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May. 31st, 2004 12:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agilebritTitle: Out, Brief Candle!
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Rating: PG
Words: 100
Disclaimer: Not mine, they're Whedon's. *sob*
Written for:challenge100's #1 "Shakespeare" challenge.
Notes: Inspired by the following quote: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow / Creeps in this petty pace from day to day / To the last syllable of recorded time, / And all our yesterdays have lighted fools / The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!--Macbeth (5.5.19-23), Macbeth.
"Death is your gift." As Buffy staked yet another fledgling vampire on yet another endless graveyard patrol, she pondered the words of the First Slayer. If death was her gift, was she supposed to receive it, or give it away? And was it something that would be welcomed by the recipient? She supposed, in a way, that dusting the vampires gave some sort of peace to the souls of the humans they once were. Watching your body maim, torture, and kill couldn't be a very pleasant way to spend the afterlife.
So, maybe it was a nice present, after all.
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Rating: PG
Words: 100
Disclaimer: Not mine, they're Whedon's. *sob*
Written for:
challenge100's #1 "Shakespeare" challenge.Notes: Inspired by the following quote: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow / Creeps in this petty pace from day to day / To the last syllable of recorded time, / And all our yesterdays have lighted fools / The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!--Macbeth (5.5.19-23), Macbeth.
"Death is your gift." As Buffy staked yet another fledgling vampire on yet another endless graveyard patrol, she pondered the words of the First Slayer. If death was her gift, was she supposed to receive it, or give it away? And was it something that would be welcomed by the recipient? She supposed, in a way, that dusting the vampires gave some sort of peace to the souls of the humans they once were. Watching your body maim, torture, and kill couldn't be a very pleasant way to spend the afterlife.
So, maybe it was a nice present, after all.
