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Disclaimer: For some reason, I don't own a franchise which started before I was even in school. I feel young.
So started writing this when I was waiting to leave for a massive road trip half way across the country- and I live in the second largest country in the world, by the way- and I've been slowly adding to it over the trip. Now I'm sitting in a motel room in some tiny town, on my way back home, and I've finished it.
I know I sort of take some liberties at the end, and mostly ignore what I hear happened in the comics, because I like happy endings.
Also, I like Willow/Tara.
She manages to stop sobbing for the time that it takes for Giles to bring her from Xander's arms to England.
She's not really sure how, because she's not really sure of anything any more, but she does. She didn't cry on the plane, didn't scare the other passengers, didn't bother the flight attendants.
Once Giles shows her that room she will call hers until she's not in danger of ending the world, though- once she puts her bag down, and sinks onto the mattress- Willow cries for two weeks.
"I just wanted to say- thanks. For saving my life."
Tara alternates between blinking and staring wide-eyed at her. "W-what do you m-mean?"
"In the laundry room. When the Gentlemen were chasing us? I would of been toast if you hadn't gotten the door blocked." Willow smiles her thanks.
The blonde woman shakes her head, disagreeing. "F-first of all, y-you wouldn't of needed to get a-away from them if I h-hadn't been there. And second, y-you did most of th-that yourself. I j-just helped."
"Knowing me, actually, I probably would of ended up getting chased by them anyways," Willow rolls her eyes.
"Stuff l-like this happens a lot h-here, doesn't it?" Tara guesses.
"Yeah. Well, not exactly like this, you know? But, uh..."
"Other demons?" She suggests. "I-its a bit w-weird. S-small town in C-California, d-doesn't seem like monster c-central."
Willow considers something for a moment, then leans closer to the other woman. "Have you ever heard of a Hellmouth?"
Eventually, she can look at a blonde woman without feeling her breath catch in her throat.
Its stupid, she knows. At first it had been not only blonde hair (it didn't even have to be the right shade), but the same hair style, or length, or a woman with the same nose.
One of the Coven members has eyes the exact same shade as hers had been, and she gets irrationally angry at the poor woman.
But after a while, she learns to not look too closely, not notice the similarities. However vague they might be.
"I miss him, you know? But I only actively miss him when I think about it. I'll probably love Oz forever, 'cause he was the first, for me. Lots of firsts, actually. I think I'm moving on, though. Which- I didn't think that was going to happen."
Tara nods in understanding. "That's good. I-I mean, you c-can't spend y-your life waiting f-for him."
Willow shrugs. "I could. It would be stupid and not fair to me, but if I put my mind to it, and locked myself in a room so I never met anyone else..." she smiles to let Tara know she's joking.
"H-have you? Met anyone, e-else, I m-mean?"
"Nah. It's too hard, dating. People who don't know about all the magick and monsters, I mean."
Tara looks interested. "O-Oz knew, then?"
"Well. He saw some vamps get dusted. Then he sort of... became a werewolf." Willow decides its a testament to how much she trusts Tara that she hardly needs to think about revealing Oz's secret. Well. It's not like she could do much with the information, anyways. Since no one knew where Oz was.
"W-werewolf?" She raises her brows. "Wow. Th-that's, I mean- more i-interesting than anyone I've e-ever dated."
"Come on, none of your boyfriends were demons? Not even a little bit?" Willow teases.
Tara blushes, and looks away. "I-I don't r-really date... I-I mean, b-boyfriends, th-they a-aren't... my t-type, b-boys a-aren't, I mean."
It takes Willow a moment to figure out what her new friend means by that, especially with how her stutter had suddenly gotten much worse.
"Oh! Never had a demon girlfriend, then?" she switches her teasing.
Tara watches her with wide eyes, then grins.
"After Jenny's death, I once very nearly broke down in supermarket. I saw her favourite brand of tea, and I thought, I should pick some up. For when Jenny comes over. And then I remembered."
Willow has her fists pressed into her eyes, attempting to hold in the tears which are leaking through anyways. Because she had seen a vase of flowers, and they were Tara's favourites.
"It's just- I miss her so much. And it hurts so bad. And when things hurt, Tara makes it better. But if she were here to make it better, there wouldn't even be anything for her to make better, and I just want her back so much."
"I know." Giles says quietly.
"I had a dream she was alive, last night. I've just been having nightmares about- but last night, I dreamed at she was standing a couple inches to the side, and she didn't even get hurt. Then I woke up."
"Tara? Can I talk to you, maybe?"
Tara gives her a confused look. "Of course. Is e-everything okay?"
"Yeah. Well. Maybe? It's just..." Willow sits down on the edge of Tara's bed, then stands up and began pacing again. "Did I ever tell you about the time another me accidentally came through from a different dimension?"
Tara gives her a surprised look. "No. H-how did th-that happen?"
"Anya. Trying to become a demon again. Spell went a bit wrong. But the thing is, uh, the other me? Was a vampire. And, I mean, she wasn't that different than me, except you know, how she dressed and how she wanted to eat everyone and was evil."
"Except that," Tara teases.
Willow smiles for a moment, then grows serious again. "I remember being sort of freaked out by how, certain things she did, it was like she was me, if I didn't care what anyone thought anymore. And Angel, he said vampires personalities aren't that different than who they were when they were human. Besides the evil, soulless part."
Tara nods in understanding, but asks, "Angel?"
"Uh, Angel's that vampire I told you about. The one who I gave his soul back."
"Y-your first spell,"
"Yeah. He's also Buffy's ex-boyfriend, but that's a story for another day. The thing is, uh, vampire me, she was, well, uh, kind of gay."
"And, I sort of, I mean, I've never had a specific, uhm, crush on a specific girl, or. Well. Until now." Willow silently begs her to understand what she means.
She does. "Oh," Tara says again.
"Its just... I don't want to ruin our friendship, you know? But I've done the silent, unrequited thing before, and I don't want to do that with you. Because... So. I just thought you should know. I'm... going to run away, now."
Willow turns quickly, but Tara catches her wrist gently, and pulls her so she faces her. "Willow," she says softly.
They are really close together, and Willow can't really seem to keep her eyes away from the blonde's lips. "Tara?"
And then something really, really good happens.
Tara kisses her.
Its soft, and chaste, and as amazing as the connection they have when they do spells together is, this is a million times better.
They part, too quickly, and Willow opens her eyes halfway, to find Tara looking at her with such adoration she simply has to kiss her again.
There's a whole list of reason's Willow is afraid to go back to Sunnydale, and the whole 'unreasonably high death rate and way too many demons' thing is not on it.
She wonders if Buffy will be able to stand having her living under her roof again.
She wonders how she'll be able to sleep in the room where Tara bled out.
"I was thinking," Willow begins, then doesn't say anything else.
Tara smiles at her. "When are y-you not thinking?"
"Okay, fair point, but this time I was thinking about dating. And how you and I should go on one. Together?"
Willow nods. "I know I said, before, that I was sort of nervous, about, uhm..."
"B-being with another girl in p-public." Tara finishes. "I know. I-It's alright. I understand."
"Yeah, I know you do. And I appreciate that, I really do. Because, its, well, an adjustment, you know? But I really like you, Tara. And I want to go on a date with you."
Tara grins. "Alright. We'll go on a date."
For the first few days after Willow gets back to Sunnydale, thanks to the demon who tried to eat her, piece by piece, she bleeds through her bandages every time she climbs the stairs in the house. After the first time that happens, Buffy decides that all of Willow's meditation will be a waste if she keeps hurting herself, and tells her to sleep in the living room until she heals.
Two weeks later, she's still sleeping on the couch.
"Willow?" Buffy looks nervous, but determined.
"Yeah, Buffy?" She can see Dawn hovering in the hallway. "What's up?"
"We were thinking that you should go to a doctor."
"What? Why?"
"You're still hurt. With the meditation, I thought you said you'd be healed by now. And even without, you should be able to at least climb the stairs."
Willow looks away. "Oh." she shifts nervously. "I am. Healed, I mean."
Buffy furrows her brow, confused. "Then why have you been sleeping on the couch? It can't be comfortable."
"It's just, my room..."
"Oh." Dawn says quietly.
"I'm sorry, Willow. I didn't think." the younger girl says sadly.
"What? What do you mean?" Buffy asks.
"Tara," Dawn explains softly. "She died in Willow's room."
Buffy freezes, then sits down heavily. "I'm sorry too, Willow. I didn't think."
"No. It's not... it's silly. I've just been... I'll sleep in my room from now on. It's no big deal."
They're walking hand-in-hand down the street, laughing and grinning at each other about nothing in particular, just enjoying each others company, when they run into Spike.
Well, first they run into some random vamp, when he tries to eat them, but their energy is already combined from being so close all night, and the two witches blast him before he knows what happens, then Willow pulls out a stake, always in her bag, and sticks it in the undead man's chest.
Tara stares as the dust blows away. "Wow."
Willow pulls the other woman into a hug. "Are you alright?" she asks.
Before Tara can answer, a man with bleached-blonde hair yells, "Bloody hell, Red. I've been chasing that tosser for blocks. I was going to rip his sodding head off."
Tara takes a step back, knowing instinctively, from the aura he was giving off, that he was as much a vampire as the one Willow just dusted.
"Oh, hey, Spike. Sorry. He attacked us." Willow doesn't seem overly concerned.
"What? Running for his life, and he stops for a snack?" He grins. "Told you you were a treat, Red. And your friend here-"
Willow moves in front of her girlfriend.
"Woah, Red, I'm kidding. Well, not really, I'd eat you both in a heartbeat. But you know I'm not going to." He seems to consider the woman. "I don't know you, do I?"
"This is Tara. Tara, this is Spike. Don't worry. He can't bite you."
"This is the vampire with the ch-chip?" Tara clarifies.
Willow smiles at her. "That's him!"
"I-its nice to m-meet you."
Spike sighs. "I dearly wish that stutter was because you were afraid of me, but its not, is it?"
Spike waves her apology off. "I'll be on my way now. You two try to finish your date without dying, alright? The Slayer would have my head."
"Date?" Willow squeaks, then glances apologetically to Tara, who smiles, understanding.
"It sure smells like a date, Red." A flash of understanding comes over his face. "Oh, right. You humans and your silly ideas about sexuality." He rolls his eyes. "You wanna shag someone, does it really matter what parts they got?"
"Uhm..." Willow doesn't really want to have this conversation with Spike. "Thanks?"
"No problem. Now sod off, unless you two wanna play bait."
The house is full of people, and Willow can only hope there isn't a repeat of Buffy's latest birthday, because with all these girls, that would be even worse than before.
Kennedy's been sleeping in her bed, and although she knows she's more than welcome to join the other woman, every night she lays down on the floor alone, and every morning she wakes up with a stiff back.
She briefly considers simply giving in, because she actually is attracted to Kennedy, and it would be easier than this. But every time she walks into her room, or, their room, now- her eyes automatically go to the window, then to the place where Tara stood.
Where Tara fell.
Where Tara bled.
Where Tara died.
"I want you to meet Buffy," Willow decides.
"A-are you sure?"
"Yeah. I mean, I might not tell her about us. At first. I will, I promise, but I don't think I'm up to that yet."
"Th-that's fine, Willow. You should take all the time you need."
"But I want her to meet you. Because she's been a big part of my life for years, and now... well, now you are, too."
Tara grins shyly.
"Plus, you already met Spike. Sure, he's been a part of our lives for a while- longer than Anya, even- but he is evil. I'd like you to meet friends of mine who don't want to eat you."
"You make it sound like you have more than one." she observes.
"Well, Angel was a vampire. And Xander would of eaten our old principle, if he hadn't been too busy attacking Buffy- but he was possessed by a hyena at the time."
"You have a strange life, Willow Rosenberg."
She sighs, but smiles playfully. "But its pretty good anyways."
Trapped in the body of the man who killed your love.
Trapped in the body of the man you killed.
Trapped in the thoughts of that man.
If Willow had been asked to pick what part of this whole thing had been worst, she might even say it was Andrew's face when he thought Warren was back.
The rest? That was just too confusing.
And it was all Kennedy's fault. She knew it. That bitch-
Yeah, okay, maybe the being trapped in his thoughts was the worst part.
Or maybe, just maybe, the worst part was that she wasn't sure all these thoughts were Warren's.
Buffy looks up from cleaning her weapons. "So what?"
"Tara. What do you think of her?"
"She's nice. Kind of quiet. I am forever thankful to her for clearing up the whole Faith thing for everyone."
Willow smiles. "Yeah. She's pretty great, isn't she?"
"Glad to have someone to do magick with?" Buffy asks.
"Not only the magick thing. I mean, that's pretty great, too, since the only magick people I've known all that well are currently rats, and, uh, dead." They both wince. "But Tara and I, we do other things." Immediately after saying that, she blushes.
Buffy doesn't notice, rubbing fiercely at a spot of demon goo on a battle axe. "Well, I'm glad you've made a friend."
"Kennedy's a... okay, maybe 'nice' isn't the word I'm looking for, but she's a good person."
"She better be. The last thing we need is an evil Potential." Willow supplies. Buffy gives her a mock glare.
"Not what I was talking about, but okay, fair point. I meant, you and her..."
"As long as you keep your own face from now on."
The redhead laughs nervously. "Not anxious for that to happen again."
Afterwards, they lie in bed, Willow wrapped around Tara and Tara wrapped around Willow, intertwined in a way that neither of them ever want to forget. Or stop.
"I thought, for sure, you would be with Oz. I never thought... I mean, I hoped, I imagined... but I never thought you could..."
"Love you?"
Tara nods, and it breaks Willow's heart. "Well, I do. Love you."
"I love you too." her voice is soft, and her eyes shine with something new. Willow trails her fingers down her loves spine.
"When all this is over, if I'm still alive, we are going on a date." Kennedy announces.
"Huh?" Willow shakes her head in confusion. "What do you mean?"
"A date. Its where two people who like each other go somewhere and do stuff, which ideally, leads to getting some action." she explains.
Willow could see a shine of doubt behind the other woman's seeming self-assurance that Willow wanted to date her.
"No, I mean... what makes you think, that if one of us dies, it'll be you?"
"Well, you're wicked powerful, yeah? Able to slay vamps with a single thought, or whatever?"
Willow grimaces. "Uh, able to skin a man alive with a single thought. Magick and me, they're a bad combination. I really shouldn't do anything too powerful."
"I thought that Coven told you it was okay, though? As long as you don't try to end the world. Them and Giles, they're the professionals. Listen to them, not whoever told you to never do magick. What do they know?"
Willow turns to watch The Spot. Wonders if Spike can still smell the blood.
Sometimes, she thinks she can.
"You and Tara. Seriously?"
Willow glances at Xander, before pointedly looking back at the ancient text. "Uh. Yeah."
"Why wouldn't you tell me? Buffy knew. Giles knew. Anya knew, and you don't even like her."
"Spike, too."
Xander drops the pen he's holding. "You're kidding me."
"He sort of knew before any of you guys. He ran into us on a date. Said he could smell-" she cuts herself off. "Well. He knew."
"You used to tell me everything, Will. Why wouldn't you tell me about this?" he pleads to understand.
"You remember Larry?" Willow asks casually.
Xander shifts nervously. "Uh. Tall guy? Used to beat me up every chance he got?"
"He was gay. And you got totally wigged around him after you found out."
"That was just because he thought I was gay."
She fights a smile. "Okay. But you see my point, right? Larry is, like, the only gay person I've seen you deal with, and you didn't handle it well."
"I think I did in the end," he protests.
"Sure. At his funeral. I don't think that counts, to be honest. You acted the same at all of them."
"Like I was the one responsible for getting them killed?" he mumbles. Willow ignores it. It's an old argument.
"I just... I was wigged about telling everyone, okay? But you've been my friend, for, like, ever. I couldn't stand to have you judge me."
"I wouldn't judge you, Will! I don't have a problem with it if you want to date Tara. She's not any weirder than any girl I've dated." he jokes. "They seem to all be demons."
"And Cordelia,"
"I was counting her."
It had been different.
Which, of course it would be. Kennedy was not Tara. Their kisses were different; their touches were different. Why would this be the same?
Lying in the bed afterwards, Kennedy beside her with an arm thrown over her torso, curled up against her and breathing slowly in the gentle rhythm of sleep, Willow thinks.
Everything is changing, and even more people she knows are dead. The house is a couple less people crowded, the town is rapidly emptying, and her oldest friend only has one eye.
She shudders thinking about it, and Kennedy shifts slightly with the movement.
She had to restore Angel's soul, again. That was a blast from the past- the first spell she ever really did.
It was easier this time, and that scares her a bit.
Last time, she felt a presence with her, whispering the Romani words to her. She's always thought (but never said) that it was Ms. Calender.
This time, it wasn't her old teacher, but someone even more familiar. Willow wants to put it down to imagination and wishful thinking. But she finished the spell with Tara's scent in her nose and her voice echoing in her ear.
Kennedy hums in contentment softly beside her.
"S-so, is Spike good or bad?"
"Well, he still has his chip, so we're not staking him. But I'd say working with Adam is a pretty big 'bad guy' sign."
"Helping you g-guys get out a-alive is good, though." Tara points out, softly petting Mrs. Kitty Fantastico.
"I guess we'll just treat him with suspicion and assume he's going to double cross us. If we do that, we should be fine."
"If y-you treat him l-like that, he a-always will." The blonde Wicca considers something. "He doesn't f-feel... like most vampires. Not t-totally evil, I mean."
"As long as the chip stays in his head, we should be okay." she agrees.
"Do you e-ever consider giving him a s-soul?"
The question takes her off guard. She has, in fact, and tells Tara. "But, even if I felt right, doing that, we couldn't use the gypsy curse. What with the happiness clause and all. Spike, celibate? He would loose his soul like that." she snaps to demonstrate.
"Happiness clause," Tara mutters. "The K-Kalderash don't s-seem like very nice people."
"The only one I ever met was Ms. Calender. She was really nice." Her smile drops. "It was so hard on Giles when she died."
Tara nods. "I can't i-imagine loosing s-someone you love l-like that."
Willow lies back on the bed, and Tara moves with her, pulling her onto her chest. "If I ever lost you, I don't know what I'd do."
"Excuse me? We need some help!"
Willow stumbles through the emergency room, the Scoobies and Potentials- no, Slayers, now, thanks to her- limping in behind her. Faith snags wheelchairs as she see's them, first pushing Robin into one, then the other most injured girls.
The doctor's in the quiet hospital stare, wide-eyed, at the invasion of young women (and two adult men, and two teenage guys), all looking like they had been through war.
Which they had, but they couldn't tell the doctor's that.
"We came from Sunnydale, there was, ah, an earthquake." Giles explains, loud enough for everyone to hear him.
Best to not have contradicting stories.
Almost all of them have to be treated for something, but Willow is perfectly healthy. Better than healthy, actually. Still faintly humming with the energy from the spell, the whispers of new Slayers echoing inside her.
"You should have seen it, Giles." she hears Kennedy tell the Watcher. "It was amazing. She was so... beautiful. She looked like a Goddess."
"So the magic didn't over power her?" He doesn't sound surprised.
"It sort of did, but she didn't go all dark haired and veiny like everyone was worried about. She was... glowing. Literally."
"And now there are hundreds of Slayers." he muses.
Willow walks up to them. "Faith told me to tell you guys that the doctor's say everyone should be alright. Specifically, Robin will be. The girls are all healing like Slayers."
"Its weird. But cool." Kennedy shares.
And it hits her, she's dating a Slayer.
A werewolf, a witch, and now, a Slayer.
Maybe Xander and Buffy weren't the only ones with questionable taste.
"Why does no one tell me anything?" Dawn asks, one night when she's babysitting her (not a baby).
Dawn pouts. "Why did no one tell me you and Tara are dating?"
Willow frowns. "I thought you knew."
"No. Mum didn't, either, until Buffy said something about a double-date you guys were going on with Xander and Anya."
"Oh. That was an interesting experience." she remembers.
"I'm sure. But seriously, why does no one tell me these things? They're important."
"Its just, uh.." she trails off, knowing how much Dawn hates being reminded of her youth. Knowing she likes Willow so much because the witch makes a point to treat her as an adult, even if she doesn't always succeed. Instead, she checks, "Are you okay with it?"
Dawn gives her a weird look. "Uh. Why wouldn't I be?"
"Well. I'm a girl, and so is Tara..."
"I noticed." The weird look doesn't leave.
"The gay thing wigs some people."
With a roll of her eyes, Dawn says, "Stupid people, maybe. Plus, you know, this is California." She says it like it explains everything. "I like Tara. More than Riley, even. And way more than Anya."
She suppresses a grin. "Okay. Want to play monopoly?"
The emergency room only has five non-Scooby/Slayers/former-principles/formerly-evil-geek patients, and they were openly staring, except for the one who had been hit by a car and was distracted by all the bleeding and broken bones.
"Hey. You were in the earthquake?" A teenage boy asks her as she leans against a wall, exhaustion slowly overtaking her as adrenalin left.
He looks a bit awkward, and shifts in the bed. "Uh, so you lived in- Sunnydale?"
It hits her, then. "My entire life." Unless she counts the short time in England. "I was born there."
"Shit. I'm sorry. Did you... you lost pretty much everything, then, didn't you?"
On the heels of her realization that her home was in a giant crater is another realization. "Her grave," she whispers, and before the kid can ask her what she means, Willow is gone, searching for Buffy.
Its irrational, she knows, and hardly something to get upset about- not right now, when Spike is dust and Anya- god, Anya, her pretty face and giant smile and Andrew said she had been cut in half- is dead. But Tara has never really brought out the rational emotions.
Not with Glory, not with Amy, not with Warren.
"Buffy." Willow chokes out her best friends name.
"Willow? Whats wrong? Is everyone okay?"
She bursts into tears and Buffy hugs her and they sink onto the not-so-clean floor, and shouldn't a hospital have cleaner floors? She can feel some dampness on her scalp, where Buffy has her face pressed, and she realizes she's crying, too.
"Her grave." Willow chokes. "I know its wrong to be upset about that, of all things, when we've lost-" she sobs. "But it was the last thing of her I had."
"I know. I was thinking about my mum, too." Buffy whispers.
They cry quietly for a moment, and when they're done, Willow turns to Buffy. "Don't tell Xander," she asks of the Slayer. "Don't tell him this is what I'm upset about."
"I won't." Buffy wipes her eyes. "I won't."
"No! They're listening! They want to eat the stars!"
Willow strokes Tara's hair, calming her. "I know, baby. I know. It's going to be okay. I promise, I'll make it okay."
Tara ceases movement, and for a moment, as she meets Willow's eyes, she looks like her sanity is back. "Promise?" she asks.
"I promise." Willow can't help but quickly press her lips to her loves. "I will fix this. No matter what the price."
"Do you remember," Xander asks, exhausted, sitting in the commandeered school bus because the hospital was getting to be too much. "That time, after Willow's boyfriend turned out to be a demon trapped in the internet-"
"Not my best moment." She observes.
"-and we said we were never going to have normal, happy, relationships?"
Buffy laughs, slightly incredulous. "Maybe we jinxed it."
Giles climbs in, and they turn to him. "Hey, Giles. We were just being amazed about our doomed love lives."
"Oh." He chuckles. "Yes, you three do seem to be-"
"Hey! What about you?" Xander asks. "You had your share of tragedy."
"Just the one."
"Buffy wins," Willow decides. "Two of the three have..."
"Died. Funny how it was the ones that were already dead..." the blonde muses.
They are silent for a long moment.
"I miss Anya." Xander declares.
"It gets better." Giles tells him. "It takes a while, but it does. And she died a hero." He thinks on that. "I don't think that really helps, though."
"It does, a bit."
Buffy is silent, and Willow wonders if its easier this time around, for her, because she didn't have to send Spike to hell herself, because Spike wasn't trying to suck the world into hell, because Spike chose his death, because he died a hero.
"I miss Tara," she whispers.
"We should move into the house," Tara decides, a week after Buffy's death. The second one, anyways.
"What?" Willow blinks away the tears that seem to constantly be in her eyes. "What house?"
"Buf- D-Dawn's." She corrects herself at the last second, looking a bit shocked.
"Oh. Why should we move in?"
"Dawn can't l-live on her own," the Wiccan says softly. "And... well, she's gone through so much. Had so m-much change in her life. It's not fair to make her move, too. Besides... where would she g-go?"
"She does have a dad."
"You saw her w-when we suggested that. You saw Spike when we suggested th-that. She may not h-have been born here, b-but this is her home. Like its mine."
"Sunnydale's your home?"
Tara meets her eyes, her gaze as serious as they've ever been. "My home is where you are."
Willow is breathless with how much she loves this woman, with how true the statement is. She has to kiss her, and he has to whisper how much she loves her as they gently undress each other, for the first time since Glory took Tara's mind.
As they lay together, afterwards, Willow agrees to move into Dawn's house. It will be home, she decides. Because that's where Tara will be.
As motels go, Faith declares, the one that they have checked into (once again causing a scene like the hospital, although Robin and two girls had to stay there, and no one is dripping blood as they enter) isn't bad.
It might not be bad, Willow decides, but its not great, and when you realize they could only afford two rooms- they hadn't exactly brought money or bankcards to the apocalypse, so it was emergency cash Giles kept in his shoe and discounted rates- and they had twenty people, which didn't divide well. The rooms were more cramped than the house had been.
Giles and Xander opted to stay at the hospital, looking after the girls and Robin, which at least meant it was all girls. And Andrew.
All girls, who, other than Dawn and Willow, had newly acquired super-strength.
"Oops!" One of them yells, startling Willow from her spot on the bed, staring at the wall. "I think I broke the remote."
Faith chuckles. "Yeah. That happens. Just treat everything like glass until you have a chance to get used to your strength."
Kennedy wraps an arm around Willow, more loosely than before, obviously heeding Faith's advice. "You okay?"
Willow wants to lean into her, wants to be alone with her and loose herself in purely physically feelings, but she's pretty sure that's not going to happen anytime soon.
"Glad we didn't loose more people than we did. Missing Anya, and Amanda, and- even Spike." She sighs. "Missing Sunnydale, too. I don't have a home anymore."
"Home is where the heart is. That's what they say, anyways."
She realizes her heart is buried under the rubble, too.
"I screwed up, Xander." Willow decides. "I screwed everything up."
"A little bit," he agrees reluctantly.
"A little? I pulled Buffy out of heaven, I almost killed Dawn, and I chased Tara away. For what?"
"Hey. You weren't the only one who brought Buffy back. I was there. Anya was there. Tara was, too."
"I was the one who insisted it could be done. And now- Xander, everything is wrong. I just want everything to go back-" she exhales shakily. "And my first thought is, 'how can I turn back time?'"
Xander grinds his teeth. "Look, addiction is strong, alright? I know a lot of addicts. I was raised by two people addicted to alcohol. They never even bothered to try and get better. Want to know how I know you will?"
Willow shakes her head miserably.
"Because you're worried about how you're hurting people. You want to stop, not for yourself- which, this will help you, too- but for the people you love. That's whats the magic was about in the first place, right? Helping people."
"Yeah. Good job I did, there."
"At first, you did." He pulls her into a hug. "You messed up, Will. We all do. You'll get through this, and they'll forgive you."
Angel is happy to let them stay in the Hyperion for as long as they want, and since the entire hotel is empty, everyone gets a room.
"I thought Fred and Cordelia lived here?" Willow asks when he mentions this.
He looks incredibly sad, suddenly. "Fred got a new apartment." he informs them. There's something else, though.
"What about Cordy?" Xander asks, hesitant.
"She's... she's in a coma. It doesn't look good."
Xander falls back onto the circular couch in the middle of the lobby, the one that does a poor job of hiding the pentagram on the floor. Willow wonders, absently, why its there.
"What happened?" Xander asks.
"There was... did you hear about Jasmine?" Angel asks as Buffy comes down the stairs.
"The girls are all settled... who's Jasmine?"
"Mystical being who tried to enslave the human race. Took over almost all of Los Angelus. Cordelia... sort of gave birth to her."
"...huh?" Buffy gives him a shocked look. "Where is Cordelia, anyways?"
"She's in a coma, apparently," Xander shares weakly.
"The birth was too much. Actually, it should have killed her immediately, but I guess she was just too strong."
"Is she going to wake up?" Buffy asks.
Angel turns away. "It doesn't look good. But we have the best mystical medicine working on her. Thanks to Wolfram & Hart."
"Remind me to ask you why you're suddenly in charge of an evil law firm after I get over the Cordelia in a coma thing."
"She's been with us since the beginning," Willow comments shakily.
"She was the first person I met in Sunnydale High." Buffy remembers.
"She's Cordy." Xander breathes.
"She has to get better," Willow decides desperately. "We can't loose someone else. We've already lost too many."
"I missed you. So much." Willow whispers to Tara, afterwards. After they've made up, and Willow has decided they are never going to have to do that again. She will never loose Tara again.
"I missed you too, Willow."
"I'm so sorry. I really am, you know. And I'm never going to-"
"I know. If I didn't, I wouldn't be here. No matter how much I missed you."
Willow hesitates. "Should we start the trust-building now?"
Tara leans forward, brushing her lips against her own. "I think that can wait a little longer."
Cordelia is still in the bed, her hair longer than last time Willow had seen her, looking a bit more like the girl she had gone to high school with than the former higher power/private investigator/mother to a monster that she now was, apparently.
Kennedy is standing next to her, grasping her hand. "She doesn't look in pain," she observes.
"Yeah. I guess that's good, at least."
Kennedy continues, "Faith told me, when she was in a coma- which, by the way, when did Faith go into a coma?- she didn't feel anything. Dreamed, mostly."
"That was just plain old got-stabbed-and-jumped-off-a-building coma, though, not a I-gave-birth-to-an-evil-monster coma. Plus, the part-demon thing." She exhales. "But, I guess it can't be that different, right?"
She shifts uncomfortably. "Could you, you know...?"
"Do a spell? Wake her up?"
Suddenly, Willow is back to the time when Joyce had just been diagnosed, to when Buffy had pleaded for a spell to heal her. To Tara reminding them how dangerous it was to mix magick and medicine.
"It could make her worse. The risk is too big."
Kennedy shrugs. "Alright."
"I wish I could." The witch leans against her, appreciating the new Slayer-strength. "I wish I could do a lot of things."
No no no nonononononono...
How is this possible? This isn't happening. This isn't blood. That wasn't a bullet. Tara isn't lying limp in her arms.
This. Isn't. Happening.
There's a memorial for everyone lost in the Sunnydale earthquake, and the list of names, although so short it surprises the official people who put it together (apparently, when an entire town falls into a canyon, the death toll is usually pretty high) its longer than Willow thought it would be. Turns out, they hadn't been the only human's left, like they thought.
The rubble of the town is too far down for the bodies to be searched for, the officials decide. Since it was impossible for anyone to have survived the collapse, it came down to money.
"It's for the best," Giles decides. "We don't know how many demon corpses are down there. It wouldn't do for them to start uncovering those." He frowns. "And, since we are now the Watcher's Council, it would be our job to cover it up."
The memorial with the names of the dead on it isn't complete, though. Spike, for instance, isn't there. Willow see's Buffy's drawn face and whispers a few words, burning William into the shiny black stone.
"I wonder what the list would look like if it was everyone who the First killed?" Andrew wonders aloud. The thought hangs heavy in the air as the Scoobies and Slayers consider it.
"A list of everyone who was killed by evil forces in Sunnydale, now that would be long." Xander shakes his head. "It would reach the bottom on the canyon."
"A lot people we've known," Willow agrees.
"Jesse," Xander volunteers.
"Dave and Fritz." Willow continues.
"Ford," Buffy grimaces. "Although he tried to get me killed."
"Jenny." Giles says.
"Kendra." Buffy looks towards Faith. "Remind me to tell you about her sometime."
"Jeff and Debbie." Willow adds.
"Harmony," Willow smiles. "Although, uh, not exactly dead."
"Larry," Xander adds.
"Uh... pretty much everyone we went to high school with."
"Two principles. Both eaten!" Dawn chuckles, glancing at Robin, who blinks.
"Annabelle. Eve. Chloe. Molly. Dianne. Amanda." Buffy says in the voice of someone who has memorized the names, the sisters lost.
"And... the obvious others." Xander grabs Willow's hand, and they lean against each other.
The silence is heavy and solemn as the group remembers.
"But we're still here," Faith reminds them finally.
"Yeah. We're still here."
The afterlife was different than Willow expected.
Different than Buffy had told her it was like, in the few times her friend had spoken of it to her. From the way the Slayer had described it, she had expected to float around, no solid body, nothing to do, but not really caring because of the whole 'eternal-bliss' thing.
Instead, it wasn't all that different than Earth, physically. Just... cleaner. And quieter. And it just seemed... nicer.
Everyone was drifting around, smiling at each other and occasionally stopping to talk. No one seemed to be in a bad mood.
Someone tapped her on the shoulder, and she turned to see a dark-haired man, a lopsided smile on his face. "Hello. You're Willow, right?" He asks her in a thick Irish brogue.
"Uhm... yeah. I'm Willow." Her voice has lost the years of age, and she could swear she was twenty again. Looking down at her hands, she thinks she might be.
"I'm Doyle. Welcome to the afterlife."
"What does that mean?"
He shrugs. "Dunno, to be honest. I only know what the PTB tell me, and these days its mostly just when and where to pick up the newest heaven-bound California evil fighter." His smile grows. "The others are real excited. They've been yellin' at you to get up here, already, for awhile now."
"The others?" She squeaks, because that can't mean what she thinks it means.
"Oh, you know- Wesley. Fred." He teases. "Cordelia" his smile softens on her name. "A pretty woman by the name Anya. Giles, Dawn, some guy named Xander. Some Slayer, think her name is Buffy." He suddenly drops the joking manner. "Most of all, a woman's been missing you something fierce. Tara, her name is."
Willow wonders if you can faint in Heaven. "Tara? I can see Tara?"
"'Course you can."
Suddenly, they're in the Magic Box, and for the first time in decades, she's with her friends. Her family.
And Tara.
The blonde Wicca is exactly how she remembers her, although the picture she had in her head didn't come close to how beautiful she actually was.
"Tara," she chokes out.
"Willow." Her smile is radiant, and Willow can't help but throw herself into her arms. After all these years, and she has ever stopped stopped missing her touch.
"You're really here," the witch tries not the sob, clinging to her desperately.
And Tara is holding just as tight. "So are you. I've missed you so much, Willow."
"I'm sorry," she whispers. "I'm so sorry."
"The time for apologies is over, baby. We're in heaven."
Willow loosens her grip, looking over Tara's shoulder at her other friends; Giles, in front of the counter, smiling proudly at her. Anya, not in two pieces, behind the cash, Xander's arm wrapped around her- and goddess, Xander has both eyes, and his silly smile doesn't have a trace of exhaustion or pain in it, like it had for so long before he died.
Dawn is sitting on the counter, grinning just as enthusiast as she had last time the youngest/oldest of the Scoobies had seen them together.
Buffy stood serenely to the side, smiling softly. Doyle had moved to Cordelia's side, where they stood, not touching, but still somehow connected. Fred and Wesley were the same.
"Everyone..." she begins.
"Not everyone ends up in this heavenly dimension," Anya pipes up. "Like Oz, for instance. Or your parents. Joyce is in a connecting dimension, she visits sometimes. Like Jenny does."
"Jenny?" Willow swerves to look at Giles.
"She'll be by soon. We only just got word that you'd be joining us," Giles smiles.
"This heaven is for the world-saving people. Since we're heroes, we get visiting privileges. As long as you don't try and pull someone out of hell. They don't like that." Anya continues, turning to glare at Doyle.
"Hey! Not my fault, 'Ya. You're the one that tried to bring an unrepentant mass-killing demon out of hell and into Heroes Heaven for a tea-party!" Doyle exclaims.
"It wasn't a tea party, it was a 'Welcome To Being Dead' party for Xander. And Halfrek wouldn't have caused any trouble."
Tara chuckles softly as the half and ex demons argue. "How are you?" She asks softly, wrapping her hand around the redheads own.
"Uh... honestly? My mind, its a bit blown. But other than that, I'm..." she turns to look at Tara. "Really good."
If she got to spend eternity like this, with the people she loved happy and Tara holding her hand, she was pretty sure the label 'heaven' was accurate.
But then Tara kissed her, and she was proven wrong. That was heaven.


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It's a shame the video is so white, there was a missed opportunity there. As with all of the history of the U.S. it's more complicated than heroines fight for the vote. Perhaps a disappointing moment when black woman are turned away from thise early marches but welcomed in modern times… feels like White Feminism TM as it is.

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Is Poetry Essential to Democracy?
April is National Poetry Month, a month-long celebration, commemorated since 1996, that serves as a reminder of the vital role poetry plays in American culture. Tracy K. Smith underscored the importance of poetry in an article she published in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday, in their Speakeasy section. Titled "Why Poetry Is Essential to Democracy," Smith explores the power of poetry to evoke emotions in a reader necessary to make political change.
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Fitness Band Hack Pits Friends Against Each Other With Bets
Fitcoin lets users challenge their friends for money to see who is in the best shape.
With the Fitcoin app you can earn a few bucks while getting fit.
The app came out of a hackathon put together by Jawbone, The Clinton Foundation, Tumblr and The Ace Hotel in New York to create apps related to health and fitness. Hackathon participants were given a Jawbone UP wristband health tracker to help in their brainstorming.
The Fitcoin team — Jamie Roberts, Adam Leibsohn and Daniel Finkler — built a hack on the Jawbone UP API and developed a fitness challenge app that lets users create fitness challenges, put some money into it, and invite their friends to join in the challenge. Then they can all play to see who wins or earns the most coins.
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Wall Street, which suffered a late sell-off on Friday, coinciding with the quadruple witching hour to mark the expiry of stock index futures and options and individual stock futures and options, was on the slide again this afternoon.
In early trading, the Dow tumbled 132.1 points on fears of an escalation of global terrorism. There were also losses in the Far East this morning where political uncertainty in Taiwan at the weekend affected sentiment.
This afternoon in London, not a single blue-chip company traded higher on the day. Falls were suffered by British Airways, 14 1/2p to 259 3/4p, mmO2, 5p to 97 1/2p, and Reuters, 15 3/4p to 363 1/4p.
Another loser was Shell, down 8p to 353 3/4p on speculation the oil giant's auditors have refused to sign off the accounts. It follows last week's news that the Anglo-Dutch group had been forced to downgrade its proven oil reserves yet again.
Shares in the sector were weak against the backdrop of a heightened terrorist alert. BP shed 12 1/2p to 440p, while explorer Tullow Oil fell 6 1/4p to 93 3/4p after it came up dry in its bid for the black stuff in Gabon.
It has plugged and abandoned a well in the offshore Kiaresseny block. Broker ABN Amro followed that up by downgrading its recommendation for Tullow from add to buy. It says: 'Tullow is not looking too clever with the drill bit.'
It was a better day for rival North Sea oil company Venture Production, which improved 6p to 162p after posting an 80% jump in 2003 operating profits to £25.7m.
Life assurer Legal & General retreated 1/2p to 93p on turnover of more than 220m shares. This included a line of 190m which went through at 92 1/2p as part of a late converted currency trade.
Carpetright rose 12p to 984p after chairman and founder Lord Harris topped up his holding. His own investment vehicle, Harris-Ventures, has bought a further 50,000 shares at 975p, stretching his entire stake to 13.85m, or 19.7%.
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text: Adam Wiltzie (Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie) is a composer and sound engineer. Although he may be best known for founding the seminal ambient classical projects Stars of the Lid, The Dead Texan, Aix Em Klemm, Sleepingdog and A Winged Victory for the Sullen, he also has recorded, played, and worked as a live sound engineer for artists such as The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Labradford, Bedhead, The Bad Livers, Windsor for the Derby, Iron & Wine, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Hauschka and Sparklehorse. He has also composed and licensed music for Hollywood films such as Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Like Crazy, Submission, The Island President, and the trailer for Godzilla 2014. Also for television shows such as House M.D, Nip/Tuck and Eastbound & Down. Most Recently collaborated with Jóhann Jóhannsson on the Golden Globe winning Theory of Everything (2014 film) Soundtrack.


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The "fiscal cliff" was designed by Washington for Washington. It was intended to set up a scenario so severe that the president and Congress would, at last, have to take on the nation's major tax and spending problems. Instead, lawmakers again found a way to sidestep many of the prickliest issues and in the process set up other, potentially more severe, showdowns in the new year.
Assuming the deal is approved, it could nevertheless give way to a nearly continuous series of fights that will consume the first part of the year, even as President Obama might hope to shift Congress's attention to immigration reform and gun control.
"It's become less like a fiscal cliffhanger and more like a journey over the fiscal mountains," said Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.).


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Roast lamb is a tasty meat and lends itself well to the rosemary and garlic in this recipe. This is roasting the healthy way. Find more on Kidspot New Zealand
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- 1 lamb leg (2-3kg), bone in
- 1 bunch rosemary
- 6 garlic cloves, sliced
- Canola spray
- 6 cups water
Leave the lamb leg to come to room temperature for one hour.
Preheat oven to 200°C.
Cut slits all over the lamb and push the slices of garlic into the pockets.
Pull sprigs of rosemary from the stalk and poke the ends of these into the slits.
Give the whole leg a light spray of canola oil.
Place on a roasting rack and pour the water into the dish under the lamb.
Roast in the oven for 20-30 minutes per 500g plus an extra 20 minutes.
Leave to rest for 10 minutes before carving.
- Roasting the lamb over water keeps it moist and catches all the fat drippings.
- Sometimes I like to cover and seal the whole tray after browning for 20 minutes so the lamb is super-moist.
- This goes really well with roasted vegetables and a nice gravy.
- This recipe was created by Jennifer Cheung for Kidspot, New Zealand's best recipe finder.


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EURUSD Daily Forecast: December 12
EURUSD Forecast
The EURUSD was indecisive last week. Price attempted to push lower, bottomed at 1.3281 but closed higher at 1.3384 on Friday. The bias is neutral in nearest term but as long as stays below the double top formation around 1.3520/30 my overall intraday bias remains to the downside and I still prefer to short on rallies. Immediate resistance is seen around 1.3400/20 area. A clear break above that area could trigger further bullish pullback testing 1.3520/30. On the downside, a clear break and daily close below 1.3281/70 could continue the bearish scenario testing 1.3211 – 1.3145 support area.
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Sept. 14, 2010
CHICAGO, Ill. -- Former University of Michigan football great Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch (1942-46) was selected by the Big Ten Network as the 25th greatest student-athlete in conference history as part of the "Big Ten Icons" series. The program counts down the top 50 student-athletes in Big Ten history based on their collegiate playing careers.
Hirsch, whose collegiate career was interrupted by World War II, starred at Wisconsin and Michigan from 1942-46. As a sophomore, Hirsch's big-play ability helped the Badgers roll to an 8-1-1 record. He scored long highlight reel touchdowns against Notre Dame, Marquette, Colorado, Ohio State and Northwestern. A threat to run, pass or catch, the Wausau, Wis., native finished that season on Look magazine's All-America team. After the 1942 season, Hirsch was assigned to Ann Arbor, Mich., for military training but was permitted to compete for Michigan. There, he helped the Wolverines to an 8-1 record and a Big Ten title. He was also the only student-athlete in Michigan history to letter in four sports in the same year -- football, basketball, baseball and track. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1974 and into the University of Michigan Hall of Honor in 1984.
Hirsch developed his nickname "Crazy Legs" for his unique running style as a member of the Badgers. He was drafted by the Chicago Rockets of the All-America Football Conference, where he played from 1946 to 1948. After a merger with the NFL, Hirsch was a member of the Los Angeles Rams until 1957, becoming the first player to establish the flanker position and also helping the Rams to the NFL championship in 1951. That year, he finished with 66 receptions, 1,495 receiving yards (a then-NFL record) and 17 touchdowns. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1968 with 387 career receptions, 7,029 yards and 60 touchdowns. He was a three-time NFL Pro Bowl selection and was named to the NFL's All-Decade Team for the 1950s.
Big Ten Icons 50 through 21 are being unveiled through Sept. 16 at BigTenIcons.com. The website features essays, video and other facts about each student-athlete's career. Viewers also can participate in the "Talk of the Locker Room" contest with a chance to win the $10,000 grand prize. Weekly winners take home a 55-inch Phillips HD television.
The television series, hosted by legendary college sports broadcaster Keith Jackson, debuts Sept. 18 following a Big Ten Network football telecast in which Icon No. 20 will be revealed. The countdown continues at 9 p.m. every Tuesday night through the end of football season and into the spring. The No. 1 Big Ten Icon will be revealed around the 2011 Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament.
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First In Negros: This Resort is Popular for its Unique Red Pool
For the first time, a resort in Negros Occidental is offering its guests a unique pool experience. But what makes it really different from other resorts? Well, their swimming pool is no ordinary.
Wisik Fishing Lagoon and Resort in the municipality of San Enrique is popular for its creepy red pool with some calling it "bloody pool." The water appears red because of the swimming pool's red tiles, not because the water itself is red. So, don't worry.
Their red pool is the most photographed area, making it as the main attraction in the resort. It's unique and definitely worth a photo with. Aside from that, they also have a fishing lagoon where you can catch tilapia.
The good news is, Wisik Resort is just about an hour away from Bacolod City, the capital of Negros Occidental. It will take you approximately 40 minutes going to Wisik by private car.
Check out some of these beautiful photos taken in Wisik.
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How to get there?
All buses heading to southern Negros Occidental pass by San Enrique except for Ma-ao, La Carlota and La Castellana buses. You can take the bus from Ceres South Terminal in Shopping, Bacolod City.
Tell the driver or conductor to drop you at Barangay Tibsok near the boundary of San Enrique and Pontevedra. The resort was formerly known as Lorenz Beach.
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Poole's totals for the two scrimmages were similar, as well. After rushing 9 times for 94 yards in Scrimmage No. 1, he rushed 11 times for 87 yards in Scrimmage No. 2.
The 5-11, 205-pounder from Toccoa, Ga., appears to be running away from the competition at running back. Sophomore David Oku managed 33 yards on 10 carries Saturday, while redshirt freshman Toney Williams chipped in 11 yards on 12 attempts.
Stuck behind senior Montario Hardesty last fall, Poole carried just 10 times in 13 games. He averaged a team-high 8.5 yards per carry, however, and showed flashes of brilliance in his limited opportunities. Naturally, he's excited to be getting a legitimate shot at the first-team job this spring.
"I feel like I've got to fill in that void for Montario because he was a great back," Poole said. "I told him that I would be That Guy for him."
So, what will it take to be That Guy?
"To be That Guy," Poole said, "I just have to continue to grow to be a good back in this league."
Most observers figure Tennessee's attack will be weak in 2010, given the heavy losses from 2009 - a 1,300-yard rusher (Hardesty), a 2,800-yard passer (Jonathan Crompton) and all five offensive line starters. Poole begs to differ. He believes the attack is making steady progress.
"It's all about development," he said following the scrimmage. "We're getting better as a team. As you could see today, a lot of running backs got some big runs."
Poole said the Vols' ground attack was especially productive.
"I think the biggest thing was that we ran the football well," he said. "The offensive line blocked well to allow the quarterbacks to get the ball out and allow the receivers to make plays."
Even with five new faces in the first-team offensive line, Poole says the run blocking has been pretty good this spring.
"The running game is sometimes the easiest thing to do," he said. "With passing, it takes time. Quarterbacks need time back there. We've got a long way to go in the running game and the passing game."
One high school coach who observed the scrimmage said the Vols must have "laid the ball on the ground" six times on fumbled exchanges between centers and quarterbacks. Poole conceded that Tennessee needs to improve in that area.
"I just think we've got to continue working - get this comfort level with each other," he said. "We've got to keep working each day after practice, and I think we'll get better."
Asked if defensive tackle-turned-center Victor Thomas has shown improvement, Poole replied: "He has. He's making the transition well."
One reason Tennessee's offense is coming along slowly this spring is the fact it is learning a new scheme with new terminology. Another reason is that it faces a stern test in practice each day against a Vol defense that is incredibly diverse.
"We've got to continue to get better on communication," Poole said, "because the defense is stemming and doing all of this crap. But if we continue to communicate, we'll be a good offense."
Asked about the many "looks" the UT defense is showing in practice, Poole shook his head.
"Oh, it's unbelievable, man," he said. "I think that's good for us as an offense. We need to see that because we're going to see that (from opponents) in the fall a lot. It helps us a lot to learn and develop."
Offensive coordinator Jim Chaney took a UT attack that struggled mightily last September and made steady improvement with it in October and November. Poole has complete confidence that the coordinator will work similar magic with the 2010 offense.
"Coach Chaney is a genius," Poole said. "He teaches us so much stuff. When you buy into it, it'll be incredible to see how much you learn."


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15 Things Women With Low-Maintenance Style Will Understand
By definition, low-care means needing little work to keep in good condition – which seems perfect by my novels. I've friends who spend up to 2 hours becoming prepared – no this really is only their day-to-day routine. Without doubt your friends appear perfect on a daily basis but who's got time for that? Pulling off a socially satisfactory apperance with hardly any attempt is an ability and these 15 things will simply be comprehended by girls with an low-care fashion sense.
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St. Helens overviewSt. Helens is known for its live music, sports, and theaters. You'll appreciate the coffee and bar choices. Families can spend some quality time at Woodland Motocross Park and Clark County Fairgrounds. Head to McCormick Park and Grey Cliffs Waterfront Park to make some memories. If you're looking for a family- and business-friendly getaway, St. Helens is for you.
Where to stay in St. HelensWhether traveling for business or pleasure, St. Helens can comfortably accommodate all visitors. There are 89 hotels in the St. Helens area and you can shop as many as 15 deals for rooms on Hotels.com, some with discounts of up to 25%.
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- • Clark County Fairgrounds
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Wednesday, June 9, 2004
Tanner Upgrades Analog Simulation Tool
Pasadena-based Tanner EDA (www.tanner.com) announced that the company has added Bipolar Inter-Company (VBIC) bipolar junction transistor models into its T-Spice analog and mixed-signal IC simulation tool. The new support provides better simulation of SiGe devices, and is designed to better meet the needs of power and wireless/RF applications. The company said that the addition of the capabilities into its tool will give it greater access to the high-growth power and wireless design markets.


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After helping the children with their gingerbread houses, my husband still managed to reassemble this tree (that I broke) and decorate it beautifully. Didn't he do an exceptional job? One might say he is a gingerbread artist . . .
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For Better or For Worse: My Grand Ideas
I often have ideas of things to do that may be productive or just fun. I, of course, think these are all good ideas, no matter how grand they are. I just realized the other day that, when I have these grand ideas, my husband must be rolling his eyes when I'm looking the other way. You see, he tends to end up doing most of the work. This is true when I say, "Hey! We should totally go through all the toys and rearrange the living room to create more play space" or when I say, "Hey! Wouldn't it be fun if we built gingerbread houses with the kids this year?"


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- 1[uncountable] a plant with dark green leaves that have a fresh smell and taste, used to flavor or decorate food and drinks roast lamb with mint sauce I decorated the fruit salad with a sprig of mint. mint-flavored toothpaste
- 2[countable] a candy flavored with a type of mint called peppermint after-dinner mints
- 3[countable] a place where money is made the United States Mint (= where American coins are made) The coins were fresh from the mint.
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Fastest woman on four wheels?
She is the fastest racer full stop. Danica Patrick has become the first woman to secure pole position at next Sunday's Daytona 500 in Florida, the most prestigious race in the stock car calendar. Patrick, 34, completed her flying lap at 196.434mph. She will start in her No 10 Chevrolet alongside four-time Nascar Cup champion Jeff Gordon, who also smashed the 196mph barrier. "I can say I was the fastest guy today," he joked. "It's great to be part of history. I think we all know how popular she is, what this will do for our sport. Congratulations to her. Proud to be on there with her."
I take it women driver jokes aren't welcome?
"I was brought up to be the fastest driver, not the fastest girl," Patrick said. "I've been lucky enough to make history, be the first woman to do many things. I really hope I don't stop doing that. We have a lot more history to make." Patrick frequently rewrites the record book. Before switching to Nascar, she raced in the IndyCar series. She was voted rookie of the year in 2005, and came third in the Indy500 in 2009.
I take it that it isn't just history she's making?
She has been criticised for rarely turning down a marketing opportunity. She has been in a Jay-Z music video, appeared in The Simpsons and modelled in a bikini on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Any chance of a switch to Formula One?
She's friends with driver Jensen Button, but Patrick claimed that the people involved in stock cars and Indy cars are generally nicer. It was rumoured that Sir Richard Branson wanted her to join his Virgin Racing team, but she declined.
What about a trip to Britain for her UK fans?
Patrick moved to the UK at the age of 16 to improve her driving technique, but she hated it. "I enjoyed the first year but every year after that got more depressing. The weather really got to me," she said. Patrick also felt that racing bosses over here were more sexist. "I remember one of the team owners I drove for. I was the quickest one day in practice, and to the guys he was like, 'She's the quickest, come on!' as if it wasn't OK to be slower than me."
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Chelsea have enjoyed much success since Roman Abramovich took over the club in 2003, securing their 15th trophy during the Russian's reign with their Premier League title win of last season.
During that time, the Blues have also clinched their first-ever Champions League crown, which came about after Chelsea legend Didier Drogba slotted home the winning penalty against Bayern Munich in 2012, and have also won the Europa League.
Abramovich's era has also seen Jose Mourinho take charge of the club twice while long-standing players such as Frank Lampard have called time on their careers at Stamford Bridge.
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Tile+Asphalt Roll Roof leaking - Opinion on what to do
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Please excuse the long post. I have lots of information and lots of questions. I hope you guys can help me. I have a 10 year old tile-roof house in hot Arizona. The roof has been leaking a little in 2 places for about a year. It only leaks a little, on only when its raining pretty hard - especially with wind. The tiles themselves are in decent condition. I believe it's the waterproof underlay that's the problem. I've gone into the attic when it was raining to see if I could tell where the water was coming in, and I could see no leak. The leaky area is near the eaves where there is virtually only about 2 feet of crawl space and lots of insulation, so I couldn't see into that area to see if the water was coming in there. But from what I could see I get the feeling its not leaking higher up and traveling down a rafter. I've had 2 roofing contractors come out to look at it when the weather was dry, and after walking around on the roof and crawling into the attic, they both said they couldn't see any problems, and that it was probably my skylight (which is at the peak of the roof - 25 feet away from the leak. As I said, I don't think its that, because I've been in the attic when it was leaking, and there was no obvious water anywhere between the skylight and where the water was coming through the ceiling in the house. They didn't really offer their services other than to say the only thing they could recommend was trying to get that skylight sealed by someone else, or have them re-roof the house for tens of thousands of dollars. I inspected the skylight, and it looks OK. Add to that the fact I couldn't see any water in the attic, and I don't think its the skylight. So today, during my break between Xmas and New years, I went up on the roof and did what the roofing contractors probably should have done. I lifted some tiles over the area where the leak was occurring to get an idea if a DIY repair was in order. I was not happy with what I saw. I believe I have found where the water is coming through, but it looks like its the tip of the iceberg - these problems are probably all over the roof, and I've just been lucky that other areas haven't leaked (that I've seen). See attached pics. The underlay appears to be a rather flimsy mineral clad asphalt roll. Overlaps from top to bottom appear to be 2-3", and side-to-side, about 8". From what I've read, that appears to be acceptable. However, there appears to be absolutely no mastic or lap cement of any kind attaching these different pieces of asphalt roofing to each other. This may be why it only seems to leak when its windy - wind helps to push the water under the tiles, and then under the side-to-side asphalt roll lap. On top of that, the asphalt roll appear buckled and cracked in many places. I don't know if the leak is due to the lack of lap cement, to the cracks, or both. I'd like opinions on whether this roof is shot and needs to be replaced - or how soon you think it will need to be replaced. It's only 10 years old, and you would think a tile roof protecting the asphalt roll from the UV would lead to a much longer life; however I guess it would increase the heat as well, so that could be the culprit. I'm thinking someone skimped years ago by putting in cheap asphalt roll and not bothering to add lap cement. Even if a roof replacement is needed, unless it is needed immediately, I want to put it off a while. I'd like to get by with a repair for now (let me know if you think I shouldn't wait). I'm a good DIY'er engineer, so as long as its localized, I should be able to do it. I generally overdo things and make them better than they need to be. But I don't want to go overboard if I'm just going to be replacing the roof in a year or so. Opinions on what this repair should be are appreciated. They could be anything from a fairly simple fix that will get me by for a year, to a more dramatic fix that will last many years. Should I pressure wash first (rental required), or is washing down with a hose sufficient? What kind of lap cement is best for hot Arizona summers under the tile (probably gets to 160 degrees under there)? Should I pull up the wood runners for the tiles so that I can better apply the cement, or is that likely to make things worse considering the condition of the asphalt roll? Should I apply cement to the cracks in the existing asphalt roll? Even if I don't have to re-roof the house now, I'm sure it will need it fairly soon. When that occurs, I'll let a contractor do the job. However, I'd still like to specify what I want and know what to look for when inspecting the work. Any ideas on what should be done differently so that the roof will last 20+ years next time, without costing an arm and a leg? Should I go with asphalt roll again? Should I insist on a specific type of roll? What about a rubberized layer or something like that? What about a foam room to help with insulation, and the tile over that? Will I save significant money if I 'assist' the contractor by removing the tiles before his workers come in to do the rest of the work? Re-laying the base waterproof layer for the entire house is well beyond what I want to do as a DIYer, but removing the tiles may be worth my effort. They are not nailed down - they are depending upon gravity and a lip over the wood runners to keep them in place. This is a 2 inch per foot incline. Is not nailing down the tiles common? It sure is more convenient, and given the lack of tornados and hurricanes here, on a 17 degree roof, perhaps it isn't needed. I know this is a big post with lots of questions. I appreciate your time, thoughts and answers.
Thanks! Brook
Any thoughts anyone? I see several of you have read my last post, but no replies so far. I'd love some opinions before I head off to Home Depot to try to buy some repair materials. Based strictly on my very limited experience, 1-day internet study, and gut instinct, that's going to consist of a roll of 90# asphalt felt with minerals (if that's the right term), along with some lap cement (don't know what kind to buy), nails, wood furring strip, etc.
Since my post yesterday, I removed the tiles from the second leaking area (no photos), and I found an actual hole in the existing asphalt roll. There's a horizontal buckle in the mineralized felt just up (1 inch) from a wood furring strip that holds the tiles. This buckle is several feet long. The mineral has all disappeared from this buckle area (I'm guessing due to thermal cycle flexing over the years), and the buckle has actually split for a few inches at one spot. The wood deck underneath is visible, so I know that's my leak. I plan on replacing about 8 feet of asphalt roll there.
But I'd still love some experts to weight in before I make the jump. Am I doing the right thing?
No disrespect intended Sir,
if you had posted a shorter more direct question/s to the immediate problem and included additional questions later on as the discussion evolved you most likely would have gotten more replies already.
I get a $75.00 service charge and $55.00 per hour to show up at a persons home to consult with him/her/them on matters such as this and between $150.00 - $500.00 too write/print up a spec sheet if they opt for that.
Thus over loading us with such a large post made it feel more like work than a donation of our time to help a fellow home owner out.
Make sure there,s not a ventilation problem, this could cause premature failure of your underlayment.
1- Intake = intake vents at eaves.
2- Free flow = baffles placed in the eaves interior.
3- Exhaust = proper amount of pot or ridge vents in the upper portion of the roof.
Make sure the tiles where fastened properly, if not, the lifting during strong winds would/will allow precipt- penetration.
Make sure it's not a faulty material issue, are the tiles showing signs of separation, peeling, etc.
Remaining life span expectancy:
The quality of the materials used and the workmanship of the installers have already been questioned, so I would not even guestimate on that,
other than to say the ten years you got so far is way short of what it should be.
I would try and track down the original roofer, in the off chance that there is a faulty material issue the original roofer would be able to advise you on what manufacturer to contact, etc.
Immediate repair:
My opinion- Ice & Water shield with a granulated surface,
if you install it making sure you have 2" - 3" laps on all four sides,
top lap will go under existing roll roofing, both sides and bottom lap over,
and 'wearing gloves' rub the material down to a smooth seal, and re install the tiles, no lap sealant needed unless you simply want to take the extra pro-caution and in that case any roof cement will do.
I would also dig into the insulation under these leaking areas and make sure the leak has not caused a mold issue in the attic/crawl space.
Thank you Sly Fox. I was wondering why there were no responses to my questions when other people were getting responses to their questions, and I figured maybe it was my long-windedness. You confirmed it. I tend to be very complete when I write so that all the information is there, but I do understand that that will make it seem like work. And I thank you for letting me know and for taking that task on! I'll try to be more concise in the future, and get the 'meat' of the subject first in the post.
I've already done 2/3 of the work for the immediate repair, based on my own guesses of what to do, and thankfully, it seems to be a fairly close match to what you've recommended. I did put down new asphalt roll material with mineral granules on it - fairly heavy stuff from home depot (I think 75#). I underlapped/overlapped as you indicated. And I did use lap cement around all 4 sides, even though it appears that might not really be needed.
It does turn out that this house was built without any attic ventilation. I've often wondered if that would cause my power bill to be a bit higher than necessary, but I didn't realize that it could affect the roofing material. Perhaps that is the cause of the problem. I'll definitely be looking into adding ventilation.
Anyway, thanks for the help. Happy new year!
Your welcome Sir.
It does look like you don`t really have sufficient headlap on those tiles,should be about 3 ",looks to be less which can cause problems
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