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Lecter - Uncut version is much, much better! LOL - A half dollar is roughly 1-1/2" diameter. Bigger than a quarter.
Word - Butch Tara is great! I can actually see her character being take-charge, especially in season 6.
Just - Any review is great! - Hope you enjoy this chapter. To let you guys know - there's going to be25 chapters with an Epilogue/Preview (very short Ep). I have the story pretty much done and am just re-reading and making minor adjustments.
Sink - Did you go to my web-site and read the unedited version? LOL You know that was a good idea about her going after Buffy. But I honestly think she would have been more pissed at Faith - with everything Faith has done and did in her past she has more issues with her.
Chapter 18
Faith stretches as she slowly wakes up and looks across a sleeping Tara into mischievous looking hazel eyes. Raising her eyebrow slightly, she whispers "What ya up to B?"
Buffy had woken a few minutes earlier and was lightly running her fingertips over Tara's body, debating on letting her and Faith sleep or waking them up for an early morning love fest. Watching Faith wake up, Buffy smirks slightly at the Dark Slayer's question.
"I was thinking about possibly having an early morning snack." Buffy whispers so quietly that only Faith's slayer hearing could pick it up so as not to disturb Tara yet.
Faith smirks at Buffy before looking at Tara, sleeping so peacefully. "Thinking about maybe a little payback?" Faith whispers back and at Buffy's nod, she grins. "Go for it, B."
"I…Should I?" Buffy hesitates slightly, looking at Faith.
"Hell, yeah. You want to. And if there's something I know about Blondie here after the short time getting to know her, she's happy making you happy." Faith grins hugely. "And if that makes you happy…" Faith trails off quietly.
Buffy smiles and leans over to give Faith a gentle kiss. "Thank you." Eyes lighting up looking at the witch's body, Buffy starts placing feather light touches across her breasts, gently working her way down between the witch's thighs. Hearing a slight moan, and feeling Tara shift slightly, Buffy stops looking up. Seeing Tara is still asleep Buffy eases the witch's legs further apart and settles her body between her thighs. Looking for the first time upon this most intimate place, Buffy inhales deeply. Smelling the witch's rich, musky, earthy smell makes Buffy groan quietly. Gently running her fingers over the witch's lips, Buffy strokes and separates them.
Seeing Tara in this way is a humbling experience and Buffy stops to thank God for letting her know this wonderful woman before slowly extending her tongue and easing it out to touch the witch gently. Hearing a loud groan come from the witch and her body starting to shift more, Buffy smiles. Licking more firmly over the hardening muscle, starting to feel it spasm under her attentions, Buffy groans and sucks it into her mouth gently.
Slowly waking from what she believes is a very wonderful dream, Tara realizes that parts of it definitely are not a dream. Feeling an insistent sucking motion on one of her breasts and a hand stroking her stomach she smiles recognizing Faith's firm, confident touch. Coming more awake she jerks her hips up in response to a persistent mouth sucking and licking her.
"Oh, Goddess." Tara whispers out huskily. Bucking her hips harder into Buffy's mouth she closes her eyes as both women start a more thorough assault on her body. Feeling Faith suck forcefully on her nipple while running her hand up to knead her other breast, Tara grasps the back of her head pulling her in tighter against her. Rocking her body against Buffy's increased sucking and firmer licking motion, Tara groans out "Goddess, yes, Buffy! Feels so good."
Smiling to herself at hearing the witch, Buffy quickly sets up a steady rhythm in the witch, Buffy licks persistently at the muscle that is so swollen, that Buffy knows it has to be aching for release. Buffy gently scrapes her teeth over it making Tara cry out in pleasure as she floods Buffy's mouth with her juices..
Turning her head, Buffy kisses first one inner thigh then the other before gently easing her fingers out of Tara and slowly working her way up placing gentle loving kisses along her delectable stomach before flicking her tongue repeatedly against her belly button, making Tara giggle slightly.
Laying to the side of Tara, Buffy watches as Faith continues her assault on the witch's breasts. "Faith, I think you have a breast fetish." Buffy laughs out quietly. Then laughs even harder as Tara groans out as Faith bites down on her nipple.
Letting her teeth pull the breast up before releasing it, Faith smirks. "It would be a shame not to with these delights."
Finally getting her breathing back under control, Tara looks from one slayer to the other then flopping her head back on the pillow before groaning out "Good morning to me."
Licking her lips to get more of Tara's taste, Buffy grins. "Nope. Good morning to me. Absolutely delicious breakfast you fixed Tara."
Faith chuckles in appreciation lying beside Tara, running her hand over the witch's stomach.
Tara blushes a dark red. "That was so not fair. Taking advantage of a poor sleeping woman like that. How could you?" Tara asks frowning at the two women before smirking. "And when do you plan on doing it again?"
All three women crack up laughing until they hear a knock on the door and Dawn calling out to them.
"Yes Dawnie?" Tara answers.
"Just wanted to let you guys know that I'm heading to school." Dawn states loudly through the door before giggling. "And can we sound proof my room? You know, poor innocent ears hearing things that might damage me for the rest of my life."
The three women look at each other in shock at first and as they hear Dawn laughing loudly as she runs down the stairs they all shake their head.
"She's getting to be a little too smart alecky." Buffy growls out before smiling slightly.
"Maybe. But she does have a point. We're either going to have to be quieter or figure out a way so she doesn't hear what's going on. Maturing or not, I'm sure some of the noises coming from this bedroom are not meant for young ears." Tara states seriously.
"I'll talk with Xander and see if he has any suggestions." Buffy offers agreeing with the witch.
Faith nods in agreement. "Yeah, don't want to stunt Squirt's emotional well-being."
"And I'll stop at the store Faith mentioned and pick up some ball gags." Tara deadpans.
Buffy looks confused at Tara and Faith snorts out a laugh, quickly covering her mouth. "I don't know what's worse, the fact that Tara knows what a ball gag is or the fact that Buffy doesn't."
Tara smirks at Faith. "You guys don't know everything about me. Got to keep you on your toes."
Buffy rolls her eyes and finally growls out "What is a ball gag?"
"It's what it sounds like, Buffy. A gag with a ball." Tara grins. Looking from one woman to the other she shrugs her shoulders. "You'd be amazed at the things you learn over the years. Especially at some of those on-campus meet and greets." Climbing over Buffy to get out of bed, Tara squeals as her butt is smacked firmly. Turning around with narrowed eyes, she sees both women laying on the bed with their arms across their chests smiling innocently. "Right. Like I'm going to believe those looks."
Throwing on her robe, Tara heads to the bathroom and the first aid kit, grabbing out the small scissors. Coming back into the bedroom she laughs at the two slayers arguing. "What are you two arguing about?"
"Nothing." Buffy sits up straight on the bed, putting her most innocent face on and looking out of the corner of her eye to Faith.
"Uh Huh." Tara nods her head and raises her eyebrow looking at Faith.
"Honestly, Blondie. We weren't arguing over nothing." Faith grins at Tara. Looking her up and down from where the robe was gaping open since the witch hadn't tied it closed. Licking her lips at the breasts that she gets a tantalizing glimpse of, she glances at Buffy. "You had your breakfast, I want mine." Catching Tara's eye she winks and nods her head almost imperceptibly towards Buffy.
"I'm not stopping you." Buffy smirks looking up at Tara seeing her breasts peeking out. "She's definitely…FAITH!"
Tara busts out laughing as Faith literally pounces on Buffy, unceremoniously pushing her legs apart and burying her face in her apex. Knowing from personal experience what the long tongue of Faith's is capable of, Tara just shakes her head and heads downstairs to fix something for breakfast.
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Tara smirks as the two women finally come down to eat breakfast. "I know you've already eaten…" Tara trails off looking knowingly at the women, "But you might want to have something more substantial." Grabbing the plates she had left in the oven to keep warm, Tara sets them down in front of each slayer. "I'm going to take a shower and get ready for school. Faith, when you finish, come on upstairs so I can take the stitches out, okay?"
Nodding in acknowledgement as she shovels the food in her mouth, she winks at Tara.
"You two are impossible." Tara mumbles as she quickly heads upstairs to get ready.
Stepping in the shower, Tara groans at the heat, letting it seep into her bones before reaching for the shampoo, encountering a strong tanned hand instead of the shampoo Tara grins. "Not enough that you watch me dry off, you want to watch me get wet?"
Faith chuckles. "You look all sweet and innocent, but you like making suggestive comments don't ya?" Picking up the shampoo and putting a dollop in her palms, Faith works Tara's hair into a rich lather.
"Mmmm. Feels good." Tara moans at the strong fingers working over her scalp.
"Rinse, I need a shower also, so I figured you wouldn't mind sharing." Faith smiles watching Tara lean back and rinse the shampoo out of her hair.
"Go ahead." Tara murmurs to Faith as she switches places and starts lathering her body up quickly, watching Faith wash her hair, Tara smiles at the picture of a very sexy Faith soaking wet. Grabbing the body wash, Tara fills her palm up with soap and rubbing her hands together before quickly running her hands over Faith's shoulders and down her arms. Washing Faith's body, Tara wishes they had more time to do a thorough exploration and groans in displeasure at having to hurry.
"We are going to have to do this again when we have more time." Tara states running her hands over Faith's ass and between her cheeks to tease the rosebud there, giggling when Faith spreads her legs and pushes against her. "Definitely deserves further exploration" Tara huskily groans. Quickly rinsing off, Tara climbs out of the shower, chuckling at Faith's bitching.
"Tease." Faith grumbles as she climbs out behind Tara and grabbing a towel to quickly dry herself off before running another towel over her hair.
"Sit." Tara motions to the toilet seat with the scissors in her hand. Kneeling down beside Faith, Tara quickly snips the threads before taking a pair of tweezers and pulling the strings out. Pleased with how well the wound is healing, Tara runs her fingers lightly over the scar before leaning down and placing a kiss on it. Standing back up and putting the items away, Tara dresses quickly.
Faith watches as Tara takes care of her stitches quickly and efficiently, then softly caresses the scar. Seeing the brief flash of pain cross Tara's eyes as she stands up to finish getting ready, Faith watches her intently. "It's not your fault, Tara." Faith whispers quietly, watching Tara stiffen in response.
"Damn it, girl. You got a guilt complex that rivals mine and B's together! Everything's not your fault, so stop taking what happens so fuckin' personal, okay?" Faith stands up looking Tara in the eyes. "I need to get my clothes." Faith grumbles heading towards the bathroom door, but is stopped by a soft hand on her arm. Turning and looking into apologetic blue eyes, Faith waits.
"It's just that if it wasn't for me, you wouldn't have been hurt, Faith." Tara whispers quietly.
"Yeah, and if it wasn't for you I'd still be in fuckin' jail. For everything I've done, I should be buried six feet down, Tara. Instead I'm pardoned from jail, and have the love of not one but two beautiful women. I could die right now and I'd die happy. And all because of you. Take the blame for that instead." Faith states clearly and sincerely before turning around and quickly leaving the bathroom.
Buffy leans against the doorway of the bathroom with her arms crossed looking at Tara's shocked face. "She's right, Tara. You're helping me realize that I'm not to blame for every bad thing that happens. Now, you need to realize you're not to blame, either. You're teaching both of us about love. I can't speak for Faith, but I'm finding out I didn't have a clue what love was. Infatuation, yes. Wanting a normal relationship I hooked up with Riley, and didn't that just turn out wonderful?" Buffy states the last sarcastically. Looking into Tara's eyes, Buffy whispers in a heartfelt tone "I love you. I can say it and mean it with my whole heart. And you're the reason." Buffy quietly states before leaving to go back downstairs.
Leaning back against the sink, Tara stares at the doorway stunned, thinking over what both women had said to her. "Surely I haven't made that much of a difference in their lives. I can't have been the reason for it, could I?" Tara whispers to herself wonderingly. Honestly thinking about everything that happened with Buffy since that fateful day she knocked on her dorm room till now, Tara starts believing that maybe her part in everything, was a bigger part than she had ever realized. Her portion in Faith's life even more so. Running her fingers over her eyebrows, Tara softly smiles. Faith isn't the only one lucky to have the love of two beautiful women.
"Time to get you to school." Faith growls out lowly, having been watching Tara for the last few moments, seeing the different emotions crossing the beautiful woman's face.
Tara jerks her head up at Faith, seeing she's already holding her book bag in one hand and the helmet in the other. Walking quickly up to Faith, Tara grasps her shirt and yanks her in for a forceful kiss. Pulling back seeing the surprise on Faith's face, Tara states quietly "I'm going to need to take the blame for fucking you senseless tonight in apology also."
Watching the blonde head down the stairs with a stunned look on her face, Faith slowly smiles. "Oh, yeah. I can handle that kind of apology." Faith quickly heads after the blonde, whistling quietly.
Seeing Buffy folding up towels in the living room, Tara quickly walks to her and kisses her passionately. "Thank you." She whispers before quickly heading out the front door to wait for Faith to take her to school.
Buffy looks up at a smiling and whistling Faith as she heads downstairs. "I guess everything's straightened out?"
Faith grins before walking over and kissing Buffy. "Pretty much, she's planning on fucking me senseless tonight in apology."
"Faith! Did you have to phrase it that way?" Buffy shakes her head in despair.
"Yep. I'm just repeating what I was told word for word." Faith smirks at the shocked look on Buffy's face. "Got to take the potty mouthed witch to school. See you tonight?"
"Yeah, I'll do patrol on my way home, so don't expect me till 10:00 or later, okay?" Buffy watches as Faith heads towards the door.
"If you're gonna be much later than that, call." Faith states before heading out the door.
"Yes, mom." Buffy mutters to the empty room shaking her head at how much all of them had changed in such a short time.
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"She was hitting on you." Faith argues.
"She was not, Faith. She was just being friendly." Tara states exasperatedly. "She always says hi to me either before or after class. It's nothing more than that."
"Then tell me why she turned pale as a ghost when I wrapped my arm around you?" Faith growls out.
"Maybe that's why!" Tara states with her hands on her hips looking at Faith.
"What is why? My putting my arm around you?" Faith asks confused.
"No, the fact that you growled at her and gave her your 'I'm gonna stake your ass' look!" Tara waves her hands in the air. "Personally when you growl, it turns me on. But other people? Not so much."
Getting sidetracked Faith smirks. "My growling turns you on?"
Rolling her eyes at her lover Tara turns to head towards her next class. "You are a pain in my ass. Why in the world I made Buffy own up to her feelings about you and then let myself love you I'll never know. Of course the fact that I didn't have a choice in loving you has no bearing on this!" Tara grumbles with a chuckling Faith following close behind.
"You know when you're pissed you have this extra sway to your hips that is an absolute turn on?" Faith growls her eyes on Tara's behind.
"Stop staring at my ass, Faith." Tara growls loudly, not paying any attention that they had made it to her next class and were attracting the attention of the other students.
"But it's such a great looking ass." Faith smirks before glancing up and seeing quite a few people were looking at them with varying expressions on their faces. Throwing her hands up in the air Faith states to the whole class "Well it is a great looking ass - I mean look at it" Faith points to a now extremely red faced Tara. "Of course when it's clad in tight blue jeans….YUMMY! Even better with noth…"
Slamming her hand over Faith's mouth Tara looks in her eyes and whispers "Shut. Up."
"Don't pay any attention to my friend. She's practicing for a play she's in." Tara states quickly before heading to a chair in the back of the class room amidst giggles and chuckles.
One of the guys leans in as Faith walks by "Personally I like your ass."
Faith turns and looks him up and down and smirks. "You may like it, but you ain't gonna get it. That blonde I followed in here does things to me you couldn't even imagine, let alone hope to duplicate. So go find some gullible co-ed that'll fall for your cheesy lines."
Chuckling quietly, Faith sits down beside Tara and scoots the chair closer to the blonde. Seeing the guy looking at them with not a small degree of lust on his face.
"What happened with drool boy?" Tara whispers quietly as she grabs her book and notepad out of her book bag.
"He made a comment about my ass and I set him straight." Faith grins at Tara.
Tara looks up quickly searching Faith's eyes. "Exactly how did you set him straight? You didn't offer a threesome or something did you?" Tara grins slightly.
"Hell no. Just explained to him that he couldn't hope to ever do the things to me that you do. It seemed to have the response I was looking for." Faith smirks slightly.
"What to make him drool and want you even more?" Tara groans out quietly and shakes her head. Looking over at the guy in question seeing him still looking at Faith.
Faith watches as Tara quickly stands up and heads over to the guy, frowning as Tara leans in close whispering something in the guys ear. Seeing the man turn pale and quickly turn away Faith looks questioningly at Tara when she sits back down.
"What did you say to him?" Faith asks in a worried tone.
"I just explained things to him." Tara states innocently flipping her notebook open and pulling the cap off her pen ready to take notes as the teacher walks in.
"Tara?" Faith questions quietly.
"Faith." Tara states with a raised eyebrow.
"You're not gonna tell me, are you?" Faith asks lowly.
"Nope." Tara smiles.
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Walking in the house Tara rolls her eyes as Faith is almost whining. "I'm not going to tell you, Faith. Give it up already."
Dawn looks at the two women "What's going on with you two?"
Faith groans loudly. "Tara said something to this guy in one of her classes and she ain't telling me what she said."
"And I'm not going to." Tara states opening her book bag and spreading her books and notes out on the dining room table before heading to the kitchen to grab something to drink before doing her homework.
"Got any homework Dawnie?" Tara asks as she sits down looking over at Dawn.
"Did it in my free period." Dawn states changing the channel to Animal Planet. "What's for dinner?"
"I laid out chicken breasts for you guys, so I figured I'd make chicken alfredo." Tara states flipping to the chapter to start her assignment.
"What are you having?" Faith questions quietly.
Looking up and smiling Tara looks back down. "I have some vegetables that I'm going to steam and have vegetable alfredo. I'll probably make some garlic bread to go with it."
"Anything I can get ready or help with?" Faith looks at the witch.
"If you're serious, you can get the broccoli and cauliflower heads out of the refrigerator and break off a couple sections of each and clean them and chop them in bite size pieces for me. Throw them in a container back in the fridge." Tara suggests and smiles as Faith quickly heads to the kitchen. "Thank you, Faith."
"No problem." Faith mumbles before heading to the kitchen to keep busy while Tara does her homework and studying.
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"Faith, will you stop pouting already." Dawn rolls her eyes at the slayer. "You're worse than me!"
Tara snorts silently agreeing with Dawn as she comes into the living room looking at Faith sitting in the corner of the couch pouting. "I've made Buffy a bowl. And I don't know about you two, but I'm on the tired side."
Dawn smirks at the witch "I wonder why that is?"
Flopping down on the couch Tara leans her head back and closes her eyes. "Be nice Dawnie, or the first time you bring a boy home I'll tell him all kinds of mean things about you."
"That's just wrong, Tara." Dawn whines, making Tara smile in response.
Faith watches Tara and looks carefully at the witch seeing the slight shadowing under her eyes. Frowning in concern she moves to sit beside her. "Are you okay?" Faith whispers running her hand lightly through the honey blonde hair.
Smiling softly at the concern in Faith's voice, Tara nods. "Yeah, just a little tired is all."
"Here, lay down." Faith encourages shifting her body to the other end of the couch and patting her thigh. Smiling as the witch shifts and lays down with her head in her lap, Faith runs her hand down the witch's shoulder and back. Gently stroking Tara's back, Faith watches her as she slowly relaxes rubbing her face against Faith's thigh as she sighs and finally falls asleep.
Dawn watches the two women and smiles seeing the love on Faith's face for Tara. As Tara falls asleep Dawn stands up. "I'm going to bed." She whispers quietly to Faith and at Faith's nod, quietly heads upstairs to bed.
Running her fingers lightly through the soft silken hair Faith grins as Tara moans quietly and shifts her hand up, tucking it under Faith's thigh. "You are adorable Miss Tara Maclay." Faith murmurs. "And you're going to get a full nights rest."
Faith gently strokes Tara's hair and back before slowly dozing off.
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Quietly coming into the house, Buffy locks the door behind her before kicking off her shoes. Looking in the living room, ready to turn the lights off and head upstairs she stops looking at Tara and Faith on the couch asleep.
"Well, I guess there won't be any celebrations for our windfall tonight, huh?" Buffy states quietly more to herself than the two sleeping women.
Kneeling in front of both women, Buffy notices the shadows under Tara's eyes. Running her fingers gently down the witch's cheek.
Faith slowly wakes up noticing Buffy leaning down and gently caressing Tara. "I think everything kind of caught up to her tonight, that and the lack of sleep the last few days, kind of made her crash." Faith whispers.
Buffy looks up at Faith with concerned eyes. "Is she okay?"
Nodding her head Faith looks down at the witch. "Yeah. She's okay, just tired. I think a good nights sleep without two horny slayers taking advantage of her will do a world of good for her." Faith smirks slightly. "How was patrol tonight? What time is it, anyway?"
Buffy grins at Faith. "We do kinda need to remember she doesn't have our stamina and strength, huh? Even though she has a tendency to make me forget…" Buffy trails off looking at the witch. "She's beautiful. All this time she didn't even realize. Such a kind, giving spirit deserves the world, you know."
Looking back up at Faith, Buffy smiles. "Umm I think it's close to 10:30 now. Patrol went great, actually one of the vampires had a good chunk of change on him. Enough for me to get everything paid up and current with some left over." Smirking up at Faith she looks back down at Tara. "I think we need to go shopping this weekend."
"Good." Faith whispers. "You didn't get hurt of anything did you?" Faith asks worriedly.
"Nah, one of them was a scrapper, just felt good to stretch the muscles some, you know. Think I should carry her upstairs?" Buffy looks at Faith smiling softly.
"Yeah, we'll get her all tucked in bed between two warm bodies and let her get some rest tonight." Grinning mischievously Faith looks from Tara up to Buffy. "Then we'll keep her up late tomorrow night. She still owes me."
Laughing at Faith, Buffy stands up and leans over to gently lift the Wicca into her arms. Smiling as Tara snuggles against her neck and wraps an arm around her. Pressing a kiss to Tara's head Buffy whispers "I love you."
Faith smiles at the two women. Following Buffy up the stairs Faith whispers out "We really need to get a bigger bed if all three of us are going to be sleeping together."
"I know. The only thing is, my room isn't big enough to have a much bigger bed in." Buffy whispers back as she gently lays Tara down on the bed. Slowly disrobing the blonde, Buffy glances back to Faith who is quickly stripping off her clothes. "Should we put on her night wear?" Buffy asks quietly as she finishes stripping Tara.
"Nope. I've decided bed is nowhere for clothes." Faith whispers huskily looking at the blonde. "I like the feel of a soft warm body against me."
Buffy smiles softly at Faith. "I can't argue with that." Watching as Faith climbs in the other side of the bed and Tara unconsciously rolling over and snuggling up against the Dark Slayer, Buffy giggles. "She's like a homing missile towards heat, isn't she? At least towards you. Me, I'm usually snuggling up against her. Weird." Shrugging shoulders in dismissal Buffy strips and climbs in bed pulling the covers up over the three women before snuggling up against Tara's back and wrapping her arm around the blonde to rest her hand on Faith's stomach.
Running her fingers over Buffy's hand, Faith smiles as she feels Tara's hand easing up and cupping her breast. "Night." Faith whispers out to the two women.
"Love you." Buffy murmurs plastering herself against Tara and burying her face in the blondes hair before drifting off to sleep.
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Waking up slowly Tara nuzzles into Faith's neck. Smiling at the perpetual spicy smell of the slayer Tara gently sucks at the skin humming in pleasure. Coming more awake she realizes she's in bed naked between the two slayers. Lifting her head she looks at Faith and smiles before placing a gentle kiss on the slayer's lips. Easing over the slayer trying not to wake her, Tara smiles as Buffy scoots into the place she had just vacated. "You two are too precious for words." Tara smiles lovingly at the women before grabbing her robe and heading to the bathroom.
Singing quietly as she makes pancakes, biscuits, eggs and bacon, Tara feels rested and a hundred percent better. Feeling a pair of strong arms wrap around her, pulling her back away from the stove and a face nuzzling into her neck, she giggles quietly. As Faith eases in front of her wrapping her arms around both women and nuzzling into the other side of her neck she groans.
"We woke up and were missing someone." Faith whispers quietly before kissing Tara's ear. "So we came to find our missing lover."
"The eggs are going to burn if you don't let me go." Tara whispers, not really knowing if she cares about the eggs or not.
"Personally I'm hungry, so if you two wouldn't mind letting Tara finish fixing breakfast, I'd like to have something besides cereal this week." Dawn comments opening the refrigerator and pulling out juice, giggling as she hears the groans coming from her sister and Faith.
Finishing breakfast and scooping it on the plates Tara winks at Dawn. As all the women head to the dining room and sit down to eat, Tara laughs as Buffy and Faith both move the chairs to sit close to her. "What is it with you two?"
"Are you feeling better?" Buffy asks quietly looking into the blondes eyes, noticing that the slight darkening around her eyes was gone and the blues eyes were sparkling.
"Yes. I just needed a good nights rest. Nothing more serious than that." Looking from Buffy to Faith, Tara smirks slightly.
"What are we doing this weekend?" Dawn asks as she finishes her breakfast.
"Well, I have a rare Saturday off, so we got a full weekend." Buffy grins looking at Faith and Tara. "I think we need to go shopping."
"Shopping?" Tara questions.
"Yep. Came across a vamp with a pocket full of cash. I'll be able to catch us up on bills and have money left over. I figure we could all use some new outfits." Giving Tara an intent look, Buffy wiggles her eyebrows. "Some of us more than others."
"I love you two, but you're going to drive me to drink" Tara exclaims gathering up the dirty dishes taking them to the kitchen before heading upstairs to get ready for school.
"What are you two up to?" Dawn asks getting ready to head to school.
"Tara wore this pair of jeans the other night…" Faith growls low and deep, her eyes hazing over slightly in remembrance.
Buffy giggles at Faith before turning to Dawn. "Let's just state that Tara has an extremely jeans worthy body and we're going to update her wardrobe. We aren't going to let her hide behind the skirts and ill fitting tops."
"You two are sick puppies." Dawn smirks. "I'm going to school. You three try and behave."
"Bye Dawn. Have a good day." Buffy grabs her plate up to take to the kitchen.
"Bye Squirt." Faith winks at Dawn. "See you tonight." Faith smiles as Dawn leaves, shutting the door behind her. Shaking her head at the young girl, Faith grabs up her dirty dishes and follows Buffy into the kitchen.
"What'cha gonna do today B?" Faith asks quietly watching Buffy load the dishwasher. "Do you want to take Tara to her classes?"
"No, you go ahead. I'll go pay off some of the bills then I think I'm gonna finish sorting out the stuff in the garage. Put the trash out by the road since tomorrow's pick up day." Buffy smiles as Faith leans in and kisses her briefly. "I think you're kind of having fun at college, aren't you?"
"Yeah, actually I am." Faith grins at Buffy. "Who woulda figured? I guess I better go get ready or Blondie will have my hide."
Buffy laughs as she watches as Faith hurries out of the kitchen. It seems Tara has Faith wrapped around her little finger. Buffy's smirk turns into a laugh as she realizes she'd do absolutely anything for the blonde also.
"Should I worry about you being in a room by yourself and laughing?" Tara asks quietly watching Buffy with a small smile playing about her lips.
"Nope." Buffy smiles before walking over to the blonde, giving her a firm kiss. "Love you."
Wrapping her arms loosely around Buffy, Tara leans down placing a kiss on the side of her neck. "I love you, too. What are you going to do today?"
Giggling Buffy states "We should all get together to go over each others plans for the day, so we don't have to repeat ourselves. I'm going to go take care of some of the bills and then work on the garage some more."
"Are we all going out on patrol together tonight?" Tara murmurs becoming more interested in the skin beneath her lips, lightly kissing and licking between words.
"You keep that up and you won't be going to class today." Buffy groans out tilting her head to give the witch better access.
"Why did you remind me?" Tara groans burying her face in the slayer's neck. "I need to work extra hard the next week to be ready for finals. The professors are hitting on some of the more important information this week. It's amazing how they wait till right before finals to get to the important stuff."
"You're brilliant. You'll do great." Buffy states with conviction. "Faith and I will do anything to help you. Just let us know what we can do."
"Thank you." Tara whispers before giving a quick kiss to Buffy's lips before pulling back to reach for her book bag. "I wonder where Faith is?"
"Coming down the stairs!" Faith states as she jumps down the last few steps to land in front of Tara. "Want me?" Faith smirks.
"You know the answer to that." Tara smirks back. "Let's head out." Reaching over and giving Buffy another kiss Tara whispers "Don't work too hard, today. Love you."
"Love you, to." Buffy murmurs. Reaching over and pulling Faith in for a quick hard kiss, Buffy pulls back "I love you."
Looking down briefly Faith mumbles "Me, too" before quickly heading out the front door, leaving Tara and Buffy looking after her in surprise.
"She's getting close to opening up completely." Tara whispers quietly. "She's come a long way in a short period of time."
"It's amazing that all this time all she really needed was someone to love and to love her." Buffy murmurs quietly. "How could things have been different if we had seen this when she originally came here?"
Tara shakes her head before running her hand softly down Buffy's shoulder. "Don't dwell on that, Buffy. Unfortunately there's nothing we can do to change the past. All we can do is be here for her now. And, just to be selfish, I'm glad we have now, together." Kissing Buffy quickly, Tara turns around and leaves to go to school.
"Oh, yeah. Definitely enjoying the here and now." Buffy smiles at the empty room before starting on her day.