I can't thank everyone who read this enough - I really appreciate everyone's support! I had an absolute blast writing this, so I'm grateful for every one of you who read it, even if you never commented.
I've got a few more things started and a few more things almost finished, so expect some new shorter fics soon - I'm planning on posting the first part of my sequel to Pretty Much Perfect (which is itself a sequel to Ripples) next week, so keep an eye out for that if you want!
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Laragh: Congratulations
Tara's grown a lot! Yeah, Donny is a big bag of crap! Just imagine if he had shoved Tara - Willow would have brought the store down on his head!
I'm really glad you didn't wait to read it too! Thanks so much for reviewing so steadily and all the encouragement! I really appreciate it!
Thanks so much! Hopefully I'll have some more baby!fic up next week (I need to sort through it and figure out chapters and it'll be ready to go)
LonelyTara: Well thank you! (I keep meaning to tell you, but you're welcome to use my name! I know the screenname is a pain in the butt - though today it got shortened to L17 which is shorter than my name
) Hmm, birthday surprises - I was kind of imagining that they might have picked out a kitten together - I know Miss Kitty shows up before Tara's birthday on the show, but I figured with Adam and Willow's physical therapy the actual kitten getting might have gotten put on hold for a while after their original conversation about it. I didn't really have much else in mind for the birthday surprises - I'll leave it up to your imagination - I'm sure Willow would come up with something awesome!
I love it too! This one was different for me to write, but I loved doing it and I love where it ended up!
I'm going to try and post more post-Ripples baby!fic next week
Hopefully you'll like it...
ScottishAsh: Aww, well thank you! I'm glad you liked it!
Zampsa1975: I'm glad you liked the ending! Donny is a bag of crap! But darn-tootin' no one messes with Tara's girl! I'm really glad you liked it! Thanks so much for sticking with me through another story!
abarda: Aww, good! I'm so glad you liked it! I appreciate the support and the complement! I've got a few more things coming - so I hope you like them!
love_2003: I like it was handled on the show too, but I was trying to avoid duplicating exact scenes from canon, so I'm glad you liked how it turned out! It always makes me sad how long it takes her to realize that! (and how long it takes Xander and Buffy to actually accept her!) I'm sad to say goodbye to this one too! I loved writing it so I'm so glad you liked it!
DaddyCatALSO:
those are valid quibbles - I haven't watched season 5 in a long time and that line was added as background for the little time jump from August to October (from the beginning of school to Tara's birthday) and I didn't research like I should have
Yes, that's true, but my argument would be that they're giant sacks of crap who, at minimum, emotionally and mentally traumatized a young girl, so whatever she does to them is well deserved - and it's not like she really hurt them, just kept them from hurting her...
(Reading this back I feel I need to clarify that this is me agreeing with you, not trying to pick an argument.)
I liked that moment - we got something like it on the show in the Magic Box, but we never got to see a one-on-two confrontation, so I wanted to write it
You're very welcome! Thanks so much for reading it and leaving me thoughtful comments - I really appreciate it!
vampyregurl73: It was a different change of pace for me writing it, so I'm glad it came through reading it - I hope it was realistic! I tried for a natural evolution, but this was the first time I'd written a developing relationship for them, so I haven't been really confident on how natural the flow is.
I've got a few things going on, so I hope you'll find your way to them
Thanks again to everyone who read it! I hope you enjoying it as much as I loved writing it! See y'all next time!