Chapter four
"Ah, hey Buff. What's for cookin?" said Willow, as she walked into the kitchen.

"Hey Wills. How was work?" Buffy said, not even realizing that Willow had spotted Tara who was standing over the stove cooking.

"Oh, yeah, you noticed that huh?" asked Buffy looking up.

"Tara?" Willow said in a stunned tone.

"Hey Will. How ya been?" Tara greeted her soul mate in an almost whisper.

"Uh, um, good, been better but good. What 'bout you?" Willow said. She hadn't moved from the spot she stopped in, which was right in front of the still open back door.

"Uh, Will, ya wanna shut the door, it's a lil breezy tonight?" said the slayer, trying to get her best friend to come out of her shock.

"Oh, what? Oh, yeah sorry. I just, uh." she trailed off, staring into Tara's blue eyes.

"Well, seeing how this conversation isn't goin' anywhere's, I'm headed off to Xander's to tell 'em about um, I dunno yet, but something." Buffy said, jumping out of her chair and heading out to the front of the house.

"Willow, come here." Said Tara. She wanted to hold Willow, kiss her and make love to her right then and there. She never wanted to leave her in the first place, but Willow got herself into the black magicks and when Tara found out she was pregnant, she didn't want Willow to hurt her child with the magick.

A still stunned Willow walked over to her ex-lover and stood in front of her, while Tara gently hugged her. After about 30 seconds, Willow snapped out of her daze, and realized that her baby was hugging her again. She wrapped her arms around Tara's waist and started to cry.

"Shh, Willow, it's ok." Tara cooed to her ex-girlfriend.

"I've missed you so much Tara. I thought my life would never be happy again, and it hasn't." Willow sobbed into Tara's shoulder.

"I've missed you too Will, but we need to talk. I mean, we need to talk anyways, but I have something extremely important to talk to you about, and I can't do it right now because you haven't got used to the fact that I'm here, for a whole 3 weeks. But after dinner, after you compose yourself a little, we'll talk ok? Just me and you." Tara said while releasing Willow.

"Ok, anything you want. But Tara, is the thing you have to talk to me about, is it bad? Are you ok, you're not dying are you or anything like that," Willow said again, with more tears falling down her cheeks.

"No darling, I'm fine. And this isn't bad news at all. It's the most wonderful thing that's ever happened to me. But go and rest, I'll call you down when it's time to eat."

With that, Willow hugged Tara once more and made her way to the back door to pick up the things she dropped when she saw Tara. Then, when Willow was upstairs, Tara started crying to herself. She knew this was going to be the hardest thing she'd ever done in her entire life.