[Location: Café] Happy Birthday (open)

[aworldenchanted]

Tara sat at a café in Wilde, not far from Tamper and Trick, warming her hands with a chai latte. There was a bit of a chill in the air, but the sun was peeking through the clouds, and with a jacket, being out was nice enough.

She thought about the sun. With the influx of new visitors recently, she'd been thinking more about how Taxon worked, about how this strange half-life could be settled into. How easy it as for her to slip into work at Tamper and Trick, which wasn't quite the Magic Box, dates with Willow, who was a few months away from being her Willow, and living in Castle Summers, which was familiar to her friends, but not to her. How easy it became to ignore the Extras, to weather a glitch, to take it for granted.

She thought about people who'd gone and come back. The Doctor. Stefan. The Master. She wondered if she'd been before, and just forgotten. If Xander might come back, slate wiped clean. It didn't fit, exactly, with the zoo theory, but it didn't fit with the little glimpses they'd had of the 'real Taxon' either. Then again, if it was a glitch as she'd suspected, their captors had just turned Piper into a monster, so none of her working theories were right just yet.

She thought about the people she missed. Hercules. Rose. Sam. Giles. Ethan. Tara had to believe that the were home. Safe. Happy. She wanted to believe that so very badly.

It was her birthday. The first one she shouldn't have been alive to have. And that knowledge made it a little bittersweet.

She sipped her latte, and took a few moments. Then she'd head to the shop. Happy birthday to her.


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[likeajoan.livejournal.com]

"Supernatural danger?" She actually looked crestfallen in the process of taking her coat off. Crestfallen and mildly concerned. "Why wasn't I invited?"

[ooc: sob, this is so late, i'm sorry! fail more, self.]

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[aworldenchanted]

"It was spur of the moment?" Tara shook her head. "In all seriousness... Piper got glitched. It was mostly running and not dying until Ax showed up. Have you met Ax?"

[ooc: &hearts It's fine. Backtagging is great, I miss Buffy/you. :D]

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[likeajoan.livejournal.com]

"It's wrong that I said that, isn't it?" Buffy grimaced, at least acknowledging her own questionable life outlook. Her expression quickly turned to something a lot more serious, however. "Blue? Kind of... alien-y? What happened? Did you get hurt? And is Piper okay? I'm sorry I wasn't there to help."

[ooc: ♥ I miss Tara/you, too!]

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[aworldenchanted]

Tara just smiled a little to Buffy's first question - it wasn't wrong, it was just Buffy. She imagined it was hard, not having patrols, or regular big bads to take down, just getting restless. And joking aside, it really had felt like a Sunnydale moment.

"No one's hurt, that I heard of anyway, but Piper's really upset about the whole thing. She turned into something sort of werewolf-y; Will and I are going to do some research in the Library to see if we can find anything." Softer, Willow adds, "She won't come out of the dungeon. We offered to make her room secure for her, but I think she's scared, still, that it will happen again."

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[likeajoan.livejournal.com]

"Oh boy," she sighed, frowning deeply. "That's awful," she shook her head, looking slightly perplexed, a thought having just ocurred to her. "And weirdly specific. I mean, why a werewolf or... a you know, whatever it was?"

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[aworldenchanted]

"I'm not sure. It must be something that she'd at least heard of at home, though; she didn't seem positive it was a glitch." Tara hadn't wanted to push too hard, though. Not so soon.

"But I hope we can help her."

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[likeajoan.livejournal.com]

"Me too." Buffy wouldn't have wanted to push somebody experiencing post-glitch trauma for answers either, so that's understandable, even if she felt curious to know more about this creature. Brushing that train of thought aside, she continued:

"Starting with getting her out of that dungeon. They're never healthy."

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[aworldenchanted]

"No, I didn't think so either. Maybe if you talked to her," Tara added, thoughtfully. "Since she attacked me and Willow, she hasn't really seemed to be able to cope with us being around too much. DG either. You don't have to, but if you thought you could..." She didn't know how well Buffy knew Piper, but apparently well enough to offer her a place to live. That was likely good enough.