MOVIE TIME

BY

KINETIC-KID

Rating:                R

Disclaimer:        Definitely no money being made.  All characters belong to Joss Whedon and ME.  I own nothing except whatever characters I may make up for this story.

Distribution:      Oh yeah, anywhere, anytime.  Just make sure I get credit and let me know where it is. 

Spoilers:             What is left to be spoiled?  If you haven’t seen BTVS – you need to crawl out from whatever rock you’ve been hiding!!  SNORT

Feedback:           Please. Please. PLEASE.  I live for feedback.  I get irritable and upset if I don’t get any and I might not continue writing.  Of course, if you don’t like the story and think it sucks you may not want me to continue!

Pairing:               B/T

Author’s Note:   Suggestion – this is part of the ‘Time Series’ Read   

The others first!!  It’ll help!

Tara fights the smile trying to cross her face as Buffy argues with Dawn to see something besides the Disney movie, even going so far as to tell the teen she’ll let her have her pick of any of the other movies, including the ‘R’ rated movies.

“I’ve been wanting to see it.”  Dawn states stubbornly as they walk towards the mall with the movie complex inside. 

Buffy growls softly at Dawn, before darting a look at Tara, swearing she heard something that sounded suspiciously like a snort of laughter muffled quickly.  Searching blue eyes twinkling merrily at her, Buffy growls at Tara instead.  “I was hoping to at least see something on the adult side here.  And you’re not being any help.”  Buffy points out having tried to get Tara to chime in a couple times on the way to the theater with no luck. 

“I’m not getting between you two when you’re arguing.  At least not in this case.”  Tara grins crookedly at her lover.

Dawn giggles as Buffy starts to pout, darting a quick grin at Tara.  Having to admit, watching Buffy and Tara together just the last half hour while they were talking at the house before they started to make their way towards the mall, that her sister seemed surprisingly at ease with Tara.  Though she swears there’s more going on to some of their comments than she’s caught with some of the smirks darting towards the other woman. 

“Fine.  Then we’ll just make out and embarrass her, since I don’t plan on watching the movie.”  Buffy yelps loudly and spins around to glare at Tara as she rubs her butt. 

“What?”  Tara looks innocently at Buffy as Dawn busts out laughing.  “We’re going to a kid’s movie, we can’t very well be making out in the theater, Buffy.”  Tara points out, fighting the smile trying to cross her lips.

“We can if we sit in the balcony at the very back.”  Buffy narrows her eyes on Tara. 

“No, we’ll sit where Dawn wants and you’ll behave yourself.”  Tara narrows her eyes back at the slayer, grinning crookedly as Buffy finally pouts and her shoulders slump. 

“Not nice.”  Buffy grumbles, kicking at a stone on the sidewalk as they continue walking towards the mall.

Dawn giggles quietly, darting a quick look at Tara as the witch grins at her.  “You have her whipped already.”

“Not whipped… at least not yet.”  Tara warns as Buffy starts to say something before snapping her mouth shut. 

“Damn it.”  Buffy grumbles and shoves her hands in her pockets.  “I can’t win.  Gotta see the Disney movie, can’t make out…”  Buffy darts Tara a glance and a smirk slowly crosses her face as she looks obviously at Tara’s breasts before she leans in to whisper extremely softly into Tara’s ear, so Dawn can’t hear. “Do I get to cop a feel occasionally?  Just a quick pinch, rub, twist…”

“Watch it, slayer.”  Tara growls, feeling her nipples harden at the hot breath more breathing the teasing words in her ear than saying them.

Buffy looks obviously at Tara’s chest again, smirking happily.  Yelping even louder at the loud, hard smack on her other butt cheek.  “DAMN!  That hurt.”  Buffy growls, rubbing the cheek as she glares at Tara. 

“Maybe eventually you’ll learn to behave.”  Tara glares back as she goes nose to nose with Buffy.

“Don’t wanna behave.  Like teasing you.”  Buffy growls before dipping in to place a hard kiss on Tara’s lips sliding her tongue into Tara’s mouth firmly for a few moments of battle before ending the kiss smirking at the witch. 

“Oooh… gross...”  Dawn wrinkles her nose up playfully at her sister, before giggling and taking off running towards the mall a couple blocks away as Buffy turns a glare on her and starts to head towards her with a gleam in her eyes.

Tara laughs as Buffy stalks her sister, the smile on Dawn’s face as she looks over her shoulder at her sister giving away that the teen obviously was picking on them.  Shaking her head as the two Summers’ zigzag down the sidewalk laughing, Tara follows at a more sedate pace, the sight of Buffy catching Dawn and lifting her sister to spin around before setting her down and teasing her making her happy.  Realizing that Buffy has finally settled and come back to herself, happy at the thought, knowing it was only a matter of time before it happened.

“Come on, Tara!  Hurry your butt up and help me!”  Dawn yells at Tara, while trying to dodge Buffy’s quicksilver hands as her sister tries to tickle her. 

Laughing quietly, Tara picks up her pace to jog towards the two and join in their teasing.

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Buffy crosses her arms over her chest as she watches the teenage boy start piling up the items on the counter in front of Tara and Dawn without either of them saying a word before he grabs the biggest popcorn bucket they have and fills it a third of the way full before coating it with butter and repeating the motions.  “Is there something you two need to tell me?”

Tara grins crookedly at her lover as Dawn smirks.  “We have movie dates frequently, Buffy, remember?”

“They know what you order without having to ask?”  Buffy blinks as the boy finally places the popcorn on the counter also putting a pile of napkins beside everything. 

“Umm… yeah?”  Dawn squeaks, hiding behind Tara as she answers her sister. 

“What do you want, sweetie?”  Tara quirks an eyebrow at the slayer, smiling at her lover. 

“Large popcorn tub, just like the one you got.  Super sized Coke, Raisinets, Goobers and Red licorice.”  Buffy rattles off, grinning as Tara laughs. 

“You heard her.”  Tara smiles at the movie theater employee as he chuckles even as he’s already grabbing the candy out of the case.  Pulling the money out of her pocket, Tara leans into Buffy as the slayer wraps her arm around her waist. 

“Are you going to let me pay for some of this?”  Buffy questions curiously.

“Nope.”  Tara brushes her lips softly over Buffy’s temple as all their stuff is rung up and she hands the money to the employee as Dawn starts gathering some of the food while Buffy grabs the rest along with her drink, leaving the other two drinks for her to get.  Accepting the change, she smiles her thanks at the employee before tucking away the change and grabbing the drinks, following her lover and Dawn towards the entrance to the theater. 

“You sure we can’t…”  Buffy looks over her shoulder and looks upwards at the balcony before dropping her eyes to wink suggestively at Tara. 

“What am I going to do with you?”  Tara murmurs, before giggling as Buffy wiggles her eyebrows in response to her question. 

“I have a few suggestions…”  Buffy answers before finally turning around to follow her sister, glad to see that she was picking one of the side sections that was only five seats wide and didn’t have anyone else in it.  “Who gets the wall?”

“Doesn’t matter, do you want me to go first?”  Tara smiles as Buffy shakes her head and slides in, quickly following her lover with Dawn following her, they slowly get settled, the candy and drinks sorted out as they wait for the lights to go down. 

“Are you going to come back to the house for dinner?”  Dawn looks hopefully at Tara.  “Buffy picked up some groceries at the store to stock the refrigerator.”

“Dawn!”  Buffy hisses quietly before smiling apologetically at her lover.  “I was hoping I might be able to talk you into coming to the house and… helping cook.”  Buffy tries an innocent look, knowing by the way Tara’s eyebrow quirks up at her, she failed miserably. 

“Helping cook… right.”  Tara chuckles and winks at Buffy.  “I could go for a good home cooked meal right now.  What did you pick up?”  Tara questions curiously as she grabs a handful of popcorn and starts tossing it into her mouth while watching Buffy.

“Ummm… a little bit of everything.  I didn’t know exactly what to get, sooo…”  Buffy smiles as Tara chuckles.  “There’s potatoes, pastas, roasts, carrots, salad fixings, pork chops, flour, corn meal…”

“Okay, okay.  Obviously you stocked up on anything and everything you could put your hands on.  I’m sure I’ll be able to figure something out from what you bought.”  Tara pats Buffy gently on the thigh. 

Buffy leans into Tara, a playful grin on her face.  “Higher, Tara.  I would have thought you’d know that.”

Tara growls and squeezes Buffy’s thigh firmly at the slayer’s whispered words.  “What has gotten into you?”  Tara’s eyes widen at the gleam that comes into Buffy’s eyes before the slayer smirks and she looks suggestively at her.  “Never mind…”  Tara shakes her head and groans as she hears giggling from her other side.  “Great, we’re going to corrupt poor Dawnie.” 

“Like she probably isn’t already corrupted to a certain degree.”  Buffy smirks at Tara and chuckles at the questioning look coming from her lover.  Leaning in, Buffy whispers softly.  “She lived in the house while you and Willow were together, Tara.  I’m pretty sure that she heard and saw a few things!”

Tara blushes at the thought, knowing it’s possible, though she and Willow had tried to be careful and quiet whenever the teenager was home. 

“I try to ignore those things.  Watching people I consider family making out is just creepy.”  Dawn bounces in her seat as the lights start to dim and the previews start to play.

Tara and Buffy look at each other grinning as they mouth ‘creepy’ towards each other. 

Settling in the three women watch the movie while working their way through the popcorn and sweets they’d bought. 

Tara hands the last of the popcorn to Dawn to let her finish it as she wipes her hand, tossing the used napkins into Buffy’s empty popcorn bucket, chuckling softly at the empty candy wrappers and containers already in the container.  Leaning closer to the slayer, Tara whispers as she leans her head on her shoulder.  “Do you want something else, honey?”

Buffy grunts softly as she finishes her soda, dropping it into the container before brushing her lips over the top of Tara’s head.  “You won’t let me have what I want.”  Buffy smirks as she reaches down to tease her fingers slowly up Tara’s thigh, chuckling as the witch captures her hand and threads their fingers together. 

Tara nuzzles against Buffy’s neck, smirking at the hitch in the slayer’s breath.  Pressing a wet, open-mouthed kiss to Buffy’s pulse point, she lifts her head and whispers hotly in her lover’s ear.  “If Dawn wasn’t right there, I’d let you play.  Maybe sometime we can come here on a date and watch a grown-up movie.”

Buffy whimpers and nods, her eyes half closed as the desire works its way through her body, wondering how Tara can so easily turn her on with just a few touches and whispered words.  Turning her head, she captures Tara’s lips in a quick but firm kiss and looks intently into hooded blue eyes.  “I’m holding you to that.”

“Good.”  Tara chuckles and shifts her head to lay on Buffy’s strong shoulder again as she gets comfortable, watching the movie ignoring the soft snort coming from Dawn as the teenager glances at them.

Buffy eases her fingers from Tara, smiling at the witch as Tara looks at her curiously.  Easing up the seat separator, she settles her arm around Tara’s shoulder as Tara shifts and presses against her side, placing her head back on her shoulder. 

Dawn looks over at the two as she sees the movement, quirking an eyebrow at her sister as Buffy closes her eyes and rubs her nose over the top of Tara’s head after they get situated, the contentment on her sister’s face something she’s surprised but extremely happy to see.  It takes a few moments for Dawn to realize Buffy’s eyes are open and watching her.  Smiling softly at her sister, she finally turns back to the movie.

Buffy closes her eyes again and rests her cheek on top of Tara’s head as the witch snuggles against her side, a warm hand coming to rest on her upper thigh with the fingers playing along the seam in a small area.  Smiling as she hears the soft chuckles coming from Tara as she watches the movie, even as Dawn laughs out loud with a good portion of the rest of the people watching the Disney movie.  The feeling of happiness and contentment working through her with being with her family watching a movie something she’d at one time despaired of ever feeling again.  Pressing her lips to the top of Tara’s head and leaving them there for a few moments, she knows in her heart the witch’s unfailing support, love and caring is a good portion of her being at this point.  Smiling softly at the remembrance of her breaking down in Tara’s lap with the whole Spike thing that had made her thoughts seriously take a different turn into thinking of the Wiccan in a more carnal way. 

Dawn darts a look towards Buffy and Tara, her heart almost stopping in her chest at the soft, loving smile crossing Buffy’s lips as her sister hugs Tara tighter to her and seems perfectly happy just to hold the Wiccan.  Buffy obviously not even watching the movie as her eyes are closed as she kisses and rests her face against Tara’s head.  The slow, crooked smile crossing Tara’s face and the way the Wiccan snuggles impossibly closer to her sister telling her how comfortable and pleased she is to be where she’s at.  Something she’d honestly never believed she’d ever see, but the two women being together now, settling what few misgivings she might have had.  Tearing her gaze away to look at the big screen again, Dawn isn’t even aware of the huge, happy smile crossing her face.

Buffy slowly raises her eyelids, having had them partially slit as she watched Dawn, pressing her lips to the top of Tara’s head again as the smile crosses her sister’s lips and seems to settle and take up residence there.  A smile almost the mirror version of Dawn’s crossing her face as she completely closes her eyes and nuzzles against Tara’s head, completely content where she is. 

Tara shifts and rubs her cheek against Buffy’s upper chest, smiling softly at the feel of the slayer’s lips pressing against her head occasionally even as Buffy obviously rests her cheek on top of her.  The caring and love she feels surrounding her making her happier than she ever thought possible.  More breathing the words than saying them, she whispers softly.  “I love you, my slayer.”

Buffy feels her heart stutter at the softly whispered, heartfelt words coming from Tara.  Shifting back slightly, she places a finger under Tara’s chin and raises it until she can brush her lips softly over Tara’s.  “I love you, too, Tara.” 

Tara takes a shuddering breath after the softest kiss she’d ever received in her life, the slayer’s feelings poignant and telling before she’d even spoken.  Resting her head back against the slayer at Buffy’s urging, Tara closes her eyes and takes another deep, slightly less shuddering breath and soaks up the offered closeness, more than happy to stay here in Buffy’s arms for as long as she can.

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The End….

Until…???