Title: Who You Are
Characters:
Buffy
Spoilers:
BtVS 3.01"Anne"
Disclaimer: Property of Mutant Enemy
Theme: New

"Who are you?"

The lash descends. A crack sounds. Flesh rends. The boy screams. The demon waits, pointedly.

"Your new name is Toby."

"I'm no one", the boy drones.

Anne, not-Anne steps forward. Sees the broken spirits. Sees the machinery of demoralization and prepares for her turn.

"Who are you."

Remembers other things she's seen. Remembers kids joking and laughing. Smiling and dancing. Throwing spitballs and passing notes while the substitute teacher tried to show movies in Mr. Jacobsen's History class.

Who are you?

"Who are you?" the Demon asks.

She smiles. "I'm Buffy the Vampire Slayer! And you are?"

A.N.1: A drabble for LiveJournal's Open_on_Sunday.
A.N.2: The italicized line is taken from the Alex Haley miniseries, "Roots".