TITLE: Learning Curve
AUTHOR: Blue Shoe 22
RATING: PG
SPOILERS: General for all of Buffy up to 'The Gift' and maybe some for first and second season Angel.
SUMMARY: After his return form Pylea and the news of Buffy's death Gunn witnesses the reactions of those around him and he has to wonder – who is Buffy?
CHAPTER FOUR
The Host
Buffy, as in Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
I wish I'd got to meet the girl.
Things get around with us demons, the death of the Slayers a pretty important piece of info. How's the Brooding One?
Hmmm. He needs to get away for a while, think things through, work it out.
Not much. Saw her a few times in some readings. Usually the customer in question had a future as a shish-kebob, or at least with a few less limbs than it started with. Mean fighter, the best, you should have seen her move. Very small, very fast and very hot.
When I saw her in Angel she was…a lot of things. Laughing, crying, kissing, sleeping, talking, killing. He loved her, and she was the first thing he'd loved in, well, ever. There were some things I saw though – dark things. You know she was responsible for him losing his soul? I can see some of what he did to her, what his demon still wants to do to her and it's not pretty.
But all that's on the periphery y'know? Hanging round the edges like the tassels on a lampshade. His quest is the centre, the bulb, but it illuminates some of the other stuff.
Sorry I can't tell you any more, but truthfully? I don't know any more.