Well well here it is the last installment of Taras odyssey Book 1 It's not very good as I kinda wanted to finish it of, Book one is ment to be a sort of prelude to book 2 which I hope will be better, keep an eye out for it once I start writing it it'll be up at me website http://www.thescribesguild.homestead.com but it may be awhile before I put it on Fanfiction.net
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Chapter 7 - Dealing
"I just don't really know if can work, we've both changed alot" Tara said
"but the way you two have changed you still need each other" Faith replied
"I-I don't know"
"She really needs someone she can rely on, she's become more withdrawn with whats happened over the last years, you've become stronger, I think you're just the rock she needs in her life" Tara smiled softly
"I really do love her, I just don't want to hurt her again"
"You won't, now I have to go find Buffy, I think I'd better go talk to her"
"You know you're really not the same without your faithisms, and I still never learned what five by five ment"
Faith just smiled as she left
"Buffy you home?" Faith called out as she walked into Buffys appartment
"Hey Faith" Buffy said softly
"What's up B?" Buffy looked up at Faith her whole face lighting up
"You called me B"
"Yea well, as Tara pointed out, who am I without the faithisms" Buffy smiled "But sometimes we have to let go of the past"
"Yea"
"Buffy, i know it hurts alot, but you have to work past things"
"I try but it's hard, it keeps hurting so much, everything. When I saw Tara again, I felt I was going to loose Willow all over again"
"Tara's not going to hurt her again or take her away from you"
"I know, maybe she'll take away the parts of Willow that I still recognise"
"Buffy-"
"I don't know what it is Faith but it's confusing"
'Everything changes"
"So much I don't recognise it Faith, you're all smart and kind, Tara knocked me out! Willows so incredibly quiet and withdrawn, apart from the whole undeadness Xanders not that differnt but-"
"Buffy people have to change"
"That's just it, I haven't changed, I feel like I'm standing still and everyone else is moving"
Ayna watched Xander eyeing him up
"So why are you still with the scoobs An?" He asked
"We're friends, me and Willow and Buffy"
"I thought you would've split"
"I wanted to stake you, I had dibs on your undead ass, you tryed to bite me Xander"
"Hey I'm sorry"
"And you hurt me in here" she pointed to her chest "Alot, by leaving"
Xander wrapped his arms around Anya but she pulled away from him and walked away
"I still have dibs on staking you, even if Willow said I couldn't" Anya said as she left.
Willow walked along the streets feeling amazing. Tara was back and things where going to work out fine, maybe if Oz had shown up before Tara did Willow would have thrown herself back into his arms but after everything she'd been through she needed someone who could be there for her and she knew deep down that Tara would be better for her than Oz. Willow saw Spike staggering along up ahead and she couldn't help but smile at him, the poor pathetic vampire who pretty much just got drunk all the time she walked up to him.
"Hello Spike, found some moeny for booze again"
"Hey Red you seem to be in a good mood, must have something to do with your bich been back"
Willow walked past Spike but he grabbed her "I've heard some pretty crazy things about your girl red, that she can make a vampire human or something, now what I'm gonna do is see if it's ture" Spike sunk his fangs into Willows neck as she tried to break free "Oh by the way I got that pesky chip removed"
Buffy looked around the room at her friends "So this is the sunnydale branch of the allience" She said softly
"So how are things going to work?" Xander asked
"Simply like they did before each member of the allience uses their skills to help the slayer" Tara said softly still worried why Willow hadn't shown up it was nearly dark outside. Anya was still staring angrily at Xander "STOP IT!" He yelled at her "I can't take it Xander good now, no more with the biting" Anya just turned her attention away from him to Buffy
"Can I stake him yet?" She asked Buffy sighed
"Anya we went to all the trouble of giving him a soul and making Xander old Xander again so no you can't stake him"
"But I'm good at staking remeber with the" Anya made a staking motion "At the cemetary"
Willow opened the door"Sorry I'm late" she said standing outside Buffys appartment.
"Don't just stand there come in" Buffy said laughing slightly as Willow walked in, smiled meekly then sat down next to Tara who placed an arm around her shoulder. "Why are you so late it's dark already and Buffys heading out soon" Xander asked
"I got caught up" Willow replyed Faith watched Willow carefuly as she carefuly avoided view of the cross around buffys neck as she talked to her.
"So who's your sire Willow?" Faith asked Willow snapped her attention to Faith who had been sitting in silence most of the meeting she then looked around the group most of them where confused she sighed "Spike"
"I thought he was still the chip guy"
"Apparently not"
"So why'd he do it"
'Said something about Tara making Vampires human and he wanted to test it, see if she made me human again"
"you're a warm vampire, the protection spell I put on you traps your human body your soul and that, you seem human only you have vampire weeknesses, and can go all vampy with the face and stuff"
"So I'm imortal aren't I?" Willow asked
"Affraid so, you'll need to eat and sleep because of the human body, but alot less than normal, to stay healthy, you need less blood than a vampire, just a red meat diet should do it" Willow nodded then started to smile
"Looks like we have another imortal for the ranks" She turned to Tara "And now we can spend an eternity together
"If things work out" Tara said
"They will" Willow said she looked around at the gang, Anya, Buffy, Faith, Xander, Tara and Her "Everytihng will"
THE END