Buffy Season 8
Oz and the Road Trip
PREVIOUSLY ON BUFFY
-Willow can't believe Oz is in town. She also is thinking about the fact that if she stays with Oz, she might have to
leave her friends.
-Faith leaves the gang on account of a fight she had with Buffy.
-Willow turns Buffy invisible so she can steal the ingredients for a spell to make Giles non-homicidal.
-Once a regular Joe again.... well, not so regular. Giles was turned back in time to when he was still in the Watcher's
academy.
-Willow realizes she's fallen for Oz all over again.
-Oz quits the band to stay with Willow and the gang.
"Well, I've been right here," Willow said back.
"Right where you said you'd be. So you tell 'em the good news?"
"Oz, of course I did."
"So, they don't mind me..."
"Oops, forgot that part. Why don't we gather them all up and tell them?"
"Goody. I'll stay here, you get Buffy?"
"Sure."
Willow trapsed onto the dance floor to find her best friend and her sister, as Oz took a seat next to Xander at the
table. "So, you're hangin' around for a few days?"
'Well, I think I should wait until Willow comes back with the others until I tell you that."
"Yeah, whatever. Just know, though, that if you hurt my best friend ever again, you will pay, and you will pay good,
little man."
"Okay, Willow, what's so important? We were starting to get our groove on."
"Well, Oz and I..... well, actually, Oz and us...."
"I've decided I was going to stay with you guys if that's okay."
"Well....."
Willow gave Buffy the look. "Buffy, you know how much I want this."
"Yes, I do, but we haven't got anywhere to go, we haven't got any money."
"Buffy, please. We can make it work, I promise."
"Okay. You really want it, and you do deserve it. You're so lucky to have a friend like me."
"Hmmm. Yeah. And, you know, Oz has the van, we can stay in it."
"All of us? And what about gas money? And food?"
"Buffy, I told you, we'll make it work."
"Okay, you know, I'm just a little tense."
"Yeah."
Oz broke up the ounce of disagreement between Buffy and Willow. "I've got money, if that's an issue."
"Willow, I think we can make this work."
"Told you!"
After a few more hours of nice, classic young-people-partying, the gang left the club todecide what they were
going to do with the night. "We don't exactly have any where to stay. Or anything to eat."
"Okay. Sleeping situation. Buffy, Dawn, and Willow, I got some blankets in the van. You guys can sleep in there.
Xander and Andrew, looks like you're taking front seats with jacket blankets. Me and Giles, well, we can sit in the
corner and try not to fall on anyone."
"That doesn't sound very comfortable."
"I've lived through worse."
"Are you sure?"
"Positive."
"Okay. Well, I'm ready to konk now, so shall we sleep."
"I think we shall."
The gang climbed into the van, one by one, each going to their respective places. Buffy, Dawn, and Willow snuggled
up on the floor, Oz in one corner in the back, Giles in the other, Xander in the driver's seat, Andrew in the
passenger's. They peacefully, well, kind of, slept the night away.
"Ah.... Does any one else have a back cramp?"
"I think it's safe to say we all do," Xander replied to Dawn's question.
"Yeah, that wasn't the most comfortable s;eep I ever had."
"You weren't comfortable all stretched out, how do you think I was? And what about poor Oz?"
"I was okay, up most of the night."
"So, Buffy still the sleeping kind?"
"Yeah, pretty much. I'm kind of stuck. If I move Willow, she'll hit the door, if I move Buffy, she'll go all Slayer on me. I
know from experience."
"Okay, I'm going to reach back and I want you to grab my hand. I will then pull you up. Got it?"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just get going."
Xander adjusted hisself so that he could reach his right arm back to Dawn. "Okay, grab really tight."
"Mmmmmmmm....... okay, got it. Pull! Pull! Pull!"
"And.... you're up."
"Thank you."
"My hurting arm pleasure."
"I hurt your arm?"
"No. Yes."
Eventually, Giles, Buffy, Willow, and Andrew woke up, and they all heartily engaged in a conversation about
waffles. "...with strawberries and whipped cream on top."
"Ooh! Buffy, don't forget the sprinkles."
"Dawn, I will never forget the sprinkles."
"Well, instead of fantasizing, why don't we go get some?"
"Oh yeah, I forgot. Oz has money."
"Yes, are we waffling?"
"I think we are."
The gang drove and drove until they found a small Mom and Pop Waffle House.
"Mmm... Buffy knows what she wants."
"Does she? Is it the 5 waffles with strawberries and as much whipped cream as you can get with the free cookie?"
"What? I didn't even see that!"
"Okay, now. Oz, old friend, where were you headed after Baja?"
"Actually I was going on a road trip. I was going to heaad to Atlantic City."
"I like gambling."
"Oh, too bad your underage, Dawny. We could hit the blackjack tables and dominate. I think I could even..."
"Willow, don't encourage the underage sibling."
"Yes, master."
"So, what all states were you going to pass through?"
"Mm. Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, head upward, you know, kind of improvise until I got toIllinois, through
Indiana, Ohio, follow the river, up through the big Penn, and just head east till I got there."
"Nice. It'll take a while."
"Yeah. I was, uh, thinking about something, though. After Atlantic City, I was going to sttle down somewhere."
"Like where."
"I don't know. Somewhere quiet. Like Sunnydale. Sad to see it go down."
"Yeah, there were some good memories there."
"Memories like Mom?"
"Yeah, Dawn. Memories like Mom, and Glory, and school, and training, Kendra and Faith. We left so much."
"Buffy, we had to, there was nothing anyone could do."
"Sometimes, I wish I went with it."
"Look, time to order."
The friends ordered, and ate. They talked about places they could stop and live in. Quiet places. Fun places, places
that wouldn't make them focus on the bad things. After all, Buffy could be a normal girl now. She could make a living
for herself, for Dawn. She could go back to school again. She could live her life the way she wanted to. It was going
to be hard getting over everything, but she would make it.
"So! Let's get on this road trip!"
"Arizona here we come!"
"Wait, can we just do one thing first?"
"What's that, Buff?"
"I want to go shopping!"
"Good plan. Is there a mall anywhere near here?"
"Oh, I think I saw one when me and the guys were headed in for our gig. It's on the other side of town. If we hurry,
we can make it time for right when it opens."
"Let's go!"
Well, it's been short, I'll grant you, and probably a lot boring, but tune in next time to see the gang face the
challenges of normal, everyday life. Something they haven't done in a long time.
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