Willow had been staring at the same book for over an hour. Buffy looked up from her magazine and blinked at the redhead. Not that Willow couldn't stick her face in a book and read for long amounts of time just that she usually did things like turned the pages, moved her head as she read, showed some sort of expression other than utter confusion.

"Hey um Wills...you okay? You seem I dunno, a little distracted."

The witch shook her head and looked at Buffy as if seeing her for the first time. It took her a full minute before she realized that the blonde has actually meant for her to answer.

"Oh...um no I'm okay. Why do you ask?"

"You've been staring at that book for the last hour..."

"I do that a lot."

"It's upside down."

Willow looked at it and quickly righted it. Her face flushed bright red and she looked away for a minute. She set the book aside and learned forward a little on the bed. She could see that Buffy was just waiting to ask what was up.

"Okay maybe I'm a little distracted. I've been thinking things in my head that thinks thoughts. So...confusion girl sets in."

"Seems to me that you have a crush. You keep doing the distant googly eyed thing everytime you think no one is looking. So...who is it? Come on tell Buffy I wanna know."

"Googly eye? I do googly eye?"

"A little and you didn't say who it is. Is it....whoa it isn't boy is it?"

Sudden realization hit Buffy like a brick to the head. She knew that Willow and Tara had gotten close and while she liked the blonde she was doing the jealousy thing. Well, she was doing the jealousy thing when she wasn't all over Riley. Willow shifted a little and then turned red.

"Well, kinda no. I mean no boy parts there so I guess yes it's a girl but...I don't know. I'm not...gay."

"You're not but you like a girl? For some reason two plus two is not making four here. Are you....you know? Attracted to women."

"I...think that I should probably go to the library now. Good time to study oh and then I could hide from you until you go to patrol."

Willow jumped off the bed and grabbed her keys just as a bewildered Buffy opened her mouth to say something. Nothing came out and Willow was gone before she could stop her. The blonde Slayer watched in shock before shuddering and shaking it off. Willow wasn't gay. Willow wasn't gay. Willow...was not here and there was no point in thinking about it.

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Willow trudged in to the library and found the darkest most dimly lit aisle she could and slumped to the floor. She grabbed a random book off the shelf and opened it so that if anyone did find her they'd just think she was reading. Things were whirling in her head like a spinning top. The redhead barely heard the thud of rubber bootheels on the cold marble floor. She looked up and mentally eeped.

"That's not a happy face there Red."

Willow's eyes widened and she shuffled back. She eyed the corridor and then looked for anything to defend herself with.

"Wha? Gonna bludgeon me to death with a book? Because ya know I kinda always thought you were above the whole violence thing."

"I...wasn't looking for so...why are you back? You followed me here didn't you?"

"Easy there Red, I come in peace. Okay well not peace just...here to terrorize ya before the sun sets."

Oh well when you put it like that... Willow just rolled her eyes and closed the book she was pretending to read. Not wanting Faith to have the advantage she stood and eyed the brunette. It was almost not afraid even.

"And we know how you do that so well. Did you even take classes for it?"

"Funny..."

Faith reached out with one hand and clenched fingers around Willow's throat. She pulled her roughly forward until her face was just an inch from the witch's. The Slayer was keenly aware of what her proximity was doing to Willow. She could hear the witch's heart speed up and see the color rising to her face. Not to mention the way that Willow struggled weakly in just a way as to brush against her chest. Faith let her go but stayed nose to nose with her.

"Told ya I'd be back. Or did ya think I was lying?"

"No...I just didn't expect you to...you know attack me and..."

She was cut off by the distinct feeling of lips on her lips and the faint smell of peaches. Who would have ever thought Faith to be the peach scent kinda girl? For that matter who would have thought that Faith was a girl? Not that she didn't look like one just that she didn't seem to care to be a girl. It must have just been the walls she put up.

It took Willow a few minutes to be able to breathe again and when she did she was only faintly surprised to see that Faith was eyeing her like she was lunch. The redhead opened her mouth to say something and was immediately rewarded with a fist to her jaw. And Houston we have blast off. Faith caught her mid fall and laid her on the ground.

"Nighty night Red."

Chuckling she stuffed her hands in her back pockets and strutted out of the corridor without so much as a glance back. The waiting was maddening but she'd deal. Willow wasn't ready to come around just yet. But she would. The dark Slayer whistled lightly and stepped out in to the sunlight heading for her new home.