Buffy Drabble--Birthday Wish (Rated G)
From the sunday100 challenge:
Set: Pre-'Older and Far Away'
Dawn lurks in the shadows, hating the monks as she watches the Scoobies prepare for a party.
Buffy's birthdays are catastrophes. People get eaten; worlds are imperiled. Every year, Buffy threatens not to celebrate it. And every year, the Scoobies throw her a party. Because they love her.
Dawn recalls her first birthday, when she put a hand in the clown cake Joyce made and squashed its nose flat. A trip to Disneyland, when she was seven. Dining out on baked Alaska at thirteen.
Dawn rubs her hot, leaking eyes, wishing just one of her happy birthdays had been real.
Set: Pre-'Older and Far Away'
Dawn lurks in the shadows, hating the monks as she watches the Scoobies prepare for a party.
Buffy's birthdays are catastrophes. People get eaten; worlds are imperiled. Every year, Buffy threatens not to celebrate it. And every year, the Scoobies throw her a party. Because they love her.
Dawn recalls her first birthday, when she put a hand in the clown cake Joyce made and squashed its nose flat. A trip to Disneyland, when she was seven. Dining out on baked Alaska at thirteen.
Dawn rubs her hot, leaking eyes, wishing just one of her happy birthdays had been real.