The Morning After
Buffy Summers' eyes slowly began to open as the late afternoon sun filled her room, she had been asleep for the last 18 hours after her battle with the mayor. Her dreams haunted by his demonic figure, and thoughts of her fellow fallen slayer, faith. As she sat up and looked out her window at the sun that would be sinking on the horizon in just a few short hours she sighed. As her thoughts drifted to Angel and the last moment they looked on one another. A small tear rolled down her cheek as she sat there, wondering if she went to the mansion would she maybe see him one last time. She shook the image off as she heard the front door open.
Down stairs Joyce Summers entered the house, she placed her bag down on the floor next to the door. A feeling of terror and worry had set in after driving past the school on her way back into Sunnydale. She had left at Buffy's request, but now she worried if she had done the right thing, "Buffy!!" she called out fear and hopefulness in her voice.
Buffy heard her mother's voice from upstairs, and stood up next to her bed, "mom... mom I'm upstairs." She called as she slid into her slippers, and walked to her bedroom door, she stepped in the hallway as her mother ran up the stairs and saw her there.
Joyce ran to her daughter, and throwing her arms around Buffy she hugged her. Tears filled Joyce's eyes. "Buffy, thanks god." She said not letting go. "When I saw the school.... Oh god I didn't know what to think. Is everyone else..." she trailed off. Not even sure she wanted to know exactly what happened, in many ways since finding out who her daughter really was, Joyce just wished she could forget, to go back to her once semi-normal life, to think that her daughter was just an ordinary teenager. But Joyce had excepted that now; there was no way to go back. No way to forget.
"We lost a few, but it could have been a lot worse. Only about ten students died, and a few parents. And well principal Snyder." Buffy told her mother, as they both slowly let go. "But we made it." She said. Buffy still hadn't fully processed everything. Her mind felt like it was a few steps behind everything else in her life and world around her.
"But it's over?" Joyce asked, "the mayor is dead?" she continued as she looked at her daughter with worry and hope, fear and happiness. She was so glad Buffy had made it she had survived.
Buffy looked back in the door of her room and to the window, then looked towards her mother, "it's over." She said simply those words encompassed so much more then just the mayors death. They were the ending of an entire chapter in this slayer's life. And soon the next one would begin.
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