Chapter 3

Everything is great again. Dawn is out of the hospital, buffy and faith planned a wedding for a year from now, zander and anya also got engaged, and dawn moved in with bri to give willow, tara, buffy, and faith more privacy. Giles also came down a couple of days ago. It is wedding day and buffy is helping willow get ready while faith is helping tara.

Willow is putting on her dress as buffy is standing there waiting so she can help with everything else. Willow walks out from behind the screen and buffy gasps. "Oh, willow, you are so beautiful." Buffy had tears streaming down her face smiling.

"Thanks buffy, you are too. I love your dress." Willow said as she looked up and down at buffy catching every detail in the baby blue dress with a white flower at her waist.

"Thanks, but you should see the dress I got faith into. She is gorgeous. You would not believe what I had to do to get her in it though." Buffy laughed at the thought.

"I don't think I really want to know what you did but I can't wait to see her. How much time do we have left?" Willow started to get nervous again.

"Don't worry will, you have plenty of time. I am sure tara will be ready in a minute. Now lets just wait for dawn." Buffy tried to comfort her best friend.

Dawn walks in all excited. "Ok, she's ready. How about you?" She looks at willow. "You look so beautiful. Wait until you see tara, she is gorgeous."

Willow takes in a breath trying to calm her nerves. "Yep, I am good. Ok, lets go get me married already." With that the three girls walked out onto the beach.

They decided to have the wedding on the beach when the sun was setting. It was were they got engaged and they thought it was really romantic. Willow walked out and was greeted and complimented on her dress. She looked over to the other side and saw tara walking out of her tent with the same white dress on. She saw faith come out behind her wearing a violet dress that also had a white flower at the waist. When tara caught willow she took in a gasp of hair to try and get her breath back after it has been taken away from the sight of her soon to be wife.

They walk toward each other that was sort of a run and embraced each other. Giles came up to them and cleared his throat. "Umm, why don't we get the wedding started." Giles led them to a circle that was created on the sand.

Everyone stood in the circle around willow, tara, and giles. "Ready?" Giles asked the two girls he thought of daughters. They both nodded and grabbed the other's hand. "Spirits of the earth, I call upon you to hear these two women's plea of joining. Let their hearts tell you of their love so that you might join their souls together forever." Giles read the words from the book then walked out of the circle, a slight wind had already picked up, telling all those that were there that the spirits and the goddess were listening, now all they had to do was say the right thing at the right time.

Buffy stood directly behind willow in the circle holding the ring willow was to give to tara, she glanced to the other side of the circle where faith stood, also holding the ring tara was giving willow. Faith smiled to her fiancé, who smiled back, and the thought struck her, no way anyone would deny them, they're perfect for each other, just as much as faith and I are.' The thought made her smile more, and she tuned back in to the conversation in the center of the circle. Tara was just about to begin her vows, which would serve as her plea for willow's soul.

Tara inhaled a lung full of air and exhaled trying to calm her nerves before she began. "Willow, my willow, we have been through so much together. We have been through and seen all the good and bad times that happened in our life over the years, but we got through it with just being there for each other. When we first met I was a shy and lonely small girl that no one noticed or even cared about, until you came. You came into my life and introduced me to a new person that I never thought I could be. You brought the light out in me and showed me who I am capable of being. You introduced me to your friends and we all became one big happy family. Thank you for everything you have done for me, you have taken me out of a disturbing and troubled family and brought me into your own loving and caring family. I never knew that you could be family even if you didn't have the same blood, but I realize that all you need is to have the same loving and caring heart. I love you so much and there is nothing that can get me to say otherwise. When I look into your eyes I see your soul. It is so caring and loving, all I want to do is keep you safe and make sure that that soul is never other than loving and caring. You are my life, my soul, and my heart. I love you more than you know, there are no words to tell you and there is no way I can show you how much you mean to me. I love you my willow and I can not wait for us to spend the rest of our life together." Tara took a breath trying to stop crying but when she looked into willows crying eyes she knew she couldn't stop.

It is willows turn and she almost broke down crying. She took in a breath and started. "Tara, my sweetness, amazing can't even start to explain you. You are extraordinary, beautiful, astonishing, remarkable, wonderful, incredible, and so much more. I was suppose to write something that would tell how much I love you, but there is no word that describes everything. You have seen the best and the worst of me and you stuck around to help me get my life back on track. When I first looked into your eyes I saw your worn and tattered soul and I knew from then on that I would revive it and make it to what it once was and I have succeeded. When I was writing my vows I took a moment to think about what my life would be like without you and it hurt, my whole body hurt at just the though and I never want to find out what I would feel like if it came true. I look around me and I see almost everyone has a destiny. Buffy and faith are slayers, angel has a soul, giles and wesley are watchers, and cordelia has visions. For years I have tried to figure out what my destiny is and I have finally figured it out. My destiny is you, to be with you for the rest of my life, to take away all the pain and put in the happiness that is suppose to be there. To put my arms around you and tell you everything will be ok when it really isn't, to love you like you have never been loved before, and much more. My life is yours and I will do anything to make your life the best that it can be. I love you Tara Maclay." Everyone got choked up.

Buffy gave tara's ring to willow and steeped back smiling. Willow was putting the ring on but stopped to show her the engraving since she had no seen it yet. Is said 'Extra Flamey' and tara giggled a bit. Then faith stepped up and gave tara willow's ring and stepped back smiling. Tara was putting the ring on willow and stopped to let willow read her engraving. It said 'True love' and willow smiled. A wind picked up and they new that the goddess has approved of them coming together. Once the two girls felt the wind they instantly fell into each others embrace and kissed with such passion and fire from everything that they had just said to each other. Everyone clapped their hands as the two continued to kiss signifying that they are now wife and wife.

They had the reception at the Summers house and there was music and food and memories of happy times. Everyone was sitting around eating when Buffy stood up and clicked her glass with her fork getting everyone's attention. When she had it she began. "I know that the best man or in this case the best woman is suppose to make a toast, so here it goes. Willow, when I first meet you cordy was giving you a hard time and I felt really bad. But after a while I realize that you really are better than she ever gave you credit for. Over the years we became the best of friends and I kinda think of you as my sister." She looked over at tara who took willows hand in hers and smiled. "Tara, when you first came into willows life she was like hell. Hell, she walked out in front of a car, I was lucky riley was there. Oz just left and she even got a spell wrong and got me to be engaged with spike. Giles was blind, and even though it already happens, zander was being chased by demons, and all to work her will so she wouldn't feel so bad. Who knew that one trip to a wicca group would change all that. Even though she didn't tell me for a while I saw a sparkle in her eye every time I saw her and I knew she was looking at someone. When she first came out to me I admit that I was a little freaked but once a heard the way she talked about you and the way she looked at you whenever you were in the room I knew you guys were the ones for each other. I also feel that you are my sister and I love you both so much. After everything that has happened between you two you still stand strong. Even though I would hate to admit this, your love is stronger than me, faiths, and angel's strength put together and I am so happy you found each other. So for many years as a happy married couple with many happy and safe years together." She raises her glass as did everyone else and sat back down. After everyone was done eating they went into the living room to dance.

Willow and tara had the first dance while everyone watched and then they started dancing along with the couple. Buffy and faith came over to the newly wedded witches. "Can we steal a dance?" Asks buffy. Willow and tara nodded their heads and faith took tara away to one corner of the room and started dancing with her while willow took buffy into her arms and started dancing.
Buffy and willow were swaying to the music smiling and looking into each others eyes. "You know I really do love you, and I am happy that you found someone." Said buffy wiping a strand of hair away from willows eyes.

"I love you too buffy, and I am also glad you found someone. I can tell you love faith maybe as much as I love tara." Willow said.

Buffy laughed. "Yeah, you are right. Wow, look at us. We meet in high school and became best friends, we go through really rough roads, and now you are married and I am engaged. Did you ever think this is were our life really took us?"

"I know, I was a computer geek in high school and now I am a hot mamma yamma with a beautiful wife that I am totally and utterly in love with, I have the best sister that anyone can ask for, I have the best friends anyone could ask for. Nothing can go wrong." Willow said as she pulled buffy closer and put her head on her shoulder as buffy did the same.

The night went off without a flaw, buffy and faith decided to give the two girls the house so bri let them stay at her and dawns apartment. Angel, gunn, fred, and wesley left for LA after the party and they said their goodbyes and congratulations. Zander and anya left a little after them. Buffy, faith, dawn, and bri stayed late with willow and tara talking about everything that happened.

"Well, it is getting late, we better go so you guys can umm, celebrate in your own way." Buffy laughed. "Oh, and make sure you are ready buy eleven. One, because I don't want to walk in and see you two with the witchy lovin, and two, because we are taking you out tomorrow for brunch." Buffy added as she gestured to dawn, bri, and faith.

After both of them nodded they watched everyone go out the door and sighed. "Ok, if this isn't the best day of my life I don't know what is. I got married to the most beautiful woman on the face of the earth, nothing bad happened, I remembered my vows, we get the house to ourselves to make as much noise as we want without blushing because people heard us." Willow said as they both plopped on the couch. "But I am so tired."

"Oh, sweetie, well if your to tired for desert then I guess I will get mine and you can have yours later." Tara had a wicked grin.

"No, no, and no. There is no way I am passing up making love to my new wife. I don't care how tired I am. You, my love, are going to feel me love you in ways that you have only dreamed of." Willow gave tara a grin before she pushed tara on the couch and got on top of her between her legs taking tara's lips in a passionate kiss. She pulled away getting a groan from tara but then gave her little pecks all the way down her jaw bone before she started sucking on tara's pulse point getting a moan this time. She moved her hand to the bottom of tara's shirt and put her hand inside bringing the shirt up with her hand as she rubbed up and down her side. She purposely wipe her hand at the side of her breast making tara gasp for air. Willow wasn't to happy about the clothes though. "To much clothes. Must come off." Willow breathily stated. Tara complied and sat up so willow could take of her shirt. Tara didn't like the imbalance so she took willows shirt off too before willow had a chance to push her back down. The two witched made love for the first time as wives with compassion, love, and fire. They ended up sleeping naked on the couch with a thin blanket to cover them.

Back at bri and dawns apartment, the four girls were sitting on the couch snuggling up to there lover watching TV.

"I wander what they are going to do." Buffy said.

"Um B, I am sure we all know what they are going to do." Faith laughed playfully hitting her fiancé.

"I know that, I am talking about their future. What are they going to do now that they are married. I wish they stay with us but I think they might want to move somewhere else. You know, have a family of their own." Buffy had sadness in her voice knowing that her best friends aren't going to live with her forever.

Dawn also looked sad. "I am sure they won't go far. They wouldn't totally leave us behind. Would they?"

Bri squeezed dawn a little bit to comfort her. "No baby, I am sure they will not leave us behind. Now they might be going somewhere for their honeymoon that buffy and faith are happily providing but they are not going to leave us. I am sure we will have something to say against it if they do."

"Ok, I believe you." Dawn yawns.

"Tired sweetie?" Bri asks noticing dawn yawn once more.

"Yeah."

"Lets go to bed. We need to get some sleep before brunch." With that bri and dawn went into their room after saying goodnight to buffy and faith.

"Today was amazing. Willow and tara looked beautiful and the wedding was great, and the party was so fun. Buffy actually let me have a glass of champagne." Dawn said as she and bri get undressed for bed. Bri and dawn were in their night shorts and bras when dawn came over and put her arms around bri's waist pulling her closer. "Do you think are wedding and after party would be as good as tonight?" Dawn asks giving bri a kiss and staying there for a minute until she pulls back to let bri answer.

Bri puts her arms around dawn's neck. "Sweetie, we aren't even engaged yet, but yes we will. I promise." Bri goes in for another kiss pulling dawn even closer to her making their breasts mush together. Bri unclasps dawn's bra and dawn pushes back a little smiling with a wicked grin. Bri sees this and tries to explain with a grin plastered on her face. "What? You can't wear your bra to bed so I am helping you."

Dawn smiles and goes in for another kiss also unclasping bri's bra. After a couple moments dawn pulls back to let hers and bri's bra fall to the ground as she pushes bri back onto the bed lying on top of her. Dawn kisses down bri's jaw line and down to her breasts flicking the nipple with her tongue. Each one makes love to the other before they fall asleep trying not to make noise to let buffy and faith hear them. They still have not told anyone that they are lovers because they are afraid that they wouldn't let them sleep together anymore and they don't want that.

Tara woke up wrapped in willows arms as she is spooning her from behind. Tara smiles and tries to get in closer than she already is. She has to go to the bath room so she gets up as slow as she can trying not to disturb her lover. She quietly gets a large shirt on and goes to the bathroom before heading to the kitchen to start the coffee maker. While she is waiting for it to get done she went upstairs to their room to get changed and bring close down for willow to get into before buffy and the others come get them. She made the coffee for both of them and went into the living room to find her wife still sleeping peacefully with a smile on her face. She placed the cups on the table and sat on the side of the couch smiling down at her lover combing back her red hair that managed to get on willows face during the night.
Willow feels tara. "Hmm." Willow smiled and opened her eyes. She looked up at her wife. "Good morning sexy, how long have you been up?"

"Not long, I made us coffee and I brought you down some clothes so you can get ready for brunch." Tara said.

Willow furrowed her brow. "What time is it?"
Tara looked over at the clock and back to willow. "Ten, you need to get ready. I don't think they would let you in the restaurant naked. I don't even think buffy would let you in the car naked." Tara giggled.

"Fine, I'll get up and get dressed, but I am not going to like it." Willow furrows her brow. "What about our honeymoon, we haven't really talked about it but I think we need one."

"Well, buffy said not to worry about it, she said we could talk about it at brunch. Now, get in the shower and get dressed." Said tara giving willow a kiss and getting up to go in the kitchen.

"Yes, mom." Willow giggles. Willow goes to take a shower and gets dressed. When she goes in the kitchen she sees tara reading the paper sipping on some coffee at the island in the middle of the kitchen. She leans on the door frame and stares at her wife. "Now this is something that I can get use to." She walks over to tara and wraps her arms around tara's waist from behind. "Seeing you read the paper is kinda sexy." She purrs as tara giggles.

Just then the door opens and buffy walks in with her hand over her eyes. "Are you guys decent?"

Willow and tara both giggle before tara answers. "Yes, buffy we have clothes on."

"Ok." She takes her hand off her face and waves the others in. "Ok, guys they have clothes on. Come on in." Faith, dawn, and bri come into the kitchen with buffy. Willow still has her arms around tara's waist with tara's hands over willows. Buffy and faith walk to the other side of the island while bri leans on the wall beside the door to the kitchen with dawn leaning on her. "So, you guys ready? Did you have fun?" Buffy giggles but then realize she left something out. "But, don't give us details please."

"We had fun, and yes we are ready." Willow said as she lets go of tara.

They all make their way out of the door and into the car. Buffy brought them to a restaurant that had a modern look to it. They walked inside and a waitress sat them at a booth in the back. When they sat down the waitress took their orders and left.

Buffy decided to ask her question that she asked last night at bri and dawns apartment. "So, what are you guys gonna do? You know, with your life. Are you gonna move out and find your own place and have a family?"

"We don't know. We haven't really talked about our future all that much, I mean we know we want a family but that's about it." Willow said smiling.

"Well, I have a little something to get your new life together started." Buffy said excitedly as she puts an envelop on the table and slides it over to willow and tara.

Willow looked at buffy and furrowed her brow. "What is this?"

"Open it." Buffy said.

Willow takes it off the table and opens it. She goes wide eyed and looks at buffy and then at tara and then at buffy again. "Buffy, how could you afford this. This, this is so amazing. Thank you!" Willow runs over to the other side of the table and gave buffy a big bear hug. She went back to sit down and tell tara who was sitting there with a face that said 'what is going on'. "Tara, buffy just got us two first class tickets to Hawaii and a room in one of the hotels for a week."

Tara sat there with her jaw open. "She, got us tickets to Hawaii?" She looks over to buffy. "Buffy, how can you afford that?"

"Hey, don't question. Just take it and have fun, you guys have earned it, out of everything that happened to you both. Go, have fun, get naughty, and come back and tell us with details. Only details that will not hurt us. Your flight is leaving in two days. Your welcome." Buffy said as she put her arm around faiths shoulders.

They waited for their meal and ate up. When they were done willow and tara decided to treat all of them for their gift, they took all of them to the Bronze and bought as much drinks as they wanted. They stayed there until midnight and the only ones that were not drunk was dawn and bri so they took everyone home. Once they got everyone into bed they decided to stay in dawns old room just to be there if anyone needed them.

The next morning dawn and bri were cooking breakfast for everyone. Dawn was making the scrambled eggs and bri was making toast and coffee. Dawn smiled at the thought that they could be doing this for each other all the time. "Don't you ever think that we could do this for each other once we get a house of our own and we are married?"

Bri laughed. "Dawn, sweetie, you need to stop with the marriage talk already." She walks over to dawn and puts her arms around her waist. "We are only eighteen years old ok. We will get married, but not for a while, and we already have an apartment together. And yes, I do think about it and for one I can't wait until we can but we are not getting married right now." She sees the pout on dawns face and continues. "I will tell you what, why don't we wait until we get out of college first. Lets just see were our life takes us and then I will ask you to marry me if I think it is the best coarse of action."

Dawn smiles. "Promise?"

"Promise." Bri kisses dawn.

Tara walks into the kitchen. "Hey guys, how long have you been up?" She said very groggy.
"Not to long, how are you feeling? You don't look very well." Dawn asks as she gives tara a cup of coffee.

"I have the worst hangover of my life, considering this is my first." Tara gave the girls a weak smile before sipping her coffee.

Buffy walks in and up to tara. "I have the worst hangover of my life, and I have had some pretty bad ones. Please don't get married again." Buffy said as she took a sip of tara's coffee before dawn gave one to her.

"I can promise you I will not get married again. Willow is the first and last." Tara said putting her head on the table.

"I'm the first and last what?" Willow said as she put her arms around tara. "How you feeling baby, do you have a headache?"

Tara nodes her head as buffy answers for her. "You are the first and last person she is getting married to."

"Damn straight." Willow smiled and made herself a cup of coffee.

Buffy notices willow acting as if everything is ok. "Hey, how come you are not all with the headache like the rest of us?"

"Oh, I know how to get rid of it. Do you guys want me to do it for you?" Willow said as she moves over to her lover and rubs her back.

"Its not anything kinky is it?" Buffy wanted to get rid of the headache but she didn't want to do anything like that with her best friend. When willow shook her head no she went over to buffy and started rubbing her temple. Buffy already started to feel better. "Oh my god will, you are a goddess." After a couple more minutes buffy was all better so willow went over to tara. She got tara to sit up in the chair and willow sat on her lap and started to do the same. After a while tara felt better to. "Wow will, what are you doing using magic?" Said buffy amazed at willows skills.

"No, it is something I picked up over the years of hanging out with you and getting drunk but I never new you needed my assistance so I never showed you." Willow stayed on tara's lap and sipped her coffee when faith came down.

Faith looked around at everyone smiling. "Ok, I know I was not the only one drunk last night."

"Willow can get rid of it if you want." Buffy said as willow stood up and moved over to faith.
Willow was done in a few minutes and faith was shocked. "Damn red, I like you. You are very handy,"

Buffy decided to change the subject. She looked over at willow and tara and saw willow sitting on tara's lap again with her arms around her shoulders. "So, you guys better get packing. You got one day to get one week of clothes in a suitcase."

"I know and we will. We can't tell you how thankful we are. Thank you so much for everything. You know it all came down to you. If you didn't come to me at lunch and say hi all those years ago, I don't think we would be in this same position." Willow said as she smiled at buffy.

"Hey, no problem, but you guys have to promise to take lots and lots of pictures when you are there. You cannot come back without pictures. Understand?" Buffy said with a serious yet friendly voice.

"Got it, get lots of pictures." Willow smiled with a mock serious face.

"Breakfast is ready." Dawn said. Everyone grabbed a plate and dug in.

Willow and tara got packed up and all the luggage was already in the car. They decided to sit in the living room and talk until it was time for them to go. Buffy, faith, zander, anya, dawn, and bri all went to the airport with willow to sat goodbye.

After everyone gave them hugs and have funs, they both grabbed buffy to the side. "Hey buffy, is there anything we can bring you, anything you want? We want to give you something for all this." Willow said trying to pay back her best friend any way she can.

"Have fun. That is the only thing I want. Oh, and pictures of course but all I want from you is for you guys to have fun, talk, and love." Buffy said as she hugged both of them.

Their flight number was called and they went to board their flight. They looked back at everyone else and waved on last time before they turned the corner and got onto the plane. They got into their seats and sat there holding hands waiting to get there and talk about their future, walk, and of course make lots of witchy lovin.