creativeFandom: BtVS
Timeline: S6, during DMP
Summary: Ever wondered whether the rat cage was ever used again?
POV: Amy Madison, post-rat
Homecoming
He could have shown a little more enthusiasm. Really, he could. She'd been prepared for an initial reaction of stunned disbelief, but had imagined it would be followed by unmitigated, unfathomable joy soon after. Wasn't that how fathers were supposed to behave when their long-lost little one turned up on their doorstep?
Well, her father hadn't; in fact, all she'd gotten from him had been an incredulous “You're as crazy as your mother!” when she told him how she'd been living in a rat cage. Which was why he was currently treading the wheel she'd been turning for years.
