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 Post subject: Re: Willow & Tara: The Raiders Chronicles - NEW STORY 02/08/
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Yay for great update-y goodness... Interesting beginning...

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 Post subject: Re: Willow & Tara: The Raiders Chronicles - NEW STORY 02/08/
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Thank you, Zampsa.

There has to be some kind of hook in the first chapter, but - as in the movies - that may not be the same hook I try and keep you on later :)

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I LOVE your Original Stores.

So, color me supportive!

I was really only asking so I could try to ascertain the identity of the German Officer.

No more Faith :hmm ?

Okay, I can live with that. Knowing she is alive and well will just have to keep me going until the next sequel :grin .


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Grimm - There are no cameos in this one (unlike Raiders) because to be honest I killed a lot of them last time! Giles could come back next time around though, I suppose :)

So everyone else will be original...

And yes, there's a sidekick still to come.

Re: Faith - I have to say that (given I can't kill her off) putting her up against Willow and Tara every time would make either side look kind of inept when they didn't deal with it.

Of course, I'd never have said I was thinking about a third story LOL

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Awesome! Glad you will be continuing this series!

I do love your prose, but I think that the "two women" part dragged on a little long, didn't like that pacing.

Have you written this already, or is this coming up as you write it?

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Thank you, Kinghtlylove.

This is all pretty much written in first and redraft. I am doing a 'posting draft' as we go, which is where I try to clear up errors, react to the comments and just generally change things when I have a better idea. BUt it all already exists and won't change fundamentally.

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 Post subject: W&T: The Raiders Chronicles - Ch.2 of NEW STORY 02/12/14
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Title: The Raiders Chronicles – Tomb of the Vampire Prince - Chapter Two
Author: Katharyn Rosser
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Spoiler warning: Nope. All new. All original. Set in a universe where Willow Rosenberg takes the place of Indiana Jones. What can I spoil?
Distribution: This story was written for Pens. Pens is its home. No archiving off Different Coloured Pens and the Kitten Board please. No conversion to eBook or other formats please. Enjoy it here.
Summary: After the events of the prologue, Doctor Rosenberg (and after an improbably long – movie physics aided - swim), makes it to shore and the story kicks in…
Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the copyrights or anything else associated with BTVS or Indiana Jones. All rights lie with the production company, writers etc. I am making no money from this series of stories however all original characters and situations remain my property. There may be occasional use of ‘classic lines’ from the source series/movies or others for which full credit is given to the original writers.
Rating: Occasional, tasteful, adult situations and contextual bad language.
Couples: Tara and Willow forever. 100% FAQ compliant, 100% of the time. Look it up if you don’t know what that means.
Text convention: Use of italics denotes either special emphasis if used for a single or a few words in a sentence OR first person thoughts if used for a whole sentence.
Physics: I’ll say it here… It’s Movie Physics, people. Someone Willow’s size and weight can punch out big, big guys… If you don’t like it, don’t read it. (But please read it)
Notes: So something to note about the Raiders stories is that they are written more cinematically than I am known for. That means shorter snippets and not – always – a natural chapter break where you’d leave things hanging. That can mean short or long chapters as I try to find the least-worst/best place to break. It definitely means that you won’t always get the sort of cliff-hanger my longer fic sometimes relies on as the hook. But hopefully the movie style keeps it flowing quickly, exciting and you want to come back anyway…
Raiders and, say, Temple of Doom opened in very different ways. Raiders featured the ‘disconnected’ opening where the first part, the giant rolling boulder etc didn’t really matter to the story except to show who Indy/Willow was and set up a rivalry with Belloq/Lehane.
In Temple of Doom, the events prior to that don’t matter but the progress from there is all bound up in what happens in the club. We have another kind of club here, I referred to it in the story notes in the very first post. Oh yes, it’s that kind of club. You’ll forgive me if I elaborate on the scenery a little more than I usually would do?
The last part of the story was really to touch base with Lehane and Buffy who won’t be in the rest of this one. It was also to remind you about Willow and movie physics. Oh, and I noticed there was a lot of ‘nuts’ action in that last scene. Don’t think she’s a one trick pony though. The real story starts… now.
Thanks to: Anyone who can forgive me for teasing Faith/Buffy in the prologue and then taking them out of the story… I’ll come back to them again if I do more of these stories. After all, how delicious is it?



Paris

Willow moved along the old station platform, feeling quite out of place. The jungles of Peru and the deserts of Egypt held little or no fear for her. The mountains of India and the tundra of Siberia wouldn’t have phased her at all. She’d have been dressed for the occasion and just gotten on with it.

Here… she was under the very heart of Paris and not at all dressed for it.

It wasn’t the city that was causing her these problems. Not really. She was at home in bigger towns than this. Even in the biggest of them all. But… where she was headed?

“I’m really not dressed for it,” she said under her breath. The air snatched at her words and the concrete made them echo more than she’d have thought likely.

Once, in a temple in the mountains of Chile, talking to herself had set off a trap. So sensitive to vibrations had that been she’d narrowly avoided being sliced in half.

I know better. But I’m really not dressed for it.

She was wearing another, new tuxedo – and yes, it was a little tight across the bust but better that than baggy all the way down. It’d set her back nearly one half of the supply of French francs she’d brought with her too. But…

Unexpected expense. She’d had little choice though, given her client’s choice of meeting place. Perhaps she’d be able to charge it as a business expense when it came to taxes at least.

I can only hope.

Being on foot, without much by way of luggage, she’d had to spend her limited time before this meeting getting herself presentable. After all, she’d been asked to come here to take on a job and she couldn’t say she wasn’t looking forward to it.

It wasn’t the money – though that was always welcome when you had a six a year tuxedo habit – but along with the money there was always the opportunity for…

What word was there other than ‘adventure’?

Yes, she was addicted. Never feeling more alive than when – no, that wasn’t true. There was one other time she felt more alive. But that was an adventure of its own.

If only she’d had her own tux. But that was ruined, lying in the hotel’s trash by now and smelling faintly of rotted seaweed.

Five baths later and she was fairly sure that her hair didn’t smell the same way.

But this time… This was a very special place she’d come to. One of those global wonders that she’d heard about but never visited. One that demanded she be dressed appropriately – hence the tux – but also one that was hidden from the rest of the world by exclusivity rather than actual necessity.

The tunnels weren’t to keep it safe, it was just because this was the only way in.

To get to here, she she’d had to take the metro. That wasn’t unusual in Paris and she much preferred it to the New York subway. But then she’d been told she had to get off at an otherwise deserted stop. No one else had alighted from the train there and… now – so her instructions said - she had to walk into the dis-used branch line tunnel.

Even though the tunnel was lit, there were rats. Rather than seeing them she could hear them chittering to themselves, but they must’ve been used to the disturbance.

This was how everyone got to the club but the journey itself – as well as a natural fear of the unknown – was probably enough to put too many people off. Which was a shame. Or at least would be if it lived up to its reputation.

Just because she was a little excited to receive the invitation to come here didn’t mean she was under-prepared though. This was a job, after all. Then there’d been the whole thing on the liner…

Under her arm – another reason for the tightness – nestled her gun and she had the rest of her stuff in a small overnight bag.

Given the reputation of the place, she tended to think that packing a small bag wasn’t going to be that unusual an occurrence. Plenty of people would come here with no intention of going home when the night was over. Some of them – presumably – liked to be well prepared for that?

For some it was the whole point that the night wasn’t over when they left ‘Le Chatte Rose.’

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Commander Tara Maclay, United States Navy, hurried along the tunnel better prepared than on previous occasions when she’d come down here. Tonight, she’d secured – and worn - a long coat. Definitely a more elegant solution to the sort of problems she’d not anticipated when she started on this mission.

“You’re late,” a cold voice snapped at her in English.

Ilse.

“S-sorry,” she said. “I – I’m still finding my way around t-town.”

“It’s your third night, Sarah,” the other woman said, using the only name she had for her. “And there has been a problem on each one. Some reason for you to be ‘sorry’ or for your performance to be generally unacceptable.”

“I know – I’m sorry, I’ll do better. I p-promise.”

“Well, see that you do. Your language skills are impressive enough, but hardly unique. I can get three different girls for less trouble than you seem to cause. One for each language I want them to speak. Girls who will… do more than you. Yes?”

Ilse was a harsh woman. Deliberately so. Tara had known plenty of Germans who were perfectly nice, reasonable people. Not Ilse though where the accent of her birth didn’t help her hide those harsh qualities, even when she was speaking English.

But in this woman’s case, Tara was sure ‘appearances’ barely scratched the surface. Knowing the signs, understanding what to look for – she’d seen right away that Ilse was a professional. Capable. Determined. Ruthless, in her own way. And strangely… not hiding it.

And she was having to work hard to mask those same qualities from her ‘employer’. In case she was recognised for what she was.

Just as determined. Just as capable.

Maybe not as ruthless. Maybe…

“Can’t get the staff?” a very familiar voice asked from behind her.

A dream, surely… or a nightmare.

Willow Rosenberg? Here?

Now.

Tara didn’t turn around. She didn’t look. Of all the people in all the world to be here… Now.

It had to be one of the very few who could give her away and possibly get her killed…

If she sees my face. If she says something…

And… what’s she doing here – of all places – anyway?

Questions will need to be asked.


She’d known Rosenberg was in Paris, after that report but… here? Willow didn’t know it was her. Didn’t know she would be here. Couldn’t have done. They hadn’t met. They hadn’t talked since that room in Rome. Too long ago.

“I’m sure you know how it is,” Ilse said to the newcomer while Tara just tried to make herself very small, thankful for the coat that shrouded her. Her hair was dyed and… “Employees. Do you have an appointment with a member?”

“With the owner, actually,” the newcomer confirmed.

The owner? She’d been her three nights – like this – and never gotten close. Now Rosenberg showed up and just breezed in?

Typical.


“Ah, then you would be Doctor Rosenberg? If you will please excuse me for just one second, I will take you myself. What are you waiting for, Sarah? Get your coat off and get to work.”

Coat off? Now. Here?

In front of Rosenberg?


Left with no choice, what else could she do but comply? And Rosenberg – being who she was – there was simply no way she wasn’t going to look.

She might even look at her face.

Eventually.

“Sorry – I – ”

Tara opened her coat, took it off and revealed an outfit – such as it was – that Willow Rosenberg in all her sensual gloriousness could never have talked her into wearing.

No way.

No matter what she promised.

And Willow Rosenberg had promised a lot.

Always came good too.

At least someone came…

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“I knew I knew that birthmark,” Willow said, looking Tara Maclay up and down once again.

She’d waited this long to say something, until they were alone – at least for a few moments. Silence had been paid for by the sights… Strangely enough the most famous club of its kind in the world hadn’t really rivalled one naval officer who was very much out of uniform. Not for looking at anyway.

It was the birthmark that she’d first noted, though she’d never admit to it in a serious conversation. Everyone had some sort of birthmark, but this was… distinctive. It was… well, it was in one of those interesting places. Ones that – typically – Commander Maclay didn’t leave exposed when she was working.

It was in the sort of place that an archaeologist – a very fortunate archaeologist – might hope to uncover with some delicate hands-on excavation.

And had done… Several times.

Rome had been the last.

Rome was where I spent a while kissing it.

“Ha ha.”

As a guest of the owner, they were extending her every courtesy and that meant – by coincidence – that they’d extended her… Tara.

Tara Maclay. A beautiful woman she knew and loved very well.

Here… in the most notorious club of its kind anywhere in the western world.

Tara Maclay, apparently ‘on the job’ but not as… flexible as some of the other employees here in terms of what she would – and would not - consider.

Tara Maclay who had been asked to escort her in and get her a drink while Ilse notified the owner of the club that she’d arrived and made arrangements for whatever that would mean.

What’s she doing here? Same thing I am? Of all the women in all the world to meet in this place

“Sarah, is it?” she checked.

“Yes, yes it is. Sarah.”

“That’s easy to remember,” Willow said.

“Don’t ruin this,” Tara hissed in reply when she was convinced they were still alone.

“Woah, no way, doll. I’m not ruining anything. In fact, I’m just enjoying the view. I’m enjoying it a lot.”

Commander Tara Maclay, United States Navy, in stockings and a scarlet basque that absolutely made the best of her assets was a treat that she wasn’t likely to forget very soon. It was – possibly – even better than the same woman in her official uniform. No one should underestimate that comparison either.

“This is serious,” Tara said, looking back at her.

“I know.”

Tara gave her a steady look.

“I know,” she repeated. “It’s nearly always serious when we meet. That’s just how things are.”

That was all she needed to say for Tara to take her promise seriously. It really was simply the way things were. They spent far too little time together. She had her life to lead, business to undertake and even if she’d just been some mild mannered teacher with a few too many students crushing on her then Tara would’ve been off around the world keeping it safe for democracy.

Trying to, at least… It was looking like that might be a forlorn hope.

So when they did meet… it was usually serious. That had been the case when they’d first met. It continued that way as they’d kept on meeting. Different places, different times. When they might only have a few days in each other’s company.

And that made it intense.

It might even have been that their feelings for each other were heightened by the situations. Heightened sufficiently to last them through the long gaps where they weren’t together.

The feelings she was having right now, Tara dressed that way… They – and that image – would probably help her through the next long gap too. Yes… she’d be thinking about that for a while.

She had to appreciate it, even if it put her on guard. If Tara was here then… something was going down.

Of course, in this place that was pretty much a given. At least if it lived up to its reputation.

“Anything I need to worry about?” she asked, not expecting Tara to give her chapter and verse. But a hint might’ve been useful. She could even help. Maybe…

She should’ve known better. Commander Maclay didn’t violate operational security without good reason. Certainly not while they could be overheard or interrupted.

And the Commander’s stern was – from a following position - just as attractive as the bow of her ship.

“Yes,” Tara confirmed. That was all she said though and nothing more. Then they were out into the club proper. “You knew what this place was before you arrived, right?”

Willow realised that she’d frozen in place, looking out over the scene before them. Even for her… She’d thought she’d done well to keep her eyes off the goodies and focused on Tara while they’d come this far but…

She’d seen a lot of things. Done a lot of things. She was a gentlewoman about town in a tux and knew she wore it well. But she felt… kind of ordinary here.

The reputation had preceded it. You heard the stories but…

“It’s the most notorious lesbian club in the world…” she said absently.

“You can stop staring now,” Tara said, but her tone was mild. Obviously she’d been through this reaction a few days ago when she must’ve first arrived.

Had Tara gotten the job in the basque? Or had that come later? Enquiring minds and all that…

“You didn’t want me staring at your ass, did you? Well, I found something else to stare at. And something else. And – look – something else over there and there and – well, everywhere…

“The whole place is filled with something else to look at,” she concluded. And it really was.

“Keep your eyes open,” Tara said, with just a hint of sarcasm and some amusement too.

“Absolutely,” she promised. There was little chance that she was going to be closing them any time soon.

There was a reason that this club was ‘notorious’ rather than simply ‘famous.’ There were several clubs for women who leaned towards the Sapphic around the world. Many of them weren’t well known, often because of the laws of the lands they were in. Some were.

But she doubted that any of them compared to this…

To say that place was decadent was to describe the Eiffel Tower as ‘pretty tall’ or the ocean as ‘kind of wet’. Those were self-evident truths that understated the reality a number of times over. Some people might’ve gone so far as to describe it as ‘debauched’ but that seemed like more of a value judgment.

Most of those people who’d use such a word would’ve probably considered a room full of women who had no good use for men to be debauched by its mere existence. Even if they’d been sat around doing crosswords, needlepoint and not talking.

No crosswords here. Pretty much guaranteed. Needlepoint also seemed unlikely.

Not as much talking as you might’ve thought either.

Drinking and laughing. Dancing and carousing. Living and… could you call that ‘loving’?

In some places, sure, you’d go so far as ‘loving.’

Other words, perhaps. In the darker corners…

Women. Women everywhere. None seemed younger than twenty-five and then went right up through their sixties… Tuxedo’s – better fitting than hers. Cocktail dresses. Hair in the latest styles and some that had faded away years ago. Close cropped, greased back haircuts. Long flowing locks primped for hours to look just perfect before someone else had her hand in it.

Women were – literally – in the air. Because, yes, there was an acrobats swing with a woman who wasn’t wearing very much laughing and giggling as she swung back and forth above their heads while a woman in a better tux than hers held up a riding crop that gently swatted the acrobats backside as she swung.

Other words came to mind. For some women were on the tips of their tongues. Again in very literal ways.

Mostly white – it was Paris after all - but every skin tone from around the world was represented. Several more from North Africa, if she was any judge.

Clearly some of them were wealthy, the cut of their dresses or their suits gave that away. But equally some came from more modest means. This place looked to be a great, social leveller. Because when you thought about it if you excluded anyone then how would you gather this many women who loved women in one place?

Of course in the mind of some of them were activities a good deal less noble than ‘love’.

There women lined up ten deep at the bars. Even more, dancing and laughing. Really, who’d known there were this many women in Paris? Let alone those who would choose this place?

And how did all of this make her feel?

After the initial assessment that, yes, this was kind of what she’d expected her attention returned to Tara Maclay. Because she had to wonder, she had to speculate. She knew that Tara always carried a gun when she was working – and she was undoubtedly working to be here, like this - but where would she carry a gun right now?

Enquiring minds were… fascinated.

“Do you have business here?” Tara asked carefully, skipping between two sets of hands that would likely have wandered across her – somewhat exposed – butt with a playful smile. The owners respected her avoidance but didn’t promise not to try it again if she strayed too close later.

And Tara looked like she wouldn’t mind. Of course, that was Sarah… the girl who had the job here. Sarah wouldn’t mind. Tara… was somewhere else while Sarah did what she had to.

“Yeah, business.”

“Me too,” Tara said, giving her a significant look. Don’t screw it up for me. “Perhaps I can show you around, later?”

“I think maybe I’d like that,” Willow replied, tearing her eyes away from her not-often-enough lover’s up-thrust chest.

I’m up here.”

“Sure – I know that – Sorry. But you know… Gosh!

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Yay for great update-y goodness... I wonder if they are able to enjoy the club or do they have a private party later...

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Hi Katharyn

Its great to see this back. I love how fate always brings Willow and Tara together. How unlucky does Willow have to be to run into Faith on the ship (and she always seems to have the upper hand on Willow). Thanks for the imagery of Tara in that outfit in the club, very hot!

Can't wait to read more.

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* Giggles like a school girl *

I love horndog Willow.

How could one not ogle " Sarah's" goodies?

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* Giggles like a school girl *

I love horndog Willow.

How could one not ogle " Sarah's" goodies?

Here's to hoping Tara carries a small caliber weapon :shock ...lol


Take it from a girl who has had to work the West Hollywood Station Halloween Parade....

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Zampsa - As we will see, the club may end up closing for a little while :) Willow's a trouble magnet in this role... But maybe they will come back later LOL. Thanks

Kimmy - Hey thanks, great to have you back too. Fate is a huge thing in my writing. Sidestep was all built around the certainty of fate but you're right, here, they do keep getting thrown back together. If it was Faith's appearance on the ship I'd write it up to 'movie coincidence' (which is a thing) but for them, yes, it's fate.

Re Faith... well, like I said, if she was beatable then I couldn't bring her back and have her be a tough competitor. The character from the movies had his face melted at the end of Raiders but was never a 'brawn' character. He just made the right (wrong) friends and Faith has some of that going on. Maybe for Part 3 I will have to decide if Faith is really 'slayerlike' in her physical prowess. Buffy is - I made that clear in Raiders - she's got a mean punch and a good jaw but isn't trained. But since 'Slayer' isn't a thing here... possibly... Umm, now I am imagining a Buffy that is stronger than Faith but happier in a umm... 'bottom' position and where that goes... Time to stop thinking about that!

The Tara outfit... I think I was just looking for what Paris 1930's might mean. By today's standards she's pretty covered up actually! But at the time... Mr Maclay wouldn't have been happy :) But Willow is... "You wore it work, why won't you wear it for me?"

More is coming!

Thanks

Grimm - Don't think Kajun noticed this yet ;)

Horndog Willow? I've always had that, to be fair. I mean... who wouldn't be? LOL I think that was very much a part of canon (just off screen!) But as I said to Kimmy, for the time Tara is being quite scandalous... For Willow (in any reality) she's all about the wrapping as much as the contents. Shiny!

Small caliber weapon? You will see... I had to come up with a whole character pretty much to deal with the fact I put Tara in that outfit LOL.

But if you liked the visual around the outfit I am hoping you with LOVE the visual when the action starts...

Thanks!

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Funny thing happened earlier this week... Umm, I actually started writing the prologue for Part 3 :) Different bad guys... at least for the prologue.

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Title: The Raiders Chronicles – Tomb of the Vampire Prince - Chapter Three
Author: Katharyn Rosser
Feedback: Absolutely, yes please. That’s why I write for this place, to engage in the discussion about the story.
Spoiler warning: Nope. All new. All original. Set in a universe where Willow Rosenberg takes the place of Indiana Jones. What can I spoil?
Distribution: This story was written for Pens. Pens is its home. No archiving off Different Coloured Pens and the Kitten Board please. No conversion to eBook or other formats please. Enjoy it here.
Summary: Getting to the actual point and the next action beat… What do you mean you thought there’d be no action?
Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the copyrights or anything else associated with BTVS or Indiana Jones. All rights lie with the production company, writers etc. I am making no money from this series of stories however all original characters and situations remain my property. There may be occasional use of ‘classic lines’ from the source series/movies or others for which full credit is given to the original writers.
Rating: Occasional, tasteful, adult situations and contextual bad language.
Couples: Tara and Willow forever. 100% FAQ compliant, 100% of the time. Look it up if you don’t know what that means.
Text convention: Use of italics denotes either special emphasis if used for a single or a few words in a sentence OR first person thoughts if used for a whole sentence.
Physics: I’ll say it here… It’s Movie Physics, people. Someone Willow’s size and weight can punch out big, big guys… If you don’t like it, don’t read it. (But please read it)
Notes: This part was originally twice as long, extending right through the next chapter but then that meant it was just too weighty so… I’ve split it. But while the last part ending on Willow’s perving, this one will get to the punchline. So to speak.
Thanks to: All those of you who started feeding back in the thread right from the first part. Always nice to feel that there’s a readership out there. I think the one thing that would stop me writing and putting these stories up would be feeling no one was there. That’s why Pens is special, it’s not one of those ‘dead’ places people post stories. It’s very much alive and very supportive here.
Heroes and villains: Just a quick note on this. I’m using Nazi’s and anonymous goons in these stories for the most part. So far so good, you all know I’m not sticking up for Nazi’s at all, but I make a distinction between them and regular Germans of the time. Also though, I make no apology for the fact that our first ‘bad guy’ (or bad girl) is unashamedly queer herself. We have lesbian heroes and we have at least one lesbian ‘villain’. I’m not playing to or avoiding cliché. You know I’m going to have Tara and Willow in love and together. Everything else after that is story. In fact… I’m going to have more ‘neutral’ and ‘good’ lesbians in these few parts than you can shake a stick at. So I want a pass on the ‘bad’ ones. Of more concern is the likelihood of the sheer number of queer women I put in these stories!



Watching Tara retreat – which seemed to avoid dodging the over-exuberant grasp of too many women who’d already had a little too much to drink – was in no way a bad thing. So she was just going to get on with her ‘job’.

It was in no way mundane and it probably helped her fit right in. One woman, a little older than either of them, caught her eye and raised her glass in salute to the fact she’d had that conversation with ‘the waitress’ or whatever Tara was.

Or that she was staring at her retreating butt. She nodded. It seemed worth acknowledging.

Have I ever watched Tara walk in heels before?

Definitely not dressed like that.


Of course, to the women here, the unattainable was ever so much more alluring than the freely available.

Which was good. That Tara was unavailable.

Here. Of all places.

That made her feel… good. And she liked to think that – if they knew she could go home to bed with the best butt in the place – there might be a good natured cheer.

Of course Tara would never forgive her if she heard such a cheer so… Maybe that wasn’t something to brag about.

And of course, she wasn’t supposed to know ‘Sarah’ anyway.

“Doctor Rosenberg?”

It was the woman – of course it was because she hadn’t seen a man in this entire place to this point – but more importantly it was the same German woman who’d snapped at Tara at the entrance.

How to make a bad impression. If one had been necessary…

She might’ve been attractive if she hadn’t been quite so…

Between an unfortunate tendency to associate Germans with the bad guys – not something she’d worried about prior to the changes in that country since 1933 – and the fact that the woman had been nasty to Tara… Yeah, first impressions…

I don’t like you.

“If you’ll please come with me?” the woman – Ilse, Tara had called her – gestured towards a stairway. She was guessing it led up to a private box. She’d noted there were several of them dotted the periphery of the large open space that might once have been considered a ball room but was now - pretty much by definition - ball-less.

Or almost…

Because here and there… there were a very few men back in the shadows. More like security than voyeurs, but what? They couldn’t find enough burly women to do the job?

The evidence right before her eyes said otherwise.

“Thank you. Ilse isn’t it?”

The other woman inclined her head a little, as if pleased to be recognised or remembered.

I remember all sorts of stuff, honey. Like how you spoke to my girl.

Even if you didn’t know she was my girl at the time, we’re still going to have a reckoning for that one. I just know it.


“Is this – It looks like an old ball room – no, more like an opera house?” But why would anyone build one practically underground? The ornately decorated roof – yeah, that had a theme that wasn’t exactly religious – might actually be above street level. But the rest certainly wasn’t.

“Of a sort.”

She’d just have to accept that since it seemed like the only answer she was going to get. It was only curiosity anyway. For now she didn’t have a need to wonder about the location so many women-loving-women were having a good time in. She could only marvel that they’d all found the place.

Or that it existed at all.

“So, are you the one who asked me here?”

“No, that would be my employer,” Ilse replied. “Or rather, she was keen to have a meeting with someone who had… your sort of skills. I identified some likely candidates and you seemed the best qualified.”

“And would one of those qualifications be breasts?” she wondered, guessing at who the other candidate may have been. After all, coincidences seemed increasingly unlikely the more times that they occurred.

Was that why Lehane had been on the boat? Were they bringing her in too? In which case, this wasn’t going to turn out well. As rivals they were deadly. But if she was somehow expected to work with Lehane? That was… No. No.

No.

But then what was Tara doing here too? That didn’t seem like it could be a coincidence either.

More and more unlikely…

She hadn’t even known Tara was in Paris. Let alone right here. And… dressed like that.

“Perhaps one of them,” Ilse admitted. “After all I think a lot of men would feel… disarmed here. Is that the word in English?”

“Perhaps an even better one would be ‘emasculated’.” She looked at the ‘security’ she’d spotted. As if reacting to her notice they’d backed even more into the shadows.

“Hmm, does that mean what I think it does?”

“Probably,” she agreed.

What if that security was there for her?

After all, she knew she did have something of a reputation. Tara will never let me live it down if I find trouble here…

“I like it. It is a good, strong word. I will have to seek out reasons to use it in conversation,” Ilse said as they went up the steps.

Yeah, sister, you look like you’re up for a bit of emasculating.

But before they could delve deeper into the meaning of the word, Ilse showed her out into the private box at the top of the stairway.

Within it sat a young woman – again, her gender no surprise in the circumstances. But this time a blonde, though not in a Nordic way. This was peroxide unless she missed her guess (and she did have some experience in these things). The tone of her skin and – when she turned – her eyes, didn’t quite match that of her hair. Unless, perhaps she’d been out in the sun a little too long.

She was young too. Younger than she’d have expected – but she had nothing to base that on. It just felt like a young woman would be… done on the floor below. Not watching from on high.

Or perhaps that was her usual.

Perhaps she wasn’t into women at all. It took all sorts to make the world go around. Not every woman could be a lesbian. Someone had to give birth to the next generation – that was basic science.

“Doctor Rosenberg, may I introduce Catherine Traithe, the owner of the establishment. Catherine, this is Doctor Willow Rosenberg. She is the expert that we spoke about.”

“A pleasure,” Willow said, offering to shake hands but rather being offered one to kiss. And – never one to ignore prevailing social convention – she did just that.

Without even wondering where it had been.

Until after. Right…

Aside from the slight imperfection of her hair colour, this was a clearly beautiful woman in a room filled every sort of woman in the world. You’d find some definition of beauty that suited your tastes here – indeed her definition of it was walking around with her breasts and butt on rather too much display – but even amongst all of those women, there were certain common standards.

All in all, you’d have to be a fool or a homosexual man not to find Catherine Traithe beautiful.

And she was neither of those things. So… Yes. She did. And so would Tara. So she didn’t have to feel bad about that.

“I have heard a lot about you, Doctor Rosenberg,” Catherine said. “Won’t you please take a seat?”

Not German either. The name was indistinct, it could come from anywhere, but the accent was French via nowhere else. Parisian wealth to be precise. She’d have known it anywhere. Didn’t sound like Traithe had even lived anywhere else for log enough to pick up a hint of anything else.

“Thank you, Ms Traithe.”

“Catherine, please. I’ve paid a lot of money to bring you here; I think we can do away with formalities.”

She smiled her most charming smile and sat down. It was true that her expenses in coming here, including a first class cabin on the ship she’d abandoned close to the coast, had been paid for. The ruined tuxedo, not so much.

“You certainly did. Thank you. First class was a nice touch.”

“It was nothing. I admire your suit.”

She smiled. “I had a better one, but… it got soaked in seawater. Long story, not worth telling.”

“I’m sure. Do you like my club?”

“It’s… unique. And more than lives up to its reputation. I’d never have thought it could be so profitable?” she wondered.

Where does your money come from?

“You’d be surprised how much money it does make, but principally because my family has owned this space since it was built. There are very few costs outside of the obvious and it’s fulfilling, in its own way.”

“Oh?”

“Giving people – women – one place for themselves. To be themselves. They come from all over the world.”

“And the word has spread just as far.”

‘Themselves’ rather than ‘ourselves’. And it was one, quite specific, subset of women that were being served by this place. Not women in general, many of whom would run fifteen miles in the rain rather than stay here.

Sad but true. That was just how some women reacted.

“I can see that.”

“There’s so much for the rest of us…” Catherine shook her head, dismissing some thought that had come to mind.

“You’re not…”

“Sapphic? Good gracious, no.”

“But…” This whole place? Who did that if it wasn’t at least partly for themselves?

“My late grandmother was in love with a woman during the latter half of her life,” Catherine explained. “She created and built this place, turned it from a dead concert hall, hidden away for no reason, into a place of joy.”

“And no little lust.”

“Doesn’t lust give you joy?” Ilse asked from behind her.

“Some people,” Willow hedged by not really answering. Considering that what really gave her joy was wandering around, serving drinks in a uniform she hoped to find all kinds of joyful at a later date.

But waxing lyrical about the power of love seemed like it would be off the chosen message at the moment.

“Perhaps you would excuse us, Ilse?” Catherine asked, perhaps detecting the differences between them. Differences born of the fact that she wasn’t sure Ilse hadn’t been making a pass at her just then.

“Of course.” Though the words said the German woman was happy to oblige, the tone of voice said that she felt it would be a mistake.

Now that she had the owner to herself though, she intended to make good use of the opportunity. “Tell me, Catherine, you know my reputation or I wouldn’t be here. So please tell me that’s not a Nazi you have working for you?”

“‘Working for me’ would be an interesting way of phrasing it. You might better say something else…” Even though Ilse had – apparently – retreated, Catherine kept her voice low. Low as could be heard in this place anyway.

Willow raised her eyebrows. She hadn’t expected that. She’d assumed they were on the same page. “You’re in trouble?”

Catherine looked around, shook her head. They were being overheard? Listened to?

“But is she a Nazi?”

“Would you condemn every German for the opinions of their leader?”

“I’d condemn every German who voted for him, yes,” Willow said. “Certainly every one that joined the party. I have friends who were driven out of their own country by those thugs.”

Not to mention all the things that had happened in other countries where Hitler was making grabs for supernatural power of some kind.

Informed minds insisted he was a ‘nut’ for it.

“Ilse, unlike me, is here because it suits her preferences,” Catherine explained. “There are any number of German born women down there enjoying themselves. Probably more than any other nationality, except my countrywomen. Whatever the Nazi’s think about the Jews and the Romany, I assure you their vitriol against those who love their own sex is just as strong.”

It made sense, though she hadn’t heard it herself. Then again, it wasn’t the kind of thing that made the news, was it? Unlike the exodus of various racial and ethnic groups, fighting to get out of a country that no longer tolerated their presence but unable to enter the countries that should’ve been keen to take them.

At least not in any numbers. It was an international scandal, but never seemed to be reported as such. If the Nazi’s were guilty of purging Germany, plenty of others were guilty of not helping with the fallout.

Including her own government.

The very one Tara Maclay was here to fight for and represent. At least they were doing something in other ways though. Whatever Tara was up to…

“I doubt that everything that happens here is rooted in love,” Willow observed, looking out over the room.

“True, but love may follow. For some.”

“You make it sound almost noble.” She looked back at the woman who – apparently – needed her help. Perhaps she ought not to be judging just yet. Not until she knew more.

“I – we do not discriminate, the costs are paid for by our members of means and they enjoy the company of those of lesser means. It lends itself to… variety.”

Ah… so the rich got what they wanted and those not so well off… well, they got… what they wanted too. All very altruistic and... It still made her a little uncomfortable.

The whole place did.

Whatever this is, it’s bigger than simple business if Tara’s here.

And that means I need to play nice.


“I can imagine, but let’s talk about why I’m here.”

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Even after three, consecutive nights of working here, Tara was still sometimes shocked by some of the things people would get up to with each other in the middle of a crowd.

Or at least on the periphery of it.

Wherever they were placed though, the crowd might be the thing. Fear and panic – as well as grim determination – could be reinforced by the presence of others. She’d seen it happen.

So why not debauchery?

If Daddy could see me now…

He’d whup my backside so hard. But mostly because of what I’m wearing – not where I am


Absently - while balancing a tray on one hand and avoiding a couple who laughed and giggled right into her path - she tried to adjust the too small underwear she’d been given to pass as a uniform.

No, Daddy wouldn’t have been happy with her right now. Not happy at all. His idea of a uniform was dress blues, though he’d been proud enough when she joined the navy.

And though Gunnery Sergeant Maclay probably had some idea that she wasn’t a typist, he really didn’t know the things she did for her country so that Marines like him – hopefully – wouldn’t have to storm the beaches of France, Italy or Japan.

At this very moment, it was tough to imagine he’d have approved of what she was doing – or wearing - now.

Not right now.

And for more than just the ‘uniform’ or even the surroundings. He wouldn’t have liked her being in this place no matter what combination of people it was filled with. Whatever else you might say about him – and people had said plenty - he’d never had a problem with her preferences.

This place was beyond preferences, but that wasn’t why he’d have had a problem. He’d have considered that she was in danger… Exposed in too many ways.

Her ‘team’ on this mission was vanishingly small and inexperienced. Just her and one other, young, woman as back up. Operative word ‘young.’

But what else was she supposed to have done? There might as well have been a sign up. ‘You don’t have to be queer to work here, but it helps’.

Yes, it definitely helped. Seriously… bring most of the heterosexual women she knew from the embassy down here and they’d stand there agog.

As a lesbian it was difficult not to do the same thing.

In their whole lives, most of them wouldn’t have even thought about some of the things that would’ve been happening around them. So, no. You didn’t have to be a lesbian but it really would have helped.

For obvious reasons too many people didn’t feel able to be open about their preferences, certainly not for anything official. And definitely not if it might also be dangerous. That had shrunk the pool of candidates dramatically.

What you did have to be – of course - was a woman of an appropriate age. And the younger, at least a little attractive women she thought she could rely on from the Paris embassy – rely on not to freak out at what happened here every night, let alone if the chips were down – brought them down to a choice of precisely one.

Daddy probably wouldn’t ever have termed the girl as ‘back up.’

Dottie, the back up in question, was pretending to be an American student in Paris, needing some extra money. There was an implied suggestion that maybe she wouldn’t have minded more than just money, which seemed to be a good way to get through the interview here. It wasn’t required of her but she’d come up with herself and run with it.

She’d gotten the job too so fair play to her.

And Dottie – in reality a fairly new addition to the embassy secretarial pool – clearly loved it here. She couldn’t stop talking about it, which was a worry, and you could see from the way her eyes played over the crowd… she was in some sort of heaven. How long that might last, she had no idea but… it did concern her a little.

But she let it slide, because she knew exactly who Dottie was.

Small town girl from the mid-west? Never been overseas until this trip? Oh, and resolutely queer in that small town, despite the fact she might’ve been the only one who’d ever admit it? Yes, she could see the attraction both of Paris and a place like this.

And ordinarily, she’d have passed on someone who was that easily sucked into the cover that they were maintaining. It was good for the cover itself, but would prove troublesome later.

Of course, she hadn’t been left with much of a choice now, had she? This was one place she didn’t want to be isolated…

So Dottie it was.

“Keep everything to hand,” she said, bending to lean into the hatch behind which Dottie kept all the coats and bags – including the overnight variety Willow had arrived with – for the patrons. Yes, she was the coat check girl and that meant she got to see everything…

It also meant she had great places to hide their stuff, including all sorts of weapons.

“Why?”

“Things are about to get rough,” Tara said, regretting it a little. But she knew it was beyond just ‘likely’. When Rosenberg was around, it was practically guaranteed. “Be careful, stay in here unless I call for you or I come and get you. You’ll be safe here.”

“How – how do you know? I mean – that it’ll get rough?” Dottie asked her chest. Tara straightened up and tried to adjust the bust. But it really didn’t help.

And she’d been pushing her butt out with an older lady just behind her… watching with a speculative eye. Damn this thing…

But she had bigger problems. They both did.

“Willow Rosenberg’s here,” Tara said. To her that explained it all. There was always trouble when Willow was around. “Get our things together. Just in case. Oh, and that bag the red-head had with her when I came in.”

“Okay, Co – Sarah, sure. I’ll just keep them – here, ready. Until you come, or I hear something”

Dottie had the good sense to sound just a little worried.

“Stay here,” Tara insisted. “Right?”

“Okay.”

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“With all due respect, Miss Traithe,” Willow said. “If you know my reputation, then you know you don’t need to be asking me all these questions.”

Her more public successes – and some of the impossible to hide failures – had all been trotted out and questioned. Not the ones on behalf of the government, of course, but the rest… And the questions were quite perceptive. More interested in the how and the why than the accomplishment itself – or lack of it.

It all sounded very much like an interview rather than a job offer. And Traithe was playing the part. Whatever she was afraid of – whoever – and what she thought of them… She was hiding it well. Doing the job she’d been given – despite the fact she was supposed to be the employer here.

“I should risk throwing good money after bad?” Catherine asked.

“Of course not, but as you’ve said – there are really only two choices that appear to reflect your requirements and the other… Unless I miss my guess about her, I’d just say she’s unstable and untrustworthy. As likely to sell whatever it is you want than to bring it to you.”

“And would she say the same about you, Doctor Rosenberg?”

Willow considered that for a moment, what would Lehane say about her? “No, if anything she’d probably say I was too reliable.”

“Too trusting perhaps?” It was a recurring theme of the questions so far.

“No, I think you’ll find I have a healthy suspicion about me. Suspicion that keeps me healthy, I mean. Not that I suspect myself - For example - ”

She broke off as Ilse returned to the box, all dark and brooding… power. They met eyes for a moment as Catherine greeted her… whatever she really was. When offering her cheek to be kissed, Ilse lingered over it a little too much for her claim to be ignored or mistaken.

And Catherine didn’t seem exactly happy about it either. Understandably, if what she’d said earlier was true.

Ilse wasn’t Traithe’s employee, for all that she’d been dismissed a little while ago. She was in control. She didn’t know how to be anything but in control. It hadn’t been said but… there it was all the same.

So why would Catherine allow her that control? What did she have on her?

She’s a hostage to something… And that’s not just meant sitting here..

But if Ilse wasn’t someone she fundamentally had to disagree with, like an enemy agent or someone who wished her harm, then she had no business sticking her nose into their domestic affairs.

Whatever they were.

“Ilse, I was just asking Doctor Rosenberg - ”

“Enough,” Ilse said, cutting off all debate, before she softened it. “Enough, Catherine. Please. Doctor Rosenberg will suit our purposes, I suggest we get to the reason that she’s been asked to come here. Before her patience with us is utterly exhausted.”

Which was close to where she’d been going, but then she’d seen how Ilse casually treated Catherine and she found herself sympathetic to the Frenchwoman. Whatever was happening here, she certainly didn’t like it. Domestic or foreign policy, it didn’t matter. She really felt like she should do something for Catherine Traithe.

“Very well, if you’re certain?” Catherine sounded like a woman who wasn’t used to making decisions anymore. Which would fit with the fact it didn’t seem like she did.

“Mademoiselle Lehane won’t be joining us, she declined the invitation. So…”

“I’m the only game in town,” Willow concluded. Why was Lehane not turning up though? What did she know? What was she doing instead?

Or who?

“Precisely.”

“I should tell you to take a running jump just for talking to her.” And to boost my fee. Private commissions, along with government work, were all about all that kept her head above the financial water when things went wrong.

And things did go wrong.


“Please understand,” Catherine said. “We need the best person for a difficult task. It would be remiss not to look at the alternatives.”

“As long as they’re female and not exactly heterosexual?” Willow checked. Occasionally being a woman had been a factor, but no one had ever cared enough who she liked to bed to give her work before.

“No, those are not the qualities that attracted us to you,” Ilse replied. “They were merely convenient in this venue. We’d have met any suitable gentlemen somewhere… less distracting.”

While the distraction was intended in my case, was it?

“Your ability to get us what we want is what we require and in that you and Mademoiselle Lehane are almost unrivalled. Neither of you look at archaeology as simply digging up old bones and using fine brushes.”

Yes, the last time I did some fine brushwork it was across Tara’s milky skin -

Damn! This place
is distracting!

“We?”

“Catherine will be financing the expedition,” Ilse said, running a finger-tip around the seated woman’s collar bone. It wasn’t just possessive, like one woman warning off a like-minded rival. No, this was… controlling. Aimed at Catherine herself, rather than the potential rival.

She could almost see the shiver run through Traithe and wasn’t convinced it was much to do with desire.

“Good,” Willow said evenly. “Finance is important to any successful venture.”

“But she is not the only interested party,” Ilse finished.

That would’ve been her next question. One of them anyway. Unfortunately it seemed unlikely she was going to get a better answer than that and the vibe had changed. Distinctly… She was no longer negotiating. She was being told what to do.

And obviously that didn’t sit well with her. As assumption had been made that she’d say ‘yes’. Something she hadn’t done. “And what is it you want?”

“An icon,” Catherine said, as if eager to get back in the conversation. It earned her a gentle pat on the shoulder and she seemed relieved by it. More like… a pet?

“A religious icon?”

“Is there another kind?” Ilse asked.

“Yes, actually. Many different traditions have different definitions of what they consider to be an ‘icon’. But I’m hardly an expert – there are several more qualified people, some of them right here in Paris.”

Catherine shook her head, using the gesture to check with Ilse that she could speak up. The other woman seemed to allow it. “It’s not the providence of the item we need you for, but rather the recovery. It’s in an isolated location and…” She hunted for the word.

“Protected,” Ilse supplied.

“Ah.”

“We would be prepared to fund all expenses, pay you for your time and - knowing your support for the institution of learning - to make a significant donation to the museum of your choice where – eventually – you can keep the icon itself,” Ilse said, before her eyes fixed on something on the floor below them. They narrowed and she excused herself again.

“Oh? Problem?” Willow wondered, taking a look. Apparently things got out of hand even here and Ilse was the solution. “Shame.”

She turned to Catherine as soon as she was sure the other woman was gone and couldn’t see them. Whether they were being overheard or not, she couldn’t not ask the question.

“You don’t look happy about her or this,” she said. “Tell me I’m wrong?”

Catherine looked furtive, even like she might deny it. But… then she made a decision and shook her head. “You’re not – you’re not wrong.”

“She has something on you?”

“I have a child, a little boy – I can’t - ”

“You need help.”

“What I need is for you to do what she asks,” Catherine said. “Please. Just agree.”

“Call the Gendarmerie,” Willow suggested.

“I’m not the only one – all of us, you don’t understand. You can’t. This place…”

“Sure I can. Call the police. Whoever she is - ”

“They can’t help, Doctor Rosenberg. They can’t. Not with - ”

Traithe fell to silence as Ilse returned. It was an obviously suspicious silence and Willow just itched to punch her in the jaw, letting the chips fall where they may. But she didn’t know what was going on. If there was a child involved, other people who might get hurt…

And this wasn’t the time for Americans to going punching Germans in the jaw. It might’ve become the first – cheap – shot of a global war. Things were that tense…

Tara Maclay was here too. To start something without even understanding what it was? Tara would be ticked. Majorly ticked.

“What’s going on, Catherine?” Ilse asked.

“N-nothing.”

“Don’t worry,” Willow said. “I’m not hitting on your girlfriend.”

“No,” Ilse said. “You’re doing something much more dangerous than that.”

She exhaled, not having the patience for deception – or the face for it. I just suck at lying. It looked like she was going to get her wish. Global war be damned. “You’re really going to make me do this, aren’t you?”

Ilse smiled. She knew. She understood what the suspicions were. Ilse was practically daring her.

Fair enough. There weren’t many women who expected to be punched in the jaw by another woman. It was rare for her to need to – but it’d always had the element of surprise behind it.

Catherine screamed at her as she threw the punch.

“No!”

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Yay for great update-y goodness... Willow "Trouble" Rosenberg strikes again... I wonder how much scolding she gets from Tara for ruining her work when the dust settles...

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I hope Willow has the smug Biyatch coughing up teeth for the next week.

Damn...I was hoping Tara kept her weapons somewhere a bit more risque than the coat check!

On second thought, ewwwww!

Lol @ Dottie....Live it up Toots.

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First off, I have to say how much I absolutely love the Indiana Jones movies. Even the last one entertained me though it did not hold up as well as the others in some ways. That being said, the original Raiders redo with W/T, F/B was just a lot of fun to read. I was excited to see your posts with the new storyline. I look forward to seeing where this story goes as it has already started off in an interesting location with Tara's unusual undercover job. It was entertaining to read how Tara was preparing for trouble including making sure Willow's bag was with her stuff in the coat check meanwhile Willow was attempting to behave but, in true adventure style, fails miserably and delivers the not-unexpected "punchline."
I look forward to the next installment.
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 Post subject: Re: W&T: The Raiders Chronicles - Ch.3 of NEW STORY 02/12/14
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Hi Katharyn

Now that I look back at Faith's "wins" of course you're right, she was always either in the right place at the right time or aligned herself with the right people. I know you said that we won't see her again in this one but I did see you mention a part 3 prologue, hope we may get to see her and Buffy again. I just think you have a really interesting dynamic with those 2 (not that I want to you to distract from the Willow/Tara). Buffy is a kick ass chick who can more than hold her own but Faith we haven't seen in much hand to hand combat.

I love the way you wrote Willow's internal dialogue to herself (being happy that Tara is unavailable, how she won't forget how Ilse spoke to Tara etc.). That's why I love this story, you have continued on the same style as Indiana but come up with this whole new adventure with your own spin.

In case you haven't guessed, I'm really enjoying this so thanks for the brilliant writing and regular updates.

Kind regards
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 Post subject: Re: W&T: The Raiders Chronicles - Ch.3 of NEW STORY 02/15/14
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Well, thank you all :)

Zampsa - Seems a while since there was dibsyness going on :) I think Willow only gets scolded precisely as much as she likes to be. She knows what she's doing LOL

Grimm - So judgemental! But then a punch in the mouth is ;)

Tara still has a 22 hidden somewhere... ;)

And the more I redraft, the more Dottie has being living it up LOL. She's had a wild few days!

Thanks!

Loislane - I could certainly watch the last IJ movie. I could even watch it twice if... you get rid of Shia LB, the monkeys, the tarzan thing and the CGI ants or whatever they were. I could just about live with aliens IF you get rid of all that...

Tara knows that Willow won't go on an adventure without her hat. It's just a thing for her (and IJ) so she's making sure they have the hat when everything goes wrong. Because - obviously - it really will do when Willow shows up! I wouldn't be looking for mystery or surprises in this story. If it can be solved with a punch or a chase... it really will be ;) The rest is just about the situations I can put the girls in. (Tara may find herself more underdressed than she wants to be again!)

Thanks!

Kimmy - To see you re-explain what I explained, actually Faith is not very 'Faith-like' but then Buffy isn't Buffy-like either in many ways so... who cares? LOL. It's nice to have them together.

I did mention a part three prologue. It's one of those 'disconnected' IJ prologues that don't mean much for the rest of the story. But it's pretty much written so when I have the bigger idea for the rest of the story I have a place to go from. 1940 I think...

And I would probably want to end on the trilogy (because nothing good comes from 4!) and that would mean going back to Giles, Buffy, Faith and anyone I didn't kill... Just because. Of course, that means I need a coincidence - COUGH - story that hangs together a little better. I think part 3 will certainly get done. I just need the real story...

If you guys like where this ends up...

It's interesting to see what you like about this because - in many ways - it's fun for me to write differently to how I usually choose to (for the girls) The 'short' form (yeah, it's about the length of a publishable novel and I call that short!) means I have to be snappier and a little less 'in their heads' but the mix of the characters is also fun. And having Willow just be 'cool' (but still showing who she is) is nice too. I never thought about it, but perhaps I am saying that a Willow raised the way this one was would've been the cool adventurer type. Ira and Sheila in canon (plus the time) probably made her very different...

I hope you continue to enjoy it. And the updates will continue to be regular because that's the way I roll. I got really ill in the middle of a huge fic and delayed it for about a year. I won't do that again. Now I write it all and redraft most of it before I even start to post. Just so I can push it out every 3 days or so... Means you have to wait for me to write it, but you know it's coming at that pace. Nearly all the time. I don't think I could actually go back to the 'pressure' of having to write the next part in a couple of days no matter what is happening or having you wait longer... *shudder*

So... anyway, thank you very much and next part should be tomorrow sometime

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 Post subject: W&T: The Raiders Chronicles - Ch.4 of NEW STORY 02/18/14
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Title: The Raiders Chronicles – Tomb of the Vampire Prince - Chapter Four
Author: Katharyn Rosser
Feedback: Absolutely, yes please. That’s why I write for this place, to engage in the discussion about the story.
Spoiler warning: Nope. All new. All original. Set in a universe where Willow Rosenberg takes the place of Indiana Jones. What can I spoil?
Distribution: This story was written for Pens. Pens is its home. No archiving off Different Coloured Pens and the Kitten Board please. No conversion to eBook or other formats please. Enjoy it here.
Summary: The fight…
Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the copyrights or anything else associated with BTVS or Indiana Jones. All rights lie with the production company, writers etc. I am making no money from this series of stories however all original characters and situations remain my property. There may be occasional use of ‘classic lines’ from the source series/movies or others for which full credit is given to the original writers.
Rating: Occasional, tasteful, adult situations and contextual bad language.
Couples: Tara and Willow forever. 100% FAQ compliant, 100% of the time. Look it up if you don’t know what that means.
Text convention: Use of italics denotes either special emphasis if used for a single or a few words in a sentence OR first person thoughts if used for a whole sentence.
Physics: I’ll say it here… It’s Movie Physics, people. Someone Willow’s size and weight can punch out big, big guys… If you don’t like it, don’t read it. (But please read it)
Notes: Now we’re really getting going… It needs a good fight, every so often, if you’re going to write an Indiana Jones type story. Pretty much one fight per scene/setting, really. Let’s see if I keep that going…
Oh, and the visual of Tara in this scene, dressed as she is and doing what she’s doing? You’re welcome.
It seems redundant to say it, but I will. As with Raiders I’m very clear in my distinction between Germans and Nazis. I don’t need to explain what that is, it’s common-sense but there it is. Nazis are the typical bad guy in these movies. Germans are the people Nazis happened to first.
Finally, but while we’re in this club and trying to do an action scene I’m reverting to the description ‘lesbians’ for the women who are there as shorthand. Occasionally I’ve used ‘women who love women’ or something or ‘sapphic’ but it’s really hard to use a term that’s inclusive and still works in a 1930’s story. So with apologies to the rest of the spectrum of female sexuality… ‘lesbians’ it is. I don’t think it’s unreasonable – in the heat of the moment – for either (lesbian) point of view to think that way. Just don’t want to piss anyone off. Because I love you all.
Thanks to: Anyone who has picked this up. It’s tough to write ‘thanks’ before you even start posting the story so I usually leave it. But if there’s someone out there reading then that’s kind of the point so… thanks to you.



Things were going… wrong.

The woman sailing through the air was the first clue.

Pretty much that was one of the big three things you expected when Willow Rosenberg walked into… Well, anywhere really. You couldn’t take her many places without these sorts of things happening.

Sailing through the air.

Furniture smashing.

Unexpected Nazi’s (or other goons).

So, this time, it started with the archaeologist sailing through the air.

Not jumping, Rosenberg would never have managed a jump that long – nor backwards – but you had to figure that someone had thrown her off from the lip of the private box she’d been taken up to.

Fortunately or unfortunately – depending whether you were the archaeologist or the people she landed on – there was a soft-ish landing and ‘furniture smashing’ wasn’t immediately a feature.

She’d seen Rosenberg take worse falls, dust herself and get back into the fight. But for the women she’d landed on, it was likely to be a new experience. All they’d wanted – probably – was a drink, some like-minded company and possibly someone they could take home.

Willow Rosenberg was none of those things. Certainly not the last.

While everyone else around her focused on the fallen American and the women she’d landed on, Tara’s eyes tracked back to the box where she’d last left Willow and briefly caught sight of the women she’d never talked to. The one who’d owned the club since her grandmother – who’d founded it – had died.

Owned it in name at least. She wasn’t convinced about the real arrangements. No one was letting her close enough to find out and the French records were less than comprehensive. But Ilse’s influence here was… pervasive.

Catherine Traithe looked horrified. But – for once - it wasn’t Rosenberg who’d caused that reaction. Balance of probability and all that.

Rosenberg managed ‘annoying’ very well, like a mosquito that would never go away. Her enemies learned the impossibility of really getting rid of her. But rarely did she inspire horror.

No, much more likely it was Ilse.

That was the woman who seemed to have the real power here in the club. She ran it without reference to anyone else – Tara had experienced that for herself – but also her face…

Beautiful – and harsh – as Ilse’s face had been now it looked like… What had happened? What had Rosenberg done?

That was impossible. Except…

She’d seen things that were impossible before.

Plenty of them. First introduced to her alongside Willow Rosenberg, but she’d seen plenty more since then…

The ‘impossible’ started to look pretty mundane once you got used to it.

The thing was… Well, Ilse’s face looked to be hanging off.

Or a large flap of it at least. Faces weren’t supposed to have flaps, but this one looked to. Now. And it hadn’t been there before. Right around the jaw line…

Rosenberg had punched her.

Obviously.

It was what Willow did. Meeting and dealing with new people. She punched them in the jaw. Or – if male – occasionally in the nuts. Sometimes that was a kick though. But for the most part… jaw.

Rosenberg had this theory about a good punch and it might well have been true but…

A punch didn’t usually leave your target with her face practically hanging off.

And if it did then there should be blood. There should be lots of blood. Except, Ilse wasn’t bleeding at all…

Which made it even more… Just wrong.

Unnatural even.

Then Ilse looked out, not just at Rosenberg who was struggling to get to her feet, her hands going all sorts of places that they shouldn’t to try and find something solid to push herself up from. No… not much that was solid in that pile of women.

They met eyes, she and Ilse and – even with that flap of skin hanging off – it was the most unnerving thing.

She’d looked Ilse in the eye up close before, but this – even from a distance – was different. Something was wrong. And she was the one who broke that eye contact.

Tara glanced back, checking Dottie was still with her. The girl was her responsibility and she wasn’t taking that lightly. This was the first time there had been trouble while she was around. Usually nights here were pretty mild – in terms of fights – and the highpoints for most people were…more intimate.

Maybe not tonight. Tonight people were already shouting and screaming for all the wrong reasons.

But aside from looking out for her, Dottie had all of the guns in that bag she was carrying. With Rosenberg, once everything started – however it started – they had a pretty good chance of devolving into gunplay.

And fast.

The next impossible moment was the way that Ilse leapt from the balcony - the damaged skin on her face pushed back by air pressure and then landed - catlike right alongside where Willow was stillstruggling to get up from the pile of lesbians.

Any other time and anyone else, she’d have suspected of having too much fun extricating herself from the pile. But Rosenberg could be kind of a klutz sometimes and didn’t look like she was enjoying herself.

But Tara could see how this was going to go, especially as the security guards – including the shadowy group of the only men allowed in the club – started to close on them.

She knew already that they answered only to Ilse, replacing the all-woman group… As she’d heard the story, it’d set some staff and some patrons on edge but otherwise they’d been discrete to the point of forgetting they were there at all and - if seen - had stood there silently and impassively. Keeping to the shadows.

Even when a reluctant waitress walked past with altogether too much of her butt on display.

They hadn’t even twitched, and that had been unnerving as she tested them. Even a professional would… well, look. She’d actually thought they were… well, ill. Not because they wouldn’t look at her butt, but because they were just gaunt. Pale.

And they wouldn’t look at her butt.

That was a thing men – and the women here – did. It wasn’t a bad butt. It was suitable for the test. And they’d passed… or rather, flunked.

Because it meant they were something else.

Those guards seemed like overkill too. The previous security regime had been just as discrete, all women – about fifty percent were now – but far smaller. There’d been no trouble that she’d seen. A little over-exuberance and the occasional disagreement over a girl who’d been too free with her affections with too many women but nothing heavy.

The men hadn’t gotten involved with that. They’d hung back and left it to the remaining female security.

Now she knew what they were for.

This.

And they were reacting… All of them. Which was a lot more opposition than she’d thought she’d be facing when she squeezed herself into the corset tonight.

The – whatever Ilse was – grabbed Rosenberg and jerked her up from the ground, roaring into her face, spittle flying. The words were unintelligible, but the meaning was clear enough.

Ilse was more than just plain angry.

It wasn’t unusual for Rosenberg to have that effect. In fact, it was pretty much her thing. Ripping half their face off – that was a new twist – but the feelings she inspired were pretty much par for the course.

Ticked. Off.

Very.

“Dottie - ”

“Right here,” the girl said from a few steps away. If she’d been gaping open mouthed – and who could blame her – then she’d recovered now.

Or maybe three nights in the company of a couple of hundred frisky women had muted her ability to be shocked. Could easily be that.

“Stick by me and - ” Dottie tossed her the shotgun she’d been about to ask for. “Bless you.”

Tara cycled a shell into the chamber and turned to enter the fight with the barrel pointed at the ground.

There were a lot of innocent people here…

But there were a lot of bad guys too.

Too many for Rosenberg to deal with alone.

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“Ooof,” Willow said, thrown once more.

This time she hadn’t gone so far as from up on the balcony where the height had extended the long arc before she landed.

Say this for her sisters though, lesbians made for a softer landing than practically any alternative. And considering that she had the scars all over her body from many other altercations this wouldn’t have seemed so bad in comparison.

Except for the part where she was fighting someone – something – that didn’t seem to be quite, well, human.

That was new and all the lesbians in the world couldn’t cushion her from that new reality… Much as this was the right place to try.

Okay, so what was she up against? What did she know?

Ilse was a little taller than her – a few inches at most – and not heavily built. But her strength was out of all proportion to her size.

She’d fought big men before. Huge men in some cases. Guys who did manual labour all day and then went home and lifted weights for fun. She hadn’t ever come out of a fight against those guys on top in sheer brawn, even if she had a mean right cross and a solid jaw of her own.

But Ilse was definitely something else.

Very else.

Very something.

No way she should be as strong as she clearly was. Lifting and throwing her – one handed – was something most of those big, burly guys would’ve had to set themselves for.

Ilse had done it casually, almost playfully.

Again… much like a cat with a mouse.

I don’t want to be the mouse. Everyone knows what happens to the mouse.

Deposited. In pieces.

With some pieces missing.

“Sorry about that,” she apologised as she stood up from atop the middle-aged woman she’d landed on. “Not my faaaaault.”

Obviously Ilse liked to throw – that was what she did again and three more women went down like skittles as she crashed into them, all flailing arms and legs.

What the hell was that ‘woman’?

Ilse’s face was torn – without a drop of blood – where she’d punched her. And underneath… It was like there was something under her skin. Something… else.

Worry about that later. Maybe at the autopsy.

No more being tossed around. No more lesbian landing mats. People might begin to think she enjoyed it. No. It was time to take the offensive. “Nobody tosses a Rosenberg,” she murmured as she extricated herself from assorted limbs one last time.

A hand closed on her shoulder and she spun, ready to hit her attacker. Dimly aware of the advancing security guards.

“Tara?!”

Tara with a shotgun. Pump-action because – of course.

That’s what the well-dressed secret agent was carrying now? And she’d been struggling to see how – in her current outfit - Tara would’ve hidden that .22 she’d used to take anywhere that a .45 was too obvious.

But where had she hidden a full length shotgun? So she asked.

“Ha ha,” Tara said, swinging the butt back and upwards into the jaw of one of the security guards that had closed in on them. “Come on. We need to get out of here.”

Trouble was the guard hadn’t gone down.

He should’ve. But he hadn’t.

The blow that should’ve dropped him – or at least staggered him – barely seemed to have any effect so Tara pushed the barrel into his guts and squeezed the trigger. The roar was muted and the dispersal of the pellets controlled in this crowded space by the point blank range. With a – relatively low velocity – shotgun and buck shot there was next to zero chance of hurting someone else like that.

Or as close to zero as possible.

Yeah… that could really be a problem. Unless she kept doing exactly that, Tara was armed to hurt a lot of people who didn’t deserve it.

So it looked like she had the right idea.

At least until the crowd dispersed and fled… which they were starting to do.

As if flying lesbian bowling was a regular event here, it was firing a gun that actually created enough panic that everyone understood what was happening to try and started to try to get out of there.

The crowds of women - who were just here for a good time - started to fight their way towards the limited number of exits. And – surprisingly – that might actually be helping them because it was keeping the rest of the security guards away from them too.

There was also Ilse to worry about.

Ilse and her flapping face. Wherever she was.

“What are these things?” she asked, looking down at a guard with a gaping hole where his stomach had once been.

He was still twitching and not in an ‘imminent death’ way. He looked like he was just a little slow and trying to figure out what he was going to do to them when he did get up.

“Does it matter?” Tara asked, not looking as she pushed the barrel into the fallen guard’s mouth and pulled the trigger again.

This time it stayed down.

Which was good, because most of the back of his head must’ve been missing and just as much of what had been inside.

Catherine Traithe was going to need a new floor too.

Yes, it matters!” How could Tara ask if it mattered?

“Okay, for now – duck – for now let’s just call them Nazi’s.”

“Oh, sure, Nazis – I’ve fought Nazis – these aren’t just Nazis. Tara – wait!”

Then she noticed the younger women following Tara, with a big bag strapped over her not inconsiderable chest and… Was that the coat-check girl? She had a big smile on her face, despite the fact she looked frightened.

Who was that?

Why was she following Tara around?

What was in the bag?

Nazi’s? Really?

“Tara! I said wait!”

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Rosenberg did seem to have gotten the idea, following her example.

Rather than punching them, the archaeologist had drawn her revolver and was making each shot count, cold cocking the security guards when they ran into them and them blowing the back of their heads off if they showed any sign of not staying down.

As warnings went it was a harsh learning curve. But one that was probably keeping the three of them – including Dottie - alive. Make no mistake, following that closely the girl was a target.

Two guards had fallen to Willow, she’d taken out two more herself and now they were making their way towards –

“Tara, will you please wait?” Rosenberg grabbed her arm.

Fortunately not when she was aiming at anything. Ammo was… not unlimited and she really didn’t want to have to stop and reload the shotgun here. “Questions later,” she said.

“No – Tara, damn it, slow down. Not questions - We need Catherine Traithe.”

“No. We don’t.”

“Yes. We do.”

“Why?” she challenged, looking Willow in the eye for as long as she dared be distracted.

“Umm, because she knows what’s going on?” Rosenberg tried. “If you didn’t believe that what would you be doing here?”

Not entirely true, but a reasonable supposition she supposed. “Don’t you know?”

“Only – well, sort of,” Rosenberg replied.

She sighed. So far so typical. “You didn’t even wait to hear all of it before getting thrown off the balcony?”

The Doctor shrugged. “You know me. I don’t usually wait around for exposition if Im not delivering it.”

“Yes. Yes, I do know you.” She considered the options. She’d intervened to protect the woman she loved and because – the chances were – her cover was about to be blown anyway. Now she needed the information she’d not been able to get so far.

Willow Rosenberg was directly responsible for three days of dressing this way – if you could call it ‘dressing’ – being for nothing.

And for a lot of wandering hands she’d been on the end of.

Typical…

“Okay,” Tara said. “Go get her. We’ll hold them here. Dottie, get behind me.”

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“We’re leaving,” Willow said to Catherine Traithe. Not prepared to take no for an answer, she hadn’t turned it into a question. No ‘do you want to’ or ‘if you please.’

“Doctor - ”

“We’re leaving,” she repeated but, remarkably, Traithe still wasn’t won over. Maybe a little persuasion… “Come on – you can’t want to stay here with whatever that is.”

She was looking for a sign that Catherine knew the answer to that, but she really couldn’t tell.

“I told you – I have a son. I can’t… I can’t go anywhere. They’ll hurt him.”

Or worse.

“They - ”

“I’m not leaving!”

“We’ll get him for you – tell me where he is,” she offered, promising Tara’s efforts as much as her own. Government agent or not, Tara Maclay wasn’t the sort of woman to leave a child in danger.

Not unless there was absolutely no other choice, because the world was going to end or something. That would be what it would take…

“I don’t know,” Catherine wailed. But she was still firmly planted, unwilling to move even though there were horrors running around with their faces hanging off. And others that wouldn’t die when they should.

Or maybe… they’d have to leave her. Because what mother would go in those circumstances? Mostly she knew motherhood from being on the receiving end of it. And that… that had been a long time ago. But even so… she understood that much.

“Then tell me what I need to know. Who are they? What do they really want?” she asked.

“They want the icon, just as she said – I wasn’t involved. Much. I just heard things – they don’t tell me - ”

“Swell, doll. Look, I hear things too. And right now what I hear is my girlfriend down there, with a shotgun and these things aren’t staying down when they should.”

A shell of buckshot point blank in the gut, leaving a hole big enough to put your hand through without getting your shirt bloody? Nothing should get up from that.

And every one of them should’ve been screaming.

Instead… silence.

There was no drug powerful enough to dull that kind of pain. Not and to leave you upright.

What they were, she wasn’t certain. There were so many legends and myths and it might be none of those. But they definitely weren’t – quite – human.

Catherine looked around, still afraid. Maybe with good reason. “They… won’t. And Ilse is stronger even than the others. Different – you can’t hurt her. She won’t let you hurt her.”

“Unless you call ripping her face off hurting her.”

“She doesn’t care about that – it doesn’t - ” Catherine said and – if anything – looked even more afraid at that moment. Why? What did she know?

“What is she?” The terrified woman looked as if she knew – knew something. Just as certainly as Ilse really didn’t care about part of her face hanging off.

“I’m - You – you’d need to go East, to find out you need to go east.”

“To the castle? In the Carpathians?” she checked. “Where this icon is?” That was what they’d said. In the mountains.

“Yes. I’m not sure – But it’s – it’s important to them, very important.”

Important enough they’d bring her here and then try to kill her out of hand just for asking the wrong questions? Perhaps it was the chosen venue, but she really hadn’t expected trouble.

And I should’ve

Without Tara’s presence they might’ve succeeded in eliminating her too.

What was the US Government doing here? What was the US Government doing in that outfit? What was the connection to the reason she was here?

“Okay - so why you?” Willow asked, hoping Tara was okay down there but there was no way they could drag this woman out of here against her will and defend themselves at the same time. The maternal instinct wouldn’t let that happen. Catherine would bite and scratch and struggle every step of the way.

Probably rightly.

That was what parents did.

The upshot was that she needed to find out all she could now. Even though that left Tara and that kid holding them off. The urgency, hopefully, got over to Traithe.

“It’s – it’s something – something to do with talks, talks the Germans are having…”

“I get that idea.” It just had to be Nazi’s. Almost always. “Sure as anything you’re not holding those talks here though, not unless this is a whole new kind of diplomacy. So why you? Why here?”

“Just something – something to do with the negotiations, that’s all I know. I swear. The icon - ” Catherine screamed then as one of the guards jumped – he didn’t climb over, he just landed there – up onto the balcony rail. Balancing without effort.

He was brandishing one of the typical Lugers you expected of the Nazis and seemed curiously emotionless about it all. Very matter of fact as he brought the gun to bear and –

She shot him in the head.

He fell backwards to the floor below.

End of story.

“Get up from that.”

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“I thought you were holding them here,” Rosenberg said as she went back down the stairs.

Alone.

“Now’s not really the time to critique my performance.”

“I’m not critiquing or criticising, doll. I’m just saying. That’s what I thought. That’s what you said.”

Tara gestured to the four dead men that were arrayed around she and Dottie as she pumped the last of the reloaded shells into the breech. “Sure, one got past me but I thought you were bringing that woman with you? That’s what you said. It’s why we’re still here.”

Fair point.

“They have her kid,” Rosenberg said, shrugging.

Enough said then.

“Can’t you rescue them?” Dottie asked. More confident in them than they could be in themselves.

Excitement had given way in the younger woman now. The adrenaline had been pumping but the edge was coming off and she looked to be on the verge of breaking down into whatever came next for. Probably she didn’t know what that was either.

But whatever she thought they were capable of in terms of carrying out a rescue, Dottie seemed like she really, really wanted the answer to be at least ‘not with you.’

Rosenberg glanced back at her. No, that rescue wasn’t going to happen. They didn’t have enough info for that or there was something else preventing it.

Something to consider later. Not here. Not at this moment.

By now the club was mostly empty, they’d taken care of most of the guards – or they’d been swept away by the flight of the crowd – but the patrons had deserted the place. Would they be back tomorrow night? Or the next?

Possibly… where else was there for them to go?

Plus people tended to blank out the things they didn’t want to remember or hold onto. To explain and rationalise impossible things away. She’d seen it too many times over the years since she’d discovered it wasn’t a quality she shared.

Nor did the Secretary, her boss. Plenty in government – and the military - did though, which made life trickier than it needed to be when it was necessary to involve them.

“Let’s get out of here then,” she said.

“Where’s that bitch, Ilse?” Rosenberg asked, checking that none of the dead(?) guards around them was Ilse.

No. They were all men for a start.

Or had been once.

It really was time to go though. “I don’t know, but for now – I don’t care. I’m out of buckshot and this twenty-two’s not going to keep them down.” It was tucked into her bosom for lack of anywhere better. At least the corset was good for something.

“Where were you hiding that?”

Tara just looked at her.

“Seriously! I know it wasn’t down there. I looked. More than once.”

Again with the looks.

“And you’re never without it, if you can’t carry the forty-five. So… where?” Rosenberg demanded and then turned to Dottie. “Do you know?”

“I just know it wasn’t in the bag,” Dottie said with a shrug and an appraising look at her uniform. Weighing up the same question as Rosenberg it seemed.

“It’s not important right now,” Tara said.

“I don’t think we’ve met,” Rosenberg ignored her and stuck her hand out to Dottie.

Now? Really?”

She sighed. “Dottie, Doctor Willow Rosenberg. Rosenberg, Dottie. Now let’s get out of Dodge before more of them show up.”

“Good plan, doll.”

Only Willow got away with calling her that and that was what, the second time? But it was usually only after they’d fallen into bed somewhere…

“We need to get to a station though,” Rosenberg continued.

“Why? Where are we going?”

“Romania.”

“Fine. But stop calling me ‘doll.’

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Oh and sorry for repeating I just wrote down what was in my head then realised later that it was pretty much what you wrote! :crazy

Another great update. You wrote the fight scene with such detail and again humour to set the scene, I felt like I was watching it in my head.

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“Swell, doll. Look, I hear things too. And right now what I hear is my girlfriend down there, with a shotgun and these things aren’t staying down when they should.”


Even with everything going on she's worried about Tara and calling her her girlfriend, very sweet.

See you in the next one...

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KImmy - I wasn't criticising you repeating it! I was actually praising you for making me realise some stuff LOL

Humour's very important in this world. Especially in action and fights. Ironically, breaking off to tell a joke is a little like breaking off to have long, deep thoughts which is what I usually do in my stories! Just faster and with laughs ;)

Yup. Willow's all kind of possessive and WANTS to be big with the butch. She just doesn't quite have it in her in that relationship that they have. But that doesn't stop her being protective ;)

Thanks, Kim!

[/b]Zampsa[/b] - If you're gonna have vampires then they need to be vampire nazi's. Or ARE they? ;)

Thanks both!

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Sorry I've been sucking at leaving feedback lately! They're pushing finals a month early and that doesn't leave room for happy reading time :(

God Willow...trouble always seems to escalate with you around. I love how Tara just accepts it, ever the long suffering but loving girlfriend.A long suffering, loving girlfriend with a shotgun. All you need in life, really.

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Hey, Faolan - In a canon based story this level of trouble tagged onto Willow would be a disaster and a major plot point. In this world... meh. It's just what happens. Not daily. But pretty much when the hat goes on and she steps over the US border LOL.

And Tara does accept it, but she's sort of in that world anyway. It;s just that - for her - she actively tries to avoid it. Sometimes though things do happen and she's ready for that too. Witness the shotgun LOL

I didn't know SMG was in those games, but I never played them so... I learned something here LOL

Good luck with the finals! (Or not luck. Sounds like you're doing preparation so... good work? ;) You know what I mean!)

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Title: The Raiders Chronicles – Tomb of the Vampire Prince – Chapter Five
Author: Katharyn Rosser
Feedback: Absolutely, yes please. That’s why I write for this place, to engage in the discussion about the story.
Spoiler warning: Nope. All new. All original. Set in a universe where Willow Rosenberg takes the place of Indiana Jones. What can I spoil?
Distribution: This story was written for Pens. Pens is its home. No archiving off Different Coloured Pens and the Kitten Board please. No conversion to eBook or other formats please. Enjoy it here.
Summary: Heading east…
Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the copyrights or anything else associated with BTVS or Indiana Jones. All rights lie with the production company, writers etc. I am making no money from this series of stories however all original characters and situations remain my property. There may be occasional use of ‘classic lines’ from the source series/movies or others for which full credit is given to the original writers.
Rating: Occasional, tasteful, adult situations and contextual bad language.
Couples: Tara and Willow forever. 100% FAQ compliant, 100% of the time. Look it up if you don’t know what that means.
Text convention: Use of italics denotes either special emphasis if used for a single or a few words in a sentence OR first person thoughts if used for a whole sentence.
Physics: I’ll say it here… It’s Movie Physics, people. Someone Willow’s size and weight can punch out big, big guys… If you don’t like it, don’t read it. (But please read it)
Notes: Another trope of Indiana Jones – aside from regular action – is, of course, travel. And so it is here too. I want you to imagine the illustration of the line on the paper map, heading east from Paris to Romania when I say so… Right?
A little ‘real’ history… In 1939 Romania did join the Axis powers and that’s what is being made reference to in this story (occasionally) but that said, this isn’t a history lesson or accurate to real world events (obviously.) So don’t hold that against me if I’m doing things that never really happened. (It’s bizarre, when I write about stuff like this I usually either get a reader from countries involved or a subject expert. Bizarre but edumacational! Let’s see what happens this time!)
Oh, this is quite a short part…
Thanks to: All of you who help the Kitten (and especially Pens) be just about the best place to post fiction on the internet. Seriously, I’m not aware of anywhere else like this that had invested people, feeding back and no trolling. If you didn’t know, this is really special and you all have your parts to play in that.



“So, Tara, who’s your girlfriend?” Rosenberg asked, keeping her voice down, as she looked at the sleeping Dottie.

“You know, you’re not the only one who gets a sidekick,” Tara replied. She kept it quiet too. It only seemed fair, the girl had fallen asleep practically as soon as they’d gotten into the train car. It’d been a big night for her. One way or another.

A big few nights… in different ways again. Dottie probably hadn’t gotten much sleep.

And ‘girl’?

‘Young woman’ more like. There was little that was ‘girlish’ about Dottie apart from her excitement at new things and places. That, she had to admit, was always delightful to see - just as it was for all the other young women like her that headed off to embassy postings around the world.

But physically? Dottie wasn’t girlish at all. Nor was she coy or unsure of herself.

Tara didn’t really remember what it’d been like to live that way, to be surprised, delighted and a little afraid of every place because every place was new. Every where – even just a large town or city in the US - was different to what she’d known her whole life to this point.

How long had it taken to wear off for her? How long had it been before riding an elephant to a palace in India had been little more than a (smelly) inconvenience to getting the job done?

How long had it taken to accept that a lover might be a fleeting presence in her life, but the feeling of (never named) love itself wasn’t going anywhere? That wasn’t – she had to admit – how she’d been thinking things might be when she’d been Dottie’s age.

Of course, at Dottie’s age she’d wondered whether there was really anyone – any woman - out there who could love someone who lived the life she’d been training for.

And then she’d just happened along… Walked into another club. In another city. Swallowed some poison and… that had been them.

“Hey!” Rosenberg objected in a harsh whisper. “Shorty wasn’t a sidekick. He was just a kid. I took the guy in when he had no one.”

“And then he tried to steal from you.”

“Well, yeah, but he wasn’t very good at stealing. I caught him really easily.” Willow looked at Dottie again. “So… much as I appreciate her bringing all our stuff along – you know how I feel about my hat - I doubt you took her on as a mule. She certainly doesn’t look like a mule. Even if I can imagine a few of those women wanting to ride her.”

“Rosenberg!”

“Yes, doll?”

Tara gave her another dirty look. Now their lives weren’t in – immediate – danger they were slipping easily into old patterns. “She’s not a mule.”

“Good, I don’t like mules. Elephants are much better.”

“And she doesn’t look like one of those, either,” Tara told her. Willow had the habit of assigning nicknames that actually stuck and she didn’t want Dottie lumbered with anything that was too embarrassing. That wouldn’t be fair.

“So?”

“She’s a typist, from the embassy.”

“Ah. I see.”

“What do you mean, ah? And what do you see?”

“Well, officially you’re a typist and look at you. So she’s a ‘typist’ like you, right? Just not quite as drop-dead gorgeous?”

“No, she really is a typist,” Tara said, flushing just a little. When your occasional lover told you that you were gorgeous? Yeah, it made you blush. No matter what the context. Just not with embarrassment.

“And you brought her into the field?” Rosenberg sounded surprised. “What? Has the navy run out of Marines?”

Rosenberg didn’t know what she’d said, but it was enough to make her sigh. Just last year she’d ended up working alongside her Dad for three months. Totally unexpected. Fortunately he’d never had to see the sort of trouble she could get into. Professionally, at least.

And being saluted by him on a regular basis… that had been kind of discomforting. Especially wanting to call him ‘Sir’.

“Until you] turned up, it wasn’t looking like anything we had to worry about. Two months of intelligence gathering and planning – three days actually inside the place and within an hour of you walking in the whole place goes to hell.”

“You’re welcome,” Rosenberg said. “Sounded like things needed hurrying up.”

And yeah, maybe they did know a little more now than they had, but not about the things she’d actually wanted to.

“Doesn’t explain the kid though.”

“Well, I needed some kind of back up – you know this costume’s not hiding anything.”

“Yeah, I had noticed that,” Rosenberg said, with a significant look as the train started to pull out of the station. “I knew you were hot, doll, but I never knew you had that in you – which is fine, because right now it’s not in you, it’s all kind of out there.”

“Enjoy it while you can, once I get changed…” she shook her head. She wasn’t wearing this again. “Dottie was – exactly what I needed to - ”

“I saw the way she looks at you,” Rosenberg said.

It wasn’t that Willow didn’t trust her, even though trust wasn’t really a factor in their relationship. They’d never made any promises to each other. Not out loud. Vague, non-specific promises of honesty about that sort of thing. But… truly? No. There’d been no one but Willow since they met and she believed the reverse was true too.

She believed that if it had happened, Rosenberg would’ve said something about it. Knew it.

Honesty was the core of their relationship. It was what they had to build it on, spending so long apart.

They didn’t need ‘trust’ because it was all just a self-evident truth. Maybe it wasn’t conventional, but this was how they lived their lives. This was ‘how’ they were girlfriends.

Weird. Infrequent. But… very them.

Maybe when the war that had been threatening for years now was done and over… Maybe then they’d look at things another way. But that was a long way off if the last clash of civilisations was any indication.

Until then though… She had a duty. And she was going to perform it.

But the idea that Dottie was into her?

“Believe me; she looks at most women that way,” Tara revealed.

Looking the younger woman in the eyes when telling her what she was volunteering for – or at least where – had been like watching a small child get all her Christmases at once.

Had Dottie known that place existed? Probably. But she’d never probably have dared to go on her own.

“Ah.”

“Yeah.”

“Small town girl?” Rosenberg asked. Knowing the type, or so she thought.

She nodded. “Never been out of state until she joined the State Department. But she’s smart and reliable if a bit green and easily distracted by a pretty face. I wouldn’t give her a gun - ”

“Just a bag full of them.”

She was determined to reassure Rosenberg about Dottie. “I wouldn’t give her a gun, but I’d trust her to do whatever I asked. Good enough?”

“Good enough,” Rosenberg confirmed. “So…”

“Hmm?”

“You took this small town girl, never been out of state, to Le Chatte Rose. The most notorious lesbian club in the western world. And on a mission?”

“She’s doing fine,” Tara said. Just a little defensive. “I didn’t even have to worry when she didn’t come back to the safe house the last two nights. She’s really devoted to her cover.”

Dottie had given her a signal. Not the pre-arranged one but… A big grin, being in a possessive embrace with a wealthy Frenchwoman’s hand on her ass had been clear enough for her not to worry her getting into trouble.

At least any other kind of trouble… And – even for a small town girl – it seemed like Dottie knew just how to deal with it too. She’d taken whatever promises she’d been made with a grain of salt and… gone back the next night and been picked up by someone else.

Not tonight though.

Rosenberg grinned, not even knowing the details. Maybe a little happier that Dottie wasn’t into her. “Well, I can’t fault her devotion to duty.”

“And you can stop staring now,” Tara said, pulling a change of clothes out of the bag that Dottie had been carrying for them. “I’m getting changed and never wearing these again.”

“Tara Maclay, don’t you know me at all?” Willow asked. “You think that getting changed will stop me staring at you?”

“I suppose not.” It never had before.

Taking a seat, Rosenberg looked around. “Tara, is it me? Or is everyone around us always queer?”

Actually, no. But given where they’d just broken out of it was a fair question. And Dottie was definitely so inclined.

“Faith Lehane and Elizabeth Summers were nothing to do with me,” Tara replied. “They were your mortal enemy and best friend that eloped together. Look, we need to talk about the mission.”

“We will. But it’s been a really long couple of days.” Rosenberg pulled her hat down over her eyes.

Tara knew well enough that was that once the hat came down. Rosenberg could sleep just about anywhere and Dottie had the fold down bunk.

“We have a few hours to the border,” she confirmed as she was changing.

“It’s good to see you, Tara,” Willow said from beneath her hat. Not quite pulled down low enough that Rosenberg couldn’t watch her change.

But she didn’t mind that. Who didn’t want to be desired by someone.

Better just Rosenberg than all the women in that club.

“I know.”

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TheTravelling Montage – illustrated on a map if you like… please just imagine the train winding its way east towards Germany and beyond...

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“Happier now?” Tara asked when she’d woken up and lifted her hat from her eyes.

It was – she had to admit – like a signal. Until the hat went up, Tara knew better than to ask.

When the hat went up she was ready for the world.

“Much,” Willow confirmed. She’d been fleetingly aware that Tara had watched her throughout her sleep too. Every time something had woken her up she’d been aware that she was being watched that way. She hadn’t needed to look up.

She’d recognised that awareness too, having caught Tara doing the same thing way back in India. That had been the first time they’d met, in camp on the road to Pankot. Tara had watched her over the camp fire right up to the point that the elephant had stolen her hat.

“Just out of curiosity, where did your uniform go?” she asked.

“I didn’t think crossing the border in my uniform would be a good idea.” Tara was wearing black pants and a rather attractive plain, white blouse. One that wasn’t buttoned too high. The triangle of pale skin was what made it all the more alluring. It both hinted and pointed the way.

‘Demure’ was certainly the word.

“Not your naval uniform, the other uniform.”

“I know, I meant that too.” Tara smiled while Dottie grinned from her place up on the bunk.

Having this girl around was going to be nothing like Shortround. Sweet as the kid looked; Tara had made it clear Dottie gone home with two different regulars from Le Chatte Rose on two consecutive nights.

Her innocence, such as it was, certainly wasn’t extended to all parts of her life. And if she’d been sheltered, back in that small town, then she was more than making up for it now.

First the club. Then the fight. Now she was joining them on their trip east.

Also, she looked like she could actually reach the pedals in a car.

“Okay, well, we’re nearly in Germany,” Willow confirmed. “They will check our papers and I don’t know whether either of us will get through okay. Dottie, I think, probably you’re off their radar so it’d make sense if you went to another compartment for that time, okay?”

Tara nodded, it seemed like a good idea to her too.

At first Dottie looked worried, probably about what would happen if she was caught and there was no one there to help her. But… caught doing what? There was no prohibition on Americans going into Germany.

Not yet.

“No problem. I can come back though?” she asked, almost pleading.

“Of course you can,” Tara said, before she could answer.

“But I should knock first, right?” Dottie checked.

“Yes - ” Willow said firmly. Knocking would really be appreciated.

“No,” Tara looked at her while the girl grinned. “There’ll be no need to knock. We’re professionals. We can keep our hands off each other.”

“But obviously not your eyes and – I won’t tell. If you – you know, feel the need. You know – I get it.”

“I like the way this girl thinks,” Willow confirmed, warming even more to Tara’s sidekick. Maybe she shouldn’t have expected anything else?

Tara coughed pointedly. “Look, before we get to the border, can we please pool some knowledge? I’m not even certain why we’re heading East yet. You just told me we had to and – here we are. East.”

“I think it’s because you trust her?” Dottie suggested.

“Yeah, because you trust me. Isn’t that right, doll?”

“No – Don’t call - I mean, I do, but why Romania?” Tara asked.

“Because that Traithe woman said it was absolutely necessary, that it was important to the Nazis. The way I look at it, we need to beat them to whatever it is. That’s what – well, it seems to be the way things usually work. They decide they want something and people like us keep them from getting it? Right?”

Tara nodded. Agreeing the necessity. If there was anything the Nazi’s thought was worth having there then it was bound to be bad news for their own people and the rest of the world.

Four times she and Tara had done just that, once more where the Nazi’s hadn’t even been involved. Pointed, short bursts of peril and adventure that only brought them closer before they parted, knowing full well their paths would cross again - both professionally and personally - when Commander Maclay could get some leave.

It was never goodbye for them. No matter where, when or how.

But it had been a long time and felt like much longer than that.

“But – I didn’t look into this. She paid my ticket over here. So, Traithe? What do we know about her? Is she on the level?” Willow asked.

Personally, she believed the woman. But she didn’t necessarily trust her. Besides, this was a way to sneak up on the question what in the hell had happened at the club because… she really had no idea and was hoping Tara did.

“She inherited Le Chatte Rose from - ”

“That means The Pink Pussy,” Dottie grinned, interrupting Tara.

‘Cat’ – actually, but thanks for the translation.

“Traithe though. French. Born and raised in Paris.”

“I knew it that much from the accent.” She kept nodding as Tara told her some things the woman herself had mentioned. And then some more detail that she hadn’t.

“She inherited the club from her grandmother, a noted philanthropist amongst other things. She basically gave away all of her dead husband’s money apart from enough to live comfortably on and to set up the club. There’s not a lot to go on in that background and no, known, Nazi leanings anywhere in the family. They weren’t politically active as best as we could tell – not at home or abroad.”

“So far so mundane,” Willow said. “But you were there?”

“That’s right. We were – there was intelligence that suggested that the Nazi’s had moved in and were making use of the club for their own purposes, as a front in Paris.”

“That’s it?”

“It’s enough. I needed looking into. I was – we were there – so…”

“You got yourselves jobs.”

“Yes.”

“It just seems… It doesn’t really seem like them. Nazi’s, I mean – after all… You know what they’re like. Supermen. Blond haired, blue eyed and destined to rule and populate the world? A lesbian club seems…”

“You’ve never seen one of the wilder Gestapo parties,” Tara said.

“And you have?”

Yes. Obviously. She didn’t even want to know how that had happened to take Tara there, into the heart of the rats nest.

“I can’t talk about that,” Tara said. “Let’s just say they’re hypocrites as well as assholes.”

Okay… This was the side of Tara’s professional life that she didn’t get to see. What she did with the rest of her time. And it was… dangerous. Clearly more dangerous even than the things they ended up doing together.

Lucky this woman of hers could handle herself.

“So, how did they get their claws into Traithe?”

“Times are hard,” Dottie said. “Sorry – I shouldn’t - ”

“No. Go ahead.”

“Well, last night – I didn’t get to tell you because it was – umm – well, I was with someone and it was the night before last night I guess, now. But I heard, I overheard – no one was really happy about the beefed up security, especially since a lot of them were men.”

“Uhuh?”

“Even though they kept them out of sight, eventually people got used to it because they didn’t look, they didn’t move – they were like statues or something but – the German brought them into the club after she bought a stake. It was the price of it staying open. That’s what I heard.”

“Boots on the ground. Simple,” Willow said. “But not as effective as taking Traithe’s son. So is there a husband somewhere?”

Tara shook her head. “No. He disappeared on an expedition a few years ago. The boy could barely have known him.”

“An expedition?” Willow asked pointedly.

“One to the east, by any chance?” Dottie followed up, proving she was bright as well as brave. Knew when to keep her ears open too. Even during pillow-talk.

She just hoped the kid enjoyed the pillows.

“From France, most of them are,” Tara said. “Don’t read too much into it.”

“Yeah, because coincidence never plays any role in our professional lives.” She held up her hands as Tara gave her a look. “Fair enough. Assumptions and all that. But do you want to make a bet it was to the Carpathian Mountains?”

Tara fell silent, obviously not willing to put money on the line. But maybe something around that uniform?

“I don’t know, but it’s possible,” Tara said.

“Maybe that’s why they selected Catherine Traithe. So here’s the really big question I really want an answer to,” Willow said. “What the hell were those things? Because, any Nazi I ever shot didn’t get right back up again. And Ilse? There was… something under her skin.”

Tara looked like she was deciding how much she could say, given the company. Practicality obviously won out over security considerations. Dottie was coming along and so was she.

This was where the ‘intelligence suggested’ warning about the club would turn into the concrete reason that Tara Maclay, rather than anyone else, was following up on it.

A woman with a very unique set of experiences and skills. Sending a woman? That was obvious. Sending this woman? That was sending a message.

This was important.

“What are they?” she repeated.

“Our worst nightmare,” Tara said finally.

“What do you mean?”

“Ilse - She’s a ghoul. Worse than that, she’s a Nazi ghoul,” Tara said.

A ghoul?

“Yeah, sure, because Nazi ghouls are always the worst ghouls.”

Just one question. What the hell was a ghoul?

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Hi Katharyn

Sorry it took me a while to actually feedback! Thanks for another brill update.

I loved the banter between our girls about Dottie, Shorty, Tara's original mission going belly up within an hour of Willow showing up, everyone around them being queer.

Ghouls :hmm I'm definitely intrigued.

See you next time.

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Yay for great update-y goodness... Can't wait for their Ghoul-hunting trip in the Carpathians...

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Nazi Ghoul....both poetic and redundant...lol

I heart Dottie and hope she sticks around for awhile.

* hopes she's not a double agent *

I have a confession to make. I was watching Twilight : New Moon with my daughter yesterday ( She's only 10 . So, it's perfectly acceptable to believe Vampires are made of diamonds) and they totally showed their travel to Italy by way of Map. So, I totally flashed back to that when reading your instructions on visualizing a line drawn on the map...lol

Hopefully W&T get a bit of quality time before all heck breaks loose and that Dottie has to knock for a very looooooooooooooooooooong time!

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 Post subject: Re: W&T: The Raiders Chronicles - Ch.5 of NEW STORY 02/22/14
PostPosted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 6:57 pm 
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This is just shaping up to be a fun ride of a story. Underground lesbian club in Paris, Nazi Ghouls, intrepid sidekick, and Willow and Tara banter and interaction....fun for everyone. I'm looking forward to the next update.
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 Post subject: Re: W&T: The Raiders Chronicles - Ch.5 of NEW STORY 02/22/14
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Kimmy - Yes, you certainly did get DIBS. LOL

Zampsa - Don’t ‘The Capathians’ just sound mysterious? It really wouldn’t be the same in the Alps :) Thanks

Grimm - Well, the Nazi side is obvious… but the ‘Ghoul’ side… I wanted something that wasn’t quite the BTVS norm. Mostly because it’s NOT BTVS. The rules won’t be the same… at all.

Dottie! Yay. I love that you love her. I love original characters and making them likeable. Many people fear I going to kill them, but I really don’t have form for that! You’re afraid of double agent, which is better than dead-pool!

You were watching Twilight? You should be shunned. I never saw or read any of that stuff, but I bet they were doing a homage to Raiders when they did the map thing (which itself was a homage to older movies and serials but it will have been Raiders they were looking at!)

W/T quality time? Well, duh. I am not promising how much ;)

Thanks

Loislane - I hope you find the fun continues… It’s not deep or involved like some of my stuff, and that is reflected throughout, but it is - hopefully - fun.

Thanks to you too!

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