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Kirsten contemplated that, and nodded back in affirmation, then quickly got distracted by Miss Fishy Fantastico.
“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.
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.
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 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–”
“All I meant was...”
Willow started to stand.
“No, it's okay. This whole job thing, let's just forget it.”
Willow replied, a vein in her forehead popping with anger.
“You really have some crappy luck. Do we live on some kind of a hellmouth?”
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And that when we fight I go in, temper blazing. I need to fix that
Dibs! (Yay)
Awww!!! Your fics always get me all emotional.
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.
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.

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...
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...

Hey Laragh

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
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???????
Personnally I like the yellow one but considering I work in a ladies clothes shop maybe the job has gone to my head slightlylol
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?
They keep Good HouseKeeping in the bathroom???? How odd we keep a bath in ours
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.
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.

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.
Hmm, I have a bad feeling about this.
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.
Oh Willow, it's your complete doofusness that endears us to you.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.

Hey Laragh 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 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.
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.
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 so we have no way to know what she really thinks, but I really get the feeling Kirsten understands exactly what happened.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
A touch of Dark Willow there?
Tee hee (but notice the use of humor as deflection!)
Very much like Tara to have her aggressor's interest in mind
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.
Yes indeed, but acceptance is the first step, right?
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.
Happy ending! Finally! And I can't wait to see how the rest will unfold.

(Damn double posts...)




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...


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.
I love to induce giggling 
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.

Thank you, Laragh for the great updates!

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.









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

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

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.
There should be a kitten cloud where we can all watch W/T cuteness on tap.
Hi Laragh

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.
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.
I'm sure they did LOL

Sorry about this Laragh but you had to mention Tara's cleavage so![]()
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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.





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.)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.”

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.

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

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...

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!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.)
She definitely had it planned all along, with her casual and detached tone. Great comedy.
And happy new year Kittens!



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. 


It was nice seeing Tara so comfortable in that situation with Beck y too.
That was a good one
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.
Dibs-y Goodness!Happy New Year!
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)...

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.
Happy new year!
Hey LaraghHappy 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 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.
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.

Hi Laragh!
I really enjoyed this chapter.
First, I liked the sex sceneThat was a good one

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

I also liked the little details, Willow blushing at "hello sexy", and then "For-given" and the victory punch. Very fun.
The upsnooze/downsnooze (with graph) is an interesting glance 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...)
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, 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.
I'm looking forward to your take on that infamous S6 arc! (and the special effects should be interesting too)




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