The Warrior

[hesadevil.livejournal.com]

Setting Post 'Chosen'.
Character Buffy

Another drabble written for open_on_sunday - prompt 'Remembrance'.

The Warrior


The crater was still smoking months after the Hellmouth had been destroyed, taking with it all that once was Sunnydale. Tara's grave, Joyce's, even her own, the one from which she'd clawed her way out a lifetime ago; the inscriptions on their headstones obliterated in the white heat that swept everything away in a fiery storm of annihilation.

Buffy searched the darkness of the depths, looking for a glimmer, a sign that something remained. Finally she sighed, dropping a single red flower into the hole.

For remembrance. For a fallen warrior of the light. The only memorial he'd ever have.

Comments

[myfeetshowit.livejournal.com]

I can picture Buffy doing this, possibly just before she left for Rome. You've got the emotion very well without being overtly emotive.

[hesadevil.livejournal.com]

I was trying for a similar emotional feel to the one we saw at the end of 'Chosen'.

[spikendru.livejournal.com]

Lovely. And sad, in a good way.

[hesadevil.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[scarlettlily.livejournal.com]

That was really good, I think she would go back and then try and put it behind her to go to Rome.

[hesadevil.livejournal.com]

Thank you. That's what I thought.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Well done. I dealt with the question of loved ones' graves in one of my stories, but there seems to be a lack of tales like this.

[hesadevil.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

I hope you're going to bring some of your stories over here soon.

bringing my stories over

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I have every intention to, now that I know of this place -- it's heaven sent for my kind of stories. I just have to find the time!

Re: bringing my stories over

[hesadevil.livejournal.com]

it's heaven sent for my kind of stories.
And mine. I guess that makes us mods some sort of angel then - without the stupid hair ;)

Welcome!

thanks!

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Angel Mods! yay!

[redsrule1.livejournal.com]

Nice! And, one could say, although the crater may have taken the graves of some, it now served as a grave for those who never got one...

Just a thought. Nice job.

[hesadevil.livejournal.com]

it now served as a grave for those who never got one...
Very true. So, in a way, Buffy's flower is for everyone in that mass grave.

Thanks for the thought.