Title: Point of Origin part 2-Sparks Meet
Author: Magrat
Ratings: PG: 13
Spoilers: Season 4 up to Hush and season 5 Family.
Notes: As this part is mostly based around Hush there is no dialogue, not sure if it works.
Point of Origin part 2-Sparks Meet
Tara had decided to sit on the floor during the meeting to try and seem as inconspicuous as possible. The redhead has turned up again as had the power. It was amazing the living vitality of the magic that was streaming off her in waves. Tara hadn’t felt anything like it…well not since her mother died.
She couldn’t keep her eyes off Willow that was what they had called her. Willow, such a pretty name almost as pretty as the girl herself. She mentally shook her head, why try to kid herself, a girl like that wouldn’t be interested in even being friends with a social outcast like her.
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Willow was getting more and more annoyed as the meeting went on. Blessed wanna be’s all of them. She had suggested doing spells, transmogrify etc and they had all just made fun out of her. No, thought Willow they’re had been that one shy girl who had looked like she was going to agree with her but then had been bullied into being quiet.
Willow looked at her huddled on the floor trying to make herself as small as possible. It reminded her of how she had been before Buffy came along. Interesting that she had actually lifted her head and looked interested when she had suggested spells maybe she would look her up later. Tara the other girls had called her.
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The young blonde witch entered her bedroom and laid down on the bed. Willow, she smiled even at the thought of her, how could she manage to meet her again? She had a feeling the redhead wouldn’t be turning up to the Wicca group again.
Why was she thinking this way? She could feel a crush starting. This was madness; she had seen Willow around campus with her pretty blonde buddy and the dark guy who seemed to be always around but as far as Tara could tell wasn’t an actual student here. Someone like that wouldn’t even need her to be her friend never mind want her and as for anything else well that was just impossible, something that wouldn’t ever happen.
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Willow tried to sleep. She felt confused, for once in her life she had no direction. She had thought university was going to be great. When she started at U.C Sunnydale she had had a boyfriend, her studies were going well and she had hoped her witchy abilities would improve but instead here she was no boyfriend, Buffy out doing her in some of their classes and the Wicca group; well she couldn’t even express what she felt about them.
Except for Tara, she remembered just for a second catching the blonde’s eye when she had shook her head and not expressed herself. Those blue eyes seemed so intense, Willow shivered at the thought of them, strange why would she…maybe she was coming down with something, that would explain it.
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Tara walked from room to room watching all the other students seeming so low and depressed because of the their second day of enforced silence and then there had been the murder of the male student who had his heart ripped out.
Magic it had to be magic, what else could it be. She couldn’t imagine what sort of creature could cast something like this and be capable of that kind of violence and in the back of her mind was the horrible dark thought that maybe that was how she would become when the demon took over.
She decided that she would spend the afternoon looking for spells that may help cure it. She may become evil when she was twenty but she would do her best to help people why she still had the chance.
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Willow had been researching all night too no avail. She couldn’t think or find away that would get people their voices back and without voices how could they kill the gentlemen?
Her head was pounding from staring at her computer screen all night and much as she tried to keep herself awake her eyes became heavy and she was soon drifting off to sleep.
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Tara had one last look around her room before she took the chance and left. She knew she didn’t have the power on her own to work these spells and she was hoping she could make Willow understand that she needed her help.
Tara walked quickly across the campus she felt very jittery and she was so busy looking around herself she didn’t notice the step in front of her. As she gathered up her dropped books, she thought her heart was going to burst through her chest when she saw the creepy demons and their minions just behind her.
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Willow woke with a start. She could hear the desperate sound of someone pounding on doors and with a slight feeling of trepidation she opened her door to be knocked over by someone who looked like she was fleeing in terror.
Willow felt a sharp pain in her ankle but she didn’t have to time to really register it because she could see the gentleman behind the girl who had cannoned into her.
She felt gentle hands help pull her up and help support her down the stairs as the two of them fled in desperation from what would be certain death. She glanced side long at the other girl and was surprised to find it was the girl from the Wicca group, Tara.
After what seemed like forever they reached the laundry room, slammed the door and locked it. They tried to push the soda machine so that they could block the door but without any luck.
Willow fell back the pain from her ankle becoming unbearable. She tried to concentrate all her power in one blast to move the machine but she fell back, disappointment and fear gripping her over her inability to budge it one single inch.
Tara watched the redhead intently unable to believe her composure and single-minded attempt at moving the machine, when the blonde felt terrified that the door was going to give way and she just couldn’t focus at all but then everything came into a sharp focus. Willow was using her power but she wasn’t channelling properly.
Tara knelt by the hacker and tentatively touched her fingers.
Willow looked down at the fingers that were gently interlinking with her own. She then looked into blue eyes that were communicating so much to her. Then Tara pushed her palm into Willow’s, they looked at the machine and it slammed hard into the door jam.
Willow couldn’t let go of that hand, that one touch had changed her world, that electric feeling that shot through her when Tara touched her was too unbelievable for words. Who was this person and what secrets could she teach her?
TBC
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at: 7/3/02 4:33:23 pm
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