Buffy ficlet

[katsaris]

100-word ficlet. SPOILERS for the 5th season of Buffy.

Hateful Memories

She cuts herself, she screams names at teachers, she burns her diaries and runs away from home. Nothing will ever be right again.

Weeks later they're watching TV, when she muses, seemingly at random: "Do you remember Ted? How we despised him?"

Buffy snorts. "Sure. What about it?"

"I wasn't there. You must have been loathing him all alone."

And Dawn smiles at her big sister. "Good for you."

She'll be pursued and kidnapped, she'll be ritually cut and bled, she's going to lose mother and sister. But right now, for this brief moment, the universe feels okay once more.

Comments

[skaly2.livejournal.com]

There's a fantastic short story in one of the Tales of the Slayers anthologies. The premise was that Buffy, Willow, and Xander had somehow "quantum leaped" into their past selves. One of the things that was really jarring for Buffy was that there was no Dawn back then. It was written by Jane Espenson, I think.