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RP for stillacrime So don't be shy, you'll soon be high, we'll to

Coney Island was a great idea. In so many ways Buffy was still very much a tourist in New York City. Danny had gotten home keyed up and as was Buffy so they'd decided on Coney Island. Buffy had thrown on a pair of dark denim capris and a slate blue sweater that slid off her shoulders. She'd put her hair in pigtails and thrown on a pair of silver puma tennis shoes. Now they were standing in line for The Cyclone. Buffy was bouncing on the balls of her feet. She squeezed Danny's hand and leaned over to kiss the side of his neck.

"It's been years and years since I've been on a roller coaster."

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Buffy tilted her face up slightly to Danny when he kissed her forehead. "That's what I'm here for. Make sure you take time to have fun," she told him as they moved forward in the line.

"Yeah I think you're here for a lot more than that." Danny countered, his shoulders lifting in a slight shrug.

"I am?" Buffy asked, blinking up innocently at him. For a moment panic settled in her stomach, fear that he'd found out what she was somehow. She banished it quickly though. He wouldn't have taken her to an amusement park to talk about something like that. He would have done it more privately.

"Yeah..." He looked sideways to catch her gaze. "You're... like fate or somethin' corny like that. Don't you think we're fate? Meetin' in that bar wasn't coincidence... right?"

"I don't think it was coincidence," Buffy shook her head. She looked down at their hands twined together and then back up at him. "Fate hasn't always been very good to me so I have a hard time believing something as good as you can be Fate's doing but I think that we're...something better than fate? Does that make any sense?"

"What, like destiny?" Danny asked around a crooked grin. Both fate and destiny worked for him, but he would go with what worked best for Buffy... even if it was something else.

"Oh God no. Not destiny." The words were out of her mouth before she could stop them. She bit her bottom lip, realizing Danny would probably take that bad. "I don't mean that how it sounds," she quickly injected, hoping to do damage control before Danny could run away with her words.

"Can it just be...free will? Can you be something I chose? Something I wanted and not something anyone else or anything else planned for me? 'Cause I like that idea. That we're a we because we made that choice. Not because some gossip-y ladies bored with soap operas decided to toss us together."

See! She read mythology (okay so Giles read it to her) She knew who the Fates were.

The smile was instantly wiped away at that reaction, his brow furrowed around confusion as he listened. He wrinkled his nose, glancing away and then down to the ground. He could understand the thing with choice. After all, he was who and where he was because of a series of choices... choices that he still made everyday.

Still...

That reaction was a surprise that he was trying to wrap his head around. "Yeah. Yeah, sure. This can be that. Sure."

Buffy stepped in front of him, staying close and cupping his face in her hands. She lifted his gaze up to meet hers. "You know all those things I'm going to tell you one of these days...context for this is one of them. Suffice to say, I don't get to make a lot of my own choices in life. I haven't since I was sixteen. I want you to be a choice in my life. I want you because I want you. Not because fate or destiny or anything else told me I could have you. If we're destiny or fate...they can decide to take you away from me. If you're my choice no one can decide to take you away from me. Ever. Only I decide that."

Edited 2008-05-02 06:18 (UTC)

Okay that was sweet. And it was easy to smooth things over with Danny. Especially since all he really asked of Buffy was that she wanted to be with him as much as he wanted to be with her. He didn't need much else to consider the cup half full.

He nodded slightly. "And you wanna be with me."

"And I wanna be with you," Buffy nodded, a smile curving her lips. She went up on her tip toes and pressed a kiss to his mouth then went back down to the flat of her feet.

"And I decided that. When I make decisions, I hang onto them and see them through. You're stuck with me, Bucko."

"Bucko??" Danny chuckled lightly and shook his head. "You gotta be kiddin' me. Bucko??"

Buffy laughed and shrugged. "What's wrong with Bucko? Apparently I am nickname giving girl with you. Is Rocky better? Or...OH! I know, Daniel. You're stuck with me, Daniel. Does that make it sound more official than Bucko? What's your middle name? I could use your whole name 'cause that's really got the punch of authority to it. You know when Mom used to say Buffy Anne Summers...I cringed 'cause I knew she meant business. I mean business so I should use your whole name here."

"Daniel or Rocky works good enough. Stick with those and we're golden." He touched the tip of his index finger to the tip of her nose.

She mocked pouted, ducking her head slightly to look at him from underneath her lashes.

"But I like Boyfriend too and...what if I come up with new names for you? I'll just use Daniel when I'm serious...or when I'm teasing. Really you can never ever tell. You just have to trust me when I say I'm serious and I am. About this. The whole us thing not the whole name thing."

"Alright alright. Just no Bucko, alright? How's a guy supposed to take that serious?" Danny teased, gliding the pad of his thumb over her lower lip

Buffy kissed his thumb then lightly bit it, teasingly. "Awww but I like Bucko," she continued to pout. Finally she smiled and shook her head. "Okay. No Bucko."

She bit her bottom lip and pulled it through her teeth. The words I love you were on the tip of her tongue but she couldn't. Not while he still didn't know everything. It left her open to so much more hurt if she said it and then he left. Instead she took a deep breath, tip toed and pressed a kiss to his lips. "I'm really glad I moved here and I'm really glad you let me move in with you. We have fun, yeah?"

"Call all the guys you don't like 'bucko' then give 'em that sweet smile you got. Like a slap in the face. Boom." Danny said amusedly.

He squeezed her hand in his as they moved up in line again. "I'm tellin' you that I like havin' you around. I want you around. Lots of fun."

Buffy laughed and shook her head. "Boom." She lifted his hand up to her lips and kissed his knuckles. They were near the front of the line now and as the car pulled up, the operator opened the gate and let them in. Buffy tugged him to the front car and got inside.

"You have to be in the front car. It's the best one."

"Wo-ho... front car. Dare devil, huh?" Danny sat down in the front car with Buffy and pulled the bar down over their laps to hold them in. "That's kinda hot."

"Just call me Evel Knievel," she joked as she scooted closer to Danny. "And I am so not complaining because it's hot that you think I'm hot but you are sooooo biased," she teased him as the rollercoaster jerked and started clack-clacking up the first climb.

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