Prayers
By Rose Williams
Rated PG
Spoilers, vague for season seven of Buffy.
I own nothing in this.
Written for the drabble challenge 'punishment' on the livejournal community openonsundays, but too late to post.
Exactly 100 words.
Kennedy knelt beside Willow's bed, as she did some nights, to pray.
"Lord, please keep me safe from harm that I might fulfil my duty, amen."
She crawled beneath the covers and waited for her witch to come to bed. There was always tension before a fight.
She remembered her prayer eighteen months later as she sat beside Willow's bed in a hospital in Rio, not listening to the doctors telling her there was a reasonable chance. If the falling masonry had hit her instead….
She remembered that adage; 'when the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.'