What she came for
Buffy/Angel
Origianally a drabble for
open_on_sunday, prompt was titles of Franz Ferdinand songs (I choose What She Came For) however this is over a hundred words, and the exact one hundred word version I posted isn't very good. So this is the fic as it was intended.
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This is what she came for.
To revel in the violence of being a Slayer. Punches, kicks, a knee to the stomach, to the face.
She's beating up a vamp she lured out of the Bronze.
She's beating up a perv for what's in his wallet, a place to stay.
This is what she came for.
To escape. From her demons, both literal and figurative. To run, always to run, which is the nature of the girl.
She's in Sunnydale to escape the demon that killed her Watcher Oh God, how could she leave her like that? to that?
She's in L.A. to escape Buffy and friends, demons of her own making. She doesn't even know who she is anymore.
This is what she came for.
To atone.
She's turning herself in, she's breaking out of prison to fight Angelus, she's going back to Sunnydale to face the people she's hurt.
This is what Faith came for.