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~Willow~

Tara believes that she is hiding her uncertainty from me but I can read her well. We may not have known each other as long as I've known Buffy and definitely not as long as I've known Xander, but I can see something is wrong. I just don't have the heart to ask her about it. Not to mention, it's Friday night and as much as I would love to just sit back, relax and really enjoy it the way other couples would, I am not as naive as I was once. Learning about the vampires and demons that were real made it hard to keep that sort of innocence. Then you take the very first real relationship I ever had which had ended when my boyfriend the werewolf had seemed to grow away from me very shortly after I had let myself really be a woman with him... well that left it's mark too.

Tara's been a light in my life, a bright spot amongst all the bad things. When I thought she was gone from me because of Glory, I had never felt so helpless or so hopeless. I'd also never thanked the Goddess more that I had begun learning the ways of magic. It's that knowledge of magic though that has sharpened my senses and there's definitely something off tonight, has been since just before Buffy arrived. Normally I would put it as being the fact that she still wasn't completely comfortable with my relationship with Tara, but I knew that wasn't anywhere near the issue. Ever since the quake I had been feeling like something was off but when I couldn't find anything to prove it, I'd tried to let it lie.

Looking after Buffy a moment after Tara had said she didn't need anything, I can't help but wonder about what she'd told us. Who was the woman she saved? What was this ill-boding feeling in the pit of my stomach? Tara seems uncertain a moment and I mention the unfamiliar guys as an explanation why Buffy moved on and then slowly after glancing around again, I look back at my girlfriend.

"Well he's hot." Tara replies in regards to the man in the leather jacket and I playfully narrow my eyes, my lips twitching with a small smirk just as I see Anya come up.

"Who's hot?" Anya asks and I motioned toward the bar so she could see who we were talking about. Nothing really gets the chance to be said before my best friend, comes up having followed Anya back from the dance floor and the two begin to tease each other. I'm really happy for Xander, even if Anya wasn't the person I'd always pictured him being with. Okay, so I admit there was only one person I'd pictured for a long time and that hadn't happened so I'd never let myself think of anyone else he might want to be with.

Still, it never failed that his antics could get me to relax even a small amount so watching them I found myself giggling before he looked at me and asked if I enjoyed the show, to which I responded with an arch of my brow. "Show? That was supposed to be a show? I can do better then that alone, but ooh the things I could do with Tara, they would positively make your head spin." I gave a soft laugh as I shifted in my seat and placed my arm around the small of Tara's back not about to demonstrate in public even if I might want to. Besides, I couldn't get completely away from the feeling that something was off. Light banter aside, there was something coming and I just couldn't figure out what it could be. Tomorrow I would check in with Giles and see if he had any ideas or news that might help put a finger on it.

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~Willow~

Xander gives me an incredulous look and I simply laugh at him as I lift a brow when he holds his hand out acting like he's going to shake my hand though I didn't deign to take his hand as he mocked an introduction before asking if I'd seen his girlfriend. I had to bite back my initial response which sort of would have probably pissed off Anya and though she was a bit strange, I didn't have anything against her. "Of course I have, Xander, but she doesn't hold a candle to my Tara." I say with a smirk, giving Anya a smile of apology in case she took what I said to heart.

Even as I'm attempting to keep myself light and reserved, I still can't stop from thinking that something wasn't right. "I take it you feel it to?" Xander asks me a moment and I'm jostled from my thoughts, nodding as I looked at him. I wish I could explain what it was I was feeling, what was going on. "My Apocalypse-sense is tingling, Mary Jane," he jokes without humor and I sigh again.

"I think it's with good reason, Spidey." I reply and it takes a moment to realize that my fingers are tapping on the table, at least the one hand that's free, the other his holding Tara's hand still. "I should go see if Giles has found anything that we should be preparing for." I couldn't help that I had this feeling creeping up my spine that made me think that being at the Bronze was a mistake. Something was going down soon, I could almost feel it. "Anyone see anything suspicious?" I asked as I looked at the others at the table with me and looked around, waiting for something to pop out in my mind as a danger.

~Willow~

"Eh, it's late, leave it till tomorrow." Xander smiles, and I get that he's trying to have me relax and all, but right now it's really not easy to do. "It can't be too bad," he grins the same grin that used to make my stomach do flips. "You aren't rambling yet."

I wish more then anything that I wasn't such a worrier, but I can't help but not relax even with his attempt. "Anyone see anything suspicious?"

"Well," Anya starts and I can feel myself tense, okay so maybe I'm not as immune to certain things in my head as I let others think. "Since when has anyone new coming to Sunnydale ever been good news?" Anya glances toward Buffy again, and yeah I remembered that she was dancing with a new guy that didn't look familiar earlier.

"It's not always bad," I mutter as I try to think about the new people that came into town. Of course there was Giles and then Buffy, both of whom I couldn't picture a life without now. Not just because they opened my eyes to the other side of life, the one I'd been ignorant of… but because they had become family. Of course there had been new vampires, assassins and the sort but there was Tara, my girlfriend. But if there was a scale it would be tipping in the bad.

"Okay, so most of them were evil that came into town, but not all of them." I admit slowly.

I notice Xander now looking around just as paranoid as I was and then he stops with an exclamation "Oh My God!" I can't help but look at him as curiously as the others at our table. "I...Ok, yeah, I'd total believe that," he begins laughing and I'm about to ask what he's talking about when he says, "Bar," my gaze moves to look and see what it is he's looking at and I can't stop the laughter that falls from my lips.

"Oh my… that's… Andrew…" I say with laughter still sounding as I shake my head. Okay, at least I got a needed laugh in amongst all this tension. Forcing my gaze away from Andrew and once again sweeping the club I can't stop the small smile that remains as the image plays over.

I know that the others sometimes see me as being too serious more now then before, between my studies in magic, my researching with Giles and just being plain old geeky me, but I can't help it. We've faced a few apocalypses and as much as I'd love to say we won't have to deal with anymore, I'm not that naïve.

Taking a deep breath, I stand, "I'm going to see Giles." I look at Tara, placing an arm around her shoulder as I lean in and kiss her cheek. "Do you want to come with me?"