Buffy Anne Summers (trueslayer) wrote in voicesinmyhead, @ 2007-06-27 16:10:00 |
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Entry tags: | buffy summers, prompt #02 |
Prompt 2 - Family [Open]
Family
Family? Wow, that's a complicated subject in the Summers home. I have my mother and my father though not many people know I have a dad. Okay yeah, hello not a test tube baby, obviously I have a father. It's just that he's not around much since we moved to Sunnydale. I get that, I do, I mean when you're a weekend dad and your daughter comes up with excuses why she can't see you because she has to patrol, it gets kinda old.
Then there's my sister Dawn who I can honestly say didn't become a sister to me until we moved to Sunnydale.
[Locked from those that don't know the truth about Dawn]
Dawn is my sister in every way that matters, even by blood. Sure mom didn't give birth to her and she started life as an energy blob that can open portals, but she's a Summers. Dawn has Summers blood no matter how she got that blood.
It was just her and I after mom died. I think the monks forgot I had a dad since he didn't even fight for custody of her. The courts didn't automatically send her to my dad even though she was a minor. For that I will always be grateful to the monks for not knowing and my dad for not being in my life more. I honestly don't think I would have got through those few weeks after mom's death without her. I had Giles, Willow, Xander, Tara and Spike. Yeah, you read that right, I leaned on Spike after mom's death. Dawn leaned on him more, but that also helped me deal. It was Dawn though, needing to be there for her, not letting myself break apart like I wanted to, that helped me the most.
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Last, but not least, we come to the Giles portion of the Summers family saga. Unlike my biological father, or any male in my life, Giles has always been there for me. There was this one time he went back to England, but that had been my fault. I didn't stop him or tell him how much I needed him. Even when he was far away in England, he was still there for me. He's the father I wish I'd had.
See? What did I tell you? Family is complicated in the Summers household.
Muse: Buffy Summers
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Word Count: 383
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