Title – Everybody
Author name - Viximon
Rating - PG
Disclaimer –Until end of season 6. The BtvS show is own by Warner, Joss and all that people.
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Notes- Still searching for a beta. I don't know what happen. I'm like a beta's repelent or something. If someone out there will take merci on me and help me in that is very welcome
Notes2- The song is Everybody by Sweetbox(again).
Note/Warning?: This chapter is alittle independent and against, mostly Tara POV.
The next one will be the last and conclusive with a happy and predictable ending.
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All was going so well, too well.
After the spiral of blindness deceive Willow had taken I had to leave. All had fallen apart so hard. She wasn’t herself anymore, I couldn’t understand where we were wrong. I never thought this will happen. It hurt. It hurt too much what she did. What she did to me. It hurts still. But the funny thing is… I never stopped to love her.
The rest of the scoobies informed me about what was happening around. Sometimes I wanted so much to run back. But this was the right decision. I kept saying that again and again to myself hoping it worked and I could strain my will to return when wasn’t right time yet.
Days passed by, then weeks. I was told Willow had quit the magics. That she was doing well, that she had changed. I was a little reticent at first. My mind a turmoil of contradiction emotions. I didn’t know what to think. Then I saw her, the uncomfortable-ness was all around. It was odd. But I could tell she was more Willow than ever. More like the Willow I love more than live itself, my cute sweet Willow, kind and funny.
At Buffy’s party Willow showed her feelings in a way that it make me seized with emotion. When she refused to do any kind of spells and all, my heart inflated itself out of proud. She had been so strong…
She had give up the only thing she thought made her special, she had given up a part of herself… and mostly,for me. This, most than anything made me felt so loved and important, the most happy woman in the world. I had noted how Willow had made little moves on me. I wanted her to. A part of me only wanted to have her again in my arms, to be hers once more, to things to work like they used to at first… It wasn’t too much for yearn, was it?
We met “casually” on the hallways between or after classes after that. Sometimes I had to suppress a smirk because the ways of Willow. She was so obvious. I could read her like a open book. There was that time I caught her walking away just after I had meet a friend of mine, a female friend. It didn’t took me too much time to know what Willow may being thinking if she had seen us. And, by the way she walked in a little rush and her unhappy disappointed aura, she had. I proposed myself to undo the misunderstanding. How silly of Willow to think I could replace her so easily. Didn’t she know she was the one, my deepest only love. The woman that had played with my heart and despite of that it still have this longing to touch the redhead’s. Love sure was a twisted and strange joker.
To put it short, at last we came together again. It was the most precious memento since we broke up. I had shown at the door of her room. By her face I’m sure she didn’t expect me. I had gone with my little speech about how things had been and stuff but at one point I was saying her to kiss me. And kiss me she did. That night the missing pieces filled its places and I felt whole again. Willow, I think, felt the same. It was like if we had start over again, more aware, more mature, with much more love for each other. This time we would work the mistakes together and at her begin. It seemed like life were smiling to us at last. But this happiness didn’t last long. After that second night, a night full of love, teasing and caressing. We were ripped away of each other one more time, a last time. That was the day I died.
I never knew what hit me. A moment I was face to face with my grinning girlfriend, the next all went black. Never knew what happened to my beloved, and was mean to never know. I didn’t felt sad though I didn’t felt happy either. From Buffy I knew that when dead for good people was supposed to be a blissful place yada yada. Then why I was feeling so empty
I was hypothetical to go to a heavenly dimension or something sort of. But something back at the word of the livings happened. Willow, my Willow happened. The Willow that had fought so hard to be herself again and leave the black magic, and magic in general behind had gone out of control. The pain of losing me had been the cause, my sudden departure, I had been the cause of her fall. She was hurt so much and so deep she couldn’t stand it. My poor Willow. That wonderful woman that would had die for me, had killed for me.That was the great of her love. I was horrified, utterly sad for what she had done, but really couldn’t blame her more that she would blame herself in the future. Besides, is told that what is done for love is a matter far away of good or evil . She was blind with pain and regret, her ache, her grief, nobody seems to comprehend it. This wouldn’t help her lost soul, alone and somewhat frightened, she was like a wounded animal, acting on a rampage to defend herself, to low the hurt, to forget. She was hostile and merciless. That was all out of instinct, of restrained emotion through years, of hate, of the darkness that slept inside waiting for the right trigger. Hurt them before they hurt you.
Willow hurt our friends, our family, she didn’t heard. She not only contained her own pain, she too soon (because of Giles) carried over her shoulders the world’s. It was a miracle that she didn’t turn crazy (well, her state of mind wasn’t her best but…) So she decided finish the pain killing herself… and taking the world down with her. I’m still thinking that this was a act of pity somehow the caring Willow was trapped inside the darkmonster. At last Xander made it and stopped Willow whom humanity weighted on her and would punish her for the rest of her live.
So since her sins, Willow soul was ordained to hell until her guilt were compensated. She was meant to correct her mistakes, to search for redemption. Therefore my spirit was trapped in earth like that of a ghost. Is not that I left a inconclusive something, it was that my anima couldn’t go to heaven when half of my soul was going to be throw to hell. Could it?
This way, I roam this plane of existence. Guiding Willow. Being with her. She can’t see me or anything. She has becomes such a shell of herself. The spark in her beautiful eyes is gone, she had to cope with her actions and it consumed her inside out. She is trying so much… She always putted a brave face in front of her friends, always stood strong for them but the truth was she was quite the opposite. When alone she still trembled and cried her heart out. The self-loathing she carried… I would give anything for the chance of hug her again, she need me so much… I need her so much…
Sometimes when I whisper shooting words to her, when I touch her with my inexistent hand. Sometimes is like that bound we had remain. Like she could hear me, feel me. Almost see me…
In your mind, in your soul, do you hear me
Moving blind, in control, do you fear me
I’m the fight in your bones when you’re weary
But like a star in the day you can’t see me
The angels shut my eyes
But I’m still with you inside so
When you close your eyes and pray
I’m not too far away
I can tell she think she’s losing it sometimes. When we are alone in the room, in the silence, in those moments she lift her head and stare blankly and hopeful right into my eyes. It’s like she could sense me. My heart mirror hers with expectation. Then she whisper my name. So slowly, with care and love, softly. Her voice sound frail. She keep this look, but then she focus and glance through me… she don’t see me, she realized here is nothing and that beautiful emerald eyes of hers, tired now, start to get blurry. The tears flow silently down her cheeks. She try to suppress the sobs and murmur like a mantra “Tara, Tara, Tara…” until her voice broke. My eyes are full of tears too at that point, or before that, I can’t tell anymore. She’s so broken.And I can’t do anything. Usually Willow cry herself to sleep, with hushed noises, her mouth moving voiceless still spelling my name. It’s so heartbreaking. Now and then, she woke with a start screaming. Plagued with nightmares. There is her price to pay. But even though I want to help her, I can do very little.
Normally I’m so centered in make Willow feel me and try to soothe her that I forget my current situation.
She had always been my first priority so only afterward she go over me I could afford think of myself. I want Willow to be happy, at last the happy she could get (she had been through so much). Buffy, Dawn and the others are going well I think. I never thought I mean that much for them. They mean a lot to me, they were my family, together with Willow. She had open to me a new world, a world so wonderful…
Our time had passed now, we had been happy, we had lived, the two lovers had loved each other and now was time to good bye and move on
Everybody has to learn to let go
Even though it’s hard some days I know
Everybody has to learn to let go
Lalalalalalalala
Everybody has to learn to let go
Even though it’s hard some days I know
Everybody has to learn to let go
Lalalalalalalala
Again, Tara don’t want to, but had to leave. Willow had to let her go. “How selfish of me” thought Tara. She was griping on Willow, too. She had to let go as well.
It was so hard. She understand Willow pain because it was hers. She don’t understand the fates. Why had this happen? Her wicca beliefs told her everything have a reason. Tara couldn’t found it. The only good point was that Willow carry on thanks to the devotion to her lover. When Willow’s will weakened Tara was there reassuring the redhead regardless the living one couldn’t hear or feel her, Tara knew that deep inside, unconsciously Willow hear her, knew she was there with her and always will somehow.
You would scream in the night wishing I was there
Lost your faith, mad at God thought he didn’t care
All those nights, through the stars I could see you
Did you know when you fell I carried you
The angels shut my eyes
But I’m still with you inside so
When you close your eyes and pray
I’m not too far away
How much she want to return. How much she wished. Hoped. Prayed to be in her arms, to have her in hers. To kiss her again. Caress the red flaming hair. Touch her, feel her. Love her. How much she desire
Can you hear me
Can you hear me, can you hear me,
Can you hear me, do you really feel me
Can you hear me,
Can you hear me, do you really feel me
Can you hear me, do you really feel me
Can you hear me?
I know you loved me, don’t cry for me…
She loved Willow so much that hurt. Seeing this way that Willow loved her back with such intensity…
The situation was tearing the two of them . Willow was like a doll, she moved around faking she was healing, missing Tara, consumed by guilt, replaying again and again all her mistakes. Seeing the blonde quiet witch everywhere every time. Lost. Being half of herself.
Tara was like a wretchedness shadow, wandering around trying her best to be again the strong one (falling miserably), missing Willow, consumed by sadness, cursing her stupid death. Following Willow everywhere and hurt to see less and less of her in the walking corpse of the hacker without can comfort her. Lost. Being half of herself.
Tara wished for a miracle to happen, to Willow to see her, to her to be alive again, to this to be a mistake a kind of nightmare , anything.
“Tara” the quite small voice spoke at her side. The soul turned to see a sleeping Willow, so vulnerable at her side on the bed. With a sad smile, she lay beside the petite human being. “Hush, baby. I’m here. I’m here”