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Chapter Ten
Buffy, Anya, Giles, and Riley were already at the house waiting when Xander burst in…
“Xander!” Anya yelled. “Are you alright? Did one of those vicious bunnies attack you on your way here? They didn’t hurt your….” She grabbed his ‘package’ – catching him a bit by surprise.
“No-OH! Hey!” he said, quickly moving her hand away – blushing. “No – I’m fine…no evil bunnies.”
Should I tell them? God, this is really BIG! But Willow might not like it if I told them….I mean…what if she doesn’t want them to know…maybe I had better not say anything…but GOD! This is so, WOW!
You could almost see the battle going on in Xander’s head between the good Xander, that knew he shouldn’t ‘out’ his friend, and the not-so-good Xander that wanted nothing more than to break the biggest news of the year to all of the Scoobies.
Just about then, Willow and Tara walked in the door….
“Everybody – this is Tara – she’s a really powerful witch!” Willow said, proudly.
“N-no, I’m not..” Tara looked down, sheepishly, and crossed her arms in front of her in an effort to stave off embarrassment.
“But you are!” Turning to everyone “She is… and she’s with me…” Willow said, taking Tara’s hand in hers, shyly – hoping that they all would get the drift….
“Good Lord…” Giles said, taking off his glasses and immediately starting to clean them…
“Hi, Tara.” Buffy said, crossing over to the two girls “We’re really glad you decided to come with Willow – I hope we don’t all scare you off with all of this Scooby-stuff.”
“N-no…you won’t. I don’t think that you c-could be half as scary as the Gentlemen!”
“So, let me get this straight…” Anya interjected…just now putting everything together. “You and Red here are together-together? You’re flaming lesbians – you know – sharing connubial relations?”
The room fell silent.
“An, honey, no one ever accused you of being subtle…” Xander said, taking Anya gently by the arm and giving her one of those ‘please, please…don’t say anything about our sex[/i] li looks.
“Hey…maybe you could get some pointers on…how do you say it…cunnilingus…” Anya babbled…”Xander has a problem in that department.”
“I DO NOT!!! ….. Anya, honey, can we just talk about this later, please?”
Xander was obviously extremely embarrassed…if he could have left all together, he probably would have… but he knew that there was Scooby business to attend to.
“O-kay…” Buffy decided it was time to get this show on the road. “It has just been too quiet around here lately. I’ve been patrolling every night – but outside of a couple of the usual baddies, there hasn’t been anything going on.”
Willow turned to Tara…”she means that it’s too quiet – and that usually means big evil lurking about in Sunnydale.”
Tara nodded.
“But the guys have been really busy at the Initiative. We’ve been working 24-7 – getting more busts than normal…” Riley said, questioning Buffy’s lack of action.
“I don’t know how to explain it – but something’s just not right.” Buffy crossed her arms and walked through the room – deep in slayer-thought.
“Well, Buffy – you patrol as usual tonight…the rest of us will start researching our possibilities…”
Just then, the door to Giles’ living room swung open, a familiar figure walked through the doorway.
“Oz.” Willow said with a sigh – feeling like she had been hit by a Mack truck.
Oh godess…no! Please don’t take her away from me now that I’ve found her! She’s mine! My Willow…please?
Tara’s worst nightmare had just begun….
TBC….later tonight – so check back soon!
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at: 8/31/03 8:42 pm
CZ!!
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