A/N: As for an excuse, I just wanted to see what would happen if two of my favorite characters were put together in a romantic situation? Let me just be clear that I own none of the characters, I just put them in weird situations and see what happens. This takes place after the second season of Gilmore Girls and after the second season of Buffy.

Chapter 1

Shivering in the morning cold, Xander Harris walked in the Connecticut morning. Why had he not packed any warmer clothes? It was summer after all, and the t-shirt and jeans he was wearing did little to keep out the morning cold as he walked out on the walkway leading to his great-aunt's house. In California what he was wearing would have been fine, even if it were three o'clock in the morning right now.

"Where are you going Xander?" Emily Gilmore, his great-aunt called after him. Emily, standing in the doorway of her home, was wearing a sweater, something that Xander wished he had remembered to bring with him.

"I just wanted to go outside."

"Well come inside, it's cold out there," Emily admonished.

Xander, not able to dispute his great-aunt, turned around and walked back inside. Xander had only arrived in Connecticut the night before and was already dreading the fact that he would be here with his great-aunt and uncle for the next eight weeks. Upset with the people he had been hanging out with his mother had sent him to Connecticut to spend the summer with Richard and Emily Gilmore. It was not that Xander did not like his great-aunt and uncle it was just that they lived on a totally different wavelength than he did, or anybody else in the universe, he thought, silently laughing to himself.

Xander came back inside, followed by his great-aunt who closed the door behind him. He walked into the dinning room to find, his great-uncle sitting at the table eating breakfast.

"Good morning, Alexander," said Richard.

"Good morning, Uncle Richard," said Xander sitting down at the table. Xander had decided that he would call Richard and Emily, uncle Richard and aunt Emily. His mother had never told him about any of his relatives and he was not really sure what the protocol was. Besides they seemed very formal and somehow calling them just Richard and Emily did not seem right.

Emily, who had followed Xander into the dinning room, sat down at the foot of the table. Xander helped himself to some of the scrambled eggs and bacon that the maid had set out on the table and began eating. While he started eating, the maid poured a cup of coffee for Xander.

"Well Alexander we are happy to have you staying with us this summer," said Richard. "Dear, maybe you can take Alexander shopping today and get him some warmer clothes? You seem to be so good at shopping."

"I'd be happy to," said Emily, ignoring Richard's jibe.

"That'd be great," said Xander his mouth full of scrambled eggs.

Richard's nose wrinkled at Xander's gaucheness, speaking with his mouth full of food, but said nothing. The rest of the breakfast passed in silence save only Emily's complaints about the latest maid, Helga and Richard's mollifications

After breakfast Richard went to work in his study and Emily took Xander to the Mall where she bought Xander a couple of sweaters, two shirts and a tweed jacket. All of the clothes were things that Xander would never consider wearing in California. Fortunately his mom had made sure that he had taken a nice pair of dress pants with him that would go well with all that his great-aunt had purchased for him to wear. When they got home Xander, intending to take his new clothes to his room and spend the rest of the day ignoring the fact that he was stuck in Connecticut, left his great-aunt in the living room.

"Dinner will be at seven," she called after him.

"Thank you," he mumbled as he shuffled off to his room.

He spent the rest of the day trying to imagine that he was back in California. It was Friday and he imagined that if he were in Sunnydale he would be spending the evening out with Willow and Oz, maybe going to the Bronze, followed by an evening on patrol. But, he was stuck here in Connecticut. He hoped that the vampires of Sunnydale could await his return.

Lying on the bed he drifted off to sleep and was awoken by voices downstairs. He got up and looked at the clock. It was 6:30 and there were definitely voices other than his great-aunt and uncle downstairs. He decided, with dinner so close that he would head downstairs so he put on one of the shirts that Emily had purchased for him and after tucking it into his pants headed downstairs.

When he got downstairs he found his great-aunt and uncle sitting in their living room with two brunette women, one that was his age and the other older sitting on the couch.

"Ah, Alexander, I am glad you decided to join us. I would like you to meet our daughter Lorelei and granddaughter Rory. Girls, Alexander is Jessica's boy. Jessica asked if he could stay with us this summer."

"Hello, nice to meet you," said Xander shaking Lorelei's hand. "Most people call me Xander."

"Hi Xander," Lorelei said, Emily's face grimacing at the informality.

"Hi Xander," said, Rory, shaking Xander's hand.

"Alexander, can I get you a soda," asked Richard.

"Yes, please," said Xander, sitting down on a chair next to the couch and Richard placed a glass of soda in front of him.

"Where do you live when you are not stuck with your great-aunt and uncle?" asked Lorelei.

"Sunnydale, California. I am going to be senior at Sunnydale High next year."

"Wow, Sunnydale, sounds warm," said Lorelei.

"It's certainly warmer than Connecticut."

"So what did you do to get sent here?"

"My mother wasn't happy with the people I was hanging out with. She thought they were too dangerous."

"oooh, dangerous friends, my favorite kind. I know how dangerous staying out late can be," joked Lorelei.

Xander liked Lorelei's sense of humor but somehow he felt the need to shock her. "It wasn't so much that as the vampire slaying that bothered her," he said.

"Vampire slaying, and here I thought that went out of style with mullets," laughed Lorelei.

"Well, she thought I would be safer if I spent the summer here. Better environment sort of thing."

"I was thinking maybe I could bring Alexander to Stars Hollow sometime next week," said Emily.

"Mom, why would you want to come to Stars Hollow?" asked Lorelei.

"I don't know I just thought Xander might want to spend some time with his cousin. It's not as though there is anybody his age around here."

Just then Helga, the maid, walked into the room and announced dinner.