Categories: Episode Rewrite, Post-Series
Characters: None
Summary:
Okay, had a weird thought yesterday about Connor from Angel and how he only exited because Jasmine needed him to father her. Got to thinking how far back that particular plot thread would have to extend. And came to as far back as Whistler telling Angel about Buffy. Shajahn<didn't look up the name) might have been further back but the guy can time travel so his implication could come at any time. Long story short I had a thousand word challenge that essentially came down to this.
The Challenge: What would Buffy's story be like without Angel's involvement?
This idea has clearly been done before. But the twist I wanted someone to try is from the position of how it affects Connor. Specifically as the Child born to the Souled Vampire. My idea was to have a guy show up at Buffy's house. Giving off the feel of an old hunter like Dean Winchester from Supernatural, though not actually him obviously. He claims to be a friend of her son. Buffy asks him to leave and that she is going to call the cops. The guy gets confused and a five year old boy comes into the room being chased by Spike. Buffy orders Spike to get the kid out of there. But the guy is floored. And tells them that something very wrong has happened to the world. That he is from the future and that their son should have been in collage by this point in the time line. They ask how he knew this and he pulls out a miniature Slayer Scythe and lays it down on the table before him and when he pulls his hand away their son's name is on the handle and he responds that He is there son. Buffy dismisses the evidence only for Spike to put his hand on her shoulder and pull out similar, rough wooden version of the weapon. Saying he was going to start showing their oldest daughter how to handle it for her tenth birthday.
From that point I kind of faltered. But the crux of the story would revolve around the fact that one of the powers, Jasmine, manipulated the timeline because Buffy and Spike's son uncovered her ambitions when she possessed his tie to the Powers and exposed the whole thing thanks to a Slayer Dream, could give the kids prophetic dreams but like highly personalized. Not seeing end of the world things, unless they are involved in it, But like pop quizzes and the like. Anyway it comes out that he only knows Angel as The Cursed One. And that the guy hadn't been any part of Buffy's life until Spike had gotten his own soul. The idea is that all of the cannon material is the product of a Power writing their own Fix-it fic so that she succeeded in giving birth to herself.
I think that's enough for anyone to build a story off of. GOOD LUCK AUTHORS!