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Mar. 4th, 2008 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Historically, as a rule, the funeral of a Slayer has been a quiet affair. On occasion there have been families to make the arrangements, but most of the time, the parents and (if any) siblings have long since lost all contact with their daughter, whether deliberately or not. The Council has always seen to it that the Slayer is given a decent burial: a hardwood box, and six feet of consecrated ground, and someone to say the words, and the Watcher as sole mourner.
This, like so many other things since the Call, has changed.
It's the first time they're all back together again in over a year, the women who came to Sunnydale as Potentials and fought the First Evil there as Slayers. Caridad and Chao-Ahn, Rona and Vi and Shannon, half a dozen others. Many of them died in the battle at the Hellmouth ... but Kennedy is the first of them to have died since then.
So they're here, and so are newer Slayers who had Kennedy as their first combat instructor, and field Slayers who had her as their team leader. And so are at least one ex-lover, and at least one current one. About four-fifths of the Slayers are in somber black; the rest are in equally somber white.
Kennedy's parents and her half-sister are here somewhere too, in the crowd. Buffy and Giles are talking to them.
Soon someone's going to stand up front and start the memorial service.
This, like so many other things since the Call, has changed.
It's the first time they're all back together again in over a year, the women who came to Sunnydale as Potentials and fought the First Evil there as Slayers. Caridad and Chao-Ahn, Rona and Vi and Shannon, half a dozen others. Many of them died in the battle at the Hellmouth ... but Kennedy is the first of them to have died since then.
So they're here, and so are newer Slayers who had Kennedy as their first combat instructor, and field Slayers who had her as their team leader. And so are at least one ex-lover, and at least one current one. About four-fifths of the Slayers are in somber black; the rest are in equally somber white.
Kennedy's parents and her half-sister are here somewhere too, in the crowd. Buffy and Giles are talking to them.
Soon someone's going to stand up front and start the memorial service.
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Date: 2008-03-05 04:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-05 05:08 am (UTC)He's the beta. He follows.
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Date: 2008-03-05 05:15 am (UTC)Her dress is black and unadorned, and it's not just the dark fabric that makes her look pale.
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Date: 2008-03-05 05:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-05 05:25 am (UTC)He has handkerchiefs folded into every pocket that he has.
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Date: 2008-03-05 05:34 am (UTC)"You're Harry Wells, right? Andrew's cousin."
Beat.
"Hi."
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Date: 2008-03-05 05:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-03-05 05:46 am (UTC)He's really not good at this kind of thing.
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Date: 2008-03-06 04:53 am (UTC)Jordie and Tricia, both in sober black, have just come in.
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Date: 2008-03-06 04:54 am (UTC)He's also got handkerchiefs. Lots of them.
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Date: 2008-03-07 10:19 pm (UTC)Tricia's got a handkerchief of her own; her hands are twisting it in her lap, and her eyes are on it.
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Date: 2008-03-07 10:24 pm (UTC)He doesn't know either. This is all just wrong.
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Date: 2008-03-09 12:02 am (UTC)Her voice is very soft, and a little worried. "Are you okay?"
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Date: 2008-03-05 06:18 am (UTC)Somebody's supposed to still be in bed, resting from, you know, getting stabbed.
Somebody really doesn't care what other people say she's supposed to be doing.
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Date: 2008-03-05 06:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-05 06:23 am (UTC)".....am I crying and just don't know it?"
It seems unlikely, but she can't imagine why else he's giving her a handkerchief.
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Date: 2008-03-05 06:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-05 06:27 am (UTC)Faith keeps the handkerchief. Just in case.
"Thanks."
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Date: 2008-03-05 06:30 am (UTC)Spoon does not do good in this kind of stressful situation. He's not killing anything. There is nothing to kill. Killing is wrong, here.
You hear no faint and confused whining.
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Date: 2008-03-06 03:58 am (UTC)*It's an Andrew, studying her pensively.*
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Date: 2008-03-06 04:03 am (UTC)It's a fairly big concession for her.
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Date: 2008-03-06 04:05 am (UTC)*He takes a chair nearby and sits on the edge of it, leaning forward.*
You doing okay? I mean, aside from the aftereffects of near-disembowelment?
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Date: 2008-03-06 04:09 am (UTC)"I guess. Okay as anybody would be. I mean, we weren't ever gonna be close friends, but....mostly I'm pissed."
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Date: 2008-03-06 04:17 am (UTC)We hurt them, you know. The raid. We hit them hard enough that they'll still be feeling it in a month.
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Date: 2008-03-12 03:09 am (UTC)Six Slayers, including Tricia and Jordie, carry the coffin to the waiting grave, with its plain headstone reading:
1983 - 2005
A hardwood box, and six feet of consecrated ground, and someone to say the words.
In the end that's all a funeral ever is.