FATE’S CHOICE

CHAPTER 1: A Small Voice

“Something’s wrong”, a small voice from the corner of the room said. Everyone instantly looked up and over towards the little boy that was no more than five years old staring out the window.

“He talks”, Xander asks surprised.

“We just figured… he hadn’t… he hasn’t spoken until”. Willow tried to say. Buffy just stood up and walked over to the small child. He gently looked up at her with his piercing brown eyes.

“What’s wrong”, she asked kneeling down in front of him trying to get him to talk to her. She couldn’t understand why he wouldn’t talk to her since she was the only one he would follow around. He often crawled into her lap and sat there for hours. The small boy didn’t answer he just grabbed her hand and looked down. She instantly felt the energy running through her hand.

I know that feeling… where do I know…God why won’t he talk to me. And those eyes they remind me of…

“Buffy”, Willow said bringing her out of her thoughts. “Maybe…maybe he’s afraid.”

Buffy looked back to the boy, “Is that it, are you afraid”? He shook his head no and looked to see Buffy staring back at Him. “Can you at least tell us your name”, she asked pleading with her eyes for him to talk to her.

“He’s been here for two weeks and this is the first time he’s spoken and now he knows we know he can talk I doubt he’s gonna…”, Xander tried saying before being interrupted.

“Gage”, the small boy said shocking everyone. Buffy smiled at him and he smiled back his dimples spreading across his cheeks.

“Are you saying you’ve been able to talk this whole time”, Gage lowered his head. “And you never thought to answer our questions when we asked you and….”

“Giles”, Buffy yelled getting him to stop questioning the small child.

“Well I was just”, Giles tried to say.

“Well don’t”, she replied.

“Is that true”, she asked looking back down at him. He nodded his head yes.

“You shouldn’t have done that”, she began to say before she saw tears. “Oh its okay, I’m not mad I…we were just really worried is all”. She put her hand on his dark sandy blonde head. “I think we need to talk though”.