Buffy/Glee
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#18 Buffy, Puck, Rachel – 'and let the sun keep shining on' from Fonda – The Sun Keeps Shining On Me (Radio Sunnydale CD) – 309 words
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I drove so far away,
Just to be with you,
(just to hold your hand),
Every word you say is blurred,
To keep me smiling,
Look likes the day has come to end,
And yet the sun is shining
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She comes to visit him, all the way from Cali to Ohio.
She comes to visit him because she just died last week and the year before that was hell, too. Vampires, watchers, divorce, move, vampires, old school burned down, new school on Hellmouth, vampire boyfriend, Master, vampires, dying, vampires and did she mention vampires?
She comes to visit him because if there is one thing she knows about Puck, it's that, despite all his crazy and his hang-ups and his sexin', he's steady as rock. She could use some steady right now.
She comes to visit him because she's known him longer than anyone else in her life and she trusts him to be her friend, to kiss away the dyingvampiresscreamingwater. She trusts him to take away her irrational fear of showers and baths.
She comes to visit him and arrives early because she blew off the last day of school to be here, to pick him up from McKinley high and get some of that trusting and the feeling-safe on the road.
She comes to visit him and finds him with his arms around a tiny brunette, laughing with a bunch of misfit, cobbled together kids that don't look like his usual posse. The Puck mask is down and there's quite a bit of Noah peeking through, the boy she knew before they hit puberty and started kissing games behind the garden shed. He looks happy.
She comes to visit him and finds that, while she still needs him, he doesn't need her. He's got that other girl in the prim skirt, who probably never burned down a building and doesn't live across the country. She probably never got drowned either.
She comes to visit him and leaves again quietly.
He never knows she was there and eventually she gets over her bathroom-phobia on her own. Mostly.
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