Day 12: Nightmare by Laney
Title: Nightmare
Author: laney_1974
Crossover: BTVS/Stargate
August Fic-a-day Challenge Contribution Date: 12 August 2015
Characters: Joyce Summers, Jack O'Neill
Sequel:Sequel to Real Man and Familiar
Word Count: 600
Rating: 15
Timeline: BTVS: AU from mid-season 3, takes place just before The Wish: Stargate: Midseason 3 - no specific spoilers for Stargate though.
Author's note: I honestly didn't think anyone would like this idea besides me, so I never really planned on writing more. Thanks to everyone who is enjoying my obsession with writing Joyce. While I don't have anything overall planned for this (like I do with Art of Praying 'verse), I won't be going in depth about what happened to particular vampire etc etc. This is about Joyce and her struggles born out of her wish.
Please note: I am completely disregarding the BTVS writer's retcon in Normal Again. It didn't happen in this story/verse. It's an obvious retcon because I hardly imagine that Joyce would have failed to mention it, or at least apologise to Buffy, when she found out Buffy was the Slayer in season 3. So it didn't happen here.
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Buffy and Angel people belong to Joss and Mutant Enemy. The Stargate people belong to Gekko Productions, Double Secret Productions, MGM/UA, Showtime/Viacom.
Summary: Joyce waited until Jack was called into work before she set her plan into action.
Joyce waited until Jack was called into work before she set her plan into action. It had been an awkward few days at home, especially after her sons had arrived, but thankfully they all thought she was struggling with her ordeal. All three of the O'Neill men were treating her as though she were glass, which worked in her favour at the moment.
There were so many differences in this life, the space they gave her allowed her to... adjust.
She knew it wouldn't last forever and that Jack, or one of the boys, would eventually pick up that she didn't remember their past, but she hoped to be able to know a little bit more before that happened.
It was like a nightmare. While some things were surprisingly pleasant, such as the fact that she worked from home as an artist and made a modest salary from it, and that she had two beautiful boys and her husband appeared to be a wonderful man, Joyce missed her old life.
She missed Buffy.
So the second she was able to get away, she did. She headed for the library to start to work out just what she had done, and the first thing she did was look up Sunnydale. It would be the one place where any changes would be most obvious. After Buffy had returned from L.A. they had spent many nights staying up late talking. Buffy had told her about what she had been doing in Sunnydale as the slayer, and the first had been stopping the Master.
When Joyce found the news article, her heart slammed into her chest. She hadn't been certain what to expect when she started the internet search, but it hadn't been this. It hadn't been remotely like this.
The town of Sunnydale no longer existed.
Not because it never existed to begin with, but because the entire town had exploded. Apparently, the town had been under a gas pocket and it had exploded early last year. The entire town had been obliterated and, according to the news reports, there hadn't been any survivors. The article was vague and, to Joyce, it screamed the word coverup, but that wasn't what was killing Joyce right now. No, it was the guilt.
"Oh dear God, what have I done?" Joyce whispered, tears filling her eyes.
The pain at knowing she had some how led to the destruction of Sunnydale, was almost too much to bear.
Joyce closed the webpage and then started a new search. This time, she wasn't looking for a town. Instead, she was looking for a way to contact someone.
It was time to talk to Rupert Giles.
End
Author: laney_1974
Crossover: BTVS/Stargate
August Fic-a-day Challenge Contribution Date: 12 August 2015
Characters: Joyce Summers, Jack O'Neill
Sequel:Sequel to Real Man and Familiar
Word Count: 600
Rating: 15
Timeline: BTVS: AU from mid-season 3, takes place just before The Wish: Stargate: Midseason 3 - no specific spoilers for Stargate though.
Author's note: I honestly didn't think anyone would like this idea besides me, so I never really planned on writing more. Thanks to everyone who is enjoying my obsession with writing Joyce. While I don't have anything overall planned for this (like I do with Art of Praying 'verse), I won't be going in depth about what happened to particular vampire etc etc. This is about Joyce and her struggles born out of her wish.
Please note: I am completely disregarding the BTVS writer's retcon in Normal Again. It didn't happen in this story/verse. It's an obvious retcon because I hardly imagine that Joyce would have failed to mention it, or at least apologise to Buffy, when she found out Buffy was the Slayer in season 3. So it didn't happen here.
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Buffy and Angel people belong to Joss and Mutant Enemy. The Stargate people belong to Gekko Productions, Double Secret Productions, MGM/UA, Showtime/Viacom.
Summary: Joyce waited until Jack was called into work before she set her plan into action.
Joyce waited until Jack was called into work before she set her plan into action. It had been an awkward few days at home, especially after her sons had arrived, but thankfully they all thought she was struggling with her ordeal. All three of the O'Neill men were treating her as though she were glass, which worked in her favour at the moment.
There were so many differences in this life, the space they gave her allowed her to... adjust.
She knew it wouldn't last forever and that Jack, or one of the boys, would eventually pick up that she didn't remember their past, but she hoped to be able to know a little bit more before that happened.
It was like a nightmare. While some things were surprisingly pleasant, such as the fact that she worked from home as an artist and made a modest salary from it, and that she had two beautiful boys and her husband appeared to be a wonderful man, Joyce missed her old life.
She missed Buffy.
So the second she was able to get away, she did. She headed for the library to start to work out just what she had done, and the first thing she did was look up Sunnydale. It would be the one place where any changes would be most obvious. After Buffy had returned from L.A. they had spent many nights staying up late talking. Buffy had told her about what she had been doing in Sunnydale as the slayer, and the first had been stopping the Master.
When Joyce found the news article, her heart slammed into her chest. She hadn't been certain what to expect when she started the internet search, but it hadn't been this. It hadn't been remotely like this.
The town of Sunnydale no longer existed.
Not because it never existed to begin with, but because the entire town had exploded. Apparently, the town had been under a gas pocket and it had exploded early last year. The entire town had been obliterated and, according to the news reports, there hadn't been any survivors. The article was vague and, to Joyce, it screamed the word coverup, but that wasn't what was killing Joyce right now. No, it was the guilt.
"Oh dear God, what have I done?" Joyce whispered, tears filling her eyes.
The pain at knowing she had some how led to the destruction of Sunnydale, was almost too much to bear.
Joyce closed the webpage and then started a new search. This time, she wasn't looking for a town. Instead, she was looking for a way to contact someone.
It was time to talk to Rupert Giles.
End