whattingawhat | 35th Slay [voice]

[Apologies don't come easy to Buffy. She's entirely too bossy for that so when she finally speaks, her words are a little hesitant and flipped around to divert this whole apology thing]

So...the whole humiliation thing...thanks so much City. Because pulling a Xena warrior princess thing isn't enough I also have to do the Romeo and Juliet thing. Okay so not quite Romeo and Juliet because no one died and hello been, there done, that. Romeo and Juliet totally had it easy. Not that that's the point here...

~~John~~ Pyro, I'm deeply in the throes of apology at the moment. Not that the kissing was---good. I mean it was...nice and the--[her voice pitches up a good deal on the next words]really nice. [A very long, dramatic, PTB please kill me now sigh. She's pinching the bridge of her nose and it comes through in her tone] And now I'm going to stop with the speaking.

Except...Aya...I'm sorry but if you marry my sister before she turns 25 I'll beat you. It's not a you thing. It's an age thing.

Dawn...you're grounded until you're 24. [Not that she thinks that will really work.]

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Several years ago, I was the same way about my sister. Because of it I did many things I now regret. Things that I did for my sister that she would never want. I became I different person and I let my emotions rule me.

I know you don't want to listen to any of it but I only ask that you at least let this go. Or that you put it on me. Grounding her before she can do something will make matters worse and I don't want anything to get between you and your sister. Your bond is too precious.

It's not that I don't want to listen.

I'm not going to actually ground her. It's more a dramatic statement to let her know how strongly I feel about this whole marrying young thing. Or the whole taking things too fast thing. She knows how much I love her. She doesn't always like it but she knows.

No. She always likes how much you love her. And I admire it as well.

It's just the way things are. She's part of me. I couldn't change it if I wanted to.

I know what that's like.

So you don't talk to your sisters anymore? Back home I mean. Not here. Clearly.

When I was twenty-three I hadn't talked to her in five years. Though only three of those years counted for anything. Then I called her where she worked. We talked for a little while but then I haven't talked to her since then.

I haven't seen her since I was twenty so I haven't seen her since she woke up. I do it because she is happier without me around. The one who took on her name and killed in that name. [There is so much regret and sorrow in his tone...]

[He's totally lost her but she's not going to ask him to clarify because he sounds so very sad.]

But she's got to realize you did it for her, right? [Not that Buffy thinks Dawn would approve of her going darkside but she does think Dawn would realize if she'd done it for her. There was an understanding about the tower. Never approval. Just understanding.]

She doesn't know what I did as far as I know.

Then why don't you speak to her?

She can be happy and safe this way.

And your job at home would put her in danger and make her sad?

It would.

I get that but it must be hard not to see her. [And she's very proud of herself for *not* pointing out that hey that is SO an Angel sort of thing to do. The whole not telling her, just slipping away so she can be happy thing]

It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

Yeah. I can see how it would be.

I'm sorry.

You have nothing to apologize for, Buffy.

I know but it's more of a 'I'm sorry that you have to deal with that' thing.

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