A/N: This is a series of mostly later-season ficlets based on the titles of episodes in Season Two. Titles may be out of sequence, depending on how inspired I am. Please enjoy, and please review, good, bad, or just to tell me I missed the point.
This one is set between Seasons 6-7.
"When She Was Bad"
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth.
It wasn't in Judaism, but she has always held the words close to her heart, skimming along the edges of crowds, trying to stay close to Xander and Jesse, trying to avoid Cordelia and her crew, make herself invisible. I am meek, I am meek, but one day I shall hold the power…
And she had. Held the power, that is. She hadn't inherited the Earth, but she'd come pretty close to destroying it. All of it.
Now she ruminates over the day's lesson, not allowed to take notes, only to think about what she had been taught.
Now she touches the English earth, feeling the connection take her to a fissure in the Sea of Japan, to a well-trodden sidewalk in Sydney, to the rainforests of Paraguay. She tentatively reaches out to Sunnydale, to a small plot of recently-turned earth, but shies away from the darkness rooted underneath it.
Now she feels the awesome power of what is inside her, recognizes it for all its terrible and wonderful potential, and trembles in awe and terror, humbled at last.
Now she knows what it is to be meek, not just playing the part.
Blessed, she's not entirely sure.
