Re: FIC: Coming home 1/?

["Christina <tinabelle216@xxxxxxxxx>" <tinabelle216@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jen, I love what you do to/with my fav. TV ladies...looking forward 
to more....christina


--- In buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "jend1205 <jend1205@y...>" 
<jend1205@y...> wrote:
> I kind of got stuck on my other story and this came to me, so here 
it 
> is. Hope you like. I have to work six days this week and the kids 
> have a x-mas play this week so who knows when I will get back to it 
> but I will. Jen
> 
> 
> Author: Jen D
> Disclaimer: I don't own just like it. 
> Rating: G-R and all points between mostly language and violence
> Spoilers: I guess all of the shows this is A/U but some of it might 
> come up.
> 
> 
> Buffy sat on the grave marker and contemplated her life. She was 
> going to turn twenty-five in a few days. She was now officially the 
> oldest living slayer. She no longer patrolled on a nightly basis, 
> usually leaving that up to Faith. She did help on occasion and that 
> is how she found herself sitting in the cemetery tonight. She would 
> rather be at home alone tonight, lost in her own world, wondering 
> what her best friend was doing after all these years away. She 
> thought back to the night she came back to her dorm room and found 
> that all of Willow's stuff had been cleared out and a note sitting 
on 
> her bed. Buffy pulled out the worn out piece of paper.
> Buffy,
> By the time you get this I will be gone. I don't expect 
you 
> to understand. I have to   
> go please forgive me for running away. Maybe someday I can 
> come home to the 
> only family that I have ever known. My parents will not know 
> were I went and 
> I don't want you to look for me. I don't think you will be 
> able to find me anyway.
> I have made sure to cover my track fairly well. Please find 
> Tara and tell her that 
> I am sorry and I wish that I could have stuck around and 
found 
> out what was between
> us. Yes Buffy I think that I am gay. That's not way I am 
> running away. Please know
> that I love you all. Xander is going to need you now more 
> then ever. Tell him I love
> him and take care of him. 
>  
 
> With all my love,
>  
  
> Willow
> 
> Buffy carefully folded up the letter and slipped it back into 
her 
> pocket. That had been six years ago and she had not heard anything 
> from her best friend since then, not even for her parent's funeral. 
> They had tried to find her but it was useless. Willow had covered 
her 
> tracks; it was like Willow didn't exist anymore. Life had moved on 
> for the gang. Faith had come back three years ago and had worked 
hard 
> to regain their trust after everything she had done to them in 
their 
> senior year. Xander and Anya got married and settled down, buying a 
> house not to far from where she lived now. Buffy did seek out Tara 
> and found a wonderful new friend in the process. They now shared a 
> house not to far from the new high school where they both taught. 
> Tara was an English teacher and Buffy was the gym teacher. Giles 
had 
> moved in with her mom shortly after she had graduated from college. 
> They talked about getting married but just never seemed to want to 
> complicate a good thing. Buffy sighed, got up and headed for home.
> 
> 
> Willow pulled her car into the familiar driveway and shut the 
> engine off. She looked at the sleeping figure in the front seat and 
> the two in the backseat. She tapped the girl who was asleep beside 
> her, "Hey hon, we're here and I'm going to go in for a minute. I'll 
> stay on the front porch so that I can see you but I have to do 
this."
> "Ok", the teenage girl mumbled. Willow smiled at her and patted her 
> on the arm and got out. She stopped on the front porch and looked 
> around, not much had changed in the six years she had been gone. 
She 
> only hoped that the occupants hadn't changed. She knocked on the 
door 
> and was relieved to see the familiar woman open it.
> "Mrs. Summers", she sighed in relieve.
> "Willow, my god where have you been. Buffy has been trying to find 
> you for years. Xander damn near worried himself to death. You 
didn't 
> get turned did you?"
> "No watch", Willow said and stepped into the house and then stepped 
> back out, "I wouldn't have been able to do that if I was a vamp. I 
> have a pulse to. Do you want to check"? Joyce laughed, "Only in 
> Sunnydale would my daughters best friend ask for me to check her 
> pulse. Please come in, Willow. Giles will be thrilled to see you."
> "I wish that I could but I have people asleep in the car and I 
don't 
> want to leave them out here alone. Does Buffy still live here."
> "No, I'm sorry she has here own place now", Joyce said.
> "Oh ok, when you see her will you tell her that I will be at my old 
> house. I'm going to be living there now that my parents are gone, I 
> figure it ought to be of some use."
> "Willow I was sorry to hear about your parents death", Joyce said 
> softly and put her hand on Willow shoulder.
> "Thank you. It was hard but then again they were never there for me 
> anyway. Well I'd better get going. It was nice to see you again."
> "Glad your back Willow. Come by soon so that we can catch up", 
Joyce 
> said and watch the red head get into the car and pull away. Joyce 
> closed the door and headed straight for the phone. She dialed the 
> number and waited for the other person to pick up the phone.
> "Tara, is Buffy back from patrol yet. She is?good, will you two 
come 
> over here. I have something you might both be interested in. Ok see 
> you in a minute. Bye." Joyce sat down and waited for the girls to 
> show up. Fifteen minutes later both girls came barreling through 
the 
> door. Buffy skidded to a halt when she saw her mom sitting 
peacefully 
> on the couch.
> "Ok what is it and do I have to kill it", Buffy asked. Joyce seeing 
> that her daughter was in slayer mode raised her hands, "Nothing to 
> kill, honest. I had a visitor just a little bit ago that I thought 
> you might both be curious about."
> "Um, ok, I'll bite, who was it", Buffy asked.
> "Willow", Joyce said and watched as her daughters and the girl that 
> she had come to think of as a daughter mouths dropped open.
> "Mom, there for a second I thought you said Willow was here."
> "She is. She came by here looking for you. She said to tell you 
that 
> she was staying at her parent's old house. Tara and Joyce watched 
as 
> Buffy began to pace back and forth.
> "Buffy, you're going to wear a whole in your mom carpet if you keep 
> this up", Tara said.
> "How can you be so calm Tara? I mean she shows up six later and 
your 
> not upset?"
> "A little but then again I didn't know her as well as you did. Yes 
it 
> hurt to lose her, I think I could have loved her if given the 
chance 
> but she didn't strike me as the type to just leave for no good 
> reason." Buffy looked at Tara and could see the hurt in her eyes 
and 
> knew that the same hurt was in her own. Tara and Buffy had spent 
more 
> then one night sharing there feelings for the red head and it had 
> been Tara that had made Buffy realize that she had been in love 
with 
> her best friend. Buffy always regretted not being able to tell her 
> before she had ran away.
> "I know, come on Tara we have a certain red head to go 
interrogate", 
> Buffy said and grabbed her hand.
> 
> 
>    
> Buffy and Tara found themselves standing at the front door to 
> Willow's house. Neither made a move to ring the doorbell.
> "Um Buffy I think we might have to ring the bell to get anyone to 
> answer."
> "I know, I'm just nervous. Ok here it goes", Buffy touched the 
> doorbell and they both waited for Willow to answer. Buffy could 
> hardly believe that it was her best friend who answered the door. 
> Willow seemed so much older and gone were the fuzzy sweater, in 
their 
> place were jeans and a white t-shirt. Her hair was short and curly. 
> To Buffy and Tara she looked perfect. Willow leaned in the doorway 
> and looked at the two women in front of her, she was not expecting 
to 
> see Tara, and honestly she was surprised to see Buffy here so soon.
> "Hey guys, I'm glad you could stop by. Come in", Willow told them. 
> Willow led them into the living room and was about to say something 
> when she heard a voice behind her, "Damnit mom, those basement 
steps 
> are a pain", the blonde said. 
> "Yeah mom, damnit", the smaller child said. Willow turned around 
and 
> glared at the kids, "Beth Anne Rosenberg, I cannot believe that 
came 
> out of your mouth. I think you ought to go to your room and think 
> about things." Willow watched the little girl slink away and turned 
> to the older girl who was trying to slip away, "Freeze, Angela 
Marie 
> Frazier" Angie raised her hand knowing her mom was about to let 
lose 
> on her, "I know, sorry mom. I think I have homework to do." Angie 
> came over and kissed Willow on the cheek and bounded up the steps. 
> Willow turned to see the shocked faces of her old friends and was 
> getting ready to say something again when another girl came in from 
> the kitchen, "Hey ma, oh we have company. Hi I'm Jen." Buffy and 
Tara 
> looked at the girl and waved to stunned to say anything.
> "Jen, why don't you go bug your sister's. I need to talk to Buffy 
and 
> Tara." Jen waved and headed up the stairs.
> "MOM", Buffy and Tara yelled at the same time.