I just looked out at the road ahead not really seeing anything around me. I knew Dawn was complaining in the back seat. Xander was singing along with the stereo and Willow and Giles were discussing the end of the hell mouth. But none of it really meant anything to me. If anything I wish it was just me and Dawn. She was the only person I was carrying on for. Not that she liked my decision but our home was in a giant hole that was once Sunnydale. Maybe I could forget monsters for awhile. Just for a little while at least. I knew they wouldn't stop coming just because one hell mouth was gone. None of us were that lucky. Willow thought going to a smaller town up north might help. So we decided on Forks. I tried to be upbeat for all of them but I just didn't care enough. Sunnydale was small it didn't make it any safer.
"Hey Buffy are you alive....wake up?" Xander asked waving a hand in front of my face.
I tried not to laugh. Was I alive? Unfortunately I was. After dying twice you'd think I'd stay that way. But then when you've got a witch for a friend you don't have much choice no matter how you'd rather be. I'd been given my life back, not that I wanted it. Pretending to be ok was hard. It hurt to breathe most days. I wanted to be back where I was. But I couldn't be angry with them. It's not like they knew what they'd done. In their minds they'd saved me from hell.
"Yeah I'm great" I replied with an overly bright smile." Just day dreaming really, sorry"
It seemed to take an eternity to reach the town. Fair enough everything felt like eternity these days but it really was a long journey. Maybe this place could work. Dawn would be back in a normal school and I could work on being who I was before the vampires and monsters and death.