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| When it was Buffy vs. Dracula, she knew what to do Stake that Eurotrash and then she was through! But asking Giles to return to his place In her life made her heart flutter and race... "I'm so confused, I just don't see, "How can he know and love The Real Me? "Maybe I'm The Replacement for the child he never had "Maybe sees himself to be only like my Dad. "It is making me go Out of My Mind. "I want him so badly, and I'm afraid that he'll find "There's No Place Like Home and that's not HERE "He might go back to England, that's what I fear. "But we're his Family, doesn't he know? "But then how could he, how little I show "What he means to me, deep down inside "I'm just afraid my feelings he'll deride...." Giles hummed as he walked through the store He was her Watcher again and what's more Although he knew he was still a Fool for Love He felt finally that the Heavens above Might lift off the Shadow that darkened his past And give him a chance with his Slayer at last. Giles felt better then he had in a year He was going to be positive, no more Listening to Fear. (But the Powers That Be won't let them be happy, Or maybe its Joss who scorns the sappy...) Although Riley finally goes off Into the Woods Life gives them no relaxing interludes To explore the feelings they don't begin to dare Hope that the other might possibly share. Their love is a complicated and delicate gift. They each fear a change might cause a rift "What if she doesn't love me as I love her?" "What if he sees me just as a daughter?" "What if she believes my emotions are wrong?" "If I force my feelings where they don't belong... "Like pushing a Triangle in a round hole "Or pairing a green star with one that's yellow... "Its not possible to make something fit "Simply because that's how I wish it." So they remain silent, just being together At least now they are closer then ever. They face Joyce's death and try to move on Dealing with Glory, taking care of Dawn. As things get worse they ask the Council for aid But Travers has terms that must be obeyed. The Council comes to Sunnydale wanting to Check Point by little point and Buffy's a wreck; They threaten Giles, "We'll send you back." She turns the tables, goes on the attack. No one seems to realize that she needs Him her life; his words and his deeds Are the only support that can keep her moving, His constant presence warm and soothing. Bound by Blood Ties older than man, The Slayer and her Watcher know that they can Together Crush any demon or face any hell. But yet somehow sadly, neither could tell The other what each believed they alone knew: That "I Was Made To Love (only) You." The Body of knowledge that the Council brought Was of little help in the battle to be fought. Giles is hurt when they attempt to run He wants to tell her but the words won't come. A missed opportunity, and if he had only known How he'd Forever regret the chance he had blown.... They must face Glory and Buffy states That they will have no more debates. Dawn would live, no more questions! There will be no Interventions By Giles or any of the gang: The world could go out with a bang, For it was Dawn that she refused to lose And right then she didn't care whose Feelings were hurt, life was Tough. Love? She didn't seem to have enough Inside her to care any more. Life didn't seem worth living for. If he had told her what he believed, Would she have been glad, relieved? Would it have changed her actions? What would have been her reactions? He didn't speak, he didn't say And he would always rue that day. She had been love, pure and good, And he had thought that of course she would Find a way--she always had To save the world from the Bad. Sure the victories came at a cost: Over time, they both had lost, But oh, THIS price, he couldn't pay, And yet she had given him no say. He saw her body Spiral through the air And his mind and heart could not bear The thought that 'this is how she goes' Before he spoke, before she KNOWS.... The Weight of the World settled on his soul, Her absence like a gaping hole. No chance now that she was dead, To speak the words left unsaid. He had asked for nothing from her How could he as just her Watcher? He only wanted that she would live But that was what she could not give. In the end, he was left alone, bereft: The Gift she gave him was her death. |
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