Title: A new beginning.

Author: Saskia Mae

Rating: R, maybe not yet, but just to be sure, and may get worse later.

Spoilers: Set in the future. Post season 4.

Summary: Willow has returned to Sunnydale, how does everyone react?

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Dedication: For Ice dragon, thanks for going over this for me. doing everyone a huge favor. Love ya for it.

"Whose is it?" I ask of her stomach. It wasn't meant to come out bad, but I know that's how it sounds.

She looks down at her very swollen stomach and smiles. Taking my hand she places it on her skin, the child inside takes that moment to kick.

I pull my hand away suddenly. I can't take it. She has found someone when I was gone. How could she not, I've been gone for a long time. I guess some part of me thought she would be waiting.

Maybe that is why she was a bit distant this evening. She has found someone good for her and didn't want to tell me.

"Its yours" she says taking my hand and again placing it on her stomach.

I laugh. I can't believe I did it. She looks up at me, hurt echoed across her face. But truthfully, how could it be mine? I wasn't here.

"Magick. There were parts of you still here. When we still couldn't find you, I decided to try a spell. If I couldn't have you, I at least wanted our child and now you're here"

I didn't know what to say. She wanted me, she wanted our child, she carried our child. As strange as it would seem to anyone else Tara carrying my child even though I hadn't seen her in years didn't seem wrong.

I took her hand and led her to the bed. She lay down next to me and I wrapped my arms around her, one hand going protectively to her stomach, her child, our child.

I am really going to have to give this some effort. I came back thinking friendship was all I could hope for, but now I'm fighting for her again. Fighting for us. The us I hadn't let myself hope could still be there.