A New Day
Title: A New Day
Author: violet
E-mail: lulu__wang@yahoo.com
Rating: PG 13
Relationship: Buffy & Angel all the way!
Disclaimer: Don't own anything, Joss owns everything…life is so unfair!
Setting: Set before "Surprise", S2
Distribution: Sure, but ask me first.
Reviews: I'd appreciate reviews, so please do!
Lyrics: Set to Celine Dion's "New Day"
Chapter 1: I Was Waiting for You
A new day...
A new day...
I was waiting for so long
For a miracle to come
Everyone told me to be strong
Hold on and don't shed a tear
Through the darkness and good times
I knew I'd make it through
And the world thought I had it all
But I was waiting for you
Buffy strolled through the graveyard, looking out for evil lurking around. Meanwhile, she had time to think. About her totally un-normal life. About her lack of a life, period. Jeez, she thought. Being a Slayer doesn't offer any advantages does it? No health benefits, no dinner parties, not even a salary. Worst of all, being a Slayer meant that she had had to abandon her social life. Sure, destiny had appointed her to be the Chosen One, but that didn't mean she couldn't have some fun.
No one else could ever understand. Not Willow, not Xander, not even Giles, her Watcher. None of her friends would know what it was like to be the Slayer. To have to go out every night on patrol knowing that killing evil was her life. To know that—
A vampire rushed out at her, and was quickly impaled on her stake. Where was she? Oh, yes. To know that no one in the world was like her. Of course no one in the world is like me, she chided herself. There is only one Slayer, after all. But it was hard, knowing that everyone else depended on you, leans on you for support, expects you to be strong and always know what to do. Sometimes it seemed like everyone else thought she was supernatural, like she didn't have human feelings as well.
Everyone thought she was content with her life, and Buffy let them think that. There was no use in getting everyone worried about her life. Or rather, her non-existent life. But Buffy knew that there was something more to her life than just slaying vampires. She could feel it in her blood. That something huge would cause her life to shift, that something would change her. Forever.
Please review!