(Fic) Arrangements

[stormwreath]

I recently had a thought about Dawn. In 'Real Me', she seemed to be amusingly and totally oblivious to the fact that Willow and Tara were in a relationship. By 'Once More With Feeling', she was well aware of it, although Buffy and Xander were both still trying to preserve her presumed innocence. "Buffy, it's okay. I do know about this stuff.

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[stormwreath]

Thanks!

I think there are probably a lot of things that look really obvious to adults, but might go over the head of a 14-year old. (And vice-versa sometimes, of course.) And Buffy especially did seem to try and "preserve Dawn's innocence" for much longer than was quite reasonable, perhaps as a side-effect of the monks' spell making her generally protective.

[stormwreath]

Thanks! :)

These were characters I don't often write (Well, these days I don't often write at all, but you know what I mean) so it was quite fun trying to get their personalities right. Tara's definitely in her element here, and I wanted to show why Dawn so quickly came to think of her as a mother-figure.

[frogfarm]

So happy to see more Buffyverse writing from you. And you always manage to find just the right logical and emotionally charged places to pick your missing scenes from.

[stormwreath]

Well, a missing scene where Xander and Anya go to buy groceries from the local supermarket and talk about last night's TV wouldn't be nearly as compelling as this scene.:)

Thanks!

[snowpuppies]

*dies*

Poor Willow put her foot in, didn't she?

Lovely missing scene - I've never thought about this particular blank, but I'm so glad that you did. It needed to be written!

[stormwreath]

Well, Tara did land her in it. :)

Thanks!

[erimthar]

Cool story.

Missing whispered exchange between Willow and Tara:

"But sweetie, can't we just tell her to look it up on the Internet? All that information... there's no reason we should have to have these birds-and-bees... or, um, birds-and-birds conversations anymore."

"Good idea, Willow. Just tell her to g-google lesbian and she'll find all the info she needs."

Willow thought about that. "I'll go talk to her," she said.

[stormwreath]

Hee!

(Though I can actually imagine Willow carefully putting together a selected list of links and websites for Dawn; it's the sort of thing she'd enjoy. Though Tara might exercise veto power over some of the things Willow would think she should include...)