A/N: I was watching the episode of Buffy where dawn thinks she's a slayer
and I started wondering how she feels about the slayer so I wrote this.
Hope you like.
Time line: Can be set anytime after they start gathering slayers together but works best if set post-FIN. Or at least I think so.
SONG of LIFE
~Your life a song that never ends, But you're only one verse, Still stuck behind the chorus.~
I'm never going to be 'the one' and I don't really want to be.
All that stress on that little amount of shoulder. I don't want to bear the burden.
I thought I did, but I was wrong. I thought it couldn't be *that* hard if you have a network of friends behind you to ease some of the weight onto. But your friends can't get it, your friends can't really help.
Not with the slayer side at any rate. What the people who created the slayer failed to realize is that the slayer is also a person and what the watchers council failed to realize is that nothing is stronger than the human spirit, not even slayer strength.
But the human spirit needs to be fed and it feeds on human relationships. Without them it withers and dies, mutating into something as dangerous to the slayer as its former is to evil.
Someone who has something to fight for, whether it's a parent, friend or lover, is always going to fight back in a way someone who has nothing to fight for can't. Someone who has something to fight for will retreat from battle, determined to return to their loved one in a single piece, while someone who has nothing to fight for will fight for will fight to the death because they are convinced the fight is the most important thing.
And that's because they have nothing to come back to when they win, and no one to mourn for them and hurt if they die. Everything has its own give and take.
But the slayer is still a singular thing, a harbinger of death always distanced from life, to the point of almost being like one of the walking dead herself. Such is the nature of the slayer and even where her power lies.
To be the slayer is to have to let go of all ties to life, to the extent of having none. Of being nothing more then a shadow, flitting between this world and the next. Until Buffy came along.
But Buffy was only one of a few and even she could not completely dispel the ethereal curtain that separates slayers from the rest of humanity. She made it see-through, but only on her side. If we could see through to her side maybe we would approach things differently. And maybe now there are more, maybe now their burden has been lightened, the curtains allowance will change.
But I'm not planning on letting my hopes get too high.
Time line: Can be set anytime after they start gathering slayers together but works best if set post-FIN. Or at least I think so.
SONG of LIFE
~Your life a song that never ends, But you're only one verse, Still stuck behind the chorus.~
I'm never going to be 'the one' and I don't really want to be.
All that stress on that little amount of shoulder. I don't want to bear the burden.
I thought I did, but I was wrong. I thought it couldn't be *that* hard if you have a network of friends behind you to ease some of the weight onto. But your friends can't get it, your friends can't really help.
Not with the slayer side at any rate. What the people who created the slayer failed to realize is that the slayer is also a person and what the watchers council failed to realize is that nothing is stronger than the human spirit, not even slayer strength.
But the human spirit needs to be fed and it feeds on human relationships. Without them it withers and dies, mutating into something as dangerous to the slayer as its former is to evil.
Someone who has something to fight for, whether it's a parent, friend or lover, is always going to fight back in a way someone who has nothing to fight for can't. Someone who has something to fight for will retreat from battle, determined to return to their loved one in a single piece, while someone who has nothing to fight for will fight for will fight to the death because they are convinced the fight is the most important thing.
And that's because they have nothing to come back to when they win, and no one to mourn for them and hurt if they die. Everything has its own give and take.
But the slayer is still a singular thing, a harbinger of death always distanced from life, to the point of almost being like one of the walking dead herself. Such is the nature of the slayer and even where her power lies.
To be the slayer is to have to let go of all ties to life, to the extent of having none. Of being nothing more then a shadow, flitting between this world and the next. Until Buffy came along.
But Buffy was only one of a few and even she could not completely dispel the ethereal curtain that separates slayers from the rest of humanity. She made it see-through, but only on her side. If we could see through to her side maybe we would approach things differently. And maybe now there are more, maybe now their burden has been lightened, the curtains allowance will change.
But I'm not planning on letting my hopes get too high.