FIC: Over Before It Started

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Title: Over Before it Started
Author: Vesica
Rating: PG-13 for language, sort of
Crossover: BtVS/Scooby Doo
Character: Aphrodisia
Disclaimer: All your bases belonging to us. Intellectual property rights are another matter entirely. (Borrowed from mynuet)
Author’s Note 1: For tthdrabbles, week 3, theme: character death. 200 words - exactly.


Everyone knew it was dangerous to wander around alone in Sunnydale after dark. Goddamn suburban hellhole, she thought, leaving the Bronze. Armed with every teenager’s best friend - a good fake ID - she had been partying all night, hoping the drinks, or her boyfriend’s wandering hands, would dull the memory of that body tumbling out of a gym locker. She shuddered remembering him – pale, waxy and unmoving. And that new girl, Buffy, asking all those questions – What’s her damage?

Pushing those thoughts aside, Aphrodisia hurried out of the alley and across the last street between her and the good part of town.

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

She came out of nowhere. He tried for the brake as he frantically turned the wheel. The whole van jumped as he swerved – but not enough. He heard a sickening thud.

"Rrah, Rrhit."

The man asleep in the passenger seat stirred. "Wha’d you say buddy?"

"Rrothing."

Had any of the other inhabitants of the Mystery Machine been awake, they probably would have disagreed with Shaggy’s judgement in letting Scooby drive so he could catch a few Zzz’s. As it was, the van sped on, towards yet another mystery waiting to be neatly solved by ‘those darn kids’.

~FINIS~


Author’s Note 2: Yes. I am embarrassed. But this was not entirely my fault – I had help. Yes, you should all be scared now! Just don't throw too many things in my direction...please.

Also, for those of you scratching your heads wondering whoTF Aphrodisia is, you are not alone.

From “Welcome to the Hellmouth”:

Cut to the girls' locker room. Two girls are discussing Buffy.

Aphrodisia: The new kid? She seems kind of weird to me. What kind of name is Buffy?

Girl: Hey, Aphrodisia!

Aphrodisia: Oh, Hey!

Aura: Well, the chatter in the caf is that she got kicked out, and that's why her mom had to get a new job.

The girls work the combinations to their gym lockers.

Aphrodisia: Neg!

Aura: Pos! She was starting fights!

Aphrodisia: Neg-ly!

Aura: (opening her locker) Well I heard from Blue, and she said that...

The dead boy falls out of the locker onto Aura's arm. She screams and lets the body fall.

Yes, that was the one and only time we ever see Aphrodisia – I always wondered what happened to her. Hope you enjoyed this twisted answer to that question.

Comments

Re: lol

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I figured that in real life Aphrodisia was around for the pilot and then got other work, thus disappearing from Sunnydale. BtVS was always good about keeping bit characters around forever - Heck if they stayed around long enough (i.e. Jonathan), they got thier own plot lines!

Thanks for the encouragement. Wasn't sure if other people would this was funny or just wrong! I think it is hysterical - or at least I did at 11:45 last night when the idea was suggested to me. :)