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whattingawhat) wrote2008-05-05 10:34 pm
whattingawhat) wrote2008-05-05 10:34 pm
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The hardest thing in this world is to live
Pick one defining moment in your muses life and show us where they would be now had things gone the opposite direction.
I tried to explain to her that this was a mun prompt but Buffy is nothing if not headstrong so this is done in character. Obviously this concerns the events of 'The Gift'and based upon the what if Dawn died concept
BUFFY: The spirit guide told me ... that death is my gift. Guess that means a Slayer really is just a killer after all.
GILES: I think you're wrong about that.
BUFFY: It doesn't matter. If Dawn dies, I'm done with it. I'm quitting.
Her instincts are still there, humming just beneath her skin. She sees them and feels them and she wishes she could make herself less aware. She keeps her promise though, partially out of loyalty to Dawn and partially out of sheer defiance. Buffy Summers can hold a grudge and grind an axe. She’s got a big one to grind now.
Seattle is as far from sunny California as she can get and the postage sized apartment is miles away from her mother’s house. She’s been there since Dawn died but there are boxes left unpacked and her furniture consists of a futon and wooden crates. This isn’t temporary. It’s not Angel and Anne and LA for a summer. She always planned to go back when Angel died, later when it didn’t hurt as much. Later when she could stand to see the cemeteries and later when she could walk past the mansion without falling apart. Later came three months after but this is Dawn and that was a line she was no longer willing to cross. This is for good and always and growing old in a rocker on her speck sized balcony. She will get wrinkles and gray hair but she won’t have children, she won’t find love and she won’t have happiness. It is self imposed punishment but if Dawn can’t have those things, she won’t either. Her life is normal now in every sense of the word but Dawn is still gone. She made a promise to Giles; a threat to the powers that be. If Dawn died, she quit.
Never, ever let it be said that Buffy doesn’t keep her promises.
I tried to explain to her that this was a mun prompt but Buffy is nothing if not headstrong so this is done in character. Obviously this concerns the events of 'The Gift'and based upon the what if Dawn died concept
GILES: I think you're wrong about that.
BUFFY: It doesn't matter. If Dawn dies, I'm done with it. I'm quitting.
Her instincts are still there, humming just beneath her skin. She sees them and feels them and she wishes she could make herself less aware. She keeps her promise though, partially out of loyalty to Dawn and partially out of sheer defiance. Buffy Summers can hold a grudge and grind an axe. She’s got a big one to grind now.
Seattle is as far from sunny California as she can get and the postage sized apartment is miles away from her mother’s house. She’s been there since Dawn died but there are boxes left unpacked and her furniture consists of a futon and wooden crates. This isn’t temporary. It’s not Angel and Anne and LA for a summer. She always planned to go back when Angel died, later when it didn’t hurt as much. Later when she could stand to see the cemeteries and later when she could walk past the mansion without falling apart. Later came three months after but this is Dawn and that was a line she was no longer willing to cross. This is for good and always and growing old in a rocker on her speck sized balcony. She will get wrinkles and gray hair but she won’t have children, she won’t find love and she won’t have happiness. It is self imposed punishment but if Dawn can’t have those things, she won’t either. Her life is normal now in every sense of the word but Dawn is still gone. She made a promise to Giles; a threat to the powers that be. If Dawn died, she quit.
Never, ever let it be said that Buffy doesn’t keep her promises.