I Walk with Heroes by pari

a drabble of about 100 words

Rated: G Disclaimer: AtS belongs to Joss Whedon, et al.
Spoilers: "Hole in the World" Summary: the cavemen win.

"The cavemen win. Of course they win…" They'd been waiting to since Pylea, Wesley imagined. Why hadn't he felt it then? That his finding her had been too good to be true; too good to last. Soon she would be lost - ever more than she had been before. If there was Fate, it had damned them both from the beginning.

"I walk with heroes…," she'd said.

Wesley tread in their footsteps. And - more often than not - wielded the daggers that stabbed them in the back. It was ironic - he'd been so very harmless once.

He'd always heard that the world would end with not a scream, but a whisper.

His world ended on one, also.

"Why can't I stay…"

fin