My Salvation
by Bwriter
Part twelve
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Part twelve
As they said goodnight to the last member of the gang, Buffy and Willow both headed back into Willow's living room to clear up from the movie night Xander had insisted on having when they were at the beach.
"Is it me or did Cordy and Xander seem kinda strange today?"
Willow's musings brought Buffy out of the mental debate she had been having over where to put the dishes: sink or dishwasher? Dishwasher it is.
"Yeah Will. Xand told me that he told Cordy he loved her and she didn't say it back. He's bummed about it."
They finished tidying up and then after dragging themselves up the flight of stairs, they both collapsed onto Willow's bed and stared at her starry ceiling.
Rolling onto her side, Willow watched as Buffy's eyes started to drop closed.
"Com' on sleepy head. Bed time."
They both changed into pjs with little embarrassment on either side. For one thing, Buffy was too tired to care, what with getting next to no sleep for a while and Willow was too busy trying not to stare at Buffy to be worried about Buffy staring at her.
As soon as her head hit the pillow, Buffy felt sleep about to claim her when she felt Willow's arm slide round her waist holding her securely.
"Is this okay?" Willow had whispered the words in her ear had Buffy fought to repress the shiver it caused to travel the length of her spine.
"It's fine Baby. Night." She was snuggling further into Willow when she heard it whispered back and then she was asleep.
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Willow was woke up in the early hours of the morning by a scream. Sitting up and reaching for Buffy she found the bed empty. Jumping out of bed she turned on the light and saw Buffy huddled in a tight ball beside the bed in the middle of a nightmare. Rushing to her side she tried waking her but all she got for her efforts was a punch to the face that actually drew blood from her mouth.
Thinking fast, she ran into the bathroom and filled an empty jar of face cream with cold water. Reaching Buffy again she threw the water over her and watched her girlfriend wake from the dream that had tears running down her face.
"W...What's goin' on?" Buffy was still half asleep and was trying to shake off her dream.
"You were having a nightmare and I couldn't get you to wake up so I threw water over you. How did you end up on the floor?"
Buffy took in her surrounds and then remembered that in her dream she had been falling down the stairs and thinking that it really hurt. Now she knew why. She was about to answer when she got a look at Willow's face for the first time.
"H...how did that happen?" One look at her face and Willow knew that she already knew without her answering the question.
Buffy couldn't believe that she had done that to Willow. Jumping up she grabbed her clothes and began to dress in a hurry when she felt two arms circle her body to get her to stop.
"Hey where you going? It's only 4am." Willow didn't like the look on Buffy's face.
"This was a bad idea. I shouldn't be here with you." Buffy was really panicking. She had hurt the one person other than Giles and Xander that she felt really close to and she had drawn blood! She had to just get away from her before she could hurt her anymore.
Willow was starting to worry. She just knew that Buffy wasn't talking about a simple sleep over. She also knew that if she let Buffy walk out then that would be it for them.
Scrambling over to the door, she blocked it before Buffy could leave.
"Don't leave. Please. You didn't mean to hurt me I know that. Come back to bed and tell me what happened."
Buffy looked from the blocked door to Willow's hopeful face. Lowering her head she sighed and complied.
"Fine."
Grabbing Buffy's hand Willow, led her back over to the bed and they sat down, neither knowing just where to begin or how to save their relationship.