Title: Fifteen and Dying
Author: Karen
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters, they belong to Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy.
Summary: At the age of fifteen, Buffy Summers was told she might not live to see her sixteenth birthday. Now, over ten years later, she is telling her story so that the next generation of slayers might take strength from it.
Author's Notes: I don't know yet if I'm going to continue this story. First person is still a point of view that is hard for me, so the going is slow.
Spoilers: All seasons, and a bit from the movie as well.
Distribution: Here, for right now. If you want it, please ask first.
Feedback: A must.
Working Title: Fifteen and Dying
Introduction
Okay, before we go any farther, don't think that this is one of those books about the heroine getting cancer or AIDs and dying at the end, because that isn't what this is. First confession: I used to enjoy those books when I was younger, when I wasn't out with friends, or shopping or at school or cheerleading practice, I would read those books. You know the kinds, like Time to Say Goodbye, or Don't Let Me Die, books where the main character is nice and a great person, and then they find out they have leukemia or some other form of cancer, and they go through treatment and all that pain and lose their hair only to go into remission and later come out of remission and die.
What this is, is my story. It wasn't my idea. It was Giles. I guess I've become something of a celebrity, dying twice and changing the rules and living and getting demons and darkness more out into the open. There are now tons of girls out there who are now the slayer, when there used to be just one, I bet you're probably one of them, and they're having a hard time adjusting. Giles thought that me being such a big hero, it would help if they knew my story, all the things I went through and survived, that maybe it will help them come to terms with this. I don't know how knowing about all of my faults will help someone else, but what the hell. Here goes. And at the end, you can decide if I'm the hero everyone thinks I am.