Oh, yes--as much as I want to live in the moment you gave us with the earlier ficlet where Xander is confident and Spike is fatherly, we need to see this earlier moment, with Willow's fears posing a real danger to herself and others . . . but bless Tara for working to love her out of doing anything too risky.

I'm blown away by your ability to revisit so many different universes, so well, so quickly!

(A typo or maybe two here, I think: When Tara gently killed [kissed?] the spot just below the [her?] ear, Willow shivered like a tree shaken by a sudden breeze.)