Songfic: Why are you waiting

["Leanne de Splater" <leanne.deplater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok.. my first songfic & second posting. I wanted to use this song in a
story, or rather base a story around this song. I did it at work today and I
want to get it posted. It probably needs more work, but I can't wait that
long. I need to post it now. Hope you like.

Disclaimer: These are not mine. So so sad.
Spoilers: After Oz, before Tara and commando boy




The Song: The Way You Live
Lyrics: Mark Seymour




Buffy stopped at her dorm room door. She could hear music coming from her
portable cd player. Cool she thought to herself, Willow's home. She opened
the door and greeted the redhead.
"Hey Will, what ya listening to?" Buffy asked. God she looks good today the
slayer's mind stated.
"Oh, hi Buffy, It's Hunters and Collectors, they're Australian. The cd
belonged to Oz, he knew I liked this one so he left it for me." Willow
explained.
"Oh" Buffy said, hoping she wasn't walking in a private Willow wallow
moment. "yeah, sound's good"
As the current track was playing, both women sat on their beds listening to
the foreign music. Buffy welcomed the moment to be in the space that Willow
was in. She could let her thoughts run wild for awhile and fantasize about
her and Willow. She did a lot of that. She allowed herself o be free with
Willow in her mind. Before she could get Willow into her fantasy world,
track seven started playing..

In your neighbour's garden the grass is greener
Sweet perfection is only a step away
Longing for it all, your head is filled with wonder
Open your eyes you could believe

Not bad at all Buffy thought while laying down, relaxing and enjoying the
unspoken quality time she was silently sharing with her friend.

Won't you tell me why are you waiting?
When you already know it's yours for the taking
Only you can change the way you live

<If she only knew I was waiting, waiting for her to tell me. She must think
I am totally non-feeling Willow since Oz left. I just want to touch her, to
kiss her. I know the way she looks at me. She has to see the way I look at
her. She has to know that I want her. She must know how I feel about her.
I'm yours for the taking Buffy.>

These words are nothing to the ties that bind you
They echo the isolation that lies behind you
As you dream of a world that was lost before you were born
Open your eyes to the things you cannot see

<Wow, you're telling me about ties that bind, I'm bound to every one in the
gang, Xander, Giles, Angel and SO bound to Willow. I will be there for her,
forever. Isolation, did this guy know a slayer, did they ever have a slayer
in Australia? A world that was lost before I was born, this guy must've
known a slayer!>

<Open your eyes to the things you cannot see Buffy, I am right her in front
of you, just for you.>

Won't you tell me why are you waiting?
When you already know it's yours for the taking
Only you can change the way you live

<Buffy, only you can change the way you live. Tell me you love me. I won't
run, I promise. You have to tell me you love me. I don't pretend to know how
it must be for you, but I know it's not for me to tell you. You have to tell
me before I can do that.>

That's the message Willow was receiving via her dreams almost nightly. It a
always different approach but the message was the same. She felt what she
needed to do. She had to wait for Buffy to make the first move. Buffy had to
come to her. But that's not saying that she couldn't point Buffy in the
right direction.


Buffy looked over at Willow who was staring back at her, as the next versed
oozed out through the speakers and into the room, a wave of realisation was
making it's way into Buffy's whole being. Willow's gaze bore through Buffy's
soul as the words filled her ears.

They say in this life there are two fools of a kind
There are those who love and
There are those who pay love no mind
Now I'm looking at you, and you're looking back at me
And there's nothing in between us, but what we both believe

<What the hell is we believe Willow?>

Willow silently pleaded the next chorus with her eyes piercing Buffy's soul.

Won't you tell me why are you waiting?
When you already know it's yours for the taking
Only you can change the way you live

The two women shared a bond that no other person could comprehend. They had
been there for each other through the worst possible moments. They had
helped save each other's lives and the lives of many others too. The things
that happened in their lives didn't happen to ordinary people. There was a
powerful force joining the two women ethereally. They just realised how much
simultaneously.

Buffy had no idea just how much Willow wanted her. If Willow hadn't conveyed
the message in the last chorus they way that she just did, she would still
have no idea. She thought about all of Willow's actions over the last couple
of months. She mentally gave herself a huge kick. How could she have not
seen the affection and emotion that Willow was offering her? In a moment of
the song finishing and the next starting, she realised that she and Willow
had fallen in love with each other. Not fallen exactly, more like coming
into the knowing that the love that was theirs to share had always been
there, lurking, hiding just beyond reach, but always within reach. She
walked over to Willow, took Willow's face in her hands, leant over and
kissed her best friend, her life.

They had a lot of talking to do and a lot of other stuff too.