Disclaimer: - I don't own any thing to do with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I'm just borrowing them
Spoiler: - Prophecy Girl
A/N this came to me in the middle of the episode. Giles POV set in the middle of the ep when Buffy says she quits.
In that moment.
"Buffy if the Master rises…"
Buffy pulls the cross from around her neck.
"I don't care. Giles I'm sixteen years old. I don't wanna die"
I had never really seen Buffy as a real teenager, all the time I have know her I have thought of her as a strong, secure, stubborn, slayer who is a young woman not sixteen. This was the first time that I have seen her venerable, scared, almost looking like a child. She looks like she's in pain And I wish that I could take that pain away, but I can't because I caused it. From not telling her I caused her pain. Even if I had told her she would have still been all these things that I said she looked right now. I can't blame her though, if I had been told that I was going to die I would throw books around, I would be angry. It breaks my heart to see her like this; she's the daughter that I don't have. I want the prophecy to be wrong just as much as she does but its not.
Buffy drops the cross from her hands. She walks out without looking back.
In that moment I no longer see a slayer. I realize that Buffy is a girl and that she doesn't deserve to die, not yet.