This choice: Go to sleep and wake up seven foot • Go Back...Chapter #3Go to sleep and wake up seven foot by: BeeJay   The next morning, Buffy awoke to find that her figure was no longer pneumatically enhanced. "Oh, well," she said, "they were fun while they lasted."
Then, she noticed something peculiar: Her feet were poking out from under the covers. Moreover, they were off the edge of the bed.
Throwing off the sheets, she saw that she had ripped through her nightgown. In fact, it looked like she had exploded out of it. "What the Hellmouth?"
Pulling herself to her feet, she saw that she had definitely grown in her sleep. Grown quite a bit, too: judging by the distance between her head and the ceiling, she was now 7 feet tall.
There was a knock on her bedroom door, and Dawn poked her head inside. "Buffy, can I borrow... Holy crap!"
"Get the Scoobies," Buffy told her.
***
Trial and a great deal of error taught Buffy that the only article of clothing that still fit her enlarged body was her bathrobe, and even that came higher up her legs than she was comfortable with. It was all she had, though, so that was what she wore for the impromptu meeting with the Scooby Gang. Rather than tell the same story half a dozen times, she waited for Dawn to tell her when everyone was there, then made her entrance.
"... and I woke up this morning Andrea the Giant," Buffy said, recounting previous events. "Any ideas?"
"Do you recall the exact words this spectre used to curse you?" Giles asked.
"Yeah," Buffy said, "she said, 'I curse you to not fit in!' So, I don't fit in any of my clothes, so curse complete, right?"
Giles and Willow exchanged a significant look.
"What is it?"
"Buffy," Willow said, "try to stay calm."
"I'll work on that right after you tell me why you two threw each other the Buffy-is-screwed look, how about that?"
"Well," Willow said, "with magick, loose phrasing can mean a lot. 'You won't fit in ' may mean you're a socially awkward misfit, like Xander,... "
Xander opened his mouth to defend himself, but reconsidered.
"... or it may mean you're too big for your clothes, or... "
"Or it may mean," Giles said, "that you will have to be outside, because you literally won't fit in."
"Okay," Buffy said. "So there's a chance I might get even bigger. Any idea how much bigger?"
Buffy had learned to hate a number of words since moving to Sunnydale: Hellmouth, Master, Initiative. But her least favorite words, she soon decided, were the three that came out of Willow's mouth in response to her question:
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