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[7SP] Dinah Shore quote
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whatyou_wanted. Oliver is ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yeahihidmypants, Buffy is isaywe_party, Faith is msattentionspan, Sam is imnot_likeyou.]
“Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.”
If Sunnydale had ever had anything close to royalty on their planet, the Chases would have been it.
Politically motivated, largely outspoken, and insanely comfortable for living in a country that was constantly at war, Cordelia was raised to expect more about the world than the world may have been willing to give. The first female Chase in a long line of men that had lead armies in the battle against the demons and vampires, and they expected high things of her, just like they would have everyone else. In fact, they expected her to be Slayer, one of the best trained soldiers the planet had to offer, but as she grew up, her genetic markers made it clear that she wouldn’t be a candidate. Her parents were disappointed, and were never shy about letting Cordelia know that, which lead to her doing her best to make up for it.
Everyone was a soldier on Sunnydale, so she pushed herself to be as best as she could, even without the slayer potential. She managed to excel far enough to have her wind up on a squad with two slayers, Buffy and Faith. She wasn’t keen on making friends at first, just aiming to do a job, but eventually the people she was traveling with on the battlefield became surrogate family. Further down the line, she started to care for them more than her own, to the point where she would sacrifice her own safety for them if that was what it took. It wasn’t a quality that the Chases were meant to admire, and one of the few times where she had been seriously injured to protect one of the less valuable members of the team, like Xander or Dawn, her parents had no trouble coming down on her hard for it. But in the end, she was the one who came out on top.
The Doctor came and whisked them away, and as the planet imploded around them, she never looked back.
( *** )
771 words
whatyou_wanted. Oliver is yeahihidmypants, Buffy is isaywe_party, Faith is msattentionspan, Sam is imnot_likeyou.]“Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.”
If Sunnydale had ever had anything close to royalty on their planet, the Chases would have been it.
Politically motivated, largely outspoken, and insanely comfortable for living in a country that was constantly at war, Cordelia was raised to expect more about the world than the world may have been willing to give. The first female Chase in a long line of men that had lead armies in the battle against the demons and vampires, and they expected high things of her, just like they would have everyone else. In fact, they expected her to be Slayer, one of the best trained soldiers the planet had to offer, but as she grew up, her genetic markers made it clear that she wouldn’t be a candidate. Her parents were disappointed, and were never shy about letting Cordelia know that, which lead to her doing her best to make up for it.
Everyone was a soldier on Sunnydale, so she pushed herself to be as best as she could, even without the slayer potential. She managed to excel far enough to have her wind up on a squad with two slayers, Buffy and Faith. She wasn’t keen on making friends at first, just aiming to do a job, but eventually the people she was traveling with on the battlefield became surrogate family. Further down the line, she started to care for them more than her own, to the point where she would sacrifice her own safety for them if that was what it took. It wasn’t a quality that the Chases were meant to admire, and one of the few times where she had been seriously injured to protect one of the less valuable members of the team, like Xander or Dawn, her parents had no trouble coming down on her hard for it. But in the end, she was the one who came out on top.
The Doctor came and whisked them away, and as the planet imploded around them, she never looked back.
( *** )
771 words
