Ducks: Queen of Frickin' Everything

I haven't done one of these in a while. :)



1. Convict

"430019!"

The numbers hit like bullets in her chest, her brain. Not pain, anymore, though, just pressure. A reminder, like she needs another one, of just what and where she is. She steps forward, outside the steel and cement cage that has become her home. The guard glances at her, barely a moment, not even real.

She doesn't exist.

The line slinks by her, and she steps into her place at the end. The snake of scum winds down the dim hallway and into the rec room, where the TV sits, waiting to be the centerpiece of another brutal showdown.



2. Concord Municipal Airport

She stared at the ticket dangling off her suitcase -- CON. Concord Municipal Airport, in the middle of Nowhere, New Hampshire. Why here, of all places? Why did this place feel safe when a castle full of Slayers didn't?

"Buffy."

She closed her eyes, breathed deep for a moment before she turned. She had spent so long wondering what happened in that rainswept alley. Wondering if he would just be another name on the rolls of the dead.

But hey, those rolls seemed to be pretty flexible, didn't they? She came back. Spike did. And now...

She opened her eyes.