FF: Blind Faith act6

["Sam" <shadowmage_draco@xxxxxxx>]

Hi all I am back like a hurricain, here is the act 6 of blind Faith, 
7, 8, 9 will be posted shortly. Hope you enjoy.



Blind Faith

By

Sam


Act Six: Tara


Email: shadowmage_draco@xxxxxxx 
Rating: R 
Disclaimer: The characters of BtVS slayer are the property of Joss.  
I am borrowing them for a bit for fun.
Archive: If your archiving any of my others stories then by all means 
take this one if ya want, otherwise just ask and I'll say yes.
Pairing: B/F (well not yet but it is coming, eventually, they havn't 
even seen each other yet.) W/T, X/A
Thanks: To coy for continuing to do a totally cool job of beta'ing, 
providing cool advise and for putting up with my madness.
Summery: A reformed Faith is injured and faces an uncertain future 
with her fellow slayer.
Notes: Contains spoilers for season four. Tara pretty smart but can 
she get things straightened out? <>Indicates thought.
Feedback: Feedback is the fuel to please send it as it is most yummy.
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Why does Buffy have to be so stubborn. She wouldn't even listen to 
us," Willow blurted out as soon as Tara had shut the door to their 
room.

Tara saw how frustrated their confrontation with Buffy had made her 
girlfriend. She walked over to Willow and pulled her into a 
comforting hug, "Give her time, from everything you told me Faith 
hurt a lot of people."

"I know, she hurt me too, but I forgave her. It was hard to do but I 
did it. Why can't Buffy just go see her?"

"But you didn't want to even go see her at first, you gave the same 
arguments that Buffy did."

"But I still went," Willow retorted.

"Only after I convinced you to do it and we cast a spell."

Willow rested her head on Tara's shoulder, "I know. I had just hoped 
we would be able to convince Buffy to go."

"Faith betrayed her, tried to kill her friends, stole her body, and 
hit her Mom while Dawnie was in the house, Buffy's not going to go 
running up to LA just because we tell her she could."

"We just didn't tell her to go, we went there first, we talked to 
her, we made sure Faith wasn't just pulling the wool over Angels eyes 
again."

"It's going to take Buffy awhile, we shouldn't have excepted her to 
listen the first time."


"But we're her friends. Buffy knows that I wouldn't do anything that 
might hurt her. Why want she believe me," Willow sobbed, "Why won't 
she trust us?"

"She does trust us Willow," Tara replied, "it's Faith she doesn't 
trust."

"I know, I just wished she would have listened," Willow 
sighed, "Maybe I should have told her what we overheard?"

"It would have only freaked her out, and probably ruined any chance 
of any of us getting her to go to LA."

Willow lifted her head up of Tara's shoulder and stared lovely into 
hr girlfriend's eyes, "Tara you know I kinda of love you."

"I kinda of love you too."

Willow took Tara's chin in her hand and kissed the blonde Wicca 
tenderly on the lips, "Thanks."

"That was nice," Tara softly replied, "But what are you thanking me 
for?"

"For being her for listening, plus like a dozen other things that 
make me love you even more."

Tara ran her hands through Willow's hair and returned her lovers 
kiss. The two of them then just stood there in the middle of the 
room, holding one another lost in the moment.
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Buffy looked at the remains of her desk and frowned, She had done a 
lot of thinking why on patrol and new that the desk hadn't deserved 
to get smashed like that. She also realized that she was going to 
have to apologize to Willow and Tara in the morning, neither of her 
friends getting yelled at like that, it wasn't their fault that Faith 
was somehow able to trick them.

She walked over to the broken desk and began picking up the pieces, 
<Just when I was starting to get over everything she did, this has to 
happen>.

Knock?Knock

Buffy tossed a couple of the smaller pieces of the desk in the 
wastebasket and headed over to the door.

"Hi, Buffy, can I come in," Tara nervously asked.

"Okay, but we're not talking about Faith, I don't want to argue 
again."

Tara stepped into Buffy's dorm room, "Good because I'm not her to 
talk to you about her."

Buffy looked at Tara with a slightly confused look on her face as she 
shut the door, "Tara it's kinda late, can't whatever you have to say 
wait to morning?"

"Not really," Tara responded, "It's about Willow."

"Willow? Is something wrong,? Is she okay," Buffy asked in a 
panicked voice.

"She's okay, I slipped out after she fell asleep to talk to you."

"Why?"

"Because she was so upset it to forever for me to get her calmed 
down."

"Tara, I sorry, I didn't mean to upset Willow, it's just that?"

"Tara walked over to the slayer and put her hand on the blonde's 
shoulder, I know Buffy, so does Willow. It's just the whole argument 
got her really upset."

Tara glanced over at the broken desk then turned back to Buffy, "It 
looks like it got you pretty upset too."

Buffy walked over to a chair and motioned for Tara to sit on her 
bed, "Yeah it did. I'll tell Willow I'm sorry in the morning."

"That's good, I think she'll be happy to hear that, "Tara 
replied, "but you know she's gonna want to talk about Faith again.  
Willow can be pretty persistent when she wants to be."

"I know Tara but I just can't do it."

"Because it hurts to talk about it," Tara asked.

"Yeah. Look you seem to understand were I'm coming from on this, 
maybe you could talk to Willow, I really don't ant to get in any more 
arguments with you two."

"I know you don't, but Willow seems pretty much set on trying to get 
you to go to LA."

"That's not good," Buffy replied wondering how she was going to 
handle this situation with her best friend.

"No it's not. I ended up making out with Willow for like half a hour 
to finally get her all the way calmed down. Not that I mind, because 
I am always up for making out with Willow but now I am going to be 
late on my psych paper that I should have been working on."

Tara," a rather stunned Buffy asked.

"Yes?"

"You're talking about making out with Willow."

"Your point being," Tara asked, <It's working, I almost have her 
where I need her>.

"It's just surprising, that's all"

<Just a little further>, "And why is that?"

"Because you never talk about that kinda of stuff, you always seem 
well?"

"Shy?"

"I didn't want to say it," Buffy reluctantly admitted.

"It's okay, I know I'm shy," Tara answered pausing for a 
moment, "It's taken me a long time to get to this point. A few 
months ago I couldn't have gotten it out without stuttering and you 
know why?"

"Why?"

Because I changed. I owe a big part of that to Willow, she helped me 
grow, gave me courage to be more open."

Suddenly Buffy found herself feeling like a small fish on a big 
hook, "Why are you telling me this?"

"Because people change Buffy, it happens every day. I met Willow, 
and she changed my life, because of her I have more confidence and 
friends than I ever had before. You might think this is kinda of 
crazy, you might not even like to hear it but look around you.  
Willows not the same girl you knew in high school, I've changed a lot 
since we met."

Tara got up from her chair and walked over to were Buffy was 
sitting, "Willow told me how you where when you first came to 
Sunnydale, so you've changed a lot to. Everyone changes Buffy, look 
at Xander, he's grown a lot more matures over the last year, Dawns 
growing up, Anya used to be a vengeance demon and now she's 
hopelessly in love with Xander."

"Where's are this going," Buffy asked fearing she already knew the 
answer.

"Buffy if all those people can change so can Faith. I know you don't 
want to hear that, for some reason it's easier for you to think of 
her as the dark slayer than some one who wants redemption. I don't 
know why but you do."

"Tth-that's not true," Buffy stammered.

"I think it is. I saw it in you're eyes when Willow was talking to 
you earlier and I can hear it in you're voice. Buffy Faith has 
changed. You could go and see it for yourself but you don't want to."

I can't?"

"Buffy no one can make you go, that's something you have to do on 
your own, so I'm not even going to try, but you're my friend, and I 
want to help."

"Help," a puzzled Buffy asked, "With what?"

"Buffy whatever it is that makes it so you can't accept Faith 
changing. is holding you back. It's doesn't matter if you ever go 
see her, but as long as whatever it is that makes you unable to 
accept that she might be able to change is still there it's gonna eat 
at you. I want to help you face that if you'll let me."

Buffy looked up at Tara unsure what to say, unsure if she should tell 
anyone what she was feeling.

"Buffy, please let me help."

"I, don't know if I can, it's so hard."

"You have to try Buffy, you'll never get over whatever it is if you 
don't"

Buffy lowered her head and replied in a voice barely above a 
whisper, "It's Faith she hurt me so bad, I'm afraid if I go see her 
she'll only hurt me again."

"Faith hurt a lot of people Buffy, but she has changed, you got to 
give her another chance."

"I gave her ots of chances, and I got burned every time, I don't know 
if I can take it if I let hear get close again."

"We'll be there with you, if you want some of the others could come 
along to. They know what she was like, they know what she did to 
hurt you."

"No they don't," Buffy cried, "I never told anyone what she did to 
me."

Tara knelt down in front of Buffy and placed her hand on top the 
slayer's hand, "What did she do Buffy, you can tell me."

"I'm not sure if I can."

"You'll never know unless you try."

Buffy took a deep breath, "When she hurt me it was different than 
when she hurt everyone else."

"Because you're a slayer?"

"No, that's not it," Buffy relied, her eyes filling with tears as the 
painful memories swept to the front of her mind.

"Then what is it?"

"She broke my heart Tara. I loved her and she broke my heart."

TBC?