Title: Sunnydale Elementary
Author: Margie
Rating: G
Pairing: B/S, X/A, W/T (friendship - they're only in the 3rd grade people!)
Summary: What if the gang had met back in 3rd grade? AU, everybody's human. Giles is Spike's dad.
Disclaimer: Own nothing. Joss owns all.
Author's Note: This fic was inspired by the elementary series found at
www.roswellunderground.com**************************************************************************************
Chapter 3 -
"Okay children. Since Mother’s Day is this Sunday we are going to make some Happy Mother’s Day cards." Mr. Giles was in front of the classroom holding a piece of construction paper.
Willow was watching intently. She always paid attention in class. Once Mr. Giles was done showing them how to fold their paper to look like a card he started passing out all the construction paper to the children. Willow got a red piece, Xander got a blue piece, and Buffy got a pink piece. She was so excited. She turned to Buffy who was staring straight ahead trying to ignore the constant thwapping she was getting from William’s piece of black paper. She obviously didn’t want to get in trouble with Mr. Giles again.
"William stop it! Leave Buffy alone!" Willow whispered under her breath.
"Sorry Red. Couldn’t help it." - "Willow that’s not his name! Call him Spike!" William and Buffy said at the same time.
Buffy turned around and they both stuck their tongues out at each other. She turned back to Willow and said, "So what are you going to put on your card Willow?"
"Well…she likes flowers…and ooh! hearts! What about you?" Willow was busy folding her piece of paper in half to look like a card.
"Uhm. Don’t know. I guess my mom likes flowers. " Buffy was trying to fold her paper too, but it didn’t come out as straight as Willow’s.
Willow started laughing when she looked over at Xander. His piece looked more like a triangle then a card and he had marker on his chin!
Xander looked up. "Huh? What’s so funny?" His tongue was sticking out the corner of his mouth as he tried to color in the yellow sun he drew at the top of his card.
"Xander, can I borrow your green?" Anya tapped him on the shoulder as she spoke.
Xander blushed. "Uhmm…Sure..sure…Anya….uhm….here." He shoved the marker at her.
"Thank you Xander. You can have it back so you can draw money for your mommy too." She smiled at him before she bent down to continue making her card.
Tara giggled. "An why do you like money so much? Why don’t you put some hearts or something on there?" Tara was coloring some daisies she had drawn on her card.
"Why would mom want hearts? Money is better. You can do lots of things with money. Everybody likes money!"
Tara laughed and caught Willow smiling at her. "H-hey Willow. I l-like your card." She stammered.
"Thanks. Your daisies are pretty." They both looked down shyly.
Buffy looked behind her and noticed that William , no Spike, wasn’t doing anything with his card.
"What are you doing barf breath? Why aren’t you making your card?" Buffy was coloring in all the big hearts she had placed on hers as she spoke. She heard him mumble something back to her but couldn’t understand what he said. "Huh? Talk louder spike head!" She said absentmindedly.
"I don’t have a mum!" He practically yelled at her.
Oh no! Buffy felt horrible. How could anyone not have a mom? Her eyes got big as she tried not to cry. "I’m sorry!! What happened?"
"She died when I was a baby." Spike sniffled. She saw that his eyes were getting big too.
"William. Come up here please." Mr. Giles was calling.
Spike stood up and walked to the front of the class where his dad was waiting.
"Class please continue making your cards. We will be right back." Then he took Spike and stepped out of the room.
Buffy couldn’t stop thinking about poor Spike. She would be so sad if she didn’t have her mom! As she finished her card she got an idea. She grabbed his black piece of paper and folded it as straight as she could. Then she drew some trees and stick people playing on one side of the card. One of the stick people had short spikey hair and the other had long yellow hair. She drew a sun and some clouds and made the rest of the sky blue. Then on the other side of the card she put some happy faces and carefully wrote – "Sory, Buffy". She wasn’t too good at spelling but she thought she got it right.
Before she put the card back on his desk she wanted to write his name on it but she didn’t know how to spell it. So instead she drew a happy face with some spikey hair on the front of the card so he would know it was for him. Just as she put the card back on his desk the bell rang for the end of the day.
Mr. Giles and Spike came back in and told them it was okay to leave. Buffy ran out of the classroom clutching her card and looking for her mom.
When William got back to his seat he noticed the card sitting there. He was mad because he thought Buffy was making funny of his hair again. But when he opened the card his eyes got big. She drew him happy pictures! His dad was calling him to leave, so he carefully took the card and stuffed it into the little folder he had in his backpack.
"I’m glad you’re feeling better William" Mr. Giles said as they walked out of the room holding hands.
