Yet another story
I’ve decided I’m going to write one story for every letter. I’m being nice to myself and saying that drabbles count as stories … However, I do NOT count the 70 Questions … speaking of, I still have eight in my notebook that hasn’t been posted. So, here’s Y.
The Y Chromosome
by SRoni
Disclaimer: I don’t own the characters. I desperately wish I did. I just keep them locked in my notebook (or the cd case when you count Season One) and bring them out to play with them. Don’t sue me. Seriously. I don’t have any money whatsoever right now. I spent the last ten dollars (thirty cents, US) on bus fare.
Spoilers: Everything. There. That covers it. Read “Below the Surface” if you want, and that will explain one “What the HECK?” moment.
***
Giles is … Giles. Not nearly as stuffy as he used to be, but just as British. He gave up simply watching the fight some time ago; his Slayer was fighting, and that meant he was, too. He’d do anything to keep me safe. I know that. I’m the last of “his children” to cling to innocence. He’d die to protect that.
He’s the closest to a father that I’ve ever had, even if you count my “memories”. Actually, there’s been some speculation on the net (Yes, the internet truly does have everything on it. Some people even write stories about us. The majority of it is crap, but some are entertaining. All I can say to those people is this: Get a life.) Anyway, there’s one theory on the net that Giles is my father, because he and Buffy were really close. (Plus the whole band candy thing between him and Mom. I’m just saying …) If so, that would make a lot of sense for me. You know, how I wound up a brown-eyed brunette when both Mom and Hank are blonde. Then again, Buffy’s natural hair color is pretty dark.
Giles thinks everything through. He’s very logical. But he doesn’t mind emotions. He’s never accused me of being emotional, even when I was.
Xander is the other “father” possibility. I’m really hoping not. I mean, he’s a great guy, but I have enough issues. I don’t need to deal with the fact that I’ve slept with, and am currently dating, my father. (Remember, Wil, you swore Buffy would never read this. You said that only you would read this, and grade it, and then you’re burning it. Just wanted to remind you, because I don’t want to die, and I don’t want Xander dead, either. She knows we’re dating … but the other? She chooses to not-know.) Xander has been fighting from the day he found out vampires existed. By the rest of the world’s standards, he didn’t have to. By his own standards, he never had a choice. He’s one of the strongest guys I know. He’s set a standard for me: when I look at guys, there aren’t any that measure up to him. That’s why he’s the only guy I’ve ever really dated. (And if Buffy would get her head away from “immortal” creatures and just open her eyes … With all her claims of a desire for a normal life, can you please explain to me why she’s never gone for the only guy who’s ever stuck by her ever since they met? Who happens to be human? It doesn’t matter. I’ve got him now. Sucks for her. I’m not giving him up. He’s mine. Yes, I’m possessive, and I know it. I freely admit it.)
Wesley is someone I’ll miss. Sorta. I wish that I could have gotten to know him after he lost the pompous, self-righteous attitude. He always struck me as a good guy who was just trying too hard. If he’d cared as much about keeping people safe as he did about doing his job, it would have been okay, but his need to meet and surpass his father’s expectations drove him too far. And he was totally crushing on Buffy back in Sunnydale, and covered it up by flirting with Cordelia. He fought alongside Angel for around five years. There was that whole year of who-knows-what, when he fell out with Angel and the group for no real reason, and I’ve been sworn to secrecy of what I know, and I’m sure you have, too. But he always tried to do the right thing. In the long run, that counts for a lot. I wish I knew him better.
My next two guys might not count for this assignment, but I accept that.
Oz was human 28 days out of the month, and he fought whenever he wasn’t furry. I base the eligibility of him on my list on those grounds.
Once he was part of this world, there was no going back for him. Like Xander, he was stuck, separated forever from normalcy. Unlike Xander, it wasn’t a true choice for him. It wasn’t decided by ethics. Sure, he could have declined, turned his back on it … but that meant for three days every month, for thirty-six days every year, a beast might be free. He couldn’t take that chance. So he stayed and fought. I used to swear that he only allowed himself 1,000 words a day, and he only used half of them, and that was on a talkative day. But I also knew that he was just a quiet person, who got more out of listening than talking. When he left our band of family, he didn’t leave the fight. He just went into another direction, and came back when he was needed. Good thing, too. He definitely helped in that last fight in Sunnydale. Without him, a lot more would have died. (I just wish Anya and some of the potentials, especially Amanda, hadn’t. Andrew? I could care less. And I’m sure that you’re happy he came back, what with the whole ENGAGEMENT thing.)
Riley is the one that I can’t justify in one line. Riley was not technically “normal”. Not with those super vitamins he was being forced to take in. But when he thought he was just an average human being, he fought. He joined an underground military group SO he could fight. He may have been recruited, but he already knew about things that go bump in the night. He was already patrolling the local cemeteries for vamps when this guy came and told him about the Initiative. (What? He told me things he didn’t tell anyone else. You really think he was going to tell Buffy that the reason he know about vamps was because his high school sweetheart was turned? Yeah, not happening. He was smarter than that.) He was a good guy that made mistakes. I’m not going to lie and say he didn’t. He did. But he had good intentions for most of them.
I know that I was supposed to find five “normal” people I know who fight, and write about them. The only ones I know, or have known, are guys. So I wrote about them. I call this report “The Y Chromosome” for that reason. And, on a side note, add up their first names that they go by, and you get 25, the number that represents Y. See: Rupert, Xander, Wesley, Oz, Riley. That was totally coincidental.
END
The Y Chromosome
by SRoni
Disclaimer: I don’t own the characters. I desperately wish I did. I just keep them locked in my notebook (or the cd case when you count Season One) and bring them out to play with them. Don’t sue me. Seriously. I don’t have any money whatsoever right now. I spent the last ten dollars (thirty cents, US) on bus fare.
Spoilers: Everything. There. That covers it. Read “Below the Surface” if you want, and that will explain one “What the HECK?” moment.
***
Giles is … Giles. Not nearly as stuffy as he used to be, but just as British. He gave up simply watching the fight some time ago; his Slayer was fighting, and that meant he was, too. He’d do anything to keep me safe. I know that. I’m the last of “his children” to cling to innocence. He’d die to protect that.
He’s the closest to a father that I’ve ever had, even if you count my “memories”. Actually, there’s been some speculation on the net (Yes, the internet truly does have everything on it. Some people even write stories about us. The majority of it is crap, but some are entertaining. All I can say to those people is this: Get a life.) Anyway, there’s one theory on the net that Giles is my father, because he and Buffy were really close. (Plus the whole band candy thing between him and Mom. I’m just saying …) If so, that would make a lot of sense for me. You know, how I wound up a brown-eyed brunette when both Mom and Hank are blonde. Then again, Buffy’s natural hair color is pretty dark.
Giles thinks everything through. He’s very logical. But he doesn’t mind emotions. He’s never accused me of being emotional, even when I was.
Xander is the other “father” possibility. I’m really hoping not. I mean, he’s a great guy, but I have enough issues. I don’t need to deal with the fact that I’ve slept with, and am currently dating, my father. (Remember, Wil, you swore Buffy would never read this. You said that only you would read this, and grade it, and then you’re burning it. Just wanted to remind you, because I don’t want to die, and I don’t want Xander dead, either. She knows we’re dating … but the other? She chooses to not-know.) Xander has been fighting from the day he found out vampires existed. By the rest of the world’s standards, he didn’t have to. By his own standards, he never had a choice. He’s one of the strongest guys I know. He’s set a standard for me: when I look at guys, there aren’t any that measure up to him. That’s why he’s the only guy I’ve ever really dated. (And if Buffy would get her head away from “immortal” creatures and just open her eyes … With all her claims of a desire for a normal life, can you please explain to me why she’s never gone for the only guy who’s ever stuck by her ever since they met? Who happens to be human? It doesn’t matter. I’ve got him now. Sucks for her. I’m not giving him up. He’s mine. Yes, I’m possessive, and I know it. I freely admit it.)
Wesley is someone I’ll miss. Sorta. I wish that I could have gotten to know him after he lost the pompous, self-righteous attitude. He always struck me as a good guy who was just trying too hard. If he’d cared as much about keeping people safe as he did about doing his job, it would have been okay, but his need to meet and surpass his father’s expectations drove him too far. And he was totally crushing on Buffy back in Sunnydale, and covered it up by flirting with Cordelia. He fought alongside Angel for around five years. There was that whole year of who-knows-what, when he fell out with Angel and the group for no real reason, and I’ve been sworn to secrecy of what I know, and I’m sure you have, too. But he always tried to do the right thing. In the long run, that counts for a lot. I wish I knew him better.
My next two guys might not count for this assignment, but I accept that.
Oz was human 28 days out of the month, and he fought whenever he wasn’t furry. I base the eligibility of him on my list on those grounds.
Once he was part of this world, there was no going back for him. Like Xander, he was stuck, separated forever from normalcy. Unlike Xander, it wasn’t a true choice for him. It wasn’t decided by ethics. Sure, he could have declined, turned his back on it … but that meant for three days every month, for thirty-six days every year, a beast might be free. He couldn’t take that chance. So he stayed and fought. I used to swear that he only allowed himself 1,000 words a day, and he only used half of them, and that was on a talkative day. But I also knew that he was just a quiet person, who got more out of listening than talking. When he left our band of family, he didn’t leave the fight. He just went into another direction, and came back when he was needed. Good thing, too. He definitely helped in that last fight in Sunnydale. Without him, a lot more would have died. (I just wish Anya and some of the potentials, especially Amanda, hadn’t. Andrew? I could care less. And I’m sure that you’re happy he came back, what with the whole ENGAGEMENT thing.)
Riley is the one that I can’t justify in one line. Riley was not technically “normal”. Not with those super vitamins he was being forced to take in. But when he thought he was just an average human being, he fought. He joined an underground military group SO he could fight. He may have been recruited, but he already knew about things that go bump in the night. He was already patrolling the local cemeteries for vamps when this guy came and told him about the Initiative. (What? He told me things he didn’t tell anyone else. You really think he was going to tell Buffy that the reason he know about vamps was because his high school sweetheart was turned? Yeah, not happening. He was smarter than that.) He was a good guy that made mistakes. I’m not going to lie and say he didn’t. He did. But he had good intentions for most of them.
I know that I was supposed to find five “normal” people I know who fight, and write about them. The only ones I know, or have known, are guys. So I wrote about them. I call this report “The Y Chromosome” for that reason. And, on a side note, add up their first names that they go by, and you get 25, the number that represents Y. See: Rupert, Xander, Wesley, Oz, Riley. That was totally coincidental.
END