Chapter Sixteen: Beauty and the Beast
Buffy walked into her dorm room for the second time that night. This time she was armed with ice cream, Terms of Endearment and tissues. "I’m back," she called cheerfully to her friend.
Willow was still on her bed where she'd been when Buffy’d left for the grocery and video stores. She wore a confused and dazed look on her face, still clutching the letter in her left hand.
Buffy took out two spoons and popped the movie into the VCR. The two girls sat together on Willow’s bed, eating their ice cream silently while Buffy started the movie. Buffy smiled over at Willow hoping if she put on an air of cheer, it would be contagious. "Nothing like a little Chunky Monkey to turn that frown upside down." She cringed inwardly at the cheesy sentence. Fortunately Willow didn’t even notice.
As the movie started, Buffy noticed that Willow had stopped eating her ice cream and wasn’t paying attention to the film. She sighed, wrapping an arm around her best friend as her tears finally came.
***
The next day Willow was up before Buffy. Her bed was made and her things were gone. She was about to call Giles, fearful Willow’s emotions would lead her to do another spell when the redhead entered the room.
"Hey," Willow greeted, in a better mood than the night before.
"Hey." Buffy studied her best friend, knowing all that pain hadn’t gone away overnight. She threw the covers back and sat on the edge of her bed. "You want to tell me what last night was about?" she asked gently. "I mean, I thought this would be like an answer to your prayers. Oz can come back and you guys can have what you never got the chance to have."
Willow sat on her bed with a sigh. "It’s not that simple."
"I’m not quite following here," Buffy admitted.
"Things are different now. I’m different." She stared out the window distractedly.
Buffy still gazed at Willow, looking confused. "I know, everything’s changing," she replied. "What is it?" Her face twisted into a sly grin. "Is there a guy you haven’t told me about?"
Willow shook her head, finally making eye contact with Buffy. "It’s Tara."
"What does Tara have to do with-Oh," Buffy cut herself off when she realized what her friend meant. "Oh."
***
Buffy trudged through the woods, searching for the cave Giles had sent her to explore. She held her tazer gun tightly to her chest, looking cautiously around through the darkness. Whipping around at the sound of a branch breaking under someone’s foot, she aimed the gun in the direction the noise had come from.
"Careful there, love. Those things hurt like hell."
Buffy relaxed her grip, sighing in both relief and annoyance. "Are you following me?"
"No!" he exclaimed defensively.
"Then what are you doing here?"
"Things have been a little slow around the cemeteries, thought maybe they’d be a bit more dangerous out here," he admitted stepping closer to her. "Looks like I was right."
He backed her up against a nearby tree. The gun slipped out of her hand unnoticed as she gave in to him, surrendering to her desires getting easier every time. His mouth moved over hers, kissing her with force. They didn’t have time for slow and easy, so she settled for quick and hard.
He picked her up and she wrapped her legs around his waist, leaning back against the tree for support. Her hands were everywhere, roaming his body freely until she found what she’d been looking for. In a practiced movement, she had him unzipped and in her hands. She stroked him until he was hard and screaming to be inside her.
She moaned in pleasure as his hand moved underneath her skirt, teasing her through her cotton panties. "Please," she whispered frantically against his mouth. He smirked before ripping the garment off her, two fingers thrusting inside, stroking her inner walls. His thumb flicked her clit, and she broke away from his lips, her head thrown back in pleasure.
She took his hand away, knowing she was close but wanting to feel him inside her. Holding onto his shoulder she lifted herself up before slamming down onto his cock. He cried out as he felt the warmth of her pussy envelop him.
His hold on her hips tightened as he started thrusting into her wildly. They moved together, both in a hurry to reach orgasm. He kissed every part of her he could reach, her lips, neck, chest, until he came to her breast. Pushing her shirt up and over the soft mounds, he pulled them out of her lacy bra, exposing her to his hungry eyes. Attacking her nipple, he swirled his tongue around the rosy bud before nipping at it carefully with his teeth, using his thumb and forefinger to stimulate its twin.
Feeling the pressure in her stomach burst, Buffy bit down on his shoulder to keep from crying aloud. It only took a handful more thrusts before Spike shot his load deep into her.
She picked her head up from his shoulder, allowing him to kiss her. This was a first for them, usually once it was over Buffy was off and running in the other direction getting as far away from him as possible. Their kisses were sweet and slow, and Spike could swear he felt his heart start beating again. He could feel it, things were changing between them. It was only a matter of time now.
Buffy stopped kissing him, drawing her head back slowly. "Did you just hear something?" she whispered.
Spike shook his head quickly kissing down her neck to distract her from anything that wasn’t them. Buffy strained her ears trying to listen for someone else, but found it hard to concentrate with Spike’s lips roaming her body. She tried to disentangle herself from his embrace, but he held on tighter. "It’s nothing, pet," he assured her. "Stay here with me."
She pushed Spike away roughly, unwrapping her legs from around his waist and standing on the ground. She listening intently while he put himself back into his pants. Hearing the same noise again, she set off in the direction it’d come from
***
Her instinct lead them into a cave close by. Slowly, she crept keeping her gun aimed out in front of her. "No fair," Spike complained in a loud whisper. "I don’t get a nifty toy gun."
Buffy glared at him over her shoulder, silencing him with one look. They continued foward, stopping short when Forrest suddenly came into view. Forrest and Buffy held up their guns quickly, each training their barrel on the other person.
Spike jumped out from behind Buffy to shield her with his body from the tazer. Buffy rolled her eyes at his back, walking around him until she was staring up into Forrest’s angry face.
Forrest hovered over her small frame, his stance threatening. "Why don’t you get the hell out of here before I-"
"Touch me and you’ll find out what slayer strength is like," Buffy warned.
"I think it’s about time you showed me, then," Forrest replied arrogantly.
"Yes, I think that would be interesting," Adam called from behind them.
Buffy, Spike and Forrest stared at the creature before them. Part man, part demon; Adam was like nothing they’d ever set eyes on before.
Before anyone else could react, Buffy launched herself at Adam. Forrest followed behind her, but before he could touch Adam, Buffy threw him to the ground. "Get out of here!"
Feeling powerless against the huge creature, Buffy threw a few ineffective punches before Adam knocked her to the side. Spike was there in an instant, throwing his body against Adam. Adam easily deflected the attempt, tossing Spike to the side of the cave opposite Buffy.
"Not moving." Forrest was on his feet, aiming the gun at Adam’s chest. He fired and Adam seemed to only get more powerful with each jolt of electricity.
Adam smiled at Forrest sinisterly. "Thank you."
Buffy picked her head up from where she was lying on the ground to look at Forrest. "Go! Get out!" she yelled.
Spike picked himself up off the floor, hurrying over to help Buffy. Forrest ran towards the entrance of the cave, stopping short when he ran into Adam’s hard chest. Buffy and Spike were both rushing to the middle of the cave to help the soldier as Adam struck him with his skewer and threw him at Buffy and Spike, sending them all spiraling to the cold floor of the cave.
Buffy quickly jumped to her feet pushing the dead body of Forrest off her. "Oh, God," she cried softly, looking down as the body fell to the ground. Before she knew what happened, Adam had the discarded tazer gun in his hand and was pointing it at her. What felt like a hundred little shocks went through her body at once.
"Buffy!" Spike cried jumping to his feet. He pushed her in front of him as they ran from the cave avoiding the blasts shot at them on their way out.
She ran as fast as her feet would carry her, not wanting to be anywhere near that killing machine. Suddenly her legs flew out from under her as she slipped on a pile of leaves and she was rolling down a hill so fast she couldn’t stop.
Spike ran after the tumbling body of the slayer, but couldn’t move fast enough to help her. She landed at the bottom of the slope, smashing her head and back against a pile of boulders nestled in the grass. She
groaned quietly before passing out unconscious.
"Buffy?" he called to her, touching her face to wake her up. When she didn’t respond to him, he lifted her into his arms, and ran like hell back to Giles’ apartment.
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