Ficlet: Talking to Plants (BtVS)
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evil_little_dog's prompt Buffy-verse, Willow Rosenberg+/?, Willow's pregnancy came as a shock.
Title: Talking to Plants
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Fandom: Buffy, roughly s6 without the angst
Rating: PG13
Word count: 400
Characters/Pairing: Willow/Tara
BUFFY: We're just jealous. True love.
DAWN: Marriage.
BUFFY: Baby carriage.
DAWN: (eyeing Willow and Tara) How does that one work exactly?
- "Seeing Red" deleted scene
Talking To Plants
After she explained it to Buffy, Xander and Giles, Willow stood there squeezing Tara's hand as hard as she could, feeling like that dream of showing up naked for class that she only had every couple of months nowadays.
"O...kay," Xander and Buffy eventually said at exactly the same time, which extended the awkward silence for another couple of seconds before Buffy continued. "So… you're pregnant?"
"Yup." Willow squared her shoulders and felt Tara squeeze her hand back.
Buffy looked back and forth between them. "OK. Um... How?" She seemed to realise how that sounded. "I mean, I'm sorry, but… um… who did - "
"It's ours," Tara said firmly.
"But…"
Willow took a deep breath. "It's ours and it wasn't exactly planned but we're keeping it and yes, we've been to the hospital and hooked me up to machines that go bing and it's a perfectly ordinary baby with no demony stuff at all, a-and I know it's unusual but," she gestured at Buffy and Xander, "your sister used to be a ball of green energy and your girlfriend is an 1,100-year-old viking demon and is this really that much weirder, and - "
Giles stood up and smiled. "I believe the word we're all looking for is 'Congratulations'."
Many increasingly warm and squeeing ("I get to be an aunt!") hugs later, Willow and Tara were finally alone in their room again. "OK," Willow exhaled as she sat down on the bed, "that could have gone a lot worse."
"You really think so?" Tara sat down beside her, kissed her forehead and put her arm around her. "They're your best friends, how did you think they'd react?"
Willow stifled a giggle. "Well, we still have to come up with some way of explaining how it happened. I wouldn't want Giles' head to explode from trying to find a British way of asking about our sex life."
"Can't we just tell them the truth?"
"You mean like, 'Hey, kids, if you live on a Hellmouth and your best friend's garden has been trampled by all sorts of demons for years until hardly anything grows there and you're trying to call on a few fertility goddesses to bless it, don't get caught up in the moment and have sex on top of an icon of Freyja'?"
Tara grinned. "That's, um, a very specific PSA, but…"
"Fine," Willow pouted. "We'll tell 'em tomorrow."
tonyhead_awards! Thanks a lot, o mysterious benefactor! Also, here's a little ficlet written for
comment_fic and evil_little_dog's prompt Buffy-verse, Willow Rosenberg+/?, Willow's pregnancy came as a shock. Title: Talking to Plants
Author: Beer Good (
beer_good_foamy)Fandom: Buffy, roughly s6 without the angst
Rating: PG13
Word count: 400
Characters/Pairing: Willow/Tara
BUFFY: We're just jealous. True love.
DAWN: Marriage.
BUFFY: Baby carriage.
DAWN: (eyeing Willow and Tara) How does that one work exactly?
- "Seeing Red" deleted scene
Talking To Plants
After she explained it to Buffy, Xander and Giles, Willow stood there squeezing Tara's hand as hard as she could, feeling like that dream of showing up naked for class that she only had every couple of months nowadays.
"O...kay," Xander and Buffy eventually said at exactly the same time, which extended the awkward silence for another couple of seconds before Buffy continued. "So… you're pregnant?"
"Yup." Willow squared her shoulders and felt Tara squeeze her hand back.
Buffy looked back and forth between them. "OK. Um... How?" She seemed to realise how that sounded. "I mean, I'm sorry, but… um… who did - "
"It's ours," Tara said firmly.
"But…"
Willow took a deep breath. "It's ours and it wasn't exactly planned but we're keeping it and yes, we've been to the hospital and hooked me up to machines that go bing and it's a perfectly ordinary baby with no demony stuff at all, a-and I know it's unusual but," she gestured at Buffy and Xander, "your sister used to be a ball of green energy and your girlfriend is an 1,100-year-old viking demon and is this really that much weirder, and - "
Giles stood up and smiled. "I believe the word we're all looking for is 'Congratulations'."
Many increasingly warm and squeeing ("I get to be an aunt!") hugs later, Willow and Tara were finally alone in their room again. "OK," Willow exhaled as she sat down on the bed, "that could have gone a lot worse."
"You really think so?" Tara sat down beside her, kissed her forehead and put her arm around her. "They're your best friends, how did you think they'd react?"
Willow stifled a giggle. "Well, we still have to come up with some way of explaining how it happened. I wouldn't want Giles' head to explode from trying to find a British way of asking about our sex life."
"Can't we just tell them the truth?"
"You mean like, 'Hey, kids, if you live on a Hellmouth and your best friend's garden has been trampled by all sorts of demons for years until hardly anything grows there and you're trying to call on a few fertility goddesses to bless it, don't get caught up in the moment and have sex on top of an icon of Freyja'?"
Tara grinned. "That's, um, a very specific PSA, but…"
"Fine," Willow pouted. "We'll tell 'em tomorrow."
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Date: 2016-01-20 09:20 am (UTC)(Typo: "exacty" should be "exactly". Or at least so I'm assuming.)
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Date: 2016-01-20 09:25 am (UTC)(And woops. Fixed now, thanks!)
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Date: 2016-01-20 01:44 pm (UTC)And congrats with the nom!
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Date: 2016-01-20 02:49 pm (UTC)The great thing about life on a hellmouth: Pretty much anything can be explained as long as there's a metaphor to be found somewhere in there. :)
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Date: 2016-01-20 02:46 pm (UTC)*sings "I've got a theory"*
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Date: 2016-01-20 02:50 pm (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2016-01-20 08:46 pm (UTC)This is great!
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Date: 2016-01-21 07:36 am (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2016-01-21 07:38 am (UTC)Eh, considering how they repeatedly handled pregnancies on Angel, I'm kinda glad they never got around to it on Buffy. I'd settle for them just not killing Tara in the first place. :)
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Date: 2016-01-21 05:35 am (UTC)Weirdly enough I'm now imaginging Fuffy fempreg with a very pregnant and very unhappy Faith eight months along....
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Date: 2016-01-21 07:56 am (UTC)I was going to say I can't picture Faith getting pregnant by anyone without MASSIVE amounts of angst, but then I remembered I wrote this (http://beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com/3626.html) back in the day, so... :)
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Date: 2016-01-21 02:59 pm (UTC)”B, this is Hope and Charity.”
You didn't. Oh of course you did. Who else would?
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Date: 2016-01-21 06:03 pm (UTC)