It was like Sunnydale all over again. A bunch of wired teenage girls clutching blades and stakes against the boogieman. Rona hated it. For a few days, they had been safe. Able to think--nah, let's be real, pretend--they had a while to breathe. Now it's the same old same old. The slayers not standing guard were packing up all their stuff and ( Read more... )

Rona lay on her stomach with a cocked crossbow aimed at the land behind the Slayer Hilton.  Caridad, Buffy, and Vi guarded the other three sides.  Low voices chattered through an earpiece connected to a walkie-talkie.  Xander had set up the night guard shifts and bought the radio equipment the second night.  Really military.  Rona wondered if he ( Read more... )

   Home sweet home away from home turned out to be several shipping containers, stacked two high, on an open spot of asphalt by a railway line.  A scaffold and ladders lead up to the "second floor".  Inside, there was only two cots by each wall and a privacy curtain for a chemical toilet in back.  Small windows in the doors and in back provided ( Read more... )

    Rona had heard the world ignored Sunnydale.  The Hellmouth had hidden a murder rate the size of a West African civil war and all sorts of weirdness.  Well, Sunnydale was nationwide now.  The TV in the hospital lounge had the town--actually, the crater that had been the town--on every channel from CNN to PBS.  Reactions were off the charts.  ( Read more... )

Fic: Why She Fights
Fandom: BtVS
Characters: Rona, ensemble
Spoilers: Immediately after Season 7
Rating: PG

She had saved the world.  Now, she was going to get her reward.

Rona shoved the last nickel into the vending machine.  The change she had found in her bloodstained pants was exactly enough for one giant-size chocolate bar.  She could see ( Read more... )

Fic: Why She Fights
Fandom: BtVS
Characters: Rona, ensemble
Spoilers: Immediately after Season 7
Rating: PG

"Look at me!"

Vi shouted at her.  Rona slumped against the bus seat.  Dammit, she wanted to go to sleep.  Hadn't had a good night's in a long time.

"This is nothing!"

Easy for her to say.  Pain everywhere.  A ( Read more... )