FIC: Deterioration (3/?)

["Shannon" <lusty_wrong_feelings@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Author: Shannon
Rating: G - PG. I'm not going anywhere perverted with little kids!!
Disclaimer: Joss is a lucky, lucky man.
Summary: AU Buffy & Co. They're in 1st grade. I'm gonna make with the
couples, but the couples *I* want. Buffy/Willow, Xander/Anya,
Tara/Spike, Giles/Joyce.

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Xander got to school early the next day, 'cause his mom and dad were
having another fight. He got so upset he ran all the way to school,
all by himself. He slowed down to walk through the long corridors,
and turned into his classroom. He wasn't surprised to find it empty,
so he went and sat at his desk. Xander did something he rarely did.

He began to cry.

He didn't know why his mom and dad couldn't get along. He often
wondered why they lived together if they didn't like each other. He
knew hid dad didn't like him much. Sometimes his dad would yell at
him to go up to his room whenever he tried to be a big boy and save
his mom. He would go upstairs to his room, but then carefully climb
out his window and run over to Willow's house. Willow was like his
rescuer, only she was a girl. But she was like a boy. She liked
everything he did, except she had long hair. But he couldn't go to
Willow's this morning. He could never let her see him cry.

"Xander?" Xander quickly tried to dry his eyes at the sound of Anya's
voice; he couldn't let anyone see him cry. "What's the matter?"
Xander jumped out of his chair, and nearly fell over again. He tried
to laugh. "Nothing! I just, um... got dust in my eye." Anya looked at
him suspiciously. "You're lying!" She announced, and poked him in the
chest. Xander looked insulted. "Hey! Am not!" She rolled her eyes.
Boys were so weird. "Yes, you were. You had a funny voice when you
said it. And you had to thin about what you said. You were lying."
She said, matter-of-factly. Xander sighed. This girl was weird. But
still... there was something nice about her. "It's just my mom and
dad. They were having a fight."

Anya looked genuinely concerned. Her parents never fought. She walked
up to Xander, and he managed to raise his eyebrows before she flung
her arms around him, hugging him tightly. "It's okay, Xander. I like
you!" She smiled at him, and before he could do anything, she was
hanging her Barbie backpack on the little knob reserved for her.

Xander blinked, shook his head and sat back down.

Girls were so weird.

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RING, RING, RING!

The bell rang for lunch, and 6 hungry children ran to their bags. As
Tara got up, William slowly swivelled his head around to watch her.
She turned around to see him staring at her, and immediately turned
back around so hard he hit his knee on his desk. "OUCH!! Daddy!" Mr.
Giles rushed over to William, wondering what on earth made his son
yell out. "William, what in the world happened?" Williams bottom lip
trembled. "I hit my knee." Buffy looked over at William and saw his
eyes filling with tears. She tried to think of what her mom always
did to make her better when she hit her knee. "Do you want me to kiss
it better?" Buffy smiled, thinking this was exactly the right thing
to say. "Uh, no, Buffy, I think that would be fine. Go and have your
lunch, William will be with you in a moment." Buffy nodded. "Okay,
Mr. Giles." She wondered what she said wrong. That's what her mom
always did.

Oh well. Maybe they didn't do that where the people who talked funny
came from.