A/N: Standard disclaimer Buffy, Star Trek, not mine.
Do Over
By Nightwatcher666
Prologue
2023 Cleveland, OH
Buffy sat dumbfounded by her new grandmother. Buffy didn't expect in a million years to be projected to have a lifespan that measured millennia. Hell, she was shocked she was still alive most days. "So how did you find us?" she asked Pelia.
Pelia had a sparkle in her eye, "The internet dearie, how else? I'm new with computers, so it took a while. I recently got the idea to try a new career, so it's time to bring my knowledge up to snuff." Buffy looked saddened, "So, you just found out about mom then." Pelia nodded sadly, "Yes, sadly I won't be able to make things right with my daughter, but I have two new granddaughters to get to know so that's not nothing ye know."
"We have to tell Giles and the others," Dawn said with a small and trembling voice, "We can't keep this a secret." Buffy nodded in affirmation, "You're right, but how do we tell them that we're part space alien?"
Pelia looked at the girls, "There's not many of us here. We've lived undetected from humans for a long time. It's not the sort of thing ye go blabbing to the world about especially since it's nearly impossible to tell us apart from them."
"But we have to tell them," Dawn countered, "They're family."
Buffy made the calls and within an hour Rupert Giles and Xander Harris had arrived at the Summers home wondering what the big news was. Buffy opened the door and proceeded to hug each man. Giles who was nearing seventy had gray hair and was now prone to using a cane when he walked. Xander still sported his eye patch, but had become a well-muscled middle age man. "Guys," Buffy said as she led them to the living room, "We would like you to meet our grandmother Pelia."
Giles immediately saw the resemblance to Joyce as he and Xander stood there shocked. "I'm sorry," Giles began, "Grandmother?"
Willow chuckled, "It gets better. You boys might want to sit down for this next part." Xander did his Xander thing and quipped as he took a spot on the sofa next to Willow, "Wiccan said sit. I shall sit."
Once they were seated Buffy stood in the room wringing her hands nervously. "Pelia, This is Xander Harris one of my oldest friends, and Rupert Giles; my watcher and head of the IWC." Pelia bristled a bit, "A watcher ye say? Can ye trust him?" Buffy nodded, "The watcher's council was destroyed twenty years ago. Giles, Willow, Dawn, Xander, and myself rebuilt it as a better version of what it was."
"Oh really?" Pelia asked indignantly, "Do you know what they did? Stealing girls from their families in some vague hope they could be a slayer. Dreadful behavior set down by those awful shadow men."
Giles sputtered in surprise, "You know of the shadow men?" he asked before processing what else she had said, "And we don't steal girls; that sort of behavior died with the old council. We approach them when they are called now and offer the chance at training. They have the right to say no."
That appeared to appease Pelia slightly, but she still looked upon Giles with a distrustful eye. "Yes, I knew the shadow men," she said, "Shoving the essence of a demon in that poor girl to make her a weapon."
"That's the better part," Buffy said cutting them both off, "Pelia was around when the first slayer was created. Apparently she's not human."
"I'm a Lanthanite," she said which went over Xander's head, but caused Giles to sit straight and think.
"There are legends; rumors really," he said as he pulled off his much thicker glasses to clean them, "Of a group of people from the stars. Very little is known other than they were supposedly very long lived. Of course I never put much stock in them."
"And yet here we are," Pelia said with a grin. "And now I get to know Laetitia's daughters. "Excuse me? Buffy and Giles said at the same moment, "Joyce, her name was Joyce."
Pelia shook her head, "That was her choice to try and be all modern, was not the name I gave her."
"I see," said Giles as he turned to Willow, "And you've confirmed this?
Willow nodded, "Blood, hair, aura. She is who she says she is."
"Well," Giles said, "I suppose, in that case. Welcome to the family then."