A/N: This is the iPod Shuffle challenge.
1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Turn on your music player and put it on random/shuffle.
3. Write a drabble related to each song that plays. You only have the length of the song to finish the drabble; you start when the song starts, and stop when it's over. No lingering afterward!
4. Do ten of these and then post them.
She comes home every night looking battered and beaten, and yet she puts on the smile for her mother and hurries up to her room. The Smile, the one she's been faking since fourth grade, is an art by now.
She knows she's not supposed to be doing this. Hunting demons and spending her time with people who could die tomorrow - that's not how she envisioned her life. Until this year, her life was just like her reflection in the mirror. She had a dazzling smile, friends in all the right places, and not a scratch of trauma on her mind.
Cordelia Chase was not meant to do this. Leave that stuff to the real slayers. So why can't she stay away?
Wow. That was really short. But that's the definition of a drabble, isn't it? 100 words?