AUTHOR:: Alex_ Vixen
RATING:: Lets keep it R...just in case...
DISCLAIMER:: Oh you know the deal. I dont own them, if I did, I would have treated them WAY better than they did. Anyway, they belong to Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, etc...Im just borrowing them for a little bit.
SUMMARY:: Uber story! NO Vamps, no Slayer, no Hellmouth...In this world, the only thing that exists is magic, and another mystical stuff...well, you will see...There will be a lot of mystical stuff...the Ancient Greek Gods.....
FEEDBACK:: Yes, please....but remember, I beg for mercy
PAIRINGS:: W/T (DUH!!!) and K/A (you will see)
AUTHOR'S NOTE:: First of all...there will be some drama...not high level of drama or angst...but there will be little bits of drama to deal with, nothing too heavy though...you guys know me, I dont do angst so well and I dont like it...so there will be A LOT of fluff as well...LOL...
NOTE 2:: Buffy and Faith are here as well....they dont have a main role, to be honest...and NO, they are not a couple...you will see...
NOTE 3:: I think ALL OF US would like to do something like what Faith does to that pig..again...read and you'll get it...
Anyway.... I'll leave you to the chapter...
CHAPTER 1- No More…
The door of the small bedroom opened and two girls entered, one smaller red hair and a taller blonde, the second walking carefully because of the big bruise she had in her ribs. She hurried to finish packing before they arrive. They needed to leave before things got really nasty.
“C’mon baby, we need to hurry up. How much time we got left?” asked the red-haired girl, who was wearing dark jeans and a fitting purple shirt under a short black leather jacket. Her shoulder-length red hair sparkling with the light coming from the window, but her big green eyes were scared and worried for the other girl.
“Two hours, mo-ore than e-enough, Willow…” the taller girl answered, her long blonde hair hiding her beautiful face for a moment. She finished packing the bag and all they needed now was the books, already packed in two boxes by the bed.
“Okay, I’ll go to get Buffy and Faith to help us out of here…” Willow said and left the room.
The blonde stared at the now empty bed room and sighed. She stared at herself for a moment on the big mirror on the dresser. She had big blue eyes, like the ocean, big expressive blue eyes that now held a mix of sadness and hope in them: the sadness of years lived in that house with an abusive father and brother and the hope of leaving that horrible place to never return again. She traced with her eyes for a second her cheek bones, her full lips, the lower lip now cut after a smack from her brother the night before just because he didn’t like the way she had washed his shirt.
“We’re here, baby,” Willow said entering the room again followed by another but shorter blonde and a dark-haired girl.
“So, this is the last thing left, guys?” the shorter blonde asked, lifting the box.
“Car is ready, guys. We’re ready to roll?” the dark-haired girl said lifting the other box.
“Yeah… that’s all, Buff. You guys go ahead, Faith and wait in the car. Give us a second,” Willow said, seeing that her girlfriend wasn’t gonna say anything.
“Sure, Will, don’t worry,” Buffy said exiting the room after Faith.
The red head turned to her girlfriend.
“Are you okay, baby?” she asked.
“Yes… I-I’m fine, Will…lets go-o…” the blonde stuttered.
“Oh, baby…” Willow wrapped her arms around the blonde and kissed her cheek. She hated to hear her girlfriend stuttering, especially in front of her the blonde never stuttered anymore and it broke her heart. “Tare... Please, don’t worry, sweetie… you’re leaving today, it doesn’t matter anymore, they can’t hurt you anymore, and we’re here to make sure of that…”
“I know… it’s just…”
Tara was cut off by Faith running inside the room again.
“Guys, troubles…” was all she said before the three girls ran downstairs to find Buffy in the bottom of the stairs, the boxes on the floor and the two blonde man struggling to get free from the magics that held them in place.
“TARA!!” the older man yelled, still struggling to get free. “You little bitch, you think you can leave! YOU THINK YOU CAN LEAVE THIS HOUSE WITH THIS WHORES!! YOU WILL NEVER LEAVE THIS HOUSE!”
But hearing her father screaming again made something click in Tara, who didn’t move from Willow’s side. She looked at them, cold pouring from her eyes, cold and pity…
Faith was standing by Buffy, her hand on her cousin’s shoulder to give her part of her power. They were family and their connection was stronger because of that…
“Father… in this house I’ve only know pain and suffering. I feel pity for you and you, brother. You never were my family, they are. And I AM leaving this place for ever…” Tara turned to Willow. “Can we leave now?”
“Sure, love” Willow took her lovers hand and walked out of the house, not without nodding at Faith first.
“TARA!!! COME BACK IN HERE, YOU BITCH!!!” Victor Maclay yelled again.
“TARA, LITTLE FUCKER COME BACK HERE! YOU WILL SEE WHEN I GET YOU!!” Donny yelled trying to break the magics the held him in place just like his father.
“B, what do we do with them?” Faith asked, letting go of her cousin’s shoulder.
“I’m not really sure, Faith,” Buffy said, still keeping them immobilized with her magics.
“LET ME GO, YOU FUCKING WHORE!!” Victor Maclay kept yelling.
“Let him go, B,” Faith said, looking at him like he was some dead rat.
“You sure?” Buffy asked.
“Yeah… I wanna take care of this little fucker,” she said taking a step forward.
“Be careful, sweetie…” was all the blonde said before releasing her hold on the older man, who fell to the ground and stood up in a hurry.
“That was a mistake, young lady…” and he threw himself against Faith.
“No, it wasn’t because I am used to deal with sons of bitches like you, bastard…” Faith punched him in the nose making him fall again on the floor grabbing the bloody body part. She started kicking him on the ribs and the stomach. The man screamed in pain and blood came out of his mouth and nose. “So you like beat girls, huh? You like this? You like this bastard?” Faith kept yelling at him, kicking him and punching him…
“FAITH!” Buffy yelled. She knew Faith wanted to kick his balls but the man was almost unconscious by now. She was getting out of line. Her cousin looked at her. “You’re gonna kill him, Faith… he’s unconscious…”
“You’re right, sorry B; I got a little carried away… just one more…” and now she kicked his balls with her heavy work boots, the man screamed again in pain.
“Faith!” Buffy yelled too this time. “Enough!”
“Sorry B… I’m calm now…” she said, completely relaxed now. “I just can’t stand the bastards who think they can beat girls…”
“I know, me either, but we do not make justice by our hand, Faith, remember?”
“I know and sorry, B,” Faith said again. She looked at Donny, who was curled up in a ball on the floor. “Chicken,” she added. “What we gonna do with them?”
“Maybe we should call the police,” Buffy said the first thing in her mind.
“And how are we gonna to explain that two girls could kick the shit outta two grown up men, B,” Faith told her cousin using logic.
“You’re right. So, what are we gonna do with them, Faith?”
“Listen up, B, I got an idea… But this gotta stay between you and me…” Faith said. "And you don't have to do it, in fact, I don't want you to do it. But this has to be done..."
"What are you planning?" Buffy asked and her eyes widened when Faith whispered in her ear what she wanted to do. "You do know we're gonna have to beg for forgiveness for this, dont you?"
"I know...but it's the only way...and seeing them together, happy, makes it worthy," Faith said and locked gases with her cousin.
"Let's do it...together..."
****
In the backseat of the car, Willow kept her arms around Tara, her hand softly stroking her blonde hair, letting her lover to sleep quietly, and there, in the heaven of her lover’s presence she remembered when they first met and how life was before her grandma died… almost two years ago now, her grandma, the only mother figure she had besides Buffy’s mum Joyce…
It was her father’s mother, grandma Lillian who saw the great potential the baby had as soon as she looked at her eyes in the hospital, and she was the one who trained her since she had memory, who tough her how to respect nature and the Gods. But, most of anything, she was the one who would always take her to the park, or stay with her if she was sick.
Her parents were never around, they always were too busy working, teaching and traveling around the world to be with her in her birthdays or Christmas or just hang out with their daughter.
And then her eyes fell sad when she remember how her grandma got sick a couple of years ago, how her strength fade away. She didn’t cry at her funeral, she didn’t move from her seat, she didn’t say a word, not even to Kelly, Buffy and Faith, who were there all the time…
****
By the time Buffy and Faith came out of the house, Tara was still sleeping peacefully nestled among Willow’s arms and the redhead was so lost in her own memories that didn’t even notice her friends getting inside the car.
“Will, are you okay?” Buffy asked, looking at her friend from the passenger seat.
But Willow didn’t seem to hear what her friend was saying, so Faith also turned around in her seat.
“Red?” again the redhead didn’t respond… “YO! Red! Red!”
Willow finally seemed to notice her friends talking to her and tore her gaze from the sleepy Tara.
“What, guys?”
“Are you okay, Red?” Faith asked. The dark-haired girl was frowning slightly.
“Yes, I am okay…I was just…thinking, that’s all. Thinking…”
“‘Kay, we’re going home now, Will,” Buffy said and nodded to her causing to start the car and pull away from the driveway.
How much Willow missed those days her grandma would take her to the Coven to train and play with the other kids, a beautiful and sweet little Tara among them, a sweet lovely Tara who kissed her cheek once at the age of 5 and held her hand when they were away from the adults sight, always that shy smile on her face, the small lop-side grin and the shy glances that made her little heart to melt with something she didn’t even knew back them what was… With the years and the new magical training they kids grew, although they never understood why the adults never allowed them to perform spells together so Willow and Tara used to sneak up at night and watch while the other performed their monthly ritual. Of course, they never did it together, the adults could have easily know they were doing it, but there was nothing wrong with watching the other… It was so beautiful to see how their eyes closed and the energy began to flow back and forth into the Earth… But for Willow was even more beautiful to see Tara doing it, the little blonde girl shone like a Goddess and Willow could only watch mesmerized by her beauty, feeling the attraction without fully understand it.
And then it happened, the moment they’d been waiting for finally happened. Their lips met for the first time when they were 14. It was magical, soft, tender, pure, innocent… everything they had expected…
Two months later Diane, Tara’s mother, became ill and finally died. The Coven tried to stop the authorities from taking her, but finally her father was found and the man took her with him and his son, Tara’s half-brother, taking her away from her friends, from magics, and from Willow… The redhead had implored her grandma to do something, that man was mean, they could see that with just looking at him, they couldn’t let him take her away… But there was nothing they could do…
A month later Willow was still depressed, part of her heart had gone with Tara that morning… everybody could see that and when Willow finally came out to her grandma and told her everything, the old woman had simply smiled proudly and hugged her…
Only Kelly and Amanda, the other young members of the Coven, were with her. They were her sisters since she had memory and only their company could cheer her up, and for spontaneous moments they could see a glimpse of the Willow she used to be.
At 15 Willow met Buffy and Faith in school, the girls were new at the school and they got along pretty well. At first, Faith and Willow didn’t become so close, but after a little incident with a guy who was hitting on her and didn’t leave her alone and that Faith had scared away, their relationship turned closer.
The cousins were also witches, they weren’t members of the Coven by birth but their knowledge and good heart had won them a place inside the Coven and the family bound the members shared… They were family, there was nothing more to say… and they watched each other’s back forever…
Kelly, Amanda, Buffy and Faith had tried to set her up with so many dates through time, so many girls, so many affairs but nobody could get into her heart, that place was taken already and nobody would ever fill it again. Nobody could fill the void left by Tara when the blonde girl had left…
And then, near her 16 birthday, her grandma had died. The doctors said thought it was a heart attack, but Willow knew better. Lillian had decided to take one last battle against an evil warlock, who called himself Dark-son. She won that battle just like many others, but after all she was an old woman and her body couldn’t take that much and said it was enough…
Willow’s 16 birthday was the saddest moment of her young life: her parents were never there for her, her grandma was gone....Tara was gone.... Only Kelly, Amanda, Buffy and Faith remained by her side, but none of them could make the pain to go away, none of them could give her the comfort and make the cold melt away…
But for her senior year everything changed when Tara returned home, and at the same time everything was different… Her father had accepted to go back to Sunnydale since he was doing business with a man there, and Tara was still under their constant vigilance and shit…
After Lillian’s death the Coven disintegrated, the different members having chosen other destinies where they could be more needed. Only three of them were left in Sunnydale: Willow, Sister of the Earth. Kelly and her mother Cynthia, Sisters of the Water. And Tara was the only living member left of the Sisters of Air.
The redhead remembered the day they first saw each other again: Willow was walking down the corridor towards the looker rooms after gym class when she bumped into something solid that sent her to the floor on her butt. When she looked up her eyes stared right into the most wonderful soul on the whole planet… Her Goddess was staring at her open mouthed and since that moment when they hugged, and without being able to help it, they kissed again feeling the soft touch of the others lips… Since that day they never parted again…
When Willow saw the scars on Tara’s body one day after gym class in the lookers room, Kelly, Buffy and Faith had to use their magic to stop her from kicking their asses or better yet, file a report to the police and send them to jail forever… It took Tara a lot of time to convince her friends and girlfriend that she needed to stay there until her 18 birthday…. And it had taken all her friend’s willpower to just not do what Willow wanted to do in the first moment.
The graduation from high school was only a few days ago and Tara’s birthday was only two weeks ago. Now, everything was how it was suppose to be… everything would be different…
****
They got to the Summers Household and Buffy and Faith started to download Tara’s stuff from the trunk of the car and taking them to now Willow and Tara’s room.
At the beginning of the year Joyce, Buffy’s mother, got a job offer in New York and seeing as how Buffy and Faith were able to stand on their own she took it. At first it was hard for the cousins to get used to be alone in and taking care of the house, but with Willow’s help they got used to it quickly. Faith was daughter of Joyce’s sister, Camille, and Jason Lehane; they weren’t doing such a good job parenting Faith… Jason and his wife entered rehab right after Faith’s 13 birthday and after they got out never showed up again so since then the dark-haired girl was living with her aunt and cousin, and she couldn’t be luckier…
It had been a little over a year ago that finally Willow had the courage to come out to her parents, and just like she thought it didn’t go so well: at first Ira had been impressed, but nothing too surprised, actually, so he reacted very accepting and well, like any good parent should react. Sheila, in the other hand, started screaming and pacing around the room, after a moment she calmed down a little and began analyzing the situation, saying that it was a phase that she’d get over it, that all the kids wanted to experiment… But as soon as both Willow and her father tried to convince her to be a little more realistic the woman lost it. She started screaming like they never heard her before yelling that she wouldn’t have a lesbian daughter and in the end, Willow ended up making her bags and leaving the house after Sheila kicked her out.
Ira tried to convince his wife to not kick Willow out, but after Sheila didnt accepted, Ira tried to convinced his daughter to take her to a hotel and then buy her an apartment (Willow had the car her grandma had bought her), but the redhead was welcome in the Summers House and until she got a job and could support herself she would stay there. She loved her father, her father loved her, but nothing the older man said could make her change her mind…or the way she felt for her mother…
At first she and Buffy shared the bedroom but since Joyce moved to New York, the petite blonde had moved to her mother’s room and Willow now was gonna share that room with her girlfriend.
****
In the living room Willow made her girlfriend to lie down on the couch and unbuttoned Tara’s shirt, exposing not only the full rounded breasts incased within the black cotton bra, but also her bruised ribcage. Tara tried to say something but Willow cut her off.
“You need to heal, baby, and I can’t do it if you don’t let me use your power, so please…” Tara blushed at being so exposed where everybody could see her, but still nodded and squeezed her girlfriend’s hand for a moment.
Willow placed her hands on the bruised area and began a soft chant, letting the healing energy from Tara flow through her, go to the Earth and come back to the blonde’s body, healing her. It was the only way for Tara to heal herself, with somebody’s help, her connection with Willow only made it stronger.
The bruise slowly faded away and Willow stopped her chanting, smiling at her girlfriend at the same time, and the blonde knew by the darker shade in Willow’s eyes the effect of their magics touching in her lover. It always had that effect in both of them…
“Feeling better, baby?” Willow asked while sitting by her side on the couch and began running her hand through Tara’s golden locks. The blonde witch smiled.
“Yes, sweetie, I’m okay now, I feel so much better, don’t worry,” Tara answered and received with pleasure her lover’s lips when Willow kissed her. Oh, those kisses would never lose their sweetness, their love and passion. They pulled away only a few inches and rested their foreheads together. “I love you”
“I love you too.” They kissed again.
“Is it really over?” Tara asked, her lover’s hot breath caressing Tara’s lips, making her desire grow every second. Her body and mind were a mix of feelings right now: sadness and pain, for the years lived under her father’s domain; relief, because now she was free. Happiness, finally she could live her life without fear anymore. Love, for Willow and her friends, a little of arousal too…
“Oh, no, it’s just de beginning, my love, I promise…” Willow kissed her again and the tip of her tongue parted Tara’s lips slightly, almost teasing Tara’s tongue. The blonde opened her lips and trapped Willow’s tongue inside her mouth while sucking and caressing the muscle with her own.
“YO B! Get your ass down here! Red and T are gettin’ hot and heavy!” Faith teasing tone made the witches to pull away from each other and look at their friend, who was leaning against the doorframe.
“We’re not, Faith, I’m helping Tara to heal faster,” Willow explained.
“Sure, Red. Is what you call it these days?” Faith chuckled and shrugged.
“What you mean, Faith?” Tara interfered. The dark-haired girl simply pointed to them and they looked down: Tara’s hand was on her on her lover’s thigh, almost touching Willow’s jean clad center. Willow’s hand was on one of her lover’s breasts, softly touching the cotton covered flesh.
The lovers pulled away and blushed. Their friend just laughed and shook her head.
“What are you laughing at, Faith?” Buffy appeared by her side with her backpack hanging from her shoulder.
“Nothing, B…ya ready? We gotta get to work”
“Sure, I’m ready now,” The small blonde said, smiling. Today she had all the great reasons to smile, after all. “You’re feeling better, Tare?”
“I’m okay, Buffy,” Tara replied, buttoning up her shirt.
“That’s great, Tare. You need to rest so don’t worry, I’m cooking tonight,” Buffy informed her friends.
“You cookin’ B?” Faith raised an eyebrow at her cousin, obviously not believing it.
“Okay, okay, I’m ordering pizza. But I think we should celebrate. Whatcha say? We’re going to the Bronze tonight?”
“Cool idea, B. What you say, lovebirds?” The dark-haired girl couldn’t help to smile at her friends, she thought they were a cute couple. Of course, she wouldn’t say it out loud…
“I don’t think so, Faith,” Willow said. “Tomorrow I must finish that new program I’m working on and sent it while we’re at the Magic Box. But you go, baby, if you want to…I don’t mind.” The redhead looked at her girlfriend.
“No, thanks guys. Not tonight. We both have work tomorrow,” The blonde said.
“Okay, we’re outta here then, lovebirds. Behave, don’t do anything I wouldn’t,” Faith winked and dragged her cousin out of the livin room.
“Bye guys!” Buffy squealed trying to not fall down.
The lovers giggled at their friends. Willow helped Tara to get up, the area was still a bit tender, and too her to the room that was now theirs.
“What you say if you take a nap and then you can a hot bath and when the pizza is here we can eat in our room while watching a movie. What you think, babe?” Willow wrapped her arms around her girlfriend’s waist, who was closing the drawers of the dresser. The redhead rested her chin on Tara’s shoulder.
“What I think is that you’re being lazy, lover,” Tara commented, feeling her lover’s small breasts pressing against her back, the rock hard nipples standing erect and it was driving Tara crazy…
“Maybe, I just want to be alone with you because I haven’t made love to you in two weeks and you’re driving me crazy, baby…” Willow whispered in her lover’s ear, her hands tightening the hold on Tara’s waist and her lips placed a sweet kiss right below Tara’s ear.
“I love you, Will,” Tara couldn’t help to say it again.
“I love you too, Tare,” Willow said back. There was a throb between her legs that was starting to bother her and Tara was aware of this, she just wasn’t saying or doing anything about it.
The blonde witch turned around in her lover’s arms and stared at those beautiful green eyes with so much love and adoration that Willow forgot about her libido.
“What is it, love?” There were tears in Tara’s eyes, and Willow didn’t understand the cause of them. “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing. I was…thinking about our first time…remember? It was so beautiful…so perfect…” Tara’s hands were in Willow’s back, caressing the smooth flesh over the shirt but at the same time pulling her lover closer to her, breasts against breasts, nipples kissing their mates through the layers of clothes, skin aching to be touched…
“How could I forget? You were so nervous, so vulnerable…but at the same time I could see that panther inside of you wanting to come out…I’ve always loved you, Tara, you know that…Since we were kids I love you, Tare-bear, I always have. Even when you left you were in my heart, all the time…” Willow’s tone was extra serious now and her eyes irradiated pure love. “And that night you…you gave yourself to me, you gave me that gift to me. Until this day I regret not-” She was cut off by Tara. The blonde pressed her lips to Willow’s for a moment and then pulled away.
“No. We have talked about this before. I knew back then I wasn’t your first, I know that and it doesn’t matter. And you know why?” Willow shook her head. “Because you let me be the first one to love you, and love is more important.”
“You are, baby. My first and only, Tare-bear. Forever my soulmate,” Willow said. She took Tara’s head with her hands and kissed Tara’s full lips.
“Soulmate forever,” Tara agreed after pulling apart.
“Will? Make love with me?” Tara gave her that lop-side grin that was only for Willow.
“I’ll make love with you ‘till the end of time, baby, and beyond”
Okay...that was the first chapter... I hope you liked it guys!!!!!!! If you did then there will be more of Soulmates!!
