Fics for 2026 # 001 ~ It Must Be Tuesday (BtVS)

[kerk_hiraeth]

 
      TITLE: It Must Be Tuesday [for Halfamoon 2026]

      AUTHOR: kerk hiraeth

      FANDOM: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (based on Jet Wolf's Chosenverse continuation);

      RATING: PG;

      LENGTH: 200;

      CHARACTER(s): Buffy Summers; Faith Lehane; Andrew Wells; Rina Aymara (OC);

     SUMMARY: Buffy's life as The Slayer; General; Commander-in-Chief is not all grim; nor being buried in paperwork and schedules. Sometimes she gets to appreciate the surreal insanity of the life she has built for herself.

     A/N: Written for halfamoon's 2026 festival Day Two prompt of Guilty Pleasures; this is a kind of follow up to a 2013 fic of mine, A Slayer's Moon; or the Many, and Varied Paths of the Sun, which was set much more clearly in Jet Wolf's world.

             This is more loosely connected to her Chosenverse, as well as being part of a loose connected series following Faith's bizarre, to everyone, friendship with Andrew Wells or 'The Dweeb' as she calls him. Rina Aymara is a near full-blooded member of the Aymara nation; people who lived mostly live in the Andes in Bolivia (I'll likely update this by posting that old fic here, even though the old lj link still works).

            The Star Trek episode obliquely referenced is the fifth season Deep Space Nine ep, ''Doctor Bashir, I Presume?''

 

     Rinsing out her mug and placing it carefully on the mug tree; Buffy double-checked that her laptop was securely disabled for the night and left her office.

   As she locked the door behind her, her attention was drawn to what sounded like an argument coming from the direction of the senior staff's common room. Sighing in frustration she heard; approaching the open door, what sounded like Faith and Andrew...

   Peering around the corner she heard something about 'bashing something?'

   Sat upright Faith; arm outstretched, had a finger pointed straight at 'the Dweeb's' head.

   His arms were waving wildly in hurt frustration, while Rina Aymara was sat between them; attempting to chew betel nuts while trying to stifle laughter over what she had clearly instigated.

   Buffy, taking in the Star Trek episode on the TV, caught Faith's eyes; at once panicked; embarrassed and threatening, and threw up her hands defensively and carefully withdrew from the battle, grinning like a Looney Toons character.

   Safely clear she turned; shaking her head.

   Whatever it was all about was hardly likely to be any more bizarre than a fifteen year old 'mean girl' being told she was The Chosen One, meant to protect the world from Vampires.

 

    Goddess watch over you,

     

    kerk

 
  Some additional info...
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  http://www.native-languages.org/bolivia.htm

 

  bolivianexpress.org/magazine-sub-item/71

 

   3. Rina Aymara = Aymara path. This unusual name is also quite controversial as it clearly shows the desire of the parents to reconnect with indigenous roots. It also denotes a pragmatic and ambitious personality, a life which will follow a clear path.

 

  1. Inti = Sun. he sun is a crucial deity for the Aymara; part of the sacred couple of Sun and Moon who, together with the Pachamama (Mother Earth) created the world. To be called Inti is an honour, and Inti has a responsibility to guide others; he has to work from the earliest hours of the day!
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Comments

[cmk418]

Cute! I like the family dynamic here between all of them with Buffy as the could-have-been referee as they argue over television. Nicely done!

[pattrose]

Very nice little piece.