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Part 8 of Drabbles
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Drabble 08 - Best Served Cold

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Setting: Buffy, Season 7
Spoilers: “Selfless” (Buffy S7-05), “Chosen” (Buffy S7-22)
Not the end we thought we saw. Maybe the beginning of the end for someone else.

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Best Served Cold
by Aadler
Copyright November 2008

Disclaimer: Characters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer are property of Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, Kuzui Enterprises, Sandollar Television, and the WB.


The moment she saw the medallion, she knew. What it was. What it meant. How to collect and arrange the minor magicks available to her and, when the flare came, siphon some of those energies for herself.

A beginning.

Her death, fighting beside Andrew: illusion. Dead, she’s off the books, nobody looking for her …

… or on guard.

Vengeance for Halfrek? against the source of vengeance? Impossible, too much power there. But with time, care, planning …

Never go for the kill, he’d said, when you can go for the pain.

In time, she’d show him it was possible to do both.

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