Series Title: Quirks
Title: Buffy
Author: Jmaria
Rating: FR-15
Dislaimer: I do not own them. Joss owns the slayer.
Series Summary: Everybody's got 'em. Vignettes from the Resurrected 'verse.
Summary: Bi-weekly movie night.
Words: 523
A/N: Bits and pieces to help me get a handle on some of the characters in the Ginormous Resurrected verse.
Quirks
Buffy
Every second Friday of the month, whichever Scooby or high ranking Council member has the misfortune to come near the back den of the Cleveland house gets roped into Movie Night. Buffy makes slightly burnt microwave popcorn, grabs copious amounts of sugary drinks - everything from Red Bull and soda to juice and energy drinks and pops in a ridiculous or sappy movie.
If it's Graham, she puts in some silly slapstick comedy that they'll end up ignoring midway through to cuddle and kiss. If it's Xander or Willow, its a classic Indian movie that's reminiscent of their time in Sunnydale. Dawn's always a foreign film in the language she's learning this week or a Disney classic. She can't count the number of times they've watched Newsies and cooed over young Christian Bale. And as a bonus, they never feel like great big perverts because he's an adult now.
With Giles it's the old black and white Father of the Bride or some other Tracey and Hepburn movie. With the younger slayers - Vi or Rona - it's The Lost Boys or Once Bitten, because it's never too early for them to learn the importance of being led down the wrong path by good looking vampires. Kit and Carlos get treated to The Craft, because she doesn't want them ending up like Amy.
She and Faith trade off. Some nights it's Masters of the Universe or Rocky IV - its a frightening obsession they have with Dolph Lundgren. Others it's Lethal Weapon. They find the similarities hilarious and poignant. With Samantha, it's Sixteen Candles all the way. They've both found their Jake Ryan or Farmer Ted.
Sometimes she uses Movie Night as a weapon too. Dean and Sam Winchester are both treated to the first two Terminator movies - which she compliments with bending a steel bar of her own. Their half-brothers Adam and Puck are treated to Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. She likes using the spoon reference, but she also wants to make sure they treat Cassie and Rachel right. Besides, they're teens and that movie is all about true love and brotherhood and obligations.
The youngest Winchester and Puckerman girls get whatever Disney movie they want to watch. Even The Black Cauldron, the one without any music. Marianna Lockley bounces around and makes up her own songs to scenes without any. Sarah Puckerman often peeks through her fingers, half-expecting a repeat of her mother's Schindler's List debacle.
Connor Angel - and yes, she's finally stopped calling him Angel's brat - picks his own movies. Oddly enough, they're Zombie flicks. The two of them get into heated arguments over the best way of decapitating a zombie, and often mock the heroes. Its bad karma to wish somebody dead, but as most of them are fictional characters, neither Destroyer or Slayer feels too bad about it.
And on those very rare occasions when she's alone on Movie Night, Buffy locks the door and pops in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. It reminds her the most of her family, and how they're all finally pairing up. Not that she'd ever tell them that.