Hello, Kittens. After reading—and greatly appreciating-- Debra’s wonderful fantasy fiction, I felt a rush (every pun intended) of motivation to step up and see if I could add something enjoyable to this excellent thread. Hope you enjoy! – Mary~~~~
Tara dropped her books on the floor, flopped down onto the bed, and let out a long, frustrated sigh.
Willow looked up from her computer and gave her lover a sympathetic smile. "Whatsa matter, Baby? Long day?"
"Long, fruitless, day," Tara replied in exasperation.
"A day should never be without fruit," Willow intoned solemnly. "It’s bad for the complexion."
Tara couldn’t argue with that. "Well, you’ll have to help me get back in touch with my inner cherry." Sitting up, she looked over at the computer screen. Willow had been "editing" their fantasy list again, she noticed with a wry smile.
Honestly, how does that girl ever get any work done? Then again, why not put that libinal organization to work? For her?
"Is there anything I can do?" Willow asked, apparently unaware that she had just provided the perfect segue for Tara’s request.
"Funny you should mention that…" Tara murmured, looking pointedly at the screen. Willow, ever smart and nearly ever horny, caught the drift immediately.
"Ooh—wanna pick something out of the Grab Bag o’ Love?" she asked happily. "We have plenty of time, so Number 12 on your list is an option, although we’d need to go to the produce stand first…and swing by the hardware store."
Tara smiled at her lover’s eagerness to please. It was such a…pleasing trait to see. "Actually, sweetie, I’m thinking of Number 5."
Willow blushed to the roots of her hair. She didn’t need to look at the list to know what Tara was asking of her. Tara saw her discomfort and hesitated: as much as she wanted this, she knew that it would be tough for her to fulfill that for Willow, if the situation were reversed. Within a few seconds, though, the reddening was joined by something else that Tara recognized immediately—the faint flush that spread up Willow’s cheeks, and a slight hitch in her breathing, as if all of the air had suddenly been sucked out of the room. Ah, my girl hesitates and yet anticipates. How beautiful…
"Willow, if you’d rather not…" she began, suspecting correctly that she would soon be interrupted.
"Oh no, I’m definitely game. Gay Me, that’s what I am. Just a little nervous, but that’s OK, right?"
Tara laughed softly. "Honey, if you weren’t a little nervous, I might think you did this all the time. For lots of people. On the bus. So yes, it’s OK to be nervous." She sat back against the end of the bed, holding her hand out to Willow, who took it and joined her. Willow leaned over and kissed Tara softly, waiting for her lover to part her lips just a little bit more before easing her tongue gently over those lips and into the wet warmth of Tara’s mouth. Smiling, and still blushing faintly, Willow sat down with her back against the headboard of the bed, legs crossed. Tara looked at her with a compelling mixture of gentle affection and primal lust.
They sat like this for a moment, gazing at each other, until Tara murmured softly, "So tell me…When did you first notice me in any kind of physical, or erotic way?"
Willow swallowed audibly and ran her hands over the folds of her skirt. "It was after we had floated the rose; the first time we did magic together after the Gentlemen."
Tara looked at her in mild surprise. "That soon?"
Willow gave a small shrug. "Well, it’s not like I went over to your room thinking, ‘Let’s check out the hot babe.’ Believe me, it hit me out of the blue."
Tara smiled. "So what happened?"
"Well, we had just floated the rose; or, to be more exact, we had cleared the rose for launch and it had rocketed all over the room. God, you were so excited. And then, after a minute, I noticed that there were a couple of petals in your hair. You got so embarrassed, but I thought it was beautiful, like some invisible angel had just tossed these rose petals onto you. You were scrambling to try to get them out, and then I offered to help. So you leaned over a little bit and suddenly I could smell the sandalwood you were wearing, and I kind of thought to myself, ‘That’s really nice.’ And then I was touching your hair, reaching for the flowers, and it just stunned me how soft your hair was. I’d never touched hair that soft in my life, including my own. It was like a thousand strands of the tiniest slivers of satin, just brushing over my fingers. I remember taking a long time to get two little rose petals out, and I remember thinking that this was not how I had ever touched any friend, ever before."
Falling silent, she saw Tara gazing at her with eyes that seemed darker than they had a moment before. Willow slowly rubbed her hands along her thighs. "And that was the first time I felt that little twist in my belly."
Tara nodded, almost imperceptibly. "And when was the first time you thought about kissing me?"
Willow nearly closed her eyes, remembering that night so vividly. "That was the night I came over to your room after Buffy had ditched all of us at the Bronze. After I had been such a jerk to you."
"Baby, you weren’t a jerk—"
"Well I wasn’t very kind, or inclusive, or any other adjective I usually find appealing. Anyway, you opened the door and I could tell you were surprised, but also happy, and I knew right then that that’s where I had really wanted to be the whole night, you know? Like I’d made it back home without realizing how much I hadn’t wanted to leave in the first place." She smiled with the memory. "Anyway, you were so warm and funny and kind, and we just talked about everything under the sun. That was the first night we didn’t do any magic at all—we just sat and talked. And I’d never had such an easy time opening up to anyone. I remember seeing the clock and hoping you didn’t notice the time because then you might realize how late it was and decide you wanted to go to bed; I just wanted to stay there as long as I could. But finally I started to feel bad for keeping you up so late—it was a school night, after all, and you had a nine o’clock class the next morning—and so I decided to head home."
"I remember. And I remember how much I didn’t want you to leave."
"Oh God, if only I’d known…Well, maybe I wasn’t ready then, who knows…Anyway, you walked me the whole three feet to the door and we sort of stood there looking at each other for a minute, and I think that’s the first time I felt the sexual tension between us, although I didn’t recognize it at that moment. I just thought you might be coming down w/ something, because your face was sort of flushed, and I figured I was nervous about going out that late at night. I remember you telling me to call you when I got back to Stevens." She smiled, remembering Tara’s concern. "So we’re standing there at the door, and finally, we both reach out to hug each other…only, after a minute, we realize we’re in sort of an A-frame kind of hug, and somehow that just didn’t seem close enough. So we sort of wiggled in a little closer…" Her voice tightened slightly, and her hands edged minutely higher along her upper thighs. "We, uh, got closer, until we were pressed up against each other, body to body…"
Tara asked softly, "What did it feel like? Feeling me against you?"
Willow took a deep breath. "It was…soft, and warm. I’d never felt anything like that before, the way I felt when your body touched mine…" Her hands now tugged at her skirt, edging it up over her legs. Her fingers slid down the inner curve of her thighs. She shifted slightly, uncrossing her legs and letting them fall open. Tara could almost see the dark fabric of Willow’s panties.
"My head rested just above your breast; I could hear your heart beat. I remember how fast it was beating, and I wondered what you were thinking about, what you were feeling. I could feel your breath against my neck; your fingers kept tracing these tiny little patterns over my upper and lower back. You smelled so good, Tara…like sandalwood and sage and something else that I was starting to recognize was just you, your scent…" She trailed off, bringing her left hand up to let her fingers undo the top buttons of her green shirt.
"You shifted, turned your head; and I thought you wanted to go," Tara murmured.
"I know. You dropped your hands so quickly, like you were ashamed, like you’d done something wrong. But I just wanted to be next to you, feel you in different ways, even if I didn’t let myself know that at the time. I tucked my head under your chin, trying to touch your skin however I could. You were wearing that long-sleeved white t- shirt and I was so frustrated, feeling that cotton where I wanted to feel your skin. I pulled you close until you slid your hands onto me again." She paused to lick her lips, sliding her fingers under the fabric of her shirt until it rested against her silk bra.
Tara spoke in a low voice. "When I did, my right hand just barely grazed over your ass. I hadn’t meant to do it, but when it felt it…it was like my hand just burned. All I wanted to do was let myself touch you, squeeze you. I had watched you so many times, looking at your ass under your jeans, wondering how it would feel to touch you there."
Willow swallowed heavily as her fingertips brushed over her nipple—so hard that it was almost painful. She paused, and then squeezed it between her finger and thumb. She rocked forward just slightly at the pressure. She spread her legs a little wider, and now Tara could see not only her panties, but also the dark stain of wetness pressing through them.
Willow tried to find her voice. "After a few minutes like that, I let myself touch your hair again—I had wanted to ever since that first time. And I could see your pulse in your throat, that little hollow in the front—it started jumping when I touched you. And I knew then, beyond a doubt, that what I felt for you wasn’t friendship; no friendship ever made me ache like that, or feel that hot and…and hungry all the time. I knew I didn’t ever want to stop touching you like that, because I didn’t know when I’d get to again, and I knew that as soon as we pulled apart I’d want to be back in your arms again. And I remember…"
"What? What do you remember?"
"I remember feeling how wet I was. And I knew what it was, Tara. I knew that I was turned on, so much; I could feel it spilling out of me." Then she slid her right hand further under her skirt until she touched the dampness of her silk panties. Trying to stifle a groan, she stroked her thumb teasingly over her mound.
"And Tara, you finally pulled back a little—God, I can still feel how much I hated that—and then, before I could really register it, you had kissed me on the cheek. Do you remember?"
Before her, Tara held her gaze with steadily darkening eyes. "Of course I do. I replayed it a thousand times in my head. I wanted to kiss you so badly, Willow, but I was so afraid. I kept hoping maybe you’d kiss me."
"Oh God, I wanted to…I knew right then I wanted to. I kept thinking how close your lips were, and how many times I’d noticed them before without really taking the thought any further. But that night, right then—they were all I could think about…Wondering what they’d feel like; knowing you’d kissed other women before and feeling so jealous all of a sudden that I could barely stand it. I wondered how you’d taste and how you’d like to kiss…"
Willow was struggling now for air. She looked desperately at Tara until her lover whispered, "Yes. Do it." And with that permission, Willow brought both hands to the hem of her panties and edged them slowly down over her hips and then her legs. Tara reached out, tugging them insistently over Willow’s ankles and discarding them on the floor.
"Keep going…please."
Willow let her fingers trace small circles back up over her thighs, and then she edged back slightly, just barely lowering herself against the head board. She felt Tara slide her foot between Willow’s legs and then push first one, and then the other, further apart.
"I wanted to kiss you so badly, Tara. But I was so afraid; I wasn’t ready yet. But God, how I wanted to…"
"Shh, Sweetie…It’s OK. You never disappointed me, ever."
"But you were so beautiful, Tara…" The words were said with a half-groan, as Willow slowly stroked the fingers of both hands over her swollen lips and then parted them gently. Tara could see how damp her lover’s wiry, copper curls were, even from her distance.
"Just like you. Like you always are to me." Tara’s words were a caress over Willow’s breasts and hips and…and there, that place Tara could stroke without lifting a finger.
"Tell me when you first thought about making love to me, Willow. Tell me when you first thought about touching me, and letting me touch you. Tell me when you first imagined making me come."
Willow bit down on her lower lip, trying to catch her breath. She wasn’t sure she could get through this part…
"I think you know, Tara," she managed, two fingers lightly circling her entrance and choking at the feel, the extent of her wetness.
"Tell me anyway. Tell me when you first thought about it, and what you wanted to do…" Tara’s voice was like finely-brushed suede, grazing up and all over her, reaching every part of her skin.
"It was the night—the night we went into the Nether Realms to find Buffy." Willow brought her fingers—slippery now, and warm—up to tease her clit. With a slight rock of her hips, she gasped at the touch.
"It was so warm there; I felt like I could have fallen asleep at first. But then I felt your spirit reaching me, holding onto me while I moved through the mists. Then it was your energy keeping me warm. And Tara, I could feel you—I could feel you slide into me, that’s the only way I can describe it. I know that we were only linked at our palms, and that was just at the beginning, but that’s exactly what it felt like. You…you reached into me and filled me up, every little hollow and hidden room in my whole body and soul. Oh God, Tara, you were so strong; I knew nothing bad would happen to me. I felt so hot, like I’d never felt before, and it was all I could do to focus on finding Buffy because all I wanted to do was soak you up; pull all of you into all of me. I—I was aching, Tara; I felt like my whole body was throbbing with you, with wanting you."
She could barely speak. The fingers of her right hand stroked hungrily over her clit, while her left hand fumbled with her bra, pushing it aside to grasp her nipple almost roughly.
Tara’s own breath came in shallow waves. "I remember, Willow. I remember feeling like I was in you, and it was so hot I could barely breathe. And the deeper into you I went, the wetter I got. Did you know that? Sitting there, inside that circle, I was so wet and hungry for you."
"And then, when I came back—I knew we should call Giles right away, or go try to find Buffy…but I couldn’t. I was exhausted, but I also just wanted to stay close to you. We were so close that night, Tara? Do you remember?" She saw glittering in the blue eyes that gazed back at her.
"Yes, my love. I remember. I will always remember."
"When I came back, we just looked at each other for the longest time, and then you pulled me over so that I was curled up in your arms, and you brushed my hair back from my face, and…and you kissed my forehead. It was the softest kiss I’d ever felt, and it was the most sensual at the same time. Because of what we’d just been through together. You—you asked if I wanted to stay over and it was like I couldn’t get the words out of my mouth fast enough: yes, God yes, how could I have been anywhere else?"
Her words were almost a sob now. Her fingers quickened their stroking over her swollen clit, while she squeezed her aching nipple with no gentleness.
"We fell into bed; you were spooning me, I can still feel your breasts against my back, even through our clothes. And I was so tired, Tara, I was so tired, but I couldn’t fall asleep."
"Why, Love? Why couldn’t you sleep?"
"Because I wanted you so badly, Tara. I was wet; I was almost afraid you’d feel it, pressed against me like that."
"And I was afraid you would feel me. Because I was wet, too. Did you have any idea?"
Willow could only shake her head. "I thought you wanted me too, but I wasn’t sure. I just lay there, aching for you."
"What did you want to do?"
Willow was stroking faster now; her fingers sliding down and over her clit in a wild, unscripted dance.
"I wanted—"
"Spread yourself open, Willow. Let me see you; all of you."
Willow moaned at the words, and brought her left hand down, tugging her skirt out of the way; and then eased her fingers onto her wet lips and spread them open.
"Like that, Baby?" She gasped with the effort of speech. "Is that how you want me?"
"Oh God, yes, Willow…You’re so beautiful—wet, and slick; and your fingers, the way they move. It’s how they move on me, isn’t it?"
"Yes…"
"And what did you want to do to me that night?"
"I wanted—I wanted to roll over and straddle you and kiss you…I didn’t want to talk, and I didn’t want to go slow; I wanted to push your shirt up and squeeze your breasts…Oh God, Tara, all the times I imagined how your breasts would feel and what it would be like to suck your nipples into my mouth…I wanted it so much, Tara, I almost cried in your bed."
"Did you want to touch all of me, Willow? Did you want to know if I was wet, too?"
"Yes…Yes, I wanted to squeeze your breasts together and then lower my head to one nipple and let one hand wander down over your belly and then under your panties…You weren’t wearing any pajama bottoms, just a long nightshirt, and I kept thinking about how easy it would be to touch you there. Touch your clit, rub it over and over while I sucked on your nipple…"
"And did you want to go inside of me?"
Willow groaned. "Yes…Oh God, yes, I wanted to slide my fingers into you; I wanted to know if you’d like it, if you’d want to be full with me—"
"Show me."
"Like this." Willow spread her legs a little further open, and parted her lips again, and then eased two fingers into herself. She gave a half-sob and felt herself spasm slightly.
Tara watched, scarcely able to draw breath, as wet fingers disappeared into her lover and then emerged slowly, only to be plunged back in to their full depth. Forcing herself to speak, she urged, "Tell me more, Willow. Stroke yourself; make yourself come for me."
Willow tried to articulate the images and memories that were flying across her mind, while she felt her own climax drawing closer. She teased her clit with one hand even as she pumped deeper and deeper into herself with the other.
"I wanted to…to feel you clench around me," she managed. "Wanted to make you as wet as I was; feel as hungry as I did. I wanted…"
"What? What did you want?"
"I wanted to push into you, pump into you, and hear you call my name; I wanted to say yours, over and over." Willow was rocking harder into the bed, fingers plunging urgently into her wetness while her clit throbbed.
"Did you want to feel me come?"
Willow groaned. "Yes. It was all I…all I could think about—how you’d feel when you came, how you’d sound, would you call out my name…"
"Always, Willow; I always cry out your name when I come; when you make me come so sweet and hard like you do."
Willow couldn’t speak, she knew she couldn’t speak anymore, but Tara wanted her to, Tara wanted to hear all of her thoughts, and she wanted to give this to her—
"Shh, Willow. It’s OK. Let it go. Let me see you come."
The words were like a final catalyst, a permission not needed but so lovingly given, and Willow surged to their sound. Her hips arched up off of the bed as she thrust her fingers into herself with one last cry, and stroked her clit with final, frenzied movements, and then she shuddered and cried out Tara’s name and then finally eased back fully onto the bed.
Gone was any sense of self-consciousness.
"You are the most beautiful, sexy woman I have ever met," Tara said simply, coming to stretch out beside her beloved.
Willow allowed herself a small grin of pride. "You liked?"
Tara laughed. "I liked muchly."
"Muchly, as in wetly muchly?"
"Oh, very wetly muchly," Tara assured her.
Feeling her second wind start to hit her, Willow propped herself up on one elbow.
"Sure would hate to see that much wetness go to waste. Remember your inner fruit…" She trailed off hopefully.
"Well, you’ve pretty much taken all the cherry I have, but we can certainly make our way through other juicy options." Tara kissed Willow softly, and rested her hand over her heart.
"Sounds like an excellent idea. Just let me catch my breath, and then we’ll see what’s in the fridge…"
Later, they reluctantly crossed Number 5 off of Tara’s list. Their sadness was eased, however, by the decision to slide it over onto Willow’s ever-burgeoning one.
The End