Feb topic What are you willing to risk it all for?
It's possible to love two people at the same time, but eventually you will have to make a choice. I knew that when I was forced to choose I would pick Tyler without reservation. The time came, and I made it clear that I wanted to be the one to go in after Aidan. I knew they wouldn't let me go alone, but he was mine more than theirs. I didn't care if he was their family. He loved me. As much as he was able to love anyone, he loved me, and I owed it to him and Tyler to be the one to end it once and for all.
We were all meeting to hear Faith's final plan on how this was going down. I dressed quickly in jeans and a t-shirt, and then put on the boots that Aidan had bought me on our last trip to Venice. My weapon of choice was the broadsword that Connor gave me for Christmas. I sat in the gym in silence as Faith gave our instructions. I really wished Tyler wasn't determined to fight too, but what could I do? Beg him not to go while I insisted on facing off with his uncle? Yeah, that would work out great.
"Lily, don't die," Connor said as he stopped me on my way out. He was taking the slayers and Willow to the final battle. I knew he'd watch out for Tyler and Sarah, but I still had to say it.
"You either, and don't let anything happen to Tyler and Sarah. Knock them out and stuff them in someone's car if you have too." He smiled and nodded his head.
We were really going to do this. This big fucked up extended family of ours was going to split up and take on the senior partners and everything they could throw at us. It was basically a suicide mission. There would be casualties. More than five girls who were already dead thanks to Aidan's brother. No, a lot of people would die, and even more would probably be injured.
I needed Tyler to survive this fight. Please make him survive this fight.
I'd already written a letter to my parents and left instructions with Seth to mail it to them if I didn't survive the battle. It was the only thing I could do. Calling them would have made me think of the life I had before I came to Los Angeles. All of the stuff that had happened to me since I met my first watcher was Aidan's doing. He set me up to watch my watcher die. He set me up to trust him. He set me up to die by experimenting with Tyler's grandfather's drugs on me. He set me up to love him. And I walked head first into everything he set up for me. I'd walk head first into this too because I loved him, and that gave me the right to be the one to kill him.
I'd pumped myself full of the Osborn enhancement drugs. If I was doing this? I was doing it with the best edge I could give myself. It couldn't kill me now. So I might as well use to hopefully keep me from dying.
We made an interesting group all marching together toward the law firm. I fell into step with Buffy, but didn't meet her gaze. She never seemed to judge me even when she found out about my past with Aidan. Even when she realized my past wasn't so much in the past after all. I knew she was worried about me making it through, but I wasn't going to focus on that. Instead I paused as we separated from the group to make our way in to the back door.
"Buffy, I want you to know something," I told her quietly. I'd already told Angel, but she needed to know too. "I love you. You've been so good to me, and no matter what happens inside, I just want you to know that I really do love you." Gripping my sword in my hand I took a deep breath and forced a smile. "Now, let's go kill my ex-boyfriend."
[Open to Buffy and Aidan]
We were all meeting to hear Faith's final plan on how this was going down. I dressed quickly in jeans and a t-shirt, and then put on the boots that Aidan had bought me on our last trip to Venice. My weapon of choice was the broadsword that Connor gave me for Christmas. I sat in the gym in silence as Faith gave our instructions. I really wished Tyler wasn't determined to fight too, but what could I do? Beg him not to go while I insisted on facing off with his uncle? Yeah, that would work out great.
"Lily, don't die," Connor said as he stopped me on my way out. He was taking the slayers and Willow to the final battle. I knew he'd watch out for Tyler and Sarah, but I still had to say it.
"You either, and don't let anything happen to Tyler and Sarah. Knock them out and stuff them in someone's car if you have too." He smiled and nodded his head.
We were really going to do this. This big fucked up extended family of ours was going to split up and take on the senior partners and everything they could throw at us. It was basically a suicide mission. There would be casualties. More than five girls who were already dead thanks to Aidan's brother. No, a lot of people would die, and even more would probably be injured.
I needed Tyler to survive this fight. Please make him survive this fight.
I'd already written a letter to my parents and left instructions with Seth to mail it to them if I didn't survive the battle. It was the only thing I could do. Calling them would have made me think of the life I had before I came to Los Angeles. All of the stuff that had happened to me since I met my first watcher was Aidan's doing. He set me up to watch my watcher die. He set me up to trust him. He set me up to die by experimenting with Tyler's grandfather's drugs on me. He set me up to love him. And I walked head first into everything he set up for me. I'd walk head first into this too because I loved him, and that gave me the right to be the one to kill him.
I'd pumped myself full of the Osborn enhancement drugs. If I was doing this? I was doing it with the best edge I could give myself. It couldn't kill me now. So I might as well use to hopefully keep me from dying.
We made an interesting group all marching together toward the law firm. I fell into step with Buffy, but didn't meet her gaze. She never seemed to judge me even when she found out about my past with Aidan. Even when she realized my past wasn't so much in the past after all. I knew she was worried about me making it through, but I wasn't going to focus on that. Instead I paused as we separated from the group to make our way in to the back door.
"Buffy, I want you to know something," I told her quietly. I'd already told Angel, but she needed to know too. "I love you. You've been so good to me, and no matter what happens inside, I just want you to know that I really do love you." Gripping my sword in my hand I took a deep breath and forced a smile. "Now, let's go kill my ex-boyfriend."
[Open to Buffy and Aidan]