Missing heart to heart.

[Skytteflickan88]

Here's a short fanfic. Sort of a "missing scene".

In End of days, anyone think that there's a huge "I told you so" waiting to happen?

Buffy's back in the house, but the Scoobies don't really have a talk about what went down when Buffy got thrown out? I want to think that after Chosen, they had a talk. This might be how it went down;

*Buffy, Willow, Xander, Giles & Dawn are together in a big hotel room. Buffy is facing the others, arms protectively crossed, a uncomfortable silence is in the room*

Buffy: I think we need to talk.

Xander: Buffy we know we were wrong...

Willow: We're sorry.

*Giles is cleaning his glasses*

Buffy: No. I won't say 'I told you so'. Because you probably think that it's luck. Luck that I was right. Luck that I didn't die, luck that...

Giles: No. It's wasn't luck.

Buffy: Maybe you don't think that. Still... We have problems, don't we?

*they look at each other, insecure, not knowing what to say, and the screen goes black*

I hope they had a talk. Otherwise, some issues are unresolved. That Buffy was right about the schyte might not mean that Willow and the others are confident in Buffy. But, since about 18 months passed between Season 7 & Season 8, I think they worked things out.

EDIT-I though I should move the second part up here;

*black screen fades into the hotel room again. It's been quiet a while. Xander, Giles, Willow and Dawn are sitting on the two beds while Buffy is facing them, arms still crossed*

*Xander opens his mouth to speak
Dawn tries to catch Buffy's eye, but Buffy's looking out the window. Giles is looking grim, like he's thinking very hard*

Willow: I'd better check on Kennedy and the others, they've been through a-

*Buffy starts to sob*

*Xander jumps up, wanting to help, but what can he do. Everyone's very chocked*

*Buffy laughs*

Buffy: We've faced hell gods, we've, we've been through death and we can't talk to each other. This is all so stupid.

*Buffy starts to pace then quickly turns back to the others*

Buffy: We're so stupid! I love you guys. I don't care if you don't trust me, I'm not perfect, I know, and I need you guys to tell me when I'm unreasonable, I do, it doesn't matter that I was right-

*Willow and Dawn rushes up and hugs Buffy. Xander joins in a sec later and Giles is standing up, tears in his eyes, mentally reaching out but not daring to take the first step*

*They let go of each other, sobbing and giggling. Everything's fine for a moment, but the silence is still there. Anya, Spike, The First, the new slayers. Loss and newfound responsibility weighs heavy on them all*

*Buffy and Giles look into each others' eyes. Buffy nods. They're still allies.*

*We see glasses hitting the floor.
Giles has rushed up and is holding Buffy and it looks like he'll never let go*

Giles: I'm so proud of you. Never forget that.

Buffy: You're the best mentor I could have had. And I still need you. Even if we're-

Giles: I know. Still on the same side, aren't we?

*The silence is chased away. Everything fades to black*

[Secret Scoobie]

Are you going to write any more? It's a very neat little exerpt, and I enjoyed the prescence of your projections in this piece - I was just wondering if you were considering going any further with it?

I can see how it fits to end at that scene - BUT it sort of leaves you as in the dark as we are without the scene if you know what I mean. Would they never speak of it again? Would they just go back to being friends and ignore it - then comes s8?

What was dawn doing? and how is Anya there?

Sorry if you think I'm being annoying/picky, just wanted to explore it with you because I like your writing (and you've gota sense for the characters) but I didn't know what to feel after this.



PLEASE don't take any of this the wrong way!

[Skytteflickan88]

You're not annoying, I like that you want more.

Yeah, I could probably have written some more screendirections(OMG, Anya's dead, I need to erase that!) but since I didn't want to take away from the scene(a real script would have more details) I just wrote what was necassary.

But yeah, this fic doesn't say anything more than that they did talk. Maybe I'll write a part two someday.

Draft:

*black screen fades into the hotel room again. It's been quiet a while. Xander, Giles, Willow and Dawn are sitting on the two beds while Buffy is facing them, arms still crossed*

*Xander opens his mouth to speak
Dawn tries to catch Buffy's eye, but Buffy's looking out the window. Giles is looking grim, like he's thinking very hard*

Willow: I'd better check on Kennedy and the others, they've been through a-

*Buffy starts to sob*

*Xander jumps up, wanting to help, but what can he do. Everyone's very chocked*

*Buffy laughs*

Buffy: We've faced hell gods, we've, we've been through death and we can't talk to each other. This is all so stupid.

*Buffy starts to pace then quickly turns back to the others*

Buffy: We're so stupid! I love you guys. I don't care if you don't trust me, I'm not perfect, I know, and I need you guys to tell me when I'm unreasonable, I do, it doesn't matter that I was right-

*Willow and Dawn rushes up and hugs Buffy. Xander joins in a sec later and Giles is standing up, tears in his eyes, mentally reaching out but not daring to take the first step*

*They let go of each other, sobbing and giggling. Everything's fine for a moment, but the silence is still there. Anya, Spike, The First, the new slayers. Loss and newfound responsibility weighs heavy on them all*

*Buffy and Giles look into each others' eyes. Buffy nods. They're still allies.*

*We see glasses hitting the floor.
Giles has rushed up and is holding Buffy and it looks like he'll never let go*

Giles: I'm so proud of you. Never forget that.

Buffy: You're the best mentor I could have had. And I still need you. Even if we're-

Giles: I know. Still on the same side, aren't we?

*The silence is chased away. Everything fades to black*

Just a draft, but I like it.

[Secret Scoobie]

Yeah I like too. It's very true of them to laugh at their own sentimentality and let it all come out at once.

*warm fuzzy feeling*

[Greer]

Ooh Skytte I like the second draft! I like how they are able to talk, especially how Giles tells her how proud he is and they have the father-daughter moment. I'm waiting for that one in the comics, still.

[Secret Scoobie]

^ yeah me too. I always feel like the father/daughter bond they obviously have was always held at arms length in the series. It would be nice for them to just put it out there in the open whre both Buffy ad Giles can accept and embrace it

[stakey]

Love the second part!

Giles and Buffys relationship was never handled that well in season 7.

Really enjoyed your version of it skytte!

[sosa lola]

Awww, really love that second one! Wish you were there with the writers to tell them how to write these characters since obviously they stopped caring about them.

[Rebecca]

Wow, that's really good! Now if only we could see that IN the comics lol.

[sosa lola]

We should've seen in in S7, the comics are a year and a half after that.

[Skytteflickan88]

I think we need to see a group hug scene in the comics too. Not that they've been all work no play, but no real group stuff that I can remember. I heart to heart would be good for them.

[Greer]

May 22, 2009 10:20:39 GMT -5 Skytteflickan88 said:

I think we need to see a group hug scene in the comics too. Not that they've been all work no play, but no real group stuff that I can remember. I heart to heart would be good for them.

I think that would be so appropriate. They're always so stressed and/or apart. I would just love for the core people(Scoobies + Dawn) to just be in a room together. Maybe Andrew, but that's it. They could all make up and be happy:).

Oh, what a dream...