Title of Story: What's an Angel, without her Wings?
Show: Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Couple or Pairings?: Tara/Willow (Obviously), Anya/Xander (Because they make me smile.) and eventually Buffy/Faith (It's just so interesting.)
Rated: Teen.
Warnings: There is some violence, some mature themes, eventually there will be cursing, oh and evil heavenly beings who are power corrupt.
Disclaimer: If I owned Buffy; Tara would still be alive, Anya would still be alive, Buffy and Faith would be together, and I would magically appear in every episode with my handy dandy sidekick Kyra... okay, I would be the sidekick. Unfortunately, it belongs to Joss Whedon and he has done a marvellous job at it. Please don't sue me... All I have is ten bucks and some stuffed animals.
Authors Note: Well, this is quite odd. It is my fourth update in four days, and I definitly did not plan to work it like that. Let's hope that I can keep alive with the quick almost insanely quick updates, just remember, when I get a review or a new fan on my story, it makes me smile. :D Then when I smile, I let my inhibitions loose and update the story before I intend to! So, please drop me some constructive criticism, or even just a line about something that you particularly liked. If you aren't much for writing reviews, then fan my story. :) That works just as good.
Special Thanks To: The one girl who I willingly let shove me around and virtually beat me senseless with a grin on her face, Kyra. She is the Dahlia in my story and nobody could ever replace her... Or they would feel her wrath if they did. She is undeniably evil and quite enjoys this fact. I love her like a sister and she loves me like a punching bag... Odd relationship. Ah yes, and I dedicate this to my beloved little cousin who is the Caelum to my Tara, minus the not being able to speak and being abused by heavenly forces. However, she is my little angel and gives me a reason to smile everyday. Love you both!
Once again, a shout out to my beloved fans! (Haters/Tolerators/People who randomly click on my story.) I'm getting a lot of hits on the story. It makes me happy! Because I am practically like a two year old when it comes to my maturity when I get a fan... I'm like. "Oooooooh, fans! Gimme Gimme Gimme Gimme! Must update." Anyways, the fan I am making this special shout out is to Dalmation_Rex who favourited my story. :) Thank-you for the love, and this chapter was put up just for you!
What's an Angel, without her Wings?
Chapter Four: Not a Chance.
Caelum looked up at the older blonde lady who had suddenly came into the room and a frown formed on her face, she was immediately scared. Tara had told her that they were going to see her friend Willow, and though she had accepted that the teenager that she met an hour ago was not Willow, she hadn't been very scary, so she was okay. When Tara and the other girl had disappeared into another room, well Caelum had gotten a little nervous, but she had been watching some of those moving pictures on what Tara had called the Television. However, she had expected Tara and the girl to come back, not for some other girl to come in the room. Looking around for Tara and not seeing her, the little girl immediately let out a scream, curling her body into the couch, trying to get away.
Buffy looked down at the girl who was screaming and felt bad, she hadn't mean to scare the poor kid, she was only four or so if Buffy could estimate an age. She had only meant to put her weapons away when she saw the kid, and well she had been surprised to say the least, not scared just surprised. But that scream, it certainly brought the fear out of her and she stepped into the hallway just in time to feel Tara push past her into the living room, Dawn close on her tail. Both girls stopped at the couch, the blonde that she hadn't seen in quite some time rushed to the little girls side, pulling her into a big hug and whispering calm things into her ear just long enough for the kid to stop with the ear-piercing screams. Dawn just looked concerned at the small girl before looking back at Buffy and frowning. "You scared her, Buffy!" She exclaimed, grabbing onto the girls hand and giving it a hard squeeze.
Both Willow and Buffy stared at each other before looking back at the three girls in front of them, concerned, confused and surprised looks mirrored on their faces. Tara turned her head to the girls and felt a pang of guilt towards the look that Dawn was giving her sister. Caelum clung to Tara for a few minutes afterwards as the whole room was waved in an air of uncomfortable silence, nobody daring to speak. Finally unhinging her arms from around the older woman's neck, the small girl sat back on the couch, Dawn plopped down beside the girl. "Everyone, this is Caelum Renou." Tara tried to have a small smile on her face, knowing that this was dangerous uncharted territory, she had to make them truly see who the kid was, before they got whacky notions of sending her away. Tara had to keep the girl safe, so she had to explain first or they would decide her fate prematurely.
Tara moved the little girl into Dawn's arms and got up to face her friends, before she could tell them that she needed to explain, Buffy raised an eyebrow. "Caelum Renou?" Tara looked between the girls in the room, out of all of them, she didn't think anyone could get the whole reference to the Latin language and she would have a hard time explaining it. "Heaven's reject." Immediately Tara turned to her ex-girlfriend with surprise, she knew that they both had an understanding of the language, but didn't think that she had it as memorized as she did. "Right."
Tara smiled for a second before turning back to Buffy, getting up from the couch and walking over to the two girls, a smile flashing on her face as she turned to Willow. "I'll explain in the k-kitchen."
Dawn watched as her three older sisters, well two of them weren't really but she felt like they were, left for the kitchen. Turning back over to look at Tara's new friend, Dawn looked at the girl, "So, what were you watching?" The teenager knew that the little girl didn't talk much or really at all, Tara had explained that, but she knew that she had left some paper and pencil crayons in the room from when she was working on her science presentation and didn't most four year olds like to draw pictures. The girl pulled a piece of paper from the table and handed it over to Dawn, obviously having clicked into the normal behaviours of little kids. "Awh, let's see what it was."
Pausing when she was met with the familiar look of the cast of 90210 in their normal places in the show, a couple of her favourite characters smoking behind the school and the sluttiest characterin the series on top of one of the teachers, Dawn had to gasp. She had been watching that until someone rang the doorbell, Buffy didn't like her watching it so for fear of it being her sister, she changed the channel... Obviously this kid had figured out the whole concept of the last button. "Uhm, so Tara won't kill me, let's say that you didn't see that." Dawn took the picture.
Shoving it under one of the couch cushions, she smiled at the kid briefly, flipping the television off quickly as the commercial ended and her show came back on at a particular... part, that was not one of the best parts for a four year old. "You definitely did not see that." She laughed awkwardly before turning to the pile of magazines they kept beside their couch and pulled one out of the pile. "Let's see if there are any interesting stories in here." She grinned flipping it open to a random page and skimming over the text until she found what looked to be a good quiz. They went through it for a few questions before Dawn calculated the answer to the quiz they had been swimming through easily. "And your prime sex position is... what the hell am I reading?"
In the other room, Buffy had a frown on her face as Tara tried to explain about little Caelum, sitting beside her, Willow had a different look on her face, it wasn't exactly a smile but it wasn't the same look of disproval that Buffy had, instead of being upset at Tara for saving the little kid, Willow was extremely proud. Especially after seeing the way they interacted, it was adorable. She seemed so caring towards the girl, almost like Joyce had been to everyone, which was a little creepy to see Tara as an actual mother... Not that Willow hadn't hoped for kids if they had lasted for longer than the few years, she wanted to see either one of them pregnant and the other tending to them like they were the most important thing in the world. Willow had almost intended on bringing up the subject of children, not long after she had regained Tara's mind, it had been in those days that Tara was so helpless that she felt the closest to her. However, with Buffy dying and all the chaos had followed after her best friend was brought back to life, well, it had never seemed like the appropriate time. Then they had broken up.
Shaking the thoughts of what could have been from her mind, she tried to listen to the conversation her ears perking up as Buffy and Tara seemed to be arguing. "I just don't think that it's safe, we should hand her off to Giles and the other Watchers." Tara had a frown on her face and started to shake her head, was Buffy crazy or what? The little girl needed more than just the care of the Watcher's, she needed motherly tenderness. "Buffy, it's not a good idea." Tara didn't want to get too violent in her arguments for keeping the little girl, that could easily get messy, plus Buffy was Willow's best friend and well, Tara didn't know whose side the redhead would be on. "Tara, they will take good care of her, I swear on Dawn's life. Giles just knows what to do when it comes to special cases like this." Shaking her head quickly, Tara got up from the chair and practically ran into the living room, snatching little Caelum up from the couch and positioning her on her hip. "There is no chance in this world that I am going to risk her life."
The three girls followed Tara out the front door and onto the porch, Dawn looking confused as she followed behind them, but somehow agreeing with Tara, even though she didn't know what the argument was about. She just knew that it had to be serious if the blonde was getting so upset. "Tara, Buffy didn't mean it like that!" Willow called after her ex, while Buffy put her hands on her hips, obviously upset that Tara wasn't agreeing with her. Normally, everyone agreed with what she had to say. "Come on Tara!" She shouted upset as Tara strode off, turning back only once.
"She came to me for help Buffy, I'm not going to just pawn her off on someone else. Once I promise to help someone, I don't let them down. Especially not someone that needs me so much."