For the 'Once Upon a Time' Challenge at open_on_sunday

[alwaysjbj]

With a little over-inventive use of the hyphen and a lot of culling I managed to get this down from the 170 words it wanted to be to 100.

Title: Too late.
Author: alwaysjbj
Word Count: 100
Character: Buffy
Rating: G





Too late.


Buffy stared sightlessly at the destruction before her.

“I used to think fairytales were real; one day I’d find my prince and live happily-ever-after,” her voice broke the all-encompassing silence. “Then I found out fairytales were real; only not in the happy-ending kinda way, but the evil-monsters-and-things-that-go-bump-in-the-night kinda way. I guess I figured there were no happily-ever-afters. Only there was, and I didn’t realise ‘til it was too late. I really blew it, huh?” A tear traced slowly down her cheek, her gaze fixed on the ground beneath her, searching for his dust amidst the detritus of her former home.

Comments

[alwaysjbj.livejournal.com]

LOL... well it was hard enough getting it down from the 170 words I had originally... I NEEDED those hyphens! LOL

I agree that Buffy deserved to feel that pain... I also felt that Spike very much deserved to have her mourn for him. So it was more for Spike's benifit than Buffy's that I wrote this. If that makes sense?

I rather like detrius too... I have always thought it was a lovely evocative word. Thanks for reviewing!