Oliver Pike the Pyro

~One~

If you asked me what a normal life is like I would never be able to tell you. I never had a normal life. The moment I was conceived my life would never be normal. I didn't know who my mother was I just knew she was the woman who abandoned me. My father raised me, but he was always a little eccentric. I now know why, but as a kid, I never understood why my father never left the house. My father only ever left the house on Friday nights to play a game of poker down at the bar. When I was thirteen my dad got killed by a drunk driver. I lived with my grandmother after his death, but when you lose your dad it changes you.

I started going down a bad path. I barely ever was at school and most of the time my best friend, Benny, and I skipped to go drinking and smoke weed anywhere that wouldn't kick us out. The pain of losing my father hit me extremely hard, he was the only parent I ever knew, and to get rid of that aching feeling of loss I threw myself into drinking and smoking.

Like all the tragic stories I had been smart and could have gone places, but I screwed myself over. By the time Buffy found me I was on the verge of just packing my things and leaving L.A for good. Buffy brought much more weirdness into my life than ever before. When I met her I learned about vampires, watchers, and slayers.

But it gets weirder. She and I teamed up with her watcher to kill the vampires that were plaguing our city. Along the way, Buffy and I had a Luke and Layla moment. Yes, a Luke and Layla moment. Without realizing it I had met my half-sister. We didn't know this until after we saved our school, which got the gym burned down in the process, and then we left to go to Las Vegas. We only came back because Buffy worried about her parents. When I brought her back she got a pretty big lecture from her mother and father before they asked me who I was.

When I told them my last name Buffy's mother burst into tears and Buffy's father told me to leave. Of course, I had no idea what was going on, but eventually, I was informed that Buffy's mom had an affair with my dad during the first few years of Buffy's parent's marriage. Buffy's mom ended up getting pregnant.... with me. She was forced to make a decision and gave me to my father. A few months later she got pregnant with Buffy... my sister. That definitely made things awkward when Buffy and I realized this.

Buffy and I also got expelled from our school for burning the gym down and when Buffy told her parents about why she did it they put her in a mental hospital, something I'm still furious about. Buffy ended up telling her parents she was just upset and that she lied. Her parents got a divorce because of that and her-our mom took me in and we moved to Sunnydale to start over.

But of course, I'm leaving something out. While saving the city with Buffy I discovered what my father was hiding all my life. He was pyrokinetic and so am I. I can engulf my body in fire, something I have yet to master, and I am immune to fire, meaning it can't hurt me, I also can absorb it, and I can control any nearby fire with my mind. I am still trying to get control of it. It's all connected to my emotions. If I have too strong of emotions then my powers tend to go crazy.

Like the time when my mother told me she was sending Buffy to a mental hospital to be helped. I made the fire in the fireplace go almost out of control. I was able to get myself to stop when I realized what I was doing. Oh, and that whole burned down the gym thing was mostly my fault.

My point is that I am far from normal and my life is anything, but normal. My name is Oliver Pike, I prefer going by my last name, and I'm also a pyro.