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Imagine that, when Tara was killed, it was Willow who was standing with her back to the window, and it was her who got killed. How will Tara react? How will she cope?

A shot was fired through the window. Willow was shot and she fell to the floor

"Oh god!" Tara cried out. "Come on Willow, please, open your eyes!"

"I'm sorry, and I love you" whispered Willow sleepily.

"Why are you sorry?" Tara replied, with tears in her eyes. "Speak to me!"

"I have to go. Goodbye, baby, I love you."

Tara was crying hard now. "I love you too, but don't go! you can't leave me. Don't.........."

But it was too late, Willow was already gone, and would never return.

Tara couldn't believe what had just happened, and held Willow until she heard an ambulance, and looked out the window where the shot that ended everything in her world came from came from. She saw Buffy, lying on the grass being treated by paramedics.

Slowly, Tara laid Willow down, and made her way downstairs.

She went to the back garden, and walked towards Xander.

"Tara are you-" Xander started to say.

"W-who did t-this?" Tara began speaking with great difficulty because of her fear and because she had been crying so much.

Angrily, Xander replied "Warren, he wanted to get rid of her for good. I hope he didn't get anyone else, because he fired a few badly aimed shots over his shoulder."

"W-Willow"

"What?" Xander looked Tara in the eyes for the first time since she came down. He thought her stuttering was just because of Buffy, but he saw so much pain, he knew it had to be something much worse.

"W-Willow, he s-shot Willow. In our room." Then she couldn't say anymore, and broke down in tears again.

"Oh god." Then he turned to the paramedics, "There's someone else upstairs."

Xander told them which bedroom it was.

When she finally regained herself, Tara stuttered "She's d-dead Xander. Willow's g-gone, and she left m-me behind."

"Oh no," Xander never thought this would happen to his friends. He didn't think they should suffer any more. "this has to be a dream. If it is, I really need to wake up now."

Tara started to feel scared of facing the world alone. "S-she's gone ah-head of life, a-and she left me b-behind."

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