Tara's POV

This is so wrong. It's so wrong on so many levels. We're dealing with powerful dark forces. Forces we have no business dealing with. There's no telling what kind of consequences are gonna come out of it. Especially with the imbalance Faith created in this town. The Hellmouth draws a lot of dark entities to it, but with Faith slaying almost around the clock for almost 2 and a half months, evil stopped coming around.

Even with Faith the way she is, a lot of demons don't bother coming here. And Spike has managed to take care of any demons that do wanna stir up trouble. The dark powers can't be happy that we're keeping them out of their favorite hot spot, and now we're gonna mess with life and death. The Hellmouth is gonna want to balance the scales, and there is no telling what might happen to balance them. This isn't right.

I lift my head from her shoulder.

"Willow?"

"Hmm?"

"Are you sure about this?"

"You don't want to watch a movie? Okay, we'll do something else."

"That's not what I m-meant."

She turns on the couch to face me and the second her eyes meet mine she knows what I meant.

"I thought we talked about this."

"We, we did it's just... I'm worried."

"About what?"

"About the spell."

"Tara we went over this. I know the spell, I know the ritual."

"I know."

The pure love in her eyes seems to falter slightly as a questioning look comes over her.

"Don't you believe I can do this?"

"This is bigger than anything, either of us has ever done but that's n-not what b-bothers me."

"Then what?"

"What happens when we do, d-do it?"

"Buffy comes back."

"We're messing with powerful forces. T-they aren't just going to l-let us do this without s-some kind of consequences."

"You heard what Joyce said. We'll deal with the consequences when they happen... and we will."

"We, we don't even know what they m-might be."

Her eyes narrow.

"Don't you trust me?"

I get this horrible feeling in my gut about the way she's looking at me.

"I... of course I trust you Willow. I trust you with my heart and soul. It's the, the forces we'd be dealing with that s-scare me."

She sort of half smiles at me as the love in her eyes returns and she takes my hand in hers.

"I know it's scary baby, it scares me too. But we have to help Faith and we both know that Buffy is the only person who can do that."

I close my eyes and bow my head.

"I... I know..."

She puts her hands against my head and I look at her.

"I need you to believe in me. I need you to believe that I can do this... for Faith."

I take a deep breath and look deep into my beautiful lover's eyes.

We have to do this... I don't want to do this, but sometimes you have to do things you don't want to in life to help the people you care about. I guess this is one of those things.

"We have to help Faith..."

"Yes we do, and this is the best way to help her."

"You're right."

"Thank you Tara. I knew you'd understand."

Our lips touch briefly as she kisses me lightly. We cuddle on the couch again but all I can think is...

This is wrong for so many reasons.