Loving Her

Disclaimer: Characters and Premise are borrowed from the show "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer."

The girl I think I'm falling for s a vampire slayer. Something I didn't even know existed until a few weeks ago.

She's inhumanly strong; she fights against vampires with stakes, crosses and holy water. Them most high tech weapon I've seen her use is a crossbow.

Dr. Walsh disapproves of her methods; we at the Initiative use the latest technologies. We work as part of a military unit with the backing of the United Sates Government.

My team and I have captured seventeen hostiles. When Dr. Walsh asked Buffy what her record was she got a funny look on her face. I thought she might be embarrassed, that maybe the voice stealing hostiles were the only ones she'd ever faced. She's such a petite, delicate looking individual, even after seeing her in action I can hardly imagine her in a fight.

Then she answers Dr. Walsh's question. "I don't know," she said. "I never really counted, about three or four a week on average since I was called."

She was called when she was fifteen, that works out to over 600 hostiles. I didn't dream that there were that many of them in existence.

I thought our secret identities gave us something in common. I guess it does, but we approach this from opposite ends of the spectrum.

My world is grounded in what science can prove. Hostiles are simply exotic animals to be caged and studied. She has seen magic, went to High School on top of a Hellmouth. She calls the creatures we fight demons. She believes in good and evil.

She asked what we hope to accomplish with the implants. She said they couldn't give a Vampire back its soul they just make it helpless. I never thought of a soul as something that could be taken from you.

Dr. Walsh explained that the implants were a safety precaution for the researchers benefit. That answer doesn't make sense to me.

Buffy asked what kind of research are we doing.

Dr. Walsh didn't really answer that either. For the first time I'm really wondering what is done with the hostiles we bring in.

I don't understand what Buffy is. At first glance she seemed like a typical freshman, a little lost, a little overwhelmed, not quite ready to loose the familiar security of High School. But with Buffy, I couldn't help but give her a second glance, and then another and another, I simply can't look away from her. Even before I had a clue as to what lay beyond that initial impression I was already falling for her. Now I've seen a little of what lies behind her façade. This slight young woman has saved the world, more than once. And there's still so much that she keeps back.

I don't know what to think, but I love her.

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