bacon, and feeding it to Buffy, Kelly laughs as Buffy frowns at her realizing that Kelly is feeding her breakfast.

"I think I can feed myself." Buffy grumbles before smiling and winking at Kelly.

"Oh, but where is the fun in that?" Kelly asks as she grabs some eggs with some hash browns this time.

Watching Kelly with a considering look Buffy asks "Are you trying to spoil me?"

Looking up from the plate where she was scooping up another forkful of eggs, Kelly replies "Is that a bad thing?"

Slowly chewing the mouthful of eggs Buffy shakes her head at her lover. "I guess not. But if you are always spoiling me, how am I going to spoil you?"

Kelly tilts her head thinking, watching Buffy finish off the coffee. "Buffy, I don't want or need spoiling. I just want to be loved. Here, let me get you some more coffee." Kelly states grabbing the coffee cup and leaving quickly to fill it up.

Buffy just sits there in shock. 'How can she not want to be spoiled? I thought everyone wanted to be spoiled.' Slowly reaching over for the tray of food, sitting it in her lap and taking a healthy bite out of the piece of toast she picked up, Buffy silently chews it. 'She may not want or need it, but I'm going to do everything in my power to do it.' Buffy decides with a definite nod of her head. Smiling as she hears Kelly coming up the stairs. 'God, I love this woman.'

"Hey, I thought I was feeding you breakfast." Kelly smiles, holding the coffee cup watching Buffy attacking the food with a vengeance now. "Maybe I should have brought up some more food with me?" Kelly asks questioning, watching Buffy eat.

Looking down at the plate that literally only haves a few crumbs left on it, Buffy looks up guiltily at Kelly and questioningly states. "I was hungry?"

Making Kelly laugh, as she hands her the coffee cup and takes the tray away. "Do you want some more? I have more bacon and hash browns fixed and it won't take long to do up another six eggs and toast, if you want?"

Shaking her head, Buffy asks "Have you had anything to eat yet?"

Kelly smiles, "yes I had a couple pieces of toast with jelly for breakfast, along with the pot of coffee as per my norm."

Groaning, looking at the clock which now read 8:15 Buffy finishes sucking down her second cup of coffee looking at Kelly over the edge. "I don't want to go to work."

Shrugging Kelly looks at Buffy "Then don't." Kelly states simply, leaning over the slayer's thighs, propping herself up on her elbow, looking at Buffy.

Buffy laughs, "Yes, but see. I have these things called bills, and a mortgage that I have to pay each month. To do this, I need to work."

Nodding her head Kelly smiles. "I'm living here now, correct?" Kelly asks Buffy and at Buffy's nod Kelly continues. "Well then, I owe you rent money." Shaking her head Buffy starts to open her mouth in objection, which Kelly quickly presses her finger over Buffy's lips. "Hear me out." With a raised eyebrow Buffy nods her head.

Jumping up off the bed and pacing back and forth Kelly starts talking "First off, I love you. We are in a relationship. Admittedly, it's a new relationship, but we are in one. Secondly, I'm living in your house. I'm not going to mooch off you. That's not who I am. Thirdly, I'm rich Buffy. I can help you. I want to help you." Stopping and looking at Buffy, Kelly slowly walks over to the side of the bed Buffy is laying closest too and sits down, gently taking Buffy's hands in hers. "I love you with my whole heart, Buffy. It's yours. No one else has ever owned it and no one else ever will. Let me do this. If you want to continue working, that's one thing. But if you're just doing it to make the payments, don't, okay?" With a slightly wicked grin, Kelly waggles her eyebrows at Buffy before stating "you can take a couple months off, we can have hot monk…Parcheesi any time of the day or night in between patrols and then when you might want to work again, maybe you can do some kind of self-defense course, or something. That would be perfect for you. Make your own hours, help the people out in Sunnydale. Perfect." Kelly finally winds down looking at Buffy.

Buffy looks at Kelly in disbelief then starts really considering what she's saying.

"You don't have to decide right now. As a matter of fact, I would prefer you think about it first. No sense jumping off the bridge without thinking everything through." Kelly states watching Buffy. Leaning in to kiss her lightly Kelly pulls away and grins "You better get your shower. I'm going to take the dishes downstairs and you can finish the rest of the food when you come down, okay?"

Buffy nods, speechless, watching Kelly gather up the dishes and heading out the bedroom door. 'She loves me. She wants to take care of me. She's rich.' Shaking her head to herself as she slowly gets out of bed, heading back to her room to grab clothes to wear to work Buffy stops. 'No one, besides Mom, ever wanted to actually take care of me. Most people wanted something from me or to help out, but not actually take care of me. Damn' Buffy feels a tear slip down her cheek. Shaking her head, and heading in to take a quick shower and get cleaned up before work Buffy decides to think more in depth about this later.

"So, you want me to pick you up this afternoon?" Kelly asks as they pull into the school parking lot.

Buffy smiles looking at Kelly. "Well, I'm used to walking to work and walking home. I'll get spoiled if you do this."

Kelly shakes her head at Buffy "But if you walk home, that means it's that much longer before I get to see you again. So, see? I'm being selfish here in wanting to pick you up."

Leaning over and giving a Kelly a brief hard kiss Buffy pulls back, opening the door "Two o'clock." and runs inside the school.

Laughing Kelly watches Buffy. 'God, I love that woman.'

Standing outside the Guidance Counselor's office Tara smiles, watching Buffy. It was her lunch break and she decided to see if Buffy was between seeing students to talk with her. Stopping to look in the window outside Buffy's cubicle to see if she was free Tara stops, stunned.

Buffy was staring into space, with the softest, sweetest smile on her face that Tara has ever seen. Shaking her head Tara walks around and comes to sit in the chair by Buffy's desk.

Not realizing that anyone was sitting there Buffy's thinking about how much Kelly has come to mean to her in such a short period of time. Looking back over her life, thinking about her past loves, most of them almost seemed forced. Especially Riley, what she would consider her most normal relationship. She needed something that he couldn't give her. Love and acceptance for what she was. Realizing that was exactly what Kelly was giving her, unconditional love and complete acceptance of who she is. None of that in competition thing going on. Kelly let her do her job, helped out if needed and was there as company. Taking a deep breath, before giggling, thinking about Kelly and Parcheesi.

"Hmmm. I don't remember the last time I heard that kind of giggle coming from you, Buffy." Tara states, finally deciding to interrupt the slayer's daydreaming. Looking at Buffy, with a slight smirk on her face.

Buffy literally jumps a couple inches out of the chair. "TARA! You scared me. How long have you been sitting there? And why are you smirking at me? You look too much like your sister when you do that!" Buffy states huffily, wishing it was Kelly sitting there.

"Well, I've been sitting here for roughly five minutes, watching you daydream before you started giggling. And if I'm not mistaken, that sounded like a wistful note in your voice when you said I look like Kelly." Tara turns her smirk into a big grin.

Shaking her head and blushing lightly, Buffy gives up. "I am completely gone over your sister. It was like wham, bam, thank you ma'am. She is like here, you know. She has this calming presence, which is kind of unbelievable with the way she jokes around. But she's so kind, sweet, gorgeous and man can she kiss…" Trailing off Buffy gets side tracked thinking about the kissing and love-making, groaning low without even realizing it.

Tara's eyes widen at the groan and the look on Buffy's face. 'Well, I guess that definitely answer the question as to whether or not Buffy loves my sister.'

Deciding it will be impossible to keep the slayer's attention, Tara gets up from the chair and lightly hugs Buffy telling her she'll talk to her later. She just gets a light wave from Buffy in response. Laughing, Tara heads back to class.

Smiling to herself, leaning against the doorway Kelly watches Buffy. Deciding to come in and look for Buffy when it got to be 2:30, Kelly finally found the guidance Counselor's office and her missing lover. Buffy was in her own little world, twirling a pen around her fingers quickly, just staring.

Principal Wood came up behind the tall brunette that was standing in the door frame, watching Buffy. "Hello, may I help you?"

Straightening up quickly, Kelly turns to look at man that interrupted her Buffy gazing. "Sorry, I was looking for Miss Summers."

"I'm Principal Wood." Shaking the woman's hand, introducing himself while quickly running his eyes over this good looking woman.

"Nice to meet you. Kelly Maclay." Kelly states with a smile.

Cocking his head to the side with a confused look on his face "We have a teacher here with the last name Maclay, you aren't by chance any relation?"

Smiling slightly Kelly nods her head "yeah, she's my half sister."

Robin smiles, "Well, if you need someone to show you around town, I'd be happy to take you out to dinner some time."

Buffy finally comes out of her daze and realizes that Kelly and Robin are talking, and that its after 2:30. Groaning to herself, realizing that she has pretty much daydreamed about the brunette the whole day. Quickly shutting down her computer and grabbing her purse and jacket, she walks over, catching Robin hitting on Kelly.

Deciding to nip this in the bud quick, Buffy walks up beside Kelly, wrapping her arm around her waist "Sorry about being late, babe. I completely lost track of time. Oh, hi Principal Wood. Did you meet Kelly?"

Kelly looks down silently laughing at the Slayer. Shaking her head slightly, grinning she wraps her arm around Buffy's waist and leans down lightly kissing the top of Buffy's head. Whispering so that only Buffy could hear "like you don't know the answer to that question, little miss green eyed monster."

Buffy blushes slightly at being so obvious. Before watching Principal Wood's eyes widen in realization.

"Oh, sorry. I didn't realize…I, umm… have some papers to sign. Nice meeting you, Miss Maclay. Buffy have a good night." Before turning around and walking swiftly to his office.

Chuckling to herself at Wood's quick exit Buffy smiles and gets on tiptoes, pulling Kelly down to meet her for a decent hello kiss. "Sorry for being late. My mind has been kind of occupied."

"Really? And what has been occupying that wonderfully scrumptious mind of yours?" Kelly asks with a raised eyebrow.

Waggling her eyebrows at the brunette before heading out to get in the vehicle Buffy states "Wouldn't you like to know? So, what did you do today?" Buffy asks, changing the subject.

Grinning secretively, Kelly just states "Wouldn't you like to know?" Not wanting to let the slayer know, that she had been out shopping again. "Went and visited Anya at the Magic Box."

"Glutton for punishment, huh?" Buffy chortles at the thought of Kelly and Anya.

"I like her. I realized she was different, but a vengeance demon? Didn't see that one coming. We had a good time. Oh, I hope you don't mind, but I asked everybody if they wanted to go out for dinner tomorrow night." Kelly asks questioningly.

"Dinner out with the gang. Always of the good." Buffy states smiling as they pull in the driveway.

"Yeah, maybe that way Xander can stare at my breasts some more! And then end up with a headache" Kelly laughs, thinking about the poor young man that kept getting smacked by Anya at the store.

"Oh, God! He didn't? What am I saying, of course he did. You should have seen him when Tara and Willow first told us they were dating, he would just get this glazed look in his eye…" trailing off, Buffy realized that he would be imaging her and Kelly together, now. Banging her head against the front door Buffy groans loudly.

"Buffy, what's wrong?" Kelly asks concerned.

Shaking her head and starting to laugh Buffy opens the door, motioning Kelly to go in ahead of her. "Nothing. Just realizing that the looks he used to get thinking about Willow and Tara are now gonna be about thinking of me and you together."

Laughing slightly Kelly looks down at the slayer "Think I should get him an industrial sized bottle of aspirin for Christmas? He's going to need it if Anya hits him every time that happens."

Buffy laughs heartily at the thought. "That might actually be a good thing to do."

"Check off one gag gift for Xander from my list." Kelly states with a smile watching Buffy close the distance between them with a raised eyebrow. "What's up Mighty Mouse?"

Buffy grins, wrapping her arms around Kelly, snuggling in tight against her. "I missed you today. But I did get a chance to think about what you said this morning." Buffy states quietly.

"And?" Kelly questions, gently running her hands up and down Buffy's back enjoying the closeness.

"I like working with the kids at the school." Buffy says on a quick breath, realizing that she does enjoy working there and helping the kids. Knowing that the kids need the help with all the weird goings on, let alone the day to day stuff.

Shrugging her shoulders Kelly states "Then keep working there."

Pulling back slightly to look in Kelly's eyes Buffy tilts her head "You wouldn't mind?"

"Why would I mind? I'm not your boss. I was just offering you a different option. You enjoy what you do, helping the kids, keep doing it. It's your decision, it's your life." Kelly states leaning down, brushing her lips gently over Buffy's. "I'm just happy to be a part of your life, Buffy."

Smiling in appreciation Buffy kisses Kelly back. Hugging her tightly. "You're serious about being happy just being part of my life aren't you?" Buffy asks quietly against Kelly's chest.

Chuckling and a simple "Yes."

Pulling back looking up into those so expressive brown eyes, Buffy questions "If that's all I wanted, to be friends, you would? Under protest?"

"Hell, yeah. Definitely under protest." Kelly states, pulling Buffy back against her, tucking her head against her chest and resting her chin on the top of Buffy's head. "I love you, Buffy. I'm in love with you."

"I love you so much." Buffy quietly states before growling, "Where the hell were you all my life?"

Snorting out a laugh at Buffy's growled statement Kelly picks Buffy up in her arms and sits down on the now freshly cleaned couch, with Buffy in her lap. "Waiting for you to be ready to appreciate Sapphic love."

Burying her head in Kelly's neck Buffy blushes. "If I had known…" Pulling back smiling wickedly she laughs "I have got to have a serious talk with Willow about this!! All these years and she never told me! What kind of friend is that? You're supposed to help your friends out. Not keep the good stuff to yourself!"

Laughing heartily at Buffy, Kelly shakes her head. "I want to be there for that conversation. I can hear it now…" Paling slightly Kelly backtracks quickly. "No, no. I don't want to be there for that conversation. She would be talking about my sister and that would just be so wrong in so many ways. Forget it." Literally shaking in disgust at the brief thoughts running through her head, Kelly buries her face in Buffy's hair. "Joking and kidding about stuff is one thing, but seriously knowing? Nope. Not gonna happen." Kelly states so quietly Buffy can barely hear her.

Realizing that Kelly is really squeaked at the thoughts that had inadvertently rose up in her brain, she shifts the upper portion of her body, lifting Kelly's head and gently kisses her lips. Nipping lightly at her bottom lip before nibbling her way to Kelly's ear whispering "No. No conversations. This will be tabled permanently, okay?"

Nodding her head Kelly lightly kisses Buffy's neck before pulling back. Reaching up, brushing the hair back away from Buffy's face she asks "Are you hungry?"

Giggling Buffy blushes "Always seems like I am now that you're here."

Frowning for a moment before realizing that Buffy isn't talking about food, Kelly smirks slightly. "You're just making up for lost time." Before leaning in and kissing her lightly. "Besides, I cleaned the couch today and I would prefer that it stay clean at least for 24 hours before we mess it up again!"

Blushing even more Buffy buries her face in Kelly's neck. "Not fair. It's your fault, after all."

"Yep. And I'm extremely proud of that fact." Smiling an unrepentant grin Kelly kisses the top of Buffy's head, before running her hands through the blondes long hair. "Seriously, are you hungry? I made a casserole for you and I can throw it in the oven to bake. It'll take roughly 30 minutes."

"Yes, I'm hungry." Smiling as she pulls away and stands up. "I'm gonna run upstairs and put something more comfortable on."

Looking at Buffy and waggling her eyebrows "Need any help?"

"I think I got it handled." Buffy grins impishly, backing up the stairs, slowly pulling her blouse off and running her hands slowly up her stomach and over her breast.

Groaning at the teasing, Kelly watches as Buffy reaches the top of the stairs and turns out of sight before turning, banging her had against the wall lightly to the slayer's laughter. Before heading in to get dinner started.

Continued...