GETTING TO KNOW YOU
TIME
BY
KINETIC-KID
Rating:
R – Hard R for things discussed
Disclaimer: Definitely no money being made. All characters belong to Joss Whedon and
ME. I own nothing except whatever
characters I may make up for this story.
Distribution: Oh yeah, anywhere, anytime. Just make sure I get credit and let me
know where it is.
Spoilers:
What is left to be spoiled?
If you haven’t seen BTVS – you need to crawl out from whatever rock
you’ve been hiding!!
SNORT
Feedback:
Please. Please. PLEASE. I
live for feedback. I get irritable
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and think it sucks you may not want me to continue!
Pairing:
B/T
Author’s Note: Suggestion – this is part of the ‘Time
Series’ Read
Pool Time, Dinner Time, Patrol Time,
Shower Time & Bed Time first!!
It’ll help!
“I’ll be back in a little while,
honey.” Tara calls over her
shoulder after pulling on shorts, shirt and her shoes to run Buffy’s clothes
down to the washer and stop to get them something to eat for
breakfast.
Buffy grumbles quietly after the
quickly departing Wiccan. Buffy
curiously looks around Tara’s room deciding to be nosy and snoop in the
drawers. Tara having already told
her to look to her heart’s content and that she doesn’t have anything to
hide.
Buffy glances at the dildo and
harness Tara had wiped down and left lying on the dresser the night before. Shaking her head at the sight of the
item before continuing her opening and closing of drawers. Running her fingers over Tara’s panties,
Buffy chuckles quietly. “Maybe
she’s more butch than I thought.
She seems to like the women’s underwear that they call boy’s
shorts.” Buffy grins as she holds
up the underwear. “Oooh. I bet the way they’re cut they show an
enticing amount of butt cheeks…”
Buffy tilts her head considering the thought as she licks her lips.
Shaking herself from her
visualizing, Buffy replaces the underwear and works her way down through the
other drawers, her eyes opening wide at the sight of the bottom drawer. “Oooh. Jackpot.” Buffy giggles as she pulls the drawer
out and sets it on the bed.
Grabbing Junior and setting it in the drawer, she climbs onto the bed to
start looking through Tara’s toys.
“She wasn’t kidding when she said she had some…” Buffy whimpers loudly as she pulls out a
large dildo. “Senior, I
presume.” Buffy shakes her head at
the sight of the fluorescent purple dildo.
Reaching for Junior, Buffy places it alongside the larger dildo. Realizing that Senior has to be a good
three or four inches longer and possibly a half inch to three quarters of an
inch thicker in circumference.
Tara eases into the room, her eyes
on Buffy and what the slayer’s holding in her hands. Chuckling at the slayer’s wide-eyed
look, Tara shuts and locks the door behind her. “Becoming acquainted with Senior, or
just comparing?” Tara questions as
she sets the bag of food and drinks on the desk as she kicks off her
shoes.
Buffy’s mouth opens and shuts as she
looks back down at the item. “Tara,
this thing has to be over ten inches long and roughly two inches wide!”
Tara laughs softly at the
disbelieving note in Buffy’s voice as she settles beside the slayer on the
bed. “It’s twelve inches long and
you got the width right.” Tara
points to Junior. “That’s seven and
a half inches long and one and a quarter inches thick. I didn’t want to scare you with anything
bigger, since I don’t know what your experience has been.”
Buffy taps her finger on Junior and
tilts her head considering her past experiences. “I guess length wise that would be about
right for the largest but Riley was a little thicker.” Buffy blushes at her words becoming
slightly embarrassed.
“It’s okay, honey. You don’t need to be embarrassed about
anything.” Tara gently runs a
finger over Buffy’s cheek.
“Everything I have in here is just items that I have used on myself and
hoping that one day I might have someone to play with, if they enjoy this type
of thing.”
Buffy hesitates as she starts to
reach into the drawer again. At
Tara’s nod she smiles and reaches in for the box of condoms she’d seen. Holding them up, she looks questioningly
at Tara.
Tara grins crookedly at the slayer,
silently waiting to see if her lover will ask or be too
embarrassed.
“You’re going to make me say it out
loud, aren’t you?” Buffy grumbles
then growls at Tara as the Wiccan laughs.
“I thought you liked women and not so much the
men.”
“I like men, Buffy.” Tara laughs at the shocked look crossing
Buffy’s face. “I’ve had a
couple boyfriends, honey. I do
prefer women, however. Men are too
much work, get them trained right and they head on to greener pastures. Then some other woman benefits from the
things I taught them.”
Buffy groans loudly at Tara’s
comments. “Willow told me you were
a lesbian. If you like both that
would make you bi-sexual.”
“She assumed I was a lesbian,
honey. I never said I was.” Tara points out her eyebrow quirked at
Buffy.
“You never straightened out her
misconception?” Buffy looks
surprised.
“She never asked me, honey. She was never curious about my past
relationships, so I figured she didn’t want to hear about them.” Tara shrugs her shoulders and lies down
on the bed watching Buffy. “Any
skeletons in your closet you’d like to discuss? I’m willing to talk about my past lovers
if you’re curious.”
Buffy waves the hand holding the
condoms around as she blushes lightly.
“As in who they were, or as in intimate details
here?”
Tara chuckles and shakes her
head. “Anything you want to know,
honey. I doubt that I’ll go into
actual details in regards to Willow, though. I think that might creep you out a bit
with her being your best friend and everything.”
“Thank you.” Buffy breathes out a sigh of
relief. Placing the box of condoms
back in the drawer, Buffy debates as to whether or not to make an admittance
she’s never told anyone. Replacing
everything in the drawer, Buffy eases off the bed and replaces it in the dresser
before sitting down on the bed facing Tara.
Tara shifts and sits facing Buffy as
she notices the serious look in her lover’s eyes.
Buffy reaches for Tara’s hands and
holds them in hers as she looks down at the surprisingly strong fingers, knowing
what they’re capable of. Stroking
her thumbs up and down over the digits, Buffy takes a deep breath. “I’ve never been with a woman before,
Tara. But I came close a couple
times.” Buffy looks up at Tara
being captured by serious blue eyes.
“Faith?” Tara questions softly, smiling gently at
Buffy as Buffy looks in shock at her.
“Honey, I may have only met her once, and you were in residence, but she
has a definite sexual magnetism that would tempt anyone. And I’ll let you in on a little secret
in case you weren’t aware of it.
Willow was jealous of the time you spent with Faith. And she complained about it a lot, so I
know it wasn’t just as a friend capacity that she was upset. Willow had a serious crush on you,
honey. Or possibly still
does.” Tara shrugs as she looks
down at their hands, Buffy’s having stilled from where her thumbs had been
caressing over hers.
“She… huh?” Buffy blinks and stares at Tara in
shock. “She’s like a sister… and
that was like before she realized she was kinda gaaaayyyyy.” Buffy drags out the word as a memory
comes back to her of Willow whispering in shock as she looked at her Vamp self
that she was kinda gay.
Tara lifts Buffy’s hand and presses
a soft kiss on her hand. “I didn’t
mean to shock you, honey.”
Buffy shakes her head after a few
minutes of her scrambling thoughts.
Zeroing her gaze in on her lover, Buffy looks intently at Tara. “You’ve thought that Willow has a crush
on me for how long, Tara?”
Tara grins crookedly at Buffy and
gently nips on the slayer’s thumb.
“Since the first time I saw the both of you together when you were in
Faith’s body. Haven’t you ever
noticed how protective she is of you?
And honestly, you seem to be quite protective of her, also. Though I have to admit you show that to
all the people you consider your family and friends as I’ve come to know you
better… except for Anya.” Tara
quirks her lips at Buffy.
“Don’t like Anya.” Buffy grumbles, before sighing
quietly. “She’s okay, but her
incessant going on and on about eviscerating people and all the other awful,
wicked things she used to do as a Vengeance Demon irritates the hell out of
me. Plus the sex talk about her and
Xander.” Buffy shivers
uncontrollably at the thought. “I
love Xander, but he is literally like a brother to me and that is just
disgusting!” Trying to get her mind
off those thoughts, Buffy searches Tara’s eyes for a few minutes. “I don’t think of Willow as anything but
a very close friend, you know that, don’t you?”
“Yes, honey.” Tara smiles softly at the slayer,
leaning in to kiss her gently on the lips.
“But I thought you should know.
Especially if at some time in the future Willow seems a little more
weirded out than you think she should.
It may be like a double-dose for her. Her ex-lover with a woman that she’s
cared for, for the last six plus years.”
Buffy blinks at the thought, feeling
nothing but friendship and sisterly love for Willow inside her as she searches
her feelings. “I don’t think I
would ever be able to think of Willow as anything more than a friend. I don’t have the urge to hold her and
kiss her. It just seems… wrong,
like hugging Dawn in anything but a sisterly way.” Buffy shivers uncontrollably again at
the thought.
Tara squeezes Buffy’s hands
gently. “So… how close did you come
before?”
Buffy blushes darkly and looks at
Tara. “Clothes half off and hands caressing over the upper half of our bodies,
serious kissing was going on, also.”
“That’s more of a petting session,
honey. Only second base, the way
you were talking I thought you were completely stripped and hands were becoming
adventurous in other areas.” Tara
purses her lips as her eyes twinkle and she lets her fingers travel up Buffy’s
inner thigh, surprised and happy at how comfortable the slayer is in her own
body as she sits there in front of her completely naked and pretty much on
display.
“Okay, petting session.” Buffy grumbles, capturing Tara’s hand as
the Wiccan’s fingers caress teasingly over her outer lips. “Talking. Weren’t you the one that said you wanted
to get to know each other better on a deeper level?”
“Yes.” Tara grins crookedly up at her
lover. “Can’t we talk and play at
the same time?”
“No. My brain stops working when you touch me
like that.” Buffy admits, blushing
lightly. “The beast wakes up and
takes charge.”
“I like the beast.” Tara leans up and kisses Buffy deeply
before slowly bringing the kiss to an end.
“Hold that thought. You have
another beast that I heard grumble.”
Tara pats Buffy on the stomach as she rolls out of the bed, yanking her
shirt off before pushing her shorts off and grabbing the bag of food and the two
large mocha’s she’d bought.
Buffy shifts to place her back
against the headboard as Tara carries the items to the bed. Taking the bag and one of the drinks
from the Wiccan, Buffy settles the drink carefully between her legs before
opening the bag, chuckling at the breakfast sandwiches piled inside.
“I figured you might be
hungry.” Tara eases onto the bed
before sipping on her mocha, smiling as the slayer sets a sandwich between them
for her before grabbing one for herself.
“So… whose sex life do you want to talk about first?” Tara laughs as Buffy starts to cough,
covering her mouth to keep the sandwich inside.
Buffy hurriedly finishes chewing and
swallowing the bite of sandwich before turning to glare at the Wiccan. “Damn it! Don’t do that when I’m trying to
eat. I swear you love to go for the
shock value of things.”
“Maybe.” Tara grins as she unwraps her sandwich,
her eyes twinkling merrily as she starts to eat the sandwich. Waiting a few minutes until Buffy
settles back down and starts to eat again.
“I was fifteen the first time I had sex with my boyfriend, Jason.”
Buffy silently thanks the powers
that be that she had finished chewing that bite of food as she turns amazed eyes
on Tara. “Jesus, Tara! What are you going to blurt out
next? That it lasted all of two
minutes and he sucked?”
“He sucked… and he lasted longer
than two minutes.” Tara wiggles her
eyebrows at the slayer as she makes sucking noises.
Buffy whimpers and closes her eyes,
rubbing a hand roughly over her face.
“And people believe this innocent act you got going
on?”
“Completely.” Tara grins crookedly at Buffy, chuckling
at the blush coming up on Buffy’s face.
“Jason and I had actually been dating for almost two years. After we made love, we both realized we
were still too young and we just dated each other after that. Then mama became ill and pa became
extremely obsessed with where I was at and keeping me at home to take care of
him and Donnie because they said mama wasn’t going to last long.” Tara whispers sadly, becoming serious as
she thinks about that time. “He had
always told me that the magic was evil, and when mama became bedridden he
reinforced it with saying it was in our demon blood and that’s why she became
ill.” Tara looks sadly at Buffy as
her lover wraps her arm around her shoulders hugging her gently.
“And with you being in shock with
your mom being ill he was able to make you believe you were part demon, getting
his claws that much deeper into you.”
Buffy continues, seeing how it could happen.
“Yes. I became introverted and didn’t really
have a life during the next year and a half because of it. I had always had problems with my
stutter, but it became worse. Mama
passed away a couple months after my birthday. It was a blessing because she was a
shell of the woman I loved. But it
was still horrible, losing a loved one.”
Tara looks apologetically at Buffy, seeing the flash of pain in her
lover’s eyes.
“Does it get any easier?” Buffy questions hoarsely, tears coming
to her eyes.
“The pain lessens, honey. I don’t know that it actually gets
easier, but I spend more time now remembering the good times and my mama being
happy and healthy, than I do the end.”
Tara offers softly, picking up Buffy’s other hand and pressing a soft
kiss into her palm. “I’m sorry to
bring this up like this, but it kind of leads into my next sexual liaison. And it was pure sex this time, no
feelings of caring or love was involved.”
Buffy presses her lips softly over
Tara’s and nods her head for her lover to continue.
“I got in a screaming match with my
father about two weeks after mama died.
I had been doing everything on automatic and suddenly the feelings came
roaring back with a vengeance. He
told me to do Donnie’s work on the farm, because Donnie went out partying with
his friends.” Tara allows a quick
smile to cross her face in remembrance.
“I ended up storming out of the house and stole his truck. I drove over two towns and went to a bar
some of the kids had whispered about at school that allowed teenagers in
it.” Tara rolls her eyes and
blushes. “None of the murmurings I
heard said anything about it being a gay and lesbian bar.”
“Uh, oh. Don’t tell me… A big biker chick by the
name of Bertha saw a somewhat still innocent Tara drunkenly swaying on a bar
stool and took her back to the bathroom and had her evil wicked way with
you.” Buffy offers, grinning
hugely.
Tara laughs and smacks Buffy on the
thigh. “No, she was a trucker named
Theresa and she took me out to her big rig to have her evil wicked way with
me. And talk about opening a young
girl’s eyes to the pleasure to be had with a person that knows a woman’s body
intimately…” Tara whistles and
laughs even louder as Buffy groans and falls off the bed. Tara silently thanks the Goddess that
the slayer had finished her mocha.
Placing her own cup on the nightstand, Tara rolls over and looks down at
a quietly laughing slayer. “A week
later she dropped me off at the end of my driveway.”
“You didn’t…” Buffy groans and rubs a hand over her
eyes.
“Yes I did. It was worth the hell I went through
when I got home. Needless to say I
didn’t go anywhere else except to school until I graduated and came to
Sunnydale.” Tara rolls her eyes and
smiles down at Buffy.
“So help me if you tell me your next
sexual liaison was with this really nice married couple…” Buffy growls up at her
lover.
“They were only engaged.” Tara tries to keep a straight face as
Buffy screams. Sliding off the bed
and landing on top of Buffy, Tara laughs and tickles her lover.
“You’re trying to kill me.” Buffy smiles up at Tara, enjoying the
sight of the beautiful woman laughing and joking. Honestly never knowing that Tara had
such a wicked sense of humor.
Wrapping her arms around Tara she hugs her gently.
“I dated Bob, a guy I worked with at
the grocery store. He’s the one I
trained and wasn’t too long after we broke up that he ended up becoming the
hottest property in the grocery store with all the other women.” Tara rests her chin on Buffy’s chest,
smiling at her lover.
“You’re serious, aren’t you?” Buffy shakes her head, chuckling as Tara
nods her head.
“Yes, I am. Of course, one of the girls figured out
how he became so well versed and questioned me.” Tara’s eyes twinkle
merrily.
“Let me guess, she decided to date
the source of all the wicked naughty things that Bob had learned and she picked
up a few things that you didn’t teach him.” Buffy nibbles on her bottom lip as Tara
wiggles her eyebrows. “How in the
world did you end up seeming so shy and innocent?”
“After Jess I didn’t date anyone
until Willow.” Tara admits
quietly. “Jess was the girl from
the grocery store.” Tara
explains. “I spent the rest of the
time thinking about the fact that I would probably have to go home and I kind of
crawled into a deep shell of self pity.”
Tara shrugs her eyes serious as she looks at Buffy. “I ended up falling in love with Willow
and you pretty much know what happened from there.”
“We could make a movie of your life…
actually multiple movies.” Buffy
gently runs her hand through Tara’s hair.
“By the time you add in all the actual Hellmouth happenings and the fact
that you’re now dating me there’s probably enough to make about ten or more
movies.”
“Going to need a couple of them just
for you and me.” Tara smiles
lovingly at Buffy. “Feel like
talking about your personal life, or eating?”
“Both. Mine’s boring, especially compared to
yours.” Buffy explains, pulling
Tara down to kiss her, groaning as Tara deepens the kiss and sets her blood
boiling again. “Damn girl! You can kiss.” Buffy blinks and tries to get the sexual
haze to clear out.
“You’re pretty damn good yourself,
slayer.” Tara growls before nipping
gently on Buffy’s chin. “Come on up
here. I don’t want you to end up
with a hurt back because I take advantage of you on the floor literally inches
away from the bed.”
“Oh… you’d rather take advantage of
me on the bed, huh?” Buffy laughs
quietly as she follows Tara and climbs in bed beside her lover, accepting the
sandwich she hands her.
“Can’t take advantage of the
willing.” Tara points out, her eyes
filled with mischief.
“How about taking advantage of the
sexually repressed? I think I might
qualify.” Buffy growls and nips
gently on Tara’s neck. “I think you
pretty much know all there is to really know about my sex and love life,
Tara. Angel was the once and
only. Faith, I just told you about
our somewhat explorations, Parker the one night wonder that was a waste of my
time, Riley that was juiced up on super soldier cocktail… Have to admit that helped him out quite
a bit. After he didn’t have that
anymore it kind of made the sex life go downhill. And Spike.” Buffy shifts uncomfortably as she looks
down at the mentioning of the vampire’s name.
Tara sighs quietly and cups Buffy’s
chin in her hand, gently urging the slayer to look at her. “Just because you don’t like someone, or
think they’re totally wrong for you, doesn’t mean that you didn’t receive
something from the relationship that you needed, honey. I don’t like the fact that he beat you,
but if what happened between you two helped you come back to us, I’ll be
thankful. Then the next time I see
him I’ll tell him thanks for helping you before staking his
ass.”
Buffy’s mouth drops as she looks at
Tara, it taking a moment to realize Tara’s deadly serious with what she
said. “You would…” Buffy shakes her head and blinks her
eyes in wonder. Finally a small
smile crosses her face. “You’d
stake him for me?”
“Yes.” Tara growls deeply as her eyes narrowed
in thought. “After he finds out
that we’re together. I’m sure
that’ll be a blow to his pride.”
“He doesn’t have much pride for it
to be a blow to.” Buffy mumbles,
blushing darkly as Tara turns surprised eyes towards her.
“Did that comment mean what I think
it meant?” Tara tilts her head,
chuckling as Buffy nods her head quickly as she obviously fights a huge smile.
Watching as Buffy grabs her hand and holds up her thumb.
“This right here is about the same
size.” Buffy nibbles on her bottom
lip at the admittance.
“Well, I hope he was good with his
ton…” Tara groans and falls back
against the headboard. “He didn’t
even do that for you, because I was the first.”
“Yep.” Buffy raises her eyebrows and laughs
softly. “You’ve been the first in
quite a few things, Tara.”
“Oh, great. Get another one broken in
properly…” Tara starts and then
laughs as Buffy pounces on her, her fingers going straight to the ticklish spots
behind her knees making her squirm and cry out the slayer’s name.
“I’m going to be like the proverbial
bad penny. You won’t ever be able
to get rid of me.” Buffy growls,
her eyes crinkling as she watches Tara laugh as she squirms around on the
bed.
“Keep the bad penny… I like ‘em.” Tara mumbles out between
laughs.
Buffy stops tickling her lover and
settles gently on top of Tara as she looks down into smiling blue eyes. Stroking a fingertip over Tara’s full
lips before caressing down her strong jaw line and placing her finger in the
small cleft of her chin, Buffy smiles.
“You’re an extremely beautiful, loving woman Miss Tara Maclay. And the one thing I really regret about
the time since you’ve become a part of our group is that I didn’t take the time
to get to know you on a more personal level. I’m sorry I didn’t ever really see past
the part that you were Willow’s girlfriend except when something bad
happened. And don’t say it.” Buffy grumbles quietly, pressing her
finger over Tara’s lips as she sees her about to say something. “I have a tendency to become completely
engrossed with my life and what’s happening in my immediate vicinity. I kind of push everything else to the
side and you were one of the things that got pushed to the side, I’m sorry about
that. You deserved better, and I
short changed both of us a deeper friendship in the
process.”
Tara presses her lips gently against
Buffy’s finger. “Did you ever think
if we had known each other better as friends that maybe what’s happening now
wouldn’t be happening?”
Buffy stares in shock at Tara as her
words sink in, honestly not having thought about that possibility. “You have this tendency to say stuff
that just cuts to the chase, you know that don’t you? I never would have thought of that, but
if we had been closer friends…”
Buffy blinks and laughs quietly.
“No more what might have been’s,
honey.” Tara gently runs her
fingers through Buffy’s hair before clasping the slayer’s face gently between
her hands. “Let’s just take life as
it is. Be thankful for what we have
now and not waste our time and energy worrying about what might have
happened.”
Buffy nods her head gently and
lowers her lips to Tara’s, kissing her softly. “I love you, Tara.” Buffy settles more comfortably against
Tara and buries her face in her lover’s neck.
“I love you, too, Buffy.” Tara strokes her hands down Buffy’s
strong back.
“Think Dawn will mind if I join you
two today?” Buffy closes her eyes,
moaning quietly as Tara’s strong fingers knead her butt
cheeks.
“I’m positive she won’t mind,
honey. Now with you only having to
work one weekend a month here at the college and having a set schedule during
the week, that will give you time to have a real life again.” Tara wraps her arms around her lover’s
waist and hugs her tightly. “And I
want to schedule in at least a couple evening’s a week to go out on patrol with
you, then one night on the weekend for date night. We’ll leave the rest of it to go from
there and see what happens.”
“Come to the house a few times a
week also?” Buffy questions
softly.
“Definitely, I think I promised
someone that I would cook for them.”
Tara smiles as she feels Buffy’s lips curl up into a smile against her
neck. “We need to get ready,
honey. Your clothes should be close
to dry by now.”
“I know. You sure we can’t stay here like this
all day?” Buffy pouts into Tara’s
neck as Tara chuckles.
“I would say yes, but I promised
Dawnie, honey.” Tara squeezes once
more before smacking Buffy firmly on the ass. “Move it, Slayer!”
“Yes, Mistress.” Buffy grumbles, rolling off Tara,
watching her lover ease off the bed to toss the shower kit and towels towards
her.
“I’ll meet you in the shower.” Tara comments after pulling on clothes
to run down to the laundry room.
Seeing the gleam in her lover’s eyes, Tara laughs delightedly before
heading out of the room.
“God, I love that laugh.” Buffy growls before yanking on the robe
and gathering the items they’ll need and running to the
showers.
***
The End
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