Aftermath and College
by Bwriter
Part twenty one
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Part twenty one
Willow snuggled into Buffy's side as they walked over to the Gallery.
"I'm thinking of redecorating my room."
Willow looked at Buffy out of the corner of her eye.
"That's what your thinking about right now?"
Buffy blushed and shook her head no.
"So what are you thinking about then?" Willow loved it when Buffy blushed.
"Throwing you up against that wall and eep-" Buffy slapped her hand over her mouth, she hadn't meant to actually tell Willow that.
Willow blushed, but snuggled closer.
"Time was, I wouldn't have minded."
Buffy stopped walking and turned Willow to look at her.
"'was'? you mean you would mind if I did it now?"
Willow looked at the ground before raising her head and meeting Buffy's eyes.
"I would mind, but only because we haven't gotten back to that stage in our relationship yet."
Buffy could always tell when Willow was lying. She could only remember one other time, apart from right now, when Willow had lied to her.
Deciding not to push, she let the matter drop.
Smiling, she picked up Willow's hand and started them walking again.
Willow sighed when she saw how strained the smile was.
"Come on, lets get this done so we can enjoy the rest of the day. We still have planning to do, but I guess that will have to wait until we meet the guys later at Giles' place. How about we go for a picnic? Just the two of us?" Buffy tugged Willow along with her, stopping when Willow paused.
"About that, I kind of said that I would meet Tara. There's this new spell we've been working on and I think that we are nearly there to cracking it."
Buffy frowned and dropped Willow's hand.
"Your still going to the meeting though right?"
Willow nodded her head yes and began walking beside Buffy.
The Slayer keep her discomfort over the other blonde to herself, not wanting the redhead to see her getting jealous yet again.
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Willow was late. Not much, only by half an hour or so, but Buffy was worried. It was getting dark outside.
Hearing the door open, she turned her head, hoping to see Willow.
Sighing when she saw Xander come back with food, Buffy turned back to clock watching, waiting on her girlfriend to show up.
"Will still not here?"
Buffy shook her head no and looked over at her friend.
He must have seen what she was feeling, which was strange as she hid herself well, because he set the food down and walked over to her, crouching down to eye level.
"How about we go out for a walk?"
Buffy was going to say no, then she realised what he was asking, and why.
Giving him a smile of thanks, she stood up, grabbed her coat and the two headed to the door, only to be halted when it opened.
Willow bounced into the house, excited.
Her spell had worked.
It was only floating a rose, but still, a rose was a lot more complicated to float than a pencil.
Throwing his hands up, Xander smiled at Buffy and trotted back over to the pizza he had brought with him.
Before she could even get a word out, Buffy had pulled Willow into a hug, not caring that they were in a roomful of people.
"Your late."
Willow pulled out of the hug and looked at the clock.
"Only a little."
"A little is enough in this town."
Willow looked out the window, seeing the sun setting low in the sky above the town.
"I was fine, see, suns just going down now. Perfectly safe."
Buffy pulled back and pointed into the corner of the room.
"Vamps can move round in sunlight Willow, if they could get here, something could have gotten you. Besides, that's not the only thing we have to worry about in this town, remember?"
Spike waved at the redhead before Angel grabbed his arm, knowing that Buffy was upset and not in the mood.
"Sorry, but we wanted to get the spell finished, and it worked!"
Buffy pulled back from her girlfriend.
"We, you mean you wanted it finished, or Tara did?"
Willow frowned at Buffy.
Neither noticed the rest of the gang leave the room, or Angel pulling Spike from it.
"Both of us."
The look in Buffy's eyes hardened.
"Yeah, but only one of you had to walk across town."
Willow opened her mouth to reply to that, when the door opened again.
"Hey, where is everyone?"
Tom and Jonny looked between the two, aware that they had interrupted something.
Buffy lowered her gaze and took deep breaths. She tried to do it without alerting the fact to Tom or Jonny, but Tom noticed and threw her a worried look.
Willow caught it and looked at Buffy. She really looked at her for the first time since she arrived.
The Slayer looked tense. Really, really tense.
Lowering her own gaze, Willow saw Buffy's hands repeatedly clench, then unclench.
Stepping forward, Willow grabbed them with her own.
Buffy looked up and met Willow's worried gaze before taking one more deep breath.
Grabbing the redhead by the front of her shirt, she pulled her forward until their bodies crashed and smashed their lips together.
Willow's eyes widened before she gave herself over to the kiss, no longer caring that Tom and Jonny were standing not five feet away.
When she felt Willow needed to breath, Buffy pulled back, not even winded as Willow panted for air.
Turning to look at Jonny, she gently pushed Willow over to him.
"Tom, with me. Will, I'll be back in an hour. Tell the others."
Not waiting on a reply and knowing Tom was behind her, Buffy left, but not before she grabbed the sword she had brought with her for that nights patrol.
She needed to kill something, and soon.
tbc