Willow's Promise | The happy ending Willow & Tara *should* have had

Introduction

I confess, I am a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanatic. I work at a residential facility for kids with emotional and behavioral problems and I write. I have written my entire life and I'm starting to think this story is why. It needs to be told. Or I need to tell it - one way or the other - it's getting told.

I used to have a lot of hobbies. Now, it's All Buffy, All the Time - although, less Buffy and moreso Willow & Tara. When I'm not working on "Willow's Promise" - I'm playing in one of two places - The Bronze Beta, a posting board for Buffy and Angel fans. And Pogo - a game site that has many a game that will occupy part of my brain while the rest works on "Willow's Promise". I've written some shorter fan-fic - mostly Willow & Tara erotica. You can find it at Majikal Moon on the links page.

I've posted Chapter One but do not intend to post anymore than that. After exhausting all publishing possibilities, I might but for now, Chapter One will have to do.

I will eventually add pages, mainly for the benefit of friends and family who want to read my book but who don't watch Buffy or Angel. A Primer for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Plus probably my poetry and other fic. I hope you like the site.

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I fell in love with "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" during the summer of 2005. I watched every season, start to finish, inside a month. And I fell in love over and over again with these characters and the smart dialogue. This was a show about people and their relationships. And in Season 4, I was right there with Willow when I fell in love with Tara.

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Tara is my favorite character of the BuffyVerse. She was sweet and shy and beautiful and smart. She captured our girl Willow's heart and the rest of us followed. Played to perfection by Amber Benson, Tara's growth as a character was wonderful to watch. She and Alyson Hannigan (Willow) portrayed a healthy couple. That they were lesbians was simply a bonus. It was good to see . . . then Joss Whedon, He-Who-Does-Not-Believe-In-Happy-Endings, did something I will never forgive him for . . . he killed Tara.

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Now . . . angry as I was at the demise of my beloved Tara, I perservered. I finished watching the rest of BuffytVS and even moved on to Angel the Series. But it bugged. I wanted Willow with Tara. I wanted Tara with Willow. Dangit - I wanted my happy ending. Then I realized . . . I'm a writer - I could write my own happy ending.

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In November 2005 I sat down to do just that. I figured I had enough information to start it and Joss, damn his hide/bless his soul, had actually given me quite a bit of support for my story within the canon of BtVS and AtS. As of December 2006, "Willow's Promise" is four chapters from completion. It is, of course, my hope to get it published. I'm not naive or stupid. I am aware of how difficult it is to get published as an unknown. But it's my dream and without our dreams . . . well, it's not much fun.

Synopsis

Set a year after the end of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and a month after Angel the Series, Willow's Promise is the happy ending (some) Buffy fans wanted for the whole Scooby Gang, but especially Willow & Tara.

It's been year since Sunnydale disappeared in the Hellmouth and the Scooby Gang is enjoying the calm and quiet of their new headquarters in England. Bucolic bliss is upset when Buffy, Xander, Dawn, Giles and several Coven members start seeing things that can’t be – but Willow is sure her visions of Tara are anything but hallucinations.

In a fantastic journey that starts with a demon and ends with the impossible, the Scooby gang finds once again that death isn't always permanent and love doesn't end when life does.