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[whattingawhat]

Ways I’ve saved the world

1. Burned down my school gym. It was full of vampires.
2. Stopped The Harvest
3. Killed The Master
4. Killed The Master again. Turned his bones to dust.
5. Killed The Judge
6. Killed Angel
7. Killed the evil watcher lady with the glove of Myhnegon
8. Killed Mayor-I-Wanna-Be-A-Big-Snake
9. Killed The Gentleman
10. Killed the Vahrall demons that wanted to take over the world.
11. Killed Adam
12. Beat Glory and jumped into that portal
13. Drank that cup of nasty stuff and came back to the real world.
14. Trained all the mini-me’s and let them live in my house, eat my food and take over my life.
15. Pulled the scythe out of the rock and helped Willow make all the mini-me’s.


Angel thinks I saved the world by saving him, helping him figure out who he was supposed to be so he could save the world over and over again. I think he would have figured out who he was without me. He would have just been slower about it.

Comments

[archsariel.livejournal.com]

You have done well. You should feel accomplished.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Mostly, I just feel tired but thanks

[archsariel.livejournal.com]

Of course you are tired. Years of saving the world will do that to a person.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Guess so. I used to want the PTB to leave me alone now...I don't know what I want. Saving the world got to be something to do. I'm not sure I know how to do anything else.

[archsariel.livejournal.com]

PTB?

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Powers That Be. Big guy in the sky. Man upstairs. Buddha. God. Dali Llama...wait he's the kid in Tibet or something. I was never big on religion. It was always kinda freaky to me and the things people do in the name of religion, way freaky.

Don't get me wrong. I believe in the PTB and Heaven. I was there once. I'd like to go back. You know one day.

[archsariel.livejournal.com]

I have met Him. The PTB.

Having to leave Heaven is not an easy thing. It takes sacrifice.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

So I'm guessing you're not just a hot guy? I mean if you've met the PTB and you sound like you know what you're talking about...the whole Heaven thing.

It sucked but my friends needed me so...

[archsariel.livejournal.com]

Not just a guy. I'm an angel.

You took the answer of a higher calling.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Seriously? Nice. Tell my Mom I said hi.

Well, it's not like I got much of a choice. I was enjoying the nap.

[archsariel.livejournal.com]

I have not been to Heaven in awhile. But I never napped there.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

You're like Pre-Buffy Giles. You don't get pop culture references or slang or sarcasm, do you? It's okay there's hope. Giles understands me like 60% of the time now.

I didn't really nap in Heaven. In fact I don't remember it much except that it was warm and safe and I was finished.

I was talking about the whole being buried and in a coffin thing. It's called gallows humor. Used to drive Giles nuts. He's okay with it now.

[archsariel.livejournal.com]

Is Giles your life partner?

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. God.

No. A thousand no's. You have no idea how wrong and creepy and weird and WRONG that is.

Giles is my watcher. He's kind of like my Dad and also he's very, very, very old.

[archsariel.livejournal.com]

Oh. Family. Yes, that is wrong.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Well we're not technically related but it's the same sort of feeling.

I don't actually have a life partner.

Or I do. At least I think I do but he's...it's complicated and it's really all your boss' fault. Is there a place I can file a complaint? Or a suggestion box? You know something like don't bring soulmates together when you have absolutely no intention of ever, ever letting them be together? Or even better Loopholes Suck. Capital letters.

Or! A handbook would be nice. A warning letter. A memo. Anything except cryptic centuries old stuff that says sex is wrong.

[archsariel.livejournal.com]

He told you his final plan for you and this... complication?

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Well...no

But that's irrelevant. People are not puppets. There is only so much they can take before they break. And Angel is a vampire. Hello! I'm a slayer. Can you say wrong and bad? And yet. Plus you should never, ever have to kill the person you love to save the world. It does things to you that can't ever be fixed. And it gives you these issues. Not that I have issues but...oh who am I kidding. My issues are like Playboy. Only less with the naked 'cause you know.

[archsariel.livejournal.com]

I am honestly confused. There are many things that cannot be fixed.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Yeah well if we're being honest, I confuse myself most of the time the angel with a capital A issue is concerned.

Well...yeah I mean that's true but still can you imagine killing someone you love? And I loved Angel. More than anything in this world. If there'd been any other way...

[archsariel.livejournal.com]

I am angel an S. Call me Sariel.

And I defied God's will to save another Angel. I suppose that is love.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Nice to meet you Sariel. I'm Buffy.

Also guts but yeah, I'd call that love. So imagine what it would do to you to kill her. I assume it's a her or is the whole don't be gay thing something religious freaks make up?

[archsariel.livejournal.com]

She is a her. Her name is Tierney. I am her guardian.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

I didn't know angels needed guardians. I thought that was just a human thing. What do you guard her from? So is it like a father/daughter thing? That's sort of what guardian implies with people, you know.

[archsariel.livejournal.com]

We were friends. She is a guardian angel and I am an arch angel. I fought in the holy war for years while she went down to the mortals to help them. She made a mistake and became a fallen angel.

I chose to follow her and help her to regain her status.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

That's really...sweet I guess is the word. Are you friends now? Or more than friends? What mistake did she make? Or is that not for common knowledge.

How pissed is the PTB at you?

[archsariel.livejournal.com]

I am still made in His image. I have fought his war for millenia... I made a choice. And after all, freedom of choice is what faith is all about.

It is her story to tell. I should introduce you to Tierney. She has not many friends.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Talk about tired. I bet you're exhausted.

Sure. I'm a friendly girl. I'd like to meet her.

[archsariel.livejournal.com]

And yet we still fight.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Yeah...never ends.

God I need some prozac now.

[archsariel.livejournal.com]

Is prozac sweet?

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Uhm...no? It's the whole effect it gives you. Kinda chills you out so that you don't really care.