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[sunnydalealum]

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.

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[milkbonesoldier.livejournal.com]

"Damn near got the girls to kill me once," Wells adds. "She figured out about my little silver allergy and got 'em together to confront me, away from the school. I don't think I'll forget that any time soon, that's for fuckin' sure."

There's a little bit of pride in his tone.

[sunnydalealum]

Willow's eyes widen in dismay.

"Just because you're a werewolf?"

[milkbonesoldier.livejournal.com]

"Nah, nah," says Wells, waving one hand. "See, I hadn't told the girls about it, so she thought maybe I hadn't told the Council about it either. She reckoned it'd be best to get me backed into a corner and find out. That way if it turned out I really was a bastard, they'd be able to do sommat about it, and if she was wrong, well, no harm done."

[sunnydalealum]

"...That definitely sounds like her."

Her smile is wider, but still crooked and still sad.

[milkbonesoldier.livejournal.com]

"Worked out all right in the end," says Wells. "I'll be telling the girls that story for a while, I'll tell you."