Fic: Behold, Little Padawan! (BtVS; Gen; Part 16/16)

[liz_marcs]

This is it! It's completely and totally done! Yay!

All previous parts can be found here.
Continued from Part 5D.

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[liz_marcs]

Ghandi Xander ain't. And I definitely wanted to make clear (and hopefully it came across) that Xander did have a small hand in making things worse before everything really went to hell for him by not listening to people who knew better and in losing his temper instead of acting like an adult.

I also deliberately left it open to interpretation on whether Vi is trying to make her own sort of amends by working as a Slayer. From Xander's point of view, Vi's worthless, which is not something I agree with. But it's hard to get that point across when most of the story is told from Xander's point of view.

It's hard to get across that Vi's issue was that at the end of the day she was a teenager with a crush who ended up in way over her head. Because, yeah, when I was 16 or 17, I never lied to cover my ass, and I never got caught out, and I never got into trouble more because of the lie than the actual "crime" of being stupid or making a mistake.

Plus, y'know, it's pretty telling that Giles and Vi's Watcher are supposed to be the only ones who actually know where/who she is.

Glad you enjoyed the story.