The Grave is Never Final: So Close, Yet So Far...
by Buffy_245
Disclaimer: All characters are the property of Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy. The only characters that are mine are Clair and Lisa.
The following is merely a fictional story based on these characters.
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So Close, Yet So Far…
When Willow started to come to she found Buffy sitting next to her with a shocked look on her face, Buffy turned around to see if she could bring Willow out of it. When she turned and saw Willow trying to sit up she through her arms around her red headed friend. “I’m so sorry Will, this must be so hard.” “It’s not your fault Buffy. All I want to do now is find out where my girlfriends body is and kill the bastard that disturbed her.” “Charm down Will, you know we don’t kill humans. But don’t worry we will find who did this and they will pay for it believe me they will pay.”
Willow and Buffy made their way home in silence, not really knowing what to say to the other. When they reached Buffy’s door Dawn pulled it open before Buffy even had a chance to grab the handle “Hey guys saw you walking up the path, got some bad new. We …” before she could finish her sentence Buffy cut her off with the wave of her hand “What ever you say can not be worse than what we have to say.”
“But Buffy can I at least finish what I had to say?”
“Fine Dawn, what do you have to say?”
“Well after extensive research we have found nothing, nada, zippo.” Willow started to get annoyed with the littlest Summers and said “We get it Dawn no need to keep at it.” When she saw the pained look on her face, all she could do was simile at the girl as she walked past her as she went though the door.
“Hey guys what’s up? Did Dawn tell you we found nothing? Well it was to be expected since you gave us nothing to go on.” When Xander realised neither girl was listening to him he felt a little hurt till he noticed the look both girls wore. “What happened on patrol? I know something did cos look at your faces you look like you had your heart ripped out.”
“Well we find out what gave us both the Wiggins.” “That’s grate An, brake out the champagne.” “Not so fast their sparki, it’s not something to celebrate. I fell into an open grave.” “Wow, who’d it belong to and did they rise to become a vampire?” with that comment Buffy looked at Willow to see if she wanted to finish the story, but when she saw the look on the red heads face she decided she better continue. “Well to answer your question, no they did not become a vampire she has been dead for six months. Um guy I don’t know how to tell you this but the grave, it belong to… Tara”
At that point Willow broke down an started to cry, Buffy went to her side and gave her a hug to try and charm her down. Just then Anya said, “Maybe they needed her to make a zombie girlfriend.” At that point everyone looked at her, and Willow found her self getting rather mad at the girl “Anya how can you even suggest something like that, God don’t you ever think before you talk, is your mouth even connected to your brain.” With that Willow turned and walked out the room.
When Willow got to her bedroom she slammed the door just as Buffy was about to follow her in “Will, She didn’t mean anything by it.” “Buffy can you just go, I want to be by myself for now.” With that Buffy walked out of the room closing the door behind her. Willow crawled into bed and started to cry for the second time that night, as she wept she said, “Tara, baby can you hear me, oh God how I miss you and now the one place in the whole world where I felt closest to you is gone, striped away by some cold hearted person.” After ten minutes of crying Willow finally fell asleep.
A cross the other side of town Tara sat transfixed to a television set as a taller brunette paced behind her “Clair w-why are you showing me this?”
“Because, Look watch this, I love this part, this is where she rises the temple.”
“W-what, I don’t get it Willow gave up magic, she would not do this.”
“Well we still do not know all the details, but as we figure it you got shot, then she went bad with revenge, she killed the guy who shot you, got that from the demon underground, then decided to end the world. Now as you can see from the video some guy walks in and stops her, just by talking to her.”
“H-how did you get this video, and I still don’t understand what you brought me back for.”
“Well, to answer your questions. Lisa was there trying to find a good spot to cast this spell and then Willow turned up so she kept recording. To answer your second questions you are going to help us with a little project we are working on. But more about that later.” As Tara watched Clair walk out of the room she thought Oh Willow, what were you think. I so need to get out of here and warn Willow.
Tara woke up in a sweaty and a panic, ever since she saw the video of Willow she had been desperately wishing she could go and hold the red head and tell her every thing is going to be all right. Tara climbed out of bed and decided to go for a walk and clear her head, as she got dressed she wounded if Clair had put someone out side her door as usual. As she slowly opened the door she saw a sleeping guard out side, she slowly opened it a bit more till she was able to fit though it. Once she was out side she breathed in the fresh smell of freedom, Tara had no idea what to do next so she decided to just walk and see where her feet lead her.
Willow was awoken by a very strong sense she had no idea where it was coming from it was just drawing her out a sweet dream and leading her to go down stairs. Once she got down stairs she felt the urge to go out side in the back yard so she followed her sense, Willow could not place the feeling but all she knew was that it was not a evil vibe she was getting it was just different.
Tara felt like she had been walking for hours deep in her own thoughts, when she looked up she realised she was standing at the gate of the Summers back yard staring into the last place she remembered seeing before she died. As she stood there just staring at the fence wishing she could just walk though the gate and into her lovers arms.
As Willow walked around the back yard she found herself walking in the direction of the back gate. When she got to the gate she just stood there and looked at it not really knowing what to do next, she put her had on the knob and pulled the gate open to a point where she could stick her head out the gate. Willow tried to prepared herself for what she might find, she slowly stuck her head out the gate and what she saw made all the blood rush from her body as she stood there frozen to the spot.
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