Rating: PG
Summary: Buffy makes an unemotional decision...
Spoilers: Don't think so...but then, I don't think, come to think of it!?! (hehehe)
Disclaimer: I so TOTALLY wish I owned them...do you think I could kill him and claim to be his heir? At least that way the storyline wouldn't ubersuck!!! And the song is "Where Do We Go From Here" Madonna, from the Evita soundtrack...don't own that either ::sigh::
Note: This is the eighth story in the Weekend series. Follows Death Weekend.
UC Sunnydale
Friday
All week everyone asked where Buffy was, but no one knew. None of her so-called 'friends' knew, her former Watcher didn't know, her parents didn't know. If Janice and Spike knew, they weren't talking. The gang figured that she was at the mansion...and they would be right. They just weren't game enough to check...
Where do we go from here?
This isn't where we intended to be.
We had it all
You believed in me
I believed in you
Joyce had shed silent tears when they told her what had happened. She had honestly liked Angel in the end. If he hadn't have been a vampire, she would have been perfectly happy for him and Buffy to be together.
Certainties disappear
What do we do for our dream to survive
How do we keep all our passions alive
As we used to do?
Janice had put in a request for her original Watcher to come to town and take over from Giles. She went patrolling every night with Spike and left a note under Giles' door in the morning as a report. Both she and Spike refused to speak to them.
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Buffy and Angel's Bedroom
Friday 11:30pm
Deep in my heart I'm concealing
Things that I'm longing to say
Scared to confess what I'm feeling
Frightened you'll slip away
Buffy sat on the bed she had shared with Angel. She thought about the events of the past week. Angel's lawyer had informed her of the will and everything it contained, including this place. This was the most important. That same lawyer was hers now. Another thing from Angel, he had been put on a retainer in the event that Buffy needed a lawyer, and now, she did.
On the bedside table sat seven letters. One for each of her parents, one for Spike,one for Whistler, one for Cordelia and one for Doyle. The other was something else for Janice.
She couldn't believe that one almost healed injury had caused her to fall. Because of that, Angel had come to her aide. Because of that, Angel had been staked in the back by a spiteful boy who was too cowardly to face him.
She had one last thing to do. She picked up the phone and called Janice.
"Hello?"
"Janice, I need you to promise me one thing." Even to herself her voice sounded pained.
"Buffy? Sure, anything."
"Promise me that they will never set foot in this house, ever."
She didn't have to ask who 'they' were. "Of course, Buffy."
Buffy hung up. She looked at her watch and saw that it was 11:45pm. Two more minutes. Angel died at 11:47pm.
You must love me
You must love me
She got off the bed and pulled out the urn that held his ashes from the wardrobe. Also from the wardrobe, she pulled out the jeweled dagger that Angel had given her for her birthday a couple of weeks back.
She laid back down on the bed and thought for a moment. They'll never take me. I won't give them the satisfaction. I'll be with my Angel...
As the clock turned to 11:47 Buffy Summers no longer resided in the land of the living...
Why are you at my side?
How can I be any use to now?
Give me a chance and I'll let you see how
Nothing has changed.
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Giles' House
11:47pm
He knew. He knew what they had caused. He knew that she was dead...they had done this to her. There was no going back.
He sat in his chair and cried...
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Janice made her way to the mansion, knowing that Buffy was gone. She didn't think that even if she could have stopped her, she would have. Buffy's life would have ended soon enough. At least this way she went on her own terms and followed her Angel...
She reached the mansion and went upstairs where she knew she would find Buffy. She was followed by Cordelia and Doyle who had stayed with her for the past week.
Upstairs they found Buffy laying on the bed with her dagger protruding from her heart, right where Angel had been staked. They walked over to the table and picked up the letters and read the ones that were for them.
Janice's was the worst.
Deep in my heart I'm concealing
Things that I'm longing to say
Scared to confess what I'm feeling
Frightened you'll slip away
You must love me
Dear Janice,
I guess by now you know what I've done. Don't feel guilty, you couldn't have stopped me and you know it. I have to be with my Angel. Attached to this is a copy of my Last Will and Testament. I've left everything to you. Normally someone my age wouldn't need one, but Angel left me everything and I didn't want anyone else to get what was his. You promised me something. Please keep that promise. This was our home. I don't want them here. Not them or any of their descendants.
Please keep this place intact. There's enough money to do that for the next one hundred years...
Don't feel bad for me, I'm with my Angel...
Love, Buffy
And Janice cried...
Deep in my heart I'm concealing
Things that I'm longing to say
Scared to confess what I'm feeling
Frightened you'll slip away
You must love me
She would keep that promise now and forever...
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