Just Like Home... [now_ish]
Continued from HERE
This whole day had been interesting. First there was the sun that was actually there for a change, and then for a second there I thought it was going to be a normal day... finally, after so many not so normal days in L.A. But that had been too much to ask for. I guess it was part of being an Angelino, I couldn’t have picked a better town to become someone. Then again, I wouldn't want it any other way. If I hadn't come here, then I would probably be lost somewhere else. Funny when you think about it, I mean, really think about it. Most people say they come here to get lost, because it’s the easiest thing to do in a town that's so big. But I came here, lost already and ended up finding myself.
Life's funny that way I guess.
And now here I was, at the Hyperion searching for answers. Just trying to figure out if the sun would stay for good up there this time around and not disappear from the sky again. If this would have been a few years back, I wouldn't have cared either way. Sun, no sun, it would have been all the same. I would have learned to conform, and just accepted that fate. But now things were different, and it wasn't just about me anymore.
The kids, they all changed my life, in ways I never thought that I could change in to. Who knew that a name could be so powerful. But it was. Suddenly the Shakespeare’s quote, 'What's in a name? That which we call rose by any other word would smell as sweet...' sounded a little absurd. Funny to think about stuff like that. Well, not funny ha! ha!, just funny.
As I stood in the lobby with Buffy and Kate, I began to feel as if I were in Sunnydale again. A strange place where things always happened, and then it dawned on me that maybe Sunnydale was just a normal place with strange kids, and strange things, and that Buffy and her friends were the ones responsible for all weirdness that happened around there. Like if they all broke a giant mirror and now were doomed to live out seven years of bad luck.
That could explain what was happening now... then again, maybe not.
It did make me smile though. Just like home, I thought. But like Buffy had said, the kids and I weren't safe out there. Not from the demons and the vampires. Sure we did what we could, but it was always nice to get the extra help. Besides, here the kids would be much safer here, wouldn’t have to always fend for themselves. Sometime, I couldn't watch each and every one of them, but I did what I could when I could. And they knew that.
***
After her re-cap down memory lane, Buffy decided to go and make sure there was enough stuff to house the kids here in the hotel, and… oh, get some "shopping" done too, if need be.
"And, uh... talk to you later, right?"
"Yes, I want to talk to you about the guns-"
I turned to Kate and raised my eyebrow. That was not the type of reassurance I was looking for before brining the kids here... but I didn't say anything.
"-about Gunn, I mean."
Right... I thought.
"So, um. Shall we go?"
"Yeah, c'mon," I said taking the lead.
I walked towards my car, and opened the door. I didn't think to ask first and see if she would be okay taking my car instead of hers, but I thought it might be. Still, I turned around and gave her a half smile.
"Sorry... do you mind if we drove on my car? Unless you want to take yours, that's totally fine too."
This whole day had been interesting. First there was the sun that was actually there for a change, and then for a second there I thought it was going to be a normal day... finally, after so many not so normal days in L.A. But that had been too much to ask for. I guess it was part of being an Angelino, I couldn’t have picked a better town to become someone. Then again, I wouldn't want it any other way. If I hadn't come here, then I would probably be lost somewhere else. Funny when you think about it, I mean, really think about it. Most people say they come here to get lost, because it’s the easiest thing to do in a town that's so big. But I came here, lost already and ended up finding myself.
Life's funny that way I guess.
And now here I was, at the Hyperion searching for answers. Just trying to figure out if the sun would stay for good up there this time around and not disappear from the sky again. If this would have been a few years back, I wouldn't have cared either way. Sun, no sun, it would have been all the same. I would have learned to conform, and just accepted that fate. But now things were different, and it wasn't just about me anymore.
The kids, they all changed my life, in ways I never thought that I could change in to. Who knew that a name could be so powerful. But it was. Suddenly the Shakespeare’s quote, 'What's in a name? That which we call rose by any other word would smell as sweet...' sounded a little absurd. Funny to think about stuff like that. Well, not funny ha! ha!, just funny.
As I stood in the lobby with Buffy and Kate, I began to feel as if I were in Sunnydale again. A strange place where things always happened, and then it dawned on me that maybe Sunnydale was just a normal place with strange kids, and strange things, and that Buffy and her friends were the ones responsible for all weirdness that happened around there. Like if they all broke a giant mirror and now were doomed to live out seven years of bad luck.
That could explain what was happening now... then again, maybe not.
It did make me smile though. Just like home, I thought. But like Buffy had said, the kids and I weren't safe out there. Not from the demons and the vampires. Sure we did what we could, but it was always nice to get the extra help. Besides, here the kids would be much safer here, wouldn’t have to always fend for themselves. Sometime, I couldn't watch each and every one of them, but I did what I could when I could. And they knew that.
***
After her re-cap down memory lane, Buffy decided to go and make sure there was enough stuff to house the kids here in the hotel, and… oh, get some "shopping" done too, if need be.
"And, uh... talk to you later, right?"
"Yes, I want to talk to you about the guns-"
I turned to Kate and raised my eyebrow. That was not the type of reassurance I was looking for before brining the kids here... but I didn't say anything.
"-about Gunn, I mean."
Right... I thought.
"So, um. Shall we go?"
"Yeah, c'mon," I said taking the lead.
I walked towards my car, and opened the door. I didn't think to ask first and see if she would be okay taking my car instead of hers, but I thought it might be. Still, I turned around and gave her a half smile.
"Sorry... do you mind if we drove on my car? Unless you want to take yours, that's totally fine too."