__The Great Willow Prezzie Search__
By DeeBeth
"Buffy would you please shut down that machine and come to bed," Rupert asked for what seemed the fifth time in as
many minutes, "its nearly 3 AM and we both have a rather strenuous day planned tomorrow." He finished with a quite
obvious yawn.
"I know, I know but I've got to find a gift for Willow. And I've only got two weeks till her birthday!" Buffy said
as she continued scanning the many windows open on her monitor. "It has to be just right, something unique and
preferably not mass produced. Willow is going through this crazy `I hate mass produced products because then the
object looses its meaning and the aura is all disturbed and clouded, blah, blah, blah...' I swear she lives for
her causes!" Buffy finished taking a deep breath and clicking on a link of a google search in front of her.
"Oh! Oh!" she suddenly announces jumping slightly in her chair.
"Please tell me you have found the `prefect one of a kind present' for Willow and that now you are coming to bed
so I can get some of the elusive sleep I've been dreaming of." Rupert said from under Buffy's pillow he had placed
over his head in an effort to block out the light from the monitor and the continuous clicking and typing sounds
coming from his dear wife's desk.
"Yup! I think I have!" Buffy bounced in her seat excitedly. "Oh…oh…" she continues gasping as she clicks from one
page to another. "Wow…" she sighs, "I've found it! Its perfect!" she exclaims as she follows the directions to bid
on the item that was `perfect' for Willow. "You're not even going to ask?" Buffy accuses her husband, astonished
that he could possibly not be interested in this new revelation in the Willow Prezzie Search 2004.
"Um, yes of course dear. What amazingly, amazing present have you found for our dear friend Willow?" Rupert asked
patiently glancing from under the pillow to catch a glimpse of the red digital numbers blaring back 3:24 AM, he
sighed and pulled the pillow over his head more firmly.
"I found it on eBay of all places this woman, Deese Bethany, makes these earrings. They're cool, she's got four
different designs with a range of prices, and one of them looks like a pentacle and it has Rainbow Moonstone beads
and its sterling silver and its only $20, plus it's for a good cause because Deese is trying to pay her way
through college. And the earrings are totally perfect, Willow's going to go completely gaga over them!!" Buffy
finished pushing back her chair and jumping onto the bed, jostling her obviously grumpy husband and grabbing her
pillow back.
"I take it you ordered the most perfectly amazing present of all time, then?" Rupert muttered turning to borrow
his head into his own pillow.
"You have no idea what eBay is do you?" Buffy asked already knowing the answer. "It's sorta like an action house
on the net, but cooler and harder to explain to the non-computer friendly type persons, such as yourself. But you
search for things like earrings or a limited edition poster of The Rolling Stones and if you find what you want,
you bid until you win and then its yours!" Buffy turned toward the body lying quietly on her right. "It's a lot
more than that though, but now that I've found this woman's earrings I'll have prezzies for Willow for a long
time. `cause now all I have to do is search by seller on ebay.com and just type in her seller ID, um…
deebethdesigns, all one word, I think. I have her auctions on my watch list so it's cool. And your not even
listening to me…" Buffy said pushing on Rupert's shoulder, he didn't move. "…and you're asleep. You fell asleep
while I was talking!" Buffy exclaimed whacking his arm and then jumping up to straddle him as he fell onto his
back.
"Wha.. uh… grasla," Rupert muttered sleepily.
"Oh that's articulate Giles," Buffy giggled, wriggling to get a more coherent response from Rupert. "Wakey, wakey,
Rupert." Buffy leaned down and crooned into his ear. Then she laid a soft kiss on his lips.
"Good lord Buffy…" Rupert gasped, finally making it to the land of Awake Insane People. "It's nearly 4 and we've
got to be up in… ugh, 2 hours…" he sighed defeatedly.
"Two hours till duty calls uh?" Buffy asked not so innocently as she continued her wriggling and started with the
kissing.
"Is this what the rest of our married life will be like?" Rupert asked between kisses.
"What? You mean sex at all hours of the night… and day?" Buffy asked kissing her way down his neck.
"No, I meant no sleep and always being exhausted from sex with you night and day." Rupert said gasping from the
infuriating slow progress Buffy was making down his chest.
"So are you complaining about the sex at all times or the sleep or lack thereof?" Buffy inquired curiously as she
found his right nipple and bit it into submission.
"Arg! Uh.. ahg… no complaining. Non whatsoever. Christ Buffy!" Rupert exclaimed as he pulled her up and claimed
her lips in a very awake kiss. Rolling them until he was on top, Rupert soon followed the path Buffy had traced
out on him mere moments before.
And there was most assuredly no more complaining… that is until the alarm when off just as they closed their eyes!
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