Flash challenge: mortality rate

[brutti_ma_buoni]

Boy, this took me to an unexpectedly sad place...

Title: Mortality Rate
Rating: PG
Words: 250
Character: Xander
Prompt: The Prom flash challenge 'the lowest mortality rate of any graduating class in Sunnydale history'
A/N: all credit to buffy.wikia.com for the student list!

Comments

[velvetwhip]

This is so touching and real.

Gabrielle

[brutti_ma_buoni]

Thank you! It's tough being a Sunnydale student.

[sentine]

What was their motto? "The future is ours"?

Very bittersweet, I love it.

[brutti_ma_buoni]

Yeah. The 'assuming we survive' bit is unspoken, most of the time, isn't it?

[perpetual]

That was fantastic. I can't believe you got that much emotion and characterization into such a short fic.

I love the way Xander is dealing with all this turmoil but hiding it for the sake of Buffy and the others. And that death list...there's just so much going on for him, for all of them.

[brutti_ma_buoni]

Thanks so much! Just occasionally, that overwhelming sense of how awful it must be to grow up in Sunnydale shows up in the fic.

[brutti_ma_buoni]

It's pretty tough, being one of those kids, isn't it? Thanks!

[daiseechain]

Lovely. Sad, but lovely.

[brutti_ma_buoni]

Thank you! Now, with extra angst...