Friday Night Dinner
Author: Light Spinner
Disclaimer: I own neither BtVS nor Gilmore Girls.
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"Lorelei, why don't you bring your boyfriend for Friday night dinner," Emily suggested over the phone.
"Um, I'm not sure that's a good idea," Lorelei hedged.
"Is there some reason you don't want Richard and I to meet him?"
"No."
"If you're sure. Because if there was…"
That Friday Lorelei brought her boyfriend along to the family dinner. When Emily opened the door to greet them, she froze. She stared at the bleached blonde. "Uh, hi. This is my mother, Emily Gilmore. Mom, this is my boyfriend, Spike."
"Spike?"
He smiled. "You can call me William."
Dinner that evening was filled with an extremely awkward silence, until finally Spike couldn't take it anymore. "Mrs. Gilmore, do you have an opinion Lord Alfred Tennyson's works?" When she just looked at him in shock, he continued. "I personally enjoy his descriptions. Ones like he used in The Eagle."
Softening up, she smiled. "I couldn't agree more about his descriptive tendencies. However, I'm not the biggest fan of The Eagle. I much prefer The Lady of Shallot." As the two dived into a conversation about past poets, Lorelei looked at them in shock while Rory and Richard watched the whole scene in amusement.
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