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Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/03)

Postby Citanul » Fri Dec 05, 2014 9:25 pm

Hello Laragh. Great double posts, very moving. I have to say that, as someone who grew up lax catholic, I liked the way you captured the sadly rampant levels of hypocrisy, apathy and intolerance that plague the church on an organizational and administrative level.

And the scene where Kristen manages a quick goodbye was very well done. The little girl, even without the ability to hear her mother's over reactionary hate, knows she can't see Tara anymore and does everything she can to end things on acceptable yet still catastrophic terms.

Also from the first time you introduced Kristen, her mother and the cross the little girl was wearing I could tell that job wasn't going to end well.

The big fight chapter turned out to be a bracing read as well. Hopefully this was an eye opener that both girls will take to heart.

Looking forward to their next adventure.
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Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/03)

Postby SneakyCat » Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:42 am

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Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/03)

Postby SneakyCat » Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:43 am

Hey Laragh :bigwave
Great couple of chapters, that was a gripping read! And the respite at the end was very welcome after such painful developments.

Ch. 81:
You promised there would be a plot point involving Kirsten and we knew it was coming, but it still felt like a punch in the stomach (make that several consecutive punches). I figured Kirsten’s mother would pull something of the sort, but I had not anticipated the organization would fire Tara over this -- adding insult to injury. I remember Kirsten’s cross but I hadn’t realized the organization was faith-based, and Catholic at that. Say no more. Some things never change.

Kirsten contemplated that, and nodded back in affirmation, then quickly got distracted by Miss Fishy Fantastico.


I was looking forward to seeing how Kirsten would deal with the whole gay thing. I liked her reaction: she took it in her stride, good-humoredly and matter-of-factly, ok, cool, hey there’s a fish! It makes what happens later on even sadder. She’s still quite innocent and unaware of some unpleasant realities of our world.

The fact that she obviously doesn’t see it as that big of a deal explains why she failed to anticipate her mother’s reaction. Of course the mother would never mention the topic of homosexuality (let alone actual gay people!) in front of her teenage daughter, so K would have no reason to suspect her mother of being homophobic, and she didn’t think it was wrong or a taboo subject…
Did she at least get to keep the pictures? I really doubt the mother would let her keep them.

“I didn’t do anything,” Tara almost shrieked, yet was eerily quiet, “She’s going to think I just abandoned her.”


“It’s an unfortunate situation,” Clare replied with the least convincing sympathetic tone ever, though it seemed borne out of frustration at the situation instead of any personal hatred.


Heartbreaking. The lady has her hands tied, so to speak, she’s not too happy about the turn of events but… what are you gonna do? I would hate to have to make a decision like that. At least Tara gets a warm recommendation but it leaves a bitter taste in your mouth. So unfair and wrong on so many levels, but it’s the parents’ prerogative to take their child away.

I thought it was very nicely done how you described Tara’s reaction in just a few words, the mix of alarm and unnatural calm. And her fear that Kirsten might not understand the full extent of the implications for Tara (that comes up again in full force when Willow deletes the number). Very poignant.

You give Tara’s perspective and not Kirsten's so we have no way of knowing what she really thinks, but I really get the feeling Kirsten understands exactly what happened.

Kirsten was 20 feet away at the arched entrance to the park, waving frantically whilst also keeping an eye out around her. Her face was relieved when Tara finally recognised her, then forlorn for the few seconds they locked eyes.


I don’t see any hard feelings there.

She started to sign goodbye, but changed it at the last second to ‘cool’.


Tara had to cover her face to hide the gasping sob that left her, but made sure to return the sign before Kirsten was dragged away, thankfully without their communication being seen.


It’s not the goodbye they deserve, but I’m glad they get to have that last look and connection. She’s great, that Kirsten. Hopefully she’ll make good friends at school, she’ll need them.

Ch 82:
I liked your take on the argument from Tough Love. Yours lasts longer and you have taken the trouble to prepare it in the preceding chapters, unlike on the show where it sort of came out of the blue. The professor’s wife didn’t just plant the seeds of doubt, they were there beforehand. That was convincingly done, and not rushed. It worked really well IMO.

It’s like a whole different ball game when it’s a job you need to live and not just experience. I mean, you can't really know what it's like to–”

Oops, tactless.

“All I meant was...”


I don’t know what she could say at that point except “sorry, I was a bit of a jerk”.

Willow started to stand.

“No, it's okay. This whole job thing, let's just forget it.”


And yet burying issues under the rug isn’t likely to make them go away. (Easy to say, harder to do…)

Their fight would have been resolved reasonably quickly because they both let go of their grudges and fear and want to talk and listen. But then you introduce the ‘Tara hostage crisis’ (is that even funny? Nah) with the result that they don’t get a chance to talk it out and work it out for a long while. Again, for me, it works. Tara having flashbacks of her father abusing her and shaming her is gut-wrenching. Maybe the shock causing that is a little stretch of the imagination, but then, why not? You are entitled to your poetic license, and besides it was hard to tie it in to the show and Glory targeting Tara. You even mentioned the key in a way that could fit with the situation.

But what a rough time for Tara! And not too great for Willow, either.

Wrapping it up ‘cause I’m taking too long again:

I liked the Wicca woman, I smiled at the way she talked, and Willow’s intuition in finding her ring. Master of deduction, this one. Romantic, too.

Willow replied, a vein in her forehead popping with anger.

A touch of Dark Willow there?

“You really have some crappy luck. Do we live on some kind of a hellmouth?”

Tee hee (but notice the use of humor as deflection! :geek)

Very much like Tara to have her aggressor's interest in mind :heart

The talk was very much delayed and it was important enough for Tara to still want to have it despite the fact that she is so tired. Willow seems a little afraid of it.

And that when we fight I go in, temper blazing. I need to fix that


Yes indeed, but acceptance is the first step, right? :wink

Happy ending! Finally! And I can't wait to see how the rest will unfold.
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Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/10)

Postby Laragh » Wed Dec 10, 2014 11:01 am

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Dibs! (Yay)


Well done!

Awww!!! Your fics always get me all emotional.


In a good way, I hope!

It's sad that Tara couldn't see Kirsten anymore. :( But I figured it had to happen, since she wasn't in Hacker Confidential. That didn't make it any less sad though.


Good call. It's certainly unfortunate. Sorry you're sad.

But that part at the end with the ring and the "You're my always," totally turned me into a girl. I was feeling masculine before this, but now I'm all girly. Your fics do that to me.


'Brings out the girl in you' can be my tagline.

Thanks for commenting :)

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I really hope that Tara is able to properly say goodbye to Kirsten and explain why they are not able to see each other again...


Well, let's just say we haven't heard the absolute final thing from Kirsten...

I'm really glad that they talked in the end what has been bothering them due to increased workload and reduced relationship time... The fight and Tara's encounted with "doctor Ben" was really sad but in the end they got them really to talk...


Sometimes those moments slap you in the face and makes you realise what's important.

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Hey Laragh :bigwave


Hi Rick :)

Whoops, sorry about that but I appear to have missed a chapter (80) then again it could have been because I didn't expect two updates two weeks in a row. Still that just means more Willow and Tara goodness right :)


More W/T is always good!

One thing I have wondered about is where Willow got her love of horror films from. In an earlier chapter she and Tara did a double date with Becky and her boyfriend Willow starts talking horror with Becky's boyfriend. I can understand sci-fi with the idea of how things work or could work if they were a viable reality. But what is it that gave Willow her appreciation of horror???????


“When I was a teenager I used to watch a lot of scary movies, that was my only Halloween rebellion.” - Willow, that Halloween chapter in question.

Personnally I like the yellow one but considering I work in a ladies clothes shop maybe the job has gone to my head slightly :p lol


I think they were both pretty, but one was more formal and one was more casual

I wonder how much of Tara being worriied about her state of dress is less to do with her clothing and more to not being very comfortable in social situations?


Much more the latter.

They keep Good HouseKeeping in the bathroom???? How odd we keep a bath in ours :p


I'm not a magazine in the bathroom kinda gal either, but these people are all about appearances...

Poor Tara seems to come under an excessive amount of stress in the relationship though this time it's due to other peoples ill will to their own partners and not necessarily her own.


Not really, to be fair. Their relationship has been far from rocky, they've had less than a handful of fights.

I like these lines. They're sweet, romantic and show how sure Willow is of their relationship-that it is one that will last. I also wonder if there was a bit of a Star Wars thing going on there???? Perhaps she's seen the new trailer.


It was written before that was released, and Willow's still living in 2007, so nope :P

I get what you mean about it isn't just Willow who has to work at stuff for the relationship to work. Here it's Tara at fault as she can only see Willow typing away. For all Tara knows she could be working on the creation of 'Deep Thought' (for any Hitch-Hikers fans out there). However instead of staying all calm about things she gets all huffy, which is kinda weird to read as I always thought Tara was the most together one of the team.


Even the most together person in the world isn't together 100% of the time or when under a lot of stress.

Hmm, I have a bad feeling about this.


The camera is the only thing to come out of this casualty-free, actually.

Will this finally be the big meeting between Willow and Kirsten that I've been looking forward to so much????
Won't Kirsten's mom be pissed at Tara for taking her to the dorm? She could throw some pretty nasty accusations around and with Willow and Tara being a couple maybe even throw in the suggestion of child molestation.
This is not something I want to make light of by any means, I am merely suggesting that this is a possible point of view that Kirsten's mom could take, possibly bringing real trouble to the girls.


Seems we're on the same wavelength.

Oh Willow, it's your complete doofusness that endears us to you.


Very true!

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA LOL
After a little bit of drama some very funny humour which I'd like to have heard on the show. Plus Tara, Mr. Spock isnt just some pointy eared man as you seem to think. He is half Human/half Vulcan and science officer and second in command of the the USS Enterprise. Yes I'm a geek and I'm now showing off, I don't care.


Gotta balance everything out with some funnies. I'm sure Tara has been subjected to plenty of Star Trek too!

I find this part disgusts, appalls and upsets me in equal measures. Surely by now in our evolution we must have reached a stage where we can accept all people as they are no matter their race, colour, creed, orientation, gender or whatever. And as for it being a Catholic organisation well I'm sorry but I do watch the news and I've heard all about the stuff that has gone on there involving child abuse. Please do not read this the wrong way anyone who is reading this. I am not saying anything against Catholic worshippers in any way shape or form, one of my cousins is a catholic and is one of the lovliest people I know. No, my problem is with the hypotcrites in the church who can shut their eyes while one thing happens yet complain about gay people wanting to say foster or adopt. We can never truly call ourselves an advanced race while this still goes on and we are still essentially living in a dark age instead of one of love, trust and reason.

That's my rant over. I'm truly sorry if I've offended anybody, that has not been my intent but to have Tara called out on something that isn't even wrong and she has followed the rules laid out for her, it just irks me is all.


I'm no fan of the church either, and there are some lovely church-goers, but there's also plenty who use it to justify their hatred. It's a very sad truth.

I was glad to see that Kirsten had a chance to see Tara one last time, even if it was from distance. I'd have preferred it if they could have spent time talking to each other before having to go their separate ways.


So would I, so would Tara, but alas, it could not be.

Love Willow's 'Fight City Hall all the way' type reaction to Tara's being fired though she is right in deleting Kirsten's number cos if it goes off when mother is around Tara can be in all kinds of trouble.


It's all very unfortunate and sad, but I absolutely believe Willow did the right thing.

Sorry about this Laragh but I felt that some of chapter 82 was kinda forced. I know you were borrowing from season 5 Buffy and it was a way to get Tara airing her fears but I just would have preferred it to have come a chapter or two later and dealt more with Tara not being able to see Kirsten anymore. Possibly a last meeting between them so that Tara could explain to Kirsten what had happened at the Little Sister Centre.


I find it odd that you think Willow was right to delete Kirsten's number but somehow think they then could have met up again? Tara was fired, she has no reason to go back there and Kirsten's mother isn't going to let her back. Another chapter or two of Tara feeling sorry for herself and lamenting that she isn't allowed to see her? What else is there to say? People's lives go on and Tara was still shown to be dealing with it. It wasn’t ignored or brushed under the rug, it was brought up in two contexts in that chapter (Tara doing extra laundry to keep busy and her melancholy about not needing to have to sign any more when her fingers were strapped). You seem to be presuming this is the very last time Kirsten will be mentioned, which is incorrect.

I don't want to be snarky but I'm really confused as to what you're saying you wanted to have happened? They've been out of sync for weeks and there's so much more going on than the Tara/Kirsten stuff. I absolutely believe that Willow/Tara and their issues should be the priority, without ignoring the other life issues (both the project and T/K stuff was brought up in the resolution chapter). W/T's relationship doesn't stop just because there's stuff going on in their personal lives. This was the whole lesson they needed to learn. I actually think it would have been an awful reflection on them if the T/K stuff overshadowed the W/T stuff. I 100% stand behind my decision to prioritise them. Sorry you disagree, that's the nature of fiction sometimes.

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Citanul -

Hello Laragh. Great double posts, very moving. I have to say that, as someone who grew up lax catholic, I liked the way you captured the sadly rampant levels of hypocrisy, apathy and intolerance that plague the church on an organizational and administrative level.


I live in Ireland, which is a (slowly dwindling, but still somewhat intense) catholic country, and in the 90's when I was growing up, it was even more so, so I'm unfortunately familiar with it. I was baptised and made my communion but I've denounced the religion since I could understand what it actually meant.

And the scene where Kristen manages a quick goodbye was very well done. The little girl, even without the ability to hear her mother's over reactionary hate, knows she can't see Tara anymore and does everything she can to end things on acceptable yet still catastrophic terms.


I like to think Tara imparted some lessons in empathy in their time together.

Also from the first time you introduced Kristen, her mother and the cross the little girl was wearing I could tell that job wasn't going to end well.


'Kirsten' also means 'Christian'...and I think she showed a lot more 'traditional' Christian values than her mother (I say traditional because modern day Christian values seem to be morphing into a whole different thing!)

The big fight chapter turned out to be a bracing read as well. Hopefully this was an eye opener that both girls will take to heart.


I have no doubt they will ( :wink)

Looking forward to their next adventure.


Hope you continue to enjoy it!

Thanks for the feedback :)

SneakyCat -

Hey Laragh  Great couple of chapters, that was a gripping read! And the respite at the end was very welcome after such painful developments.


I was glad to finally get there too!

Ch. 81: You promised there would be a plot point involving Kristen and we knew it was coming, but it still felt like a punch in the stomach (make that several consecutive punches). I figured Kirsten’s mother would pull something of the sort, but I had not anticipated the organization would fire Tara over this -- adding insult to injury. I remember Kristen’s cross but I hadn’t realized the organization was faith-based, and Catholic at that. Say no more. Some things never change.


The Big Brother/Big Sister Program was actually started as a Catholic organisation and different branches adopt different ethea.

I was looking forward to seeing how Kirsten would deal with the whole gay thing. I liked her reaction: she took it in her stride, good-humoredly and matter-of-factly, ok, cool, hey there’s a fish! It makes what happens later on even sadder. She’s still quite innocent and unaware of some unpleasant realities of our world.
The fact that she obviously doesn’t see it as that big of a deal explains why she failed to anticipate her mother’s reaction. Of course the mother would never mention the topic of homosexuality (let alone actual gay people!) in front of her teenage daughter, so K would have no reason to suspect her mother of being homophobic, and she didn’t think it was wrong or a taboo subject…


The thing is, the mother could have said plenty of homophobic stuff that Kirsten just missed, if it wasn't directed at her and she isn't able to overhear. But we haven't heard the total end from Kirsten quite yet.

Did she at least get to keep the pictures? I really doubt the mother would let her keep them.


Here's hoping the homophobe was also a technophobe and Kirsten got in there before they were gone forever.

Heartbreaking. The lady has her hands tied, so to speak, she’s not too happy about the turn of events but… what are you gonna do? I would hate to have to make a decision like that. At least Tara gets a warm recommendation but it leaves a bitter taste in your mouth. So unfair and wrong on so many levels, but it’s the parents’ prerogative to take their child away.


That's pretty much it. Even if Tara could fight, it wouldn't be to get Kirsten back. If the parents say no, then it's no.

I thought it was very nicely done how you described Tara’s reaction in just a few words, the mix of alarm and unnatural calm. And her fear that Kirsten might not understand the full extent of the implications for Tara (that comes up again in full force when Willow deletes the number). Very poignant.


Tara's heart did break. And being her, she of course blamed herself and when something like that happens it's such a harsh reminder that so much of the world is against you.

You give Tara’s perspective and not Kirsten so we have no way to know what she really thinks, but I really get the feeling Kirsten understands exactly what happened.


She knows enough to know it's not Tara's fault.

It’s not the goodbye they deserve, but I’m glad they get to have that last look and connection. She’s great, that Kirsten. Hopefully she’ll make good friends at school, she’ll need them.


Like I said, there will be some closure.

Ch 82: I liked your whole take on the argument from Tough Love. Your argument lasts longer and you have taken the trouble to prepare it in the preceding chapters, unlike on the show where it sort of came out of the blue. The professor’s wife didn’t just plant the seeds of doubt, they were there beforehand. That was convincingly done, and not rushed. It worked really well.


It was painful for me and them, but the whole thing was about it not coming out of nowhere. Sometimes there's little fights that are about little things, but those insidious things always burrow and come out in different ways before it all blows up. Also I thought the whole Tough Love fight was a bogus topic considering we saw nothing to indicate it.

Oops, a little tactless there…

I don’t know what she could say at that point except sorry, I was a bit of a jerk.


Tara definitely should have just paused and apologised there. Explaining is digging the hole deeper, however, they kinda needed to go a little deeper.

And yet burying issues under the rug isn’t likely to make them go away. (Easy to say, harder to do…)
Their fight would have been resolved reasonably quickly because they both let go of their grudges and fear and want to talk and listen. But then you introduce the ‘Tara hostage crisis’ (is that even funny? Nah) with the result that they don’t get a chance to talk it out and work it out for a long while. Again, for me, it works.


There can be a danger in having something bad happen making you forget about a fight, and we never got to see the resolution of the Tough Love fight. I thought it was important to bring it the whole way.

Tara having flashbacks of her father abusing her and shaming her is gut-wrenching. Maybe the shock causing that is a little stretch of the imagination, but then, why not? You are entitled to your poetic license, and besides it was hard to tie it in to the show and Glory targeting Tara.


It was shock + concussion. She was confused from the concussion and associated pain with her father, so her mind went there.

You even mentioned the key in a way that could fit with the situation.


That was the hardest bit to fit, but I figured if I was recreating the fight, I had to go the whole hog.

But what a rough time for Tara! And not too great for Willow, either.


Hard, hard day, for them both.

I liked the Wicca woman, I smiled at her talk, and Willow’s intuition in finding her ring. Master of deduction, this one. Romantic, too.


She actually ended up being pretty important, in guiding Willow the right way. Willow, too, is very romantic, I think. She's really great at the gestures, big and small.

A touch of Dark Willow there?


Nicely picked up on!

Tee hee (but notice the use of humor as deflection! :geek)


Both mine and Willow's specialty.

Very much like Tara to have her aggressor's interest in mind


She was very tired (as she was when the football kid attacked her - a time she probably should have chosen to press charges) but I think she would have nothing but sympathy for someone with a mental health issue, even when she was so badly hurt.

The talk was very much delayed and it was important enough for Tara to still want to have it despite the fact that she is so tired. Willow seems a little afraid of it.


Well her heart was a little broken too by hearing that Tara didn't trust her. Nobody wants to hear that.

Yes indeed, but acceptance is the first step, right? :wink


It is! And it's unfortunately something she never loses, though will (with a lot of work) try to control, not before some more run-ins with it though. This though, will have her learn not to subject Tara to it (the 'Mia fight' had her pushing Tara around a bit which is absolutely not okay) and it doesn't help them as a couple that it's her go-to.

Has it been weeks already? It needed a big explosion like this to end it. Like a vaccine so when things start to slip again they’ll remember and not neglect or keep it bottled up.


It had been weeks! At least two since the party and a lot more since the whole project started.

Happy ending! Finally! And I can't wait to see how the rest will unfold.


We got there in the end and with good promise for the future! Hope you enjoy how it continues :)

(Damn double posts... :blush )


I can delete that for you if you want!

Thanks for your feedback :)




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Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/10)

Postby Laragh » Wed Dec 10, 2014 11:04 am

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TITLE: College Confidential

WRITER: Laragh

CHAPTER RATING: NC-17

DISCLAIMER: Willow, Tara and any other characters from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise belong to Joss Whedon, FOX, ME and a whole host of other entities, none of which are me.

SUMMARY: The first part of the prequel to Hacker Confidential and Family Confidential - the college years!

SPOILERS: Perhaps minor references to the show or stealage of dialogue, but nothing that would spoil the series.

FEEDBACK: Yes please

Chapter 83

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“Willow, are we going to do this every morning?”


Willow pushed her hips against Tara’s naked rear from her ‘big spoon’ position and left kisses along her girlfriend's shoulder and upper arm.


“I sure hope so.”


Tara blushed but couldn’t help shooting a smile behind.


“Not that,” she said, sliding a hand beneath the covers to rest on Willow’s arms around her waist, “The Fort Knox hold you have on me.”


Willow just held on tighter.


“You shouldn’t be going to stupid work anyway, you’re injured.”


“I don’t even need the sling anymore,” Tara replied, tapping her strapped fingers gently against Willow’s hand, “And I like having a couple extra bucks to spend on you.”


“You don’t need to spend any money on me,” Willow protested, kissing a spot behind Tara’s ear.


Tara glanced over her shoulder.


“Either do you.”


Willow rolled her eyes, then rested her chin on Tara’s.


“Five more minutes?”


Tara nodded; she had to offer some sensibility to Willow’s silliness but she loved being pulled back into bed every morning and had begun to set her alarm with time to allow for it.


“Okay…”


They lay in comfortable silence for a couple of those minutes before Willow broke it.


“Hate all the time to kill now the project write-up is finished. Especially when that whole ‘you’ll get a name credit’ thing turned out to be an addendum at the end with a bunch of other names, including the freakin’ cafeteria ladies that catered.”


“I’m sorry, honey, I know you were disappointed,” Tara replied softly.


“Taught me a thing or two, I’ll tell you that much,” Willow replied, but relaxed again quickly, “Least you won’t have to work at all in a couple more weeks.”


“Back to the school grind,” Tara replied with a sigh, “Last year, can you believe it?”


“I’m still in a fantasy land that college will go on forever, don’t bust it please,” Willow replied quickly, only half-joking, “They are working you harder this year though. Last summer you could come home after tours, now you’re in the office until all the way until dinner.”


Tara turned herself in Willow’s arms so they were facing each other.


“I’m sorry, sweetie.”


Willow brushed a piece of hair from Tara’s face, then pressed a soft kiss against her lips.


“It’s okay, I’m just being greedy,” she said when they broke, “You make lots of time for me. I was the one who needed to learn that.”


She leaned in so their noses brushed off each other. They shared some silent kisses before the glare of the alarm clock made Tara break off.


“I have to go.”


Willow grabbed her again.


“One more minute.”


Tara shook her head apologetically.


“I need to shower.”


“You smell great,” Willow argued, rubbing her hand over the curve of her girlfriend’s hip.


Tara’s nose scrunched.


“I smell like sex.”


“Yeah, you smell great,” Willow replied with a cocky grin.


“Not to anyone else,” Tara countered but soon found herself sinking back into the bed and had to forcefully stop herself, “Willow, don’t do the pout. You know it’s a superpower.”


Willow let out a grumpy sound but released her girlfriend.


“Okay, okay,” she relented, propping herself up on her elbow, “I’ll come collect you later, yeah?”


“You’re so sweet,” Tara replied and leaned down to offer a final kiss, “I love you.”


Willow smiled happily.


“And I know it.”






“Tara, where’s that cutie with the red hair been?”


Tara was busy sorting and stapling piles of paper together in the back office, but Judy’s voice easily carried all the way back there.


“What was her name? Azalea? Holly?”


“Willow,” Tara answered politely.


Judy turned in her chair to face Tara.


“Is she still on the scene?”


Tara nodded.


“Very much so.”


Judy leaned forward, inquiringly.


“We haven’t seen her all summer.”


Tara continued on with her work, surprised she’d gotten so far into the summer without being interrogated yet.


“She was busy with an internship.”


“Oh, how wonderful,” Judy replied, looking back to the two other women, “Isn’t it wonderful, ladies?”


There were some murmurings of agreement.


“Uh huh, I’ve very proud of her,” Tara replied, having learned early on never to say anything leading lest she wanted her ear worn off.


Judy was spinning a pencil in her hand and used it to point to Tara’s strapped fingers.


“And uh, how are you getting along with the, ah…”


Tara stiffly moved her fingers up and down.


“Oh they don’t hurt too much anymore. I can still get the store room ready for the files.”


“And other things I’m sure,” Judy replied with her little grin before spinning back around to her computer.


Tara tried to ignore the blush she knew had graced her cheeks and stapled the pages just a little harder. After a while she heard some commotion and peeked out to see Willow was there and getting questions thrown at her from all angles.


“Honey,” Tara said as she stepped out.


Willow shot her a look of relief.


“Hi. Um, want to get dinner?”


Tara smiled apologetically.


“I texted you. I have to stay late to clean out the store room.”


Willow frowned and brought out her phone to check.


“Oh.”


“You’re not going to let her do it all by herself, are you?” Judy asked with a devious smile, “With her fingers like that?”


“Oh, can I help?” Willow asked, genuinely perked up.


Tara shook her head.


“People aren’t supposed to come back he–”


“Who’s going to say anything, us?” Judy replied, waving her hand, “Go, help her.”


Willow shrugged and Tara puffed out a breath and walked out of the desk area towards the storage closet.


“What was that about?” Willow asked, blowing some dust out of her face as they walked in.


“It was a favour in her own way,” Tara replied with a sigh, “I said about 10 words but she managed to deduce we haven’t gotten to spend much time together lately.”


Willow nodded.


“She seems like she’s good like that.”


Tara started to rub her own neck.


“You have no idea.”


Willow bounced on the balls of her feet uncomfortably.


“I can leave…”


Tara nodded.


“Yeah, you shouldn’t have gotten roped into it.”


“I mean, I don’t mind, but you want me to go…” Willow replied, pointing over her shoulder with her thumb.


“Well of course I don’t want you to go,” Tara replied, taking out some boxes stacked in the corner, “But you probably have something better to do.”


“Than be with you?” Willow questioned in disbelief, “Never.”


Tara smiled over her shoulder.


“They’re moving a bunch of filing cabinets in here, so everything has to be put in boxes to sort.”


Willow took a box as it was offered.


“What is all this stuff?”


“Miscellaneous crap, basically,” Tara replied, putting her hands on her hips as she looked around at where to start, “Campus dumping ground.”


There were numerous dusty, old boxes piled high in old corners. Other items were strewn about as well; broken electronics, office supplies, an old desk and a beat-up bookshelf with tattered books scattered about.


“How about, I take this corner and you take that one?” Tara suggested.


“Yeah, sure,” Willow nodded, “Should I be doing it in any specific way?”


“I don’t think there’s enough room to sort properly,” Tara replied with a shake of her head, “Just pack it all up.”


Willow nodded again and got to work in her corner. She did her best to pack everything with some semblance of order to ease Tara’s sorting task for later.


After a little while, Tara opened a box to check the contents and smiled.


“Hey Willow, look, an old box of theatre props.”


She pulled out a cat mask and held it up to her face.


“Meow.”


Willow looked over and smiled, then started to go back to her work, but at the last second caught sight of Tara trying on some clear-glass glasses she’d picked from the box. They were soft-edged rectangular, metal frames that perched delicately on the bridge of Tara’s nose and rounded her eyes out.


Willow couldn’t help notice the bookshelf backdrop behind her girlfriend and how it contributed to an overall ‘look’.


“Can you tie your hair up?” she blurted out suddenly.


Tara glanced over curiously.


“Why?”


Willow bounced forward on the balls of her feet.


“Just…humour me.”


Tara took the hair tie she kept around her wrist and tied her hair into a ponytail. Willow’s eyes were fixated on her as she floated over to her girlfriend.


“I may have a slight…librarian fantasy.”


Tara’s nose scrunched.


“You have a crush on the librarian? She’s 70.”


“No!” Willow replied quickly, toying with her hands in front of her, “Not the librarian. You… as a librarian.”


She put a hand flat on Tara’s collarbone, which was exposed in her V-neck work shirt that also complimented the fantasy nicely.


“Having a discussion…working out how I can pay off my late fees.”


Tara glanced down through the glasses.


“I’m sure we could work out a payment plan.”


Willow shook her head and looked up through her eyelashes.


“Oh, I’m a poor student. I have no money.”


Tara giggled and pushed herself up on her arms to sit on the desk to make a show of reaching for a book on the top shelf so her cleavage was on show.


She picked a random book and licked the tip of her finger before opening it somewhere in the middle.


“Ah yes, I see. I’m afraid the debt is too big. I can’t just write it off.”


Willow adopted puppy dog eyes.


“Maybe I could…work it off?”


Tara looked down her nose through the glasses.


“Work it off?”


Willow put her hands under Tara’s skirt on her knees and slid up her thighs.


“I’m good with my hands.”


“Oh really?” Tara asked with a smirk.


Willow splayed her palms out on Tara’s thighs and gave them a squeeze, then hooked her fingers in her girlfriend’s panties and began to drag them down.


“Willow,” Tara interrupted, squirming back.


“Yes, Ms Maclay?” Willow asked, but paused and let her have a minute to back out, “Or Tara…?”


Tara glanced at the door that was devoid of any lock, then back at Willow. She repeated this three times, Willow’s hands stilled but still offering plenty of tingles.


Finally, with a hammering heart, she met Willow’s eye.


“M-Ms Maclay is fine.”


Willow grinned, feeling the same thrill.


“Yes, ma’am,” she replied, giving Tara’s panties enough of a tug to fall down her knees and drop to the floor, “You know, my hands aren’t the only thing I’m good with.”


Tara closed her eyes as Willow’s lips descended on her neck but opened again almost immediately to watch the door.


Willow pulled Tara’s legs around her waist and slid her hand up her girlfriend’s thigh again. She brushed her fingers against Tara’s lips, who instantly forgot about keeping watch and bucked into it.


Willow let her fingers glide.


“You’re feeling a little Dewey.”


Tara groaned, though from pleasure and not that awful pun. She swung her arm around Willow’s neck and let out a soft cry as her opening was teased.


“Librarians do it quietly, baby,” Willow whispered, her other arm wrapped around Tara’s waist so they were tightly ensconced.


Tara bit down on her lip and pushed her hips into Willow again. She was more than sufficiently aroused from the thrill of the situation, and as much as Willow would have loved to draw it out, she figured this was a playing with fire situation. She slid inside Tara and rocked her hips into a rhythm, which Tara matched quickly and quietly.


Willow kissed down into Tara’s cleavage and buried in there for a few moments, kissing and tonguing the soft flesh. They continued to grind their hips together as she moved back up into Tara’s neck and nibbled on her lobe.


“Let your hair down.”


Tara was very much concentrating on the building pressure in her abdomen but Willow’s lusty tone broke through.


She caught Willow’s eye and elongated her neck, then reached behind and slowly dragged the tie from her hair.


Willow’s teeth dragged over her bottom lip as she bit back a moan.


“Shake it out, baby.”


Tara gave a shampoo-commercial-worthy hair toss and Willow went wild, tugging her girlfriend closer by the ass and taking her hard.


Tara pulled Willow’s face into her cleavage again and squeezed her fingers in tightly to her girlfriend's scalp.


The desk wobbled beneath as Tara quaked with the rush of orgasm and then finally the whole room was still less the soft panting of them both.


Tara had barely begun to catch her breath when she spotted the wiggle of the brass door knob. She sprung away from the desk and tried to straighten out her clothes; kicking her panties behind a box just as the door flung open and Judy’s head popped in.


“All okay in here? We heard banging.”


Willow turned away to conceal a snort and Tara pretended to busy herself with a box of stationary.


“Just–” she started but it came out squeaky and she had to clear her throat, “Willow knocked into the desk.”


“Are you alright, dear?” Judy questioned, 'concerned'.


Willow brought her hand up and pretended to scratch her face but made it clear to Tara she was sniffing her fingers.


“I’m great,” Tara answered finally, cheeks flaming.


Judy had a grin playing on the corner of her lips and just nodded to Tara.


“Glasses suit you.”


Tara yanked the glasses from her face as the door closed again with a slight cackle. Willow was grinning smugly too, and when Tara went to grab her panties from the floor, she got there first.


“Mine.”


Tara felt a fresh flush rise on her cheeks and felt totally exposed even under her long skirt.


“You’re a bad influence.”


Willow grabbed Tara’s ass and pulled them together.


“You’re a naughty librarian,” she said, trying to be seductive but her face was giddy, “That was insane!”


“Sshh!” Tara replied, grinning too.


“I didn’t realise they were still there!” Willow hissed, trying to keep in the laughter, “Oh my…god!”


Tara tried to take her panties from Willow’s hand, but it was snapped back.


“No, they’re mine…like a trophy,” she said, then quickly off Tara’s look, continued, “I mean like…a reminder.”


Tara relented with a sigh.


“If you drop them outside or try to flip my skirt up or something, you’re in big trouble.”


Willow glanced off to the side.


“Hadn’t even thought of it.”


“Willow…” Tara replied in a warning tone.


“I won’t!” Willow protested, adding some offence to her tone for good measure.


Tara looked around at the rest of the mess.


“You can get out of here if you want, I really do have to finish this today.”


Willow shook her head.


“No, I’ll help. No more wayward fantasies, promise,” she pledged, then nodded to Tara’s hand, “But you could…keep the glasses.”


Tara looked down at the glasses, then put one arm of them in her cleavage so they rested there.


Willow instantly turned wide-eyed and took several steps back.


“Oh no, no, no, no, no. In your pocket please. If you really do want to get out of here tonight.”


Tara didn’t have any pockets but hooked them into her skirt in the same way. Willow nodded that that was in the realms of acceptability and with a brief squeeze together of their hands, they got back to work.






Willow collapsed onto the bed, on her stomach with a soft grunt.


“Wow. For a small storage closet there was a crap load of stuff.”


Tara moved over Willow on all fours and kissed her cheek from the side.


“Sweetie, you worked so hard. Thank you.”


Willow smiled serenely.


“Mmm, nice reward,” she said, then noticed Tara’s strapped fingers near her face, “How are your fingers?”


“Why, are you getting sick of lefty?” Tara asked.


Willow flung herself onto her back.


“No!” she exclaimed, then pulled Tara gently by the collar, “You know I do actually care about you outside of my own sexual interest. Besides I love lefty. And righty. And everything about you.”


She leaned up and pecked Tara’s lips. Tara let it linger, then broke with a smile.


“Let me buy you dinner.”


Willow threw her arms up above her head.


“I’m so tired, I don’t want to move,” she said, then made a frowny face and rubbed her cheek, “And my tooth’s kinda been hurting the past few days.”


“Oh, baby,” Tara replied, kissing the affected side, “How about some crustless PB&J and applesauce?”


Willow crossed her arms behind Tara’s neck and smiled.


“You are my super girl.”


Tara kissed Willow gently.


“And you are my kryptonite.”


Willow bit the corner of her lip.


“I love it when you talk nerdy to me.”


Tara pecked Willow’s lips, then jumped up and rooted through their supplies to make dinner. She came back with some cut up sandwiches on a paper plate and a container of applesauce with a plastic spoon.


Willow looked down at the plate and smiled.


“You cut them in triangles.”


Tara perched on the end of the bed.


“That’s how you like them, right?”


Willow’s grin could have lit up the whole room.


“Yeah. That’s how I like them.”


Tara answered her smile, then went over to the mini-fridge.


“Soda?”


She brought Willow back a Coke and sat back up on the bed beside her. They shared the sandwiches and had fun feeding each other the applesauce.


“Do you want to watch some TV?” Willow asked as Tara got rid of the trash.


Tara carried a book and a pen back over.


“I’m gonna do a crossword, but go ahead.”


Willow put on a quiz show to watch, but spent a good chunk of time watching Tara concentrate and nibble on the pen. After a while, she noticed an unmoving frown on her girlfriend’s mouth.


“What’s wrong?” she asked, softly pulling the end of Tara’s shirt.


“I’m stuck on an answer,” Tara replied, tapping the pen against the page, “Eight letters; perfect match, close one, bound.”


Willow sat up a bit to see the rest of the filled in words and smiled just a moment later.


“Easy. I’m looking right at it.”


Tara peered closely at the page, then back to Willow, confused. Willow tapped Tara’s nose affectionately, then leaned in to nuzzle it.


“Soulmate.”






“Tara, your phone is buzzing.”


Tara looked over from sorting forms and noticed her phone, sitting on the table a foot away from her, lit up and shaking.


“Oh, sorry, I meant to turn it off,” she said, picking it up and becoming confused when she saw a number she didn’t recognise, “Um…sorry.”


She ducked into the back office to answer it.


“Hello?”


She listened for a few moments.


“Next of kin? Well, um, not legal– I mean, yeah, I guess I am,” she replied, then frowned, “Why, what’s wrong?”


She brought a hand to her head and rubbed her temple as she listened again.


“Why did she need anaesthesia? Okay, I’ll come get her. Okay, bye.”


Tara hadn’t even hung up yet before Judy was butting in nosily.


“Problem?”


Tara looked down at the blank phone screen.


“Willow went to the dentist this morning with a toothache…she had to get some wisdom teeth out and I need to take her home.”


“Well then you better hop to it,” Judy replied with a definitive nod, “If it were my husband getting that call I’d expect him to be there in two shakes of a lamb's tail.”


“I’ll make up my hours,” Tara replied, picking up her satchel and putting it over her chest.


Sharon patted her hand, as she was sitting right beside her.


“Don’t worry, Tara, you’ve more than pulled your weight this week. We’ll see you on Monday.”


Tara smiled gratefully, said thank you, and headed out. She realised as she walked off campus that she had no idea where the dentist’s office was and was thankful the number was logged in her phone so she could call back and ask for directions.


It was a dental school nearby, which made it much easier to identify once Tara got there. She went to the reception area and mentioned Willow’s name.


The receptionist pointed to a corner, where Tara saw Willow sitting on a chair, slumped against a wall and jadedly trying to solve a Rubik's cube.


Tara went over and sat next to her, putting a hand on the small of her back.


“Hi honey, I’m here to take you home.”


Willow sluggishly lifted her head to Tara, who saw her eyes were glazed and her mouth puffy.


“You’re pwetty,” Willow slurred, swollen lips curving into a big smile, “Can I hab you?”


Tara smiled softly.


“When they said the anaesthesia had affected you, I thought they meant you were sleepy.”


Willow’s eyes fixated on Tara’s chest.


“Yeah, shleepy…” she said as she ducked her head to nuzzle there, “Nice pil-wohs…”


“O-kay,” Tara replied, standing up quickly, “Let’s get you home.”


She encouraged Willow up, who wobbled but then steadied herself. She held the Rubik’s cube in front of Tara’s face smugly.


“Di’ it… thhree min-uts.”


Tara looked at the mess-of-colours, discombobulated cube.


“Well done,” she commended, taking it out of Willow’s hand and leaving it back with the piles of magazines.


She put an arm around Willow’s waist and pull-walked her over to reception.


“Has she paid and everything?”


The woman handed over a folded sheet of paper and a pack of gauze.


“Change the gauze every few hours, keep her head propped up with pillows to stop excessive bleeding, and she can use ice or painkillers.”


Tara put the receipt and gauze away, thanked the lady and led Willow out. It took twice as long to get home as it did to get there as Willow got distracted by a cat, multiple flower bushes and almost the front end of a car when Tara looked away for just a second.


“Whoa-kay, that’s it, we’re walking single file,” Tara said, pulling Willow back onto the sidewalk to the sound of a loud beep, “Almost there, just around the corner.”


Willow hummed through a mouthful of gauze and started to stumble-skip.


“Liccle yack ‘orner, satch in de corner, eatin’ a Chrishtmas pie! He but in his thumbmb, and pull’ ou’ a plum, and said ‘hat a good boy am I!”


Tara did her best to keep Willow’s swaying to a minimum and made sure to lock the door behind her when they finally got back.


Willow all but collapsed into her moments later.


“Don’ tell m’girlfrien’…buh you’re real shexy.”


Tara could see Willow’s slobber seeping out onto her t-shirt and tried to guide her towards the bed to wipe it up.


“I don’t think she’d like you saying that to someone else.”


Willow looked pained as Tara pulled back the sheet and helped her into bed.


“Don’ tell her. Lub her. Lub her so much.”


Tara pulled off Willow’s shoes and tucked her in, then kissed her forehead.


“She knows.”


Willow looked deeply into Tara’s eyes, then dramatically turned her head away.


“Can’ kiss you. Mus’ ‘esist.”


Tara stroked Willow’s hair softly. Willow slowly looked back, bottom lip protruding over the top. Tara smiled.


“One kiss.”


Willow’s eyes glanced down to Tara’s lips and back up again.


“I lub Tara.”


“I’ll let you in on a secret,” Tara replied, leaning in close, “I am Tara.”


Willow’s eyes turned wide, then she grinned a big, toothy grin. Tara, very tenderly, kissed her and tucked her in all over again.


“Sleepy time.”


Willow scrunched up her face and started wiggling under the covers. Tara lifted them and watched her trying to pull her pants off herself. Tara aided the removal and went to fold them over the chair. When she turned back, Willow was sprawled out, fast asleep and drooling onto the pillow.


Tara went over and tucked her in for the third time, then kissed her forehead.


“And I lub you too.”
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Re: Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/10)

Postby zampsa19752001 » Wed Dec 10, 2014 1:01 pm

Dibs-y goodness!

Yay for great update-y goodness... Big lol for the store room adventure... I'm glad that Tara took good care of basically stoned out Willow...
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Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/10)

Postby _Salix_ » Thu Dec 11, 2014 12:39 am

I only missed the dibs by eleven hours. That's not bad, right?

I gotta admit, I hadn't thought about Tara as a librarian until just now. I am startled at how pleasing I find that idea. And replying to your...reply...to my...comment (I'm bad with words) your stories always get me a good kind of emotional.

I think I almost woke up the baby currently sleeping in my room with my giggling. Hehe, oops. But almost only counts in horseshoes or hand grenades, I guess. Also, I feel like I should be weirded out at of how much I giggle when reading your fics. It doesn't make logical sense. Sometimes I shouldn't even be giggling. But it's just so cute! You're so good at this.

One more thing: In the slightly-distant future, I'm thinkin' of doing a fanfic podcast-type thing. I was wondering if it'd be alright to read one of your stories. Maybe not this one, 'cuz it's not finished quite yet, but another one possibly.

I seriously have never made a comment this long. Not that I can recall, anyway. Huh. Who woulda thought.


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Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/10)

Postby branny72 » Tue Dec 16, 2014 8:44 pm

Thank you, Laragh for the great updates! :sigh
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Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/10)

Postby SneakyCat » Wed Dec 17, 2014 2:40 am

Loved this chapter!
I was glad to see the university admin ladies make another appearance, they're hilarious.
Very nicely done, and I'm looking forward to what will come next.
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Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/17)

Postby Laragh » Wed Dec 17, 2014 11:00 am

zampsa19752001 -

Dibs-y goodness!


:banana

Yay for great update-y goodness... Big lol for the store room adventure... I'm glad that Tara took good care of basically stoned out Willow...


I'm glad you enjoyed it...I figured this was the most legitimate way to see Willow stoned :lol

Thanks for commenting :)

_Salix_ -

I only missed the dibs by eleven hours. That's not bad, right?


Not even half a day!

I gotta admit, I hadn't thought about Tara as a librarian until just now. I am startled at how pleasing I find that idea.


I have so many librarian!Tara ideas. I would love to flesh it out into a one shot or short story some day.

And replying to your...reply...to my...comment (I'm bad with words) your stories always get me a good kind of emotional.


Good to hear!

I think I almost woke up the baby currently sleeping in my room with my giggling. Hehe, oops. But almost only counts in horseshoes or hand grenades, I guess. Also, I feel like I should be weirded out at of how much I giggle when reading your fics. It doesn't make logical sense. Sometimes I shouldn't even be giggling. But it's just so cute! You're so good at this.


Oh, thank you :) I love to induce giggling :D

One more thing: In the slightly-distant future, I'm thinkin' of doing a fanfic podcast-type thing. I was wondering if it'd be alright to read one of your stories. Maybe not this one, 'cuz it's not finished quite yet, but another one possibly.


Sure you can! I think there's a similar idea out there already called the Under Your Spell podcast, though.

I seriously have never made a comment this long. Not that I can recall, anyway. Huh. Who woulda thought.


I'm honoured to be your first long comment!

Thanks for the feedback :)

branny72 -

Thank you, Laragh for the great updates! :sigh


Glad you liked them!

Thanks for commenting :)

SneakyCat -

I was glad to see the university admin ladies make another appearance, they're hilarious.


I had to get them in for a last appearance!

Very nicely done, and I'm looking forward to what will come next.


Hope you enjoy it :)

Thanks for your feedback!




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Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/17)

Postby Laragh » Wed Dec 17, 2014 11:00 am

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TITLE: College Confidential

WRITER: Laragh

CHAPTER RATING: NC-17

DISCLAIMER: Willow, Tara and any other characters from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise belong to Joss Whedon, FOX, ME and a whole host of other entities, none of which are me.

SUMMARY: The first part of the prequel to Hacker Confidential and Family Confidential - the college years!

SPOILERS: Perhaps minor references to the show or stealage of dialogue, but nothing that would spoil the series.

FEEDBACK: Yes please

Chapter 84

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Tara fished in her bag for her keys, silently chastising herself for not putting them in their designated pocket again. It had been a long day and she just wanted to get inside.


Her fingers finally grazed the metal and she let herself into their dorm.


Willow’s head shot up as she saw the door open. She was standing by the bed in just her panties and a t-shirt with various articles of clothing laid out on the bed.


“What are you doing–” she started, then looked at her watch, “Shit! I thought it was earlier.”


“Don’t sound so excited to see me,” Tara replied, though good-naturedly.


Willow awkwardly ambled over to the desk, where a bunch of daises were resting.


“I was gonna collect you…”


She handed them off to Tara who lifted them to her nose and let their scent fill her nose, then looked at Willow with a soft, crooked smile.


“Flowers?”


Willow crossed her wrists behind her back shyly.


“Well, yeah. It’s your last day at work, and you deserve them.”


Tara brushed her cheek against the delicate petals, then closed the space between them to wrap her arms around Willow.


“Thank you so much,” she said, inhaling softly from Willow’s hair, “How did you get on with the dentist?”


Tara went to get some water for her flowers and Willow went to the bed to clear it of clothes.


“Got the stitches out. All healed up.”


Tara paused from preening the flowers and cast a sidelong glance in Willow’s direction.


“So can we kiss properly again?” she asked with a hopeful lilt in her voice, before quickly adding on, “Not that closed mouth kisses haven't been lovely.”


Willow smiled back and nodded.


“We can kiss all we like…and other stuff too.”


Their eyes met and lingered for a few drawn-out seconds, then Tara strode over and claimed Willow's lips. Willow felt hands slide past her hips to grab onto her rear through her panties, lifting her right up out of the air. Her back landed on the bed, on top of her strewn-about jeans and shirts, but her focus was on Tara's tongue sliding into her mouth.


It had been a sorely missed and horrendously tempting sensation to stay away from while her mouth was healing, and had disrupted their whole sexual dynamic. It was so good to feel again, she just cupped the back of Tara's head and pulled her in for more. She let the kiss intensify as Tara climbed on top of her and moaned as her girlfriend's hands slipped under her t-shirt to her stomach, but had to put a halt to things when she felt a finger hook into the waistband of her panties.


With much reluctance, she pushed Tara off her chest and turned her head away.


“Wait, wait.”


Tara pulled away and cupped Willow's cheek gently, rubbing the skin under her thumb.


“Does it still hurt, honey?”


Willow sighed wistfully and nuzzled into Tara's hand.


“No, it feels great,” she said, turning her lips in to kiss Tara's palm, “I know we said we wouldn’t do it until we could kiss properly again…and then changed our minds that one night…and then changed them back when it didn’t feel right…a foreplayus interruptus of emotional sorts. Anyway, the point, and I do have one, the one to which I’m trying to get to, is - I know it’s been a week since we were together-together and I feel just about as crazy as you, but I planned an evening for us and I really think it’d be worth it to wait just a few more hours.”


She took a deep breath, then smiled sheepishly.


“Plus, reservations.”


Tara moved her forehead to rest against Willow's.


“You planned an evening for us?”


Willow nodded.


“Yeah. Like I said, you deserve it.”


Tara pecked Willow's lips, then stood back up and composed herself.


“I can wait,” she replied, holding a hand out to help Willow up too, “But you know you're irresistible to me when you're just in your panties and a tee.”


Willow spun away from Tara's hands to pick up her clothes again.


“Good thing we need to dress up then!”


“That explains the bed closet,” Tara asked, “Where are we going?”


“Surprise!” Willow replied eagerly, then held up different shirts, “I can't decide what to wear. You pick out something for me.”


Tara stood over the bed and rooted through a few things. She finally picked out a cheery orange dress, one of the plainest items in Willow’s closet.


“I always liked this one.”


“You did?” Willow asked, surprised, “It’s so…dull and boring.”


Tara shook her head, admiring it.


“It’s simple. You don’t need anything to detract from how beautiful you are.”


Willow looked at the dress, then at Tara and smiled happily. She put the dress over her arm.


“Okay. I’ll wear it.”


“What should I wear?” Tara asked and Willow’s face lit up all over again at the prospect of dressing her girlfriend.


“Um, lemme see!”


She rushed over to the closet and started looking through her girlfriend’s things.


“Everything you have is so pretty…and you look so good in all of it…”


She hemmed and hawed for a few minutes, looking through various shirt and pants combinations, before finally pulling out a purple skirt and white blouse.


“I love how your legs look in this,” she said, holding up the skirt, then the shirt, “And how your boobs look in this, so I think we have a winner!”


She brought the clothes over to a blushing Tara and they laid out their clothes on the bed. Willow got dressed while Tara went off to shower off the day and freshen herself up for the evening.


Willow was naturally ready before Tara, having already been halfway there, and waited impatiently by the door while Tara got dressed and ran a brush through her hair. Tara noticed the not-so-subtly tapping foot.


“I’m coming, honey. I just want to put some earrings on.”


Willow pulled her foot back and looked to Tara apologetically.


“Sorry, just…reservations.”


Tara affixed her earrings and grabbed her purse.


“You’ve really gone all out.”


Willow opened the door for them.


“Well it's sort of our last summer blow-out. I knew, but it really sorta hit me earlier, that this is our last college summer. Plus, you’ve been so good, taking care of me with my tooth and not complaining about the all the no-kissing stuff and well, you’re just wonderful in general and I really wanted to give you an awesome night.”


Her cheeks flushed lightly as she rambled and Tara kissed the reddest spot.


“I love you.”


Willow happily swung their hands together as they walked into the night air.


“I love you, too. So the restaurant is about 1 T stop away, but we could walk it. It’s a nice evening.”


“Sure, I’d love to,” Tara replied, then let herself take a nice long look at Willow as they walked, “You look totally gorgeous.”


Willow looked down at herself.


“Becky would tell me it clashed with my hair.”


Tara squeezed Willow's hand in hers.


“Well Tara thinks it looks great.”


Willow smiled more, a skip forming in her step.


“It’s just up here,” she said a few minutes later as they turned onto a new street, “We've never been before. I hope you like it.”


She brought them halfway down the block until they were outside a steakhouse. She held the door open for Tara, who gave her a slight curtsey on her way in, making Willow smile.


The large restaurant was softly lit with hanging lanterns from the ceiling and candles on various shelves that were jutting out from the walls. The booths were dark, soft leather and chairs on the floor were upholstered with the same material. The tables were a rich mahogany and dressed with silver table settings; charger plates, napkins in rings, and rimmed side plates and wine glasses.


A golden and red theme spread to the artwork on the walls and the attire of the staff, who were all crisply dressed in black and white; the men with red ties and women with a red belt, both with golden name-tags.


There was panorama glass at the back offering a viewing into the kitchen and the whole place was bustling with an overt ‘trendy’ atmosphere. Most of the other patrons were young professionals, guzzling cocktails and splashing cash.


“I’m glad you told me to dress up,” Tara whispered as she cast her eyes around the room to admire the art.


Willow went up and gave their name to the hostess, who brought them to a booth near the kitchen so they had a good view through the glass. She handed them menus and left them alone again.


Tara settled in comfortably, smiling lots.


“This is a great table.”


“Only the best for my girl,” Willow replied with a matching grin, “I saw lots of pretty drinks on our way in…want to try a cocktail?”


She flicked to the back of the menu where the cocktails were listed.


“Wow…some of these names…” she said, her eyes widening, “Hey Tara, do you want a Screaming Orgasm?”


Tara eyed Willow with flushed cheeks, glancing all around to see if someone heard. Willow giggled, while Tara buried her head in the menu, though did notice no one was paying them any attention.


She examined the menu, and after another minute or two, casually spoke up again.


“Hey look, they have one named after you.”


“Where?” Willow asked, running a finger down the list to spot her name.


Tara opened the menu out so it was standing up between them. She pointed at a particular spot.


“Orange Bush.”


Willow gaped at Tara for a second in shock, then started to slide down the chair and had to push herself up again.


“Tara!”


“What, only you can do it?” Tara asked, smirking as she took her menu back.


Willow opened and closed her mouth like a fish, but luckily the waitress came back over to relieve her.


“I’ll try a cosmopolitan, please,” Tara said, still grinning victoriously, “Willow? Decided yet?”


Willow’s eyes stayed down.


“Can I get a strawberry daiquiri please?”


The waitress checked IDs and went to get them their drinks. Willow met Tara’s eye, lips quirking up.


“You’re bad.”


Tara just smiled sweetly and looked through the menu.


“What’s sashimi?” she asked after a moment.


“I think it’s raw fish sliced really thin,” Willow replied, scrunching up her nose as she spoke, “Not big on the raw stuff, myself.”


“I think I’ll wait to try it when you don’t have a big evening planned,” Tara replied cautiously.


“The chowder looks–whoops! Won’t be making that mistake again!” Willow said, quickly backtracking, “Is spicy lobster kiss-safe?”


Tara nodded, so Willow set her menu down, knowing what she was getting.


“Medium-rare rib eye for me, the lobster to start. Kinda surf’n’turf. You?”


Tara closed her menu.


“I like the look of the seared ahi tuna…and I think the steak frites.”


Willow eyed Tara across the table.


“You’re purposely choosing the cheapest thing on the menu,” she said with a pointed eyebrow raise, “Get what you want and we can share sides. I want hash browns and mac’n’cheese, what about you?”


Tara checked out the sides.


“Asparagus and roasted mushrooms?”


“Well then I better add some onion rings to balance it all out,” Willow replied seriously.


Tara’s mouth bunched off to the side, conveying some confusion.


“I’ve never really eaten steak, I don’t know what to get.”


“Oh,” Willow replied, feeling stupid for bringing her to a steakhouse, “What about the lamb chops. You love lamb right?”


Tara spotted the item on the menu and smiled.


“Oh yeah, I didn’t see those,” she said, squeezing Willow’s hand across the table, “Good idea.”


Willow held Tara’s hand in that spot.


“I’m adding mash to the list as well…need my creamy and crunchy potatoes,” she said, feeling a thankfully silent growl in her belly, “I hope the waitress comes back soon or I’ll have decided to order the whole menu.”


The waitress did return just a minute later, giving them their drinks and taking their order.


“I love this glass,” Willow commented about her cocktail glass.


She swirled her straw around, then took a sip.


“Oh that is yummy!”


She felt quite sophisticated sipping her drink and Tara appeared very relaxed.


“I really like the vibe in this place.”


Willow bounced in her seat, very pleased.


“I’m so glad. I hoped you would. It’s cool, huh?”


“Very,” Tara agreed.


Their food was slow in coming, but neither minded too much. They spent a couple of hours chatting and enjoying the copious amount of food until they were finally sharing a slice of rich chocolate fudge cake.


“They sure meant it when they called it a sin cake,” Tara said, sliding a spoon through the gooey cake.


Willow was busy chewing.


“Don’t worry, we’re going to work it off.”


Tara looked over with a lopsided grin.


“Pretty confident, huh?”


“No, I meant–” Willow started but cut herself off in time, “Well, actually…”


She leaned right over and kissed a piece of cream from the corner of Tara’s mouth.


Tara felt her belly flop and some nice butterflies begin to flutter, and fed Willow the last bite of cake. They both enjoyed a coffee after, though Tara would have been happy to continue their evening in private.


“Willow, do you want to… head back?”


Willow sneakily glanced down at her watch.


“Um, in a few…”


Tara leaned forward.


“I’ll rub your tummy…”


Willow gulped, then quickly scooted out.


“Um…bathroom. Be right back.”


Tara folded her arms gently on the table and waited. She noticed Willow pay the bill on the way but spent most of the time looking lower than her hands. When Willow returned from the bathroom, Tara noticed her hovering in the doorway for a minute before coming back.


Her curiosity was instantly piqued.


“Willow, what’s going on?”


“Going on?” Willow asked with a nervous chuckle, “What would be on-going, I mean, going on?”


Tara quirked an eyebrow but Willow was saved as a voice came over an announcer system.


“Ladies and gentlemen, our 9pm set is starting momentarily. Please make your way to the dance floor.”


“Dance floor?” Tara asked and Willow held out her hand.


Tara took it wordlessly and was led upstairs where there was a large floor space and couples gathering.


“Willow?” Tara asked again.


Willow turned to her and smiled softly.


“It’s a dinner dance place. I know you love to dance. They do different themed nights.”


“What’s tonight?” Tara asked, noticing a lot of the women were in glittery dresses.


“Salsa,” Willow replied and quickly added on, “I know what you’re thinking. Klutzilla here. But we can do some spins and I don’t mind looking stupid. ‘Specially when it makes you happy.”


Tara was touched by the sentiment and for bringing her dancing when she knew it wasn't her girlfriend's favourite thing. She sort of wished she'd been forewarned not to eat as much as she did, though Willow had done the majority of the eating. However, she wasn't going to let a full belly stop her from enjoying all the effort Willow had gone to. She pulled Willow close by the hand and touched their noses together.


“Have I mentioned that I love you?”


Willow linked their fingers and squeezed their palms together.


“Never get sick of hearing it.”


They found a spot on the floor, in their own little corner, away from the people who were garbed out in the full attire and clearly there to impress. There were a few other couples who seemed like them, amateur and just there for the gimmick of the evening. There were nervous smiles exchanged between those couples as the music started and the 'professionals' began to dance.


Tara started to move her feet and Willow slowly but surely joined in. They weren't dancing anything close to salsa for quite a while, but as their comfort level increased, they started experimenting with twirls and the occasional dip.


Most were still going strong after 40 minutes, but Willow and Tara exchanged red-faced looks that they'd reached their capacity. They stumbled down the stairs, giggling and breathless.


“Them endorphins!” Willow commented in between breaths, then took in a lungful of the night air, “Mmm…love summer nights.”


“Me too,” Tara agreed, copying Willow in taking a calm, soft breath, “Thank you so much for this evening. I loved it.”


Willow smiled and offered her hand.


“Come on. There’s more.”


Tara linked their arms together instead and Willow brought them around the corner to a side entrance of a park. They only had to walk a few minutes until they were at a small love-locked bridge over a pond. Tara hadn't heard of it before and was admiring what she assumed was a landscaping choice, when Willow stopped them in the middle of the bridge.


“I have something.”


She reached into her purse and took out a padlock, with the key still inside. Tara was amused by the novelty heart shape and even more so when Willow showed her the 'W+T' etched in white-out on the other side.


“What’s this for?” she asked, not connecting the padlock being similar to the rest on the bridge.


Willow smiled and knelt down, affixing the padlock tightly to the bridge. She then stood up and dramatically tossed the key into the pond.


“There you go. You and me. Locked forever.”


She took both of Tara’s hands, standing just arms-length away from her.


“I love you, baby.”


Tara realised that the bridge was more than just a design and that all of those locks were from other lovers who had been in that spot once too. She was warmed by the thought of their lock being surrounded by the powerful love of all the others.


She swallowed a small lump of emotion, then closed the small gap between them so they were nose-to-nose again; one of their favourite intimate positions.


“The best thing that ever happened to me was you walking into my life,” she said, then her lips curled up on one side, “Crashing into my life.”


Willow smiled too and bashfully ducked her head but raised it again to meet Tara’s eye. Tara moved her hands to the back of Willow’s neck and tilted her up to kiss.


Willow put her hands on Tara’s waist and moved closer into the kiss. It deepened quickly and she felt Tara’s body press up against hers.


She enjoyed it for a moment, then made herself pull away.


“Hold that thought for another thirty minutes?”


“I’ve already held it,” Tara replied, not quite whining but with an aroused tone, “Why thirty minutes, we’re five away from home if we walk quickly.”


Willow looked over her shoulder in the general direction longingly, then back at Tara.


“I have one more thing planned. Then we have the whole night.”


Given how much thought Willow had gone to for the evening, Tara could hardly deny she wanted to see what awaited them. She offered her arm again.


“Okay. Lead the way.”


“Great!” Willow replied, slipping her arm into Tara's, “We just have to follow this path out to the main entrance.”


It was only a few minutes of a peaceful walk through the park until they reached the main entrance, an arching gateway. They spent an extra minute for Tara to stop and smell some flower shrubs along the way. Willow picked a pretty pink one and slid it behind Tara’s ear.


“You would have been an awesome flower child.”


“I still have that peace necklace from Halloween,” Tara replied, steadying the stem behind her ear, “But I don't know how good it looked on me.”


“You looked so good,” Willow complimented genuinely, “Hey, it’s just out here.”


She led them through the gate until they were at an intersection of two streets. Some cars were parked on the curb, and some were driving along, but waiting for them just a few feet away was a horse and carriage, complete with a man in suit and hat, waiting.


Tara’s eyes widened as she was led over.


“Is this it? A horse and carriage ride?”


Willow nodded.


“Uh huh. You said you always wanted to go on one.”


“I did, I do,” Tara replied in awe, very gently patting the horse’s main, “But…the horses.”


Willow smiled nervously, two steps away.


“Yep.”


Tara patted the horse again, then went back to Willow.


“You’re so sweet. Are you sure you want to do this?”


“As long as they stay away from my arm,” Willow replied, glancing cautiously at the animal and staying up near the carriage, “And you'll have to hold my hand, of course.”


Tara smiled and nodded, and they both stepped into the carriage. Willow averted her gaze away from the horses as they trotted into motion and Tara held her hand in-between hers. They sat close together, gazing at each other instead of the night city tour they were on.


Tara reached out to tuck a piece of hair behind Willow's ear.


“You really pulled out all the stops tonight.”


Willow put her outer arm around Tara's waist and brushed some fingers against the small of her back.


“You deserve it,” she repeated, kissing Tara square on the forehead, “This is nothing compared to the things you do for me every day.”


They shared a chaste kiss, then Willow spotted a blanket folded up on the seat opposite and put it over their laps, for comfort more than warmth, as it was a balmy summer's evening.


Tara felt utterly serene cuddled up to Willow, seeing the city with the calming consistent sound of the clippity-clop against the road. Willow was less enthused by the horse's hoofs, but she rested her head against Tara's chest and after a few moments, picked up her heartbeat.


The ride ended right at campus and they hopped out onto the street, right under a streetlamp. Tara held Willow's hands to help her down, and they stayed in that spot, kissing for several minutes until some rowdy youths started to shout in their direction and they made a quick escape back to their dorm.


“Damn kids!” Willow retorted as they walked through the door to their room, “I'm getting old, aren't I?”


Tara backed up against the door to close it and eyed Willow's rear from behind.


“You look young to me.”


Willow turned around to reply, but Tara didn't waste a moment in pouncing on her girlfriend.


“Between having to wait and all of the serious brownie points you earned tonight…” she started, placing her palm flat on Willow’s chest and pushing her back onto the bed, “You are in for a very nice evening.”


Willow propped herself up on her elbows as Tara climbed on top of her, and in moments they were kissing again. Willow held Tara's face but paused right before it deepened.


“Does that mean I get a request?”


Tara nodded, kissing along Willow’s jaw.


“Yes.”


“Two?” Willow asked hopefully.


Tara’s lips moved down Willow’s throat.


“Yes.”


One of Willow’s eyebrow rose.


“Three?”


Tara lifted her head and grinned.


“Don’t push it.”


“I’m good with two,” Willow replied quickly, lest she lose them.


Tara hovered above, their hips resting on each other and bodies lifting just above contact at their torsos.


“What’s number one?”


Willow’s eyes glazed over watching Tara's cleavage and she slowly smiled, then finally blinked.


“Will you put on those red lacy panties and bra I bought you last year?”


Tara grinned, pushed herself off the end of the bed and stripped down to her underwear, which were the ones in question.


“No way!” Willow exclaimed as they were revealed.


“They’re my date night underwear,” Tara said, smoothing out the strap of her bra, “Mine all match but they’re not very racy…besides I know how much you like these.”


“You do?” Willow asked, touched.


Tara looked at her, amused.


“You did buy them…”


“Good point,” Willow replied with only a light flush, then pouted, “I wasted a request.”


Tara playfully sent her eyes up to heaven.


“Okay, you can ask again.”


Willow beamed and bounced on the spot.


“I want a hickey.”


Tara climbed back onto the bed on her knees.


“It’s kinda hot out to be wearing a scarf or turtleneck tomorrow.”


Willow tilted her neck into view nonchalantly.


“Don’t care who sees it.”


Tara laid back down on top of Willow and delicately kissed her neck.


“Hmm,” she said, lips vibrating against her girlfriend’s skin, “I think someone wants something to show off when Becky comes back this weekend boasting about her summer.”


Willow slowly lifted her eyes to Tara and sighed.


“You can really read me like a book, huh?”


Tara just nodded.


“Mmhhmm. And don’t ever forget it.”


Willow nodded back, then bared her neck again hopefully.


“So…?”


Tara kissed the exposed part of Willow’s shoulder where it met her neck, moving inwards.


“So I better give you something good to show off.”


She poked her tongue out to touch Willow’s skin, who arched her neck back against the pillow and moaned her way through the marking of her lovebite.


Tara was tender but thorough with her mouth, while enjoying herself with her hand cupping Willow’s breast through her dress. The dress was bunched at Willow’s waist, as her hips kept lifting in response to the nibbling and sucking of her skin.


Tara’s hand eventually floated down and took advantage of Willow’s exposed thighs, palming and running her hand along them. Her fingers floated between her girlfriend’s legs, pressing her panties into her.


Willow moaned as Tara’s fingers brushed against her clit through the fabric. She moved her hips to try and get more direct contact, but Tara’s hand was on her thigh again.


Willow felt her girlfriend’s mouth ease away from her neck and blew out a puff of frustrated air. Tara’s head lifted and she ran two fingers gently over the darkening skin there.


“I didn’t hurt you, did I?”


Willow turned her head towards Tara and shook it.


“No, it was nice. Very nice. You know how to use your mouth…” she replied, then glanced downwards, “Everywhere.”


Tara felt a flush of heat and grabbed at the hem of Willow’s dress, lifting it over and off her. Willow helped by taking hold of Tara’s hips and pulling her on top, then sitting up herself so they were pressed together.


Willow ran her fingers along Tara’s bra, enjoying the contrast of lace against her girlfriend’s skin.


“You are so sexy,” she mumbled as she kissed into Tara’s cleavage.


They worked each other’s bras and panties off, getting more and more heated until they were finally naked and lying flush with each other.


“Tara,” Willow panted as her torso was lavished with kisses, “Tara…?”


Tara gave Willow’s breast a good squeeze, using it, gently, as a hoist to pull herself back up. Willow felt herself gush as her nipple brushed against Tara’s palm. She clenched her teeth to keep herself in control and moved her hands onto her girlfriend’s shoulders.


“Second request?”


Tara nodded whilst kissing the hollow of Willow’s throat to give her the go ahead.


“Name it.”


Willow shuddered as Tara scraped her teeth up her throat.


“I want to…I want to…fuck you’re driving me crazy!” she panted, finally squeezing her legs together for some momentarily relief, “I want to be inside each other at the same time!”


Tara settled her hips and torso on top of Willow’s and moved her forehead onto her girlfriend’s. Willow felt the breath rush from her lungs from having Tara’s eyes bore into her so closely and had to swallow repeatedly to regain some moisture.


Tara gave her a barely-there kiss, a soft brushing of their lips, then softly, slowly, nuzzled their noses.


Willow was unravelling under the tenderness and just wanted Tara closer. She found Tara’s hand and their fingers twined together. Those hands lifted above their heads, where Tara held them firmly as an anchor as their other hands drifted between each other’s legs.


Willow got her request granted almost immediately, as they were both aroused and in need of each other. She showed her appreciation with a long moan and heard Tara answer her with a hitched groan.


They started to move and slide against each other, slowness hurrying up fast, both of them pulsing with desire.


Willow felt the build-up in her belly come on quick and couldn’t hold it back. She clamped down on Tara’s fingers and bit her bottom lip as her eyes rolled back into her head.


Tara paused to watch her facial expressions, then moved her fingers out when Willow’s pulsing walls eased. Willow turned back to Tara with red, but cooling, cheeks and readjusted under her.


She started moving her wrist again and Tara’s eyes instantly fluttered closed. Tara started to move her hips, even faster than before now she could use both hands for leverage, above each of Willow's shoulders.


Willow enjoyed the aftershocks as Tara’s slick body slid against her and changed her position so her girlfriend was getting attention on her clit as well.


Tara’s toes flexed as the beginning of an orgasm washed over her, eventually releasing with a soft cry and tensing of her thighs.


She fell off to the side, taking in quick breaths and just laid there, blanket half-draped across her waist.


After a minute, when Willow had come down from the high of giving Tara pleasure as well as the receiving, she cocked her head in her girlfriend’s direction.


“Will you have sex with me when I really am old?”


Tara turned her head and quirked an eyebrow, still slightly panting.


“Will I have sex with you? Not ‘will I love you’?”


Willow shrugged one shoulder.


“I know you’ll love me. And I’ll love you. We're a forever thing.”


Tara blinked a couple of times, then crawled back over Willow. Willow noticed the amorous look in her eyes.


“Did I just earn more brownie points?” she whispered.


Tara silently and slowly nodded, then ducked her head to kiss from Willow’s throat, down.


Willow’s neck titled into the pillows as Tara’s mouth worked hotly down her body and between her legs. Her hand moved between tugging on Tara’s head and clawing at the sheet during different phases of pleasure until she finally came again with a long, guttural groan.


Tara wiped her mouth and sluggishly moved back up to curl into Willow’s side and rub her belly.


“Yes I’ll have sex with you,” she answered the question while kissing her girlfriend’s shoulder blade, “Unless I get brittle bones or something…I couldn’t risk a break every time I touch that sweet, tight thing.”


She saw a new flush rise on Willow’s chest and giggled.


“Hey, what’re you laughing at?” Willow asked with mock-outrage.


“Nothing,” Tara reassured, “Why are you flushing?”


Willow covered Tara’s hand on her stomach.


“Because when you rub my belly it reminds me how good a mother you’re going to be. How good a wife. And it amazes me that I get to be the one to experience it with you. You flush when you feel a strong emotion. And there’s nothing stronger than what I feel for you.”


Tara lifted herself the last little bit to kiss Willow softly.


“You’re on a brownie point lock-out until I can recover,” she said tenderly while stroking Willow’s cheek.


“Can I cuddle you with no expectation of point exchange?” Willow asked.


Tara smiled and turned over to be spooned.


“You’re so good to me.”


Willow quickly took position.


“You’re so good to me, and for me, and in general. I love you so much.”


“I love you too,” Tara replied, lifting Willow’s hand around her waist to kiss it, “Forever and always.”


Willow smiled again, lifting her chin over Tara’s shoulder.


“To brittle bones and beyond?”


Tara inhaled softly and let it go.


“To everything I will ever be. And do. And know. Because you are my constant. And that won’t ever change.”
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Re: Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/17)

Postby zampsa19752001 » Wed Dec 17, 2014 11:32 am

Dibs-y Goodness!

Yay for excellent update-y goodness... I really loved their End-of-summer/Tara's-last-work-day celebration...
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Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/17)

Postby branny72 » Wed Dec 17, 2014 11:36 am

That was a fantastically hot and sweet update! Thank you!! :sigh
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Re: Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/17)

Postby _Salix_ » Wed Dec 17, 2014 3:18 pm

Aww! Here I am, being a girl again. But that was so cute! Awww!!! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go explode in a large cloud of happiness.


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Re: Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/17)

Postby willowtaralover » Wed Dec 17, 2014 6:01 pm

Hi Laragh :bigwave

I read your response to my comment on the last chapters and it's made me stop and think about what I was wanting. I think the thing that I was looking for was some form of perfection for not just Willow and Tara but also Tara and Kirsten which is what my mistake was. Even the most perfect of relationships have their tricky moments but for me reading Willow and Tara I thought it would always be perfect. However I have the knowledge that they live happily ever after in the future and with children to boot so I really just worried over nothing.

“Willow, are we going to do this every morning?”

Willow pushed her hips against Tara’s naked rear from her ‘big spoon’ position and left kisses along her girlfriend's shoulder and upper arm.

“I sure hope so.”


And I'm sure Tara isn't complaining too much either lol.

It seems very nice of Judy to allow Willow to go back and help Tara in the office. I don't think there are many people who would do that.

“All okay in here? We heard banging.”

I'm sure they did LOL :)

Tara looked down at the glasses, then put one arm of them in her cleavage so they rested there.

Sorry about this Laragh but you had to mention Tara's cleavage so :drool :drool :drool :drool

“I’m stuck on an answer,” Tara replied, tapping the pen against the page, “Eight letters; perfect match, close one, bound.”

Willow sat up a bit to see the rest of the filled in words and smiled just a moment later.

“Easy. I’m looking right at it.”

Tara peered closely at the page, then back to Willow, confused. Willow tapped Tara’s nose affectionately, then leaned in to nuzzle it.

“Soulmate.”


Awwwwwww sweeeeeeeeet :)

Willow’s head shot up as she saw the door open. She was standing by the bed in just her panties and a t-shirt with various articles of clothing laid out on the bed.

Hmmm Willow legs :drool :drool :drool

Loved the date night that Willow gave Tara. A night at a posh restaurant, dancing in said restaurant, a horse and carriage ride-despite her fear of horses, then some really hot sex to end the evening.

Some very fun chapters there Laragh. I especially liked where Willow had been to the dentists and was kinda high afater having been operated on.

Wishing you a very merry Willowicious Christmas and a very happy Taratastic New Year.
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Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/24)

Postby Laragh » Wed Dec 24, 2014 11:01 am

zampsa19752001 -

Dibs-y Goodness!


Yay!

Yay for excellent update-y goodness... I really loved their End-of-summer/Tara's-last-work-day celebration...


Glad you enjoyed it :)

Thanks for commenting!

branny72 -

That was a fantastically hot and sweet update! Thank you!! :sigh


I'm so glad you liked it!

Thanks so much for the feedback :)

_Salix_ -

Aww! Here I am, being a girl again. But that was so cute! Awww!!! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go explode in a large cloud of happiness.


Nothing wrong with being a girl, girls are awesome ;) There should be a kitten cloud where we can all watch W/T cuteness on tap.

Thanks for commenting :)

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Hi Laragh :bigwave


Hi :)

I read your response to my comment on the last chapters and it's made me stop and think about what I was wanting. I think the thing that I was looking for was some form of perfection for not just Willow and Tara but also Tara and Kirsten which is what my mistake was. Even the most perfect of relationships have their tricky moments but for me reading Willow and Tara I thought it would always be perfect. However I have the knowledge that they live happily ever after in the future and with children to boot so I really just worried over nothing.


They do live happily ever after, and there will even be some closure with the Kirsten stuff. It's not perfect, but it's as close as it can get in this kind of situation.

And I'm sure Tara isn't complaining too much either lol.


Definitely not!

It seems very nice of Judy to allow Willow to go back and help Tara in the office. I don't think there are many people who would do that.


With devillish, but actually quite kind intentions.

I'm sure they did LOL :)


:wink

Sorry about this Laragh but you had to mention Tara's cleavage so :drool :drool :drool :drool


It was a necessary piece and not gratuitous at all...yeah right :P

Awwwwwww sweeeeeeeeet :)


:)

Hmmm Willow legs :drool :drool :drool


Again, totally necessary :P

Loved the date night that Willow gave Tara. A night at a posh restaurant, dancing in said restaurant, a horse and carriage ride-despite her fear of horses, then some really hot sex to end the evening.


Willow loves to be romantic (and reaps the rewards)

Some very fun chapters there Laragh. I especially liked where Willow had been to the dentists and was kinda high afater having been operated on.


I could never quite peg Willow as a drug-experimenter, so I figured this was as close to high as I'd get her...

Wishing you a very merry Willowicious Christmas and a very happy Taratastic New Year.


And to you, friend :)

Thanks for commenting




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Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/24)

Postby Laragh » Wed Dec 24, 2014 11:02 am

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TITLE: College Confidential

WRITER: Laragh

CHAPTER RATING: PG-13

DISCLAIMER: Willow, Tara and any other characters from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise belong to Joss Whedon, FOX, ME and a whole host of other entities, none of which are me.

SUMMARY: The first part of the prequel to Hacker Confidential and Family Confidential - the college years!

SPOILERS: Perhaps minor references to the show or stealage of dialogue, but nothing that would spoil the series.

FEEDBACK: Yes please

NOTE: Merry Christmas if you're so inclined, Happy Holidays if you're not, and if you're non-denominational, have a rockin' good Wednesday :)

Chapter 85

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Tara was flicking through some old notebooks, seeing if any were empty, and watching Willow trying to meticulously organise her bookshelf.


Willow had been laying them out in various orders for well over an hour now and still wasn't satisfied.


“Willow your books look fine,” Tara called over, trying to calm the fret.


“They can look how they please, I’m trying to make them efficient,” Willow replied, switching two books with each other, “I wish classes were in the same order each day.”


Tara stood up and walked over, hunching down to put a hand on the small of her girlfriend’s back.


“Willow.”


“Yes?” Willow asked, not looking away from her task.


Tara took the book out of her hand.


“It’s two, three-foot-long shelves worth of books. No matter which one you need, you won’t have to reach more than a few inches. I think you have them in perfect order.”


Willow snatched the book back.


“It’s about time management!”


Tara held up her hands, spun on heels, stood and walked away. It was easier to leave Willow to it when she was like that. She was about to sit back at the desk when there was a knock on the door, so she continued on to answer it.


“Hi, Eden,” she greeted with a smile, leaning against the doorframe, “How are you?”


“I strained muscles I didn’t know I had moving out,” Eden replied with a weary but cheerful look on her face, “Toby was conveniently ‘late’ until I’d already brought everything out to the curb.”


Tara crossed her arms over her chest and shook her head good-naturedly.


“We’ll miss seeing you guys around. Tell him…”


She signed a thank you message and Eden nodded.


“Got it. Hey, keep that up. You’re getting better all the time,” she encouraged, then popped her head in the door, “Hey, Willow, thanks for the tutoring. I passed my class.”


Willow reached a hand behind her back without looking away and gave a thumbs up.


“Sorry, she’s organising her books,” Tara apologised, then raised her voice a little, “And being a little rude and completely insane.”


Willow paused and looked over her shoulder.


“What happened to quirky?”


Tara gestured in her direction.


“This happened.”


Willow blushed.


“Sorry,” she said, standing up and approaching them both, “Um, you’re welcome, I’m glad it helped. If you ever need any help again, just shout. We’ll be here all year.”


Eden just smiled and produced a bright pink envelope from her back pocket.


“Thanks. Hey, this got dropped in my mailbox by mistake,” she said, handing it to Tara, “See you guys around some time.”


She left with a wave, which was answered by Willow and half-answered by Tara, who was distracted by the letter.


“I have a sweater in that colour,” Willow commented as she closed the door again and started to make her way back to her books, “Who’s it from?”


Tara was staring at the return address, sinking down onto the bed in the process.


“It’s from Kirsten.”


Willow had been all ready to throw herself back into her books, but stopped immediately and came over to offer some support. She opened her mouth to speak but didn’t know what to say, so just wrapped an arm around Tara’s shoulders and rubbed her arm up and down.


Tara held the envelope a bit shakily for a moment, then turned it over and tore open the top. She hesitated again, then took out the folded page inside. It had a pink border and puppies embossed on the paper. It was written in green gel pen with small stickers of love hearts dotted over all the I’s.


Tara laughed when she saw it, but it was tinged with pain. She held it with both hands and focused, swallowing a lump of emotion, before beginning to read it to herself.


Dear Tara,

I hope I remembered your room number right. Sorry it took so long to write you something, but I had to wait ‘til I got to school so my mom wouldn’t know about it. It totally sucks what she did. It was so lame. She told me you left but I know the truth. I understand more than she thinks I do. I think it’s really cool you have a girlfriend. What’s the big deal? She seemed nice. I hope you’re still together. And that your fish is good. She was pretty. I still don't think I know her name.

I had so much stuff I still wanted to do with you. My summer sucked after we stopped meeting up. I had to go along to all my mom’s stupid appointments, but I got so tired of it I couldn’t wait to go to school. And you were so right about it! It’s interesting and fun and all the things you said it would be. And it doesn’t even matter that some of the hearing kids stare. I do that thing you taught me about staring back and they always stop. My friend Cammie saw me do it once and she burst out laughing. Then she asked if I wanted to be friends. She talks too fast for me to get most of the time, but we listen to music and write notes. She thinks it’s cool when I show her how I listen.

I saw the nasty note my mom sent, so I know you’d get in trouble if you wrote back. So this is probably the last time we’ll talk. That makes me sad, but I’m glad I got to know you this summer. I think I would have chickened out of the art academy if I didn’t know you. I think I wouldn’t have been able to make a friend. You were the first person who ever listened to me. I think you changed my life.

I’m sorry my mom got you in trouble. She’s not cool like we are.

Lots of hugs,

Kirsten

PS Thanks for the tickets…I loved the movie…but missed you
PPS There’s a swimming pool here and me and Cammie do races sometimes. She’s not as good as you
PPPS I wrote in your favourite color. Green, right?
PPPPS I made you a drawing ---->
PPPPPS And a friendship bracelet. I used the kit we got together. I hope you like it
PPPPPPS I don’t want this letter to end, but I’m running out of p’s. Bye Tara. You were the coolest.



By the end of the letter, one of them was sobbing but it wasn’t Tara. Willow turned away and wiped at her eyes but couldn’t stop the hiccupping and sniffling.


“Oh Willow,” Tara said, pulling her into a hug, “Baby. It’s okay, baby. What’s wrong?”


She patted Willow’s eyes dry with her sleeve, then brushed the back of her fingers against her girlfriend’s cheek. Willow took in a few shaky breaths and let it all out at ten-speed.


“I’m sorry I just thought how much I needed a Tara when I was her age and how happy I was that she got to have you and how mad I am that she got taken away and how you made her a better, more confident person and now she has a friend and she’s happy and a lot of that is thanks to you, you changed her life and did I mention I really could have used a you when I was a her?”


Tara brought Willow’s chin over her shoulder and hugged her again. Willow clung on tightly and nuzzled into Tara’s neck, calming slowly.


“I-I’m sorry. It’s your letter and I’m blubbering all over it.”


“It’s okay,” Tara comforted, stroking her girlfriend’s hair, “I could have used a Willow when I was 13 too.”


Willow kissed Tara’s cheek, making it wet with her tears in the process, then wiped both of them dry. Tara leaned in for a kiss and Willow felt the last bit of distress evaporate.


They settled back into a sidelong cuddle and Tara read over the letter again.


“She was so sweet to send this.”


“You’re not thinking of writing back, are you?” Willow asked, nervously playing with her sleeve.


Tara inhaled deeply and exhaled slowly.


“No. Well, yes. But no. This is the closure I get and I have to accept that. She’s happy. That’s the most important thing.”


Willow nodded, then pointed to the PPPPS.


“What’s the picture?”


Tara turned over the page and laughed when she saw what had been drawn; a close-up re-drawn picture of one of the photos they’d taken together showing the peace sign, with added sunglasses.


“Our thing was ‘cool’,” Tara explained, “It was one of the first things she taught me to sign.”


She upturned the envelope and let the fabric bracelet fall into her hand. It had a rainbow motif and green ties dangling at the end. She held her wrist out for Willow to tie it on her.


She ran it around her wrist, smiled, sighed, closed her eyes and finally got up to pin the picture to the notice board. Willow got up and gave her another hug, which Tara latched onto tightly.


“Thank you.”


“Are you kidding?” Willow asked, shaking her head, “Thank you. For so many things.”


They embraced for a few moments before Tara broke off to shake out her hands.


“God it’s all just tensed away in there,” she said, emotion still clear in her voice, “Wanna go for a walk or something?”


“Sure, baby,” Willow replied, a soft smile coming to her face as she registered Tara had used the same name on her earlier, “Whatever you want. We could get sandwiches and eat by our tree.”


“That sounds really nice,” Tara replied with a soft sigh of relief and a weight lifted off her shoulders, “Let me find my purse.”


“C’mon, my treat,” Willow said, pulling her forward by the hand, “I’ll even throw in an iced coffee.”


“Okay, sugar mama,” Tara replied, breaking out a soft smile, “I love you.”


Willow kissed Tara’s cheek again and they left their room and made their way outside. Tara was quiet and contemplative and Willow didn’t disturb her, letting her process through everything. They walked hand-in-hand to a sandwich place and got their order, then headed to their special oak tree.


Willow sat cross-legged and leaned back against the trunk, and Tara laid down with her head in her girlfriend’s lap. Willow tore off pieces of Tara’s sandwich and fed them to her.


“I feel like royalty,” Tara commented with a smile, “Just missing the grapes.”


“I have a box of raisins in my bag if you want them,” Willow replied sincerely.


“You’re sweet,” Tara replied, looking up at the sky, “It’s nice to think we’re all sitting under the same clouds.”


“Well not all the same–” Willow started, but cut herself off wisely, “Yeah it is. One sky. Lots of people.”


Tara continued looking at the sky for a little while, than tilted her head to the side so she was looking upwards at Willow.


“You look really pretty.”


Willow glanced down, cheeks lightly tinged.


“Why does that still make you blush?” Tara asked when she saw it, “Don’t you know I think you’re beautiful?”


“It’s sort of a suspension of disbelief,” Willow replied, pulling up some pieces of grass, “Like this isn’t remotely possible or realistic but the story is good so let’s go with it.”


Tara reached up and brushed some hair from Willow’s brow.


“I hope that one day you can believe you’re a beautiful, worthy person. I hope one day you can see you like I see you. I hope I can be the person you needed when you were 13 to tell you all these things.”


Willow twined their fingers together and ran her thumb over Tara’s knuckles.


“There’s moments where I do. Where I look in your eyes and I see a wonderful me shining back.”


Tara smiled.


“Well that’s good. That just means I need to make sure those moments outweigh the others.”


Willow felt a pang in her heart and lifted Tara’s hand to kiss her palm. They lapsed into a comfortable, relaxed silence again until Willow slurped the last of her coffee and took her phone out to play with. In the process, she noticed the time.


“Shit!”


Tara had been starting to doze and sprang up into a sitting positon in surprise.


“What? What is it?”


“Becky,” Willow replied, jumping up and wiping dirt off her jeans, “We said we’d meet her at the bus stop at 3. It’s 3:05.”


“Oh, drat,” Tara replied, standing too, slightly disorientated, “Okay, let’s go.”


They threw their garbage away and walked quickly to the campus bus stop. Becky was already there with luggage around her and apparently flirting with some tall, handsome stranger.


Becky spotted them as they approached and nodded in their direction, then brushed her fingers over the stranger’s arm.


“Thanks for helping me lug stuff,” she said with her best demure smile, “My staff have arrived.”


Willow rolled her eyes and the man smirked and departed.


“What, no number?” Willow asked sarcastically.


Becky waved her phone around.


“Already in here,” she replied smugly, then threw her arms around them both, “So good to see you guys!”


They exchanged greetings and then each grabbed a bag to haul back to campus, which was luckily just around the corner.


“I swear you bring back more and more crap each year,” Willow commented as they finally got to Becky’s room, “And this place needs an elevator.”


“Someone didn’t get laid this morning,” Becky replied wryly, to another eye roll from Willow and blush from Tara, “You guys are still gonna help me unpack…right?”


“Sure,” Tara replied and Willow sighed dramatically.


“I love you guys,” Becky said with a grin, “There is pizza coming your way this evening.”


Willow reluctantly got up again to help.


“We’re not going to have another wacky roommate situation this year, are we?”


“Not unless Kim went loco over summer,” Becky replied, putting clothes into her closet as they were handed off by Tara, “She’s not back ‘til tomorrow.”


“I’m glad you guys decided to stay roommates, she’s really nice,” Tara said with a smile, “It’s important.”


“Yeah, it is,” Becky agreed, with a thoughtful nod, “Hey, I’m glad I have you both together, I have something important I need to discuss with you.”


“Shoot,” Willow replied, unrolling some posters and leaving them flat on the bed.


“I had a revelation on the journey back that I’m going into the last year of college and I never had my requisite lesbian experience,” Becky replied, casually folding a t-shirt, “I’m gonna need some tips and some referrals to gay chicks I don’t know. Question. Is lockjaw a serious issue?”


Both Willow and Tara paused, glanced at each other, and Willow raised an eyebrow.


“Your ‘requisite lesbian experience’?”


Becky nodded.


“Yeah. Pushing boundaries, experimentation, lesbian until graduation, all that stuff.”


“You want to experiment with your sexuality?” Tara asked in a very non-judgemental tone.


Becky shrugged one shoulder.


“My street cred would be damaged if I didn’t do it at least once – hence the strangers only need apply. I hear lesbian drama is the worst.”


“That’s dumb,” Willow scoffed, “You want to screw someone just to say you did?”


“It’s a thing!” Becky protested, rolling her eyes in Willow’s direction, “What do you think, Tara?”


Tara calmly continued to hand off clothing.


“I think that as long as everyone is clear on the situation, you can do what you like. And that experimenting is totally fine. But I wonder if making yourself do it with no other motive than completing a rite of passage may not produce the feeling you want it to.”


Becky paused contemplatively and finally nodded after a few seconds.


“You know, I think you’re right.”


Willow threw her hands up in the air.


“That’s what I just said.”


“Thanks Tara,” Becky continued, ignoring Willow, then wrapped her arms around Tara from behind and planted a big kiss on her cheek, “You know, I think you’re just about the only girl I’d ever sleep with anyway.”


Tara giggled but Willow straightened up sharply.


“Hey, standing right here!”


Becky put her mouth by Tara’s ear.


“You ever get tired of the red beaver, you can call on up, our secret…”


Willow gesticulated wildly.


“Hello!”


Becky rested her chin on Tara’s shoulder.


“No offense, Will, I just see you like a sister.”


Willow’s eyes were turning wild.


“That’s not what I’m ‘hello'!-ing!”


“I’m only joking,” Becky replied with a good-natured squeeze to Tara’s middle and a wink in her direction as she let go, “Kinda.”


Tara had pink cheeks and was smiling, but noticed Willow was less than amused. She went over and linked both sets of fingers, rested their foreheads together and kissed Willow softly.


Becky glanced over her shoulder and smiled when she saw them, then continued on unpacking her clothes.


Willow felt comforted by the kiss and let the tension leave her shoulders. She had a thought of how at the beginning Tara was uncomfortable when Becky teased and now they’d switched places.


’Cept she can tease me all she wants about being a nerd, but getting horizontal with my girlfriend is off-limits!


She moved to embrace Tara and stuck out her tongue at Becky, who returned the gesture right back. They smiled at each other and Willow broke the hug.


“Help me with the bed,” she said to Tara, getting the bed sheets, “You’re so much better at it than I am.”


They made up the bed together while Becky finished her clothes. They ordered pizza as they unpacked the last bag, with some to-and-fro-ing arguments between Becky and Willow over the placement of books, which Tara wisely stayed out of.


Their pizza arrived as they were just about finished, and they all sat on the floor with the box between them.


“This is good pizza,” Becky commented, holding a slice above her face and letting the cheese drop down, “I went on this health kick over summer. Lots of gnarly kale juice.”


“How long were you on it?” Tara asked, interested.


“Oh, god, musta been, 16, 17 hours,” Becky replied seriously, “Didn’t really feel the benefits if I’m honest. Pizza is much more satisfying.”


“No kidding,” Willow replied, taking another slice.


Becky finished her forth slice and put her hands over her belly.


“What are you doing as your arts requirement this year, Will? My creative writing class covers it, thank god,” she said, smile perking up on her lips, “Remember when we’d panic trying to find something? You’re lucky Tara, never had that panic, most of your classes are probably arts.”


Tara nodded.


“Yes, but I had the same problem with math. But I was able to do sociological statistics and advance up.”


“You’re so smart,” Willow replied, leaning over to kiss her girlfriend’s cheek, “And to answer your question, Becky, we’re doing Film Production together.”


“I thought you already did Film,” Becky questioned, brow creasing slightly.


“I did Film Studies, it was all theory,” Willow explained, “Remember I did it three semesters in a row because it was one of the few all-theory classes? But that’s even better, because I can use some old papers I wrote as a basis for new ones and help Tara with hers.”


Becky smiled.


“It’s so cute that you guys do classes together.”


Willow smiled at Tara.


“She’s the creative genius, I’m the technogeek and research queen lackey and together, we might just be able to pull off something. And we already checked, we can do it individually or choose our partners. Tara asked a girl in her art history class who did it last year.”


Becky reached over and pinched both of their cheeks.


“Look at you being all adorably organised together.”


Willow swatted her away.


“We’re not babies.”


“I know. It’s even scarier,” Becky replied, sitting back down with an awed look on her face, “We’re seniors.”


“I’m not scared, I’m excited,” Tara said, still nibbling on her second slice of pizza.


Willow nodded.


“Me too. I think.”


She shared a smile with Tara and nodded again, more definitively this time.


“Yes. Excited. Another year with my best gal is only to be cherished. I can't wait.”
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Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/24)

Postby _Salix_ » Wed Dec 24, 2014 12:27 pm

Did I get dibs? I think so. But I'm not sure. My internet is pretty crappy right now.

That note from Kirsten was so cute! Sad, but still adorable! I'm all blush-y now 'cuz I can't think of how to make words into a readable comment. So...good chapter. Me like. Me think funny. Fire bad. Tree pretty.

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Re: Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/24)

Postby zampsa19752001 » Fri Dec 26, 2014 11:14 am

Yay for excellent update-y goodness... Big yay for a letter from Kirsten. I'm glad she explained how she felt about the situation and how she's doing in her new school... Lol for Becky's ever increasing pile of stuff... Big lol for Becky's interest for having a lesbian experience...
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Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/24)

Postby SneakyCat » Wed Dec 31, 2014 9:22 am

Hi Laragh, sorry I missed last week's feedback. Still reading and loving it though :)

That chapter was one of my favorites. I really like it when Tara and Willow interact with Becky, and I was happy to read Kirsten's goodbye letter to Tara. You created lovable and fleshed out characters in Becky and Kirsten.

I liked the BtVS references (to the fuzzy pink sweater and the 'insane/quirky' exchange).

The letter was really moving to read. Finding that closure was very welcome, in a bittersweet kind of way. It's great that Kirsten has made a true friend and that she sees Tara as an inspiration. I never doubted Kirsten would understand what happened, but now I know for sure. Kirsten rocks, she’ll do well. She's got her head screwed on, a good heart, and knows how to stand up for what is important.

It was clever to remind us here of how Kirsten and Tara bonded, with cool being "their thing". They do that in romance movies a lot, it's almost a requisite and it can feel artificial for that reason. But you did it pretty naturally, or "organically" if that works here? (Also when you show that Tara keeps improving her signing, it's a discreet reminder of the lasting impact meeting Kirsten had on her.)

Willow's emotional reaction to the letter was also very bittersweet. It's heartbreaking to think of a lonely teenage Willow without a real friend in the world. At least Willow on the show had Xander; and Tara had her mother. It explains how Willow would still occasionally feel the pain of having been deprived of love and understanding for so long. But she has found Tara now (and Becky, and new friends later on...)

Woohoo, Becky's back! :bounce Good because she's great, she's a lot of fun. She was sooo taking the piss with her 'street cred' comment. She did it just to get under Willow's skin, right? (Or to push her buttons, not sure of my metaphors here, anyway, Willow's a lot of fun to play with and she's such an easy target.)

That exchange I found brilliantly funny:

Becky paused contemplatively and finally nodded after a few seconds.


“You know, I think you’re right.”


Willow threw her hands up in the air.


“That’s what I just said.”


“Thanks Tara,” Becky continued, ignoring Willow, then wrapped her arms around Tara from behind and planted a big kiss on her cheek, “You know, I think you’re just about the only girl I’d ever sleep with anyway.”
:lmao

She definitely had it planned all along, with her casual and detached tone. Great comedy.

And happy new year Kittens! :pinky
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Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/31)

Postby Laragh » Wed Dec 31, 2014 11:01 am

_Salix_ -

Did I get dibs? I think so. But I'm not sure. My internet is pretty crappy right now.


You did!

That note from Kirsten was so cute! Sad, but still adorable! I'm all blush-y now 'cuz I can't think of how to make words into a readable comment. So...good chapter. Me like. Me think funny. Fire bad. Tree pretty.


Perfectly comprehensible :)

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Seasons Greetings, Happy Wednesday. Take whichever you please. :)


And let's add in a Happy New Year too!

Thanks for commenting :)

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Big yay for a letter from Kirsten. I'm glad she explained how she felt about the situation and how she's doing in her new school... Lol for Becky's ever increasing pile of stuff... Big lol for Becky's interest for having a lesbian experience...


Glad you enjoyed it and got a laugh :)

Thanks for commenting!

SneakyCat -

Hi Laragh, sorry I missed last week's feedback. Still reading and loving it though :)


No problem, nice to see you :)

That chapter was one of my favorites. I really like it when Tara and Willow interact with Becky, and I was happy to read Kirsten's goodbye letter to Tara. You created lovable and fleshed out characters in Becky and Kirsten.


Oh, thank you, that's sweet. They were/are important characters, even if Kirsten is off to live her life now. But Becky was important for Willow before, and after, meeting Tara, and she became very important to Tara too. Becky/Tara's relationship was one of my favourites to form.

I liked the BtVS references (to the fuzzy pink sweater and the 'insane/quirky' exchange).


I love references. I think I've said that probably like 5 times already. But I do.

The letter was really moving to read. Finding that closure was very welcome, in a bittersweet kind of way. It's great that Kirsten has made a true friend and that she sees Tara as an inspiration. I never doubted Kirsten would understand what happened, but now I know for sure. Kirsten rocks, she’ll do well. She's got her head screwed on, a good heart, and knows how to stand up for what is important.


It was bittersweet, but for Tara, she got to see that she'd done her job. It was true regardless, but she doesn't give herself much credit for things and this was something she deserved to know she helped with.

It was clever to remind us here of how Kirsten and Tara bonded, with cool being "their thing". They do that in romance movies a lot, it's almost a requisite and it can feel artificial for that reason. But you did it pretty naturally, or "organically" if that works here? (Also when you show that Tara keeps improving her signing, it's a discreet reminder of the lasting impact meeting Kirsten had on her.)


I suppose in romance movies it's almost a cliche (although I have to admit, I'm a sucker for those...change my three C's to four!) but that kind of relationship (big/little sister) doesn't fit into many shackled bonds (it's not familial and it's not a friendship on an 'equal' footing - as in one of peers). But it was their connecting point and it made them laugh, so it was important.

Willow's emotional reaction to the letter was also very bittersweet. It's heartbreaking to think of a lonely teenage Willow without a real friend in the world. At least Willow on the show had Xander; and Tara had her mother. It explains how Willow would still occasionally feel the pain of having been deprived of love and understanding for so long. But she has found Tara now (and Becky, and new friends later on...)


I think it can be really easy to be 'that kid' with no friends who grows into 'that teenager' and then you're so self-conscious, you isolate yourself and in Willow's case, push for attention by way of grades instead of camaraderie. Plus, add in small town and a big fish in a small pond like Cordelia making you a social outcast and dealing with 'being different' and coming out to yourself...it's a recipe for a lonely life :(

Woohoo, Becky's back! :bounce Good because she's great, she's a lot of fun.


Becky is fun to write when Anya isn't around yet!

She was sooo taking the piss with her 'street cred' comment. She did it just to get under Willow's skin, right? (Or to push her buttons, not sure of my metaphors here, anyway, Willow's a lot of fun to play with and she's such an easy target.)

She definitely had it planned all along, with her casual and detached tone. Great comedy.


I think there was a thought 'huh I never did the whole chick thing' and her teasing mind worked from there. It also isn't all towards Willow. In a very detached kind of way, I think Tara pretty much is the only girl she'd sleep with and those jokey comments were between them as much as to piss Willow off.

And happy new year Kittens! :pinky


Yes, Happy New Year to all kittens :D

Thanks for the feedback!




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Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/31)

Postby Laragh » Wed Dec 31, 2014 11:02 am

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TITLE: College Confidential

WRITER: Laragh

CHAPTER RATING: NC-17

DISCLAIMER: Willow, Tara and any other characters from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise belong to Joss Whedon, FOX, ME and a whole host of other entities, none of which are me.

SUMMARY: The first part of the prequel to Hacker Confidential and Family Confidential - the college years!

SPOILERS: Perhaps minor references to the show or stealage of dialogue, but nothing that would spoil the series.

FEEDBACK: Yes please

Chapter 86

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Part 3



Willow idly kicked her feet against the bed as she laid stomach-down on the mattress, doing some work on her laptop.


She looked up as the door opened and smiled when Tara walked inside. Tara was immediately over to give her a kiss.


“Hello sexy.”


Willow blushed and pushed her glasses up her face.


“I should start calling my glasses the panty dampeners,” she said, taking a sneaky look at her girlfriend’s rear as she went to the corner to take her boots off, “Or maybe panty droppers if I’m lucky. I didn’t really get it before, but after your stint as a librarian, I'm understanding the appeal.”


Tara dropped into the desk chair and stretched her neck, producing a satisfying crack.


“If I’m able to finish my homework at any kind of reasonable hour, I will definitely be up for some relaxing later on…”


Willow closed her laptop and crossed her arms over the lid, resting her chin on them.


“I swear they’ve decided to triple the workload now we’re in our final year.”


Tara looked over and nodded in agreement.


“Tell me about it.”


“It’s not all bad, we get to watch that movie for Film class,” Willow added on, cheerier, “I mean, we have to write a review after, but we can still call watching it homework.”


Tara wasn’t as enthused.


“We’ll have to watch it sitting two feet apart so we don’t start kissing.”


Realisation dawned on Willow’s face and she pouted.


“Ugh. That’s worse than homework. That’s straight-up torture! It should be against the Geneva convention!”


Tara just smiled.


“I do like the style of the grading, though. 50% graded on assignments and tests and 50% on producing a short film. You looked like you were having lots of fun learning the cameras too.”


Willow sat right up and nodded happily.


“I loved messing with all the settings when I did photography, and there’s so much variety of equipment for the video cameras. I’ve been researching all these different lenses. That’s what I’m doing right now actually. It’s really interesting. I never realised how a scene can be shot so many different ways.”


“Catch me up over the weekend?” Tara asked.


“Of course,” Willow replied, “Got your brain thinking on script ideas? We agreed you'd be responsible for the creative writing and acting.”


Tara pursed her lips unsurely.


“I’m not sure. And I want your input too. I hear everyone else talking horror and sci-fi, showing off special effects. I thought it could be interesting to do a human story, like maybe addiction,” she answered and saw Willow’s smile falter, “You want all the special effects, don’t you?”


Willow looked pained.


“It’s just so cool all the things you can do!” she said eagerly, but reined it in, “We’ll figure it out.”


Tara nodded.


“Sure. I also thought about a love story. I know it’s cliché, but not everything has to be dark and dreary all the time.”


“Conflict is necessary though,” Willow replied, stretching out the other side of the bed, “That was literally lesson number one.”


“I know, that’s why I mentioned the addiction stuff,” Tara said, pulling out some notebooks from her bag, “Just with a happy ending.”


Willow exhaled slowly, thinking.


“Drugs are pretty intense.”


“Yeah…” Tara agreed, “I know we've never had to deal with it. I dunno. They're just ideas.”


Willow stared at the ceiling, slowly processing.


“If we do that…the romance thing…I think it should be a gay couple.”


Tara glanced over her shoulder.


“The gay girls doing a gay love story? There’ll be a lot of eye rolls.”


Willow sat up again, gesticulating.


“And that’s exactly why. We shouldn’t perpetuate that dumb attitude. We should be saying it’s normal and not a political statement.”


Tara couldn’t disagree.


“You’re right.”


Willow grinned.


“Wow, I don’t hear that too often.”


Tara gave her a pointed look.


“You hear it plenty. Don't make me out to be a nag.”


“Still nice,” Willow replied, sticking out her tongue, “I didn’t realise how into this I’d be.”


She held up her hands up as a camera and framed the 'shot'.


“Willow Rosenberg, Director.”


Tara smirked and shook her head.


“Oh, you’re loving this.”


Willow blushed and smiled, then pointed at a page that had fallen from one of Tara’s notepads onto the floor.


“You dropped something.”


Tara looked, then bent down to pick it up.


“Oh, just a silly form.”


“What for?” Willow asked, leaning forward.


Tara read over the page again.


“French exchange thing. Studying in Paris for a trimester.”


“A trimester?” Willow questioned with a furrowed brow.


Tara nodded.


“Yeah, that’s how they do it over there.”


“How long?” Willow asked, trying to keep the shake out of her voice.


“For 8 weeks?” Tara answered with a shrug, “Something like that.”


“Paris? Are you gonna apply?” Willow asked, paling, but got a negative response, “How come? It’s Paris. You said you always wanted to go to Paris.”


Tara smiled over at Willow lovingly.


“Who’d do your laundry and make you get off the laptop to go to sleep if I wasn’t around?”


She bunched up the form and dropped in in the trash can, then went off to the bathroom. Willow stood up and retrieved the form, straightened it out and cast her eyes over it. When she heard the toilet flush, she opened the drawer of the desk and left it in there.


Tara walked out but didn’t think much of Willow standing there. She put her arms around her girlfriend’s neck and offered a flirtatious look.


“Think you’ll fall for my seductive charms later if I get through my work?”


Willow nodded slowly, her breath quickening just a skosh.


“Definitely.”


Tara closed the small gap and kissed Willow, starting soft, but letting some heat build. She stopped as soon as she felt the first weakness in her knees.


“Mmm…now there’s an incentive.”


She sat back at the desk and Willow took a moment to recover, sinking to sit on the bed again.


“You ate, right?”


Tara started to get out her pens and pencils.


“Yeah I got an extra sandwich at lunch to have between classes. I’m glad I only have one late class a week, it’s such a long day.”


“I missed you at dinner,” Willow replied sadly, “Didn’t realise how much I got used to having our meals together.”


“Didn’t you meet up with Becky?” Tara asked.


“Yeah, but I’m not in love with Becky,” Willow replied by way of explanation, “Eating dinner together is chewing at the same time, it’s not an intimate kind of domesticity.”


Tara tapped her pen against her notepad.


“Nice to get some friend time though.”


“Yeah, it was,” Willow agreed, then held back a sigh, “Better shut up so you can focus on that… incentive.”


Tara blew a kiss and turned back to her work, and Willow opened her laptop again and continued researching. After a while, she put in some earphones so she could watch a movie without disturbing Tara and when that was over, she changed into comfier pyjamas and started to read.


Her eyes were drooping and falling off the page, and so she was suddenly startled awake when Tara dropped her pen on the desk loudly.


“Done!”


Willow took a moment but finally registered what was said and sat up with a sleepy smile.


“Done?”


Tara turned around in the chair.


“Are you too tired?”


“No way,” Willow replied, perking up at the thought of what, and who, was to come, “Come hither, lover.”


Tara stood up and walked over, but Willow put a hand up to stop her just short.


“You’ve got your Fort Knox pants on, please disrobe before climbing aboard, ma’am.”


Tara brought her hands to her pants and started to loosen them. There was a zip and four zig-zag buttons that were more than unnecessarily awkward to undo.


“Why do you wear them?” Willow asked, watching her struggle.


“They’re really comfortable,” Tara replied, then motioned her up, “Just pop out this button while I hold the sides.”


Willow sighed and got out of bed.


“One day you’re going to wear these pants with your combat boots and that shirt that ties one side and has buttons on the other AND that four-hooked bra and I will literally have no energy to fool around after undressing you.”


“You really hate that four-hooked bra, don’t you?” Tara muttered.


Willow delved her fingers into Tara’s pants to undo the buttons, with frustration.


“It’s excessive, Tara. I’m not exactly at the height of my motor skills when I’m trying to get your bra off.”


The pants dropped as the last button popped and Tara stepped out of them, then removed her shirt revealing the bra in question.


“Tara!” Willow exclaimed.


Tara turned her back to Willow so the hooks were easier to undo. Willow grumbled through the task but didn’t stay grumpy for long when Tara turned around again, breasts hanging freely.


“For-given.”


She threw the covers back and laid down, pulling Tara down on top. Their lips were drawn to each other immediately and Willow began exploring the ridges of Tara’s back, having her fingers mold against Tara's spine.


Tara slipped her hand under Willow’s top, palming her belly and cupping a breast. Willow pulled her top over her head and got right back to kissing with minimal disruption.


Willow’s fingers slipped under Tara’s panties and sank her fingertips into her girlfriend’s soft skin. She dragged them down to the small of Tara’s back, then started to pull the panties off.


She held them in her fist above her head in a victory punch for getting Tara naked, then let them fall to the floor. She felt Tara pull at her pj bottoms and sat up to help get rid of them.


They laid back down together but Willow had taken over top position and was gently rubbing herself against her Tara.


“I love our legs sliding together. And our tummies. And breasts. And everything.”


Tara opened her legs to provide more sliding material and Willow pressed her thigh in. She dropped her head to Tara’s chest, kissing and licking wherever her lips landed.


Tara tilted her neck into the pillow and thrust her chest into Willow in the process. She felt her nipples hardening into peaks as Willow paid plenty of attention to them, while her clit throbbed with the close, but not quite close enough, friction.


She moaned Willow’s name until she was almost kicking with tension, then pulled her girlfriend back up to her to kiss.


Willow was very receptive to a change in venue for her lips and welcomed Tara’s tongue into her mouth easily. She shuddered as Tara’s hands traced her spine and cupped her butt.


Tara sat them up and held Willow tightly so their breasts pressed and nipples rolled against each other. She guided Willow’s legs around her waist and rubbed her thigh inwardly.


Willow gasped into Tara’s mouth as fingers found her bud and played with it. She rocked her hips into Tara’s hand until she was gushing with arousal. She took a hold of Tara’s wrist and pushed it down.


Tara entered Willow as silently requested and used her other hand on her girlfriend’s butt to encourage her up and down.


Willow broke the kiss by rolling her head back and groaning. She lifted her hips almost the whole way off and took the length of Tara’s fingers again with soft, panting moans. When she was in a steady rhythm, she turned her head back to Tara, yanked her hair back so her throat was bared and scraped her teeth along her girlfriend’s sensitive skin.


Tara felt herself clench, and Willow clench around her fingers at the same time. She increased speed, reaching deeply into Willow, taking her heat. Willow grabbed Tara’s breasts and pushed her gently back down, while staying up to straddle her.


Her eyes shut tight as she felt the swelling in her abdomen and thighs started to quake when Tara curled her fingers inside. Noises leaving her mouth grew gradually louder until she finally broke with some jerky movements, leaving nail indentations in Tara’s breasts.


Tara hissed in pleasure as Willow’s nails dug in, which Willow was just coherent enough to hear. She focused back on Tara, lying down again and taking her girlfriend’s leg over her hip.


Willow was still panting but the lust hadn’t left her eyes. She moved her hand in and explored Tara’s lips to wet her fingers before bracing herself and rubbing her girlfriend’s clit with all her weight behind her.


Tara’s hands squeezed Willow’s shoulders tightly and her whole body grew taut. She loved teasing, tender touches but needed Willow to take her right in that moment.


She pushed her hips up into it and pulled Willow’s head into her neck, holding her there. She started to shake from her spine as Willow sucked on her skin; that feeling radiating through her abdomen and exploding between her legs.


Willow felt the gush and slowed down, then stilled and lifted her head up. Tara had the back of her hand on her forehead and was smiling blissfully.


“Oh wow…I needed that.”


Willow leaned down to pepper Tara’s neck with kisses.


“Happy…to be…of service…”


She left a last lingering kiss in the hollow of Tara’s throat, then moved off, but not too far.


“C’mere little spoon,” she said tenderly, gathering the blanket in around them, “Are you warm enough?”


Tara snuggled back into Willow.


“Getting there. Better not let go.”


Willow kissed behind Tara’s ear.


“Never.”


They both closed their eyes and were lulled to sleep by the comforting embrace of each other.






Willow’s eyes sprung open from dead sleep and she sat straight up in bed.


“Witches!”


Tara mumbled, half-asleep, and tried to pull her back down.


“Go back to sleep honey, it’s just a dream.”


Willow turned and shook Tara’s shoulders.


“No, witches! Witches, Tara! Witches!”


Tara’s eyes begrudgingly opened with a sigh.


“What is it?”


Willow dove back down to look Tara in the eye, gesturing with her hands between them.


“For our movie. It can be about witches, but like modern day. Hiding in plain sight kind of thing. Then I can still mess around with effects but it’s not all gore.”


Tara smiled sleepily.


“That actually sounds kinda cool.”


Willow moved her head back on the pillow and stared at the ceiling.


“Yeah!” she replied, images flashing of levitation and charms, “Witches…”


She closed her eyes and let her mind roam with ideas for spells and the accompanying effects she hoped to produce. Tara, on the hand, was suddenly wide awake and stared off into space with her own ideas.


“Willow?” she whispered after a bit had passed, but just got a soft snore in response.


She pursed her lips in thought for a moment, then silently pulled the covers back and went to sit at the desk. She turned on the lamp, picked up a pen and started to write in the back of a notebook.


Quite a while passed until Willow stirred again, awaking more fully when she spotted the light in the rest of the pitch black room.


“Baby?” she asked quietly, sitting up and rubbing her eyes, “What are you doing?”


Tara looked over her shoulder.


“Hey, I’m sorry…did I wake you?”


“No, I was in an up-snooze,” Willow replied, then blushed in the dark, “That’s what I call it when I wake up for a minute in the middle of the night. Falling back asleep is the down-snooze. I plotted it like a graph once and…um, so anyway, what are you doing up? Did you not really finish your homework?”


“No, I did,” Tara replied, turning around, holding her notebook with both hands, “I’ve been writing.”


Willow looked at the notebook, confused.


“Am I busting some kind of secret 4am writing ritual you have?”


Tara smiled softly and shook her head.


“Your witchy idea got my brain moving.”


“Witches?” Willow asked, face creasing for a moment, “Oh, yeah, witches. Wait. Have you been up all night?”


“Only since you woke up earlier,” Tara replied, coming back over to bed and leaving the book on her nightstand, “I wrote a rough script.”


“You did?” Willow asked, impressed.


Tara nodded shyly.


“Yeah. I had this thought. How we could combine our ideas. What if one of them was addicted to magic?”


Willow’s eyes slowly grew large as that idea settled over her.


“Whoa…that’s it. That’s it! That’s a hook if ever I heard one! Tara, you’re a genius!”


Tara flicked through her notebook to the page she’d started on.


“I wrote it beginning with the couple splitting because of it and the girl working through the addiction and then them, back to each other.”


Willow turned the lamp on her nightstand on and held her hands out.


“Lemme see, lemme see.”


Tara nervously put the notebook in Willow’s hands.


“It’s just rough. An idea. Someplace to work from.”


Willow started to read, gripping the book with both hands, hooked on every word.


“This is so…good. It’s sad and poignant. Just slammed right in there from the first line. ‘I don’t think this is gonna work’.”


She felt connected to every word as if she’d written them herself, though it was far more creative than her brain could have ever mustered.


“The realisation that it’s their relationship that’s the real magic. And that speech at the end. The forgiveness. Commitment to moving forward…amazing.”


She laughed and looked at Tara.


“And I love that last scene where they’re back together, in bed. It’s racy and funny. That last line. ‘There was plenty of magic’. It would be a perfect credits cutaway scene. God, Tara, if this is the rough, the final draft is gonna be a diamond.”


“You like it?” Tara asked, more than pleased, “It’s not complete, but it’s a starting point.”


Willow nodded, already incorporating some of her ideas from earlier.


“We could do flashbacks! Like maybe they met at a magic store, or a magic group or something. And, and the girl is remembering all of the spells they did together. When she’s still on that journey, of not accepting the problem. Then it slowly morphs into them lying in bed on Sunday mornings and playing with their kitty and watching the discovery channel and all the normal things. The things she misses way more than she could ever miss magic.”


Tara was duly impressed with Willow’s analysis.


“Wow, Will.”


Willow blushed slightly, but was smiling.


“I just…feel it. Like when I was a kid and I’d find a book that I couldn’t put down. I can see her so much, you know? A bit of a dork, like me. And then she meets this amazing girl. Who thinks she’s cool, which, trust me, can be pretty hard to believe. So she thinks it could never be her, it must be the magic. She gorges herself with it. She maybe even hurts the girl somehow in the guise of making things better, making herself better. Loves her to the point of destruction.”


Tara was stunned and grabbed Willow’s forearm with both hands.


“Willow, you have to play her.”


Willow’s brow creased.


“What? No, no way. This is something special, but…you saw when I did that reading in drama class.”


“That was some boring monologue you didn’t care about, with a spotlight and 40 people watching you,” Tara replied, squeezing Willow’s arm gently, “This is different. You’re so in touch with this character already and we’ve barely conceived her. It has to be you.”


Willow bit the corner of her thumb.


“I don’t know…”


Tara nodded once and released Willow’s arm.


“Think about it.”


Willow was already abandoning an outright dismissal.


“Well, I guess we wouldn’t have to worry about chemistry between the leads if you were my leading lady,” she said with a tender smile, “And I have to admit, I was antsy thinking about you doing a kissing scene with someone else. But I wouldn’t be able to operate the camera.”


“Was that super important to you?” Tara asked.


Willow hemmed and hawed for a moment.


“Not the act, per se, but I guess thinking about specific shots and stuff…want it to be right.”


“If we find someone in class who you approve of?” Tara suggested, “Do a quid pro quo thing, help with there’s, help with ours…You’d still be directing everything, just not holding the camera the whole time.”


Willow smiled, appreciating the boost of confidence she was receiving.


“You really want me to do it.”


Tara reached out and cupped Willow’s cheek.


“I think you’re the best.”


“For this role?” Willow asked, nuzzling gently against Tara’s hand.


Tara leaned over and rested their foreheads together.


“Yes. But also in general.”


Willow lifted her hand to Tara’s cheek and brushed the back of her fingers against her girlfriend’s skin.


“If I suck–”


Tara put a finger against Willow’s lips to stop her and gently shook her head. Willow swallowed audibly but didn’t drop her close gaze from Tara’s.


“Is it just me or does creating together make you really, really horny?”


Tara grinned, nodded and switched off the lamp.
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Re: Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/31)

Postby zampsa19752001 » Wed Dec 31, 2014 12:05 pm

Dibs-y Goodness!

Happy New Year!

Yay for excellent update-y goodness!... Willow really needs lots of Becky support when Tara goes to Paris... I really love their short movie idea (season sux with a happy ending)...
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Re: Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/31)

Postby _Salix_ » Wed Dec 31, 2014 5:15 pm

I'm starting a new thing: Jr. Dibs. When you get 2nd place in dibs. Probably won't catch on, but I like it.

That short movie idea was pretty cool. Sal like. Sal think you good at writing. Caveman Sal leave now. Regular Sal back.

Hey, you know what's funny? I realized this a while ago and it has nothing to do with this, but Willow is a tree and Sal is a tree. Therefore, I am Willow.

Cool update. Sal can't wait for more.

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Re: Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/31)

Postby willowtaralover » Mon Jan 05, 2015 10:52 am

Hey Laragh :bigwave Happy 2015 Sorry I've taken so long to give feedback sadly I've recently been diagnosed with a mental health condition but I'm here at last. :)

I think it's very cool that Tara is keeping up her signing practice. Maybe it's something that makes her quite invaluable in the office, after all how many childrens services officers are able to use sign language? Though I do expect that in a great many offices today there would always be one or two people with this particular talent as there will always be children like Kirsten with some form of physical or mental disability.

I loved the letter that Tara receives from Kirsten and how she is obviously a whole lot smarter than her mother presumes she is. It was also nice to see Willow comfort Tara after being a bit of a jerk in the recent past so there has been a growing experience for her as well in understanding that she cannot monopolise her time with Tara.

I got teary eyed when Kirsten talks about all the things that she believes she wouldn't have accomplished if it hadn't been for Tara and how she thinks Tara changed her life. Possibly the best sentence in this entire chapter. :)

“I’m sorry I just thought how much I needed a Tara when I was her age...

I think everybody needs a Tara no matter what age they are. I know I have some pretty crappy stuff going on in my life at at the moment and to have a Tara to talk to would be a big help.

YAY the return of Becky. The magnificent trio are back together :)

I just love Becky's teasing of Willow of the possibility of sleeping with Tara, the 'red beaver' line was hilarious. I gotta say though I never felt that I had to sleep with another male for some kind of rite of passage when I was in uni. That said most of them were pretty unattractive anyway and you don't want to sleep with someone ugly lol. :) It was nice seeing Tara so comfortable in that situation with Beck y too.

“Hello sexy.”

I wish someone would say that to me, then you'd really see some blushing lol:blush

I really like the idea of the film that Tara thought up. Two witches in a relationship together then one of them gets addicted too magic threatning the relationship. If only someone had come up with this idea. You need to sell it to Hollywood Laragh.
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Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (12/31)

Postby SneakyCat » Wed Jan 07, 2015 9:49 am

Hi Laragh! Hi kittens! btw, Salix, in case you're reading this, 'salix' is Latin for the willow tree :)

I really enjoyed this chapter.

First, I liked the sex scene :grin That was a good one :blush

You made me laugh with the "Fort Knox pants", even though I didn't get it right away. But then it became clear. Practically impregnable :laugh

I also liked the little details, Willow blushing at "hello sexy", and then "For-given" and the victory punch. Very fun.

The up-snooze/down-snooze (with graph) is an interesting glimpse into the workings of Willow's brain. (I have trouble picturing that graph though!)

The film project is promising. (They'll need a title for their movie, and character names, I'm sure you'll think of something good! Oh, and my mind must be in the gutter still because I can see them, or Willow anyway, want to do a sex tape. Willow Rosenberg, director...)

I can see her so much, you know? A bit of a dork, like me. And then she meets this amazing girl. Who thinks she’s cool, which, trust me, can be pretty hard to believe. So she thinks it could never be her, it must be the magic. She gorges herself with it. She maybe even hurts the girl somehow in the guise of making things better, making herself better. Loves her to the point of destruction.


Willow's summary of the character shows a lot of insight. She has an intuitive grasp of the character's personality. And she identifies right away with the "dork" who can't believe her own luck (like you mentioned in one of your earlier responses to FB). It's totally consistent with Dark Willow's assessment in S6: Willow was a loser, and now a junkie, and Tara was the only thing she had going for her... Really harsh words, but given Willow's background, it's believable... A huge distorsion, of course, but I can understand how she would have thoughts like that nagging her in the back of her head.

The way I see it, Willow had gained higher self-esteem during the early seasons (too high maybe at times) but it was also fragile. It could be shattered and then she would be vulnerable to an attack of low self-esteem.

I got that impression after Oz left her, when she went to that party and overheard the jock calling her "captain of the nerd squad" (Something Blue). Which is silly, because Willow is a hottie, albeit one with an interesting wardrobe, and Percy's girlfriend was clearly threatened by her at first, he said that mostly to reassure her... But Willow's perception twists it in the direction of "Oz was a fluke, I'll never find anyone like him ever again"... or that's what I read into it anyway. And then she uses magic to counteract the bad feelings and thoughts.

Willow's addiction arc is intriguing because we're never really told what her motivation really was (several possibilities come to mind...) so that leaves a lot of room for interpretation. And fanfic.

I'm looking forward to your take on that infamous S6 arc! (and the special effects should be interesting too)
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Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (01/07)

Postby Laragh » Wed Jan 07, 2015 11:01 am

zampsa19752001 -

:applause Dibs-y Goodness!

Happy New Year!


And to you!

Willow really needs lots of Becky support when Tara goes to Paris...


She will, that's for sure.

I really love their short movie idea (season sux with a happy ending)...


Super happy!

Thanks for commenting :)

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I'm starting a new thing: Jr. Dibs. When you get 2nd place in dibs. Probably won't catch on, but I like it.


Good luck with it!

That short movie idea was pretty cool. Sal like. Sal think you good at writing. Caveman Sal leave now. Regular Sal back.


I can't take any credit for the movie idea, to be fair...

Hey, you know what's funny? I realized this a while ago and it has nothing to do with this, but Willow is a tree and Sal is a tree. Therefore, I am Willow.


I don't know if the logic follows, but you can be whoever you want to be.

Cool update. Sal can't wait for more.


I hope you enjoy it!

Happy new year!


And to you!

Thanks for commenting!

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Hey Laragh :bigwave Happy 2015 Sorry I've taken so long to give feedback sadly I've recently been diagnosed with a mental health condition but I'm here at last. :)


Hi buddy, hope you're feeling a bit better :)

I think it's very cool that Tara is keeping up her signing practice. Maybe it's something that makes her quite invaluable in the office, after all how many childrens services officers are able to use sign language? Though I do expect that in a great many offices today there would always be one or two people with this particular talent as there will always be children like Kirsten with some form of physical or mental disability.


It is definitely a very valuable skill for the field she will work in. A lot of places have interpreters, but they're not always on staff and have to be 'brought in', which can be very inconvenient if there's an emergency or distressed child.

I loved the letter that Tara receives from Kirsten and how she is obviously a whole lot smarter than her mother presumes she is. It was also nice to see Willow comfort Tara after being a bit of a jerk in the recent past so there has been a growing experience for her as well in understanding that she cannot monopolise her time with Tara.


It was nice that Kirsten was able to give W/T a moment together and give back after all Tara did for her.

I got teary eyed when Kirsten talks about all the things that she believes she wouldn't have accomplished if it hadn't been for Tara and how she thinks Tara changed her life. Possibly the best sentence in this entire chapter. :)


Aw, I'm glad you think so!

I think everybody needs a Tara no matter what age they are. I know I have some pretty crappy stuff going on in my life at at the moment and to have a Tara to talk to would be a big help.


She's just that kinda person isn't she? It's nowhere near the same but I'm sending you a big virtual hug :)

YAY the return of Becky. The magnificent trio are back together :)


Haha!

I just love Becky's teasing of Willow of the possibility of sleeping with Tara, the 'red beaver' line was hilarious. I gotta say though I never felt that I had to sleep with another male for some kind of rite of passage when I was in uni. That said most of them were pretty unattractive anyway and you don't want to sleep with someone ugly lol. :) It was nice seeing Tara so comfortable in that situation with Beck y too.


It's one of those weird things that I never got either. I think it's more of a thing people think is done, than is actually done.

I wish someone would say that to me, then you'd really see some blushing lol:blush


I'm sure it will happen :)

I really like the idea of the film that Tara thought up. Two witches in a relationship together then one of them gets addicted too magic threatning the relationship. If only someone had come up with this idea. You need to sell it to Hollywood Laragh.


Thank you, thank you. I mentioned it to some dude, but he said one of them should die at the end?? Weirdo. Hollywood can suck it.

Thanks for commenting :)

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Hi Laragh!


Hi!

I really enjoyed this chapter.


Yay!

First, I liked the sex scene :grin That was a good one :blush


Thank you :blush

You made me laugh with the "Fort Knox pants", even though I didn't get it right away. But then it became clear. Practically impregnable :laugh


:D

I also liked the little details, Willow blushing at "hello sexy", and then "For-given" and the victory punch. Very fun.


Good! Fun is always my objective. I love fun.

The upsnooze/downsnooze (with graph) is an interesting glance into the workings of Willow's brain. (I have trouble picturing that graph though!)


She's basically graphing her wakeful periods during the night.

The film project is promising. (They'll need a title for their movie, and character names, I'm sure you'll think of something good!


I'm working on a title. I'm thinking it should be a show reference. I would use 'Under Your Spell' as it's pretty apt, but Tara already 'wrote' that song for Willow in this verse. I do have a related idea though. I'll run it by my beta and see what she thinks. Character names I'm conflicted on too. It seems too easy to go with Amber and Alyson. I have an idea there too that's a bit more subtle that might be fun to play around with.

Oh, and my mind must be in the gutter still because I can see them, or Willow anyway, want to do a sex tape. Willow Rosenberg, director...)


Funny you should say that... (it's actually a reference made in 'Family Conf' that had to be addressed!)

Willow's summary of the character shows a lot of insight. She has an intuitive grasp of the character's personality. And she identifies right away with the "dork" who can't believe her own luck (like you mentioned in one of your earlier responses to FB). It's totally consistent with Dark Willow's assessment in S6: Willow was a loser, and now a junkie, and Tara was the only thing she had going for her... Really harsh words, but given Willow's background, it's believable... A huge distorsion, of course, but I can understand how she would have thoughts like that nagging her in the back of her head.


The line 'The only thing Willow was ever good for... the only thing I had going for me... were the moments, just moments, when Tara would look at me and I was wonderful.' always resonated pretty profoundly with me as a character insight, and that's where that assessment was drawn from (like you mention.)

The way I see it, Willow had gained higher self-esteem during the early seasons (too high maybe at times) but it was also fragile. It could be shattered and then she would be vulnerable to an attack of low self-esteem.

I got that impression after Oz left her, when she went to that party and overheard the jock calling her "captain of the nerd squad" (Something Blue). Which is silly, because Willow is a hottie, albeit one with an interesting wardrobe, but the girlfriend was clearly threatened by her at first, Percy said that mostly to reassure her... But Willow's perception twists it in the direction of "Oz was a fluke, I'll never find anyone like him ever again"... or that's what I read into it anyway. And then she uses magic to counteract the bad feelings and thoughts.

Willow's addiction arc is intriguing because we're never really told what her motivation really was (several possibilities come to mind...) so that leaves a lot of room for interpretation. And fanfic.


And there's plenty of fanfic with lots of different interpretations! To me, to add in to your self-esteem analysis, she was never taught magic properly (learned on her own with no guidance and be damned the consequences) and wanted to be helpful. That need to be helpful turned into a need for the power being magical ascribed her. It turned her from Willow The Loser to Willow The Powerful Witch ('The magicks I used are very powerful. I'm very powerful. And maybe it's not such a good idea for you to piss me off.') That's not even adding in the friend factor of becoming the leader of the gang after Buffy died and trying so hard to bring her back. The power went to her head. Add in the downward spiral of the break-up with Tara and turning to the only thing (apart from Tara, which she's lost) that made her feel good (the magic) and it turns messy fast.

Though I must admit, Willow-analysis is not my strongest point (I've seen the captain of the nerd squad phrase but never saw it...but I can, and have, painted a pretty good picture to mold my perception of her) because I don't watch episodes Tara wasn't in. I do, however, base my writing of her on what I do know and, like when the fighting stuff was going on, really try and lay out my character portrayal and match it to what I know of her to make sure I can stand behind it.

I'm looking forward to your take on that infamous S6 arc! (and the special effects should be interesting too)


Yes, I'll see how it all plays out! I don't want to get too heavy, and it's fiction-within-fiction so there's not too much character analysis to be done but it will certainly be interesting (from my perspective, to write)

Thanks for the feedback :)




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Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (01/07)

Postby Laragh » Wed Jan 07, 2015 11:03 am

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TITLE: College Confidential

WRITER: Laragh

CHAPTER RATING: NC-17

DISCLAIMER: Willow, Tara and any other characters from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise belong to Joss Whedon, FOX, ME and a whole host of other entities, none of which are me.

SUMMARY: The first part of the prequel to Hacker Confidential and Family Confidential - the college years!

SPOILERS: Perhaps minor references to the show or stealage of dialogue, but nothing that would spoil the series.

FEEDBACK: Yes please

Chapter 87

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Tara practically skipped down the hall, hoping Willow had gotten her text message.


She opened the door expectantly, but was disappointed to see Willow wasn’t on her own. There was a video camera set up on a tripod and Willow was being shown how to angle it by a buddy she’d made in film class, Jack.


Jack had a mop of black hair; glasses hiding dark brown, long eyes; slightly pouting lips and a dimple on one side. He was also just about as obsessed with technology as Willow was.


Tara held in a sigh and leaned against the door.


“Hi Willow. Hi…Jack.”


They both looked up.


“Hey Tara,” Jack greeted pleasantly, “Hey, I better go, I need to grab lunch. See you guys in class.”


Tara perked up and straightened.


“Oh, sure. Bye.”


She closed the door as he left and Willow looked over to her with a smile.


“Hey, baby,” she said, looking at the pop-out screen on the camera, “I got your text about coming home, but I was already here. Jack was showing me how to line up shots.”


“So you think you’re comfortable with handing off camera duties to him?” Tara asked, hoping it would be the case.


Willow nodded happily.


“Uh huh, he knows his stuff. Thanks for agreeing to draw a movie poster for him.”


“No problem,” Tara replied, perching herself on the edge of the bed, “I don’t even know what his movie is about.”


“Try Hard,” Willow replied, zooming in and out, “Action spoof.”


Tara nodded but was concentrating more on Willow.


“So what are you doing?”


Willow moved off to shuffle the curtain a bit.


“Trying to direct the light.”


Tara pushed herself up so she was lying on the bed.


“Why don’t you shut that thing off and come over here and direct me?”


“Direct you to do what?” Willow asked, still focused on the camera.


Tara popped her top button and pulled her shirt down a bit so her cleavage was exposed.


“Whatever you want.”


Willow glanced up, just for a second, but it was all she needed to catch what was being offered. She slammed the screen door shut on the camera and came leaping over from the other side of the room.


She pounced on top of Tara and dipped a finger into that cleavage.


“Are we playing a game of Willow Says?”


She pressed her lips against the top of each of Tara’s breasts, then rolled off and propped herself up in a spectator pose.


“Willow says get up and strip.”


Tara cast a sidelong amused glance, complete with customary crooked smile and stood up. She shook her hair out a bit and knew she had Willow hooked. One hand undid her shirt buttons, popping each one with just enough of a hip thrust to be noticed.


Willow was captivated and only some faint muscle control away from drooling. Watching Tara turned her on like nothing else and her girlfriend knew just how to land her; hook, line and sinker.


She watched Tara disrobe, the flame in her belly going from spark to blaze, until she was finally able to take an eyeful of her girlfriend’s nude, curvaceous figure.


She freed herself of her own clothes pretty quick, barely even registering herself doing it, as she was offered a little swaying dance on Tara's way back to bed.


Willow’s body was screaming for contact and she grabbed Tara’s hips, pulling her into her lap where she was sitting on the edge.


“Willow says kiss me.”


Tara rested her hands on Willow’s shoulders and leaned down to meet her lips. She brushed them together lightly at first, then more deeply, until their tongues were playing.


Willow’s hands were curved over Tara’s butt and she was rubbing there ever so gently. The fleeting movement was driving Tara wild and she loved every second of it. She teased back by grazing her fingertips against Willow’s neck.


Willow broke the kiss and whispered in Tara’s ear.


“Pinch my nipple.”


Tara slid her hand down and cupped Willow’s breast, the nipple sliding between her middle and index finger. She squeezed Willow’s breast and slowly released it until her fingertips were pinching the nipple.


Willow enjoyed it for just a moment before taking Tara’s hand and pulling it away.


“Ah, ah. I didn’t say Willow Says,” she said in her best authoritative voice, “Now I have to spank you.”


Tara didn’t seem too displeased and sat up straighter in Willow’s lap so her butt was exposed. Willow rubbed Tara’s cheek for several seconds, then gave her a nice, firm slap.


Tara moaned in her ear, and Willow could feel her heat emanating from their close proximity. She rubbed the spot again and eased Tara back to sitting. Her eyes focused on Tara’s, which were considerably darker than they had been before.


She put a hand on Tara’s thigh and could already feel the wetness slipping out. Her fingertips danced their way up to her mound.


“Willow says it’s time for you to take a ride.”


Tara let out a shaky breath of anticipation and crossed her wrists behind Willow’s neck to hold on better. She got comfortable with her thighs nice and wide and legs locked in place, then closed her eyes as Willow started to tease her lips.


Willow pressed her lips slowly around Tara’s chest with teasing, fleeting kisses that matched the delicateness of her fingers. When she finally entered her girlfriend, they immediately switched to a much faster gear with Tara moaning as she thrust.


Tara bounced on the spot, her fingertips pulling at the tendrils of hair at the back of Willow’s neck. She groaned loudly when Willow tugged her hair back roughly to expose her neck and latch onto her sensitive skin.


Willow pulled Tara up by the buttock with one hand while the other worked inside, curling and sliding out to give her girlfriend as much pleasure as possible. She could feel her heating up and knew by the decibel of her moans that she was coasting towards orgasm.


She moved her arm from Tara’s cheeks up around her back to really hold her in close and used her thumb to stimulate her girlfriend inside and out. She felt Tara’s hands slide down her back and cry a release into her neck.


She shuddered at the heat engulfing her hand as well as the hot breath on her neck.


Tara pushed them gently down onto the mattress and calmed herself down by rubbing their bodies together.


Willow moaned with passion as Tara’s slick thigh briefly grazed between her legs, then in frustration when Tara moved off completely. She was only momentarily displeased though, as Tara slid between her legs and moved them more onto the bed, before ducking to kiss from her bellybutton down.


She spread her legs as Tara leisurely moved onto her thighs and finally felt a tongue slide between her lips.


“Oh, Tara…”


Tara teased Willow’s clit, gently coaxing her until she was throbbing. She took it in her mouth and started to suck while her fingers moved up and circled Willow’s opening.


Willow squirmed and lifted her hips invitingly, moaning when Tara’s fingers filled her. She clawed and released the sheet in sync with Tara’s slow dragging in and out of her.


“Mmm…baby…oh…”


Things sped up by request of Willow’s hips, which really started to grind into Tara’s mouth and hand. Tara kept Willow’s rhythm until she was coming around her, then replaced her fingers with her tongue and let her girlfriend quiver and strain into stillness.


She rubbed Willow’s belly as she was coming down, then finally pulled herself away and lifted up to kiss her properly.


Willow slowly came to under the pressure of Tara’s lips and responded slowly in kind. She sighed happily with Tara’s soft weight on top of her and stroked her hands gently down her girlfriend’s hair.


They naturally broke apart after a while and Tara kissed down into Willow’s neck before popping off and sliding her legs off the bed to gather her clothes and dress.


Willow lifted herself up on her elbows.


“Hey, where are you going? I thought you wanted to do something this afternoon.”


Tara looked over her shoulder apologetically.


“I have to go to class. I’m sorry.”


Willow slumped, hurt.


“But you said to meet you back here.”


“I thought we could go to lunch,” Tara replied nonchalantly, standing and buttoning her pants.


Willow frowned.


“Then why didn’t you ask me to meet you at the cafeteria? You had to come all the way across campus.”


She watched Tara brushing her hair in the mirror, then suddenly her eyes grew wide.


“Did you…did you booty call me?”


Tara checked herself in the mirror to make sure she was presentable.


“Of course not.”


Willow’s mouth was agape.


“You did! You so did! You booty called me!”


“Willow, don’t be silly,” Tara dismissed, walking over to kiss her cheek, “I booty texted you.”


Willow flumped back down on the bed.


“I feel like a piece of meat.”


“A very pretty and much loved piece of meat,” Tara reassured and Willow couldn’t help smile.


“Will you hand me the camera? Might as well work on my shots now my afternoon has opened up.”


Tara took the camera carefully off the tripod and handed it over to Willow before heading into the bathroom.


“Huh,” Willow said as she pressed some buttons, “The battery’s gone. That’s weird, I swore it still had half left when I turned it off.”


Tara’s head popped through the door, a toothbrush half-inside her mouth.


“Did you say something?”


“No, talking to myself,” Willow replied with a sheepish smile.


Tara just smiled and finished brushing her teeth, then put her satchel over her body and gathered her books.


“Later, gator. Collect you for dinner?”


Willow raised an eyebrow.


“Am I dinner again?”


Tara smiled, sweet as pie, thought the glint in her eye was anything but.


“No but if I’m lucky you might be dessert.”


Willow blushed and blew a kiss. Tara caught it and left with a promising wink.





Tara ambled down the hallway, less skippy and more sleepy than earlier that day. She opened the door to their room, but wasn’t instantly greeted. She spotted Willow sitting at the desk with her back to her, staring intently at her laptop screen, which was angled down so Tara couldn’t tell what it was.


There were however certain sounds emitting from it that Tara was surprised to hear. She looked back at the door, deciding whether to leave and come back, but was tired and didn’t really want to hang around for dinner.


She pressed the door closed with a definitive thud and Willow all but dove, banging buttons on the keyboard and slamming her laptop shut. She turned to face Tara, wide-eyed.


“Hi,” Tara greeted, a little awkwardly, standing in place where she was.


“H-hi,” Willow replied, swallowing audibly.


There was a lull for a few minutes before Tara spoke up again.


“It’s okay.”


“Huh?” Willow asked, confused.


“It’s okay,” Tara repeated, leaving her bag down by the door, “That you watch porn. You don’t have to hide that from me.”


Willow’s eyes bugged out even wider than before.


“I…! I was not! I was not watching porn!”


“Okay,” Tara replied with a slight bob of her head.


Willow almost stamped but stopped just short.


“I wasn’t!”


Tara held up a hand defensively.


“Those noises just sounded familiar, is all.”


“Well they should, it was you making them!” Willow retorted, paling as she realised immediately what she’d said.


Tara paused, eyes narrowing.


“Excuse me?”


Willow glanced worriedly at her laptop.


“Uhhh…” she started, stumbling over her words for a moment, then watched in horror as Tara marched over, “Tara, no, don’t!”


Tara lifted the lid and clicked the play button, then stepped away as she watched the video play, eyes lividly focused on Willow.


“You filmed us?” she asked, jaw set with fury.


“No!” Willow replied, slapping her hand down on the space bar to pause it again.


Tara was less than believing.


“You clearly did, or were those two clones of us?”


Willow gulped again.


“I didn’t know it was on.”


“Yeah, right,” Tara sneered.


“I didn’t,” Willow replied emphatically, “I swear. I thought it shut off when you close it, like a laptop.”


Tara gestured towards the laptop.


“You just closed your laptop in front of me and it opened it on again.”


“Yeah, but you have to change the settings, it’s not the default! I thought it was the default!” Willow said, voice growing frantic, “Why would I have asked you to hand me the camera earlier and risk seeing it if I thought I was filming?”


“Double bluff,” Tara countered and Willow pretty much crumbled on the spot.


“Tara…come on. I wouldn’t do this. Do you really believe I would do this?”


Tara lifted a hand to her temple and massaged it. It was hard to think that Willow would do what she was accusing her of.


“So what? You discovered it and just decided to watch it?”


Willow wasn’t far off crying, sniffling to hold it in.


“I was confused why the memory was full! We only made a few 30 second transition shots, I wanted to see what was wrong. I started playing the file and…and I was just so shocked…” she said, then pointed at the screen again, “Look, it’s only a few minutes in. I haven’t been sitting here hunched over it like a pervert, I swear.”


Tara went over to the bed and sat down, colour drained from her face. She hung her head in her hands for a few moments before lifting it with an exhale.


“Okay, I’m sorry. I was just shocked.”


Willow came over and sat beside her.


“Well, yeah. Me too,” she said, then some silence hung in the air before she broke it, “What do we do with it?”


“Delete it,” Tara replied without pause.


“Right, of course,” Willow nodded, then cast a sidelong glance in her girlfriend’s direction, “You’re not even a teensy bit intrigued?”


Tara’s head turned, eyes narrowed.


“I thought you weren’t ‘watching it’.”


“I wasn’t!” Willow replied, holding her hands up, “And I won’t.”


She nodded once definitively, then glanced at Tara again.


“…unless you wanted to.”


Tara folded her arms across her chest, sorting out her feelings. She nibbled the skin around her thumb for a moment, then placed her palms flat on her thighs.


“We watch it once. Then it’s gone. Yes?”


Willow nodded quickly, eyes wide.


“Yeah, uh huh!”


She jumped up and ran over to get her laptop, then brought it back. She both sat up with their backs to the wall and pillows between for comfort. Willow rested the laptop on both of their laps and twined Tara’s hand with hers.


“You can press play. Whenever you’re ready.”


Tara didn’t bother to rewind it, fairly sure she didn’t want to watch herself do a strip tease, and played the video. She watched with her arms crossed loosely across her chest.


Willow watched with one knee up, leaning with her chin on it so she was inconspicuously closer to the screen.


Both were silent for a few minutes of kissing and squirmed at the same time when they really started to get into it. Willow watched the way Tara moved, eyes following each flex of her muscles.


“You really are so flexible.”


Tara wasn’t as enamoured with herself.


“God I sound like a banshee or something.”


“No way,” Willow replied, voice dropping an octave as she watched, “It’s sexy.”


Another while passed in silence before Willow physically recoiled back.


“Ouch, that was kinda rough. I didn’t know I was pulling that hard when I did that.”


Tara’s cheeks were already red.


“I liked it.”


Willow looked over at her, then back at the screen, a slow smile settling on her face. Their hands squeezed together and fingers played with each other.


“Do you always watch like that?” Tara asked, tone a little husky, “Just I’ve looked up a few times and you’ve normally been looking back.”


Willow blushed but was unable to take her gaze away from the new angle she got to watch from.


“I like to watch.”


She was mostly focused on watching exactly how Tara used her mouth so well, but couldn’t help but notice when it all came to a climax.


“Oh god!”


“What’s wrong?” Tara asked, lifting a hand to touch Willow’s shoulder.


Willow was grimacing.


“Do I always pull that face?”


Tara looked at the screen, it was over, but she knew what Willow was talking about.


“I like your o-face.”


Willow dropped her leg with a flop.


“I look like a constipated bunny.”


Tara wrapped her arm around Willow’s shoulder and kissed her cheek.


“That’s not what I see at all.”


Willow decided not to argue it, mostly in an effort to save face. She focused back on what Tara was up to and the minutes ticked by.


“Wow, I don’t appreciate, um…” she started, wondering how to word it, “How much time you spend down there. Sometimes I just gnash and crash.”


Tara’s eyebrow arched but Willow spoke again before she could.


“But you were always way better at…stuff… anyway.”


Tara squeezed Willow shoulder.


“We’re not better or worse than each other. You know you drive me crazy.”


Willow leaned her head down on Tara’s shoulder, but almost immediately pouted when the video turned to black.


“Aw it missed the kiss,” she complained, then slightly sheepishly off Tara’s look, “I really like the after-kiss.”


She blushed and pushed the screen closed.


“Well…that was…interesting.”


“Yes,” Tara agreed unsurely, “So we watched it. Once.”


“Yeah,” Willow nodded, “I’ll go, um…”


“Yeah, okay,” Tara replied, jumping up as soon as the laptop was off her, “Do you mind if I grab a quick shower before dinner?”


“No, no, of course,” Willow replied, but caught her hand as she came around the other side, “Hey…things aren’t…awkward, are they?”


Tara squeezed Willow’s hand and shook her head.


“No.”


“I love you,” Willow said tenderly.


“I love you, too,” Tara replied, leaning in for a kiss.


They kissed sweetly for a few moments and let the tension fizzle out, then Tara headed for the bathroom, leaving their hands locked until the last second. Willow had a pleased smile on her face as she worked on the computer.


Tara came out, redressed, ten minutes later.


“All done?”


“Um, yup,” Willow replied, standing up with her hands behind her back, “Camera’s blank.”


Tara nodded and gestured to the door.


“Dinner?”


“Yes,” Willow replied, offering her hand.


Tara took it and they set off for the cafeteria. When they reached the end of the hallway, they ran into, almost literally, Becky, who was turning down that way at the same time.


“Hey, I was just coming to see you guys.”


“We were just going to dinner, want to come?” Tara asked.


Becky shrugged and nodded.


“Sure, I haven’t eaten yet,” she replied and they all walked off together, “Make any good movies lately?”


“What?!” Willow asked, head spinning around to Becky.


Becky stepped a little away.


“Film class…aren’t you guys doing film class?”


“Right,” Willow replied, clearing her throat, “Right. Um…still in the pre-production process.”


“Actually, we have a role for you if you want it,” Tara said, keeping herself composed a lot better.


“A ‘role’, huh?” Becky asked grinning, “Who’d I be?”


“The very demanding role of…” Willow started and mocked a drum roll, “My best friend.”


“Will I have to pretend to like you?” Becky asked, scrunching her nose up.


“Yes,” Willow replied with a single nod, “But only through a montage of holding me crying, snatching my herbs away, that kind of thing.”


“Your herbs?” Becky asked, lost.


“We’re doing a story about modern age witches and getting addicted to magic,” Tara explained.


Becky looked impressed.


“That actually sounds pretty dope,” she said, then smirked, “Geddit?”


Willow playfully rolled her eyes, smiling.


“Are you in?”


“Sure, I’d love to,” Becky replied, “I can be the witch-keeper.”


“Great,” Willow replied, pleased, “So what were you coming to see us for?”


“OH!” Becky said, perking right up, “Tickets! I won four tickets to Oktoberfest. Do you guys want to come?”


“Um, I dunno,” Willow replied, “Isn’t that more a you-and-Kim thing? Beer and all that.”


Becky shook her head.


“I asked, she’s busy, but I was going to see if you guys wanted the other two tickets anyway. And it’s not all beer. There’s food and entertainment and stuff too. It’s more like a music festival.”


Willow looked over to Tara.


“What do you think?”


Tara shrugged.


“I like sauerkraut.”


“More of a bratwurst kinda girl myself,” Becky remarked, smirk playing on her lips.


Willow couldn’t help a chuckle.


“Alright, why not. When is it?”


“Two weeks from Friday,” Becky replied.


Willow looked to Tara, who nodded.


“Great.”


“Thanks for thinking of us,” Tara added.


Becky just smiled as they arrived to the cafeteria and lined up for food.


They sat down around a circle table and Willow and Becky dominated the conversation, but Tara was happy to eat her fish and enjoy their rapport. Halfway through the meal, Willow suddenly started waving at someone.


“Hey Jack!”


Tara and Becky looked up as Jack waved and sauntered over with a relaxed swagger.


“Hey Willow, hey Tara,” he greeted quite warmly, then turned his attention to Becky with a gently sloped smile, “I don’t think I know you.”


Becky demurely offered her hand to shake.


“I’m Becky.”


“She’s ‘unnamed best friend’,” Willow said, then clarified to Becky, “Jack is our camera guy.”


“A man with equipment, huh?” Becky asked, glancing for a nanosecond to his crotch, the perfected amount of time she’d learned to be noticed without being obvious, “It’s nice to meet you.”


“Always a pleasure to meet a new face,” Jack replied, smile turning into a smirk, “Maybe you’d want to be in my film too. I could use a kick-ass lady.”


Becky laughed in a way that Willow knew was only reserved for potential dates, so she threw her eyes to heaven in Tara’s direction. Tara just squeezed Willow’s arm and gave her a look to ‘be good’.


“Why don’t you tell me more about it some time,” Becky suggested then leaned in with a twinkle of attraction in her eye, “Hey, do you like beer?”


Jack nodded easily.


“I like a good Weihenstephaner.”


Becky looked impressed.


“Funny you say that, I got an extra ticket to Oktoberfest. We’re all going…want to tag along?”


“Sure, that sounds cool,” Jack agreed, producing his phone, “Why don’t I give you my number?”


Becky produced her phone and handed to him, then it was given back to her one number heavier.


“I’ll be in touch,” she said, flashing her teeth.


Jack seemed quite pleased and set off with a wave. All three girls waved in different ways and Willow poked Becky gently with her fork when he was out of sight.


“You are shameless.”


“What?” Becky asked, twirling some spaghetti, “He’s cute. Deep.”


Willow speared a meatball.


“What is with you and guys from my classes?” she asked, an undercurrent of resentment in her tone.


Becky sighed.


“Yeah well I hope this one doesn’t turn out like the last.”


“It won’t if you don’t cheat,” Willow retorted and instantly got a flick of the hand against her arm from Tara.


“Willow.”


“It’s alright,” Becky dismissed, shrugging it off, “Don’t worry, that’s never happening again.”


Willow looked at Tara, chastised, and was quiet for a few moments to realign her thoughts.


“Well, um, Jack’s really nice. Good guy.”


Becky paused from eating and rested her chin on her fist.


“An artist. I haven’t dated enough artists.”


“So you and Darren aren’t getting back together at all?” Willow asked, oddly hopeful.


Becky scrunched her nose and shook her head.


“Nah, that’s old news. Compare how much I cared when he suggested taking the summer off to when Tim said the same thing to me a couple of years ago. He was a bit of a knucklehead anyway,” she said, pushing more food around her plate, “Unfortunately he’s in my circle since Kim is still dating his BFF, but we were all out the other night and it was pretty friendly.”


“I’m glad,” Tara spoke up.


Becky smiled across the table.


“Thanks, Tara,” she said, then glanced to her phone where Jack’s name was still lit up, “Man, I love those first meeting butterflies. Doesn’t it suck when they go?”


Willow glanced over to Tara and smiled.


“Dunno, hasn’t happened yet.”


Becky smiled all over again.


“You guys are just the sweetest thing.”


She wrapped an arm over each of their shoulders.


“All I want is to have someone who loves me like you two love each other.”
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Re: Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (01/07)

Postby zampsa19752001 » Wed Jan 07, 2015 11:59 am

Dibs-y Goodness!

Yay for great update-y goodness... Ah, the infamous sex-tape... Lol, new boy-toy for Becky... I hope the movie making goes without too much problems...
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Re: College Confidential (Prequel to HC/FC) [AU] (01/07)

Postby _Salix_ » Wed Jan 07, 2015 6:48 pm

Yay! Updates! *tries to do a happy dance* *falls and breaks arm*

Cool update. I totally suck with adjectives, so “cool” and “great” is all I got. So...cool. Great. Awesome update.

If SneakyCat is reading: I've been using this username four so long I almost forgot what it means. But now I remember. Thanks! :)

Also, this is the first update I read while I felt super masculine. Yay for that, I guess. I still got all giddy, though. I always get giddy with your updates.

*applause* to you, my friend.

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