Please Note: This is based around the cast of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel, and would, I guess be roughly timed after the end of Season 5 of Buffy. It is purely fictional, and is not intended to infer any copyright infringements or reality to it. In fact, it is written out of love for the shows and the characters, so I hope no one takes offence. After all, its just a story ok??
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It has been a long summer break, and for Sarah Michelle Gellar, a very busy one at that. Whilst most of her year was taken up with the filming of the hit show
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
, her stardom was such that when she wasn’t filming the series, she was appearing in several movies as she worked her way up to a starring role. Coming back for these cast meetings for the show provided a welcome break from it all.
It has been decided that, for this cast meeting, the principle female characters – herself, Willow, Anya, Tera, and Cordelia from Angel – would get together at a cabin up in Canada – one of the crew’s and a beautiful place, by all accounts – and relax and discuss where the show was taking them, without the watchful eye of writer / director Josh Whedon getting involved.
The drive had been a long one, and by the time she drove up to the entrance of the cabin, she was really tired and just wanted to crash. Alyson, her best friend on and off the show, was stood at the door waiting to meet her. She looked stunning, her slender figure covered with a beautiful white suit and a white blouse underneath, a far cry from her character’s usual attire. She looked fantastic, and Sarah had always thought that, since her haircut, her sex appeal had jumped significantly.
Alyson, on seeing her friend pulling up, waved and moved to meet her. She smiled at her, knowing that she would be tired from the long drive, and went to her door and opened it once the car had stopped.
“Hey!” Alyson smiled at her friend once again, then frowned as she realised just how tired she was. “Rough trip?”
“Yeah, and the last day of filming sucked.” Sarah unfastened her safety belt and stepped out of the car, smoothing her dark full length dress down as she did. In all truth, she wasn’t really a casual skirt wearing type of girl, but when she drove long distances she seemed to be more comfortable in them.
“Aw, that’s ok” Alyson replied, her face covered with an expression of concern, “you’ll be able to relax this weekend. We got the place all to ourselves and we’re gonna have a great time!”
Sarah smiled back at her, nodding her head gently. She collected her overnight bag from the trunk, leaving her other stuff in there till the morning, and followed her friend into the cabin. Inside, she was greeted by a blast of hot air from the roaring open fire, and she smiled even more as she finally relaxed now that she had got there.
“Sarah!” came the exclamation from the kitchen area to the back of the cabin, and in rushed Charisma, her hair flowing behind her as she rushed up to Sarah and hugged her warmly. When the show had first started out in Buffy, Sarah and Charisma hadn’t really been on the same page, much like their characters, but over the years they had grown quite close – not as close as she and Alyson, but certainly closer than they had been – and now considered themselves to be very good friends.
“Hey C. C.!” she replied, reciprocating the hug. It had been a while since that had seen each other – the chance to do crossover episodes last season had been limited due to storylines so they hadn’t had chance to catch up in person, and secretly that had been the main reason that she and Alyson had arranged this get together.
“How’s things?”
“Pretty good, glad to have a break though! You must be shattered??”
“Do I really look that bad?” Sarah teased, looking behind her and winking at Alyson. Charisma shook her head, smiling as she recognised the jibe.
“C’mon, we’re through here, Amber and Emma are through here, and I hope you don’t mind, but I kinda brought a new friend…” Charisma’s voice trailed off as she looked back at her friends. They frowned for a second, both raising an eyebrow as if to say “who?”, their eyes never leaving Charisma’s. She beckoned for them to follow and went through to the kitchen.