sd_reunion

Nov 24, 2005 21:32

I was just about to leave for Patrol, when I got a phone call from Tara.

"Hey! How goes?"
There was a pause on the other end. Tara stuttered normally, but when the words were impossible to hear, something was wrong.
Desperately wrong.
"B-Buffy..I-I, I-I u-um..w-well, th-there's s-s-something wr-wrong w-w -"
I heard the "W" sound, and thought Willow. I didn't even consider that Tara hadn't finished her sentence. I damn near dropped the phone, had I not gripped it with the strength to break a man's neck.
"Willow? What's wrong with Willow?"
Another pause.
She gulped. I heard sobbing on the other end.
"It's n-not Willow...Buffy...it's Giles."

...Giles?
My eyes were wide, started welling with tears. I openly cried on the phone, not even remembering it was there.
"B-Buffy?", I remember Tara saying, vaguely. But to who? ..Me?

"...Yeah?"
"H-He's in the hospital, th-they say it's bad..G-Giles..he needs us Buffy. He needs us now."
My voice became hard again, playing to the strong facade that I needed right now.
Tara rattled off some numbers, his room number and the phone number, and hastily got off the phone. I hung it up, still in shock.

And then it hit me.
...Giles...
Oh, God..Giles...

I slid to the floor, just melting. Almost as if I had no bones in my body.
I was weak, I couldn't hold myself up..
Had I failed Giles?
No, he's just sick.. really sick...
Why hadn't I noticed?
"God, what's WRONG WITH YOU?!!?" I screamed at myself, infuriated.
I was so damn stupid that I didn't CARE if my Watcher lived or died?

I tried to hold back the tears until I couldn't take it anymore, and they just fell, falling like they never have...with a few exceptions.
I just sobbed, not giving a damn if Mom or Dawn heard me.

I pulled me knees up to my chest, looking very much like the child I felt like.

...Giles...
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