Chapter Two

"Y-y-you... I...W-w-wil-..." Tara stammered out before Willow pressed a finger to her lips to silence her.

"Shh... don't talk," Willow's voice dripped, "I want you to try a new spell with me," with one hand on Tara's shoulder and guided her down onto the bed, the bleached hair fanned out on the bed with the roots now visible. "And if we do it right..." She moved her knee over Tara's hip, effectively straddling her, "Then you will feel a white, hot, passionate light pulsing through your body," she cooed lowering herself over Tara.

'This…isn't…'

Tara couldn't bring herself to finish the thought for Willow's lips had closed over hers, sending a sweet lightning bolt to her heart. Her eye's widened. Willow locked her legs at Tara's hips as she licked at Tara's lips seeking entrance. Even if her other self had horrible fashion sense she still had great taste in girls.

She gave Tara's breast a slight squeeze. The girl let out a slight surprised squeak, and Willow seized the opportunity to plunge her tongue into Tara's mouth. Warm, wet, she'd bitten her tongue in nervousness and the coppery tang was just a tease but delicious nonetheless.

'It's a dream...' Tara thought 'Another dream...but... it can't be a dream I actually feel it... but this isn't right...this isn't... this... isn't..."

She could feel the clothes slipping off her body, she felt her arms pinned above her head and unable to move, she shifted slightly, lost and confused, but the hot kisses all over her body were distracting her common sense. Willow's teasing, it's what she dreamed about but how could this be happening? She wanted to pull away but she trusted Willow.

'This...this is weird this is...' her thought had come back but she didn't realize why, now she did, Willow was laying a trail of wet kisses down her stomach. She wasn't sure when, but her pants and panties were down around her ankles, and most of Willow's clothes were gone. She felt her cheeks turning bright red as Willow pulled off her underwear.

"Aww it's your time of the month... how cute..."

Tara fought to process the words, the actions, this was wrong. This was wrong. What was wrong here? Little jolts of pleasure shot through her body, but tears were forming in her eyes she struggled. "W..wait! Stop!" She tried to move but realized how effectively she was pinned down, the tears came faster. "S-stop! You're not Willow!"

Willow sat back on her knees pouting. "Yes I am."

"No... no... you're... y-y-you are th-that other Willow..." Tara seized the opportunity to sit up, and pulled up her pants. "Sh-she told me about you... you're the... th-the vampire..." she grabbed her jacket and pulled it on, stumbling to her feet.

"Oh... you're right," With a smirk her face changed, eyes growing fierce brow wrinkling, fangs growing. Tara let out a shriek and stumbling started for the door, fumbling with the lock.

Not threatened at all, Willow took her time getting redressed and sat on the bed for a second watching Tara try to get the lock open. She succeeded and bolted from the room.

"One... two... three... ready or not, here I come." She got up from the bed and started down the hallway just in time to see Tara turn and disappear down a stairwell. The chase was on.

Blood was pounding in Tara's ears; how could she have been so stupid? How could she have been fooled? She was better than that, more skilled than that... how could she have let this happen? She was so blind, she wanted to be with Willow so badly that she let her primal desire get the better of her senses, the one where she knew it wasn't entirely Willow's aura... it was almost the same but... just a little different. A less adept witch would have missed it.

She tripped over her own feet and tumbled down a flight of stairs. She glanced up to see Willow walking, not running, but calmly, confidently walking after her.

Wiping away tears, Tara crawled out the door and into the hallway before she could find her feet again and ran to the main door and outside. She didn't know where she was running; just somewhere, somewhere where she wouldn't die and somewhere where she could escape her guilt. She wasn't running long before she smacked into something, someone, and both fell backwards.

Tara looked up through teary eyes and saw she had run into none other than the Slayer and her beau out on nightly patrol.

"Tara?" Buffy asked helping her up, "What's going on?"

Willow let out a snarl as she approached.

"Oh," Buffy said, "that's going on."

"I-is everyone here a vampire?" Willow exclaimed somewhere between shocked and trying to not sound like she was scared out of her mind as Xander pushed his way past the two white hats standing guard at the door.

"Still Human," Oz raised his hand.

"But you're a werewolf." Willow pointed out, turning to face him.

"Point taken,"

Xander's hands closed over Willow's shoulders and spun her to face him. "Y-you're alive?"

"Uh-huh... last time I checked my pulse at least."

Xander cast his gaze up to Giles and Oz, "You brought her back?" One arm clasped around Willow's shoulders the other around her hips as if to protect her. Willow stiffened, causing him to take a step back and look at her.

Oz seized the moment of temporary distraction to grab a stake off the table.

Xander caught the motion out of his eye and grabbed Willow's head threatening to snap her neck if any of them moved.

"You ruined her!" Xander glared, "But don't worry... I can change her back... it'll be fun."

Giles made a move to step forward but Xander lowered his mouth to Willow's neck.

"Not afraid we will restore you then?" Giles asked, a flash of realization of so common stupidity flashed through Xander's eyes.

"We're not through here." He snarled out dragging Willow from the room.

Oz started after them but by the time he got out into the hallway they had vanished. He kicked a wall in fury and walked back to the library.

"Now what the hell are we gonna do?" One of the white hats by the door said, "They've got her and they think we can change vampires back into humans."

"They probably view us as more of a threat now than they did before and also without Willow we can't get the vampire out of her world..."

"We don't even know what they are gonna do to her." Oz said.

"Well we know where he took her, and that's what we have to go on." Giles said.

"The Bronze..."

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"She's alive?" The Master said looking over at Willow.

"That's what I said." Xander held Willow tighter. "Should I change her back?"

"No... I've got a better idea. If the White Hats restored her... they'll want her back... we use her as bait to lure them here and kill them all." The master laughed pleased with himself.

"What should I do with her until then?"

"Lock her up in the cage next to the puppy. She can be the kitty."