Title: Chatting With Love
Pairing: W/T
Summary: A little AU. Oz never happened and now Willow and Buffy are in collage. Willow joins a witchcraft community and starts chatting with Tara.
Chapter 1: New
Willow looked around, sighing over the silence in her room. Buffy was out patrolling for some vampire that might have had connection to the vampire that, broke Buffy's class protector award, Sunday. Willow had heard from a wicca group she had been checking out before, that there were a great site for Wiccans to check out. She had heard that there were some great persons there, most willing to help with the teachings and stuff. Willow had been fire and flames. A site where she could talk about nothing but Wicca! It had to be heaven. Willow opened her lap top which her parents had given her in going-off-to-collage present. She typed quickly in the address she had been given. She loved the site already. It had beautiful music in the backround. She quickly pressed 'register' and she made an id for herself. She was from now known as 'Redhead'. She knew it was annoying but she didnt want to type in Willow or something and since Spike (when he had kidnapped her and Xander) called her Red it was just something that had come into her head. She then looked at users online and quickly recived a message from another user called 'LuvMagick'. Willow got exitced. What would other people want her? She read the persons message:
LuvMagick: 'Hey... You must be new.'
Willow smiled. She liked this person already. She... or he wasnt giving her any creep vibes that she had got (but then again she had an awful experience once where the guy she was chatting with turned out to be a robot) from other people she had been chatting with on other sites.
Redhead: 'Yeah.... Im Willow'
LuvMagick: 'Nice name. Im Tara'
Tara huh? It was a beautiful name really... She wished she had a name like that... Not something as dull as Willow or something... It was annoying how her parents had named her Willow. Who in their right state of mind would like to be named after a tree?
Redhead: 'Beautiful name. How long have you been into magick'
LuvMagick: 'All my life... But I just got interested in Wicca after my mother died. She was one'
Redhead: 'Im sorry to hear that... about your mom'
LuvMagick: 'Its OK. How long have you been into Wicca and magick then'
Redhead: 'Hmm... Not long. A few months or so'
LuvMagick: 'Interesting. 🙂 What do you do when you arent praticing or so'
Redhead: 'You know... hanging out with my friends and so... you?'
Willow couldnt just say that she was out helping Buffy with her slaying as much as she could. She couldnt just go off telling everyone that her best friend was the slayer.
LuvMagick: 'Nothing much. I pretty much do that, and hang out here. I know almoust everyone here'
Redhead: 'That must be kinda cool. Like logging into your second home or something'
LuvMagick: 'I guess...'
For the rest of the night Willow chatted with Tara till it was so late that Buffy came back from patrolling. Willow said her goodnights to Tara and they decided to log on tonight as well and chat some more. Willow have had such a good time talking to Tara it felt like she had known her for years. She had told her about Xander and what they did when they were kids and how it had felt for Willow when Buffy first had come to the picture (leaving the part where Buffy was the slayer out offcourse).
"So Will... You are up." Buffy said surprised and she looked at Willow when she had shut her laptop. "What have you been doing all night."
"Oh... Just nothing..." Willow said softly. "I became member on this site you know... And I talked to this girl named Tara. She was nice." Willow noticed that her face was one big grin when she talked about Tara and she tried to make it go away but it wouldnt. She was happy that Buffy didnt notice, she was too busy with anything than bothering about Willow's face expressions.
"Cool." Buffy just said and then she yawned. "Im beat. Im going to bed. Night Will..."
With that said Buffy just jumped on her bed and fell asleep at once. Willow on the other hand, went to the bathroom and brushed her teeth and then took a snack before going to bed. She fell alseep, dreaming that Tara also lived at the collage and that they had started a coven.... And she had a feeling that they would have a beautiful friendship...
Chapter 2: Shopping With Time
Willow woke up early the next morning, feeling a bit sleepy but it quickly dissapeared when she saw Buffy sitting on her bed, waiting for her to wake up. It was Saturday and they where going to do some serious shopping. She smiled at her best friend.
"Hey you." Buffy smiled and got from sitting on her bed to sitting on Willows. Buffy had decided this day was going to be a blast.
"Hey Buffy... What time is it?" Willow rubbed her eyes and felt like she hadnt slept but on the same time that she had... strange feeling really.
"Ehhh..." Buffy immediately went to her bedside table and shuffed a few things aside to the floor and then she smiled. "Victory... The time is..... damn, the clock thingie has stopped."
Willow giggled. Buffy had no clue about anything today. Willow wondered how she could live through slaying if she was this clueless. She then glared over at her own perfectly cleaned bedside table and she saw on her own watch that the time was 11 PM. She had slept about 5 hours. She yawned. God, she had to get to bed earlier tonight and not let her chat with Tara go on as much as it did last night. Willow got happy thinking about her new friend. She wondered what she was doing right now...
Tara Maclay walked around UC Sunnydale, looking around this beautiful day. She had trouble though. She had heard from a friend that her brother and father had started to try to track her down again. She was sure she wasnt a demon... She wasnt evil! But soon she let the trouble pass aside she looked around the beautiful campus and she just got amazed over how beautiful the world was (she was it quite often but...). The Goddess' enegry was everywhere. She had never felt so much connected to the Goddess' being and creation as in Sunnydale. She had been attracted to the town since she was a child when her mother had talked to her about the town. "A town filled with evil, but also great magick" had her mother said to her and she couldnt just let the place out of her head. Luckily, she had never told her father about her obsession with Sunnydale. Suddenly something made her turn around. She saw a blonde woman, walking and talking to... the most beautiful woman Tara had ever seen. She had red hair and she had just an aura... She loved her at once. The strenght that was glowing out of her.... Tara gasped for air, she had to be some woman that redhaired girl...
Willow, walking out of her dorm and just out to go shopping with Buffy, got a strange feeling in her... It felt just... home for a second. The world seemed to just stop for a second and that she was getting a worm feeling in her heart. She didnt know what it was and she luckily managed to hind her strange behaviour to Buffy, who was talking on and on about a pair of jeans she had seen in a store. Willow find herself strangely content about her life for a second.
"Willow? Will?" Willow woke up from her daydreaming and faced Buffy's questioning eyes. "Are you OK?"
"Yeah yeah... Just fine." Willow said and smiled. "Just daydreaming you know..."
"Ohh..." Buffy said. "Like I said: Wanna go and get Xander as well?"
Willow sighed. Xander... did she have the enegry to take him along... Sure Buffy had said that it was a girls day today but Xander was kinda like a girl, no offence to her childhood friend but...
"Sure." Willow said and then they walked out of campus, out for a good day of shopping...
When Willow and Buffy came back they had a bad each that they had their new bought clothes in. Buffy had bought a red tank top and a pair of jeans. Willow had bought a pink cardigan and a pair of black demi jeans. When Willow packed up her new clothes she couldnt help but to just smell the new clothes, it was Willow's wierd obsession. She loved the smell of new clothes... She just loved it. Buffy had thought at the beginning, everytime they bought clothes, that it was wierd, but she had come to terms with it and accepted it as a part of "the Willow package" that you got when you became Willow's friend.
Willow glared at the watch again and she couldnt help but let out a small gasp. Tara! She should have been online an hour ago! Willow practically threw herself over her lap top and quickly logged in as Redhead. And at once there came a message from LuvMagick aka Tara.
LuvMagick: 'Hey you. I thought you werent gonna make it'
Redhead: 'Im sorry... I went out shopping with Buffy, one of my friends I told you about'
LuvMagick: 'Ohh... Did you find anything'
Redhead: 'Yeah. A Pink cardigan and a pair of jeans... What have you been up to'
LuvMagick: 'Nothing much. I have been meditating most of the day. I forgot to eat lunch so Im sooo hungry right now'
Redhead: 'I dont drift off like that... I wish I could though. Meditation for me is pretty hard'
LuvMagick: 'It's not that hard you know... Just think about something that makes you peaceful or feel loved and think about nothing but that for a while... Then you stop thinking about it and just about air or something'
Redhead: 'Thanks soooo much for the tip Tara! hug I'll try it at once next time I get a chance. But it might be a while till then'
LuvMagick: 'How come'
Redhead: 'Well Buffy... She's a loud girl. She has a habbit of putting on 3 Doors Down with Here without you on the highest volume when I try to meditate'
LuvMagick: 'Ohh... that's a pain. I had a brother who did stuff like that but it was just for being a pain.'
Willow giggled. Yeah it was a pain... Meditation around Buffy was like trying to pairing up Buffy with Spike; impossible.
Redhead: 'Ohhh... What happened to your brother'
LuvMagick: 'Why do you wonder'
Redhead: 'You wrote had. Has he died? Im sorry'
LuvMagick: 'No he isnt dead.. So dont worry about it... He just... well.. complicated story'
Redhead: 'ohhh'
LuvMagick: 'But you should be afraid to ask questions. I'll happily answer them '
Redhead: 'OK. Great! :-D So what do you do'
LuvMagick: 'Im at collage. you'
Redhead: 'Same. What collage are you at? you dont haft to answer that if you dont want to'
LuvMagick: 'It's OK. I go at UC Sunndale...'
Willow just stared at the screen.
Chapter 3: The Set Up
Tara was in Sunnydale?! Willow couldn't believe it. Sure she had thought that it would be cool if she lived in Sunnydale but... these news came as a shock. Right then Buffy came turned around and looked at Willow since she hadn't heard her typing anything. Buffy looked at Willow and said with a soft friendly voice:
"Are you OK?"
Those words brought Willow back to reality and she quickly typed in 'That's cool.' to Tara, thinking in her head if she should tell her that she went to UC Sunnydale as well. She turned to Buffy to hear her point of view.
"I'm fine." Willow said truthfully. "But I've got a problem. I started chatting with this girl yesterday and she's all nice and stuff and well... She told me that she goes to UC Sunnydale. Should I tell her that I go here too?"
Buffy smiled and she said like the friend she was: "Sure. But if you are gonna meet, choose I public place and make sure I'm close by so if she turns out to be a he or something I could kick his ass."
Willow giggled and she forgot all about feeling like Buffy's shadow, Buffy had offered to kick up Tara's ass if she turned out to be an asshole and it was kinda sweet. In a Sunnydale kinda way. She smiled like a little girl and said: "Will do." Willow quickly turned to her laptop again and she typed in her reply and waited a few seconds till she saw Tara's reply:
Redhead: 'I go to UC Sunnydale as well'
LuvMagick: 'What? That's soo cool. Maybe we could meet up or something? If you want to I mean'
Redhead: 'Sure! When?'
Tara couldn't believe her luck; most of the people that she talked with lived in New York or Texas. It was fun to see that someone lived in her area so that she could meet up with them and talk to them in person. She was thrilled that Willow wanted to see her. She had a feeling they would be the best of friends. She thought for a second and then typed in:
LuvMagick: 'You know the Espresso Pump? We could meet there... if you'd like. Maybe around lunch time?'
It didn't take long before Willow had typed her reply in and Tara happily read it. She had agreed, but now she apparently needed to go because one of her friends, Buffy, wanted her to do something with her. Tara said her goodbyes to Willow and logged out herself. She sighed and then her thoughts went to home where her father, brother and cousin Beth was searching for her. She had a feeling that she couldn't stay so much longer in Sunnydale before they found her. The feeling made Tara sad because for the first time, she felt like she was home.
The next morning Tara woke up around 5 am and she sighed and tried to go back to sleep. She didn't need to go up until 2 hours but she was too excited to actually manage to get some sleep again. She decided to go to the Magic Box and maybe buy something. She got up and she put on a white top and a pair of jeans. Simple and easy. She brushed her teeth and she brushed her hair, she couldn't wait to see Willow, it was so exciting that there were people in Sunnydale who actually cared more about something else than just clothing, makeup and.... boys. Tara sighed. Tara had always been "into" (god, that sounded like the wrong word but hey...) girls and it had pretty much freaked everyone around her since she was 12 years old, so Tara had pretty much grown up alone. She was determined to get a friend in Sunnydale, whatever that meant. IF now Willow was like a clepto or something she would help her get passed it, not everyone's perfect.... Tara herself was a.... a demon. She couldn't believe it, she didn't WANT to believe it either. She wasn't evil... she was just... Tara and she were alone. Tara then decided to think about something else and she was really looking forward to meeting Willow. Tara made a last look in the mirror before she went out.
Willow had, after chatting with Tara, went out with Buffy on her slaying round, which first was thought to be a total drag. There wasn't a demon insight and just when Willow was getting bored a demon jumped out of the bushes, like sent from heaven... or hell or whatever it came from. Buffy went to an attack but this turned out to go pretty wrong, the demon broke Buffy's left arm, before Buffy and Willow ran away.
The demon hadn't followed them, which Willow thanked her lucky star for, so they went to bed, decided to tell Giles about the demon first thing tomorrow morning. Then they had gone to bed, because they were really tired.
When Buffy and Willow woke up the next morning Buffy's arm didn't hurt, it was just really sore. Willow helped in anyway she could, she carried some of her books and stuff. Right at lunch break Willow and Buffy went to Giles' apartment, to talk to him about the demon.
Giles was surprised that Buffy had gone hurt and he said just calmly that they would need some research on this. Everyone sat down and started to look in books and Willow went on the internet, searching for something. She was surprised how much information Goggle contained. What they didn't realize was that the hours clicked by...
Tara had sat and waited for 3 hours (missing one of her classes as well) and waited for Willow. She hadn't showed up, Tara felt as if she was gonna break. It had just been an evil prank made on her; she hated the people around her. How could they be so cruel? She had even bought a gift for Willow at the Magic Box (which had cost a lot of money but Tara thought that it might be expensive but it was worth a friend). She felt a tear coming down her cheek and went from the Espresso Pump... She was never going to talk to Willow again.
TBC
Chapter 4: The Human Psyche
Note before we begin: Since it's AU, Buffy doesnt take psychology but Tara takes it instead 😉
Willow didn't understand how everything had just gone away... Time everything. When she looked at the clock she realized something... Tara. She had missed it completely as she was helping Buffy with research and she felt horrible. Tara had surely been waiting and Willow couldn't help but feel.... sad, she had looked forward to talk to the girl but no no... fate seemed to have other plans...
When Tara got home, she fell on her bed, crying her heart out. How stupid did she was? It was surely just one of her old friend's bad jokes.... Tara laid down on the bed softly and she felt how her pillow got wet from her tears. She had been so stupid... Thinking that SHE might even get a friend or two... But who was she kidding? She was alone... she was a geek and worth nothing at all. She closed her eyes, wishing herself elsewhere...
When she opened her eyes again she looked at the clock. She was going to be late for psychology. She silently cursed and she got up. Not only did she have a terrible day but she was going to be late for her favourite class as well. She silently cursed and she gathered her books, ignored her headache and wiped away a few tears. She was going to live. She wasn't going to give the others the satisfaction of knowing they had got to her. She took a deep breath and she went outside her dorm, ready to face the world again.
Outside Tara's dorm everything went on as normal, no one noticing the sad and silent girl walking pass them; they were to busy catching up on the latest gossip. Sometimes Tara wished she was like them... She sometimes wished it so deep that she thought she was going to die... What wouldn't she do to be normal? She hated it on the same time... What meaningless and empty lives they must have... no worries or anything, just going around judging other people. Tara wanted that... She was sick of being so "special" but on the same time being no one. She didn't want to be a demon, she didn't want to have a controlling family, but on the same time: that was what she had.
Tara snapped out of her thoughts and she entered the room where the class was held. She at once felt all the cold stares at her, and she felt so alone. She felt her cheeks heat up and she heard Professor Walsh making a comment on her late appearance. Tara quickly goes out of the attention and sat down quickly and Professor Walsh continued.
"Like I said: now we are going to start to study the psychology of the cave men... What separates us from them? What makes us like them? So therefore, I'm going to part you in groups two and two. Your assignment is due next week."
Professor Walsh was interrupted by some boys in the back of the classroom, which she sent an evil eye at before continuing. Tara drifted in like a sleep, waking up just as she heard her own name being called out:
"... Ms Mclay and Ms Rosenberg..."
Tara sighed. She hated group things, especially when there was just her and someone else. They didn't listen to her ideas and did their own race, causing the project to be late and that they barely got approved in the class. She didn't care about the whole - you need to learn to work with other people thing, she knew how to work with people, it was just that people didn't listen to her. She woke up from her thoughts when Professor Walsh started talking again:
"I see we are a bit before schedule... I see no point why you can't sit into your groups and start planning the assignment."
After those words the horrible sound of people walking up from their chairs caught Tara's ears. She didn't really understand how such a simple movement as finding your partner in a classroom could cause so much sound. Tara heard a voice excuse herself and Tara looked up.
Tara went into shock. It was the beautiful red headed girl she had seen a while ago. She suddenly realized that she might say need to say something... something smart... that would make the girl notice her a bit more.
"Uhhh... Y-yes?" Oh brilliant, Tara thought. Not only had she started talking to the most beautiful woman in the world but also she managed to sound like a freak.
"Are you Mclay?" She asked softly. "I'm Willow Rosenberg. Nice to meet you."
Tara felt how a smile grew on her face; the beautiful woman would be working with HER on the assignment. Tara couldn't help feeling like the luckiest girl alive.
"Uhhh... Y-yes I'm Mclay... Tara Mclay. Nice to m-meet you Willow." They then didn't say anything, Tara was wondering why Willow looked so funny at her, then realizing that Willow was just standing there, waiting to be invited to sit next to her. "Ohhh... I'm sorry. Please s-sit down." Tara said and pointed at a chair next to her. Willow smiled and sat down next to her.
"So how are we going to do this?" Willow asked"¦ "I've got this friend"¦ He got like a million books about"¦ ancient people. And I thought maybe we could go and searching in them"¦ or?"
Willow felt silly. She had suggested that they would go to Giles' apartment and do some research. Why the hell did she even mention Giles? She knew she had a problem of babbling too much but this was just insane. And on the same time there was something familiar with Tara that she couldn't really place. She felt nervous and she thought that Tara probably thought how stupid she seemed. Willow took a sigh of relief when she heard Tara respond without any annoyance in her voice:
"Sure. That would be cool. I don't have so many books myself and it's good to have some extra books to look in since the books we have in class are just basic."
Willow smiled and they talked some more and the more Tara told about herself, the surer she was that she had met her before or something"¦ Everything about her was weirdly familiar"¦.
TBC
Comments very welcome! 😀 More will come later 😉
Pairing: W/T
Summary: A little AU. Oz never happened and now Willow and Buffy are in collage. Willow joins a witchcraft community and starts chatting with Tara.
Chapter 1: New
Willow looked around, sighing over the silence in her room. Buffy was out patrolling for some vampire that might have had connection to the vampire that, broke Buffy's class protector award, Sunday. Willow had heard from a wicca group she had been checking out before, that there were a great site for Wiccans to check out. She had heard that there were some great persons there, most willing to help with the teachings and stuff. Willow had been fire and flames. A site where she could talk about nothing but Wicca! It had to be heaven. Willow opened her lap top which her parents had given her in going-off-to-collage present. She typed quickly in the address she had been given. She loved the site already. It had beautiful music in the backround. She quickly pressed 'register' and she made an id for herself. She was from now known as 'Redhead'. She knew it was annoying but she didnt want to type in Willow or something and since Spike (when he had kidnapped her and Xander) called her Red it was just something that had come into her head. She then looked at users online and quickly recived a message from another user called 'LuvMagick'. Willow got exitced. What would other people want her? She read the persons message:
LuvMagick: 'Hey... You must be new.'
Willow smiled. She liked this person already. She... or he wasnt giving her any creep vibes that she had got (but then again she had an awful experience once where the guy she was chatting with turned out to be a robot) from other people she had been chatting with on other sites.
Redhead: 'Yeah.... Im Willow'
LuvMagick: 'Nice name. Im Tara'
Tara huh? It was a beautiful name really... She wished she had a name like that... Not something as dull as Willow or something... It was annoying how her parents had named her Willow. Who in their right state of mind would like to be named after a tree?
Redhead: 'Beautiful name. How long have you been into magick'
LuvMagick: 'All my life... But I just got interested in Wicca after my mother died. She was one'
Redhead: 'Im sorry to hear that... about your mom'
LuvMagick: 'Its OK. How long have you been into Wicca and magick then'
Redhead: 'Hmm... Not long. A few months or so'
LuvMagick: 'Interesting. 🙂 What do you do when you arent praticing or so'
Redhead: 'You know... hanging out with my friends and so... you?'
Willow couldnt just say that she was out helping Buffy with her slaying as much as she could. She couldnt just go off telling everyone that her best friend was the slayer.
LuvMagick: 'Nothing much. I pretty much do that, and hang out here. I know almoust everyone here'
Redhead: 'That must be kinda cool. Like logging into your second home or something'
LuvMagick: 'I guess...'
For the rest of the night Willow chatted with Tara till it was so late that Buffy came back from patrolling. Willow said her goodnights to Tara and they decided to log on tonight as well and chat some more. Willow have had such a good time talking to Tara it felt like she had known her for years. She had told her about Xander and what they did when they were kids and how it had felt for Willow when Buffy first had come to the picture (leaving the part where Buffy was the slayer out offcourse).
"So Will... You are up." Buffy said surprised and she looked at Willow when she had shut her laptop. "What have you been doing all night."
"Oh... Just nothing..." Willow said softly. "I became member on this site you know... And I talked to this girl named Tara. She was nice." Willow noticed that her face was one big grin when she talked about Tara and she tried to make it go away but it wouldnt. She was happy that Buffy didnt notice, she was too busy with anything than bothering about Willow's face expressions.
"Cool." Buffy just said and then she yawned. "Im beat. Im going to bed. Night Will..."
With that said Buffy just jumped on her bed and fell asleep at once. Willow on the other hand, went to the bathroom and brushed her teeth and then took a snack before going to bed. She fell alseep, dreaming that Tara also lived at the collage and that they had started a coven.... And she had a feeling that they would have a beautiful friendship...
Chapter 2: Shopping With Time
Willow woke up early the next morning, feeling a bit sleepy but it quickly dissapeared when she saw Buffy sitting on her bed, waiting for her to wake up. It was Saturday and they where going to do some serious shopping. She smiled at her best friend.
"Hey you." Buffy smiled and got from sitting on her bed to sitting on Willows. Buffy had decided this day was going to be a blast.
"Hey Buffy... What time is it?" Willow rubbed her eyes and felt like she hadnt slept but on the same time that she had... strange feeling really.
"Ehhh..." Buffy immediately went to her bedside table and shuffed a few things aside to the floor and then she smiled. "Victory... The time is..... damn, the clock thingie has stopped."
Willow giggled. Buffy had no clue about anything today. Willow wondered how she could live through slaying if she was this clueless. She then glared over at her own perfectly cleaned bedside table and she saw on her own watch that the time was 11 PM. She had slept about 5 hours. She yawned. God, she had to get to bed earlier tonight and not let her chat with Tara go on as much as it did last night. Willow got happy thinking about her new friend. She wondered what she was doing right now...
Tara Maclay walked around UC Sunnydale, looking around this beautiful day. She had trouble though. She had heard from a friend that her brother and father had started to try to track her down again. She was sure she wasnt a demon... She wasnt evil! But soon she let the trouble pass aside she looked around the beautiful campus and she just got amazed over how beautiful the world was (she was it quite often but...). The Goddess' enegry was everywhere. She had never felt so much connected to the Goddess' being and creation as in Sunnydale. She had been attracted to the town since she was a child when her mother had talked to her about the town. "A town filled with evil, but also great magick" had her mother said to her and she couldnt just let the place out of her head. Luckily, she had never told her father about her obsession with Sunnydale. Suddenly something made her turn around. She saw a blonde woman, walking and talking to... the most beautiful woman Tara had ever seen. She had red hair and she had just an aura... She loved her at once. The strenght that was glowing out of her.... Tara gasped for air, she had to be some woman that redhaired girl...
Willow, walking out of her dorm and just out to go shopping with Buffy, got a strange feeling in her... It felt just... home for a second. The world seemed to just stop for a second and that she was getting a worm feeling in her heart. She didnt know what it was and she luckily managed to hind her strange behaviour to Buffy, who was talking on and on about a pair of jeans she had seen in a store. Willow find herself strangely content about her life for a second.
"Willow? Will?" Willow woke up from her daydreaming and faced Buffy's questioning eyes. "Are you OK?"
"Yeah yeah... Just fine." Willow said and smiled. "Just daydreaming you know..."
"Ohh..." Buffy said. "Like I said: Wanna go and get Xander as well?"
Willow sighed. Xander... did she have the enegry to take him along... Sure Buffy had said that it was a girls day today but Xander was kinda like a girl, no offence to her childhood friend but...
"Sure." Willow said and then they walked out of campus, out for a good day of shopping...
When Willow and Buffy came back they had a bad each that they had their new bought clothes in. Buffy had bought a red tank top and a pair of jeans. Willow had bought a pink cardigan and a pair of black demi jeans. When Willow packed up her new clothes she couldnt help but to just smell the new clothes, it was Willow's wierd obsession. She loved the smell of new clothes... She just loved it. Buffy had thought at the beginning, everytime they bought clothes, that it was wierd, but she had come to terms with it and accepted it as a part of "the Willow package" that you got when you became Willow's friend.
Willow glared at the watch again and she couldnt help but let out a small gasp. Tara! She should have been online an hour ago! Willow practically threw herself over her lap top and quickly logged in as Redhead. And at once there came a message from LuvMagick aka Tara.
LuvMagick: 'Hey you. I thought you werent gonna make it'
Redhead: 'Im sorry... I went out shopping with Buffy, one of my friends I told you about'
LuvMagick: 'Ohh... Did you find anything'
Redhead: 'Yeah. A Pink cardigan and a pair of jeans... What have you been up to'
LuvMagick: 'Nothing much. I have been meditating most of the day. I forgot to eat lunch so Im sooo hungry right now'
Redhead: 'I dont drift off like that... I wish I could though. Meditation for me is pretty hard'
LuvMagick: 'It's not that hard you know... Just think about something that makes you peaceful or feel loved and think about nothing but that for a while... Then you stop thinking about it and just about air or something'
Redhead: 'Thanks soooo much for the tip Tara! hug I'll try it at once next time I get a chance. But it might be a while till then'
LuvMagick: 'How come'
Redhead: 'Well Buffy... She's a loud girl. She has a habbit of putting on 3 Doors Down with Here without you on the highest volume when I try to meditate'
LuvMagick: 'Ohh... that's a pain. I had a brother who did stuff like that but it was just for being a pain.'
Willow giggled. Yeah it was a pain... Meditation around Buffy was like trying to pairing up Buffy with Spike; impossible.
Redhead: 'Ohhh... What happened to your brother'
LuvMagick: 'Why do you wonder'
Redhead: 'You wrote had. Has he died? Im sorry'
LuvMagick: 'No he isnt dead.. So dont worry about it... He just... well.. complicated story'
Redhead: 'ohhh'
LuvMagick: 'But you should be afraid to ask questions. I'll happily answer them '
Redhead: 'OK. Great! :-D So what do you do'
LuvMagick: 'Im at collage. you'
Redhead: 'Same. What collage are you at? you dont haft to answer that if you dont want to'
LuvMagick: 'It's OK. I go at UC Sunndale...'
Willow just stared at the screen.
Chapter 3: The Set Up
Tara was in Sunnydale?! Willow couldn't believe it. Sure she had thought that it would be cool if she lived in Sunnydale but... these news came as a shock. Right then Buffy came turned around and looked at Willow since she hadn't heard her typing anything. Buffy looked at Willow and said with a soft friendly voice:
"Are you OK?"
Those words brought Willow back to reality and she quickly typed in 'That's cool.' to Tara, thinking in her head if she should tell her that she went to UC Sunnydale as well. She turned to Buffy to hear her point of view.
"I'm fine." Willow said truthfully. "But I've got a problem. I started chatting with this girl yesterday and she's all nice and stuff and well... She told me that she goes to UC Sunnydale. Should I tell her that I go here too?"
Buffy smiled and she said like the friend she was: "Sure. But if you are gonna meet, choose I public place and make sure I'm close by so if she turns out to be a he or something I could kick his ass."
Willow giggled and she forgot all about feeling like Buffy's shadow, Buffy had offered to kick up Tara's ass if she turned out to be an asshole and it was kinda sweet. In a Sunnydale kinda way. She smiled like a little girl and said: "Will do." Willow quickly turned to her laptop again and she typed in her reply and waited a few seconds till she saw Tara's reply:
Redhead: 'I go to UC Sunnydale as well'
LuvMagick: 'What? That's soo cool. Maybe we could meet up or something? If you want to I mean'
Redhead: 'Sure! When?'
Tara couldn't believe her luck; most of the people that she talked with lived in New York or Texas. It was fun to see that someone lived in her area so that she could meet up with them and talk to them in person. She was thrilled that Willow wanted to see her. She had a feeling they would be the best of friends. She thought for a second and then typed in:
LuvMagick: 'You know the Espresso Pump? We could meet there... if you'd like. Maybe around lunch time?'
It didn't take long before Willow had typed her reply in and Tara happily read it. She had agreed, but now she apparently needed to go because one of her friends, Buffy, wanted her to do something with her. Tara said her goodbyes to Willow and logged out herself. She sighed and then her thoughts went to home where her father, brother and cousin Beth was searching for her. She had a feeling that she couldn't stay so much longer in Sunnydale before they found her. The feeling made Tara sad because for the first time, she felt like she was home.
The next morning Tara woke up around 5 am and she sighed and tried to go back to sleep. She didn't need to go up until 2 hours but she was too excited to actually manage to get some sleep again. She decided to go to the Magic Box and maybe buy something. She got up and she put on a white top and a pair of jeans. Simple and easy. She brushed her teeth and she brushed her hair, she couldn't wait to see Willow, it was so exciting that there were people in Sunnydale who actually cared more about something else than just clothing, makeup and.... boys. Tara sighed. Tara had always been "into" (god, that sounded like the wrong word but hey...) girls and it had pretty much freaked everyone around her since she was 12 years old, so Tara had pretty much grown up alone. She was determined to get a friend in Sunnydale, whatever that meant. IF now Willow was like a clepto or something she would help her get passed it, not everyone's perfect.... Tara herself was a.... a demon. She couldn't believe it, she didn't WANT to believe it either. She wasn't evil... she was just... Tara and she were alone. Tara then decided to think about something else and she was really looking forward to meeting Willow. Tara made a last look in the mirror before she went out.
Willow had, after chatting with Tara, went out with Buffy on her slaying round, which first was thought to be a total drag. There wasn't a demon insight and just when Willow was getting bored a demon jumped out of the bushes, like sent from heaven... or hell or whatever it came from. Buffy went to an attack but this turned out to go pretty wrong, the demon broke Buffy's left arm, before Buffy and Willow ran away.
The demon hadn't followed them, which Willow thanked her lucky star for, so they went to bed, decided to tell Giles about the demon first thing tomorrow morning. Then they had gone to bed, because they were really tired.
When Buffy and Willow woke up the next morning Buffy's arm didn't hurt, it was just really sore. Willow helped in anyway she could, she carried some of her books and stuff. Right at lunch break Willow and Buffy went to Giles' apartment, to talk to him about the demon.
Giles was surprised that Buffy had gone hurt and he said just calmly that they would need some research on this. Everyone sat down and started to look in books and Willow went on the internet, searching for something. She was surprised how much information Goggle contained. What they didn't realize was that the hours clicked by...
Tara had sat and waited for 3 hours (missing one of her classes as well) and waited for Willow. She hadn't showed up, Tara felt as if she was gonna break. It had just been an evil prank made on her; she hated the people around her. How could they be so cruel? She had even bought a gift for Willow at the Magic Box (which had cost a lot of money but Tara thought that it might be expensive but it was worth a friend). She felt a tear coming down her cheek and went from the Espresso Pump... She was never going to talk to Willow again.
TBC
Chapter 4: The Human Psyche
Note before we begin: Since it's AU, Buffy doesnt take psychology but Tara takes it instead 😉
Willow didn't understand how everything had just gone away... Time everything. When she looked at the clock she realized something... Tara. She had missed it completely as she was helping Buffy with research and she felt horrible. Tara had surely been waiting and Willow couldn't help but feel.... sad, she had looked forward to talk to the girl but no no... fate seemed to have other plans...
When Tara got home, she fell on her bed, crying her heart out. How stupid did she was? It was surely just one of her old friend's bad jokes.... Tara laid down on the bed softly and she felt how her pillow got wet from her tears. She had been so stupid... Thinking that SHE might even get a friend or two... But who was she kidding? She was alone... she was a geek and worth nothing at all. She closed her eyes, wishing herself elsewhere...
When she opened her eyes again she looked at the clock. She was going to be late for psychology. She silently cursed and she got up. Not only did she have a terrible day but she was going to be late for her favourite class as well. She silently cursed and she gathered her books, ignored her headache and wiped away a few tears. She was going to live. She wasn't going to give the others the satisfaction of knowing they had got to her. She took a deep breath and she went outside her dorm, ready to face the world again.
Outside Tara's dorm everything went on as normal, no one noticing the sad and silent girl walking pass them; they were to busy catching up on the latest gossip. Sometimes Tara wished she was like them... She sometimes wished it so deep that she thought she was going to die... What wouldn't she do to be normal? She hated it on the same time... What meaningless and empty lives they must have... no worries or anything, just going around judging other people. Tara wanted that... She was sick of being so "special" but on the same time being no one. She didn't want to be a demon, she didn't want to have a controlling family, but on the same time: that was what she had.
Tara snapped out of her thoughts and she entered the room where the class was held. She at once felt all the cold stares at her, and she felt so alone. She felt her cheeks heat up and she heard Professor Walsh making a comment on her late appearance. Tara quickly goes out of the attention and sat down quickly and Professor Walsh continued.
"Like I said: now we are going to start to study the psychology of the cave men... What separates us from them? What makes us like them? So therefore, I'm going to part you in groups two and two. Your assignment is due next week."
Professor Walsh was interrupted by some boys in the back of the classroom, which she sent an evil eye at before continuing. Tara drifted in like a sleep, waking up just as she heard her own name being called out:
"... Ms Mclay and Ms Rosenberg..."
Tara sighed. She hated group things, especially when there was just her and someone else. They didn't listen to her ideas and did their own race, causing the project to be late and that they barely got approved in the class. She didn't care about the whole - you need to learn to work with other people thing, she knew how to work with people, it was just that people didn't listen to her. She woke up from her thoughts when Professor Walsh started talking again:
"I see we are a bit before schedule... I see no point why you can't sit into your groups and start planning the assignment."
After those words the horrible sound of people walking up from their chairs caught Tara's ears. She didn't really understand how such a simple movement as finding your partner in a classroom could cause so much sound. Tara heard a voice excuse herself and Tara looked up.
Tara went into shock. It was the beautiful red headed girl she had seen a while ago. She suddenly realized that she might say need to say something... something smart... that would make the girl notice her a bit more.
"Uhhh... Y-yes?" Oh brilliant, Tara thought. Not only had she started talking to the most beautiful woman in the world but also she managed to sound like a freak.
"Are you Mclay?" She asked softly. "I'm Willow Rosenberg. Nice to meet you."
Tara felt how a smile grew on her face; the beautiful woman would be working with HER on the assignment. Tara couldn't help feeling like the luckiest girl alive.
"Uhhh... Y-yes I'm Mclay... Tara Mclay. Nice to m-meet you Willow." They then didn't say anything, Tara was wondering why Willow looked so funny at her, then realizing that Willow was just standing there, waiting to be invited to sit next to her. "Ohhh... I'm sorry. Please s-sit down." Tara said and pointed at a chair next to her. Willow smiled and sat down next to her.
"So how are we going to do this?" Willow asked"¦ "I've got this friend"¦ He got like a million books about"¦ ancient people. And I thought maybe we could go and searching in them"¦ or?"
Willow felt silly. She had suggested that they would go to Giles' apartment and do some research. Why the hell did she even mention Giles? She knew she had a problem of babbling too much but this was just insane. And on the same time there was something familiar with Tara that she couldn't really place. She felt nervous and she thought that Tara probably thought how stupid she seemed. Willow took a sigh of relief when she heard Tara respond without any annoyance in her voice:
"Sure. That would be cool. I don't have so many books myself and it's good to have some extra books to look in since the books we have in class are just basic."
Willow smiled and they talked some more and the more Tara told about herself, the surer she was that she had met her before or something"¦ Everything about her was weirdly familiar"¦.
TBC
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