Looping with a twist or A Week in Infinity by Its all fluffy +3
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Categories: Alternate Reality
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Summary:

Had though thought running through my head for a while. It's pretty basic and I even have a version of it on the challenge list, somewhere. Basic premise is that we have a Looper story line that takes place over the same week of time, yes it's groundhogs day but the twist comes in that when the week begins again the one doing the loop doesn't get reset back to where they were at the beginning of the week but instead keeps going from where they were standing.

For example, if they were driving down the highway when the week reset then the car they were in would return to where it had been at the start of the loop and the looper would retain their momentum so they would now be falling from where they had been sitting only to hit the pavement at speed and tumble along. Or maybe get slammed into the back of another vehicle that had been driving down the road the week before.

Now, imagine what traveling the world would be like for such a person? What kinds of things they would get up to? What if even death wasn't an escape and after a week of being dead this person woke up right where their body was resting? And if said body was scattered over a few blocks thanks to an explosion then they get reformed in the center point of where the smear would be what kinds of situations could be set up with that? Paying a group of people to dismember the looper's body and place it around a place they couldn't access by other means? Falling into a volcano and burning for countless loops until you learn how crawl out of the magma some how?

Now imagine one day reading some local news article to see what kind of scandal you caused in your latest loop and someone sits down across from you and tells you that they have been tracking your through your last dozen or so loops. How did they achieve this? Are they a rescue party of some kind? Do they know how to break the loop? How many more people are Looping? Is it always the same week for them too? Is their loop longer? shorter? Are they part of some large looper organization who place agents in loops to preform particular tasks, no matter how long it takes them to achieve them? And what do they want with you? There are just so many questions.

The Challenge: Buffy or Spike is looping the same week for a very long time. When the week rolls over they are still where they had been but everyone else had reset to the start of the week. They have accepted that they are never going to break out of the Loop only for whichever one who hadn't been the focus up till that point to sit down across from them and reveal that they are a looper as well and have been tracking them.

There aren't a any hard rules to this other then the way the effect of the looping happens. The pair could reset to the clothes that had been wearing when the loop began, which could interesting if they were wearing something unusual at the time. Or they could continue with what they currently had on, maybe something about taking something you're holding onto with you when the loop starts. This could be how others join the loop. The point is that the pair, at least, seem to be moving through the world at it's natural progression while the world is stuck like a cosmically skipping record.

I would personally enjoy it if the looping never got 'broken' but if the pair could lean of a way to advance the set of time they loop that would be interesting. Of course if you do that then you will have to deal with the fact that only a week has passed since the loopers were last seen by anyone that knew them and that they have just disappeared. Which would make some great drama situations for a sequel. Hell you can even have the loop broken but only as long as they are wearing a device that syncs them up with the world but their loops still exist and if they take off the device their loops start from that point, like a check point in time so to speak.

Really this story could be hella sci-fi or mystical or some combination of the two the hows and the whys only really matter if you want them to. I'm just posting it here because it would be a way to get a really unique take on Buffy and Spike when they have literally all the time in the world to make what they will of it.

GOOD LUCK AUTHORS!