Getting To Know You Time

Rating: R – Hard R for things discussed

Disclaimer: Definitely no money being made. All characters belong to Joss Whedon and ME. I own nothing except whatever characters I may make up for this story.

Distribution: Oh yeah, anywhere, anytime. Just make sure I get credit and let me know where it is.

Spoilers: What is left to be spoiled? If you haven’t seen BTVS – you need to crawl out from whatever rock you’ve been hiding!! SNORT

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Pairing: B/T

Author’s Note: Suggestion – this is part of the ‘Time Series’ Read
Pool Time, Dinner Time, Patrol Time, Shower Time & Bed Time first!! It’ll help!


“I’ll be back in a little while, honey.” Tara calls over her shoulder after pulling on shorts, shirt and her shoes to run Buffy’s clothes down to the washer and stop to get them something to eat for breakfast.

Buffy grumbles quietly after the quickly departing Wiccan. Buffy curiously looks around Tara’s room deciding to be nosy and snoop in the drawers. Tara having already told her to look to her hearts content that she doesn’t have anything to hide.

Buffy glances at the dildo and harness Tara had wiped down and left lying on the dresser the night before. Shaking her head at the sight of the item before continuing her opening and closing of drawers. Running her fingers over Tara’s panties, Buffy chuckles quietly. “Maybe she’s more butch than I thought. She seems to like the women’s underwear that they call boys shorts.” Buffy grins as she holds up the underwear. “Oooh. I bet the way they’re cut they show an enticing amount of butt cheeks…” Buffy tilts her head considering the thought as she licks her lips.

Shaking herself from her visualizing, Buffy replaces the underwear and works her way down through the other drawers, her eyes opening wide at the sight of the bottom drawer. “Oooh. Jackpot.” Buffy giggles as she pulls the drawer out and sets it on the bed. Grabbing Junior and setting it in the drawer, she climbs onto the bed to start looking through Tara’s toys. “She wasn’t kidding when she said she had some…” Buffy whimpers loudly as she pulls out a large dildo. “Senior, I presume.” Buffy shakes her head at the sight of the fluorescent purple dildo. Reaching for Junior, Buffy places it alongside the larger dildo. Realizing that Senior has to be a good three or four inches longer and possibly a half inch to three quarters of an inch thicker in circumference.

Tara eases into the room, her eyes on Buffy and what the slayer’s holding in her hands. Chuckling at the slayer’s wide-eyed look, Tara shuts and locks the door behind her. “Becoming acquainted with Senior, or just comparing?” Tara questions as she sets the bag of food and drinks on the desk as she kicks off her shoes.

Buffy’s mouth opens and shuts as she looks back down at the item. “Tara, this thing has to be over ten inches long and roughly two inches wide!”

Tara laughs softly at the disbelieving note in Buffy’s voice as she settles beside the slayer on the bed. “It’s twelve inches long and you got the width right.” Tara points to Junior. “That’s seven and a half inches long and one and a quarter inches thick. I didn’t want to scare you with anything bigger, since I don’t know what your experience has been.”

Buffy taps her finger on Junior and tilts her head considering her past experiences. “I guess length wise that would be about right for the largest but Riley was a little thicker.” Buffy blushes at her words becoming slightly embarrassed.

“It’s okay, honey. You don’t need to be embarrassed about anything.” Tara gently runs a finger over Buffy’s cheek. “Everything I have in here is just items that I have used on myself and hoping that one day I might have someone to play with, if they enjoy this type of thing.”

Buffy hesitates as she starts to reach into the drawer again. At Tara’s nod she smiles and reaches in for the box of condoms she’d seen. Holding them up, she looks questioningly at Tara.

Tara grins crookedly at the slayer, silently waiting to see if her lover will ask or be too embarrassed.

“You’re going to make me say it out loud, aren’t you?” Buffy grumbles then growls at Tara as the Wiccan laughs. “I thought you liked women and not so much the men.”

“I like men, Buffy.” Tara laughs at the shocked look crossing Buffy’s face. “I’ve had a couple boyfriends, honey. I do prefer women, however. Men are too much work, get them trained right and they head on to greener pastures. Then some other woman benefits from the things I taught them.”

Buffy groans loudly at Tara’s comments. “Willow told me you were a lesbian. If you like both that would make you bi-sexual.”

“She assumed I was a lesbian, honey. I never said I was.” Tara points out her eyebrow quirked at Buffy.

“You never straightened out her misconception?” Buffy looks surprised.

“She never asked me, honey. She was never curious about my past relationships, so I figured she didn’t want to hear about them.” Tara shrugs her shoulders and lies down on the bed watching Buffy. “Any skeletons in your closet you’d like to discuss? I’m willing to talk about my past lovers if you’re curious.”

Buffy waves the hand holding the condoms around as she blushes lightly. “As in who they were, or as in intimate details here?”

Tara chuckles and shakes her head. “Anything you want to know, honey. I doubt that I’ll go into actual details in regards to Willow, though. I think that might creep you out a bit with her being your best friend and everything.”

“Thank you.” Buffy breathes out a sigh of relief. Placing the box of condoms back in the drawer, Buffy debates as to whether or not to make an admittance she’s never told anyone. Replacing everything in the drawer, Buffy eases off the bed and replaces it in the dresser before sitting down on the bed facing Tara.

Tara shifts and sits facing Buffy as she notices the serious look in her lover’s eyes.

Buffy reaches for Tara’s hands and holds them in hers as she looks down at the surprisingly strong fingers, knowing what they’re capable of. Stroking her thumbs up and down over the digits, Buffy takes a deep breath. “I’ve never been with a woman before, Tara. But I came close a couple times.” Buffy looks up at Tara being captured by serious blue eyes.

“Faith?” Tara questions softly, smiling gently at Buffy as Buffy looks in shock at her. “Honey, I may have only met her once, and you were in residence, but she has a definite sexual magnetism that would tempt anyone. And I’ll let you in on a little secret in case you weren’t aware of it. Willow was jealous of the time you spent with Faith. And she complained about it a lot, so I know it wasn’t just as a friend capacity that she was upset. Willow had a serious crush on you, honey. Or possibly still does.” Tara shrugs as she looks down at their hands, Buffy’s having stilled from where her thumbs had been caressing over hers.

“She… huh?” Buffy blinks and stares at Tara in shock. “She’s like a sister… and that was like before she realized she was kinda gaaaayyyyy.” Buffy drags out the word as a memory comes back to her of Willow whispering in shock as she looked at her Vamp self that she was kinda gay.

Tara lifts Buffy’s hand and presses a soft kiss on her hand. “I didn’t mean to shock you, honey.”

Buffy shakes her head after a few minutes of her scrambling thoughts. Zeroing her gaze in on her lover, Buffy looks intently at Tara. “You’ve thought that Willow has a crush on me for how long, Tara?”

Tara grins crookedly at Buffy and gently nips on the slayer’s thumb. “Since the first time I saw the both of you together when you were in Faith’s body. Haven’t you ever noticed how protective she is of you? And honestly, you seem to be quite protective of her, also. Though I have to admit you show that to all the people you consider your family and friends as I’ve come to know you better… except for Anya.” Tara quirks her lip at Buffy.

“Don’t like Anya.” Buffy grumbles, before sighing quietly. “She’s okay, but her incessant going on and on about eviscerating people and all the other awful, wicked things she used to do as a Vengeance Demon irritates the hell out of me. Plus the sex talk about her and Xander.” Buffy shivers uncontrollably at the thought. “I love Xander, but he is literally like a brother to me and that is just disgusting!” Trying to get her mind off those thoughts, Buffy searches Tara’s eyes for a few minutes. “I don’t think of Willow as anything but a very close friend, you know that, don’t you?”

“Yes, honey.” Tara smiles softly at the slayer, leaning in to kiss her gently on the lips. “But I thought you should know. Especially if at some time in the future Willow seems a little more weirded out than you think she should. It may be like a double-dose for her. Her ex-lover with a woman that she’s cared for, for the last six plus years.”

Buffy blinks at the thought, feeling nothing but friendship and sisterly love for Willow inside her as she searches her feelings. “I don’t think I would ever be able to think of Willow as anything more than a friend. I don’t have the urge to hold her and kiss her. It just seems… wrong, like hugging Dawn in anything but a sisterly way.” Buffy shivers uncontrollably again at the thought.

Tara squeezes Buffy’s hands gently. “So… how close did you come before?”

Buffy blushes darkly and looks at Tara. “Clothes half off and hands caressing over the upper half of our bodies, serious kissing was going on, also.”

“That’s more of a petting session, honey. Only second base, the way you were talking I thought you were completely stripped and hands were becoming adventurous in other areas.” Tara purses her lips as her eyes twinkle and she lets her fingers travel up Buffy’s inner thigh, surprised and happy at how comfortable the slayer is in her own body as she sits there in front of her completely naked and pretty much on display.

“Okay, petting session.” Buffy grumbles, capturing Tara’s hand as the Wiccan’s fingers caress teasingly over her outer lips. “Talking. Weren’t you the one that said you wanted to get to know each other better on a deeper level?”

“Yes.” Tara grins crookedly up at her lover. “Can’t we talk and play at the same time?”

“No. My brain stops working when you touch me like that.” Buffy admits, blushing lightly. “The beast wakes up and takes charge.”

“I like the beast.” Tara leans up and kisses Buffy deeply before slowly bringing the kiss to an end. “Hold that thought. You have another beast that I heard grumble.” Tara pats Buffy on the stomach as she rolls out of the bed, yanking her shirt off before pushing her shorts off and grabbing the bag of food and the two large mocha’s she’d bought.

Buffy shifts to place her back against the headboard as Tara carries the items to the bed. Taking the bag and one of the drinks from the Wiccan, Buffy settles the drink carefully between her legs before opening the bag, chuckling at the breakfast sandwiches piled inside.

“I figured you might be hungry.” Tara eases onto the bed before sipping on her mocha, smiling as the slayer sets a sandwich between them for her before grabbing one for herself. “So… whose sex life do you want to talk about first?” Tara laughs as Buffy starts to cough, covering her mouth to keep the sandwich inside.

Buffy hurriedly finishes chewing and swallowing the bite of sandwich before turning to glare at the Wiccan. “Damn it! Don’t do that when I’m trying to eat. I swear you love to go for the shock value of things.”

“Maybe.” Tara grins as she unwraps her sandwich, her eyes twinkling merrily as she starts to eat the sandwich. Waiting a few minutes until Buffy settles back down and starts to eat again. “I was fifteen the first time I had sex with my boyfriend, Jason.”

Buffy silently thanks the powers that be that she had finished chewing that bite of food as she turns amazed eyes on Tara. “Jesus, Tara! What are you going to blurt out next? That it lasted all of two minutes and he sucked?”

“He sucked… and he lasted longer than two minutes.” Tara wiggles her eyebrows at the slayer as she makes sucking noises.

Buffy whimpers and closes her eyes, rubbing a hand roughly over her face. “And people believe this innocent act you got going on?”

“Completely.” Tara grins crookedly at Buffy, chuckling at the blush coming up on Buffy’s face. “Jason and I had actually been dating for almost two years. After we made love, we both realized we were still too young and we just dated each other after that. Then mama became ill and pa became extremely obsessed with where I was at and keeping me at home to take care of him and Donnie because they said mama wasn’t going to last long.” Tara whispers sadly, becoming serious as she thinks about that time. “He had always told me that the magic was evil, and when mama became bedridden he reinforced it with saying it was in our demon blood and that’s why she became ill.” Tara looks sadly at Buffy as her lover wraps her arm around her shoulders hugging her gently.

“And with you being in shock with your mom being ill he was able to make you believe you were part demon, getting his claws that much deeper into you.” Buffy continues, seeing how it could happen.

“Yes. I became introverted and didn’t really have a life during the next year and a half because of it. I had always had problems with my stutter, but it became worse. Mama passed away a couple months after my birthday. It was a blessing because she was a shell of the woman I loved. But it was still horrible, losing a loved one.” Tara looks apologetically at Buffy, seeing the flash of pain in her lover’s eyes.

“Does it get any easier?” Buffy questions hoarsely, tears coming to her eyes.

“The pain lessens, honey. I don’t know that it actually gets easier, but I spend more time now remembering the good times and my mama being happy and healthy, than I do the end.” Tara offers softly, picking up Buffy’s other hand and pressing a soft kiss into her palm. “I’m sorry to bring this up like this, but it kind of leads into my next sexual liaison. And it was pure sex this time, no feelings of caring or love was involved.”

Buffy presses her lips softly over Tara’s and nods her head for her lover to continue.

“I got in a screaming match with my father about two weeks after mama died. I had been doing everything on automatic and suddenly the feelings came roaring back with a vengeance. He told me to do Donnie’s work on the farm, because Donnie went out partying with his friends.” Tara allows a quick smile to cross her face in remembrance. “I ended up storming out of the house and stole his truck. I drove over two towns and went to a bar some of the kids had whispered about at school that allowed teenagers in it.” Tara rolls her eyes and blushes. “None of the murmurings I heard said anything about it being a gay and lesbian bar.”

“Uh, oh. Don’t tell me… A big biker chick by the name of Bertha saw a somewhat still innocent Tara drunkenly swaying on a bar stool and took her back to the bathroom and had her evil wicked way with you.” Buffy offers, grinning hugely.

Tara laughs and smacks Buffy on the thigh. “No, she was a trucker named Theresa and she took me out to her big rig to have her evil wicked way with me. And talk about opening a young girl’s eyes to the pleasure to be had with a person that knows a woman’s body intimately…” Tara whistles and laughs even louder as Buffy groans and falls off the bed. Tara silently thanks the Goddess that the slayer had finished her mocha. Placing her own cup on the nightstand, Tara rolls over and looks down at a quietly laughing slayer. “A week later she dropped me off at the end of my driveway.”

“You didn’t…” Buffy groans and rubs a hand over her eyes.

“Yes I did. It was worth the hell I went through when I got home. Needless to say I didn’t go anywhere else except to school until I graduated and came to Sunnydale.” Tara rolls her eyes and smiles down at Buffy.

“So help me if you tell me your next sexual liaison was with this really nice married couple…” Buffy growls up at her lover.

“They were only engaged.” Tara tries to keep a straight face as Buffy screams. Sliding off the bed and landing on top of Buffy, Tara laughs and tickles her lover.

“You’re trying to kill me.” Buffy smiles up at Tara, enjoying the sight of the beautiful woman laughing and joking. Honestly never knowing that Tara had such a wicked sense of humor. Wrapping her arms around Tara and hugging her gently.

“I dated Bob, a guy I worked with at the grocery store. He’s the one I trained and wasn’t too long after we broke up that he ended up becoming the hottest property in the grocery store with all the other women.” Tara rests her chin on Buffy’s chest, smiling at her lover.

“You’re serious, aren’t you?” Buffy shakes her head, chuckling as Tara nods her head.

“Yes, I am. Of course, one of the girls figured out how he became so well versed and questioned me.” Tara’s eyes twinkle merrily.

“Let me guess, she decided to date the source of all the wicked naughty things that Bob had learned and she picked up a few things that you didn’t teach him.” Buffy nibbles on her bottom lip as Tara wiggles her eyebrows. “How in the world did you end up seeming so shy and innocent?”

“After Jess I didn’t date anyone until Willow.” Tara admits quietly. “Jess was the girl from the grocery store.” Tara explains. “I spent the rest of the time thinking about the fact that I would probably have to go home and I kind of crawled into a deep shell of self pity.” Tara shrugs her eyes serious as she looks at Buffy. “I ended up falling in love with Willow and you pretty much know what happened from there.”

“We could make a movie of your life… actually multiple movies.” Buffy gently runs her hand through Tara’s hair. “By the time you add in all the actual Hellmouth happenings and the fact that you’re now dating me there’s probably enough to make about ten or more movies.”

“Going to need a couple of them just for you and me.” Tara smiles lovingly at Buffy. “Feel like talking about your personal life, or eating?”

“Both. Mine’s boring, especially compared to yours.” Buffy explains, pulling Tara down to kiss her, groaning as Tara deepens the kiss and sets her blood boiling again. “Damn girl! You can kiss.” Buffy blinks and tries to get the sexual haze to clear out.

“You’re pretty damn good yourself, slayer.” Tara growls before nipping gently on Buffy’s chin. “Come on up here. I don’t want you to end up with a hurt back because I take advantage of you on the floor literally inches away from the bed.”

“Oh… you’d rather take advantage of me on the bed, huh?” Buffy laughs quietly as she follows Tara and climbs in bed beside her lover, accepting the sandwich she hands her.

“Can’t take advantage of the willing.” Tara points out, her eyes filled with mischief.

“How about taking advantage of the sexually repressed? I think I might qualify.” Buffy growls and nips gently on Tara’s neck. “I think you pretty much know all there is to really know about my sex and love life, Tara. Angel was the once and only. Faith, I just told you about our somewhat explorations, Parker the one night wonder that was a waste of my time, Riley that was juiced up on super soldier cocktail… Have to admit that helped him out quite a bit. After he didn’t have that anymore it kind of made the sex life go down hill. And Spike.” Buffy shifts uncomfortably as she looks down at the mentioning of the vampire’s name.

Tara sighs quietly and cups Buffy’s chin in her hand, gently urging the slayer to look at her. “Just because you don’t like someone, or think they’re totally wrong for you, doesn’t mean that you didn’t receive something from the relationship that you needed, honey. I don’t like the fact that he beat you, but if what happened between you two helped you come back to us, I’ll be thankful. Then the next time I see him I’ll tell him thanks for helping you before staking his ass.”

Buffy’s mouth drops as she looks at Tara, it taking a moment to realize Tara’s deadly serious with what she said. “You would…” Buffy shakes her head and blinks her eyes in wonder. Finally a small smile crosses her face. “You’d stake him for me?”

“Yes.” Tara growls deeply as her eyes narrowed in thought. “After he finds out that we’re together. I’m sure that’ll be a blow to his pride.”

“He doesn’t have much pride for it to be a blow to.” Buffy mumbles, blushing darkly as Tara turns surprised eyes towards her.

“Did that comment mean what I think it meant?” Tara tilts her head, chuckling as Buffy nods her head quickly as she obviously fights a huge smile. Watching as Buffy grabs her hand and holds up her thumb.

“This right here is about the same size.” Buffy nibbles on her bottom lip at the admittance.

“Well, I hope he was good with his ton…” Tara groans and falls back against the headboard. “He didn’t even do that for you, because I was the first.”

“Yep.” Buffy raises her eyebrows and laughs softly. “You’ve been the first in quite a few things, Tara.”

“Oh, great. Get another one broken in properly…” Tara starts and then laughs as Buffy pounces on her, her fingers going straight to the ticklish spots behind her knees making her squirm and cry out the slayer’s name.

“I’m going to be like the proverbial bad penny. You won’t ever be able to get rid of me.” Buffy growls, her eyes crinkling as she watches Tara laugh as she squirms around on the bed.

“Keep the bad penny… I like ‘em.” Tara mumbles out between laughs.

Buffy stops tickling her lover and settles gently on top of Tara as she looks down into smiling blue eyes. Stroking a fingertip over Tara’s full lips before caressing down her strong jaw line and placing her finger in the small cleft of her chin, Buffy smiles. “You’re an extremely beautiful, loving woman Miss Tara Maclay. And the one thing I really regret about the time since you’ve become a part of our group is that I didn’t take the time to get to know you on a more personal level. I’m sorry I didn’t ever really see past the part that you were Willow’s girlfriend except when something bad happened. And don’t say it.” Buffy grumbles quietly, pressing her finger over Tara’s lips as she sees her about to say something. “I have a tendency to become completely engrossed with my life and what’s happening in my immediate vicinity. I kind of push everything else to the side and you were one of the things that got pushed to the side, I’m sorry about that. You deserved better, and I short changed both of us a deeper friendship in the process.”

Tara presses her lips gently against Buffy’s finger. “Did you ever think if we had known each other better as friends that maybe what’s happening now wouldn’t be happening?”

Buffy stares in shock at Tara as her words sink in, honestly not having thought about that possibility. “You have this tendency to say stuff that just cuts to the chase, you know that don’t you? I never would have thought of that, but if we had been closer friends…” Buffy blinks and laughs quietly.

“No more what might have beens, honey.” Tara gently runs her fingers through Buffy’s hair before clasping the slayer’s face gently between her hands. “Let’s just take life as it is. Be thankful for what we have now and not waste our time and energy worrying about what might have happened.”

Buffy nods her head gently and lowers her lips to Tara’s, kissing her softly. “I love you, Tara.” Buffy settles more comfortably against Tara and buries her face in her lover’s neck.

“I love you, too, Buffy.” Tara strokes her hands down Buffy’s strong back.

“Think Dawn will mind if I join you two today?” Buffy closes her eyes, moaning quietly as Tara’s strong fingers knead her butt cheeks.

“I’m positive she won’t mind, honey. Now with you only having to work one weekend a month here at the college and having a set schedule during the week, that will give you time to have a real life again.” Tara wraps her arms around her lover’s waist and hugs her tightly. “And I want to schedule in at least a couple evening’s a week to go out on patrol with you, then one night on the weekend for date night. We’ll leave the rest of it to go from there and see what happens.”

“Come to the house a few times a week also?” Buffy questions softly.

“Definitely, I think I promised someone that I would cook for them.” Tara smiles as she feels Buffy’s lips curl up into a smile against her neck. “We need to get ready, honey. Your clothes should be close to dry by now.”

“I know. You sure we can’t stay here like this all day?” Buffy pouts into Tara’s neck as Tara chuckles.

“I would say yes, but I promised Dawnie, honey.” Tara squeezes once more before smacking Buffy firmly on the ass. “Move it, Slayer!”

“Yes, Mistress.” Buffy grumbles, rolling off Tara, watching her lover ease off the bed to toss the shower kit and towels towards her.

“I’ll meet you in the shower.” Tara comments after pulling on clothes to run down to the laundry room. Seeing the gleam in her lover’s eyes, Tara laughs delightedly before heading out of the room.

“God, I love that laugh.” Buffy growls before yanking on the robe and gathering the items they’ll need and running to the showers.

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The End


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