Tara dropped her hand only inches from Willows cheek and she turned towards the window. The glorious early morning sunshine that had punctuated their impending violent outbreak had suddenly vanished, replaced instead with an eerie, storm like darkness that sent shivers down her spine as she rested her hand on the cool glass. Behind her,

The undeniable sound of chaos filled the Summers’ home; those potentials that hadn’t retreated into themselves were yelling, crying or generally having some degree of hysterical reaction, not only to Faiths injury but also to the disappearance of their leader.   In the comparative calm of Faiths bedroom, Willow and Tara were tending to her

Darkness surrounded them, filling the potentials with doubt and fear as they followed Buffy, Faith and Tara through the woods. “Why are we tip-toeing around like a bunch of scared girls?” Kennedy asked loudly, making more than a few of the potentials jump noticeably. Turning as one fluid unit, the leaders of the group hushed

Pacing the overly bright corridor, Faith felt the familiar bubble of confinement filling her once more. After serving her time in jail, she was glad to be free to come and go as she pleased but sitting in a hospital waiting for the next big event was starting to remind her of prison. Willow had

As Buffy slammed the front door loudly behind her, Tara and the potentials assembled in the back yard, all except one. From her bedroom overlooking the yard, Kennedy watched as Tara guided the potentials through a gentle warm up, each one responding to her guidance immediately. Gritting her teeth as Tara rushed to aid Louise,

Tara sat heavily on her bed and gazed out of the window. High in the night sky, the full moon shone down across Sunnydale and lit her room in a warm, peaceful glow. Hugging a pillow to her chest, she inhaled deeply, the warm scent of Willow filling her nose and making her smile. A

Willow replaced the telephone handset and jogged down to the basement where Buffy, Tara and Anya were gathered discussing the outcome and possible benefits of Tara’s power. Their conversation lapsed into silence as the redhead entered the room, three pairs of eyes focusing on the lithe woman in the doorway. “Hey, I, uh, just got

“Thank god that’s over!” Buffy sighed as she closed the door to the basement firmly and leant back against the solid wood. She had gathered the potentials together to explain to them everything they had learned about Tara and the power she now had, and to set their minds to rest. While many had accepted

In the training room of the Magic Box, Willow was reading through the ancient Egyptian spell Giles had discovered. “I don’t think I can do this!” She whispered softly as she read the text for the third time. “Of course you can Willow. I believe in you!” Giles offered, squeezing her shoulder supportively as he

“So, what do you think?” Buffy asked. Three days had passed since Kennedy had returned home and things were slowly returning to what passed for normal. The tension in house had dimmed somewhat, due primarily to Tara’s unexplained and regular absences. “I think it will do her good and help to focus her attentions.” Giles

Seated around the large dining room table, Kennedy was overcome by the reaction of her fellow potentials to her homecoming. She knew full well that many of them regarded her with nonchalance at best, many disliked her intensely and only one or two had offered her the hand of friendship. Since her run in with

As the sun rose high over Sunnydale, Giles and Buffy had taken leave of the house once again. The potentials were training with Anya and Xander, Willow and Tara still hadn’t emerged from their room and Giles knew he had to get to the bottom of the issue with Tara. They had made their way

Buffy watched as Willow and Tara raced up the stairs, her heart longed to have half of what they had. Tears stung the corners of her eyes and she took several deep breaths before turning to face Giles. He too watched as the reunited lovers chased each other upstairs, Willow playfully slapping the blondes *****

The front door slammed loudly drawing three of the potentials from the kitchen, each one armed with a more baffling ‘weapon’. Willow and Tara set the large brown bags carefully on the dining room table and studied each one quizzically. Amanda blushed deeply as she tried to hide the spatula she had brandished, behind her

”She came today to tell me what I had known since Tara’s return. She looked so worried when she walked into my room, her beautiful face all pale and un-Willowy. She got my favourite candy from the machine in the hall, which helped. I’ve had girls break up with me before but it’s never been

With the appetites of the potentials satisfied, at least for now, the kitchen was clear. Most of them had descended to the living room where they involved themselves in watching TV, chatting, examining the weapons and their benefits or talking with Giles, who had returned from his room and was reprising his role as mentor

Considering the capacity of the house, Buffy was surprised when she awoke for work and made her way downstairs to find the kitchen empty. Since the potentials had begun descending on the Summers Residence, she hadn’t one day when she could have breakfast in near silence. Polishing off a large bowl of cereal and two

“Hmmmm, Tara, I missed you so much!” Willow murmured softly into the blonde’s neck, between softly placed kisses.   As her fingers explored the firm, taut body of the blonde, Willow knew she was going home, to the place that she truly belonged. Nerves were surpassed only by the long unsatisfied passion and as she

”They were right, both of them. Tara is almost always right, she was right about the magic, she was right when she said we needed a break and she was right to have left me. At the same time, Kennedy had a valid concern. She should’ve known that after the incident with Xander and Oz all

”Hey again, sorry it’s been a while, but you might have noticed it’s been a little on the side of insane here. I’m not stopping for long, now that Tara’s gone to the hospital to drop off Willow and Kennedy’s stuff, then I have more time to spend with the potentials and Giles wants to

”Buffy, Giles and Xander had been gone almost six hours. Giles called about an hour after they left to say that Kennedy had been taken into surgery and that they could be there a while. Buffy wanted me to keep an eye on Spike, something about his chip being funny and not working occasionally. Apparently The

“Willow? Tara? Has there been any word from Kennedy?” Giles called into the house as he closed the front door firmly behind himself. It had begun raining and the watcher was soaked to the skin, rubbing at his hair with a towel from the laundry basket that was sitting on the bottom step, he peered

”So there you are, that’s how she told me, sat out on the porch swing having a chat and then WHAM! Big reveal. I figured something within her had changed when she came down with Willow the other day. The fury that radiated from her was like nothing on earth, certainly nothing that we would

”Hey, I know that miss ‘I think I’m so good ‘coz I’m the ‘real’ slayer’ was telling you this story but she can only see it from her side, and lets face it, she isn’t everyone no matter how much she thinks she’s the God of us all. So yeah, I hit Willow and I

”So, I know what you’re thinking. Tara’s back, Willow can finally get a happy ending. Am I right?? Yeah, well that’s what we thought. I mean, yeah I made the wish without thinking it through but it’s Tara! In that one second when Willow saw her, for the briefest second she thought she may have

”We agreed that we should have some lunch and then look for Willow and Kennedy until just before sunset. We split up then, Anya went around the demon hang outs, anywhere where that low-life Warren might have been drawn to. Xander went back and checked around the construction sites and I went back to college

”I guess I’d fallen asleep at some point and forgotten to draw the drapes. The sun streamed in through the window and woke me up. I wasn’t best pleased but then I realised that the wish should have come true and leapt from the bed. As soon as my feet touched the floor, I could

”So, it’s been mad here since we last spoke. We have potentials coming out of our ears. Willow’s doing great, she and Kennedy seem to have some sort of chemistry going although Willow’s taking this real slow, she seems happy. I haven’t seen her smile like she does around her for a long time. Kennedy’s

“Let me tell you a story of the time I had to make a decision bigger than any other. It at started at Christmas 2002. Things were pretty quiet considering I live on a Hellmouth. Willow was still so broken over Tara’s death and, although she had seen four different therapists she had found a