The Bronze was packed, as it usually tended to be on patrol free nights.
Buffy didn't particularly like to leave her work for a bunch of potential Slayers to handle.
"Potential Slayers, that basically means that they're potentials. They're not real Slayers. They're not like me." She'd had one too many beers. "Foamy." Buffy sat alone in a dark corner of the club.
Her friends had left her hours ago, but she couldn't bare herself to go home.
"Hey, hey you!" She yelled out at some random guy walking by, her victim of the night.
"The word potential, what does it mean?" The guy shrugged. "It's not real is it? I mean sure it's a word, but it's not like, real?" He smiled and took a seat beside her. "Like me, I'm real. They're just, children. Potentials. Even if there were a hundred of them, under my roof…" Buffy paused and hesitated for a second.
"One hundred of those little things would never be able fit in my house." The guy was beyond lost and he was now in no way interested in what Buffy was talking about.
So she let her confusion go, along with her victim.
Her feet were slightly dangling inches above the floor, she let them touch solid ground and took a few staggering steps, before she sank right back down again.
She looked at her watch, it was past midnight.
The thought of going home had hit her, but ever since the Summers' residence had become the new headquarters, she needed to be elsewhere just to breathe.
"Well, if it isn't Buffy Summers herself. It's been a while. Come give us a hug." Buffy looked up and squinted her eyes. "Cordelia?" The figure pulled her up to eye level. "Nope, definitely not. Better." Buffy exclaimed. "Yeah, Willow told me I could find you here. Come on, let's go home."
Buffy let herself get dragged out of the Bronze and into the night. "Where are we going?" Once outside she inhaled the fresh air. "I don't feel so good." Buffy hurried around the corner and threw up in the alley.
"Hey B, you feeling better now that you've puked up a lung?" She wiped her mouth with the sleeve of her jacket.
"Much. Take me home, Faith."