Won't you take me by the hand, take me somewhere new
Who: Riley and Buffy Where: The beach Why: Because What: Figuring things out Warnings: None
Everything changed so fast and she was trying so hard to keep up with it all. She remembered being at home, playing some stupid board game that Dawn picked out with Riley and Anya. Everything seemed so simple and that was including the vampires and demons that she fought on a nightly basis. Now she was whisked away to some other place with no way of getting out, sharing a room with a girl she didn’t even know. People were always coming and going and it was hard to keep track. She wanted to go home, but home wasn’t an option, so she decided to tough it out and try to figure out a way to get back home.
The Riley in this new place wasn’t even her Riley. He was from some other time and it made her think about what could have possibly happened that he would go away and … marry someone else. He even said that she’d met her, Sam and she didn’t understand it. When he asked if she wanted to take a walk on the beach, she said no at first, but then decided to meet him. If he was there before, he’d be there now, right?
She saw him sitting in the sand watching the waves crashing against the shore and she stopped for a second and just took it all in. It was really him, only … was it really? She was confused and she didn’t like it. She didn’t know what to say to him. Finally, her legs started moving and she made her way over to him, eventually sitting down next to him. She pulled her legs up and carefully wrapped her arms around them as she stared out at the ocean.