After I was shot and the pain died away, Ifelt warm and safe and it's like when you wake up from a good dream andcan hardly remember any of it." He ra...ised his hand to his lips whereshe had kissed him but stopped halfway."Oh, I understand," replied Willow. "Buffy felt the same way when shewas returned from heaven." They walked back to Willow's house under thestars. Willow, now restored to her normal appearance, instead of thehag-like form she had taken as Dark Willow, babbled away happily. . er...”“Fuck?”“Er ... yes. Glad you said it; my Dad would take a belt to me if I said it aloud.”“Yes, we fucked. Though at some stage we’ll make love. There’s a difference. Although I’ll love you, we won’t fall in love, that’s for others to receive. I’m not yours, Sam; I never will be, save for moments like this when we’ll delight in each other. Bill is my man and my love, don’t forget that, ever,” she replied earnestly.“I won’t, Mary,” he replied just as solemnly.[1980]‘And what a lie that. ’ ‘No objections,’ he said as he pulled her to him, kissing her, gently biting her lower lip. They had been kissing for quite some time, and Logan was faintly aware that she was humping against Wills right leg when they heard someone clear their throat at the door. They looked up and saw Jacob. ‘Lo,’ he said, obviously restraining himself, ‘here. Now.’ She looked like a deer caught in the headlights as she followed him. ‘What?’ she asked, trying to act as if nothing had happened. ‘What?!’. She had arrived as a refugee from the recent war in the east. She picked up the language easily enough, it being similar enough to the Babylonian tongue that she only made a few embarrassing mistakes. An older woman, Sybille, with her children grown and her husband dead in the recent war, accepted Nikka into her household to help with chores and fieldwork. Nikka, ever grateful, proved to be hard working and bright. Although she never spoke to anyone of her homeland other than to say that her.