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The whole idea behind this post is supposed to be a parallel of Buffy and Angel both being afraid at first, for very understandable reasons. if you've seen the movie, or the unaired Pilot, you know she lost her first Watcher Merrick (he actually sacrificed himself for her: long story, that), which is the real reason she's turned her back on Slaying in the Pilot, where she had originally accepted her Calling in the film/her origin story. But aside from being afraid for others' sake, of course she's afraid for herself and should be. Why shouldn't she be, when she knows being the Slayer guarantees her an early, violent death?).
And as for why Angel's afraid, it's because he's not only turning his back on his own kind to help the Slayer, but his own family, who would of course want him dead in a big way because of that. And he hasn't completely come to terms with that yet. And in living off of rats for a hundred years, he's super weak compared to what he used to be. And I believe Whistler exaggerates, saying something along the lines of that, "a fruit fly could take him out."
So, yeah.
Originally, I was actually going to use Buffy from "Helpless" for this. But I already used a human Buffy (from the comics) in another post, where I paralleled Buffy and Angel both becoming human more than once--so I decided to go with "Welcome to the Hellmouth" Buffy here.
