284 - You're fired! Talk about a time you were forced out of something.
The easy answer would be when I was fired from being a counselor at the new Sunnydale High. Mainly because I was only there to watch over Dawnie and make sure she was okay because first day of school and creepy zombie-things in the basement? Hello! Do you really think I'd let my baby sister be alone and defenseless like that?
Well, also because Robin was acting bizarre, and at the time? I wasn't sure what side he was on so I needed to watch him, too. But, he fired me because I sucked at my job. I did, it's true. I spent too much time Googling info on possible baddies instead of actually helping any of the students, so that job was pretty much a bust.
Giles got fired because of me, too, and that would typically be yet another easy-ish thing to discuss. You know. Heap Big Slayer with Daddy Issues (notice all the caps?) gets too attached to Father Figure, who disobeys direct orders from the stupid Watchers Council so BAM. Fired. Well, that's the gist of it, anyway.
I was also fired from the cheerleading team. Not because I sucked, though, but because I was the Slayer and it was interfering with stuff. Basically, I wasn't Cordelia anymore, which is actually a good thing.
All in all, though, those are the easy ones. There have been other things here and there (and I totally think getting dumped by a guy is the equivalent of getting fired, by the way -- after all, you are getting "dismissed" from the position of girlfriend!), but the hard one to talk about still is when I was kicked out of my own house by Dawn and my friends.
It's funny; I don't think I've ever really forgiven Willow or Xand for doing that to me. Well, not funny ha-ha, but funny-ironic. Not Alanis Morissette's weird song, "Ironic", either, where nothing is ironic, but... okay, I'm rambling.
It's just... I'm the Slayer. I'm in charge. Faith didn't even want to be in charge of the potentials, but they voted and kicked me out of my own house because they all thought I wasn't doing the right thing when it came to The First. Spike was the one who had to build me back up and make me believe in myself enough to stop moping and to go find the Scythe that turned all the potentials into Slayers. Again with the irony.
I guess what I'm saying is, it's easy for me to accept getting kicked off teams or jobs or whatever. No big, because it's not personal. It's not my real job. But Slaying? It's my job. Leading everyone? My job. And that's not something anyone should be fired from.
Not even Faith.
Muse: Buffy Summers
Fandom: BtVS
Word Count: 462
Well, also because Robin was acting bizarre, and at the time? I wasn't sure what side he was on so I needed to watch him, too. But, he fired me because I sucked at my job. I did, it's true. I spent too much time Googling info on possible baddies instead of actually helping any of the students, so that job was pretty much a bust.
Giles got fired because of me, too, and that would typically be yet another easy-ish thing to discuss. You know. Heap Big Slayer with Daddy Issues (notice all the caps?) gets too attached to Father Figure, who disobeys direct orders from the stupid Watchers Council so BAM. Fired. Well, that's the gist of it, anyway.
I was also fired from the cheerleading team. Not because I sucked, though, but because I was the Slayer and it was interfering with stuff. Basically, I wasn't Cordelia anymore, which is actually a good thing.
All in all, though, those are the easy ones. There have been other things here and there (and I totally think getting dumped by a guy is the equivalent of getting fired, by the way -- after all, you are getting "dismissed" from the position of girlfriend!), but the hard one to talk about still is when I was kicked out of my own house by Dawn and my friends.
It's funny; I don't think I've ever really forgiven Willow or Xand for doing that to me. Well, not funny ha-ha, but funny-ironic. Not Alanis Morissette's weird song, "Ironic", either, where nothing is ironic, but... okay, I'm rambling.
It's just... I'm the Slayer. I'm in charge. Faith didn't even want to be in charge of the potentials, but they voted and kicked me out of my own house because they all thought I wasn't doing the right thing when it came to The First. Spike was the one who had to build me back up and make me believe in myself enough to stop moping and to go find the Scythe that turned all the potentials into Slayers. Again with the irony.
I guess what I'm saying is, it's easy for me to accept getting kicked off teams or jobs or whatever. No big, because it's not personal. It's not my real job. But Slaying? It's my job. Leading everyone? My job. And that's not something anyone should be fired from.
Not even Faith.
Muse: Buffy Summers
Fandom: BtVS
Word Count: 462