Hey.
This will be my first reply...so I hope I won't embarrass myself.
So let me first start off by saying WOW. There are alot of amazing and talented fic writers on the kitten board, and they have written some amazing fics doing justice to our favorite couple, but I must say that this is by far my favorite fic. I hope I don't sound like I'm trying to impress you or anything...but mostly everything I've ever read about Willow and Tara's relationship has had some "mystical" innuendo to it, magic, fantasy. For once a true to LIFE fic is being presented. I love the premise of "real life" and "real Time". I'm sure that we...and when I say we I mean every day average Joe's like us...would all love to have life situations handed to us in neat, little, wrapped up packages, open them and say "hey just what I've always wanted, and it's here now, I don't have to wait!" Life doesn't work that way. How many times have we wanted something, finally able to get our hands on it, only to realize, "Wow has it really been 80 years?!!" Anything in life worth having takes time...including finding that right person to share your life with.
My daughter, who is a month away from her thirteens birthday...yeah I know...today asked me what being in love means. Of course I fed her the usual, love doesn't hurt, love is accepting, love doesn't judge, etc...etc..., only to finally look into her eyes and state, "Look when you find that one person in your life, regardless of gender, race, religion, so forth so on, and all you want from them is to be happy for the rest of their lives, to be the best person they can be, when all you want is to give them not material possessions, but your heart...soul...and being, your in love. Damn the world and what they may say or think...it's your and their heart that rules...and if for some reason you find that your in love but the other isn't...well being in love means letting go and wishing only the best for the other." And in my lack of education and lack of vocabulary I hope I was able to answer that question for her. I had her at a very young age and I only hope that I have grown up enough as a woman and a mother to impart some honest wisdom into her.
I guess I drifted off a little...it's just that this is the kind of emotion that your fic has inspired...so your fault, he he he.
So going back to Willow and Tara...finally ha? I feel that Tara has been a little unfair to Willow. I mean she know Willow loves her and when your in love you are willing to do ANYTHING for the other person. Is it selfish? Sure...but only to a certain level, because I don't feel that Willow is overly nice on purpose. That's what "real" people do. So if Tara is feeling uncomfortable...I feel she should be honest, instead of making off handed rude comments and then trying, politely, to catch herself and try to correct an already uncomfortable and painful situation. Even recently when she was in the restaurant and feeling out of place...but WOW can Willow come to the rescue offering to take her somewhere else.
I guess a lot of it has to do with dating inexperience on Tara's behalf, but you don't need dating experience to let someone know how your feeling...that comes with being a human being.
And the relationship dynamic between your version of the cast...much, much, more realistic. Though I do wish Buffy, Xander and Willow were all a little closer, OK so that has a lot to do with the show...bad me! And a quick question...Is Dawn Buffy's sister?...doesn't seem like it...if this is one of those obvious answers, and I'm not getting it...feel free to laugh at me on my behalf...I can be a little dense...only sometime...
OK so I hope I haven't bored you already. Again...to reiterate, this is a wonderfully written fic, why you and other kitten fic writers haven't gotten together to create a show, write a novel or the greatest fic ever written, I'll never know. Maybe one day...end musing.
UPDATEY GOODNESS SOON?!!!
Saluting you while holding up a glass of Kerns strawberry/banana juice,
Irene
"NO!!! I just like to do the money parts" Anya