Tribute To The Fallen
by Jewls13
AN-I told you there were more on the way. This is a clip fic
I don't want any crap for posting this
It's a hell of a lot harder then it looks
Please review
The song is "Goodbye to a River" by Don Henley
Disclaimer: I own nothing
Tribute to the Fallen
//The rains have come early, they say
We're all gonna wash away
Well, that's all right with me//
Buffy: "Who are you?"
Angel: "Let's just say I'm a friend."
Buffy: "Well, maybe I don't want a friend!"
Angel: "I didn't say I was yours."
//If heaven's torrent can wash clean
The arrogance that lies unseen//
Faith: "When are you going to get this, B? Life for a Slayer is
very simple -- want... take... have."
//In the damage done since we have gone
Where we ought not to be//
Giles: "It was better... before."
//Goodbye to a river//
Cordelia: (screams) Oh, my God! Kevin! No!
//Goodbye to a river//
Giles: "Callie Megan Anderson...missing for over a week
//So long//
Giles: You listen to me! Jesse is dead! You have to remember that when
you see him, you're not looking at your friend. You're looking at the
thing that killed him.
//Lakes and levees, dams and locks
They put that river in a box
It was running wild//
Principal Snyder: "My predecessor, Mr. Flutie, may have gone in for
that touchy- feely relating nonsense, but he was eaten. You're in
my world now. And Sunnydale has touched and felt for the last time.
//And men must have control
We live our lives in starts and fits//
Ford: "I'm sorry, Summers. Did I screw up your righteous anger riff? Does the
nest of tumors liquifying my brain kinda' spoil the fun?"
//We lose our wonder bit by bit//
Xander: "Yesterday, my life's like, 'Uh-oh, pop quiz!" Today it's,
"rain of toads."
//We condescend and in the end
We lose our very souls//
Buffy: Faith, you don't get it. You *killed* a man.
Faith: No, *you* don't get it. I don't care!
//Goodbye to a river//
Buffy: "She killed Kendra."
//Goodbye to a river//
Jack O'Toole: "I'm not afraid to die. I'm already dead."
//So long//
Giles: "In my experience, there are two types of monster. The first can
be redeemed, or more importantly, wants to be redeemed.
Buffy: "And the second type?
Giles: "The second is void of humanity... cannot respond to reason or love.
//The dirty water washes down
Poisoning the common ground
Taking sins of farm and town//
Giles: "Joyce, you mustn't blame yourself for her leaving."
Joyce: "I don't. I blame you."
//And bearing them away
The captains of industry
And their tools on the hill//
Joyce: "Mr. Mayor, you're dead wrong. This is not a good town. How many
of us have lost someone who just disappeared? Or, or got skinned?
Or suffered a neck rupture?"
//They're killing everything divine
What will I tell this child of mine//
Giles: "You mean life?"
Buffy: "Yeah. Does it get easy?"
Giles: "What do you want me to say?"
Buffy: "Lie to me."
//I make a church out of words
As the years dull my senses//
Buffy: "Sieze the moment, 'cause tomorrow you might be dead."
//And I try to hold on to the world that I knew//
Willow: I'm not okay. I knew those guys. I go to that room every day.
And when I walked in there, it... it wasn't our world anymore. They made
it theirs. And they had fun.
//I struggle to cross generational fences
And the beauty that still remains//
Angel: "This isn't some fairy tale. When I kiss you...you don't wake up from a
deep sleep and live happily ever after."
Buffy: "No. When you kiss me, I wanna' die."
//I can touch it through you//
Jenny: "Is there something I can do?"
Buffy: "Get out."
Jenny: "I-I just wanna' help."
Giles: "She said 'get out'."
//Goodbye to a river//
Willow: " Rodney's missing."
//Goodbye to a river//
Buffy: "Ampata wasn't evil. At least, not to begin with.
//So long//
Xander: "if Giles wants to go after the, uh, fiend that
murdered his girlfriend, I say, 'Faster, pussycat, kill, kill.'"
//Goodbye to a river//
Giles: "We have two victims... Jeff Orkin and now Platt.
//Goodbye to a river//
Buffy: I'm talking about watching my lover die.
//So long//
Xander: "This isn't real."
Buffy: "I can't feel anything. Arms, legs, anything."
Giles: "She was truly the finest of all of us."
Xander: "Way better than me."
Buffy: "Much. much better."
//Goodbye to a river//
Buffy: "He could die!"
Kendra: "He's a vampire. He should die."
//Goodbye to a river//
Willow: Oh, my God, Jesse!
//So long//
Gage: "Was that the thing that killed Cameron?"
Buffy: "No, that was something else."
//Goodbye to a river//
Buffy: "I'm trying."
Willow: "Wow, and it looks so much like giving up."
//Goodbye to a river//
Xander: "And they say young people don't learn anything in high school
nowadays, but, um, I've learned to be afraid."
//Roll on//
BUFFY ANNE SUMMERS
1981 - 2001
BELOVED SISTER
DEVOTED FRIEND
SHE SAVED THE WORLD
A LOT
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