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AUTHOR: Laragh
CHAPTER RATING: PG-13
DISCLAIMER: These things are a bitch to write a different account for every time, so here’s the deal; I DON’T OWN THE CHARACTERS. Never have, never will, just borrowing them to continue my existence in happy denial-land.
SUMMARY: Willow leaves the only home she’s ever known to fulfil her parent’s dream of her attending New York University, but ends up having her own dreams come true in the process.
SPOILERS: Nope. This is totally Uber. Oh, but I probably will steal some dialogue here and there.
FEEDBACK: I crave it like I crave Oreos and milk. (Which is a lot. Just to be clear.)
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Last chapter! Be back with an epilogue tomorrow.
Chapter 44 ********
Previously:Quote:
Tara’s smile beamed as her girlfriend came into view and she shrugged the bag on her shoulder.
“Hey there, beautiful girl. You got room for another yank?”
Willow said nothing but flung herself into her girlfriend’s arms, wrapping her legs around her waist, crushing their lips together passionately. Tara dropped her bag off her shoulder and put her hands under the redhead’s ass, holding them together, supporting their position. Their tongues duelled fervently, deeply, both trying to consume the other completely, Willow in particular thinking that if she let go, stopping kissing, that it might all be a dream. After a few minutes she could feel Tara’s arms start to shake slightly, struggling to hold her and pulled back, straightening herself up as she cupped the brunette’s cheek.
“What are you doing here?”
“I can’t live my life without you,” Tara replied, gazing into green depths, “So I’m not going to.”
“You’re really here?”
“I’m really here.”
They got lost in each other, blue staring into green with green staring right back, quietly contemplating that they were in one another’s presence again.
Alyson looked on for a moment before deciding she felt particularly awkward just standing there.
“Right. So…I’m gonna go. Um…good talking with you, Willow.”
When it became apparent that neither girl had even registered she had spoken she shrugged and walked out of the door, back to her own dorm room. Tara snapped herself out of her reverie slightly when she heard the door bang.
“Was there someone else in here?”
“Hmm? Oh. Oh, Alyson!” Willow replied, looking around the empty room, “She must have left. Oh whatever, I’ll apologise later, you’re here! You’re with me and we’re together and I have so many questions but can you please just be kissing me?”
Tara eagerly accepted the invitation and leant her head down to meet the redhead’s lips as she walked them both back towards the bed, both of them lying on their sides as their lips moved against each other smoothly, until Willow opened her mouth and the brunette slid her tongue in, both of them moaning at the contact. They stayed kissing for an indeterminate amount of time, reacquainting themselves, their hands slowly caressing up and down each other’s sides.
“I forgot how good you feel,” Willow whispered quietly when they pulled back for a moment.
“You haven’t forgotten how to touch me. I’m tingling everywhere,” Tara whispered back, “I love you.”
“God I love you too. How are you here? I mean…how? Are you leaving?”
“No. I’m here ‘til we go home together. And don’t worry, I won’t be in the way, I can get a hotel and we can visit-”
“You have to be kidding me!” Willow said, astounded, “I’m gonna be hard pushed to let you leave this bed never mind the door.”
“Are you allowed have other people stay here?”
“We’ll be sneaky. And quiet.”
Tara giggled, but got a serious look on her face.
“I don’t want anything to jeopardise this program for you. If me being here-”
“Will only make me work harder to get done faster and spend time with you. The only thing you being here jeopardises is the depression I was starting to sink into without you. I was so lost without you.”
Tara flashed back to their first date for a moment, remembering how Willow had said she’d always find her.
“I found you. We found each other. And I’m never letting you go again. Never again.”
“How did you get here?” Willow asked, stroking the brunette’s cheek.
“Big metal thing. I think they called it an aeroplane,” Tara chuckled.
“Oh I’m missed that laugh. And you being a big smart ass. I mean, how did you manage…Baby, if this is costing you a whole bunch you can’t afford, let me pay, please, I-”
“Shush, love, shush. Thank you for offering that, but it turns out my grandmother had a secret account that I wasn’t supposed to access ‘until I needed it most’. And Jack decided that seeing me without you is when I needed it most. I happen to agree.”
“And it had enough to pay for a ticket over here?”
Tara grinned and leaned over to whisper the amount in the account into her girlfriend’s ear. She pulled back to a wide-eyed redhead.
“That’s…a lot.”
“I know. And in my haste to get here and see you I had to buy a first class ticket. The most money I’ve ever spent on something. And you know what?”
“What?”
“I would’ve spent every cent in that account if it meant I got to see you again.”
Willow got a goofy smile on her face and leaned over for a quick kiss.
“So, you’re like, rich now? Not that it matters, but do you not have to work so much anymore?”
Tara thought about it for a second and shook her head.
“I wanna keep as much as I can for medical school. So I’ll keep working. But I don’t even wanna think about that for now, ‘cause I’m here and with you and you know…now we don’t have to rely on phone lines and webcams when we wanna be naughty.”
Willow’s face lit up and she put a hand under the brunette’s shirt, resting on her stomach.
“I have absolutely nothing I have do until tomorrow at 2pm. That gives me,” she stopped and checked her watch, “Seventeen hours and fifteen minutes to show you just how much you were missed and how much I love you.”
“You’ll need sleep…”
“I don’t need anything but you,” Willow replied before jumping on top of a giggling brunette and lavishing kisses all over her face.
*
“Wow.”
Willow looked over at her girlfriend with sleepy eyes.
“You can say that again.”
“Wow,” Tara repeated, meeting the redhead’s gaze, “That. Was. Incredible.”
“It was, wasn’t it? Wonderful,” Willow sighed wistfully.
They were only two hours in to the seventeen, but the first time, the first time in six weeks that they’d been together fully, connecting with their minds, bodies and souls, had been indescribable in both girl’s minds, the slow caresses and drawn-out pleasure comparable to nothing, the contact sorely missed in their time apart.
“I missed this,” Tara said after a couple of minutes of quiet basking in the afterglow, “Just being around you. Knowing you were there. That I could lean over and tuck a piece of hair behind your ear or give you a quick kiss or give you a squeeze and make you giggle.”
“Yea, I know. I was the same. Or like someone would say something and I’d keep turning around to see what your reaction was, you know? But you weren’t there.”
“I’m here now. And even if I hadn’t gotten that money, I was this close to figuring out some other way, selling stuff or something, I couldn’t stand not being with you. The apartment was so quiet. I even watched repeats of American Idol and imagined you laughing at the bits you laughed at the first time.”
“You did? That’s so sweet,” Willow grinned.
“Yep. Oh and before I forget, both Craig and Ben said to give you a big hug, so here.”
Tara wrapped her arms around the redhead under the sheets and squeezed her tight, making her giggle.
“Did they tell you to do it naked?”
“No…but it was a pretty last-minute, rushed deal. I reckon if I’d had more time, Craig would’ve definitely mentioned something about being naked. Him and Ben were in their boxers outside the building when they were hailing the cab.”
“Um…”
“I kinda disturbed them to tell them I was leaving and they got all excited and helped me pack and stuff.”
Willow grinned at the image then turned on her side and regarded Tara seriously.
“Make me a promise, right now. That not unless we absolutely have to, that there is no plausible alternative, we’re not apart. We do things together and share experiences together.”
“I promise,” Tara whispered, “To the best of my abilities I promise to never let us be away from each other. Least not long term. We do have classes and stuff.”
Willow giggled and cuddled closer to the naked brunette.
“I can handle that. I can even handle when you’re a big important doctor and you work crazy hours.”
“You’re gonna stick around that long?” Tara asked, only half-joking.
Willow turned her girlfriend’s face to her and gave her a loving kiss.
“Forever and ever,” she breathed, “Remember?”
“I remember. Forever and ever.”
Willow smiled and leaned over again, cupping the brunette’s cheek before giving her a deep kiss, both conveying the promise. Tara pulled back a few minutes later, a nervous and excited look in her eye.
“Hey Will? Um, this might seem stupid since we both live in the same apartment and everything, and I love that we do but we both have different bedrooms, you have your room with your stuff and I have my room with my stuff but we could have our room with our stuff, which is really what I’m asking, I mean, we’re not even gonna be there for a few weeks, but when we get back it could work, but don’t feel you have to-”
Willow ran her thumb over the brunette’s lips, cutting her speech off and gave her a sweet, loving kiss before smiling at her.
“I’m the babbler, baby. What is it you’re trying to say?”
Tara took a deep breath and smiled at her girlfriend.
“Wanna move in with me?”
A slow, lazy grin spread across the redhead’s face and her eyes sparkled as she took in the cute, nervous smile of her girlfriend and the offer just extended to her.
Yea. My life is awesome.