“How many times do I have to tell you, punch with the right!!”

Kennedy was in the garden with Louise, Buffy had instructed her the previous day to help the newest potential with her fighting skills and she had agreed with all the enthusiasm of someone being taken to the guillotine.

“But I’m left handed, I have more power in my left arm!” Louise complained.

“I don’t care!” Kennedy snapped suddenly. “It’s a ‘right punch combo’, the point is, you punch with the right!”

Louise’s gaze flicked for the briefest second to the figure that had appeared on the porch.

“And I’m sure that there’ll be ample time to yell instructions when the Turok-Han are killing us all!” Tara growled from the porch.

Turning in the direction of the voice, Kennedy glared at the muscular blonde. “Ohhh look, the supreme wanna-be goddess of everyone and the fight has come to join us!” She announced sarcastically as Tara made her way across the well-kept yard to join them.

“Kennedy… grow up already!” Tara sighed.

“What do you want, we’re busy!” Kennedy snapped back, her first attempt at provoking Tara had failed and she was annoyed at herself.

“You know something?!” Tara began as she fought to suppress the anger boiling just under her skin. “You manage to spit more vile coated bullshit before sunrise than most people can manage all damn day!”

The potential startled visibly at the harshness of Tara’s words but refused to step down. “That the best you got, can’t fight me no more so just gonna try and cut me down?” Kennedy bristled, her muscles tensing as her body prepared itself for a fight.

Tara felt the anger rush to her muscles, each one flexing and relaxing of its own accord. The primal urge to take a swing at this woman was testing the power of Willows spell and she took several deep breaths, using each one to focus her mind on Willow and the binding. She knew without a doubt that she could break the spells power with relative ease, its potency seemingly diluted by her rage but she grit her teeth and focused on her love and respect for the woman she loved. She knew that Willow would be devastated if she let go of her control and that thought alone seemed to strengthen the binding and calm her anger.