Title: Missing Pieces. Rating: PG 13 or PG Reason: Mild language and some violence and a bit of angst. Author: The Next Tara Maclay Pairing: W/T and X/A (when we get to there parts.) and. Faith and Buffy somewhat later in the story! Disclaimer: I do not own any of Joss's Characters, he got them out of dumb luck. Anyway, I do own however the characters I make up. The rest belong to Joss, Mutant Enemy and Fox. Distribution: Yes you are allowed to take this story and put it in your archive just let me know, I don't like it when a thing of mine is stolen and put on an archive without knowing Part: 5/? Feedback: yes, I would like it, Negative or Positive or just little comments! Whatever floats your boat.

"W-what was that?" Claire asked in a somewhat scared yet worried voice.

Tara looked around nervously, her deep blue eyes looking out her and Willows door seeing some dust rising up from downstairs. Just then something struck her, Willow had went down stairs and went outside to go to the Supermarket that was just around the corner.

"Goddess. No!" Tara said fear stricken as she looked at Claire and then grabbed her hand and ran over to the stairs looking down at the dust.

Claire paled quickly as she had remembered that Dawn was downstairs in the living room and so was her twin sister Kat. She shivered slightly as she took very slow steps down the stairs with Tara following slowly behind her. Her blue eyes looked at the mess that was made all in the front inside of Buffy's house.

Willow was buried in debris, Shingles, glass and wood pieces, the only part of her body that was showing was part of her arm, and it was sticking out from the big pile.

Dawn was hiding under a table that was half cracked; she was covering her face. Her blue eyes were filled with tears full of fear. She wished that Buffy were home although she had a feeling that Buffy would get pissed at the person who did this.

Tara ran quickly over to the pile that Willow had been buried under. Her blue eyes were filled with concern, worry and much fear. She grabbed some of the shingles and threw them over to the left-hand side of her. She kept throwing things aside but she was being very careful not to hurt anyone. Her arms were getting tired from all the throwing but she refused to give up. *I can't stop now! Willow needs me. * she finally got to the last layer and pushed everything off of Willow and pulled Willow onto her lap as she stroked Willows hair.

"W-willow?" Tara asked concernedly.

Not getting an answer from Willow, Tara slightly panicked and reached for a pulse, yes she was getting a pulse, which was a good sign. There was a lot of blood though coming from Willows head and Willows arms and wrists and legs.

"C-claire go call 911! Now..please. hurry!"

"W-what about.oh..okay!" Claire said quickly not wanting to loose someone else. She quickly ran over to the phone and picked it up dialing 911. "Hello! This is an emergency.umm. the front of the house fell in on top of.a-a-a-a-a-a p-person." Claire sighed to herself. "N-no Ma'am this is n- not a p-prank p-phone call! Y-you'll be h-here s-soon? A-alright!" Claire hung up the phone and ran back over to Tara sitting down next to her.

"I-is she going to be.o-okay?" Claire asked as she put a hand on Tara's shoulder.

Tara shook her head as she stroked Willows hand closing her hand over Willows as she started to cry softly, she didn't like this at all. She heard the sirens on the back round roaring loudly like a roaring lion. She slowly picked up Willow wanting to be extra careful not to hurt Willow.

The paramedic walked over to the house as he looked over at the partially collapsed house. His deep brown eyes looked at Tara who was holding the girl who was injured very badly, he slowly walked over to the blonde and brought a gurney with him and slowly took Willow away from Tara and put the red head on a gurney. He rushed her to the ambulance and put her in there then looking over at Tara and Claire who had just walked up behind her.

"Do you want to come in the Ambulance or do you want to meet . us at the hospital?" The paramedic asked.

"W-we'll go." Tara said softly as she looked over at Dawn, who was just walking over to her. She knitted her brow together in confusion as she looked around for Kat.

"W-w-where is ...K-Kat?"

"I don't know. She was with me at one moment and then she just disappeared just like boom, she's gone! I looked around for her but she isn't here." Dawn said quickly as she folded her arms. "I didn't do anything though."

Tara nodded softly as she knew something wasn't right, she sighed lightly and walked with Claire and Dawn to the ambulance and got in as she sat down next to Willow. Claire sat down next to Tara and put her head on her shoulder, she knew she had to tell Tara sooner or later. Dawn sat down on the other side of Willow and looked down at Willow concernedly as her eyes got teary.

"I-is Willow going to get better? Is she going to be okay?"

"Y-yes s-she is." Tara said with a firm nod and a voice.

Something in the shadows was watching the ambulance as it drove off. There was a mishevious laugh that could be heard through an alley. He followed slowly after the ambulance planning on making this be a living hell.

!*!*!*!*!*!*!*! [At the hospital. ]

Willow was rushed quickly to the Emergency room, 4 doctors and 2 nurses were helping out with Willows injuries.

Tara watched Willow get wheeled into the emergency room as she sighed quietly as she walked around in front of the emergency room. She couldn't help but wonder if her girl friend would be all right. She prayed to the goddess's that she would be. Her blue eyes glanced over at Claire who was walking in a room that was for intensive care. Tara couldn't help but follow a long.

Claire turned around as she looked at Tara for a moment then she looked back down and walked over to a bed and she sat down on a seat and looked at Tara.

"W-what are you d-doing.here.." Tara asked confused at the fact that Claire was in here and there was no one to visit really.

"Umm. T-tara.t-there I-is something..y-you need to know..a-about K-kat."

Tara looked over at the bed as her eyes widened in shock.

TBC