BtVS Drabble: Moving On

[bk_forever]

Title: Moving On
Fandom: BtVS
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy, Angel.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 006: Soul Searching at sesquidrabbles.
Spoilers/Setting: Becoming Part 2, and the beginning of Season 3.
Summary: Buffy is finally coming to terms with killing Angel.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Joss Whedon.
A/N: Drabble and a half, 150 words.




It’s taken Buffy a lot of soul searching, and a lot of grief and tears, to accept that she did the right thing sacrificing Angel to prevent the rise of Acathla. She still feels raw inside, nothing can ever completely erase the pain of knowing Angel had his soul back when she killed him, that he was the man she loved once more, but in the end there hadn’t been any choice. It’s all part of being the Slayer, doing the right thing regardless of personal cost.


Still, she’s at last made peace with what she had to do, even if she still wishes Willow’s spell had failed, or had succeeded sooner, before Angelus had summoned the demon.


She has to move forward now, leave the past where it belongs, pick up the pieces of her life, and try to put them back together again.


But she’ll never forget Angel.



The End

Comments

Buffy's Gangster Boyfriend and how he hurt her still.

[vantiri.livejournal.com]

Well, he did engage in wizardry/sorcery, so he did merit death, and caused his own demise in fact, by trying to bring a gangster spirit into the world to do immense harm, so I'd say it was a matter of defense of others on her part in that regard.
He had ample opportunities to turn away, and rejected them all, and that's the fruits of that: death is the fruits of "gangster behavior" (sin) and thus he brought it upon himself, albeit he could've reversed that trajectory at any time prior to that and survived.

Re: Buffy's Gangster Boyfriend and how he hurt her still.

[bk_forever]

Thank you.