#005 -- Ugly Black Dress

[jedibuttercup]

title: Ugly Black Dress
word count: 200
fandom: Stargate SG-1
challenge: #005 - Superstitions
summary: A dinner conversation between the frequently dead.
notes: Found this superstition at Urban Legends Online. (Possibly takes place in the same universe as Inexplicably Chosen).

---

"More than a year? Wow, I was only dead for five months. Do you remember any of it?"

Buffy gazed with interest across the table at her date. He was brilliant, good-looking, had died more times than she had, and best of all was legally permitted to discuss things with her as the Air Force's representative to the Watcher's Council. Someone upstairs had decided that the country's two best-kept "weird" secrets should be put into contact; whomever it was, Buffy vowed to track them down and send them chocolate.

"Not much," he replied. "I lost my memory when I returned; that year is still missing. Jack says I visited a few times; he could probably tell you more."

"I hope you didn't show up wearing what you died in." Buffy wrinkled her nose. "They buried me in this really ugly black dress..."

Daniel blinked, and then grinned at her, a brilliant teeth-baring smile that nearly stopped her heart. "No wonder you came back, then," he said.

"Wha, huh?" She wrinkled her brow, confused.

"Old superstition," he explained. "If a woman is buried in black, she will return to haunt the family."

She had to grin back. "Well, that explains it!"

(fin)

---

(x-posted to jedibuttercup)

Comments

[emony2.livejournal.com]

*snort* Brilliant...

loved the line, "Someone upstairs had decided that the country's two best-kept "weird" secrets should be put into contact; whomever it was, Buffy vowed to track them down" it was great to be followed with the totally unusual, "and send them chocolate."

[jedibuttercup]

Thanks for the review; I had fun writing this one. =)