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SPOILERS: Anything from Season 6 that has been aired!
RATING: seriously R stuff, but angsty
TITLE: UNTITLED
AUTHOR: Sher (
Sher_555@yahoo.com)
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As they came to the room it appeared to be just like the waiting room, except smaller and only the three were there.
“Miss Maclay is progressing well,” the doctor began. “We are a bit concerned about the lack of blood, but with the transfusions it appears like she is recovering sufficiently. We also...”
“Sufficiently? Not well? Good? What’s wrong with her?” Willow began to freak out at the simple phrasing the doctor was using.
“Calm down. Really, if you can’t control yourself I don’t think you should be seeing Miss Maclay at all.”
“I don’t think anywhere in your job description did it entail discriminating towards sexual preferences. Maybe I should fill out a ‘customer comment’ card on you and have a talk with your boss. Just do your job, and tell me what is wrong with her and how you fixed it,” the slayer threatened, becoming overprotective of her best friend, knowing Tara would be doing the same.
The doctor was quite taken back by the forcefulness and just wanted to spill the beans and leave the women to themselves at this point, knowing she got off in an hour and hoping she wouldn’t be involved in this when she came back on her other shift.
“Well there was the blood loss. She has a concussion. She is going to have to stay here over night so we can regulate her blood volume along with the concussion.”
“But you said…” Buffy began.
“Beth, she’ll be fine.” The doctor held Tara’s “cousin’s” hand in comfort.
Willow was getting very annoyed at this point. ‘Sure, if you’re not a lesbian then all the women love you. Well that’s ok, I just need Tara to love me.’
“Sorry go on,” Buffy said taking her hand back from the doctor.
“She has various contusions and has stitches on her head, stomach, neck and back. Most should heal in time leaving minimal scarring. The largest is on her stomach. Then there is the obvious injury…” The doctor began to lead into the more sensitive injury that the blonde body had taken.
“What?” Buffy said trying to make eye contact with Willow who refused to look up, then turned to the doctor.
“She was raped,” the doctor said, somewhat mimicking Willow’s appearance, unable to look into her face.
“But… She… Is she awake?” Buffy asked just wanting to be near Tara at this point.
“Yes, she regained consciousness about fifteen minutes ago,” the doctor answered just to be interrupted again.
“Why didn’t you tell us!” Willow said jumping up and heading to the doors that the doctor entered from.
“I’m sorry, she hasn’t expressed an interest in seeing either of you,” the doctor said so Willow could hear, making the redhead stop in her tracks. “Though Beth, you are her family, so you can go see her at any time. She has been asking for a woman named Buffy. Is that a friend?” the doctor said, directing the question to the slayer.
“Can I go see her now?” Buffy asked neglecting to answer the question the doctor asked.
“Yes. Though she isn’t very friendly right now. She doesn’t like the idea of people around her especially nurses and doctors…” The doctor was going to continue but Willow interrupted.
“She doesn’t like doctors, or hospitals,” Willow said, knowing all too well of the past experiences Tara had in hospitals with her mother, and from the maltreatment she received from her father and brother.
“Well she will probably be somewhat out of it,” the doctor continued. “She fought us as soon as she woke up, so we had to use a mild sedative, but she’s fighting the effects, not wanting to sleep. Maybe if she is able to see you Beth she’ll calm down,” the doctor suggested.
“Yeah,” Buffy said somewhat in a daze, just wanting to see Tara and making sure she is okay. And then bring her home to be with the family.
“I’m coming too!” Willow said.
“Me too!” Dawn ran up to the two familiar women not caring where they were going, just knowing that she would see Tara.
“I’m sorry and you are?” The doctor said in a superior manner. “Only one person at a time can see Tara and who knows if she wants to see you all.”
“Willow, how about you explain what happened to Anya and Xander. Dawn, Willow is really hungry. Can you get her some coffee and maybe a muffin or something?” Buffy said using her slayer reasoning and intuition to control the situation.
Dawn sprinted off to the cafeteria, excited she was able to help.
“But Buffy I’m not hungry!” Willow said, not understanding what was happening.
“Willow, do you think it’s best for my little sister to hear every last detail of what happened to her much adored Tara?” Buffy said getting her point across to Willow. “I’ll go see Tara, try to get her to calm down. You explain everything to Anya and Xander and then I’ll come back and get you to see Tara.”
Buffy left before seeing the reaction from any of them, following the doctor down the hall.
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“She’s in room 545,” the doctor began, “We tried to persuade her into getting a rape kit done, but she wouldn’t let us anywhere near her. Just changing an IV will set her off.”
The doctor continued to go on complaining at how moody Tara was but all Buffy could think is how she let her down.
“Here she is,” the doctor said, leaving Buffy in front of a shadowy room with only a few lights on.
Buffy tried to prepare herself for what she might see when she entered the room but was unsuccessful. The first curtained area held no one. Buffy continued to the second to see Tara standing with her back to the corner in the darkness, unable to see her face, trying to prepare herself for whoever entered the room.
“Tara?” Buffy slowly approached the woman unable to believe it was the quiet blonde witch. She looked more like a scared, hurt animal, using whatever it had left to defend itself.
“Tara, it’s ok.” Buffy got within an arms length and Tara scrambled from the outstretched hand Buffy was offering.
“N-No… B-Buffy… I…” The little blonde sat on the floor in the corner shielding herself from the outside world.
“Sweetie. It’s ok.” Buffy walked towards her. Starting to notice the extent of her injuries. Tara was in a tight ball with her knees to her chin and arms wrapped around them with a small hospital gown that revealed most of Tara’s legs. Her head was ducked down with her forehead leaning against her knees. Tara’s legs had bruises and cuts all over them. ‘I could have prevented this,’ was all that was going through Buffy’s mind when she caught a glimpse of Tara’s bandage on her neck and across her collarbone.
Buffy leaned down touching Tara gently on her head, not even knowing if the blonde would allow that much. Tara trembled with the touch, but didn’t shy away from it this time.
“Come on let’s get you in bed. You should be sleeping,” Buffy said while placing her hand under her arm to help her up, and placing her hand on her back, causing the blonde to wince in pain.
“Tara?” Buffy asked removing her hand from her back, scared that all she was doing was making things worse.
Tara looked up at Buffy. Her face caused the slayer to wince in pain. Her cheek bones were adorned with bruises while one eye was partially swollen shut. Her eyes were blank of any emotion. “I-I’m ok,” she said with a strong voice, trying to hide what her appearance and body language showed.
“Lets get you to bed.” The slayer again approached the girl and began to help her up, this time not touching her back. Tara slowly made it to her bed and the slayer started to bring the covers up over the fragile woman.
“Tara!” came from the doorway. Buffy looked up to see her kid sister coming in.
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As soon as Dawn left, Anya and Xander turned to Willow hoping to hear what was wrong with Tara.
“You killed her didn’t you, in a jealous lesbian rage! Oh god! You …” Anya was going to continued but Xander harshly grabbed her arm.
“An!” Xander said trying to get his girlfriend not to rant like she usually did.
“She was attacked,” Willow said quietly. She didn’t want to go on about what was wrong with her, but she knew they would ask questions.
“Who??” Xander asked.
“Three vampires, make that two,” Willow said, remembering that she killed the vampire on top of her lover forcing her to… Willow was unable to complete the thought, feeling sick just with the idea that it happened.
“Is she ok?” Anya asked quietly, knowing that Tara wasn’t, with how Willow was acting.
“She was bitten. She lost a lot of blood, but they think she’s going to be ok. She has a concussion, stitches, and…” Willow didn’t know if she should be telling them, or if she even could get the words out, but she knew that she had to tell them.
“I’m only telling you this so you act… So you don’t talk about wild sex and orgasm buddies.” Willow turned angrily toward the ex-vengeance demon. “Tara… Tara was raped.” Willow broke down in tears. She said it, it had to be true. Her baby was raped, brutally raped.
“What?” Anya ask stumbling back to sit on a chair.
“What?” Xander asked furious. “What?” he said again. Unable to believe that such an innocent caring girl could have been forced to do that. “She’s… She’s… Who? The... vampires?” Xander couldn’t hold it in anymore. He picked up a chair and threw it against the walk causing half of it to fly across the room in pieces.
Anya jumped up surprised by the action. “Xander! You just cost us money!”
Willow stayed still looking at the floor wishing she could feel that anger. Wishing she had it in her to head out and kill the other two vampires.
A nurse walked up to Xander very angry. “I am warning you. If you have another outburst like that you will be removed!”
“I…I…” Xander tried to hold it in to get a sentence out.
The nurse walked away to the desk located near the waiting room, keeping an eye on the violent man.
“Xander, I don’t think she’ll want a lot of people to know. I don’t know if she even wants you to know. I’m just telling you so… so you just treat her like nothing is wrong, just be gentle with her,” Willow said with sad eyes.
No one spoke after that. They all went into their own areas of the waiting room, sitting alone quietly.
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“Dawn! You weren’t suppose to come in!” Buffy said getting mad at her sister trying to shoo her out.
“D-Dawn,” Tara said with all the warmth she could muster.
“Tara!” Dawn said again running past the pissed off slayer.
Dawn was overly excited to see Tara but when she finally saw her face close up the tears that ended at the Magic Box returned. The distraught Dawn grabbed at one of Tara’s hands finding that her knuckles were covered in gashes.
“Tara what happened?” Dawn asked the question that all the Scoobies most likely had on their minds.
“I’m o-ok,” Tara said quietly, caressing the teens face trying to comfort her.
“Your face!” Dawn said childishly.
“Oh it d-doesn’t hurt t-that bad,” Tara said trying to comfort the teen. Hoping that Buffy would soon come up with a reason for her to leave. She didn’t know how much longer her emotions would allow her to talk.
“Tell us who did this!” Dawn continued, unaware that the things she was saying were causing more pain to the blonde. “Buffy will get them, she’ll kill them!”
“D-Dawn… shhh…” was the only thing Tara could think of that would make the teen aware of what she was saying. Dawn immediately launched herself into Tara’s arms, holding onto her tight.
Buffy quietly observed how Tara was doing with the teen around her and the minute she saw her reaction to Dawn’s hug she knew she had to get the teen out of there.
“Dawn… I thought you were getting Will something to eat!” Buffy said.
“I did!” Dawn said annoyed that Buffy was trying to get rid of her.
“Willow!” Tara said jumping out of the bed. “I… I… I d-don’t want her to s-see me,” Tara stammered out.
“Tara you know she will die before letting that happen,” Buffy said, trying to convince the blonde to let the distraught redhead in.
“B-Buffy, I just w-want to go home,” The witch said, grabbing hold of the two tubes sticking from her arm and yanking them out.
“TARA!” Buffy ran to her side putting pressure on her arm, as a thin line of blood was leaking out of her arm.
“I-I hate it here,” Tara continued.
“Dawn get a doctor,” Buffy said turning her attention to her sister for two seconds.
Dawn ran out the door, hurrying to find help.
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OK really am going to be all "study for exam" girl now.
Hehehe enjoy the update
Sher
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So that means 1 out 5 will be out of the way! hehehe 
at: 5/12/02 1:58:02 pm