Her voice alone was enough to cause Willow's heart to swell within her chest. When she turned her head and actually laid eyes on Tara? That was when the tears came. A sob burst from her throat as she closed the remaining distance between them and, with a watery smile, she wrapped her arms around the other girl in a hug that was as fierce as it was tender. And it was in that instant that her arms wrapped around her that the redhead realized this was real.
"It really is you," she murmured in faint amazement, pulling back just enough to smile tearfully at her lover. Gently, she cupped Tara's cheek with trembling fingers, relishing the feel of the smooth skin and vowing right there and then that nothing, nothing, would seperate them ever again.