[Locked to Kitty] What, you just tripped and fell on his lips?

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You'd think that with spending time in a desert environment, that you'd get sick of the heat. Normally, you'd be right but after a workout, especially being able to give her all - or most of it anyway, Buffy always liked to relax and recoup in the sauna. She always invited Kitty or Jane, sometimes they'd say yes and sometimes not. This time, Kitty had decided to join her in the pampering. It lacked some hot guys giving massages, but what it lacked in that, it made up in sweat pouring down her temples. Maybe it actually was a good thing that there weren't hot massage guys to see her.

She reached over and poured more water on the hot rocks to make more steam. "Remind me again, why this is such a good idea? Well there is the fun fact that we don't pay to get hot and sweaty. But, besides that." Buffy was teasing, she actually enjoyed her time in the saunas. It gave her time to think about things, especially life as a 'normal' girl without Slaying. It could also be dangerous to be left alone with her thoughts, especially when they flicked between family and friends, Angel and Carlos... here and home....

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Buffy perked up at that. "Oh I like that. It's casual and could turn into a group or not." Normally, Buffy wouldn't have any problem asking someone like Carlos out or to go do something. It was just that their introduction was very complicated.

"Wyatt wouldn't mind? I mean for the first run with just the four of us?" Or the three of them if Carlos didn't want to which Buffy was pretty sure that he would.

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"He won't mind," Kitty replied confidently. If he did mind, she'd explain the situation, bat her lashes, give him a kiss and he'd do it for her. But she was pretty sure he wouldn't.

"Wyatt's one of the good guys."

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Buffy felt a twist in her heart at Kitty's words and expression. She missed Angel. She understood that he couldn't or wouldn't be with her, and being at the Inn she had no idea if she ever would see him again. Angel was one of the good guys, too.

"It's nice when you can find one of the good guys." Buffy said, "I think Carlos is, too. At least he seems that way from our conversations. He's a Warden for Wizards."

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"He seems cool." She worked with him in the kitchen from time to time. "And, hey, if we do this, I can get Wyatt to check him out, guy to guy." If Wyatt got warning bells off him, then Buffy could save herself before her heart got broken.

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"That would be great. I mean, not that I'm expecting anything bad for Wyatt to notice." Buffy made a face, "Just that I might be a little gun shy. Sex complicates everything." That was the understatement of the century.

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"Isn't that the truth." Kitty smiled and lowered herself back into a fully stretched position. "I was on a celibate streak when I got here. On purpose. To try to get my life in order and my head out of my ass."

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Buffy scrunched her nose, then revealed, "I only slept with one person before coming here and that didn't turn out too good." Then she realized how that sounded and added, "I mean afterward. He was a vampire under a curse that would lose his soul if he found a moment of pure happiness. After that, he went on a killing spree. The second time I slept with someone was with Carlos. Complicated."

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"Okay, I'm pretty sure that beats the guy you've loved for eight years showing up here and turning out to be gay." Kitty wrinkled her nose. "It isn't the same version of him, but it still definitely sucks. But having a guy lose his soul because he loved you that much... that goes beyond suck. Way beyond."

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"And it would make you second guess yourself, wondering if there was something about you that made him admit to himself he was gay." Buffy said, though it might have been a bit of projection on her part and what she'd think.

"I get why they cursed him with a soul. Totally get it because they wanted him to feel the pain of what he'd done as a soulless vampire but the lose it again part, not so much? Sure they didn't want him to be happy, but to let Angelus loose on the world again? That was just dumb."

She had a flash of seeing Angel's soul return to him just before she put the sword in him and sent him to hell. It saved the world, but Buffy would always feel guilty for that and would never, ever tell Willow her spell worked at that moment.

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"This version of Piotr didn't even know I had feelings for him," Kitty said, trying to imagine a world where she didn't have feelings for Petey and not really being able to wrap her mind around it any better today than she ever had.

"But yeah. I definitely would have a complex...and seriously, who says 'hey, I've got a great idea. Let's punish someone who has no impulse control but releasing him on the world if he fails to exercise impulse control?"

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"Thank you!" Buffy nodded sharply. "I mean it wasn't well thought out." Her nose crinkled as she admitted, "not that I ever do most things well thought out, but still, when it comes to cursing a vampire, I think I'd think of everything." She flashed a grin, "or at least make sure everyone else thought of everything before I went in for the curse."