Jenny ,'Bring On The Night'
Where the Buffistas let their fanfic creative juices flow. May contain erotica.
Elena, maybe just a touch of grim-lipped trembly Xander in the night, hunting for just the right length, refusing to not be able to find them?
Oooh, interesting... But it would have to be viewed through Willow's eyes, and I'll have to rejigger the timeline...
connie, the dress Buffy was buried in was slit up the back, it was fastened with hooks or buttons at the neck
Really? Boy, you researched that.
I think Xander would not know about screws vs. nails. All the coffins he's seen have been the metal ones with hinged lids, I imagine. Willow might think of correcting him, but might be reluctant to go into Trivial Pursuit mode at such a time.
Elena's right about that dress; I remember it well, because I lusted after it -I thought it was gorgeous and yup, an open back with a single elastic/button dealy closure.
Would Xander know about screws versus nails? I think he would. He's seen an awful lot of vamps crawling out of the damned things, and presumably helped Buffy push some of the empty ones back into the ground.
I always thought vampire just clawed through the coffin and dug their way up.
Ehh, I just remember it from the episode because I had a WTF moment about how professional the burial seemed... What with the headstone and all when YOU ARE KEEPING THE DEATH A SECRET!!!
Sorry, sorry... issues..
I don't know, deb, when vamps come out of the ground they are bursting from the coffins and clawing their way out (or partially out, anyway). I'm not sure that Xander would have seen an acutal burial aside from Joyce's.
I seem to recall rather a few fights with Buffy and a few of the Scoobs, with coffin bits poking out of the earth.
But it's a small point.
And a cross post with connie wherein we use the same descriptives!
(how on earth do they explain all those disturbed graves and coffin bits all the graveyeards of Sunnydale every second Thursday, anyway? I've often wondered....)
I've always pitied the groundskeepers who have to figure out something to do with all the dead demons.
Gas leak?
Gangs on PCP?
Sewer back-up?
Teddy Bears' Picnic?