BtVS Triple Drabble: Endings
Title: Endings
Fandom: BtVS
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy, Angel.
Rating: PG
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘The End’.
Spoilers/Setting: Graduation Day Part 2.
Summary: For Buffy and her friends, graduation is the end of one chapter in their lives, but Buffy is facing the end of something else even more important.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Triple drabble.
Graduation is an ending of sorts, the end of Buffy’s childhood, and not just hers but all her friends’ too. They’re not adults yet, still teenagers, but leaving high school is a massive leap forwards, into a sort of limbo. College will be the next step, but that’s still months away for those who’ll be enrolling. One part of her life is reaching its conclusion, with nothing to take its place…
Perhaps Buffy could get a summer job, something to fill in time. It would distract her from thinking about other things, like her creature of the night boyfriend breaking up with her and leaving Sunnydale. Two endings, one after another; it’s a lot to deal with.
Buffy’s pretty sure she’ll miss Angel more than she’ll miss school, and lessons, and homework, even though school has been a part of her life longer than Angel has. It’s just that school is, or was, such an everyday thing, something to be endured rather than enjoyed, and Angel was the opposite. Angel was the one who made everything else worth enduring. He made her feel alive while school seemed intent on sucking all the joy out of her existence.
Now Angel’s gone, without even a goodbye, slipping away in the aftermath of the worst high school graduation ceremony ever. Perhaps even that was fitting; they’d already said all they needed to say to one another. Dragging it out would only have hurt them both more than they were already hurting, because theirs wasn’t a normal breakup. Neither of them had fallen out of love, there’s nobody else in either of their lives, it’s just that they’d reached a point where they had to accept they’d never have a future. Not together.
So, time to go their separate ways, but they’ll never forget.
The End
Fandom: BtVS
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy, Angel.
Rating: PG
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘The End’.
Spoilers/Setting: Graduation Day Part 2.
Summary: For Buffy and her friends, graduation is the end of one chapter in their lives, but Buffy is facing the end of something else even more important.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Triple drabble.
Graduation is an ending of sorts, the end of Buffy’s childhood, and not just hers but all her friends’ too. They’re not adults yet, still teenagers, but leaving high school is a massive leap forwards, into a sort of limbo. College will be the next step, but that’s still months away for those who’ll be enrolling. One part of her life is reaching its conclusion, with nothing to take its place…
Perhaps Buffy could get a summer job, something to fill in time. It would distract her from thinking about other things, like her creature of the night boyfriend breaking up with her and leaving Sunnydale. Two endings, one after another; it’s a lot to deal with.
Buffy’s pretty sure she’ll miss Angel more than she’ll miss school, and lessons, and homework, even though school has been a part of her life longer than Angel has. It’s just that school is, or was, such an everyday thing, something to be endured rather than enjoyed, and Angel was the opposite. Angel was the one who made everything else worth enduring. He made her feel alive while school seemed intent on sucking all the joy out of her existence.
Now Angel’s gone, without even a goodbye, slipping away in the aftermath of the worst high school graduation ceremony ever. Perhaps even that was fitting; they’d already said all they needed to say to one another. Dragging it out would only have hurt them both more than they were already hurting, because theirs wasn’t a normal breakup. Neither of them had fallen out of love, there’s nobody else in either of their lives, it’s just that they’d reached a point where they had to accept they’d never have a future. Not together.
So, time to go their separate ways, but they’ll never forget.
The End