"Your heart is not open, so I must go. The spell has been broken, I loved you so.
Freedom comes when you learn to let go….
There's nothing left to try..there's nowhere else to hide
There's no greater power than the power of goodbye…"
Buffy opened the window to peek out at the world she didn't know. Nothing was familiar about this place, and that was exactly how she wanted it.
"Don't do this to yourself," she told herself. "You're not her anymore. You're not. You're happy, and you're settled somewhere else, and you're not the Slayer and you're..miserable."
The knock on the door roused her from her daydream before the tears could fall.
"I thought I would bring you something to eat, dearie. You're such a frail little thing," Mrs. MacComb said to her.
An ailing woman of about 80, Buffy guessed, Mrs. MacComb had given her a place to stay in exchange for Buffy's help with the grocery shopping and other odd chores around the large house she owned on the outskirts of San Diego.
"Frail little thing," Buffy thought to herself. If the old woman only knew what she had done before, she would wig for sure.
"Stop thinking about that, Buffy," she told herself. "You almost killed your friends, he's gone and there's nothing you can do about that. Stop it."
Mrs. MacComb was staring at her.
"Jenny, can you go pick up some food for my little Angel?," MacComb said.
She scooped up her tabby, Angel, who had wandered into Buffy's room.
Buffy hated that cat. She didn't want to hear that word and of course, the cat had to have that name. And to make matters worse he was his owner's most prized possession, so to make her feel worse, he was always around. It was like someone was trying to force her to remember and deal with her pain constantly. Hadn't she been through enough?
"Jenny," the old woman said. Buffy had been zoning for a few minutes, and she hadn't quite gotten used to that name yet.
"Sure, I can go do that. Not a problem. I'm right on it," she said, hurriedly. There was nothing else to do but scamper out of the house quickly before the old woman started asking questions.
