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              later on that same aftenoon


      " You did WHAT,Alex?"

  Buffy Summer's voice was, quite, loud as she asked that question 
to the suddenly, silent, older woman.  The dark Southerner had been 
back for less than 5 minutes before she'd dropped that bombshell onto 
the teen's laps.

          " Guys, you heard me correctly the first time.  I said 
said I went and had a little talk with your Mom, Buffy."

  Shocked hazel eyes turned to stare into a pair of equally stunned 
green, orbs.  That news was,in fact, so surprising that neither girl 
knew quite what to say in that moment.  Clearly reading the utter 
dismay on those familiar faces, Alex laughed with no real amusment.

          " Ladies, perhaps I had no right to do so but, damnit, no 
one else 'round here seemed ready or willing to talk things over with 
Joyce.  Quite stupidly, I can admit, I chose to take that decison 
onto myself.  She needed answers, surely ya'll are aware of That?!?!?"

    It was Willow Rosenburg, whom seemed to be the only other person 
with a brain cell still working, who answered that question with one 
of her own.

             " How much.... how much did you tell her, Alex?"

          " Everything," said the dark woman with a shrug of her 
shoulders.

    That little bit of news,naturally, left the blond teen to gape 
at her like a fish outta water!  Buffy actually looked kinda sick to 
her stomach and Alex was very much afraid she was about to witness 
the vaulted Vampire Slayer to sway upon her sneakered feet.

              " By all the goddess's," said Willow, " why,Alexandra 
Roberts, why?"

    Dark gray eyes became rivated upon the slender red head as the 
woman attempted to form an answer that Wouldn't have  a sarcastic 
edge to it.  It took 2 full minutes before Alex was able to reign in 
her volitale  emotions.

           " Damnit, Will, she's asked all of you the truth 
countless times and none of you would give that woman a straight 
answer!  She deserved better that That, you know, Joyce isn't a 
stupid woman."

        " Ohmigod," said the hyperventilating blond," she KNOWS 
about me and Willow?!?!?"

    Black brows frowned over at the flabergasted Slayer.  The total 
panic staring back at her caused Alex Roberts to keep her voice 
positively gentle in response to that question.

             " Yep, my friends, she knows about you two.  Christ on 
His throne, people, did ya really think she'd be blind to all that is 
happpening between you?!?  I assure you,she isn't.  Ya'll didn't hear 
her words when I was still incoherant.  Joyce was Actually trying to 
convince herself out of believing all those snazzily, sweet signals 
ya'll where throwning out back then !  Quite frankly, the dishonesty 
was ticking me off.  I can only imagene how frustrating in was for 
your Mom, Buffy."

         " But, Alex," said the blue eyed, blond " she still won't 
be able to accept me and Willow as a couple."

    The dark Southerner could only shake her head at the insanity of 
that statement.  Remembering all that Buffy had told her about this 
mother/daughter realationship, Alex could slightly undrestand where 
all this agnst was coming from.  Mistakes had been made, on both of 
their parts but she chose to believe Joyce had learned her lesson.

             " Sugar, you don't know what she'll do yet.  I dig you 
where nervous to tell her everything after that fiasco ya'll suffered 
through after you told her whom you really are.  But, Buffy, you've 
told me how much she's grown since then.  Joyce loves the both of 
you, just give her a chance to witness the beauty of your 
realationship for herself."

    Willow, after carefully listening to everything, could only 
frown over at the older woman.  While she appreciated that Everything 
was now in the open, she truly felt it'ed been her and Buffy's place 
to tell Joyce about themselves.  After glancing over at the 
pasty,white exspression on her lover's face, she acknowledged that 
maybe, just maybe, Alex had did the right thing.

               " Okay, Alex, what's done is done.  There's no use 
wishing to change things once they've already happened.  I do have 
one question for you, what are we going to do for the rest of this 
evening?"

    The left eyebrow of the Southerner shot up sky high as she tried 
to make sense out of the rapidly changing conversation.

             " Darlin', I dunno.  It's been pretty quite around 
Sunnydale these days.  Ya'll can make that choice for us 'cause I'm 
game for almost anything."

   The grass, eyed Witch was grinning over at the other woman as she 
linked hand's with her still, silent lover.

                 " I think me and Buffy just need a little time 
together, for now.  Later on, why don't we order dinner in and, 
perhaps,watch on of your movies?"

   By now, the dark woman was smirking, quite openly, at the red 
headed teen.

             " That's pretty groovy to me.  Think I'll take this 
time to lay down myself, I'm feeling kinda tired at the moment."

  Willow couldn't stop herself from being, instantly, concerned by 
that short, little, speech.  The dark one was suppoused to be 
regaining her strength  by now and That didn't seem to be the case at 
all.

                   " Alexandra Katherine Roberts, are you really 
okay?  I'm kinda worried about you because you haven't really acted 
like yourself since you woke up."

    It was with no surprise that the slender Wiccan watched as a 
brashfully, cocky, grin spread across the older woman's face.  Willow 
Rosenburg though it was a knee-jerk reaction on Alex's part and her 
heart mourned the easy comroderier that used to be the essance of 
her, Buffy and Alex's realationship.

            " Babe, I'm right as rain, just played out a little.  
You two go on, everything's cool out here."

    The only problem was that the dark woman would repeat those 
exact same words every time they spoke.  The Witch half suspected 
that Alex hadn't fully recovered from herself imposed sabbatical.  
Acting only upon instinct, Willow dropped Buffy's hand and strode 
over to stand directly infront of a genuinely,startled Alexandra 
Roberts.

               " Alex, don't be like this anymore.  You've been 
distancing yourself from us, for a while now and it hurts.  Don't you 
know that me and Buffy care way too much for you to allow such a 
thing to happen without some kind of fight on our parts?!?  Why won't 
you let us back in, Alex, what did we do that was so wrong?   You 
don't talk to us anymore, you talk at us.  Please tell me why your 
trying to throw us out of your heart."

   Those clear, gray, eyes darkened even further as the older woman 
acknowldged that there was a widening rift between her and the teens 
and that it had been wholly her fault.  Alex hadn't meant for things 
to go this far and she saught to explain herself to the obviously, 
distraught teenager.

           " I know ya'll care about me.  God, Willow, everything 
that happened four nights ago literally pounded That knowledge into 
my head!  It was, in all honesty, the second most beautiful thing I 
shall Ever witness and I will cherish those images for all eturnity.  
I apologise that you and Buffy felt That was the only course to 
take.  I would have never asked either of you to do such a thing and 
I think that you should know, I was trying to work myself back to 
you.  I just hate like Hell that ya'll weren't aware of that fact 
because it would'va made life so much simpler for all of us.  Do you 
think I don't know, Will, what it cost you to be that vulnerable 
infont of my eyes?   I'm sorry, sweetheart, so very sorry."

     The clear distain contained within Alex's words left the red 
head quite floored by this conversation.  It explained so much, 
including why she'd been picking up on the fact that the Southerner 
had been slightly closed off since her reawakening.  Therefore, the 
teen's voice was rueful as she made her response.

                " God, Alex, of course we know That! I wasn't really 
all that wigged out because of simply you.  Not really, anyways, it 
was more because of how I was raised.  You gotta know, that doesn't 
mean I regret anything that happened.  We where desperate to get you 
back, Alex, and we simply chose the path of the least resistance.  
Truthfully, Alexandra Roberts, if our situation had been reversed, 
wouldn't you have taken the exact same course of action?"

     Since the brainy Witch had her by the proverbial short-n-
curlys, the Southerner gave gracefully into defeat.


               " Well, Hell, Will, you got me ten ways to sunset!  I 
gotta tell ya'll, this whole conversation is begining to drag me 
down.  Why don't we all cease and resist, for now?"

    Once the agreement had been reached, all parties began to go 
their seperate ways.  However,just as the Slayer and Wiccan reached 
the bedroom door, Alex's voice stopped them cold in their tracks.

              " My code of honor took care of this one.  Guys, the 
next five are all on you.  'Kay?"

    Upon receiving the conformation, Alex Roberts lay her exhausted 
body back upon the all too comfortable couch.  It was with a grateful 
smile that the woman shut her eyes and attempted to get some much 
needed Z's.  Sleep, when it evenutally came, was a blessed relief to 
Alexandra Roberts.   

 




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