Tara's eyes fluttered open, and she smiled at the sight before her. "B-buffy," she stuttered, nervous because of the worried look on the Slayer's face. "W-what's wrong?"

"You fainted," replied Buffy.

"You did, too."

"Maybe I was worried about you," responded the kneeling blonde.

"Liar," grinned Tara with a mocking tone as she leaned closer to the other woman. "If you keep being naughty, I might have to punish you."

"So now you've decided that you're really part demon?" asked Buffy, playing along with Tara.

"Spike said you liked a little monster in your men," answered the witch playfully.

"Maybe I like my women witchy," declared Buffy, just before she kissed Tara passionately.

***

"I think I'll chalk this one up to the Hellmouth," murmured Xander.

"Bloody hell!" hissed a suddenly jilted Spike.

"Excellent," muttered a shocked (and surprisingly prejudicial) Giles sarcastically. "Buffy's gay."

"Well, at least I don't have to worry about Buffy stealing Xander away from me," declared Anya.

"Oh no," whispered Willow. "No...."

"How could you!?!" shouted Dawn, watching as Buffy kissed Tara. "Stop it!" The girl threw her sister from Tara forcefully, angering the Slayer, and surprising everyone else (as if there wasn't enough of the surreal going on).

"Dawn, what are you doing!?!"

"Stopping you from hurting Willow, obviously," said the other girl indignantly. "What makes you think you can just wake up and start kissing Tara?"

"Maybe because I love Tara." Buffy stated her feelings for for the witch as if it were a long-standing fact. "I've been in love with her for two years. You know about this. We had a talk about it after I came out!"

Unable to bear Buffy's apparent lies, Dawn did the only thing that came to her mind. She ran.