Authors Notes: I own nothing. Yet another freaky story from the woman who provides much more than your daily requirement of angst. This takes place after Restless, with heavy spoilage for that episode.
I am the Cheese
I asked them about their dreams. I never thought they would all dream about the cheese man, but in a strange way it makes sense.
The First was angry at me for having what she could not. "No ... friends! Just the kill. We ... are ... alone!"
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The farmer in the dell,
The farmer in the dell,
Heigh-ho the merry-o,
The farmer in the dell
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The man told Giles, "I wear the cheese, it does not where me." Perhaps if you look at it my way, you will understand. Being the Slayer became a choice the moment Kendra rolled into town. Being the Chosen one was like picking a coat. To be, or not to be?
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The child takes the cat,
The child takes the cat,
Heigh-ho the merry-o,
The child takes the cat
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The man told Xander, "These...cannot protect you." And it's sadly true. I can't save him from himself. With only a high school education and no future, what will happen when this Slayer's time runs short? I'm not gonna live forever, and then what will become of my favorite Zeppo?
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The cat takes the rat,
the cat takes the rat,
heigh-ho the merry-o
the cat takes the rat
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Willow couldn't comprehend what it meant. "I've made a little space for the cheese slices." Things hadn't been right between our little group for a long time. Pieces and parts of us, slices if you will, just didn't mesh anymore.
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The cheese stands alone,
The cheese stands alone,
Heigh-ho the merry-o
The cheese stands alone,
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It's ironic it took the power of a Cave Slayer that later tried to kill us to bring us back together. I may have shared my body with Angel, Riley, and god even Parker, but with these three I shared my soul.
I will not let some aborigine and a bunch of old men in tweed dictate my life.
"Are you quite finished? It's over, okay? I'm going to ignore you, and you're going to go away." The First Slayer pulls back, and Buffy sits up, then stands. "You're really gonna have to get over the whole primal power thing."
Buffy casts a look over her shoulder. "You're not the source of me."
That weird man didn't speak a word to me, you realize. He just mockingly shook the cheese at me. I smile, because I know, of course, who I am, who I will always be. I am the cheese, but I will never stand alone.
You think you know, what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.
Authors Notes: It's short, it's freaky, and it shows you should never actually do your reading for English. You wanna read something really freaky, I Am The Cheese will shatter your illusions of democracy. Just a point to ponder. Buffy tapped that power from the First, right? So doesn't that mean that as a Slayer, she already had it, she just couldn't use it? Wasn't that was Terra implied at the end of the episode.