Disclaimer: I don't mention names and you probably wouldn't be able to tell it was Buffy unless you watch the show, but I'll say it anyway. The BtVS and Angel characters don't belong to me.
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Summary: Read it and see. From Angel's POV, if you can't already tell.

Didn't anyone ever tell you about life, about what's it's actually like?

No? You're kidding me, right? You don't know the truth?

Forgive if I laugh my ass off. You're actually trying to tell me that noone's ever told you that life's not a bundle of roses, and if anyone ever gets happily ever after, they've been smoking something?

No cigar there, either?

You don't know that there's no such thing as "happily ever after", no such thing as "love is eternal?"

Sorry, I just can't stop laughing. I can't believe that someone who exists on this planet who doesn't know the facts of life.

Lemme enlighten you.

Life's not pretty. Life's not a fairy tale. You think you're gonna live forever with your one true love, that you're not gonna die alone old and gray? Where no one cares if you live or die, no one gives a rat's ass if ya don't wake up to greet the 'morrow?

You really want the facts? You really wanna know what this damned existence everyone calls living is like?

Okay, fine. Here's the truth. In its simplest forms.

Life sucks, and then you die.

Life's a bitch, and then you die.

Believe me, I know.

I once had everything, had that fairy tale, that cliche everyone terms "happily ever after"

And I let her slip away.

Why, you ask? Why did I let light slip away, let the sun set forever, let a love that is eternal be rudely spat in my face?

To this day I don't know. But I do know one thing.

I know that everything was a waste. Everything I've tried to do over the years was a waste.

Because I let her go.

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