ACT4: Some Friends


Author: Lucinda
rating: pg 13
disclaimer: Neither Sabertooth or anyone you recognize from Buffy belong to me.
Story 4 in A Cats' Tale, companion storyline to Family Tree.





Sabertooth was still following Willow. He tried to follow close enough he
could listen to her talk to herself. Even if he couldn't follow some of the
technical bits, she had a soothing voice. He liked to listen to her talk.

She didn't have many friends. There was the dark haired boy, "Sander" or
something like that. He only saw her as someone to hang out with when he had
nothing better to do. He didn't have much to do anyhow. There was the blonde
girl from the library, "Fluffy" or "Buffy" or something silly like that. Red
seemed to think of her as a friend. "Fluffy" seemed to think Red needed to be
looked after, but left her on her own an awful lot. She kept saying she wanted
a normal life, and it wasn't fair. Maybe she was a mutant. Red also seemed to
think well of the man from the library. He sounded British. He listened to her
in a way that said he knew she was smart. But he didn't always have time to
spend with a student. There was another blond girl, one that smelled of strange
herbs and chocolate. She had a normal name, Amy. The only other people she
seemed to have were the old man in the nursing home that she called grandfather
and there was a grave she visited regularly.

She talked to the tombstone. Actually, she was talking to the person buried
there, someone called Jesse. Sabertooth was still trying to figure out if Jesse
had been a boy or a girl. Jesse had been Willow's friend for many years until
being killed by someone named Darla. She talked to Jesse's grave a lot, maybe
because it was such a good listener. She didn't know about her other listener.

She's lonely. Amy had to go spend the summer with her father in Los Angeles.
Amy had gone to Willow's house to say goodbye, and they had eaten brownies on
the balcony. Sabertooth had slipped one when they had left to pick up something
from Amy's father's car. "Fluffy" had just disappeared. Turned out she was
spending the summer with her dad somewhere else too. The boy was busy
elsewhere, trying to impress some other girl.

None of them were here for Willow. He hadn't been following her long, but he
already knew she was there for all her friends. Why weren't they here for her?
She had her grandfather. And she wrote letters to Magneto.

Poor Red has too many thoughts. She wants to know why nobody sees her as she
is. Why no guys will ever notice her on the sidelines. Why the popular people
are always either ignoring her or teasing her. She's wondering if she's a
mutant. What abilities would she have if she were? How would her family react
if she were a mutant? Would it ruin her plans for college? She also kept
asking why Jesse had to die.

Sabertooth wished he could help her find the answers to her questions. He
wanted her to be happy. She had this spark that made everything around her more
real.

end Some Friends