__Maybe This Time__
By AngelWakes



Buffy strode down the street determination evident in
every step. She was taking control of her life.

# Maybe this time I'll be lucky #

'What is it with me and love? Will it always be like
this? A night together and then badness. I need to
find a guy who will be there loving me whatever comes.
Where's a guy like that?'

# Maybe this time he'll stay
Maybe this time for the first time
Love won't hurry away #

'Someone who will stand and fight at my side.'

# He will hold me fast
I'll be home at last
Not a loser anymore
Like the last time
And the time before #

'Someone who I can just be myself with, someone who
will keep me safe.'

# Everybody loves a winner
So nobody loved me
Lady Peaceful
Lady Happy
That's what I long to be #

'Why can't I just have a normal lover who will do
silly everyday things with me? Like fight over the
last doughnut, or tease me about my taste in shoes.'

# When all the odds are, they're in my favour
Something's bound to begin
It's got to happen
Happen sometime
Maybe this time I'll win #

'I will find my special guy. I *have* to. There is
one perfect partner for me somewhere.'

# Cause, everybody, they love a winner
So nobody loved me
Lady Peaceful
Lady Happy
That's what I long to be #

'Hmmm my partner, a special guy, fighting and
laughing, loving?'

# When all the odds are, they're in my favour
Something's bound to begin
It's got to happen
Happen sometime
Maybe this time
Maybe this time
I'll win. #

Buffy stared at where her feet had led her and smiled
to herself. On the other side of the studded door was
the perfect man for her.

'Giles.'

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