Tara began to follow the trail, the same trail she had seen Kennedy follow the night before. "I wonder why she came down here? Why would she go to the library? She doesn't seem the library type of person." Tara stopped when she had to cross a small bridge. The bridge reminded her of the bridge where she had sung to Willow. Tara continued over the small bridge, she smiled when she stopped at the small cabin on the other side. "Now this feels like a home. I wonder if anyone lives here?"
She lightly knocked on the front door in case someone did in fact live in this small cabin. When no one answered, Tara let herself in. As soon as she was in the cabin, Tara was able to feel Willow's essence surround her. "This must be where Willow lives." A smile crept up on her face when she spotted a picture of Willow, Buffy and Xander. Tara examined the pictures carefully as she walked up to them. She felt like maybe she'd feel closer to the new Willow if she knew who was important in Willow's new life.
There were pictures of some of the young slayers and more pictures of the Scoobies. Tara paused when she noticed two pictures in particular. One picture was of Willow and her, it was taken one summer day during a picnic that the Scoobies had had.. The other was one of Willow and Kennedy. She studied both pictures, immediately she spotted the differences in Willow. In the picture with her and Willow, Willow was smiling and Tara see the happiness in Willow's eyes. But in the picture of Willow and Kennedy, Willow was smiling but this time, her eyes were sad. Tara began to tear up at the thought of Willow so unhappy. "I can't do this right now, Willow needs me to be strong. I have to find the library."
Tara began to look around the cabin, looking for the stairs. Tara felt comfortable in the cabin, her Willow's cabin. As she continued to walk down a small hallway, Tara noticed a set of stairs. "I guess this is how to get into the attic."
Once in the attic, Tara's smile grew. "Now this is Willow." She said to herself as she looked around the attic/library. Tara noticed the floor to ceiling bookcases, the large comfortable pillows that littered the floor and the hundreds of candle that surrounded the room. Tara knew that she had to start going through the books; she needed to find a book that would allow her to cross into Willow's sleeping mind.
Buffy knew that she had to stop Kennedy from destroying the whole training room. Even after Tara left, Kennedy continued on her rampage. "Ken, stop for a minute. This isn't doing anyone any good."
Kennedy glared at Buffy, who was standing a couple of feet away from her. "It feels good to me."
"I hope that it feels good on your bank account because trust me, you are going to be paying for the damage."
"I don't care."
Buffy started cleaning the mess that Kennedy created. "Willow would care. How do you think she'd feel if she knew that you were destroying everything in sight?"
Kennedy couldn't believe that Buffy actually had the nerve to mention Willow's name. "How dare you? What I do is my business. Willow isn't my mother. She's my girlfriend. Well, she was."
"Was? When did you two breakup? Because the last thing that I remember, you and Willow were still sharing a bed."
"In case you haven't noticed, Tara's back. That means I'm out of the picture." Kennedy said as she finally started to calm down and sat on the bottom step.
Buffy sat down beside her. "Willow loves you, how about you let her make the decision on who she wants to be with."
"It's useless. I know Willow and I know how much she loved, still loves, Tara. I can never compare with her. I mean have you seen her? She's tall, blond and beautiful. No wonder Will fell in love with her. I don't stand a chance."
"You really don't have a chance, if you think that you don't. You're jinxing yourself. Willow's hurt right now, how about we concentrate on her. She's important to all of us, we all love her."
Kennedy turned and looked at Buffy. "Yeah, you're right for once. That's a change. I just can't seem to figure out how to be in the same room with that woman and keep my cool. I hate the idea of her touching my girlfriend."
"I understand, but you need to least try. I mean you don't want to be banned from the hospital, for having a freak out on Tara. Now that would really piss Willow off."
"Damn, you're right again. You're getting good at this." Kennedy smiled at Buffy. "And we both know not to piss that witch off."
Buffy laughed, she then thought to herself. 'This must be the Kennedy that Willow sees. She's not half bad. But Willow isn't the only witch that Kennedy doesn't want to piss off. Kennedy had no idea how powerful Tara really is.' Buffy got off the step and turned to walk back up but before she left, she turned to Kennedy and said: "You'd better hurry if you want to catch a ride with us to the hospital. Xander wants to leave in about 20 minutes."
"Yeah, I just have to run up to the cabin and grab a few things for Willow. Things that she is going to need when she wakes up."
Buffy nodded as she left the room. She needed to get the girls ready for the day. It would also be the first day that Dawn would be in charge of the young slayers, while they were at the hospital.
Tara still hadn't found a spell to help her communicate with Willow, while she was still unconscious. As Tara took another look around the room, she was able to picture Willow, researching for hours, sitting in the corner. "Oh baby, wake up soon."
"What the hell are you doing in my house?!"