AUTHOR: always krissy
AUTHOR'S NOTES: This was inspired this morning, when I was thinking about Laynie, and then glanced at an e-mail from a Buffy mailing list. This is meant as a solo vignette, nothing more. :D
DISCLAIMER: Everwood belongs to the awesome people at TheWB. Buffy belongs to the even more awesome people at UPN.
PAIRING: Laynie POV
RATING: G
Laynie's favorite TV show has always been Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
She has always felt like Faith.
She's the rogue; the wild one. She never fit it, despite her best efforts. She made mistake after mistake, and instead of being forgiven, they threw her out, eventually winding up in jail. You were alone until someone cares again.
Laynie is just like that. She has made mistakes since sixth grade. She'd sacrificed her best friend (Wendell) to be in Amy's popular crowd. It had been something she wanted since third grade, and finally, Amy had gotten her into the "inner crowd." At first she'd tried to fit in, doing her best efforts to do so. She had Amy, her other best friend (her "cool" best friend), and her brother Colin, both looking out for her. She was on top of the world.
Then she got caught cheating on a test with Paige (Paige made her), and then after that, it was mistake after mistake, until finally Colin had his accident and she was sent to jail--oh, excuse me, boarding school. It was just as bad as jail, though. Laynie hated it. All the girls there were copies of Amy, some in color, and some still seeing the world in black and white (rich families, Laynie had guessed.)
Amy has always been Buffy in Laynie's eyes.
Since they watched the first episode together, years ago, she has been Buffy.
Buffy was the "good" one. The one who would do stupid things, but always have a reason for it and everyone always forgave her. Because she was Buffy, and Buffy was good. She was a spoiled brat until something happened, and then, she was only a brat when she felt like it. Buffy was the forgiving one, until you did something that couldn't be forgiven, and then you were road kill.
Amy loved Laynie until July. Laynie never had a chance to explain, but Amy didn't care. She saw only what she wanted to see and she thought Laynie had given Colin and Bright the alcohol. She didn't care about Laynie's horrified claims of "But I didn't!" but Amy didn't care. As far as Amy was concerned, Laynie did wrong and couldn't be forgiven.
Laynie felt like Faith at that moment.
And when her mother and father told her about boarding school, and that she'd be going away for an undecided amount of time, she wondered if they'd contemplated the name Faith at her birth.