This is the second thing I’ve written in YEARS and the first thing I’m putting up for public consumption, so please be kind.
 

Takes place in the present. If you want to put some of my brain’s context on it, it stems from canon in season 10/11 of the Buffy comics (and season 10 of Angel & Faith)— but you don’t need to have read any of those. Just a passing reference to characters introduced there.
 

Disclaimer: This is a work of fan fiction, therefore all characters/settings/music/pop stars mentioned within belong to their respective creators, not me. I profit exactly zero from having written this. What little plot is original to me, I will take credit for, however.