Gumboy's Challenge: The Wish: A story challenge to all SFA contributors
by gumboy
About a month ago I was trolling the internet for some story ideas when I ran across this entry in the BTVS trivia section over at IMDB.

To quote the section in particular:
"While speaking at the Wizard World Chicago Convention in August, 2004, Joss Whedon revealed that he had planned to bring the character of Tara back from the dead at the end of Season 7. The episode would have centered around Buffy being granted one "life-altering" wish. Buffy would have struggled the whole episode trying to decide what she wanted to do with the wish (including, possibly, restoring Angel's humanity). The episode would have ended with Buffy telling Willow that she'd just gotten a great new pair of shoes, and when Willow asked her if she used up her wish on new shoes, Buffy would have said, "No, silly!" and stepped aside to reveal Tara. This plan was abandoned when Amber Benson, who played Tara, was unavailable for filming."

So my challenge to y'all is the following:
Write a story about one character in the Buffyverse getting the chance to make a "life-altering wish" and what happens thereafter.

The rules:
1. Life-altering only. No wishes to eliminate evil or all shrimp throughout the world. No changing of history.
2. Prefer BTVS-Future or ATS-Future
3. No slash please, unless character appropriate.

This is Round Robin, so feel free to post your story here or post it on your own list with a mention of this challenge.

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