Title: A New Beginning
Author: buffy
Email: buffsummers@hotmail.com
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Unfortunately I don't own these characters
Spoilers: Mild spoilers for 'Chosen'. AU from there. Spike never comes back. He's dead as far as I'm concerned.
Distribution: I don't mind as long as you tell me where it goes.
Feedback: Please do! I don't like writing if I don't get feedback. It's like nobody's even reading it.
Author's note: I know I'm also supposed to be writing 'Judgment', but I got the idea for this fic and I just had to start writing it!
Summary: This takes place 6 years after 'Chosen'. Sunnydale High class of '99 is having their 10 year reunion...
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Chapter One: Thoughts of You
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Buffy had been so tired lately. Ever since they had defeated The First, she had dedicated her life to finding and training the new slayers. It was a lot harder than she thought it would be. It didn't sound like much at first...travel around the world, find new slayers, train them. That's how she saw it at first. But after 6 years of training them she saw that she was very very wrong.
For the first couple of years, Buffy had travelled around the world looking for these slayers. But after that she got tired of that and decided to settle down. Well not exactly settle down. Who can exactly settle down on a Hellmouth? Yeah that's right. Hellmouth. Buffy had moved herself and what was left of the gang into Cleveland, where she had been staying for the last few years. It was one of the longest four years of her life, tying with high school.
She had been doing the same routine everyday for a long time. Wake up, shower, get dressed, train the girls, patrol, go to bed. There was no variety in her life. More than once Buffy had entertained the idea of starting to date again, but just as quickly she dropped the thought. She remembered her cookie talk with Angel and sometimes wondered what her life would have been like if she was with him...
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BUFFY: I'm cookie dough, okay?
ANGEL: Yet another curveball...
BUFFY: I'm not done baking yet. I'm not finished becoming...whoever the hell it is I'm gonna turn out to be. I've been looking for someone to make me feel whole, and maybe I just need to be whole. I make it through this, and the next thing, and the next...maybe one day I turn around and realize I'm ready. I'm cookies. And then if I want someone to eat m -- or, to enjoy warm delicious cookie- me, then that's fine. That'll be then. When I'm done.
ANGEL: Any thoughts on who might enjoy... do I have to go with the cookie analogy?
BUFFY: I don't really think that far ahead. That's kind of the point.
ANGEL: I get it.
BUFFY: Angel. I do. Sometimes... think that far ahead. We both have our lives, but...sometimes...
ANGEL: Sometimes is something.
BUFFY: It'd be a long time coming. Years, if ever.
ANGEL: I ain't gettin' any older.
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Sometimes, when she let herself think about him, she wished she could be back with him. But that was 6 years ago, and Angel had probably moved on...
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As Angel sat outside in the park, he let his thoughts wander to Buffy. It was six years ago, but he still remembered it like it was yesterday. He missed her. He thought he had made that clear when Buffy had given him her 'Cookie talk'. He wondered how she was. He also wondered if she was cookies yet. God he hated that analogy. His friends told him to move on, that things were different.
Things WERE different. Just two years after the day Buffy came to LA, Angel and the rest of the AI had defeated a big evil and he had Shanshu'd. He was human. At first he wanted to find Buffy and tell her so they could get back together, but then he realised she might still want her space to think and to grow. He would tell her. Eventually...
To be Continued...
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Sorry this is short, but it's only an introduction to the fic. It really starts in the next chapter. This is to fill you guys in on what's been happening.
Author: buffy
Email: buffsummers@hotmail.com
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Unfortunately I don't own these characters
Spoilers: Mild spoilers for 'Chosen'. AU from there. Spike never comes back. He's dead as far as I'm concerned.
Distribution: I don't mind as long as you tell me where it goes.
Feedback: Please do! I don't like writing if I don't get feedback. It's like nobody's even reading it.
Author's note: I know I'm also supposed to be writing 'Judgment', but I got the idea for this fic and I just had to start writing it!
Summary: This takes place 6 years after 'Chosen'. Sunnydale High class of '99 is having their 10 year reunion...
//// indicates flashback////
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Chapter One: Thoughts of You
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Buffy had been so tired lately. Ever since they had defeated The First, she had dedicated her life to finding and training the new slayers. It was a lot harder than she thought it would be. It didn't sound like much at first...travel around the world, find new slayers, train them. That's how she saw it at first. But after 6 years of training them she saw that she was very very wrong.
For the first couple of years, Buffy had travelled around the world looking for these slayers. But after that she got tired of that and decided to settle down. Well not exactly settle down. Who can exactly settle down on a Hellmouth? Yeah that's right. Hellmouth. Buffy had moved herself and what was left of the gang into Cleveland, where she had been staying for the last few years. It was one of the longest four years of her life, tying with high school.
She had been doing the same routine everyday for a long time. Wake up, shower, get dressed, train the girls, patrol, go to bed. There was no variety in her life. More than once Buffy had entertained the idea of starting to date again, but just as quickly she dropped the thought. She remembered her cookie talk with Angel and sometimes wondered what her life would have been like if she was with him...
/ / / / / / / / / / /
BUFFY: I'm cookie dough, okay?
ANGEL: Yet another curveball...
BUFFY: I'm not done baking yet. I'm not finished becoming...whoever the hell it is I'm gonna turn out to be. I've been looking for someone to make me feel whole, and maybe I just need to be whole. I make it through this, and the next thing, and the next...maybe one day I turn around and realize I'm ready. I'm cookies. And then if I want someone to eat m -- or, to enjoy warm delicious cookie- me, then that's fine. That'll be then. When I'm done.
ANGEL: Any thoughts on who might enjoy... do I have to go with the cookie analogy?
BUFFY: I don't really think that far ahead. That's kind of the point.
ANGEL: I get it.
BUFFY: Angel. I do. Sometimes... think that far ahead. We both have our lives, but...sometimes...
ANGEL: Sometimes is something.
BUFFY: It'd be a long time coming. Years, if ever.
ANGEL: I ain't gettin' any older.
/ / / / / / / / / / /
Sometimes, when she let herself think about him, she wished she could be back with him. But that was 6 years ago, and Angel had probably moved on...
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As Angel sat outside in the park, he let his thoughts wander to Buffy. It was six years ago, but he still remembered it like it was yesterday. He missed her. He thought he had made that clear when Buffy had given him her 'Cookie talk'. He wondered how she was. He also wondered if she was cookies yet. God he hated that analogy. His friends told him to move on, that things were different.
Things WERE different. Just two years after the day Buffy came to LA, Angel and the rest of the AI had defeated a big evil and he had Shanshu'd. He was human. At first he wanted to find Buffy and tell her so they could get back together, but then he realised she might still want her space to think and to grow. He would tell her. Eventually...
To be Continued...
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Sorry this is short, but it's only an introduction to the fic. It really starts in the next chapter. This is to fill you guys in on what's been happening.