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Curtain Call
Copyright December 2024
Characters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel: the Series are the property of Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, Kuzui Enterprises, Sandollar Television, and the WB.
The morning after Sunnydale falls into a crater, Xander rises in the early hours, creeps out of the motel where the (non-hospitalized) survivors bedded down, walks past the commandeered school bus to stand at the edge of the desert.
He’s not ready yet to mourn Anya. Soon, but not now.
As the sun steals over the horizon, he thinks of … of Willow, passed through awful darkness but recovered now, healing. Of Cordelia, safe (he hopes) in L.A. the last few years. Even of himself, albeit one-eyed.
“We made it, Jesse,” he whispers to the new day. “We made it.”
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