Summary:
Can you tell I really hate the original canon cookies scene? You know the one - where Angel comes swooping to the rescue like a knight in fancy hair gel, and Buffy "basks" in his presence, and the music rises, and there's swooning and kissing. As if she isn't already in love with someone else; as if HE isn't already in love with someone else. As if none of the past few seasons occurred and they revert back to 4 years ago, forgetting who they are and everything that's happened since then. As if it was all just a payoff to resentful Bangel fans so they wouldn't hate the ending of the show entirely. Yeah, that scene. There are so many other scenes and episodes that I would love to tackle and redo/fix in some way eventually, but top on the list has always been this one.

When I brainstormed different ways of redoing the scene, I came up with 6 ideas - 6 different ways that things could have gone differently and more enjoyably than what we got in canon. And since I couldn't pick between them, I had to do them all. Each goes off-canon at different times and in different ways, with the hope of providing a variety of scenarios and outcomes.

What can I say? I violently dislike the original scene, and it took me 6 versions of fix-its to fully cleanse my soul of it. And if someone else happens to enjoy my re-baked offerings, then that's just some extra chocolatey goodness to top it off.

(All stories originally written in 2021)

Categories: Season 7, Episode Rewrite
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Angel
Genres: HEA/HFN, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language
Challenges: None
Parent Series: None
Stories: 6
Series Type: Closed