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Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 11/22/12)

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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 05/12/08)

Postby Katharyn » Thu May 15, 2008 9:40 pm

Hi Kat!

What counts is that you got here in the end!

Interesting use of the word 'mature' in your feedback... I think that's it exactly. They've matured together and like anyone who is around another person for a long time, you start to pick up on each other - influence each other. Thats my justification (together with a million words of strong-Tara Sidestep) for why I write them this way...

Then I panic 'it's not W/T.'

Except it is... This is just where they ended up.

Masturbating and having sex on a beach. It's not a bad thing to end up there is it? LOL

Thanks

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Hi! To you too. Similar point to what I said to Kat, you refer to evolution and that's it too... I'm just pleased that a reader - you! - can see it that way. That you wouldn't reject this vision of them because tara doesn't stutter. She isn't shy (at least not in these circumstances.)

I think even in the canon, that confidence and strength was always kind of there, just hidden. But in S5 you can see exactly how that all worked, the woman she was becoming. Maybe not a woman who's idea of sexy is getting herself off on the beach, but you know, that's artistic licence supported by the text.

And yes, I had to deal with the handcuffs... :)

Thanks so much for feeding back, both of you.

And as a treat, because you did, I've already started on another part of this (SS3 is kinda on a burner that is very, very far back) which will be called 'Fairy Tails'

And yes, I know about the spelling of 'tails.' And to be clear it's nohing to do with animals or people who may dress that way.... Look to another meaning of tail...

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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 05/12/08)

Postby SJ » Fri May 16, 2008 4:51 am

Great fic.
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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 05/12/08)

Postby Katharyn » Fri May 16, 2008 11:56 pm

Thanks SJ.

I seriously hope to be posting another chapter tomorrow. Another stand alone one. But if it doesn't come tomorrow it should be during next week.

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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 05/12/08)

Postby Lonewolf22 » Sun May 18, 2008 12:24 am

Katharyn: Great update, I really love it when Willow and Tara tease each other, its just so HOT and its also a lot fun to read. I also really love the way that Tara tells Willow how much she has changed because she met her, it was really heartwarming to read. I can't wait to read more.

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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 05/12/08)

Postby Katharyn » Sun May 18, 2008 1:52 am

Thanks, Lonewolf.

I'm just editing the next part as we speak so it shouldn't be a long wait.

I love them teasing each other too. You know, I've written a lot of sex for the girls. I admit it. But as a process (no matter how much the readers may like it!) that's a little dull and repetitive. The fun, for me, is finding out how we get there.

On the other hand, I have a big note in the word document that says 'MAYBE THEY JUST MAKE LOVE'

But even if I wanted to do that, I think I'd still end up finding some way to make it more than just that.

As if it wasn't enough...

Thanks again.

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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 05/12/08)

Postby Katharyn » Sun May 18, 2008 8:51 am

Title: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love – Fairy Tails
Author: Katharyn Rosser
Feedback: Constructive criticism is always welcome. Flames just demonstrate you have a tiny mind.
Spoiler Warning: Probably none, and why the hell do we need to worry about this years after the show went off the air? Suffice it to say nothing bad ever happened to our girls.
Distribution This story was written for Pens. Pens is its home. No archiving off Different Coloured Pens (This applies to all my W&T fic)
Summary: Babies are sat. Stories are told. A lesbian witch gets ravished. Just another quiet night at home.
Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the copyrights or anything else associated with BTVS. All rights lie with the production company, writers etc, etc. I am making zilch from this series of stories. You know the drill.
Rating: NC17 – Look at the title, can’t you guess what it might be filled with?
Couples: Tara and Willow forever. I doubt I’ll even mention anyone else.
Notes: See the start of the thread for the notes on this one. This marks the end of my current burst of inspiration, but there will be more when the next lot hits me and I have some time...
Thanks To: Just my special woman, who understands the meaning of ravishing.

Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love

Fairy Tails

By

Katharyn Rosser




“You don’t get it?” Willow asked.

“No. I don’t. This isn’t what cartoons are for,” Tara replied, tilting her head. “Who did you say gave you this?”

“Who do you think?”

“Nina,” Tara sighed. “Sometimes, I wonder if who’s the worst influence.”

“Hey! I never gave anyone a pornographic DVD,” Willow pointed out. “Not even you.”

“They classify this as porno?” Tara checked the back of the box.

“Well, yeah. Obviously,” Willow said. “I mean, look at that!”

“Well,” Tara hedged. “I kinda wondered. Being as it’s a cartoon and all.”

“I don’t think the medium has much to do with what it is. I know for certain that you wouldn’t show this to kids!”

Tara tilted her head again, trying to pick out the owners of the ever so pink limbs. And… other pink things. “This – is that even possible?”

“It’s a cartoon,” Willow said. “Anything’s possible. You should see – I mean, I heard about the straight – No. It’s… not straight. Not, exactly. It’s kinda… Well, the Japanese have interesting imaginations, lets just say that.”

“We don’t do so badly,” Tara said, not about to ask the obvious question. “Imagination-wise, I mean. But… we certainly don’t do as well as this.” She tipped her head the other way.

“Only on special occasions,” Willow said, stroking her hair.

“Will-oh?” a higher pitched voice said from the doorway.

“Of which this isn’t one,” Willow finished as Tara went over to the door, trying to interpose herself between the little girl who was stood there and the TV screen and all the… pinkness there.

She did her part, she tried to find the remote control and switch it off before little Lily could take in what was showing on her second favourite invention.

“You should be in bed, sweetie,” Tara said, glancing at her as she finally clicked it off. Tara checked the TV herself though, before letting Lily into the room.

“But I’m not tired,” the little girl objected.

“Your Mommy will be mad at us,” Tara said.

Lily pouted, “I’ll tell her it’s not your fault. Promise.”

“Thanks, honey,” Tara said, picking her up and turning her back around.

“What was on the TV?” Lily asked, straining to look at the now dark screen.

“Nothing,” Willow said quickly. Lily wasn’t any less fooled by how fast she’d said that than an adult would’ve been.

“Toons?” the girl whispered, as if it might be the secret that they’d necessarily turned it into.

“No, it was just an advert,” Tara said. “You know they don’t show cartoons at this time, not when little girls should be in bed.”

“I’m not little,” Lily said firmly, glaring at the TV as if it was going to reveal the lie to her.

“No,” Willow agreed. “You’re a whole big lot of trouble.”

Lily squealed. “Am not!”

“Are too,” Willow said, standing beside Tara and threatening to tickle… well, one of them.

“Am not!”

“Prove it,” Tara interrupted in her ‘reasonable’ tone. That one that worked with nearly everyone, her girlfriend included.

“How?” Lily asked.

“Go back to bed, lie down and go to sleep. Then we won’t have to tell your Mommy.”

“I didn’t do anything!” Lily said, stamping her foot in midair, just succeeding in kicking Tara.

“And that’s what we’ll tell her, that you were a good girl,” Willow said, trying to be as reasonable as Tara could sound.

“I’m always good,” Lily said. Tara looked at the squirming child. “Well, nearly,” Lily amended.

“Then you’ll go back to bed,” Tara said. It wasn’t a question.

“I want a story,” Lily said slyly.

Uhuh. That was what this was all about. Lily loved her stories and, though she’d had one already, Willow knew as well as Tara that they wouldn’t get her to stay in bed without one. Lily was too mentally active to relax when her mind was on something else, even something she hadn’t actually had and just wanted.

“We already read your book to you,” Willow said as Tara carried the girl back towards their spare room.

“Nother!” Lily demanded, not willing to hear an excuse that feeble.

“I could read it to you again,” Willow told her.

“No, nother one,” Lily said, this time in more of a pleading tone. She’d already learned how to be manipulative instead of just coming off like a brat. That – Willow was sure – she got from her mother.

She looked at Tara, hoping that her partner would take this one off her. Didn’t carrying the girl imply a level of taking responsibility? Tara was all about taking responsibility and…

Shaking her head.

“But I don’t have a story to read you,” Willow protested.

“So make one up,” Tara suggested, just as sly as Lily. One might almost have thought there was some collusion going on here.

Almost.

“Yeah, Will-oh, make one up,” Lily agreed as Tara settled her into bed where she just sat looking up at her expectantly.

Willow looked to Tara, finding no sympathy at all, then shook her head and made a silent vow to take this out of her lover’s hide. Or some part of her anyway.

“I’m not very good at this,” she said to Lily, settling on a chair beside the bed.

“It’ll be great,” Lily said. But that was probably more of an expectation than a comfort.

She didn’t do fantasy.

Scratch that.

She didn’t do stories. Fantasies… yeah, she’d been there. But that kind of fantasy wasn’t exactly what any parent who left their child with a babysitter was expecting to comprise story time.

Stories… She needed some help here but on the other hand… “You don’t have to stay, baby.”

“I wouldn’t miss this for the world,” Tara replied.

Lily looked just a little less lost in the giant bed when Tara climbed in beside her and they both waited there for her to tell the story. Great.

“So glad you’re having fun,” Willow said to the woman she loved. Then she turned to Lily, hoping for the help she needed. “What sort of story shall it be?”

“Fairy tale!” Lily said, as if that were the most obvious part of the whole thing.

Okay. Fairy Tale. What did a fairy tale have in it? Fairies? Nah, too obvious. Not very creative. “Like with a Princess?”

“A princess is good,” Tara confirmed, way too smugly.

What a bitch…

Tara was the creative one. The last time Willow had ever been congratulated on her creativity was – well, those weren’t the sort of things you admitted to a four year old. But the less intimate stuff before that, it’d probably been hacking into some sort of inappropriately defended database that’d seemed really important to get a floor plan out of at the time.

Something monster-fighter related anyway.

She was the science girl. That was her thing – science. Maths. Facts were good – facts were there. You could learn them and they didn’t go away. They didn’t change into magic rings, dragons or even vampires.

Her life had featured quite enough of the sort of thing that fairy tales were known for.

On the other hand… Could she cheat? Couldn’t she tell a story like that? Relay the facts and present them as fiction?

No… because she’d never come across a princess in all that time.

She glanced at Tara… Well, maybe she’d come close to it. Tara was the princess of her heart after all, and there’d been coming. Lots of coming. But she’d never met a real princess. At least not so far as she knew.

“Well, okay,” Willow said. If she was going to have to do this, she had to grasp the nettle and just get on with it. She had an expectant audience and any second now they were going to start chanting ‘We want the story. We want the story.’ “Okay – there – well, I guess there was this princess.”

“No!” Lily said. “That’s wrong.”

“Wrong?” She’d barely even started. Her problem wasn’t even with the princess. She had the princess there in her mind. What happened next was kind of a problem but she had the princess figured out.

Kinda blonde. Blue eyed. Might be a stereotype, but hey… Best she could manage with the material to hand, she thought glancing at Tara again.

“Wrong,” Lily confirmed.

“Once upon a time,” the Princess coughed from beside Lily.

Princess Know-it-all obviously.

“Oh. Right. Once upon a time…”

It wasn’t like Ira or Sheila had ever been really big on stories – let alone fairy tales. How was she supposed to know how this went? They were only the most famous words in literature.

“Once upon a time,” she started again, feeling that words actually empowered her. “There was a Princess.”

“What was she like?” Lily asked.

Willow paused, looked to Tara and then just let it go. “She was the most beautiful Princess in the whole world,” she said. “She had beautiful long hair, eyes that you wanted to get lost in and she cared for everyone.”

“I like her,” Lily said, snuggling up in Tara’s embrace.

“So do I,” Willow said as Tara grinned at her over the girl’s head. “So, there was this Princess and she was very lonely.”

“But you said everyone liked her?” Lily asked.

“They did,” Willow admitted, realising that Lily wasn’t going to let any little inconsistency go. “But it wasn’t her fault that she was lonely. She was trapped in a… a…”

“Castle?” Lily asked.

“That’s right. She was trapped in a castle, and even though everyone liked her, they didn’t know she was lonely. They hadn’t really seen her for a long time.”

“That’s sad.”

“It is,” Willow agreed. “But she couldn’t get out because her Daddy was keeping her inside, not letting her go out.”

“Why?”

“He was very afraid, because he loved her too – and he was afraid that if she went out then something bad would happen to her,” Willow explained.

“Like a wolf?” Lily checked.

Wolves obviously made sense as a bad thing for Princesses who got out of the castle. In fact a wolf could ruin just about anyone’s day.

“Like that, he was just afraid for her though.”

“That’s sad. Why didn’t he let her friends come to play with her?” Lily asked.

“He…” Willow paused, thinking about it. “He didn’t think that a Princess should be playing with the people she liked.”

“I don’t like him,” Lily decided with a finality that approached Willow’s own.

Willow smiled. He could have that effect. “So one day the Princess was in the castle, high in a tower with - ”

“Will-oh?” Lily asked.

“Yes, honey?”

“This isn’t going to be Rapunzel is it?” the girl checked. “Cos I heard that. And you did sasy she had long hair.”

“No,” Willow said. “Cos, you know… ouchies to climbing up hair.”

“Ouchies,” Lily agreed.

“Definitely ouchies,” Tara said.

“So, she – the Princess – was sat in a room high in the tower with the other ladies from the castle, and they weren’t being very nice to her at all,” Willow continued.

“Why?”

“Because all they cared about was being nice to the King, they didn’t care about her – and that made her so sad that she didn’t really like to talk to them at all. Even though they were there.”

“They’re not nice either,” Lily said.

“No, they’re not. But it’s okay… because today, unlike all the other days, someone new came into the tower,” Willow explained.

“Who? A Prince?”

“Well, it could’ve been a Prince – for anyone other Princess it might’ve been. But this was a very special princess, and this is a very special story - ” Willow said.

“How?”

“This is your story. So… Shall it be a Prince? Do you like boys?” she asked.

“No! Boys are ewwwie,” the girl said.

Willow grinned. “That’s right. That’s what the Princess thought too – boys are ewwwiee. So this wasn’t a Prince that came to see her. It was another girl, there in the tower for the first time.”

“What was she like?” Lily asked.

“Well, she wasn’t like the Princess,” Willow explained. “She was pretty – but she had shorter hair, and she was out all the time. Fighting monsters and sometimes helping to save the entire world.”

“All of it?” Lily asked.

“That’s right. All of it. Every last bit,” Willow confirmed.

“So what happened?”

“Well, if you’d pipe down, then maybe I could tell you,” Willow said.

Lily pantomimed a zipper being pulled across her lips, but none of them had any expectation of that lasting any length of time.

“That’s better. Well, the girl who came in that day. She saw the Princess, who was soooo sad that she was hiding her face behind her long hair. Kinda like that,” she said as Tara demonstrated.

Lily giggled.

“Well, she saw her there and she knew the Princess was sad, but she didn’t know why,” Willow said. “Not then anyway.”

“Why didn’t she ask?” Lily blurted.

The girl squealed as Tara tickled her. “Because some people know when to stop asking questions!”

“She couldn’t ask,” Willow explained. “Everyone else was there. They’d all have laughed at the Princess.”

“So what did she do?”

“She smiled,” Willow said. “They both smiled at each other.”

Looking to Tara, who of course knew this story, they shared that moment again.

“And did they live happily ever after?” Lily asked.

“Not yet,” Willow revealed. “I mean, there’s not much of a story there is there?”

Lily shook her head firmly.

Not that she could get into what’d really happened. Psychopathic floating men with surgically fixed grins weren’t really bedtime story fodder at this age.

“Well,” Willow said. “The thing was that the girl was secretly a witch.” Lily’s face dropped in disappointment, which was interesting. “No,” Willow said before she lost her. “She’s a good witch. And because she was into saving the world – she knew how to get into the castle without anyone knowing too.”

“No hair ouchies,” Lily said.

“No…” Willow said. “The girl remembered the Princesses smile from that day on. It was all that she could think about, even when everything else was happening like saving the world. So one night she went back to the castle, after everyone had gone to sleep.”

“Were there guards?” Lily asked, yawning.

“Oh yes,” Willow said. “Lots. But they never saw her. She was able to make herself invisible. And because they were on the look out for ewwiee-Princes they didn’t even worry about what a good witch might do. So she snuck inside and to the bottom of the tower the Princess lived in.”

Willow glanced at Lily, perhaps her story was boring, but she was sure that the girl was getting close to falling asleep. Was that success, or failure?

“Then she used her magic to climb up the outside of the tower…” Willow said, letting the words trail off as she checked Lily again. There was still a reaction there, but much muted by tiredness.

“And when she reached the window, she looked inside,” Willow explained. “And saw the Princess, lying in bed… Just like you are now.”

She reached over and stroked Lily’s forehead, pushing her hair back gently and then helping Tara extricate herself from the now sleeping girl.

They slipped from the room and pulled the door closed behind them – off the latch so Lily could open it easily if she needed to.

Before Willow could do much else though, she found Tara kissing her tenderly on the lips. “What was that for? Not that I’m, like, objecting or anything.”

“For being you,” Tara said. “And for telling our story.”

“Starting to,” Willow said. “I actually discovered some creativity when the girl went up the tower though. So maybe it wasn’t quite our story.”

“This girl,” Tara said, heading into their bedroom with just the barest hint of provocative sass in her gait, “wouldn’t happen to be a red-head would she?”

“She could very well be,” Willow admitted as she followed Tara. “And the Princess bears more than a passing resemblance to a certain woman who’s sat in front of a mirror right now.”

There Tara was, looking back at her in that mirror. “Thought so. But this girl, saving the world all the time, climbing towers and all that. She sounds kinda…”

“Yes?” Willow asked, pulling her tee over her head.

“She sounds kinda… sporty, tomboyish perhaps.”

“Well, maybe compared to the Princess,” Willow agreed. “Perhaps. She definitely has her hair all short – or tied back. Practical like. Not necessarily big with the butch though.” Finding a band on the dresser, she did just that, leaning over to check in the mirror that she hadn’t missed any strands.

“Hmm,” Tara said. “I’ve always said that’s a good look on you.”

“Have you?” Willow asked. “I seem to remember that you actually took a liking to my hair fanned out all over you.”

“Can’t I like you in more ways than one?” Tara asked.

“You’ve always done much more than just like me,” Willow teased, stroking her fingers over the back of Tara’s neck.

“So I have,” Tara agreed. “But come on… I want to hear the rest of the story.”

“Oh, that. It’s a good job Lily fell asleep,” Willow said. “I’m not sure that the rest was suitable for such tender young ears.”

“Ohhh,” Tara said. “It’s like that is it?” She didn’t exactly sound surprised.

“It is… it really is,” Willow said. “Perhaps you could help me out with the visualisation, just to get my creative… juices flowing?”

“Always happy to help.”

“You are very obliging, to be sure,” Willow teased.

“Just tell me what you need.”

“Well,” she said, thinking back to the image that had been in her head. “Our heroine climbs the tower, comes to the window and looks inside to see the Princess lying in bed.”

“I’m guessing it’s a warm night?” Tara said.

“You wouldn’t be wrong, baby,” she agreed. “The Princess is in her night dress, lying on the bed and virtually uncovered so the light breeze can cool her.”

Tara smiled. “Give me a moment for that?” She picked her nightdress from under the pillow and went into the bathroom with it.

“Don’t be long,” Willow whispered, mostly to herself.

Ordinarily, of course, Tara wouldn’t have even vanished like that but this was all a part of the story wasn’t it. If their heroine had witnessed the delights of Tara’s body – the Princess’ body – while she got undressed, would she have waited at all to see whether she was under or over the covers?

Oh… hell no.

Tara’s reappearance, leaving her clothes behind, was just as slinky as the satin she was wearing. Oh no, the shy awkward girl who’d never have thought she could be ‘sexy’ was long since gone. This Tara just knew she was, at least to the woman she loved.

Unfortunately the approximation of the Scarlett pose that Tara adopted on the bed, just made her laugh. “Come on,” she said, recovering. “If you want to hear this – you need to play properly.”

“Sorry,” Tara said, collecting herself and adopting a less dramatic posture. “The Princess was asleep?”

“She was when our heroine arrived…” Willow corrected, thinking that perhaps a wide-awake Princess could be more fun. It was just an inkling she had about where that fun was likely to lie.

She went over towards the window, looking over at Tara stretching on the bed. There was something vaguely kittenish about her, even now. Eyes fluttering open, looking over at her.

“Does our heroine always plan raids on virgin Princess’ in her bra?” Tara asked suddenly.

“I guess,” Willow said. “Think of it as more leather. Or possibly chain-maily.”

Tara nodded, then frowned. “But what would be the point of that? I mean – chain mail. Just over your boobs?”

“Well, she wouldn’t want her boobs getting cut, would she?” Willow asked.

“True, but I was thinking more about why she didn’t get armour anywhere else?” Tara clarified for her.

“Could be worse,” Willow pointed out. “If I’d taken off my jeans we’d be pretending it was a mail string…”

“Ouch,” Tara said. “Now that’s gotta chafe. More than the bra already must. What’s worse than a g-string up your crack? A chain mail g-string up your crack.”

“Oh, don’t,” Willow replied, not really wanting to get into it. “All these fantasy artists… definitely men.”

“Gee, do you think?”

Willow wasn’t averse to admitting that it could look pretty good though. But she really didn’t need a giant sword she could barely lift. Not for what she had in mind. There were no dragons to slay. Just a Princess in her bed…

“Look… anyway… Our heroine comes to the Princess’ window, steps inside. The Princess feels the change in temperature as the windows open wider… wakes up and…”

Tara smiled. In fact she smiled the sort of smile that suggested the Princess wasn’t the virginal shut-in that everyone had her made out to be. “Oh… hello.”

“This isn’t the way it’s supposed to go,” Willow said.

The nightdress started to creep upwards as Tara gathered it in her fingers, exposing the smooth, pale skin of her legs.

“Here to save me?” Tara asked.

“Tara… this is my story.”

Rolling on to her side, breasts lolling deliciously in the satin, somehow Tara managed to make her forget her arguments before they were fully formed.

“Perhaps you should call me Princess, for now…” The nightdress continued to creep upwards, to the point it was oh so very clear what Tara – the Princess – had in mind.

“Are you always this welcoming to strange women who come through your window?” Willow asked, suddenly feeling the urge to be just as heroic as her character had been about to be.

“No… Just to the ones who make me smile.”

She walked across the room, over towards the bed. “And how can I help you, Your Highness?”

“You can make me smile again?”

Willow giggled at just how absurd, and yet compelling, this was turning out to be. But this kind of compulsion would never be strange, this was just how Tara made her feel. “I’d be happy to try, Princess. Any ideas?”

“A few.” The nightdress finally went high enough that there was really no point to wearing it at all. The Princess no longer had any modesty to preserve.

“And how many of them involve me showing you appropriate devotion and fealty?” Willow asked.

“You can fealty me all you like,” Tara teased.

“Oh, come on!” Willow said. “Play or don’t.”

“I don’t know what fealty is,” Tara explained, shrugging.

“Even if that was true, you could’ve guessed. You just wanted to make a joke out of it,” Willow accused. It wasn’t like they’d done this before. They’d always, always been themselves and now they were… another version of themselves. Why would they want to be anyone else?

“I’m sorry…” Tara said.

Willow finally stepped up to the edge of the bed. “Undress me, Princess.”

Tara grinned, obviously pleased to be back into it. She reached up and worked on the buckle of her belt, then the button and zipper of the jeans, pushing them open and a little downwards.

“No chainmail,” Tara commented, running her fingers around the cotton that had revealed.

“I didn’t think I’d need the protection,” Willow replied.

“Oh, you’re right,” Tara agreed. “You’re definitely safe with me.”

Willow pushed her lover’s shoulder. “I’m not so sure you’re safe with me though,” she said as Tara fell onto her back on the bed, looking up at her.

She struggled for a minute with her jeans, then got them down around her ankles where she could shove at them with her feet until they came off. “You know, I can see the obvious advantage of just wearing chainmail bikini,” Willow said as she finally kicked them away.

“There’s no advantage,” Tara said and took her hand, pulling her onto the bed.

“Shame it’s not a four poster,” Willow said, looking at the bed the same bed they’d been in the first time they’d…

“Just use your imagination,” Tara breathed as Willow took up the position atop of her.

Reaching back, Willow unfastened her bra and let it fall onto Tara’s still satin covered belly. “Oh, I am. I am. I’m all imagination girl.”

Tara’s hands slid up her belly, towards her now revealed breasts, but Willow pushed them away. “No, Princess. I’m not here for that.”

Tara grinned. “Sure about that are you?” She tried again, and Willow pushed her hands away a second time.

“Well, okay, I’m not here for that yet.”

“So what are you here for?” Tara asked.

“I understood that there was a lonely, beautiful woman here in desperate need of a ravishing.”

“Really?” Tara asked. “Where is she?”

“Between my legs,” Willow said, stroking Tara’s hair back.

“Well, I’m not lonely,” Tara said and pushed a hand between Willow’s legs, rubbing her through the not-chain-mail panties. See, that would have to chafe in those fantasy scenarios. How could that ever feel so good when it was links of metal and not…

“Ohhh. But you are beautiful,” Willow said, moving gently against the probing hand. “Very beautiful.”

“One out of two ain’t bad,” Tara assured her.

“Not at all, but I guess it all comes down to whether you need a ravishing or not?” she asked, but the way Tara was making her feel – the way this whole thing was making her feel – she wouldn’t have been averse to a bit of ravishing herself. But who ever heard of the heroine being ravished by the Princess? It just wasn’t done in fairy tale circles.

But in fairy tails where the tail was this hot…

“I’m easy,” Tara said.

“Oh, I know that, but it wasn’t what I asked!”

Tara slapped her thigh, laughing. “You think I’m easy?!”

“I think you’d spread for any red-haired heroine who came through your window – with or without chainmail lingerie – and happened to be named Willow the Magnificent.”

“Hmm,” Tara said, still rubbing her so very intimately. “You might well be right, you know. I can see me getting with any woman who met those criteria.”

“Told you… Easy.”

Tara made a play of sighing and spread both her arms and legs wider. “You’re so right. I just need to be ravished. Do it at once.”

Willow grinned and moved back down the bed, all the better to appreciate the widespread Tara that was revealed to her – night dress pressed up above her breasts by now. “Lose the dress,” Willow said, pushing at what remained of her own underwear to get rid of it.

Tara did as she was told and then lay there once again, spread and obviously in some need. “We’ll have to be quiet,” she said.

“You want to be ravished quietly?” Willow asked. She knew why, Lily was just down the hall. But… “How does that work?”

“Kinda like a normal ravishing,” Tara replied. “Just don’t surprise me.”

“So… Your everyday, run of the mill, sexy as fuck ravishing then?”

“Sounds about right.”

“Okay,” Willow replied, lowering her lips to Tara’s torso, kissing her way along the lowest of her lover’s ribs and then moving lower still to the smooth stomach and belly.

“I didn’t know this was how hero’s ravished,” Tara whispered as Willow found her way to the fulcrum of those parted legs.

Willow raised her head. “I think the key to a good ravishing,” she said and then punctuated it with a very pertinent kiss, “is taking exactly what you want from whatever Princess you have spread before you.”

“And you want…. Ohhh… that.”

Tara responded well to the oral attention that Willow started to lavish on her. No shock there, Willow was sure this was quite the most responsive Princess there had ever been. She gradually increased the tension and contact that she was making with her lover’s most sensitive places, building the sensual pressure for both of them.

She wasn’t a stranger who’d just come through the window for a quick ravish. She was an experienced lover who knew all her woman’s most intimate secrets. All the touches, caresses and yes, ravishing that would get this Princess going.

Working inwards from the swollen lips, through the fine down and to the wet evidence of pre-existing desire, she pushed her tongue towards, over and into those places. Touched, licked and yes, tongue-fucked her lover so the wetness grew. So the moans, sighs and words of encouragement became rawer and even more filled with desire.

Desperate even.

Tara’s hipped bucked against her face and Willow held her down, not wanting either of them to lose control enough turn this into a magical interlude. She pressed her hand flat against her lover’s belly, pushing downwards while she licked in tightening circles around the heart of her girl’s pleasure.

The other arm she had snaked around one of Tara’s thighs – keeping her spread wide even when reflex clearly wanted to tighten around her face and hold her there.

It wasn’t like she’d intended to go anywhere… Not until she had Tara on the brink of orgasm.

Not until she could deny her in the very best of causes.

Willow lifted her head – smiled up at Tara, letting her know with a look what the fate of that orgasm actually was.

Denial.

Tara moaned, disappointed, but she had to know it wasn’t the end by any means. Willow resisted all the efforts to bring her tongue, lips or hands – anything – to Tara’s sex and force a conclusion. She had sympathy – only a few nights ago Tara had done just the same to her – and now she was determined to return the favour.

Because when completion did, eventually, come it would be all the more intense. All the sweeter. Really worthy of being called a ravishing.

“Finish me,” Tara demanded, her hips fluttering and demanding.

“No,” Willow said.

“Why?” Tara asked in a strangled groan.

“Because, now you’re ready for me, it’s time for you to really be ravished,” Willow said.

Tara’s eyes snapped open. “That – that wasn’t a ravishing?” Still she was trying to push her needy sex into Willow’s face.

“No,” Willow said. “That was just what happens when a Princess looks as beautiful as you and the heroine can’t help herself. This is a ravishing.”

She moved higher up the bed, and Tara’s body of course. Her lips blazed the trail. Her hanging breasts did their part and her hands brought up the rear… At least until she was able to position herself over Tara’s thigh – which raised to give her what she wanted, pushing against her sex.

For a few seconds she enjoyed that sensation, the warm pressure against her damp flesh as she pushed backwards and forwards, finding the rhythm that matched her current need, one that Tara met with her, hands lifting to her breasts.

“Yes, love,” Tara murmured as Willow’s hand went between her legs, the intention so very clear and often proved in the past. “Ravish me.”

Willow didn’t need any invitation, though she did choose to start slowly. Stroking, rubbing gently to coat her fingers in Tara’s need before she did what they both wanted. She slipped her fingers into her lover, two of them, and started to move firmly inside the Princess she’d come here to possess and love.

Tara’s moans started to build once again, still some way off a crescendo, but definitely some way along the road to orgasm. The timing was good, the disappointment of a few minutes earlier had been replaced by an appreciation of the overall effect. A build of need and desire.

Willow moved her whole body against Tara as she took her, fucked her. Between her thighs, Tara’s slipped up and down against her pussy, giving her welcome – necessary – stimulation. That pleasure was what drove the speed and force of her movements in and out of her lover’s sex.

Moving her hips in waves, thrusting against Tara’s leg, she pushed her breasts against Tara’s hands. She thrust her fingers into her lover’s pussy. Withdrew them. Held them inside and then taunted by threatening to withdraw totally.

All of it was bound up in her pleasure, and in using that to determine just what Tara could have.

And when.

“Fuck me,” Tara moaned as her orgasm was obviously approaching.

Willow buried her head between Tara’s shoulder and neck, biting gently at every thrust and provoking still deeper sounds of pleasure from the woman she loved. Ravishing her was just the latest way to prove it.

She knew as Tara’s passion built that they weren’t going to come together – this position wasn’t doing much more than warming her, it was Tara’s pleasure and response that was really setting her off – and she allowed her woman’s needs to take over. She followed all the signs she knew so well.

The heat. The moans. The movements and the facial expressions. The look in the eyes and the whimpers. The words of love and those that were cruder, more needy. The instructions – whether verbal or animal – which demanded that this time, ravishing would have to result in a crashing, physical expression of their devotion to each other.

Willow’s fingers worked their magic, stroking inside. The sensitive places, while her thumb found Tara’s clit and…

Tara’s orgasm hit them both hard. Made both of them moan and strangle cries that they wouldn’t want their houseguest to hear. Tara’s fingers tightened on her breast while the other hand clutched her butt, pulling her to the convulsing body a desire to be ever closer.

Determined to ride it, to extract every drop of pleasure from the woman she loved, Willow kept up the pressure. Leading Tara from the tip of every wave over to the next… and even when sensation started to fall away, she tried to make sure that it wouldn’t. But Tara stopped her from carrying her straight back up to the summit again.

Their eyes fixed together and Willow’s movements in her lover’s pussy stilled… The muscles that had been clasping her inside, relaxed, stirred again and then finally released…

She knew what Tara wanted. She was the one who’d determined what ravishing was. It was taking what you wanted. What you needed. And what your lover so very much wanted to give you...

“Sit on my face,” Tara breathed.

She didn’t need to be told twice. Oh yes, she needed to come too. She needed what Tara needed to give her. And now both of them would take that too.

Willow slipped her fingers from Tara’s sex, leaving wet trails up her lover’s sweating body as she went… And then she started to move up once more. Until she rested over Tara’s face – clasping the headboard as she felt the warm breath against her wet sex.

Tara’s hands fixed around her thighs, pulling her downwards. Willow fought it, wanting it to be slower than that. She paused at what was evidently the very tip of Tara’s tongue, feeling it flicker through her lips and – maddeningly – it looked like Tara was willing to let her stay there indefinitely.

So it was she that was the one to push herself down on her lovers face and urge that seeking tongue to move inside her pussy. To give her what she needed.

And by the time she was arching her back, supported by Tara’s hands and the headboard, ready to come, Willow wasn’t sure who was ravishing whom anymore.
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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 05/18/08)

Postby Zampsa1975 » Sun May 18, 2008 10:35 am

Excellent update-y goodness... :party Willow really tells a nice story ;-)
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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 05/18/08)

Postby SJ » Mon May 19, 2008 4:20 am

Great update!
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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 05/18/08)

Postby Zooeys_Bridge » Mon May 19, 2008 8:22 am

ack! how did I miss the other update? so sorry about that.

but my mind is too befuddled to think of anything but this delightful fairy tale.

I really like how different this one felt in the realm of your other shorts. The way you write conveys so much, from what you write to how you write it. Is it as effortless as it seems?

I love Lily. And how she's there, but not their child. Not that I don't imagine seeing Willow and Tara as having a family, but no fic has ever really made it a seamless flow, so the surrogate babysitting suits the situation perfectly.
Will-oh?” a higher pitched voice said from the doorway.
oh god, how I loved will-oh. little things like that really make a story.

The bantering with Lily was adorable, and in that both her and Tara managed to finangle a story from poor creative-stunted Willow. But I just about melted when Willow, in the process of her storymaking, started naming Tara as Princess. It was just...guh. And the fairy tale was subtle enough for me not to catch on at first, thanks. I hate when things are so blaringly obvious, kinda ruins the fun.

And if i hadn't already melted, I would have solidified to melt all over again here:
“You can make me smile again?”
god, what a great line. it's their entire relationship in any fic, any AU, any canon, any anything in a line. that's it, that's all it takes. they're good for each other, simple as that. you make it so simple, how do you do that?

and the ravishing was definately hot. but i'm too caught up in the whole thing to really verbalilze it.

thank you so much for the beauty of your words again :)
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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 05/18/08)

Postby Paint the Sky » Mon May 19, 2008 11:50 am

Kathryn, that was as lovely as ever. There is such an incredible warmth that you give these women (and yes, they are women, with all the familiarness and tenderness of knowing each other implicity) that it just rolls off the screen and envelops the reader in a way that we almost share their love. Hah, there's no almost about it, your writing pulls us right in and makes us apart of it.

Your 'tail' was incredibly sweet and sexy. I just loved the idea of Tara trying to make sense of a hentai dvd. She should just be thankful there were no tentacles!

And as for the ravishing, I can't even find words to do it justice, Tara's spicy talk just makes me melt in all the right places.

I really hope your creative spurt continues for a while yet.
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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 05/18/08)

Postby Katharyn » Mon May 19, 2008 11:54 am

SJ - Thanks!

Zooey - Oh, I love it when people gush!

Is it effortless? No, but it is easy.

Compared to an ongoing fic where I have to a) know where I am going and b) write all the story in between the cool scenes this is fun and flows pretty easily. All that is needed is an idea I like, then I get to just have fun with it right away.

I suppose Lily was me playing with the 'Faith' character from Sidestep Sequel which was a lot of fun for me to write, but without setting it in that AU. And I know what you mean about kids... Somehow there is this cliche in any fiction that is vaguely lesbian that brings babies/kids into it... (And a cliche needn't be a bad thing) The same holds true for T/W and ultimately in Sidestep I decided against it after having the characters debate it. Partly for the reason you say, it's never quite seamless. There's inevitably more going on.

Not sure why I went with 'Will-Oh' but somehow it appealed to me :)

The fairy tale was subtle though? Cool if it was... I thought it was sort of obvious, but then it was in my head!

And you're dead right they are just good for each other. End of. I think if you write about them for as long(winded) as I have, then those things do come through. This fic is much more dialogue driven than internal monologue (a la Sidestep) and as such those are the things that just... work.

But after all that, I'm delighted the ravishing works for you too!

Thanks again for gushing :)

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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 05/18/08)

Postby Darklighter » Fri May 23, 2008 9:33 pm

Now I wonder why I missed that update.
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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 02/21/09)

Postby Katharyn » Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:13 am

Title: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love – Back to Normal
Author: Katharyn Rosser
Feedback: Constructive criticism is always welcome. Flames just demonstrate you have a tiny mind.
Spoiler Warning: Probably none, and why the hell do we need to worry about this years after the show went off the air? Suffice it to say nothing bad ever happened to our girls.
Distribution This story was written for Pens. Pens is its home. No archiving off Different Coloured Pens (This applies to all my W&T fic)
Summary: Willow and Tara. A hotel room. After a family gathering…
Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the copyrights or anything else associated with BTVS. All rights lie with the production company, writers etc, etc. I am making zilch from this series of stories. You know the drill.
Rating: NC17 – Look at the thread title, can’t you guess what it might be filled with?
Couples: Tara and Willow forever. I doubt I’ll even much mention anyone else.
Notes: Eeep. I didn’t realise till I dug out the thread how long it had been since I posted any T/W fic here. So I ran this off in a couple of days while turning my mind to other matters… This isn’t a continuation of the LGTWIL story from before, just another randomly sexy moment in the lives of the girls. Also, I’m probably repeating myself a little… but hey, I wanted to write it. How much you enjoy it isn’t my responsibility ☺ No beta reader, so this is me, a redraft of me and a spell checker.
Thanks To: Just my special woman who pointed out the need to anoint hotel rooms.


Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love

Back to Normal

By

Katharyn Rosser




“What’s wrong, baby?” Willow asked as she noticed her lover’s face.

“Really,” Tara said, sitting down heavily on the edge of the bed. “I don’t get it. I just don’t. It can’t be true.”

Willow thought back to the rest of the evening in the hotel ballroom, wondering just where the whatever-it-was had gone wrong for Tara. She didn’t actually remember a point where you could say the ‘happy Tara’/‘less than happy Tara’ switch had been thrown. They’d been dancing, celebrating, eating and drinking most of the night. Only now…

“I’m coming up empty here,” Willow said, sitting up and running her hand down her lover’s back. Circling gently at the small of it.

Tara looked back. “You were right there,” she said.

“I was?”

“Yes,” Tara confirmed. “You were. Right there with me. You didn’t even say anything!”

“Did you?” Willow asked tentatively. She didn’t want to be the unobservant one. Usually she was Miss Observation. People noticed that all the time. She was frequently observed being observant. Comments were made about her powers of observation. Almost no one thought it was a negative. And now she’d missed something that meant something to Tara?

“I was too shocked!”

She’d missed something shocking?

“Uhuh,” she said, not committing herself right away. Fortunately Tara was looking the other way, slipping her shoes off.

“I just never expected it,” Tara said. “It’s…”

“Shocking,” Willow supplied, being as the word was already in play. She was on safe ground with that one, despite having no clue what was going on.

“It is. It really is. It’s the biggest thing since…” Tara shrugged, at a loss for words.

“Tutankhamen?” Willow tried, wincing even as she said it. No, that hadn’t been the right choice of word. But for some reason the boy prince of Egypt was stuck in her mind. Discovery had something else to answer for.

“Umm…Not what I was going to say,” Tara said, glancing back at her sceptically. “But yeah, it’s pretty damned big.”

“With a capital ‘B’” Willow said, much happier about that description. This was going better. At least they were in agreement now. Even though she had as yet no idea what Tara was talking about.

The wedding had gone well. Actually, considering how nervous they’d both been about the whole thing, she thought it’d all gone pretty marvellously. For her part it’d been the first time she’d met Tara’s more extended family. And apparently they didn’t like Donny either, since he hadn’t actually been invited to the function.

Big loss there then.

Making a decision between Tara and Donny. It would seem to be an easy decision for anyone.

But the idea of being on display, at Tara’s cousin’s wedding, had seemed like a big deal until she’d met the family. While she got on alright with Tara’s father - forever Mister Maclay despite him asking her to call him Ray - it wasn’t like they’d ever had a particularly ‘warm’ relationship. Just tolerable enough to get through holidays in the same house.

She could tell, even now he was still struggling with the witchcraft thing. Bad enough that Tara had inherited her mother’s gift. But then hooking up with a witchy gal of her own?

It certainly wasn’t the gay thing that bothered him though; she was pretty sure of that from the fact that Tara’s wider family was… Well, it wasn’t what you’d call exclusively hetero. Statistically it was probably way above the curve. But then, she supposed, if you put two hundred people – nearly all of whom were blood relations or their partners – in a room then you might discover the same thing about a lot of families.

No, Tara had always made it very clear that Mr Maclay wasn’t bothered in the slightest about his lesbian daughter. It was the witch thing he wasn’t comfortable with.

And she still got the vague impression that being a Californian wasn’t doing her any favours either.

Some people’s priorities were just twisted.

But this wasn’t what was getting to Tara now. “I can take your mind off it,” Willow offered, slipping her hand under Tara’s top to caress her lower back directly.

Tara twisted, looked at her, waving a shoe in her face. “You don’t know what I’m talking about do you?”

“No,” Willow squeaked.

“And you’re offering me what? Kisses?” Tara asked. “To make me forget?”

“I was thinking about sexual favours,” Willow said. Then she realised that telling Tara she was wrong wasn’t a good idea at this precise moment. “But you know there’d be kissage all the same. Lots of it. Its not like we ever skimp on kissage.”

The tip of the shoe hit the end of her nose.

Wrong answer.

“If I didn’t love you so much,” Tara said. “You might be in trouble right now.”

“But you love me,” Willow said. “So I’m good. Right?”

“You’re never anything but good,” Tara told her. “But sometimes, like right now, you’re no more than good.”

“I can be better,” Willow said desperately. “I’m… overwhelmed.” Ooh, good choice of word. That really worked for her case, she could tell.

“Overwhelmed?” Tara repeated.

“Overwhelmed. I thought some of the Jewish weddings were big but… I think you introduced me to everyone in that room. And you knew them all, by name. Even when you hadn’t seen them for years and years. You knew the name of some partners you’d never met! I can’t remember a tenth of them!”

“Okay,” Tara said. “I can see that might be overwhelming… But it’s not really an excuse.”

Willow could tell her lover was being evasive about something now. Tara sucked at deception. It was a charmingly endearing deficiency in her character. “You… you cheated, didn’t you?!”

“Just a little.”

“A little, like how much?”

“I just dipped, when I had to. Just to remind myself of some of the names,” Tara said.

“Tara Maclay!” Willow exclaimed. “Now I am shocked. I’m shocked and… this is the biggest thing ever. I’m overwhelmed too. You… You dipped into their minds for their names?”

Tara rolled her eyes as Willow tried to turn the situation back on her. Okay, so she was genuinely surprised. It crossed a self-imposed line that Tara maintained and asked her to do the same with. After what’d happened in the past… when they’d realised just what the magic could do, how it threatened to hurt them as well as others. They’d held back further than they needed to… It wasn’t like this was reading minds or stealing secrets. Your identity was held in the very public part of your mind. Anyone with talent could latch onto it. It was part of how theatrical mind readers – at least the ones with talent – performed their shows.

A few years ago she and Tara had taken great delight in going to such a show and ‘shielding’ the minds of the audience from intrusion, watching the entire spectacle fall apart.

But it was definitely something Tara frowned on. So she said so. “You frown on that.”

“I know,” Tara said.

“Frown,” Willow repeated, pulled her lips into one to make the point.

“What do I need to do to make you forget?” Tara asked. “Sexual favours?”

“I was thinking kisses,” Willow countered with a grin. “And lose the shoe.”

“Gone,” Tara promised, dropping it to the floor of the hotel room with a clatter. It was a little awkward for her to turn any further, but Willow had what she needed. For now.

She pulled Tara’s face around and placed her lips against Tara’s. Enjoying the familiar scent, the soft lips and – after a few moments – the taste of her lovers kiss. She moved closer to Tara but her hand wandered downward, rather than continuing up, into the belt cinched top of Tara’s skirt.

“You can lose that top too,” Willow half-growled between kisses.

Obligingly Tara went to work on it, lifting the top up over her head. But when it covered her face, bare belly and bra revealed, Willow stopped her. Keeping her in the dark a moment. Caught up in the fabric. She took the opportunity to move her hand and trailed it down the front of her lover rather than the back. Watched as curves rippled with almost feline pleasure at the caress.

“That’s my girl,” Willow said. Call her unobservant would she? Tell her she’d missed the biggest thing ever?

No. This delicate, beautiful woman stuck with a top over her head was the biggest thing ever. The most important thing in the world. How could either of them doubt it? She repeated the movement of her finger tips, heard Tara sigh as she swept around the hollow of her belly button and this time went lower…

More press and less caress as her finger tips pushed into the skirt from the front, found the elastic and cotton beneath. Then danced over the warm fabric.

And what lay beneath.

Tara rippled. Tara sighed. Tara was getting what she wanted. Or at least nearly… “Let me out,” Tara said, protesting at the other hand which held the constricting material in place over her face.

Willow considered keeping her lover blindfolded, it’d paid dividends in the past but thought better of it. There was no part of Tara she wanted hidden and inaccessible from her. She loved every part of Tara Maclay, but there were aspects of her that Willow appreciated more than others…

Her beautiful, perfect face. That long hair, whatever shade of brown or blonde it was this week. The delicate eyebrows. The eyes themselves, all seeing and all knowing. And the lips… Oh, the lips.

And yes, there were extra-attractive parts of Tara that weren’t hidden under that top, but she wanted all of them. The whole package.

Okay, so what she had in mind wasn’t exactly going to ‘punish’ Tara for dipping for people’s names but it’d make her think about it. At least until the next occasion they made love, this time would be a big part of both their thinking. It might even remain there on a pedestal in her mind for… Oh, maybe twenty-four whole hours.

It wouldn’t take much longer than that for them to supplant these moments. But they’d always be there. A particularly rich part of the tapestry of their lives.

She released the top and before Tara could finish taking it off Willow was already urgently pulling her woman around to her, onto the bed proper.

Tara was eager and willing, never anything but. They drove each other wild with the anticipation and indecision of what their next tryst might be like. Would one of them take the lead? The decisions? And regardless of that, would it be more passionate than sweet? Or more languorous than urgent?

Willow had taken on the mantle of deciding these things right now, Tara wasn’t getting a say in them. But – as in all things – one of them fed the other’s desires through far more than words or actions. Body language, the look in her eye, the way that Tara’s knee was slightly raised and her legs a little parted. Long familiarity told her exactly what these things meant and though the decisions were hers, the desires that drove them belonged to both.

With Tara laid on the bed before her, part dressed but all delicious, Willow knew just what she wanted to do. Resting on her haunches beside her lover, she reached over and pushed at the bra, lifting it from Tara’s breasts and leaving it awkwardly about them. Uncomfortable clearly, the spell was broken for only a few seconds as Tara worked her abs to rise far enough to reach back and unsnap it.

Gone now.

Willow’s next target was the beautiful skirt that she’d picked out in one of her rare moments of fashion sense. Of course it was always easier shopping for Tara than for herself. Tara made most things look good. Perhaps by virtue of being Tara though… Still, this was definitely a success. The thin fabric showed off her figure beautifully while not overemphasising or verging on risqué. Accentuated was probably the best word for it.

And it was lovely to the touch, just like Tara. All night she’d been dropping her hand to her lovers butt and – though she’d never admit it – some of the time that’d more been about running her fingers over the fabric, warmed by Tara’s body, than about them.

And she’d done it to be possessive.

Right now, she was very possessive… Her hand ran up Tara’s ankle, her shin and to her raised knee. Teased the skirt upwards until the smooth fabric obeyed gravity and with a lack of significant friction carried on tumbling up Tara’s raised thigh.

Willow moved a little, as did Tara. Mmmmm, that was what she was looking for. With the skirt trapped under Tara’s other leg, she was able to caress both fabric and thigh as she pushed it upwards on the other side too.

As the skirt rose, so Tara’s legs opened a little further. Her need obvious in so many ways.

Willow moved onto her side, bringing her face down over Tara’s panties. Nuzzling against the cotton, feeling the spring of the hair beneath pushing back at her. Tara’s reaction – and her own wishes – told her she might be here a while. She moved again, finding a comfortable way to get between her lovers legs.

“Get naked,” Tara said, or rather demanded, as her hands were already at work. One squeezing Tara’s naked breast, the other circling between her belly button and her panties.

“Later,” Willow said. She was right where she wanted to be and the dress was already rumpled. Not like she needed to wear it again for a while anyway. There was nothing Tara needed from her yet that wasn’t already as exposed as it had to be.

She nuzzled Tara’s underwear – and her sex - again. This time from between her legs which provoked more of a reaction. Her tongue dabbed, stabbed even against the barrier of the cotton. “Take them off,” Tara made a second demand.

Willow smiled, or she would have if she hadn’t been pressing at her woman’s gusset with her tongue at the time. Ignoring the way the cotton felt against it, but delighting in the reactions it got from Tara, she unerringly zeroed in on the spot that was going to cause Tara to…

“Oh, fuck,” Tara moaned.

A few more instances of pressure against that spot and they were both ready. Tara to be exposed, loved and pleasured. She to be the one doing those things. She hooked her fingers into the panties, pulled them down. Leaving them in the middle of Tara’s thighs. She wasn’t about to back off to get them completely out of the way.

Of course that constricted just how far Tara could part her legs, and as Willow licked at her again, a fast swipe through the swelling lips, Tara’s muscles strained against the cotton and elastic – as if trying to shred them.

Willow didn’t care… She had what she wanted, and what Tara wanted. Right on the tip of her tongue. It explored its way through Tara’s folds and to the delicate hood that concealed her lover’s clit. Knowing Tara well, she stayed away from direct contact for now, circling the spot, building pleasure that way. Then withdrawing and lavishing attention on the lips instead, the neat triangle, but always returning to sweep around the centre of desire. Closer and closer still.

“Oh, just lick me!” Tara demanded. This was the third time and it was built from real need.

Willow could feel the intensity in the voice. And in Tara’s muscles as one hand gripped her head, the thighs tightening occasionally around her face. She could feel it in the air itself. What had once been an anonymous hotel room was their place, for as long as they chose to occupy it.

But when her lover asked so nicely, Willow just had to give her what she wanted. Her tongue lapped for the first time – tonight – at the sensitive bundle of nerves that currently ruled Tara’s body right now – though never her heart.

At the first touch Tara’s hips rose against her face. Her thighs tried to spread and lift, but the trapped underwear frustrated her. Tara pushed at them, uncharacteristically angry. Willow obliged her, moving sideways over Tara’s thigh so that she could keep her tongue and lips where they were required to be and clear the troublesome fabric at the same time. She pushed a little, down below the knee until Tara could kick and use her feet.

She couldn’t actually tell whether Tara sighed at that moment because she was rid of the panties or because of what her tongue was doing at that precise time. Either way, it was positive reinforcement Willow no longer needed but always adored. The sights, sounds, smells, tastes and touch of Tara’s pleasure was more than an aphrodisiac for her. It was practically an addiction. She wouldn’t trade anything else in the world for these treasured moments – even when they were so common.

Well, anything but Tara-reciprocation which was – almost – as good. Not through any lack of skill on Tara’s part… After all… OH. MY. GOD. But… she was a giver. It was an endearing trait. At least Tara thought so.

Willow wasn’t about to stop and check now.

She took the opportunity here to move her lips around and kiss Tara’s hip. The raised flesh further in. Then she responded to the frustration of a woman who needed, more than anything else in the world, to come.

Wrapping her lips around the swollen clit, Willow tugged gently and allowed the tender flesh to slip from between them. Tara cried out at each point. Suck. Pull. Release. Once more. Tara was close now. Willow went back between her legs, pushing her hair back and inhaling deeply, savouring all her senses as she settled in for the final moments.

Tara’s orgasm ripped rather than washed through her. As if the tension of ages was being released in one heated, wet moment. Or a string of them as Tara’s inner muscles clenched in and the heat ripped outwards, drowning her in satiation until she thrust her butt back down into the bed and made only the tiniest movements while Willow still licked at her. Easing her down, stroking her thighs and legs. Her belly. Flicking her hair at her lover’s belly.

Willow rested there, laying her cheek on the warm skin. Breathing in time with her lover. She cuddled up against Tara though, her lover’s fingers in her hair. Stroking slowly, also in time with the breathing.

“I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of that,” Tara said eventually, minutes later.

Willow smiled. Tara didn’t need to hear her say so. Not anymore.

“Guess that makes me some kind of insatiable,” Tara continued.

“Uhuh.”

“Guess it makes you… what?”

“Accommodating,” Willow suggested, kissing the nearest Tara flesh she could.

“And I thought I’d been the one to welcome you,” Tara said, stroking her ears gently enough she had to flick her head to clear the maddening tickle.

“With open legs, baby.”

“You coming up here?” Tara asked.

“Nah, I like it down here.”

“Oh, I know that,” Tara said. “But I’m up here.”

“There is that,” Willow admitted. Though being here had its attractions, she twirled her fingertip through the fine hairs just before her nose.

“Agreeing, kinda means you’re supposed to be up here now,” Tara told her. “Come on, sweetie. I want to cuddle up and…”

“And?”

“All that good stuff,” Tara said with a laugh.

“I’m… content,” Willow decided. She started to pull at the covers; they were lying on them, but with a little effort... She managed to cover not much at all. A foot and half a leg.

“Never mind content,” Tara said. “When this wears off, we’ll be cold. Get up here.”

“And you usually want me to go down,” Willow replied, kissing again.

Tara was the one who was twirling this time, wrapping a finger in her hair. “I never have to ask though. You just… know.”

“I do… I really do.” Ten years of as much love, sex and general wonderfulness as she could have stood. She knew how fortunate she was as well. Some people never found even as much contentment as she knew now, resting here. Let alone all the rest of it.

“Come up here,” Tara repeated.

“What’s in it for me?” Willow asked. She wasn’t even looking up in the direction of her lover’s face. All she could see was a triangle of fur, a little of the pouting pair of lips and smooth legs that she’d often enjoyed being wrapped around her.

“You know that too,” Tara assured her.

Yes. She did know. With one last kiss, she moved up Tara and her lover moved over to make more room. The combination also gave Willow the opportunity to pull over the covers too, something to snuggle under as the cool air from the AC began to chill them from the heat of the last little while.

“Oh,” Willow said, kissing Tara on another set of lips. “I remember this. Hi, you.”

“Hi, yourself,” Tara replied. “You know, there was an unspoken subtext to my request.”

“Oh?” She’d missed something else now?

“Well, I kinda hoped you’d get undressed first,” Tara explained.

“Oh. That.” Willow started to move, pushing her way out of her clothes as Tara, finally, lost the skirt at the same time. Which left them just how they wanted to be.

“Much, much better. I don’t know why we ever bother to pack nightwear when we come away,” Tara said.

“In case of fire alarms,” Willow said. She’d been caught out that way before. It was true though, they could rarely stay anywhere outside their own place without ending up just like this. Naked – at least almost as she still had her panties on – and wrapped up in and around each other. Perhaps it was something about a new bed? A new place? Crisp sheets?

Perhaps it was something primeval. Something the first cavewomen had done when she found a new place to shack up with the girlfriend? Perhaps you just had to… anoint a new place? Was that the word she meant? It’d do.

Willow pushed Tara’s hair back, and kept stroking her cheek as she kissed her very gently. Resting together, nose by nose. Forehead to forehead, except when kissage became a necessity again.

“Do you want - ” Tara started to ask. But Willow interrupted her with another kiss. Not a kiss of passion. A kiss of silence. No need to ask that question. If she wanted, Tara would know about it. Tara would do something about it. It wasn’t like the girl – woman – needed permission. And she certainly didn’t need any encouraging.

“I just got here,” Willow said when their tongues parted and their lips separated wetly.

Tara’s spreading smile revealed what she thought of that answer. Analytically Willow could see it. ‘Just’ implied that ‘later’ was a definite possibility. They were way past keeping score. Gratitude wasn’t something that factored into their lovemaking either.

Right now, like this, she was perfectly contented.

This was being.

Being together. Being complete. Being in love. Being loved. Being certain that your desires were reciprocated in every way. Being positive that if Tara wanted… Tara would.

Being.

All at once Tara did want though. Tara did. Except not what she was expecting. Willow’s lover rolled them both. Willow ended up on her back with Tara sort of beside and sort of atop her. Half on, half off. Tara’s head was beside hers. But her arm and leg were stretched across her. Holding and encircling her. Meanwhile the hand…

Tara was evidently trying to make ‘just’ into ‘later’ by way of ‘now.’ Her lover’s fingers played around her panties. From the elastic to the interesting places thus concealed. It wasn’t those fingers that caused her to writhe though. No, she had to adjust herself to better fit with Tara and the way they were lying now. To be held like this, touched simply because Tara enjoyed it… It was almost possessive.

And Willow loved it.

Tara did possess her. She was owned, body, heart and soul. And there was no outstanding mortgage.

On childish nights, had she ever dreamed of this? Understood what a moment, a feeling like this meant? Never… She’d been ‘in love’ before Tara. And even then – as special as that had been at the time – she still hadn’t understood. Before Tara… It’d been like being with her best friend. Taking friendship to another level.

But with Tara... Oh. It was the full triple whammy. She’d lost her heart to Tara, but gained one in return. Their souls were combined in so many ways. And their bodies… well, there were moments like these where they came together. Lots and lots of moments of coming together…

“I’m not going to - ” She kissed those oh-so-appealing lips right then just because she had to. “Not going to weaken.”

Tara giggled and Willow joined her, caught up in it. They both knew the reality. She was entirely in Tara’s hands now. Literally and figuratively. Tara could build her desire to the point that what was on offer would become the only way to go. It wouldn’t take much, especially since she was still high on the pleasures of getting her woman off so deliciously.

Whether she’d choose to do so was another matter. It wasn’t like Tara was actually caressing her in just the right way yet. Instead her fingertips were wandering over Willow’s entire pubis. Some of it was blatantly sexual. Some of it no more than possessively endearing. Some was just… ‘lets be in touch.’

Lie here together. Fall into sleep and see what the morning brought.

Or allow Tara to lull her into orgasmic bliss.

Both of those had their attractions.

Of course there was a third option. She could… reach down, stroke upwards along the thigh that enclosed her. All the way up… around the curve of the butt. Behind… Inwards… and there… Willow ran her fingertip along Tara’s folds and felt the shudder rip through the woman who was wrapped around her.

Tara looked at her. Challenging her perhaps as Tara’s fingers made a sexually charged counter-swipe over Willow’s panties and what lay within.

What to do, what to do?

“Wait,” she breathed as Tara’s fingers started another circuit.

And Tara did. She moved her hand to Willow’s hip instead, which allowed her to reciprocate. It was like the arms race. MAO. Mutually assured orgasm. An escalating cycle of pleasures that wouldn’t end – but would certainly rock – their worlds.

Right now they had the race under control. Moving to DEFCON 3. A holding pattern. There were talks that needed to happen in… Well, right here.

“Hmmm?” Tara asked her, licking her nose. Just because she could most likely.

“You said… You said it was the biggest thing ever, baby,” Willow reminded her.

“I…”

Tara looked embarrassed, so Willow kissed her. Because that was the kind of girl she was. Woman. Woman. Damn. After thirty, she was a woman. Or so she’d firmly been told, but not by the one who was in her arms.

“Go on.”

“I may have exaggerated,” Tara said.

“A little or a whole hullabalooza?” Willow asked.

Tara thought about that one, tracing a fingertip down from Willow’s chin to one nipple. Playing with her breast in idle contemplation. And, from Willow’s point of view, whatever helped her think was a good, good thing.

“Ah… more than a little, less than a lot.”

“Okay. We all do it,” Willow said. “No biggie.” She reached down for the fingertip that was impatiently pushing her nipple like an elevator button. She tugged at it and linked their fingers instead. “So… what about?”

“I didn’t say?”

“Um, no. We… well, we did the sex thing and I loved you and you loved it and then we’re thinking about where to go from there and since I kinda know that the best thing – for me – is if we just be I thought I’d ask but we can, you know, totally go there if you want to and discuss this later cos I could stand a little more Tara lovin’ if you want to and I’m running off at the babble mouth thing again now and if you can please shut me up then I’d really, really - ”

The long, lingering kiss silenced her, even though at first she started to try and talk through it.

“Thanks, baby,” Willow said as they came up for air. It wasn’t that she had so much to say sometimes, it was more that she just couldn’t stop saying it.

“My pleasure, I promise you. So, anyway, the big thing…”

“Tell me, I’m all ears.”

“Hardly,” Tara said, latching onto something that definitely wasn’t an ear.

Willow laughed, pushing errant hairs back from Tara’s face – including one persistent strand of grey that refused all attempts to be removed and – mysteriously – never succumbed to dye that was more about how Tara wanted to be than the grey at all. “Come on.”

“My aunt.”

Okay. As explanations went, that was minimalist. Also, not very precise. “Which?”

“Guess.”

“Not the - ”

Tara nodded.

The first person Tara had introduced her to and she’d never met before tonight. Her mother’s youngest sister. Only about five years older than Tara though, but Willow only knew that because it’d been part of the introduction. To be honest, they looked like sisters.

You know, where one sister was femmy, long haired, in a lovely skirt and was everything she ever wanted in a woman and the other sister – or aunt in this case – looked like a professional swimmer, was muscled accordingly and cut most of her hair off. It’d left her kind of butch looking and the clothes hadn’t changed that perception.

“What about her?”

“She’s straight.”

“Uhuh. Because, that was her husband,” Willow pointed out. “Right there beside her. We met him too. Right?”

“Yes. But she’s straight.”

“Generally speaking,” Willow said. “That’s the way it works when a woman marries a man and she already understands who she is. I mean, I know there was that whole Anya thing but – no, we’re not going there again. She’s the exception that proves the rule.”

“She’s not supposed to be straight,” Tara said.

“Uhuh… I mean, uhuh?”

They’d been married for almost as long as she and Tara had known each other. So why would Tara be shocked now…?

“I never believed in him,” Tara admitted.

“He seemed like a nice guy, I mean from what I saw,” Willow said. Not quite getting it.

“I know, but she’s not supposed to like guys.”

“Looks to me likes she did. You could tell. The handholding, the kissage. The wedding band. Kinda how you tell most of the time.”

“I know – that was the shock.”

“So you thought she was…” Willow thought she got it. “One of us?”

“I was sure of it. I mean. Ping!”

“Ping?”

“Gaydar, sweetie,” Tara said. “I know it’s a sore topic for you, but some people have one.”

“There’s no need to get personal,” Willow said. So her Gaydar officially sucked. She had a piece of paper from their friends which said so. There was probably no one in the world with a more officially sucking Gaydar.

But Tara had been wrong? She smiled, unable to help herself.

“Just because she likes sports, cuts her hair and is so buff she could’ve run around in tank tops and called herself Faith, doesn’t make her gay,” Willow said. “That’s very stereotypical of you. I’m disappointed.” She sniffed and turned her head aside before cracking up and burying her face in Tara’s neck.

“I know that,” Tara said. “Believe it or not. But… Ping. You know? Ping.”

“I don’t see it,” Willow said. “I don’t see the ping.”

“You don’t see the ping for Ellen either,” Tara said.

“Okay,” Willow said. “So what I know and what I feel are different things, but it looks like that’s true for you too.” Somehow, this pleased her. Not that Tara’s aunt was straight. So long as the woman was happy, she really didn’t care. But Tara being wrong, about something like this? That just went to show that no one was infallible.

She’d long ago learned that when you had a girlfriend so perfect, you had to love her for her fallibilities. For the imperfections. Because the rest of the package that was her woman Tara was just so flawless.

Tara sought the next kiss and she was waiting for it. Wanting it. Wanting a little reassurance. Maybe this had been a bigger shock than Willow had allowed for. Did it really mean something?

“What’s wrong with it, baby?” Willow asked. “Why so glum? Someone has to breed. She’s where the grandchildren will come from. Someone to carry on the – well, your Mom’s family name but – not everyone can be gay, sweetie. Some people are just born… straight. They can’t help it. They love someone who’s got different bits than them and they fit together in a different way.”

Tara looked at her, making her crack up again. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” Willow said, recovering. “I just don’t see the problem.”

“She… she was my first crush.”

“You crushed on your aunt?” Willow checked. “That aunt?”

“It’s not creepy!” Tara said.

“I never said it was. No, nothing passed my lips.”

“She’s only five years older than me and not like my aunt at all. Actually, when Grandma remarried – she’d only really half an aunt anyway. A step-aunt I suppose… But goddess, she was so cool. She was everything I wasn’t. Popular but not with the ‘popular’ people, athletic. She used to beat guys up who bullied her friends. I mean, seriously. She put more than one guy in the hospital.”

“I bet she wasn’t as smart as you,” Willow said, not wanting Tara to run herself down by implication.

“Valedictorian everywhere she ever studied,” Tara told her with a smile, understanding what mattered to her.

“Okay, well… I doubt she could be as loving then.”

“Thank you, baby,” Tara said, kissing her. “But I don’t need to feel better about myself. I’m fine.”

“So… you crushed on her?”

“Big time. I was fourteen, fifteen… She’d visit from college. I’d hear all these stories and… You know, I think I decided I had to go to college then. Even with the… Well, you know how daddy was.”

Oh yeah, Ray Maclay and the whole demon thing. But Tara being raised that way, ‘knowing’ what she was, and then choosing to go to UC Sunnydale was… That was major.

And it’d brought them together, even though nothing could’ve stopped that in the end.

“And you thought she was gay?”

“I ‘knew’ she was,” Tara insisted. “I mean… it never even entered my head that she could be… you know, a straight.”

“Don’t say it like it’s a bad thing,” Willow told her.

“Oh,” Tara replied. “I know. Some of our best friends are straight – lots of relatives too. I love them all. But… her. I just…” She shook her head. “Willow, do you remember who you first fantasised about?”

“Zach Morris from Saved by the Bell,” Willow murmured. Tara looked at her. “Did I say that out loud?”

Tara nodded.

“I liked Jessie too,” Willow said, eager to re-establish her lesbian street cred. Okay. She’d been one of those straights back then. She’d had a crush of her own and yes, they’d involved boys. But something about Jessie had touched her.

Or at least she’d wanted something of Jessie’s to touch her, though she hadn’t quite understood it at the time.

“We were talking about me?” Tara pointed out; the one time Willow could level an accusation of selfishness against her. Though she’d long since put her torch for Zach – or any boy – away, she still had an appreciation for all things Berkley. The woman was getting hotter with age too.

Just like Tara.

“She was my first fantasy,” Tara re-emphasised. “I’m kinda weirded out that she’s… Well, that she’s not what I thought she was. That when she stayed silent about who she was seeing, it wasn’t because she was afraid of what people would say about her being gay. That it was just some stupid thing about not having to bring him home.”

“I can’t believe you’re lying here, naked, with me and talking about who you fantasise about. Not after I just went down on you,” Willow said, not at all serious about it. Over the years their attentions had turned to stranger topics after – or during – sex.

“Fantasised. Past tense. And you were talking about some pretty boy!”

“I mentioned Jessie too,” Willow argued. “Jessie was tall and kinda athletic and I never understood why I noticed her so much but maybe it’s just the kinda thing that I like and…”

Tara looked at her. “I have no idea how you ended up with me then,” she said.

“I settled,” Willow said. “I settled for the first girl who came along and stole my heart.”

“Ooooh! Settled did you?”

“I am settled,” Willow promised her, twisting the meaning of the deliberately chosen word. Deliberately chosen for tease value. “But I get it baby, better than you know. There was a time when I thought me and Xander would do the whole marriage thing.”

Tara smiled. They both knew how well Xander and marriage had gone. Then she continued. “I didn’t just realise I could really get away, go to college. But I realised I could go there and be who I was. She never mentioned the word lesbian but for me she was such a role model… Now I find out she was seeing a guy the whole time?”

“I’d still like to thank her,” Willow said. “I mean, if she put you there in that room with the wanna-blessed-bes. But is there anything you’d like to do to her?”

“Noooo,” Tara said. “I’m done talking about the whole thing. I mean now that I think about it – being in a love with a woman of my very own – I can see it was kinda… well, ew. But back then…”

“You sure you’re not from the South?” Willow murmured, kissing the tip of Tara’s nose.

“Don’t you go there, I will not be teased about this! Not unless you want me to tell everyone about you and Zach. And by everyone, I mean all our friends who wouldn’t admit to a romantic thought about anyone who didn’t have boobs.”

“Okay, okay,” Willow said. “Chill, baby. I understand. I do. But… I may have to ask you to prove your dedication. Since we’ve been talking about another woman and she’s obviously gotten you all hot and bothered.”

“Fifteen years ago.”

“All the same…”

“What do you want?” Tara asked, a sly grin on her face. After all, this wasn’t anything they both hadn’t wanted to get to. But then Willow could throw a curveball. She could be spontaneous and unexpected.

“Breakfast in bed for a week,” she said.

“Pardon?”

“Breakfast in bed for a week,” Willow repeated.

“But – now. Naked. Boobies. Rubbing. Licking. All the good stuff.”

“You’ll get to that, but I want breakfast in bed. For a week,” Willow struggled not to break out laughing as she – very deliberately rolled over away from the woman she loved and faced the other way. “I’ll have eggs tomorrow. Over sassy of course. Get up and hang the order form on the door will you? Night!”

She lay, turned on her side and cuddling the sheet. Wondering just how long it would take Tara…

“Okay, baby,” Tara said eventually, after a few minutes of lying still and considering her options.

“Okay?” Willow asked. That wasn’t the reaction she’d been looking for. Or expected. What did that mean?

“I’ll sort it out,” Tara promised. “G’night.”

Willow felt her girl roll the other way, so they were back to back in the bed. And that was something they’d never, ever done.

“But - ”

“Night.”

“But - ”

“Night.”

“Get over here,” Willow said.

“You sure?”

“Tara,” she growled. “Just hold me.”

“If you insist, lover.” Tara came to her then, enfolding her pressing up against her, body to body a delicate kiss to the back of her neck.

Ah, things were back to normal.
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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 02/21/09)

Postby Zampsa1975 » Sat Feb 21, 2009 6:53 am

Yay for great story...
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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 02/21/09)

Postby SJ » Sat Feb 21, 2009 7:26 am

Great writing.
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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 02/21/09)

Postby Katharyn » Sat Feb 21, 2009 7:27 am

Thanks SJ, Zampsa. Nice to be back :)

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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 02/21/09)

Postby Sassette » Sat Feb 21, 2009 10:54 am

Just found this - because I haven't been here in awhile. I'm leaving feedback after just reading the first one because I'm afraid I won't have enough time to read all of these >and< leave feedback before I have to dash out of the house today.

This time it wasn’t just a kiss that said, ‘Good morning.’ No. This was ‘Good morning, I love you, I want to be with you and now I am with you, I’m never letting you go.’

Tara’s kisses were always very vocal in their silent way.


This was completely perfect. One of the things that's so compelling about Tara is how she can say so much when she's not talking: the way she looks at Willow, the way she seems incapable of holding Willow's hand without doing that adorable thumb-rubbing thing ... and now, we see, when she kisses Willow ...

And seeing this thread is just a little like Christmas ... or Willow's 30th birthday (which reminds me of my 30th birthday ... I didn't do anything nearly this fun :P ). Have I ever mentioned that 'Sidestep' is the specific example I use on the rare occasion I try to explain to people that fanfic can be completely awesome? If I haven't, it's been a gross oversight on my part because 'Sidestep' is, in fact, the example that I use on the rare occasion that I try to explain to people that fanfic can be completely awesome (I try not to explain the fanfic thing to too many people ... makes me feel like a huge dork :) ).

So, I love this, love your writing, and will now go back to reading as much as I can before real life intrudes.

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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 02/21/09)

Postby amazon » Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:01 am

They way you write Willow and Tara is amazing. They have their own communication and know each other so completely in and out. I even got tears in my eyes 'cause it's so frickin' perfect! I truly admire your writing skills :clap
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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 02/21/09)

Postby Zooeys_Bridge » Sat Feb 21, 2009 1:44 pm

Welcome back Katharyn! It's so good to see you again.

I missed the way you create such an immediate presence. It only takes a few words to get at the Willow and Tara in this particular story. Their voices, their mannerisms, the way they touch, it all feels so right.

With Tara laid on the bed before her, part dressed but all delicious..
There were a lot of lines that really stuck out and went BOOM! This little "part dressed but all delicious" was one of them. Brought me back into myself from the story, and I chuckled at the smartness of it.

The way Willow questions. The way you explained it. It was like a bunch of pieces left over from eight different puzzles coming into place. Kind of the "of course!" knock on the head, when past events suddenly make sense. Thank you for making me see that it's the cute little questions in a very Willow-y way that help her figure things out while Tara talks.

Also, love the ol' at-a-wedding-but-it-isnt-their-wedding one-two.

Her tongue lapped for the first time – tonight – at the sensitive bundle of nerves that currently ruled Tara’s body right now – though never her heart.
awww

Tara was evidently trying to make ‘just’ into ‘later’ by way of ‘now.’
ha! loved it.

lastly, I'll second the quote Sass used
This time it wasn’t just a kiss that said, ‘Good morning.’ No. This was ‘Good morning, I love you, I want to be with you and now I am with you, I’m never letting you go.’

Tara’s kisses were always very vocal in their silent way.
Exactly. Perfect. Everything she said better.


I must run and cut this short. But I enjoyed this so truly. Thank you.
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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New 01/21/08)

Postby Nue » Sat Feb 21, 2009 4:43 pm

Katharyn wrote:Tara’s kisses were always very vocal in their silent way. Not all that silent though, there was always the sound of moist lips meeting.



I just love this line...



and DEAR LORD! I´m taking a cold shower RIGHT NOW! so amazing...thanks a lot!
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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 02/21/09)

Postby Sassette » Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:58 pm

Y’know, Katharyn, there’s just something about your writing that lends itself to detailed commentary. Not too detailed, though. I’m a blusher.

I’m a big-time blusher. I’m such a big-time blusher, I usually avoid, or skim over, NC-17 stuff. But your stuff has always been so >readable< … compellingly, can’t-put-it-down readable … I blush my way through it because I can’t >not< do so. Does that make sense?

Anyway, as an overall comment, your Willow and Tara are so confident and comfortable with each other, it’s blush-worthy but never, ever cringe-inducing. I just skimmed over the other comments, but I caught that you were worried about them not being “in character” enough … but you have nothing to worry about. They’ve always had a playful relationship. On the show, in non-NC-17 fics, that’s generally a verbal playfulness, but you’ve established that they’ve been together a long time now, and it makes sense that this is the sex they’re having when they’re 30. Despite just skimming all the other comments, I know the ‘hotness’ factor has been addressed … so I will say I found it so readable and compelling because it was also very playful, very loving, and very W/T.

So, specifics! I’m stopping at part 6 because I have done nothing but read today, and am starting to feel like a slacker. Dishes, sadly, don’t do themselves.

PART2
Could you get shinier and newer than making love for their first, breathless, time on the floor in the laundry room? And after monsters had chased them in there too? No, that was pretty damn shiny.


Heh. Because they so totally did. They. So. Totally. Did.

I found it interesting that in the first two parts, the PoV was not the one being made love to, but the one doing (awkward to phrase that … and I will take a moment to say that they can say “fuck” as much as they want to, but you write them so connected that they’re “making love” … and you save the whole thing from a slight cheesiness factor by not calling it that :) ). Anyway, I can’t help but wonder if that was a conscious choice. More of that on Part 4 comments.

PART3
She sighed again and started to explain. “I was thinking of jiggling, then you started to jig and that was all Irish, of course especially with your heritage. Leprechauns are Irish and then I was right there with the Lucky Charms.”


Pure, perfect Willow train-of-thought. This is probably why I enjoy your writing so much: I always recognize your W/T. You write W/T the way I understand them to be (which is a largely subjective point-of-view, I admit, and possibly egotistical, but there you have it). Even in a totally AU setting, your W/T are like visiting old friends. Except for the NC-17 parts. I don’t have any friends who do that stuff in front of me. Which, really, is good. Most of my friends are guys.

PART4
“I think I’m stuck to you…”

“Well,” Tara said, testing the hypothesis with a squirm of her own, “You’re on top, lover. So you better get us unstuck.”


Hilarious. And so grounded in reality, that it makes the rest of it grounded in reality. It’s just, I don’t know … well thought out. I’ve always appreciated how, as a reader, I can tell that you’ve thought about the situations you’ve put W/T in, and that you think about possible consequences, and you don’t shy away from dealing with those consequences. Fruit-play = shower/bathtime. Of course. Not that you’re necessarily thinking about all of this consciously, but if you’re not, you have a really fantastic intuitive sense of where your characters are in the moment you’re writing, and what their priorities would be. Covered in sticky fruit-juice is just SO not the time for snuggles.

I also found it interesting that this was Tara’s PoV, in contrast to the earlier two parts. I think this wouldn’t have worked from Willow’s PoV. I like how you’ve established that they not only know their boundaries, because they’ve been together such a long time, but they know each other well enough to know which boundaries are, well, not “pushable” because they’re not pushy with each other, but let’s say “nudge-able”. Anyway, with Tara’s boundaries being nudged (low-flying grapes? Oh. My. God.), showing this scene from Tara’s PoV was perfect – partly because I imagine Willow’s inner-monologue during this had to be her arguing with herself, with part of her wondering “What the HECK am I doing?” and the other part responding “Shut up. This is hot. Keep going.” That’s not even mentioning the part that I imagine was actually doing the math and trying to calculate how much force would need to be applied to propel a grape across the room.

They both stopped, looked down at the cat that claimed them and who looked back up at them in turn. It was like Miss Kitty had seen it all before. She paid attention to the naked hotness they had for each other, but only for about two seconds. Then walked away in search of something more interesting to do.

Like nap.


You’re killing me. You’re absolutely killing me. In a good way. And the bit where they have to stagger back to close the door so they don’t set off the fire alarm? Inspired.

Part 5

Was she really worried about whether their friends knew that she and Tara had some healthy sex lives? Very healthy? Pro-biotic, granary, A1 cardio workout healthy?


Riiiiiiight. Because that’s a health-based decision. “Gee, honey … you need to do me for at least ten more minutes, so I’m getting the proper cardio.” *batting eyelashes and faux innocent look* “You’re not going to make me take up jogging, are you?”

So was that what the ribbon was about? Since it was Lisa’s idea? Was Tara expecting her to be dirty? No… Make that dirrrrty. Was she disappointing Tara with her lack of dirrrtiness? Was today a… let down for Tara?

No.


I just love Willow so much when she’s having completely irrational worries. But the immediate rejection of the worry is what makes this so beautiful and telling. She’s Willow, so she has the occasional stray mental freak-out … her brain does mean things to her sometimes … but that immediate rejection of the thought is perfect for an older, more confident Willow who’s seriously living her happy-ever-after.

No quotes for the rest of the comments. Lisa and Nina are hilarious and tragic. The eventual bathroom shenanigans were set up beautifully. When Willow resumed her earlier – rejected - worry in the face of mounting evidence, I didn’t know if you were setting up something that would usually be a little out of character (because, really … public bathroom? Hard to pull off believably. Sure, they’re always hot for each other, but there’s a shyness factor there), or a “wackiness ensues” misunderstanding. It’s awesome that you did both.

This whole update seems like a reflection on the love vs. sex question, and how, or even if, these things can be separated in terms of W/T. And you’ve established that, no matter how conventionally “dirrrrty” what they’re doing is, for them, at this point in their relationship, everything physical they do is an expression of their love: there’s just too much love there for it not to be.

Lisa wishes she had their sex life, indeed. I’m betting Lisa never got busy with a woman she’d just met, in a laundry room, while unable to speak, with demonic surgeons at the door. W/T have nothing to worry about.

Part 6 (Pumpkins? Really?? That’s quite the upgrade from a grape … :) )

All I can say about this is to reiterate what I’ve said so far, and to laugh helplessly – almost to the point of self-injury – at the American Gladiators thing. Oh. My. Heck. I’m very glad I finished my soda before I started this one.

And the keys. Good golly. What a perfect ending.
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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 02/21/09)

Postby madwriter » Sat Feb 21, 2009 9:28 pm

I love how you've written Willow and Tara. It's so easy to imagine them there having those conversations, your grasp of their characters is notably good.

Great job! Funny and sexy at the same time. :sigh Keep it going!
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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 02/21/09)

Postby Katharyn » Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:01 am

Feedback is what it is… it’s nice just that people are reading it. Even more so that it’s you, Sass.

Somehow – and I suppose it is familiarity – Willow’s perspective always just flows for me. Tara – being less quirky – is harder to latch onto and demonstrate, but Willow… it’s not effort that gets a line like that written. It’s just who she is to me.

See also: Pure dumb luck.

For the record I didn’t do anything this fun on my 30th either… And as I said in the thread already. The author explicitly denies many of the things they are doing. But not all.

Sidestep… LOL. You didn’t mention it, but that story is a bright light and a total bane of my existence. It is a monster with several heads. Huge, sprawling yet somehow pulling me back in. I am really very pleased – from a story point of view – with the original Sidestep. I am totally delighted – from a writing point of view – with Sidestep 2, though the story isn’t up to the original and never could be. As for 3… it’s twisting in my brain… *sigh*

More from you in a moment, so I will thank you then.



Amazon – Thank you so frickin much!! (Just had to use the word frickin once you had…) See above for how I write the girls… TBH it’s over familiarity, lots of practice and pure dumb luck. But I am happy to take the praise!

I have reached the conclusion that there’s only so much smut that I can write in this thread without either getting way too kinky in search of ‘originality’ or repeating myself… So the next story will more than likely be smutless. Just cos I can ☺

Thanks again.



Hey Zooey Lovely to have the quote machine back. Have you stopped picking quotes where I got grammar wrong? ;) Looks like we’re all clear this time!

It’s funny but I never intended to play the wedding one-two. I never wanted to give the idea it was theirs. I’m not that smart or I would have done much more with it. Thanks so much for still being here.



Nue Hi and thanks! I didn’t think this was particulary a shower worthy part. Perhaps I was wrong ☺ Whatever works for you is great! But the line you quote… interesting process behind that. To be honest I would have written the first part of the line, but then it’s my own internal Willow that says ‘but wait, it’s not silent. You can’t write that. Writing that means that you’re ignoring the way things really are. You go fix that line.’

You see what I have to put up with (with myself?) I’m not good at writing the girls as some people claim. On no. I’m cursed with my own internal Willowesque editor ☺

Thanks



Sass Part Deux – Part of my trick is to layer the dialogue stuff around and through the NC-17. It’s a honey trap. LOL. I know what you mean about skimming NC17 though. When I had more time to read, I rarely wanted to see pure smut. If it wasn’t demonstrably the girls then I didn’t want to read about the ‘Erotic adventures of someone who just happened to be called Willow and Tara.’ No more so would I ever want to write that…

And I think part of that judgement, in writing the girls, is just how far would they go together? I have seen some mighty fine ‘kinky’ T/W fic. I have beta read it too. Appreciated it. But – strictly for me – there are boundaries it just would not occur to them to pass. And though I sometimes stretch the point, I’m never going to have them in leather gear, whips, chains in the middle of a public place. (I have see that fic. It has existed…) So, coming back to what I do write… I write playful more perhaps because it’s an extension of the personalities. I need to do more ‘being’ with each other. Quiet, slow, loving. And – to be honest – the reason I don’t is that this series started out as a playful thing and the readers expect it. I write the slow, loving stuff in longer fic as I tend to think it fits better.

The laundry room thing. That is you. I stole it. I think I acknowledged it. One of the few things I remember is that I was sure you put forward a case (somewhere) why that had happened….

On the terminology of ‘love’ and ‘fuck.’ I think, yes, it descends into cheese if they make love all the time. But showing the love, while having them call it a ‘fuck’ that makes everything tick by much more easily. Though I still worry about dirty words coming from their mouths. I know it works – the readers say so – but somehow I still worry about it LOL.

On the topic of PoV… I wish I was planning to the extent that I chose a PoV based on what was coming up. No. The limit of it is that I probably amend what happens to the characters based on whose PoV I am in.

On your cause-effect comment for part 4… It’s my internal Willow. Seriously. Once again, I don’t ‘plan’ in the way I may get given credit for (except in long fic) but the internal Willow… She makes me deal with the consequences of being in certain positions without having actually undressed yet. She makes me address the stickiness and need for bathtime… Curse her, she is part of the reason Sidestep is a million words long. I can’t let go of consequences. So they get explored and followed through on…

But once again… I switch PoV just because I can. And I want to show both sides. Th extent of that being planned is on a subconscious level. I never sit there and say ‘no, I can’t show this from Tara’s side.’ But maybe I sit here and say ‘Okay, I am in Tara’s side so I need to…’

The fire alarm thing… Happened. When I was at university, the dorm rooms were ensuite. If you didn’t shut the door properly and the shower went too long… Well, fire alarms. The only time I set it off… I wasn’t alone in there. LOL.

I think the point about the public bathroom is well taken. See my comment above about the levels of kink and freshness. I think by this point I had written myself into a corner of where to take the kink without pushing too far! You may feel the same about a totally private beach in the future parts too…

But you are right. The love is key. I can get away with a lot as long as the love is front and centre – even if I call it fucking. And this is – for me – the difference between good PWP fanfic and bad (in any genre or pairing.) If your characters are not connected as they should be, then you’re just writing the literary equivalent of porn. And there’s nothing wrong with that but here… it’s not Tara and Willow. And if it’s not the girls then I can’t be interested. As a reader or a writer.

Gladiators… it was on TV. Sometimes, I just get inspired ☺

Thanks so much, Sass!



Madwriter – Thanks so very much. I would say more in response to your comments, but much of it is covered in the above. So I say… ditto ;) and thanks again.

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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 02/21/09)

Postby Zooeys_Bridge » Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:22 am

Grammar is not my strong point, so any quotes I picked with wrong grammar happened as a total fluke. 100% flukage. Just goes to show that when folks start reading stories, where yours are concerned, all thoughts of the outside structure of things' kinda float out the window. Especially where NC-17 is afoot. ;-)
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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 02/21/09)

Postby Sassette » Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:26 am

Gotta' say, this has been a great weekend for me :)

The One on the Beach
And it all began with talk of boob-sagging … what I love about this is that it’s “more of the same …” which could be taken the wrong way, so I’ll explain a little: it’s more of Willow being Willow and Tara being Tara, and Willow and Tara being W/T – together – which, naturally, means totally hot for each other. Love they’re having such a ridiculous argument about who’s “stronger” and who’s going to “win” … makes me imagine them arguing about who jumped whom in the laundry room. I’ve been weirdly focused on the laundry room the past few days. And yes, there was some discussion ... somewhere ... about canon timeline and at what point in S4 W/T "officially" did what (as it was so vague on the show). "The 'I' In Team" got a lot of support for their "first time". It's just so vague, though, why not go with hot laundry room action? I went there, for the fun of it, in one of the vignettes. #8, Speechless.

The One with the Storytime
“A princess is good,” Tara confirmed, way too smugly.

What a bitch…

Is it sick and wrong of me that this exchange (well, more of a statement and an internal reaction than an exchange, really … and your Internal Willow seems to have jumped into my head … I’m not sure how I feel about that :P ) encapsulates for me their character growth and maturity? S4 Tara isn’t smug, or bitchy. S4 Willow is incapable of thinking of S4 Tara as a bitch without inwardly chastising herself for thinking bad, bad things.

Earlier W/T couldn’t have had this exchange, and it’s the fact that they’re older, more comfortable with themselves, more comfortable with each other, and so perfectly committed to each other. I think that would have been a very uncomfortable thought for Willow to have if there were any doubts about their relationship, or where their relationship was going, or whether or not they had a future together, because it would’ve triggered fear. With your older, more mature-yes-still-recognizable version, I just get the sense that, if there hadn’t been a child in the room, Willow would have just said “what a bitch …” out loud, and Tara would have just laughed.

What a beautiful place you’ve taken them.

I was going to leave my commentary on this part right there, but then there was this:

Tara nodded, then frowned. “But what would be the point of that? I mean – chain mail. Just over your boobs?”


Seriously. I’ve often wondered this.

The One Where Willow’s Lack of GayDar is Established
Tara’s upset. Willow doesn’t know why. We fic-writers spend a lot of time with W/T when they’re on the same wave-length, but they are so much fun when they’re not. Sure, they’re very, very >together<, and they compliment each other beautifully, and they have really hot sex all the time … *cough* … where was I? Right! But they >are< two separate people, and they don’t actually mystically share every thought as it pops into their head.

Besides … Willow’s just so cute when she’s confused.

Her beautiful, perfect face. That long hair, whatever shade of brown or blonde it was this week.


LOL. And …

“Zach Morris from Saved by the Bell,” Willow murmured. Tara looked at her. “Did I say that out loud?”


ROFL

‘Back to Normal’ was a fantastic title for this. Aside from the very funny lines (there were too many to specifically quote), what stood out in this part was very much the journey back to connectedness. No, that’s not the right word … they’re always >connected< … but the fact that Tara can still baffle Willow (and presumably vice versa) and that Willow not only needed an explanation, but needed to put off some sexy-time to get one (not >all< the sexy-time, of course … Willow has awesome priorities) is just very real and very fun. Loved it.

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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 02/21/09)

Postby Katharyn » Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:59 pm

Zooey - So what you're saying is that smut obscures all grammatical errors? This explains why I kept getting pulled up for it at school. I should have been writing smut... ;)


Glad you've enjoyed it Sass... now you're all up to date though :)

So now I need to get to Vignette 8? Hmm. Maybe I will save that for a moment of privacy LOL. Personally I am not a fan of the laundry room theory in the context of S4, but only because it changes how I would see the other eps which were just fine as they were. However... take it out of that context and hell yeah, they jumped each other there :)

I don't think I ever saw the 'bitch' thing as strongly as you read it (or as it reads) but I think you have gotten to the core of why not. You can write these things (and in real life say them) with people who you deeply, truly know. It completely changes the context. And you are right... they'd have said it, they'd have laughed and maybe played with the name-calling. Disagreement at this level is fundamental to any relationship. Anyone who is SO perfect together that they can't even disagree about anything is just doomed.

Which brings us to the lack of Gaydar comments... exactly what you were saying. I have no clue what my loved one is thinking most of the time. I mean, I can guess. But she surprises me every damn day. Too often actually. Bitch. But I digress...

I only thought about the way Tara's hair colour changed in the show when I wrote that line. Then, later in the part, I slipped the line about the grey (gray) hair in there. Without realising it (and that's the fun) I just created a Tara who is - perhaps - a little vain and worried about getting old. Or not. But it's nice to make them... real.

You know what surprises me about the Saved by the Bell thing? No one else liked Jessie. Is it a generational thing? Am I too old now for the kids today to have a clue what I'm talking about? LOL

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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 02/24/09)

Postby Katharyn » Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:58 am

Title: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love – Lost
Author: Katharyn Rosser
Feedback: Constructive criticism is always welcome. Flames just demonstrate you have a tiny mind.
Spoiler Warning: Probably none, and why the hell do we need to worry about this years after the show went off the air? Suffice it to say nothing bad ever happened to our girls.
Distribution This story was written for Pens. Pens is its home. No archiving off Different Coloured Pens (This applies to all my W&T fic)
Summary: Willow and Tara watch re-runs.
Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the copyrights or anything else associated with BTVS. All rights lie with the production company, writers etc, etc. I am making zilch from this series of stories. You know the drill. And though I may imply references to a certain other show – perhaps by the title – there’s certainly nothing in there that steals. Call it a commentary!
Rating: PG13
Couples: Tara and Willow forever. I doubt I’ll even mention anyone else.
Notes: I’m just wondering how well this one will go down (no pun intended) since there is no sex in there… Lots of talk about it. Just not actually happening. I guess the readers will have their say and point this thread’s future one way or the other LOL. I think I just got wary of getting repetitive on the sex thing… so this time they talk about it a lot instead.
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Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love

Lost

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“I could totally do a Pacific Island plane crash. Especially now.”

Tara narrowed her eyes, looking to Willow and wondering just where that little gem of an observation was going to go.

“I mean, look at the place. It’s paradise. Anyone could use a break there.”

“It’s a plane crash.”

“But no one pretty is dead,” Willow pointed out.

“No one pretty?”

“You tell me I’m not just pretty, but beautiful. So… I figure I’m gonna make it down.”

Tara stopped massaging her lover’s feet and just held onto them instead. “I can’t b-believe you’re saying you want to be in a plane crash.” That was one of the weirdest things she thought she’d heard Willow say.

This week.

“Uh-uh,” Willow contradicted. “I don’t actually want to be in one. But if I have to be in one, then I want it to be one that most people survive on a beautiful island. With a surgeon – so free medical - and a survival nut who packed lots of knives. And boars - ”

“You’d eat boar?”

“Only when the chicken dinners ran out,” Willow explained. “And the peanuts.”

“Am I on this island?” Tara asked, willing to go a long with this for now. Just so long as Willow wasn’t go Neanderthal and back to nature as soon as she landed. Crashed. However you did the getting there in a crash.

“Well, would you be on the flight with me?” Willow asked.

“I guess, being as you’re noticing all the pretty people who make it to the island, that I better be,” Tara decided. “Though, you have to figure even the pretty people will get kinda stinky.”

“It’s pretty dirt though,” Willow pointed out. “And clearly, there’s an inexhaustible supply of ladyshave or Veet. Not for these girls designer stubble.”

Tara coughed, tearing Willow’s attention away from the TV where a particularly smooth set of feminine limbs were cutting through the water. Unusual for this show, but timely in terms of their discussion. “Not that there’s anything particularly attractive about that,” Willow added hurriedly.

“There are downsides to being on a Pacific Island,” Tara pointed out.

“I’m not seeing it.”

“Sand. Everywhere. I mean… do you think that we’d ever get rid of it all?” Tara asked.

Willow nodded in agreement. “That may be why they’re not all over each other all the time.”

“Or it could be the struggle to survive,” Tara suggested. “It probably takes the romance out of the situation for them.”

“I don’t know,” Willow said. “They are awfully pretty.”

“That’s Darwinism for you,” Tara suggested. “Survival of the fittest.”

Willow laughed. “You made a science joke.”

“Don’t hold it against me,” Tara replied.

“Are you upset with me?” Willow asked. “I mean… you don’t seem very into this.”

“I just don’t think that wishing you were crashed and lost on an island is a nice thing to say,” Tara said. “Not even if you’re with me, with lots of razors, boars, medical expertise, knifes, survivalists, airdrops of food, shelter, sun, sand, pretty people… Did I miss anything?”

“You like fish,” Willow reminded her.

“And we’d have a fisherman,” Tara had to agree.

“With a cute wife.”

“True that,” Tara said.

Willow prodded her with her foot then said, in a sing-song voice - “I got you to admit who you like on this show…” Her eyes were sparkling in triumph and there wasn’t much that Tara could say to deny it.

She was human. And just because the hottest woman in the world shared her bed every night didn’t mean that she was immune to noticing some other, lesser hotties. When they turned up and came to her attention.

“Well, you’re into the action girl,” Tara accused, disappointed with how lame a response she could manage. It was the ‘do not – do too’ school of debate that was working best for her now.

And though that was kinda lowest common denominator, it was a level that Willow was perfectly happy at after a long day at work when all they wanted to do was veg-out in front of the TV.

“She climbs a mean tree,” Willow pointed out.

“Uhuh,” Tara said. “And the fact she doesn’t mind stripping off - ”

“In the rain,” Willow added.

“Doesn’t hurt any. Right?” Tara asked. “I mean… you always liked tank tops.”

‘And you didn’t,” Willow pointed out, voicing her disappointment.

Ah. That again. “Is it my fault I feel naked without my shoulders being covered?”

“They don’t have to be so strappy,” Willow said. “But no, you have this blanket aversion to them. So, I have to get my tank top jollies from a TV show… Well, so be it. Ow!” Willow snatched her foot back as Tara jabbed her thumb into it.

“Serves you right,” Tara said.

“Shhh, she’s climbing rocks now.”

“And I have to be quiet because?”

“Because… I’m watching TV,” Willow said. “Soon, something weird will happen. And if I don’t hear what that is, I might not have any clue what’s going on.”

Tara frowned, thought about that. “No one has any clue what’s going on. That’s the point. Seems to be anyway.”

“Well,” Willow said. “Yeah, but… one day we might. If we keep watching re-runs.”

Tara took a breath, ready to reply. But then let it go and turned back to the TV. “You don’t think that maybe, you know, that’s exactly what they want?”

“The people in the TV?” Willow checked. “I think they want to go home, leastways that’s what they keep saying.”

“No. I mean the people who make the TV shows. Don’t they just want to spin this out for as long as they can, while we keep watching, so they can keep selling us things in the ad breaks?”

“What’s your point?” Willow asked.

“Well, we’re being manipulated,” Tara explained. Surely that was enough. Okay, she liked TV too. But when she thought about it that way, it made her blood… Well, it didn’t boil. But it may have bubbled a little.

“It didn’t bother you when we were being manipulated by – by… the news. I mean, they’ve been spinning that out since they started making TV.”

It was like suddenly living with Homer Simpson. “Baby, I think that – just maybe – you’re getting a little too attached to your shows. And maybe, we need to do something else?”

“Sure, when this is done,” Willow promised her.

“When this is done,” Tara argued. “It’ll be time for bed. We have work tomorrow, remember?”

Willow looked at her. “Can you offer me anything better than action girl?” she asked. Not too far gone in her show then. Still temptable.

And always tempting.

This was, after all, Willow. Her Willow. When it came to temptation there was her and there was… something else that was really tempting that she couldn’t put her finger on right now. It probably involved chocolate.

Tara glanced at the TV. Action girl was swimming in a tank-top and little more than a thong. “Probably not.” She sat back and waited for the response.

“Probably not?” Willow asked. “What do you mean probably not?”

Apparently it was the wrong – or at least unexpected – answer.

Tara had all her attention now, no matter what. “Do you think they’re all wearing their own underwear, or… do you think they had to pool it and… share?” The idea made her shudder. She was very firm on the point that – no matter what Willow might borrow off her, no matter what she’d freely give – there were limits.

Willow glanced back at the screen, thinking about that. Maybe it put the whole attractiveness into another context.

“Those might belong to the guy in the wheelchair,” she added.

“Ew-ew-ew!” Willow yelped. “That is so nasty!”

“They might,” Tara protested. “The pregnant girl was going through all the luggage, pooling their stuff. They could belong to anyone.”

“You’re so bad,” Willow accused her. “You can’t have me wondering if action girl is wearing his undies. Again with the ewww.” Willow pushed a foot in her face at the point of eww. But freshly showered, there was really no point and Tara didn’t hesitate in sticking out her tongue and licking along the arch knowing that –

Tickled, Willow jerked her foot back, all-accusing in her expression.

“I’m missing my show,” Willow said, very deliberately turning to the screen again and ignoring her.

“It’s a re-run,” Tara said, but Willow didn’t respond. “We already saw it.”

“Show. Shh.”

“You’re already up to date with having no idea what’s happening,” Tara pushed and was rewarded with a glare. But one with just enough to it that she could tell that, presented with something else to exercise her mind, Willow wouldn’t really mind being torn away.

“Do you want to go to bed?” Tara wondered.

Willow paused, clearly reluctant to come out with a clear ‘no.’ “What… what are you offering?”

“Bed.”

“Sex?”

“I could be persuaded,” Tara revealed.

“You don’t sound very enthusiastic though,” Willow told her.

“Maybe I’m worried you’ll be thinking of tree-climbing action girl? Maybe I can see you looking at her thighs, and you’ll be wishing she was climbing you, Willow tree?”

“Oh no, don’t you go there,” Willow said. “There’s only one woman who climbs me.”

“Who is she?” Tara demanded, teasing. “I’ll scratch her eyes out.”

Willow shook her head, laughing and turned back to the screen. “See, what I know about action girl is that I have no chance. She’s already hot for two guys.”

“Never say never,” Tara said. “I mean, that could be the whole shock, twist ending. Actually, she’s hot for… I don’t know, the Korean woman. I mean they are friends and everything. Or they will be. Later – Why are we even watching re-runs?”

“She looks good in - ”

“Gotcha!” Tara said. “You admitted it. At last.”

“I never denied she looked good.”

“Better than me?” Tara asked.

“Go get in the shower in panties and a tank-top, and I’ll let you know,” Willow said, not even looking back from the TV.

Tara glanced once more at the screen, but the show had moved on. That image was far behind them and she knew it wasn’t coming back. That might be why they were watching this particular re-run. Willow knew this stuff. She knew which episodes were which. By name and number. Whereas Tara tended to just turn the TV on and accept what was there.

“You’d like that, wouldn’t you?” Tara asked after she’d had a moment to judge the tone of her lover.

Willow looked back to her. “Actually… I would.”

“But I’d be all wet.”

“So would I… if it helped.”

“But… I don’t get the attraction,” Tara lied. Oh, she wasn’t immune. Okay, so action girl didn’t rock her world. But she understood the attraction of wet, clinging material oh so very well. But the practicalities of it usually meaning being cold and a little miserable kind of got in the way.

“Yes,” Willow said. “You do.”

“Okay, yes I do. But then what? Lets be practical for a moment,” she argued. “Then I’d be all wet and either I’d have to get dry or everything I touched would get wet.”

“Including me,” Willow told her.

“Including - ” Tara started to agree, then realised what she was saying. “It doesn’t take much to get you wet, love.”

“Yes, it does,” Willow said. “It just doesn’t take much of you.”

Tara smiled, she couldn’t help herself. It was late in the evening, they had work tomorrow and neither of them had really bought into the fantasy enough to make it crucial to their night. “But I already showered,” Tara said.

“Oh yeah,” Willow admitted. “I forgot. Obviously then, we shouldn’t do anything like that. You know, in case you dissolve and wash away through too much water.”

“You know what I mean,” Tara said, throwing a cushion, which Willow batted away and barely missed Miss Kitty. “Look what you did! You almost hit Miss Kitty!”

“You threw it!” Willow argued. “I defended myself. You nearly hit Miss Kitty.”

Both of them looked at the elderly cat. Miss Kitty, they could tell, was way past seeing them as separate entities. Her disdain- as well as her affections – were for the pair of them. Anticipating a lack of peace, the cat left the room. Tara had the feeling Miss Kitty wouldn’t bother with their bedroom either.

“Will,” Tara said. “I… I don’t want to fulfil that fantasy for you.”

Willow paused, looked at her and then clicked the TV onto mute. “You… don’t want to?”

“Not now, at least.” Willow didn’t say anything, so Tara continued. “I mean, maybe… one day, if we get caught in the rain. Maybe then.”

Willow thought about that. “Will you consider wearing tanks, you know, on rainy days?”

It was Tara’s turn to think. “I could… you know, since you seem to like the idea.” She did want to look good for her lover, and if Willow liked the idea of her in a tank top then… Yes.

“I do. I do like the idea.”

“B-but I’m wearing more than just my pants,” Tara said.

“She doesn’t do that all the time,” Willow argued. “In fact this episode is the exception rather than the rule. Usually, she wears jeans. Lovely, tight, clinging – often wet – jeans. So you know, if you need suggestions about what goes with a tank top. There you go.”

“Thanks,” Tara said. “But my butt’s bigger than that.”

“No, just a different shape. You know how to fill a pair of jeans even more attractively,” Willow said slyly.

So that was the game she was playing. Suggestion through compliment? “You know, you could just take a cold shower,” Tara said. “If you really wanna go there. That’ll be realistic.”

“But… it’d be cold. And defeating the point.”

“Yes. So would the tropical island be,” Tara pointed out.

“I want to be comfy if I’m going to be soaking wet,” Willow said, proving that she probably didn’t have what it took to make it after being marooned there. Comfort wasn’t going to be high on the list of attributes of the island.

And knowing their luck any island they found would be filled with headhunting zombies or vampire sloths. Something weird and wonderful that only they could deal with but would keep them from enjoying the beautiful pool at the bottom of a waterfall, or lying back and eating exotic fruits. Or even from getting sand in… well, everywhere.

“So what you’re really into is the wet look?” Tara asked.

“And a certain amount of dirty, wet dishevelment,” Willow corrected.

“Dirty? Or dirrrty?” Tara checked, remembering another day. Another night. Another wish. Another… Was this a fantasy?

“Just plain old mussiness will do,” Willow revealed.

“And you… like that?” And here she’d been showering and keeping fresh and all that good stuff that your girlfriend was supposed to like. Now she was supposed to go out back and roll around in the dirt?

Willow took a breath this time, let it go. Took another. “It’s not like I want you to roll around in it. Though, you know, mud wrestling - ” Willow hesitated and Tara understood she must’ve been having an expression. “Never mind, I – look – if you were a little mussed and a little dirty and maybe a little wet then I could be all into that. I mean you could so be the action gal. It’s not all about the fighting – cos we know that your not big with that – but you’re a woman of action and decisions and right choices and… and…”

“I picked you didn’t I?” Tara asked.

“Yes, you did,” Willow said, finally taking another breath as her babbling just… stopped. Sometimes it was kinder to put her out of her misery, endearing as it could be.

“So you must be right about me.”

Willow grinned, pulled her feet back. “Oh, I know I’m right. I’m famed as an observant woman. And when I observe as closely as I’ve observed you over the years… How can I be wrong?”

“You seem pretty confident,” Tara said.

“Confidence is my middle name,” Willow said.

Tara frowned. “That’s not what you said last month. Last month your middle name was ‘Pussy.’”

“Last month I said my name was ‘Pussy Eater’ but it doesn’t have the ring of ‘Confidence.’ If you know what I mean.”

“Willow Confidence Rosenberg,” Tara said holding up one hand, then the other. “Willow Pussy Eater Rosenberg. Hmm, I see what you mean.”

“So, you agree with me,” Willow concluded.

Tara was almost caught out. Willow had her so caught up in the myriad of threads that she’d almost done what Willow wanted and said ‘Yes.’ “Watch your show, baby,” she said instead.

Willow met her eyes, and they shared a knowing moment. Oh, she doubted they’d have tried anything now. But Willow wouldn’t have forgotten. Rather than more often than ‘Confidence’ or even ‘Pussy Eater’ they tended to call Willow ‘Memory Girl.’

And a little memory could go a long way. Much as it might’ve had an appeal at the time, Tara didn’t want to spend her weekend getting mussed for Willow. By her, perhaps. But not for her. She didn’t climb trees. She didn’t get deliberately muddy for no apparent reason. She didn’t stay out in the rain just to get wet.

There were other, more pleasant ways of getting wet with Willow.

“No mussy fun?” Willow asked a few minutes later, when the next ad break came on.

“I’ll muss you,” Tara promised. “But I’m not going to go rub myself with mud.”

“Okay, okay,” Willow said. “I can be patient.” Tara was about to argue the point, that patience wasn’t what was required. “Patience is also my middle name. But what if we got caught in the rain?”

Tara looked at her, trying to determine just how far Willow would go. “Caught in the rain?”

“It happens.”

“And next time it does…” Tara mused. “You want - ”

‘I want.”

“Okay,” Tara said slowly. She could live with that. “But you have to warm me up.”

“Scouts honour,” Willow said.

“And no cheating,” Tara told her.

“Cheating? Me?”

“We both know you can make it rain,” Tara said. She could, so Willow could.

“You can’t believe I’d do that!” Willow exclaimed.

Tara didn’t miss a beat. “Oh no, believe you’d wait for a nice warm day, when I might happen to be wearing something that’d go clingy and all sorts of see-through. Maybe that summer dress you picked out for me if not a tank.”

“Hmm, yes that would - ” Willow started. “No. I wouldn’t cheat. Maybe… just a shower though? A rain shower. Not a shower – shower. It’s just… God, you’re going to think I’m weird.”

“Weirder than wanting to be in a plane crash with all the pretty people? Weirder than wanting to roll around with your – admittedly hot – girlfriend in the mud and get all mussed up as well as wet? Weirder than those, baby?”

“Weirder than all that,” Willow agreed.

“Go on…”

“I’ve seen you wet,” Willow said. “Your pretty hair all slicked back from your face. Water running down you. Your top stuck to your lovely…. Anyway. I’ve seen you that way. Is it my fault that nearly anything you do strikes me as erotic? I think not. I think you, yes you Missy, have to take some responsibility for my fantasies, I mean you’re the one who’s in them all. How am I supposed to help it? I’m helpless. I can’t help it.”

“All?” Tara checked with a smile, she remembered the occasion Willow was talking about. That was how she knew that Willow could make it rain – that they both could. But she hadn’t appreciated at the time that she’d been setting herself up for another drenching in the cause of orgasms…

“All,” Willow said firmly. “I might watch this show and see action girl with a her tight butt and her soaked skin and pushed back hair and the way things cling to her and wonder whether maybe she’ll ever get it on with the Korean woman or not or the other doctor, the one that already played gay but they hate each other and though the chemistry might be fun they’re fighting over a guy and how unappealing is that - ”

“Sweetie,” Tara interrupted, “I think you were groping towards a compliment for me before you got lost?”

“Oh. Right. Umm. I see you. I always see you. Because you are my fantasies. My hopes and my dreams – especially the sexy time ones. There’s no one I want to get wet with other than you.”

“You know just how to make a girl feel special,” Tara said, but she was perfectly serious. Willow did have an in depth understanding of that.

“Well, you were the one who mentioned groping,” Willow said, extricating herself from Tara’s legs at the other end of the sofa and switching around.

“I did, didn’t I,” Tara admitted as Willow came up her end and ended up almost on top of her. There was some mild gropage to mark the event.

“You did.”

“You really want me wet?” Tara asked.

“I want you however,” Willow said. “Maybe one day it’ll happen. Maybe not. But a girl can hope for rain can’t she?”

“She can hope…” Tara replied, allowing Willow the kiss she was seeking.

“I got so lost,” Willow said, not even looking at the TV.

“And I found you,” Tara assured her.
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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 02/21/09)

Postby tacoda13 » Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:23 am

This story is great. Keep updating and keep up the good work.
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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 02/21/09)

Postby Sassette » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:07 am

This was fun :) W/T chit-chatting about television and rain-soaked hijinks resulted in too many awesome little exchanges to bust out specific quotes.

I will now be thinking of Willow as Willow "Hopeful" Rosenberg, though. Hoping Action Girl on TV will find her inner lesbian and get it on with one of the other female characters (lol ... I don't watch Lost, so for all I know, this has happened ... tv's funny like that) ... hoping that Tara will get with the program and where more boobies-highlighting tanks ... hoping that, one day, if she just wishes hard enough, Tara will get caught out in the rain while wearing one of those boobies-highlighting tanks ... and that, of course, she'll be there. Or there-adjacent enough to sense, somehow, that her favorite pairs of boobies are being highlighted by a wet tank.

Sure, on one level I just like the word "boobies" and try to use it as often as possible because it makes me laugh. But, to the point and on topic (are Tara's boobies ever OT on Pens?), this update manages to heavily feature Tara's boobies without ever specifically saying so. Aside from the fact that's a happy thought to begin with, this update implies that Tara and all of her bits are so totally Willow's - a fulfilled want, if you will - that Willow spends an inordinate amount of time thinking about new and interesting ways of showcasing Tara and all of her bits - an unfulfilled want.

And Tara can so totally say "Nope ... not going there". And Willow's okay with that, because Tara is so very hers. And Tara can relent a little, as long as Willow agrees that making it rain is cheating ... LOL.

W/T are fun when they're younger, and just getting together and awkward and shy and all of that ... but when they're older, completely comfortable with each other, and totally confident in their relationship? That's awesome.

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Re: Lesbian Gay Type Women in Love (New Standalone 02/24/09)

Postby Katharyn » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:59 am

Tocoda Thanks so much :)

Sass - I knew this would be a problem... it works on many more layers when you've seen Lost (though only a little bit would be required) but that is why I tried to talk around character names and anything too specific. Fans though should be able to track it back to certain early episodes (I've lost track myself since then... I just thought of the lost quote and paired it with the TV show.)

It was a departure for me - in this thread - not doing smut. BUt then I do do smut really, just without the anatomy...

I could tell, in your response, that you appreciate all things boobies. It's a good liking to have :) I think a lot of this was prompted by our feedback go around. As you made me aware of the things I was supposedly doing, this time I actually tried to :)

I doubt I will post any more for a little while simply because I told myself I would try to break Sidestep 3 and see if it had any future... But thanks so much for liking something you had no real idea what the 'theoretical' subject matter was about ;)

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