The Xander Gander: December 23rd, 2000
by slayerfest
Joyce is going to be fine.
The operation went well.

Buffy really isn’t fine.
Riley left. For good.
But not before paying a vampire to suck his blood for months before he left.
I kinda hate him and empathize with him at the same time.

I’m just peachy. It’s almost Christmas and I am NOT going home.
Buffy’s throwing a big Christmas thing in celebration of Joyce’s speedy recovery.
…So I guess, technically, I am going home.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go over to Buffy’s, because that’s where I hid all of Anya’s presents. She kept looking for them. Then when she found them, she put them back very sloppily and then thanked me in many different ways while trying to be stealthy about it. My personal favourite was, “You bought me a diamond necklace!” followed by a shower of affection, and then: “…I bet.”

The only places she doesn’t know about in this apartment are where I hide this and where I put the engagement ri

Um.
Okay hi.

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