A/N: There is a bit of sex in the chapter, but I swear, it's pg 13. No details. I don't even say the word nipple. (Love that word…NIPPLE!)

Disclaimer: I don't own these characters.

I knew that Tara would meet death again if I didn't do anything to save her. We went to bed, but I was unable to go to sleep, not that I wanted to. There was plenty of catching up to do. Plenty of stalling. We talked for hours, in between all of the love making. When she said that she really needed to go to the bathroom, I was tempted to do a spell and take that need away for a while, but I could not forget why we broke up in the first place. I was free from magic and she wanted me back. I couldn't blow it.

"Come on, Will. I have to go. It'll only take a minute," she explained to me.

"No," I said as I placed soft kisses on her neck. I couldn't let her go out there. "I just want you to stay. I don't ever want to be away from you again." I rolled on top of her, pinning her to the bed. I was doing my best to protect her, and at the same time, trying to figure out how I went so long without her touch. Without the feeling of her silky smooth skin underneath mine. "One more time," I told her.

"Willow, as great as that sounds, I need to go. I'll be right back."

'No you won't,' I thought.

I stayed on top of Tara, giving her a very seductive look. I started to kiss her in the places that make her insane with pleasure, making her want to scream my name.

'I won't loose you, Tara. You're not going anywhere!'

Her moans grew loud. Unbelievably loud.

"Tara?" A panicking voice interrupted her.

"Dawn!" We said simultaneously.

"Oh…My…God. I'm so sorry. I heard…I thought that maybe you were in trouble," Dawn said as she put both of her hands over her eyes.

I was red in the face as I tried to find something to say. "Look, Dawn, I really didn't mean for you to see any of this…"

"No, no this is great, I mean, not great because I walked in…I mean It's just good to see you two back together…and this is really awkward, so I…I'm just going to leave." The young girl backed out of the room, leaving us by ourselves again.

Sure enough, the interruption had killed the mood and Tara forced me off of her. She began to put on her clothing so she could leave the room.

"Tara, don't leave me!" I shouted, feeling that I would loose her all over again.

She gave me a sympathetic look and joined me where I now stood, at the side of the bed. Tara wrapped her arms around me and kissed my lips, gently.

"I'll never leave you like that again, Willow. Just because we can't be together 24/7, doesn't mean that we're going part ways the way we did. It's understandable that you would have separation issues, but you don't have to worry." She kissed me on the cheek before walking away. "Besides, I'm in no mood to go to the hospital if my bladder explodes." She closed the door behind her.

That's when I heard it. The familiar popping sound. The glass breaking. "Tara!" I ran out of the bedroom, internally kicking myself for ever letting her leave. The floor was bloody and could hear screaming. Much to my surprise, Tara was the one screaming. She kneeled over Dawn's blood drenched body.

"Dawn," she screamed as she desperately searched for a pulse. She looked up at me with hazy eyes. "She's gone."

A/N: Sorry about the long wait. There are so many angles to go about the story, and I've just been trying to find the right one.