She'll laugh at my doom.
Now that we've explained to Junior and Julia that I'm not going to go slaying anymore, there's one more person I have to tell before I can start trying to casually work it into conversation with everyone else. Arianna. And I thought about asking her and Dan to come, but I know she'll tell him the minute she gets home, so that isn't necessary. He'll
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Dan claims that he has no idea what this little talk is going to be about, and I don't know if I believe him or not. He doesn't really lie to me unless he badly needs me to shut up, as far as I know, so I guess I do. I just don't like this. There's something I don't know about. AgainLast time this happened, Carly was pregnant, and my stupid older brother got married to her without telling me ( ... )
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What's going on? My days of having a purpose are over, that's what's going on. And yes, I could have told her that over the phone, but it didn't seem very professional of me to do that. Since this is the last thing I'm going to have to do as a slayer, I might as well do it well, step down gracefully, maintain my reputation for being one of the better ones, all that shit. Which means meeting with Arianna to talk about it, even though she's my sister and I don't really need to, is important. She's the only one we have left to fight locally, unless I can talk her into letting me talk them into sending another one. Its big. Not for me because I won't be doing anything, but for Arianna.
I closed the door and headed for the kitchen without another word. She's already asking about why she's here, and I don't even have the ice cream dished out yet. That's called jumping the gun.
"Who's dying? ... Are you pregnant again? ... Did Sam do something stupid and you need me to yell at him?""No one. No." But I'll have to ( ... )
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"Well, I know, but..." I just want to be told what's going on. And there's a lot of possibilities, I was just going for every possible one. Sam doing something stupid is very possible. It's the part where Carly asks me to yell at him that's less.
"Sam and I have been worried about Junior. Ever since he found out about what you and I do he's practically been programming himself to wake up when I get home so that he can heal me after I go slaying.""I know." Sam gets this funny look whenever he talks about it. You can tell it drives him crazy, I think he thinks he was failing Junior by letting him get like that, and I kept trying to tell him that's not true, but he didn't believe me ( ... )
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"Yeah."
I sighed, pulling a chair out and sitting down at the table. I know Arianna is looking at me like I've lost it, but I'll pretend that she isn't. She knows how I am, and how much what we do means to me. The "stopping" part just sounds strange to her because she has no idea what its like to be a mom.
I've been a vampire slayer for a long time. I wouldn't give it up unless I felt like I was screwing up my family in some way, and Sam has made it pretty clear to me that I am.
I don't have a choice. If I continue with it the way I've been, I'll upset the kids. We're lucky that they've been good about it for this long, I can't afford to press my luck. I won't hurt the kids.
Not intentionally, anyway.
"... So it's just going to be me?""No." I shook my head, reaching over and picking up a paper napkin to keep my hands busy. "The council is furious with me for what I'm doing, but I think I still have enough pull to convince them to send you back up ( ... )
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