[ No one takes her side like that, without question, without judgment. No one since the Mayor died. Faith feels a jolt of her own, and it's the only reason she doesn't counter that she might have at least slowed Angelus down. ]
nah you get chosen it's supposed to be some big honor sacred duty or whatever one girl in all the world versus the forces of evil
and i haven't even told you about the council of geezers that tells us what to do
buffy was first you only get a new slayer when the last one dies, but she got resuscitated then there was kendra, and then me after kendra got taken out
[ An unbidden spike of fondness, a combination of a familiar nature and the memory of what had bound them together in the dark of the night, back at the commune.
After a pause, a reiteration: ]
Don't linger on it. On Angelus. But if you need time off, it's yours.
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Date: 2026-01-19 07:12 am (UTC)If you'd killed him, he'd only have come back.
It wasn't your fault, as much as he wanted you to think it was.
[ Angelus had given that truth up himself, after all, making it clear that his primary goal had been to ruin his other self's chances. ]
You didn't choose it? To become a vampire slayer?
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Date: 2026-01-19 09:51 pm (UTC)nah
you get chosen
it's supposed to be some big honor
sacred duty or whatever
one girl in all the world versus the forces of evil
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Date: 2026-01-20 01:35 am (UTC)[ The lack of agency. The odds. ]
You and Buffy, then, came before or after each other?
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Date: 2026-01-20 06:22 pm (UTC)buffy was first
you only get a new slayer when the last one dies, but she got resuscitated
then there was kendra, and then me after kendra got taken out
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Date: 2026-01-22 12:13 am (UTC)[ And no need, he thinks, to make it any more explicit what he makes of it. ]
I hope you've at least some measure of agency, here.
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Date: 2026-01-22 06:04 am (UTC)i said those were the rules
i didn't say i always followed 'em
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Date: 2026-01-22 07:14 am (UTC)[ An unbidden spike of fondness, a combination of a familiar nature and the memory of what had bound them together in the dark of the night, back at the commune.
After a pause, a reiteration: ]
Don't linger on it. On Angelus.
But if you need time off, it's yours.
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Date: 2026-01-29 02:38 am (UTC)but thanks
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Date: 2026-01-29 03:13 am (UTC)I'll see you at the club.