I Love You: I Love You
by Angel Chani
Disclaimer: This story is in Buffy's POV at the end of Graduation Part 2. Spoilers! Oh yeah, Buffy belongs to the WB, Mutant Enemy, and all sorts of people that are not me. The song is I Love You by Sarah McLachlan from her album Surfacing. Also not owned by me. Please send feedback...(Buffy pout)...for me? Please?



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and I forgot
to tell you
I love you
and the night's
too long
and cold here
without you
I grieve in my condition
for I cannot find the word
to say I need you so

As the smoke from the explosion lingered, Xander and I walked up to where the ambulances were.

“We got off pretty cheap considering…” said Xander.

“Seems like we did,” I replied.

“He made it through the fight. I guess maybe he took off after, “ Xander said, leaving to go talk to Willow as Giles walked up to me.

“You alright?” Giles asked

“I'm tired,” I said, suddenly really ready to fall asleep on my feet.

“I could image so, it's been quite a couple of days. “

“I haven't processed everything yet. My brain isn't really functioning on the highest level, it's pretty much ‘fire bad, tree pretty,’ “ I replied, feeling emotionally and physically stretched.

“Understandable. Well, when it’s working again, congratulate it on a good campaign. You did very well,” Giles said. He handed me my diploma.

“There's a certain dramatic irony to all this. Synchronicity that is bordering on predestination, one might say, “ Giles continued.

“Fire bad, tree pretty,” I reminded him.

“Let's go to the tent to see Wesley, and if he's still whimpering, “ I was about to follow him when I realized that he was there.

we meet at the lights
I stare for a while
the world around disappears

He didn’t need to say anything, I knew he wasn’t going to anyway. We just stared at each other. I had a feeling of deja vu when I realized I wasn’t going to see him again, but this time I didn’t kill him. He’s leaving on his own accord. And he keeps looking at me with those soulful eyes. He slowly turned and walked away. I watched him go until I couldn’t see him.

oh and every time I'm close to you
there's too much I can't say
and you just walk away

I turned and walked up to my friends who were sitting on the bench.

“You guys wanna take off? I think we've pretty much done everything we can,” I said, wanting to do no more then crawl into bed and sleep.

“I'm for it,” Cordelia said.

“Are you OK?” Willow being her everperseptive self.

“Yeah, I'm OK. I could use a little sleep though. If someone could just wake me when it's time to go to college, that would be great,” I said.

“Guys, take a moment, we survived,” Oz said.

“One hell of a battle,” I agreed with him.

“Not the battle, high school,” I realized how deep his statement was. We all paused.

“I'm taking a moment,“ Oz said, as Willow and I stood up.

“And were done,“ Oz finished as we all walked off.

“Yup, were done, that is so cool, “ Xander said. We continues to talk as we walk off.

I remember what our yearbook said: Sunnydale High 99, The future is ours. The future is ours and although it will be hard life will go on.

~~~The End~~~~


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