Cut and Runby Allison K. East
She cut and ran. Everything just got too tough, so she cut and ran. At least, that’s what Buffy Summers knew her friends were thinking. But it was not that simple. How could she tell them? How could she tell them that she had to kill Angel—not the evil vampire intent on opening Acathla and sucking the world into Hell, but the ensouled vampire that she fell in love with? Her Angel. They could never understand that. How she had been prepared to fight him to the death, but not for his soul to be returned to him. How she had finally gotten her Angel back, only to have to lose him because it was too late. Too late for her, too late for Angel. How could she tell them what it felt like to face him; to tell him that she loved him, and then run him through with a sword? How could she tell them what she barely understood herself? Maybe it was cowardly to run and not stay and face her problems, but it was something she needed to do. She had been fighting evil for so long, she had lost so much to it, that this was just too much to bear. She needed the time out, the time away from her friends. They had a chance to resume their likes as normal (well, as normal as their lives could get now that they knew about the things that really went bump in the night), go to school, and date… all the things she no longer could do. By leaving she not only gave herself a clean break, but she gave them one too. Believe it or not it was not an easy decision to cut and run. To cut herself off from the only support network she truly had. Part of her wished she could turn back, but she couldn’t. All she could do now was try and move forward.  Like it? E-mail the author to tell them what you think. Back to index Disclaimer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a production of 20th Century Fox Film Corporation. No copyright infringement is intended.Background graphic courtesy of Blackat's Graphics |
