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The Rogue Slayer	By : Kinetickid Category: BtVS AU/AR > FemmeSlash - Female/Female Views: 12311 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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�They�re on their way back.� Tara sighs quietly. �Let�s go, meet them partway, but keep the shield up, just to be on the safe side, Willow. You�re doing great.� Tara smiles quickly at the redhead as she smiles nervously at her.

�Thanks.� Willow breathes a sigh of relief at the praise as she follows behind Giles, who surprisingly enough almost seemed in his element with the crossbow in his hands and the other weapons tucked around his body with the bag tossed over his shoulder.

Tara follows at a short distance from the protective barrier surrounding them, keeping an eye open to make sure nothing sneaks up from behind. Silently worrying about the fact both Buffy and Faith had felt some kind of demon or presence, but couldn�t figure out where it was.

Sighing in relief as they finally meet up with Faith and Buffy, Tara�s eyes caress over her lover, noticing the somewhat disheveled looking woman, knowing from what she�d felt that her and Buffy both had tangled with a couple more demons as they�d made their way back to them.

�Make sure you keep that shield up, Red.� Faith gruffly comments as she works her way outside the group as Buffy stops to discuss what they knew, came across and what their feelings were in regards to what they�d seen. �How you doing, babe?� Faith gently brushes a thumb down Tara�s neck as she looks into worried blue eyes.

�You�re worried, and it has me worried.� Tara admits as they move slightly away from the rest of the group, so they can talk privately.

�Something is there. We don�t know what, and it gives me a different feel from Frankenweenie. I want you to be careful.� Faith tilts her head against Tara�s, closing her eyes for a few seconds, just to breath her lovers scent in, until she hears Buffy bringing her conversation to an end with Giles. �We�re ready to head out again. I�ll always be in contact.� Faith whispers, tapping her head before pressing a quick, firm kiss to Tara�s lips as she waves her lover to follow behind Xander who had been sneaking them looks as they talked. Still having to chuckle at the obvious reaction the young man always has whenever he�s around them. Getting a wicked grin as she thinks about what he�ll do when he sees B and Jules together.

�Spontaneous combustion.� Tara murmurs to Faith�s thoughts.

�Oh, yeah. I can�t wait to see it, either.� Faith finally shifts back a little further while continuing to listen and feel for anything in the forest.

Buffy stays about ten yards ahead of the group, occasionally whispering to Faith if she notices anything out of place, so the woman can double-check it when she came upon it. As they get closer to the caves, Buffy feels the hair standing up on her neck, again. The same feeling she and Faith had when they were there previously. Whispering again to let Faith know, Buffy�s eyes search the area from the ground up into the trees, though the darkness makes it hard to see, and knowing it would be easy for something to blend into the thick canopy overhead, if it was able to climb.

Faith growls softly, really not liking the feelings she�s getting, but knowing they�re going to have to continue with this. They can�t leave this freak of nature to run loose and cause God only knows what kind of trouble. Having faith in her lover, and the rest of the group to stay alive, Faith strides along as they come closer to the cave where the feeling changes and she knows they�re getting close to Adam. Softly whispering to Buffy that that�s the damn asshole that she�s feeling while reassuring Tara mentally as she can almost feel the woman stiffening through her thoughts.

As they arrive outside the caves, Willow, Giles and Xander spread out as much as they can facing out into the woods they�d just come through, able to see just enough, as the full moon shines down peaking through the trees and the gaps.

Tara shifts inwards, more towards the caves, glancing up at the trees surrounding them, sighing quietly as she has the urge to light up the whole area to see if anything�s hiding, but knowing she can�t as that would be a dead giveaway. �Be careful.� Tara whispers as she watches Buffy and Faith hesitate at the front of the cave�s entrance, that�s calling to both of their slayer�s senses.

�You, too.� Buffy slowly enters the cave.

Faith hesitates for a moment, looking intently at Tara, before following Buffy.

Tara smiles sadly at the love and worry coming from Faith as she follows Buffy into the cave. Settling in to wait and keep her senses open as much as she can, she smiles as Willow babbles nervously, albeit quietly to Xander and Giles. Xander shifting as he looks around while keeping the crossbow pointed to the ground in front of him, smiling at the young man that has a heart of gold. Turning her gaze to Giles, she tilts her head in consideration. From things she�d heard the group talking about and some of the comments Faith has made in the past, she has a feeling there�s a lot more to the Watcher than he lets on.

Sighing softly, she waits for whatever might happen, as prepared as she can be.

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�I got a bad feeling.� Faith growls as they work their way further into the caves, and farther and farther away from the rest of the group.

�Fighting that monster in these kind of confines isn�t my idea of fun.� Buffy admits softly, her eyes searching the slowly lightening cave as they advance deeper into it. Knowing the light is coming from somewhere.

�Might be to our benefit. He�s huge, and it�ll keep his movements to a minimum.� Faith stays just behind and to the side as Buffy as the two women quickly make their way deeper inside.

�Maybe.� Buffy�s not too sure. Not liking the confined area, before quickly flattening herself against one side of the cave walls while Faith does the same on the other side as they come to a bend. The echoing thumps they�d heard now making sense as they glance around to see Adam striding back and forth in what is roughly a forty foot area of space. Swallowing at the sight of the tall construct, Buffy shakes her head. A flash of what Faith had looked like after taking this monster on flits through her memory, making her shiver. Turning her gaze to Faith, she sees the steel determination and anger on her sister slayer�s face.

Faith stares at the monster that had almost killed her. Slowly easing the thick bladed sword from it�s scabbard across her back, she starts working on the spells that might work best against the monster, though Tara wasn�t sure with him being made up of so many parts, both human, demon, machinery and God knows only what else, how they would work on him, if they do at all. Deciding to go in with brute force first, she nods towards Buffy and the two women go flying in towards Adam, knives and swords flashing as they try attacking the monster from every angle imaginable.

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Rack stares down at the group of people, sensing the power coming from the redhead as she does the protective spell around the her and the other two. Licking his lips at the slight hint of strawberries coming from her, wishing he was still his old self. He would love to get a taste of the woman, but knowing it is impossible now. Turning his attention to the one he�s meant to disable, he waits for her to pace to just the right spot, the spell to hit her right before he lands on her, a smile crossing his face at the thought of taking the pure soul�s life force.

Tara swallows and looks at the group. �They found him, and have started. They didn�t feel any other demons in there with him, but�� Tara shrugs as the three people turn their heads to look at her. �They want us to wait here for now. They�re going to see if they can bring him out of the cave if they need the room to fight.� Tara blinks as she feels�

�TARA!� Willow screams as a green glow surrounds the elf and this half human, half demon descends on her literally seconds later, its long spindly legs reminding her of a spider while the upper body was human. As the sharp legs start to slash across a collapsed, sickly green Tara, her eyes watch as Giles and Xander both send crossbow bolts towards the monster.

�Shit!� Giles growls as they bounce off some kind of protection surrounding the monster. �Drop the shield, Willow! Try and get to Tara and protect her!�

Willow drops both ropes and runs towards Tara, to only be sent flying back as an invisible blow almost knocks her unconscious.

�Not going to work.� Rack cackles as his sharp, knife-like legs work their way slowly and inexorably up the witch�s body. Having seen the power the redhead wielded, he�d taken a bit off the spell to disable the witch to use everything left at his disposal to do a protection around them, now tapping into the blonde to feed the spell with her power.

�FAAAAAIIIIITTTTHHHHHH!!!!!� Xander screams at the top of his lungs, hoping to get the slayer�s attention, unaware of the fact that as soon as Faith lost contact with Tara she was already flying back through the cave with Buffy hot on her trail and a lumbering Adam following them, yelling about how he�s going to rip them to pieces. Kneeling beside Willow, he gently eases the redhead against his chest as he looks at an absolutely livid Giles.

Giles snarls and works quickly on an incantation and tries sending it at the half demon/half warlock, feeling the power coming from him, and recognizing it on a deep level. As he feared, the spell was simply absorbed and didn�t do any good.

Willow struggles, reaching for the two ropes attached to Xander and Giles, knowing from the sounds coming from the cave that it�s paramount that she protects them.

�Easy, Wills.� Xander reaches a hand out for the ends of the ropes, handing them to Willow. �Can you do it?�

�Have to.� Willow whisper, her body aching, but knowing in her heart that if they want to have a chance of coming out of this alive, she�s going to have to get the protection back in place. Whispering softly to help calm down her racing heart, she tries not to look at the spidery-human chuckling wildly as he continues to do small cuts up Tara�s legs, the copper-y smell of blood starting to pervade the area.

Adam grins wickedly as it finally occurs to him why the two slayers are running hell bent towards the front of the cave. The dark-haired slayer�s growling the witch�s name as she turned and disappeared, followed by the blonde slayer a dead give-away that Rack had succeeded in disabling the witch.

�NO!! YOU BASTARD!� Faith launches herself at the demon/man that�s hurting her other half.

Rack is in shock as the barrier spell has no effect on her and she comes crashing into him, knocking him off the witch. Not aware that Faith is, in essence, a part of Tara. The sharing of the powers letting the spell recognize that Faith belongs and allows her entrance, since the demon had mistakenly used Tara�s powers to augment the shield.

Faith snarls as she literally rips the monster apart, pieces of him flying everywhere in her anger at Tara being hurt. The slayer literally seeing red as the slayer within her demands justice for the hurt caused to her mate, while another part of her, the part becoming an elf is already dispersing the spell surrounding Tara, while sending healing energy to her lover. The two parts of Faith working at two separate items, but in conjunction with each other as they fight for their lover, their mate and their life. Living in co-existence changing to a deep acceptance of each other on a level so deep within Faith that she isn�t aware of it. Never realizing how the slayer is literally a different entity within her, living behind the scenes and giving her, her strength and healing.

Buffy blinks at the total rage that Faith attacks the monster with, even as her eyes drop to Tara, sighing in relief as she notices the lessening of the green haze surrounding the elf. Trying again to close the distance to Tara, she sighs in relief as she�s able to reach her, checking the wounds that are already healing, jerking her head up to Faith as the slayer kneels beside her. �You?�

�Yeah.� Faith carefully checks her lover�s legs, sighing in relief at the healing taking place as she looks up into hazy blue eyes looking back at her. �You were supposed to watch out for yourself.� Faith gruffly murmurs, her eyes showing her worry. Growling, she turns her gaze back to the cave as Adam gets closer to them. Lifting Tara gently in her arms, feeling her lover�s weakness, she walks up to Willow�s barrier.

Willow automatically drops the barrier, knowing what Faith�s wanting. As Faith settles Tara down on the ground in front of her and places Tara�s arm around her lower legs, Willow nods at the unspoken order for her to take care of the elf as Faith steps back out of distance of the barrier. Quickly re-doing it, Willow watches in horror as she gets her first sight of the hybrid construct � Adam.

�Holy Frijoles!� Xander whimpers as the lumbering giant comes out of the cave, his eyes taking them in quickly before looking down at Tara lying on the ground, the monsters lips curling up in disgust at the sight of the witch alive.

�You�� Faith snarls, knowing that Adam is the reason why Tara was hurt, her eyes flashing with her anger as she runs and launches herself at him, aiming to take his head off with her bare hands.

Roaring with anger, Adam meets the threat of the dark-haired slayer, slamming a fist into her stomach as she takes him down to the ground, her hands closing around his neck.

Buffy pounces on the behemoth, placing a foot on one of his knees, remembering Faith saying she�d been able to hurt his knee. Grabbing his foot, she yanks up with every bit of her strength in the opposite direction of the way a knee is supposed to bend, receiving dark pleasure in the scream of metal twisting even as Adam cries out.

�FEEL THAT YOU BASTARD!� Faith pants heavily, her gut feeling like a fire is burning in it from where the hybrid had connected. Grabbing his head, she twists with all her strength, her veins and muscles bulging as she literally tries to rip his head from his shoulders.

Giles watches as the two slayers fight with Adam, his eyes catching movement of another demon heading towards them from the right. Quickly pulling the crossbow up, he takes aim and let�s fly at the demon�s heart, watching it stumble but continue, he quickly loads another in, carefully aiming and letting it fly, to land in the demon�s eye. As the demon collapses and dies, he turns back as he hears Xander mumbling to himself as he aims and fires his crossbow, smiling as the young man�s aim is true and lands in the vampires heart, dusting him.

�I want your head.� Faith continues to pull with all her strength while she listens to another grunt come from Buffy as she uses all her strength to disable the demon�s legs.

�Both� together.� Buffy pants heavily as she watches Adams fist pound into Faith, trying to get her to let go of him. The dark-haired slayer ignoring what has to be immense pain as she literally has one of his arms pinned under, along with his chest as she continues to yank and twist at his head. Sliding down at the top of Adam, Buffy lifts his head and wraps her arm around his neck from behind, grasping his chin as she looks into Faith�s pain filled eyes.

Faith nods and both women use their incredible strength to twist the hybrid�s head as he roars in pain and anger. �FUCK ME!� Faith cries out as he continues to roar and thrash, even with his head having been twisted around so it�s facing backwards.

�SHIT!� Buffy slams a fist into Adams jaw, before grunting and pulling the injured hand to her chest.

Faith pants heavily, her fingers trying to dig into flesh, or something that�s not that fucking metal that is protecting the fucker from them killing him. Unconsciously shifting off the arm she�d kept control of, she watches in horror as the spike extends out and he jabs it into Buffy�s side. �B!� She cries out, watching as the slayer pales even as she grabs the spike and breaks it off.

Buffy slowly pulls the spike out and tosses it away, swallowing at the pain in her body from where he�d skewered her all the way through. �Try freezing his ass, or something!�

�Don�t work.� Faith admits, having already tried a couple different things, and it having no effect on the monster. Tara�s fear a reality that the monster would be immune to magic.

Tara blinks as she focuses in on the fight, the two women obviously battered, bruised and bleeding as they try to find the hybrid�s weakness. �He has to have a heart� a power source. Find it.� Tara crawls away from Willow�s protective bubble, knowing Faith had healed her to a certain degree, but knowing she needs more as the pain practically screams through her body.

�Trying to�� Faith�s fingers work feverishly over the monster, watching as Buffy shifts and kneels beside her, twisting his other arm and almost ripping it from the socket in her anger.

�Bastard will be taken apart piece by piece, if we have to.� Buffy growls as she helps Faith search for some weak spot somewhere on Adam. �HERE!� Buffy digs in on his lower stomach, feeling a slight overlapping, just enough to get her fingertips under.

Faith spins around, sitting on Adam�s chest to keep him from lifting up, grabbing one side while Buffy grabs the other of the edge and both women heave with everything in them.

Xander winces and turns his gaze away, even knowing that it�s demon and computer parts, but the two women literally trying to tear him apart making him queasy to his stomach.

Willow turns away from the sight, whimpering at the screech of metal along with the roar of pain coming from Adam as the slayers work together to defeat him.

Tara crawls up Adams twisted and useless legs as she sees a glow coming from within Adam as Buffy and Faith try and widen the small area that they�ve been able to pull the outer protection away.

�It ain�t givin� no more.� Faith pants, pulling with all her might. Her eyes looking at Tara, watching as her lover slowly reaches into the small gap. Knowing the only thing keeping Tara�s hand from being crushed is her and Buffy�s holding onto the metal that wants to drop back into place. Fear streaking through her, Faith whimpers quietly.

�I trust you.� Tara whispers, finally sliding her hand inside, searching and finding the cylinder shaped object. Closing her eyes, she let�s her fingers feel where it�s connected and yanks as hard as she can. Maneuvering herself around, as she feels it give a little, she digs her heels into the ground between Adam�s legs and wraps her other hand around her wrist and screams as she pulls out the power source, collapsing back on the ground.

Faith and Buffy both release the metal, ignoring it as it springs back into place onto the now lifeless Adam. �Tare, babe?� Faith questions worriedly, feeling the absolute weariness and pain coming from her lover.

�Get it gone.� Tara whispers, keeping her eyes closed, feeling the darkness creeping into her from everything they had been through. The Warlocks tapping of her energy having been like having her powers almost ripped from her.

Faith�s hands shake as she strokes her hand down Tara�s cheek. Knowing what her lover�s wanting, Faith looks at Buffy. �Do you think you can toss that bastard a couple hundred yards up into the air?�

Buffy nods her head, picking up the power source and standing. �Tell me when.�

Faith concentrates, locking into the nuclear power source as she prepares a spell to literally make the item explode into nothingness. �Now.� Faith simply whispers, her eyes following the glowing nimbus of light as Buffy tosses it into the air. At the pinnacle of the throw, Faith activates the spell, sighing in relief as it dissipates into the atmosphere.

Buffy accepts Giles� arm around her waist, while Xander helps support a still somewhat shaky Willow. �Is she going to be okay?�

Faith looks up with worried eyes. �I think so. That� thing literally tapped into her powers and pretty much ripped them from her, using them. I� I don�t know what to do to make her right again. All her information and knowledge doesn�t encompass this�� Faith looks back down at her lover, gently stroking her fingers over Tara�s neck. �B, come here.� Faith orders quietly.

Buffy steps over to Faith with Giles� help, kneeling down beside the dark slayer with a groan of pain. Surprised when she feels Faith�s hands on her wound, front and back and a warmth easing through her body, as she can literally feel the damage done to her internal organs knitting back together.

�I can�t heal what�s wrong with Tara, except for the cuts I started to heal. You�re going to have to protect us while I carry her out of here, and you need to be at a hundred percent.� Faith whispers to her sister slayer. �I don�t want to take a chance, just in case something else is out there hunting for us.�

Buffy nods her head in understanding, her eyes going to the blonde elf. The worry etched in her face for Tara. Looking back at Faith as she feels her pull her hands away, she whispers softly. �What if you do the advance on the powers?�

Faith�s brows furrow and she shakes her head. �I don�t know if that�ll help or not. I want to give her some time first, before doing that.� Faith gently shifts her arms under her lover and lifts Tara to settle her against her body. Slowly standing, Faith takes a deep breath, feeling a deep weariness in her body, but ignoring her own aches and pains. Her broken ribs not concerning her as much as Tara is right now.

�Faith, you�re hurt. Why don�t you let me carry her?� Giles offers softly, stepping up to the stubborn slayer.

�I�ll take care of her.� Faith starts to walk back along the trail they�d left as the rest of the group hurries after her, Giles ends up jogging to take the lead while Buffy brings up the rear, and Xander helps Willow along as the group quietly makes their way back to Joyce�s Jeep. The group having borrowed it to help carry the majority of the weapons they brought. Xander�s car parked beside it off the road and out of view.

Buffy helps settle Willow into the passenger seat of Xander�s car while Giles unlocks the Jeep. �Are you taking her back to your place?�

�Yeah.� Xander nods, as he tosses the weapons in the back of his car for now, his eyes worried as he looks at Tara and Faith.

�Good. Take care of Wills. I think I�ll go home with them to do whatever I can.� Buffy shifts around. �Let me hold her while you climb in, Faith.� Buffy looks worriedly at the pale slayer.

Faith nods and let�s Buffy hold Tara before gingerly climbing into the back seat. Wrapping her arms around Tara as Buffy settles her on her lap, Faith buries her face in her lover�s hair and closes her eyes.

Buffy hurries around the vehicle and climbs in the front seat as Giles starts it.

�Your house?� Giles glances up into the rearview mirror, really not liking how pale Faith is.

�No. Drop us off at their apartment. I�ll help Faith with Tara, then check Faith out, and get her to lie down.� Buffy shifts to look at Faith and Tara, knowing Faith�s hurting, and very, very worried. So worried that she doesn�t even make some kind of smart assed comment.

Faith ignores Giles and Buffy as she holds Tara tightly. Not liking the fact that her lover still hasn�t come to, and the amount of pain radiating from inside her, on a spiritual level. Knowing that creep had hurt her by stealing her powers, but not knowing what to do to help Tara. �I love you, Tare. Don�t do this to me.� Faith whispers, tears slowly sliding down her face and into Tara�s hair as she silently cries.
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