Fics for 2009 # 001 ~ Stranger Among the Living

 

   TITLE: Stranger Among the Living

   AUTHOR: kerk_hiraeth

   FANDOM: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Post-Chosen)

   LENGTH: 100;

   CHARACTER: Buffy Summers;

   A/N: This was the very first thing I posted on livejournal; joining that forum just before new years 2009. It does not fit into any of my various 'verses; not counting ones where Buffy is dead of course, therefore it can fit into them all, including those which follow canon.

           The major exception to all these is the comics; since I stopped reading those five issues from the end of the first post-series 'season' in that version. Ironically, given I never took to Angel as a character and, by that time, not taken against Spike's return in S5 of AtS, it was the combination of the way that Angel was treated in the comics, and Spike's return at the very point I had decided to stop reading them, that made me stop taking any further interest in the comics.

           If you are aware of my other 'verses you will be know that that hasn't stopped me stealing three characters from the comics; principally Satsu & Bay, though not truly consistent with their situations in the comics.

          So, if you want to imagine Spike & Angel alive or dead; do so and, if you want to imagine Buffy in a relationship with one of them; or both; or neither, then do so. None of them is wrong; nor correct. It does not matter and, after many years of trying to fit this somewhere, I have decided I am happy with that.

 

 

        Behind her back she's, “The Slayer.” … and other things they should be too young to understand.

 

     To her face?

     “Sir,” or “General.”

     In their bunks, in hushed tones, “She.”

     Or, “Her.”

 

     Why does she always carry a lighter, when she doesn't smoke?

     Why, when they run out, does she always head for London?

 

     Nobody knows about the headstone; inscribed with two, improbable, dates; lit by one, eternally aflame; cheap, lighter.

     Or why she always brings back a whole case.

     Or always returns from Dublin.

     Via Galway.

 

     Behind her back it's “Bitch.”

     Never her name.

 

     Never just... “Buffy.”

 

 

 

      kerk_hiraeth