Willow walked down the stairs and entered the kitchen where Oz was sitting at the table looking out of the window and still talking on the phone.

He looked up as she entered and she smiled at him before going across to the cupboard on the wall behind him and taking out the big bag of rice, she then went over to the fridge where she took out tomato paste, celery, mushrooms, and courgettes.

She then walked over to the sideboard next to window and put these items down before reaching up to the shelf above her and taking down a big steel sauce pan, filling it with water putting a sprinkle of salt in it and putting it on the hob to boil.

She then turned back to the counter and began to chop up the vegetables.

Oz had just finished his phone calls, he stood up and walked over to where willow was chopping up, and wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her neck softly before saying

"You ok babe?"

she turned to face him with his arms still wrapped around her and said

"Yeah I'm good."

"How was Spike"

"He's ok, but I don't know he seems broken in away, he's upset about not being able to be in violets life but he's the only one who's stopping him from being in her life, I told him that I know she would want to have him here to be able to talk to him and I know that he would love to know her. but he wont. he keeps going on about how all Buffy wanted for herself was a normal life and how he know that's what she would want for violet. but I know and you know and even giles knows that Buffy wanted him to be in violet's life. and it's just. it's hard. I don't know what to say to him to make it better and I'm so scared that he's just going to up and leave again without seeing her. and I know that he needs to see her. and she needs to see him and I'm going on again aren't I?"

She smile at him.

"You can't make him do anything that he's not ready to do and maybe he is ready to tonight, maybe he's not , but he's here now so even if this is just a short stay over for a feed and shower it just shows that he's getting more confident in coming to the house which is a good thing."

He looked at her for a minute then carried on to say "And well Violet will be home in half an hour, he hasn't even gone in the shower yet. so guesses are that he'll still be here when she gets home any way especially since I invited Tara to dinner with us they're going to be here earlier any way."

Willow grinned again and said "Well I guess I'd better get busy making it then?"