Disclaimer: I own nothing of Buffy or Gone With the Wind. That creative
ingenuity goes to Joss Wheadon and Margret Mitchell
Summary: Based on Gone With the Wind, but set in Buffyverse. A/U, pretty much any Buffy ship you like this story will have it, but ultimately S/B
A/N: Ok this is a long one to describe the parallels between Buffy and Gone With the Wind so that you can understand the story. Buffy: Scarlet O'Hara, Spike: Rhett Butler, Angel: Ashly Wilks, Parker: Charles Hamilton, Riley: Frank Kenedy, Dawn: Suellen (no Careen sorry), Xander: Tareleton twins, Giles: Gerald O'Hara, Joyce: Ellen O'Hara, Gunn, Fred, Cordelia, Lorn, Wesley, Anya, Tara and Willow: Scarlets aristocrat friends, Drusilla: Belle Watlang, Fight for Redemption: Melly Hamilton/Wilks, Fight Against First Evil: Civil War, Slaying: Tara Vampires/Demons: Yankees, Faith: Scarlet's yankee friends, Whistler: Uncle Henry. Ok that pretty much covers it. Dawn and Buffy are also closer in age, I'll say dawn is a senior in high school and Buffy is still 21. Mixed up time line, just try to figure it out, it shouldn't be hard at all.
Ashes in the Wind
Chapter One
Xander and Buffy sat on the porch in front of her house.
"So do you think that the first evil is really planning on attaking us again? I mean last time, nothing to bad really happened, besides the whole Angel almost offed himself thing.
"Oh I don't wanna talk about it. I'm tired of hearing about evil."
"Do you think Angel will still go to L.A. if the First does strike?" Xander questioned
Buffy's eyes went wide with shock. "L.A.!?!?! What do you mean L.A.?! You mean like a short visit to kill a nasty?"
"Oh boy, he hasn't told you yet. Well Buff, from what I understand Angel is leaving to fight on the path of redemption without you."
" No! There's no way he would do that! There's no way! And he would have told me even if there was a way," She looked around wildly as Xander tried to soothe her, and then ran off down the street.
*Outside Giles' House*
"Giles!" Buffy pounded on Giles's door.
" Buffy how nice to see you. Is everything all right?" He asked, gesturing for her to come in.
"Is Angel leaving me?"
"I-I-I don't know. Why?" He asked, taking his glasses off to clean them on his shirt.
"Xander said he's leaving and going to L.A. to fight for redemption on his own."
"Well Buffy, it's a possibility, but you must realize, you two are too different to be together Sometimes it just isn't meant to be. And it isn't even like you've been dating him exclusively. You've been on a few dates with Parker, have you not?"
Buffy gaped at him," Not meant to be!?!? We are perfect for each other! I love him! Parker means nothing to me!"
"I know you don't want to hear this, but love is not what is important to you Buffy. You are a slayer, it is who you are, in your blood," he walked over to his weapon chest and pulled out a stake. He placed it in the fuming slayer's hand and closed her fingers around it. ' When there is nothing left, you will always have slaying, it's who you are, in your heart."
Buffy looked down at the stake in her hand, hugged Giles and began to walk out.
"Buffy don't forget everyone is meeting at the Bronze tonight!"
* The Bronze that night*
Willow and Tara were on the dance floor, as well as Dawn and her older boyfriend Riley Finn. Buffy, Anya, Angel, Gunn, Fred, Cordy, Lorn and Spike sitting around the couches in the alcove area. Buffy was wondering what Spike was doing there, she didn't really know, or like him. And he kept looking at her like he knew how she looked without clothing on!!!
Angel cleared his throat, he was stting across from Buffy and she looked over at him with adoring eyes.
"I have an announcement to make," he said as the song ended and the two couples came over.
Everyone looked at him expectantly.
" I'm.leaving." shocked stares from every direction ".tomorrow. I've done so much evil in my unlife, you all can't even conceive. I need to redeem myself, it's what I want and my mind won't be changed."
"Oh no, we'll really miss ya big guy, really. Drinks anyone?" Xander asked with enthusiasm.
Buffy glared at Xander, knowing he was ecstatic that Angel was leaving so that now he might have a shot with her. She turned her icy glare back to Angel. Everyone politely dispersed to let the couple have words.
"You're leaving me?" she said through clenched teeth. Tears threatened to roll from her eyes. " how could you?"
" We can't talk here. C'mon, there's a private room upstairs."
They walked up a flight of stairs and down a hall into the room where Xander had once almost lost his life to an Incan mummy girl. Angel closed the door behind him, and then Buffy let loose.
" You can't leave me! We were going to fight evil together! You can earn redemption by working with others! I can't go on without you! I wanted to marry you Angel! Don't you love me?"
"How could I help loving you? You have all the passion for life that I lack. But that kind of love isn't enough to make a successful marriage for two people who are as different as we are."
"Oh why don't you just say it you coward, you're afraid to marry me. How can you do this? Don't you get it? I love you!"
" I'm sorry Buffy, this is just something I have to do. I love you, I do. I love your spirit and your strength and the way you risk your life everyday so that the people of the world can live lifes you'll never have. I'm sorry Buffy, I need to do this for me, I just can't be with you."
" I hate you Angel! I will hate you 'till the day I die."
With that angel left the room leaving behind a furious, but more importantly, heartbroken slayer. She picked up an empty beer bottle off a card table and threw it into the opposite wall, startling Spike who had been laying, listening, on a couch facing away from the wounded girl. He jumped up startled.
"Has the apocalypse begun?"
TBC.
Summary: Based on Gone With the Wind, but set in Buffyverse. A/U, pretty much any Buffy ship you like this story will have it, but ultimately S/B
A/N: Ok this is a long one to describe the parallels between Buffy and Gone With the Wind so that you can understand the story. Buffy: Scarlet O'Hara, Spike: Rhett Butler, Angel: Ashly Wilks, Parker: Charles Hamilton, Riley: Frank Kenedy, Dawn: Suellen (no Careen sorry), Xander: Tareleton twins, Giles: Gerald O'Hara, Joyce: Ellen O'Hara, Gunn, Fred, Cordelia, Lorn, Wesley, Anya, Tara and Willow: Scarlets aristocrat friends, Drusilla: Belle Watlang, Fight for Redemption: Melly Hamilton/Wilks, Fight Against First Evil: Civil War, Slaying: Tara Vampires/Demons: Yankees, Faith: Scarlet's yankee friends, Whistler: Uncle Henry. Ok that pretty much covers it. Dawn and Buffy are also closer in age, I'll say dawn is a senior in high school and Buffy is still 21. Mixed up time line, just try to figure it out, it shouldn't be hard at all.
Ashes in the Wind
Chapter One
Xander and Buffy sat on the porch in front of her house.
"So do you think that the first evil is really planning on attaking us again? I mean last time, nothing to bad really happened, besides the whole Angel almost offed himself thing.
"Oh I don't wanna talk about it. I'm tired of hearing about evil."
"Do you think Angel will still go to L.A. if the First does strike?" Xander questioned
Buffy's eyes went wide with shock. "L.A.!?!?! What do you mean L.A.?! You mean like a short visit to kill a nasty?"
"Oh boy, he hasn't told you yet. Well Buff, from what I understand Angel is leaving to fight on the path of redemption without you."
" No! There's no way he would do that! There's no way! And he would have told me even if there was a way," She looked around wildly as Xander tried to soothe her, and then ran off down the street.
*Outside Giles' House*
"Giles!" Buffy pounded on Giles's door.
" Buffy how nice to see you. Is everything all right?" He asked, gesturing for her to come in.
"Is Angel leaving me?"
"I-I-I don't know. Why?" He asked, taking his glasses off to clean them on his shirt.
"Xander said he's leaving and going to L.A. to fight for redemption on his own."
"Well Buffy, it's a possibility, but you must realize, you two are too different to be together Sometimes it just isn't meant to be. And it isn't even like you've been dating him exclusively. You've been on a few dates with Parker, have you not?"
Buffy gaped at him," Not meant to be!?!? We are perfect for each other! I love him! Parker means nothing to me!"
"I know you don't want to hear this, but love is not what is important to you Buffy. You are a slayer, it is who you are, in your blood," he walked over to his weapon chest and pulled out a stake. He placed it in the fuming slayer's hand and closed her fingers around it. ' When there is nothing left, you will always have slaying, it's who you are, in your heart."
Buffy looked down at the stake in her hand, hugged Giles and began to walk out.
"Buffy don't forget everyone is meeting at the Bronze tonight!"
* The Bronze that night*
Willow and Tara were on the dance floor, as well as Dawn and her older boyfriend Riley Finn. Buffy, Anya, Angel, Gunn, Fred, Cordy, Lorn and Spike sitting around the couches in the alcove area. Buffy was wondering what Spike was doing there, she didn't really know, or like him. And he kept looking at her like he knew how she looked without clothing on!!!
Angel cleared his throat, he was stting across from Buffy and she looked over at him with adoring eyes.
"I have an announcement to make," he said as the song ended and the two couples came over.
Everyone looked at him expectantly.
" I'm.leaving." shocked stares from every direction ".tomorrow. I've done so much evil in my unlife, you all can't even conceive. I need to redeem myself, it's what I want and my mind won't be changed."
"Oh no, we'll really miss ya big guy, really. Drinks anyone?" Xander asked with enthusiasm.
Buffy glared at Xander, knowing he was ecstatic that Angel was leaving so that now he might have a shot with her. She turned her icy glare back to Angel. Everyone politely dispersed to let the couple have words.
"You're leaving me?" she said through clenched teeth. Tears threatened to roll from her eyes. " how could you?"
" We can't talk here. C'mon, there's a private room upstairs."
They walked up a flight of stairs and down a hall into the room where Xander had once almost lost his life to an Incan mummy girl. Angel closed the door behind him, and then Buffy let loose.
" You can't leave me! We were going to fight evil together! You can earn redemption by working with others! I can't go on without you! I wanted to marry you Angel! Don't you love me?"
"How could I help loving you? You have all the passion for life that I lack. But that kind of love isn't enough to make a successful marriage for two people who are as different as we are."
"Oh why don't you just say it you coward, you're afraid to marry me. How can you do this? Don't you get it? I love you!"
" I'm sorry Buffy, this is just something I have to do. I love you, I do. I love your spirit and your strength and the way you risk your life everyday so that the people of the world can live lifes you'll never have. I'm sorry Buffy, I need to do this for me, I just can't be with you."
" I hate you Angel! I will hate you 'till the day I die."
With that angel left the room leaving behind a furious, but more importantly, heartbroken slayer. She picked up an empty beer bottle off a card table and threw it into the opposite wall, startling Spike who had been laying, listening, on a couch facing away from the wounded girl. He jumped up startled.
"Has the apocalypse begun?"
TBC.
