Title: Cheerleaders
Author: Aygul
Posted: 3/28/05
Rating: PG-13
Category: Drama
Content: Missy/Torrance, Faith/Cordelia
Summary: Faith reminisces.
Disclaimer: I do not own The New Guy, Bring It On, or Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Notes: Probably a one-shot. It has femslash, baby. Make a decision. In or out?
Faith's eyes were fixed on the dancing brunette even when her thoughts were not. She remembered those days. Partying with airhead friends after cheerleading practice.
Three high schools, three names. Well, technically, she wasn't in high school this time.
Before she was called, she had cared so much about what others thought. She had craved the validation she didn't get at home, that eventually translated into craving popularity. Going in to high school she avoided grief over being called Missy by using her middle name, Danielle. She switched from gymnastics to cheerleading and ditched her old friends. Suddenly she ruled the school. At least, until Dizzy Harrison showed up to turn the school on it's end, which lasted all of two weeks. But his effect on her lasted longer.
Even after Dizzy and her drifted apart, she never reclaimed her spot as queen. Instead, falling into a relationship with her former best friend and a friendship with her brother, Cliff.
She moved soon after, her drunken parents reveling in the chance to get her away from 'that dyke.' She toughened up, planning to get a different kind of respect. But she never could resist a spunky girl with great legs and a pretty smile.
She did the cheer thing again, helped win the competition, and watched as Torrance fell for her brother.
She became a slayer at the end of that school year.
Life went on around her. Tor and Cliff even went off to college together.
Then that hoofed bastered killed him and their parents. Torrance found the bodies. Seeing her covered in blood Missy knew she had to leave before it happened again.
She came to Sunnydale. She became Faith. She met this girl.
This girl, this gorgeous, brave cheerleader.
She didn't remind Faith of Tor, or of herself as Danielle. Cordelia was a force of nature. She's made to rule but is aware there is so much more to the world. And she is going to crush all that opposes her.
Faith's attention was brought back to the present as Cordelia was dragged out into the alley by a vampire she had been unknowingly dancing with. She quickly got up to follow. Afterward, maybe she could goad the girl into a 'thank you' kiss.
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