"Two surprises for the price of one. And it's not like I'm actually keen about either..."
It was half a lie. Buffy didn't like being in space -- she had made that abundantly clear back on the Liberator. It made her more nervous than being at sea. But she wasn't exactly unkeen for the General's arrival. It wasn't so much something she'd wanted and hoped for but more like the wait had been such a strain. The suspense. The denied conclusion. All that unfinished business.
"It's just a job," she tried to tell him. A vain attempt, really. Only a handful of people knew Buffy well enough to understand just how far beyond work this was -- or how even being the Slayer wasn't so much a job as a way of life (and death).
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It was half a lie. Buffy didn't like being in space -- she had made that abundantly clear back on the Liberator. It made her more nervous than being at sea. But she wasn't exactly unkeen for the General's arrival. It wasn't so much something she'd wanted and hoped for but more like the wait had been such a strain. The suspense. The denied conclusion. All that unfinished business.
"It's just a job," she tried to tell him. A vain attempt, really. Only a handful of people knew Buffy well enough to understand just how far beyond work this was -- or how even being the Slayer wasn't so much a job as a way of life (and death).