Always Pay Compliments to a Goddess

[Sapphos Dream]

Name: Always Pay Compliments to a Goddess
Author: Sapphos Dream aka Seldomly Naughty aka Tisha or Tishy as my friends have oddly taken to call me
Disclaimer: ummm whoever is credited with the making of the Greek gods and goddesses and *mumbles* Joss Whedon for the Buffy characters...
Summary: What if when Tara and Willow broke up Willow got kicked out instead of Tara leaving, and what if Willow had a very intricate future...hmmm..long nights of coffee comfort me...
Rating: Everyone who knows me knows sooner or later this will end of NC-17 or the rating higher than that cuz I'm the fairy princess of smut but for right now let's keep it hmmm PG-13 with some violence...lol...
A/N: Thanks to everyone who always encourages me ummm Missy Chrissy, Gim, Liz, Aunt Dynarb, Mom and Mama and everyone else along the years...
Feedback: please oh please oh please oh please...just don't stone me, be harsh and brutal or nice...nice is good too everyone likes nice

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Breaking Willow from her thought, the stewardess lightly tapped on her shoulder," Are you okay Miss?"
"I..I," Willow stammers trying to come up with something,"No," she shakes her head sorrowfully," I am not okay, I doubt I ever will be again."
The tall lanky woman kneeled down coming face to face with the red head. Willow looked into her eyes and gasped. They were purple. And not a faded grayish glimpse of purple. So dark and royal they gleamed secrets to the sunset. The woman smiled," Yeah, the eye color. I get that alot. I was born with them, don't ask me how."
Willow looked down blushing," I didn't mean to stare. It's just I've never seen that particular color in someone's eyes before. It's new I guess."
"It's okay, I get it alot. I'm He-Helene," she said nervously hoping the red head didn't catch her slip. It wasn't wise to blow her cover to anyone before she had completed her task.
Willow hadn't catch her slip and held out her hand," Willow...Willow Rosenberg."
Shaking her hand, Helene felt her presence,'This is the one,' she thought,'I have found her'. Helene smiled brighter and let go of the hand. "Is there something I can get you Willow, to help at all? I saw you crying and I want to help."
The red head looked at her, and she was slightly unnerved."Yes, a water please, that would help alot, my mouth is kinda dryish."
Helene smiled and cheerfully ruffed Willow's hair," One water coming up Miss Rosenberg."
"Willow," The Wicca gently admonished.
"Willow," Helene said testing out the word after her," One water coming up Willow." Walking away, Helene's smiled turn devilish as her eyes flashed a deathening gray,'I've found her my lord,' she whispered filling Willow's glass with water,'She is the one....your queen.' Her eyes quickly flashing to their original purple. Lifting her thumb to her lips she bit into the flesh of the pad. Pulling back she placed the apendage over the glass as purple drops splashed into the water becoming as transparent as the crisp cool water. Coming from behind the curtain she offered the glass to her, giving her a brief smile and hug whispering,"Feel better soon," before going to attend to other passengers. Willow smiled accepting the glass and hug,"Thank you," she whispered back.
Taking a small sip of the cool water she sighed. She was greatful for the water, but it actually making her feel better was quite a stretch. After a few sips, Willow felt extremely tired and lightly dozed as the planes gentle movements lulled her to sleep. Aware that Willow was dozed but not sleep, Helene took a deep breath and watched the white and gray souls of the passengers,well the remaining passengers, who hadn't mysteriously 'disappeared' at the beginning of the flight (She had to do something to pass the time) quickly entered her. Approaching Willow, she picked up the girl as if she weighted nothing.
Startled from her dozing Willow yelled," Put me down," but being drugged, she found she didn't have the strength to move. As if her body has been paralysed. She was frightened, and her whimpering proved so. Looking around she found everyone on the plane asleep...no..not asleep, dead. They were dead and Helene, or whoever she said she was, killed them.
"Don't worry my dear," Helene's Greek accent taking over," It was temporary, just so you wouldn't fight me once I took you to my Lord." Helene smiled looking at the bodies on the plane that would never wake, but become part of her Lord's kingdom.
"Your Lord?" Willow asked frightened now more than ever, her words coming out in squeaks.
"Yes, he's been waiting a long time for you, 2 eternities if you ask me."
"Who is he?" Willow asked in a rush as she saw the pilot, or what was left of him, with no one to steer the plane they were gonna crash....die.
"Silly girl," Helene smiled looking at her, she placed Willow down next to the pilot's body and trailed her bloody hand down the air claiming in her palm a silver athame."Who else? Hades is my Lord...and he's been waiting for you my Queen."
"Hades?...Queen?...HIS QUEEN?!?" Willow stammered, she couldn't be Hades' Queen....no..not him...first she didn't wanna go to Hades...second she was gay...third...she didn't want to go to Hades. "No, you have the wrong person." she said as she helplessly and futilely tried to 'crawl' (more like flop) away. "Why would Hades want me? And if I was his queen why didn't he do the whole 'Persephone ground snatching' thingie" she protested weakly.
"Now My Queen," she admonished smiling,"That would cause alot of controversy, I mean, a large crack opening in the ground snatching a woman down then closing back up, everything would be in chaos, plus we didn't know it was you. I've been looking for you for over 100 hundred years."
"I'm only 20 so you can't have been looking for me, see you have the wrong person." Willow pitifully backpedaled to her point.
"Oh no Mistress," Helene said walking to the red head," I have to right person, I just have to figure out now, how to kill you without making too much of a mess, don't want any of your precious blood getting on everyone now do we?" the brunette smirked before kneeling in front of Willow," I'll make it quick...and unpainful... please hold still my Queen." Quickly slitting her wrists, Helene aimed the athame towards Willow and quickly embedded it into her gut. Willow tried to scream out but blood just fell from her mouth in streams and spasms. Holding Willow to her, she rocking the dying girl in her arms singing a soft lullaby in a gentle, ancient Greek voice before death claimed her also...

She sung: Today my love I'll write a story
Of how you own my heart in all it's glory
Today I'll make special as if it's the last day I'll see
Because today....you chose me


Today I'll climb the highest mountain
Today I'll scream my love in Echo
Today I'll show you more than you can see
Because today...you chose me



Willow looked up as the girl stopped singing, her eyes closed in a sense of pride as her body died. She was so close to joining her. She could feel the cold air whisking away a little bit of her soul every second. She felt peace, such a wonderful peace, and closed her eyes, finally resting. This was a beginning, not an end for her, so with her last breath, Willow joined Helene. The old Willow...was dead.



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Later that evening


"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Tara screamed waking from her sleep. She curled up and cried as she heard Dawn and Buffy rush to her room.
"Tara?!? Tara what's wrong," Dawn asked," Tara answer me please," she begged running to the older girl, holding her tightly in her arms.
"No, No, No, NO!" Tara screamed. Dawn looked pleadingly at Buffy for help, the smaller blonde placing a hand on Tara's leg.
"NO!" Tara screamed fighting to get away,"She's dead, she's gone! I killed her! I killed her!"
"You didn't kill anyone Tara," Buffy said looking to her sister for back up. Dawn murmured in agreement and Tara fought harder to get away with both Dawn and the Slayer holding her.
"Let me GO! I killed her, she's dead, are you happy? Her blood is clean. She's DEAD!" The Wicca screamed.
"Who Tara? Please tell me who you killed?" Dawn asked gently and Tara quickly settled from her frenzy and looked down reverting back to cries and sobs. Dawn placed the blonde against her chest and gently rocked her cooing.
"Willow....is dead," she whispered after a few moments.
Buffy quickly looked at Dawn and back at Tara," Willow isn't dead honey, she just left, she'll be back if it's destined to be."
"She is dead." Tara said simply and coldly,"Tomorrow you'll see, tomorrow they'll find their bodies."
Dawn looked back at Buffy and nodding in agreement, turning to Tara she noticed the blonde's eyes. Jumping up she called," Buffy...her eyes. It isn't Tara."
Buffy looked into Tara's eyes and saw the richest purple she had every seen. Tara just smiled evilly.
"Finally you've caught on," she smirked," a simple possession," she stated nonchalantly,"...you'll see...she'll be fine when I get done with her body."
"Where is Tara?" Buffy called coldly, the Slayer was back.
"She's here....somewhere," the imposter said. It sounded like Tara, but with a Greek accent that was cool and evil.
"What have you done with Willow?" Dawn called. She had been watching and knew this was why the spirit was here.
"Oh she's dead honey," came back the simple reply," For the time being anyway."
"Then you die," Buffy advanced.
"NO BUFFY!" Dawn said getting between the two pushing Buffy off. Buffy looked bewildered at Dawn. The brunette sighed and said," It's still Tara, at least the body is."
It clicked and Buffy exclaimed with a small,"oh," and silently put space between herself and the entity possessing the Wicca's body."What do you mean,"for the time being."
'Tara' smirked looking Buffy in the eyes,"Never let anyone say you are dumb," she teased,"Well, Willow was promised to Hades at her birth by Zeus and her mother."
Dawn looked confused,"Why would Sheila make a promise to Hades?"
"Maybe because Sheila isn't Willow's real mother," Buffy said quietly.
While 'Tara' smirked Dawn look even more perplexed before Buffy answered,"Willow was adopted, she never told anyone, I doubt she told Tara. I just happened to find out when I was reading some papers in her room. I thought they were the week's assignment. She was trying to find her real mother."
With a prolonged nod, Dawn turned back to her possessed friend," Then who is Willow's mother?"
"Artemis."
"Artemis, Zeus' daughter?!? I thought she was all virginal, with the whole chasity and virgin nymphs and stuff," Dawn said only to recieve a raised eyebrow from Buffy,"What? I pay attention in class, and I read stuff at the Magic Box."
"She is, but in the beginning her father, Zeus, told her to try it once to show her what it was like, and for her to see what she was giving up for her cause to stay an immortal 'young lady'. Zeus told her he wouldn't...you know. And she agreed. I mean, you won't know how great your cause is if you never know what your missing right? So later that night, they 'experimented'," the spirit quotioned with her fingers," but something happened...right when Artemis was about to...you know," she empathasized making little sounds..
"Yes we know," Dawn interupted completely grossed out.
'Tara' smiled and continued,"Well when she was about to.....Zeus, a little bit too overly enthusiatic, happen to...you know...first. Well Artemis got pregnant, though she hid it from everyone but Zeus and they had to decide what to do with the child. Zeus wanted to kill her, but Artemis couldn't...it was her child...she wouldn't and wouldn't let him either. Zeus then proposed to give the child to a mortal to raise and to live out a normal life, but they knew that wouldn't happen because the baby would be a goddess, her powers would be unleashed when she was of age. So they decided that if they married her to one of Zeus' brothers, they would be able to watch over her and not have to worry about anything because it would be Poseidon or Hades's problem then. Artemis, though reluctant, agreed and Willow was born. Though her name really isn't Willow. After living with Hades for 5 years, which is 25 in God years, her memory was erased was given to Sheila and Ira Rosenberg, giving them all new memories, to help them live a normal life. Willow dabbled in magicks but it was her power, not the magicks that actually made it work. Then her powers started to become darker and lighter than most. More powerful, more balanced. With every dark, there must be some light, this is the balance, and that is what she is...the balance."
Buffy, who was now sitting in the chair facing the window, mutter absently while rubbing her arms as if chilled,"What balance exactly?" She looked at Dawn with tears in her eyes before looking at her lap.
'Tara' sighed vaguely pissed,"EVERY balance. Light and Dark. Night and Day. Gay and Straight. Life and Death. Good and Evil. Wrong and Right. Ying and Yang. She IS the balance."
"Then what good would it do to marry her off the Hades? Wouldn't that tip the balance to the dark side of things?"
"Smart girl," Purple eyes quipped," but it won't tip the scales 'cause she won't be with him exactly. You forgot about Persephone and all...his real wife. She is a jealous one. Willow will be more like one of his concubines. After she bears his children she is free of him, though she cannot leave. She'll live among the dead until she is sent to Mt. Olympus to claim a throne. The Balance is highly important to them."
Dawn was floored,"So we'll never see Willow again?"
"You'll see a person, but she will not be Willow. She will be the Balance. Pray to her as you would any other god or goddess and she shall come to you in one way or another."
Buffy cleared her throat,"Where is Willow right now?"
Smiling the possessed Wicca looked down,"In his bed, shall I give you details?"
"NO!," both Buffy and Dawn shouted.
"What's your name?" Dawn asked trying to change the subject.
'Tara' looked solemn for a moment then said,"Hecate."
"Hecate?" Buffy asked,"Like as in 'the person who helped Amy become a rat but not change back' Hecate?"
Sighing Hecate looked down,"The one and only."
"You don't seem too proud of that," Dawn commented.
"She was one of my favorite....disciples, of course I am not proud that she became a rat, but I cannot change her back, it is beyond my power. It is Willow's task though I doubt she knows how...yet. Just keep my lover safe for me, I shall repay you greatly."
Dawn nodded confused while Buffy's eyes bulged when she heard 'lover',"Ummm....ooookkkaayyyyy."
Looking at both of the girls, Purple eyes concluded," I guess I'm done...gotta go....oh and don't worry Tara will be fine, and she'll remember everything we've said. She was here all along just...alittle tied up in her mind," with one last devilish smirk the concord purple eyes faded as cornflower blue took their place,"W-Willow," the real Tara stuttered and with that she collasped to the floor barely being caught by Buffy before her head hit the ground.



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[MissMaclay89]

WOW!! Talk about intense!! Love it, please continue!!

[writerfreak]

Very nice. Looking forward to more.

writerfreak

[musicmad10]

This story looks good, the plot seems very original!

I'm looking forward to the next update

Hannah

[Sapphos Dream]

Name: Always Pay Compliments to a Goddess
Author: Sapphos Dream aka Seldomly Naughty aka Tisha or Tishy as my friends have oddly taken to call me
Disclaimer: ummm whoever is credited with the making of the Greek gods and goddesses and *mumbles* Joss Whedon for the Buffy characters... oh also some mention of the Charmed ones, and a spoiler for there season 4 I think it is...
Summary: What if when Tara and Willow broke up Willow got kicked out instead of Tara leaving, and what if Willow had a very intricate future...hmmm..long nights of coffee comfort me...
Rating: Everyone who knows me knows sooner or later this will end of NC-17 or the rating higher than that cuz I'm the fairy princess of smut but for right now let's keep it hmmm PG-13 with some violence...lol...
A/N: Thanks to everyone who always encourages me ummm Missy Chrissy, Gim, Liz, Aunt Dynarb, Mom and Mama and everyone else along the years...
Feedback: please oh please oh please oh please...just don't stone me, be harsh and brutal or nice...nice is good too everyone likes nice
Feedback response: thanxz to everyone who gave feedback I was nervous posting after like a 4 year sabbatical, thanxz for easing me back into the swing of things hope you like the rest of it.




Willow awoke with a spliting headache. 'Goddess, It feels like I hit myself in the head with a shovel.'..Getting out the bed she thought,'ugh!...100 times.'...Wait!..Getting out of the bed?!? She remembered now, her leaving, Tara's rage at her, Helene, her death, the death of all those people. Was she in Hades? This didn't look like Hades, in fact, it look beautiful and ancient. The walls made from white marble, with columns holding it up. The floor a mosaic of beautiful purple and blues, pinks, and a dying red. The bed she had gotten out of full with white pillows and silk sheets. The canopy a wonderous sheer falling haphazardly around it. And the painting on the wall, it was magnificent. She reached her hand out to touch it, tracing it's strokes, so familiar yet so distant.
"It's beautiful isn't it," a man asked coming behind her. Willow jumped turning towards him. Backing up against the wall she noticed it wasn't a man but Hades. Cowering to him, she stuttered," Y-yes, v-v-very b-beautiful."
"Calm down my dear love," he said walking towards her, his face revealed to her from the torches on the wall. He was handsome; his face betraying none of the age many would think he had. His pale complexion mixing with his icy blue eyes and dark, strangly, black hair. Trailing her eyes down his body it stood out, broad and masculine yet relaxed and posed. His body reminded her of Angel and she shivered in fear. Angel's body was capable of the worst torture imaginable, and she hoped his wouldn't be...at least not to her. She noticed he wore a white shirt and black leather pants overfitted with a black duster and ended with steel toe boots with small spike studs around the edges of them. He dressed like Spike. She laughed to herself thinking,' So this is where Spike gets his dress style from,' unaware that she had actually laughed out loud.
"What's so funny?" he asked with a grin on his face. He was pleased she had laughed, he had never heard it and now couldn't be without it.
Willow's face erased all mirth as terror once again reign inside of her."N-nothing, sir."
Hades smirked for a moment at being called 'sir' before a cold look spread across his face," Why are you so afraid of me?...I have done nothing to you. All I ask is that you, my wife, are comfortable yet you cannot in my presence," moving forward he gently took her hands, though she flinched, his face now compassionate," Why are you so afraid of me my love? Tell me please?"
Willow was shocked, she couldn't keep up with his moods but she knew all of them were genuine," I-I...y-you a-are d-d-death my L-lord, h-how can I-I not?" she in a soft ancient Greek accent replied, she looked down hiding her shock. What had she said? Why had she said it like that? And the accent, it wasn't hers, where did it come from? It all came back...everything. Her heritage. Her mother. Her father. She had spoken that way, because that was the way she was supposed to speak. That was how she was supposed to answer him. He looked at her perplexed for a second, then gently lifted her chin with his index finger. "Zhandra?"
Willow looked up with big teary green eyes,"I remember.." she said pitifully the tears flowing from her cheeks.
"How much?" he asked cautiously
"All...all that every was, and all that ever will be. I see everything." came back the simple answer.
"Zhandra," he smiled brightly and hugged her. Willow just paled and relaxed in his presence. She knew everything, the destruction, there was so much, the destruction yet to come, so much more. The peace that was, overwhelming and humming on her skin, the peace that will be, saddening for those who will not see it. She saw the outcome of one thing a million times in a million different ways at one time in her mind and her body steeled itself from the emotions. "Zhandra, you are home my Miw Sheri (it means 'Little Cat' in Egyptian). You remember! This day I am a happy, happy man, my wife."
Willow looked at him," A wife I am not for I know my place Hades, nor a man can you claim to be. I am...your mistress and you are a god. I know my place and as Lord of the Underworld you should know yours."
If Hades was shocked he did not show it as he laughed," Yes Zhandra, you are back. You must be hungry, I shall call a-"
"No!," the red head said sternly," I shall not eat of the dead, not ever. Your Persephone may be dense but I am not."
Hades backhanded Zhandra, her fall broken along with the column she landed on. Laughing she sat up and looked at him. He looked at her angrily," Never, ever, speak of my wife like that. You shall learn your place again soon enough." She just laughed in his face.
"Remember Hades," she said in a low warning voice as she raised to her feet," I am the sister of the Fates, I am the Balance, whether I learn my 'place' or not, you shall respect me, and THEN I will respect you. Heh, that is balanced." Dusting her clothes she noticed she was still in her human body, sighing she looked at Hades," Could you please give me my body back please. I feel all constricted in this."
Hades laughed despite himself. Willow was right, Persephone was a little dense, but she still had to learn to respect her. She already knew the outcome if she didn't. And the way she could just change subjects at random moments as if they meant nothing always kept him on his toes. In all truth, he had really missed Zhandra. "Okay, but please. I beg you Zhandra and I never beg-"
"Only to Persephone," she smiled wickedly wiggling her eyebrows as she interupted.
Hades look shocked for a second then remembered her powers," I wish you would stop looking at our timelines. It's unnerving, even to a god such as myself. But seriously," he scolded looking into her eyes," Don't insult Persephone, Zhandra. You know her place and you know her's, remember that. You already know the outcomes if you do."
Sighing deeply, Zhandra rolled her eyes and agreed," Okay Okay, now just give me my body and I won't insult your blonde."
Hades looked at her and snapped his fingers. Immediately, Zhandra's body bloomed, her strangly red hair becoming full and voluptious in deep rich spiral curls. Her pinkish skin becoming pale and smooth showing a small dotted array of freckles here and there. Her blood stained clothes became a blood red tight, fitting corset now cupping her more than ample bosom, and a pair of tight, black leather pants with the legs split on the outside but held together by a series of round thin silver hoops from hip to foot. Her sneakers became a pair of boots with four-inch heels. Finishing the outfit with a pair of matching black gloves and long black duster. She lifted her long hair and let it fall across her shoulders. She smiled looking up from herself at Hades. "You like?" she asked.
He was shocked, Zhandra had changed....alot. " Just momentary astounded. I didn't know you would picture those garments on you when I gave you your form back. You've changed."
"I'll take that as a 'yes'. And yes I have changed...20 years as a mortal have helped me...grow...so to say," she smirked," Oh, but I'm not done yet."
"Your not? " he asked. What else could she do? What else could be done?
She smiled deviously. Nope, she wasn't done..just a couple final touches,"Nope." Smiling, she slipped off a glove and held out her gloved hand. An athame appeared in it's palm. Making a slice across the tip of her index finger she applied the blood to her lips as it went on perfectly like blood red lipstick. Licking her finger....and moaning at it's taste for good measure to tease Hades, she put her hand back into the leather glove and bought it up to her hair touching random strands. Every red curl she touched turned black like the glove on her hand streaking it in an array of black and red. Touching her face, it instantly became made up with light reds essentuating her eyes, and powder paling her skin and freckles. "There," she smiled,"now I'm finished." She walked up to Hades gleaming. "Do you like my Lord?" she said running a hand up the chest of his shirt.
Hades was speechless...more than speechless. Looking down he saw he was wayyyyy more than speechless, but he couldn't touch her and he knew it. He had to wait 10 years (2 human years) before he was allowed to even touch her. She could touch him but not the other way around and she knew it. Backing up, he quickly muttered,"You look beautiful as always Zhandra, now if you'll excuse me I must be going. Goodbye."
"Laterz," Zhandra replied with a ruby red smirk on her face as he left her bed chamber. 'This was gonna be fun,' she thought. Laying in her bed she muttered something and was instantly changed into her pajamas. A good night's sleep would do her good. Saying a quick prayer to Artemis she slept and dreamt of her lost lover Tara.




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The Next Morning


Tara had woke up under Buffy and Dawn's care, but she was shattered. She had heard everything Hecate had said to them and it killed her. She just sat there on the floor staring out of the window. Her blood felt cold as it ran through her veins. Everything is gone...Willow was her everything and now she was gone. Willow was dead, and now...so was Tara. She heard Buffy call Xander and Anya over about Willow and she knew things would be bad. She had to get out of here, she had to go somewhere to..to clear her mind. Grabbing her bag, Tara quickly ran over to window and snuck out. She knew where she had to go to stop the pain.


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Xander had rushed into the house leaving a trailing Ayna behind," Willow," he said breathless," What *breath* about *breath* her? Is she okay? What's going on?" he hadn't looked at Buffy or Dawn yet, but when he did he stood straight up paling. They were crying, had been crying. Their cheeks tear stained and eyes bloodshot. This wasn't good news about Willow.
Buffy spoke up," Sit down Xander, you can too Anya...if you want."
Xander and Anya sat," Now what about Willow," he asked again, he could see the struggle to continue crying fighting in their eyes. Dawn sat down and put elbows on her knees burying her face in them. She muttered something.
"What?" Xander asked not quite catching it.
"Willow's dead," Buffy whispered, she couldn't ask Dawn to repeat it again, it was killing her. So the Slayer steeled herself against the onslaught on emotions and said it.
Xander shot up,"THAT'S NOT FUNNY! DON'T YOU DARE SAY THAT AGAIN!"
Buffy screamed back,"SHE'S DEAD! SHE IS....DON'T BELIEVE ME, LOOK AT THE T.V., LOOK AT THE FUCKING NEWSPAPER, IT'S BEING TALKED ABOUT EVERYWHERE. OPEN YOUR FUCKING EYES AND YOU'LL SEE IT!"
Xander paled and sat back down,"Wills?" he couldn't help it, the tears came clattering down his face, hard and fast. Anya tried to console him but it wasn't much use. He had lost his best friend of...forever. Willow was gone. Buffy came up to him kneeling on the floor,"Wills," she confirmed before getting up and going back to Dawn holding her tightly in her arms, letting her little sister vent the pain of losing her surrogate mother. No one had thought of Tara.
After a while, when the tears had slowed Buffy looked at Xander,"There's more."
"More?" he asked paling even more," she's not a vamp or anything right?"
Buffy looked at Dawn,"She's more than that....she's a goddess now Xander."
Xander look confused,"A goddess? Who? What goddess? How did it happen?"
Buffy retold the whole story of what Hecate had told them,"Did you know Willow was adopted?"
"No, she didn't tell me," Xander said sadly looking down.
Buffy nodded and quietly sat there, her face a mixutre a comtemplation and sadness. What else was there to say, everything had been cut short. What else had there been to talk about.
"How is Tara dealing with it?" Anya murmured thoughtfully.
"She's cold, like I was, she's not really letting the emotions touch her quite yet, I think she's dealt with people dying and leaving her her whole life, so now she knows how to react to it, though it's still painful for her. I think Willow leaving kinda drove her over the edge though. She's nonresponsive to anything and I doubt she's ate anything in the last 4 days." Buffy answered automatically. She couldn't let the emotions get to her yet. Not yet, she had to be strong for this time. Then she could mourn. Anya nodded and looked back down at her hands.
The silence stretched on for an hour, all 4 people afraid to actually look at the t.v. or a newspaper fearing her death was worst than seemed. They knew she was still 'alive' somewhere. Now in her true form. What about Giles?...What about the Rosenbergs?...What would they do when they found out their only daughter was dead? Would they even care? And poor Giles..Willow was his daughter almost, both of them were inseparatable in their research skills, his books and knowledge, Willow's computer and knowledge. They were like older masculine versions and younger feminine versions of each other. Everyone was bought out of there thought by a loud crash upstairs. Buffy looked around and when to the chest on the side of the sofa grabbing a big ax out of it and charging upstairs. Making it to the hallway she listened hearing the noise coming from Tara's room. Before Buffy could make it to the door, it was crashed through by a red and black demon holding a scroll. He looked at Buffy and the rest of the gang and shimmered away. Buffy quickly looked in the room to find Tara on the bed surrounded by 3 women. A man came down in a white spiral of lights and looked at her.
"Ummm...who is that?" one of the women said looking at Buffy.
The man looked up and said,"It's one of the slayers." he looked back down at Tara and placed his hands over her.
"STOP!" Buffy screamed charging at the man. She was tossed aside into the wall by a the oldest looking woman with the wave of her hand. Hitting the ground, Buffy got back up as white lights started to come from the man's hands,"Don't touch her!" she said through clenched teeth as she charged at the man again only to be thrown again.
"Quit it!" Dawn said running to her sister's side along with Xander and Anya," Leave us alone."
"Who are you people?" Anya said suspiciously.
The lights coming from the man's hands disappeared and he looked at Buffy's gang as the Slayer got to her feet, "These are the Charmed Ones," he said," Phoebe," he pointed,"Piper," he again pointed," and Prue."
"Oh, so that explains it," Anya said," so you must be their whitelighter right?"
Xander looked at Anya confused, when the man nodded his head,"I'm Leo."
"Ahn, how do you know them?" he asked.
Anya sighed and looked at the Scooby Gang," The Charmed Ones are sisters. They come from the first line of witches, before everything branched out and families married away from their lines. The Charmed Ones are the strongest witches you'll ever meet because Wicca circles are always stronger with 3 people, and being sisters and from the same bloodline makes them even stronger. The Halliwell line has the most protection because they're the most powerful so they are the most sought out. This protection is called whitelighters, Leo is one of them. Each sister has a different power. By the looks of it Prue is the oldest so she should have telekenesis, the middle child should have the ability to freeze time, and the youngest should have premenitions"
Prue spoke up,"How do you know so much about us?"
Anya smiled and turned to her,"I was a vengeance demon but the librarian broke my power center so now I'm stuck as a human."
"Oh," the Chamed Ones said in unison.
"So you guys know this girl?" Phoebe pointed to the body in the bed. They had forgotten about Tara.
Buffy and Dawn ran to the bed,"Tara! Tara wake up!"
Tara's face was drawn and pale, Buffy felt for her pulse but there was none, shaking Tara harder Dawn screamed," Tara wake up, please. You can't leave me. Not you too, please. I need you. Please wake up" Dawn fell to the floor and sob, Buffy just stared at the body. Xander hadn't moved from his place and neither had Anya.
"What happened?" Buffy said through clenched teeth.
Piper looked at the crying girl as Phoebe went to comfort her and said,"Phoebe had a premenition, that she," she pointed to Tara's body," that she was climbing through the window and Belthazor grabbed her and started choking her. She was dead in the vision. We summoned ourselves to where Belthazor would be and it brought us here. When we found him, he snapped her neck and Prue threw him through the door. Leo tried to heal her and that's when you guys came."
"It doesn't look like he healed her though," Xander shot back.
Leo looked at Tara then Dawn and Phoebe before setting his eyes on Xander,"I can't heal the dead."
Dawn sobbed louder but Buffy looked pissed and thoughtful, "Belthazor is dead as far as I'm concerned but right now I have to bring Tara back."
Leo looked confused as well as everyone else,"How can you bring back someone who's dead?" Prue asked curious.
"I won't," Buffy answered," but Willow will."
Phoebe looked up from Dawn,"Who's Willow?"
Anya spoke up,"Willow was Tara's orgasm buddy but then she took Tara's memory and Dawn told Tara and Tara started not to trust Willow so she confronted her, and Willow promised not to do magic for a week. So Tara said okay she'd give her another chance. Well the next day Willow cast a spell to make Tara forget about her betrayal and Buffy about her stay in heaven-"
"Wait Buffy died?" Leo asked.
"Yes..twice," Anya said alittle peeved with the interuption," but Willow bought her back, they thought she was in a hell dimension but she was really in heaven. Okay so where was I..yeah..so the spell went wrong and well all forgot and I ended up kissing Giles ugh!..and summoning stupid evil bunnies."
"Ahn," Xander said warningly,"finish the story please." He looked at the others and flashed his 'please-forgive-her' smile.
"Okay..okay...yeesh..well anyway Tara was pissed at Willow so she left, the next day Willow left on a plane and Hecate killed her, and then possessed Tara to tell us about what happened. Because actually Willow isn't human, she's a goddess, and a concubine of Hades, so the only way to get a goddess in a human's body down there is to kill them."
"Ummm, okay!" Piper said either weirded or perky (I suspect the former),"So we just call this Willow goddess chick to bring back your blonde friend here and we'll be on our way right?"
"It's not that simple," Leo said looking at them at the Scoobies,"You can't just summon a goddess by her powers or human name. You have to know her real name."
"That's just it," Buffy said as she watched Dawn cradle Tara rocking her as she smoothed the hair back from the Wicca's face,"We don't know her name. Her name definitely isn't Willow anymore."
"Which Goddess is she? Maybe I can help. I'm taking a mythology major now and from the sounds of it, she's a Greek goddess so that narrows it down a little," Phoebe said looking at Dawn, there was something about her. She just couldn't figure it out yet.
"The Goddess of the Balance," Xander chirped in.
"What Balance?" Leo asked curiously, there were many different balances, between realities, powers, just anything that had an opposite.
"Every balance...all of them."
Leo and Phoebe looked at each other simultaneously in fright, "Zhandra," they both replied in unison.


Questions? Comments? Like it? Love it?

[musicmad10]

Hi,
i'm still loving this fic, its great you've put the Charmed Ones in, I love both Buffy and Charmed Yay!

Hannah

[Sapphos Dream]

Name: Always Pay Compliments to a Goddess
Author: Sapphos Dream aka Seldomly Naughty aka Tisha or Tishy as my friends have oddly taken to call me
Disclaimer: ummm whoever is credited with the making of the Greek gods and goddesses and *mumbles* Joss Whedon for the Buffy characters... oh also some mention of the Charmed ones, and a spoiler for there season 4 I think it is...
Summary: What if when Tara and Willow broke up Willow got kicked out instead of Tara leaving, and what if Willow had a very intricate future...hmmm..long nights of coffee comfort me...
Rating: Everyone who knows me knows sooner or later this will end of NC-17 or the rating higher than that cuz I'm the fairy princess of smut but for right now let's keep it hmmm PG-13 with some violence...lol...
A/N: Thanks to everyone who always encourages me ummm Missy Chrissy, Gim, Liz, Aunt Dynarb, Mom and Mama and everyone else along the years...
Feedback: please oh please oh please oh please...just don't stone me, be harsh and brutal or nice...nice is good too everyone likes nice
Feedback response: thanxz to everyone who gave feedback I was nervous posting after like a 4 year sabbatical, thanxz for easing me back into the swing of things hope you like the rest of it.



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"Okay now that you know her name..call her," Piper said.
"You can't just call on Zhandra, you don't know what she'll do. Especially if she's Hades' wife, they have a temper from eating the fruit of the dead. It make them quickly irritated with mortals. That's why Persephone likes to stay in the Underworld when she has to go back, it let's her unlease her dark side that built up when she was with her mother on Earth during summer and spring. And trust me. She unleases it. Torture, killing, maiming, just alot of mayhem on her part."
"I don't care," Buffy said in determination,"If she'll help Tara I don't care."...."ZHANDRA!," she screamed looking at the ground,"ZHANDRA! I COMMAND YOU TO SHOW YOURSELF! GET YOUR ASS UP HERE NOW AND HELP US!"
The Charmed backed up alittle and stared at Buffy, the rage clear on her face,"SHOW YOURSELF! WILLOW GET YOUR ASS IN HERE NOW!" White smoke started to appear in a swirl of gray and white. A form started to appear. As the smoke died down Willow was there...but different. This Willow was wayyyy different. Her hair streaked with black and full of bountiful crinkles, her lips a fully rippened red. Her eyes staring coldly at the group, the green and black eyeshadow accentuating their harshness. Her clothes, whoa! She had on a green silk camisole with black leather pants and a duster that fell to the floor. Her feet decked out in a pair of thick heeled leather boots. Willow even had on leather gloves.
She smiled, her perfect white teeth gleaming,"You know my real name, I'm proud of ya Buff. Only took ya a couple weeks." OH GOD! Willow had a tongue and belly button ring....cool! She even had six studs in each ear...even cooler!
"A couple weeks?" Xander asked,"Wills you've only been gone 3 days."
Willow looked at him harshly,"Time passes faster for Gods Xan, and I'm not Willow. Not anymore." Her eyes softened as she looked at the Charmed Ones," my guardians," she smiled," I'm sorry I made your powers advance so fast. I just need you to be stronger for the evil that's about to come, it'll be stronger." Zhandra stepped closer to Prue and cupped her cheek looking into her eyes,"I am sorry," she said tearfully as she looked at her," I am so sorry."
Prue looked at her confused, seeing the tears in her eyes,"It's okay...For whatever it is, I uh..I forgive you."
Willow put her hand down and turned back to the Scoobies,"Why have you summoned me?"
"For a goddess who sees everything, you should know," Buffy said pointing to the bed and to Tara.
Willow quickly ran to the bed and feel to her knees, "This was not supposed to happen. How did this happen?!?" she raged.
"A demon called Belthazor, he snapped her neck when choking her didn't work," Buffy said through clenched teeth her anger mounting again.
"Calm yourself Slayer," Zhandra snapped. She could feel the inbalance inside of Buffy and her emotions were rising along with Buffy's. She turned back to Tara, "This was not supposed to happen yet, a simple inbalance I can fix along with the other things I came here for." Willow looked at Tara's pale skin. It was beautiful. She was beautiful, no matter how much Willow had done herself up, Tara was still a goddess in her dark green eye's. "Wake up my love, it's not your time yet. Your scaring Dawnie and the others." Lifting up Willow place her mouth barely against Tara's cupping the pale blonde's cheek. Willow closed her eyes as white smoke flowed in a stream from Willow's body to Tara's. Instantly Tara's eyes opened and she pushed her lips against Willow crushing them together. Willow's eyes opened in shocked as she tried to pull back but Tara had her hand behind Willow's head holding their mouths together.
Willow moaned into Tara's mouth but quickly pulled back, the smoke making Tara cough,"Willow," Tara coughed breathing hard and deeply. She had been dead, she had felt the pain of her neck snapping, then nothing. Now she was back. There wasn't a light or anything just darkness then back.
Zhandra looked at her,"Only to you," and got up walking back as Buffy and the Scoobies gathered around Tara holding her tight as Dawn cried in her arms. Tara's eyes were focused on Willow as Willow gazed back into the sea of blue. Willow closed her eyes steadying herself, then turned her head to Leo,"You, Whitelighter. What demon was this again?"
"Belthazor."
"Did he carry a scroll of any kind?"
"Yeah he had a yellowish kinda parchment scroll."
Willow turned back," HECATE! COME!"
Hecate appear shyly and looked around her purple eyes gazing at everyone,"Yes mistress?" The rat cage clammered as Amy cried.
"Your lover, do you want her back?" Willow said coldly her eyes flashing black. She raised her hands and sparks danced across her fingers jumping from one to the other.
"Yes mistress more than anything," she said looking down, "My heart has been empty and cold without her to warm it."
Willow sighed her eyes going back to green. She looked at Tara once before looking back at Hecate, "I know the feeling, I will turn her back for you, but you must tell me what your Master's scroll said or she will permenantly be a rat."
"Mistress, I cannot-"
"Then she stays a rat," Willow said simply getting ready to leave.
"Mistress no! Please! I beg you. I shall tell you but please give me back my heart. It is so cold without my love, my eternity is more torture than a gift," Hecate cried as she fell to her knees holding onto Zhandra's duster.
"Simply tell me then and I shall give you lover back her form and give her my protection, tell me not, and she stays a rat and in harm's way for it is coming, and more than this Slayer by herself can handle."
"It wasn't Hades, but Zeus. Hades told Zeus of your love for the blonde witch and not for him," she said turning slightly to Tara on the bed before looking back at her Mistress, " He told him of how you spend your days watching her and crying. Zeus said that if she were to die, you would seek comfort in his arm's and then the children would be bore. Hades and Zeus spent days making Belthazor and then given life by Apollo's flames, Belthazor was sent after the blonde one. He would have thought he succeeded in his task by now and went back to Hades to earn his place in Master's army. Please mistress. I beg of you, do not tell that I have told if you can."
Willow looked down to Hecate sympathetically and bent down coming face to face with her. Hecate's purple eyes were filled with tears as they slowly made their way down her cheeks,"Don't cry, you shall have my protection, my promise, and your lover. Take good care of her, for tomorrow is promised to no god or goddess. Only an eternity of loneliness and despair." Willow wiped away the tears and kissed Hecate's forehead. Looking at the cage, she went over and opened it picking up Amy. She looked over to Hecate for confirmation. When Hecate nodded and looked away, Zhandra slapped her hands together killing Amy.
"NO!," Tara shouted, how could she kill her when she just promised her back to Hecate. Amy was human. She didn't know her as a human but there was no reason for her to kill her. Dawn held her back,"HOW COULD YOU WILLOW?"
Hecate looked at the compassion in Tara's eyes and whispered, "Shhh, it is okay. My love is getting her form back soon enough." She turned back watching Zhandra.
Zhandra opened her hands and looked at the crushed body, inhaling lightly, Amy's soul rose from her body and into the redhead's mouth. Placing the body back in the cage, she turned around and gently blew out the smoke, it quickly taking the shape of a person, a woman, Amy. Blowing the rest of the wind out, she touched the ghostly chest of Amy and the body was formed. She opened Amy's mouth and blew her soul back into her. When Amy coughed she pulled back."There." She said looking at her work, she had made Amy a streaked brunette, it seemed to fit her more. She snapped her fingers and Amy was clothed in a baby blue tunic for composure and then moved out of the way as Hecate kissed the renewed witch hard on the lips. Hecate smiled and nodded to Zhandra and she and Amy shimmered out of the room.
"Now back to you," she said turning to the rat's body in the cage,"It's unfair to just use you as a host and let you die. I'm thinking a reward is in order." She picked the rat up out of the cage and placed it in her palm letting the smoke covers her hands like a balm of ghastly clouds. Soon a small head peeked out from her hands. It was a kitten. Opening her hand she revealed a snow white kitten. It gently meowed and licked her hand before jumping down and jumping on the bed curling up in Tara's lap around the Scoobies. Turning to the Charmed Ones and Leo, who had been watching quietly the entire time she addressed them one by one tearfully," Phoebe. Cole is Belthazor. Not only is the demon evil but so is Cole. Don't forget that. Piper, sometimes life is hard, this is the way things have to be to have balance as the middle child you are more important than you think. You are like me, a balance, sometimes you have to chose between good and evil, balance them and you can overcome anything, and Prue, sometimes a death is a beginning, don't let death stop you, stay focused and death can balance itself with the life. You don't have to chose between them. Leo, for you it's quite simple actually, protect them with your emotions." A single tear fell down her face," Goodbye," she waved as Leo orbed them back home.
"Willow," Tara whispered knowing Zhandra heard her. The red head turned to her the tears glistening in her bright green eyes. Tara's word stopped in her throat. Willow looked so hurt, so sad, it seemed to go straight to her soul.
"We'll miss you," Dawn piped in with the rest of the Scoobies backing her up.
Willow looked down her face hidden behind her long crinkled hair," I'll miss you too," she said back. She had wished Tara would tell her something...anything. "I should go," she said,"things to do."
"Thank you," Tara said suddenly. Zhandra paled. She had to leave now before the tears started.
"It was my job, it wasn't your time. You have...much to do that you haven't yet," Zhandra said simply looking up for a second before looking quickly back down,"Goodbye." Zhandra gave a small wave to the gang before disappearing in cloud of smoke. The smoke gently passed by Tara blowing her hair from around her face," I'll love you forever," it whispered. It was Willow. She had what she needed now. Reassurance that Willow still loved her. She could make it through her days now. Willow was immortal and for her to say she loved her forever really meant forever. She saddened for a second, the Scoobies getting off of the bed to let her sleep. Dawn was already lightly dozing with the snow white kitten so they left her there in Tara's lap. Grabbing a pillow, Tara quickly replaced herself with it and went to the window. Willow had said she loved her but why didn't Tara say it back. Willow would have heard her. Willow gave her the reassurance she needed but why couldn't she have given it back? She stared out of the window at the starry sky her tears flowing down her cheeks. She didn't know if she loved Willow back? Did she? Could she? She sighed deeply and went back to bed cuddling up against Dawn as she went back to sleep.



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Willow returned back to her room with a heavy heart. She had told Tara she loved her, but she hadn't got a response. She knew Tara didn't love her but she had hoped, she had prayed that she would give her some kind of sign to tell her if she was hanging on to false hope. Now she was confused. Maybe Tara had moved on, maybe she didn't want her anymore. I mean, she hardly wanted Willow when she left, and now that she was a goddess that would seal it for Tara that she didn't want her. She went to her bed, changed into her night clothes, and went to sleep crying. She would love Tara forever no matter what, and if Tara couldn't love her back she would understand.

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Please tell me you like it it's just, 600 and something odd number of people have viewed it and no one says if they like it or not...or what could make it better. I have a very fragile psyche about my writing. They'll be Willow/Tara loving eventually I swear, and it'll be steamy and hot and sexy as hell, but not rauchy cuz rauchy is a bad word...

[Willowtree252]

well let me say no I don,t like it. I am in love with it wow!!!!!! making willow a goddess and she must have childern for a man. no way baby it aint happen why dident Tara tell her she loved her that hurt willow I know you have somthing in mind and I can,t wait for more this is so deep. I feel like I am on a rollercoaster and boy will I enjoy the ride please don,t stop this is wonderful more more more!!!!!!

[MochaVamp]

Hey, I hope you continue with this story. Your doing a great job of weaving different characters together: Greek myths, Charmed, and Buffy. Looks like it is going to be a very unique tale.

[imjustme]

hey, this is a great story. it took me a couple of reads of the first two parts to really get into it, but i like it and i will keep on reading. can't wait for the steamy loving.

[will]

Hey I love your story it's really great and interesting.
please write more soon.

[Sapphos Dream]

Name: Always Pay Compliments to a Goddess
Author: Sapphos Dream aka Seldomly Naughty aka Tisha or Tishy as my friends have oddly taken to call me
Disclaimer: ummm whoever is credited with the making of the Greek gods and goddesses and *mumbles* Joss Whedon for the Buffy characters... oh also some mention of the Charmed ones, and a spoiler for there season 4 I think it is...
Summary: What if when Tara and Willow broke up Willow got kicked out instead of Tara leaving, and what if Willow had a very intricate future...hmmm..long nights of coffee comfort me...
Rating: Everyone who knows me knows sooner or later this will end of NC-17 or the rating higher than that cuz I'm the fairy princess of smut but for right now let's keep it hmmm PG-13 with some violence...lol...
A/N: Thanks to everyone who always encourages me ummm Missy Chrissy, Gim, Liz, Aunt Dynarb, Mom and Mama and everyone else along the years...
Feedback: please oh please oh please oh please...just don't stone me, be harsh and brutal or nice...nice is good too everyone likes nice
Feedback response: thanxz to everyone who gave feedback I was nervous posting after like a 4 year sabbatical, thanxz for easing me back into the swing of things hope you like the rest of it. Umm in order of last to first...
Will- Thanxz it's kinda hard to be the subject of someone's appraisal but I try to do good work regardless.
imjustme- I know when I first wrote it I was like, what the hell did I write? who'll understand this it's so confusing, but after a while it all started to click and I saw where the story was heading more than where it was coming from...lol...
MochaVamp- Thanxz, it's kinda hard when you want to get your facts straight and it's kinda hard to have mythology and other stories line up without affecting the plot of one of them, and someone who just can't handle fiction say, "well that didn't happen." So you try to be careful but everyone once in a while you say, "Let's go crazy!" and hope one of the gods or goddesses don't strike you down in anger...lol *chuckles nervously...
Dianeswillowtree- *hugs you tightly* OMG! I have my first person who really loves it...yay! okay not to belittle anyone else, but since you're the first one to respond first with such an enthusiast response, this update it for you....*tells everyone else*...consider this Dianeswillowtree's update...yay!...I made a decree..hee hee hee...




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Hades and Zeus watched this smirking beside themselves.
"She thinks her blonde witch doesn't love her anymore," Zeus announced triumphantly.
"Yes, very good my brother. You have done well," Hades smiled patting the blonde god on the back,"When she awakes I'll comfort her and in a human year's time she shall bear my children. Thank you my brother."
Zeus' smile faded alittle, "Leave quickly. Artemis is coming. She'll warn Zhandra of our plan."
"Thank you again my brother. Goodbye," Hades said quickly shimmering out of the palace room.
Artemis came back from her hunt caring a ripe deer over her shoulder, "Hello Father, good day?" Tossing the deer upon the table she went to sit next to him, her nymphs going to attend the deer.
"Sad day, my child," he turned the screen to Zhandra crying in her chambers,"The blonde Wicca has broken her heart, yet our daughter is insistent on loving her no matter what."
Artemis looked sad, her youthful body tensing in her disposition,"I wish there was something we could do, but we cannot interfer father. You know that as much as I do."
"Yes I do know that," Zeus insisted,"but I just can't stand to see her cry. Especially for this...this.."
"Tara," Artemis said simply, "and I know what you mean, but we still cannot interfer. We can only hope they resolve this some way or another and hope for the best. For both of them."
"Maybe I could-"
"No."
"Just one-"
"No."
"Not even-"
"No."
Zeus sighed, there was no way he could finish what he had started to do with Zhandra and the blonde without Artemis knowing. Giving up he let Hades deal with his own problems. He had the girl, he do the work. Besides fresh meat and ambrosia, and a new lightning bolt from Hephaestus. He had better things to do. Better people to watch, for example this J.Lo woman was looking kinda good. Wouldn't hurt to give it a shot. He entered the main room with Artemis and sat above the crystal waters staring into it at the world. It was like the Discovery Channel....magnified....'Yep,' he thought reclining in his chair, life was really good.



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2 years later



Tara opened the door in a huff, depositing her keys on the table before flopping down on the living room sofa. It was her first day at work and already she had several assignments due. Working as a botanist is what she always wanted to do, but who knew it would be so tiring. Challenging is good....tiring..bad. She sat dow on the sofa thinking. Life in Chicago was good. After the Hellmouth had collasped in on itself a new one opened in Chicago. Tara sighed, a new place, same setting. Though the Hellmouth here was managable, it still had it's quirks. Apocalypses, or was it apocalypsi. Whatever it was, were still available in large portions, and this town had vampire's even stupider than the ones in Sunnydale which is a real stretch considering how dumb they were. Spike. Spike had sacrificed himself for Buffy and the "Greater Good". Tara had missed Spike, though she wouldn't agree to it herself he was always there for Dawn and the gang when they needed him. They needed him, and though Spike wouldn't agree to it he needed them as well. Laying down on the sofa, Tara had thought about their lives. Dawn was in college majoring in Mythology she and Phoebe had been going out for a year. Buffy had went back to college and got a degree in Self Defense, opening up her own karate dojo teaching college and high school teenagers how to protect themselves from a vampire or demon long enough to run to safety. Though she loved Spike she had moved on, especially to a girl named April. When Buffy had first told Tara she was bi, the blonde wicca was extremely shocked but meeting the punk rocker, Tara instantly welcomed her. April was everything she needed, stability, love, and to feel wanted and needed. With April she had all of those things. Xander and Anya were planning their wedding again making sure Xander wouldn't have an escape route. Willow. She tried not to think about Willow, but everytime she thought about the Scoobies, Willow came back to mind. Was Willow okay? Was she still alive? Was whatever she thought a lie? Was Willow really dead? So many questions ran through her head but she had once answer....forever. Willow had whispered forever and she believed her.
Yawning Tara, drifted to sleep on the couch. Seeing that Tara was asleep, Zhandra shimmered into the room, kneeling down in front of Tara supplicant in a simple white flowing dress. 'She is so beautiful,' Willow thought as she gently touched the blonde's hair, brushing it back from her face. Goddess, Tara was her goddess. Her goddess to secretly cherish and worship. She had been watching Tara for the past couple of years, watching as she grew, watching as she came into her own. She was proud of Tara, truly proud. The blonde Wicca went a stuttering shy girl to a strong independent woman right before her eyes. She closed her eyes against the onslaught of tears. She had saw everything, every woman, every night of passion they had shared, every kiss. Everything she would never feel again from this beautiful woman who she loved more than anything. Every caress, every touch, everything, and it wounded her heart more than any god or mortal could ever do. She accepted her life of solitude tormented by the sight of her love with another and kept to herself, not taking comfort from anyone, not Hades, nor Zeus, not her mother knowing that this cross would be her's to bare alone. Opening her eyes, the tears streamed down from the green globes filled with sadness as she looked down upon her love. She leaned in gently kissing Tara's soft forehead and smoothing back her hair as she closed her eyes taking in her sense. Her lips on Tara's warm forehead, the blonde's honeysuckle smelling hair, the baby powder she wears, the body splash, soap, her softness, the gently downy of her hair, everything.
Leaving her lips on Tara's forehead for a second to long, Buffy busted through the door,"TARA!," she called out. Willow lost the balance on her knees in a loud crash signalling Buffy to the living room. Tara quickly opened her eyes in fright,"Repel," she said quickly intent on dispelling whatever what would have attacked her but instead slamming Willow headfirst into the fireplace causing it to collapse on top of her. Tara sat quietly as the bricks fell onto the unknown figure. Buffy came into the living room, her axe in hand,"Who was that?"
"I...I don't k-know," Tara stuttered, it had been a long time since Tara had stuttered, which was a very bad thing whenever it happened,"The fireplace collapsed on whatever it was burying it."
Buffy going towards the fireplace noticed the red hair. The rocks moved and she jumped back her axe ready, "Tara, on my count let loose your fire ball thingies cuz whatever this is it surely isn't human to survive that."
Tara gulped, she had hoped it wasn't human and this proved it, but what if she wasn't strong to kill whatever it is. If a ton of bricks couldn't kill it, could she?"O-Okay."
The brick moved gently again, before they slumped back down, a groan could be heard from under them and a body started to rise. The body rising up Buffy yelled,"Now!"
Tara quickly cast her spell and soon was throwing fireballs at the body as it continued the rise effortlessly.
"STOP!" Zhandra screamed her arms outstretched sending Tara and Buffy tumbling back. Rising to her full height she wiped the blood from her lip. She had bit it when she hit the fireplace and broke the skin leaving a huge split in it. It would heal in a few minute but that would be enough time for Hades to see a trace of injury around her aura. Damn! That would go well...NOT! Willow looked at Buffy and Tara sprawled out on the floor and her eyes saddened for a second. They looked at her not as she was but what she had become. She hated it. She just want to be Willow again sometimes, but she couldn't, she was Zhandra now, she had a duty to protect the Balance. It was her job and her's alone. She looked down and addressed them as they got to their feet,"I am sorry to disturb your life. I meant no harm. I came to give the Wicca something, not to cause a disturbance.The fireplace," she waved her hand and it rebuilt itself quickly, and better,"I am also sorry about but I have fixed it and it is better than before. Goodbye," and with that she quickly shimmered off leaving Tara and Buffy standing in shock.

[Willowtree252]

Dibs decrees I love decrees thanks for the chapter this was sad I am in pain for willow and a little pissed at Tara for moving on she better come around a God is in love with her for heaven sakes and she better get off her ass and fight for the love of her life Willow deserves it. There Love demands it as does my heart this is my decree so let it be written so let it be done. now woman give me my I Ps I do love your writing style

[writerfreak]

Ah yes, finally catching up on a wonderful story. I love it. The way you have made it all so.....complex.....yet simple. Wonderful.

writerfreak

[Boadecia]

well you have me hooked
i like the interwoven plot lines...although im not that fond of Charmed lol
Greek mythology is tres interesting, if not very confusing
please update soon

[Sapphos Dream]

Name: Always Pay Compliments to a Goddess
Author: Sapphos Dream aka Seldomly Naughty aka Tisha or Tishy as my friends have oddly taken to call me
Disclaimer: ummm whoever is credited with the making of the Greek gods and goddesses and *mumbles* Joss Whedon for the Buffy characters... oh also some mention of the Charmed ones, and a spoiler for there season 4 I think it is...
Summary: What if when Tara and Willow broke up Willow got kicked out instead of Tara leaving, and what if Willow had a very intricate future...hmmm..long nights of coffee comfort me...
Rating: Everyone who knows me knows sooner or later this will end of NC-17 or the rating higher than that cuz I'm the fairy princess of smut but for right now let's keep it hmmm PG-13 with some violence...lol...
A/N: Thanks to everyone who always encourages me ummm Missy Chrissy, Gim, Liz, Aunt Dynarb, Mom and Mama and everyone else along the years...
Feedback: please oh please oh please oh please...just don't stone me, be harsh and brutal or nice...nice is good too everyone likes nice
Dianeswillowtree sorry but you'll have to wait just a couple chapters longer for the smoochies, it has to get worsre before it can get better and trust me, these smoochies you don't want to miss...
writerfreak thanxz I've been thinking about this fics for years..like about 4 of em to be precise and I think it's going well don't you...hee hee hee
Boadecia it's okay, I'm not really a big fan I just need to show some kind of group that has to balance each other and the show was on when I wrote that part, although Alyssa Milano, hubba hubba. Have fun with the update, cuz they really won't be in anymore of them after this little mention of them I think.







"That was-," Buffy said.
"Yes," Tara said simply walking back to the sofa. On it was a gift wrapped perfectly in silver wrapping paper tied with a red silk ribbon. Buffy watched her stare at the package and announced her departure leaving for the stairs to get ready for patrol. Tara just stared at the package. Slowly she bought her hands to it feeling the warm surface. Untying the ribbon, she gently eased the wrapping paper off to the plain wooden box. On the top of the box in delicate cursive it read 'Forever' and under it the date 'March 17, 2001- Forever'. Had it been so long? Exactly two years had passed since that day and yet Willow still hadn't forgotten. Wouldn't forget. She had promised to love Tara forever and she was. It didn't matter if Tara didn't love her back, it didn't matter if Tara had other lovers, she would still love Tara no matter what. The box was empty all for a note written on papyrus.


It read:



Dear Tara,

This is my last chance, my last chance to tell you how much I love you. How much I care. For the past 10 years, 2 of your years, I have watched you. Watched you grow into this beautiful woman. I am proud of you. I came to bring this to you instead of just sending it to see how you feel. If your reading this then I guess I'm not there. I cannot hold Hades off any longer. I am to be mated to him in a week and a half. I am so sorry for everything that I have done to you and I hope one day that you can forgive me. I've seen what you've gone through, even helped a couple of times. You are growing in ways you can't imagine. I watched your passion, your lovingness, and I know that is the real Tara, not this shy shell of a girl your family and I made you by our abuse. Know that I will always love you and hold you in my heart. If you or the Scoobies need any help just give me a shout. (You don't have to speak my name in blasphemy either, tell Buffy that).

Forever,
Willow


Tara looked down putting the letter aside. Willow knew, she knew everything, about everyone of them. Every woman that she had been with to rid her head of Willow. Every magick binge she had pulled to forget.
She looked down placing her face in her hands. Willow knew everything. Willow promised her forever and she couldn't even promise her tomorrow. Why did Willow love her. She had no reason to. She was the one cheating. No not cheating, forgetting, even worst. She wanted to forget Willow, move on with her life, instead all it was was buying time. She could never forget Willow, she knew it, her heart too, but it didn't make the ache from losing her any less. Reaching to close the box, she saw something appear. Picking up the long strip she turned it over. It was a picture. The pictures she and Willow had taken at the mall on no special day, but just because Willow wanted more pictures of them. The first one was just them smiling their pearly whites gleaming as Willow held Tara in her arms looking down at her, the second both of them cross-eyed making silly faces. The third is them locked in a passionate kiss that led to the fourth one of just a hand holding up a bra. Willow had hid the pictures from Tara when the blonde said she'd rip the bottom one off. Tara smiled beside herself. Willow had told her she lost it. The big fibber. She knew Willow still had it but she went along with it anyway as long as she didn't show anyone. Picking the picture up she walked to her room going straight across it and picked out one of her rainbow thumb tacks sticking the picture on her wall along with so many pictures of her life. Pictures with Willow, pictures taken by Willow, pictures of just Willow, pictures with everyone, pictures of herself, pictures of graduations, births, marriages, pictures with the Scoobies, even picture's with Angel's Gang. As she looked at them she noticed that the pictures of Willow and her or even just Willow were few and far between. She couldn't help but notice that no matter how hard she tried not to, she thought of how everyone had just forgot about Willow. It had been so easy for them. Even Dawn and herself. She looked down picking up the snow white cat, Zhandra had left her and settled into her bed for night of tears as she thought about her soulmate.



Hope you like it as much as I do cuz after this next part it'll only get juicier and spicier...hee hee hee *laughs naughtily*

Tisha


~~When you bring sexy back, I hope you bring the receipt so you can get your money back with it too.~~

*what I said to all the mean bitches at my school*

[Willowtree252]

Dibs Any writer that can bring out emotions like you have is a wonderful writer I am soooo hooked please update soon it is hard waiting poor Tara having to deal with real life our girls are in so much pain but that just makes when thay finally get together that much more precious

[Sapphos Dream]

Hey guys, especially DWT, sorry I haven't updated in awhile. exams have been a...yeah that word...and I think I've failed AP BIology so let's hope not, but just to be nice I'm updating the day after Christmas almost like a late Christmas, Chanukah, Ramadon, Kwanzaa, if you have a celebration I'm missing please add, oh and Yule for those crazy wiccans out there, sorry to forget ya! So Happy Holidays and see ya in a couple days.


Tisha

Deck the Halls with feminist bras la la la la la la-la la la

[Willowtree252]

Well Merry Christmas to us hehe I will be waiting for my present !!!!

[willowfan7]

I can't believe it took me so long to actually sit down and read this fic in its entirety.

But I can say for certain it's been worth the wait.

I breathlessly await your coming update.

In the meantime, I think I'll go reread it one more time so I regather my thoughts on it. Lots and lots of information for me to chew on. Very nicely done. I particularly like the inclusion of Greek Mythology, which I find so intriguing, yet know almost nothing about. Maybe your fic is my starting point to learn more.

Anyway, the point is. I'm really enjoying this story. It's rich in plot, and although I'm not sure if the characters are spot-on, it doesn't distract me from the story line at all. In fact, it introduces a new side of them that we may not have seen before. Keep it up!

ETA oh yeah, and Merry Christmas to everyone! Most especially the author.

[JujuDeRoussie]

Hello

I like it ^^ I like the mythology part

Poor Willow [Zandhra]... and poor Tara... it's hard for both of them!

I'm waiting your next update ( naughtily huh? )

I really like it. I remember, some years ago, I was in Latin class, but our teacher told about greek mythology, and I wrote a little story about BtVS and Greek Gods (but Tara wasn't in the show yet... so it was more Buffy/Xander and of course Willow ^^ ). So I'm glad to read this

Julia

[Sapphos Dream]

AFTER CHRISTMAS UPDATE....yay!!!!!!!!!!
...thanks for everyone who sent comments especially Gim, it means alot to me that you'd read this after breaking your own rule about not reading a fic till it was done...thanxz *smiles*..so let's see if Willow and Tara can get their act together in the next couple of chapters and now without further ado "Always Pay Compliments to a Goddess" ladies and gentlemen...*smiles*




Willow shimmered into her chamber, her tears streaming down her face in heavy torrents as she ran to her bed collasping in sobs. She never wanted her. Willow knew now, she knew that Tara never wanted her. She meant nothing, to all of them. Over the years she had watched out for them, protected them, and she was never one of them. She was the outsider. She cried harder as sobs wracked her body in a cruel onslaught. They had forgot about her, forgotten every thought of her. Her birthday was like any other day, the holidays were celebrated more joyiously now that she was gone, as if they were celebrating her departure. All she had was her mother. She should marry Hades, she could bare his children and not be lonely, but she still belong to Tara. Tara owned her heart and she could give it to no one else. She was alone. Her soulmate rejected her, forgot about her, moved on. How could she? Everything she was and had belonged to Tara and yet she was made to sit by and watch Tara with other women, with the Scoobies, with magicks. She was alone here with not even her heart to keep her company. Rage boiled in her. HOW COULD SHE??? Willow could have married Hades, slept with other goddesses and gods, but she hadn't, hell she could have slept with every mortal person on the Earth and every star in the heavens but she hadn't. You should see some of the sexy, sensual lesbians and bisexuals and men in Elysian Fields, it could have been any one of them, but she didn't, she couldn't, she wouldn't. Her everything belonged to Tara. Her mind, body, soul, heart....everything. Her skin flushed as her body heat rose a couple hundred degrees. She was enraged and Tara and/or the whole world would know. She rose from her bed and walked over to her ivory chest. Pulling out a dagger she placed in the back of her pant's waist and shimmered out of the room.



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Tara had awoke the find Willow sitting across from her in the desk chair. Shocked she jumped up gathering the covers around herself and backing up against the headboard as far as she could.
"W-Willow w-w-what are y-you d-doing he-here?" she asked terrified at the look in Willow's eyes.
"Watching you, your dreams. Trying to figure out how this empty place in myself came to be," Willow got up and walked slowly to the foot of the bed never once taking her eyes off of Tara. Tara gasped, this wasn't Willow, it was Zhandra and by the looks of it, she was pissed.
"W-what are y-you talking a-about?" Tara stalled trying to figure out what was going on. She had been dreaming about Willow's actual death and her thoughts about it. She was truly scared now. If Willow, no, Zhandra. If Zhandra had seem her dream, to her point of view it could be quite deadly.
Zhandra glared,"Fuck you! I'm not as stupid as you make me seem, Tara. If you wanted me dead why didn't you kill me yourself. Why waste your time seducing a thing like me. If all you wanted was me dead you killing me yourself would hurt a lot less than what you put me through." Willow took a step to Tara's side of the bed but stopped when she saw the blonde flinch. Anger and tears lit up her face, " I am dead now, you wanted me dead and you have your wish. Do you want to see my body, twist the knife in harder but make sure not to look in my eyes cuz I sure as hell will haunt you for the rest of your days." Willow turned around facing the window."I gave you my forever, my everything, myself, but I have watched you give yourself to Arron (a girl), Jessica, Alyson, Amber, Michelle, Sarah, Emma, and Eliza. They touched you, my goddess, and I had to sit there and watch. Watch your passion with them, watch you love them, touch them. Everynight, you would come to me in my dreams and rip my heart out taking it with you as you touched them. Loved them. Everynight, I knew pain so immense a human could not withstand the thought of grasping it. Everyday, my eyes bloody with tears stained my clothes, my bed, my path. Yet everyday I knew that I belonged to you and only you could free me. Only you." Willow turned around, her eyes shedding red trails of tears. "No more. Today you get you wish." Willow pulled out the dagger and waved her arm, invisibles manacles holding Tara quickly down to the bed.
Tara didn't know if anyone was home but she didn't care,"SOMEONE! SOMEONE HELP ME! SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASE! PLEASE HELP ME! DEAR GODDESS PLEASE!" she looked at Willow tears streaming down her face as she shook her head deftly trying to get out of the binding chains," Please Willow! Please oh goddess, please don't. Please don't kill me."
Willow stopped in mid-stride going to the bed. She stared at Tara. "Kill you? You want me to kill you?" Tara sobbed shaking her head furiously 'no', " and what makes you think I was going to kill you? Have you listened to anything I have said? You won't die, no. Death is something I cannot give out. But my death is." Willow waved her hand releasing Tara's bonds. Sitting up, Tara rubbed the sore spots on her wrists from her struggling,"You want my death, then here is your chance. Take it and be done with me." Willow walked up to Tara quickly and jecked her hand placing it around the dagger. Looking in Tara's haunted, confused, and terrified eyes, she said,"You have what you want now, for eternity." Holding Tara's hand tightly around the grip she aimed the knife back and ---
"NO!," a thunderous voice boomed. A steam of small faerie's light streamed down and formed a woman, both young and from the looks in her eye's knowledgeable, " Zhandra don't you dare!"
"Mother. GO AWAY!" Willow screamed aiming to stab the dagger once again in herself with Tara's hand still holding onto it.
"Artemis?" Tara whispered scrunching her eyes. Her grip on the knife faltered as she let go and Willow stabbed herself in the stomach.
"AH!" Zhandra faced taunted in pain and she quickly pulled the dagger out, it instantly healing. Angrily she turned to her mother,"Why? Why can't you let it be over. It's over. I will not marry Hades. I care not about my duty to the humans. Let me die!" The furious red head turned to her mother and attempted the throw the knife at her. Artemis just simply stepped to the right effectively avoiding the dagger.
Artemis looked at her daughter in fury and quickly walked up to her backhand smacking her into the wall," Are you so stupid child you would put your blood on her hands." she motioned to Tara still dumbfounded on the bed.
"None of you will do it, this I know. She is the only other who can kill me."
"You know of that?" Artemis said her face in surprise.
"That if no other god or goddess will kill me for my powers that I can get a begotten soulmate to do it. Yes I know. And she will do it, she won't get my powers, they shall go to you, and I'll be free of this ache. Free of the pain."
Her mother looked at her sadly and knelt down against the picture wall to gather Willow into her arms," My dear eternal flame. Your pain is not shared but I see how it kills you so. To belong to another who does not love you. I have seen the destruction it has caused others. I love my solitude because I have seen this pain, but do not give away your life for it."
Willow looked up and hugged her mother tightly, the tears stinging her eyes as they flowed down her cheeks clouding her vision,"You were there. You have seen her lovers as I have. Her vows to them, her happiness in them. They are not me. My death would benefit so many. She dreams of my death. She does not want me yet I gave her forever and refuse to take it back." Willow sobbed into her mother's arms.
"NO," Tara whispered sure the goddesses heard her. Artemis and Willow turned to look at her and she screamed," NO! NO! NO!"
Willow and Artemis looked at each other, and the motherly brunette unwrapped herself from around her daughter walking slowly to Tara," No what honey?"
"NO!," Tara insisted again," It's not true. It was to," she looked down her eyes filling with crystal tears," it was to forget. The women, the magicks, everything was to forget. If I could love another then I wouldn't feel so alone. So I wouldn't be alone. I cannot give her forever as she can me. I am mortal my forever means a day when her's means eternity. I cannot give her that if I can't mean it."
Willow looked up and at Tara," Do you love me?" she asked clearly, hoping so much that the blonde did.
Tara looked at her, "I do, but it means nothing."
Artemis sat next to Tara on the bed and gently rubbed her back looking at the blonde. There was something about her. Something no one else in the world has," You are the other side of the Balance?" she said in shock.
Tara looked at her turning her eyes from Willow's lost ones," The what?"
Willow looked down," She is." she confirmed.
Artemis looked at her daughter in the corner sitting on the floor covered by shame, "You know she was your other half and yet you said nothing?"
"I cannot tell her and you know that, she has to feel the connection between us and want it. If I could tell her I would but she has free will and I have to respect that. She has made her choice, and it's not me." Willow got off of the floor and shimmered out leaving.
"What does she mean?" the blonde wicca asked looking up to the goddess. What was Willow saying?
The brunette goddess looked back from the spot where Willow had left to the blonde," Come, we must follow my lonely daughter. I believe her grief shall give you all the answers." and with that she and Tara shimmered out of view off the bed.


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[Willowtree252]

This is getting sooooo good you make me cry and my heart ache,s for both girls I am on a rollercoaster of emotion with this story I have a feeling that this is fixing to take off like a rocketship and we can just hold on for dear life now more I soon please!!!!!!

[Sapphos Dream]

sorry it's been so long, but hey, it's getting good...let's see what our ladies will do next shall we





Willow shimmered into Mount Olympus searching. Quickly she ran to the open room to her left knowing who to find. "Hera," she called out. Hera she found.
"What is it Zhandra?" Hera ask in an air of annoyance, she was just about to reek vengeance on her dumb husband. God how dumb he was.
"Do you wish to be free of me?" Willow said quickly going up to the older goddess.
Hera look dumbfounded. This girl was not suggesting what she thought she was right? "Free in what way?"
Willow looked at her in the eyes,"In a gone forever kind of way."
The older goddess looked shocked at her response and turned fully to the red head, her black hair swinging over her shoulder,"Are you crazy child? What has pushed you to that conclusion?"
The Balance turned around readying to leave only to be harshly turned back towards Hera. Hera hated the girl, she hated everyone, but she had still really loved Willow in a way. She had wished many times that Willow was her daughter. Other goddesses had as well, but she the most. Willow was fair, smart, raged, calm, devious, innocent, beautiful. Any mother would be proud of her, she would more so than of her wayward daughter Hebe. "Tell me." Hera said simply. She wanted to know. If anyone had hurt her little flame she would torture them slowly. She looked up briefly when she saw Artemis and another shimmered silently in standing hearing distance away.
"Loneliness has killed my heart. My other has rejected me and I have given her my forever," Willow looked into the mother goddess's eyes her's filling quickly with stinging tears,"I have watched her other lovers and she favors them more than me. I am..nothing but a fling in her past to her."
"Your other? The other half of your soul, little flame?" Hera asked. Had the girl actually found her. Had she been with her the whole time and knew it.
"Yes my lady. I have always known she was a large part of me but I had not known that she was me. My soul, but that is past, she does not want me anymore. I am...nothing to her. So I beg you Great Queen, please grant me death. Eternal torment is nothing compared to the freezing pain I feel. Please." Willow sunk to her knees clinging to the raven haired woman's tunic. Hera looked at the tears in her eyes refusing to shed. Slowly a single drop fled down her cheeks as she gasped pulling back. The emotions, the feelings she had held back for so long came forth. The older goddess sunk to her knees as tears began flooding down her cheeks," I cannot. I cannot." she repeated.
Tara looked up into Artemis' eyes as her teared up. Artemis motioned for her to go forth and she looked back down to the scene in front of her, knowing that she had gotten her answer. Walking forward quietly she was shocked to a stand still at what happened next.
Willow cried harder in anger," You will!" She grabbed Hera hand placing it around the dagger and quickly thrusting it into her stomach.
"NO!" Tara, Artemis, and Hera screamed as the mother goddess jerked her hand back from around the dagger. She didn't do it. She didn't do it. Hera clutched Willow tightly and pulled the dagger out, it making a sick sucking sound as blood flowed from the wound. The blonde ran quickly to Willow and collasped on her knees taking her from Hera. She rocked the red head as her breaths shuddered.
"Y-you can't leave me, you j-just c-can't. Please. Please don't leave me Willow. I need you. Please"
Willow looked up slowly her skin paling,"You have your dream now. You are free of me as you wished," she whispered blood trickling out of her mouth. Tears streamed down the red head's face as she looked into the doorway," I am sorry mother. I am so sorry."
Artemis looked at her, with teary eyes,"I know baby. My dear sweet child, I know." Artemis walked closer and kneeled down over Willow placing a kiss on her forehead as Willow closed her eyes taking her last breath.
"NO!," Tara screamed, "she's not dead. She has to know, she can't be dead." she shook Willow, "WAKE UP! PLEASE WAKE UP. PLEASE." Artemis and Hera shimmered to leave Tara and the body alone, knowing Willow was not in there. "Baby," she whispered, the cries in her voice," I have to tell you. You deserve to know. I didn't love them. They were distractions. To keep my mind off of you. Knowing that I could never be with you again. I had to forget. It hurt too much to think of it, and to know you felt it 100 times more than I did made me...it made me try harder to forget until I'd do anything to get you out of my head. Please, please forgive me," she whispered to Willow, kissing her gently on the forehead as she rocked her in her arms. It was too painful. It was like losing Willow again for the 3rd time. A cold figure appeared in front of Tara. His cold demeanor unnerving her as she clutched Willow closer to her.
"Give her to me," his tone setting no room for argument.




sorry it's so short, I've been going through some family problems and that's as much as I got written the whole time...hope you like it, Tara's love is about to be tested...hmmm...will they finally get it right?

[Willowtree252]

Dibs oh you little tease I have been holding my breath all this time really this is all coming together now and I have a feeling things are gonna be hard before we get to the heart of the matter but at least Tara knows she is her soul mate.Why do I have a feeling daddy is going to handle this now. Willow just has to be alright. I am sorry RL is hard right now hope everything finds you well we will be waiting when you are able

[musicmad10]

Wow! I kinda wasn't expecting that! I hope she's not really dead, maybe you can find a loop hole or something please! I hope there'll be an update soonish!!

Hannah

[Willowtree252]

Please update