Aug 07 – Buffy Gilmore

Chapter Summary: When Buffy decides to dress in a costume to upset Snyder, she had no idea what it would cost her. **Part of the 2018 LiveJournal's Twisted Shorts FaD** challenge.

Challenge: for the livejournal 2018 August Fic-a-Day Challenge. An attempt to come up with an unusual Halloween fic

Timeline: season 2 BtVS; pre-series for GG

Disclaimer: BtVS/AtS characters belong to Joss Whedon/Mutant Enemy. Gilmore Girls characters belong to Amy Sherman-Palladino and the WB. I claim no rights to any copyrighted material. Please do not copy or take this story without my permission. Song "Papa Don't Preach" is by Madonna

Ethan's

"Why are we dressing in other people's clothing?" Buffy's companion asked as they browsed the racks of costumes.

"Because it's Halloween…the time to be somebody you aren't," Buffy explained. "If you don't want to stick out, you need to be in a costume tomorrow night – even if you don't have to play babysitter for a bunch of trick-or-treaters." Curse Snyder for making her do this on her night off!

"But these clothes are…indecent," the other girl whispered in horror at the thought of going out into public in such attire.

"How about this one?" Buffy suggested, holding up the all-white Princess Leia costume. It was sexy without being slutty. Sure, the movie version didn't include slits halfway up the sides, but it wasn't as bad as the bikini outfit.

"Who is Princess Leia?" the girl asked, reading the tag.

Buffy shook her head in astonishment. "Okay, that does it! Tonight you get your first – I'm sure – taste of popular culture…even if it's really old. We're doing a Star Wars marathon with Xander and Willow. No complaints," she ordered, holding up a hand to stop any protests. "Consider it Slayer training so you can blend in with real people."

"If you think it is necessary," Kendra replied, clearly unhappy about wasting time in such frivolous ways. "The signs said I needed to be here for a time of great upheaval, and my Watcher ordered me to listen to you when it came to advice about slaying on the Hellmouth."

Looking at the rest of the costumes, Buffy wavered between doing something to get Angel's attention and wanting to piss the troll off. In the end her anger won out over her infatuation. She smiled darkly as she made her decision and took both costumes to the register to check out.

Sunnydale High

As she expected, Buffy's costume caused a little vein to throb wildly on the side of Snyder's forehead. "Miss Summers! What do you think you are wearing?!" he screamed.

Buffy feigned innocence as she ran a hand over the prominent part of her costume. "Whatever do you mean, Principal Snyder? I got the costume from Ethan's; it's somebody named Lorelai Gilmore. I thought it would be a good PSA about what teenage sex could lead to," she added in faux-righteousness. "You can never start showing children the consequences of their actions too early. I say nip those hormones in the bud before they can start!" She gave her rounded belly another good rub as she delivered her lines, biting the inside of her cheek to keep from laughing at the look on his face.

Before he could erupt, she grabbed her list of kiddies from his clipboard and chirped, "Well, time to get the children some candy. Bye, Principal Snyder!"

He stood there for another fifteen minutes, twitching in rage, before he was able to think clearly again. He would make her pay for this! Somehow he would make her pay!

After the spell hit…

Willow searched high and low for any sign of Buffy, but eventually had to give up so she could get Xander to safety. Maybe Giles could help look for her – or figure out what the Hellmouth was going on.

To their dismay, nobody found Buffy after the spell lifted either. Angel used his super-vamp-sniffer to search for her, but the trail stopped cold in the street outside an old lady's house who had been torn apart by some children-turned-into-demons. A check of the morgue for all bodies, especially the Jane Does, came up empty as well. It was as if she had disappeared into thin air.

In another place

Which was precisely what happened.

The Powers That Be took advantage of the opportunity presented to them by the spell to remove the Slayer who interrupted the Slayer line before her presence allowed Evil a chance to use the disruption to its advantage. While Buffy Summers was a capable Slayer, she wasn't worth the risk to humanity, so she had to go.

Being the benevolent creatures they were, they wouldn't just kill her, though. They would offer her the opportunity that she claimed to always want: the chance to be a normal teenager – if you didn't count the fact she was pregnant at the age of 16. As for the real Lorelai Gilmore, they'd give her a new identity as Sarah Braverman.

Hartford

One moment, Buffy was standing in the front yard of somebody's house, waiting for the children to come back with their goodies. The next, she felt something wash over her like a wave…causing her to feel woozy and close her eyes.

When she opened them again, she was startled to see she was in a hospital with her feet in stirrups. Then a horrible pain gripped her stomach. What. The. Hell?

A doctor came to give her some drugs for the pain, which had the unfortunate side effect of making it hard for her to focus on anything other than what was currently happening to her body. She was actually having a baby!

By the time it was all over, she was too relieved and too tired to think about calling Giles for help. She'd do it in the morning when she could come up with something more than 'Fire bad. Tree pretty.' The last thing she remembered before falling asleep was telling the nurse the baby's name should be Elizabeth because guys named their kids after them all the time, so why couldn't women? Now she wouldn't be so mean as to actually name her daughter Buffy, but she heard that Buffy was a nickname for Elizabeth and Elizabeth was a normal name.

Calling Giles was never to be.

While she slept, memories of her past life in Sunnydale were overwritten by those of Lorelai Gilmore. She would still be allowed to be herself – personality-wise – but with a different last name and family. Instead of being Buffy Summers, the Vampire Slayer, she was now Buffy Gilmore, teen mother and major disappointment to her parents, Richard and Emily Gilmore.

A/N: Musie went in a weird direction today. Sarah Braverman was another role played by Lauren Graham on the TV series Parenthood. Don't own that either.