If I listen I can hear you through my radio ☌ In that bright white noise

[slayerpreferred]

Buffy paused in the street, gasping her first breath of crisp evening air. It was like she had been underground for months--wait. Her eyes hardened and she got her head back in the game, tearing off the hem of her burial gown and getting down to business. Coming back from the dead, she did this kind of stuff all the time. Or at least, the once

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[thatoldthatkind]

And suddenly, a man in a green coat and cowboy hat was right behind her. He held her up by her waist, holding her close and trying to be protective. "No, no. Come on now. Fight it! Just shake it off."

[slayerpreferred]

He fights him, too frightened to react any other way. Pushing at his chest, she flees further into her corner and recites. "Slayer kill vampire. Human. Human world, different rules. Don't kill humans.

"Because it's wrong." She curls in on herself more fiercely than before, shaking like a leaf after having said so much. Buffy doesn't even understand the words; she can't even process them. She only knows their truth.

[thatoldthatkind]

"You need to focus!" The Doctor said.

[slayerpreferred]

"Focus..." She hones in on her hands, staring at them. Her fingers are cracked and bleeding from clawing her way out of her grave, and it makes her eyes well with tears. But there's no recognition to be had for the Doctor's words as she stares blankly forward, feeling utterly numb.