Happy Birthday, Buffy!
In honor of the 20th anniversary of "Welcome to the Hellmouth"/"The Harvest" and for the Last Line/First line drabble challenge over at giles_shorts. Yes, the parallelism was deliberate.
Title: One Day Later
Fandom: BtVS
Word Count: 100
Last line prompt: "After all, it was her destiny."
It was her destiny, but that didn’t mean she had to like it.
Being the Slayer destroyed the life she had, but she had a chance to all start over again in Sunnydale. Except her new town had a vampire problem too.
But she had made a few friends already. Willow was all kinds of awesome and Xander wasn’t too bad either, once you got past the teenage boy posturing. And she liked her new Watcher far more than she wanted to admit. It sort of felt like she’d known him forever.
Maybe things would work out okay after all.
Title: Twenty Years Later
Fandom: BtVS
Word Count: 100
Last line prompt: "After all, it was her destiny."
It was her destiny, but it sure had turned out different from what she had expected.
She was still alive for one thing. Heck, it was well over fifteen years since the last time she died. And life had gotten pretty peaceful in the last decade.
Even though they all lived in different parts of the world, she was able to see Willow and Xander on a fairly regular basis. And Giles, once her Watcher and now so much more than that, was still by her side, stalwart and true.
Maybe it wasn’t so bad being a Slayer after all.
Title: One Day Later
Fandom: BtVS
Word Count: 100
Last line prompt: "After all, it was her destiny."
It was her destiny, but that didn’t mean she had to like it.
Being the Slayer destroyed the life she had, but she had a chance to all start over again in Sunnydale. Except her new town had a vampire problem too.
But she had made a few friends already. Willow was all kinds of awesome and Xander wasn’t too bad either, once you got past the teenage boy posturing. And she liked her new Watcher far more than she wanted to admit. It sort of felt like she’d known him forever.
Maybe things would work out okay after all.
Title: Twenty Years Later
Fandom: BtVS
Word Count: 100
Last line prompt: "After all, it was her destiny."
It was her destiny, but it sure had turned out different from what she had expected.
She was still alive for one thing. Heck, it was well over fifteen years since the last time she died. And life had gotten pretty peaceful in the last decade.
Even though they all lived in different parts of the world, she was able to see Willow and Xander on a fairly regular basis. And Giles, once her Watcher and now so much more than that, was still by her side, stalwart and true.
Maybe it wasn’t so bad being a Slayer after all.