For Good or Bad, The Memories Remain.

Chapter 24

Disclaimer- I don't still own Buffy and crew, I just use them in my writing, just for fun, never for profit "Because that'd be wrong!"

Spoilers- mid 4th season then everything takes a left turn off the charted path

Rating- May get to R eventually

"Tara, she's just going through some tough adjustment. You guys will be fine, Willow will be fine. She's still Willow. "

"No Xander, she's not her anymore. It's like something's crawled inside her and died, poisoning her from the inside. She'll never come back to who she was."

"Don't you think that's a little harsh?"

"You didn't see her aura."

"Come on now Tara, you were looped out of your skull on pain drugs."

"I saw it. It was like ......it was like......she had a darkness wrapped around her

like a blanket. Her spark, her goodness was washed out, muted like watercolors

instead of the way Willow's was, bright , vibrant, full of the connection to the

goddess. Now I don't know about her. We may have to think about looking for a

way stop her."

"Stop her, stop her from WHAT? She hasn't DONE anything, she isn't going to

do anything! Don't you think YOU'RE the one over reacting?"

"Look, it's like this; if you have white paint, pure white paint, and you ad a touch

of black paint, you now have grey, and no matter how much white paint you add,

it will always be grey. It will never be white again." She sat down on the bed and

began to shake.

"Tara, I care about you but this is Willow we are talking about. She would never

do anything to hurt you. She loves you. I can't believe you would throw her away like

that. I thought you were better than that. You're condemning Will for nothing,

NOTHING! I'm going to go find her . I know she's hurt, I saw it in her eyes in the

hallway, she's probably alone and feeling like shit, and maybe a little scared. You see

, she just got a big load of crap dumped in her head and her girlfriend, you know, the

one who's supposed to love you and support you, screamed that she was the devil

and ran away. I need to go help my friend." He turns and walks out. Tara sits on the

bed in the dark weeping.

To Be Continued

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To Be Continued

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