Re: Fic: Enigma (1/?)

[buffythebushkangaroo@xxxxxxxxxxx]

> What more could I ask for? Besides more, that is.

I've been working hard on the next update to this fic. I've had to be 
nerdy research girl to complete it though. Maybe tomorrow, maybe 
Monday.

> And to top it off, a series of very...odd...snippets. Eewww. You and
> Mad-Hamlet are dangerous together.

I'm just strange.

:>

Anne-Lise.

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Sometimes your whole life can become but a moment, here and now. 
Nothing else can matter, should matter, but what happens within that 
moment.
I'm in that moment and it is hell.
I don't know how long I've been standing here with my hand 
outstretched, as if by touching her she'll breathe again, and laugh 
again, or tell me off and shout at Buffy to stop teasing me.
Buffy. She'll probably come barging in here any moment now. 
Shouting, and being angry with me.
I just want to see my mother one last time. How wrong is that?
Movement behind me. It must be Buffy, come to check up on me like 
I'm made of glass or something. Just because I'm the fucking key. 
That doesn't matter, never mattered.
Beating at the glass. What the hell? Oh shit! Vampire?
Suddenly I'm on the floor with no recollection how I got down 
there. I can hear Buffy. She's probably fine. Maybe she's enjoying 
herself, I don't care, can't care.
Silence, and the moment, candle and the void. Willow taught me 
that. Pour all your emotions forth into an imaginary candle, until 
all that is left is the void, just yourself. Alone, within a moment.
"Dawn?"
Leave me alone. Can't you see? Can't you feel her? She looks so... 
cold.
"Is she cold?"
"It's not her. Its not her, she's gone."
Gone? How can she be gone?
"Where'd she go?"
I reach out to touch her. She *is* cold. So very cold.
"Dawn?"
The void collapses. I can't keep out my emotions.
"Leave me alone. Please. I just have to... say goodbye."
"Okay. I'll be right outside."
Sometimes your whole life can become but a moment; here and now.
Mom's face, so still. I reach out to touch her cheek again, and her 
eyes turn to gaze at me. Her face changes, and she lunges at me.
I don't think I even screamed.