SPOILERS: nothing much. in fact nothing at all.
SUMMARY: The title explains it all.
Dear Mom,
This feels weird. Very strange in fact. But you've written me letters for almost every occasion in my life, and I want to talk to you so much, that I think this is the way to go.
I think, that you must feel like we never got to know you, and I'm angry that my mom got snatched away so early. I do remember you though. I always will. I remember how you smelled, and how you hugged, and I remember playing with your pretty blonde hair. I remember you wearing a hat, and I remember wondering why you covered your head. Now I realise, its because that pretty hair was there no longer.
I'm getting married today Mom. Her name is Cara, and she knows about everything. Vampires, slayers, demons. Grampa Giles says I've inherited your ignorance of the words "secret identity". There's like a whole community who know about Slayers now. Melissa's great. She's managed, like you, to finish college and slay simultaneously. She's a PE teacher at Sunnydale High.
Anyway, back to Cara. She's a year younger than me, and looks vaguely like Aunt Cordy did when she was younger, except with blonde hair. I hope you'd like her, i think you would. Dad does. She's pretty good friends with Missy, and Maighan too.
I miss you mom. I wish you could be here for my wedding. But I have found someone who I love dearly.
I love you
Kieran
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Wow. Kieran's getting married. I wish you could be here, but I know in a sense you are. You'd love Cara, she's really like Willow was as a teenager. Shy, and senstive, with a quiet courage.
I can imagine you here, easily. When I think back to before Kieran was born, it seems like yesterday...
Early May, 2001
You're leaning on my chest, and I'm caressing your huge stomach.
"Buffy?"
"hmm?" You are almost sleeping.
"What are we going to call the baby?"
Suddenly you're alert, and sitting up. You turn round to face me.
"I'm not sure, but we'd better decide soon. Do you still like Kyran for a boy?"
"It's nice...I kinda prefer Kieran though."
"It's unusual. Pefect though.
We had decided to use Irish names for our baby. We called our eldest Maighan because my youngest sister was called Maighan. She's the only one that survived the massacre I inflicted when I was turned. Buffy didn't know my reasons. Kieran comes from my childhood best friend.
2028
Buffy, you've been gone for 20 years. What can I say? I'm not bein pessimistic, but it's coming to my time. I know I'm relatively young in mortal terms, physically, but I'm losing the will to live. All the kids are grown up now. Mel's a slayer, strong, independent. She's seeing a guy, and he knows about her calling. He loves her, I can see it in his eyes. He's a martial arts expert, so they train together.
Maighan's been married for 3 years already. She's independent too.
And Kieran's getting married today. Buffy, its my time. I'll see you soon. But only after I see my baby, Missy, married.
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