SUMMARY: My response to an easter challenge, which is completely without a plot.
RATING: PG
FEEDBACK: its like chocolate, people!!
NOTES: Yes, his story is pointless and makes no sense..it isn't you.

"Bye Bye Bye! Bye Bye Buffy!" Buffy whirled around and saw Xander perched precariously on a branch.

"Xander. I'll save you!" Spike cried rushing forward holding a marshmallow bunny.

Buffy sat bolt upright. Where was she? She was in her dorm...Willow was asleep...and there was a giant easter bunny hopping around, and she was covered in a bright yellow sheet.

"Oh. My. God. WILLOW WHAT HAVE YOU DONE NOW!?" she yelled angrily. Willow woke up with a start.

"I don't want your frogs." she mumbled hotly. "Oh, uh....Buffy why is there a giant...thing..in our room. And when did you get day-glo yellow sheets?"

Buffy stood up and paced. "I don't know. And I didn't. I woke up, they were there. Willow, maybe wiccan is the wrong religion for you. Maybe you try something simple, stable. Go back to being Ira Rosenbergs good little Jewish girl."

Willow sat up. "Uh uh. No way. I didn't cast a spell, Buff. Thats a....a reality."

Buffy leapt away from it. "Aughggh! Okay, who is that?" a paw came up and took the head off.

"Hey!"

~*~*~*~

"Riley?!? What the HELL are you doing here?" Buffy screeched, running to the other end of the room.

"Happy Easter, happy easter-" Willow cast a quick little silencing spell.

"No singing, Riley. No." she commanded, rubbing her eyes.

He nodded and waited for the power of speech to return.

"Sorry. I wanted to surprise you guys. Its eastertime, after all."

"I'm Jewish." Willow grumbled. "And shut up, Buffy." Riley looked to Buffy expectantly, waiting for a response.

"And what religion are you, Buffy? I'm curious to know."

"I'm, uh, shmudfhglhe." she mumbled looking away quickly.

"Shmudfhglhe? I've never heard of that. Tell me, whats it like?" he asked seriously, sitting down on the bed.

Buffy panicked and looked to Willow. "Riley. Whats with the sheet?"

Riley grinned, looking ridiculous in the rabbit suit. "An old Finn tradition. Drape a yellow sheet over your one true love at easter time, and you're love will last all eternity."

Buffy paled, freaked, then balled up the sheet and threw it out the window.

"Hey! What the-" a voice from below floated up. Willow stifled a laugh.

"Sorry!"

Riley looked forlorn. "But..I still got you, right? I put the sheet on you, so..."

"NO!" Buffy shouted through a clenched jaw. "I'm not your girlfriend, Riley, and I never will be! Now, why, and you better have a good reason, did you come into my room and put a sheet on me while wearing a rabbit-suit like Anya's?"

Riley sighed. "I *told* you already, Buffy. Its a tradition of the Finns of Iowa. We-"

"Got that part." Willow interrupted. "Keep going."

"Sure! Well, Buffys my one true love, so I covered her! Its very simple, Willow." he said gently as if she was incredibly stupid. She bared her teeth. She would have growled if she didn't know it came out all funny.

"Okay. You came. Covered. And now comes my favourite part. The *leaving*." Buffy opened the door and looked at the stain on the floor. Pink. Green. Blue.

"Whats that?" she said, tiredly. "Will, theres a-"

"Me eggs!!" Riley screamed. "My perfectly dyed eggs have leaked!! Oh no! The second ritual is *ruined. Ruined!" he whimpered.

Buffy looked at the cracked eggshells. "THAT IS IT!" Buffy screamed, snatching up her clothes. "I'm going to Angels."

She stormed out leaving an annoyed Willow and a baffled Riley.

~*~*~*~

Angels door banged open, waking him from his excellent dream of an enormous chocolate easter egg, and sitting in the sun with Buffy and eating it, but he hadn't gotten very far, as the egg was taller then him, and it kept rolling away from them. They all seemed to be having very strange dreams lately.

He stumbled out to see who it was. He saw a familiar blond haired girl sitting on his couch flicking through the channels, obviously grumpy.

"Buffy?" he asked, walking over behind her.

"Yes." she said shortly. He slid down and sat beside her, wrapping his arms around her, and taking the chocolate she was eating from her.

"Whats wrong, Beloved?" she turned to him. She was all pouty, and silent.

"Everything!" she exploded suddenley, making Angel jump back a little bit. "I woke up this morning and this gigantic rabbit was in my room, and I was covered with a bright yellow sheet!" Angel tried desperately hard not to laugh.

"A rabbit?"

"As in bunny, yes. It was Riley! You know my annoying TA? Well he said it was some kind of Finn family ritual to 'claim' their true love. I threw the sheet out of the window, by the way. There is *no way* I would even consider going out with him!" Angel allowed himself a small smirk.

"Maybe you should take it as a compliment.." he teased.

"Shut up, Angel. Its been a really bad morning." he stopped immeadiately. Grumpy Buffy was *not* fun Buffy. "So then he's doing all this stuff, and he dropped a dyed egg on my carpet!! Now my dorm floor has pink, green and blue spots on it!" she flopped against him. "Its not fair."

He kissed her hair softly and held her tighter.

"Let me make it better?" he asked tipping her chin up. She smiled and captured his lips in a kiss.

"Happy easter." he murmured, pulling out a big wrapped box. She squealed and bounced up and down like a five-year-old at Christmas.

"Can I open it?!" he laughed and handed it over.

She tore off the shiny pink wrapping paper, which revealed a box, which she opened.

Inside, was a beautifully carved crystal egg. Buffy looked up at Angel in amazement.

"Angel this is...stunning. How...why...Angel!" she cried happily. "I only got you chocolate! Now I'll feel guilty all day."

Angel kissed her sweetly. "I know something you can do to give me an excellent gift."

Buffy smiled wickedly. "Oh really?" the ex-vampire laughed and pulled a box of coloured pastels and a sketching pad from under the lounge.

"Let me draw you." Buffys eyes wandered around the room at the many, many sketches of her in various poses. "At last count, you had 11. Isn't that enough? You'll get sick of me!"

Angel opened the book. "Sit still, beloved."

~*~*~*~

Xander opened his eyes a crack. Not from the glare of sunlight, but to see what his girlfriend was watching, as she sat at the foot of his bed, before the TV.

"Anya? Its 9:30. What are you doing up so early?" he asked, rubbing his eyes.

She slapped his leg. "Shut up, Xander. I'm watching Dirty Dancing."

"Its early, Anya, and you're watching a movie already?" he said sarcastically.

She waited until there was a break. "I'm *watching* Dirty Dancing!" she said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Besides, you were asleep and I was bored. And you were snoring."

"Great. Fine! I've lost my demon-friend to the TV. Just when you think you've got a real friend in a piece of electrical equipment, it comes back and steals your girl. Typical!" he flopped back on the bed, pulled up the covers and went back to sleep.

"Xander, do you have any of those glow in the dark stars? I always thought those were cool. I want some. Xander? Get me some stars." she said in a break, staring at the ceiling.

Xander grunted and threw his pillow at her. "Watch the damn movie."

~*~*~*~

Angel finished the drawing. Buffy had fallen asleep halfway through it. He went to carry her to his bed so she could sleep, but she opened her eyes.

"Good, you're done." she dragged him down beside her. "Angel, seeing as you're human now, don't you want to go to a church service? You'd always said you were pretty religious, and that you wanted us to get married in a church...won't you have to actually *go* to one first?"

Angel kissed her hand. "Would you come?" Buffy smiled.

"Always. So an easter church service then? Am I dressed okay?" Angel looked at her. Under a long coat of his, she was dressed in her pajamas.

"Maybe not." she giggled. "I'll get some of the clothes I left last weekend."

~*~*~*~

"What a bloody wanker!" Spike said through a mouthful of chocolate, after Willow finished telling them about the 'Riley-Rabbit Incident'. "At least he didn't go after you, Red." he said with a wink.

"I'd say this has been the weirdest Easter ever." Oz stated calmly as they all watched and over-sized easter rabbit hop down the street as the neighbourhood dogs chased it.

"I should really go help." Buffy said without moving.

"Nah, its just another Finn. We can do without them in the world." Xander said as he handed more easter eggs around. They nodded in mutual agreement.

"Happy Easter, guys." Buffy said as she closed the curtain. "Happy Easter."

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