BtVS/Vampire Diaries- Tara/Elena 'New Roses'
Fandoms: Buffy, Vampire Diaries
Pairing: Tara/Elena
Genre: Romance/Friendship
WARNING: Femslash!
'New Roses':
Tara honestly had no idea how she ended up where she did. She had just been trying to get away from Sunnydale as far as possible within the continental United States after her break up with Willow, knowing it would've been too painful to stay.
It started when she got off a bus in the small Virginian town called Mystic Falls, her belongings kept close to her. This town called to the magic within her, and decided to check it out. The vibe she got was similar to the one she got in Sunnydale, but it didn't have quite the same evil feel as the Hellmouth did.
She began searching for a place to stay, and found a small hotel near the center of the town run by an elderly lady who called herself Ms. Flowers that let her stay for quite a low nightly fee. The blonde thanked her and made her way up to her room on the second floor, noticing how the hotel was pretty much deserted. Perfect for when she decided she needed to use magic.
She made sure to cleverly hide her magic supplies so no one would stumble upon them on accident before leaving to explore the town, see why it called to the magic in her veins.
Her first stop was a place called the Mystic Grill- which looked like this town's version of the Bronze, minus the club atmosphere. As she looked for a free table to sit at, she glanced at people's auras. They were a mixture of bright colors, indicating happiness, contentment, and overall upbeat spirits. There was one aura, though, that stood out to the witch: it was blue, meaning the person was sad about something- and that person was the only one in the place with that color.
Tara followed the aura to a table where a young brunette was sitting by herself, staring at the table in front of her. The girl had straight, dark brown hair that hung past her shoulders and brown eyes similar to the color of her hair. Her skin was a faint natural tan tone. She couldn't help but notice how attractive the other girl was, but quickly pushed those thoughts away. She still wasn't over Willow, and had no idea if this girl was even like that.
"Can I sit here?" She asked, causing the girl to jerk up and notice her. The brunette nodded, and she sat opposite her. "Thanks."
"No problem." The girl, giving her a small smile. "I'm Elena."
"Tara."
"You're new here, aren't you?" Elena asked. Tara nodded.
"I broke up with my girlfriend and had to get away. Somehow I ended up here." She explained, keeping the part about her magic being called to this place out. The blonde couldn't know if Elena knew the supernatural existed.
"I'm sorry- my boyfriend and I broke up not too long ago. I can understand needing to get away from the memories." She replied.
That explains why she was sad. Tara thought.
The two of them then started talking about other things, what it had been like with their ex's, what their friends were like, what Sunnydale and Mystic Falls were like.
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As she spent more time around Elena, Tara couldn't help but compare her to Willow. She knew it was wrong, yes, but she couldn't help it.
Where Willow had red hair, green eyes, and semi-pale skin, Elena had dark brown hair, brown eyes, and naturally tan skin. Also, she couldn't help but notice, Elena didn't seem like the kind who would allow the use of something such as magic to control her and drive her to bring a loved one back from the dead.
They started off just meeting randomly, but soon they were hanging out at places like the Grill. Tara also discovered why Mystic Falls called to her: it had a supernatural population akin to Sunnydale's. And Elena was involved in the heart of it.
She found out the brunette was a doppelganger- one that had to be used in a sacrifice to break a curse on a hybrid- and was surrounded by friends who were barely human. She had a friend who was a witch, two who were vampires- one of which happened to be the brother of her ex, also a vampire, a medium for a brother, and a hunter for a teacher/step-father. It made Tara be less worried about revealing her magic to Elena, but also made the witch's head spin a bit. She had thought the Scoobies were a unique mix with a Slayer, a Watcher, a witch (two including her), a former vengeance demon, a human, a former Key, and a vampire.
As she expected, Elena accepted the fact Tara was a witch, though she was surprised at first. She even asked to see Tara do a spell sometime, which Tara agreed to, figuring a small one wouldn't hurt.
The two were walking through town one evening when Tara got the courage to ask Elena something she'd been wanting to ever since they become friends.
"I-I was w-wondering if you, if you would possibly like to have l-lunch with me sometime?" She asked nervously, her old stuttering habits coming back out. It seemed to take Elena forever to answer.
Finally, the brunette smiled. "I'd love to, Tara."
A few days later, they met at the Grill for lunch. Neither said it, but it felt almost like a date. As they left, Tara felt Elena grab her hand. She couldn't help but smile a little
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Things couldn't stay as blissful and as happy as they were, something Tara should have known. Murphy's law had a grudge against those who had lived above the Hellmouth for any length of time, and Tara was no exception to the rule.
Klaus had finally come to town to perform the ritual to break the curse that had been placed on him years ago. Despite her and everyone else's attempts to stop him, he still managed to go through with it.
Tara had paced the inside of an old house where apparently a bunch of witches had been burned in the late 1800s until dawn broke, itching to rush out there and use her magic against Klaus to protect Elena. She knew it was pointless however since Bonnie- Elena's other witch friend- had put a spell on the house that prevented Tara or anyone else from leaving. And nothing Tara tried could break it.
So she was left to pace, and worry constantly for her friend who was steadily starting to feel more and more like a girlfriend- they had held hands a couple of times since the lunch date, but nothing else had happened.
The sound of the door opening brought her pacing to a halt and she whipped around to see Damon- one of Elena's vampire friends, who happened to remind her of Spike a bit- come through the door carrying Elena.
She was so happy to see them that it took her a while to register that Elena's aura was nonexistent- something that only happened when you were dead, as in dead-dead, not vampire-dead.
Footsteps thundered behind her and she saw Jeremy- Elena's brother-, John- Elena's biological father- and Alaric- Elena's aunts boyfriend and History teacher- come up from the basement.
The blonde witch couldn't distinguish the various emotions churning through her at the current time- most prominent were sadness, and anger. She suddenly wanted to do something completely out of character for her: hunt Klaus and make him pay, but she resisted. Instead, she focused on how to keep the other prominent emotion in check so she didn't start crying. Not here, in front of everyone.
Being so caught up in keeping her emotions in check, she hardly noticed the color returning to Elena's skin until she heard a gasp. At that moment, everything faded away and she found herself pushing Damon out of the way- as much as a human could with a vampire- and kneeled beside Elena, carefully reading her aura- which was back and clear as day. There was no black, which would have indicated vampirism, something she couldn't help but she relieved by, even though she wouldn't have cared.
But all that paled to the happiness, joy, and love Tara felt surging through her, leading her to bend over and kiss the brunette out of relief, forgetting the audience they had momentarily, before pulling Elena into a hug.
"Thank goddess you're alive! I don't know how, and I don't care, I'm just glad you're back!" She exclaimed, forgetting that she had just kissed Elena and still had no idea how she felt about it. Deciding to take another leap of faith- and not wanting to ran another chance of never letting these words be said- she whispered "I love you" in the other girls ear.
"I love you too." She heard Elena say back in her ear, and she smiled- it didn't matter if the brunette meant it as friendship, sisterly, or actual love like Tara did- she was just glad to hear the words.
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Alright, here's my first- but not last, hopefully- try at Tara/Elena. I've always loved Tara, and somehow the idea of Tara/Elena came to me, and I decided to write this drabble about them. Within one of my next few chapters- if not the next one- I'll be writing either Black Hat(Priest, 2011)/Buffy or Black Hat(Priest, 2011)/vampire!Elena. Which one would you rather see?
