BtVS Double Drabble: Older
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badly_knittedTitle: Older
Fandom: BtVS
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Buffy, Angel.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 486: Feeling Blue at
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drabble_zone.Spoilers/Setting: Surprise / Innocence.
Summary: Buffy turns seventeen. So much for a happy birthday.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
Birthdays, when Buffy was younger, had always been cause for excitement, with cards, gifts, a cake, and a party… Her parents had always gone all-out. She’d looked forward to her birthday every year, and this year had been no exception, but for the first time, things had fallen sort of flat.
It had started out well, with gifts from her mom in the morning, then the surprise party her friends had thrown in the evening, but then there’d been the unwelcome surprise of trying to stop Spike and Drusilla from assembling the bits and pieces of the Judge, something they’d failed to do, and then…
Everything had taken a turn for the better, she’d thought, with Angel not having to leave, and then they’d made love for the first time, the only time, because what had been so perfect, so special, had left Angel soulless and evil again. How could so much happen in one day? How could everything fall apart so fast?
So now, here Buffy sat, on the evening after her birthday, feeling emptier than she would have thought possible. Her birthday, her special day, had turned into a nightmare. Instead of happy, all she felt was older.
The End
It had started out well, with gifts from her mom in the morning, then the surprise party her friends had thrown in the evening, but then there’d been the unwelcome surprise of trying to stop Spike and Drusilla from assembling the bits and pieces of the Judge, something they’d failed to do, and then…
Everything had taken a turn for the better, she’d thought, with Angel not having to leave, and then they’d made love for the first time, the only time, because what had been so perfect, so special, had left Angel soulless and evil again. How could so much happen in one day? How could everything fall apart so fast?
So now, here Buffy sat, on the evening after her birthday, feeling emptier than she would have thought possible. Her birthday, her special day, had turned into a nightmare. Instead of happy, all she felt was older.
The End
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Date: 2026-01-28 11:34 pm (UTC)