Chosen

By Michelle McKague

Disclaimer- I don’t own any of the characters from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” they belong to Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, 20th Century Fox, and the WB. I’m just borrowing them for awhile, please don’t sue.

Spoilers- After Enemies.

Summery- Cordelia reflects on her daughter’s destiny.

She’s so perfect, so innocent. It scares me to know what she will become, what her life will be like. But maybe it’s for the best, maybe it’s good we know. We can prepare her, teach her it’s okay to have a normal life and still be the slayer.

There I’ve said it my baby will be the slayer, my innocent baby girl will one day be forced into that world. Just as I was as a teenager, but I wasn’t the slayer, just a friend. I’ve known five slayers in my life, and it pains me to know what my daughter’s life will be like.

Kendra’s life was so baren, she was 16 when she died yet she’d never even had a conservation with a guy. Slaying was her life, but she didn’t even enjoy it, it was a duty to her. Faith, was a different matter entirly. She lived for slaying too, but it gave her a high. She loved the exhileration of it all, which is probably why she eventually turned to the dark side. Andi was sweet, but she wasn’t built for that world, she only lasted six months. Sonja would have made a better watcher than the slayer, she sociallized but she loved to read. When she wasn’t slaying she’d curl up and read some demonology book. Besides Buffy those are the only slayer’s I knew, after Sonja’s death no other slayer came to Sunnydale, no one was strong enough. I don’t wasnt my baby to be like that, empty, evil, too innocent, or nerdy. I don’t want her to turn out like the past slayers, except Buffy.

Buffy was so different than the other slayers, plus she got a semi-normal life. At least in the end she did. She got a chance at love, and she lived long for a slayer. Yet she still never got to see 25, she died six months before her 25th birhtday. I loved Buffy, and I know she had a good life, but that’s not the kind of life I want for my baby.

I haven’t told Xander yet, so far only Giles knows. Being a former watcher it would be hard to keep it from him, besides I know that by letting him train her I’ll help him get a little bit of Buffy back. It’s been over 7 years since she and Angel died, so much has changed.

Oz and Willow married and moved to europe to train the newest slayer, Xander and I married, and Giles and Mrs. Summers. Buffy would’ve been happy about that, she loved them both so much and would’ve been glad that they got a chance to be as happy as she was with Angel.

I’m scared about what will happen, but I do know that I’ll do everything in my power to make sure my daughter has a full childhood, like Buffy did. I know I can’t change destiny. My daughter will be a slayer, I can only hope that she follows in Buffy’s footsteps.

I can’t change the fact that Elizabeth Gabrielle Harris has been chosen.

The End