BtVS Ficlet: Double Life

[badly_knitted]

Title: Double Life

Fandom: BtVS

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Buffy

Rating: G

Spoilers: General for the first season, before Joyce learns that Buffy’s the Slayer.

Summary: Buffy feels torn in two by the double life she has to lead.

Word Count: 345

Written For: My own prompt ‘BtVS, Buffy Summers. By day she's a schoolgirl, by night she's the Slayer. Sometimes she

Comments

[cynthia2015]

Joyce: "And honey, try not to get kicked out."

Joyce was a good mother to Buffy despite the complications of Buffy being a slayer.

Willow: You're the Slayer, and we're, like, the Slayerettes!

I think what made Buffy different from the slayers before her was that she had a close circle of friends supporting her.

Giles: I'll just jump in my time machine, go back to the Twelfth Century, and ask the vampires to postpone their ancient prophecy for a few days while you take in dinner and a show.

Giles was not just her watcher but a male authoritative figure towards Buffy. She depended on him when her mother died. But then he left so that she could learn how to cope on her own as an adult.

[badly_knitted]

Yes, all very true. Unlike other slayers, Buffy had a support system that went beyond just her watcher, I think that's also why she survived. She had people willing to help. But there came a point where she needed to learn to stand on her own, be the adult, and for that Giles had to move aside and let her make her own way, even though he felt a fatherly desire to protect her from everything he could. He couldn't live her life for her, any more than any other parent can.

Thank you!

[cynthia2015]

Giles: Good Lord. You *were* dead, Buffy.
Buffy: I was only gone for a minute.

Buffy was always a survior. She literally died twice!.

*Xander revived Buffy with CPR from her first death.

*Willow resurrected Buffy from her second death. Although this came with consequences.

[badly_knitted]

I remember both occasions. Slayers are hard to kill because of their physical strength and powers of recovery, but I think Buffy had more than that, because with her friends supporting her she was even stronger. One person alone can only do so much, but she led a small army in the shape of her friends. Having a vampire (Angel and later Spike) on her side didn't hurt either.